Chapter 79 Suspicion
The Ming army had already captured the city, but the sound of cannons in the city did not stop. After a while, the Ming army, which had collapsed the county yamen gate and the front exterior wall, swarmed in, and killed everyone in the green camp gray and blue uniforms. Later, the Ming army that had risen to the rise did not even let go of some panicked servants and yamen runners.
After the battle, the bodies in the county government were carried out by the auxiliary soldiers of the Ming army. There were less than 200 people wearing Green Camp uniforms, which happened to be a garrison organization. I think that except for Wang Sheng and the personal soldiers he took away before, they were already here.
The officer sorted out the defense and continued to investigate the surrounding situation. The officers of the quarantine inspected the seizures and warehouses. The judges led the sect soldiers to inspect and interrogate the prisoners, while the officers supervised the military achievements and comforted the wounded. Everything was going on in an orderly manner, but Chen Wen was idle.
However, Chen Wen has been doing everything well for everything, which has led to his own habit of being idle. Inspection of city defense, comforting and slapping the wounded, and even just walking around the city is better than being in a city where there is nothing to do in a city where the smoke is not over and the air is still smelling bloody.
At night, Zhang Guoxun, who had already escaped from the city, was also captured by Chen Wen's ambush in the mountains and forests outside the west wall, but it seemed that it took a little effort.
When Zhang Guoxun appeared in Chen Wen's gaze, Chen Fugui, the captain of the guard who was like a human-shaped road roller, was holding his neck. One of his legs was obviously broken, and he was curled up, as if a little chicken was being held in his hand by Chen Fugui.
After entering the tent, Chen Fugui threw Zhang Guoxun to the ground, causing pain to shrink into a ball on the ground. He gritted his teeth and trembled for a while before he could barely control it. However, the pain subsided, Zhang Guoxun hurriedly endured the pain and crawled at Chen Wen a few times, and then kept kowtowing, but he didn't say a word of begging for mercy.
Chen Wen, deputy general of the Superior Biao Battalion and a confidant of Chen Jin, had no need to keep him. Coincidentally, not long before Chen Fugui returned, the overall report of the battle was sent to Chen Wen's case, and he was actually of some use.
In terms of city defense, the city walls on both sides of the north and south were somewhat damaged, and the stools were broken a lot. The army had already stored a lot of camps in the military camps and the original camps outside the city. It is said that because the Qing army intercepted the autumn taxes of Jiangshan County last year, and the Qing court allocated guards such as artillery, crossbows, arrows, etc., Chen Wen made a small fortune and military achievements continue. The soldiers and the wounded were in a relatively stable mood, and they were even excited after the war, but it was no big deal.
Now that Zhang Guoxun has also been arrested, Chen Wen has some questions to ask him, and he always has to clarify the questions in his heart.
"I have some questions about this battle. I wonder if Deputy General Zhang can answer me one or two?"
When he heard Chen Wen had something to ask, Zhang Guoxun quickly said that he would know everything and would never hide it at all.
Chen Wen knew very well that Zhang Guoxu's move was nothing more than seeing hope for life. Since that was the case, he said, "I saw in the documents between you and Ma Guozhu that last year, I attacked this place. The rebel Yang Jie and Wang Zhigang once led their troops to assist in the defense. Is this matter Hong Chengchou's plan or Ma Guozhu's work?"
Chen Wen had already determined that this question was done by Hong Chengchou earlier, but now that there are people like Zhang Guoxun who are likely to know the inside story, he naturally still has to ask the previous question.
Hearing Chen Wen's question, Zhang Guoxun hurriedly said, "When the Marquis said, this matter was originally an order issued by Ma Guozhu. The villain took the order of the whole family to be executed and resisted the king's army. I hope the Marquis would forgive him." After begging for mercy, Zhang Guoxun did not dare to say much. He had been in the officialdom for many years and knew very well what he was now useful to Chen Wen. Wasting time on other issues could only be a long time. "Later, the old thief Hong Chengchou had to go to Nanchang once, and after he got there, he realized that this order was issued by him in the name of Ma Guozhu."
As expected, Chen Wen had already thought of this, but when he actually heard that it was indeed the case, he still felt chill.
"Then is the matter of Deputy General Zhang, Qingtian County, the provincial prefecture of the Taizhou Green Camp and Wenzhou Green Camp, and the transfer of the town of Geng Jimao, the King of Jingnan, was also Hong Chengchou?"
"The Marquis knew that Wanli was doing it."
When talking about Hong Chengchou, Zhang Guoxun opened his mouth and shut up his mouth, his attitude was still qualified. After understanding those things, Chen Wen asked Zhang Guoxun about the details of the battle in Tong'an, but the general was not very clear about it. He only knew that Geng Jimao claimed to have won the victory in Tong'an, defeated the Ming army in Fujian, and took advantage of the situation to capture Tong'an County. As for later, it seemed that he had never heard of the war going on again.
Chen Wen had already received news about Geng Jimao's move to the town not long ago, but the actual situation was not clear. Although Zhang Guoxun didn't know much now, Chen Wen could still analyze some things from these words to the Battle of Tong'an. The Qing army might have taken advantage of it. Otherwise, the Ming army would not have given up the city as the gateway to Zhangzhou. However, the advantage was not much, and it was likely that both sides would have suffered a loss. If it weren't for this, they would not have just won Tong'an and would have no progress.
After getting this answer, Chen Wen was both happy and worried. What he was happy was that Zheng Chenggong did not lose his troops and generals like the Battle of Fengchao Mountain in history, and lost the ability to restrain the Qing army in Fujian. What he was worried about was that although Zheng Chenggong saved Zhangzhou, it was difficult for him to achieve anything for the time being.
Thinking of this, Chen Wen picked up a piece of text and asked his personal soldiers to hand it over to Zhang Guoxun. He then asked, "I already know that Wang Sheng is imprisoned. Can Deputy General Zhang tell me what happened to this reprimand?"
Zhang Guoxun read the text many times, familiar notes and familiar words, and naturally knew what he was saying. Then he talked with Chen Wen about Chen Jin's order to imitate the Ming army organization, and the fact that Jin Li wrote to the Qing court to ask the Qing court to revise the Yuanyang formation after the war to revise the Yuanyang formation. In his words, he was also a victim, so he was naturally very clear. Moreover, according to him, not only Wang Sheng, the Supervisor of the Biao Battalion, but also Xu Lei, the garrison of the Tibiao Battalion, had already begun to imitate the Ming army organization, but he was not as famous as Wang Sheng.
Xu Lei, the name has disappeared in front of Chen Wen for several years, but I didn't expect that Li Ruixin's brother-in-law actually had such a skill. But when I think about the original Li Rong, the deputy general of the Left Camp, at that time, it seems that nothing is abnormal.
However, once Chen Wen laughed out loud when he thought that Jin Li wrote a letter to change the Mandarin duck formation and was seized by the Qing Dynasty, he was given a title, rank and imprisoned.
Historically, the royal family of the Qing Dynasty did not reject Western learning, and they had a general preference for Western learning. Shunzhi, Kangxi and Qianlong all had many records of communicating with Western missionaries. Daoguang even won the appreciation of two Tianli scholars by using muskets rather than ancestral cavalry during the Tianli Rebellion and won the throne.
However, the Qing royal family's preference for Western learning was limited to them personally, but they never dared to make these good things that could benefit the country and make the country and the people public.
During the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty tried its best to suppress the Han people, incite national hatred, and use methods such as shaving hair and changing clothes, writing inquiries, distorting history, and compiling the Siku Quanshu to fool the people and destroy the achievements of Chinese civilization. As for killing, there are many other actions.
Because of this, they did not dare to take out these Western learning things, for fear that the Han people would be able to brag about the riding and shooting they boasted about would be compared after they knew this, thus threatening the status of their colonial rulers and slave owners.
The Mandarin Duck Formation, a tactic that once left a profound influence on the battlefield of Liaodong, which had left a profound influence on the Qing Dynasty's powerful people who are still alive in the Liaodong battlefield, has threatened the Qing Dynasty like the foreign guns and cannons in later generations. However, the first thing that the Qing Dynasty thought of was not to destroy the Ming army, but to suppress the green camp was impatiently. As expected, it still could not escape the limitations of their small barbarian tribes facing the great power of China.
Chapter completed!