On the first day of September, just as the Qing army of Guangdong and Fujian provinces, which were of different sizes, announced like a barrage, that it had returned to the Ming Dynasty, as the initiator of all this, Chen Wen had returned to Nanchang to take charge.

After two months of operation, Chen Wen reached an agreement with Hao Jiushang and Monk Geng Jimao and Monk Kexi, a powerful deterrent force of conquering Ganzhou's city in one day with the help of other systems, Ming army and the mortar shelling that even the ridges could not withstand, and Chen Wen reached an agreement with Hao Jiushang and Geng Jimao Monk Kexi.

Chaozhou General Hao Jiushang announced that anyway, Li Chengdong's general, after following Li Chengdong's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty by himself. Under Chen Wen's persuasion, he announced again that he had finally returned to the "big family" of the Ming army. Chen Wen needed him to stare at Shang Kexi, as a nail buried between the two feudals of Shang and Geng, and he needed the endorsement of Chen Wen, a powerful faction, and the title of a marquis, to reach a deal and each gains its own profit.

At the same time, King Geng Jimao of Jingnan also relied on announcing that Chen Wen had been endorsed by the grain road of Fujian. The rest of the matter, Chen Wen was fine, but Zheng Chenggong from Fujian still needed to spend time to continue persuasion. However, Chen Wen has now eroded the Tingzhou and Shaowu prefectures in Fujian, and the passage to Fujian has been in hand. Xianxia Pass has become a false idea. In the future, it has taken a certain degree of initiative.

Shang Zhixin, the prince of Shang Kexi, announced that he had obtained half of Guangzhou Prefecture and a Shaozhou Prefecture anyway, and Shang Kexi retreated to Huizhou, which was the operation of the Shang family. According to the agreement, Gao, Lian, Lei, Qiong, Zhaoqing, and Lianshan counties in western Guangdong, and Lianshan counties in northern Guangzhou, these Li Dingguo and his generals and allied troops were officially classified as the defense zone of Li Dingguo. The Qing army in Xinhui and Xinning counties in southern Guangzhou withdrew and handed over to Li Dingguo. Nanxiong Prefecture in northern Guangdong was classified as Chen Wen as a shield for Nan Gan.

Guangdong was cut into several portions like a cake by Chen Wen. As a result, he successfully avoided the tragedy of Xinhui, Li Dingguo avoided a possible defeat, while the Shang family was forced from a hardcore Qing Dynasty to a fence-betted bet on both sides, and this is the only way for the time being.

With the collective of these three Qing troops, at least on the surface, at least on the surface, the Qing Dynasty occupied areas south of the Yangtze River were almost gone. The remaining areas were Huguang and Jiangnan, but Guangdong and Fujian were originally the territory of most provinces, but now they are invisible.

As for the integrity of the three old men, in Chen Wen's opinion, as long as they are not moved, these three ranks are still happy to be the local emperors on their respective territories. Of course, this is when he still has strong strength and deterrent power that has caused all this to happen, otherwise they will continue to struggle.

The ironwork needs to be strong himself, which is an eternal truth. Now it is achieved only by crushing some deterrent power and one's own strength in local or in a certain aspect. However, the ability to expand has completely reached its limit with the entire Jiangxi, the successive recovery of Nanxiong, Guangdong and Fujian prefectures has reached its limit.

The army was stationed in various places, and if they wanted to concentrate even two or three battalions, it would lead to insufficient troops in the corresponding area. This was extremely dangerous, especially when some news reached Chen Wen's ears, he had to make a decision on Shang Kexi's fence-bearing behavior for the time being.

As the negotiations began, Geng Jimao and Monk Kexi informed Chen Wen one after another, that was that Prince An Yuele's Eight Banners Army was on the way. This was far away and could not relieve their near thirst, so they had to compromise with Chen Wen. According to Chen Wen's calculations, it was October and the twelfth lunar month was slower, and Yuele could not reach it any further. In one to three months, he could still make a lot of preparations, and there was no hurry. However, with the news coming, he had to return to Nanchang as soon as possible.

At the end of July, Funan King Liu Wenxiu led 60,000 Southwest Ming troops to vow to fight from eastern Guizhou. Like the Battle of Changde in history, Liu Wenxiu chose to cut off the east and west Dongting Lake, thereby cutting off the Qing army's retreat route in southern Huguang. If successful, the main force of the Qing army in Huguang will be annihilated in southern Huguang, and then the northern Huguang will be within reach.

So, in early August, Liu Wenxiu's army arrived at Chenzhou Prefecture and immediately divided the troops into two groups. The main force was led by him and Feng Shuangli, attacking Changde by land; while the partial army was led by Lu Mingchen, who led more than 100 warships, and went on water to meet with Liu Wenxiu in Changde.

The Battle of Changde in history took place in April, when it was in the rushing water period. Lu Mingchen's troops only took a very short time to reach Taoyuan County, which was only dozens of miles away from Changde Prefecture City, captured the city and captured the magistrate Li Ying alive.

However, on May 23rd, Lu Mingchen spent more than a month passing through the river channel that was not stationed by the Qing army for dozens of miles. As a result, he was ambushed by the Qing Eight Banners Army Suksaha's troops outside Changde City. They fought hard for a night, but the main force did not follow up in time. Lu Mingchen died in battle and his troops were defeated. Liu Wenxiu, who led the main force, did not dare to advance again after Lu Mingchen was killed. The battle in Changde ended with the victory of the Qing army.

In fact, Lu Mingchen was waiting for Liu Wenxiu's main force for more than a month in Taoyuan County. It is said that it rained for days and the roads were muddy. Liu Wenxiu's army was "straited for dozens of days" and it was delayed for so long.

But the problem is that the straight line distance from Chenzhou Prefecture City to Changde Prefecture City is nearly 300 miles away, and half of them are mountain roads in western Hunan. Even if Liu Wenxiu's main force is not so unlucky that he encountered rainfall for days, his speed is far from being as fast as the navy who went downstream for a day and a hundred miles and played. The time difference between the two is about ten days. Moreover, Liu Wenxiu, the unlucky guy, has encountered rainfall for days.

The defeat in Changde in history was due to this time difference. Lu Mingchen rushed to Taoyuan County, but Liu Wenxiu was stranded in the mountainous areas in western Hunan to alert the snake. The Qing army used this time to draw the Eight Banners Army from Jingzhou to move south. When the navy and the main force were disconnected for the second time, they defeated Lu Mingchen at Changde City. The distance between Jingzhou and Changde was even longer than that of Chenzhou!

This time, Liu Wenxiu, who was entrusted with Chen Wen's blessing, did not advance eastward during the rising water period, nor did he encounter rain for several days. However, when Lu Mingchen captured Taoyuan County, he still waited for Liu Wenxiu for nearly ten days.

Of course, the significant shortening of time is not enough to allow the Qing army to move south as soon as possible. Liu Wenxiu successfully captured Changde Prefecture City and completed the first half of the strategic goal. The lower half of the chapter is to march into Yuezhou Prefecture City on the east bank of Dongting Lake, thereby completing the strategic interception of the Qing army in southern Huguang.

After Lu Mingchen's fleet set off, he quickly approached Yuezhou Prefecture City. He was ambushed by the Qing army that night. He fought hard all night but never received support from the main force. He was eventually defeated by the Qing army. However, Lu Mingchen was not shot and killed like the last time.

Liu Wenxiu's main force is still walking, but now Dongting Lake has not yet been built by the lake in the future, and the area is more than twice that of later generations. The straight line distance alone is different from that between Chenzhou and Changde, not to mention that the soldiers, war horses, and elephants in Liu Wenxiu's army have never practiced the light skills of floating on the water, so detours are inevitable.

In this way, the main force of the Ming army took a long circle to reach Yuezhou City, which was strange to be able to provide effective support to Lu Mingchen. However, because Jiangxi fell into Chen Wen's hands, the Qing army had to increase its strength in Yuezhou, a key area, in order to prevent Chen Wen from advancing westward and cutting off the traffic between Wuchang and Changsha from Yuezhou.

Liu Wenxiu had a big problem in using troops. His luck was often extremely poor and he didn't mention it. The details of strategic planning were too poor, especially because he was not good at calculating. The navy and the main force were disconnected from each other, and each time they were disconnected was many days. It not only gave the Qing army time to reinforce and set up ambush, but also could not help the main force rescued in time when the faster naval army attacked. This was no longer as simple as Li Dingguo's calculations by Sun Kewang in the Hengyang Victory. It was obvious that he couldn't even figure out what this time difference meant!

If you think of the crushing defeat in the Battle of Baoning two years ago, when Sichuan was attacking Sichuan, it swept Bashu without seeing the good news, and insisted on taking a group of weak combat forces to attack Baoning Jiancheng, trying to recover the last piece of lost land in Sichuan and open up the road to Shaanxi. As a result, Sichuan was corrupt in the overall situation, vomited back as much as it ate, and even took tens of thousands of troops.

Chen Wen can only say one thing, his heart is commendable, and his method is not advisable. To make it clear, his ability is not enough to support his strategic concept, and Liu Wenxiu is really not suitable to be the commander of tens of thousands of troops.

This time, after Liu Wenxiu responded to Lu Mingchen's defeated troops, he had to retreat to Changde because of the blurred line of Yuezhou Prefecture City. In order to wait for the situation to change, he could be regarded as regaining the lost territory of a prefecture, and it did not come in vain.

However, Liu Wenxiu's attack and defeat caused some chain reactions. Fan Wencheng, who was frightened, began to shrink his army and strengthen his control over Yuezhou Prefecture. After receiving the news of Liu Wenxiu's defeat, Chen Wen had to return to Nanchang to take charge in person.

After careful calculation, he finally made a profit of just two months. Fortunately, he has not been idle in the past two months, nor has he entered Guangdong in order to fight to kill Shang Kexi. Otherwise, he would not even have the opportunity to come back to stabilize the hearts of the people.

Chen Wen, who was also frightened, returned to Nanchang. The first thing Wang Jiang said when he saw him was, "You are back." Chen Wen thought that something big was wrong with Jiujiang or Zhejiang. Unexpectedly, news of Liu Wenxiu's defeat came, and he was afraid that Fan Wencheng would advance eastward without anyone restraining it.

Chen Wen had seen Wang Jiang's courage four years ago. This time it was not bad. At least there was no news, so it was blocked by him. Only he and Li Ruixin knew about it in Nanchang. Then he sent a fast horse to report to Chen Wen day and night. It seems that he has received less experience in the house arrest in the occupied areas of the Qing Dynasty in recent years, and his psychological quality has been greatly enhanced.

"Fu Ren, are you sure there is no problem in Huguang? Do you want to send some reinforcements to Yuanzhou?"

Chen Wen was extremely disgusted by civil servants' interference in military affairs. Just like military generals interfering in administration, professional matters must be left to professionals, and outsiders will be punished. However, Chen Wen also knew that Wang Jiang's temper was afraid to interfere in military affairs. If he could ask this question, he was just uneasy.

"No need, I have let the grenadiers go. Wu Dengke has a complete battle barracks, plus half a cavalry battalion. Once the grenadiers arrive, with the reinforcing city of Yuanzhou, I want to see how Fan Wencheng looks bloody, but I am afraid that this guy may not give me this opportunity."

Jiangxi faces several key defense points in Huguang. Yuanzhou, Jiujiang and Nanchang are all in war barracks, and Chen Wen is also in charge of Nanchang to consolidate the overall situation of Jiangxi. After that, Chen Wen convened officials from the Zhejiang Governor's Office and the Nanchang Headquarters of Xiuguo Duke's Mansion to convene a joint meeting.

There is still one month left, and at least three months, Yue Le's army will arrive. At that time, Chen Wen would like to see if Yue Le dares to fight him in a decisive battle without anyone cooperating. However, before that, he still needs to deal with more things and seize every minute and every second to enhance his own strength. The first is military strength!

"Reporting to the commander, our company has recruited more than 22,000 new recruits in Jiangxi so far, and is speeding up all the time to train. The subsequent recruitment is still in progress, and a large number of new recruits in various counties are on the way to Nanchang. In short, the people of Jiangxi are extremely enthusiastic about serving our army, but the training time is too tight."

Because Jiangxi is far away from Jinhua, Chen Wen had to set up another recruit training camp here. The personnel were transferred from Jinhua, and the venue was opened by Hong Chengchou when he was training the Spanish phalanx in the previous training camp. Many things were ready-made and there was no need to spend money to create.

As early as when he captured Guangxin Prefecture City, Chen Wen had already intended to expand his army on a large scale. Even before he came to rescue Yushan, Zhejiang had a new recruitment plan to be implemented.

After these three months of training, some of the soldiers who started training in the Zhejiang recruit training camp before the war have replaced the defense of several war barracks in Ningshao and the other will replace the veterans of the garrisons of various prefectures in Zhejiang according to the old rules and continue to train on the local garrisons. The replaced veterans will begin to form brand new war barracks. Of course, it is inevitable to draw some soldiers from some old camps for mixed formation.

On the Jiangxi side, some of the two thousand local garrisons brought by Chen Wen during the decisive battle with Hong Chengchou have been added to these battalions in Jiangxi, so that these battalions can be completed as soon as possible. The other part will be used to form a new battalion, which is definitely the fastest new battalion to form combat power.

The remaining new camps depend on the progress of training. In terms of infantry, the earliest group in Jiangxi has been undergoing training for a month, while those who are slow have just entered the camp; the newly recruited group in Zhejiang has just completed the recruitment work, and it will take two or three months before they can leave the camp.

As for cavalry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers, the training time is longer. Especially the cavalry, the three battles of war horses were fought, and tens of thousands of horses were seized. The injured legs had become the soldiers' meals, and there were many intact. The infantry battalion's cavalry and special cavalry battalions were urgently needed by Chen Wen. In addition to thanking Dasu and Hong Chengchou, he was also rushing to train. However, compared with the veterans of the Qing army, these new soldiers still had a long way to go, otherwise he would not have any confidence to cross the Yangtze River and fight the Central Plains in the north.

"Very good." He motioned for the officers of the Training Department to sit down. Chen Wen looked at the officers in charge of the head of the Military Industry Department. "Has the seized equipment been checked?"

"If you go back to the Grand Marshal, our company has conducted special inspections. The spears used in the five towns of the Tatars and the Jiangxi towns are upgraded. The spears used in the Jiujiang Town are not different in length and are generally slightly light in weight. They can be used temporarily as a substitute and training before the military production is completed. After testing, our company's comprehensive assessment is not necessary to train the artillery team and equip the troops. As for the green camps of other prefectures and counties, we will finally think that re-casting is the best choice."

"Um."

Chen Wen had already read the report of the Military Industry Department Workshop in Jinhua before the meeting. Now the system of overtime working in three shifts has been restored there. However, the gap in military preparations is really not small, and it will take several months to initially complete. As for Chen Wen's cotton armored garrison, the plan to equip the war troops with armor is even more distant.

Training and military preparation are extremely important, but more importantly, the strengthening of combat will. Brainwashing is one thing, the key is to teach military merits. With a material foundation, spiritual construction is not a castle in the air.

"Governor Wang, how many of the investigation team have come back?"

Hearing Chen Wen’s question, Wang Jiang quickly stood up and replied: “If you want to return to the country, you can only investigate the situation of several neighboring prefectures and garrisons such as Nanchang. It will take more time for prefectures and counties that are farther away."

The abolition of the old garrison and the establishment of the new garrison were crucial tasks in the Ming army in Zhejiang. However, the land area of ​​the ten prefectures before his expedition was already larger than that of his occupied areas in Zhejiang. Even if the system and work flow of the investigation team had been improved, it would take more time to conduct investigations. After all, Jiangxi's administrative system is far less perfect than Zhejiang, and the cooperation will also affect the progress of the work.

Fortunately, Chen Wen was quite satisfied with the following series of reports. During the past half month after he left, the work of departments at all levels was not delayed, and he worked overtime.

Now the prefecture-level officials at the ten prefectures in central and northern Jiangxi have been able to start their work. The hundreds of households in each township still need time and personnel to establish them, and there is no rush. Anyway, it is still a while before the division of land is divided. Wang Jiang has sent someone to notify Sun Yu of the six prefectures of Ji'an, Ganzhou, Nan'an, Nanxiong, Tingzhou and Shaowu that have been recovered this time, but it will take some time before the next batch of officials arrive.

After the meeting, Chen Wen did not let the officials leave, but instead sent people to the inn. This action immediately aroused everyone's surprise. In fact, many people already knew that this day was coming, but they didn't expect it to happen today.

"Fu Ren, let's choose a good day and auspicious time. Isn't this too hasty?"

The ancients talked about etiquette, especially when it comes to enthronement, so they always had to choose a suitable time to carry out. At least they had to choose auspicious time, bathing, changing clothes, burning incense and praying. Otherwise, they would always feel that it was too hasty and even misunderstood as not taking it seriously. If they were not done well, it would be a crime.

"No need, I'll take a shower and change my clothes, just waiting for the envoy to arrive. Today, while I still have time to do the work, I will hurry up and take the time to celebrate and have a banquet in the evening. From tomorrow on, everyone will have to be energetic and do things. Time is endless, everyone!"
Chapter completed!