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Chapter 87 Lonely Army

In Chen Wen's view, from a military perspective, this is clearly a good plan that cannot be better. It occupied Jiangxi, trained a navy in Poyang Lake, entered the Yangtze River and went downstream to Nanjing. Then, it used Jiangnan's financial resources to vigorously expand its army and connect the upstream and downstream of the Yangtze River. Even if it was just locked in the river for several years, it would be absolutely unbearable.

Strategy and tactics, Chen Wen felt that he explained everything he could say very clearly in the letter, but why was the final result still like this?

Although this person has his own ambitions, Chen Wen couldn't figure it out after thinking about it, or he couldn't bring it into Li Dingguo's thoughts and situation. But if he knew that the reason for this was still very related to Sun Kewang, who sent someone to give him a marquis hat a few months ago, he probably wouldn't have the intention of eating this infighting dog raw without being jealous or soy sauce.

In any case, Li Dingguo has been sure that he will not come, and Zheng Chenggong probably has no time to take care of him now. Even if he is determined and strong, he will at most attack Wenzhou, and there will be no great help in the overall situation.

As for Zhang Zisheng, several correspondences, Chen Wen felt that this general was probably a kind person like Yu Guowang. Even if he was not as good as that, he would not be an infighting dog. He should be an ally who could win over. However, this ally was too weak. In the duel between Chen Wen and Hong Chengchou, the cat star could only cheer in his heart. Even if he just stood outside the court, it would seem too dangerous.

There are no reinforcements outside, which is certain, but just after a while, there is a killing chicken to warn the monkey, and probably no one inside dares to jump out and make trouble. However, this opponent is no longer Chen Jin, who destroyed the anti-Qing movement in Zhejiang in history, but Hong Chengchou, who finally ended the Yongli court, but Chen Wen still feels a sharp increase in pressure.

According to the intelligence officer who tried to rush back to Jinhua in advance through the help of Zhang Zisheng's channel, the Qing army's banners that appeared between Nanchang and Guangxin Prefecture were Jingbiao Zuo Town, Henan Fubiao and Hong Chengchou's guards.

Jingbiao Zuo Town is said to be the admiral named Li, with a northern accent of Manying. Because he had too short a lurking time, he had not yet formed any intelligence network, so he could only collect so many at one time. However, once he thought about the identity of the admiral, he would have to have at least three thousand people in his hands. Henan Fubiao would not mention it. As the name suggests, Chen Wen's memory seemed that the Fubiao camp was generally organized by two thousand people. Hong Chengchou's guards were said to have more than a thousand people, divided into two battalions, led by two large inner guards.

In addition, judging from previous information, there should be Jiangxi Extrapation, Jiujiang Green Camp and Huizhou Green Camp. If nothing unexpected happens, Wang Zhigang from Fujian will also participate. Within two days, Chen Wen also received a reward from intelligence personnel sent to northern Fujian, saying that the banner of Fujian Extrapation and the Right General Soldiers appeared in the Xianxia Pass area.

Jiangxi raised the 5,000 troops, Jiujiang Green Camp was also 5,000, and other troops had 3,000 troops. This was shown by Chen Wen based on reports from various anti-Qing people in recent years and the information he sent to collect. If we included some Guangxin Prefecture and the local green camps in Jianning Prefecture, the Qing army that was about to gather in Quzhou would not be less than 30,000 combat soldiers, and as for auxiliary soldiers, they were countless.

However, Chen Wen only had seven battle camps, with an organization of 14,000, and the rest were garrisons stationed in various places. Even among these seven camps, Pujiang camp was on the side of the castle in Anhua Town, Dongyang camp was in Jinhua Prefecture City, Lishui camp was in Chuzhou Prefecture City, and Yiwu camp was in Quzhou Prefecture City. In his hands, he had only three battalions and six thousand people, which was far from the strength of the Qing army.

Moreover, since Hong Chengchou was in charge of the plan of suppressing and pacification as a strategic authority, he was eager to mobilize the army at this moment, and it was obvious that there would be no only these 30,000 troops. The increase in the army of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and the disappearance of the Dinghai General's Battalion, the Qing army in Hangzhou would definitely increase, and the Chuzhou side would obviously not be idle. For the Qing army, even if it was just a restraint of one or two thousand Ming troops there, it would be a business that would only make money but not lose money for the main battlefield.

In response, Chen Wen had to order the county to strengthen the city defense. As for those counties that did not even have a city wall, he had to order nearby reinforcements such as Jinhua, Quzhou, Chuzhou and those counties with city walls to better hold the Qing army in that direction.

Chuzhou Prefecture, which would not be the focus of the battle between the Ming and Qing armies, and Chen Wen had given Wu Dengke full power to deal with it. On the Jinqu Basin, the occupied area of ​​the Ming army, from the two bastions of Hulu Town on the northern line, to Quzhou Prefecture, was a strip area. Chen Wen decided to lead the army to support Jinhua Prefecture, and was ready to take advantage of the inside battle to defeat the whole way. In this way, another crucial point was that Li Ruixin, who was less than two war barracks and an 800-man garrison, was responsible for Quzhou.

Quzhou's city defense is strong, and later generations are also known as Quzhou. However, the defense is not only military defense, but also extremely important in other aspects. Quzhou is a city with a population of more than 100,000 people in the city, which is definitely not comparable to the solid walls that are purely for use by the garrison. However, Chen Wen has no one to choose to assist Li Ruixin in organizing the defense in the Quzhou area.

"Fu Ren, I'll go."

Sun Yu has always been Chen Wen's most determined political ally and friend. Chen Wen has been in charge of collecting and transporting logistics supplies during his expeditions, and has never let Chen Wen worry about these things. Chen Wen never thought that he would assist Li Ruixin in guarding Quzhou. Not only did he position Sun Yu's power, but more importantly, it was far more dangerous than Jinhua.

"This matter is absolutely impossible. If you leave Jinhua, what should you do if the army's supplies are replenished?"

Upon hearing this, Sun Yu smiled and then said, "There are already a certain rule for logistics supply. The prefectures and counties are responsible for collecting them, and then handed over to the Military Control Bureau to supervise the transfer. With me and not me, I do this. If I have one more and one less, what's the problem?"

Chen Wen was not unaware of these things. The system was indeed the case. It was just that Sun Yu had always been responsible for the future. Sun Yu was Chen Wen's only close friend in recent years. Apart from the secrets of the time traveler, Chen Wen was willing to talk to him about many things. If he went to Quzhou and faced Hong Chengchou this time, Chen Wen always felt uneasy.

Perhaps, in the eyes of those charlatans in later generations, this is the kind of love between men. But in Chen Wen's case, when he suddenly came to this strange era, everything that had been completely cut off and was under tremendous pressure, all of which made him yearn for an emotion from the bottom of his heart to maintain his pity for this era, and not become a life-threatening monster.

He and Sun Yu have had friendship for many years, tacit understanding in business and firm political stance, and the relationship at the foot of Dalan Mountain, the Sun family's position in Chen Wen's heart is far superior to others. And he also knows that for the Sun family, he is not the same.
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