Chapter 203: The Qi is exhausted
Wang Shengrong's army attacked the capital city of Ganzhou for six consecutive days, except for the third day to send a large army to try to attack the city, the remaining five days were shelled to the capital city of Ganzhou.
The siege on the third day was obviously a failure, for which the People's Army suffered more than 1,000 casualties and successfully blew up the South City Gate, but the South City Gate had been blocked by the Ming Army, and the People's Army could not enter the city at all.
Wang Shengrong guessed that the gates of Ganzhou had been blocked on all sides, and in this case, it was very difficult to take Ganzhou, and finally Wang Shengrong decided to give up attacking Ganzhou, withdraw his troops, and withdraw to Longnan County and Anyuan County, implement the second plan, and divide troops to support the other three troops on the border of Guangdong.
The People's Army withdrew, and the Ming troops in the city of Ganzhou finally breathed a sigh of relief, death was so close to them, and it was already great luck to be able to survive.
Seeing the retreat of the People's Army, Song Yingchang was relieved, but at this time, Song Yingchang frowned, thinking about why the People's Army would withdraw, under normal circumstances, even if the People's Army could not capture the capital city of Ganzhou, it would besiege it for some more time, and would not withdraw so soon.
Thinking about it, Song Yingchang only had one answer left in his mind, according to the previous battles with the People's Army, it should be that the People's Army is unwilling to cause too many losses to itself, and every time it wins a victory, it will not blindly continue to attack, and this time it is the same, if the People's Army continues to attack the capital city of Ganzhou, many people will die.
Of course, this cannot be said that the People's Army is afraid of death, if the People's Army is afraid of death, the Ming Army will not be beaten to this point.
The People's Army retreated, but the Ming Army did not dare to leave the capital city of Ganzhou, and no one knew whether the People's Army would come back.
At the end of a major war, only 60,000 of the 200,000 Ming troops remained, and the casualties were so heavy that if Mei Yousong was still alive, it was expected that he would have to be dismissed, and even executed in serious cases.
Song Yingchang no longer knew how the imperial court should deal with the People's Army next, hundreds of thousands of troops couldn't defeat it, did it really take a million troops to exterminate the People's Army?
Wang Shengrong's army retreated to Longnan County and Anyuan County, and was immediately divided into four, half of the 140,000 people stayed here, commanded by Wang Shengrong, and the remaining 70,000 people, one 10,000 people went to support Xiong Jian's department, which was also in the northern border of Guangdong, one was 30,000 people, and the last department was also 30,000 people, to support the Yan Han department in the eastern border of Guangdong.
As the main force, the firearms unit, the Xiandeng unit, and the grenadier unit were distributed into four divisions in proportion, so that Wang Shengrong's department was left with two infantry regiments of the firearms unit.
With the strength of Wang Shengrong's 70,000 horses, even if another 100,000 Ming troops attacked, they could be defeated, and it would not be a problem to hold Longnan County and Anyuan County.
The division of troops was over, and the other three divisions immediately set off.
The news of the People's Army's victory over the Ming Army had already been transmitted back to the city of Guangzhou, and the People's Army had killed and captured more than 100,000 Ming troops at the cost of 10,000 dead and wounded, and won a great victory!
After receiving the news of the great victory of the People's Army, Fang Nan finally smiled, and also knew that Wang Shengrong's plan to divide troops to support other departments, the plan was approved by Fang Nan, Hu Zhuang and others, if this plan was successful, it would continue to consume the strength of the Ming Army and buy more time for the People's Army to develop.
It didn't take long for the news of the People's Army's victory over the Ming Army to spread throughout the city of Guangzhou, and the joy of the harvest had not yet receded from the faces of the common people, and the victory of the People's Army made the smiles on the faces of the common people even greater.
"The People's Army has won again, and the People's Army will continue to win, and my farmland will not be taken away again."
"Great, the People's Army has won again, and I have harvested so much grain this year, I want to send some to the People's Army."
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The People's Army once again defeated the Ming Army, and most people would smile when they heard the news, but the small group of people in Guangzhou who were still loyal to the Ming Court felt as if the sky had fallen when they heard the news.
"Your Majesty, why did the official army lose again? We are too bitter under the rule of thieves, and the emperor should hurry up and send a large army to rescue us. ”
"Impossible! No way! How can the little thief keep defeating the official army, this is fake news, the thief is lying to us, I won't be fooled, the official army must have defeated the thief, and the thief spread this false news in order to stabilize people's hearts. ”
"Is the sky going to kill me?"
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No matter how these literati scholars loyal to the Ming Dynasty wailed, none of them thought of committing suicide and still lived under the rule of the People's Army.
Interestingly, several literati scholars saw that the People's Army had been defeating the Ming Army, and felt that the People's Army could replace the Ming Dynasty to rule the country, so they even had the idea of defecting to the People's Army.
"Daming and the People's Army have been defeated in successive battles, this is the day to die Daming, Daming is exhausted, we can't go against the sky, Dadu Governor is the true Son of Heaven, we should serve Dadu Governor."
In the words, even the "thief" who is often on his lips has disappeared.
Because of the news of the People's Army's victory over the Ming Army again, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, Liang Xin and others gathered together, and they discussed what would happen to the situation this time when the People's Army won a great victory.
Xia Jingshan was the first to say: "I think the People's Army has won a big victory this time, at least for a year, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to launch a new offensive against the People's Army, the People's Army has gained a firm foothold in Guangdong, and then give the People's Army time to develop, the Ming Dynasty does not want to exterminate the People's Army, we have no worries about our lives under the rule of the People's Army." ”
"It's really amazing, Daming is so strong, but it has been defeated many times by a small People's Army, so that the People's Army can develop smoothly, I don't know if Daming is exhausted, or the People's Army is too strong, that Dadu Governor is really extraordinary." Liang Xin also said.
"The Ming Dynasty lost hundreds of thousands of horses before and after, and it was unable to send a large army to attack the People's Army in a short period of time, and even resisting the expansion of the People's Army became a problem, but this People's Army is also extraordinary, obviously has the strength to expand its territory, but has been staying in Guangdong, which makes me feel that the People's Army has the possibility of seizing the Ming Dynasty."
In Jiang Ci's words, the confidence in the People's Army to overthrow the Ming Dynasty has increased a lot, in the past, there were too few people who believed that the People's Army could overthrow the Ming Dynasty, even if Guangdong was occupied by the People's Army, the population under the Ming Dynasty was ten times that of the People's Army, the People's Army could expand the army by 300,000, and the Ming Dynasty could expand the army by 3 million.
3 million Ming troops against 300,000 people's troops, no matter how sharp the people's army's firearms are, it is impossible to use one as ten, not to mention that the people's army cannot equip 300,000 people with firearms.
However, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to expand the army by 3 million at once, and it is impossible to even expand the army by 1 million, and the expansion of the army requires silver, food, weapons, etc., which cannot be gathered in a short time.
Sending hundreds of thousands of people to attack the People's Army at a time, but being easily defeated by the People's Army, this does not show that the Ming Dynasty was able to exterminate the People's Army, and now there is a possibility of turmoil in various places under the Ming Dynasty.