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Chapter 88: Pushing

After talking with Chen Wen, Sun Yu set off overnight and didn't even have time to go back home. As for the affairs of Jinhua Mansion, he handed over the affairs of a Tongzhi named Guo, who was a civil servant from Dalanshan and was not originally showing off. However, as the magistrate of Yiwu during the Cao Conglong Rebellion, he was able to stand firmly on Chen Wen's side and resist the emergence of the rebellion in Yiwu, so he was promoted after the rebellion and added to the original position of Han Qizheng.

Chen Wen knew that this person was a civil servant who was a solid civil servant, and his hands and feet were quite clean, which was quite rare. However, this person worked diligently and did not have the personality charm of Sun Yu, otherwise he would have been able to make it through long ago.

When Sun Yu set off, it was the first day of the April 1st. Within a few days, the scattered horses had already been sent to the Anyuan Marquis' Mansion in Jinhua.

After reading one after another, Chen Wen's heart was suppressed. The Qing army encircled too much troops this time. If it was surrounded, it would probably not be able to crack it with brute force, so we must first destroy it!

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On the second day of April, the Qing army of the brigade set out from Hangzhou Prefecture and crossed the Qiantang River, the Qing army began to slowly turn south and head towards the strange-shaped fortress that Jin Li had broken his head but did not break open last year.

Last year's coach Jin Li was dismissed, seized his title, and imprisoned. Although the real reason has little to do with this fortress, as the coach of the road, Tian Xiong still dared not be careless at all. Since crossing the Qiantang River, Tian Xiong's army has scattered all the provocations. Within a radius of hundreds of miles, any noise will be sent to his case. However, for this reason, the speed of his army's march has dropped to less than ten miles a day. In order to prevent night attacks from the Ming army, he even started camping in the afternoon.

Tian Xiong was a long-time general. When he followed Huang Degong, a famous general in the late Ming Dynasty, he was also able to fight. Moreover, he was not a careless person and was very good at training and use of horse exploration. In fact, even if he was a normal march, his horse exploration could clearly find out everything around him, just like he saw it himself.

However, the reason why Tian Xiong did this was because he received Hong Chengchou's order to prevent being attacked by the Ming army. Without orders, he would not fight in field battles with the Ming army. He would slowly advance to Anhua Town and act according to the plan.

The truth is the way to use troops, and it depends on one's heart. Any accident on the battlefield may happen, and you must adapt to this principle. Tian Xiong knew this truth. He believed that Hong Chengchou's ability naturally could not be unknown, but this time he issued such an order. The generals under his command were quite puzzled. Only Tian Xiong, who was the commander of the road, knew the reason. That is, he was only used to restrain the Ming army in Anhua Town, and it was enough to do his duty well. Except for the fresh things that Hong Chengchou gave him, he didn't know whether it was useful or not, everything was enough to obey the orders.

After years of military use, Tian Xiong realized that he had climbed up from the long-time general who followed Duke Jingguo to kill bandits step by step. Now he is the highest-level general in Zhejiang Province, but he has to do such a minor warrior. Thinking about it, he is indeed cowardly.

However, the plan was made this time, Hong Chengchou, whose great reputation really made him dare not have the slightest disobedience. In addition, his opponent, the Ming army commander who had been despised by the incident of beating his colleagues in Dalan Mountain in the fourth year of Yongli, was indeed not a good guy to meet.

In fact, in the normal bureaucratic system, people like Chen Wen cannot stand out at all. They often don’t know how to die. Offend colleagues and anger their superiors, and they are all hindered everywhere. It is strange that they can develop, which is completely unfair. Last year, Tian Xiong also knew that Chen Wen had to give up the results he had achieved because of an internal strife initiated by civil servants in charge of military affairs. This is the fate of this person, and this indeed proves that Tian Xiong was not wrong.

But who knew that this guy's brute force was too great, twice as strong as his Qing army, not only had elite troops like the Jiangxi Tibiao Battalion, but also completely copied his organization. The Super Biao Battalion, which was similar to the Ming army, was like two gourds, even such a large army was defeated, which really made Tian Xiong stunned for a long time.

Although the four provinces in this capital suppression were not actually the four provinces in the southeast to concentrate all their forces to besiege Chen Wen, of course this could not be done at all. After all, the vast majority of the Qing army still had to stay in Xindi to suppress the anti-Qing forces in various places. However, even so, the four armies of the southeast, west and northeast do have an absolute advantage in military strength.

Perhaps, according to Hong Chengchou's strategy, he could really fully exert his military strength and completely squeeze the last Ming army into the Jinqu Basin.

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Like the admiral Tian Xiong, Ma Xin, the general of Taizhou, who was commanding the southern line, also knew that his position and task in the overall plan were as simple as restraining the Ming army in the direction of Chuzhou.

However, compared with the nearly 10,000 Qing troops in Tian Xiong's journey, he only had the 2,000 Taizhou Green Camp under his command and the 2,000 Wenzhou Green Camp under Hu Laijin, and only 4,000 combat soldiers. As for the Chuzhou Green Camp, which fought side by side last year but had no commander, the veterans had been separated by the two of them to supplement their losses last year. Of course, the establishment of the Chuzhou Green Camp was still left, and it was in Qingtian County at this moment, so it was doing their duty.

"Brother Ma, I heard that the Ming army built a fortress near Chuzhou Prefecture City. It is said that the shape is strange, and I don't know if it's easy to fight."

"I'm afraid it's not easy." After hearing this, Ma Xin suddenly remembered the rumors of Jin Li hitting the wall last year. It might be this. "Take the troops and horses to see first. If it's really something, I think it wouldn't be blamed even if I can't defeat the court. Besides, our brothers were tied up for the generals, and no one had ever expected us to do anything."

"Brother Ma said, let's do that."

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It is normal to advance in four directions, with the main and the second. Unlike the green leaves of Tian Xiong and Ma Xin, Fujian Admiral Yang Minggao was a flower this time, at least as part of the flowers, even if it was just an insignificant part.

In the previous year and last year, Yang Minggao suffered many soldiers and generals in response to Zheng Chenggong's rebellion in Zhangzhou, and finally recovered some vitality. As a result, who knew that the boy from the Geng family was a rookie, which caused him to lose a lot of troops and horses with Ma Degong. In anger, the two of them wrote a secret report and reported the details of the Battle of Tong'an, but who knew that the news was as if the stones were sinking into the sea.

After the Chinese New Year, I learned that Hong Chengchou was appointed as the Southeast Administration. After all, this old manager had extraordinary abilities. Not long ago, he and Wang Zhigang and Ma Degong called him away, and Ming said that he would first encircle and suppress the Ming army in Zhejiang and then attack the Ming army in Fujian.

They naturally understood this order. In fact, if it weren't for the Geng family's vassal soldiers, they were tortured by Zheng Chenggong two years ago. They had no intention of annihilation of them in one fell swoop. With Hong Chengchou's plan, they wanted to wipe out this Ming army, which was second only to the Eight Banners of Manchuria, as Wang Zhigang said, should be in hand.

As for killing Chen Wen and then destroying Zheng Chenggong with his backhand, Yang Minggao also planned to grab one from the Nakazuo, just like Ma Degong had done before. Perhaps, it would be a good idea to follow the example of the Zheng family in Ishii's monopoly on the coast of Fujian and Guangdong.

However, he walked slowly along the way, as if even his spirit was sleepy enough to dream, Yang Minggao didn't know that at this moment he had been staring at a cold gaze and slowly stretched out his minions to him. (To be continued.)
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