In Longyou County, the westernmost small town in Wuzhou (now Jinhua, Zhejiang).

Cheng Dajie, the right general of the Eighth Army who described Cangsang, was also in the fog of rain and mist. He looked at the temporary garrison with heavy losses and injuries. He had a total of five partial divisions in the battalion, and only these were left.

More than 2,000 young and strong brothers disappeared like this; in addition, after gathering the soldiers who had been dispersed one after another, there were about a thousand missing people. I don’t know if they were captured, killed, or flee directly, and hid.

You should know that these are all the Chao Xun new soldiers and old rebels who were trained and selected in Jiangxi's mobilization and clearing local battles, and he also trained and selected them, recruited and eliminated. Even if the battles in Jiangxi were combined, they did not suffer much loss this time.

Speaking of which, after so many years of war under the banner of the Taiping Army, his family's revenge for the destruction of their people had long been avenged; but when he saw the other party's flag, he still couldn't help but lead his troops to attack.

Because that was Zhang Zimian, the former general of the Wuwei, the deputy commander of the south camp, was also the culprit who defeated and surrounded and killed the former general Butian Wang Xianzhi. The rebel army disappeared after he broke through his retired hometown of Zhushan, where he was not in trouble, but he did not expect that there would be another situation in Chuzhou.

Not to mention that Wei Quanfan, the governor of Fuzhou who fled from Jiangxi, was also disturbed by it; and it posed a great obstacle to the war on the southern front of the Taiping Army. Because Wei Quanfan was quite familiar with the methods and strategies implemented by the Taiping Army in the local area.

Therefore, in the southeastern Zhejiang, where the hills and mountains are mixed with small plains, a tactic of clearing the wilderness and strengthening the walls, resisting and consuming them in a sense. The local food and food resources, together with the young and middle-aged people, were forcibly collected into the earthen enclosures and forts.

If they dare to delay or resist, the minor ones burned the family and severe ones were slaughtered on the spot; because the officials and the officials shouted the slogan "It would be better to be mud in the trenches than to use the thief." Turning the villages and towns everywhere into ghosts.

When the Taiping Army arrived, they were only facing a bunch of elderly, weak, women and children who were poisoned and hungry but could not provide any help, as well as corpses scattered on both sides of the road. Whether it was the source of local news and guidance, or the base of people that could be mobilized, it seemed that it no longer existed overnight.

So when they met this scene, the Taiping soldiers under their command became even more excited and their morale was rising. They wished they could put wings on and defeat these people who poisoned the people immediately, searched and put them into trial and punishment.

With the support of this excited mood and atmosphere, they kept breaking a village and a fortress in a place; they simply and roughly executed a group of wealthy families with quick knife and a quick rude execution. In this kind of pleasure and catharsis, they gradually eroded their sharpness and vigilance.

Then, they tasted the bitter fruit and price of too much or greed under the city of Wuzhou Prefecture. The so-called internal forces who made an appointment to open the city were soon destroyed and killed by the government troops who had the time to sit and watch it.

Then he plotted against the Taiping Army. After more than half of the soldiers under Cheng Dajie entered the city, he was besieged by the ambushed officers and the Tumen and troops gathered outside the city, and at the same time raised flags and siege.

Until he thought about it later, Cheng Dazhi once again realized many shortcomings in military strategy and adaptability;

For example, when he was attacked from both sides, he was actually rushing to the head with great enthusiasm, thinking of taking risks again, and attacking the exposed Zhang Zimian to save the situation. If it weren't for Chen Duer, the man who followed the camp, who desperately grabbed his mount, he would have to get in.

Or from the beginning, he advanced step by step and fought more steadily, ignoring the deliberate provocation and harassment of the official army. If he was not confused by the pleasure and ease of driving straight into the world, he might not have been so easy or defeated so miserably.

Although as a follower from the old camp of Nufeng, he had always had the situation of being the chief supervisor and supporting him, and letting him take the responsibility of the party to come to Ping Jiangxi. He also did a good job at one time; but after meeting the real government army, he still suffered a great loss for his contempt and negligence.

It can be foreseen that his failure will lead to the subsequent Nanlu strategy of Jiangxi, Lingdong and Fujian being connected to the front line, and there will be more problems and obstacles. This is also his biggest crime to blame.

"Du'er... After this matter, I'm going to resign from this post..."

Thinking of this, Cheng Dajie said to Chen Duer, a man who was tangled by his arms around him.

"Uncle Cheng... General Lang, why is this? Our Taiping Army cannot afford to lose... The rebel army has suffered a lot of setbacks earlier, but it has not come like this."

Chen Du'er advised in surprise.

"I know, but if it weren't for this, the obstacles in my heart would not be able to pass through..."

Cheng Dajie said with a serious expression.

"The Grand Governor only entrusted the position because I was the old man I followed in my early years, but I also realized that my ability and pattern are no longer enough to bear the heavy burden of this letter. Even if the Grand Governor continues to trust me, I have no shame to persevere..."

"Well, will you...?"

Chen Du'er couldn't help but become more confused. Was the other party discouraged and wanted to retire?

"I plan to quit my post and go to the training center to study hard. In recent years, the territory of the Taiping Army has become larger and larger, and more and more people have been investing in it. I am afraid that I have left too many things, too many things...."

When Cheng Dazhi said this, he seemed to be looking at the distance with more firmness and determination.

"When I learn again in the future, I will continue to repay the Grand Governor's Xin Chong, so as to avenge those dead and injured brothers..."

At this time, someone else shouted in a hurry:

"Report that those Uttar League troops have come here again... and have prepared siege equipment."

In Wuzhou Prefecture, dozens of miles away, Zhang Zimian, who had gray hair and broad faces, was also looking at the devastated battlefield outside the city in a complicated mood.

These Taiping thieves were clearly injured by the enemy on both sides, but they could still win Yu Yong to fight and retreat without any hesitation, so that those Tumen, the troops of the garrison, and the troops of the garrison, would all show fatigue and decline and give up one after another.

Not to mention that it was easy to capture hundreds of prisoners, most of whom were unwilling to surrender and beg for mercy, and they could not ask for many useful things. So in order not to influence and shake the military's morale, he could only order all of them to be executed.

Although he had just won a great victory, which was considered to have broken the peace and swept the Jiangxi and Hunan areas, and there were few rumors of rivals. However, in his leisure time alone, he could not help but fall into a sense of confusion and loss.

Because he has always relied on loyalty and fighting, but he has given him too much sadness and disappointment and no longer has the court left. The local area is full of wild fish and dragons, and he no longer cares about the authority and system of the country.

The Huang Ni Puppet Dynasty, which now occupied the two capitals, and the Taiping thieves swept across the south of the river, divided the main trends of the world, one in the south and one in the north.

Now, the imperial court still respects the banner, and only the independent town of Huainan, which is still in Jiangbei, and the two Zhejiangs that survive in Jiangdong. Even these two Zhejiangs are difficult to live in peace and harmony.

After all, he defeated only the Taiping thieves from Jiangxi. The army led by the head of the Taiping thieves was still conquering cities and territories in the north and the news was heard.

You know, it was the second most powerful enemy in the world who swept Annan, Liangling, Jinghu, and even Jiangxi and Jiangdong, and finally gained a foothold.

Now it occupies seven places between the southwest and southeast, and there are probably millions of people under its jurisdiction. Even if it drives and carries one or two out of them, it will be overwhelming or a disaster.

Although he had a lifetime of fighting against thieves for the country in his early years, he had great martial arts, and had new and old hatreds that were destroyed by the thieves' army in his hometown; no one was more determined and determined in the fight against thieves and protecting the territory.

However, in the face of this situation, he still couldn't help but feel pessimistic and disappointed. At the beginning, he escaped from his hometown in Zhushan with his family's desperate guards. He originally wanted to go north to seek something to join the court.

However, on the way to Taizhou to board the ship and go to sea, the attacks and robberies he and his group were repeatedly aware that the world had gradually changed.

So he had to stop in Chuzhou and gather a group of independent troops near the local village. Then he snowballed the seven counties of Chuzhou and about ten large and small groups of people.

Then he pushed Lu Yue, an official who was born in the Fanyang Lu family and was stranded in the local area, to the position of governor. He was behind the scenes to take charge of the overall situation. Among them, the three thousand Wenling soldiers from Liang Zan, the former Wenzhou defense envoy, were his greatest reliance.

Therefore, he had already given up his intention to go north to serve the court, and instead wanted to unify the southeastern Zhejiang prefectures, and then seek to observe the whole territory as a basis for the whole territory. In this way, he could conserve the countryside, and advance could turn the tide and the southeastern homeland.

In this way, once he reconstructed the situation in Liangzhe, it would be for the court to regain an important piece of puzzle in the Southeast's financial and tycoon. He also had a natural foundation that was not subject to the implementation of the chaotic world.

After all, after witnessing the troubles and chaos in the world for many years, he also learned from his mistakes and felt that there must be some changes and purging in order to clarify the top-down filth that has been dominated by treacherous ministers for many years.

Therefore, Chen Yan's troops, who had been reorganized and governed from Fujian, became the best excuse and opportunity for him to annex the forces in southeast Zhejiang, such as Kuo, Wen, Taiwan and Wu under the banner of joint confrontation.

In fact, he also did this by himself. By receiving the owners and the barren land, he was able to gather refugees and began to implement the military camp method on the frontier. On the one hand, he cut off the soil that was successively thieves, and on the other hand, he was also self-sufficient in food and clothing and soldiers.

On the other hand, we unite and win over powerful people such as the local rich surnames and families to achieve a mutually echoing trend of mutual protection; we also recruit and recruit children from wealthy businessmen and officials in the city to enrich our tents and subordinates.

Therefore, it soon spread and extended to Kua, Tai, Wen, Wu and other places with Chuzhou as the center, forming a rare revitalization atmosphere that works together and goes to the difficult times.

He also led the enemy deep into the Fujian Army and Taizhou that defeated Chen Yan; resulting in the banner of Zhang Zimian, the former deputy commander in the south, resounding throughout the eastern Zhejiang area for a while, and everyone was afraid of surrender.

Then he took advantage of the great victory and began to inspect everywhere, appointing officials to severely punish illegal and chaotic localities; appease the people who suffer from difficulties; and ordered families with wealthy families to continue to offer money and grain to unify the relief of the lonely families in cities.

Because he also realized that in order to cut off the repeated causes of this thief, in addition to killing enemies head-on and destroying the martial arts, he also lies in the struggle for people's hearts.

As for the Mingzhou Governor Zhong Jiwen, who rose in the north, in a sense, he wanted and had the biggest opponent in the entire eastern Zhejiang area. Because once the opponent entered Yuezhou, he naturally obtained the title of Zhejiang East Observer and the upstream victory.

Despite this, this time, under the stakes of his lips and teeth, he focused on the overall situation, and divided his troops to support him in the name of Luyo, the governor of Chuzhou. He hoped that the other party could persist for a long time under the pressing attack of the thief.

In this way, he was able to completely close the door to Fujian while dealing with the invading thieves in Jiangxi, so as to eliminate the worries of going north to win in the future.

Then he saw a general coming hurriedly and bowing and shouting:

"The General, Hengling Town, Songshan Town and Longquan (Urban Group) Army went to attack Longyou on their own... I said I wanted to give you a big surprise."

“It’s unreasonable.”

Zhang Zimian raised his eyebrows and said angrily.

According to his strategic deployment, after defeating the active offensive from the Taiping thieves in Jiangxi, he should be trapped for a while and then make every effort to solve the remnants of Chen Yan's troops entrenched in Pingyang and Fenshui Pass.
Chapter completed!