While the war of war in Anhua Town was rising again, Quzhou Fucheng had already closed its doors again. The news of the defeat of the Qing army had already spread like wildfire as the Qing army's auxiliary soldiers who had escaped returned to the Fucheng, they had already spread like wildfire.

After receiving this news, all the people in the city hoped that the Ming army, which was said to be ten times as big as the Qing army, would be restored to Quzhou again. Not only to restore the Han family's hairstyles that had been for thousands of years, but more importantly, it was also more imminent that once the Qing army defended the city, the ordinary people in the city would suffer.

At this moment, the bustling merchants and pedestrians in the past were gone in the bustling city of Quzhou. The streets were as desolate as ghost towns that were overbuilt in later generations. Even Lixian Street, which is known as the flower street in Yintian on weekdays, is no exception. On the contrary, shops in various parts of the city welcomed the crowded men, women, young and old again after several months.

In the streets and alleys of Chaojing Gate, most of the small vendors who were used to entering the city to sell goods from Chaojing Gate were gone, leaving only a few unlucky guys who were locked up in the city who were greedy for the rich profits that were far beyond their usual days. Now they had to sell the goods in a hurry, hoping to save less money in this war.

In fact, they were only the smallest part of the crowd in this huge street market. The Qing army returned in a crushing defeat, and the Ming army was about to siege the city, and a large number of people from the city rushed to buy rice, grain and other daily necessities, especially food. After all, no one knew how long the siege would last.

In the Ming Dynasty, urban residents in the city during the Ming Dynasty were more accustomed to buying enough food every few days instead of hoarding them. However, once the army besieged the city, garrisoning more and less one bite may be the difference between life and death, so the grain shops were crowded with people coming to buy grain early.

Among the crowded crowd, a Confucian scholar named Rong Qian was queuing in the crowd with rice bags.

Although Rong is not a big surname, there are also records in "The Book of Confucius' Family Words" about Rong Qiqi, a famous scholar in the Spring and Autumn Period, discussing Taoism with Confucius. Like most celebrities with the surname, Rong Qian was also a scholar. He was a student from Yongzhou Prefecture in Huguang. He studied in Nanjing in his early years. Later, he returned to his hometown and was introduced by classmates to work in the shogunate of He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang.

At first, it was fine, but since the Qing army went south, Zuo Liangyu raised an internal strife, and He Tengjiao vigorously excluded the Zhongzhen Camp, supported the direct troops, and took up the local emperor in Huguang. Since then, the Ming army counterattacks on the Huguang battlefield several large-scale counterattacks, all because the main general was not He Tengjiao's direct line, or had a gap with He Tengjiao, and was frequently interfered by the Grand Secretary, who commanded the overall situation in Huguang, and even violent internal strife.

After several times of hard persuasion, he quit his job as a friend of mine. However, in the temple for a long time, Rong Qian knew that He Tengjiao was narrow-minded and had no tolerance, so he would probably be retaliated against when he resigned from his position as a mu. In addition, the situation in Huguang was chaotic, and both armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties were all scattered, so he simply left his family's property and went to his uncle's house who was doing business in Quzhou for the time being to avoid disaster, so he waited for the situation to stabilize before returning home.

However, after a few years of stable life, Chen Wen entered western Zhejiang, and this year he began to repeatedly compete with the Qing army for their Quzhou. Rongqian's uncle was not a big merchant. His business was quite unhappy in the war in western Zhejiang that had been around for nearly a year, and his family business shrank a lot. Naturally, his life was even more difficult for people like their family.

Holding a cloth bag containing rice, Rong Qian wanted to stand as much as possible, but she was embarrassed to be too close to several nearby women who also came to buy food. Fortunately, he came to queue up before dawn, and it was his turn after a while.

But just as he watched the woman in front of him buy rice and leave, he was about to hand over the rice bag, but he saw a friend of a grain store hanging up the sold-out brand and closing the store.

"Don't this little brother, do you still have food? Let's sell some more, and the family is still waiting to cook."

When the guy saw that he was a scholar and spoke politely, he whispered: "The shopkeeper has asked him to close the door. The scholar will come back tomorrow."

Before he finished speaking, Rong Qian and the people lined up behind him were even allowed to speak, he heard an angry shout from the shop, "Stop talking nonsense, close the door quickly." The guy hurriedly installed the door panel of the shop with a few other workers who rushed over.

A moment later, all the people who were knocking on the door panel to vent their resentment were dispersed. Although Rong Qian didn't understand such things, he had never seen them for a long time. However, in the past few years, he lived here in He Tengjiao's curtain and living here, and his life had been worn away a lot of his aura. Now that he knew everything inside, he had to turn around and leave, sending his wife who also came out to buy food in other street markets, so that his younger sister could gain something.

"If it really doesn't work, just go to my uncle's house with thick face and borrow some. As for the matter of going to the county government to do things for the Tartars, the Ming army is about to siege the city, and I guess my aunt may not dare to mention it."

After sighing, Rong Qian hurriedly rushed home. At the same time, the owner behind the grain shop where Rong Qian had just bought grain nodded from the back door of the Governor's Mansion and walked out until the servants of the Governor's Mansion closed the door before they got into the sedan chair.

The Zhejiang-Fu Governor's Office was completely busy, but in Li Zhifang's view, he always felt that this scene was very familiar, just like the scene when Chen Wen captured the left-behind general of Jinhua Mansion and the prefect of Jinhua last year. His colleagues were also busy at that time, but there was no way. The inside was still busy for the wealth at home.

After the war yesterday, Chen Jin knew that it was irretrievable, so he fled back to the city with his aides. Before going to the war, Li Zhifang watched with his own eyes how Chen Jin's eyes gradually changed from the grief from failure to the madness that destroyed everything.

He thought about escaping, but as a Confucian scholar who was powerless, if he escaped, what would he do? Instead of returning to his hometown to die at the hands of cruel officials, he would not give up in this way.

"If the army is built, the court will not give up on Quzhou, nor will it be possible to sit idly by and watch the rebel Chen Wen become bigger. I believe that the real Manchu will be sent to help the suppression soon. As long as you can defend Quzhou and restrain the rioters here for a period of time, the court will definitely be sympathetic to the elders."

Hearing Li Zhifang's consolation, Chen Jin, who was already like a madman in the past two days, seemed to have suddenly become ten years older. After sighing, he signaled to obey Li Zhifang's persuasion, continue to maintain the Qing Dynasty's rule in Quzhou Prefecture City, and personally preside over the city defense.

Seeing Li Zhifang's back fading away, Chen Jin's family knew about his own affairs. With such a big defeat, the cruelty of the Qing Dynasty would never be spared easily, and it would be appropriate to implicate his family.

Just like his old subordinate dismissed Ma Jinbao, it was said that when the army suppressed the rebellion, he executed the gentleman Lingchi and cut him into pieces. He also knew very well that Ma Jinbao's family who stayed in the capital was also punished for his rebellion. All the males were executed, and the female family sent Ningguta to the armored man as slaves. To put it bluntly, it means that they had to engage in labor and also serve as a tool for the armored man to vent. Although Chen Jin had no son and only adopted an adopted son, he did not want to fall into his family for such an ending.

In fact, without Li Zhifang's persuasion, he had already seen everything clearly. If he fled to other occupied areas of the Qing army, he would definitely be imprisoned immediately. Only by defending Quzhou and under the siege of the Ming army would he have the chance to escape, and the Qing Dynasty would not make things difficult for him in advance for the family of his ministers who were still defending the city for the court.

As for the result, if you cannot defend Quzhou, it is nothing more than a word of death. If you can defend Quzhou, Chen Jin is an old subordinate and confidant of the ancestor's family, one of the most powerful families in the Han army flag. If you operate it, it may be possible to have a good deed. In terms of operation, in addition to the official cannon accumulated over the years, the large grain merchant who had just sent him away who bribed him to raise the price of grain, and other Quzhou merchants' family funds were his Chen Jin's capital.

However, first of all, he still has to defend Quzhou. In the past two days, he has gathered more than 2,000 defeated soldiers. In addition, the 200 Green Camp who guarded the road, the 200 newly built sub-patrols this year, the trusted guards he brought back, and a small number of city guards. There are still three thousand war soldiers. In addition, the population of Quzhou Prefecture City has not suffered too much damage, so he should be able to gather a few thousand or ten thousand auxiliary soldiers to go to the city to defend.

Of course, relying solely on these things, it is definitely not enough to face the Ming army that is like a wolf or a tiger. The rest can only be relied on this indestructible city and reinforcements that I don’t know when I will arrive.

Compared with these, food and wages are actually a big problem. Before the army gathered and went to fight, the inventory had bottomed out, and it lasted for half a month at most, not even enough. Moreover, this was the case when La Fu forced a round of autumn taxes before going to fight. Unfortunately, the entire grain field in Quzhou Prefecture was not burned, and the outside of the city would definitely be invested in the enemy.

Chen Jin, who had experienced the siege of Daling River, had no choice but to do so. Without food, he would kill all the lucrative merchants who had accumulated money and confiscated his property. He should be able to hold on for another month. As for a month and a half later, he would just learn from Daling River again.

After rereading the ideas, Chen Jin's confidence in defending Quzhou became more and more determined. But after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that he had less money to pay for reinforcements.

"Then leave half a month of food for reinforcements, and start changing the taste in a month, and instead eat the tens of thousands of two-legged sheep in Quzhou City."

"Yeah, October!"

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When Chen Wen received the report from Anhua Town Bastion, it was the third day after the war ended. The battle report was taken out of Anhua Town by a carrier pigeon, and then continued to fly to Longyou after transferring in the Fucheng, and finally delivered it to Chen Wen by a fast horse.

Whether it was the Qing army's large-caliber Red Barbarian cannons or the accident of explosions, these were all beyond Chen Wen's expectations. However, one thing was always in his control, that is, the Anhua Town Castle is still as stable as Mount Tai!

On that day, in addition to the red artillery artillery, the Qing army also had the same old way of siege. However, due to the emergence of the moat, the officers led by the Qing army suddenly had a whim and pushed the rushers with the top into the moat that was not wide, thus achieving rapid proximity.

After the accident, the injured defender reorganized the defense according to the regulations of the archway defense. Although the Qing army's selection of the frontier once climbed to the top of the city with the assistance of the watchtower, the Anhua Town archway was not just a layer of defense with the convex angle. To be precise, the convex angle was just the sharp claw of the main fort. When the Qing army's selection of the frontier climbed to the convex angle that appeared in the defensive gap due to the explosion, the higher main fort quickly transferred the firepower to the convex angle, and cooperated to re-complete the entire team of defenders to regain the convex angle, thus achieving the completion of the defensive angle.

Next, the Qing army, which was sieging the city, soon fell into the dilemma of attacking the bastion several months ago. The Qing army, which was attacked at several angles at the same time, was once again defeated by the defenders due to heavy losses.

After receiving this report, Chen Wen all thought viciously that the defense system of the lembang was founded in Europe, but the European soldiers are still siegeing against the lembang. At that time, because of the current military technology level and weapons and equipment, it was impossible to quickly conquer the lembang.

This kind of thing began with the Battle of Metz a hundred years ago. In one day, the attacking party fired more than 7,000 shells, and collapsed the city wall of more than 70 meters, but it still could not shake the bastion at all. In the end, it could only retreat on its own after siege for several months. In China's history, the navy was invincible in the Chinese Sea. When Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan, he could only be surrounded and surrendered to the defenders. As for the Battle of Jaquessa decades later, the Qing army as the attacking party was even more unbearable.

Now, in the sixth year of Yongli, the ninth year of Shunzhi, and in 1652 AD, the Qing army felt the fear from the bastion decades earlier. Chen Wen said that this is a time traveler!

The thickness of the concave corner wall almost made the entire concave corner solid, and the foundation of the fortress was even more incredible. As for the building of wall bricks, Chen Wen even used an ancient adhesive - glutinous rice juice.

Due to the importance of the Anhua Town Bastion, Chen Wen used his manpower, material resources and financial resources at the beginning of his construction almost dragged down his weak forces, and it took several months. If a few red cannons could capture the Bastion, then the Qing army would still play with the heartbeat in mainland China and Nanming again and again, and directly lock the journey into the sea of ​​stars.

The Anhua Town Bastion is indestructible, and there is still half of the Dongyang Battalion on the flank, including the second infantry bureau, one hundred cavalrymen, artillery and engineers. With them harassing the flanks, even if the Qing army sieges and continues to move south, they still have to ask whether the food roads and rear guards are safe.

Perhaps, Chen Wen could also return to the army in a large scale and cooperate with the half of the Dongyang Camp to completely kill the elite Qing army in northern Zhejiang in Jinhua as last year. In that case, it doesn’t matter if Quzhou is not allowed for the time being, because Hangzhou is already an empty city!

Since Jin Li did not choose other possible attack directions, there was nothing to worry about on the northern front for the time being. At this moment, Chen Wen's army had already surrounded Quzhou Prefecture City. However, it almost wiped out the Jinhua Town Water Camp of the Qing army, and completed the first thing the main general and deputy of the last link of the Quzhou besieged city did when he saw him was to call him a death sentence.

On that day, after Chen Wen defeated Chen Jin's army, they should enter Shentangyuan in advance and burn the floating bridge. In that case, the number of people who were beheaded and captured by the Qing army would increase significantly. However, due to the error in calculation of the distance and the speed of the Qing army's water camp, the water camp encountered the Qing army on the way to Shentangyuan. As a result, they had to fight a decisive battle with the Quzhou Water Camp, which received the order of death. Finally, most of its warships were sunk and captured, and then they continued to go on the road. They burned the floating bridge when the Qing army halfway.

This error has nothing to do with the water camp. This problem occurs because the General Staff made a dogmatic mistake without sufficient intelligence and scientific calculation methods when making combat plans.

In the General Staff Department that Chen Wen now formed, except for Lou Jiye who was a defeated general, half of the rest were experienced and simple literate officers, and the other half were scholars who joined the army. The scholars had almost zero combat experience, while the officers were all from military services such as infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

How far can a cavalry run in a fast horse galloping in an hour? The speed of infantry marching quickly, the speed of infantry maintaining alert marching, the speed of different artillery marching on different vehicles, etc. These are the basis for their calculating marching speed in the past, and they are all based on experience, but the water camp is completely different.

There are too many reasons for wind direction, wind speed, water speed in different river sections, and even reefs. Many of the physical knowledge involved are not something that this era can carry. Since we can only estimate, the officers of the water camp are more professional after all, and perhaps they can estimate it closer to the correct answer, which is better than those landlady.

After comforting her, Chen Wen confirmed the achievements of the water camp, so that they could continue to return to the fleet and guard the Qujiang River waterway.

The staff system seems to have to go a bumpy road, but Chen Wen is not anxious about this, because he still needs time to imagine the improvement plan. At this time, the most important thing is to capture Quzhou and put a perfect end to the war with the goal of fighting for strategic initiative in southwestern Zhejiang.

In the previous battle, the Ming army calculated that it was to behead more than 3,000 people and capture 18,000 prisoners in the main battlefield and the early stage of the east bank of Shentangyuan. This number would not have been possible without the existence of Shentangyuan.

When the Ming army's pursuit troops and the water camp completely returned, the troops of the fleeing Dubiao Battalion and the Fujian Left General General Battalion brought back more than a hundred heads and twice as many captives. The water camp returned the annihilation of most of the Quzhou water camp and the Qing army killed on the Shentang Source. There were hundreds of heads, but in fact, many of them could not be found along the water flow.

In short, nearly 4,000 beheaded in this battle, while more than 18,000 prisoners were captured, only two or three hundred. The 15,000 soldiers of the Qing army and the actual 20,000 auxiliary soldiers recorded in the documents left by Chen Jin in the camp, were the only ones who escaped from the battlefield in a system of construction, and they both lost more than 1,000 people, and they could not recover their vitality in less than half a year.

The garrisons of Zhejiang Admiral Biao Camp, Zhejiang Quzhou, Chuzhou, Wenzhou and Fujian Jianning Prefecture suffered heavy losses. There should be no more than 4,000 people who can escape to the other side. The rest were either corpses or drinking the northwest wind in the prisoner camp.

Unfortunately, the officers' gains were really lower than his expectations. Chen Jin, the commander of the Qing army, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, Liu Guangbi, the commander of Jiangxi, Wang Zhigang, the commander of the left side of Fujian, and Zhang Guoxun, the deputy general of the Supervisor Battalion, were all veterans. The experience of running away on the battlefield was too strong. None of them were captured by the Ming army alive, and even the deputy general of Wenzhou ran away.

Fortunately, the deputy generals of the Green Camp in Quzhou, Chuzhou and Fujian Jianning Prefecture were all arrested. As for the guerrillas, Dusi, the garrison, Qianzong, and other officers, Chen Wen had long lost his interest when he captured the group of officers in Simingshan, and they all locked up directly.

According to the horse-discovering report, Wang Zhigang and Zhang Guoxun should have fled to Jiangshan County with their remnants, or the Xianxia Pass further away. Judging from the location on the battlefield at that time, Liu Guangbi may have escaped with Chen Jin, and Chen Wen also discovered Chen Jin's banner when he surrounded the city of Quzhou.

Now, this place is dead for the Qing army. Chen Wen has lost all the entire Quzhou Prefecture City. However, due to the siege a few months ago, the guards seem to be extremely common. Chen Wen does not intend to waste the already tired elite troops in his hands on the arduous siege battle. Then, luring away the moat water and using the release of the collapse method became the best choice.

There was not much food and a serious shortage of tools. However, the autumn harvest was over. Chen Wen planned to release the captive auxiliary soldiers home to calm the hearts of the local people and save limited military rations. As for the other Qing troops, they were incorporated into the coolie camp to lure away the moat water. In this way, one month should be enough.

"Yeah, October!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!