Wu Zheng finally gritted his teeth, reached out, held the handle of the knife, and lifted it up with force.

Then turn your head, get up, and leave.

A faint whistle came from behind, and then it became quiet.

Wu Zheng at the door reached out and wiped away the tears that were inadvertently oozing out of his eyes and left the house.

Song An greeted him and asked softly: "Young Master... how to deal with her funeral after her?"

Wu Zheng raised his head and replied sternly: "Go and pick the mouth and have the coffin...buried!"

"Do you want to erect a monument?"

"No!" Wu Zheng responded in college. After saying that, he left with great strides, but after taking a few steps, he stopped and said as if he was talking to himself: "She doesn't need a monument, what she needs is peace."

....

Boluo is actually very clear about the consequences of Ningbo Prefecture's fall.

With his nature, even though he knew he would be defeated, he should lead his troops to save Duoduo.

But Duoduo had strict orders. According to Duoduo's instructions, Boluo issued a retreat order to the Qing army attacking Jinhua Prefecture.

In fact, at this time, the Qing army attacking Jinhua Prefecture had gradually lost its fighting spirit.

The forces on both sides are almost the same.

There is no surprise when fighting.

Even if the Qing army's individual combat power was better than the Ming army, the advantage was not obvious in such face-to-face fighting.

Moreover, the Ming army had a favorable territory and harmonious people. Yanzhou Guards were in the west and Jinshan Guards were in the east, forming a restraining situation, which greatly offset the Qing army's offensive advantage.

After eleven consecutive attacks, the two sides fought a war of attrition.

The so-called war of attrition consumes not only human lives, but more materials.

For the Qing army who was in the "away field" and from afar, the logistics supplementary pressure was significantly greater than that of the Ming army.

The territory of the ten prefectures of the Yixing Dynasty was separated from the middle, and the supply of the Qing army all came from Fujian. With the transportation capacity at this time, it was indeed very difficult, especially when Fujian was initially decided and the refusal often emerged, it was even more difficult to supply.

When the stalemate was in a state of stalemate, the Qing soldiers did not dare to implement the strategy of "fooding on the spot", which caused a fire in the backyard.

Therefore, once this battle falls into a stalemate, time will no longer stand on the side of the Qing army.

After Zhang Guowei and others "properly" solved Liao Zhongping, they mobilized 5,000 Beijing Guards with Liao Zhongping's military talismans, plus 2,000 Hangzhou Guards, and quickly advanced westwards to reinforce the Jinhua battlefield.

The Beijing Guards did not have an unstable position, but instead became loyal to Wu Zheng.

But they didn't understand the reason at all.

This has to be said that those who are conspiring will never be able to play with those who are conspiring.

Zhu Cilang plays cunningly, but he insists on playing a wise king.

All his plans were carried out in secret, so only Liao Zhongping knew the inside story.

For the five thousand Beijing guards, their decree was to reinforce Shaoxing Prefecture to fight against the Qing army.

Therefore, once Zhang Guo maintained Liao Zhongping's army to mobilize troops, no general of the Beijing Guard felt it abrupt.

So, Zhang Guowei successfully led a total of 7,000 people from the second division to advance westward quickly.

The addition of these seven thousand new forces was the last straw that broke the Qing army.

In other words, even if Boluo's military orders did not arrive, the Qing army's front was in danger.

And the arrival of this retreat order made the tired Qing army finally retreat legitimately.

After the Qing army withdrew to Taizhou and met with the remnants of Boluo, under the oppression of the Wu Zheng troops in Ningbo Prefecture, they had to continue to retreat south.

This retreat was not until Wenzhou Prefecture that it barely established a foothold.

Wu Zheng did not really want to attack. After the battle of Ningbo Prefecture, Li Haiwei was indeed suffering a lot of casualties, especially Qian Sudian's death, which made Wu Zheng unable to expand the results of the battle.

What’s strange is that Taizhou Prefecture, which is between Ningbo and Wenzhou Prefectures, was not followed by the Qing army, and became an unguarded city, thus becoming a buffer place for the two armies.

This offensive and defensive battle lasted for fourteen days and ended with the victory of the Ming army.

The Qing army lost more than half of it. Without taking a slight advantage, it lost Ningbo Prefecture, and even the commander Duoduo became a prisoner of the Ming army.

On the Ming army, there were heavy casualties. Only more than ten cavalry battalions, which were regarded as the direct line by Wu Zheng, were left with more than 30% of the casualties of the musket battalions. More than half of the 3,000 Hangzhou guards brought by Qian Sudian, and more than 40% of the casualties of the Lihaigu. The biggest loss was probably Qian Sudian's death.

The battle in Jinhuafu was the longest from the beginning to the end, but the casualties between the two armies were the smallest.

Yanzhou Wei and Jinshan Wei suffered more than 2,000 casualties.

The Qing army was slightly less, with more than a thousand casualties.

This also shows that the battle with a consistent match looks grand, but in fact it has the least casualties.

If the casualties alone, the two sides almost tied.

But strategically speaking, Wu Zheng is undoubtedly the biggest winner, no doubt.

Because of the restoration of Ningbo Prefecture and the buffering place of Taizhou, the strategic depth of Shaoxing and Hangzhou prefectures has increased, and the significance of this is very important.

Simply put, if the Qing army wanted to attack from the south again, Wu Zheng's early warning time could be extended by at least five days.

This is equivalent to a relatively stable base for the Wu regime, which only owns the three prefectures.

When cleaning the battlefield and appeased the people in the city, Wu Zheng also "picked" several people.

Duoduo conquered the Longwu Dynasty and captured Emperor Longwu, the Empress, the Prince and others.

He immediately escorted Emperor Longwu and others to Shuntian Prefecture, but Huang Daozhou was always imprisoned in Ningbo Prefecture.

Duoduo originally wanted to subvert the Yellow River, which would be of great use to the situation in Fujian and Guangdong.

Unfortunately, Huang Dao Zhou refused steadily, leaving Duoduo helpless.

This time Wu Zheng led his army to attack, Duoduo did not expect that he would be defeated by Wu Zheng, so he did not think about transferring these captives from the Longwu Dynasty.

When Huang Daozhou and others were rescued from prison by the Northern Expedition Army, Huang Daozhou's body was almost collapsed.

Wu Zheng placed him in Ningbo Prefecture for rest.

Yin County was originally under the jurisdiction of Ningbo Prefecture. The Qian family was not taken to Shaoxing Prefecture by Qian Sule, and the nearby branches were all in the city.

When I heard that Qian Sudian died in Dongcheng, about six or seventy Qian's family and thousands of people came.

Wu Zheng personally sent Qian Sudian's body to the Qian Family Ancestral Hall in black mourning clothes.

He also ordered the erecting of a monument for Qian Sudian to compile the biography, and reported it to the court for posthumous title.

....

Wu's regime.

When mentioning these four words, it seems a bit abrupt.

But under the command of the General's Mansion, almost no one does not know, but it is just a disclaimer.

This is an open secret.

Wu Zheng returned to Shaoxing City with Duoduo, who had been furious and had never been quiet before.

The chief officer of Hangzhou Prefecture had already been waiting there, and even Zhang Guowei rushed over from Jinhua.

After everyone gave a brief report, Zhang Guowei knelt down to Wu Zheng.

Zhang Guowei apologized and said, "The senior official did not send troops to reinforce the general as soon as possible, which caused the general to be in danger for a long time. It was the senior official who insisted on not sending troops, which had nothing to do with the public... He asked the general to punish his subordinates for ineffective rescue."

This is a ritual between the king and the minister, but none of them find it abrupt.
Chapter completed!