The Jinhua Righteous Army was unable to attack, and the Qing army in Taizhou did not attack, across a Lingjiang River, whoever attacked had to conquer the Lingjiang River first, otherwise, whoever attacked first only needed to stand on the bank of the Lingjiang River and fire arrows, which would make you suffer heavy casualties.

So the battle entered a stalemate.

It should be said here that the Taizhou capital of the Ming Dynasty was not in Taizhou, but in Linhai County, and Taizhou was governed by Linhai County.

Time passed day by day.

This year, the temperature was relatively low, in less than three days of Zhang Qiang's garrison, there was a snowfall, the snow was fluttering, there was no regular trajectory and route, it was blown by the wind, sometimes rolled up, sometimes floated for 100 meters, sometimes accelerated and fell, poured into people's mouths and noses, making people feel cold and panicked, just like the people of the Ming Dynasty at this moment, dying of being tortured by war, floating around.

The camp was rapidly expanding, expanding, digging trenches around it, digging potholes in front of the trenches, and at the same time placing all kinds of horses, deer rocks, and boulders to prevent enemy horses from storming the camp.

The range of the camp is very broad, five miles long from north to south, three miles wide from east to west, four highlands, the top of the hillside to build the arrow tower of the lookout, build the pier outline with huge wood, cultivate soil as the wall, the wall is five meters high, two meters wide, the top of the wall is widened to about three meters seven or eight with wooden planks, there are battlements on the city wall, firearm shooting holes, there are horse-faced battlements in some places, you can attack the enemy who climbs the city wall with bows and arrows from the side, there are four city gates, the distance between the city gate and the two cannons of Lingjiang is more than two miles long.

Of course, Zhang Qiang could not play a game of long-term confrontation with the enemy here, Xuanyuan Longfei took his headquarters and began to sweep the enemy's territory in the southwest, west, and northwest, and there were constantly captives and unsatisfied landlords and gentry who were caught and put into the prisoner camp, and the requisitioned people were put into the people's camp, and the number of people in the two camps continued to increase, and then increased, and in the end, there were already 30,000 people.

It is far more than nine times larger than the strength of Zhang Qiang's headquarters.

Twenty days later, the Qing army went to attack Yongfeng Town, artillery camp, Zhao Siyang took artillery to defeat the enemy's 3,000-strong attacking force, built a military camp in Yongfeng Town, and held it for a long time.

In a month, it had already entered January 1647, and the Qing army launched nine attacks on Zhang Qiang's troops, using naval warships to transport troops, day and night, attacking from many sides, and even once transferring 5,000 troops, using the naval division to attack Xianju County, which was defended by Du Ge, fought there for a week, but was finally defeated and fled back.

The Qing troops from the prefecture and Wenzhou also attacked Zhang Qiang, Xuanyuan and Long Fei's attacking teams several times, and both sides suffered damage.

In the middle of the month, the Qing army dispatched a large number of soldiers and horses, more than 10,000 people, to cross the Lingjiang River, seize a piece of impact beach on the west bank of the Lingjiang River, and gradually develop to Zhang Qiang's camp, successively built 11 camps, and increased the strength from 10,000 to 30,000, but Zhang Qiang was still unmoved.

Zhang Qiang is not without gains, his fame is getting higher and higher, at least in Taizhou Mansion and Chuzhou Prefecture, Jinhua Mansion's reputation is getting higher and higher.

The Jinhua Rebel Army, this force has spread throughout the south and has a huge influence in the three surrounding state capitals.

A number of southern rebel armies of the Ming Dynasty came to vote.

Zhang Qiang didn't want to mix with these rebels, so he built another camp for them by the river in the south.

The strength of the rebel army has grown from a few hundred people at the beginning to more than 10,000 people, but most of these rebels have no name in history, Zhang Qiang has not even heard of it, and he does not expect them to have much effect, but help is still to help them, give less food, and the captured inferior weapons, armor, no money, all give them, the purpose is to let them and themselves take root in this territory and give themselves a platform.

At this time, I gradually knew the names of the main generals and some generals of the Qing army, and had a general understanding of the composition and number of troops of the Qing army.

The Qing army finally broke free from the quagmire of the righteous army in Shaoxing Mansion and Ningbo Mansion, and basically pacified the place, but Tong Yangjia was transferred away, and went to Huguang to conquer the Yongli Nanming and Dashun Army, the new Qing army commander is called Chen Jin, who is a Han military banner born, sitting in Hangzhou, the main object of attack is the Southern Ming court army of Lu Jianguo, Zhang Qiang's main general is called Fan Shaozu, is a Ming Dynasty general soldier, after the Qing Dynasty, he was appointed as the deputy general of the Qing army, the general rank, his main task is also to deal with the Lu Wang court of Ningbo Mansion, There is also the remnant of King Lu in Fujian.

However, now the strength of Lu Jianguo has been greatly weakened, and Zhang Qiang's Nanming Righteous Army has emerged, and it has a strong strength in half a year, guarding the entire Jinhua Mansion like an iron bucket, and expanding to Taizhou Mansion, which is not something he can allow, after receiving the letter asking for help, he came with an army of 30,000 troops, stationed in the valley to the south, and camped face to face with Zhang Qiang's army.

Xuanyuan Longfei had to withdraw his troops from the southwest and join forces with Zhang Qiang.

The form is not very good for Zhang Qiang.

Xianju County has a state capital with 2,000 Qing troops to contain Du Ge.

Yongfeng Town, there are 3,000 Qing troops from Shaoxing Mansion to contain Zhao Siyang, Zhang Qiang's camp east is Linhai County, Taizhou Mansion City, garrison 10,000 troops.

On the beach in the southeast, there were 10,000 Qing troops to contain the camp of the rebels, and the rebels did not dare to go out of the camp to meet the battle, and some even fled with their troops in the middle of the night, or defected to the Qing army.

To the west of the south, there was Fan Shaozu's 30,000-strong army confronting Xuanyuan Longfei's camp.

In the west, there is a new annex army of the Qing army in Wenzhou Prefecture, and more than 1,000 people oppress it.

Zhang Qiang found out that he had stabbed a hornet's nest.

It was so difficult to find an outlet to the sea, and he actually let the Qing army from all sides besiege him.

And if this thing could be easier, for example, this Taizhou capital city is easier to fight, he would have gone to the sea a long time ago, but he didn't expect that he wanted to consolidate and occupy the territory first, and eat away at the enemy's plan little by little, and finally came to this point.

He only had 9,000 troops in his hands, but he was surrounded and pinned down by 60,000 troops, and the situation became more and more unfavorable for him.

Even with the 8,000 rebels still alive, he only had 17,000 troops here.

In Zhang Qiang's Chinese army camp, Zhang Qiang and Xuanyuan Longfei sat together, staring at each other with big eyes, and for a long time, Xuanyuan Longfei said: "My lord, it's better for us to withdraw the army, withdraw to the open field, and then fight the enemy, such as Xianju County." ”

Zhang Qiang didn't speak, he felt that he was fighting alone, to be said, the Qing army had been attracted here by himself, and most of them besieged him, but obviously whether it was the Lu Jian State Department in Zhoushan or the rebel army in Wenzhou, the Zheng army did not move, they were still pressed and beaten by the Qing army, and they were almost powerless to resist.

This could not fail him.

Crossing a few fields, a few hills, a farmland, a few streams, one or two villages, and a mountain camped in the Qing army camp led by Fan Shaozu, Fan Shaozu was also discussing the war with his generals.

Fan Shaozu had a preliminary understanding of the situation here, and set up camp, the army was ready, and he was ready to launch a major attack on Zhang Qiang's army to completely destroy this army that suddenly emerged from Jinhua Mansion.

Fan Shaozu's vision is still very high, and he did not attack Zhang Qiang's troops as soon as he came up like other generals.

He weighed several times, weighed both sides, and sent people to inquire about the news of the Jinhua Righteous Army led by Zhang Qiang.

He found that this rebel army was very strong in combat, otherwise it would not have defeated Ruan Dacheng's tens of thousands of Qing troops, and survived for more than half a year surrounded by the Qing army on all sides.

The letter brought to him by Li Chengdong reads, "I am in great trouble, you should not despise it, I am stumped by Longwu, I can't help you, if I attack it with an army, the outcome is unpredictable, this thief is the best at breaking each one, and you must not divide the thief's plan in the army, this thief is good at using firearms, I can't do it." ”

And before Tong Yangjia evacuated, he summoned Fan Shaozu, who had just exterminated Chen Hanhui of the Linhai Righteous Army and returned to Wenzhou, and said: "This person is the deputy commander of the Jinhua Righteous Army who once made Borobelle vomit blood and retreat, Zhang Qiang, should not be taken lightly." ”