The army rested for a few days, and until everything was ready, Chen Wen set off with the three battalions of Nantang, Shentang and Guards. However www.biquge.info this time, because the Qujiang waterway was no longer under the control of the Ming army, he did not want to be ambushed by the Qiantang Water Camp somewhere and cause unnecessary casualties, so he had to cross the Dongyang River with the commander and then march westward on foot.

The original plan to return to Quzhou should be five battalions, but now that the Dongyang battalion has been disabled, it still needs to continue to rest, and there is no way to recover even in the next few months. The Pujiang battalion is still in Lanxi, where they still have the task of returning to the reinforcements, and they can't join these three battalions for a while.

In this way, when he came, he took three war battalions with him, and when he returned, he still had three war battalions, and he was slightly damaged to varying degrees, and it seemed that there was no chance of victory in a battle.

But even then, he had to return to Quzhou. The geographical location, regional influence, the Longyou Merchant Gang, the Confucian Family Nanzong, and especially Sun Yu and the one-and-a-half-war barracks, there are no less important than Jinhua Mansion City. Besides, this time he was not without a chance of winning, and there were just some new toys that could be used to open the eyes of those green battalion soldiers, but it was impossible to do such a one-night march of a hundred miles along the way.

Seven days, the fastest, seven days can rush back to Quzhou, Quzhou is a few strong cities, there should be no problem.

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It has been a few days since Chen Wen set off from Jinhua, and the sun is getting hotter and hotter, but what has been scorched is not the Zhejiang Ming army that completely smashed the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army and relieved the siege for Quzhou's comrades, but the commanders of the Qing army who hide in the big tent every day to escape the heat are like ants on a hot pot.

It has been more than half a month since the siege of Quzhou, and the Qing army planned to build a long siege from the beginning, trying to use civil fortifications to completely trap the defenders of Quzhou in the city, and also to prevent the Ming army from counterattacking the inside and outside.

However, these days, the Quzhou Ming army would go out of the city to launch a night attack almost every day or two, and sometimes they would change the city gate several times a night.

The despicable behavior of the Ming army in not letting people sleep at night aroused the public anger of the Qing army, for which they launched an offensive on the scale of several **** in Quzhou. However, this city is really too strong to say, the outside of the city is dwelled on three sides, not to mention the Qujiang River in the west, a total of six city gates, four of which have urn cities, and the other two are adjacent to the west city wall of the Qujiang River, and the Ming army's defense is also extremely resolute, and even those who assist in defending the people seem to be as resolute as the Ming army pretends, so that several large-scale offensives of the Qing army finally ended in failure.

The weather is hot, the siege is not smooth, and the long siege is only one-third of the repair, every night I have to worry about which gate the Ming army will kill from, and there are indeed many city gates in Quzhou, which makes the 20,000 Qing troops besieging the city begin to envy the Qing army on the other side of the Qujiang River, which was originally ridiculed by them as having no chance to loot the capital city of Quzhou.

These are just for ordinary soldiers, and what makes those Qing army commanders even more speechless is that according to the words tortured from the mouths of those captured Ming soldiers, the Qing army outside the city knew that the price of food in the city had not even risen even a penny in the past month, let alone chaos.

When I first heard this strange news, even Li Benshen, the governor of Jingbiaozuo Town, who was stationed on the other side of the Qujiang River, made a special trip, but what he got was that Sun Yu, the prefect of Jinhua in the city, strictly ordered grain merchants not to hoard and accumulate strange things, nor to raise grain prices.

Moreover, it is said that this time the Ming army gathered a large amount of grain and grass in Quzhou, which was also confirmed by the spies lurking in Quzhou City, which made the Qing army generals start to feel a little uncomfortable.

The Ming army in the city hid in the house during the day to escape the heat, did not have to worry about storage, and could eat a full meal every day, and at night they came out to engage in some side jobs to help the Qing army besieging the city develop a good habit of not sleeping at night.

If that's all it takes, there are a lot of people in the city, even if some have fled to the hinterland of the Ming army before the siege, but the number of people is still quite large. Even if the Ming army did not collect last year's autumn tax, the grain merchants gathered more, and the government also purchased and transported a large amount of grain from Jinhua, there will always be a day when it will be finished, as long as it persists in besieging it, it will be captured sooner or later.

Of course, this is first of all because there is not a large amount of fertile land in the city, and there are no reinforcements in the city, so that it is possible for them to be surrounded all the time. The former didn't ask, but the latter couldn't calm down anymore because of a piece of news.

Ten days ago, the Qiantang Water Battalion that stayed in Lanxi sent a messenger to Li Benshen, the commander of the Qing army on the southern front, to report an unbelievable news -- the Han Eight Banner Army Group composed of the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou and those reinforcements transferred from Beijing failed to break the city after a night of hard fighting after the city wall collapsed, and was defeated by the main force of the Ming army that returned to help in a battle, and the most terrible thing was that the Ming army also divided a battalion to make a detour to annihilate the Yanzhou Green Battalion guarding the back road of Lanxi County, and took Lanxi County into control.

What does this mean, Li Benshen felt that even if he thought about it with his ass, he could understand that the Eight Banners of the Han Army were finished, and he had been in Beijing for a long time, and he knew that the Niu Lu of this Qing army was established before entering the customs, and the combat effectiveness and the integrity of the soldiers were far greater than those established after entering the customs, and many of them were used to envelop the surrender of the army. This time a quarter was killed by the Ming army at one time, which would be an unprecedented earthquake, and I am afraid that even if Nikan was killed, it may not have a greater impact on the Manchu court this time.

The news did not stay in Li Benshen's hands for even an hour before he sent it back to Guangxin Mansion, and the messenger galloped along the way, and soon sent the news to the hands of Hong Chengchou in the southeast meridian. It is believed that the messenger reported that after reading this urgent document, Hong Chengchou didn't even say a word for a long time, just stared at the report, and seemed to be able to see a flower from it. When this old man slowed down a little and wanted to stand up, he shook for a while and didn't stand firmly, if it weren't for the help of the inner guard surnamed Wang next to him, he would have to fall to the ground if he didn't get it right.

Li Benshen knew that this old master had not experienced setbacks, even if he was captured and surrendered, he had never done so, after all, in the final analysis, that failure was not his responsibility, but was pitted by the Son of Heaven and several generals under his command. But this time, it was clear that the Yang plot that was steady and overwhelming was matched with a plot that was almost calculated to the extreme, but it was turned over by the Ming army, and the blow was really not small, so that Hong Chengchou fell ill the next day.

After waiting anxiously for a few days, Li Benshen finally waited for the messenger to come back, but Hong Chengchou's order was to let them hold on to Quzhou for another half a month, and then retreat to Yushan County to continue to hold on.

As a trusted general, Li Ben was deeply aware of Hong Chengchou's intentions, but since the Ming army was able to defeat the Eight Banners of the Han Army, its combat effectiveness was still not to be underestimated.

Those eyes full of fear, until now Li Benshen still remembers it vividly, if it weren't for Hu Maozhen pulling out a knife in the big tent, and Hong Chengchou's strict order that he couldn't keep enough days to be a dead word, I'm afraid that it would be difficult for him to suppress the generals.

Today, a few days later, Tanma finally got the news that the Ming army of the brigade appeared in Longyou County and was heading west along the official road. If nothing else, within three days they will be able to reach Dingyang Creek, the opposite bank of the Qing army's siege joint venture. (To be continued.) )