On the third day of November of the fifth year of the Yongli period, in the central army hall of Luochengyan, Dongyang County, Jinhua Prefecture, the local rebel leaders, led by Zhou Qingui, were banqueting an uninvited distinguished guest.

Luochengyan is located at the intersection of Jinhua and Taizhou. It is a mountainous area within a hundred miles. In addition, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack from the terrain. Therefore, the Qing army repeatedly encircled and suppressed the enemy in vain. They had to garrison troops in Fangqian and Dapan in order to curb the development of this anti-Qing rebel army.

It is just that it is easy to defend but difficult to attack, but it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Luo Chengyan can farm, but it is extremely difficult to support these hundreds of rebels and their families. All the food is used for consumption on weekdays, but there is very little wine. There has been no such days of enough wine and meat like this.

The aroma of wine and meat on the table permeated the hall, but at this moment, these people were not moved at all. Instead, the guest with white hair and beard attracted their attention.

The reason is no different, and the information provided by the visitor is really shocking. As the leader of this rebel army, Zhou Qingui carefully considered the wording and no mistakes, and then asked: "Brother Yu, the scale of the Tartars this time is far greater than that of previous years. Can Chen Shuai defeat him so confidently?"

The brother Yu mentioned by Zhou Qingui was Yu Guowang, the Xinchang Bo, who was enthroned by the Lu Jian Kingdom. After the Qing army advanced south, the Zhejiang East Yishi rose up under the national oppression and massacre of the Qing Dynasty. This was true for Yin Can, Zhou Qingui and others, and so was Yu Guowang.

Although Yu Guowang had never met Zhou Qingui, he had a very good relationship with some of Zhou Qingui's familiarity, such as Dong Keshen, Xu Shouping, etc. in Xianju, and Yu Guowang was generous and tolerant, and was praised by others. At present, Chen Wen, Sun Yu, Wu Dengke and others were all striving to deal with the Qing army, so he invited Yu Guowang to convince Zhou Qingui and others, not asking for a united army, but hoped that they could not come out to make trouble.

"Since Master Jiang's collapse, there are few kingly troops in various ways who can fight with the Tartars without losing the disadvantage. Even people like Danghu Hou died unexpectedly two months ago. However, Chen Shuai was appointed as Wang Jinglei's command to manage military and military exercises, and won consecutive victories. Even Tian Xiong's thief's thief's thief could not compete with him. I don't know whether I can defeat the Tartars as scheduled. But if even Chen Shuai can't do it, no one in Zhejiang can do it."

They had heard of Chen Wen's defeat of the Tibiao Battalion in the battle behind Simingshan Palace, and there were rumors that Chen Wen and Qi Jiguang's descendants had an inexplicable relationship. In addition, Chen Wen, who Yu Guowang mentioned before, could understand the strategic layout of the Qing army's encirclement and suppression of Simingshan and the siege of Zhoushan with only a very little intelligence. Such a sharp strategic vision really made people frightened.

However, compared with these legends from others, what they saw more intuitively was that Chen Wenshuai's army sneaked around Fangqian, and pretended to defeat the Qing army's left-behind troops. After the Qing army withdrew from these two towns, they sent troops to continue to monitor Luo Chengyan's movements.

It was obvious that they had to believe in them. This made Zhou Qingui and others hesitate about whether to go to Sun Yu's appointment. Even when the news of the Qing army's large-scale encirclement and suppression came, a wave of thoughts that took advantage of the Qing army's encirclement and suppression of Chen Wen came out on Luochengyan. In fact, it was all due to the distrust of these local rebels for outsiders like Chen Wen, and the unconcealed rebound of Chen Wen's defense.

But at present, the green camp soldiers from the five prefectures including Jin, Qu, Yan, Chu, Shaoxing gathered in Jinhua. The Qing army of such a large scale is far beyond their imagination. Even if Zhou Qingui and others speak harshly, they dare not say that they will definitely defeat it and protect this base.

After all, when Yin Can was alive, the Baitou Army had a huge momentum in front of the local green camps in Jin, Tai, Shao, and the four prefectures. What's more, the local green camps in the five prefectures plus the local green camps in the five prefectures and the elites like Fubiao.

Yu Guowang's rebel army in eastern Zhejiang had a very good reputation, and it had nothing to do with his personal power. Instead, the character of this person is trustworthy. At present, including Sun Yu, whom they are familiar with and Yu Guowang, who is famous, are highly respected by Chen Wen, which will inevitably affect Zhou Qingui and others' views on Chen Wen.

"I dare to ask Brother Yu, what does Chen Shuai need us to do?"

Yu Guowang knew very well that since Chen Wen invited him to come, he naturally wanted to borrow his credit to stabilize the rebel army in the rear. He was not disgusted with this, because he had heard of Chen Wen being excluded by the generals in Siming Mountain. Now that Chen Wen is willing to ask him to persuade Zhou Qingui and others, at least in Yu Guowang's view, this is at least a trust in his character, which is a good thing.

In this case, in addition to his speech, Yu Guowang was not sharp, and he brought the wine, meat and food on this table and the wine, meat and food that had been stored in the warehouse. He would have something to ask for. Since Zhou Qin was willing to accept this gift and asked such a sentence, then the overall situation was decided.

Hearing Zhou Qingui's words, Yu Guowang shook his head with a smile. "The original words Chen Shuai asked me to convey to you are that when he drives away the Tartars in Jinhua Palace, he will naturally come to you for a while and ask you to wait for the good news."

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The news that Yu Guowang successfully convinced Zhou Qingui and others was not transferred to Chen Wen, who was in the military camp outside Xiaoshun Town, until a few days later. Yesterday, in Nantang, the two battalions of Yiwu defeated the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army on the southern front, but at the same time, news of the Qing army naval troops attacking Fotang Town came.

Although the newly formed naval division and auxiliary defense forces of the Ming army tried to drive away the Qing army's navy, some of the military supplies planned to be transported by the navy were burned by the Qing army. Fortunately, with the fighting of the Ming army soldiers, most of the military supplies were preserved, and the threat from Luo Chengyan can be temporarily eliminated, and Chen Wen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

In this dilemma, Chen Wen faced a threat from four different directions. Fubiao Camp in Zhuji, Shaoxing Green Camp in Sheng County, Qing Army in the southern line of Jinhua Fucheng, and Zhou Qingui Yi Army in Dongyang County.

Although the central governor of the Qing army on the southern front failed to cause serious damage, the Green Camp of the Four Prefectures of Jinquyan, which was in concert, was completely destroyed, especially the Biao Camp of Jinhua Town, where Ma Jinbao fought three consecutive fields. In two months, the veterans under Ma Jinbao suffered serious losses. In the eyes of later soldiers, the serious losses of a veteran in an army was caused by the broken spine, and it was not possible to recover just by wanting to recover.

The threat from the Qing army on the southern front was the Dubiao camp, who was unknown where he ran, and Zhou Qingui was successfully convinced by Yu Guowang; the Shaoxing Green Camp once again confronted Nantang Camp, which covered the old camp some time ago. Although they relied on their good legs and feet and had familiar terrain, they might not dare to do anything, but they were chased and beaten by Nantang Camp twice last year and this year.

Chen Wen had only sent Li Ruixin's small army before, but he just planned to use it as a deterrent. Since there has been no bad news yet, I think Li Ruixin has done it well.

As for Fubiao Camp, since the Qing army had two routes to go south, Chen Wen handed over the entire Dongyang Camp to Yin Yue. The effect is hard to say now. However, the 1,560 Yuanyang formation against the 2,000 Fubiao Camp should not have too many mistakes.

In this way, the four routes had only half a way to threaten them. As long as the Supervisor Battalion, which had no reinforcements, was annihilated in Jinhua, the Qing army in the four prefectures in Jinquyan in western Zhejiang, were left with the three camps guarding each county, with a total force of no more than two thousand. In the following days, they could launch a large-scale counterattack to prepare for the Ming army's major counterattack in the sixth year of Yongli.

The situation was very good for a time, and Chen Wen accelerated the rest of the participating troops. In this battle, the two battalions beheaded more than one thousand, captured the Qing army and nearly three thousand, as well as a large number of civilians. In addition, not only armor, weapons, artillery, and supplies, but also some of the Qing army who successfully fled the battlefield also left a lot of armor and weapons in panic, and all were seized by the Ming army.

In contrast, the wounded survived because the Ming army occupied the battlefield. Nantang Camp suffered little losses in the previous battle. However, the Qing army suffered negligible casualties during artillery attacks and the first time they first fought, and defeated the coalition forces of the Green Camp of the Four Prefectures in one fell swoop. The Yiwu Camp faced the Supermarket Battalion with absolute strength and equipment at an absolute disadvantage, and the proportion of new recruits was large, so the losses were heavy.

So Chen Wen stuffed all the reserve soldiers from the bureau he brought into the Yiwu camp, and allocated the captured armor and artillery to the soldiers of the two battalions, realizing the initial replacement of cannons by shooting guns.

The soldiers were very fast. Nantang Camp had already escorted the prisoners the next day, while Yiwu Camp also completed the most basic rest in two days and was preparing to catch up with Nantang Camp to participate in the battle to siege Jinhua. The water camp had already transported military supplies, but at this moment, Chen Wen received two letters.

The first letter came from Li Ruixin. He sent troops to attack Sheng County and fought with the Shaoxing Green Camp. He had successfully driven the Qing army back to the county town and asked Chen Wen whether he needed him to return to the army to participate in the war.

Since he had captured so many Qing troops, Chen Wen still planned to use these prisoners as dead soldiers to fill the trenches to reduce the loss of troops. As for the civilians, they were all from Jinhua anyway, so each of them would just send some of the seized dry food and let them go directly, which could save some food. So his military strength is still enough now, so it would be better to let Li Ruixin deter Sheng County for a period of time, in order to prevent the Qing army from taking advantage of the empty opportunity of Dongyang County to burn, kill and loot.

As for the second letter, Chen Wen just glanced briefly, and his previous enthusiasm disappeared in an instant.

The letter was very long, and it was Yin Yue who reported to Chen Wen in detail like Li Ruixin. This was the right thing to do. But from beginning to end, there was only one sentence in the center - "Fubiao Camp sneaked across Pujiang County a day ago and headed straight for Yiwu."
Chapter completed!