Chapter 34 Leverage
At night, Chen Wen got his wish and saw the city wall of Dongyang County. However, he only saw the city wall.
When the Qing army was defeated, Ma Sansheng, as the head coach, made a quick decision to flee to Dongyang County with the flag and the reserve team in his hand, without any hesitation, showing the style of a generation of long-time generals. In contrast, the soldiers he had brought out early in the morning were very few who could escape back.
Ma Sansheng brought his personal soldiers and reserve team into the city. In order to prevent the Ming army from taking advantage of the chaos to seize the city, he closed all the city gates. Only the two cavalry followed in at a fast speed, and the remaining Qing army was blocked outside the city.
The Green Camp soldiers, who were the backbone of the Qing army formation, were always bitten by the first game, barely fled to the city, and were bombarded by a burst of arrows at the top of the city, and they were completely defeated by the first game they were chased.
The right-wing regiment walked slowly than the old lady with a small foot when she was training troops to attack, but when she ran away, she became an elderly card for chasing the bus. She left the battlefield without even being touched by the Ming army.
The right-wing regiment training came from Fucheng and its nearby villages and towns. They arrived at Dongyang County by boat along the Dongyang River. As long as they bypassed the city and arrived at the port where they landed, they could take all the boats home. As for food and grass, although the Qing army would take out some of them during the training, the organizers of these regiment training and soldiers would carry some, so they were inevitably hungry, but it would not be too hungry for people to die.
But in comparison, the left-wing regiments were much more lucky to train troops. Most of the regiments on the left-wing regiments came from Yiwu County. Because of the Yiwu soldiers' reputation in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Qing army had high hopes for them. But who knew that after seeing the Yuanyang Formation, these regiments from Yiwu were even more powerful than those on the right-wing regiments. They remained as if they were still in the mountains when fighting. When the Qing army's green camp collapsed, they simply carried out supervision and commanded the green camp to retreat.
But the problem is that they are from Yiwu. Since Dongyang County and Yiwu County are adjacent, some of these regiments came on foot; while most of them were on boats, but because the distance was too close, most of the boatmen had already sailed back to continue their business. Even if they arrived at the dock, they might not be able to go back.
So he simply gave the Qing army's garrison to the Ming army who was chasing him, and asked the Ming army not to continue chasing them and let them return to their hometown.
But coincidentally, the officers who were catching up with the left-wing regiment were also from Yiwu, and they were the first fellow Wu Dengke who followed Chen Wen.
After negotiations between the two sides, we found that there were many fellow villagers in Jinhua Prefecture and even Yiwu County on the Ming army. Even Lou Jiye, the general in charge of commanding the first bureau, was a child of the Xiayan Lou family in Yiwu. This Nantang camp formed an army with the slogan of rebuilding the Qi family army. The group of soldiers discussed a little and then followed the fellow villagers to join the main force of the Ming army.
When they met with the main force of the Ming army, they were already in the camp where the Qing army was temporarily stationed outside the city. After seeing the leaders of the regiments' training, Lou Jiye thought about how to deal with it or whether it should be decided by Chen Wen. So he just comforted him a little and placed them in the camp, waiting for Chen Wen to arrive.
In less than half an hour, Chen Wen arrived with the back team. However, in addition to the soldiers who were guarding their subordinates during the battle and the old camp officials led by Sun Yu, there were also a group of civilians recruited by Chen Wen from Lizhai Town, which was not far from the battlefield.
Regarding the advance troops in Nantangying, the residents of Lizhai Town thought that it was a group of bandits going down the mountain, and by chance defeated the encircled Qing army, so they became arrogant and wanted to attack the county town. However, since entering the vicinity of Dongyang County, especially after setting up camp outside Lizhai Town, this "bandits" never disturbed the people, and had no intention of attacking the town. The military discipline was much stronger than the green camp soldiers of the Qing army, which made them feel a little abnormal.
When Nantangying changed clothes in front of the two armies and revealed their true colors, the residents of Lizhai Town discovered that this was a Ming army, and the exaggerated group that had previously been spread among the people had "completely annihilated" the Admiral Biaoying and Shaoxing Green Camp, and then made a big fuss in the Dalanshan Ming army in Xinchang County.
However, before the people of Lizhai Town could react from the shock, the Ming army easily defeated the Qing army of Jinhua Prefecture, which had a far greater force than they were. Especially when some villagers and older people in Lizhai Town recognized that they were using the Mandarin Duck Formation, the mayors of the town and the villagers planned to provide some food and grass and civilians in order to make a good relationship.
But before they were ready, Chen Wen had already sent people to collect them. Among the people sent, the officials from an old camp were headed. The officials were not polite. When they met the mayor and the fellow villagers, they told the rumor that seemed to be spread on Tiantai Mountain.
In his words, this Nantang Camp was the Qi army rebuilt by Chen Wen, the son-in-law of the Qi family of Penglai. At this moment, it had defeated the main force of the Tartars entrenched in Jinhua Prefecture, and was preparing to recruit troops in Jinhua Prefecture like Qi Jiguang did back then in order to restore the two capitals and revive the Ming Dynasty. This was also an easy task. As for now, they were asked to provide civilians and food and grass to follow the army to listen to it.
After receiving this news, the entire Lizhai Town immediately became excited. When he saw that the Ming army was using the Mandarin Duck Formation, he originally thought that he was a general from the Ming army who learned from military books, but who knew that he would be the son-in-law of the Qi family in Penglai.
Although the commander of this army is not surnamed Qi, the son-in-law is still half a son. If he gets the secret of Qi's military strategy, even if only Qi Jiguang's point or even a few tenth of the means, it is not something that the Tartars can stop. The rumors of Chen Wen's "complete annihilation" of the Extension Battalion and the Shaoxing Green Camp at the end of last year, as well as the scene when the Ming army easily defeated the Qing army just now, it perfectly improved this idea infinitely.
The people of Dongyang County have no less superstition about Qi Jiguang than Yiwu. It should be noted that Qi Jiguang later entered Fujian to encircle and suppress Japanese pirates, and he once recruited soldiers in Dongyang County. The former Qi family army had many children from Dongyang County, but they were not as famous as Yiwu.
After the mayor and fellow villagers of Lizhai Town were taken to see Chen Wen by that official, although Chen Wen did not admit the matter of the son-in-law of the Qi family, he was still implicated as a default by those fellow villagers. After all, the Qi family was still in Shandong, which was occupied by the Qing army, and even if it was not convenient to admit it.
Now, several people were spared from looking at each other a few times, and immediately assured Chen Wen that they would collect a large number of civilians and food, grass, poultry and livestock, and even said that they would try their best to convince the surrounding villages and towns to send food to the Ming army.
While sending off these enthusiastic people, Chen Wen couldn't help but sigh at the ability of the old camp official to deceive. But in fact, it was not as exaggerated as he imagined. Rather than saying that these people were fooled by the old camp official, it was better to say that these people had obtained a statement that they were willing to accept from the bottom of their hearts.
After the collapse of the Jiang army, the Qing army, led by General Duan Chong and Prince Boluo, the general of the Southern Expedition, entered Fujian from Jinhua and Quzhou. Passing through Jinhua Prefecture City, said that "the people were not obedient to their destiny, they were all killed." More than 50,000 people were killed, and even more were the massacres that were not recorded.
Boluo returned northward, and Ma Jinbao, who had participated in the massacre of Jinhua, was appointed as the general of Quzhou, in charge of the military affairs of the four governments of Jinhua, Quzhou, Yanzhou and Chuzhou. Later, he was transferred to the general of Jinhua and was stationed in Jinhua.
During Ma Jinbao's time in Jinhua, "the wealthy people hanged their weapons upside down and poured their noses with vinegar. People could not bear it, and they all took all their belongings, and the dead were all counted. They also occupied the people's huts and robbed them everywhere, but the government did not dare to ask."
The specific amount of people plundering and killing the people was unknown. However, when he stepped down as General Jinhua and was promoted to Admiral Su Song, the bribery of the capital alone included "more than 20 treasures, millions of gold and silver, and other things were invincible, and they stretched for hundreds of miles." This was only a small part of Ma Jinbao's gain. The three thousand vicious generals and soldiers under his command plundered him, and I am afraid that there will always be a hundred times and a thousand times.
All the incomes of the Qing army were the people's wealth and paste of Jinhua people. It was just easy to calculate gold and silver, but how can the blood debts behind it be calculated clearly?
Since the Qing army moved south, it often slaughtered cities, not to mention villages and towns. The historical materials, archives and county annals recorded in this era are everywhere on the atrocities of the Qing Dynasty, such as "slashing down", "suppressing and baptizing", and "slaughtering them all". The targets of the slaughtered by the Qing beast soldiers were not limited to the anti-Qing army and the Ming army that regarded the emperor of the Southern Ming as orthodox, but were more of the people who were forced to go to the mountains to farm and survive, and often did not even have any weapons.
Jinhua, the bitter horse has been entering the treasure for a long time, the green camp of Jinhua Mansion has been suffering for a long time, and the Qing Dynasty has been suffering for a long time!
But the more such a period, the more people yearn for the appearance of heroes in their hearts, and in the hearts of the people of Jinhua Palace, only Qi Jiguang can call him such a hero.
It has nothing to do with anything else at this moment, just because Qi Jiguang once led the Qi family army, which was mainly composed of people from Jinhua Prefecture, to sweep away the Japanese pirates and defeat the Northern Territory, because what people longed for was such a great hero to lead them out of the tragic situation here!
The appearance of Chen Wen just met their needs. An unheard of military general, whose first battle was in Simingshan's "full annihilation" camp and Shaoxing Green Camp, made a big fuss in Xinchang County after that. If these are just rumors, then the scene that just happened before them is enough to prove these rumors. In addition, Chen Wen is good at using the Mandarin Duck Formation and has the identity of "Son-in-law of the Qi Family in Penglai", isn't this what the hero sent by God should have, and it is also the characteristic that the local people desire?
In history, Li Dingguo's two famous kings were slumped, and the world was shocked. All anti-Qing people from all over the country rushed to contact each other, using the picture as the front drive of Li Dingguo...
Historically, Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan besieged Nanjing and defeated the Eight Banners in Zhenjiang. The Ming army was under the command of the army. The gentry in Jiangnan ran around, and all the places surrendered...
Today, although Chen Wen only defeated a left-behind army of Biao Camp in Jinhua Town, in the hearts of the people of Lizhai Town, who had been fantasizing for many years, it was a hopeful beginning. Just like Qi Jiguang led them to destroy Japanese pirates back then, Chen Wen, the "son-in-law of the Qi family", could definitely lead them to expel the Qing Dynasty and restore the two capitals!
Chen Wen didn't know that his victory of more than 4,000 people in total would have such an exaggerated impact. But when he arrived at the military camp near Dongyang County, the regiments placed in the camp all showed excitement, admiration and excitement, and the fear that should be shown at this moment should not exist at all.
Chen Wen had heard of the rumor about the son-in-law of the Qi family before, but at that time he only felt that some people laughed at the imagination of the mandarin duck formation used in Nantang Camp. But today he realized that there were many people who believed in this rumor.
"Perhaps, we can carry out advertising marketing according to this idea. Maybe this military operation to recover Jinhuafu can reduce certain casualties as a result."
That night, Chen Wen killed pigs and sheep to reward the entire army, and even the civilians and the regiment trained the army and got a full meal. At the same time, he once again made a guest appearance as a storyteller, telling the soldiers of the camp and the regiment trained the army and the civilians about Qi Jiguang's glorious deeds.
Chapter completed!