"Can General Chen help me train soldiers?"

When Chen Wen heard this, his first reaction was that Yu Guowang wanted to recruit him, but when he thought about it, it was impossible.

Earlier, Chen Wen heard Wang Yi, Wang Jiang and others mention Yu Guowang, who was generous, magnificent and tolerant. When Liu Yi was stationed in Dongkeng in the early Ming Dynasty, Yu Guowang's subordinates "a general who held a ruler and wrote to Wang Yijun, and did not wait for the order to stop; Liu Yiming sent him with a stick. When he asked, the country came to thank him in person. This was the case with his writing and politeness." [Note 1]

Although Wang Yi was captured, Wang Jiang was still there. With Yu Guowang's character, it was impossible for him to ask Chen Wen for a request for appointment. Even if he had this idea, he would not know what the victory in the Battle of the Simingshan Palace behind him meant. Therefore, Chen Wen could only be an ally to him, and he would never be able to ask for his subordinates.

Since Yu Guowang cannot give a word to recruit, this is to hope that Chen Wen will train the army. In this way, should we agree?

If you agree, it will be possible to promote this transaction. With Yu Guowang's character, Chen Wen will definitely repay him for training the army. These are also urgently needed by the Ming army in Dalanshan in trouble. On the other hand, in the process of training the army, Chen Wen can exert influence on Yu Guowang's army, while bringing each other closer together, and thus forming a more firm ally relationship.

The benefits seem to be quite good, but today in March of the fifth year of Yongli, is it really meaningful to act like this?

On June 12, the fifth year of Yongli, Zhejiang Admiral Tian Xiong set out from Hangzhou to meet with Zhang Jie, the general of Dinghai, and once again surrounded Siming Mountain and prepared ships for crossing the sea to attack Zhoushan.

On July 13, the fifth year of Yongli, Hangzhou garrisoned the Eight Banners Gushan Ezhen Pingnan General Jin Li, and Gushan Ezhen Liu Zhiyuan set off from Hangzhou, and went to Dinghai via Shaoxing and Ningbo. On the 19th of the same month, Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, set off from Quzhou, and arrived at Dinghai via Taizhou and Ningbo.

In addition, the Qing court appointed Jinhua General Ma Jinbao as the president of the southern route, and led the water troops from Taizhou to the north; the Wusong Navy General Wang Yi's army headed south, and was scheduled to attack Zhoushan on August 20th...

Although the Ming army in Siming Mountain was not defeated one by one as in history, the Ming army was wiped out in the battle on the banks of Siming Lake, and those who were captured were probably not spared, and those who escaped may not be able to escape the Qing army's subsequent encirclement and suppression.

Even with Chen Wen's great victory in the southern part of Siming Mountain and even the Extra Ballot Battalion was completely destroyed, the Ming army in Siming Mountain was already very little left, and the Qing army's military strength advantage was still obvious. After the Battle of Zhoushan, this advantage would be even more obvious for the Ming army in eastern Zhejiang...

The key to the Battle of Zhoushan lies in the battle in Hengshuiyang. Chen Wen, who had only a few hundred landslides under his command, asked himself that he could do nothing. Since that is the case, for him, or for the overall situation of the entire Zhejiang anti-Qing, if Chen Wen could not take one or two prefectures as bases before the Qing army captured Zhoushan, then there would be no future.

There is not much time left, at least three months, at most only six months. Chen Wen must occupy a base area of ​​enough to support 5,000 to 10,000 troops and several auxiliary troops. However, the expansion of Nantang Camp has just begun...

Since time is already so tight, how could he take time to train Yu Guowang in the army?

Just when Chen Wen was hesitating how to refuse Yu Guowang tactfully, Yu Guowang seemed to see Chen Wen's hesitation. If it were other things, his temperament would never make others embarrassed. However, the Ming army in Siming Mountain was wiped out and the Ming army in Tiantai Mountain suddenly increased, and he could not tolerate anything more humble.

"If General Chen is willing to agree, I will not want these two hundred cloth-faced armors. In addition, one hundred bird guns and a few gunpowder are added as rewards. I hope General Chen can agree." As he said that, Yu Guowang stood up and bowed.

Don't even want armor?

Is it a waste of three hundred bird guns and gunpowder?

This is what a rich man has met!

Chen Wen didn't know that with the brilliant victory of the Simingshan Palace Battle, he had already had the shadow of a generation of famous generals in the eyes of the Ming army who knew about this great victory.

After all, even though they have defeated the elite Qing army green camps such as the ExtraBiao Battalion in recent years, they have won the battle against the Qing army with their superior forces. Like Chen Wen, they can still defeat their opponents in a mess, even if they dreamed.

However, Chen Wen and his Nantang Camp did it, not only did it, but even Li Rong, the commander of the Qing army, was captured alive. He was the deputy general of the Tibiao Camp, second only to the Admiral and the general in the Green Camp. He was caught by Chen Wen and didn't even have time to escape. This made them have a more terrifying impression of the strength of the Nantang Camp.

After the battle at Hushan Institute, Yu Guowang considered to ask Liu Yiming or Chen Tianshu to help him train his army for a period of time after the Qing army encircled Siming Mountain. Although his army was the main force in that battle, the heroes who really defeated the local Qing army and captured Hushan Institute were Chen Tianshu's cavalry battalion and Liu Yiming's Dalanshan Ming army's left and right second battalion, which gave him a more intuitive comparison of the strength of his troops.

However, after the battle at Hushan Sou, Chen Tianshu and Liu Yiming were ordered to return to Dalan Mountain. The Ming army suffered a crushing defeat in the battle of Siming Lake, which also shattered his hopes.

But at this moment, Chen Wen and his Nantang Camp emerged. After fighting behind the Siming Mountain Palace, they defeated the 2,500 Qing army with 500 soldiers and captured the commander Li Rong alive. After a day, they fought against the main force of the Shaoxing Green Camp again, and scared him away with the pride of a new victory. It is rare for the Ming army to fight so hard, which makes Yu Guowang's idea of ​​asking Chen Wen to help him train troops even more passionate.

As for the three hundred bird guns, although it is also a considerable asset, in Yu Guowang's view, if this investment can be exchanged for an improvement in the combat effectiveness of the army, it is also worth it, especially when the candidate for training the army is a "famous brand" like Chen Wen.

But at this time, Chen Wen's idea was completely different from Yu Guowang. He knew very well why Yu Guowang asked him to train troops. It was simply that Nantangying, the new camp head, which had only been in the army for three months, was too amazing. But could Chen Wen help Yu Guowang train troops to achieve results?

Chen Wen knew very well what kind of army his army was. At the beginning of the founding of the army, he formed this army in the name of rebuilding the Qi family army, and built a sense of identity for a strong army through continuous brainwashing and the implementation of military laws and regulations. But he knew very well that the most important thing here was not these.

When the army was formed, Chen Wen stipulated that all military pay, military supplies and rewards were handed directly to the recipients by the military officers to avoid officers from embezzling military pay, military supplies and rewards, so that they had no economic foundation for eating empty pay and drinking blood from soldiers. In this way, coupled with the existence of the sanctioned soldiers who directly obeyed Chen Wen, even the possibility of officers bullying soldiers was eliminated as much as possible.

When it was established, Nantangying was striving to cut off the tail of the feudal army, in order to create a new army, a modern or even modern army in the true sense.

Until today, the work of Nantangying replicating the Qi family army has been completed quite well. This army is the sixth battle barracks of the Ming army in Dalanshan with strict military disciplines. It has a good foundation. During this period, Chen Wen's high standards and strict requirements have also enabled Nantangying to be able to avoid any violations in the garrison towns and on the way south.

If this great victory in the rear war with the purpose of covering the retreat of the people, a belief that even modern troops may not have been able to have begun to be rooted in this new army that has only been established for three months. This is a good start, and Chen Wen will do his best to implement it all the time.

However, even though Chen Wen had only visited it once, he knew a little about what kind of army the army was.

Yu Guowang's army used bird gunners as the main force in combat in terms of arms. The most important hand-to-hand infantry in this era became vassals, which is very abnormal. What made Chen Wen the most unhappy was that this army was still the old-style army model of empty salary and drinking blood. Even if such an army was fully equipped with Mauser 1888, it would not be the opponent of the modern army that used cold weapons to charge. This made Chen Wen, who relied on eliminating the bad habits of the feudal army to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the army, felt that he was really unable to start.

However, Yu Guowang's raise made Chen Wen even more hesitant - he agreed, and gave him three hundred bird guns for free; if he didn't agree, Chen Wen felt embarrassed to talk to Yu Guowang about the deal of the armored bird gun.

What to do?

At this moment, Gu Shouli's timely appearance allowed Chen Wen to temporarily get rid of this distress.

"General, the banquet is ready. The generals have already joined the banquet. I'm waiting for you and Xinchang Bo."

It turned out that it had been talked for so long, and time flies so fast. Seeing this, Chen Wen immediately expressed his hope to give him a few days to consider, and Yu Guowang also expressed his understanding of this. After all, this is a big event, and it is appropriate to consider it.

At the banquet, except for Yu Guowang, everyone else had already signed contracts for the transactions. These Ming generals expressed that they would complete the transaction in the next month. So, Chen Wen also took out the set of customers who had been assigned to the table, and finally the guests and hosts were having fun.

At night, the banquet of the old camp had ended, and Chen Wen and the Ming generals returned to their rooms to rest. At this moment, within the camp where the Ming army back camp of the Dalanshan Mountain several miles away, the camp of Mao Mingshan's deputy general Ye Shirong's camp was still brightly lit.

"Mr. Ye, Marshal Mao has left. Do we really want to follow the letter to attack Chen's guerrillas?"

Ye Shirong thought for a moment, called everyone present to him, and whispered his thoughts.
Chapter completed!