In late April, on the head of the west wall of Quzhou, where Chen Wen's eyes could see, it seemed that there were Qing army cavalry driving away the scattered people. As far as he knew, this scene did not happen just in Changshan County, but also in Jiangshan County.

Hong Chengchou's intention was very simple, that was, to use these people to accelerate the consumption of the Ming army's warehouse. This dog traitor was obviously very clear. Compared with the Qing Dynasty, which occupied eight or nine out of ten in China, the foundation of the Zhejiang Ming army, which had only three prefectures, was too weak. The Qing army had an overwhelming advantage in manpower, material resources, and financial resources. Once it was discovered that there was no 100% chance of winning in the field, Hong Chengchou immediately changed the tactics. Now it is clear that he would use silver to smash it, bury it with troops, and use their cruelty to crush the Zhejiang Ming army, known as loving the people.

The advantage of the Qing army lies in its huge human and material resources. The Ming army has a weak foundation and is conducive to quick battles. Chen Wen is very clear about these, so he formulated the plan for each defeat. This is the advantage of inside combat. Too many military strategists in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad have used it. Even Chen Wen has already played this hand very well. But who knows, this time it will not work at all.

Starting ten days ago, there were three times in total. Each ambush or raid would be discovered by the Qing army's long-distance exploration horses. However, the number of cavalry of the Qing army was too advantageous, and no matter where the Ming army was hidden, thousands of war soldiers would not leave any clues.

In fact, if the Qing army marched at a normal speed, their horses might not be able to scatter so far and so densely, because the army was always moving, and the horses would also have to speed up the pace of exploration. The possibility of the Ming army being ambushed in the distance and not being discovered is not non-existent. But whether it is the Fujian Green Camp or the main Qing army starting from Jiangxi, their marching speed was astonishingly slow. In Chen Wen's words, a healthy snail crawled faster than them. But it was precisely because of the slow march that their cavalry, which had an overwhelming advantage, could ascertain everything within a dozen miles around as possible. Not to mention thousands of troops, even hundreds of people might not be able to hide the truth.

As for the night attack, it was actually one of Chen Wen's plans. After the first two raids hit the wall, the intensity of the Qing army's horse exploration exploration was significantly further strengthened, and even to the point where they ignored the horsepower. By the third time, Chen Wen simply lurked in a faraway area, and only used a very small number of spies to estimate the approximate location of the Qing army. At night, the army marched urgently to launch a raid.

This plan was originally very smooth. Chen Wen's spies were not discovered by the Qing army during the day. But at night, who knew that the group of Qing troops in Fujian actually spread secret whistles everywhere. As soon as they rushed to a range of ten miles, they discovered the movements of the Ming army. Then, with the sound of gongs and drums, the Ming army was completely exposed to the Qing army's vision. The Qing army did not defend the camp, but fled directly along Jiangshan Port to the upper reaches.

As a result, at dawn, Chen Wen indeed captured a Qing army of more than a thousand people, but most of these people were auxiliary soldiers recruited from northern Fujian, which was meaningless. From the mouths of those warriors, Chen Wen also knew that these Qing army had been sleeping with orders and clothes on these days. Once they found out that the Ming army would immediately flee upstream, and there was absolutely no allowance for any love to fight.

These are the three green camp soldiers with the strongest combat effectiveness in Fujian. Chen Wen was amused and laughed when he heard this answer. Hong Chengchou's tactics seeking stability, steadily overwhelmed the Ming army with resource advantages. This slow use of weight to suppress people looks clumsy, but it is indeed much more clever than the way Chen Jin, a governor who was a straight-line general, used to fight with the Ming army in field once he assembled a large army.

Everyone understands this principle of playing to the strengths and avoiding weaknesses, but very few can be done. After getting the truth, Chen Wen gave up his plan to continue to attack another Qing army at night - he only captured more than a thousand people every time, and most of them were auxiliary soldiers. Even if he could seize some supplies, the strength of the Qing army was there. By then, it would be more than enough to get it. It would be more than worth the loss.

For Chen Wen, it would be better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers. If he could not defeat a Qing army in one breath, there would be no meaning to just rely on such slow polishing.

In previous battles, Chen Wen relied on the infantry in his hands to defeat his opponents. However, the cavalry with far more maneuverable ability than infantry was extremely unfavorable for the circumcised battles due to Zhejiang's geographical characteristics, which made the Ming army, which was at a disadvantage, able to win again and again.

The geographical advantage is the key point that military strategists are concerned about and one of the most important factors affecting the outcome of the war. Zhejiang's water network is crisscrossing, and the roads are rugged and uneven. This is the reason why the Qing Dynasty compressed the most important cavalry of the feudal army to one tenth of the poor proportion in the organization of the Qing army in Zhejiang.

However, this situation was only for the Qing army in Zhejiang and Jiangnan, but other regions were completely different.

The main forces of this encirclement and suppression were the proportion of cavalry in every five warriors, which means that among the two Qing troops he was facing, 1,800 of the nine thousand warriors in Fujian were cavalry!

The main force had more cavalry, not just because it was larger in scale, because the Jingbiao Zuozhen was transferred from the north, with a seven to three infantry and cavalry ratio, which allowed them to squander the horse power of the war horses to explore the surrounding situation to the greatest extent, so that the infantry was the main one, with only three combat barracks in hand, and Chen Wen, who had four or five hundred cavalrymen, could not reach his plan at all.

"Would you like to form a horse-riding infantry?"

The disadvantage of tactical maneuverability made Chen Wen unconsciously come up with this idea that he immediately denied as soon as he thought of it.

War horses were too rare for the Ming army in the Southeast. In history, Zheng Chenggong, who controlled the Taiwan Strait, had pitifully few cavalry. Chen Wen achieved the ability of each war barracks to have a cavalry of about a hundred people through his previous seizures. In addition, his guards and local garrisons used specifically to convey messages, the limit has reached its limit, so how can there be war horses used to provide for infantry transportation?

Even if there is, he would expand the cavalry teams of each war barracks as much as possible, or directly form a cavalry battalion, which was too extravagant to use for infantry transportation.

There were fewer and fewer Qing troops on the other side that drove away the people. Obviously, they had just ordered the people to be expelled to the Ming army occupied areas, and they could go back and report. Originally, when Chen Wen evacuated Changshan and Jiangshan counties, he had called on the people to avoid them for a while, but most of them were unable to leave their hometowns and were unwilling to leave their hometowns. But now, they were expelled by the Qing army, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Sun Yu had already begun to recruit refugees, but considering that Quzhou might be the battlefield for the confrontation between the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Sun Yu had tried his best to send these people to Longyou and Tangxi, and was preparing to build a refugee camp there. In addition to preventing these people from dying from hunger and cold, it was also to prevent the Qing army from being mixed in.

Watching the people walking eastward with the elderly and the young, Chen Wen returned to the headquarters to listen to the results of the deductions based on the intelligence of both sides, trying to dig out some key points that Hong Chengchou could use for him in his plan. Even if he had to take some risks for this, it would be better than continuing to be squeezed like this.
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