After comforting the messenger for a few words, Chen Wen sent someone to send him out of the city. Looking at the secret letter in his hand, he couldn't help but sigh that "the world and the world all work together" came out in his heart. But after thinking about it carefully, this was actually the inevitable choice of the Qing army in the face of this advantageous situation, and nothing abnormal was the case.

After weighing the pros and cons, Chen Wen returned to Ruquan Pavilion. After smiling at Sun Yu, he saw that he took out the secret letter in front of the gentry who was still in Ruquan Pavilion and announced the contents loudly to everyone.

"The Tartars entrenched in Yiwu are afraid of the power of the royal army and have all fled. The gentry, merchants and people from all over Yiwu County have long been looking forward to the royal army. The general decided to send troops to restore Yiwu early tomorrow morning!"

After saying a word came out, everyone in the hall was shocked.

The details of the Ming army's easy defeat of the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army were found after this period of investigation. After this period of investigation, they could find out a rough idea that such a powerful Ming army was unprecedented since the Liao incident. In addition, the good military discipline of this army also allowed them to see more hope and hope to preserve their family and ethnic groups in this end of the Ming Dynasty.

From the time he decided to support the Ming army, it was actually only a few days. With their support, the Ming army obtained more materials and information, and recruited soldiers on the principle of voluntary voluntary, which also improved a certain degree of strength. If we waited for the left-behind troops of the old Taizhou camp mentioned by Marshal Chen to come and gather, it would not be difficult to send troops to recover the lost territory with dignified troops.

But to their surprise, who knew that the Qing army in Yiwu would actually choose to escape under the pressure of the Ming army. Didn’t this give the county to the Ming army?

"Your Highness, the general of the country, will surely revive the Han Dynasty; Governor Wang is planning and winning thousands of miles away; General Chen defeats others without fighting, and is worthy of the famous generals of ancient times. Congratulations to the Ming Dynasty and Emperor Taizu Gao of Emperor!"

"Congratulations to the Ming Dynasty and to Emperor Taizu Gao!"

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For a moment, everyone present expressed their sincere congratulations to Chen Wen and Sun Yu. In their opinion, the stronger the Ming army was, the more able it could resist the Qing army's counterattack. The greater the possibility of protecting this land.

After this period of contact, they also discovered that this Ming army was a dual-system structure composed of civil servants and military generals. Although it was not as safe as the civil servants were fully responsible, this Marshal Chen often quoted classics in his daily life, which clearly showed the style of a Confucian general. Such people must be their kind. In this way, their actions to support the Ming army this time should not only be able to preserve their family business, but may also get more rewards.

After everyone's congratulations, Chen Wen announced that he would bring some of the children of aristocratic families in Dongyang County who had served in the county government to Yiwu as officials who took over Yiwu's government affairs.

Being an official in another place is the ancestral system. What's more, it's just not in the same county. The gentry in Dongyang County can understand this decision and express great agreement. After all, only if the existence of their own children in the government can better protect the family business.

After sending off the satisfied gentry and people, Chen Wen and Sun Yu discussed some things and returned to the military camp. Until the next morning, Chen Wen made a brief oath outside the city, and under the eyes of the people who came to see him off, he led some troops to leave Dongyang County and headed straight to the Dongyang River in the north of the city.

During this period, although no water camp was formed, some ships and boatmen were found through the local gentry. After sending troops, he no longer walked, but used the water transport capacity of the Dongyang River to transport troops.

It is September now, and the scene of "Thousands of Mountains and Plums in the Dongyang River has long disappeared from Chen Zilong's poem "The rain of plums in the mountains" is moist, but it has become cooler. Chen Wen stood at the bow of the boat and looked into the distance. Although it was a countercurrent here, he walked along the wind. Under the action of the sails, the boat speed was not very slow. He could reach the vicinity of Yiwu County in the evening.

Chen Wen sent scouts to inquire about the situation in Yiwu before, and he knew about the Qing army's evacuation before the secret letter arrived. He originally planned to send troops in the past two days, but who knew that with the arrival of the secret letter yesterday, Yiwu County was sent to his mouth.

Chen Wen's exploration of the horses found out that the Qing army had withdrawn, but he did not know that the Qing army plundered the city before evacuating. Such behavior was understandable, because almost all the troops in the troubled times looked like this. There were few exceptions, but the gentry and people in the city, as victims, naturally could not forget this deep hatred.

Then, the Qing army evacuated, and the magistrate was unable to leave because of the duty of defending the territory. So, the magistrate of Yiwu sent people to summon local regiments to train troops, hoping that they could contribute to the battle to protect their hometowns.

However, the magistrate did not know that the regiment training outside the city and many families near them had already completed contact. Under the regret of the loss of clothing and culture and the desire to restore the family's glory, as well as the threat of exploitation and looting by Ma Jinbao, the dog thief and corrupt officials of the Qing Dynasty, they finally chose to surrender to the Ming army after a round of discussion.

After the order from the magistrate arrived, the regiments trained troops and entered Yiwu County. Not only did they not realize the urge to defend the territory for the Qing Dynasty and the magistrate, but they were connected with the gentry of the county town who were resentful, so the scene of the letter they delivered yesterday was caused.

There is a way that is not given by heaven, and it will be blamed!

Since this is the case, we will quickly occupy this place in order to further expand our strength to deal with the crazy counterattack that Ma Jinbao may arrive at any time.

Over the past few days, Chen Wen has also estimated Ma Jinbao's strength. His headquarters' Jinhua Town Biao Battalion has a fixed quota of more than 3,000, and nearly half of it has been crippled by Chen Wen; the green camp soldiers of Quzhou, Chuzhou and Yanzhou are each more than 1,600. In addition, the 200 soldiers guarding the road in Jinqu Yan, even if all of them come, there should be about 6,500.

More than 6,500 people sounded like a lot, but if they were all just green camp soldiers under Ma Jinbao, Chen Wen really didn't think there were many. At least in his opinion, as long as he could train a unit of more than 4,000 people before, even if most of them were only at the level of the competition in the old camp in Dalanshan that year, with his training for at least half a year and as the arrows of the entire army, Ma Jinbao was just here to die.

Moreover, Chen Wen felt that even if Ma Jinbao wanted the entire army to come, the Qing Dynasty's top leaders in Zhejiang might not be as he wished. After all, it was all the troops of the four prefectures. Once something happened, it would likely turn into a major turmoil that swept across the western Zhejiang, which was something they could not afford.

In this way, Ma Jinbao's troops will definitely not be as much as Chen Wen had imagined before. Chen Wen has recruited more than 2,000 new recruits in Dongyang County. As long as he recruits two or three thousand people in Yiwu and other places, even if Ma Jinbao really comes from his entire army, what can he do?

In the evening, Chen Wen arrived at a clearing land more than ten miles from Yiwu County. This was a place to camp among the terrain obtained by Chen Wen from the scout. In view of the principle that the military strategists who surrendered were like being attacked by the enemy, Chen Wen chose to camp here to prevent this secret communication Qu was just a trick of the Qing army.

Early the next morning, Chen Wen drove the camp and continued to advance. Until he reached the Jieguan Pavilion ten miles away from the county town, he encountered a team of troops training envoys coming to greet him.

Among the people who came, the messenger was the previous one, and was also a member of the regiment training team that was let go by Chen Wen, and most of the others looked familiar. After seeing Chen Wen, these people seemed quite excited, and the admiration in their eyes had already spewed out, so that Chen Wen, who had always been shameless, was a little embarrassed.

Seeing this, Chen Wen talked to these regiments for training, and everyone asked showed a look of honor, which made him breathe a sigh of relief. When these people first met, they didn't seem like people who were good at making fakes. Since they seemed even more excited than the last time, then the action to take over Yiwu County should not be too much of an accident.

After resting, Chen Wen led these regiments to train troops and continued to advance. Until outside the city, he could see that the city gate was filled with people standing at a long distance. After seeing this, Chen Wen immediately understood why the Qing army hurriedly withdrew from here.

Behind the crowd, a city gate stood there alone, surrounded by houses and pavilions, but no trace of half the city wall was seen, which seemed very strange. Therefore, compared with "1,335 zhang, 2,2 zhang and 1,8 zhang", Dongyang County, which was built into a stone city wall in order to resist Japanese pirates, the reality that Yiwu County has a city gate but no city wall does not give the Qing army any confidence to stick to it.

With a command, the drummer beat the war drum. The word "tiger" accompanied it was accompanied by the word "trunk" shouting in unison. At the same time, in the queue, the veterans of Nantang Camp who were accompanying each other neatly put their weapons on their shoulders or holding swords and shields in their hands, and always showed their usual posture of strengthening the army; even the new soldiers who had just entered the camp were cheering up, for fear of losing the face of the Ming army.

The east gate of Yiwu County is called Dongyang Gate, so you can go straight to Dongyang. Last night, I learned that the Ming army had set up camp more than ten miles away. The regiment training army was instructed by the villagers and detained all the Qing officials in the county, waiting for the Ming army to fall. At this time, almost all those who could stand at the gate were the leaders of the regiment training family and the gentry in the county.

The Ming army was walking in a row in the distance. The old patriarch of the Jin family stretched his neck with the help of his children at home and looked there. However, he was old and his eyesight was also affected. It was not until the Ming army reached a distance of more than 20 meters that they had seen the weapons in their hands.
Chapter completed!