The battle of Nanchang City was fought from morning to afternoon, nearly half a day, the People's Army occupied Nanchang City at the cost of less than 1,000 deaths, and the 100,000 Ming troops who held Nanchang City killed 20,000 and captured 80,000.

After the capture of Nanchang City, Wang Shengrong's army did not stop, and just after the end of mid-February, most of the First Group Army led by Wang Shengrong occupied the whole of Jiangxi.

Immediately after Jiangxi, the second to be fully occupied was Fujian, the battle of Fuzhou City, the Second Group Army of the People's Army led by Yan Han will be Zheng Yuewen led by more than 100,000 Ming troops smashed, half of the troops were lost in Fuzhou City, had to abandon Fuzhou City, under the advance of the People's Army, has fled to Zhejiang.

The fighting on the Huguang battlefield ended at the end of February, but the First Group Army of the People's Army led by Xiong Jian did not complete the planned plan to occupy the entire Huguang.

Huguang is composed of two parts, the north of the Yangtze River and the south of the Yangtze River, and the south of the Yangtze River is about twice the size of the north of the Yangtze River.

After Xiong Jian's army occupied the south of the Yangtze River, they were ready to cross the river to occupy the Yangtze River area, but when the Ming army Li Zhengmao retreated from the south of the Yangtze River to the north of the Yangtze River, most of the boats were taken away or burned, and the People's Army was able to find only small fishing boats to cross the river, and there were few larger boats.

How can tens of thousands of people's troops be quickly sent to the north of the Yangtze River through small fishing boats, the Yangtze River is a natural danger, Li Zhengmao's army is guarding the north bank of the Yangtze River, and it is too difficult for the People's Army to take a small fishing boat to cross the natural danger and enter the north of the Yangtze River.

Xiong Jian then gave up entering the northern Yangtze River region.

In fact, when Fang Nan led the generals of the People's Army to draw up the battle plan, he thought of the problem of the Huguang and Yangtze River north regions, and determined in the drawn up plan that it would be best to occupy the Huguang and Yangtze River north regions, and if not, only the south of the Yangtze River could be occupied.

Under the current circumstances, Xiong Jian's army to occupy the Huguang and Yangtze River south areas is barely a predetermined plan.

Guangxi was the last of the four provinces to be occupied by the People's Army, and He Yan led the Third Army of the People's Army to advance westward from the east of Guangxi, fought many battles with the Tang Qi Department of the Ming Army, and finally drove the Tang Qi army, which had more than 50,000 horses, to Yunnan.

However, compared with Fujian, Jiangxi, and Huguang, the situation in Guangxi has many problems, and even if the Ming army has cleaned up many times in order to train its troops, there are still many bandits, bandits, and anti-thieves hiding everywhere, waiting for the People's Army to clean up.

Similar to Fang Nan's estimate, within a few days of entering March, the People's Army completed its operational plan and occupied the four provinces of Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Huguang.

Even if the Ming court government and landlords carried out negative propaganda about the People's Army in the past, the common people in the new territory quickly accepted the emergence of the People's Army and began to feel the goodness of the People's Army, and it was not far from their support for the People's Army.

The war between the People's Army and the Ming Dynasty was nominally not over, but in fact, after the People's Army gave up continuing to expand its territory, the Ming Army did not dare to attack it, and the war was already over, and the People's Army was busy digesting the newly occupied four provinces, and the merchants from Guangdong began to negotiate trade in the newly occupied areas, so that the economy of the newly occupied areas could recover rapidly.

The People's Army has temporarily stopped its expansion, and the next expansion will be in a few years, and it is preparing to overthrow the Ming Court in one fell swoop, but the Ming Court does not know this, and is still trying to mobilize the Ming Army to resist the attack of the People's Army outside the area ruled by the People's Army, and is also trying to contact the People's Army and want to negotiate peace with the People's Army.

Millions of Ming troops were defeated by the People's Army, and the Ming Court lost more territory, and already understood the strength of the People's Army, and now the Ming Court was unable to continue the war with the People's Army, and the only way was to negotiate peace with the People's Army.

The minister who presided over the peace talks in the Ming court was called Wei Linhan, who was over fifty years old and was one of the important ministers of the Ming court, and was deeply trusted by Zhu Yijun.

On 24 February, Wei Linhan arrived on the north bank of the Yangtze River, but by this time Jiangxi had already been occupied by the People's Army, so Wei Linhan could only continue to stay on the north bank of the Yangtze River and send people to contact the People's Army, hoping that someone in charge of the People's Army would meet and hold peace talks.

At present, Jiangxi is under the military management of Wang Shengrong's First Group Army, and for the time being, Wang Shengrong is in charge of Jiangxi's affairs.

There was more and more bad news from the south, Wei Linhan couldn't sit still on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and sent people to contact the People's Army many times to negotiate peace, but Wang Shengrong refused, Wang Shengrong was still waiting for the situation on other battlefields, and Cheng Xinyuan, the Minister of Rites who was in charge of the People's Army's negotiations with the Ming Court, had left Guangzhou City and embarked on the road to Nanchang City, Jiangxi.

Before Cheng Xinyuan left the city of Guangzhou, Fang Nan held a meeting with the delegation of the Ministry of Rites led by Cheng Xinyuan, and the content of the meeting was the armistice negotiations between the People's Army and the Ming Court.

The last time the People's Army and the Ming Court truce, the Ming Court compensated the People's Army for materials worth millions of taels of silver, and this time it can't be let go so easily.

In fact, it is not very important whether the People's Army wants compensation from the Ming Court, and a few years later, the People's Army will go to war again, and the Ming Court will be destroyed at that time, and everything in the Ming Court will belong to the People's Army.

The main reason for asking the Ming court for compensation was to make the Ming court think that the People's Army had ceased war because of these reparations from the Ming court, or that the armistice was one of the important factors.

This time, Fang Nan gave a lower limit for the compensation of the Ming Court, and the materials worth five million taels of silver could get more compensation, and the greater the credit of Cheng Xinyuan and his party who were in charge of the negotiation.

In the compensation, Fang Nan also asked Cheng Xinyuan to list one item, that is, the northern Yangtze River area of Huguang, and if possible, he asked the Ming Court to cede the northern Yangtze River area of Huguang to the People's Army.

The area of the northern Yangtze River in Huguang is only half of the southern part of the Yangtze River, but the northern Yangtze River region is very important, and the People's Army does not yet have a foothold in the northern part of the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River is a natural danger, if the Ming court sends hundreds of thousands of Ming troops to guard the Yangtze River, and then transfers all the sailors, it will be difficult for the People's Army to cross the Yangtze River to the north of the Yangtze River, and even if it succeeds, the People's Army will suffer heavy casualties.

When the People's Army attacked Fujian, it wanted to get a Ming court sailor stationed in Fujian, but unfortunately it was unsuccessful, and this sailor had already left Fujian and went to Zhejiang.

If the Huguang and Yangtze River regions can be obtained through armistice negotiations, the People's Army will station heavy troops in the north of the Yangtze River in Huguang and the Yangtze River, and if the war starts again in a few years, the People's Army's advance into the north of the Yangtze River will reduce a lot of trouble.

It's just that Fang Nan felt that the possibility of letting the Ming court cede territory was too low, and it was already very difficult for the Ming court to negotiate peace.

[Guangxi involves some issues, it is easy to 404, so I won't describe it]