When Zheng Tai arrived in Dinghai, Xu Lei escaped back to Hangzhou by chance. However, he was the only one who returned to Hangzhou, but his father-in-law Yu Fenqi did not come back.

"My father-in-law, he died on the road. The Ming army in Shaoxing is still searching for him. The son-in-law really has no way to bring back his father-in-law's body, so he has to bury it there for the time being, make a mark, and then go to pick up bones in the future."

After slumping in front of his mother-in-law, Xu Lei knocked on the ground one by one, but the news of Yu Fenqi's death still made his mother-in-law faint.

"mother!"

A group of children rushed forward and finally woke their mother up. But when they woke up, they couldn't stop the tears.

In fact, when the first defeated soldiers fled back, Dasu and his guards fled back to Hangzhou. When the news of the Qing army's defeat in Siming Lake came, they had already felt this. As more and more defeated soldiers fled back, most of them were the Eight Banners Army, and few people could escape back without the upgrade of the war horses and the tuition. Day by day, Yu Fenqi had never heard of it. Until today, when Xu Lei brought the bad news, they realized that there was no news and it was sometimes a good thing.

The crying sounds of the room also included Xu Lei. He fled back to Hangzhou, but did not return to the camp or go home. He just went to his uncle's house to confirm that Xu Xin also fled back and he hurriedly fell to his house to report his demise.

"My sister-in-law, my father unfortunately died in battle, and even General Tian was not spared. Now that he is in chaos, what should he do? I need to spend more time. Brother Yu thanked me here."

"A family, why did you say this?"

After helping Yu Fenqi's eldest son up, Xu Lei mentioned the matter of arranging the funeral, and also went to his uncle Xu Xin to discuss helping the court to find grace. After busy all day, Xu Lei found out that the bad news had not yet informed his wife, Yu Fenqi's daughter.

Hurrying back home, Xu Lei said the whole story. Sure enough, his wife fainted immediately when she heard that her father had died in Shaoxing.

After another struggle, he finally sent his crying wife to the carriage. He stayed at home for dinner without entering a day and spent the night at home so that he could continue to get things done tomorrow.

Xu Lei was eating dinner that was almost time for midnight snacks. He was really exhausted these days, but while eating, he found that something seemed to be missing at home.

"Where is Aunt Li?"

"Return, come back, come back, master..."

The servants who were serving him were completely frightened when they heard him ask about the Li girl, which really made Xu Lei feel extremely uneasy.

He stopped eating or listening to the words, and Xu Lei hurriedly ran to the yard. It was not until he rushed into the door and saw Li Ruixin's mother sitting by the bed and whispering something with the Li girl wrapped in a quilt. His heart fell down.

However, when the Li family saw him, their eyes, which were already extremely red and swollen, bursts of tears gushed out with howling wails.

"Husband, the child is gone, our child is gone!"

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The arms contract was still being executed last year. Before leaving, Zheng Tai had arrived and delivered the gold, silver and goods worth one million taels of silver to Wenzhou. At that time, large areas of hydraulic workshops were built on both sides of the Dongyang River by making hydraulic machinery. Using these workshops, the speed of weapons manufacturing was rapidly increased. By the time Zheng Tai arrived, not only did his own weapons and equipment manufacturing progress not delayed, but the Zheng family's order was almost completed.

The ability to complete the order so quickly really aroused Zheng Tai's great surprise. However, as Huang Zongxi restarted Dalan Mountain, the Qing army soon encircled and suppressed the troops. Chen Wen was eager to send troops, so Zheng Tai returned to Wenzhou to supervise the fleet to transport, and purchase more goods.

Wenzhou is now a hub port for trade between the Ming army in Zhejiang and the Ming army in Fujian, and even the port expansion plan has been on the agenda. Zheng Tai is there, which can not only supervise bulk trade, but also facilitates contact with Zheng Chenggong. The best of both worlds is logically not supposed to appear in Dinghai, awkward place.

What's more, Dinghai is located at the mouth of the Yongjiang River. If you want to reach Dinghai from Wenzhou by sea, you must not only pass through a series of coastal islands east of Ningbo, but also bypass the land that is protruding to the east for dozens of miles. Compared with land northward, the journey will increase significantly. More importantly, you must pass through the Luotou Waterway and Jintang Waterway between Ningbo and Zhoushan. The Qing army still has a unit composed of one thousand infantry and two thousand navy soldiers in Zhoushan.

If you have any matters, you can discuss it by sending one or two messengers by land. When you come by yourself, Zheng Tai's trip is very dangerous, which makes the unreasonable point even worse.

Common sense is a monster, especially when another possibility appears in his mind, Chen Wen rushed to Dinghai with rushing speed.

"I saw Fu Ren's army gathering here, even the Zhejiang coastal cruise navy is also heading north in large numbers, but is it intentional to lead the army to Zhoushan?"

"Whether you lie on the side of the bed, you can't let others snore? Zhoushan's geographical location is extremely important, so naturally it is better to recover it as soon as possible."

Hearing this, Zheng Tai's mouth twitched. Although it was extremely mild, it was all seen in Chen Wen's eyes. After a moment, it seemed that he had made up his mind. Zheng Tai turned to Chen Wen and said, "I think Fu Ren should know that Zhoushan's deputy general Ba Cheng was from the Tibiao Camp and participated in the Battle of Siming Lake in the fourth year of Yongli. Now, he has sent someone to surrender to Brother Yu and wants to turn to Damu."

I'll know!

As soon as he received the news, Chen Wen had already anticipated this possibility, because only this possibility could perfectly explain Zheng Tai's extraordinary things in this matter.

Now that Chen Wen has recovered the Eight Prefectures in eastern Zhejiang, the news of Hangzhou's defeat in the Eight Banners may have reached Zheng Tai's ears. The Ming army in Zhejiang's land combat capabilities are getting stronger and stronger, while the Ming army in Fujian, as an ally, is still dominating the naval forces. Even the paper strength of the naval forces on both sides is constantly getting closer with the number of large and large ships built along the coast of Zhejiang and the various artillery cast.

The world is not yet determined, and this will inevitably create a great sense of crisis.

What's more, in Chen Wen's memory, the Zheng family group originated from pirates and was a disadvantage in land warfare. In infantry warfare, they were strengthened by the vine armored soldiers and the Iron Man Army. In terms of cavalry, they also tried their best to recruit cavalry generals who had transferred from the Qing army. Ma Xin, Li Bi, Wang Rong and others are examples, and Ba Chenggong, who originally surrendered in the ninth year of Yongli, changed his name to Ba Chenxing, Guan Xuanyi's former town and Guan Iron Cavalry, and immediately became a cavalry general under Zheng Chenggong. As for this Mongolian Tartar, he returned to Zheng Chenggong more than 100 horses and means of training cavalry.

However, unlike the original history, Zheng Chenggong only besieged Zhoushan at that time, which led to the surrender of Bacheng and the Ningbo deputy general Zhang Hongde, who was coordinating the defense. Now it is the time when Chen Wen completely revived the eight prefectures in eastern Zhejiang. Zhang Hongde, who had been promoted by Chen Wen as the general, had also surrendered in Ningbo Prefecture City, and Zhoushan was just a piece of fat at the mouth. At this time, whether Bacheng took the initiative to submit or the Zheng family deliberately did it, Zheng Tai, who has always been good at both sides, dared to intercept the rude so blatantly, which shows how urgent the Zheng group is to be experienced cavalry generals.

However, in this way, the relationship that was originally brought closer through trade began to appear. Especially since once Ba Chenggong became Zheng Chenggong's subordinate, Zhoushan would fall into his hands. What this means is not just a crack!

Seeing that Chen Wen's expression became worse and worse, Zheng Tai sighed and could only say, "Fu Ren, we are not secretly talking about it. Then this Ba and his cavalry from the ExtraBiao camp will be dead in your hands. Damu is very troubled to face the Geng family's cavalry in Fujian, and they are lacking such help. Brother Yu did not say hello in advance. All the mistakes are wrong with Brother Yu. If you should be beaten and punished, Brother Yu would never say anything."

"What did you say about brother? Can you punish me?" At this point, Chen Wen changed his mind. "It's just Zhoushan..."

"I should hand it over to my good brother."

"Then I'll have a hard time."

For a small Zhoushan, this is impossible.

On the way, Chen Wen had already analyzed: Military, Zhoushan's geographical location is important, and it can be used as a gateway to Zhejiang and as a springboard for attacking surrounding prefectures. However, most areas that are more threatened by it are already Chen Wen's territory, and it is not as good as Chongming Island controlled by Zhang Mingzhen's army controlled by Zheng Chenggong; economically, Zhoushan's islands cannot be compared with Ningbo, which is across the sea, in terms of area, and are basically all mountainous and have very low grain output. As for politics, in recent decades, except for the past tens of thousands of years, there is no other political significance.

Suppose that if the Zheng family dominated Zhoushan, Chen Wen's navy did not have much solution, but that would mean a serious confrontation between the two major anti-Qing groups on the southeast coast. Military confrontation would lead to the two sides spending more resources on targeting each other; economic confrontation would lead to the severance of trade; politically, there would be no meaning.

All of this is for the Zheng Group, which is expected to receive goods from Zhejiang and then make profits from other places, and the return of the return will not be less than one million taels of silver every year. The transformed power is reflected in the military, and the balance of Fujian will be increasingly poured towards Zheng Chenggong. If this income is gone and Chen Wen is in opposition to Zhejiang, it will be no less than the loss, not to mention that this number is expected to gradually increase in the next few years.

Although Zhoushan has a good geographical location, as a maritime businessman, it is completely useless, and it is not even considered a waste of money. It can only be regarded as a fish bone. After eating it, you may be able to lick a few traces of fish on it, but it means that your throat will be stuck and it is completely meaningless.

After seeing Zheng Tai off, Zheng Tai also began to transport Ba successful troops back to Fujian in batches as promised. Chen Wen had already handed over the rest to Ma Xin, who was temporarily stationed in Dinghai, while he led his staff to the road back to Jinhua.

On the Shaoxing side, Yin Yue had already expressed that he had recovered everything and was now confronting the Qing army at Qiantang River. Appropriate pressure was necessary, but Chen Wen did not have the energy to recover Hangzhou now, and even he felt that it was a waste to place five battalions of troops in Ning Shao.

After entrenching in Zhejiang for many years, Chen Wen has always faced the difficulties of strategic multi-line combat, so it is difficult for him to achieve a large-scale breakthrough at one point in every victory. In the fifth year of Yongli, Ma Jinbao was defeated, Zhang Guoxun, and Chen Jin was defeated twice in the sixth year of Yongli. However, the Qing army's existence on the Northern Line always held Chen Wen's back, and it was not until last year that it began to ease.

Last year, the four provincial capitals suppressed the entire Fujian Green Camp's mobile troops were completely destroyed, and they are still recovering from injuries there. By the way, they assisted Geng Jimao in sharing the pressure of Zheng Chenggong, which was completely defensive to Zhejiang. At the same time, the regaining of Yanzhou Prefecture made the core occupied areas no longer possible by the Qing army's surprise attack, and even threatened the security of the Qing Dynasty's core area of ​​Zhejiang's rule. The following Ma Xin and Hu Lai Jin made the Ming army face the sea and spring was blooming.

By this year, with the restoration of Ningbo and Shaoxing, and the destruction of the main force of the Qing army in Zhejiang, the pressure on the northern line has not yet been reduced. It seems that it can sweep away Hangzhou, Jiaxi and Lake, and even Jiangnan, but it is not a good time to work together to north.

In the second Battle of Siming Lake, Dasu was defeated miserably, but the Eight Banners Army had many horses and packed horses, and lost more than 2,000 people. However, there were many people who fled the battlefield, especially the Eight Banners of Mongolia, which were basically well preserved. With these troops, they cooperated with the Green Camp and Navy of Hangzhou and Jiahu, Dasu was not without the ability to stand firm and wait for assistance.

More importantly, Hong Chengchou is still there, and he must gather troops in Quzhou and the frontier Yushan County, and he cannot concentrate all his forces to go north!

With the issuance of the order, Chen Wen still led the Pujiang Camp to station in Yanzhou with Chen Guobao, maintaining pressure and existence on Hangzhou; while the Shaoxing Prefecture, which faced Qiantang River, was dominated by Yin Yue, among which the Ruian Camp was deployed along the Qiantang River, and the Dongyang Camp was stationed in Shaoxing Prefecture City as the backing; in the coastal direction, Ma Xin led the Tiantai Camp to assist in the defense of Yuyao-Cixi-Dinghai line, and the Wenling Camp took into account the defense of Taizhou and Fenghua and Xiangshan in southern Ningbo, while Hu Laijin wanted to lead the Huangyan Camp to Wenzhou south to replace Wu Dengke to take into account the Wenzhou and both the Wenzhou prefectures.

In this way, Chen Wen can concentrate nine battle barracks in the direction of Quzhou, including Nantang, Jinwei, Shentang, Yiwu, Lishui, Chun'an, Yushan, Feixiong and Iron Cavalry. In addition, some departments including the Lulu Town Lenbud, Zhengjiawu Town Lenbud, the reduction of the number of garrisons in Anhua Town Lenbud, and the replacement of some garrisons by a new batch of new recruits who have completed training in the recruit training camp. There are always 20,000 troops, and they should fight to the death with Hong Chengchou as soon as possible.

On the way back to Jinhua, Wang Jiang had already started to work familiar with relevant government affairs, but what interested him more was the trade between the Ming army in Zhejiang and the Ming army in Fujian.

"It turns out that buying and selling people and weapons is so profitable."

Wang Jiang, a good talent in finance and government affairs, was brought to the astray of "subject to prison and being shot". Chen Wen couldn't help but cover his face and smile bitterly.

"I'm afraid I won't do such a thing with the Zheng family again in the future."

What Chen Wen said about Wang Jiang was completely understandable. The ownership of Zhoushan was left behind between the two anti-Qing groups. In the eyes of the Ming army in Zhejiang, the Ming army in Fujian intercepted Zhoushan and stole their military merits and seizures; while the Ming army in Fujian determined that it was the Ming army in Zhejiang who was overwhelmed by power and took away the Zhoushan Islands that had fallen into their hands with nothing.

The cracks have formed. This time Chen Wen defeated the Eight Banners Army, but Zheng Tai did not mention the new round of purchasing the Eight Banners Army and weapons. The equipment is a clear proof.

"Then we must also organize the sea trade, Japan, North Korea, and Ryukyu as soon as possible. These do not need to go through Fujian. We can't let the Zheng family always hold us."
Chapter completed!