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Chapter 88 Wenzhou suffered a setback
With the capture of Pingyang County, the first battle of the Ming army's march north to Zhejiang was finally won.

Regarding this, Yang Gong felt little joy in his heart. The Ming army was no longer as poor as it was at the beginning. He had [-] troops entering Zhejiang, equipped with armor and artillery, and even brought two new Tianlei battalions.

Pingyang County is just a small county town with less than a thousand soldiers and horses. How can it resist the front of the First Army?

The military officials dispatched by the cabinet were left in Pingyang County, and a thousand troops were stationed as insurance.

Yang Gong took a short rest and then led the main force of his headquarters to the north again. In less than two days, he captured Ruian County between Pingyang County and Wenzhou Prefecture.

The Ruian County Magistrate also jumped from the city and committed suicide on the spot, but this one was obviously inexperienced and did not grab the ground with his head like the Pingyang County Magistrate. He died instantly and painlessly.

The Ruian County magistrate hit the ground with his legs first. The city wall was more than four meters high. It is not sure whether he could have fallen to death if he hit the ground with his legs first, but his legs must have been broken before he died.

The pain was so painful that it made me cry like a ghost, but the key was that a Ming soldier recognized his county magistrate uniform.Not only did he not give him a last-ditch blow, but he also asked several colleagues to excitedly carry the magistrate with the broken leg and go to receive the reward.

The former magistrate was crying and howling all the way, but the officer in charge of recording the merits couldn't stand it anymore. He also saw that the magistrate was seriously injured and would not survive for long, so he gave him a sharp knife.

Of course, the merits are still recorded for those soldiers. The Ming army is still in its early stages of business, and it is not so ugly.

At this point, in only three days, the Ming army defeated two counties in a row, and the troops were approaching the capital of Wenzhou.

Dai Kun, the commander-in-chief of Wenzhou Town, who had already led his troops to Fucheng, was shocked when he heard the news, but he was not panicked after many years of military service.

Instead, while the Ming army was busy bringing Ruian County under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, they carried out a large-scale clearing of the countryside outside the city, plundered grain and grass everywhere, cut off the moat bridges, and finally blocked the city gate with huge rocks to prevent anyone from opening the city to surrender.

All of this can be said to be a quick response without any omissions.

When the Ming army arrived at Wenzhou Prefecture, they saw a fortified city like a tortoise shell. All the Qing troops in Wenzhou Prefecture were stationed in the city.

Moreover, the villages outside the city are still full of homeless people who have been hungry for a day.

Good guy, Dai Kun, the commander-in-chief of Wenzhou, was really ruthless. He not only fortified the walls and cleared the fields, but also plundered all the food and grass from the surrounding villages, and deliberately did not massacre the people from all over.

This is a bright thief who is ready to leave all the troubles to the back!

Although Yang Gong had a headache when he saw this, he couldn't really just ignore it. After thinking about it, the deputy commander next to him gave an idea.

That is to say, the young and strong people among the disaster victims are temporarily selected and used as civilian workers to provide relief through work.

As for the rest of the people, they were all arranged to go south and be handed over to the group of civil servants in Ruian and Pingyang County later.

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Wenzhou Fucheng.

The prefect, Shen Zhaoyan, was wearing an official robe and slowly climbed up the tower with the support of his attendants.

Looking outside the city, the flags of the Ming army's camp were fluttering. Shen Zhaoyan couldn't help but worry: "Dai Junmen, the Ming thieves have sent out 20 troops this time. Can Wenzhou City really be defended?"

When Dai Kun heard this, he smiled confidently: "Master Futai, please be at ease. This Ming thief is just bluffing. Based on my experience, this Ming thief said he sent 20 troops, but in fact he only sent [-] or [-] troops at most."

"Furthermore, even if the Ming thieves really attack with an army of 20 people, what is there to fear? The hundreds of thousands of Galdan's elite soldiers were still defeated by our Qing Dynasty, let alone these Ming thieves from Fujian?"

Although Dai Kun was deliberately trying to appease Shen Zhaoyan, in fact, he did think so.To him, the Ming thieves from Fujian were powerful and might indeed have some fighting ability.But as soon as the imperial army arrives, it will be turned into powder in an instant.

As for himself, he only needs to defend Wenzhou City and contain the Ming thieves under Wenzhou City. With him and Shen Zhaoyan working together to raise (search for) and scrape (scrape) money and food, there will be no problem in holding Wenzhou City for two months.

In two months, it was enough for the imperial court to send a large army to reinforce and even completely encircle and suppress this group of Fujian Ming thieves.

And what if the Ming thieves see that the bastard in Wenzhou Prefecture can't chew the shell, and ignore Wenzhou Prefecture, and want to bypass it and go north?
That would be simpler. Would it be possible to cut off the food and fodder and attack from the front and back?
In Dai Kun's eyes, the generals and commanders of this group of Ming thieves were still too young. Compared with himself, a veteran on the battlefield, he was still a little green after all.

With Dai Kun's comfort and assurance, although Shen Zhaoyan was still a little worried, he was no longer as scared as before.

But speaking of it, although Shen Zhaoyan had not been the magistrate of Wenzhou for a few years, he was also a traditional scholar, that is, he had no military knowledge.

But unlike most civil servants, they don't like to interfere in things they don't understand at all.In addition to raising food and grass for the army and recruiting labor from the people, Shen Zhaoyan did not deliberately interfere with how Dai Kun defended the city.

This is undoubtedly good news for Dai Kun. Otherwise, it would be too troublesome to defend the city while having to deal with these civil servants.

Time flies, two days have passed.

The Ming army finally completed the relief arrangements for the disaster-stricken people, with the sound of war drums in the Ming army camp.

"Boom~boom!"

Yang Gong finally launched the first wave of exploratory attacks on Wenzhou Fucheng. The siege troops sent were three first-camp camps, divided into three groups to capture the city. There were also swordsmen and rattan soldiers responsible for the protection of the city.

Now that Yang Gong is the commander of the First Army, the officers under his command even have to call him general. Naturally, the use of troops cannot be as stingy as before.

The three advance battalions in the front attacked in three directions, and the Ming army camp in the rear also pushed out the red heavy artillery. These were newly cast heavy artillery by the Ordnance Bureau. Not only were they equipped with wheels, but their weight was also reduced. , making it more suitable as a land combat heavy artillery.

"Bang~ bang!"

As the roar of the artillery continued, the Ming army's artillery began to pour bullet fire at the Wenzhou Mansion Tower to cover the friendly forces' attack on the city.

However, this time, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army seemed to be no longer the arrogant and underestimating enemy who had not fought in decades.

Yang Gong's first wave of exploratory attacks on Wenzhou Fucheng did not go well. The Ming army's artillery not only failed to cause huge damage to the Qing soldiers on the city tower, but even failed to suppress it.

The three Ming armies that launched the exploratory attack first entered the camp and were directly hit by the Qing artillery from the city tower indiscriminately.In just a few seconds, those who first climbed into the camp had already lost nearly a hundred people without even touching the city wall.

Such a huge loss was something the Qing court considered the real thieves of the Ming army to be unable to bear, let alone these fake thieves.

As a result, this tentative attack ended in failure, allowing Yang Gong to roughly figure out the strength of the Qing army in Wenzhou City.

Yang Gong suddenly felt a headache. He didn't expect that this Qing army from Wenzhou Prefecture actually had two brushes. Just the position of the Qing soldiers on the towers, plus the fact that they could calmly launch a counterattack in the face of their own artillery bombardment, it was enough to show that this group of Wenzhou Qing soldiers The Qing army in the government is not weak.

As a result, his red cannon, and even the natural morale of the Ming army, would have no effect in the siege.

This is a bit of a hassle.

　Hair loss
　　In the Qing Dynasty, Wenzhou's prefects were changed very frequently. There were only two magistrates in total for more than nine years. This also led to the poor development of Wenzhou.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)