Dominate the Country

ps: Keep asking for favorites. Friends who haven’t collected it yet but are looking for books, all they need is a little click from you, a little click!

In the middle of the night, a lone lamp. Ford was lying on the desk writing a memorial to Beijing.

Guide Town and Yunyang Town were defeated. Chen Jiajun's routine was very clear, but the officers and soldiers just couldn't stand it. In the two towns of Guide and Yunyang, all state-controlled soldiers, whether with firearms or with swords, were beaten to pieces by Chen's army. Now, the two towns have lost consecutive battles, the morale of the army is low, and some of the militia and township warriors have deserted.

Ford knew very well that he would lose this battle.

However, the fighting strength of the six to seven thousand officers and soldiers in the two towns and the thousands of militia and village warriors, and tens of thousands of people, cannot be defeated in vain. Ford was summarizing the gains and losses of this battle and telling the story of the battle. He wanted to go directly to Beijing to deliver this memorial to Lord Long Live.

The Chen family's thieves are so powerful that it can no longer be suppressed and exterminated by just one or two troops.

After the Chen family thieves defeated the officers and soldiers of Guide and Yunyang towns this time, they would definitely try to contaminate the place for the second time, and their military strength would probably increase even further. If the next encirclement and suppression campaign is still a small fight with thousands of soldiers, it will be completely condoning the Chen family thieves.

In the Yancheng County Yamen, the magistrate sat blankly in his study, exuding an aura of despair. "It's over, it's over." The dignified generals of the two towns, with tens of thousands of troops, couldn't defeat less than half of the Chen family thieves. God just wants him to die.

With the fierceness of the Chen family's thieves and their hostility in sweeping through the Ruzhou government and gentry, he could not find a way to survive.

"Master, master, you can't just sit and wait for death. Let me think of an idea and ask the Lord Fantai to issue a warrant for you to go to the state capital to ask for help or transfer money and food. After all, it is a way to survive. Once the official hat is gone, it will be gone. At least save a life."

Compared to those concubines who can only cry, the magistrate's wife has some knowledge and understands that crying at this time is useless.

Just like the atmosphere of despair permeating the county government office, all the wealthy gentry and merchants in Yancheng County who had actively donated money, food, carriages and horses to the army more than half a month ago were also in despair at this time. Who would have thought that the general troops of the two towns, as well as thousands of local brave militiamen, with a combat strength of over 10,000 people, could not defeat the Chen family's army, which had less than 5,000 men. Although the Chen family's army, which has less than 5,000 men, is all fighting strength.

They all know how the Chen family army swept through Ruzhou, how they dealt with the wealthy gentry who donated money and food to organize the rural brave militia and the wealthy gentry who they could not deal with. With such a disaster about to happen, why didn't the wealthy gentry in Yancheng County panic?

Unfortunately, it was too late for them to run away.

As long as the Chen Jiajun defeated the Qing army in front of them, Yancheng would be the meat on their lips. After Chen Ming defeated Guide Town, he sent a cavalry battalion to monitor the place at all times. It was possible for these wealthy gentry families to escape at night with a single horse, but it was impossible for a family of young and old to leave safely from Yancheng without being discovered.

Unexpectedly, even the county government contacted the Qing army camp and quietly slipped away at night.

Besides, their biggest reliance was the Qing army outside the city. On the second day after Fode wrote the memorial and sent it to Beijing, the Qing soldiers 'crossed' the Shahe River, which turned a big bend and went north. The county seat of Yancheng was completely abandoned to Chen Jiajun.

"Lu Long, Yang Ping, Feng Shaohua."

"The three of you will rush to Wuyang immediately and clean up the big squire households that have popped up in Wuyang County in the past few days."

"Uncle Bao."

"You take Chen Wenzan's camp, take down the Yancheng County seat, and clean up everything that needs to be cleaned inside."

"The rest of the troops continued to press against the Qing soldiers."

Regarding the actions of the Qing soldiers, Chen Ming's reaction seemed to be somewhat "different." It seems that the fighting attitude is not resolute.

"Lu Long, your return to Wuyang should be louder." This last command suddenly caused a slight change in Chen Ming's originally clear combat layout.

The detective horses of the Qing army were also always keeping an eye on the changes of the Chen Jiajun. Lu Long and other troops returned to the army and Wu Mao failed to hide it from the Qing soldiers, and then Yancheng County also fell into the hands of the Chen Jiajun.

Fode summoned two generals, Rong Hua and Ma Wenjie. A large map was spread out on the table. Fode said: "The Chen family's thieves returned to Wuyang with one force, and another army gathered to capture the county seat of Yancheng. They are now plundering the city. .Thief leader Chen Ming personally led the troops to overwhelm Hexi. I guess the Chen family's thieves arranged it this way...doesn't it mean they don't want to fight?" The more Fode thought about it, the more he felt that Chen Ming didn't want to fight, so he divided his troops in Wuyang. Those Yancheng County towns. This one is different from the one that cleared the military camp a while ago, and the taste is different.

Ronghua and Ma Wenjie looked at each other, and both nodded in agreement. "Sir, Shahe, this Shahe should be the cordon for Chen family thieves." Ronghua pointed at the Shahe on the map and said.

"Our army is east of the Shahe River. If the front can't threaten the county seat of Yancheng, then it will not touch the bottom line of the Chen thieves." The geographical location of the county seat of Yancheng is very important. I won’t go into the small details, but it is a key hub for communicating with various states. From a broad perspective, this location is located in the intersection of the plains at the eastern foot of Funiu Mountain and the Huaibei Plain. The overall terrain is higher in the west and lower in the east. There are a small number of loess hills distributed in it, and there are large and small rivers within its territory. Dozens of them all belong to the Huaihe River system, with the main rivers Shahe, Lihe, Yinghe, etc., among which the Shahe and Lihe rivers run across the entire territory. The Chen Jiajun's guns and artillery are sharp. If they occupy this place and manage it well, it can be used as the eastern defense fulcrum of Ruzhou.

If the Qing troops don't defeat this place first, who would dare to attack the eastern part of Ruzhou rashly? Aren't you afraid that Chen Jiajun from Yancheng will steal their retreat?

Yancheng and Xiangxian County, once these two places are captured, the Chen Jiajun will be able to organize an eastern defense line with careful management, and the Chen Jiajun can attack Luoyang northward with relative peace of mind—— Go to Yiyang, or attack Nanyang southward.

In Chen Ming's understanding, the Chen family army cannot stand in one place, but must attack instead of defend. Take Luoyang and Nanyang in the north and south of Ruzhou as an example. The Chen Jiajun fought over them. Fighting in these two territories is better than having the war burn into Ruzhou and reach the Chen Jiajun's home base, right?

Of course, if Fode, Ronghua, Ma Wenjie and others simply thought that they could withdraw from the battle and safely retreat to Chenzhou, then they would be too naive. Just after the Qing army stayed with the east bank of the Shahe River for a day, and then strode back along the Shahe River to Xihua, Chen Ming led his troops and successfully took over the east bank of the Shahe River. Although the Qing soldiers destroyed the bridge when they retreated. But it didn't matter. Chen Ming led two thousand people in one night and crossed the Shahe River lightly. Then the team stepped forward and advanced straight east towards Zhoujiakou. They pushed aside the Qing troops who were retreating northeast along the Shahe River to Xihua.

By the time Fode, Ronghua, and Ma Wenjie received the information from the local villages and towns, the sun was already dark and the three of them were all blue.