The news Chen Wen received clearly mentioned the retro tactics used by the Qing army. After seeing this series of texts, he immediately understood that since he could not conquer the fortress head-on, he might as well find a way to get the fortress's defenders to get sick, weaken their defensive power, or force the defenders to give up their city defense on their own.

However, in the report he received, in the report that the Qing army had just begun to attack the city and the cavalry had not yet cruised around, only one of the wounded soldiers in the Ming army had symptoms of infection. The report also stated that the Chinese military doctors had handled it properly and there was no problem at the moment.

However, after receiving the report, Chen Wen felt something was wrong. The Qing army would not use this method for no reason. Since it was taken out, it would not be used only once, and the scale would even get bigger and bigger...

A soldier has already been infected. Although there are regulations, no one can guarantee that there will be no second patient. Anhua Town Bastion is crucial. If the Eight Banners and the High Banners in Hangzhou are stationed in Hangzhou, the Qing army such as Fubiao and Fubiao will enter Jinhua Prefecture from there. Yiwu will be unable to defend without the city walls. If the head and tail cannot be taken care of each other, the Ming army in Zhejiang will have to be defeated.

After receiving the news, Chen Wen properly explained everything and made a few days of show to ensure that the Qing army knew that he was still in Quzhou and did not leave. It was still unknown how long it could be kept secret. During this period, he had to arrive in Anhua Town as soon as possible and defeat the Qing army on the northern line to ensure the safety of Anhua Town Bastion, and to take away the two war barracks, Pujiang and Dongyang, to fight the main force of the Qing army.

After measuring and comparing the forces of the enemy and us, the General Staff Office believes that although the Eight Banners in Hangzhou are there, the upgrade and tuning are no longer in the eyes of the Ming army. The troops taken from Quzhou and the Pujiang Camp are enough to defeat the Qing army in the field. The difference is how much price they pay and how many results they can achieve.

The cost is naturally casualties and the loss of military weapons. Of course, there may be a situation where the Qing army fled in sight, which made the Pujiang camp unable to move to Quzhou with confidence, but the possibility was so small that it was very small. The reason was that this Qing army group was stationed in Hangzhou. If even the Han Eight Banners soldiers fled in sight, the Qing court would be unable to say it first. Since this is the case, there is only the possibility of field battle.

As for the results of the battle, in addition to how many Qing troops could be left behind, especially the Eight Banners in Hangzhou, the expansion of the occupied areas had become a aspect that Chen Wen was forced to ignore. There was no way. No matter how much land it occupied, the army withdrew and fought a decisive battle with the main force of the Qing army in Quzhou, the Qing army would easily take it back. Even if it took Hangzhou, it would be useless, and it would hurt the local people.

Originally, Chen Wen planned to defeat the Qing army in the southern direction of Quzhou first, relieve the threat there and then head north. In this way, it would be possible to easily regain the eastern Zhejiang, thus facing the Qing army across the Qiantang River, and the occupied area was even larger than the Lujian court when it was first released.

However, since there is no way to defeat the Qing army in Quzhou first, and there are unstable factors in Anhua Town Bastion, we can only turn the order backwards. As for the Qing army that has withdrawn from the city of Chuzhou, but has not returned to Qingtian, the Qing army with only 4,000 people has no effect on the overall situation. Let Wu Dengke sit in front of them for the time being.

The army set off on a boat, first down the Qujiang River, and then went up the river with the sometimes unstoppable wind and the already organized manpower. Along the way, Chen Wen did not even enter Jinhua Mansion, and directly led the army to get off the boat at the dock in Yiwu. Fortunately, his soldiers were basically children of Zhejiang's prefectures, and even if they could not swim, they could do the boat. If it were a northerner, they would have been on the boat for so long, and they would not be able to get off the boat, let alone continue to march, so they could not vomit or diarrhea and stay in the local area for recuperation.

However, even so, after getting off the ship, Chen Wen couldn't drive the army to march north quickly and had to move at a normal speed.

A few days later, Chen Wen's army entered the camp of Zhengjiawu Town, which was the Anhua Town Basin and the supply center for the restraining troops. On weekdays, even the restraining troops were stationed here; and in wartime, the Anhua Town Basin was bound to be besieged, so it had to use the materials from the warehouse inside the fortress, which was only responsible for supplying restraining troops, and there was also a replenishment force stationed here.

Since the Pujiang Camp was always on the side, although the Qing army had many cavalry, it could only maintain it at the Anhua Town Bastion, trying to cut off the news from the outside and convey it to the personnel. As for this place, it was not enough to take care of it, and there was no need to take it into consideration.

The next morning, Chen Wen led the army north, and the destination was not Anhua Town, but Paitou Town north of Anhua Town. Near the Qing army was across the Puyang River, connecting the camps on both sides of the banks with floating bridges. He had ordered Chen Guobao to lead the Pujiang Camp to detour downstream. When Chen Wen launched an attack signal, he would cross the river and form a front-and-back attack.

The army set out before dawn, and the cavalry even took the mountain road to the east to the north of the Qing army's cavalry to intercept it.

It was not until he reached the Anhua Town Fortress that Chen Wen stopped a little and the entire army was able to rest for a while. The Ming army's cavalry had swept away most of the Qing army's cavalry, and only a very small number rushed into the mountains.

Chen Wen had no time to understand the situation of the Anhua Town Basin. Naturally, there were troops, auxiliary soldiers, military doctors and others coming from the Zhengjiawu Town Daying to enter the fortress. After receiving the news of the cavalry, Chen Wen continued to go on the road. However, when he passed through the battlefield of the Basin, Chen Wen couldn't help but frowned.

I remember that at the end of last year, it was said that there were two convex corners on the north side of the basin, each with a wall of a wall that had been stripped off by the Qing army, revealing the inner wall of the city wall. The walls of the basin were not damaged at all, but the filth and the rotten corpses wearing people's clothes on the moat were not released there at all times, and the green-headed flies in Wuyang Wuyang were summoned.

The low wall of the 150-step distance of the ridge was greatly damaged, but to a degree it was far from as big as imagined. It was obvious that the Qing army's siege equipment rarely rushed within these distances and caused direct attacks on the ridge. This can also be confirmed by the damage to the ridge.

After passing through that area, the army accelerated its march and quickly approached the river bank several miles ahead. Using Jiangxinzhou there, the engineers worked together to build a floating bridge to quickly complete the crossing of the river.

The Ming army's crossing the river immediately aroused the alert of the Qing army's horse probe, but it was no better than Chen Wenna and others who left all the baggage. The Qing army's camp was full of unloaded supplies, and the soldiers were scattered in the camp, and they might not be able to run away. After the army crossed the river, the Ming army immediately marched northward, and the Ming army's cavalry soon began to enter a fierce cavalry battle with the Qing army's cavalry.

However, when Chen Wen's army approached not far from the Qing army camp, what he saw was the Qing cavalry running around in all directions regardless of casualties. The Qing army camp was even more accompanied by crying and shouting at her parents.

"Hangzhou garrison Eight Banners ran away?!"

This is a fact that Chen Wen couldn't believe and did not want to believe, but it really happened in front of him. But just when Chen Wen was still shocked by Liu Zhiyuan's cowardice, Chen Guobao, who led this brigade of cavalry, rode his horse back. When he arrived in front of Chen Wen, he threw a Qing general wearing yellow flag armor and a "lightning rod" on the ground.

"Say, tell us what you just told someone!"

Chen Guobao was a charcoal burner. When he was in Dalan Mountain, he could lift the bronze incense burner placed in the yard of the City God Temple. After joining the army, his nutritional intake increased greatly. He was like a human-shaped road roller, and even his war horses were specially selected.

This habit directly threw the Han army's general with yellow flags into yellow flags and stared at them. However, when he heard the human-shaped monster's anger, his consciousness immediately woke up, shook his head, and a pair of thief-eyed and mouse eyes searched around. He noticed that Chen Wen, who was riding on the white horse, obviously had the aura of the superior, so he hurriedly climbed in front of Chen Wen's horse.

"Mr. Please spare me. The villain is not a Tartar of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. The villain is the subordinate of General Zhang. He was put on this outfit after following the orders from above. The villain is not a Tartar..."

The officers of the "Han Army's Yellow Banners" were talking about the following words, especially the following words "The Eight Banners in Hangzhou did not send troops, but they only raised the banner." Not only Chen Wen, but almost all the Ming army officers present were stunned on the spot.

It was not until a moment later that an officer's exclamation awakened Chen Wen from the shock and the possibility that it meant. When he followed the officer's pointing, he saw a faint beacon fire in the direction of Zhengjiawu Town, heading straight into the sky. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!