Pan Qifeng, the governor of Ganzhou, was defeated and killed in Shangrao. Later, Yuzhang was besieged by She Feixiong and his troops were forced to surrender. However, a considerable number of Pan's relatives stayed in the city of Ganzhou where Fan Qifeng first made his fortune.
When She Feixiong led his troops to attack, the Pan clan saw that the Zhejiang and Fujian armies were invincible, so they surrounded Pan Qifeng's youngest son Pan Wenshu and abandoned the city.
The Eastern Fujian War was launched in the east, and Xie Chaozhong sent troops from Huizhou to western Zhejiang, forcing the She family to reduce the garrison in the area south of Yuzhang. Pan Wenshu led the remnants of his troops to emerge from the deep mountains and old forests, hoping to take the opportunity to regain the southern Jiangxi area.
Uncle Pan Wen once led the remnants of his troops to recapture Longnan, Dingchuan and other counties in the upper reaches of the Gan River, and surrounded Ganzhou City. However, the good times did not last long, and the entire Jiangning war progressed at a very fast pace. By the end of February, the situation had basically stabilized. Shewenzhuang
After leading his troops to retreat into Jiangzhou, She Feixiong immediately got out and led his troops south along the Ganjiang River to clear out Uncle Pan Wen's troops.
After several fierce battles, the remnants of the Ganzhou Army suffered setbacks one after another, and the recaptured cities such as Longnan and Dingchuan were also lost one after another. Pan Wenshu was forced to lead the remnants to flee into the mountains and forests; at this time, there were only a thousand 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 Gansu area was tightly blocked by the She family troops, making it difficult to penetrate into the area south of Ganzhou.
She Feixiong once sent someone to pretend to be Jiangning's secret envoy to contact Uncle Pan Wen, and lured the remnants of the Ganzhou Army to Changting to ambush and annihilate them. The remnants of the Ganzhou Army suffered extremely heavy losses that time, and they became extremely vigilant from then on.
Huaidong scouts found traces of the remnants of the Ganzhou Army twice, but they sent people to contact them twice, and they both asked the Ganzhou Army to move away in advance, but they were never able to contact them. They still made inquiries and learned that Chen Yuqin, the general of the remnant Ganzhou Army, was Huang Baishan.
Wu Jingze, the nephew of the gentry Chen Fashu and the military commander in charge of affairs in southern Jiangxi, joined the army. Wu Jingze took advantage of the large-scale withdrawal of the She family's troops from southern Jiangxi and personally led the team, together with his ancestral home in Dingchuan County and familiar with Chenjiawa people.
Scout, sneak into Huangbai Mountain and contact Chen Fashu first.
After gaining Chen Fashu's trust, he learned that the remnants of the Ganzhou Army had moved to the Zhupo Mountain area in Huichang County. Lifangliao was a contact point for the Ganzhou Army at the northwest foot of Zhupo Mountain. Wu Jingze led his team as a caravan
To cover up, he took the initiative to jump into Li Fangliao's lair.
After explaining their identity in Li Houjun's main residence in Li Fangliao, and with Chen Fashu's letter as evidence, Li Houjun, Chen Yuqin and others were still suspicious, so they immediately tied up Wu Jingze and fifteen others and took them from Li Fangliao.
The hidden trail behind the cottage leads to the secret camp of Zhupo Mountain for screening.
The dozen or so scouts who followed Wu Jingze into Huichang were all from southern Gansu. Even though they had joined the army in their early years and never returned home, and even though their families had moved to Chongzhou, their roots were still in southern Gansu. It is not difficult to find them among the remnants of the Ganzhou army.
To a familiar fellow villager.
After careful screening, the identities of Wu Jingze and others were confirmed.
In addition to Chen Zhihu who defected to Yanhu, Dong Yuan formed his own line, Gao Zongting, Tang Fuguan, Chen Dingbang, Geng Quanshan, Chu Zheng and other former East Fujian army troops, and even Yu Wencheng and Yu Wenbei, the nephews of the former East Fujian admiral Yu Wangao, also led their troops to join the army.
Attach Huaidong as general. Apart from the Huaidong Army, it would be extremely difficult for anyone to find so many former members of the Eastern Fujian Army from southern Jiangxi to serve as bait.
Wu Jingze was sitting in a wooden house that was sealed with four walls and guarded by soldiers outside. He heard the sound of footsteps outside the door. After a while, the wooden door opened, and his eyes were suddenly illuminated by a sudden bright light. He squinted and saw Li Houjun and Chen Yuqin accompanying a leftist.
A lame young man walked in. It was said that Uncle Pan Wenwen was injured in the battle at Dingchuan. He was hit by an arrow in his left foot and fell from his horse. He was rescued by his subordinates. It seemed that the arrow left a stubborn illness that could not be cured.
"This is my general..." Chen Yuqin introduced.
Pan Wenbo was in his early twenties. When Pan Qifeng died in the battle at Shangrao, he had not yet reached the age of weakness. He was originally a young master, but at this time his face had a weathered look. His brother Pan Wenbo was captured and sacrificed by the generals in Yuzhang.
After being killed by the She family, Uncle Pan Wen became the last head of the Fan family.
"I have wronged Colonel Wu. The situation is such that we cannot be rash in dealing with it. Please forgive me for seeing Captain Wu." Uncle Pan Wen said apologetically, clasping his fists and saying sincerely.
Wu Jingze replied: "Young Master should be like this. How can Jingze complain? I am here to tell Young Master the news from outside the mountain. If I can't contact Young Master, it will be difficult for Jingze to explain when I go back..."
Uncle Pan Wen led the remnants of the Ganzhou Army like bereft dogs in the mountains of southern Jiangxi to escape the killings of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops. There was no spare time to send people to Jiangning to contact. Coupled with the deliberate blockade of the She family, Uncle Pan Wen and others had extremely little information.
The situation is completely blurry, and it is not clear what has happened in the Jianghuai land for more than a year.
Wu Jingze told Pan Wenshu, Chen Yuqin, and Li Houjun in detail all the things that happened in Jiangning in the past year: "At this time, the Zhejiang Western Camp is heading to the Zhejiang-Jiangxi border to gather supplies, soldiers and horses on a large scale. Luxury Feixiong
I led my troops to withdraw from southern Jiangxi just to reinforce Shangrao..."
"Did Jiang Ning really fall?" Li Houjun couldn't believe this and said with emotion, "When the news came, I thought the She family was talking nonsense!"
Even the news of Jiang Ning's recovery cannot be confirmed, which shows how little information Uncle Pan Wen gave to those trapped in the deep mountains and old forests. Fortunately, Pan Wen Shufei regarded this news as a trick of the She family, otherwise he would not have known that the Gannan Resistance Army would be there.
What was the reaction? When Jiangzhou Huang Binghao heard the news, he suddenly lost the courage to resist and surrendered to the She family.
"Now that the rebels have been pinned down to Jiangzhou and Shangrao, Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou also led their troops out of Yuanzhou to the west. The She family is in the hinterland of Poyang Lake. The garrison along the Ganjiang River has been greatly reduced. That is the garrison in Yugan City.
There are less than 3,000 people, and this is when Shaojun will make a big difference..." Wu Jingze said.
At this time, more than fifty counties in eight prefectures in Jiangxi were under the rule of the She family.
However, except for Yuanzhou, Jiangzhou, and Shangrao, which have assembled heavy troops to block the entrance to Jiangxi from the outside world, the She family's territory in about thirty counties in the other five prefectures has almost all been exhausted.
Only a few strongholds in Ganzhou and Yuzhang still stationed relatively large numbers of troops. Most of the remaining prefectures and counties only stationed a small number of swordsmen and archers, who were still recruited from the local area, and their loyalty to the She family was very limited.
Even in important places like Ganzhou and Yuzhang, which are located in the hinterland of Jiangxi and control the Ganjiang River and Poyang Lake, and there is no room for failure, the number of troops stationed is only three to five thousand, or only three to five hundred.
Although Pan Qifeng died, the banner of the Pan family has not yet fallen. In fact, Pan Qifeng was defeated in Shangrao, and many of his remnants fled into the Huaiyu Mountains between Wujiang and Xinjiang, without surrendering to the She family.
It's just that the best and fastest resistance force in Ganzhou led by Uncle Pan Wen has always been blocked in the south of Ganzhou and has no chance to move north. Therefore, the resistance forces in the northern area of Ganzhou are like scattered fires and have not formed a scale.
Wu Jingze came to Huichang to persuade Uncle Pan Wen to lead his troops northward while the She family's internal defenses were empty.
The resistance forces south of Ganzhou have been suppressed by She Feixiong for nearly a year, and their strength has been greatly weakened. The area south of Ganzhou, with its mountains and few fields, is not the essence of Jiangxi that the She family wants to control, even if it is lost in a short time.
The control of the southern area of Ganzhou is not enough to cause fatal harm to the She family.
When the war was about to begin, the She family's military strength in the southern region of Ganzhou was completely reduced. They only stationed 3,000 troops in Ganzhou in order to block 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. There are millions of fertile fields along the coast. Once managed well, it will be enough for the She family to get a chance to breathe. And Jiangxi's nearly four million people, about 70% of whom are concentrated in
In the area north of Ganzhou.
Uncle Pan Wen led his troops north to both sides of Poyang Lake, using his father's legacy to gather the forces that were resisting and hating the She family in other places under his banner, and then launched an uprising among the people who were deeply resentful of the She family's exploitation, so that they could truly fight against the She family.
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Furthermore, eastward on the east bank of Poyang Lake are Yishan Mountain, Jiuzishan Mountain, and Huaiyu Mountain, separated from Jiangning, Huizhou, and Chizhou.
Although the mountain path was dangerous and did not allow the army to pass through, Uncle Pan Wen led the remaining troops there, and the Privy Council was more or less able to transport some supplies through the mountain path.
Now Uncle Pan Wen's remnants are trapped in the mountains on the Huichang side. They will be able to obtain food and grass from the supporting mountain strongholds, but there is a severe shortage of salt and iron. The generals do not even have soldiers, armor, swords and bows. How can they attack the city and pull out the stronghold?
The soldiers and horses of the family are fighting?
When the remnants of the Ganzhou Army were at their peak, it was also when the troops of the She family were attracted to western Zhejiang after the autumn of last year. They once occupied four counties in southern Jiangxi, gathered nearly 20,000 people, and besieged Ganzhou. When She Feixiong led his troops south, from
Ganzhou withdrew, and then Longnan, Dingchuan and other battles were defeated one after another. The troops and horses suffered heavy losses. A considerable number of soldiers abandoned the army and fled in despair. Now there are only a thousand remnants left in Zhupo Mountain, not even one man.
Not even a knife or a spear is complete, and most of the bows and arrows are hunting bows, so they can't be considered elite at all.
Uncle Pan Wen and his relatives and generals discussed behind closed doors for three days, and decided to accept Wu Jingze and others' suggestions, break them into parts, go north in batches, sneak to Fuliang, and start an uprising in Yongshan. If things go wrong, Pan Wen's uncle and other troops will be in Poyang.
If the resistance on the east bank of the lake is weak, we can still disperse and evacuate between Jiuzi Mountain and Yishan Mountain to Jiangning to rest and recuperate.
In early November, Chen Yuqin led a dozen of his masters, together with Wu Jingze and others, and left Zhupo Mountain under the cover of a traveling caravan. From the deep mountains, they bypassed the Ganzhou Pass and headed north. When they crossed the Yujiang River, they followed the military intelligence department.
Come to meet Yu Wencheng, who is in charge of affairs in eastern Jiangxi.
Yu Wencheng is the third son of Yu Wangao. Although the Yu family moved to Jiangning early, the reputation of the Yu family in their ancestral home, Yongshan, is no worse than that of the Pan family.
The Yu family and the She family had a blood feud. Yu Wencheng and his cousin Yu Wenbei had previously followed their father's last wishes and settled in Jiangning to observe their filial piety.
Jiangning was lost and recovered, and the Yu brothers completely surrendered to Huaidong and were recruited as commanders to join the army. In the later stages of the East Fujian War, the She family pretended to surrender. A considerable number of the old soldiers who had accompanied Yu Wangao on the expedition from Yongshan also left the army and returned home.
.Yu Wencheng and Yu Wenbei took the initiative to invite Ying to sneak to Jiangxi this time. They wanted to go back to Yongshan to gather the old members of the Yu family and give the She family a hard blow in the hinterland.
The Pan family and the Yu family were both Jiangxi generals. As a Pan family general, Chen Yuqin had met Yu Wencheng before. When they saw Yu Wencheng sneaking into Jiangxi, the last doubts in the hearts of Chen Yuqin and other Ganzhou resistance generals were swept away.