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Chapter 70 New Enmity

From the Huangzhai in Pujiang to the Houzhai in Yiwu, the corridor between the mountains is only a few miles. Since the reinforcements led by Chen Wen, who had only a few cavalry less than the Fubiao Camp, followed closely, and the Pujiang County was previously under the control of the Qing army. Therefore, the generals of the Fubiao Camp focused most of their attention on Chen Wen during the march. The number of Qing troops who explored the way first. In addition, they did not notice the Dongyang Camp lurking in the mountains and forests.

When attacking halfway, Duke Xiang of Song was used as a counter-attack. Anyone who knew some military tactics knew what this meant. The Guerrillas at the Fobiao Left Camp estimated that Chen Wen also planned to launch an attack when the Qing army began to board the ship, otherwise how could he always follow him?

So, after a little discussion, the generals of Fubiao camp decided to defeat Chen Wen who was following him first, and then boarded the ship to return to Zhuji. The troops were deployed and were about to launch an attack, but when the flag of Dongyang camp appeared behind them, Fubiao camp was immediately selected into the atmosphere of the Ming army's tricks.

Shocked, fear, panic, and even some more slight emotions and thoughts. In the moment after that, Fubiao Battalion went from guerrillas on the left and right battalions to the civilians recruited from Zhuji and Pujiang. These negative emotions emerged in their hearts and were perfectly intertwined, causing the vast majority of soldiers in the army to inadvertently complete the psychological positioning transformation from the attacking side to the attacked side, or even the defeated side.

On the battlefield, the morale of the military is extremely important, so often a gust of wind can make the army that originally had an absolute advantage but was already in sight to collapse. The appearance of the Dongyang Camp seemed to be much more shocking than a gust of wind. After the order to break through was issued, the Fubiao Camp turned the back team into the front team, leaving a part of the Qing army to resist Chen Wen's attack, while the other troops concentrated all their strength to launch an attack on the Dongyang Camp.

However, when the first round of attacks failed to achieve the expected results, the Fubiao Battalion was in chaos. In addition, Chen Wen launched a fierce attack behind the Qing army. An elite troops stationed in Zhejiang, the Super Banners, the Super Banners, and the Extra Biao Battalion were soon in a dilemma of fighting each other until they completely collapsed.

Under the siege of the two Ming armies in the north and south, Fubiao camp completely collapsed after only half an hour. The Pujiang River in the northwest was the Dongyang arm of the Ming army, and the reinforcements led by Chen Wen in the southeast. The Qing army, who were lucky enough to break through, fled to the northeast. From there, one road was Zhengjiawu Town, and after passing there, you can return to Zhuji from Anhua Town.

Seeing that some Qing troops had already fled before the Ming army completed the encirclement, Chen Wen ordered a cavalry officer to pursue the arrested fish running towards the northeast. He ignored the Qing army fleeing in another direction and continued to command the army to siege Fubiao camp that was surrounded.

A year ago, the Siming Lake was defeated. Chen Wen only learned some general situations from the defeated soldiers and the garrison of the Right Camp of Tibbing Xu Lei; he only heard about the Qing army's military operation to slaughter Siming Mountain in Tiantai Mountain; as for Zhoushan, it comes from the records of later historical books.

In the more than a year since he returned to this era, it can even be said that since he got rid of the brainwashing of braids and braids, Chen Wen had at most some vague feelings about the tragic situation of the Qing army's massacre from history books or literary works. However, when he saw the back home and the tragic situation along the way with his own eyes, his mentality and opinions began to change some subtle changes.

Since launching the attack, Chen Wen selectively forgot the routines he used to use such as "suburs who surrendered are exempt from death" to shake the morale of the opponent. The officers under his command seemed to be infected by it and forgot all the suggestions.

After siege for a long time, all the Qing army officers and soldiers who tried to resist were killed by the Ming army that formed a formation to attack. Although the rest of them chose to surrender without hope of breaking through. Even though they knew very well that what they had done along the way was difficult to forgive by the Ming army, everyone had the desire to survive. As long as there was one in ten thousand chance, they would never want to die in this foreign land.

After the resistance of Fubiao Camp was completely extinguished, the Qing soldiers knelt down in large numbers and asked to surrender. The prisoners were tied up with ropes that they had previously tied and captured women and children. Chen Wen still needed to deal with some aftermath, so he escorted the prisoners back to Yiwu County, but left Yin Yue and Dongyang Camp and ordered them to try to recover Pujiang County.

In this battle, Fubiao Battalion was able to escape. After all, it was because the Ming army had too few cavalry and was mostly used on the southern battlefield. The Ming army, which was guarding against Fubiao Battalion, was blocked by the Qing army's cavalry in terms of intelligence, was such a result.

Chen Wen did not blame the officers at all levels of Dongyang Camp, but the hard-to-chewed hard bone in Pujiang County was still handed over to them. It also meant to make meritorious service. In response, from Yin Yue, officers at all levels of Dongyang Camp were relieved and said that they would definitely take Pujiang County into Chen Wen's bag.

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When Chen Wenshuai's army returned to the Yiwu County, Lou Jiye and Wu Dengke also led Nantang and Yiwu two battalions successively crossed Xiaoshun Town and Tangya Town, and advanced to the Jinhua County, which was under the jurisdiction of Jinhua Prefecture.

But before they could join forces to attack the city, a large amount of fire and smoke emerged from the city, and the gentry and people in the city hurriedly opened the east gate of the county town to welcome the Ming army into the city to maintain order.

It turned out that the Qing army's four prefectures Green Camp and Dubiao Camp fled back to Jinhua County after they were defeated by Xiaoshun Town. After a big plunder in the city, the green camp soldiers from Quzhou, Yanzhou and Chuzhou left the place and returned to their respective defense areas. After discussing, Ma Jinbao, the general of Jinhua, and Zhang Guoxun, the deputy general of the Central Army of the Dubiao Camp, also retreated to Quzhou with local officials. The fire in this city was used by the Qing army to delay the pursuit of the Ming army.

The Qing army has fled, and it is still a matter of whether it can catch up with it, but the current city is urgent. Wu Dengke looked at the firelight soaring into the sky in the city, but his mind was the answer with Chen Wen before the war.

As the memories deepened, Wu Dengke's eyes became more and more determined. The officers of the two battalions had arrived. He said loudly without any indecision: "Our unit is the only remaining Zhejiang royal army under the command of the general. Unlike the Tartars, we are carrying out the way to protect the country and the people. The fires in the city were everywhere, and the people were in danger. The general decided to give up pursuing the Tatars. The entire army entered the city. Nantang Camp and Yiwu Camp each had a bureau to guard the city wall and the city gate. The rest of the soldiers entered the city to help the people put out the fire!"

"The last general will obey the order!" From Lou Jiye below, the generals of the two battalions responded in unison without any hesitation.

After a night of hard work, the fire in the city has been effectively controlled, and the matter can be concluded only by the last action.

Under the care of the surviving servant, Zhou Jingting gradually recovered some of his spirit and strength. The blackmail and looting of the Qing army before leaving the city caused him a lot of pain, but even so, the old house built in the Jiajing period turned into ruins in the fire.

The house has poured a lot of effort from the Zhou family over the past century, and more importantly, watching him grow up. In order to save the old housekeeper who had broken one leg by a frightened galloping horse, he was buried in the fire with other servants who had no time to escape after he was pushed out of the hall.

Before the enlightenment, the education he received was that "everything is inferior, but only high schooling". In the Ming Dynasty, whether it was political and economic rights, or prestige among the people, the social status of scholars with fame and fortune was no less than that of all Chinese dynasties, and even the former Song Dynasty might not be able to match it.

After the Qing army advanced south, local officials were mostly tolerant of scholars and other similar people. Even those Qiu Bas had to restrain their attitude towards ordinary people. They wanted to defend their family business as the remnants of the Ming Dynasty and survive in troubled times, but when the Qing army's rule here was threatened, his fame and fortune not only did not become a talisman for protection, but almost killed him.

He survived with humiliation and survived, but the family business and the old housekeeper who was almost the same as his family still could not be saved. With the help of his servants, he returned to the ruins. Zhou Jingting's ears were filled with crying and venting behind the bodies of the nearby people, but his mind was always filled with crying and crying in the old house after he escaped from the fire.

The cry in his heart was hard to suppress. Zhou Jingting picked up scissors and cut off the ridiculous rat tail of money on his head. With the help of his servants, he left the ruins of the old house and walked towards the camp of the Ming army near the city gate.

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It was already evening the next day when Chen Wen returned to Yiwu County. The cavalry team responsible for pursuing the fleeing Qing army had already rushed back, but they did not escort any prisoners, but they only brought back the heads of the fleeing Qing army and the seized property.

After verification, the guerrillas of the Right Battalion of Fubiao Camp successfully escaped. However, the guerrillas of the Left Battalion, as the head coach, were cut off one of the arms by the Ming army and grabbed it, and tied to the car like a rice dumpling.

At this time, the fire in Yiwu County had been put out, but the blackened ruins and the corpses of the people and the defenders still made Chen Wen quite shocked. The dilapidated along the way may still be a little unfamiliar, but this Yiwu County is where Chen Wen has lived for more than two months, and it is also the longest county he has stayed in this era.

The quaint and neat streets turned into ruins, and the feet were covered with burning dust and fire-fighting water and mud; the people who had cheered for their arrival became corpses, regardless of gender, age or young; loyal and brave soldiers died in one street after another in the city, and even many dead people could not even preserve their complete bodies, and were cut off by the Qing army that siege the city to seek credit and reward.

The hatred in his heart ignited a trace of the only remaining woman's kindness in his soul that did not belong to this era in the depths of his soul. Chen Wen's aura began to become colder, making Sun Yu beside him feel a hint of chill.

Confucius once said, how can we repay kindness with kindness with kindness? Repay grudges with straightness and kindness with kindness! So since this is the case, there is no need to think about the fate of these Qing army prisoners.
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