The battle in Wencheng Town ended after two hours. Because the Qing army was all cavalry and lacked the ability to 14, they could not exert much strength in the complex terrain of the town under the complex terrain. As for the other route they had previously divided, they were preparing to intercept the troops of the garrison in Bingxi Town east of Wencheng Town, they waited for the garrison that was marching forward.

The Qing army rushed to take the lead, but the Ming army was not a soft persimmon, and the casualties were basically 50% and the more the battle continued, the more it was more unfavorable to the Qing army. However, the Qing army set fire to a certain extent and regained some of the losses to the local people. In addition, the Qing army was all cavalry, and they came and went like the wind, which was not something that the Ming army, which was mainly infantry, could catch up with.

In the following days, the Qing army dispatched a large number of cavalry to cross the 20-mile unmanned land, and attacked the towns and villages in the direction of the Ming army in batches, sneaked into the garrison outside the city, and even approached the county town to show off their power to the Ming army. The two places were only a few dozen miles apart, and the cavalry attack was completed and they could return on the same day and rotated to raid. The logistical pressure was not very high, but the pressure of the Ming army stationed here doubled.

"It really should be left with Hong Chengchou in the Confucius Temple."

As soon as he began to punish those gentry who had won the title of the Qing Dynasty and participated in the imperial examinations of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Chengchou jumped out to make trouble. After seeing the report, Chen Wen couldn't help but curse in his heart.

Of course, he was not unaware that this was a chain reaction since the four provincial capitals suppressed the Qing army. The winning Ming army continued to divide the territory and expand conflicts with local scholars and officials, thus leading to the recent political struggle. On the other hand, due to the disastrous defeat, Chen Wen was forced to engage in Ma Xin anyway, recovering Taiwan and Wen. While lifting the blockade in one direction, it also forced Hong Chengchou to move, otherwise he would be even more unable to explain to the Qing court.

Since receiving the report, Chen Wen led the Guard Camp and Yushan Camp westward, while Chun'an Camp was added to the direction of Anhua Town Bastion just in case. Nantang Camp is in Taizhou, Lishui Camp must take into account both Chuzhou and Wenzhou, and other battalions also have garrison tasks. As the core area of ​​the occupied area, Jinhua Prefecture only leaves Dongyang Camp, which is still trying to restore its combat effectiveness, which is very difficult.

“The time is still too short.”

After the four provincial capitals, Chen Wen began to build four new battle camps, and now only two have completed basic training. However, the recruit training camp is still busy, even more busy than before, because they have to train a large number of recruits as garrisons in Taizhou and Wenzhou as soon as possible, so that Nantang camp can escape.

Most of the newly recruited recruits were newly recruited Ding Zhuang, who was like white paper without handwriting. He received the Zhejiang Ming army training camp until the training camp was trained, or mass-produced the qualified recruits were sent to each battalion and garrison.

These are all easy, but after these recruits are finished training and after changing defense, they will start training those green camp soldiers anyway, it will not be that simple.

There are many veterans in Taizhou and Wenzhou, and they have advantages in combat experience and martial arts. However, while training, they also need to correct the bad habits of old-style soldiers. The time spent is definitely not a small number of times, but it is much more difficult than splashing ink on white paper.

The occupied area expanded, but the troops were insufficient. At this moment, Chen Wen's army was fully deployed in the occupied area, and Ning Shao had no danger to defend. However, even so, he still could not concentrate his forces on Ningbo and Shaoxing, which were relatively easy, not to mention attacking Guangxin Mansion and besieging the bastion. Therefore, if you want to get rid of this embarrassment, you still need more time and resources.

However, before this, it is more important to keep the occupied area in order to talk about the next step.

He led the guards to Quzhou first. The Yiwu camp stationed here had already entered Yushan County and cooperated with Shentang Camp to resist the Qing army. However, the Qing cavalry came and went like the wind. The existence of the two camps, mainly infantry, was to protect the county town and the attached areas. No matter how far away the towns and villages were, it was difficult to take into account both.

"Report to the general that the last general thought that the Tartars attacked with light cavalry but did not want to fight. Our army should also fight back with light cavalry, with tooth for tooth and eye for eye."

Li Ruixin was stationed in Quzhou and sent Yiwu camp to An Youfu to dispatch him. He also wanted to continue training the cavalry camp here so that it could form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. Chen Wen came here and originally planned to rush to Yushan County when he met Li Ruixin, but he didn't know that the first sentence he heard when he met was this.

After thinking for a while, Chen Wen shook his head and then said: "The cavalry battalion has only been trained for two months. Even if the infantry is normal, it is just the most basic training, let alone the cavalry. On the Tartars, there are many cavalrymen in the army, and the cavalry is too disadvantageous in cavalry battles, so this is not appropriate."

"The general entrusted the last general to train cavalry, and the last general should do his best. However, the cavalry is different from infantry. Infantry training combat formations, strengthening the sense of obedience, and severely punishing them, so they can barely go into battle, but the cavalry is different. The so-called cavalry is a clutch and merger. It is necessary to fight back and forth on the battlefield and fight back and forth with the enemy. It is not possible to just practice. They must be allowed to go into battle and experience it yourself. It is best to see blood again before they can become an army."

Cavalry is not as good as infantry battles, and Chen Wen's understanding is indeed far less than that of a cavalry general like Li Ruixin. Li Ruixin's suggestions sound quite insightful.

But war horses are hard-won. Now Hong Chengchou has blocked traffic from all over the country, and land trade is obviously impossible to obtain. The sea trade has not officially started, and even if it can be larger than he imagined, Zheng Chenggong also lacks cavalry, and war horses will never become commodities. Nowadays, most of the war horses of the Ming army in Zhejiang come from seizures, and there is no way to compare the number of people in the army with the Qing Dynasty. They are treasures in the army, so they are naturally treasures.

Seeing that Chen Wen was already hesitating, Li Ruixin decided to add another handful of firewood. "Master, the last general was only in his teens and rode his horse to fight. At that time, he had just learned how to ride a horse."

Can ordinary cavalry compete with you, a monster who can penetrate the sun with one foot and shoot arrows at a hundred steps?

However, Chen Wen is more inclined to the opinions of professionals. He can drive the car, but he doesn't hold the steering wheel, step on the clutch and accelerator, and fight with cold weapons. He has only been in contact with the cavalry for the past three years. He can ride, can ride a horse and chop it. Looking at the flag words, it's only so much. Compared with Li Ruixin, who has been immersed in horsemanship since he was a child and fought with Huang Degong in his teens, there is a lot of difference in understanding and use of medieval cavalry.

"Okay, but you have to go to the command yourself to make sure they can get more experience relatively safely."

"This is exactly what the last general wants."

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In October, the weather has begun to cool slightly, but this is the cooler in the south. It is not like the ones that start to put on clothes layer by layer in the north. It is just that it is not as hot as midsummer.

In the north, when the autumn is high and the horses are fat, it is always when nomadic peoples travel south to invade Han land and plunder wealth, so there is also a saying that prevents autumn there. However, now here is the division between the Han Dynasty's royal army and the traitor army that accomplices the tigers, and the word "prevents autumn" can also be used.

"Run in, kill all the males, and take them away with the woman!"

Ten days ago, the officer of the Jingbiaozhong Town who led a team to raid Wencheng Town failed to destroy the garrison before the reinforcements arrived, but he was not punished for it. The reason was that the Ming army's reaction was too fast and the garrison was far more determined than other troops. Hong Chengchou and Zhang Yong were both mentally prepared. It was good to burn nearly half of the town and bring back dozens of beheadings. At least it was easier to explain to the Qing court than not being able to win in the field.

The attack can not only give full play to the huge number of cavalry in the Qing army, but also effectively consume the Ming army's warehouse and military strength, so as to achieve the strategic goal of restraining the Ming army here and making it impossible for them to go beyond the other way. It is the new tactic that Hong Chengchou came up with after that defeat. However, for these Qing cavalry who were carrying out missions, this is a shortcut to make money by taking advantage of this - anyway, the above order is to kill the army and men to reduce the acquisition of human resources of the Ming army, so as to simply take away the wealth and women, so as to "further" weaken the Ming army and expand the pockets and morale of the soldiers.

As early as after Wencheng Town was attacked, the Ming army began to order people west of the county to seek refuge to the east of the county, but the hometown was difficult to leave and achieved little success. It also gave the Qing army the target of attack. This is east of Yulangxi and north of Wencheng Town, called Hengjie Town, which is the county's commercial town. However, the "Maohaw Club" on August 12th has long passed, especially the Qing army's blockade, which is too deserted here, and more people in the town are still local people.

Youdao means that there is no business, and such large commercial towns are much richer than ordinary towns. With the orders of the officers, the Qing cavalry of the brigade rushed into the town without defenders and began to kill the men and the elderly and weak, arrest adult or underage women, and search for all valuable goods in shops and houses everywhere.

"You beasts, you scum who cannot enter the ancestral tomb after death, will kill you when the king comes!"

The Qing army's laughter, shouts of killing, screams of male soldiers, and crying of a woman came, and they were gathering in the town while spreading towards the four fields. However, at this moment, in front of the officer led by the Qing army, there was a white-haired and an old man dressed in a gentleman was urging with a cane.

"Seeing that you are a scholar, I plan to spare your life and take it back to the boss of the strategy. You old coffin, don't want to live anymore?"

"I am over 80 years old and have lived enough. Now I only have to see how you beasts die!"

"Damn it, let this immortal hang upside down and I'll see how long he can live."

With a command, several personal soldiers went up to push a few women who wanted to stop them, grabbed the old man out, hung a rope on the archway, and tied it to the old man's feet. Just by pulling it, the old man's body reached the ground, and then his feet were on top of his head and was hung up.

"Continue to scold, don't you have any habit? Swear to me."

As he said that, the officer came over on his horse, whipped the old man with a whip, and then burst into laughter.

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After a while, the old man was still hanging there. In the open space in the middle of the town, more and more women were arrested. The Qing army also began to put ropes around their necks, preparing to take them back like a animal. Only some of the beautiful ones were tied up and threw them on the cart. These were planned to be taken back for filial piety to Shangguan and to their colleagues, so they naturally had to be treated differently.

"Let those bastards get faster and rush back."

After receiving the order, several personal soldiers who came from came ran to the town and shouted to spread the order. But after a while, the soldiers had not restrained much, but the sentries from the east of the town issued an alarm for attack.

The officers had already pried out from the prisoners how many cavalry were there in the Ming army garrison in the county town. Some of the two hundred cavalrymen were stationed in the nearest towns in the county town to serve as messengers, with more than 300 cavalry from the northwest who had brought the Mongols, the Dashun Army, and the Han Hui Rebel Army. Naturally, he had no fear at all. At this moment, he even had the intention to use this place to destroy some Ming cavalry to increase the scope of the next attack. Unfortunately, things seemed not as simple as he imagined.

"Reported that the Zhejiang ** cavalry attacked in large numbers. Absolutely, there were almost as many as four or five hundred cavalry."

"This is impossible!" He shouted out what he thought in his heart, but as a veteran officer who had been in the army for many years, he still ordered the gathering of soldiers to speed up the gathering of soldiers. "Start the fire and ignite the town to stop the enemy."

After a while, news kept coming, and the number of Ming cavalry in the report seemed to be a little higher than before, which made the officers confused.

"It seems that there is a cavalry battalion in the Ming army is training in Quzhou!"

A thought instantly opened the dark side of doubt. "You, take our troops to escort the prisoners. The others will follow me to meet the bandits who have just learned to ride donkeys and come to die."

The cavalry of the brigade surged out and soon met the Ming cavalry who were rushing towards this place. Neither side had stopped to accumulate power and rushed straight to the other side.

The number of cavalry in the Ming army was indeed as stated by the horses, but the officers were not frightened. Cavalry warfare was more important than personal bravery, as well as the officers' experience and spirituality, rather than infantry fighting in formation.

The cavalry of the brigade rushed towards the opponent. The Qing army officers had even seen the Ming army's cavalry beginning to show signs of chaos in the speed of the horse from the rising dust. However, he was not in a hurry. Instead, he led his subordinates to rush to a few hundred meters and rushed towards another direction, forming an angle with the Ming army's cavalry.
Chapter completed!