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Chapter 36 The Edict of King Qin

Although these 500 personal troops are definitely more useful than one or two thousand new troops, the total force is only 500. No matter how hard it is, they are only 500. Moreover, these 500 personal troops are still on the way to Jinhua from Chuzhou, and it will take at least three or four days to reach Jinhua Prefecture.

It only takes two or three days for thousands of soldiers from Ruan Dacheng and Fang Guoan to arrive at Jinhua Prefecture at most. This is why Zhu Dadian did not count this princess's personal army before. Now that Princess Kunxing mentioned this princess' personal army, he and the civil and military officials present ignited infinite hope and courage.

This hope and courage mainly stems from a series of brilliant victories created by Duke Yue Liu Yongxi. After all, the imperial court's righteous army annihilated all the Eight Banners brigades again and again, while the troops of Ruan Dacheng and Fang Guoan were defeated without even seeing the shadow of the Eight Banners soldiers. Therefore, everyone naturally felt condescending psychologically.

The princess of the regent said with confidence: "If Ruan Dacheng and Fang Guoan lead tens of thousands of people to the south, they will definitely invite Duke Yue and General Ruan Shengping to return to the rescue, but he only has a few thousand defeated soldiers. Then my personal army and I will wait for him to come in Jinhua Mansion!"

She had sent a messenger to inform her to arrive at Jinhua day and night as soon as possible. The key now is not how fast her personal army can go, but how she can drag Ruan Dacheng and Fang Guoan for a few days.

The speech of the princess of the governor made the civil and military officials in the city feel confident: "Your Highness is wise!"

"Your Highness the Princess Shenwu!"

"With His Highness the Princess in Jinhua, everything can be worry-free!"

The Princess of the Supervisor stabilized the morale of the army as soon as she appeared, and the entire Jinhua Prefecture also began the largest mobilization. Zhu Dadian happily withdrew hundreds of soldiers outside the city back into the city, and immediately armed thousands of new troops. According to the plan formulated by Liu Yongxi, all these new troops were incorporated into the original battalions, and the princess's personal army had arrived in Jinhua Prefecture, so she could naturally be foolproof.

For Ruan Dacheng and Fang Guoan, they didn't like the news that the princess's personal army arrived in Jinhua Prefecture. Although they felt that the combat effectiveness of this princess' personal army was, the problem was that this was the home court of the Jinhua court. Even if there were hundreds of extra new forces in the city, it was enough to change the situation. Moreover, this princess' personal army was said to have thousands of people.

Ruan Dacheng has always been known for his "knowing the army", so now he is naturally trying to argue that this news is extremely unreliable: "Even if the Duke of Yue has great skills, his troops have been used on the river. How could he suddenly turn thousands of soldiers? I think this so-called princess's personal army is only seven or eight hundred at most!"

Fang Guoan felt that Ruan Dacheng was right: "That's right, this so-called princess's personal army cannot be like the personal army of Queen Zhang, with a maximum of 1,000 people. Should we speed up the attack on Jinhua next?"

Ruan Dacheng frowned and said, "Be cautious, this one should be cautious. This princess's personal army has never heard of before. Now Jinhua suddenly releases such news. Do you want to take advantage of our foothold and not fighting for it? You must be cautious!"

Although Ruan Dacheng was ambitious before going south and felt that everything was under control, he was talking about it on paper. After entering Jinhua Palace, he found that whether it was a gentry, a powerful man or a civilian, the merchants were hostile to their uninvited force, and he became conservative.

Fang Guoan was originally planning to accelerate his action and enter the city before the princess's personal army arrived, but now after Ruan Dacheng said this, he became hesitant again: "Yuanhai, according to your opinion, Zhu Dadian is not an empty city plan?"

Ruan Dacheng claimed to be very arrogant: "Zhu Dadian can make a plan to empty the city, but I, Ruan, are not a village man. He is so confident. We must be cautious. You know better than me what the quality of our team is!"

When talking about the quality of these thousands of soldiers, Fang Guoan himself felt overwhelmed.

Although the thousands of troops under his command were regular troops of the Hongguang Dynasty, the Qing army's journey south was almost defeated and had become frightened birds, so they went south under the name of "rescue the king". However, the morale of the troops was generally not high, and many officers and soldiers could not understand why they came to Jinhua to flee the princess.

In this case, if we really want to force the troops to break up, the troops might break up. Therefore, although Fang Guoan felt that it was inappropriate, he decided to take action steadily: "We have thousands of soldiers in our hands. As long as we don't make mistakes, the princess of the regent and Zhu Dadian will always give full benefits!"

However, it is very difficult to accelerate again after the troops' marching slowed down. Moreover, the officials, civilians, gentry and powerful people all along the way were hostile to this uninvited guest army. They either couldn't support the supplies or spared the long road, or the main road was directly damaged. Therefore, the journey that could be completed in two or three days was completed for four days.

However, Jinhua Prefecture received the reinforcements that were most needed. The princess's personal army rushed from Chuzhou Prefecture and entered Jinhua City before Fang Guoan. It was only half an hour after they entered the city, and Ruan Dacheng and Fang Guoan were already at the city. In addition, there was an unexpected reinforcement, which was the honorary camp composed of the rehabilitation wounded soldiers.

As the most important logistics base of the Ming Dynasty court in Yue, Jinhua naturally bears the responsibility of hosting seriously injured and sick people. Now more than 200 injured and sick people who have recovered and are about to recover have actively requested to fight to become the elite force of the Jinhua defenders. Moreover, the princess of the Supervisor attached great importance to the Honor Battalion and deliberately turned the Honor Battalion into a camp of 600 people.

With these two camps and the thousands of new troops that were urgently mobilized during this period, Jinhua City is now calm and composed to defend the city. Fang Guoan's army outside the city becomes uneasy when they look at the city walls, and they become increasingly uneasy, and even show signs of bombing the camp.

The defenders and civil and military officials in the city did not know what was going on. They only felt that the team outside the city, under the banner of the Ming army, seemed to have signs of instability, but after half an hour, they knew what was going on: "It was Empress Zhang and Duke Yue who issued the imperial edict in Huzhou to serve the king!"

"That's right, Empress Zhang and Duke Yue called on the world to serve the king!"

"This is the real edict of the king!"

The Ministry of Security outside the city went south to Jinhua under the banner of "responsibility for the king", preparing to cover the princess of the regent and Zhu Dadian, but they did not expect that when they arrived at the city of Jinhua, the real edict of responsibility for the king was delivered.

Moreover, the gentry and powerful people outside Jinhua City not only sent the edict to the city, but also copied many copies to Fang Guoan's camp and even read it loudly outside the camp. Fang Guoan's subordinates became at a loss because of this edict to serve the king.
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