Chapter Eighty-Eight: Advance

After talking to Chen Wen, Sun Yu set off overnight, and he didn't even have time to go back home. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info and the affairs of Jinhua Mansion, he handed over to a fellow with the surname Guo, this person is a civil official from Dalanshan, and he was not obvious originally, but Cao Conglong's rebellion, as the commander of Yiwu County, was able to stand firmly on Chen Wen's side and resist the emergence of rebellion in Yiwu, so he was promoted after the chaos and filled the original position of Han Qizheng.

Chen Wen knew that this person was a solid civil official, and his hands and feet were quite clean, which was quite rare. It's just that this person is conscientious and boring, but he doesn't have the personality charm of Sun Yu, otherwise he would have come out a long time ago.

When Sun Yu set off, it was the first day of the fourth month, and within a few days, the horses that had already been scattered sent to the Anyuan Marquis Mansion in Jinhua with the movements of the Qing army in all directions.

After reading an urgent secret report, Chen Wen's heart was also pressed more and more heavy, this time the Qing army's encirclement and suppression of the strength is really a bit too much, if it is surrounded, I am afraid that it can no longer be cracked by brute force, so you must start to defeat all the way!

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On the second day of April, after the Qing army set out from Hangzhou and crossed the Qiantang River, these Qing troops began to slowly turn south, heading towards the strange-shaped fortress that had not been broken by Jin Li's head last year.

Last year's coach Jin Li has been dismissed, taken the title, and imprisoned, although the real reason has little to do with this fortress, but as the coach of this way, Tian Xiong still does not dare to ignore it in the slightest. Since crossing the Qiantang River, Tian Xiong's army has scattered all the horses, and any noise within a radius of a hundred miles will be sent to his case. However, for this reason, the marching speed of his army has dropped to less than ten miles a day, and even in order to prevent night attacks by the Ming army, he began to set up camp in the afternoon.

Tian Xiong is a general, when he followed Huang Degong, a famous fierce general in the late Ming Dynasty, he also fought hard, and he was not a careless person, and he was also very good at the training and use of Tanma. In fact, even if it was a normal march, his scout horse would be able to give him a clear idea of everything around him, as if he had seen it himself.

However, the reason why Tian Xiong was like this was because he had Hong Chengchou's order - to prevent a sneak attack by the Ming army, not to fight with the Ming army without an order, to slowly advance to Anhua Town, and to act according to the plan.

There is a way to use soldiers, keep one mind, any accident on the battlefield can happen, and you must always adapt to the situation. Tian Xiong knew this truth, and he believed that it was naturally impossible not to know with Hong Chengchou's ability, but this time he still issued such an order, and the generals under his command were quite puzzled, and only Tian Xiong, as the commander of the road, knew the reason. That is, he is only used to contain the Ming army in the area of Anhua Town along the way, and it is enough to do his duty, except for the set of new things that Hong Chengchou handed over to him that he doesn't know if it works, everything is enough to obey orders.

After many years of using soldiers, Tian Xiong realized that he was also a veteran general who climbed up step by step with the Yasukuni Gong to kill the Liukou, and now he is the highest-level military general in Zhejiang Province, but at this moment, he has to do such a thing as a partial general, thinking that he does have enough pockets.

However, it was Hong Chengchou who made the plan this time, and that great reputation really made him dare not have the slightest disobedience. In addition, his opponent, the commander of the Ming army, who was originally despised on Dalan Mountain in the fourth year of Yongli because of the incident of beating his colleagues, is indeed not a good guy.

In fact, in the normal bureaucratic system, it is impossible for people like Chen Wen to get ahead at all, and they often don't know how to die, offending colleagues, angering their superiors, and there are constraints everywhere. And last year, Tian Xiong also knew that Chen Wen had to give up the results he had achieved because of an infighting initiated by the civilian officials of the prison army, and this was the fate of such people, and this really proved that Tian Xiong was not wrong.

But who knows, the brute force of this guy is too great, twice the Qing army, which is not only as elite as Jiangxi's standard battalion, but also a complete copy of his establishment, and the Ming army is like two scoops of gourd slices out of the standard battalion, even such an army was defeated, which really made Tian Xiong stunned for a long time.

This time, the capitals of the four provinces, although in fact, it is not that the four southeastern provinces concentrated all their forces to besiege Chen Wen, of course, this can not be done at all, after all, the vast majority of the Qing army still has to stay in Xindi to suppress the anti-Qing forces in various places, but even so, the four armies in the southeast and northwest do have an absolute superiority in strength.

Perhaps, according to Hong Chengchou's strategy, he can really give full play to the superiority of troops, and completely squeeze the last Zhejiang Ming army to death in the Jinqu Basin.

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Like Tian Xiong, the commander, Ma Xin, the commander-in-chief of Taizhou as the commander of the southern front, also knew that his position and task in the overall plan was only as simple as containing the Ming army in the direction of Chuzhou.

However, compared with the nearly 10,000 Qing troops on Tian Xiong's way, he only had the 2,000 Taizhou Green Battalion under his command and the 2,000 Wenzhou Green Battalion under Hu Laiji, just 4,000 soldiers. As for the Chuzhou Green Battalion, which fought side by side last year but no longer had a coach, the two of them had already divided the veterans to supplement their losses last year. Of course, the establishment of the green camp in Chuzhou still remained, and at the moment in Qingtian County, it can be regarded as doing their duty.

"Brother Ma, junior brother heard that the Ming army built a fortress near the capital city of Chuzhou, which is said to be strange in shape, and I don't know if it's good to fight."

"I'm afraid it's not easy." Hearing this, Ma Xin suddenly remembered the rumors that Jin Li had hit the wall twice last year, and thought that maybe this was it. "Let's take the soldiers and horses over to see first, if it's really such a thing, I don't blame it even if I can't break the imperial court. Besides, our brothers and sons were originally tied up by those handsome people, and no one expected us to do anything. ā€

"What Brother Ma said is, let's do it."

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It is normal to have a master and a second, unlike Tian Xiong and Ma Xin's green leaves, Yang Minggao, the governor of Fujian, is a flower this time, at least a part of the flower, even if it is only an unimportant part.

The year before last and last year, in response to Zheng Chenggong's rebellion in Zhangzhou, Yang Minggao lost a lot of soldiers and generals, and it was easy to recover some vitality, but who knew that the kid of the Geng family was a rookie, so he and Ma Degong lost a lot of soldiers and horses. In a fit of rage, the two of them wrote a secret report and reported the details of the battle of Tong'an, but who knew that there was no news of them as if they had sunk into the sea.

After a few years, I learned that Hong Chengchou was appointed as the Southeast Economic Strategy, after all, this old economic strategy is really extraordinary. Not long ago, he and Wang Zhigang and Ma Degong were summoned, clearly saying that they would first encircle and suppress the Ming army in Zhejiang, and then march to attack the Ming army in Fujian.

They can naturally understand this order, in fact, if it weren't for the Geng family's feudal soldiers, they would have been abused by Zheng Chenggong the year before last, and they didn't have any intention of annihilating them in one fell swoop. With Hong Chengchou's plan this time, it should be a matter of holding a handle to exterminate this Zhejiang Ming army, which is already strong second only to the Eight Banners of Manchuria according to Wang Zhigang.

As for killing Chen Wen and eliminating Zheng Chenggong with his backhand, Yang Minggao also plans to go to the center left to grab a handful, just like Ma Degong did before. Perhaps, it is also a good idea to follow the example of the Ishii Zheng family to monopolize the maritime trade along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong.

It's just that Yang Minggao, who walked slowly all the way, seemed to be so sleepy that he was so sleepy that he didn't know that at this moment, he had already been targeted by a cold gaze, and slowly stretched out his minions towards him. (To be continued.) )