Chapter 70: Going South
A few days later, Simingshan Town.
Starting from the Qing army on the northern line, the Qing army on the southern line was also guided by General Pingnan of the Qing Dynasty and Gushan Ezhen Jinli to enter Siming Mountain from the southern line.
However, unlike the smooth progress of the Extra Balance Battalion on the Northern Line, this army composed of the Eight Banners in Hangzhou and some Green Camp soldiers from Ningbo Prefecture began a dream journey of taking one step back and two steps back.
Since that day, Jin Li vowed to set out on the expedition outside Fenghua City, the attacks of the Ming army on the southern front have not stopped.
According to the guerrilla warfare - the enemy advances and we retreat, the enemy garrisons, the enemy is stationed and we attack, the enemy is tired, and the enemy is retreating and we chase, the Ming army disperses all its forces on the southern front, and the Qing army will be harassed every day, but the scale of each time is astonishingly small, often one or two rockets and one or two muskets. The Ming army retreated far away before the Qing army reacted.
Such harassment is of no tact. Except for one time when a rocket was shot and detonated by a car of gunpowder, the killing was astonishingly few. However, every time the Qing army was attacked, they had to stop to defend. When they found that the guerrillas who had set a cold gun on the Ming army did not come up, they started a search for combat troops. If this continued, the marching speed would be infinitely slowed down, and this was just a marching.
Every night, the Ming army guerrillas who came to pick each other up during the day would come out again. These monsters that seemed to not need to sleep might burn a few trucks of food tonight, and they might burn tents near the edge of the camp tomorrow night. What's more, they would even cry and howl, which almost caused the Qing army to blow up the camp several times.
In this way, the Qing army, who was shocked and exhausted during the day, couldn't sleep well at night, and now they couldn't stand it.
In fact, although the Ming army was very unfamiliar with the first-time learning and training, the Qing army had never seen such an inconspicuous thing. Is this a war?
As an old traitor who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong, Jin Li was not without the group of those who had been attacking Liaoxi or northern Liaoning. As soon as the Qing army attacked western Liaoning or northern Liaoning, they even fought with the muds in Dongjiang Town in the hinterland of Liaodong, and even became ministers with some of the scums. However, these cowards in eastern Zhejiang were even more shameless than those in Dongjiang Town. These Ming troops always attacked with long-range projection weapons, and their targets were mostly auxiliary troops, baggage teams, grain trucks or gunpowder trucks, and they never faced the main forces of the Qing army.
Is this OK?!
Unbearable, Jin Li immediately gathered all the Qing troops accompanying him and carried out a thorough net-like cleaning of the surrounding areas for several miles. However, after these Qing troops were held, the Ming troops seemed to have disappeared like air.
Just when Jin Li was puzzled, Fenghua's urgent report came. The local magistrate claimed that more than 5,000 Ming troops were besieging Fenghua County. Jin Li, who had finally found the main force of the Ming army, immediately led his troops back to the rescue, but after arriving in Fenghua, he found that the group of Ming troops had already retreated, and only the only one who stayed outside the city was in a mess.
After discovering that he was fooled by the Ming army, Jin Li once again led the army to the hinterland of Siming Mountain. Then he was attacked again, and the urgent report from Fenghua County came again. However, this time he learned the essence and only asked Ningbo Green Camp to return to the rescue, while Hangzhou stationed the Eight Banners to continue moving forward.
Then, the food outlet was cut off...
"The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers."
"If the army has no food, it will be dispersed."
"The troops and horses move forward before they move their food and grass."
There are countless famous sayings about military strategists, so how can Jin Li not know?
Jin Li, who was already ready to eat the enemy, found that the Ming army on the southern front of Siming Mountain did not play according to the rules, felt that he could not grab any food and grass. After scolding the shamelessness of the Ming army and the inaction of Ningbo Green Camp, he led the team to retreat for a while in order to temporarily shorten the food route and strictly ordered the Ningbo Green Camp to send troops to protect the food route.
After getting ready again, Jin Li set out again, but the attack of the Ming army began again. In addition to auxiliary troops and supplies, the Ningbo Green Camp, which guarded the food road, was also affected...
For more than ten days, the Qing army on the southern front was exhausted and had not reached Simingshan Town until now. However, even so, they only captured a few Ming troops who had not had time to run away. Who made the Qing army far less familiar with the Simingshan area than the Ming army?
Since the harassment of Jin Li, Wu Kuiming seemed to have a lot of fun every day. Whenever he got news that the Qing army was being fooled, he seemed to have drunk a lot of strong wine, and was drunk and didn't know what to say. Originally, when Mao Mingshan first proposed this tactic, Wu Kuiming, who was still full of doubts when Chen Wen created it, was completely convinced during this period.
It turns out that the battle can be fought like this!
Wu Kuiming thought that if he had known that he could still fight like this, he would have been tortured by the green camp in Ningbo. He would have almost died by throwing away his armor like he had been beaten like before?
But just when Mao Mingshan and Wu Kuiming were so excited every day, they arrived at Simingshan Town with a fast horse.
After reading the letter, Mao Mingshan, who seemed to have no idea what the word "fear" was, sat down on the chair, and was so heartbroken that he was speechless for a long time.
Seeing this, Wu Kuiming had to bring the letter himself. Fortunately, he knew some words, but after reading it, he really wanted to not know words.
"On July 17th, on the shore of Siming Lake, the king's army and the main force of the Tartar Tartar Battalion fought a decisive battle, with similar killings. Unexpectedly, the rebel king Sheng turned against him, the left wing dispersed, and the entire army was wiped out. The governor Huang, Governor Liu and others probably died for their country..."
"... After hearing the news, Deputy Xian couldn't afford to take ill and could not handle the affairs. I received the order of the Minister of Justice to protect the people from evacuating the Siming Mountain area. I hope my brother can also follow the last words of Jingli to protect the people from retreating, so as to prevent him from slaughtering the Tartars..."
After seeing it, Wu Kuiming also sat on the chair like Mao Mingshan. After being shocked, tears filled with the words "self-blame" were already covered with tears, but it was as if the pair of tiger eyes were bottomless pits that blamed themselves, and the tears could not stop.
After a long time, Mao Mingshan finally recovered from shock and disbelief. After he ordered the letter to use a meal to rest and strictly prohibited him from leaking the news, he strode towards Wu Kuiming.
"Wu Shuai, the general left his last words and asked the general to follow Chen's guerrilla orders to cover the retreat of the people. The generals stationed all their troops here, preparing to take the people from Simingshan Town and the surrounding areas away and go to Xinchang Bo. Will Wu Shuai be willing to go with him?"
Hearing this, Wu Kuiming seemed to have climbed out of the bottomless pit like an abyss. The moment he looked up and saw Mao Mingshan, Wu Kuiming immediately fell to the ground and cried in tears.
"Mao Shuai, you kill me! It was Mo General who harmed the strategy and the soldiers on the Northern Front. Mo General who listened to Wang Sheng's slander and colluded with everyone to resist Chen Guerrilla's participation in the war. Just looking at this guerrilla war, you will know that Chen Guerrilla is unparalleled. If Chen Guerrilla was on the battlefield at that time, how could I be defeated in the Ming Dynasty? Mao Shuai, kill me!"
Seeing that Wu Kuiming had been completely defeated by self-blame, and his words were repeated like a repeater, Mao Mingshan's anger gradually dissipated. He and Wu Kuiming had been friends for many years, and this person was not the one who would deliberately ruin state affairs. He only regretted that Wang Sheng was too cunning and used Feng Jingdi and many Simingshan friendly generals to exclude Chen Wen, resulting in a great defeat. At this moment, Mao Mingshan's heart was once again angry, and he wanted to eat his flesh and sleep with his skin.
Mao Mingshan helped Wu Kuiming up and said loudly: "Ship Wu, let the generals protect the people from retreating in the last words of the Rule. If you are determined to redeem yourself, you should follow the instructions of the Rule's last words and work with me to protect the people's retreat, so as to comfort the Rule and the soldiers' spirits in heaven."
"Repeat yourself, repeat yourself..." After silently reciting several times, Wu Kuiming quickly walked out of his sadness and self-blame, and his eyes gradually became firmer.
"Ship Mao, you are right. I am just thinking about a woman again, just to make people laugh. Only when I fulfilled my last wish to do the strategy at that time can I live up to those loyal and brave soldiers."
"Ship Mao, please go and cover the evacuation of the people. The last general is not talented and is willing to continue to harass the Tartars who came from Fenghua and delay time for the Ship Mao and General Chen!" After that, Wu Kuiming bowed and strode out.
Mao Mingshan originally thought that Wu Kuiming would naturally cooperate with him to fulfill Wang Yi's last wish, but who would have thought that Wu Kuiming's cooperation would be like this. Looking at the back that was gone, Mao Mingshan recalled Wu Kuiming's expression just now, but he was clearly determined to die, which made him feel a little sad.
After putting away this meaningless sentimentality, he temporarily put away his feelings for Wang Yi, Shangguan, Huang Zhongdao, Liu Yiming, and the two colleagues who took good care of him. Mao Mingshan immediately arranged a task to cover the retreat of the people as Chen Wen's request.
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At the same time, Chen Wen led the people in the Dalan Mountain area for several days.
According to the nearest distance from Dalan Mountain to Xinchang, you should go directly to Simingshan Town, then continue to walk a mountain road to enter the area of Beizhang Town, and finally reach Xinchang and Yu Guowang to meet. However, although Chen Wen sent a messenger to Mao Mingshan, he was not sure about the situation there, so he did not dare to go south rashly, so he had to go around the mountainous area to cover up his journey.
Along the way, Chen Wen gathered many people along the way, but more people chose to stay in their hometown because they were unable to leave their hometown or because they did not know Chen Wen's Nantang Camp.
Chen Wen had no choice but to do this. The organizational ability of this team had already reached its limit. He relied more on the assistance of those wealthy families and prestigious people. He was powerless in forcibly taking away the people along the way, and might even corrupt military discipline, so he had to give up this idea and pray that they would survive.
The day after he started his journey, Wang Jiang also woke up from his coma, but his mental breakdown was already broken and he still needed time to recuperate, which was not convenient for the director. Seeing this, Chen Wen had to hand over Wang Jiang to his family to take care of him, and the evacuation team of the Ming army in Dalanshan was still under his command.
On the same day, Li Ruixin and Sun Yu also chased after him, with many silver cars and several traitors tied to mohua.
When Chen Wen went up and rolled Sun Yu, he said, "You are a official in the grain warehouse to rob the fast-moving business. Do you want to receive two pay?" "Don't show off without the power to tie a chicken, be honest and be your young man in the Ming Dynasty." "Do you do whatever you ask you to do in the future, don't overstep your power and cause trouble for others." This made Sun Yu feel ashamed.
However, Sun Yu had not yet understood what the concept of "a young man from the Ming Dynasty" was. Chu Suxian, who was tied to a mohua, also welcomed the cordial reception of his brother Chu Jiuru.
The team was still moving. Chen Wen and others stood in front of the prison cart prepared for Chu Suxian. Seeing Chu Jiu fighting against his clan brother like a mad tiger, they wanted to kill him with their own hands. When they arrived at the back, they were no longer enough. After listening carefully, they were either "You thief, dare to surrender to the Tartars and lose all the faces of the ancestors of the Chu family" or "Are you a bastard who acts so well with the trust of the governor and deputy royal concubine?"
Seeing that there was nothing new, Chen Wen pulled him away before Chu Jiuru bit him to death.
"Master Chu, are you planning to kill someone to silence the doctor or what? This guy's crime should be tried by the national law. It's not your turn to abuse lynching!"
This statement made Chu Jiuru very angry, but he also knew that what Chen Wen said was the right reason, but he could not imagine what the judgment would be after evacuating to the safe area.
Since the departure, this torrent of the south, composed of people, has not been short of food, but the speed of traveling is surprisingly slow. It is good to walk ten miles a day, but it cannot get faster. It is normal to think about it. In this era, the strategic movement speed of the army in this era is no more than twenty miles, which is not much faster than these ordinary people.
The civil servants of the old camp and several military generals of the Nantang camp also expressed their ability to accept this speed, but Chen Wen could not stand the speed of movement that he called crawling.
From a military theory, the marching speed of human beings is determined by combat will, so the strategic movement speed of modern and modern armies is scary. Not to mention modern armies, because they are still too far away, just say that the marching speed of modern armies is more than twice that of feudal armies in this era.
When will you arrive in Xinchang after ten miles of procrastination this day?
Since many large cars were built before, and there were some ox carts, donkey carts, wheelbarrows and other things in the people's homes, Chen Wen asked Li Ruixin to lead people to find out that although the road was far away, it was quite easy for these vehicles to go. It was just a convoy and the traces left by pedestrians after passing were difficult to clean up.
Chen Wen didn't know whether the Qing army would catch up, but in case of precautions, he ordered the engineers to lead the newly organized civilians to dig up the roads along the way in a mess, in order to find that if the Qing army pursued them, the speed of the journey would be delayed by the road.
As for the cost of road maintenance, Chen Wen had never heard of it in this end of the remnant Ming Dynasty!
Chen Wen, who was nervous every day, wanted to get a rest, but these thousands of people were all counting on his decision to move forward. If he stopped, he would be likely to be encountered by the Qing army. In order to leave Siming Mountain Area earlier, the sooner he would be out of danger, Chen Wen had to tighten his nerves and continue to walk.
At this moment, the soldiers in charge of the cavalry team behind the hall suddenly found some abnormal movements in the woods beside the road, but they didn't know whether it was a spy from the Qing army or the people who were wandering here.
Seeing this, Chen Wen immediately ordered the team to keep moving forward and pulled out some soldiers from the back team to search for the woods. After a while, several men dressed in tatters were mentioned in front of Chen Wen. The few people were still dressed in rags, even at this time, they were still thin cloth clothes, and the dust on their faces was washed by sweat, and when they looked closely, they were even more mixed.
Looking at these people, Chen Wen naturally remembered him when he first entered Siming Mountain. At that time, he was just lucky than these people because the weather was still hot.
But at this moment, Chen Wen noticed the youngest among these people. He squinted his eyes and thought for a moment. As a fragment of memory flashed, a contemptuous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Chapter completed!