Tongsi Bridge in Longyou County is located outside the east gate of Longyou County, with a total length of 165 meters. Tongsi Bridge was originally a wooden bridge. During the Xuanhe period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Xu, a wife of Zhu Changyou, was prone to rotting on wooden bridges, and he lost more than 10,000 yuan to change it to face stones. Decades later, the Ten-Dun Stone Bridge was built during the Chunyou period of the Southern Song Dynasty. Ma Tianji, who was in charge of Quzhou, built another 50 houses on the bridge, and many of them were rebuilt and rebuilt by the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

More than a month ago, the Ming army launched a large-scale attack on Quzhou. Ma Jinbao, the general general of Jinhua of the Qing army, who was responsible for the city defense, let people demolish the stone arch bridge. However, due to the urgency of time, they only demolished the bridge deck and the buildings on it. The amount of projects to demolish the bridge piers was obviously too large, so they had to give up and let it continue to stand in Lingxi.

When the Ming army captured Longyou County, the staff who were temporarily appointed to act as the Longyou County affairs received Chen Wen's permission and recruited craftsmen. The civilians rebuilt this bridge, on the one hand, to facilitate the Ming army's material and personnel transfer, and on the other hand, they also had the intention to restore people's livelihood.

In the night, under the rooster crowing tower next to the village under the east bank of Tongsi Bridge, Ni Liangxu and his personal soldiers watched the carriage drive onto the bridge deck that had just been repaired for a day.

When the woman gently uttered the words "The general believed that only I came to report the news with two servants", Ni Liangxu's first reaction was that the scholar who helped the Zhou family leave the government office parted ways with her, and she was just a bait on the surface. But after looking at the woman again, he quickly reacted and finally understood what the little woman was talking about.

The little sister of the Zhou family said that it had been five days of rebellion, and the Ming army camp outside Jinhua Prefecture City and Quzhou Prefecture City were only two hundred miles away. Moreover, from the beginning, Cao Conglong was born out of his superstition of the imperial authority and coercion and inducement methods and the necessity of follow-up plans, and was not particularly good at blocking news. Although the suddenness of the rebellion and backward communication methods caused them to get a certain amount of time, and Chen Wen's army was besieging Quzhou Prefecture City, time should be enough for them to complete the preparations, but at the same time, Chen Wen had already formed his own power in Jinhua Prefecture, and it was absolutely impossible for such a young woman to rush to Quzhou to report the news. This means that intercepting the three people in this group not only could not achieve their goal, but also would completely tie them to Cao Conglong and other civil servants.

Once he figured out this, Ni Liangxu, who was already opposed to the conspiracy with Cao Conglong to seize Jinhua Mansion, quickly threw the original plan behind him and reached an agreement with the Zhou family. According to the agreement, the Zhou family would instigate her brother Zhou Jingting to speak kindly to Luo Chengyan's white-headed army in front of Chen Wen to reduce the intensity of Chen Wen's retaliation after he turned the tables, while Ni Liangxu would need to protect the Zhou family in Jinhua Mansion City and not suffer too much persecution. That's all.

After swearing with the ancestral tombs and the welfare of descendants, Ni Liangxu let the unarmed people pass, while he and his personal soldiers embarked on the way back to Tangxi County.

However, when he returned to Tangxi County, he received two news, one good news and one bad news. The good news was that his confidant deputy recruited nearly two hundred new recruits in Tangxi County in the past two days. Although the cost was still higher than the standard of the Ming army in Jinhua, it was enough to deal with it with the support of Tangxi County civil servants. As for the bad news, the captain, whose family members were not controlled, led nearly half of the former garrison troops to escape from Tangxi County, and all the cavalrymen who followed him to Longyou were unable to pursue them at all.

From the numbers, they still make a lot of money, but most of the original garrisons have been on the battlefield, and their combat effectiveness is definitely not comparable to those newly recruited recruits. If you think of the failure of recruiting troops in Jinhua Mansion a few days ago, these mixed together make Ni Liangxu suddenly sweat on his back, and he can't help but start to be glad that he made the choice the evening before yesterday.

The morale of the army was unstable, and the original garrison was not suitable to move lightly. Ni Liangxu had to start training new soldiers here as soon as possible based on repeated statements that he would not invade the remaining garrison officers, so as to prepare for the various possibilities in the future.

At least according to common sense, whether Cao Conglong successfully seized power or Chen Wen turned the tables, there would be more room for turning around if he had troops in his hands.

On May 28, the sixth year of Yongli, the Shuiying sent a new batch of supplies to the besieged troops. This batch of supplies was collected from Longyou County, part of which was collected by the left-behind staff, and the other part was exchanged for luxury goods such as jewelry, jade and antiques from local merchants in Longyou.

Since the capture of Longyou County, Chen Wen began to build ships in Longyou. However, the local merchants in Longyou County were responsible for this matter. The shipbuilders they hired used the air-dried wood they had previously hoarded in the city and quickly started construction work after receiving the deposit. The progress was much faster than the craftsmen and civilians collected by Chen Wen when he was in Jinhua, and the scale of the ship was also larger.

Ma Jinbao and some of his subordinates seized in Longyou County were free of hard currency such as gold, silver ingots and copper coins, and luxury goods such as jewelry, jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings. In Chen Wen's view, precious metals such as gold, silver and copper can be directly used to pay military salaries and purchase military supplies. Moreover, people in the Ming Dynasty also liked hoarding, which was not conducive to circulation, so they generally used these luxury goods to trade with local merchants.

After several days of observation of the garrison, local merchants once again determined the reality of the strict military discipline of the Ming army, and did not have too much resistance to transactions as they did when facing the Qing army. In addition, the main business scope of Quzhou's local Longyou Business Group included the transaction of these luxury goods, so there would be no obstacles to circulation. It is natural that Chen Wenshu Shuiying officers and military judges supervised the requirements, so that both parties can trade with peace of mind.

Through equal transactions, Chen Wen quickly mobilized a large number of local merchants, craftsmen and civilians to work in enhancing the strength of the Ming army. Not only were the water camp ships under construction, but a large number of military supplies began to be sent to the Ming army's warehouses. There were even people from Chuzhou carrying Songyang labours to Quzhou to sell supplies north, which made the Ming army under his command have already become as powerful as a fish in water in Quzhou. On the contrary, the local Qing army and the Qing army aided to Quzhou, which still occupied most of the land in Quzhou began to look more and more like a group of unwelcome villains.

The Qing army in Quzhou is now divided into two parts, the largest of which is the Dubiaoying and other units that were besieged by the Ming army, while the other part of the Qing army is concentrated in Jiangshan County, all of which are reinforcements from southern Zhejiang and Fujian.

The Qing army aided Qu, when they arrived at the Fujian Left General Battalion, had intended to send troops to rescue the siege. According to the horse probe, it seemed that the army had already assembled, and even the vanguard had left the city, but they retreated for no reason. They didn't know what Wang Zhigang, the Fujian Left General who was ordered to become the head coach of the reinforcement army, was thinking.

However, no matter what, since the Qing army did not attack in large numbers, Chen Wen did not intend to place the Quzhou Prefecture City, which had gathered heavily, to attack Jiangshan County. However, this Quzhou Prefecture City was extremely sturdy and it was not easy to capture it.

If you want to attack the city, the easiest and most common thing is to build siege equipment ants to climb the city. After seizing the city and the city gate, the overall situation is basically decided. Few can drive the enemy out after the city is broken. However, for Chen Wen, training and equipment of the army is a lot of money, and most of the soldiers have experienced great wars, so he did not intend to sacrifice it on the city like cannon fodder in exchange for this city. At present, he had to try to use the excavation and blasting that did not take place in Longyou not long ago to break the city.

However, Quzhou Prefecture City is not Longyou. Its city is either river water or moat on all sides. It is obviously impossible to blast the west wall near Qujiang. However, blasting the city walls in other directions will first try to lure away the water from the moat, and then dry it for a few days before digging and blasting, otherwise the river water of the moat will be submerged or soaked away.

Outside the southern wall of Quzhou Prefecture City, the Ming army's engineers were still leading the civilians to try to lure away the moat water of Quzhou Nanhu, but the progress was extremely slow, making the blasting work unable to begin.

Although Chen Wen was a little impatient, he was powerless and had to let those professionals go. Taking advantage of this period of time, he began to continue training soldiers. At the same time, he also asked his staff and the training officers transferred from the old battalion to literate low-level officers, and also taught some military knowledge, in order to further improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

At this time, Chen Wen explained the military tactics to the intermediate officers and staff members in the army in the camp, but the method used was still the same as telling theories and citing historical facts at the same time. However, this explanation method was easier to deepen the understanding, and the officers and staff members were very happy to get Chen Wen, a new famous general in the dynasty, to explain the military tactics to them personally, and naturally they worked harder. However, there were very few doubts in it, which was no longer as different as Chen Wen had to face a lot of problems when he explained Sun Tzu's art of war on Dalan Mountain.

This is a good thing, but not a good thing, so Chen Wen added a free discussion link to let them speak out the voice of questions and deepen their understanding through discussion and debate under appropriate guidance. It is better than keeping it in your heart and waiting until you make mistakes when you lead the troops alone.

Fortunately, most of these officers experienced literacy in Tiantai Mountain in the past year and in the Jinhua Fucheng Camp this year. The common words and sentences of military terms and orders have been roughly understood. The literacy has improved their understanding of military tactics and the problems that arise when discussing each other have become diverse. However, their overall quality is much better than the group of illiterate officers he brought in when he was in Dalan Mountain.

The free discussion was still going on, and Chen Wen continued to listen to their arguments as usual. But at this moment, the captain of the personal soldiers, Zhang Jun, came to Chen Wen secretly and said that Zhou Jingting hoped that Chen Wen could move to the central army tent as soon as possible. It is said that there were important matters to be discussed. To be continued.
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