Almost as the Lou family was discussing how to give Chen Wen a big gift, in the government office of Jinhua Prefecture, Li Zhifang, the Jinhua Prefecture Promoter who was in charge of common affairs, also summoned officials from the city to discuss countermeasures.

Li Zhifang, a native of Wudingzhou, Shandong Province, was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Shunzhi. In Chen Wen's era, he served as the governor of Zhejiang during the Three Feudal Rebellion, effectively resisting Geng Jingzhong's attack on Zhejiang. He was the old boss of Li Rong, the deputy general of the Thunder Camp who was still locked in the old camp in Tiantai Mountain.

A long time ago, there was a historical legend of "Li Ge Lao" in Wudingzhou, and its prototype was this person. However, in that legend, Li Zhifang was the crystallization of the love between Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan. He was adopted by a tofu-selling old man Li and was named Li. Later, he not only won the top scorer, but also led an army of 200,000 to fight against Wu Sangui. During the battle, he relied on the side of Wu Sangui left to him by Chen Yuanyuan to attract Wu Sangui's love son to a deep affection, thus quelling the Three Feudal Rebellion.

However, Li Zhifang here was not the legendary "Li Ge Lao" named "King of Pingnan" by Kangxi after the war, but was smooth sailing for the first half of his life, waiting to compete with Geng Jingzhong in Quzhou for more than 20 years, but now he has to face a major change that should not have happened in his life!

Since the Qing army was defeated by the Ming army on August 28th and then the troops came to the city, the prefect, who had originally planned to flee back to the capital to prepare for the war, was persuaded by the prefect after Masansheng left. After thinking about it carefully, it was normal. After all, the Qing army had just been defeated and the prefect fled back to the capital, and the people in the county would definitely be disorganized. The Qing Dynasty would never forgive such behavior, and it would cause harm to the family.

It is said that it is not convenient to leave the county town for the time being, so the prefect still sent a letter to Feige, the prefect, asking Li Zhifang, the general manager in charge of the common affairs, to ask Hangzhou for help based on the situation he provided. After receiving the letter of help, Li Zhifang also reposted it according to the content written by the prefect, and immediately sent it to Hangzhou.

However, as soon as Li Zhifang finished writing a letter, the news came that Dongyang County was broken by the Ming army. Seeing this, Li Zhifang quickly sent someone to stop the pigeon that was already ready to be released in the pigeon loft and rewrite a more exaggerated letter of help.

Chen Wen brought less than 700 people when he sent troops, and the magistrate received a letter from Hengdian Town to ask for help. However, after he defeated the defenders of Dongyang County, the magistrate of Dongyang County turned this number into more than 3,000. Then when Li Zhifang received the letter from the Qing army's defeat and retreat to the county town, it turned into more than 7,000, with more than nine times the amount of water.

Dongyang County was captured by the Ming army, so according to the style of the army in this era, it is almost inevitable to sweep the floor and become soldiers, so there should always be a scale of ten thousand people.

So, Li Zhifang did not hesitate to write a big pen on the letter of help, "In ten months, 100,000 people followed the thieves", and the scale of 100,000 people followed the thieves was in line with the standard of "Xudu and Yin Can's rebellion reappeared in the present".

In this way, this letter of request for help was sent from Feige, Jinhua City, to Hangzhou. After changing flights from Hangzhou, it flew to Dinghai, Ningbo, and took another boat to Chen Jin on the night of September 3rd.

However, Li Zhifang knew very well that this letter of help, which was neither less than a "tenth of a month" nor could it be possible to get the "100,000 people follow the thief" in order to speed up the reinforcements. However, the reality that the main force of the Qing army who stayed in Jinhua Prefecture was defeated by the Ming army could not be changed at all. Dongyang was coming down, and Yiwu would not be spared, and going upstream from Yiwu, that was the city of Jinhua Prefecture!

Sitting in the second hall of the government office, Li Zhifang looked at his colleague who was quarreling in front of him with a gloomy face. Since the news that the Qing army was defeated by the Ming army who was dressed up in the battle, these people have been quarreling.

Since becoming a Jinshi in Shunzhi, Li Zhifang has been fighting in the officialdom for several years. Although he is not a veteran, he also knows that these people are quarreling over the Qing Dynasty's rule in Jinhua Prefecture, but they are not verbally red and have no excessive words, as if they are quarreling for quarrel.

A bunch of waste!

When people are plundering wealth on weekdays, they are unable to do so. When things happen, they are silent like a table or a chair. When the disaster is coming, they will only shirk responsibility.

First, he was the ward of Dongyang County, and then the commander of the Qing army, Ma Sansheng. Now, Ma Jinbao and Taizhou civil and military officials who were far away in Taizhou have become their targets for shirking responsibility. Who made them not watch Chen Wen, and let the madman run to Jinhua Mansion to disturb their Qing dreams.

Li Zhifang took a deep breath and made her expression more natural with her exhaled movements. Although these guys were just a bunch of waste, if they were separated from them, it would be extremely difficult to accomplish things.

"Don't be impatient, can you listen to what I said?"

Hearing Li Zhifang's words, the group of people immediately became like an old monk entering a meditation and returned to their own people, but they turned their attention to Li Zhifang, the convener of the discussion.

"Donalds, there is no news about General Ma and the prefect, and General Ma is still involved in the besiege of Zhoushan. However, the Dalan thief Chen Wen has captured Dongyang County, and the prefecture is in danger. Before leaving, the prefect asked him to act as an official as a general. Now this burden is taken up by the official. I hope that the Duke can cooperate with him to repay the emperor of the Qing Dynasty for his grace."

Seeing someone coming out to take the thunder, the officials in the palace were stunned at first, and then they stood up to praise Li Zhifang's loyalty and ability. The compliments were extremely numb, and they tried their best to ensure that they would obey Li's orders, fearing that Li Zhifang would turn against him.

However, in Li Zhifang's view, the purpose of this time has been achieved, and what he wants is the support of these officials!

Seeing that everyone had already affirmed his leadership, Li Zhifang immediately assigned tasks and ordered martial law, and organized the civilians in the city to make cities to protect the equipment and study rewards. Then he summoned the officer who stayed in the city to open the arsenal and put all the artillery on the wall. Then he sent someone to find the garrison subordinate to Jinquyan's guarding the road. He had two hundred green camp soldiers in his hands, which could be used.

After the matters in the city were allocated, Li Zhifang locked his eyes on the area outside the city.

"Don't worry about the defenders of other counties, let them continue to maintain the local area and transfer the defenders of Yiwu back to the city as soon as possible. The next target of the bandits must be there. They can't stand even for an hour under the bandits' military front."

Hearing this, everyone around him hesitated. "Prison Li, it is a serious crime to give up the county town. How can this cause?"

"The key to the entire Jinhua Mansion is the city of the city. Yiwu cannot be defended at all, so there is no need to waste troops." Seeing that everyone stopped dissuading, Li Zhifang continued: "When the regiment trains and escapes, let them all return to their hometowns without entering the city to defend."

"Why is this?"

Li Zhifang would rather give up Yiwu than take back the troops, but now he wanted to bombard all the local regiment training. This entry and exit really puzzled some people in front of him.

"Is it because Li Tui Guan was afraid that there would be detailed works by the bandits here?"

"For this reason, there is no need to do it in detail. I think that as long as the bandits occupy it, or even threaten to occupy their hometown, these regiments will immediately collapse without fighting, or even sell the city to protect their families. But if they return to their hometown, as long as the bandits dare to harm the local area, these people will be the help of the court."

What Li Zhifang said was the truth. The regiment training in this era was far from the Hunan Army in the late Qing Dynasty. Local armed forces like the Huai Army came from their understanding of the local area and their duty to protect their hometowns. At most, they could only be used as a supplement. However, if they surrounded their hometowns, they would completely fall into a quagmire and unstoppable situation.

Next, Li Zhifang continued to assign tasks, and finally mobilized all the Qing Dynasty's power in the entire Jinhua Prefecture City to welcome the momentum of Chen Wen sweeping the entire Jinhua Prefecture.

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After a few hours, it was already at night. As a representative of the regiment's military training, Jin Fu from Qing Village, Fotang Town, Yiwu rushed back to his home at the foot of Tangshan.

Jin Fu is only in his twenties and is the youngest of his generation. There is also a brother of his peers named Jin Guang. He is now working in Shang Kexi's curtain, but he has long stopped interacting. Although many of the Jin family children he brought out this time are bigger than him, he still regards him as his seniority, so naturally he is the leader in doing things.

After returning home, after worshiping his ancestors, he rushed to his grandfather's room. Jin Fu's grandfather was born during the Longqing period and is over 80 years old. It is said that he had seen Qi Jiguang with his own eyes when he was young, and he was one of the rare octogenarians in the local area.

After seeing his grandfather, Jin Fu described everything he saw and heard along the way, especially when he was fighting with the Ming army, in a detailed description of everything he saw.

"Are you sure it's the Mandarin Duck Formation?"

"When you say that grandfather, you will have long cards, rattan cards, wolf horns, two long spears, two bolts, two flag guns, and one pointed shoulder pole. You have told your child since he was a child that this is how Qi Shaobao's mandarin duck formation was equipped with weapons when he fought against the Japanese in the south. How dare you read it wrong?"

Hearing this, Jin Fu's grandfather leaned against the back of the Grand Master's Chair, and memories hidden in his heart for decades began to pour into his mind, and some even overflowed from his eyes.

When he was young, he had met Qi Jiguang. The elders in his family told him that he was a hero who came to Yiwu to drive away the Japanese pirates and formed the famous Qi family army. At that time, he dreamed that one day he could become a hero like Qi Jiguang. Even if he couldn't do it, he would have to fight for the Han world under such a hero.

But before he became an adult, Qi Jiguang passed away, and no such figure of heroes appeared in his mind since then. Until today, the world was occupied by the Tartars, and China would be destroyed by the Tartars again, but he could only stay in his eighties, waiting for a hero to appear one day to turn it around, just like Qi Jiguang and youth in his childhood memory were Yue Wumu, whom Mr. Storyteller told.

But at this time, Jin Fu did not notice this, but continued to talk. "The Xia Yanlou family, Beilei Chen family, and the Yang family of the Liangchou family have also seen it. Even the boy heard in the camp that the Ming army commander was half of the Qi family."

Jin Fu's words had just been spit out of his mouth, and the word "half of the Qi family's son immediately pulled Jin Fu's grandfather back from his memories, and even the scattered focal lengths were reunited, even becoming more and more sharp. Next, the old man asked Jin Fu a few more questions, but he could not confirm the identity of the Ming army commander.

Forget it, since you can use the Mandarin Duck Formation to such a level, it seems that it is either related to the Qi family or the Qi family troops who stayed in the north when the Great Wall was built, and his surname is Chen...

"The people from the Beilei Chen family should be very active in this matter, right?"

When Qi Jiguang first came to Yiwu to recruit soldiers, Chen Da, the prestigious Beilei Chen family, ran around, and encouraged a large number of Yiwu men to join Qi Jiguang's new army. No matter which possibility is lingering in the old man's heart, the Beilei Chen family would not sit idly by.

"That's right, the Chen family members asked me to go to Beilei to discuss this matter tomorrow afternoon. What they meant was that they planned to do a big battle and regain the glory of the Qi family's army!"

"I see."
Chapter completed!