Chen Wen didn't know that he had been divided into the grand strategy of the "Three Bureaus" throughout the Yongli Dynasty by Qian Qianyi, and even if he knew, it was useless.

At present, on the southeast battlefield, only he and Zheng Chenggong are left in the large-scale Ming army with a complete logistics system, and there are some small-scale ones, such as Zhang Zisheng in Jiangxi, the remnants of the Lu Jianguo who live under Zheng Chenggong, Hao Shangjiu, the general soldier of Chaozhou, who may rise up against the Qing Dynasty at any time, and the remnants of the Ming army in Guangdong who are already close to the southwest battlefield.

Although most of the troops that can occupy a place in Chen Wen's memory are not bandits, they either have an imperfect system or a stable logistics base, which is simply unable to support long-term operations and is not enough to complete the military operation to regain lost territory alone. And the two largest Ming armies, he and Zheng Chenggong, have no chance to join forces at all, and can only indirectly affect each other for the time being.

In fact, even if they can join forces, Chen Wen can't believe Zheng Chenggong, after all, the example of Li Dingguo's two expeditions to Guangdong is there. Zheng Chenggong attaches more importance to the development of his own strength, believing that his own ability is enough to prosper the Ming Dynasty, and his trust in other forces is very low. This is actually very similar to Chen Wen, who has been repeatedly ostracized and betrayed in the past two years, and it is impossible for these two guys who lack basic trust in other forces to get together. Absolutely impossible unless there is enough common interest.

However, this does not affect Chen Wen's hospitality to Zheng Chenggong's envoys, it is beneficial for both sides to establish a mechanism for mutual exchange of information, and the two of them also have resources that can be used to complement each other, but now Chen Wen cannot obtain access to the sea, otherwise both sides can increase their strength at a faster speed.

It's a pity that Zhangzhou has not been captured by Zheng Chenggong when the envoy set off, and Chen Wen is not easy to estimate the optimism of the envoy, because Zheng Chenggong did not capture Zhangzhou at all in this year in history, but was defeated by the Han Eight Banner Army led by Jin Li and Yang Minggao's Fujian Admiral Biao Battalion next month, and was forced to retreat to Haicheng. It wasn't until the Battle of Haicheng in the next year that Zheng Chenggong defeated Jin Li and regained the field to get the possibility of pretending to negotiate peace with the Manchus and accumulating strength.

But now everything is different, Chen Wen used the fortress to block Jin Li in Zhuji, and Zheng Chenggong also recovered Zhangzhou in advance because he was completely desperate because he could never see reinforcements, but Chen Jin unexpectedly survived until August. The southeast battlefield is no longer the southeast battlefield in history, and no one knows what will happen in the next moment.

Using the information brought by Zheng Chenggong's envoy, Chen Wen made up for the situation of the Qing army in Fujian and the southwest battlefield. The general direction was not much different from what he remembered, but it was very rewarding in the details.

However, since the beginning of the army, Chen Wen has always relied on his memories and some information collected from other anti-Qing people and specially sent subordinates, and has not established a complete intelligence system. As a result, Chen Wen saved a large amount of start-up capital in the early stage to improve the combat effectiveness of the army. However, as history began to deviate from course, the ills began to emerge.

Especially in this Cao Conglong Rebellion, he let the amateur intelligence officers sent by Zhang Jun who only knew how to obey orders patronize and follow the orders to keep an eye on Cao Conglong, but left out the opponents within the system who really had the power to pose a threat, and as a result, the sudden outbreak of the rebellion completely disrupted his plan.

After learning the hard way, Chen Wen decided to set up an intelligence agency that would be specifically responsible to him, and those officers who had carried out special operations missions in Tiantai County and Dongyang County and some selected personnel would be divided into several teams and trained by him and several intelligence officers who had infiltrated Quzhou a few months ago to collect intelligence, and these people would be lurking in various places inside and outside the country to collect intelligence in the future.

As for the chief officer in charge, Chen Wen has not yet found a suitable candidate. Bai Jinghe, who had previously collected intelligence on the Qing army in Jiangxi, was good at performing hidden missions and had the ability to analyze intelligence, but Chen Wen never knew enough about his background.

This young man claimed to be a scholar and wanted to avenge his master's family before joining the Ming army. However, as far as Chen Wen knows, many of the scholars in the Ming Dynasty were the master's prostitutes. If you think of the vast majority of the officers who came to Jinhua from Tiantai Mountain today, most of them have already married, except for most of the senior officers who have not yet found a suitable marriage partner, the rest are only some special circumstances, and this person has always been alone. Whether it was a matter of sexual orientation, or some other ulterior reason, the concealment when he first went to Tiantai Mountain made Chen Wen always have a trace of distrust in him.

The intelligence system of using passwords for one-line communication still needs to be established as soon as possible, but for Chen Wen, who believes that as long as things can be settled with silver, it is not a problem, Ma Jinbao's eunuch bag and the gold and silver that were copied from his house some time ago can quickly break a way. As for the rest, it can be observed for a while.

However, according to the observation during this time, there are indeed some gentry and wealthy families in Jinhua Mansion who secretly communicate with the outside world. Chen Wen is not very clear about the specific target of their fornication, fortunately, these people are not able to collect more confidential information for the time being, he plans to leave it alone, after figuring out which force they are serving, it may be better to use it to pass on some false information as appropriate than to directly kill them.

In the past two months, the division of the land between the barracks and the officers and soldiers of the garrisons in the counties has been completed, and the reserve of troops is still continuing.

The three battalions of soldiers and the garrisons of the nine counties were divided according to the military fields and military merit fields, and some officers and veterans who were originally singles were assigned to the land, and they also solved the marriage affairs in the limited vacation.

For this reason, Chen Wen also deliberately added three days of marriage leave to his subordinates, which was regarded by these officers and soldiers as a huge virtue and politics. As everyone knows, in Chen Wen's era, not only marriage leave, maternity leave, but even paternity leave, the boss who takes one day less is inevitably poked in the back.

Unlike the war barracks and garrisons, most of the officers and non-commissioned officers and soldiers have military merits, and the least of them also participated in the battle of Xiaoshun Town last year, in addition to ten acres of military land, they can also get large or small military merit fields. All the spare soldiers were recruited after the reconquest of Jinhua last year, and a small number of lucky ones were added to the barracks and garrisons, and the vast majority of the others would rent some land that other barracks and garrisons could not cultivate after being allocated to the military leased fields to supplement their families.

Half a month ago, the rebels who were captured by the Baitou Army in Luo Chengyan also completed their labor, and Chen Wen added these people to the reserve army. They would participate in training and assist in military operations during their spare time, which was an agreement between him and Zhou Qingui.

As for Ni Liangxu, after a period of self-abandonment, he recently learned that Chen Wen did not continue to embarrass the survivors of the Luochengyan Baitou Army, and also allocated them land, he also expressed to Chen Wen his willingness to follow to the death, and was finally thrown into the martial arts school by Chen Wen to go to school - the soldiers are in danger, a leader of the rebel army is born, he can't read a single big character, he doesn't even know how to set up the mandarin duck formation and how to change the formation, how dare he use him to go into battle without learning the art of war.

However, with the formation of this military town guard, which occupies more than 300,000 acres of land and is even expanding, time is becoming more and more urgent.

The northern front was on the defensive, so Chen Wen only ordered the fort of Anhua Town to be repaired and some new defensive facilities were added in order to wait for Jin Li's Hangzhou garrison of the Eight Banners. On the Quzhou side, the horses of the Ming and Qing armies tested each other on the Dingyangxi-Lingxi line in the past two months, and the skirmishes never stopped.

Most of the cavalry of the Qing army have been in the army for many years, and they are more skilled in riding and martial arts than the Ming army; On the other hand, the victory of the Ming army was to drill according to Qi Jiguang's horse battalion, charging in an army or as a team, and each time it was more and less. After hitting the nail a few times, the Qing army had to give up its attempt to eliminate the Ming army's Tanma. Although the Ming army did not suffer any losses, the formation maintained a formation and charged, so they had to sacrifice a certain speed, and it was extremely difficult to catch up with the Qing army. All in all, on the current Quzhou battlefield, neither of the Ming and Qing armies could help each other, so they had to not interfere with each other, so they couldn't hide any large-scale movements of the other side.

Now that it is the end of August, the movements of the Qing army have begun to become more frequent, and the sorties of Tanma are becoming more and more intensive. And Chen Wen's side, he didn't plan to continue to wait, Kong Youde died in Guilin as scheduled, even if the news of Huang Zongxi and Qian Qianyi was far from being delivered now, Chen Wen could also estimate that the deployment and movement of the Qing army would be affected by deduction.

Since it seems that Chen Jin is already a little impatient, although he doesn't know why, he can't wait anymore. Therefore, when Chen Wen got the news that the Qing army had begun to try to forcibly expel the Ming army to provide an intelligence barrier for Dingyangxi behind him, he returned to Longyou County, where heavy troops were gathered, and prepared for a decisive battle with Chen Jin.

Whether the strength of the Qing army has increased or not, he is not very clear about this. After this period of redeployment, Chen Wen's command not only has two battalions in Nantang and Yiwu and half of the Dongyang battalion, but also the battalion directly under the town under Chen Guobao's command has also completed the return to the team, in addition, he also used means such as changing guards and increasing troops to transfer the infantry bureau of the four Mandarin Duck Array killer teams and firearms teams, although the combat effectiveness of this army will definitely be different from the combat battalion, but Chen Wenwen does not plan to let them undertake excessive combat tasks, but most of them will be used as the reserve of the army together with the battalion directly under the town. The rest served as the city garrison of Longyou County.

In this way, since 6,000 to 10,000 doesn't seem to be good, then simply 8,000 to 10,000, you have to see whether this Quzhou is surnamed Ming or Qing!

On the fourth day of the ninth month of the sixth year of Yongli, Chen Wen got the news that Chen Jin had crossed Dingyang Creek the day before. There is a fortress on the northern line, and Chen Wen also issued an order to build another fortress in the area of Hulu Town in Dongyang County more than a month ago. There are no worries for the time being, and Chen Wenyi swore in Longyou County today.

Outside the county town of Longyou, the 8,000 Jinhua Ming army from various units waited for them to follow for only a year or two, but the commander who had no defeat at all gave a routine speech.

The time of departure soon came, and Chen Wen slowly walked out of the city gate with his cavalry guards, which had just been formed during the suppression of the rebellion. Behind Chen Wen, who was still wearing that pair of mountain armor, the big banner with the words "Return my rivers and mountains" that he used when he recovered Dongyang County was waved in the wind, and then there were the two flags of Chen Wen embroidered with "Linhai Bo Chen" and "Chen, the chief military officer of the military affairs in western and southern Zhejiang".

A group of armored iron horsemen followed, and Chen Wen quickly rode his horse to the rammed earth platform left for him to boost his morale.

At a glance, the army was as neat as a knife and axe, and the unified military uniform and banner gave them a temperament like one. Farther afield, an equally staggering number of men recruited from the Ming-controlled areas of Jinhua and Longyou counties in Quzhou, were to be responsible for all the labor of the army.

There is a saying: there are more than 10,000 people, and there is no boundary.

The large army, which could not be seen at a glance, was divided into two large parts, and at the forefront of the battalions were their commanders and acting commanders. Most of these people, as well as the main officers of the various units, were old subordinates who had been following him since Siming Mountain or Tiantai Mountain.

At that time, the 500 warriors who fought against the Qing army five times their own strength in the south of Siming Mountain, only about 300 people have survived to this day. But the seeds planted at the beginning have begun to take root, and if you count the garrisons left behind in each county, as well as the half of the Dongyang battalion responsible for the defense of the northern front, this army has expanded to an astonishing more than 11,000 people!

Such an army was beyond the reach of the dilapidated Jinhua Mansion, and if it weren't for Chen Wen's loans, confiscation of the property of the Jinhua Qing army, and the raid that was still going on not long ago, this army would never have been here.

However, all the resources were overdrawn, and the reputation of benevolence, the reputation of the gentry, and the friendship of the gentry and wealthy families could only last for a year at most. By next year, the pressure of repayment, the discord on the battlefield in the southwest, and the possible variables in Fujian will all come to mind. At that time, I am afraid that there will be no need for the Manchu Qing to send troops, and Chen Wen's army will also collapse on its own.

The reason is very simple, the army will be scattered if there is no food!

As the commander, Chen Wen knew it very well, but at this moment, he knew even more that the nearly 10,000 troops in front of him did not need any doubts about his loyalty, they were willing to follow his orders to fight bloodily, and they couldn't wait for the battle that was about to start.

"Lao Tzu has nothing to say, slaughtered Chen Jin's defeated generals and recovered Quzhou Mansion. The land here belongs to our Han family sons, not those who don't want their ancestors! ”

With that, Chen Wen drew his long sword and pointed it to the west, and then rode out. Cross the road between the two phalanxes and lead the way.

As Chen Wen rode by, every soldier of the Ming army burst into enthusiastic cheers. Land is an important resource that the Chinese regard as their life. And Chen Wen's system of awarding land for military merits is to distribute the land to these officers and soldiers according to their military merits. From then on, as long as you fought bravely, you could get a reward for the land from the guard, own your own land, become a rich peasant, and even become a landlord. According to Chen Wen's revised health system, their descendants will not always be military households, and even they can thrive as civilian households after retiring from the army.

As long as they fight bravely under the invincible Linhai Bo Chen Wen Chen Marshal, a happy life will come to them fairly. No more cold, no more hunger, no more oppression, just obey the military orders, only need to be brave, it is enough.

Soon, Chen Wen passed through most of the passage, and the Ming troops around him cheered to their heart's content, if it weren't for the military discipline on weekdays that invisibly restrained their footsteps, I was afraid that he would have already surrounded him on the spot. And among them, there is naturally Zhang Yida.

From the beginning of the army in Dongyang County, Zhang Yida fought bravely in the battle of Xiaoshun Town, although he was not able to stay in the barracks, but the days as the garrison of Dongyang County also made him feel unprecedented fulfillment and warmth, as if he was reborn.

It's a pity that he has only been in the army for a short time, he only participated in the battle of Xiaoshun Town, and he is still an archer in the back row, and he is only allocated five acres of military merit land in addition to the military field. But even so, he took a leave of absence and spent the saved military pay to move the graves of his grandparents and parents to his own land and re-bury them.

The long-cherished wish was fulfilled, although the land in the family was still too small to pass on to future generations, but according to Chen Wen's system, as long as you fought bravely, you could obtain military merits, and military merits represented the soil!

"Grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, please bless the child to get more military exploits and more land ......"

In the cheering crowd, Feng Biao had long lost the majesty of the officer he usually held, and cheered to his heart's content. From the time he joined the army in the town of Dalan, he dreamed of becoming an officer. Now, he has done so, and he is convinced that in the future he will be given a higher official position, even following Chen Wenfeng to be knighted.

There are many officers who have the same idea, and Feng Biao is not the only one, such as Li Ruixin, the commander of the Nantang battalion where he is located, a former soldier of the Yasukuni Gonghuang Degong, and now he has also sat in the official position of chief military officer, although the personal benefits he gets are far less than other senior officers who enrich themselves by exploiting the soldiers and the people in this era, but the vitality of this army, and the absolutely extraordinary commander he is now loyal to, make him firmly believe that only such an army can regain lost territory. Avenging Huang Degong, a brave general in the late Ming Dynasty who he once regarded as an idol, only with the existence of such an army can he be reunited with his long-lost family.

"The Nantang camp is the first battalion head established by Dashuai. Keep up with the footsteps of the handsome and go! ”

The war drums sounded, and the Nantang battalion followed Chen Wen's cavalry one after another in the form of sentry units. Behind them, the Yiwu battalion, the Dongyang battalion, the battalion directly under the town, and the infantry teams and people transferred from the counties followed closely behind, walking firmly towards the direction where the banner of Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, was located.

Advance! (To be continued.) )