The battle to seize the city was over soon. It can even be said that Chen Fugui rushed into the city gate and cut over the defenders. The moment other selective strikers rushed in and opened the city gate again was over. [Read the latest chapter]

After discovering that the rebels and the county garrisons had entered the city, the former garrisons immediately completed the battle under the leadership of the garrison and the army judges. Anyway, the defenders on the west walls, including those who found that the rebels and the counter-attack entered the city with Chen Wen's flag, fled in all directions. Even the rebel general did not make any extra resistance. They just sighed that "I didn't even defend for half an hour" and put down their weapons and lived in the county jail with the magistrate and the magistrate.

The army led by Chen Guobao, used to attract the attention of the defenders, entered Tangxi County from Tongqumen, but did not take over the defense, but passed through the city directly. Instead, Chen Wen led some of his entourage into the county government.

"Master, I deserve to die for a low-ranking position..."

Chen Wen, who was arranging his entourage to accept military and political affairs in Tangxi County, glanced at the officers kneeling on the ground, including the garrison, the garrison judges, and the captains of the defenders teams, who were too lazy to say anything to them.

Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety are difficult to achieve. Cao Conglong threatened the family of these officers, and they were forced to compromise on human feelings. But the most important thing in the army is loyalty. Military people regard obeying orders as their duty. This is what he emphasized in the army. If everyone learns from them, who knows when their comrades around him will turn against each other, then the atmosphere of unity that has been formed in the army will be replaced by suspicion again, and Chen Wen’s only military force that can rely on will decline sharply.

But all the officers in front of him had followed him through life and death, especially the guards in the head. In the battle behind Simingshan Palace, Chen Wen personally led the team to charge against the artillery fire of the Hebiao Battalion. At the critical moment of the last artillery attack by the Qing army, if it weren't for the several long-time card players of the armored whistle to rush up to form a wall of humans, he would have been beaten into a sieve long ago, and this officer would have been among them.

Faced with these once loyal and brave soldiers, the words "Take them all out and behead them for public display" were always circling in Chen Wen's mouth, but he couldn't spit it out.

Taking a deep breath, Chen Wen called his personal soldiers to imprison these officers and deal with them after the rebellion was quelled. However...

"As a judge of the garrison army, you not only cannot safeguard military laws and regulations, but also supervise the officers and soldiers. He even led the crowd to abdicate his loyalty and nothing, and took them out to behead him and showed them to the public. His wife was in danger of being a slave in the government office, thinking that those who came later were warned!"

"Abide by the order!"

Despite the desperate begging for mercy by the judge of the garrison army, Chen Fugui, who had been promoted to the newly established cavalry captain of the guards, dragged the judge out and handed it over to the accompanying military judge to sanction the soldiers, and they were responsible for the execution and the command of the entire army.

The garrison judge was executed, and the depression in his chest relieved a lot. Then Chen Wen signaled a accompanying officer to come.

"Captain Ke, you have been in Tangxi County for more than half a year. The defense here must also know how to deploy and deal with it, huh?"

The captain Ke that Chen Wen mentioned was the officer who fled Longyou County a few days ago with nearly half of the garrison troops. He refused to rebel when the commander surrendered. In addition, the family of the infantry captain was not in the capital city, so Chen Wen promoted him to garrison without hesitation, and took the responsibility of defending Tangxi County, and guarded the rear of his rebel counterattack troops.

But just as Chen Wen was still trying to help this subordinate who was grateful, Zhang Jun walked in with a pale face and sent a torn notice and a military order with the same seal of the governor to Chen Wen. After Chen Wen looked at it, his heart immediately became angry.

The notice was the manifesto issued by Cao Conglong in the mansion to call on the soldiers, civilians and officials of Jinhua Prefecture to defeat Chen Wen, a treacherous person. It not only used the anti-order to rescue Zhoushan and refused to send troops to Taizhou to criticize Chen Wen for being unfaithful to the Lu Jianguo, but also used Lu Wenlong's speculation to publicize Chen Wen's despicable behavior of framed two military civil servants and the shocking conspiracy behind this.

Chen Wen was not surprised at all by Cao Conglong's attack on his character. The two sides had become hostile. It was normal for him to first defeat his opponent morally in the struggle between civil officials in the late Ming Dynasty. Moreover, this kind of thing not only exists in history books. He has also read too many of it on the Internet in later generations, and it is not surprising at all. At this time, what really made him angry was the military order issued by Cao Conglong.

In the struggle for power, both sides do everything they can to do, which is understandable. Cao Conglong robbed his power to command troops and abolished all his previous new policies and efforts. These will inevitably appear, but the appointment of local gentry to form a group training completely broke through each other's bottom line. This method of hurting others and hurting oneself first obviously had no plans for the future. It can even be said that Cao Conglong obviously had no intention of staying in Jinhua Palace from the beginning, so he simply turned it into a mud to drag him back to the Qing army who could return at any time, or to break into Jinhua Palace.

unless……

Chen Wen didn't know that Cao Conglong hadn't thought of it, but no matter what, it was like Pandora's box, and once it was opened, there was no possibility of stopping.

The scale of this rebellion may not be as he imagined when he was in Quzhou. It would be impossible to quell the rebellion by quickly attacking Cao Conglong. Since the two Qing troops in Quzhou completed the convergence, the main force of the army that went on the expedition could only stay in Longyou County to defend; Hangzhou stationed the Eight Banners to move south, but since it has not appeared in Jinhua Prefecture, it is obvious that it has not yet broken through the defense line of Anhua Town. However, how long can it last today when there is a rebellion inside is unknown.

From the beginning of the rebellion, Chen Wen decided to return to the army quickly to quell the rebellion, eliminate the number of rebels that would not be too many so that he could continue to move westward to Quzhou, thereby eliminating the threat from the Western Front. Today, the first step was to blitzkrieg attack on Tangxi County.

However, Cao Conglong called on the people to form a group training and allowed the group training to requisition wasteland to completely ignite the entire Jinhua Mansion. Chen Wen knew the faces of those gentry. As long as he had any mistakes, he would be trapped in the quagmire without pulling it out.

There is really no time this time. Those regiments must quell the rebellion before they train according to Qi Jiguang's military books to have the opportunity to restore the original order. Otherwise, what they get back will be a dangerous place full of dangers.

Thinking of this, Chen Wen immediately recruited his entourage to continue assigning tasks, and then he took his personal soldiers and guards out of the city to chase the advancing army.

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At night, the Zhejiang Governor's Office in the Ming Dynasty, located in Jiufang Lane, Jinhua City, had already started to put on the lights. At this time, because Tangxi County lit the beacon in the early morning, Cao Conglong, who was probably thinking that Chen Wen had returned to quell the rebellion, had to summon all the generals under his command to discuss matters.

In the past half a month, the defenders of the five counties of Tangxi, Lanxi, Wuyi, Yongkang and Jinyun were forced to surrender to him. Even the chief general of the largest garrison, Liu Cheng, the guerrilla of Dongyang County, told his representative Lu Wenlong that he would follow Cao Conglong's order and then march eastward after the army gathered.

The base of the Ming Army in Jinhua has only nine counties except for the newly recovered Longyou County of Quzhou Prefecture. At present, only the garrisons of Yiwu and Pujiang counties are still suffocating the power of Yin Yue, the stubborn regiment general.

But Cao Conglong really had no choice but to that guy. His family disappeared from his hometown in Dongyang County for no reason. The messenger sent him even brought him back. If he refused to return the family members of his officers and maintained military supplies, he would lead the Ming army on the northern front to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and put the Qing army in Hangzhou garrisoned Eight Banners and other departments that had gathered in Zhuji to go south.

It would be fine if it was just like this. The escape broke out in Tangxi at the beginning of the rebellion caused Ni Liangxu, who was sent to take over the authority, to give up his plan to transfer the garrison back to the Fucheng, so that only the garrisons from the three counties, Lanxi, Wuyi and Jinyun, returned to the Fucheng and joined the Fubiao camp.

As for Yongkang County, it was rumored that the newly formed regiment trained troops to attack the military households of Yongkang County's garrison, which caused the division of the garrison. It had announced that it would surrender to Cao Conglong's garrison and his deputy each led a garrison to confront the city. Even the officials of the county government were controlled. In addition to sporadic news, the entire Yongkang County town had completely escaped from his control.

The situation in Yongkang County was out of control, which made him very uncomfortable. He could only squeeze out some military supplies to continue dragging the matter in Yiwu. At least before he sent troops to Taizhou, the general must prevent the Eight Banners Army from being in a hot head.

But now, except for the garrisons of the three counties in Fubiao Youying, commander Yang Can, the commander of the Jinyiwei, as the deputy general, Cao Conglong only had Ding Zhuang, who was forced to recruit in Jinhua County, and prisoners who were brought out from the prisons of each county to be exiled. These people together exceeded 2,000, but according to Zhou Qingui, He Decheng, Ni Liangxu, and his confidant Yang Can and other military officers, even if they copied Chen Wen's training methods, it would not be possible to reach the level of a large army. As for why, they couldn't understand.

Cao Conglong had seen the military exercises. Even if he had only read "The Art of War" and had never handled military affairs, he could see that this Fubiao battalion would not be an opponent of the local Qing army even if it attacked Taizhou. He did not even have this confidence, let alone other people.

Just as Chen Wen did not predict that there would be rebellions in the base area during his expedition to Quzhou, Cao Conglong, who was inexperienced, also did not expect that the plan to seize power and regain Taizhou to welcome the Lu Jianguo Group to land would have so many unexpected situations. However, there was only one way to get the deviated trajectory back to what he expected, that was to spend more time to train the army for the generals under his command.

However, the victim of the rebellion triggered by Cao Conglong, his colleague, Linhai Boss Chen Wen, who was enthroned by the Lu Jianguo, did not leave him this time. The army to suppress the rebellion had appeared in Tangxi County. Although the generals thought that there would not be too many, it was still a question of how long it could last.

However, the shock brought by Chen Wen today is far from over. Just as Cao Conglong and his generals were arguing over whether to send troops to rescue Tangxi County, Cao Conglong's confidant Lu Wenlong rushed into the lobby of the meeting.
Chapter completed!