With the last page of the manuscript explaining the density of ice, Li Yu didn't care about what breakfast to eat and hurried to the friend's house so that he could understand the principle here as soon as possible.

At the same time, they crossed the Qiantang River and entered the boundary of Shaoxing Prefecture and headed south. After passing through the water close to Zhuji, which was called Huanjiang by the locals, Yu Shizhong and his son took that small boat to get closer to the northernmost end of the Ming Army-controlled area of ​​Jinhua, Anhua Town, known as the southern gate of Zhuji.

The shipman at the helm is an old man. He has been walking the waterway from Shaoxing to Anhua Town for decades. He knows the hydrological conditions very well, such as reefs and undercurrents. Even where there are Qing troops and river pirates, he is very clear about the existence of river robbers. He is safe along the way.

However, he only walked here, because the road ahead entered the boundary of Jinhua Prefecture. The shipmen from the two places followed the rules set by the older generation, using this place as the dividing line for business, which also facilitated the guests to choose to enter Pujiang County west or Yiwu south.

Anhua Town was in sight and was about to arrive at the Ming army occupied area. The hardships of several months were about to come to an end. Yu Shizhong walked out of the black tent, stood on his clothes, stretched his waist, closed his eyes and enjoyed the warmth of the sun. When he opened his eyes and looked into the distance, what he saw at first was not the expected small town in Jiangnan, but an ugly and simple rammed earthen castle.

This is the most important line of defense for the Ming army in Jinhua to face the northern front. It is very normal to build a fortress. However, the exterior wall of the fortress was really simple, and there was no brick. When the ship continued to move south, when you look closely, even the rammed earth was very perfunctory. Not to mention artillery, it might not cause several heavy rains and collapsed directly, so the Qing army could not take action.

"When you arrive in Jinhua, do you want to talk to Mr. Chen?"

Seeing Yu Shizhong hesitation and confusion, the shipman glanced at the wall of the fortress in the distance, and then said to Yu Shizhong: "This wall seems to be like this more than a month ago. Why is it still like this?" As he said that, the shipman pointed to the ragged green camp clothes that were transporting wood, stone, and sand in the distance, but cut the whip, revealing the bald coolie.

"Last time I came, I seemed to see those people moving things in. It's a coincidence that I saw this again this time."

With the shipman's fingers, Yu Shizhong also noticed the group of coolies. However, with the eyes of an intern warrior, he felt that the coolies should be from the army in terms of behavior. But what surprised him was that the general Chen did not keep the prisoners? Why did he even have a bunch of coolies wearing green camp clothes?

With full of doubts, Yu Shizhong and his son continued to go south with the boat, and they did not transfer to the ferry on the Dachen River until Anhua Town.

Outside the rammed earth wall that gradually faded away, Tan Jingren, an Anqing soldier from Biaoying in Jinhua Town, and Wang Qinian, a local soldier, walked into the rammed earth wall with a load on his shoulders. Below the load was a piece of stone brought from a newly built quarry on the mountain near the left.

Half a year ago, the two followed Jinhua General Ma Jinbao in Taizhou and successfully defeated the Ming army in Taizhou led by Yu Guowang. As a result, the celebration banquet had just been eaten, but news came that Jinhua Mansion was taken away by another Ming army. They hurried back to Jinhua. Fortunately, the Ming army only occupied the two counties of Dongyang and Yiwu, and their family business was still preserved.

But who would have thought that not long after, not only were they, but also some of the soldiers and horses of the three prefectures of Dubiao Camp, Quzhou, Chuzhou and Yanzhou, were defeated by the Ming army, who was always at a disadvantage, and even they became prisoners.

Life in the prisoner camp was not easy. Each person only had a bowl of porridge that could be used as a mirror and a small cake every day. At most, they could only fill their stomachs with water, but they would become hungry again after urinating. Fortunately, the Ming army was very strict, otherwise even this amount of food would be stolen.

But not long after, the prisoner camp heard from the chatty Ming army that Fubiao camp was killed by the Ming army and was blocked in the mountain pass by all because of the slaughter of the people in Yiwu.

The news came. Panic spread throughout the prisoner camp. Every Qing army prisoner wanted to escape because the blood debt they committed after Ma Jinbao's butt over the years was no more than the Fubiao camp. However, around the prisoner camp was a whole army camp of Ming troops who were monitoring it. Any Ming army who had left the prescribed activity area did not ask for reasons and killed them directly, even if they just wanted to shit.

The brewing escape was declared to be completed under the high pressure of the Ming army before it began. A few days later, a new order was issued, and all prisoners settled their past sins and atoneed for their sins by serving labor.

Working in labor proves that Ming Jun thinks you are still useful, and your life is recorded for the time being, but how long you have to work, whether you are tired or not, what are the treatments, and whether you will be exhausted to death, these problems will soon be overwhelmed by their hearts.

Arrived in Anhua Town under the escort of the Ming army, which was very close to the Qing army controlled area. However, in the face of the high-pressure policy and strong combat effectiveness of the Ming army, the prisoners still chose to remain silent, and there was also the number of labor hours for each person set during the liquidation period. As long as they could serve enough labor, they could be released.

No one would believe that they could be released even if they became prisoners, but as they were captured by the Ming army before they returned to Jinhua, the Qing army prisoners who had been captured by the Ming army before they returned to Jinhua, especially the Qing army prisoners who were promoted to supervisors at all levels by receiving red notes for the Ming army and were promoted to supervisors at all levels with whips to emphasize the "trustworthiness" of the Ming army. Under such powerful persuasion, at least on the surface, the Qing army prisoners expressed their support for "labor transformation".

In fact, whether others believe it or not, Wang Qinian believed it. Because he had only been joining the Biaoying in Jinhua Town for only half a year since entering Taizhou, and was a local person, he had been identified by the fellow villager as an "ordinary people" who were forced to join the army by the Qing army. The circumstances of the offense were lighter and he had been given a prescribed labor service. If nothing unexpected happens, he could go home to reunite with his family by the end of this year, but he didn't know whether his family was safe.

With a hope, Wang Qinian began to do his best under the supervision of the Ming army and the supervisors, for fear that the Ming army would delay his return home. However, he would do this high-intensity physical labor every day and be deducted from food by the supervisors who were still companions half a year ago. This "labor transformation" is really not easy.

The only thing we can do is to thank that the rammed earth wall was ready two months ago, and the Ming army and the supervisors did not require much quality. After these two months of work, the strange-shaped solid fortress inside the earth wall was completed by the labor of them and the farmers who were transferred to the slack farm during the farming period. It is estimated that the completion will be completely completed in another half month.

Before that, the Ming army officer in charge promised to take three days off and when there were no major labor tasks in the future, he could take a day off every half month. At that time, life should be easier.

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Last year, the Qing army captured during Chen Wen's recapture of Jinhua Mansion, except for Fubiao Camp and the stubborn elements who were unwilling to cut off the rat tail of money, were executed, and the rest began the long road of "labor transformation".

The Qing army who escaped to Quzhou by luck and Ma Jinbao's Jinhua Town Biao camp was hit by several rounds of attacks by the Ming army. It was not as simple as having a corps full, but that none of Shida had a full corps, and the entire system had been completely shattered. This army that once participated in the Jinhua Massacre when Boluo went south could no longer be considered an army, but could only be said to be a gathering of a group of defeated soldiers.

Holding the leg of the Golden Tyrannosaurus Rex of Prince Aisin Gioro Boluo of the Qing Dynasty, and the support of Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian. Ma Jinbao organized all the remaining officers and veterans who were defeated in the battle of Xiaoshun Town in Yanzhou and Chuzhou Green Camp into the rebuilt Jinhua Town Biao Camp. Chen Jin even transferred part of the Wenzhou Green Camp, and Ma Jinbao brought some masters in Quzhou to rebuild this brand new Jinhua Town Biao Camp.

However, if this hodgepodge wants to initially form combat power, it will probably take at least half a year, and it is the kind of level that can only attack on the battlefield and encircle and suppress a small-scale rebel army. As for going to Fujian to rescue Zhangzhou as in history, Zheng Chenggong would probably not have to put a hole in it to surround them. As long as you see Zheng Chenggong's army, you will be scared and peeded.

In contrast, the Quzhou Green Camp, which suffered a certain degree of loss and the Chuzhou where each lacks one battalion, could only recruit the vacancies of Yanzhou Green Camp in local areas.

For the Qing army, Zhang Guoxun, the deputy general of the Super League Battalion, reacted quickly. The Super League Battalion withdraws from the battlefield in time, and the losses were not great. It only required to complete the more than three or four hundred vacancy items that could not be verified due to war damage, disappearance, capture, death, and empty salary. After a little training, you can take them to the battlefield as cannon fodder.

However, Quzhou is currently facing a heavy threat from the Ming army in Jinhua, and the envoys sent to persuade surrender a few days ago returned in vain. He had to wait until the Qing army in Jiangxi wiped out Dajueyan Zhang Zisheng before he could mobilize the army to encircle and suppress Jinhua Mansion again. Therefore, Chen Jin simply directly dispatched an elite force from Ningbo Green Camp to join the Supervisory Camp to enhance his combat effectiveness.

On the field of the Green Camp in Quzhou, Chen Jin, Ma Jinbao, Zhang Guoxun and other senior officials and generals in Quzhou in the Qing Dynasty were stunned and stared at the scene in front of them.

On the side of the Collegiate Field, the Quzhou Green Camp was well preserved. A unit of 200 combat soldiers, which had always been called elite among the nearby ordinary green camps. On the other side was a part of the former Ningbo Green Camp, which was recently transferred to the Super Biao Battalion, with only half of the force of the opponent. After the two sides fought for a while, the small army with less troops quickly resisted the opponent's offensive, and then began to counterattack through changing formations under the command of the officers, tearing off the opponent's soldiers bit by bit, and finally encircled and annihilated them.

They looked at each other. It was not until the new garrison of the Supervisors who were commanding the field returned to the pointing platform that these high-ranking commanders had regained their due demeanor.

"Wang Shoubei, is your mandarin duck formation mastered by Qi Shuai?"

When he saw the boss of the head, Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, who was second only to the generals of the Eight Banners in Zhejiang, asked questions. Wang Sheng hurriedly bowed and replied: "The Governor is as expected, that's true."

Hearing this, whether it was Chen Jin who was asking questions or Ma Jinbao and Zhang Guoxun who accompanied them, they naturally thought of the hidden information.

Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Formation has been no longer used since Qi Jin was killed in Hunhe, and it has been decades since then. However, the year before yesterday, a general of the Ming army once again came up with this system in Siming Mountain in eastern Zhejiang, and almost beat the elite troops of Zhejiang Green Camp in more than a year. The Qing army garrison in front of them also came from Siming Mountain, and seemed to have a lot of interaction with the Ming army commander.

Zhang Guoxun thought about it and seemed to have thought of something, but he was not in a hurry to ask. Now he is Wang Sheng’s immediate boss, so he can naturally go back to the camp if he has any problems.

But almost at the same time, Ma Jinbao thought that there seemed to be some difference, so he quickly asked: "Wang Shouge, as far as I know, the Dalan thief Chen Wen's Yuanyang formation is a Yuanyang formation killer team with a firearm team. Why is this firearm team under your command directly belonging to the central army?"

He had also thought about this question, and realized that Chen Wen felt that the long-range firepower was insufficient. But when he looked up, he saw that Chen Jin and Zhang Guoxun had no expression on his face, Wang Sheng could only smile and said, "Reporting to Ma Shuai, Bei Zhi had never seen the new Yuanyang formation of the Dalan thief Chen Wen, and the specific situation was not clear. However, Bei Zhi read Qi Shuai's military book and had seen him use similar organization when he was in the north, but I don't know if it was the same as the Dalan thief."

Wang Sheng's answer was very vague. Ma Jinbao was angry when he heard this. However, Wang Sheng is now Zhang Guoxun's subordinate and even subordinate to Chen Jin. Although he has Boluo's support, there is no need to offend these two people for nothing. Anyway, Qi Jiguang's military books and magazines are widely printed and can always be bought. Even if he is illiterate, wouldn't he ask his staff to read it to him?

Several people present had their own thoughts and soon dispersed. Wang Sheng returned to the house that Zhang Guoxun had just given him, but he saw that the confidant who had been to Jinhua had already rushed back.

"how?"

Seeing Wang Sheng's face showing anxiety, the confidant quickly replied: "Report to the head of the family, Marshal Chen has agreed to this matter, but..."

Next, the confidant conveyed all the nonsense that Chen Wen said to Wang Sheng. After hearing the "secrets" from Taixi, Wang Sheng was shocked, but his heart was full of doubt.

"That guy is not a fool."

"Report to the head of the family, the villain had asked several fortune tellers on the way back. The symbols on it were indeed not spells, and they were really Taixi's words. The villain thought that the head of the family had the body of the servant's subordinate in his hand, so he was unlikely to deceive him."

"Well, since that guy has agreed, you can do it."

"Affect the order."

Seeing the confidant turn and leave, Wang Sheng recalled the nonsense again, but said to himself: "Zhu Hanlin seemed to say yesterday at the table that there is another place where there are Thais in addition to the capital. Where does it come from?"

Two hours later, in a restaurant in the city, a handsome scholar sat in a seat by the window and drank the wine in his glass. At the other table behind him, a tall and thin young man sitting behind him was squeezing the food, as if he was in a hurry.

At first glance, I saw that the scholar was very elegant. He would always try it lightly, and wipe the wine at the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief. After drinking it, he picked up the cup again and tasted the fine wine in his mouth, and went back and forth. However, the inauspicious secret words came out of his mouth, and were even less heard of the noise of the young man behind him.

"Wang Sheng, the dog thief, knows you, come here."

"They reported to Da Zheng, especially Zhenbiao Reconstruction and Wang Sheng, who have collected these days, are included in the Supervisor."

"Wang Jiang was sent to Nanjing, the specific situation is unknown."

"There are many envoys to Jiangxi and Fujian recently, and the matters in those two places are to be investigated."

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Chapter completed!