Chapter 65 Old Hate II
From Yin Yue's emergency documents, Chen Wen learned about the specific situation of the front-line battle between Anhua Town and Zhengjiawu Town.
After setting off from Yiwu, the Dongyang Camp quickly arrived at Zhengjiawu Town and began to set up defenses there. Immediately afterwards, a vanguard of the Qing army encountered a small army exploring north by the Dongyang Camp on his way south. The two sides conducted some tests and retreated separately, without continuing to contact.
According to Chen Wen's previous deployment, Dongyang Camp blocked Zhengjiawu Town, known as the North Gate of Jinhua. From the prisoners, they learned that all the staff of Fubiao Camp had entered Anhua Town at that time and sent a large number of raids to cover up the main force of Fubiao Camp behind this corridor.
However, as time went by, the frequency of the Qing army's ranger suddenly decreased after reaching a peak. After Yin Yue found something was wrong, he led his army north to try to fight Fubiao Camp in this corridor. However, after his vanguard arrived near Anhua Town, he learned from the villagers that the Qing army had been preparing ships these days, and had set out from there early the morning of the previous day, entering the Puyang River boundary along the Pujiang River, trying to enter Yiwu from there.
Knowing that Fubiao Camp had already marched on the way around Zhengjiawu Town, Yin Yue hurriedly retreated south, but before he could return to the starting point, news came that the fourth game was defeated by Fubiao Camp on the bank of the Puyang River.
The Qing army took a boat to the river, while the three bureaus of Dongyang Camp marched and chased after them on another road. Chen Wen estimated that it would take no accident. The Qing army would arrive in Yiwu County soon.
Yiwu County has only city gates but rare without city walls. Since there is no danger to defend, Li Zhifang chose to withdraw defense for this reason last time. However, for Chen Wen, Yiwu County is the base camp of his supporters of the Ming army. Once Yiwu County is lost, it is likely to cause a series of chain reactions that are unfavorable to the Ming army, especially when he is still trying to regain other areas of Jinhua Prefecture.
The three bureaus of Dongyang Camp are on the way. However, according to time, they will definitely be behind Fubiao Camp for two to three days. At this moment, there are two infantry posts in Yiwu County to maintain public order. However, since the bureau of Dongyang Camp cannot stop Fubiao Camp, these two infantry posts will naturally not last long.
After calming down for a moment, Chen Wen issued a new military order. Li Ruixin had driven away Shaoxing Green Camp with the help of the power of Nantang Camp, so he immediately returned to Dongyang County to protect the safety of the old camp stationed in the local area.
Since the Nantang Camp here has already set off, there is no need to rush back, and even if it comes back, it will definitely not be able to rush back. At present, the Yiwu Camp has been prepared, but although the remnants of the Super Biao Camp and Ma Jinbao are newly defeated, there are still a lot of troops. Chen Wen must ensure that the southern line put pressure on the Qing army, so he sent most of the Yiwu Camp to continue to advance to the city and ordered Wu Dengke to attack the city with his banner to deceive the Qing army.
He also had a bureau of Yiwu Camp and Yu Guowang's bird gunner. Chen Wenzhao Chen Guobao and ordered him to lead most of the cavalry teams of Nantangying to cooperate with Wu Dengke to attack the Fucheng. He brought the remaining 100 cavalry and all the troops left behind and protected the wounded troops in his hands to march back to Yiwu. He also drew the two infantry posts guarding the navy in Fotang Town back to help Yiwu to gain time for the reinforcements he led.
In this way, Yiwu County should have three infantry posts and a very small number of soldiers guarding the camp; Chen Wen's reinforcements probably had infantry in one bureau and cavalry of one hundred people, even if they were combined, there were less than one thousand people, and the opponent he was facing was the two thousand army of Fubiao Camp.
The strength is huge, and there is no way. If the newly defeated Qing army on the southern front is allowed to gain a foothold in Jinhua Fucheng again, then the previous sacrifice will be in vain. Even if he returns to the army and defeats the Fubiao Camp, he will inevitably be dragged to death by the Qing army. Since that is the case, it is better to give it a try. After all, Dongyang Camp is still on the way, as long as he persists in returning to the Dongyang Camp, everything is still possible.
After the order was issued, Chen Wen led the team to set off for help. At the same time, he bypassed Zhengjiawu Town, which was heavily deployed from Pujiang County. After Fubiao Battalion defeated the fourth game of Dongyang Battalion with its superior forces, he continued to go upstream.
The Puyang River originated from the mountains in the west of Pujiang County. It was originally a river that flowed into the sea alone. After the Ming Dynasty, the dam was built and forced to guide its upstream into the Qiantang River. It is said that during the Spring and Autumn Period, Xishi was related to this river, so it was also called Huanjiang. However, the specific location was in Zhuji, Shaoxing, rather than Pujiang County, Jinhua.
After the Qing army continued to board the ship, while convening the coordinated action of the defenders of Pujiang County, they landed in the Huangzhai area and headed south through the corridor between Wushan and Qiaotou Mountain to Yiwu, and at this moment they had arrived in Houzhai Town in Yiwu County.
Houzhai Town is located in the north of Yiwu County. It is a must-pass place for the corridor between Wushan and Qiaotou Mountain in Pujiang County to go south to Yiwu. After arriving in Houzhai Town, Fubiao Camp slaughtered local people on the grounds of abdication, packed the looted goods, and tied their children to the car and prepared to transport them to other prefectures and counties for sale after the war ended.
Not only the Houzhai, since entering the boundary of Yiwu County, the villages along the way were slaughtered and burned. After the Qing army withdrew, the thick smoke rising with the flames seemed to be wolf smoke, indicating the news that the Qing army was about to arrive.
There is no danger between the back house and the county town. Just like candy coated with sugar, it can be taken into your mouth with tentacles. The Qing army marched very quickly, and Sun Yu and others were unable to organize the local people to retreat after receiving the news. They had to send Wang Jiang's mother, wife, Wang Yi's daughter, his wife, children who were only a few months old, as well as some officials and their families, stayed to gather a group of hundreds of brave men to cooperate with the Ming army to defend the city.
The military camp outside the west gate had been abandoned, and the Ming army officers who had added the garrison rank to stay in Yiwu County scattered all the infantry teams in their hands across the county, trying to delay time for reinforcements by relying on the advantages of the mandarin duck formation in narrow terrain.
However, the Qing army was only one day away from Yiwu County at this moment, and Chen Wen and the two reinforcements from Dongyang Camp would take as long as two to three days to arrive, which means they needed to rely on this county without a wall to support more than one day in front of the elite green camp like Fubiao Camp.
Chapter completed!