Zhou Jingting was Chen Wen's confidential document and a scholar with great fame. He was very respected in this illiterate military camp. After all, he was Chen Wen's aide and a subordinate. If he didn't come to report something, he would urge Chen Wen to return to the Central Army tent as soon as possible. This seemed a bit abnormal, at least it was a little different from Zhou Jingting's usual manner of politeness. When he returned to the Central Army tent, some of the doubts in Chen Wen's mind were immediately dispersed by a greater indissolubleness.

In the central army's tent, except Zhou Jingting, the other staff members had long dispersed. Instead, a scholar wearing a Confucian robe was standing on the spot. But when you look closely, although the scholar had dressed up, Chen Wen could still open it at a glance, the skin hidden under the powder was very fair, and his facial features were very delicate. It seemed that there was a bit similar to Zhou Jingting's eyebrows.

And the most important point is that although this person is wearing a man's clothes, he is clearly a woman. If nothing unexpected happens, his appearance should be quite good.

What does Zhou Jingting mean when he brought the woman into the military camp and into his central army tent?

At this time, it seemed that he felt Chen Wen's questions, or could no longer bear it. Zhou Jingting coughed and then introduced to Chen Wen: "Master, this is the sister-in-law."

Hearing Zhou Jingting's vague displeasure, Chen Wen also realized that he was very rude in staring at the little woman in front of him, so he immediately withdrew his gaze and saluted the little sister of the Zhou family again. However, Chen Wen, who didn't know the truth, seemed a little too slow to keep his leniency, which made Zhou Jingting quite impatient.

After confirming that there was no one else near the tent, Zhou Jingting immediately whispered to Chen Wen: "Master General, Cao Conglong placed his house under the prefecture in the city, and even took down all the important places in the city through the group of Luo Chengyan, and even Tangxi County was no exception."

"Master, the fundamental land of the army is no longer in the hands of the royal army!"

Chen Wen was stunned immediately. When he reacted again, his whole body was immediately ignited by anger.

Internal strife, this is the naked internal strife!

Before leaving, he and Cao Conglong had agreed that after taking Quzhou, he would return to Taizhou eastward. Although he was indeed not very concerned about this plan, he had never deliberately delayed the progress of restoring Quzhou, and just followed the trend. If Quzhou could be revived as soon as possible, it would not be a useless strategy to go east to Taizhou to obtain an outlet.

But who knew that he took Long You and then surrounded Chen Jin in the city of Quzhou. Cao Conglong seized power by force in his lair. If he thought about it carefully, it would be even possible that Cao Conglong had decided to do so before he sent troops, otherwise how could he act so quickly?

Next, Zhou Jingting signaled that the Zhou family girl, the witness of the rebellion, would explain the whole story to Chen Wen clearly. It was not only the Zhou family girl who saw her, but also the details that Ni Liangxu had intentionally or unintentionally revealed outside Longyou County.

Listening to the sharp contrast between the cruel reality mixed in the woman's soft voice, Chen Wen's anger began to be as physical as it was. However, in this anger, a trace of powerlessness still quietly entangled him, gradually tightening, and even his breathing began to become more and more difficult.

Chen Wen has always had a certain degree of understanding of the history of Nanming through the texts he saw in forums and novels.

The army fought outside, and after several bloody battles, it finally overwhelmed the Qing army in front of us, and it was only the last blow to turn the tables. At this moment, there were always people stabbed in the back, or even stabbed several times, until the entire situation was ruined. Such things were not uncommon in the Southern Ming Dynasty. It can even be said that almost every time there was a chance to turn the tables, someone would jump out to do so. Among them, He Tengjiao, the civil servant of the Huguang Army Supervisor who was well-known in later generations, was the most famous infighting dog in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

During the reign of Hongguang, he was controlled by Zuo Liangyu and did nothing; during the Longwu period, he excluded the Zhongzhen Camp and collected scattered soldiers and brave men as the direct line, which caused greater burden on the people, and had no generals and generals, which led to the warlord separatist of Liu Chengyin and others. When the Qing army entered Fujian, he even disobeyed and refused to rescue Emperor Longwu. When the Yongli Dynasty counterattacked Hunan, he instigated Hao Yaoqi to sneak attack Chen Youlong's troops and gave the Qing army a chance to breathe. He also transferred the Zhongzhen Camp that besieged Changsha, which was almost successful, to conquer Changsha, completely ruined the strategy of regaining Hunan and aiding Jiangxi, which caused him to be captured and killed by the Qing army. After his death, his accomplices even threw the blame for the corruption of the situation on Du Yinxi, which led to the famous minister who had always tried his best to save the nation on the Huguang battlefield and died in depression.

It is precisely because of such an example of civil servants supervising the army, Chen Wen was not unprepared for Cao Conglong who was ordered. He asked Zhang Jun to send someone to monitor him. The result was that Cao Conglong himself spoke out after he went to war to win over the civil and military troops in Dongyang, Yiwu, Pujiang counties and the northern garrisons, and in addition to recruiting Luochengyan Baitou Army. In addition, he lived in seclusion on weekdays, and acted as a "good baby" waiting for Chen Wen to take over Quzhou and then return to the east.

But he never expected that Cao Conglong had no intention of leaving the scene himself. Instead, he grabbed allies among civil servants in Dalanshan and used their allies to connect more people to conspire with him, which instead concealed Chen Wen. If he remembered that Cao Conglong had reported good news to him after recruiting Luochengyan Baitou Army not long ago, and hoped that Chen Wen could send someone to help him train this Fubiao camp, he obviously underestimated this Minister of War who was not in trouble.

In fact, if Chen Wen had a better understanding of the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he would probably have been more careful about Cao Conglong.

Historically, after the Lu Jianguo changed his name to the orthodox emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Conglong joined the Zheng group and became the confidant of Zheng Chenggong's younger brother Zheng Shixi. In the 16th year of Yongli, Zheng Chenggong died in Taiwan. Cao Conglong and Zheng Shixi's other three confidants instigated Zheng Shixi and Zheng Chenggong's son Zheng Jing to compete for the title and official position of the Yanping County Prince, and bribed several major Taiwanese garrison generals.

After Zheng Shixi established himself as the Prince of Yanping County, Zheng Jing, who received the news, personally led a large army to set out from Xiamen, and soon calmed the internal strife for the purpose of fighting for power. However, in the subsequent revenge, not only the four Zheng Shixi's confidants, including Cao Conglong, and the Taiwanese garrison generals who fell to Zheng Shixi, but even the God of Wealth of the Zheng clan group in the Zheng Chenggong era, Zheng Chenggong's cousin Zheng Tai was not spared, which eventually led to a large number of Ming troops in Jinxia surrendering to the Qing Dynasty for fear of retaliation. The army that Zheng Chenggong had worked hard to establish began to fall apart, and Zheng Jing could only shrink in a corner of Taiwan, and there was no possibility of an expedition alone as Zheng Chenggong did when he was in the Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Jing was extremely responsible for the inappropriate handling of this matter, but as the initiator of the Zheng family's internal conflict, Zheng Shixi, Cao Conglong and others were also to blame.

Unfortunately, Chen Wen did not understand the internal conflict between Zheng and the Zheng family ten years later. He only knew that Cao Conglong's name was Yunlin, and he was the Minister of War of the Lujian Dynasty, and it was also the incident after Cao Conglong came to Jinhua Prefecture. He had always relied on his understanding of the general direction of the situation and began to move towards different paths with history, and his lack of understanding of the details, which made a feeling of powerlessness begin to surge into his heart.

However, there is no time to sigh now!

Most of Chen Wen's soldiers came from Jinhua Prefecture, and their old nests were captured. No matter how you look at the city of Dunbing, you have to go back to quell the rebellion. However, the prerequisite for quelling the rebellion is to try to return. At this moment, the Qing army was divided into Quzhou Prefecture City and Jiangshan County. Once the withdrawal was discovered, two Qing troops would likely join forces to pursue the retreating Ming army. If they were not done well, they would attack again halfway, and if they were caught in the retreat, they would be unable to replicate the possibility of temporarily replacing the last time to force the Qing army.
Chapter completed!