While the Ming army's Yiwu and Lishui Second Battalion went south, the Qing army's Fujian Admiral Yang Minggao, the left general Wang Zhigang, and the right general Ma Hegong, the right general Ma Hegong, the army headed the south along Jiangshan Port to prevent the Ming army from crossing Jiangshan Port.

The Ming army showed its intentions so obvious, which was not in line with the military justice, but Chen Wen still acted so blatantly, but the Qing army could not ignore it. At least in the eyes of Yang Minggao and other Fujian Green Camp generals, the more the Ming army went south, the more likely it would be to become an obstacle for them to return to Fujian. If they were blocked here, facing the Ming army in Zhejiang, which was not even the Eight Banners of the Han Army, let it go aside if they were fighting, at least they would not have any chance of winning.

Three green camps from Fujian were advancing in unison and heading towards Jiangshan County. After all, they had to stop there first, so that they could have a way out to deal with anything in the future. However, before they could walk out a day, news came from the Qing army camp on the west bank of Quzhou that the Ming army forced to cross the Qujiang River and tens of thousands of Qing soldiers fled.

As soon as they heard this news, Yang Minggao and others were shocked and left with suspicion, suspecting that the Qing army envoy was pretended by the Ming army and took the risk of spreading the news for the sake of cunning. However, after they confirmed the identity of this person, this suspicion immediately turned into fear, driving them to no longer consider the issue of the retreat of Jiangshan County. They had to escape back to Xianxia Pass if they said anything.

Looking across the river, the Qing army on the other side was in an abnormal state. Next, we received news that Chen Wenqiang crossed the Qujiang River and was chasing the main force of the Qing army.

Speaking of which, the nearly 20,000 soldiers, which were doubled to this number, were chased by a Ming army with only 6,000 people. It sounded absurd to a certain extent, but everyone was willing to protect themselves. Besides, most of the Qing army had a chaos in the system, and there was no way to return the scattered soldiers to the original ranks in a few days. Even like Li Benshen and Hu Maozhen, who reacted earlier and had a relatively complete system, were unwilling to lose their capital for the rear of the army.

Upon receiving the news, Li Ruixin ordered to cross Jiangshan Port and stay behind the three Qing troops. He raided from time to time, and never gave the Qing army time to stop and rest.

In this way, the Ming and Qing armies marched south along Jiangshan Port one after another. The Ming army occasionally chased and fought, but the Qing army did not dare to fight. Almost just left some of the troops behind the palace and continued to go south. On the way, the Qing army had attempted to ambush the Ming army once, but the result was not satisfactory. After the Ming army easily broke out from the encirclement, they just followed the Qing army and no longer underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, and they could not get rid of them.

A few days later, the Qing army rushed to Xianxia Pass along the ancient road, and the Ming army followed closely behind.

Xianxia Pass is located on Xianxia Ridge between Quzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province and Jianning Prefecture, Fujian Province. There are two passes in the northeast and southwest, collectively known as Xianxia Pass

Xianxia Pass City is connected to the mountains from east to west, and there are narrow roads between north and south, known as "the key to the two Zhejiangs and the throat of entering Fujian". The wars are frequent, and the beacons continues to continue, and have always been a place for military strategists to fight for. Not to mention anything else, several years ago, Emperor Longwu started in Fujian and blocked the Qing army's passage to enter Fujian. Later, it was because Zheng Chenggong, the father of his son, Zheng Zhilong, withdrew the defenders of Xianxia Pass, that the Qing army entered Fujian and destroyed the Longwu court.

Xianxia Pass is crucial to the Qing army in Fujian. Once it is captured by the Ming army in Zhejiang, it means that the Ming army in Zhejiang has the capital and possibility to enter the reunion of Fujian and the Ming army in Fujian, which can be said to be a devastating consequence for the Qing army in Fujian.

Because of this, Yang Minggao and others tried to ambush the Ming army on the road. As a result, this Ming army easily defeated the Qing army that blocked the gap and escaped. After that battle, they had no other way. After all, no matter how they fought, they had to decide the outcome. Now they could not trap the Ming army to death, and they could not defeat them. They could only escape south and escape back to Fujian.

As she approached Xianxia Pass, Yang Minggao and others abandoned the army and fled one night with their elite troops, leaving the brigade of Qing army to the Ming army.

Li Ruixin was very dissatisfied with this gift. What he wanted was not these green camp soldiers, but the Xianxia Pass that Yang Minggao and the others cared about. So after discovering all this, the Ming army drove more than 10,000 Qing troops composed of thousands of war soldiers and thousands of auxiliary soldiers to continue to go south, and even drove them to attack Xianxia Pass.

After Yang Minggao and others sent troops, in order to ensure safety, the green camp soldiers from Jianning Prefecture, Fujian Province have been guarding this place. After Yang Minggao and others fled back to Xianxia Pass, they immediately ordered the gate to be sealed with big stones to prevent the Ming army from driving out the defeated soldiers and killing them. In fact, it proved that their experience lived up to the title of "Shou General".

In the evenings in mid-June, outside the gate of Xianxia Pass, countless Qing troops rushed to the gate. They were attacked by the Qing army on the top of the city with wooden rocks and various guards. They would never dare to open the gate and let these Qing troops enter the gate because they knew very well that the Ming army was spying not far away. As soon as they opened and closed the gate, they would drive away the defeated troops to attack Xianxia Pass. But even so, these Qing troops did not dare to turn back, because on the road to the north, the Ming army had only one word for killing them.

"Ma Degong, I have worked hard for you since Northern Zhili. Now that you are treating us like this, aren't you afraid of going to hell after death?"

"Military Yang, please open and close the door and save us."

"The retribution for Tu Shaowu was coming back then, it was not that he would not be repaid. The time has not come. Wang Zhigang, you thief, I am waiting for you below!"

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Praying in pain, cursing in anger, like cuckoos weeping blood, resounding outside the gate of Xianxia Pass. A few days later, almost all the defeated troops were killed by the defenders of the city, and those who survived went directly to the Ming army's prisoner camp and returned to Jiangshan County with the Ming army.

But at this moment, corpses were everywhere outside Xianxia Pass, blood flowing into rivers, wild dogs, jackals, and crows ran out of the mountains and forests to enjoy this rare feast. However, the Qing army on the pass still did not dare to remove the big stone and bury these Qing soldiers from the pass because they had no idea whether the Ming army had really left as they said.

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Because the Ming army blocked the waterway by using shipwrecks, Qiantang Water Camp had to abandon the ship and flee. After boarding the ships on the Qujiang River, they went downstream to return to Hangzhou as soon as possible.

During this encirclement and suppression, Qiantang Water Camp was the key to revitalizing the whole chess piece, and they did do this. Whether it was transporting the Han army's Eight Banners Army, breaking through the direction of Lanjiang, or suppressing the Ming army's water camp in Quzhou, they all achieved the ultimate they could do. The defeat in this battle was actually not very important, especially the loss of nearly half of the ships, and the death of the guerrilla warfare in the Shuizuo Camp proved how hard they tried.

But if you lose, you will lose. There will probably be punishment. However, it depends on how they perform in preventing the threats the Ming army may have to Hangzhou. This is a general understanding of the generals of the Qiantang Navy. If you want to play a role, you must first return to Hangzhou, which is also necessary.

The Qiantang Navy flowed east along the water, and the Qiantang Navy did not encounter any resistance. This is normal because the Ming army's water camp no longer exists. It was either sunk by them or sinking itself, so there was no turmoil until the front of Lanxi. For them, as long as they entered the Lanjiang River and continued to go down the river, they could soon return to the occupied area of ​​the Qing army.

The Ming army in Quzhou was getting farther and closer to home, but after they turned into Lanjiang, they found that the Ming army had no intention of letting them go back.

On a narrower river channel north of Lanxi, the Ming army pulled up an iron chain to block the way. The Qiantang Shuiying Shuiyouying Guerrillas made a quick decision to force the iron chain away with several large ships. However, after paying these ships, he found that there were iron chains pulled by the Ming army on the outer silt continent, the river beach and other rivers, and the Ming army was waiting for them not far away.

It is impossible to abandon the ship. If they abandon the ship, they can still run over the Ming army's infantry and cavalry on land. Seeing this, the guerrillas in the water camp had to order the ships to force their breakthrough, and finally broke through the encirclement.

But when we looked back, the guerrillas in the water camp cried, leaving only five small boats. The Qiantang Water Camp, which once crossed the Qiantang River, was completely finished.

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After breaking through the Qujiang defense line, Chen Wenshuai's army chased the Qing army and chased them all the way. In response, no one of the tens of thousands of Qing troops dared to turn back to fight. For the back of the army, he could only keep throwing the fallen ones, and even Changshan County and Yushan County did not dare to defend.

Driven by fear, the Qing army continued to shrink westward, from the initial army of nearly 60,000 to Guangxin Mansion, there were more than 10,000 people left, and the rest were all left to the Ming army.

Li Benshen completed Hong Chengchou's instructions and successfully guarded for half a month, but in this half month they had only been guarding Qujiang for one day. The first ten days and the next few days were all running on the road, and they had made enough time by relying on the long journey.

Hong Chengchou didn't say anything about these things, but sent cavalry to their rear guard and placed these Qing army survivors into the city of Guangxin Mansion.

The Qing army of Guangxin Prefecture was bound to defend, but Chen Wen had no way to capture it. It was not just that artillery could not keep up with the pursuit. A duplex bastion was built outside the Guangxin Prefecture city that appeared in front of him. It seemed that the Anhua Town bastion was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it was forming a junction with the Guangxin Prefecture city.

Chen Wen didn't know how Hong Chengchou did it, whether it was the Jesuits recruited from Beijing or the Portuguese recruited from Macau. Anyway, the bastion had been built, and the strength in his hands could not do anything to the truth.

Seeing this, Chen Wen waved his hand, and a Ming army cavalry rode out, grabbed a luxuriously-clad Qing army and rushed to the city, killed him in front of everyone, chopped his head down and took him away, then shot an arrow at the top of the city and left.

A strip of cloth tied to the arrow, which read the person's identity, which was clearly "First-class Jingqinihafan, Han army inlaid with red flags, Gushan Ezhen Stone Pillar". After leaving these, the Ming army left in a loud laugh and headed towards Guangfeng County, southeast of Guangxin Prefecture, because it was not far from the temporary base of Zhang Zisheng, the Bo of Pingjiang, and Chen Wen was already preparing to talk about the merger with Zhang Zisheng. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!