On the second day, the Ming army in Jinhua did not face the city as Cao Conglong and others expected, but the cavalry of the Ming army, which was absolutely superior, began to drive out the Fubiao camp sentry west and north of Jinhua Fucheng. If we included the small-scale water camp detachment that began to cruise on the Dongyang River, the entire city could be called safe only on the east side.

The three sieges are missing one, which is the most normal trick when siegeing the city. Leaving a retreat is to prevent the defenders from resisting to the death, but the gap left is often not a truly safe place. There are often ambushes waiting for the appearance of those stray dogs who escaped from the city.

In the afternoon, a general with a helmet-fitting armor appeared in the west city wall under the escort of cavalry to observe the city defense, which caused a surprise. It was only after the guard who had seen Chen Wen that he knew that the general of the Ming army outside the city was not Chen Wen, but a general of Chen Wen. Chen Guobao, who had commanded Liu Yiming's left and right battalion of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain, made the defenders falsely shocked.

However, with the tight closing of the city gates, the hearts of the various battalions and civil officials involved in the rebellion tense up, the news of Chen Wen's return to quell the rebellion spread throughout the city like the wind, and it aroused a whisper like throwing a stone into the water. Among them, there were also many fantasy jokes about Grandpa Yue bringing the Beiwei Army back to clear the king and killing Qin Hui.

Cao Conglong was not unaware of these things. He had previously been in a state of being able to clear up grievances as long as he welcomed the Lu Supervisor to land. Now he has no time to think about it. All his limited energy is spent on letting civil servants in various yamen in the city organize civil servants, create guards, and ordering the generals under his command to strictly guard the city defense and control the soldiers.

After one day, the Jinhua Ming army outside the city did not show any attempt to attack the city. It was just that Chen Guobao appeared outside the west wall. After studying it, Cao Conglong and his generals also felt that it must be Chen Wen's attack direction, so they also increased their defense forces on the side of the west wall.

In this way, the Ming army of Jinhua outside the city did not attack the city, and the Fubiao camp in the city did not dare to leave the city and find it uncomfortable. The day passed in a simple way. For a whole night, except for Cao Conglong personally to the west wall, only a section of the city wall in the northeast was extinguished for a moment at the second update, and then it was reignited. There was almost no difference between the rest and on weekdays.

On the ninth day of the sixth month of the year of Yongli, after a day of rest and preparation, the rebellion suppression troops of the Ming army from Jinhua appeared outside Tongyuan Gate, southwest of Jinhua City.

When the Ming army's light cavalry appeared in the distance, the defenders in charge of the western city hurriedly reported to the upper level until the Ming army completed the array under the city and began to continue to prepare behind the formation. The news also reached the Governor's Office.

The news of Chen Wen's return to the army doubled Cao Conglong's pressure. He tossed and turned all night the night before yesterday. When the sound of dawn came, he had just fallen asleep, and even more so yesterday. He even barely fell asleep until it was dawn.

After less than an hour of rest, he could no longer sleep, so he had to get up to check the city defense and evacuation preparations. He had just remembered to eat something. But at this moment, news that the rebels approached the city came, and then there was also news that Chen Wen invited Cao Conglong to the West City Wall for a while.

Chen Wen's threat was too great, and he didn't care about the food he had already delivered to his mouth. Cao Conglong hurriedly took Congren from the governor's yamen and rushed to Tongyuan Gate, always trying to figure out what Chen Wen was planning.

Jiufang Lane, where the Zhejiang Governor's Yamen is located, is located in the original sub-city of Jinhua Mansion, and is located in the southwest of the entire Jinhua Mansion City. It is not far from the east city in the east. Jinhua Mansion City is long from east to west and short from north to south. Cao Conglong and others took a carriage out of the Governor's Yamen and headed west along the avenue, until the west city in the west to turn south.

Jinhua Fucheng is located at a critical moment. It was originally a prosperous place. There are many places in the city where cities are changing, such as counties, cities, east cities, west cities, south cities, north cities, and Xixia street markets. If it weren't for the massacre a few years ago and the subsequent levy of Ma Jinbao, the population of Jinhua Fucheng could not be restored after the sharp decline, Cao Conglong and his party wanted to pass here quickly and simply dreamed.

I saw the soldiers who were guarding the city. A few scattered stalls and vendors on the streets were scattered in the western city who were busy cleaning up their lives. The limited and open shops were closed one after another. Even the people who rushed to buy more necessities to deal with the siege hurriedly hid in the alleys, which was even more responsive than catching up with the urban management.

The troops stationed in the city are not the Jinhua Ming army, which is known for its strict military discipline, but the Master who sent Fubiao camp to the countryside after Cao Conglong discovered the difficulties in recruiting troops. Many of them were prisoners in prisons in various counties.

Most of the prisoners were rogues from various counties. Not long ago, the Ming army went to the expedition to stabilize the yamen runners from various counties to clean up the county town and its surrounding areas. Then, these social security instability factors that were originally locked up for a few days and could be released when the war ended, Cao Conglong wrote a big pen and went straight to serve as a military officer with other criminals, which also supplemented a lot of the soldiers of the Fubiao battalion. However, these people were originally oppressed and kind people in the city. With those criminals, they were even more taboos after putting on this military uniform. Even the Master who was forced to recruit was quite a bit of bad.

In just one month, the reputation of Fubiao Camp has become a mess in Jinhua City. Those soldiers did not sell much strength during training. When the training ended, they enjoyed bullying the people in the city, teasing the people, causing trouble while drunk, beating pedestrians, blackmailing merchants and other things happened almost every day. Even some Fubiao Camp officers were involved in it openly and secretly.

Cao Conglong was not unaware of these things, but he could not do the things that were serious about military discipline. The main reason was that he still needed these soldiers to attack Taizhou, and these soldiers themselves were forced to recruit, so it was not necessary to be too strict to avoid inciting mutiny and escaping.
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