In the city of Wenzhou, at dawn, the people in the city stood behind the doors and windows tremblingly after a night of shouting and shouting and killing, peeking out through the gaps between the doors and windows, wanting to see which side won the battle yesterday.

Among them, there are also many brave people who opened the door despite the opposition of their families and walked out of their homes, they looked at the Ming flag fluttering on the city wall, and the soldiers in red uniforms on the street, how they didn't understand that this was the Ming army fighting back.

"Master Wang is back!"

I don't know who shouted first, and soon, the whole city knew the news of the return of the Ming army, They all came out of their homes with courage, and looked happily at the army holding high the Ming battle flag, and some people took out food and water from their homes, put them in bamboo baskets and walked into the street, trying to stuff food and water into the soldiers, but they were surprised to find that these soldiers actually refused their kindness and did not take a penny.

It didn't take long for them to learn from the Ming army that they were subordinate to the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, who had been newly appointed by the Yongli court and had defeated several Qing armies one after another.

In the Wenzhou Mansion, Su Yan restored the position of Wang Jialiang, the prefect of Wenzhou, who took the initiative to surrender, after having a systematic background, all local officials who surrendered from the Qing court, as long as there is no corruption and perversion of the law on weekdays, Su Yan will not remove them from their positions, and this Wang Jialiang has been conscientious since he took office two years ago, and his reputation among the people is not bad, so Su Yan did not do anything to him.

His conscientiousness may also be related to the Qing court's establishment of the sub-guard Wen Dao and the sub-patrol Wen Dao, the responsibilities of these two Taoist officials are to assist the political envoy and the inspection envoy to inspect the political affairs of Wenzhou and the two prefectures, after the city of Wenzhou was broken, the two Taoists just happened to patrol Wenzhou, and then they were arrested and directly thrown into prison.

Fu Menghu, the Taoist of the Qing court's sub-guard Wen Division, was a person with the emperor's banner, and he relied on his identity as a banner man to bully men and women, so Su Yan ordered him to be taken out of the prison and taken to the entrance of the vegetable market, calling on the people of the city to come and watch, beheading and showing the public.

When he was taken out of the prison, Fu Menghu was still very arrogant, scolding at the soldiers who were guarding him, and insulting him with all kinds of ugly words, until one of the soldiers couldn't stand it and raised the butt of his gun to give him a hard slap in the face before he finally shut up.

Therefore, when he was escorted to the execution ground, the people around the execution ground who heard the news immediately laughed and applauded, it turned out that Fu Mengyu's nose was crooked, and his whole face was covered with blood.

When he heard the cheers around him, he wanted to raise his head and stare at the onlookers with vicious eyes, intimidating them, but where would the people be afraid of a lost dog, they picked up rotten vegetables and porridge one after another, and smashed them at Fu Mengyu's body, so that the two soldiers guarding him could not dodge and were also smashed together.

Fu Menghu did not enjoy the same treatment as Shang Kexi, and after being read out of the improvised indictment, he was beheaded in public under the executioner's quick knife, and his head was hung at the city gate.

At the same time, Su Yan also asked Huang An, the commander of the Zheng Army's naval division, to return to Fuzhou, and sent the Chinese military camp and Xiaocai operation to Pingyang County, while he left part of his troops to defend the city, and led the main force to leave Wenzhou City and kill the Panshi Acropolis on the north bank of the Oujiang River.

The Panshi Acropolis is the coastal defense gateway of Wenzhou City, and Su Yan naturally cannot tolerate the Qing army still occupying this place.

However, when he led his army to bypass the Oujiang River and kill the Panshi Acropolis, the Qing army here was already empty, and the Ming army easily occupied the acropolis.

According to the confession of the people living nearby, the Panshi Qing army had already evacuated the Acropolis last night, and they were heading towards Wenzhou City at first, as if they wanted to reinforce Fucheng, but they changed their direction halfway and withdrew in the direction of Yueqing County.

Since the Panshi Qing army retreated north, Su Yan did not continue the pursuit, and after he left a hundred riflemen on the acropolis, he returned to Wenzhou City and sent the Jinyi guards with the army to spread the news that the Ming Fujian and Zhejiang governors were in Wenzhou City.

Subsequently, he led the army south, preparing to take Ruian and Pingyang counties before Li Shutai learned the news of the fall of Wenzhou, and blocked Li Shutai's Qing army in the Aojiang Plain.

Because of the Lu Jianguo regime's leadership in resisting the Qing Dynasty, Zhejiang's anti-Qing sentiment has always been very high, so after the army soldiers holding high the banner of the Ming Army came to Ruian City and displayed the dozens of artillery, the defenders of Ruian City surrendered very simply.

After occupying Ruian County, Su Yan did not stop long, crossed the Feiyun River and drove towards Pingyang County, and arrived outside Pingyang County in the evening.

Seeing that the envoy sent to persuade him to surrender was refused, Su Yan could only order dozens of artillery pieces with the army to be lined up to demonstrate to the defenders on the city, and then set fire to the city wall for a burst of indiscriminate bombardment, and it didn't take long for the defenders to take the initiative to open the city gate and surrender to the Ming army.

The sound of artillery fire in the direction of Pingyang County also attracted the attention of the Qing army scouts, and after they saw that the head of the county town was replaced with the banner of the Ming army, they immediately knew that the matter was big, and hurriedly returned to the Qing army camp in Liuhe Palace to report the matter to Li Shutai.

At this time, Li Shutai was still discussing with several Qing army generals in the main tent about attacking Fenshui Pass again tomorrow, and when he saw the scout rushing in anxiously, he scolded unhappily: "What a panic, report something slowly." ”

"Your Excellency...... It's not good for adults! The scout knelt on the ground and said in a hurried tone: "The subordinates heard a fierce cannon fire from the direction of Pingyang County, so they went to check, and found that the banner of the Ming army was hung on the city wall of the county town at some point, and the subordinates also met a messenger who escaped from Wenzhou when they came back, and he is now waiting outside." ”

"What?" Li Shutai frowned, sensing that something was wrong, and several generals around him also whispered, and he hurriedly ordered someone to bring the messenger in.

As soon as the messenger entered the tent, he fell to his knees and shouted: "Your Excellency, the Ming army sailed into the Oujiang River yesterday evening to launch a night attack, the fire is fierce, our army cannot parry, Wenzhou has fallen!" ”

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Li Shutai was startled, sat up from his seat suddenly, raised his hand and pointed at the messenger with some trembling, and asked, "Then why did you come to report now?" ”

"Back to the governor's words, his subordinates were trapped in the city by the Ming army yesterday and could not get out, and today's subordinates were able to leave Wenzhou City after the puppet Ming Fujian and Zhejiang governors led the army, if they didn't grab a horse halfway, I'm afraid I will see you tomorrow!" The messenger shouted.

"Damn it!"

Li Shutai slammed the table hard, and he quickly reacted and said, "The puppet governor of Fujian and Zhejiang? Didn't he lead the main force of the Ming army to confront our army on the side of Funing Prefecture? How did it appear in Wenzhou? ”

Everyone was also stunned, a few days ago, they saw the banner of the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang hanging on the wall of Fenshui Pass, and saw the increase in the strength of the Ming army in Fenshui Pass, so they thought that Su Yan personally went to Fenshui Pass to command the enemy, why did he run to Wenzhou now?

At this time, Jingnan General Chen Tai reacted, he smiled bitterly, and said, "My lord, we are afraid that we have fallen for Su Yan's golden cicada to get out of the shell." ”

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