The soldiers under his command were cleaning the battlefield. Chen Wen, the remnants who were fleeing upstream, sent cavalry to chase and kill, and the battle mission had been completed.

He Decheng died in the chaos. Amid the cheers of mountains and tsunamis, Cao Conglong and other large and small leaders of the captured rebels were locked in prison vans, and the captives were tied with their hands behind their backs, one by one, and one by the rope, and escorted by the Ming army. As for Cao Conglong's most important assistant to the rebellion, Lu Wenlong's rank was sent to Chen Wenjun the day before yesterday with Liu Cheng's messenger. The time when he received the letter with Cao Conglong was probably right.

In the letter sent the day before yesterday, Liu Cheng detailed the information brought to him by Lu Wenlong one by one, and also explained his plan to set up a counterattack. From the beginning, Cao Conglong had no chance of winning, but he just didn't know at all!

However, Chen Wen could not let go of Liu Cheng, even if Lu Wenlong's level had been sent to him. Therefore, from the very beginning, he used his own strength to fight the rebels, and even kept the cavalry in his hands and refused to release them to completely crush the rebels, in order to prevent Liu Cheng from conspiring to him.

After Liu Cheng handed over the seal, Chen Wen exchanged the two posts in the garrison with the troops he brought to suppress the rebellion in equal quantities, and appointed another officer to temporarily act as the garrison general of Dongyang County, and then led his army to Dongyang County.

The officer was from Taizhou like Liu Cheng, and was also one of the earliest captains of the old Nantang camp armored post. One was the third Yuanyang formation killer team, and the other was the fourth Yuanyang formation killer team. This officer relied on his qualifications, was stable and brave in his combat, and had been slowly promoted in the town's direct camp. He was appointed as a guerrilla general until now, responsible for the defense of a county, and was far from the smooth sailing of Liu Cheng's jumping promotion.

Is it because people are not satisfied with their hearts or is it really forced to swallow an elephant? Chen Wen is not sure yet, but there are quite a few officers who were forced to abdicate this time. Since he had pardoned the three generals in the city and had just seized military power, he would not have to rush to do anything before he figured out what Liu Cheng was doing, especially since he might have to continue to use these garrisons who had abdicated against him, and he could not make the morale of the army unstable for Liu Cheng.

However, this knot has been created in Chen Wen's mind. Even if it was proved in the future that Liu Cheng had no choice, he did not plan to let the officer lead the troops independently. He would be most relieved to be transferred back to the old camp to be a training officer and freeze it.

With the understanding of the rebellion process, Chen Wen realized that it was not possible based on military judges and prestige alone. The leadership structure of the one-yuan system was absolutely undesirable. It was necessary to set up a military supervisor in the army. It was best to popularize the chief of staff system and divide the rights so that these officers could form a mutually restrictive system. Only in this way could the army always be in control and minimize the possibility of rebellion.

The details of these matters need to be considered and prepared before they can be carried out in the military. It is best if the war is temporarily suspended. Otherwise, if the war is not done well while carrying out institutional reforms, the army will be destroyed.

With this thought, Chen Wen returned to Dongyang County. The civil servants in the county had long been controlled by Liu Cheng, and even their families were no exception. It was necessary to make a show to stabilize the people's hearts, but it was not now, because there are more important things to be clarified now, and one of them was related to the most important warehouses in Yushan Town.

"Bring people up, hurry!"

After hearing Chen Wen's order, Zhang Jun hurriedly took an officer from the Dongyang County garrison to pick up people. When Zhang Jun led a few soldiers to Chen Wen's headquarters with a Qing army, he had already figured out the general situation from Liu Cheng's mouth.

After Cao Conglong rebelled, he began to transport the warehouses hoarded in the Fucheng to Yushan Town, mainly food, military weapons and silver. Almost all these things were obtained by Chen Wen after he came to Jinhua Prefecture through seizure, donation, loans and summer taxes that had already begun when he went to Jinhua Prefecture. It was the foundation for his support. Cao Conglong transported these to Yushan Town in order to attack Taizhou and as the starting funds for the Lujianguo Group to return to Zhejiang.

The troops and horses were ready before they moved their food and grass. Anyone who led their troops to fight a war was very clear. So after accepting the appointment of Fubiao Battalion, Liu Cheng sent two infantry teams of sentries to Yushan Town to guard the warehouse until the late night five days ago.

Several soldiers brought by Zhang Jun were burnt to pieces by fire, and the cold weapons on their bodies were simply bandaged. As for the Qing army, they not only had their noses and faces bruised, but also obviously were tortured. When they were lifted, they were almost unable to stand firm.

"I don't have that much patience and say everything you know, otherwise what I had before was just an appetizer!"

Hearing Chen Wen's angry shout, the Qing army shivered like dead leaves in the wind. While kowtowing, he said that he would know everything.

"The villain is a soldier under the command of the Ma Qian's General Team of the Left Camp in the Green Camp in Taizhou. Half a month ago, Ma Dashui ordered the Zuoying to be transferred to Tiantai County for defense. Eight days ago, Ma Dashui suddenly arrived and ordered Zuoying to sneak out of the county town with dry food that night..."

After leaving Tiantai County, the Qing army passed through Jianshan Town and headed straight for Yushan Town. On the night of arrival, it launched a raid. Yushan Town had only two posts and two hundred troops. Although the Taizhou Green Camp, which was marching quickly, was exhausted, had nearly a thousand troops, and all the cavalry were dispatched. Yushan Town was attacked and the garrison hurriedly resisted, but the Qing army had too great military strength, and the target was not just them. While attacking the garrison, it raided the warehouse and burned it. The soldiers escaped by chance and captured the Qing army who had gone in the wrong direction at night.

"Bi Zi and others were ordered to station in Yushan Town to guard the warehouse. Five days ago, the Tatars in Taizhou suddenly attacked us. Everyone was summarizing the chaos and didn't know how many people the Tatars had come, so they stood up and fought on their own. Until the Tartars who rushed into the warehouse ignited the warehouse, the fire spread quickly. We were powerless and had to break out and leave this life to report the matter to the commander."

Ma Xin came straight to Yushan Town. It was absolutely not easy to think about how that guy got the information. Because after hearing all this, he felt that everything in front of him was spinning, and it took a long time to recover.

The military expenditure is huge, only one military pay, each soldier is one tael or five cents, and the army has a strength of more than 9,000 people. If it is a fraction of the money, it will cost 13,500 taels of silver in a month. If it is not considered as the bonus for the New Year, it will be 162,000 taels a year. Among them, the military pay of officers is even higher. In fact, it is said that the doubling of the sum will be mentioned in the minority.

This is just a folded color, and the true color must be calculated separately!

In addition, horses, weapons, gunpowder, armor, covers, other pieces and consumption, plus ships, vehicles for marching and combat, as well as large and small fortresses and military camps built, the cost is astronomical. Moreover, the army is now fighting against the Qing army on the two fronts of Anhua Town, Shaoxing Prefecture and Longyou County, Quzhou Prefecture, which is even more costly.

If the administrative expenses of Jinhua Mansion were included, if Chen Wenli had not practiced the "major loan after the disaster", this army would not have been able to support the summer tax. As for the future, Chen Wen's original plan was to take over Quzhou, which was no longer as broken Jinhua Mansion in the massacre, plunder and war. Quzhou is also located on the Jinqu Basin, with no shortage of land and soil. In addition, the prosperity of commerce is naturally far superior to it. It would be more than enough to supply such a large army.

But now, not only if Quzhou has not been taken down, the warehouses in Yushan Town are gone. Calculated from the accounts of the Governor's Yamen and the warehouses of the city, the number of warehouses in Yushan Town is extremely large, especially the large amount of aftermath loans and summer taxes are almost all included. Without these, Chen Wen is afraid that he will not even afford the military pay this month, let alone continue to recover the lost land.

As for Ma Jinbao's Guanbao seized in Longyou County, although it was not without a small amount of money, "a cannon will cause ten thousand taels of gold", especially among them, there is only silver and jewelry, not even a grain of food. Now it is a chaotic world, and food cannot be bought by wanting to buy it. If the army has no grain, it will be scattered. For a large army with nearly ten thousand soldiers and officials and is still in a state of war, it is hard to say how long it can last.

As for the urgent need for reforms, military expansion, training, rewards, and land distribution in the plan, the more they need to start and continue, the more they need to start and continue. The more they think of these, Chen Wen feels difficulty breathing, as if he falls into the water and cannot extricate himself.

After asking the details of each of the two schools again, Chen Wencai asked these people to go down and specifically asked Zhang Jun to take care of them to prevent the news from leaking. But the matter had already happened, and the burning of the warehouse was a problem, and there was another problem. Because of the terrain, he always ignored the threat of the Qing army in Taizhou. Now Ma Xin burned the warehouse in Yushan Town, and the threat of this army was already in front of him.

Chen Wen recalculated. If Ma Xin came just with that battalion, his army in Dongyang County would be enough to deal with it. But if there were more, such as if Ma Xin brought the entire army of the Taizhou Green Camp, he would have to transfer the main force of the counter-rebel army led by Chen Guobao to defeat him.

The terrain of Jinhua Palace made Chen Wen face the dilemma of fighting on both sides, which is a taboo in military strategists. If there were no bastions, he could only hide in Jinhua and was unable to attack Quzhou at all. But if one blow was not achieved next, the war would be stalemate, and then the battle on the third line would be defeated.

Thank God, these soldiers lucky enough to capture a Taizhou Qing army and obtained a little information from it, but the information is far from enough. We must figure out the movements of the Taizhou Qing army as soon as possible!

A large number of rattlers were sent, but they were not worried about the matter of interrogating Cao Conglong and Dongyang County civil servants, because another news brought by Liu Cheng was that the Xinchang Bo Yu Guowang was no longer able to do it.

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After being defeated by the Qing army in Linhai County, Taizhou City last year, Yu Guowang came to Jinhua to meet with Chen Wen under Wang Jiang's persuasion. Yu Guowang's people did come, but the old brothers who died in Taizhou, which was too great to deal with him. He fell ill soon after his depression, and the doctor could only prescribe some warm medicine. After all, heart disease is difficult to cure.

During this period, Chen Wen sent someone to send a letter to Yu Guowang, hoping that he would come to Fucheng to live. The medical conditions there are more convenient, and Fucheng is recovering every day. See more, it should have better treatment effects for such heart diseases. However, Yu Guowang is unwilling.

"This place is closer to Tiantai Mountain and closer to Linhai County..."

A person from Xinchang County, Shaoxing Prefecture wrote these in his trembling handwriting. Chen Wen knew very well what this was for, but he had no other way to go. He could only hope for Yu Guowang himself after hiring a few doctors with better medical skills to take care of him.

When Chen Wen arrived at the Yu family, Yu Guowang's son had already been driven out to greet him.

According to him, in the past few months, Yu Guowang's health was getting worse and worse. Later, he even ate very little food. He just took some porridge every day. Until Chen Wen captured Longyou County and the news of capturing Ma Jinbao alive came, Yu Guowang was happy and not only could he eat more food, but his condition was relieved. However, a few days later, Cao Conglong rebelled. Yu Guowang was shocked and angry and vomited blood, and fell completely ill in bed. These days, he was just relying on medicine to support him, otherwise he would have gone long ago.

Since the exclusion in Siming Mountain led to a crushing defeat, Chen Wen has found it difficult to believe in other forces, but Yu Guowang is an exception.

Yu Guowang was generous and had the style of an elder. He would rather suffer losses than help others. On Tiantai Mountain, Yu Guowang helped many remnants of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain who were in trouble at that time. When Chen Wen resisted the order, he even left Taizhou to regain Jinhua Prefecture regardless of his intention. Although Yu Guowang was dissatisfied, Chen Wen's plan was indeed in line with the principle of avoiding the real and turning the false. So he bluffed in Taizhou, causing Ma Jinbao to ignore the situation of his old nest. When the army was defeated in Taizhou, he came to Jinhua. Chen Wen faced the advantageous Qing army's encirclement and suppression. Yu Guowang was sad and gave his subordinates to Chen Wen without hesitation, just to help him. He moved into the resettlement camp in Dongyang County, without asking for anything because the subordinates handed over to Chen Wen.

Chen Wen remembered these things very clearly, but now Yu Guowang's body is no longer good. When Chen Wen stepped into the ward and saw Yu Guowang with his own eyes, he looked like he was exhausted.

Perhaps, today is the day when I can’t bear to say anything.

"Brother Yu, I'm back. I've completely wiped out the rebels. The Tartars are also huddled in Quzhou and dare not attack. The king's army is still in an advantage on the battlefield in Zhejiang, so there is no need to worry. Take good care of the disease first, and I'll have more points to borrow in the future."

Seeing clearly that it was Chen Wen, Yu Guowang's gray face suddenly began to turn red. He struggled and even planned to sit up and talk to Chen Wen. However, when Yu Guowang was forced to sit up by his son, he said something Chen Wen never expected.
Chapter completed!