The Scout Movement started in Britain and was implemented in China since the beginning of the Republic of China. At its peak, it even had more than 200,000 people nationwide. The national leaders at that time were extremely influential as the president of the General Association.

However, now it is still the last days of the remnant Ming Dynasty. Even the British regarded English as a language that only the lower classes could use, so the Boy Scouts were naturally far from appearing. At least if someone else heard it, they would only think that this was a sign that the human resources of Jinhua, Quzhou and Chuzhou were exhausted. Chen Wen had already reached the point of training boys to join the army, and his defeat was obvious.

In the first month of the year, the matter of the Boy Scouts is still in operation. At least in February, the formal enrollment will be officially launched. Before the teaching begins, it is only a topic of discussion and option that is spread throughout the Ming army occupied areas in southwestern Zhejiang. It even does not play a slight role in the current tense situation for the time being.

At this moment, the place where the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was the dragon-rise land, and the Ming Dynasty's accompanying capital, Yingtian Prefecture, Nanjing, has been changed. Now this place is Jiangning Prefecture, expressing the high-ranking Qing dynasties' wishes for peace in the south of the Yangtze River.

A large mansion in Jiangning Prefecture, this is the temporary headquarters of the Grand Guardian and Prince Taishi who had just been made public. He is a province in Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian. He is the governor of military affairs and food management, and is responsible for the Grand Secretary Hong Chengchou.

At this time, Hong Chengchou was already sixty years old. Although Shunzhi had to give up the idea of ​​holding a banquet for the sake of keeping the secret when he set off, the BMW and the sword were still rewarded, and he issued a special order to wait for Hong Chengchou to take over the official position. "The officials and the military department shall not be restrained, and the Ministry of Revenue shall not be delayed." This is a great trust.

In fact, Hong Chengchou naturally deserves this trust. His mother died of illness in May this year, but Hong Chengchou set out south not long after, but never returned to his hometown in Fujian to attend the funeral. Instead, he sneaked all the way south, hiding in Nanjing in Ma Guozhu's mansion, hiding in the dark to plan carefully for the war situation in the southeast.

The ancients said that loyalty and filial piety have been difficult to achieve both since ancient times. Mr. Hong's move was obviously to sacrifice filial piety for the sake of loyalty, which is reasonable in terms of the view of this era. However, because he also relied heavily on the other side, Chongzhen obviously did not enjoy this treatment. Such favoritism was revealed by his man's face as his father.

However, Hong Chengchou no longer cared about these things at the moment. The Southeast is an important place, especially the two provinces of Jiangnan and Zhejiang, which are crucial. Now that the three tricks have been completed, Zheng Chenggong and Chen Wen, who once rampant in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, have also temporarily restrained their minions. Now they are naturally making the appointment of the Southeast Strategic to the public to further boost the morale of the Qing army in the Southeast.

At the gate of the headquarters, a man in his thirties and forties dressed in Confucian scholars stepped out of the gate with two followers. However, the two men dressed in entourage seemed more like escorting the prison to the prisoner than being a companion or a entourage.

It was a bit like that when the Confucian scholar came out, he turned his head and looked at the gate he had just walked out, then touched his forehead, and his hands were covered in sweat. Even his body could not help but tremble before continuing to walk towards the residence. But I didn't know if the trembling moment was caused by the cold wind in the first month.

In the lobby where the marching headquarters was guarding the hall, Hong Chengchou sat upright on the main seat, savoring the tea carefully, but the old eyes that looked dark still seemed to reveal a trace of overflowing sharpness.

"He is telling the truth, so this person doesn't need to worry too much."

The person Hong Chengchou said to his staff was Wang Jiang, the second civil servant of Chen Wen's army. Since he was captured by the Qing army, he had been under house arrest in Jiangning Prefecture except for staying in Hangzhou for a few days and was used by Chen Jin to surrender Chen Wen. Because the strength of the Ming army in Zhejiang was getting stronger and stronger, the Qing Dynasty had never relaxed his custody. The two followers who just left with him were the servants responsible for custodying him, but they changed their clothes to give him a minimum decent official, a former Ming high-ranking official who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

This time, Hong Chengchou summoned him to find more details about the Zhejiang Ming army and the commander who had always been in the fog from Wang Jiang. However, Wang Jiang's understanding of Chen Wen was nothing but listening to Chen Wen himself. He had no chance or ability to investigate, and even Chen Wen's generals were the same.

"First it was Wang Jiang, then Sun Yu and Chen Jin's plan to wipe out the Ming army in Dalan Mountain in advance was not at all wrong. Unfortunately, a Chen Wen suddenly emerged, which completely overturned this painstaking plan."

Hong Chengchou did not say it, nor did he even think about anything. If Jin Li and Tian Xiong were able to kill Chen Wen in Siming Mountain, the situation in the southeast would not have deteriorated to this extent. Because he knew very well that this idea would only increase his worries. If he had this skill, he should have made more plans to completely suppress him.

However, in the current situation in the southeast, although the two Ming troops in Fujian and Zhejiang cannot join forces, even if they exist, they can divide too many troops from the Qing Dynasty, which makes the Qing army dare not feel at ease and boldly concentrate too many troops to encircle and suppress.

"It's a pity that Geng Jimao's son has not many of his fathers."

Hong Chengchou did not say this because the decision to draw Geng Jimao was issued by Shunzhi, because he wanted to keep Shang Kexi, who had more experience, to continue to stay in Guangdong to prevent Li Dingguo from suddenly moving south. Originally, in Shunzhi and Hong Chengchou's view, even if Geng Jimao was not experienced enough, he would be able to suppress Zheng Chenggong with the vassal soldiers of the Jingnan Prince's Mansion. Even if the navy was not strong enough, he would not be able to threaten Zhongzuo. As long as he could completely destroy Zheng Chenggong's land army, or even completely destroy, he would be enough to let him spit out the results he had swallowed in the past two years.

However, even such seemingly easy requests were not achieved.

Half a month ago, the Ming army in Fujian gathered nearly twice the strength of the Qing army and the vassal soldiers of the Jingnan Prince's Mansion, and the Fujian Admiral and the left-road general fought in Tong'an. Fortunately, the Ming and Qing armies gathered a large number of infantry to fight outside Tong'an City, trying to break the enemy with this. However, as the wind direction suddenly changed, the smoke of muskets and cannons obscured some of the battle formations of the Ming army. For the Qing army, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. As long as the cavalry quickly advanced and broke through the Ming army's formation with infantry as the main body, a great victory would be achieved.

However, Geng Jimao had too little experience in the battle. Even with the advice of the left-wing general Xu Degong, his reaction was still half a beat slower. As a result, when the Geng family's cavalry rushed forward, the Ming army replaced the spearmen and the vine armored soldiers, and the musketeers retreated to the back and stopped using them. Instead, the archers and crossbowmen provided long-range fire support.

Although the Geng family's cavalry once defeated some of the battle formations on the flanks of the Ming army, the Ming army, who had reacted, drove them out and completed the formation again. In the end, the two armies fought fiercely for the whole afternoon. When it was dark, they had to withdraw their troops and return to the camp. In the next two days, the Ming army moved the people of Tong'an County back to Zhangzhou to supplement the human resources loss there in the besieged city, while the Qing army took over the empty Tong'an County.

As for then, there is nothing more...

This detailed report was naturally not sent by Geng Jimao, but by the Fujian Admiral Yang Minggao and the Fujian Right General Ma Degong. Hong Chengchou has rich experience and can naturally see the dirty things in the two good news. It is obvious that the Fujian Green Camp is unwilling to bear another incompetent man on his head. As for Geng Jimao's victory in Tong'an, the documents that reported the victory that he had defended the county town were naturally distracted from his mouth. It was okay to deceive those civil officials who did not know the soldiers. Hong Chengchou was simply dreaming if he wanted to deceive him.

However, no matter what, the losses of the Ming army in Fujian did not seem to be too small. Zheng Chenggong had to wait for a few months to heal the injuries before he could continue to cause trouble. Moreover, with the Geng family's vassal soldiers in Fujian, naturally they would not have the power to fight back like last year.

After drinking this cup of tea, Hong Chengchou's aide sent someone to recruit another person. This time, the recruitment was not the former Ming officials who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but a serious Qing army. At least in the past two years, he has been fighting against the Ming army in Zhejiang wearing the Qing army's name.

"This is what Wang Dusi wants to tell me?"

"Return to Master Jingli, this is what the head of the villain's family brings to you."

It was a secret that Hong Chengchou went south, but unfortunately, when Wang Sheng's envoy arrived at Jiangning Prefecture, Hong Chengchou happened to make the news of taking office as the Southeast Administration. So the servant who was originally sent to Jiangnan and Jiangxi Governor Ma Guozhu to run for contacts directly to Hong Chengchou's headquarters. After all, Hong Chengchou was in charge of four provinces. Although Governor Ma was not a small official, he only had two provinces. The remaining four cuts and two were Zhejiang and Fujian where they were.

"Come on, arrange a place for him."

After Wang Sheng's servant, who was grateful to him, left the lobby with Hong Chengchou's servant, Hong Chengchou immediately recruited one of his personal soldiers from the Strategic Mansion.

"You go to Jiangshan County in Quzhou and take Wang Sheng, the chief official of the Central Camp, to Nanchang. After arriving in Nanchang, you don't have to be polite and just go to the prison of the government office."

"Abide by the orders of humble duties."

After the personal soldiers left, the staff around Hong Chengchou turned to ask why this was the case. In his opinion, Wang Sheng's plan to adapt the green camp according to the Zhejiang Ming Army's organization seemed to be very effective, at least it had achieved results in the Zhejiang-Fujian Governor-General Battalion.
Chapter completed!