Chen Wen didn't know that he had been included in the grand strategy of "Three Games of the Rouge" that ran through the Yongli Dynasty, and even if he knew, it would be useless.

On the current southeast battlefield, only he and Zheng Chenggong were left in the large-scale Ming army with a complete logistics system, and some were small, such as Zhang Zisheng from Jiangxi, the remnants of the Lu Jian Kingdom who lived under Zheng Chenggong's disciples, Hao Shangjiu, the general of Chaozhou who could rise up and fight against the Qing Dynasty at any time, and the remnants of the Guangdong Ming army from Gao Lei Lianqiong's four prefectures that were close to the southwest battlefield, and so on.

Although most of these troops who can occupy a place in Chen Wen's memory are not bandits, they are either incomplete systems or have a stable logistics base, which cannot support long-term operations at all, and are not enough to complete the military operation to recover lost territory alone. The two largest Ming troops, he and Zheng Chenggong, have no chance to join forces at all, and can only influence each other indirectly for the time being.

In fact, even if he could join forces, Chen Wen couldn't believe Zheng Chenggong. After all, there was an example of Li Dingguo's two expeditions to Guangdong. Zheng Chenggong attached more importance to his own strength development and believed that his own ability was enough to revive the Ming Dynasty and had a low level of trust in other forces. This is actually very similar to Chen Wen, who has been repeatedly excluded and betrayed for two years. These two guys who lack basic trust in other forces cannot get together. Unless they have enough common interests, it is absolutely impossible.

However, this does not affect Chen Wen's hospitality with Zheng Chenggong's envoy. It is beneficial for both sides to establish a mechanism for mutual communication in intelligence. There are resources that can be used for complementary purposes between them. However, Chen Wen cannot obtain an outlet for the sea now, otherwise both sides can enhance their strength at a faster speed.

Unfortunately, Zhangzhou was not captured by Zheng Chenggong when the envoy set out, and Chen Wen was not easy to estimate the optimistic attitude of the envoy, because in history, Zheng Chenggong did not capture Zhangzhou at all. Instead, he was defeated by the Han Eight Banners Army led by Jin Li and Yang Minggao's Fujian Admiral Battalion next month, and was forced to retreat to Haicheng. It was not until the Battle of Haicheng the next year that Zheng Cheng defeated Jin Li and found the place again and gained the possibility of pretending to discuss peace with the Qing Dynasty and accumulating strength.

But now everything is different. Chen Wen blocked Jin Li in Zhuji with a bastion, and Zheng Chenggong also recovered Zhangzhou in advance, which was completely desperate because he could never see reinforcements. However, Chen Jin unexpectedly lived to August. The Southeast battlefield is no longer the Southeast battlefield in history, and no one knows what will happen next.

Using the information brought by Zheng Chenggong's envoy, Chen Wen completed the situation in the Qing army in Fujian and the southwest battlefield. The rough direction was almost the same as in his memory, but he benefited a lot from the details.

However, since the rebellion, Chen Wen has always relied on his memories and some intelligence collected from other anti-Qing people and his subordinates who were specially sent out, and has not established a complete intelligence system. As a result, Chen Wen saved a large amount of start-up funds in the early stage to improve the combat effectiveness of the army. However, as history began to deviate, the disadvantages gradually emerged.

Especially in this Cao Conglong Rebellion, he asked the amateur intelligence personnel sent by Zhang Jun who only knew how to obey orders to guard Cao Conglong as he ordered, but missed opponents within the system that were truly powerful to pose a threat. As a result, the sudden rebellion completely disrupted his plan.

After learning from his mistakes, Chen Wen decided to form an intelligence agency specifically responsible for him. The officers who had performed special combat missions in Tiantai County and Dongyang County and some selected personnel were divided into several teams, and he and several intelligence personnel who had sneaked into Quzhou several months ago to collect intelligence. These people will lurk in the future and collect intelligence from all over the country.

As for the responsible chief officer, Chen Wen has not yet found a suitable candidate. Bai Jinghe, who had collected information on the Qing army's military in Quzhou, was good at performing latent tasks and had the ability to analyze intelligence, but Chen Wen never knew enough about his background.

This young man claimed to be a Shutong and joined the Ming army who wanted to avenge his master's family. However, as far as Chen Wen knew, many Shutongs in the Ming Dynasty were the master's children. If we think about the vast majority of the officers who came to Jinhua from Tiantai Mountain today, except for most of the senior officers who have not found a partner who matched the identity, the rest are only some special circumstances, but this person is always alone. Is it a problem with sexual orientation or something else that is unspeakable? The concealment he had when he first went to Tiantai Mountain made Chen Wen always have a trace of distrust of him.

An intelligence system that uses passwords to communicate with one-line should be established as soon as possible. However, for Chen Wen, who believes that as long as you can settle things with money, Ma Jinbao's Guanzhang and the gold and silver that were raided from the house some time ago can quickly make a way out. As for the others, you can observe them for a while.

However, according to observations during this period, there are indeed some gentry and wealthy families in Jinhua Mansion who have secretly communicated with the outside world. Chen Wen is not sure which aspect of their affair is. Fortunately, these people are not able to collect more confidential information for the time being. He plans to leave it alone for the time being, and then find out which forces they are serving, and then use them to convey some false information as appropriate, perhaps better than directly slaughtering them.

In the past two months, the division of soldiers of the soldiers in the barracks and the soldiers of the troops stationed in each county has been announced, and the preparations for the replenishment of troops has continued.

The third battalion of the war soldiers and the garrisons of the nine counties were divided into land according to the military fields and military merit fields. Some officers and veterans who were originally single were assigned to the land and settled the marriage matters during the limited holidays.

For this reason, Chen Wen also specially added three days of marriage leave to his married subordinates, which was regarded as a huge moral policy by these officers and soldiers. However, in Chen Wen's era, not only marriage leave, maternity leave, but also paternity leave and one day less were inevitably stung by others in the back.

Unlike the military barracks and garrisons, most of the officers and soldiers who have made military achievements, and the least of them participated in the Battle of Xiaoshun Town in the past year. In addition to ten acres of military fields, they can also get military fields of large or small. All the soldiers were recruited after the recovery of Jinhua Mansion last year. A few lucky ones were replenished into the military barracks and garrisons. Most of the others would rent some land that other military barracks and garrisons could not cultivate after being assigned to military rent fields to supplement their family income.

Half a month ago, the rebels captured by the Baitou Army of Luo Chengyan also completed labor service, and Chen Wen replaced these people in preparation for military replenishment. They would participate in training and assist in military operations during the slack season. This was the agreement between him and Zhou Qingui.

As for Ni Liangxu, after a period of self-destruction, he recently learned that Chen Wen did not continue to make things difficult for the survivors of Luo Chengyan Baitou Army, and also allocated land to them. He also expressed his willingness to follow him to the death. Finally, Chen Wen threw him into the martial arts school to go to school. The soldiers were fierce and dangerous. A rebel leader came from a big name and didn't know a single one. He even knew how to set up the formation and change the formation. If he didn't learn the art of war, how dare he use him to fight.

However, with the formation of the military town garrison, which occupied more than 300,000 mu of land and was even further expanded, time became increasingly urgent.

The northern line was set to be on the defensive, so Chen Wen only ordered the renovation of the Anhua Town Fortress and added some new defensive facilities to wait for Jin Li's Hangzhou to garrison the Eight Banners. In the past two months, the probing of the Ming and Qing armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties to test each other on the line of Dingyangxi-Lingxi, and the small-scale battle never stopped.

Most of the cavalry of the Qing army had been in the army for many years, and were more skilled in cavalry and martial arts than the Ming army; while the Ming army won the training of Qi Jiguang's horse camp, charging with troops or teams, and each time it was more and less. After the Qing army hit a few nails, they had to give up the attempt to eliminate the Ming army's horse exploration. Although the Ming army did not suffer any losses, the formation maintained the formation and charge, so they had to sacrifice a certain speed. It was very difficult to catch up with the Qing army. In short, on the battlefield in Quzhou, no one in the Ming and Qing armies could do anything to each other and had to not interfere with each other, so they could not hide any large-scale movements of the other party.

It is now the end of August, and the Qing army's mobilization began to become frequent, and the dispatch of horses became increasingly dense. On Chen Wen's side, he did not plan to continue waiting. Kong Youde died in Guilin as scheduled. Even though the news about Huang Zongxi and Qian Qianyi is far from being delivered, Chen Wen can estimate that the Qing army's defense and mobilization will be affected by deduction.

Since Chen Jin seemed a little impatient, although he didn't know why, he couldn't wait any longer. So, when Chen Wen got the news that the Qing army began to try to forcibly expel the Ming army's probe and provide an intelligence barrier for Dingyangxi behind him, he returned to Longyou County, where heavy troops were gathering, and prepared to fight Chen Jin.

He was not sure whether the Qing army's strength had grown or not. After this period of re-mobilization, Chen Wen's command not only had two war barracks in Nantang, Yiwu and half of the Dongyang battalion, and Chen Guobao's direct troops, but also completed the return of the troops. In addition, he also used the methods of changing defenses and increasing troops to transfer four infantry bureaus of the killer teams and the firearms teams. Although the combat effectiveness of this army would definitely be different from that of the combat barracks, Chen Wenben did not intend to let them undertake excessive combat tasks. Instead, most of them would be the reserve team of the army with the direct troops of the town, and the rest were the urban garrison troops in Longyou County.

In this way, since it seems that 6,000 to 10,000 to 10,000, it seems that it is not nice to 8,000 to 10,000. We must see if Quzhou is surnamed Ming or Qing!

On the fourth day of the ninth month of the sixth year of Yongli, the day before, Chen Wen got the news that Chen Jin had already crossed Dingyang Creek. There was a bastion in the northern line. Chen Wen also issued an order to build another bastion in Hulu Town, Dongyang County more than a month ago. Without any worries, Chen Wen made an oath to go on a war in Longyou County today.

Outside the city of Longyou County, the eight thousand Jin Hua Ming army from various troops were waiting for them to follow for only one or two years, but they gave a routine speech from the coach who had no defeat.

The time for departure was soon arrived. Chen Wen led his cavalry guards that had just been formed when he suppressed the rebellion slowly out of the city gate. Behind Chen Wen, who was still wearing the pair of mountain armor, the big flag written by "Returning My Rivers and Mountains" used when he was restoring Dongyang County, fluttering in the wind. Behind Chen Wen's two flags embroidered with "Linhai Bo Chen" and "Defending western Zhejiang and southern Zhejiang Military General Chen".

A team of iron cavalry in armor followed closely behind, and Chen Wen quickly rode his horse to the rammed earth platform that left him to inspire morale.

At first glance, the army was arranged in a bureau-like array like knife and axe chopping, and the unified military uniforms and flags gave them the same temperament. Further away, there were equally amazing numbers. The civilians collected from the Ming-controlled areas of Longyou County, Jinhua and Quzhou, and they would be responsible for all the labors of the army to fight.

There is a saying: There are more than ten thousand people, boundless.

The army that could not see the edge was divided into two large pieces, and the front line of each battalion was their command and agent command. Most of these people, as well as the main officers of each unit, began to follow his old subordinates from Siming Mountain or Tiantai Mountain.

The five hundred warriors who fought five times the Jiqing army in the southern part of Siming Mountain by themselves, only more than 300 people were left to this day. However, the seeds planted at that time have begun to take root and sprout. If we include the left-behind garrisons in various counties and the half of the Dongyang Camp responsible for the defense of the northern line, this army has expanded to an astonishingly more than 11,000 people!

The army of such a large scale has exceeded the scope that the dilapidated Jinhua Mansion can bear. If Chen Wen had not relied on loans, confiscated the property of the Qing army in Jinhua and the house search that was still underway not long ago, this army would have never been able to appear here.

However, the overdrawn of all resources, the reputation of benevolence, the reputation of benevolence, and the friendship between the rich and gentry, can only last for this year at most. Next year, the pressure of repayment, the discord on the southwest battlefield, and the variables that may occur in Fujian will all come to the face. At that time, I am afraid that there will be no need for the Qing Dynasty to send troops, and Chen Wen's army will collapse on its own.

The reason is very simple. If the army has no food, it will be dispersed!

As the head coach, Chen Wen knew very well, but at this moment, he knew even more that the nearly 10,000 troops in front of him did not need any doubt on his loyalty. They were willing to follow his orders to fight bloody battles, and they were already impatient for the upcoming battle.

"I have nothing to say. I killed Chen Jin's defeated general and restored Quzhou Prefecture. The land here belongs to us, not to those of the second Tartars who don't want their ancestors!"

After saying that, Chen Wen drew his long sword and pointed to the west, then rode his horse out, crossed the road between the two major arrays, and led the team to set off.

As Chen Wen rode his horse, every Ming army soldier burst into warm cheers. Land and soil are an important resource for the Chinese to regard as life. The system of military merits and land assigned to them by Chen Wen was to distribute land and soil to the officers and soldiers according to their military merits. From then on, as long as they fight bravely, they can get rewards for land and soil from the garrison, own their own land, become rich peasants, and even become landlords. According to the system of garrison modified by Chen Wen, their descendants will not always be military households, and they can even reproduce and live as civilian households after retirement.

As long as you fight bravely under the command of Linhai Bo Chen Wen and Chen, who is invincible and invincible, a happy life will come fairly to them. There is no longer cold, no longer hunger, no longer bullied, just obeying military orders and only bravery, that is enough.

Soon, Chen Wen passed most of the passage, and the Ming army beside him cheered. If the military discipline in daily life had not been invisibly bound their steps, he would have surrounded him on the spot. Of course, Zhang Yida was also among them.

Since joining the army in Dongyang County, Zhang Yida fought bravely in the battle of Xiaoshun Town. Although he was unable to stay in the war barracks, his days as a garrison in Dongyang County also made him feel unprecedented fulfillment and warmth, as if he was reborn.

It’s a pity that he had a short time in the army and had only participated in the Battle of Xiaoshun Town. He was still an archer in the back row. In addition to the military fields, he only received five acres of military merit fields. But even so, he still took leave and spent the accumulated military pay to move the graves of his grandparents and parents to his own land for a grand funeral.

The long-cherished wish was achieved. Although the family still had too little land and was not enough to pass on its descendants, according to the system set by Chen Wen, you can get military merits as long as you fight bravely, and military merits represent land and land!

"Grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, please bless the child to obtain more military merits and more land..."

Among the cheering crowd, Feng Biao had long lost the majesty of the officers he had always held, and cheered to his general with all his heart. Since joining the army in Dalan Town, he dreamed of becoming an officer. Now, he has done it, and he firmly believes that he will obtain higher official positions in the future, and even follow Chen Wenfeng to grant titles.

There are many officers with the same idea, not only Feng Biao, for example, Li Ruixin, the commander of Nantang Camp where he is, and a personal soldier of the former Duke of Jingguo Huang Degong, now he has now taken up the position of general officer. Although the personal interests he has obtained are far less than other senior officers who relied on exploiting soldiers and the people to gain wealth in this era, the vitality of this army and the extremely uncommon commander he is loyal to now make him firmly believe that only such an army can recover lost territory and avenge the late Ming general Huang Degong, whom he once regarded as an idol, and only with such an army, can he reunite with his long-lost family.

"Nantang Camp is the first camp established by the Grand Marshal. Keep up with the Grand Marshal and set off!"

The war drums were ringing, and Nantang Camp followed Chen Wen's cavalry one after another in units of sentries. Behind them, Yiwu Camp, Dongyang Camp, the town-level camp, and the infantry teams and civilians who were transferred from each county to change defense were followed closely, and took firm steps towards the direction where Chen Jinqi, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, was located.
Chapter completed!