On May 28, the sixth year of Yongli, Shuiying sent a new batch of supplies to the besieging troops. This batch of supplies was collected from Longyou County, partly from taxes collected by the staff who stayed behind, and partly from the sale of some of the seized jewelry, jade and antiques and other luxury goods by Chen Wen to local merchants in Quzhou in Longyou.

From the beginning of the capture of Longyou County, Chen Wen began to build ships in Longyou, but the local merchants in Longyou County were in charge of this matter, and the shipbuilders they hired used the air-dried wood they had previously hoarded in the city and began to build soon after receiving the deposit, which was much faster than the craftsmen and people recruited by Chen Wen in Jinhua, and the scale of the ships was also larger.

Among the family properties seized by Ma Jinbao and some of his subordinates in Longyou County were hard currency such as gold and silver ingots and copper coins, as well as luxury goods such as jewelry, jewelry, jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings. In Chen Wen's view, precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper could be directly used to pay military salaries and buy military supplies, and the Ming Dynasty people also preferred hoarding, which was not conducive to circulation, so trading with local merchants generally gave priority to the use of these luxury goods.

After several days of observation of the garrison, the local merchants also reaffirmed the reality of the strict discipline of the Ming army, and there was no great resistance to the trade as when facing the Qing army. In addition, the original main business scope of the Longyou Merchants Gang in Quzhou included the trading of these luxury goods, and there would be no circulation obstacles if they were familiar with the way. And Chen Wen's request for the supervision of the officers of the water battalion and the military judge is also a matter of course, so that both sides can also trade with peace of mind.

Through equal transactions, Chen Wen quickly mobilized a large number of local merchants, craftsmen and people to devote themselves to the work of enhancing the strength of the Ming army, not only the naval ships under construction, but also a large number of military materials began to be sent into the warehouses of the Ming army, and even the people of Chuzhou carried Songyang to Quzhou to sell materials, so that the Ming army under his command had a momentum of being like a fish in water in Quzhou, but the local Qing army and the Qing army that still occupied most of Quzhou began to look more and more like a group of undesirable villains.

The Qing army in Quzhou was now divided into two parts, the largest of which was the Dubiao Battalion and other units besieged by the Ming army, while the other part of the Qing army was concentrated in Jiangshan County, all of which were reinforcements from southern Zhejiang and Fujian.

According to the report of the Tanma, it seems that the army has been assembled, and even the strikers have gone out of the city, but they retreated inexplicably, and I don't know what Wang Zhigang, the general soldier of the left road of Fujian, who was appointed to become the commander of the support army, was thinking.

However, in any case, since the Qing army did not attack in a big way, Chen Wen did not plan to put the heavily assembled capital city of Quzhou to attack Jiangshan County. It's just that the defense of this Quzhou capital city is abnormally strong, and it is not easy to capture it.

If you want to attack the city, the simplest and most common is to build siege equipment ant attached to the city, after taking the city and the city gate, the overall situation is basically decided, and few can drive the enemy out after the city is broken. However, for Chen Wen, it costs a lot to train and equip the army under his command, and most of the soldiers have experienced great battles, so he does not intend to sacrifice it like cannon fodder at the head of the city in exchange for this city, and now he has to try to use the excavation and blasting that did not take place not long ago in Longyou to break the city.

It's just that Quzhou's capital city is not a dragon tour, and its city is either a river or a moat on all sides, and it is obviously impossible to blast the west city wall close to the Qujiang River, and blasting the city walls in all other directions also try to divert the water of the moat first, and then dry it for a few days before digging and blasting, otherwise the water of the moat will be submerged or soaked in this tactic.

Outside the southern wall of Quzhou's capital city, the Ming army's sappers were still leading the people to try to divert water from the moat of Quzhou's South Lake, but the progress was unusually slow, making it impossible to start the blasting work.

Although Chen Wen was a little impatient in this regard, he could not do anything, so he had to let those professionals do it, and took advantage of this time to continue to train non-commissioned officers, and at the same time let his staff and those training officers transferred from the old battalion to give literacy to low-level officers, plus impart some military knowledge, in an attempt to further improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

At this time, Chen Wen was in the camp to explain the art of war to the middle-level officers and staff officers in the army, but the method he used was still the same as telling theories and citing historical facts at the same time. However, this way of explaining is also easier to deepen understanding, and the officers and staff officers are also very happy to be able to get Chen Wen, the new famous general of the dynasty, to personally explain the art of war to them, and naturally they are more diligent, but there are very few doubts in it, and it is not at all like Chen Wen when he explained "The Art of War" on Dalan Mountain, and he had to usher in a lot of problems at every turn.

This is a good thing, but it is not a good thing, so Chen Wen added a free discussion session, so that they can voice their doubts and deepen their understanding through discussion and debate under appropriate guidance, rather than holding back their hearts and waiting until they make mistakes when leading the troops alone.

Fortunately, most of these officers have experienced literacy in Tiantai Mountain last year and in Jinhua Fucheng camp this year, and the common words and sentences of military terminology and orders are coarse, and their literacy has also improved their understanding of the art of war, and the problems that arise when discussing each other are also varied, but in terms of overall quality, they are much better than the group of illiterate officers he brought with him when he was in Dalanshan.

The free discussion was still going on, and Chen Wen listened to their arguments as always. But at this moment, Zhang Jun, the captain of the pro-soldiers, secretly came to Chen Wen's side, saying that Zhou Jingting hoped that Chen Wen could move to the Chinese army's tent as soon as possible, and it was said that there was something important to discuss. (To be continued.) )