On August 15, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole city of Guangzhou is lit up, men, women and children are hanging a smiling face, which is probably the happiest Mid-Autumn Festival for the people at the bottom.

This year is smooth, it is a big harvest year, and more importantly, the people at the bottom have their own land, they ushered in the first harvest year, so much harvest, before the autumn harvest of the next year, they will no longer be hungry, they can also sell some grain, to buy cloth to make new clothes, you can also buy some fish and meat to eat for the New Year.

The common people thanked God for giving them a good year, and the common people thanked the People's Army for giving them land, and they silently prayed for the People's Army, hoping that the People's Army would win all battles.

The common people were smiling because of the Mid-Autumn Festival and the autumn harvest, but Fang Nan and many high-ranking people of the People's Army did not have many smiles, they were all waiting, waiting for the battle report from the front line.

This battle is very important for the People's Army, the People's Army has already defeated the Ming Army twice in a row, as long as the Ming Army is severely damaged again, it will take a year or even years for the Ming Court to gather a large army to attack the People's Army.

After all, since the People's Army raised the flag, it has been fighting with the Ming army, killing and capturing hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, and the Ming court has a million troops, and after losing hundreds of thousands of troops, the Ming army is still needed to guard the border passes and various places, and it is simply impossible to send many people to attack the People's Army.

There are fewer Ming troops transferred, just to send food to the people's army, there are more Ming troops transferred, there will be turmoil in various places, and there is more danger of losing the border passes, and the Ming court only has to recruit young people to expand the army, but it is not possible to do it in a short time if you want to expand the army of hundreds of thousands, and the strength of the recruits is very poor, and it takes a certain amount of time to train them.

Of course, this is under the condition that the People's Army is honestly staying in Guangdong, if the People's Army continues to expand, then the Ming Court will definitely not care about the situation in various places, and will try its best to dispatch the Ming Army to deal with the People's Army.

In the Jiangxi battlefield, when Wang Shengrong's army and Mei Yousong's army were fighting, in the three battlefields of Huguang, Guangxi, and Fujian, the people's army also frequently attacked and launched attacks against the Ming army, but the Ming army basically hid in the city, and the results achieved by the various units of the people's army were relatively small.

The People's Army will not easily attack the city, and if it wants to capture a city heavily guarded by the Ming Army, the People's Army will pay a lot of casualties, which is not a good thing for the People's Army with limited troops.

Wang Shengrong's army successively repelled Mei Yousong's army, captured Xinfeng County, and after resting in the Xinfeng County area for a night, the army marched to the capital city of Ganzhou.

Wang Shengrongjun's actions were soon discovered by the Ming army, and after knowing the news, Song Yingchang was very hesitant.

At this moment, Song Yingchang had less than 70,000 troops in his hands, of which nearly 60,000 were defeated troops with low morale, nearly 10,000 were Ming troops who had rushed to the battlefield, and the rest were defenders of Ganzhou Fucheng.

There were less than 70,000 men in their hands, and most of the artillery was thrown on the battlefield, while the enemy had more than 100,000 troops, thousands of musketeers with amazing combat effectiveness, and grenadiers like the Earthquake Battalion.

Song Yingchang didn't know if he could hold the capital of Ganzhou with 70,000 horses in his hands, and then Song Yingchang summoned all the generals to discuss the matter together.

"My lord, the last general thinks that Ganzhou City is undefendable, and our army's morale is completely lost, so it is better to retreat to the rear to rest, mobilize more men and horses, and then fight a decisive battle with the thieves."

"No, my lord, we can't retreat, except for our army in the entire Jiangxi territory, no one can resist the thieves, and we must hold Ganzhou City."

Soon, the generals of the Ming army were divided into three factions, one advocated withdrawing the troops, one advocated holding on, and one was neutral.

The generals who advocated the withdrawal of the army were more afraid of the People's Army in their hearts, they had been beaten by the People's Army, and they were worried that the capital city of Ganzhou would be broken by the People's Army, and they would all die here.

However, there are still a few people who think that the capital city of Ganzhou really can't be defended, and staying in the capital city of Ganzhou is waiting for death, so it is better to withdraw the army and accumulate strength to fight a decisive battle with the People's Army.

The generals who advocated sticking to the capital city of Ganzhou were almost all very loyal to the Ming Dynasty, they didn't want to see more of the Ming Dynasty captured by the People's Army, they would rather use their bodies to block the People's Army.

Under the quarrel of the generals, Song Yingchang made the final decision.

"Okay, don't argue, I decided to hold on to Ganzhou City, once our army withdraws, the thieves continue to pursue, and if they retreat again and again, the whole of Jiangxi will fall, we have 70,000 horses, can't we even hold a Ganzhou City? We also have the Heaven-Shaking Thunder, waiting for the thieves to rush to the city and let them see the power of the Heaven-Shaking Thunder. ”

Hearing Song Yingchang talk about the earth-shaking thunder, some Ming army generals who were unwilling to stick to Ganzhou City hesitated, there was a earth-shaking thunder, and the certainty of holding Ganzhou City did increase a lot, but it was a pity that the number of earth-shaking thunders was too small.

At the end of the meeting, the Ming army wanted to hold the city of Ganzhou, and under the mobilization of Song Yingchang, the Ming army of all departments immediately took action, and the first thing to do was to block the gates on all sides of the city of Ganzhou, so as not to let the people's army rush into the city by blowing up the city gates.

Once the city gate is blocked, the KPA can only climb the city wall through a ladder or blow up a section of the city wall, for which the KPA will have to pay a heavy price.

As soon as Song Yingchang's army was ready to defend the city, Wang Shengrong's army came to the outside of Ganzhou Mansion, and more than 100,000 troops surrounded Ganzhou Mansion.

Looking at the situation of Ganzhou City, Wang Shengrong understood that the Ming army wanted to hold on to Ganzhou City, and with their own strength, they could capture Ganzhou City, but they would pay a heavy price.

After thinking about it for a while, Wang Shengrong sent people to the rear to let the artillery troops advance faster, just encircled the Ganzhou capital city, and it was not Wang Shengrong's habit to retreat without a fight.

Soon, the artillery unit was sent to the Ganzhou capital city with the artillery thrown by Mei Yousong's army before, and all the artillery was divided into four parts and erected on all sides of the city, and the bombardment began.

Accompanied by fire and black smoke, solid cannonballs were fired towards the city of Ganzhou, either smashing on the walls, or crossing the city wall and smashing into the city, only a few cannonballs smashed on the city wall, bringing small casualties to the Ming army.

Although the Ming army suffered few casualties under the shelling, but in the continuous bombardment, the morale that the Ming army had just accumulated was all destroyed, and at this moment, I don't know how many Ming soldiers who were trembling under the shelling would prefer the people's army to directly launch an attack on the city, and they fought with the people's army with knives and guns.

In the face of the bombardment of the People's Army, the Ming army guarding the capital city of Ganzhou could not make a counterattack at all, there were too few artillery in the capital city of Ganzhou, and the Ming soldiers did not dare to use artillery to fight against the People's Army in the face of the shelling.

Feeling the bombardment of the People's Army, Song Yingchang was slightly worried in his heart, but he had no way to deal with it.