The minister sent by the Ming court to the south to preside over the peace talks with the People's Army has just been on the road for a few days, and it will take more than 10 days to reach the south of the Yangtze River, but the Ming Court has already sent the matter of "peace talks" to Nanchang City in Jiangxi Province through a post station of 800 miles in advance, and asked Jiangxi officials to find a way to get the People's Army to stop the war first, and wait for the minister who is presiding over the peace talks to come over, and then conduct formal peace talks.

The imperial court wanted to negotiate peace with the People's Army, and the officials who still remained in Nanchang City were not too surprised, after all, there had been a peace negotiation a few years ago, and in that peace negotiation, in order to stop the war with the People's Army, the imperial court also compensated millions of taels of silver worth of materials.

Now that Li Chengliang's army has been defeated, and several other Ming armies have been defeated and retreated by the People's Army, the Ming Court cannot defeat the People's Army at all, and the war can no longer continue, and peace negotiations have become the best choice for the Ming Court.

After the Ming court officials in Nanchang City learned of the decision of the imperial court, many people breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, the millions of Ming troops could not defeat the People's Army, how could the Ming army with low morale be able to hold Nanchang City, and when the People's Army came, those who stayed in Nanchang City might die, and now the Ming Court wants to negotiate peace, as long as the two sides cease fighting, they can continue to live.

Officials were still debating who to send to liaise with the KPA to ask for a truce, and on this side, Wang Shengrong led ten integrated divisions closer and closer to Nanchang City.

On February 15, Nanchang City sent a middle-aged official named Xu Liushan to Wang Shengrong's army as an envoy, and Xu Liushan lowered his body to express to Wang Shengrong that the Ming court wanted an armistice.

The Ming Court and the People's Army, in the eyes of the Ming Court officials, the People's Army is a thief, no matter how the Ming Army was defeated by the People's Army in the past, the Ming Court officials all despised the People's Army very much, and they still despise it, but at present, the People's Army is strong, and they dare to be arrogant when they come to the People's Army, isn't this looking for death?

Going to the People's Army as an envoy was a very dangerous thing, and in their opinion, maybe the People's Army would kill the envoy and sacrifice the flag, so they chose Xu Liushan, who had no background.

Being able to be an official, Xu Liushan is not a fool, let alone a stinky and hard old Confucian, after coming to the People's Army, he paid great attention to his performance, and did not dare to carry a trace of arrogance on his face, for fear that the People's Army would not like to kill the sacrifice flag.

Xu Liushan successfully came to Wang Shengrong's army, and complained to Wang Shengrong that the court wanted to stop fighting with the People's Army, and the minister from the capital was on the way, and when the minister came to Jiangxi, the People's Army could say whatever it wanted.

In the face of Xu Liushan's words, Wang Shengrong directly refused, the People's Army will cease war with the Ming Court, but it will not be a truce now, the People's Army must at least complete its predetermined plan and occupy Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian, and then negotiate an armistice with the Ming Court.

Of course, Wang Shengrong would not tell the Ming court these words.

Wang Shengrong did not immediately drive Xu Liushan away, but asked people to quickly write a letter of persuasion in traditional Chinese, asking Xu Liushan to bring him back to Nanchang City, and give the Ming army in Nanchang City a day to consider, tomorrow the army will resist Nanchang City, if the Ming army does not open the city gate and surrender, the People's Army will directly attack the city.

Xu Liushan left Wang Shengrong's army with a letter of persuasion, and hurried to Nanchang City on horseback, away from Wang Shengrong's army, Xu Liushan finally breathed a sigh of relief, it was lucky to be able to survive, before coming to Wang Shengrong's army, Xu Liushan was really worried that he would die here, but fortunately, it was okay.

Glad that he or left the People's Army, Xu Liushan thought in his mind that it was the People's Army's letter of persuasion and the battle that was about to break out, the People's Army seemed unwilling to negotiate peace with the Ming Court, and it was necessary to attack Nanchang City, with the defenders of Nanchang City, no matter how you look at it, you can't stop the People's Army, once the city is broken, everyone who is related to the Ming Court may not have a good time.

Xu Liushan really wants to stay away from Nanchang City, away from this war that is about to break out, but Xu Liushan can't leave, his wife and children are in Nanchang City, he is gone, what will happen to his wife and children.

Soon, Xu Liushan returned to Nanchang City with the People's Army's letter of persuasion, and the officials in Nanchang City understood that after listening to Xu Liushan's account of this trip and reading the letter of persuasion, most of the people's faces were not very good-looking.

The People's Army actually refused to negotiate peace with the imperial court, how dare the People's Army?

Many officials were angry in their hearts, and in their opinion, the imperial court took the initiative to negotiate peace with the People's Army to save face for the People's Army, and how could the People's Army dare to refuse.

But after the anger, the officials came back to their senses and understood that the imperial court was helpless against the people's army, the people's army was rapidly attacking the city, but the imperial court could not find anyone to stop the people's army, the people's army was powerful, how could it be willing to negotiate with the imperial court.

What is more important now is the persuasion letter of the People's Army, tomorrow the People's Army will call, can they really rely on 100,000 Ming troops to hold this Nanchang City?

None of the officials in Nanchang City dared to say that they were stronger than Li Chengliang, and no one dared to stand up and say that they would be able to hold Nanchang City if they commanded 100,000 Ming troops, and even most of the officials and Ming troops thought that Nanchang City could not be defended, depending on how long Nanchang City could be held under the attack of the People's Army.

"Nanchang City can't be defended, let's leave Nanchang City, stay in Qingshan and don't be afraid of no firewood, one day we will fight back."

Some officials once again put forward the idea of evacuating Nanchang City, but they could not influence the decision of the three senior officials who led Nanchang City, two of the three senior officials believed that Nanchang City should be held, and the remaining one had no choice even if he disagreed.

"Can't retreat, the thieves are so powerful when they occupy Guangdong, once they occupy Jiangxi, it won't be long before the thieves will become more powerful, what will the Ming Dynasty do to resist the thieves."

There are many smart people in the Ming court, they know the importance of Jiangxi to the Ming court, and there are many people who are loyal to the Ming court, they know that there are not many reinforcements to stick to Nanchang City, Nanchang City will eventually be broken by the People's Army, and staying in Nanchang City means death.

Since the People's Army is unwilling to negotiate peace, they will delay the People's Army with their own lives, so that the Ming Dynasty has more time to prepare, and perhaps by holding on to Nanchang City, it will bring a large number of casualties to the People's Army, and it can also force the People's Army to negotiate peace with the Ming Court.

Halfway through the morning of 16 February, Wang Shengrong's army arrived at Nanchang City, and 80,000 people's troops surrounded Nanchang City on all sides.

Seeing that the Ming army did not open the city gate and surrendered, Wang Shengrong directly ordered the army to attack the city, and there was no primary or secondary, and the people's army directly launched an attack from the southeast, northwest, and northwest directions of Nanchang City.

This siege car Wang Shengrong has a very large degree of certainty to achieve victory at the cost of fewer casualties, there are only about 100,000 Ming troops in Nanchang City, most of them are Li Chengliang's army rout, weapons, armor are thrown away when fleeing, now there is a Yanling knife in his hand is considered good, artillery, musketeers, archers, grenadiers are very few.

The KPA has begun to attack the city!

Artillery bombardment!

Siege vehicle advances!