Speaking of this, Qian Qiao suddenly felt angry and said depressedly: "No, the prince ordered me to station in Qinghe... Even if I send a message to ask for instructions, it will take three or four days for this round trip. General Liao has already led the Zuoying to break through Tianchang. Besides, I only have more than a thousand people in my hands, so I am afraid that the troops will not be enough."

Song An smiled slightly and said, "I can transfer 600 people from Huai'an to make up for you in the number of 2,000. Since it is a blitzkrieg attack on Sizhou, the soldiers are in the elite, not in the number. Besides, the transportation of ammunition to the north is urgent, so it is not easy to find a ferry... As for the young master, don't worry, I will take this for you."

Qian Qiaogong hesitated and said, "Then Qinghe Defense?"

"Erhan will arrive in Huai'an soon. I will take over Qinghe Defense. Lord Qian will rest assured."

"Success." Qian Qiaogong slammed his palm and said, "Just do what you said! If things are done, you will get half of your credit."

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Many times, events are not completely isolated.

Even those in power cannot truly control every prefecture and every county.

Wu Zheng never thought of doing everything in detail and doing it himself, but Wu Zheng absolutely cared about military power.

Because Wu Zheng understood that all dynasties often change, the army was often in chaos first.

But Wu Zheng had a very bad thing, that is, he was absolutely indulged in the generals he liked, which was obviously inconsistent with his thinking about military power.

For example, Jiang Quanyi and Wu Zheng were very indulging. Even if Jiang Quanyi dared to resist the order and attacked the north without authorization, Wu Zheng would only kick him twice and say that he would give up after the war.

This is true for Jiang Quanyi, who became a monk halfway through the journey, let alone Li Ruhai, deputy commander of Jinhua Wei (formerly Lihai Wei), and Sun Jiaji, commander of Chuzhou Wei (formerly Yanzhou Wei).

Before the war began, Wu Zheng issued an order, that except for the participating troops, each guard stationed in the respective defense areas, and no orders were allowed to move without orders.

According to Wu Zheng's original idea, this was just a restraining war that could control the scale, so even the First Army of Hangzhou Prefecture was not mobilized, let alone the troops and guards of each prefecture were stationed.

But as Wu Zhengxian arrived in Huai'an and was surrounded, the order became out of place.

But the command is an order after all. Before it is revoked, it is a bottom line, an insurmountable line of fire.

Jiang Quanyi dared to resist the order because he seized the excuse that the general was unacceptable to the order of the outside king and used the order to make excuses without receiving the "attack" order. However, Sun Jiaji and Li Ruhai were different. Their two guards did not participate in the war, and they could not find excuses without being transferred.

So, for half a month, they have been anxious and have written several times to the General's Mansion to ask for battle, and they have fallen into the sea.

Are the officials of the General's Mansion dereliction of duty?

No, that's a harsh word.

Compared with Chuzhou, the two guards in Jinhua each have their own garrisons, and the General's Mansion dared not even mobilize the First Army. There was no way. Wu Zheng's order was an iron rule, and military and political separation. Even the two Zhang, Xiong, Mo and others dared not go beyond the thunder pool.

It was not until Huaian City was besieged that Wu Zheng issued an order to mobilize a powerful member of the First Army to go north to reinforce, and this iron rule was torn apart.

A powerful part, how much is a powerful part, three thousand, five thousand or ten thousand, or two or three thousand?

Therefore, Wu Zheng's order was equivalent to delegating the power of military transfer to the General's Mansion. Wu Zheng didn't understand? Of course not!

Wu Zheng had no choice, because once he was surrounded by Huai'an, he would lose the way to command the various guards, and then he would not be able to delegate power to the general's palace.

So, there was a second conscription order from the General's Mansion, and this conscription order made almost all the people in the entire territory under the General's Mansion.

To be precise, the twelve prefectures (excluding Taixing, Taizhou, and Tongzhou) at this time had entered the state of national war half a month earlier than the Yixing Dynasty.

This has led to the great autonomy of each guard, that is, in addition to attacking across the border, each guard has the right to carry out "moderate" military operations, such as proactive defense.

As the name suggests, active defense means attacking, but the reality of attacking in the name of defense.

Li Ruhai was relatively steady. He was entrusted by Chen Sheng to command Jinhua Guard to stay. Although he had the intention to fight, he did not dare to act rashly.

But Sun Jiaji was completely different. A few years ago, he dared to gather more than 1,000 people to fight against the Qing Dynasty and attack the government offices occupied by the Qing army. He dared to contact Wu Yi's troops, who were still "Taihu water bandits" at the time, to launch an attack on Suzhou City, which was heavily defended by the Qing army. Although it ended in failure, his courage was indeed extraordinary.

I would like to reiterate here that civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, especially those in Jingkedao, knew about military affairs. Although they had no practical experience, it was indeed necessary to read military books.

Sun Jiaji was a Jinshi in Chongzhen for the tenth year. He was the head of the Ministry of War in the Ming Dynasty. After King Fu ascended the throne in Yingtian Prefecture, he served as the assistant military officer of Jiujiang. After the fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he led the rebel army to fight many wars, and his experience was not satisfactory. To be precise, he can be regarded as a capable military official.

Therefore, since I learned that Wu Zheng was trapped in Huai'an, Sun Jiaji sent people to contact Li Ruhai several times.

But Li Ruhai was cautious and never responded until Wu Zheng's order to mobilize the First Army to go north was conveyed, Sun Jiaji sent someone to invite Li Ruhai to a small temple on the side of Yunfeng Mountain. This was because the law was strict and the generals stationed in each guard were not allowed to leave the garrison without orders. Of course, the meeting between these two people had actually violated the ban. However, with the geographical knowledge at that time, who could determine whether the meeting between the two was in the south or north of Yunfeng Mountain? Even if it was certain, who could determine that the two had been staying in the same place and not moving around?

Rules are dead, people are alive, and there is no living person who can be suffocated to death by urine. This is the origin of the so-called "the upper one has policies and the lower one has countermeasures".

This time, Sun Jiaji moved Li Ruhai.

Sun Jiaji's plan was very simple, but it had a huge impact on the situation. He wanted to ask Li Ruhai to help him and cooperate with the Chuzhou Wei, the west and south routes to attack Taizhou and Wenzhou, completely wipe out the remaining Qing army in southern Zhejiang, and incorporate the entire Zhejiang into the rule of the General's Mansion.

The remaining Qing army in southern Zhejiang sounded like a group of scattered soldiers, but in fact, the Qing army was the elite enemy army. It was originally Duoduo and Boluo's command, but Duoduo was defeated by Qian Sudian in Ningbo Prefecture. Shortly after he was captured, Wu Zheng ordered the beheading in Shaoxing Prefecture for three days to be shown. In this battle, Deputy General Boluo was also captured together.

The Qing army, which lost its chief general and the deputy general, had no leader, and could only linger in the two prefectures of Taizhou and Wenzhou. Then the Yixing Dynasty and the Qing court negotiated a ceasefire. The Qing court had no intention of transferring back the army. After all, it still occupied the two prefectures and was not an isolated army, because the passage with the Qing army in Fujian was still there.

So, this army was kept in Taizhou and Wenzhou.
Chapter completed!