Chapter 71 Return to Hometown
The losses in Yiwu County were shocking. It took only a few hours for Fubiao Camp to invade the county town. In addition to the county government being burned by the Ming army, nearly half of the residential areas in the county town were damaged to varying degrees, and this is not the most important thing...?.??`
When news of the Qing army attack came, most of the people in the county were unwilling to give up their homes. However, when Fubiao Camp attacked the county, they killed all the people they saw on the grounds of being resistant, snatched away any money worth some money and their wives and daughters, and cut off the deceased's level as a proof of beheading.
It is difficult for the Ming and Qing dynasties to kill good people and make achievements in this era to avoid this bad habit. However, in this way, the people who chose to stay in Yiwu County inevitably encountered misfortune. A large number of people were massacred by the Qing army, and even Chen Wen could not see even a living person in the streets and alleys in the north of the city, but he didn't know how many of them escaped this disaster.
Because of this, Chen Wen was determined to kill all the prisoners of Fubiao Camp and was determined to kill all the prisoners of Fubiao Camp for public display. Whether it was his soldiers or the people of Yiwu County, they applauded. Even the returning officials did not produce any moral articles such as "killing prisoners for ominousness". After all, they saw the tragic situation in Yiwu. Even if all the prisoners of Fubiao Camp were executed, they could not make up for the losses suffered by the people of Yiwu. Even if one life was exchanged for another, it would be far from being able to offset it.
After the fire in Yiwu County was completely extinguished, Sun Yu brought the returned officials to set up a porridge site with the only remaining warehouses, and sent people to draw from the surrounding villages and towns and Dongyang County controlled by the Ming army to collect grain, cloth and other items, and actively organize post-disaster reconstruction matters.
Fortunately, while Chen Wen killed all the prisoners from Fubiao camp and showed them to the public, he chose to open the net for the civil servants who were recruited by the Qing army, only explaining that the killing of prisoners was because the Qing army massacred the people. As for the civil servants, they could return home as long as they served their labor service as required by the Ming army.
However, the killing of prisoners really scared these civilians. Even after hearing Chen Wen's explanation, they still couldn't believe that the Ming army would keep their promises. It was only because of the strength of the Ming army that he had to transport supplies under the organization of Yiwu County officials to help the surviving people rebuild their homes and repair the county government and military camps.??.?`bsp;o?m
It was not until a month later that these civilians who had completed the "labor reform" were released by the Ming army. After obtaining a portion of dry food, they completely let go of their worries during this period and then embarked on the way back home.
During the reconstruction of Yiwu County, Dongyang Camp regained Pujiang County with the power of new victories and took advantage of the opportunity to occupy Anhua Town, known as the southern gate of Zhujin. After Wu Dengke recovered the Fucheng, the second camp of Yiwu also occupied Lanxi and Tangxi counties, which were also abandoned by the Qing army.
When Fubiao camp was completely wiped out by the Ming army and all the prisoners were executed by Chen Wen on the charge of massacre of the people, the Qing army in Wuyi and Yongkang counties chose to give up the county town and fled towards Chuzhou. After occupying these two county towns, a small Ming army unit from Dongyang County was ordered to take over the county town. Before the New Year, the Chuzhou Green Camp suffered heavy losses and recovered Wuyun Town, the county seat of Jinyun County, Chuzhou Prefecture, and completely leveled the defense line facing Taizhou to Dapan Mountain - Xiandu Mountain.
However, in these consecutive battles, the Ming army completely entered a state of exhaustion, and it was not convenient to continue large-scale military operations. The soldiers of the Green Camp of the Jinquyan, who participated in the encirclement and suppression on the southern front, were completely destroyed, and it was impossible to recover their vitality overnight. The Supervising Battalion suffered little loss, but the word "repulsion" could barely be considered.
On the northern front, Fubiao Battalion initially bypassed the Dongyang Battalion and defeated a bureau of the Dongyang Battalion with the advantage of matching troops and troops. After that, it once entered Yiwu County, which was the Qing army with the most abundant results in this encirclement and suppression. However, their glory lasted only for one or two days, and then they were double-teamed by the two Ming troops returning to the aid and fell to annihilation of the entire army. Even the prisoners did not survive like Chen Wen's previous few times, and were all executed outside Yiwu County.
As for Shaoxing Green Camp, it was beaten by Nantangying's old camp and the people's troops for two consecutive times last year and this year. It seems that the sequelae of the words Nantangying was trembling when they saw the three words Nantangying. After being beaten up by the bureau in Li Ruixin under the banner of Nantangying, he retreated back to Sheng County, completely looking like he was waiting for help...?.?`
The Qing army around was powerless to do anything to Chen Wen for the time being, and the other two elite troops in Zhejiang, the Hangzhou Eight Banners and the Admiral Biao Battalion, did not dare to go south easily without anyone to cooperate, for fear of losing the fate of the Fubiao Battalion.
The war this year came to an end. Taking advantage of the Qing army's wounds when they returned, Chen Wen gave the soldiers a break in batches to reunite with their families. The first group were the soldiers who joined Nantang Camp before his commander attacked Jinhua.
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Xia Yan, several miles away from the west of Yiwu City, is the largest settlement of the Xia Yan Lou family in Yiwu. It is a bit different from the past. Today is a day when a wanderer who has been away from his hometown for several years will return home. The wanderer has just driven away his horse into the treasure, defeated the Dubiao Camp, and then wiped out the confidant general of Chen Wen and Chen Dashen of Fubiao Camp.
Walking on the way to the ancestral hall, there were relatives of peers or juniors around them. Most of them were proud of touching his clothes and armor and kept chatting with him. It even affected the auspicious time for him to rush to the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors.
As a concubine's son, Lou Jiye has never had such an experience. Since his birth, only his long-dead grandfather has never discriminated against his concubine's identity. Even when he joined Chen Wen last year, he was only in a dream about returning home in glory, and it was still in a distant dream more than ten years later. How could he think that one day would come so soon?
After finally getting rid of these enthusiastic relatives, Lou Jiye hurried to the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors. Inside the ancestral hall, the elders of the Lou family had already sat down one after another. Looking at Lou Jiye who was kneeling to the tablet, even when the family was celebrating, there would be some more complicated thoughts in his heart.
During the process of following Qi Jiguang in the Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli dynasties, the Lou family produced more than 30 officers of the general level and above in the process of fighting against the Japanese and guarding the border. Among them, Lou Zizheng had become the general, Lou Nan, Lou Dayou, Lou Zhihu, Lou Huasong, Lou Tingxun and others, and they also sat at the level of deputy generals. They can be said to be the commander of a sect.
At this moment, the phenomenon of the inflated titles in various dynasties in the Southern Ming Dynasty is getting more and more intense, and the military position is far less precious than before. The generals in Lou Jiye may have been a garrison before Jiashen. It is probably not even worthy of being Qian. There is nothing to be surprised about when Lou's generals gathered.
But now Lou Jiye's general is the one who won the battle and won the battle. Chen Wen, who is already a famous general in the Qing Dynasty in Zhejiang, is also the highest-ranking officer among the Xia Yan Lou family. He is naturally different from the generals and deputy generals of this era who are flooded with water.
Since the Lou family's children participated in the Qi family's army's anti-Japanese war and guarded the border, the entire family was quite glorious at that time, so Chen Wenshuai's army came here. The slogan of rebuilding the Qi family's army was also very attractive to the Lou family. During the expansion of the army before the war, hundreds of children from the Lou family joined the army. It is said that some of the outstanding achievements may be appointed as officers. Naturally, we must also ask Lou Jiye, the son who had followed Chen Wen for a long time, to find out the temper of the great general, so that the last Ming army in Zhejiang could share a bigger piece of cake in the seemingly unstoppable rise.
After paying homage to his ancestors, Lou Jiye saluted to the elders of the clan one by one. Until his father, Lou Jiye could no longer suppress the tears in his eyes. When he recalled his long-dead grandfather, perhaps the hardships of these years had all become meaningful at this moment. Until these etiquettes, the old patriarch of the Lou family, after hearing Lou Jiye's experience over the years, began to inquire about Chen Wen's life experience, the history of the Ming army, as well as the personal achievements and rewards of the Lou family's children during this battle.
Just as Lou Jiye was responding to the inquiries of the elders of the clan with enthusiasm, in the ruins of many years in the south of Jinhua City, Sun Yu took his wife, younger brother and child who had been born for only a few months from home to travel to his hometown.
The reconstruction work of Yiwu County has been roughly completed, but the local people have suffered a lot of losses. In fact, the reconstruction work has only been completed for survivors, and many abandoned houses and courtyards in the city are still abandoned there.
After supervising the completion of disaster relief and reconstruction, Chen Wen began to inspect the counties in the occupied areas and also met with Zhou Qingui of Luochengyan to discuss the positioning of the two armies. As the prefect of Jinhua, Sun Yu rushed to his hometown of Jinhua City, where he helped the affected people.
Since Wu Dengke led his troops to assist the people in disaster relief, the loss of Jinhua Fucheng was much lower than that of Yiwu County. However, there was a large-scale massacre here five years ago, with more than 50,000 victims. In addition, Ma Jinbao's levy and tax, the vitality of this Fucheng has never been restored, and the uncleared ruins in the city are everywhere.
This dilapidated courtyard and the burnt house were Sun Yu's home back then. The store in front was the snack shop opened by his parents. It was also thanks to this snack shop that saved money to support him in studying and literacy until he passed the exam.
But years have passed, the honesty of my father and the shrewdness of my mother, and the young man who could not afford to buy books and ask someone to borrow books to read them no longer exists. All that is left is a soul full of revenge and a non-Jinshi civil servant who placed his dream of being a title on his younger brother.
Many people died in the Jinhua Massacre. Sun Yu's parents' bodies soon rotted and unrecognizable in the summer. With the support of his father-in-law's family, Sun Yu built a tomb for his parents outside the city, but when he returned to his hometown, he thought of this at the first time.
With his wife holding the child and her young brother who was crying, facing the former main hall, Sun Yu slowly told the experiences of these years until he met Chen Wen in Dalan Mountain.
"Dad, mom, my knowledge has increased over the years. I think I will be able to pass the imperial examinations when the imperial examinations are reopened and gain glory to the ancestors. A few days ago, Qing'er also gave birth to a baby boy, and now he is over 100 years old, and our Sun family has a descendant."
After talking for a long time, Sun Yu suddenly kowtowed heavily and then said loudly: "The blood hatred between my father and my mother has never been forgotten for a day. Not long ago, the dog thief Ma Jinbao was defeated by Chen Shuai and fled to Quzhou in a panic. Please stay for a while. The child will do his best to assist Chen Shuai to restore more lost land, and will definitely avenge the two elders, sure!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!