The battle for the city wall of Dongcheng ended soon. When the Ming army launched a general attack under the city, the Qing army, who had only rely on the dangers of the city wall, was immediately overwhelmed by the previous fear and began to retreat step by step. When they noticed that Ma Sansheng, as the head coach, was no longer on the city, they had no courage and fled one after another.

The surrendered soldiers of the Qing army quickly occupied the city wall and opened the city gate that had been smashed by the siege hammers to the point of being nearly broken, leading the Ming army outside the city in.

After the Ming army entered the city, they quickly occupied the city wall according to their previous plans and began to concentrate their forces to approach various important places in the city. The surrendered soldiers of the Qing army, who were the main force of the siege, were driven back to the camp outside the city after distributing red notes as evidence according to their merits and continued to be supervised by the Ming army.

However, even though Chen Wen's subordinates had already acted very quickly, many surrendered soldiers of the Qing army managed to escape from the control of the Ming army in the siege and disappeared without a trace.

After counting the number of people, although the losses of the surrendered soldiers of the Qing army were not as great as he imagined, they were definitely not a minority. However, among these losses, some of them were killed in battle and some escaped in the chaos, but it was difficult to get the answer at this time. After a while, Chen Wen promised to determine their subsequent treatment based on the number of white and red notes. He asked the officers in charge to distribute some food and water and left the camp and stepped into Dongyang County, which had been completely controlled by the Ming army, with Sun Yu and other old camp officials.

There was no street fighting in Dongyang County. While the city wall was lost, the Qing army guarding the city also lost its final fighting spirit. They either knelt down and asked for surrender or fled. The Ming army did not have any strength to take down the most critical grain warehouses, Buku, Yinku and other warehouses in the city. Even the Dongcheng military camp and county government, which were expected to have a bloody battle, took down the remaining work without any effort.

After entering the city, Chen Wen, Sun Yu and others parted ways, and these old camp officials went to various warehouses and county governments to count the accounts. Chen Wen stayed in the Qing army camp in the city and began to arrange defense.

The military camp is located in the east of the city, but it is still a distance from the city wall. When Chen Wen arrived, the officer leading the army and Zhang Jun and others who were responsible for attacking the army camp were already waiting at the gate. Just at a glance, he always felt that the officer leading the army showed a hint of helplessness between the eyebrows and eyes.

After entering the military camp, Chen Wen occupied the large tent located in the middle of the military camp, and the injured soldiers were also arranged to move into the cleaned wounded and handed over to the military medical team for treatment and care.

Chen Wen probably knew the details of the battle outside the city, but the expected battle did not break out in the military camp, which still surprised him, but the surprise only lasted until Zhang Jun and others, who were like monkeys offering treasures, revealed the truth.

It turned out that after the Qing army was defeated by the Ming army in the field and retreated to defend the city, Zhang Jun and others were trapped in the city. However, they were simply waiting for the Ming army to enter the city, but they were waiting for an opportunity to take action. After discovering that they could not complete the capture of the city wall or the beheading of civil servants and generals in the city, they pretended to be a horseshoe-headed master at Yang Kai's suggestion and entered the military camp to carry out damage. The horses in the stable were their results.

The spoils were still counting. When Chen Wenteng learned that a batch of war horses were intercepted from the military camp, he stood up and led by Zhang Jun and others to leave the stable.

Having a war horse means that cavalry can be trained, and cavalry is an important group of troops used to determine victory or defeat on the battlefield. Chen Wen had faced the Qing army several times before, and he did not suffer any losses in the cavalry when he besieged Tiantai County and attacked the garrison of Dongyang County. In other battles, he was forced by the advantage of the cavalry of the Qing army to use some unconventional tactics, such as the formation of horse pits and seducing the enemy with his own body.

When Chen Wen learned that a group of war horses had been recorded, he immediately rushed to the stable. However, after seeing the war horses, he couldn't help but sigh.

"How many tons of crotons have you put in the manger?"

Although I don’t know how big a unit of measurement that Chen Wen mentioned is, just listening to that tone, Zhang Jun and others knew that this "ton" would definitely not be a small unit of measurement, and at least it should not be much less than a hundred stowage.

But the problem is, they really don’t put that much!

When nailing the horseshoe, the two disguised as apprentices took out the prepared crotons from the big bags containing horseshoes. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the stinger chatting with the Qing army staring at them, they approached the manger on the grounds of leading horses, dropped the crotons, and even sneaked into the nearby forage farm with the reason of urination.

If you act so secretly, you don’t have many releases, but after a whole night of hard work, you put almost all the troughs all, which led to the Qing cavalry facing the sudden special operation team when facing the sudden outbreak of the city, and hurriedly escaped from the barracks.

In this way, Chen Wen obtained some war horses through their actions, and the number was about one hundred.

Such a big remedy really made Chen Wen very happy. If he trained all of them, he would finally be able to build a cavalry team of more than 300 people in the plain terrain with the forces of the Qing army in a single town.

The team members who had planned and participated in this operation were praised, and the officers and old battalion officials who had counted the seized near the city wall also completed the work, and sent all the seized to the warehouse of the military camp to temporarily store them, waiting for Sun Yu's inventory to be completed before summarizing them.

After the seizure and inventory were completed, the defense arrangements were also completed. The city had just been broken today, and the Qing army no longer had enough troops to seize the city in Jinhua Prefecture. Chen Wen only used the city walls, county governments, and military camps as the focus of defense, and divided some soldiers to guard the warehouses and other key points. With the announcement of a curfew, some teams that did not participate in the battle patrol the main roads in the city, and finally completed the defense.

According to the previous plan, Chen Wenhui lived in the military camp, and Sun Yu led the officials of the old camp to stay in the county and other places. This not only showed the more familiar difference between civil and military in this era in front of outsiders, but also was more in line with the current dual system pattern of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain led by Governor Wang Jiang and General Hangyin Chen Wen.

But after finishing the defense work, Chen Wen still had to go to the county government. In addition to understanding the warehousing situation in the city, he also needed to discuss the situation that needs to be dealt with in the past few days and in the future.

After arriving at the county government office, Sun Yu was still busy with the officials. Compared with Chen Wen's limited seizure, the land, tax and account books in the county government office took a long time to check the various warehouses. Although the officials in the old camp are obviously much more than the officers in charge of Chen Wen, the number gap still makes them face the dilemma of having to work all night.

In ancient China, local yamen were all in the form of a house in front of the yamen and the back of the house. When the county yamen was captured, the magistrate and his wives and concubines all hanged themselves on the house. On the contrary, the magistrate was arrested by the Ming army who arrived when he attempted to climb over the wall and escape. Now and other officials were all sent to the prison, waiting for investigation. Only the Qing army commander Ma Sansheng was missing, and he only hoped that he could be released when the investigation was conducted.

Sun Yu and the old camp officials were busy in the yamen. It was not until Chen Wen arrived that he entered a wing room for negotiation. The military camp, county yamen and warehouses were all kept intact, and the houses in the city were not damaged. Only the east city wall and the city gate needed some repairs. Sun Yu would arrange these things.

The military camp affairs depended on members of the special operations team, and the county government and the warehouse were the "special agents" temporarily developed by Zhang Jun and others - the minor official who led them into the military camp was able to save it by trying to convince his colleagues who had received the order from the magistrate to burn the warehouse when the city was destroyed.

Chen Wen summoned the minor official to come over, comforted him a few words, and announced that he would reward him as a meritorious person in this battle and handed him over to Sun Yu's head. Sun Yu did not hesitate at all and directly appointed him as the chief clerk of the county, thinking that the effect of a thousand gold horse bones was effective.

From the lowest-level minor official in Dongyang County to the ninth-rank county chief clerk, the minor official helped the Ming army do something under coercion, but the reward he received was a rich man that he could never achieve in his life under the Qing Dynasty. After a moment of stunned life, the minor official immediately fell to the ground, expressing his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty to the death and would definitely assist the magistrate who had not yet taken office and contributed to the Ming army.

After waving the horse bones that were thankful for their gratitude, the first verified account book has been delivered. Seeing that the supplies are quite generous, Chen Wen and Sun Yu's emotions began to become relaxed and happy.

"Brother Sun, the last time I went to Tiantai County, my soldiers arrested the magistrate of Tiantai County; this time I attacked Dongyang County, and captured the magistrate of Jinhua alive. However, Jinqu Yanfen Shoudao had just been dismissed from office and the new official has not yet taken office. The Tatars were clearly disrupting my rhythm. It's really vicious."

In the early Qing Dynasty, there were two prefectures, three prefectures, or four prefectures, and one prefecture was set up as a supplement between the prefect and the governor. There were occasional changes during this period, but most of the sub-guards were held in the title of the governor and the governor, and the sub-guards were held in the title of the governor and the governor. The sub-guards were held in the title of the governor and the deputy chief of the governor and the deputy chief of the governor and the criminal name. Among them, the Jinqu was stationed in the Jinhua Prefecture, which was stationed in the three prefectures of Jinhua, Quzhou and Yanzhou; the Jinqu branch was stationed in the Quzhou Prefecture, Jinhua and Quzhou.

The Jinquyan Bian Shun Dao mentioned by Chen Wen was called Wang Yong. He was the younger brother of Wang Duo, a famous calligrapher in the late Ming Dynasty and a great scholar in Dongge during the Chongzhen Dynasty. Wang Duo himself surrendered to the Qing Dynasty when the Qing army entered the pass and was appointed as the Minister of Rites, a bachelor of the Hongwen Academy, and was appointed as the Prince Shaobao, and later entered the Biography of the traitor. Wang Duo's younger brother Jinquyan Bian Shun Dao Wang Yong was dismissed from office for corruption. As for the next Jinquyan Bian Shun Dao, the rule of the next Jinquyan Bian Shun Dao, had not yet taken office.

Hearing Chen Wen's joke, Sun Yu rarely made a fuss. He only heard him say, "The old official has been removed and the new official has not taken over yet. This is God's will. Then, General Chen will catch the Zhejiang Governor Xiao Qiyuan at the next level."

Xiao Qiyuan?

Chen Wen shook his head. "Xiao Qiyuan has been serving as the governor of Zhejiang for too long. What if I run away before I can do it, what if I do?"

"Will you catch the Zhejiang-Fu Governor Chen Jin back at two levels?"

“It makes sense, one step ahead!”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and the relaxed atmosphere also promoted the discussions later. It was not until nightfall that Chen Wen returned to the military camp to reward the entire army.

The road between the county government and the military camp was also lost. The big stone in Chen Wen's heart was successfully taken over. Dongyang County had been successfully captured, and the messengers sent back to attract the old camp to join him had already set off. You only need to see how many defeated soldiers Chen Guobao could block. This battle with the goal of regaining Dongyang County was completely completed.
Chapter completed!