Chapter 284: Siege
Wang Shengrong's army's pursuit of Li Chengliang's army lasted until dark, and the Ming army was still fleeing, but the people's army was no longer able to pursue, there were too many dangers in the night, and no one dared to say whether the army would gather and ambush the people's army, even if Li Chengliang's army was now defeated, the number of troops was still much more than Wang Shengrong's army.
In the chaos, Li Rusong fled with his father all the way to the capital of Ganzhou before stopping.
"The officers and troops were defeated?"
"How is it possible, I heard that the thieves are only 100,000 people, and Li Shuai's army of 500,000 people, how can it be defeated? How could it be defeated so quickly? ”
"Run, the thieves are coming soon, and if you don't run, you won't be able to run away."
The gentry and businessmen who are still staying in the capital of Ganzhou, seeing the rout fleeing to the capital of Ganzhou, are panicked one by one, although they belong to the gentry and businessmen, but the family wealth is not much, the industry is on the side of the Ganzhou government, and they are not willing to give up the industry in the Ganzhou capital at the moment of crisis, not to mention that they think that the 500,000 official army will be able to defeat the people's army.
Unexpectedly, in just a few days, 500,000 officers and troops were defeated, and it may not be long before the People's Army will fight, and if you don't run, you won't be able to run away, and if the industry is gone, it will be gone, as long as people are still alive.
Many wealthy gentry and merchants packed up their gold and silver and took their families to take advantage of the night to go out of the city and flee north, but what awaits them will be the rout of the Ming army.
Li Chengliang and Li Rusong are both in the capital city of Ganzhou, Li Chengliang is in a very bad state now, Li Chengliang's army is now commanded by Li Rusong, Li Rusong wants to gather troops in the capital of Ganzhou to reorganize the army, and intends to rely on the capital city of Ganzhou to fight with the People's Army again.
Leaving the city, the Ming army had no possibility of defeating the People's Army, and the daytime battle beat Li Chengliang to the point of collapse of his mentality, and also made Li Rusong realize the true strength of the People's Army, strong, strong and terrifying.
Once the capital city of Ganzhou can't stop the People's Army, then the Ming Dynasty will no longer have the possibility of blocking the People's Army, and the People's Army will become the new ruler of the land of China.
Father Li Chengliang has a rebellion, Li Rusong already knew, but now they still belong to the Ming Dynasty, even the People's Army can't be defeated, don't think about rebellion, for today's plan, the People's Army must be blocked outside the city of Ganzhou, can't be stopped, sooner or later the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed by the People's Army.
Li Rusong personally led people to collect the rout in the Ganzhou capital city, but only a part of the rout gathered over, the other rout soldiers scattered and fled, more rout soldiers continued to flee north, some of the rout soldiers unexpectedly met with the gentry and merchants who fled from the Ganzhou capital city, in front of the routs, these fleeing gentry and businessmen were simply the food sent to the door, and they ate all the food when they met.
The lucky gentry businessmen were just robbed of all the valuables they carried, and the unlucky gentry businessmen were all wiped out after the rout of the soldiers and the valuables were robbed, and of course, it was indispensable to use their hands and feet on the female dependents.
Unless there is an officer who can convince the people to lead the rout, these routs will bring great harm to the Ming ruling area, not inferior to bandits and bandits.
After a night, Wang Shengrong's army continued to march north, targeting the capital city of Ganzhou, and Li Rusong, who stayed in the capital city of Ganzhou, continued to collect the rout.
By noon, the vanguard of Wang Shengrong's army finally arrived outside the Ganzhou capital, and Li Rusong had also stopped gathering the rout, blocking all the gates of the Ganzhou capital city, and preparing to desperately defend the Ganzhou capital city.
At this moment, the number of Ming troops in the city of Ganzhou is as high as 110,000, but because of yesterday's defeat, the morale was low, and in the process of escaping, the weapons and armor were lost, and the combat effectiveness of the 110,000 Ming army was very poor.
With 110,000 troops in hand, Li Rusong has little grasp of holding the Ganzhou capital city, and yesterday's battle made Li Rusong see the strength of the people's army, as long as the people's army attacks the city at all costs, the Ganzhou capital city will definitely not be able to hold it.
Li Rusong could only hope that the People's Army was unwilling to spend too much money to take the capital of Ganzhou and retreat, as for the Ming court to send more Ming troops to support, it was too difficult.
Now in addition to the border army in the Ming court, most of the remaining troops are gathered in Jiangxi, Fujian, Huguang, and Guangxi, and there are no reinforcements at all, unless someone can gather the rout in the north and bring them over to support.
A group of people's armies converged towards the Ganzhou Fucheng area, and finally a total of 12 integrated divisions and nearly 100,000 horses gathered here, and under the personal leadership of Wang Shengrong, the Ganzhou Fucheng was surrounded.
It is no longer a siege of three queyi, Wang Shengrong plans to destroy all the Ming troops in the city of Ganzhou, as long as this Ming army is destroyed, there will be no Ming army in Jiangxi that can resist the people's army.
A total of 12 divisions surrounded the capital of Ganzhou, and the remaining 10 divisions had already divided their troops and began to attack the city in the area of Nan'an and Ganzhou, and continued to advance northward, and finally completed the goal of occupying the entire Jiangxi.
The officials of the People's Army Government in the border cities have been escorted by the army to the newly occupied cities to prepare for the establishment of the People's Army Government, and everything is unfolding in an orderly manner.
The People's Army had already surrounded the capital city of Ganzhou, and Wang Shengrong did not immediately order an attack on the capital city of Ganzhou, but sent several captured Ming army officers to send a letter of persuasion to the Ming army in the capital city of Ganzhou.
Wang Shengrong was sure to take the Ganzhou capital city at a low price, but it was better to be able to take the Ganzhou capital city without losses, and even Wang Shengrong also gave the conditions for letting Li Chengliang, Li Rusong and other Ming army generals return to the Ming court's ruling area.
Soon, the letter of persuasion was sent to Li Rusong, and when he saw the letter of surrender, Li Rusong wanted to tear it up as soon as possible, and he had no idea of surrendering to the People's Army at all, but Li Rusong suppressed the thoughts in his heart, opened the letter of persuasion and looked at it carefully, and then wrote a reply letter to Wang Shengrong, asking for a few days to think about it.
Not long after, Wang Shengrong's reply arrived, telling Li Rusong that he must surrender tomorrow morning, and if he did not surrender, the People's Army would attack.
Seeing this second letter, Li Rusong understood that his plan to delay time had completely failed, so he could only fight.
There are not no Ming generals in the capital of Ganzhou who want to surrender, but now it is Li Rusong who is in charge, who dares to say the words "surrender", I am afraid that Li Rusong will be removed from office in the next moment, and even come to make an example of the monkey.
Li Rusong personally climbed the city wall to boost the morale of the soldiers.
"Brothers, we must defend this city, for once the thieves are released, they will wreak havoc on our homeland, and your parents, wives, and children will be slaughtered by the thieves, and you will rather die than stop the thieves!"
"Fight! War! War! ”
Li Rusong's words aroused some morale for the Ming army, but he didn't know how much combat effectiveness the Ming army defending the city could restore, and the KPA agents who were still hidden in the Ming army continued to explain the life of ordinary people in the people's army-ruled areas to other Ming soldiers in corners that the officer commander could not see.