Chapter 24: The Old Department of the Pan Family

The Ganzhou system made Pan Qifeng defeated and killed in Shangrao, and then Yuzhang gave Yu Feixiong to lead the siege of the city and was forced to surrender, but a considerable part of the Pan family stayed in the city of Ganzhou, where Fan Qifeng first started.

When the extravagant flying bear led the troops to attack, the Pan clan saw that the Zhejiang-Fujian army was invincible, so they surrounded Pan Qifeng's youngest son Pan Wenshu abandoned the city and fled, and the remnants entered the deep mountains and old forests in southern Jiangnan, stubbornly resisting and not surrendering - after last autumn, Huaidong launched the Mindong War, Xie Chaozhong used troops from Huizhou to western Zhejiang, forcing the luxury family to reduce the garrison in the area south of Yuzhang, Pan Wenshu led the remnants to drill out of the deep mountains and old forests, and wanted to take the opportunity to recover the southern Gan region.

Uncle Pan Wen once led the remnants to recover Longnan, Dingchuan and other counties in the upper reaches of the Ganjiang River, and besieged Ganzhou City. However, the good times did not last long, and the pace of the war in Jiangning proceeded extremely fast, and by the end of February, the situation had basically stabilized. After Hao Wenzhuang led his troops to retreat into Jiangzhou, Hao Feixiong pulled out and led his troops south along the Gan River to clear Pan Wenshu's department.

After several fierce battles, the remnants of the Ganzhou army were defeated one after another, and the recovered cities of Longnan and Dingchuan were also lost one after another, and Pan Wenshu was forced to lead the remnants to flee into the deep mountains and old forests; At this time, there were only more than 1,000 people left in the remnants of the Ganzhou army.

The scouts sent by Huaidong have been trying to contact the remnants of the Ganzhou army, but in the early stage, the entire southern Ganzhou region was tightly sealed by the soldiers and horses of the luxury family, and it was difficult to penetrate the area south of Ganzhou.

Extravagant Fei Xiong once sent someone to pretend to be Jiang Ning's secret envoy to contact Pan Wenshu and lure the remnants of the Ganzhou Army to Changting for ambush annihilation. The remnants of the Ganzhou Army suffered extremely heavy losses that time, and since then they have become extremely vigilant.

The Huaidong scouts twice touched the traces of the remnants of the Ganzhou army, but twice they sent people to contact them, and they both asked the Ganzhou army to transfer away in advance, but they have not been able to get in touch. Still inquired in many ways, and learned that Chen Yuqin, the general of the remnants of the Ganzhou Army, was the nephew of Chen Fashu, a gentry of Huangbai Mountain, and Wu Jingze, the military order of the Military Intelligence Department in charge of southern Gannan affairs, took advantage of the large-scale withdrawal of the soldiers and horses of the luxury family from southern Jiangnan, personally led the team, and sneaked into Huangbai Mountain with the scouts who were familiar with the people of Dingchuan County and Chenjiawa, and contacted Chen Fashu first.

After gaining Chen Fashu's trust, he learned that the remnants of the Ganzhou Army had moved to the area of Zhupo Mountain in Huichang County, and that Li Fangliao was a contact point of the Ganzhou Army at the northwest foot of Zhupo Mountain.

After explaining his identity in Li Fangliao's main house and Chen Fashu's letter as evidence, Li Houjun, Chen Yuqin and others were still suspicious, and immediately tied up Wu Jingze and other fifteen people, and brought them from the hidden path behind Li Fangliao's cottage to the secret camp in Zhupo Mountain for screening.

More than ten scouts who entered Huichang with Wu Jingze were all from southern Gansu, even if they had never returned to their hometowns in the early years of the army, even if their families were moved to Chongzhou, but their roots were still in southern Jiangnan, and it was not difficult to find familiar fellow villagers from the remnants of the Ganzhou army.

After careful screening, the identities of Wu Jingze and others were confirmed.

In addition to Chen Zhihu who voted for Yanhu and Dong Yuan, Gao Zongting, Tang Fuguan, Chen Dingbang, Geng Quanshan, Chu Zheng and other old departments of the Eastern Fujian Army, and even Yu Wencheng and Yu Wenbei, the sons and nephews of Yu Wangao, the former governor of Eastern Fujian, also led their troops to join Huaidong as generals. In addition to the Huaidong Army, it is also extremely difficult for anyone to find so many old troops of the Eastern Fujian Army from southern Jiangxi to act as bait.

Wu Jingze sat in a wooden house with closed walls and guards outside, listening to the sound of footsteps outside the door. After a while, the wooden door opened, and for a while, the eyes were shining brightly for a while, and I squinted to see Li Houjun and Chen Yuqin accompanied a young man with a little lame left foot to walk in, and it was rumored that Uncle Pan Wen was fighting in Dingchuan, and the arrow in his left foot fell from his horse, and rescued his subordinates, it seems that the arrow left a stubborn disease that could not be cured.

"This is my general's ......," Chen Yuqin said.

Uncle Pan Wen was in his early twenties, and when Pan Qifeng died in Shangrao, he had not yet reached the age of a weak crown, and he was originally a son, but at this time his face was already weathered. After his brother Pan Wenbo was killed in Yuzhang and tied up to the luxury family, Pan Wenshu was the last head of the clan of the clan.

"I've wronged Captain Wu, the situation is like this, I can't be cautious, and I'll see Captain Wu for forgiveness." Uncle Pan Wen clenched his fists and said apologetically, quite sincerely.

Wu Jingze replied: "Shaojun should be like this, how can Jingze complain?" I also want to tell Shaojun the news outside the mountain, and if I can't contact Shaojun, it's not easy for Jingze to go back......"

Uncle Pan Wen led the remnants of the Ganzhou army like a lost dog to escape the slaughter of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in the deep mountains of southern Gansu, and he had no spare strength to send people to Jiangning to liaison. Coupled with the deliberate blockade of the luxury family, the news of Uncle Pan Wen and others is extremely closed, and the situation outside southern Jiangxi is vague, and it is not clear what has happened in the land of Jianghuai for more than a year.

Wu Jingze told Pan Wenshu, Chen Yuqin, and Li Houjun in detail about all the things that had happened in Jiangning in the past year: "At this time, the western Zhejiang camp is going to the border of Zhejiang and Jiangxi to gather materials and soldiers and horses on a large scale, and Xu Feixiong led his troops to withdraw from southern Jiangnan, just to reinforce Shangrao ......."

"Jiang Ning has really been lost?" Li Houjun couldn't believe it, and said with emotion, "At that time, there was news coming, and I thought that the luxury family was talking nonsense!" ”

Even the news that Jiang Ning was lost and recovered can't be determined, and it can also be known how kind of people Uncle Pan Wen is trapped in the deep mountains and old forests. Fortunately, Uncle Pan Wen regarded this news as a trick of the luxury family, otherwise he didn't know how the Gannan Resistance Army would react, and Huang Binghao of Jiangzhou suddenly lost the courage to resist and surrendered to the luxury family when he heard the news.

"Now that the rebels have been pinned down to the two lines of Jiangzhou and Shangrao, Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou have also led their troops west out of Yuanzhou, and the garrison of the luxury family in the hinterland of Poyang Lake and along the Ganjiang River has been greatly reduced, and even the garrison in Henan and Jiangxi City is less than 3,000 people, which is the time when Shaojun has made great achievements...... Wu Jingze said.

More than 50 counties in Jiangxi's eight prefectures were all under the rule of luxury families at this time.

However, in addition to Yuanzhou, Jiangzhou, and Shangrao, which gathered heavy troops and blocked the gateway to Jiangxi from the outside world, the territory of the luxury family in about 30 counties in the other five prefectures was almost empty.

Only a few of Ganzhou and Yuzhang want to rush to the big city, and there are still more troops, and most of the remaining states and counties only have a small number of sword archers, which are still recruited from the local government, and their loyalty to the luxury family is very limited.

Even in a few important places like Ganzhou and Yuzhang, which are located in the hinterland of Jiangxi, control the Ganjiang River and Poyang Lake, and cannot afford to be lost, the garrisons are only 35,000 at most, and only 3,500 at the least.

Although Pan Qifeng is dead, the banner of the Pan family has not fallen. In fact, Pan Qifeng was defeated in Shangrao, and many remnants fled into Huaiyu Mountain between the Wujiang River and the Xinjiang River, and did not surrender to the luxury family.

It's just that the Ganzhou Resistance Army led by Pan Wenshu has always been blocked south of Ganzhou and has not had the opportunity to go north, so the resistance forces in the northern area of Ganzhou are like sporadic fires and have not formed a scale.

Wu Jingze came to Huichang to persuade Uncle Pan Wen to take advantage of the emptiness of the luxury family's defense on the inner line to lead his troops north.

The resistance forces south of Ganzhou have been exterminating Xufei Xiong for nearly a year, and their strength has been greatly weakened. The area south of Ganzhou, with many mountains and few fields, is not the essence of Jiangxi that the luxury family wants to control, even if it loses control of the southern part of Ganzhou for a short time, it is not enough to cause fatal damage to the luxury family.

At the time of the war, the strength of the luxury family in the southern area of Ganzhou was completely reduced, and only 3,000 soldiers and horses were stationed in Ganzhou, which was to blockade the resistance forces in the south and not affect their control of the Poyang Lake Plain.

The entire Poyang Lake Plain is the essence of Jiangxi, and the millions of fertile fields along the coast are enough to give luxury families a chance to breathe once they are well managed. The nearly 4 million people in Jiangxi, about 70 percent, are concentrated in the area north of Ganzhou.

Uncle Pan Wen led his troops north to the banks of Poyang Lake, and took advantage of his father's legacy to gather the forces of resistance and hatred of the luxury family in other places under his banner, and then launched an uprising against the people who were deeply resented by the luxury family, so as to really hit the sore spot of the luxury family.

In addition, the east shore of Poyang Lake to the east is Yishan, Jiuzi Mountain, and Huaiyu Mountain, which are separated from Jiangning, Huizhou, and Chizhou.

Although the mountain trail is dangerous and does not allow the army to pass, but Pan Wenshu led the remnants to pass, and the Privy Council was more or less able to send some supplies through the mountain path.

Now that the remnants of Uncle Pan Wen are trapped in the deep mountains of Huichang, they will be able to get grain and grass from the supported cottages, but there is a shortage of salt and iron, and the generals are not even full of armor, knives and bows.

When the remnants of the Ganzhou army were at their peak, it was also when the luxury soldiers and horses were absorbed to western Zhejiang after the autumn of last year, and they once occupied the four counties of southern Jiangnan, summoned nearly 20,000 people, and besieged Ganzhou. Wait for the luxury Fei Xiong to lead the troops to the south, withdraw from Ganzhou, after Longnan, Dingchuan and other battles have been lost, the soldiers and horses have suffered heavy losses, there are quite a lot of soldiers in despair, abandon the army and flee, now the remnants of the pig Po Mountain are only more than a thousand remnants, even a knife in the hand, a spear is not complete, bows and arrows are mostly hunting bows, not elite at all.

Uncle Pan Wen discussed with his relatives and generals behind closed doors for three days, and resolutely decided to accept the suggestions of Wu Jingze and others, break up the whole into pieces, go north in batches, and sneak to Fuliang and Yongshan to start an incident. No matter how bad it is, if Pan Wenshu and other troops fail to resist on the east bank of Poyang Lake, they can also disperse and withdraw from Jiuzi Mountain and Yishan to Jiangning to rest.

In early November, Chen Yuqin led more than a dozen good men, together with Wu Jingze and others, to leave Zhupo Mountain under the cover of the foot caravan. From between the deep mountains, bypassing the Ganzhou Pass and going north, when crossing the Yujiang River, he met with Yu Wencheng, who was sent by the Military Intelligence Department to be in charge of eastern Jiangxi affairs.

Yu Wencheng is the third son of Yu Wangao, although the Yu family's relatives moved to Jiangning early, the prestige of the Yu family in the ancestral hometown of Yongshan is no worse than the Pan family.

The Yu family has a blood feud with the luxury family, and Yu Wencheng and his cousin Yu Wenbei have been following their father's last wish to stay filial in Jiangning.

Jiang Ning was lost and recovered, and the Yu brothers completely surrendered to Huaidong and were recorded as commanders to join the army. In the later stage of the war in Eastern Fujian, the luxury family surrendered under false righteousness, and a considerable part of the old soldiers who went out from Yongshan with Yu Wangao also left the army and returned home. Yu Wencheng and Yu Wenbei took the initiative to invite Ying to come to Jiangxi this time, just to return to Yongshan to gather the old department of the Yu family and give the luxury family a hard blow in the hinterland.

The Pan family and the Yu family are both Jiangxi generals, and Chen Yuqin, as a general of the Pan family, has met Yu Wencheng. When he saw that Yu Wencheng had also sneaked to Jiangxi, the last doubts in the hearts of Chen Yuqin and other generals of the Ganzhou Resistance Army were swept away.