On the night of October 16th, Liangnong Town.

Ten days have passed since the oath to fight. Most of the Ming army units in Simingshan who were invited have reached the assembly site. Even Liu Yiming's left and right battalions have shown their flags to enter here. Only Chen Tianshu is still lurking, ready to give the Qing army a sudden attack at any time.

As for the Qing army, under the investigation of the Ming army's scouts, it seemed that the assembly had been completed. The commander of the Qing army's northern line, Zhejiang Admiral Tian Xiong, swore a oath in Yuyao a few days ago, and now he has arrived in Yonghe Town, across Siming Lake from the Ming army. The only problem is that the Qing army dispatched this time was not as much as Chen Wen had expected. Only the Tibiao Battalion and auxiliary troops were dispatched, but the Shaoxing Green Camp did not appear.

These days, Wang Yi handled military affairs in the central army tent outside Liangnong Town every day, and invited newly arrived Ming army generals, and was very busy. However, it would be fine if it was just that. After all, this was the first large-scale joint operation in the history of the Ming army in Simingshan, and coordination was a big problem.

Fortunately, in the plan that Chen Wen had to fight face to face, the Dalanshan Ming army was the main force, while the other Ming army was only responsible for assisting the battle. During the battle, Liu Yiming suddenly showed his banner, and his Nantang Camp and Chen Tianshu led the cavalry to cooperate with each other to fight from the flanks. The overall situation was basically decided. As long as these friendly troops did not collapse at the beginning, it would be enough. The most important combat tasks were all handed over to the Dalanshan Ming army and Chen Tianshu's troops who had had experience in collaborative combat.

But the problem now is that since the Qing army delayed the encirclement and suppression operation, Liu Yiming's army was too strong and difficult to hide, and it was probably exposed, so he had to show his flag in advance to inspire the morale of friendly troops; and Chen Wen's Nantang Camp was also arranged by Wang Yi to guard the old camp and could not participate in the war, so Chen Tianshu's more than 300 cavalry could only rely on cooperating with the cavalry of the Ming army that were concentrated during the battle, and strive to overwhelm the opponent with the number.

In this way, Chen Wen's combat plan that pursued suddenness was basically changed beyond recognition.

But for Wang Yi, there were information brought by Chen Wen in the early stage of this war, and Chen Wen’s plan in the middle stage. Although the plan could not keep up with the changes, the Ming army still had an overwhelming advantage because it obtained intelligence in advance. As long as it could defeat the Qing army in the decisive battle, there should not be too much problem. So the political significance of this battle has begun to exceed the military significance. After all, he is still preparing to try to break out of Siming Mountain again after this battle, so at this moment it is more to unite friendly forces to make plans to recover lost territory in the future.

However, before Wang Yi vowed to set off, almost all the Ming generals in the central and northern Siming Mountains swear to say that they would come to join the war. However, when the news of the Qing army's assembly came, reasons such as "headache, feet hurt, butt hurt", or "the old mother is in the hall, her beautiful wife is young, and her child is still young" began to emerge before Wang Yi's case. In Shen Dilun's words, these cowards were only short of bringing out the reasons "the husband died, no heir, Weng Wan, and Shu Zhuang".

Fortunately, Wang Yi and Feng Jingdi used all the connections accumulated over the years. By this time, the more than 20 Ming troops who had arrived in Liangnong Town had gathered more than 4,500 war soldiers. Although most of them were barely able to compete with the local green camps in terms of quality, fortunately there were a large number. If we included the four battalions of Dalanshan and Chen Tianshu's cavalry battalions, it was estimated that the war soldiers were twice as many as those of the Qing army, and this was also one of Wang Yi's source of confidence.

However, these sources of confidence have caused him a lot of trouble, such as disturbing the people.

According to Wang Yi's regulations, all Ming troops, including him, must be stationed outside the town. They are not allowed to enter the town except for purchasing materials, in order to prevent disturbing the people. Unfortunately, these Ming troops may still be more restrained in their respective defense areas, and they will immediately reveal their true colors when they arrive at other people's defense areas. It is quite good to force buying and selling, and there are really many things to force people's wealth and tease women.

Fortunately, Wang Yi is still by his side, so these people dare not make too fierce, nor do they cause any major cases of plundering, killing and robbing people. As the head coach, Wang Yi just criticized him for the sake of uniting the various ministries.

"No wonder Fu Ren's plan did not place these people in an important position. The combat power of these troops is really uneven."

At this moment, there were only Wang Yi, Chen Diaolun, Huang Zhongdao and Liu Yiming in the big tent. There were no outsiders at the moment. Even Chen Diaolun, who was a civil servant, couldn't help but complain. He was exhausted these days. Just coordinating the camp sites of various departments was enough for him to bear it. He also had to patrol the town to prevent disturbing the people. So he could no longer manage the military affairs of the central camp and handed over them all to Zou Xiaonan.

Compared to Chen Diaolun, Huang Zhongdao and Liu Yiming, who were responsible for further revising the plans based on the real combat effectiveness of each unit and coordinating the operations of each unit, were even speechless. After a few days, according to their previous understanding of these Ming troops, some did lift all the guys under the box, and some were relatively still planning to take advantage of the Ming army in Dalanshan, who was the leader of the alliance. There was even a shameless soldier who had not carried any weapons except the personal soldiers, as if they were here to beg for food.

"Hey, these people completely ruined Chen Guerrilla's plan. Fortunately, the Tartars sent troops this time much less than Chen Guerrilla had expected. Otherwise, I really don't know if they should be bombarded and then transferred to Nantang Camp."

Unlike Shen Diaolun, Liu Yiming had never seen Chen Wen, so it was impossible to get close to the name of "天" and just use official positions. Although he had heard of Chen Wen's beating Chu Suxian before, corrupt officials like Chu Suxian themselves violated the interests of their military leaders. In addition, Huang Zhongdao and Mao Mingshan had a high private evaluation of Chen Wen, so Liu Yiming began to be more psychologically towards Chen Wen.

As early as when he led his army to Liangnong Town, Liu Yiming expressed extreme dissatisfaction with Wang Yi's surrender to the opinions of these Ming troops and did not let Chen Wen go to the Nantang camp with the army. Even though he knew very well that this was a decision made by Wang Yi for political considerations, he was still very resentful. As a warrior, he knew very well that military strength was more expensive than energy, but things were already like this and he had no choice.

In Liu Yiming's view, even if Nantang Camp is just a new recruit battalion that has never seen blood, as long as he has survived this time on the battlefield, this unit that can easily crush the central camp in the school competition will inevitably grow rapidly and become a powerful force. At that time, the Ming army in Dalanshan can completely rely on these six battalions in its headquarters to gradually regain lost ground, expand its strength, and further recover lost ground and roll the snowball up. There is no need to rely on these miscellaneous friendly forces.

"Brother Liu, after we defeat Tian Xiong and crush the Tartars' offensive this time, we will always have a chance to help Nantangying grow. There is no need to worry about this."

Huang Zhongdao, who has always claimed to be a Confucian general, did not intend to make the words as clear as Liu Yiming, but he was not satisfied with the matter. He also knew very well that it was not only Mao Mingshan, but even Fang Shoujie who was defeated by Chen Wen in the central camp was very unfair. However, as a military general, it was a tradition to obey the orders of the civil servants in the military supervision. He did not intend to break this tradition and had no ability to do so, so he had to abide by this matter.

Wang Yi did not take his subordinates' thoughts seriously. Although he was a little tough, he was not a member of the self-respecting army like He Tengjiao. The big and small general system was the ancestral system of the Emperor Ming, and it was also a key system to maintain stability. As a civil servant who controlled the army, it was also important to control the coordinated combat between friendly troops and command the troops in the headquarters.

Moreover, the view of Pojun Star Lord has always influenced him, making him not dare to reuse Chen Wen too calmly and boldly. This coincides with Feng Jingdi and Wang Sheng's intentions. In addition, Nantang Camp is indeed a new camp that has not been in the battle, so it is hard to say what it can behave. Then, it is inevitable that this army and their chief general will be responsible for staying in the old camp.

At this moment, a scattered horse that had been scattered earlier rushed in.

"Report!"

"Stand up and reply."

"Reporting to the strategy, the Tatars Extra Biao Battalion has concentrated all the scattered troops, and the cavalry has also begun to extend towards Liangnong Town. Our troops fought with him in Taohualing and Qiujia Village, and they have achieved great success, but the Tatars have not retreated."

"good!"

This cavalry was trained by Huang Zhongdao, and it has some combat effectiveness. Wang Yi didn't care how much he scored. It was enough to have a killing and injury. The key is that Tian Xiong has begun to concentrate the troops scattered out to wipe out the righteous division of the Ming army and tried to cover up the military situation. This is obviously preparing for a decisive battle. There are only about twenty miles between Liangnong Town and Yonghe Town, so the decisive battle should be tomorrow.

"You go down to have a meal and rest first, and then visit it tomorrow morning."

"Abide by the orders of humble duties."

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At the same time, Tian Xiong's personal soldiers in the largest landlord's house in Yonghe Town had executed all the men in this family in the name of affair with the Ming army, while the woman was incorporated into the women's camp with other captured women's women's camps, either as a reward for soldiers, or after returning to the army, and sold other lands, as they were when they led the army through the Ming army occupied the area.

Originally, at the junction of the Ming army and the Qing army's controlled area, many of the Ming army's rebels or the Qing army's regiments were mostly just fences. Just like this family before, once someone invaded their territory, he could resist, and then he would invite some friendly troops who would help each other. If he couldn't resist, he would seek some of the heads of the dilapidated or foreigners to hand over. If the other party could get in, he would have some peace on his side.

However, the Qing army's encirclement and suppression was completely different from before. It was aimed at completely eliminating the anti-Qing armed forces in the Simingshan area and preparing for the attack on Zhoushan next year. According to the customs of the Qing army, this means that they must thoroughly clean up the 800-mile Simingshan area. In this way, fence-headed grass like them who tend to the Ming army naturally no longer exists. Men slaughtered them all, and women entering the camp to become prostitutes became their destiny.

In fact, before this, Wang Yi had sent someone to inform them that they would temporarily enter the mountain to escape. However, how could such rich people who were reluctant to leave the land and houses give up all this? So, they were lucky enough to become ghosts under the sword of the Qing army.

In the main hall of the landlord's house, Tian Xiong, the Zhejiang Admiral of the Qing Dynasty, was having a meal with his generals. Like Yu Fenqi, who had just arrived back, these people were old brothers who followed him to make a living under Huang Degong's command. From encirclement and suppression of bandits, to garrisoning the troops in Jiangbei, to leading the people to the Qing Dynasty, these people always followed him, so some things did not need to be hidden from them.

"Bring that guy up."

After a while, a man with a low profile and low eyebrows followed Tian Xiong's personal soldiers and came to the main hall. Unlike the rat tail of the money in the room, this man was wearing a white cloth and looked a little bulging on his head. When he looked closely, he was tied with his hair like a Han people, and he was completely different from the figures in the occupied areas of the Qing Dynasty.

However, the room full of money rat tail did not seem to have used the person in front of me as the target of the shaving order, and some of them were even quite expectant.

As soon as the man stepped into the main hall, he immediately fell to the ground before he could even reach the position of salute. He climbed to the position where he should have salute with both hands and feet, and kowtowed respectfully.

"The villain has met Grandmaster Tian."

Tian Xiong did not ask this person to stand up, but asked his personal soldiers to deliver the letters brought by this person. After reading it, Tian Xiong said lightly: "Your general is doing a good job. I will ask the court and Governor Chen for your general."

"The villain thanked the general for his kindness on behalf of the head of the family, and the villain's head of the family made a decision to repay the general for his charity."

"Well. Go back and tell your generals to do things for the court, and don't worry about being rich or not."

"The villain understands that the villain will go back and report the commander to the head of the family."

After sending the man away, Tian Xiong discussed the information mentioned in the letter brought by the man with several confidants' schoolmasters, and immediately issued an order.

"Tomorrow morning, all the three battalions in the left and right of the headquarters will be dispatched to Liangnong Town."

Hearing the military order, the officers of the battalion in this room were "hungry" and all stood up.

"In the battle, the Central Camp attacked along Siming Lake and protected our right wing."

"The last general obeys the order!" The deputy general of the central army immediately took over the military order.

"The men of the Right Camp must have had enough fun these days."

Seeing several officers from the Right Battalion smiled, Tian Xiong continued, "Since the bandits intend to launch a sudden attack from our left side, then the Right Battalion will deal with the main force of the Dalanshan bandits tomorrow."

"I will obey the order!"

"The Zuoying is in charge of the central army, thinking that it is the main attack direction, so that they can see the power of our Extra Biao Battalion."

"The last general will live up to the high expectations of the general!" Li Rong, deputy general of the Extraordinary Battalion who was in charge of the guerrilla affairs of the Zuoying Camp, responded to the order.

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The Central Army Hall of the Old Camp of Dalanshan.

Wang Jiang, the right deputy chief censor who is temporarily in charge of the affairs of the old camp, was responsible for the connection with Chu Jiuru, the head of each department, and Chen Wen, the commander and guerrilla guard of the Nantang camp who is temporarily in charge of the military affairs of the old camp, and Chen Wen, the commander and guerrilla guard of the old camp, was discussing military affairs in the second hall.

These days, in order to deal with the war, although enough food and grass have been transported to Liangnong Town, the recruitment of auxiliary troops, manufacturing and transporting weapons, and transporting a new batch of food and grass, silver and money at any time, or preparing for the southern line, have made Wang Jiang and the officials of the fifth department of the old camp busy. After all, fighting is just a burning of money, which is normal.

However, after Chen Wen's new suggestions were accepted by Wang Jiang, the workload of the officials, craftsmen and servants of the old camp was once again greatly improved, and Chen Wen's reputation in the fifth department of the old camp also began to plummetly.

Compared to these busy people, Chen Wen, who was the initiator, was quite relaxed. Although the main force of the Ming army in Dalanshan has set out, the Ming army in Dalanshan has been famous for two years since occupying this place. In addition, his Nantang Camp does not seem to be a good thing to mess with, so there are not many people who dare to gently stroke the tiger's beard at this moment. Because of this, Chen Wen can only follow the previous deployment of the central camp, and there is no such thing as dealing with offenses.

At this moment, Wang Jiang, Chu Jiuru and Chen Wen were discussing not internal affairs or military affairs, but another issue that concerns life and death.

"Master Chu, is this matter serious?"

Chu Jiuru nodded and then said, "This matter was informed by General Wang Hu, who is close to Hiraoka. Although General Wang did not go to Liangnong Town, he has been ordered to take charge of the defense of the Hiraoka area since Chen Shuai received the order of the military to go south to coordinate the attack on Xinchang. If anyone can get the news first, he will definitely be the one who follows the distance."

Pinggang was the place where Zhang Huangyan once garrisoned. Later, when Zhang Huangyan entered Weizhoushan, he handed over all his troops and territory to Chen Tianshu. After Wang Yi captured Shangyu County for the second time, various rebels in the Simingshan area regarded Wang Yi as the leader in order to protect each other, but Chen Tianshu was dissatisfied. However, as the two met, Chen Tianshu was also worshipped by Wang Yi's loyalty and demeanor, thus becoming one of the most iron-hard allies of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain. This led to the fact that Chen Tianshu was ordered to go south to jointly attack Xinchang.

Pinggang is located on the west side of the Siming Mountain area. It takes a long distance to go to the Dalan Mountain area to cooperate in combat. In addition, Chen Tianshu, who was originally stationed here, has participated in the war, so Wang Yi did not gather other rebels near this place. However, not far west of Pinggang is the Cao'e River. It doesn't take long to cross the Cao'e River and then go west to reach the range of Kuaiji Mountain.

The news that Chen Wen and the others had just received was that less than ten days ago, Wang Shanchang and Zhang Qincheng, who were stationed in Kuaiji Mountain, were surrounded by the main forces of the Qing army that had sneaked into the Qing army. Even Wang Shanchang, who died until the Battle of Chongming in history, did not survive. As for the banners raised by the Qing army, they belonged to the Shaoxing Green Camp and the High Biao Camp.

History has obviously begun to turn in a direction he is not familiar with...

"It is likely that the news that they planned and cooperated with our army's attack has been leaked. Deputy Xian and Chief Chu, but do you still remember who told the news that General Weiwu and General Zhang had confirmed the dispatch of troops during this period?"

Chu Jiuru thought about it, but couldn't remember it. Since the actions of these two ministries were only used to restrain the green camp in Shaoxing, Wang Yi did not mention this matter to anyone during his time in conjunction with the ministries because it was completely unnecessary.

But Wang Jiang, who was sitting in the hand, seemed to remember something, but he immediately denied it again.

"The truth about this matter has been written to inform Mr. Feng before. Mr. Feng cannot sue the Tartars secretly, right?"

It's really impossible.

Because although Feng Jingdi was a nerd in history, he was eventually killed by the Qing army because he refused to surrender after being captured. If he was said to have surrendered to the enemy and treason, even Chen Wen, who was falsely accused of being a remnant of the eunuch party, would never believe it.

Since Tian Xiong vowed to go to the expedition, but the Shaoxing Green Camp never appeared, Chen Wen felt that things might not be as smooth as he had imagined. The news he received at this moment further confirmed his thoughts. Although the units of the Ming army in Siming Mountain were not in the dilemma of being defeated by the Qing army as in history, it seemed as if the entire 800-mile Siming Mountain area had been shrouded in a larger conspiracy, which made him feel a little chilled.

"No matter what, the strategy must be informed as soon as possible. Deputy Xian must load all the baggage into the truck at this moment, and once things change, it is easy to deal with it."

Less than half an hour later, the east gate of Dalanshan Old Camp quietly opened, and a fast horse ran away and disappeared into the vast night.
Chapter completed!