Chapter Twelve Resistance
"...Qin ordered Chen Wen, the general of Dalanshan, to be diligent in the king's affairs and bravely surpass others. He specially ordered him to lead his troops into the Weixing to fulfill his responsibilities as a guard. Qin said this."
Entering Zhoushan?
Hearing this edict, Chen Wen did not choose to thank him, but stood up on his own under the gaze of everyone. He patted the dust stained on his lower legs, and Chen Wen stood with his head held high.
"This is a disorderly order, and I cannot obey the order!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present was stunned.
Resisting the imperial edict is a great achievement in life for civil officials of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the imperial edict that can be used to disobey is generally the imperial edict. This kind of false intention that is not subject to the cabinet can be hyped up for a lifetime.
The court stick can be compared with the resistance of the order. In the eyes of the literati of the Ming Dynasty, righteous words forced the emperor to nothing to say, and could only use the blame to vent his resentment. This is a glorious deed that can be blown away for generations. In history, some people even marinated the beaten meat so that it would not rot and deteriorate, and could be preserved for a long time as evidence of accepting the court stick.
In contrast, for generals, resisting the order is a big problem. If you hold heavy troops in your hand, you will resist the order again...
However, after the military generals of Chongzhen Dynasty began to be reigned, Zuo Dashou, Zuo Liangyu and others did not care about the type of imperial edict, and as long as they violated their wishes, they would resist the emperor and the cabinet. The Ming court at that time was powerless and had to let it go, which aggravated the process of military generals' vassalization.
By the Southern Ming Dynasty, there were more things to resist the order. Zuo Liangyu of Chu Town did not mention it. Li Ruixin's old commander, Huang Degong, among the four towns in Jiangbei, was a loyal minister who persisted until the last moment of his life, and even frequently resisted the order, let alone others.
However, this kind of thing can generally be enjoyed by only the army head. For small army heads like Chen Wen who are subordinate to military supervisors, it is extremely rare.
"Fu Ren?"
Due to the sharp contrast between the crushing defeat and the subsequent victory, Wang Jiang developed a strong sense of trust in Chen Wen's strategic vision. However, Chen Wen said it without any room. While he had some doubts about the significance of entering Zhoushan, he was also afraid that this would lead to Chen Wen's disagreement with the Lu Jian State court.
Chen Wen saw the message that Wang Jiang wanted to convey at once, and saw him shook his head and then said to the imperial envoy: "A minister should be proud to protect the emperor. But the state affairs are like this, and we should make every effort to make every effort to make every effort to do our best."
"Zhoushan is an island. If the Tatars attack, naval battle is the key to the decision of victory or defeat. This time, the Tartars will definitely give their all their strength. If the king wants to win, he should defend the enemy outside Zhoushan. If the Tartars climb Zhoushan, these hundreds of soldiers will only die in vain."
"So, I think that instead of using these hundreds of soldiers to guard against the Tartars on the island, it is better to send troops to restrain the Tartars on the southern front. In this way, Your Highness, the ministers of Zhoushan, and the generals can also fight the main force of the Tartars with all their might. I hope the angel generals and ministers will report back to Your Highness."
In the Battle of Zhoushan in history, the Qing army garrisoned the Eight Banners in Hangzhou, the Zhejiang-Fu Governor Biaoying, the Zhejiang-Fu Governor Biaoying, and the Dinghai General Biaoying went out of Dinghai to go straight to Zhoushan, which was the main force; the Wusong Navy General Biaoying came down from the north, the Jinhua General Biaoying and Taizhou soldiers headed north, and besieged Zhoushan in three directions.
The response method of the Ming army in Zhoushan was also very simple. He used the Hu Hou Ruan to fight against the main force of the Qing army, and used the Dingxi Hou Zhang Mingzhen to command the army to intercept the army on the southern front of the Qing army. Zhang Huangyan and Ruan Jun faced the Qing army on the northern front, while Zhoushan City Defense only left General Anyang Liu Shixun, Governor Zhang Mingyang, and General Ma Tai, the general of Zhongzhen, led three battalions and thousands of people to defend.
Such tactics mean that the enemy must be defended from Zhoushan. Once the Qing army attacked Zhoushan, it was only a matter of time before the Ming army's failure. The main reason for this was that Ruan Jin, the Marquis of Danghu, had almost never lost any results in the face of various naval forces in Jiangnan in the past few years, and he could win more with less every time. There was even a phenomenon that the Qing army navy fled when he heard about Ruan Jin's name.
In this way, with Ruan Jin's reputation and his ability to surpass the Qing army in naval battles, it is almost a perfect solution.
But who could have imagined that when the Ming army defeated the Qing army on both sides of the north and south, Ruan Jin would be accidentally injured and fell into the water in the most critical battle of Hengshuiyang and captured by the Qing army?
The Lu Jianguo was not an independent person, and he trusted Zhang Mingzhen and Ruan Jin more in military affairs. Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Yi were not in harmony, so naturally he could not believe the prophecy that Chen Wen, the general of Wang Yi, guessed by Chen Wen, "Ruan Jin was accidentally injured and captured in the battle." Even without Wang Yi's relationship, from the perspective of the monarch and ministers of the Lu Jianguo court, it would never be possible to believe that Ruan Jin would be defeated by the Qing army's navy, especially when the power of the navy between the two sides was almost the same.
I know history!
This is a fact, but Chen Wen could not use this reason to convince the ruler and ministers of Lu Jianguo, because no one would believe such a saint-like prophecy in such military and national affairs. Just like when Chen Wen could not use this reason to convince Wang Yi, even if he had achieved a great victory in the history of the Lu Jianguo Dynasty not long ago, it would be useless.
The Battle of Zhoushan is no longer possible, so for Chen Wen, the optimal solution is to occupy a base as soon as possible. Only in this way can the history of the anti-Qing movement in Zhejiang be rewritten.
Among them, Chen Wen actually had a distrust in his subconscious mind, a distrust of whether other Ming troops could cooperate in combat, and also a distrust of the internal confidentiality of the Lujian Dynasty. After all, in the historical materials of the Qing Dynasty in later generations, some secretly communicated with Yan and I, even Ruan Jin, had been shaken for a while.
Chen Wen didn't know if it was a lie made up by Mr. Yan to highlight his sense of existence, but since the Battle of Siming Lake was excluded, this suspicion of other Ming forces has always been with him. Just like his previous interactions with the generals of Tiantai Mountain, he also had an attitude of equal transactions. As for the word cooperation, at least Chen Wen can't raise this idea now.
After listening to Chen Wen's explanation, the anger of the two imperial envoys slowed down slightly. The older imperial envoy in the lead didn't say anything, but the younger one asked Chen Wen: "Does Chen Shuai have such great confidence in attacking thieves on land?"
If Chen Wen and the Lu Jian court completely broke up, it would probably mean the division of the Ming army in Tiantai Mountain, or even killing each other, which was exactly what he was most reluctant to see. Since the imperial envoy had already let go, a trace of contempt for the Qing army immediately appeared on Chen Wen's face.
"For this question, we can accompany the angel to interrogate Li Rong. He has the most profound feeling about this."
Seeing that Chen Wen's expression was not like a fake, the leader's imperial envoy went down. "Since that's the case, I should report Chen Shuai's idea to His Highness the Superintendent, and the court will judge it. The envoy also has the responsibilities of various departments in Tiantai Mountain. He needs to wander here for more than a month. I also ask Governor Wang and Chen Shuai to arrange it."
"It should be."
Although he didn't understand that these two imperial envoys had not even argued about the question of loyalty to the emperor and righteousness, since the other party had already expressed his consent, Chen Wen did not need to find himself uncomfortable.
In the next month, Nantangying Camp began the second phase of training, and the two imperial envoys took action separately. The older one went to inspect and comfort the rebels from all walks of life; while the younger one stayed in the old camp, but at the beginning, they went to the nearby Yu Guowang, Jintang and the camp of the Dalanshan Houying camp for a walk, and then stayed at the temporary camp of Dalanshan Old Camp to observe the training of Nantangying camp.
It was not until more than a month later that Xuan comforted all the rebels. The two imperial envoys had a secret talk with Chen Wen, Wang Jiang and Yu Guowang, and left Tiantai Mountain and returned to Zhoushan for a trip.
Since Chen Wen learned that these two imperial envoys were descendants of Li Wenzhong, he developed a hint of defense from the bottom of his heart, but this kind of defense based on the guilty thief seemed a little targetless in front of these two imperial envoys.
During their stay in Tiantai Mountain, these two imperial envoys did not show off the airs that their ancestors were once the benefactors of Chen Wen's ancestors, nor did they mention the "Wujing Suicide Letter" that Chen Wen mentioned many times in Dalan Mountain, nor did they even use this identity to make friends. Everything seemed to have no idea that there was such a thing.
At the same time, their exchanges with Chen Wen were more about promoting the heroic Wu who was the monarch of Lu, as well as the political and military affairs of the Lu, and the importance of Chen Wen by the civil servant group within the court. As for other matters, they were rarely mentioned, and even Zhang Mingzhen, Ruan Jin and other honored meritorious ministers. Chen Wen was not very much mentioned. Chen Wen vaguely felt something, but neither side had broken the last layer of window paper.
The front foot sent away the imperial envoy from the Lu Jianguo, and the back foot Chen Wen and Wang Jiang welcomed another envoy. The visitor came from Chen Tianshu's Ming army, and to be precise, he was the subordinate of Chen Guobao, the commander of Liu Yiming's left and right battalion of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain.
Originally, according to Chen Tianshu's order, Chen Guobao and Chen Tianshu's remaining troops were about to set off to Tiantai Mountain to join Yu Guowang. However, the envoy sent in advance to Yu Guowang only found out that the remaining troops of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain were nearby, so they rushed over.
Since the Ming army of Hiraoka and the left and right battalions of Dalanshan lost contact with the old battalions of Dalanshan after the Battle of Siming Lake, the visitor started from that battle until the news of Chen Tianshu's death on the night of the third day of the March. In response, Wang Jiang said that he would definitely convey Chen Tianshu's long-term achievements to the Lu State and win him a better posthumous title.
After Chen Tianshu's funeral was completed, the Ming army of Hiraoka quickly divided into two factions. Some officers believed that they should follow Chen Tianshu's will and go south to Tiantai Mountain with the remnants of the left and right battalions of the Ming army on Dalan Mountain; while the other part said that most of the people in the Dongshan area of Hiraoka, which occupied the Ming army in Hiraoka, were unwilling to leave, and should stay and continue to protect the people from being ravaged by the Qing army.
Due to the irreconcilability of the contradictions, the two sides were at a strife. However, because of their equal strength, they took a step back and barely reached a compromise - abide by the basic principle of conscious voluntariness and voluntariness, stay those who are willing to stay, and those who are unwilling to stay can leave, and the food, grass, and military funds are divided equally, and the two sides do not interfere with each other. This envoy was the part of the Ming army who chose to leave to explore the way.
After learning that the military subordinates of the left and right battalions who were left and right in the old battalion moved here with the old battalion, the envoy requested to return to the team on behalf of Chen Guobao. Wang Jiang expressed a warm welcome to this, but Chen Wen seemed much colder.
A few months ago, the rear battalion of the Ming Army in Dalanshan also returned to the team like this, but as soon as its commander Mao Mingshan left, the remaining officers were completely out of control. They ignored Mao Mingshan's orders, and the military discipline began to loosen a lot in the past month, and even disturbed the people that had never happened in the history of the Ming Army in Dalanshan.
It was just because of the ancestral system of the big and small general system that Chen Wen did not have sufficient reasons to severely punish him. In the end, Wang Jiang, who was a civil servant in the army, pulled out the soldiers who were in trouble and scolded them, and gave some compensation to the people. The matter was declared over.
Wang Jiang's way of handling was very consistent with his personality, but was not recognized by Chen Wen. In his opinion, if Wang Yi was still there or Zhang Huangyan was the leader, this invader would have to die, because only in this way could the resumption of the incident of the army harassing the people.
In history, Wang Jiang and Shen Diaolun once raised troops again during Zhang Mingzhen and Chen Liuyu's recovery of Zhoushan, but they were completely wiped out by the Qing army after only half a year of persistence. A large part of the reason was that Wang and Shen could not control the army, and the soldiers robbed the people and lost their hearts, which made them unable to gather greater strength to deal with the Qing army like Wang Yishi.
Just as Huang Zongxi said, in the tenth year of Yongli, the Ming army in Dalan Mountain rose again, but it was like "his father killed someone to take revenge, his son died and lost all his preaching." How could he be invincible?
After the incident of eating military pay in the back camp still disturbing the people, Chen Wen began to regret that he did not take it under his command. However, it was only this way. The remnants of the left and right battalions also asked to return to the team, and there were actually some Hiraoka Mingjun, which further deepened Chen Wen's concerns.
PS: In the past two weeks, everything has been unfavorable and the mood has also declined, which has affected the update, especially this week. It was not until Friday that there was a good news. A letter from the hospital came to the hospital. The examination of the author’s family was not serious. It would be a review in half a year. Amitabha. Then, the author caught a cold...
Chapter completed!