The Qing army quickly got on the line with Zheng Guohua in the city, and discussed preparations to wait for nightfall, and Zheng Guohua opened the city gate to welcome the Qing army into the city.

On the other side, Su Yan also led the army to leave the battlefield and rushed towards Tongxiang County, he was ready to take advantage of the morale of the whole army to be boosted, and attack the Qing army in Tongxiang at night to defeat this threat from the east.

In order to prevent the Qing army scouts from discovering their tracks in advance, Su Yan sent a large number of scouts and all the 120 Kalmyk archers who were trained to stay overnight to hunt down and kill the Qing army scouts as much as possible to prevent the news from reaching the Qing army camp.

Under the joint hunting of the Ming army scouts and the night of non-harvesting, most of the Qing army scouts were killed, and some became prisoners, under the torture, Su Yan got the information outside Tongxiang County, and also learned that the Qing army in Jiangnan seemed to be not on good terms with the remnants of Zhejiang.

Su Yan thought that he might be able to make a fuss in the middle, but he thought about it again, now is the time when the Qing army is the strongest, and it is impossible for such a thing as infighting to appear in the Qing army, and the energy paid from it does not seem to be proportional to the return.

So, he dismissed this idea for the time being.

However, the news of the large number of scouts still alarmed Ma Guozhu, although Ma Guozhu was biased towards civilian officials and had a good way of governing the region, but he was not so bad at commanding the military.

After receiving the news that a large number of scouts were missing, he sensitively sensed that there must be something wrong with it, and it was very likely that the Ming army had gotten rid of Tan Tai's confrontation situation and was rushing towards this side.

In order to verify his suspicions, he sent many scouts to investigate, and when it was about to dusk in the afternoon, one of the scouts was hit by an arrow in his back, and fled back to the camp in a jolt, reporting a bad news to Ma Guozhu and a group of generals-

The Ming army is rushing to Tongxiang County, and has crossed the Zhongjiahe Bridge, and will hit outside Tongxiang County at any time.

In addition, the badly wounded scout said that the Ming army seemed to have just experienced a battle, and that most of their soldiers could still see the traces of the battle.

Combined with Tan Taibu, who was confronting the Ming army before, Ma Guozhu and the others were shocked, Tan Tai was most likely defeated, otherwise how could he watch the Ming army move towards this side.

Tan Tai's troops are more than Ma Guozhu's troops, even Tan Tai was defeated, Ma Guozhu did not dare to risk fighting with the Ming army outside Tongxiang County, not to mention that there is Zhang Mingzhen in the city, once the Ming army reinforcements appear, they will kill out of the city at any time, and come to meet inside and outside.

So, Ma Guozhu did not hesitate to order the whole army to pull out and withdraw to Jiaxing Mansion, in order to prevent the Ming army from arriving at this time, they did not even dismantle the camp, leaving a place of chicken feathers to evacuate Tongxiang County.

On the city wall, seeing the sudden retreat of the Qing army, the Ming army foot soldiers who had been besieged for many days couldn't help but cheer, Zhang Mingzhen didn't believe it at first after learning that the Qing army retreated, but after seeing the Qing army camp empty, he keenly came to the conclusion that his own reinforcements were coming.

And this is indeed the case, an hour later, Su Yan, who learned that the Qing army had retreated, led the army directly to Tongxiang County, Zhang Mingzhen took the initiative to go out of the city to greet him, and thanked Su Yan for his support in person, and then, he proposed that the two armies join forces and take advantage of the situation to pursue the Qing army, but Su Yan refused.

Su Yan was not prepared to storm Fucheng without a sufficient advantage in troops, and after letting Zhang Mingzhen continue to garrison Tongxiang County, he led his army back to Xinshi to station, and he himself returned to Hangzhou City with his cavalry.

He's going to be a rioter.

In the past few months, in order to keep the defenders of each city to maintain law and order, he has recruited the most rudimentary Russian garrisons and Cossack infantry, the latter of which are also armed with flintlock rifles, but have to be temporarily replaced with bird guns because of the lack of sufficient flintlock rifles.

Only the prefecture that has the authority to recruit line infantry will recruit line infantry, and this work was only started by Su Yan at the beginning to maintain law and order, but he didn't expect that it could also come in handy now.

FJ Province has a total of 10 prefectures and 71 counties (Longyan Zhili Prefecture and Yongchun Zhili Prefecture were both established in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty), except for the county seat of the government office, Suyan occupies a total of 9 prefectures and 51 counties, except for Dehua, Yongchun, Anxi counties stationed militia, spearmen, the rest of the counties are stationed two teams of Russian garrisons and a team of Cossack infantry.

The number of troops in the prefecture was larger, because some of the prefectures did not have the authority to recruit line infantry, so Su Yan only maintained five teams of Russian garrisons and three teams of Cossack infantry, which was the case in all nine prefectures.

Such a large local garrison is that the garrison of FJ Province alone (not counting several battalions) needs 34,710 taels of silver per month, but fortunately, after occupying a province, the system also collects taxes on each city according to the monthly tax standard, so Su Yan does not need to worry about the military deficit.

Far from it.

The so-called violent soldiers do not mean that recruitment has only started now, it will take a month for the army to be formed and the time it takes to march, maybe after the army is assembled and arrives in Zhejiang, Su Yandu is about to fight in Nanjing.

After thinking about it for a while, Su Yan had an idea, and he decided to transfer a team of Russian garrisons from each of the 51 counties to gather a total of 6,120 foot soldiers to the north, and again put into recruiting a team of Russian garrisons and Cossack infantry in each county.

Don't look at the fact that there are only 6,000 foot soldiers, but these 6,000 foot soldiers are the best soldiers who have been systematically trained, and they can face several rounds of musket salvos to engage the enemy army, which is even higher than the halfway training.

At the same time, the Qing army in Jiangxi was confronting Su Dingyuan in Shangrao Mansion, and in order to relieve the pressure on Su Dingyuan, Su Yan ordered the Yiwu Battalion stationed in Jianning Mansion and the Weiwu Battalion stationed in Shaowu Mansion to join forces, with Lai Xun as the main general and Chen Shitai as the deputy general, to attack Fuzhou Mansion in Fujian.

That's right, Su Yan is preparing to open the second battlefield, and after the newly recruited recruits from each county become an army next month, Su Yan is ready to transfer them to Lai Xun's command to attack Jiangxi.

At this time, the Qing army in Guangdong was still dealing with Zhu Chenggong in Chaohui Erzhou and the remnants of the Ming army in western Guangdong, and they were too busy to take care of themselves, even if the Ming army in Fujian attacked Jiangxi, Geng Jimao, who seemed to be the commander of the Qing army in Guangdong, could not send troops to help.

And part of the Qing army in Jiangxi was transferred to Shangrao, and Su Dingyuan confronted each other, the two sides have tried each other for several days, have not made great progress, and the other part is stationed in Ganzhou - Ganzhou has become an important town in Jiangxi, the Qing army and the Southern Ming Dynasty in Jiangxi many battles are around Ganzhou, it is no exaggeration to say that those who take Ganzhou take Jiangxi.

When the troops were still slightly insufficient, Su Yan was not ready to make a move against Ganzhou, but asked Lai Xun to attack Yingtan after capturing Fuzhou, cut off the supply line of the Shangrao Qing army, and strive to eat the Shangrao Qing army.