On the south bank of Huangshui, the Qing army's southwest meridian has retreated across the river, and there is no longer a direct threat to Yingde County, but this army is encamped here, and its sense of existence cannot be described as huge.

It seems that in order to better show the sense of existence, the three towns, two associations and two battalions of the Southwest Economic Standard have set up camp here, and the destruction of the waterway and the harassment of the Ming army's grain ships have never stopped. At the same time, the Qing army rangers would cross the Huangshui from time to time and attack the north bank and even the area near the county seat of Yingde. What's more, the Qing army even went south to the border of Qingyuan County, attacking the garrisons and people there, as if they could not be idle at all.

After retreating across the river, the Qing army was angry with a sense of existence, and did not intend to waste the grain and grass transported from Changsha all the way.

In contrast, Yingde County, north of Huangshui and on the side of Zhenshui, is exceptionally quiet. At the head of the city, the banners of Zhongquan Town, Husan Town, Hussar Town, Guangdong Fubiao, and the troops of Ma Bao and Wang Han all fluttered at the head of the city. The Ming army did not choose to admit in the face of the Qing army's attack, and from time to time sent troops to fight against the Qing army.

These experiences were indeed helpful for the Ming army's four combat units, namely Zhongquan Town, Huweizuo Town, Hussar Town, and Guangdong Fubiao, to enhance their combat effectiveness. For the Ma Bao Division, which has just expanded to 3,000 soldiers for less than half a year, and there are still a large number of recruits, as well as Wang Han's Division, which has been fighting guerrillas in the Qingyuan Mountains all the year round, and has been engaged in mine security in the past few months, it can really fight with the elite of the Qing Army's Green Battalion, and it is still under the wings of each town.

The two sides are completely happy to be in a posture on the boundary of Yingde County, in contrast, in the west of Wuzhou City, whether it is the Qing army attacking one side, or the Ming army guarding the city, it is by no means a "game" like the present in northern Guangdong, but is really fighting to the death.

The cannonballs whizzed across the sky, and the roar of the first cannon and the violent tremor of the heavy hitting of the city walls gave the shouts of killing in the sky like a mountain of falling rocks.

The Ming army on the Liuzhou side is getting smaller and smaller, and the situation of Li Dingguo's main force moving west into Yunnan has become clear. In this regard, the Qing army is also in Guangxi can also be more unscrupulous, during the siege of the city, Ma Xiong and Quan Jie did not hesitate to choose a frontal attack, with more than a dozen Hongyi cannons of different calibers transported from Changsha and Guilin, the Qing army did an excellent job of suppressing the fire of the defenders, under the cover of artillery fire, the Qing army of the brigade was directly thin on the city wall, directly pushed the battle to the level of white heat.

"The archers and firecrackers suppressed the archers on the lookout, and the artillery was aimed at Lao Tzu!"

"Defend the battlements, don't let those miscellaneous pieces who don't want ancestors come to the city!"

"Tell the people in the city to hurry up and carry the rolling wood and stones, and transport the wounded soldiers down by the way, quickly!"

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arrows and lead bullets are not allowed to kill their true colors; While the shells shattered the bricks at the battlements, the indecent return fire also severely damaged the structure of the lookout; The Qing army climbed the ladder, holding shields under the cover of archers and artillery; When the defenders of the city were sniped by the shooters on the lookouts, the shooters of the Ming army were even more indifferent to the Qing soldiers in other directions, and they would not poke their heads out to shoot from the side, and some of them were more rude and savage falls from the rolling logs.

In the ancient Chinese city, the city wall is used to enclose a large area of the city and shield it from outside the city. Once the walls change hands, it is rare to be able to drive the attackers out again through street fighting, and some will only continue to have siegers rushing up to the city, quickly expanding the area of control, and then descending from the inner staircase. By the time the gates were opened and a large number of besiegers poured in like a flood, the defenders would simply quickly perish in the face of the exponential disparity in numbers - either abandoning the city or simply being killed in the city.

On the city wall, the banner of Gao Wengui has been erected in front of the city gate building, and this cronie general who has followed Li Dingguo for many years has expected such a day since he was appointed to sit here.

The capital city of Wuzhou has almost changed hands over the years, but its important strategic position has never changed because of this. Gao Wengui knew very well that this was the link between the two regions, and the main grain, grass, and military supplies of Li Dingguo's army were provided by Chen Kai and Lian Chengbi in Guangdong at this stage, and it was this Xijiang waterway that took place. This lifeline, like the Beijiang River, a military supply channel for the northward attack on the Southern Jiangxi region, cannot be lost. For this reason, he seized all the time to prepare, and at this moment, he did not dare to be careless, and went to the city wall in person to fight to the death with the Qing army.

Similar to the combination of feudal soldiers and green battalions outside the city, the defenders inside the city were also composed of Gao Wengui's headquarters soldiers and horses and the local Ming army in Guangxi, and the two sides tried their best to fight for control of the city wall. Fortunately, the reinforcements of the Ming army arrived here soon after receiving the request for help - Lianchengbi's Governor, Li Chengjue's Lu Division, and Li Xianfang's Sailor Division arrived one after another. Although the combat effectiveness is not on the same level as that of Gao Wengui's headquarters soldiers and horses, at least the arrival of reinforcements has really boosted the morale of the defenders.

The attack lasted for many days, and as the Ming army continued to enter the city, the Qing army also slowed down the offensive, but the devastation of the city wall still told everyone about the fierceness of the attack a few days ago.

The walls of Wuzhou City had already cracked in many places and needed to be repaired and strengthened urgently, and the Qing army's offensive slowed down, and it also took time to restore the morale of the soldiers and rebuild more siege equipment. The two sides are like two fierce beasts that have just experienced a bloody battle, and neither of them can help each other for a while, so they can only retreat to the side, staring at the opponent viciously, while licking their wounds carefully, preparing for the next encounter.

Two days after the arrival of the governor, Lian Chengbi, the governor of Liangguang, came to Wuzhou to sit in the capital. Before he arrived, he had already sent people to send orders to Wang Xing, Wei Yingdeng, Ye Biao, and Li Guangen and other subordinates.

At the moment, Wei Yingdeng and Ye Biao were busy developing the iron ore mines in Luodingzhou in order to do business with Chen Kai, and Li Guangen was said to be hooking up with his deceased general's brother-in-law. Even, even without Chen Kai, with the authority of the current imperial court and his prestige among the generals in western Guangdong, he may not be able to mobilize too many people to come to help. For these people, he still has more thoughts about being able to have one more person.

More reinforcements were on the way, but the Governor's presence and vowing to bring in more reinforcements boosted the morale of the defenders. As for other aspects, there are officials in the city to help defend it, and the people are also very well organized, but there is not much that even the city can do. On the contrary, he was still worried about the confrontation in northern Guangdong.

"Controlling the army, Hong Chengchou's old thief has never been a good stubble, and the pressure in Yingde County is not small."

This matter is inevitably turbulent in the army's heart, and Lian Chengbi only informed Gao Wengui alone, and more hopes that Gao Wengui can burst out with greater potential to defend this city, so as not to always hope for Chen Kai's reinforcements and not be able to play at a high level.

In this regard, Gao Wengui seems to be more worried about the situation of the battlefield in northern Guangdong, because as far as the current intelligence shows that as long as you think about it, you can see that all this must be a chain reaction of Li Dingguo's westward march into Yunnan, whether it is the Qing army's invasion of Guangxi, or Chen Kai's northward entry into Southern Jiangxi, or Hong Chengchou's entry into northern Guangdong, the Ming and Qing dynasties followed Li Dingguo's move, and many of the people and horses in Guangxi, southern Huguang, Guangdong, Fujian, and Southern Jiangxi were involved in this big game, and they always had to divide a winner or loser.

"The governor of Gaodu can defend the city with all his heart, in the opinion of this official, even if Chen Fujun is so restrained by Hong Chengchou that he can't do anything, it is unlikely that the war situation in northern Guangdong will be ruined. You must know, is Hong Chengchou indeed a good stubble, but what about Chen Fujun? ”

At this moment, Lian Chengbi showed full confidence in Chen Kai, although there was appeasement to Gao Wengui, and there was no lack of confirmation from his dealings with Chen Kai over the years. It's just that which of the two is bigger than the other, I'm afraid that even he himself can't tell, let alone Gao Wengui as a listener.

Yingde County in northern Guangdong, Wuzhou Fucheng in eastern Guangxi, the Ming and Qing armies fought for each other from the beginning, it was nothing more than the difference between first gentleness and then fierceness, or vice versa.

Relatively speaking, the Ming army's offensive in Nanjiang was in full swing from the moment it broke out, going north and west, and the two groups of Ming troops inserted strongly from Nanxiongfu and Tingzhoufu, and quickly broke the current opponent, weakening the Nanjiang Green Battalion, which once had an advantage in strength for any way, to the dilemma of retreating to the city. Such a momentum, in the next time did not calm down because of the retreat of the Qing army, as well as Hong Chengchou's cut-in, the two Ming armies rushed to the same goal - Ganzhou Mansion City step by step, and what really blocked them from joining forces was not the more than 10,000 Ganzhou defenders under the command of Hu Yousheng, but the Kongtong Mountain that had remained unchanged for 10,000 years.

In the southern part of Ganzhou Mansion, in accordance with Chen Kai's military order, Zhang Jin, the loyal Jingbo who was in charge of local affairs in Chengxiang Township and other places, and Hao Shangjiu, the chief military officer of Huizhou Township, were strongly inserted from the southeast and southwest of Ganzhou Mansion respectively, and quickly captured the four counties of Changning, Anyuan, Dingnan, and Longnan. Subsequently, Hao Shangjiu's troops went down the Xinfeng River and directly took the county seat of Xinfeng, dyeing the last piece of land controlled by the Qing army south of the capital city of Ganzhou into the color of the Ming army.

The reason why they were able to quickly seize this large area of land was that the offensive and defensive situation in the Southern Jiangxi region had been recognized by all the forces in this land, and there were also many members of the Heaven and Earth Association in these counties who helped them to make the war progress extremely smoothly.

In fact, in the final analysis, the power of the Heaven and Earth Society in the southern Jiangxi region is more concentrated in the central and northern regions of Ganzhou Prefecture, with Ruijin County as the origin and radiating in the east, north and south directions.

At the origin of this radiation area, the local Qing government had long been overthrown by the Ming army, and now the county government was controlled by the administrative officials brought from Fujian by Huangshan, while the local members of the Heaven and Earth Society still used the Mutual Aid Association as an organization to assist the Ming army in the transportation of military food and grass.

On the official road leading from Tingzhou Prefecture to the ancient town and then to Ruijin County, the grain and grass and military supplies from the hinterland of Fujian and the Chaozhou Prefecture of Guangdong flowed here, and there were enough men to repair the roads and assist in transportation along each section, even in this busy season of farming.

After Ruijin County, the grain and grass were carried and loaded on ships, and sailed along the channel of Gongshui to the west, and the Ming army was marching westward. There, just like the group in the north led by Ke Chenshu, Huangshan commanded the tens of thousands of Ming soldiers to advance step by step, highlighting the steady and steady fight that Chen Kai requested, pulling out the nails of the Qing army outside the city one after another, and at the same time weakening the strength of the defenders of Ganzhou.

During this period, Hu Yousheng tried to lead the main force of his department to break one before the Ming army joined the division, and even took the initiative to give up part of the nails to lure the enemy deeper, but the Huangshan that Hu Yousheng was targeting was really jaw-dropping, and he had no intention of laughing at such a temptation, and he was still so step-by-step, steady and steady, and it was estimated that even Yanagi Hui might have to bow down when he met him.

Chen Kai has presided over Guangdong's military and political affairs for many years, and his strategic and tactical ability is obvious to all. Moreover, this time to send troops, Huangshan was ordered by Zheng Chenggong to fully cooperate with Chen Kai's Guangdong Ming army to fight, and to obey Chen Kai's military orders unconditionally. Zheng Chenggong's military law is so strict, Huang Shan naturally knows how powerful, how dare he make a stubble that undermines the enemy at this time.

In addition, Tao Qian, as the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society in the Southern Jiangxi region, has always served as a praise painting in the army of Huangshan, and his main job is to contact these "anti-Qing righteous soldiers" to obtain more support in terms of intelligence, grain and grass, and manpower. This time Hu Yousheng's abnormal moves, the forces of the Heaven and Earth Association of Ganzhou Mansion in this area have already had feedback, and they are not all exposed to the vision of the Ming army, and the latter cannot be described as a black eye.

The two armies were advancing steadily, and after two temptations, Hu Yousheng also gave up the attack on the Ming army and completely retreated to the city. Soon, the two armies met outside the city of Ganzhou, but the commanders of the two groups were both admirals with equal status, and they had not yet reached a complete agreement on the command of joint operations, but there was no unpleasantness caused by this. What's more, it is still expected that Chen Kai can solve the southwest economic standard that cuts into northern Guangdong as soon as possible, so that he can rush back to preside over this general attack on the capital city of Ganzhou.

In the Southern Jiangxi region, the situation of the Ming army was very good, not to mention the rapid occupation of many prefectures and counties, and the encroachment and elimination of the local Qing army's vital forces. Now, the armies have converged, but only the last blow remains.

Under such a favorable situation, in Ji'an Mansion in the northwest of Ganzhou Prefecture, the power of the Heaven and Earth Society here is not weak, and when the exact news of the Ming Army's destruction of the Ming Army is obtained, the Ji'an Heaven and Earth Society headed by Zou Nan is also rapidly carrying out tandem activities. Their current task is not to jump out directly to fight the Qing army like Tao Qian, at least before the Ganzhou capital city is taken, they have not been granted such rights. At the moment, it is nothing more than liaison personnel, organizational strength, and even more so cheering for the common cause that is about to achieve phased results.

This is the situation, which lasted until the third day when the news of the convergence of the two armies of the Ming army reached Jishui County, in the dead of night, Zou Nan looked at the same face of death The member of the world who hurried from Nanchang with a dead face, and his best friend who had worked together in the curtain of Jiezhongxi. And between them, only the sentence that had been echoing in Zou Nan's mind for a long time was shocking.

"It's not a good thing, the Tartars have transferred the Eight Banners Army from Huguang, and there is also the army of Jiujiang Zhenbiao, together with the Jiangxi standard, which will soon go south!"