With the last page of the manuscript explaining the density of ice cubes, Li Yu didn't care about what breakfast to eat, and hurriedly rushed to the friend's house in order to figure out the principle as soon as possible.

At the same time, after crossing the Qiantang River and entering the boundary of Shaoxing Prefecture, they went all the way south, and after passing through the waters close to Zhuji that the locals called the Huanjiang River, Yu Shizhong and his son took that flat boat to get closer and closer to the northernmost point of the Jinhua Ming Army's control area - Anhua Town, which is known as the southern gate of Zhuji.

The captain at the helm is a veteran, he has been walking the waterway from Shaoxing to Anhua Town for decades, and he knows the hydrological conditions well, what reefs, undercurrents and the like know everything, and even where there are Qing troops and river pirates.

However, he only walked here, because the later road entered the boundary of Jinhua Mansion, and the captains of the two places abided by the rules set by the elders, and used this as the dividing line for their livelihood, which was also convenient for guests to choose to enter Pujiang County to the west or enter Yiwu to the south.

Anhua Town is in sight, finally about to arrive in the Ming army occupied area, months of hardship is about to come to an end, Yu Shizhong walked out of the canopy, stood on the put on and stretched his waist, closed his eyes and enjoyed the warmth of the sun. When he opened his eyes and looked into the distance, the first thing he saw seemed to be not the expected Jiangnan town, but an ugly and simple rammed earth fortress.

This is the most important line of defense of the Jinhua Ming army facing the Qing army on the northern front, and it is extremely normal to build a fortress, but the outer wall of this fortress is really simple, not to mention the bricks, and the ships continue to go south to the near, and even the rammed earth is very perfunctory, not to mention the artillery, and it will collapse directly after a few rainstorms. There is no need for the Qing army to make a move.

"When you arrive in Jinhua, do you want to talk to Chen Dashuai?"

Seeing Yu Shizhong's hesitation and puzzlement, the captain glanced at the earthen wall of the fortress in the distance, and then said to Yu Shizhong: "This wall seems to have been like this more than a month ago, why is it still like this." As he spoke, the captain pointed to the tattered green camp costumes who were carrying wood, stone, and sand in the distance, but cut their whips. The coolie with a bald skull exposed.

"The last time I came, it was like watching those people moving things in. Coincidentally, I saw this again this time. ”

Following the fingers of the captain, Yu Shizhong also noticed the group of coolies, but from the eyes of a trainee martial artist, he felt that those coolies seemed to be from the army in terms of behavior. It's just that what makes him very strange is that didn't the people say that Chen Dashuai didn't leave prisoners, how could there be a group of coolies wearing green camp clothes?

With doubts in their hearts, Yu Shizhong and his son continued to go south with the ship. It wasn't until Anhua Town that he transferred to a ferry on the Dachen River and continued south.

Outside the rammed earth city wall, Tan Jingren, a soldier from Anqing in the standard camp of Jinhua Town, and Wang Qinian, a local soldier, walked to the inside of the rammed earth city wall with a burden, and under the burden was a stone from a newly built quarry on the mountain on the left.

More than half a year ago, the two of them followed the Jinhua general soldier Ma Jinbao in Taizhou and successfully defeated the Taizhou Ming army led by Yu Guowang. Hurried back to Jinhua, fortunately, the Ming army only occupied Dongyang and Yiwu counties, and their family business was still preserved.

But who would have thought. It didn't take long for more than just them. Even with the Dubiao Battalion and some of the soldiers and horses of the three Fulu Battalions of Quzhou, Chuzhou, and Yanzhou, they were defeated by the Ming army, which was always at a disadvantage, and even they became prisoners.

The life in the prisoner camp was not easy, and each person only had a bowl of porridge that was so thin that it could be used as a mirror and a small cake every day, and at most they could only fill their stomachs with water, but as soon as they soaked in urine, they were hungry again. Fortunately, the Ming army was very strict, otherwise even this little food would be snatched away.

But it didn't take long. The prisoner camp heard from the chatting Ming army that the Fubiao battalion was killed in the mountain pass by the Ming army because of the slaughter of the people in Yiwu.

When the news came, panic spread throughout the prisoner camp, and every Qing prisoner wanted to escape, because the blood debt they had committed behind Ma Jinbao's ass over the years was no better than the Fubiao camp outpost. However, around the prisoner camp was a whole battalion of soldiers of the Ming army who was watching, but any Ming army that left the prescribed activity area did not ask for a reason and killed them directly, even if they just wanted to.

The contemplative escape was declared to be over under the pressure of the Ming army before it could begin, and a few days later, a new order was issued, and all the captives were to settle their past sins and atone for their sins through hard labor.

Serving hard labor proves that the Ming army thinks you are still useful, and your life can be regarded as a record for the time being, but how long you will serve the labor, whether you are tired, how you are treated, and whether you will be tired to death, these questions soon enveloped their hearts again.

Under the escort of the Ming army, they arrived at Anhua Town, which was very close to the area controlled by the Qing army, but in the face of the high-pressure policy and strong combat effectiveness of the Ming army, the prisoners still chose to remain silent, and this was indispensable to the number of labor hours per person set at the time of liquidation, as long as they could serve enough labor, they could be released.

No one will believe that they can be released after becoming prisoners, but as they returned to Jinhua, the Qing soldiers in Jinhua Town who were captured by the Ming army before they returned to Jinhua, especially the Qing army prisoners who received red notes for the Ming army and were promoted to supervisors at all levels, used leather whips to emphasize the "trustworthiness" of the Ming army commanders. Under such strong persuasion, at least on the surface, the Qing prisoners expressed their support for "labor reform".

In fact, it doesn't matter if others believe it or not, Wang Qinian believes it anyway. Because he has only been in the standard camp of Jinhua Town for only half a year since he entered Taizhou, and he is a local, he has been recognized by the military judge of his fellow township as an "ordinary person" who was forced to join the army by the Qing army.

With a hope, Wang Qinian began to do his best under the supervision of the Ming army and the overseers, lest angering the Ming army would delay his return home. It's just that doing this high-intensity physical labor every day, and being deducted and fed by those supervisors who were considered colleagues half a year ago, this "labor reform" is really not good.

The only thing that can only be fortunate is that the rammed earth exterior wall has been finished two months ago, and the Ming army and the overseers did not demand too much quality, and after two months of labor. The strangely shaped fortified fort inside the earthen walls was also half completed by them and the peasants who had been transferred to serve in the slack season, and it was estimated that it would be completely completed in another half a month.

Prior to this, the Ming army officer in charge promised a three-day rest, and when there were no major labor tasks in the future, he could take turns to rest for one day every half month. By then, life should be a little better.

………………

In the process of Chen Wen's recovery of Jinhua Mansion last year, the Qing troops who were captured were executed, except for the Fubiao camp and the diehards who were unwilling to cut off the tail of the money rat. The rest have all begun the long road of "labor reform."

Those Qing troops who were lucky enough to flee to Quzhou, Ma Jinbao's Jinhua Town Standard Battalion was attacked by the Ming army several times, and it was no longer as simple as not having a general team that could be fully formed, but that none of Shida had been fully formed, and the entire system had been completely smashed. This army, which had participated in the Jinhua Massacre when Bolo went south, can no longer be regarded as an army, but can only be said to be a collection of remnants of defeated generals.

Holding the golden tyrannosaurus rex leg of the Manchu Duanzhong prince Aixinjue Luo Boluo, and the support of Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, Ma Jinbao incorporated all the remnants of the officers and veterans of the Yanzhou and Chuzhou Green Battalions in the battle of Xiaoshun Town into the rebuilt Jinhua Town Standard Battalion. And Chen Jin transferred part of the Wenzhou Green Camp, and Ma Jinbao pulled some masters in Quzhou to rebuild this brand-new Jinhua Town Standard Camp.

Merely. If this bowl of hodgepodge wants to initially form combat effectiveness, I am afraid that it will take at least half a year, and it is still the kind of level that can only fight on the battlefield and encircle and suppress a small-scale rebel army. As for going to Fujian to relieve the siege of Zhangzhou as in history, it is estimated that Zheng Chenggong does not need to let go of his mouth to surround them, as long as he sees Zheng Chenggong's army, he will be scared to pee his pants.

In contrast, the Quzhou Green Battalion, which had suffered a certain degree of loss, and the Chuzhou and Yanzhou Green Battalions, each lacking one battalion, had to recruit locally.

For the Qing army, relying on Zhang Guoxun, the deputy general of the supervision battalion, reacted quickly enough. The battalion withdrew from the battlefield in time, and its losses were not very large. It is only necessary to fill in the gaps of more than 300 or 400 that cannot be verified due to battle damage, missing, captured, killed, and empty salaries, and after a little training, they can be brought to the battlefield to be used as cannon fodder.

It's just that at present, Quzhou is facing a very serious threat from the Jinhua Ming army. The envoys sent a few days ago to persuade him to surrender also returned in vain. And he had to wait until the Qing army in Jiangxi eliminated Zhang Zisheng of Dajueyan before he could mobilize a large army to encircle and suppress Jinhua Mansion again, so Chen Jin simply directly transferred an elite army from Ningbo Green Camp to the Dubiao Battalion to enhance his combat effectiveness.

On the field of the colonel of Quzhou Green Camp, Chen Jin, Ma Jinbao, Zhang Guoxun and other high-ranking officials and marshals of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Quzhou looked at the scene in front of them in amazement.

On the side of the large school field, the Quzhou Green Battalion is well preserved, and it has always been a unit of 200 soldiers that can be called elite in the green battalion in the nearby ordinary places. On the other side is the former Ningbo Green Battalion, which was newly transferred to the Supervisory Battalion, and its strength is only half of that of the opponent. After the two sides engaged for a while, the small force with fewer troops quickly resisted the opponent's offensive, and then began to counterattack by changing formations under the command of the officer, tearing off the opponent's soldiers little by little. In the end, it was surrounded and annihilated.

They glanced at each other, and it was not until the new commander battalion garrison who was under command returned to the point platform that these high-ranking officials and marshals regained their proper bearing.

"Wang Shoubei, this mandarin duck formation of yours is a master of Qi Shuai?"

Seeing the top boss of the top boss, Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian who was second only to the General of the Eight Banners stationed in Zhejiang in Zhejiang, asked him, Wang Sheng hurriedly replied: "The governor is like a god, it's true." ”

Hearing this, whether it was Chen Jin, who was questioning, or Ma Jinbao and Zhang Guoxun, who were accompanied, they naturally thought of the hidden information here.

Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Array has not been used since Qi Jin died in the Hunhe River, and it has been decades now. But the year before last, a Ming army general once again came up with this system in Siming Mountain in eastern Zhejiang, and almost beat the elite of the Zhejiang Green Battalion in more than a year. And the Qing army garrison in front of them was also from Siming Mountain, and it seemed that there was a lot of intersection with the Ming army marshal.

Zhang Guoxun thought about it, and seemed to have thought of something, but he was not in a hurry to ask, now that he was the top boss of this Wang Sheng, he could naturally go back to the camp to talk about something.

But almost at the same time, Ma Jinbao also thought that there seemed to be some differences, so he hurriedly asked: "Wang Shoubei, as far as Ben Shuai knows, the Mandarin Duck Formation of the Great Lan Thief Chen Wen is a Mandarin Duck Array killer team with a firearms team, how can this firearms team under your command directly belong to the Chinese army?" ”

He had also thought about this problem, and felt that it was probably because Chen Wen felt that the long-range firepower was insufficient. But when he looked up, he saw that Chen Jin and Zhang Guoxun were expressionless, Wang Sheng had to smile and said: "Back to Ma Shuai, I have never seen the new mandarin duck array of the big blue thief Chen Wen, and the specific situation is not very clear." However, I read Qi Shuai's military book and saw that he had used a similar establishment when he was in the north, but I don't know if it is the same as the big thief. ”

Wang Sheng's answer was very vague, and Ma Jinbao was angry when he heard this, but Wang Sheng is now Zhang Guoxun's subordinate, and he is subordinate to Chen Jin, although he has Bolo's support, there is no need to offend these two people for this. Anyway, Qi Jiguang's military books and periodicals are widely printed, and they can always be bought, even if he is illiterate, won't he still ask his staff to read to him?

Several people present had their own thoughts, and soon dispersed. Wang Sheng returned to the house that Zhang Guoxun had just given him, but saw that the cronie who had gone to Jinhua had rushed back.

"How?"

Seeing Wang Sheng's eagerness, the cronie hurriedly replied: "Back to the head of the family, then Chen Dashuai has already agreed to this matter, but it is just ......"

Next, the cronie relayed all the nonsense that Chen Wen said to Wang Sheng. After hearing those "secret news" from Taixi, Wang Sheng was shocked, but his heart was full of doubts.

"Don't be a fool of yourself."

"Back to the head of the family, on the way back, the villain had asked a number of fortune tellers, and the symbols on it were indeed not spells, and it was really Tessy script. The villain thought about it, the head of the family had the corpse of that subordinate in his hand, and it was unlikely that he would be able to deceive him. ”

"Well, since that guy has agreed, you can do it."

"Yes."

Seeing that the cronie turned around and left, Wang Sheng recalled the nonsense again, but said to himself: "Yesterday, Zhu Hanlin seemed to have said at the banquet that in addition to the capital, there is also a place where there are Taixi people, where did it come from?" ”

Two hours later, in a restaurant in the city, a handsome scholar sat in a window seat drinking a glass of water and wine, while at another table behind him, a tall and thin young man sitting behind him was gulping down his meal, as if he was in a hurry.

At a glance, I saw that the scholar was very elegant, every time he tasted it, he wiped the wine from the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief, and after drinking it all, he picked up the cup again, and tasted the wine in his mouth, and so on. It's just that the inaudible whispers came out of that mouth, and they were even less heard in the noise of the young man behind him picking up rice.

"Wang Sheng, that dog thief knows you, come over with another person."

"Report what you have collected in the past few days to the marshal, especially the reconstruction of the town standard and the inclusion of Wang Sheng in the superintendent."

"Wang Jiang was sent to Nanjing, the details are unknown."

"Recently, there have been a lot of envoys to Jiangxi and Fujian, and the affairs of those two places need to be investigated."

“……”

After a few moments, the tall and thin young man had eaten his meal, and when he had paid the money, he picked up his luggage and got up and left, disappearing into the crowd. The scholar was still drinking the wine in his glass, staring at the crowd outside the window. (To be continued.) )