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Chapter 104 Flower Street

On May 22, the seventh year of Yongli, the battle for the city against Jinhua Prefecture had already broken out. The main force of the Ming army in Zhejiang, who had returned from Paitou Town, returned to Zhengjiawu Town.

When the beacon was lit, the remaining officers from the camp in Zhengjiawu Town guessed that Chen Wen would return to the army, so they had already sent someone to process the ingredients. After a while, the horses sent by the order arrived, and they even accelerated their movements. Finally, when the Ming army came back, they quickly prepared most of the meal.

Time is tight, so it is impossible to sit down and eat slowly. Bread was distributed on the school ground, and special auxiliary soldiers filled the gourds with water. The remaining officers were ingenious and asked the auxiliary soldiers in the camp to cut straw paper and stack some vegetables and meat without any soup, which finally allowed the soldiers to take the food away as quickly as possible.

On the school grounds of Daying in Zhengjiawu Town, the officers and soldiers of the Nantang, Shentang and the Third Battalion of the Guards silently received the food and water in the order of the queue, and then continued to embark on the way to Jinhua while having supper. The whole process was not calm and orderly, without any chaos, and no such phenomenon as card locations occurred. Chen Wen was quite satisfied with this.

Starting from the fourth year of Yongli, for nearly three years, this army that had developed little by little in the cracks of the Qing army finally lived up to his efforts. At least on the surface, the influence of feudalization has become increasingly low. The entire army has been integrated and has taken action without any bad actions under a sound. It is not like the feudal army, which connects officers and their confidants through chains of loyalty. Just like the door curtain, it seems that they are not.

The army walked out of the camp in order, and walked onto the official road leading to Jinhua while eating. Why did they march to Jinhua urgently? Chen Wen had already conveyed the news of the attack on Jinhua to the army one by one. Every soldier knew what they were going to do at this moment.

This is the tradition of this army, and it is precisely this that gives them higher fighting spirit, because most of the officers and soldiers in the army either live in the prefecture city or the counties in Jinhua Prefecture have their fields. Once the prefecture city is lost, it is likely that the heavens and man will be separated forever.

However, it is natural that it is not enough to inspire morale, all due to these senses of crisis. The officer named Huang from Shentang Camp had come up with a better solution and showed it after obtaining Chen Wen's permission.

As the rear troops behind the hall when they went north, when the Ming army returned, Shentang Camp turned around and became the vanguard of the army after they were in place, and they kept it. The military supervisor Huang Jian walked along the periphery of the queue and shouted loudly: "Brothers, we are here to Jinhua to help our brothers and families, sing our songs, and everyone knows we are here!"

"One, two, three, prepare, get up!"

“We are all sharpshooters.

Each bullet destroys an enemy,

We are all flying troops,

Even if the mountains are high and the water is deep.

…”

"The Song of the Guerrillas" has long been renamed "The Song of the Dalan Mountain". This is a song that Chen Wen sang in the army early. The whole army can sing, no matter what civil and military officials, and even if they cannot sing it, they will hum a few lines. At that time, they sang this song from Tiantai Mountain, which was on the rugged mountain road, thus regaining the first piece of lost land. Now they are just using this spirit of revolutionary optimism to inspire the soldiers' greater fighting spirit and perseverance.

“In that thick woods,

Gay camps are arranged everywhere.

On the high hills,

There are countless good brothers of us.”

…”

Since the end of the fifth year of Yongli, Chen Wen led his troops to restore the entire Jinhua Prefecture, and it has been a year and a half since he returned to the embrace of the Han family. The Han family's clothes and hats have reappeared, and every inch of land here belongs to the Han family, and supporters of the Ming army in Zhejiang are everywhere.

“No food, no clothing,

The enemy came forward,

No guns, no cannons,

The enemy creates it for us.”

…”

For a long time, seizure was an unavailable part of the Ming army's equipment, and the prerequisite for seizure was to win it in battle. For the Ming army, from the battle behind Simingshan Palace, they had been defeated, and even had an example of a small army being wiped out, but they never lost in the war. This was a continuation of the glory of the Qi family army and the result of the efforts of Chen Wen to each of them.

Today, since the Qing army dared to launch a large-scale raid on Jinhua, it would definitely not be just a small army, because there were no war camps in Jinhua City. Since it was here, it would definitely be a large-scale field battle, or even a decisive battle. This wild war has never failed in this land since the Qi family army decades ago to the Ming army in Zhejiang today.

“We grow here,

Every inch of land is our own,

No matter who wants to take it away,

We will fight him to the end.

…”

Jinhua, for most Ming troops in Zhejiang, is not only their hometown, but also the place where their families can settle down after obtaining the land in the army. There is no tax on military merit and pension fields, which means that they can no longer be exploited by officials and gentry, and can live happily ever after.

However, the Tartars, who had created such a horrific massacre as the Jinhua Massacre, and then used all the remnants of the land, came back again. These beasts wanted to take away their hard-earned happiness, which was absolutely untolerable!

The horses had already been spread out, and there was no ambush on the road that passed after dark, but this was a 130-mile journey, even if the official roads that the Ming army in Zhejiang had repaired in the past two years could not be as alert as they would on weekdays.

The baggage had long been left in Paitou Town, and the capture would be the supplementary troops from Zhengjiawu Town camp to transport them back. After leaving the camp, the entire army had already started running and moving forward except for walking and having dinner while walking. It was impossible to stop and rest. Every time they ran for a distance, they turned to walking and were already a rare rest.

Continuous progress means a rapid decline in physical strength. In addition to being led by the officers to sing while walking, Chen Wen had already gotten off the horse. After walking out of the camp, he walked with other soldiers and shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers.

After an hour and an hour passed, the first of them were the artillery, tiger squat cannons, and the Floridae. These weapons that gradually began to fail to keep up with the queue were constantly discarded on the road, leaving only one or two auxiliary soldiers to guard the army. Next, some soldiers with poor physical strength or sprained were sometimes left behind. Chen Wen also left the auxiliary soldiers to support them and continue to advance, while the army did not stop at all.

I don’t know how long I walked, until a hint of red appeared between the sky, Chen Wen was able to see some familiar outlines from afar.

Since the first hydraulic boring machine was manufactured, Chen Wen built a large wall along an area of ​​Dongyang River east of Jinhua Prefecture for use by hydraulic workshops. The outline he observed was that the camp of new recruits about the northeast of that area could see the far-off checkpoint from the official road. Next, the horse explorers in front even drove back everything they saw while expelling the Qing army's horse explorers in the northeast of the city.

"If you pass the order, two miles away is Jinhua City, which is still in the hands of my Zhejiang King's Army!"

The city was still in the hands of the Ming army, and the news made the already exhausted soldiers cheer up. However, Chen Wen did not order to turn south to enter the city from Chisong Gate east of the city, but continued to advance along the official road north of the city.

After driving for more than a hundred miles overnight, the Qi family army had also achieved it. In the Battle of Huajie in history, the Qi family army rushed 110 miles on the mountain roads in Taizhou to return to the Fucheng City. This time, although they had official roads along the way, there were 130 miles from Zhengjiawu Town to Jinhua Prefecture. Yesterday, they even went to Paitou Town and went back and forth without stopping, which was no less than the Qi family army in the past.

However, according to the next report by the Detective, the Qing army that came this time not only garrisoned the Eight Banners in Hangzhou, but also thousands of Han Eight Banners on the side. This heavy army group thought that it could capture Jinhua Prefecture in one fell swoop, so that it had not even been built. If they were allowed to escape, the threat in this direction would still not be lifted. Even if Jinhua Prefecture had not been lost, Hong Chengchou could still kill the Ming army in Zhejiang on this land. Only by defeating it in one fell swoop can the threat be completely lifted, at least they cannot easily return to Lanxi.

"In that April of the 92nd year, Qi Shaobao led a large army to raid more than a hundred miles back to Taizhou Prefecture City, and defeated the invading Japanese pirates without eating. Now, we forcefully marched 130 miles overnight, which is no less than those predecessors, but the Tartars were rampant in the west of the city. The soldiers told me Chen Wen, can we sit here and watch?!"

"cannot!"

"cannot!"

"cannot!"

“…”

Whether before and after the establishment of the Military Supervision Office, it was said that the Ming army in ancient times never disappeared in the Zhejiang Ming army, but the officers later received special training and were more professional. Among the stories they told, there were heroes who defended the Han civilization and warriors who were powerful outside the territory, and naturally, the stories of this Ming army themselves, as well as the glorious achievements of the Qi army decades ago as the target of their reconstruction.

The Battle of Huajie was one of the most brilliant examples of the Qi family's army's fight against the Japanese in Taizhou, no one in the army knew about it. They were only one step away from the predecessors who shone for the ages. As long as they defeated the Tartars in the west of the city, they could surpass the Qi family army and become a new legend. Once they thought of this, the soldiers in the army were all excited, and even their physical fatigue was wiped out in excitement.

"I have ordered the chefs of the major restaurants in the city to prepare wine and meat, kill all the Tartars in the west of the city and then go to eat, just like the Qi family army back then!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

“…”

Holding up the weapons in his hand, less than 6,000 soldiers from the Nantang, Shentang and Guards of the Ming army in Zhejiang Province rushed west with resolute steps. What awaited them was no longer the Japanese pirates from ninety-two years ago, but the eight thousand elite troops from the Eight Banners of the Han army.
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