The war between the People's Army and the Ming Army continued, and the three divisions of Wang Shengrong's army converged with Xiong Jian's army and Yan Han's army successively, and launched large-scale attacks on the Huguang Ming army and the Fujian Ming army respectively.

Originally, Xiong Jian's opponent Hu Guang Ming Army, Yan Han's opponent Fujian Ming Army, and He Yan's opponent Guangxi Ming Army, the Ming Army were all more numerically than the People's Army.

Even with the numerical advantage, the Ming army stayed in the city most of the time, guarding against a sneak attack by the People's Army, and even if they left the city, thousands of people acted together.

However, the Ming army in the three places did not do it to the point of Ganzhou when they were stationed in the city, and even the city gate was blocked, in their opinion, the people's army on the opposite side was slightly smaller, and they could not capture the city garrisoned by the Ming army, even if a large number of people's troops attacked, the Ming army could not run if they could not fight, they did not have the idea of sticking to the city.

Under these circumstances, Xiong Jian's army and Yan Han's army, which had received reinforcements, launched large-scale attacks on the Huguang Ming army and the Fujian Ming army.

The large army besieged the city, the firearms units took cover, the melee troops attacked the city, the first troops blew up the city gates with explosives packs, and the grenadier troops rushed into the city closely behind the first troops.

With the cooperation of various units of the People's Army, the cities heavily guarded by the Ming army were breached, and although it was a siege battle, the number of casualties of the People's Army was less than one-third of the Ming army.

Huguang is in danger! Fujian is in danger! Guangxi is in danger!

The news of the attack on the Ming army in Huguang was the first to be sent to the capital city of Ganzhou, and Song Yingchang was shocked to learn that many cities heavily guarded by the Ming army in the south of Huguang had been breached.

"No wonder, no wonder the thieves will withdraw their troops, it turned out to support other parts of the thieves, and now it is Huguang, will Fujian and Guangxi also be attacked by thieves, what should I do, what should I do?"

Obviously, Song Yingchang only had one way left, that is, to divide part of the troops in his hands to support the Huguang Ming army, with the arrival of the follow-up Ming army, Song Yingchang's troops in his hands have exceeded 90,000, and it is not a problem to divide 20,000 or 30,000 horses to support Huguang.

Just when Song Yingchang was preparing to divide his troops to support Huguangming's army, bad news came from the south, and Wang Shengrong's army, which had rested for many days, once again marched north and was about to arrive in Xinfeng County.

The news of Wang Shengrong's northward advance made Song Yingchang hesitate, and it didn't take long for the news of the attack on the Ming army in Fujian to be sent to Song Yingchang, and one bad news after another came, Song Yingchang completely gave up the matter of dividing troops to support, and could only send people to send an order to the Ming army in Huguang, Fujian, and Guangxi, asking the Ming army of all departments to converge and defend a big city to resist the attack of the people's army.

The war between the People's Army and the Ming Army on this side is raging, and on the other side, the news of Mei Yousong's army defeating Mei Yousong and his death has been sent to the capital.

Knowing that Mei Yousong's army was defeated, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun was shocked and angry, hundreds of thousands of troops went to suppress a small thief, why was he defeated?

The ministers whose hometowns are in Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangxi and other places hurriedly made suggestions to Zhu Yijun one by one, asking Zhu Yijun to dispatch a large army to suppress the thieves.

And the ministers who know the situation of Daming are silent one by one, but they understand that most of the people that Daming will be able to transfer have been transferred by Mei Yousong, and if they continue to transfer troops from all over the country, I am afraid that there will be big problems.

There will be rebels and thieves everywhere every year, and they will be exterminated by the Ming troops stationed in various places as soon as they are discovered, but there are also rebels who escape, once all the Ming troops are transferred, and the rebels will make chaos again, and then it will be dangerous everywhere.

In particular, the border army is even more difficult to mobilize, the anti-thieves are in Guangdong, and it is still far from the capital, if most of the border army is transferred to suppress the thieves, and the Tatar cavalry suddenly attack, then the capital will be dangerous.

Zhu Yijun is in the palace, although he can't see the hardships of the people at the bottom, but he knows the military strength of the Ming Dynasty better, and he also knows that the Ming Dynasty can't send many soldiers and horses to suppress the thieves.

What's more, it is no longer a question of whether to suppress thieves or not, but to resist the attack of the People's Army, and it will take several months to send the Ming army to Jiangxi, and it may be that Jiangxi, Huguang and other places will fall during this time.

At this time, Shoufu Shen Shi said: "Your Majesty, you can recruit thieves." ”

"Zhao'an?" Hearing these two words, Zhu Yijun became even more angry, how could he recruit an apprentice who had killed hundreds of thousands of Ming troops.

"The emperor is angry, Zhao'an is just a strategy, let the thieves and my Ming temporarily stop fighting, my Ming is temporarily unable to send more soldiers and horses to Guangdong, for today's plan is to recruit young and strong new troops as soon as possible, and when the million army is completed, the thieves can be exterminated."

Hearing this, the anger on Zhu Yijun's face gradually disappeared, and it was indeed a good strategy to delay time by recruiting An, and then exterminate the thieves by training a million-strong army.

Not only Zhu Yijun was moved, but other ministers in the court also agreed, even the ministers who were hostile to Shen Shixing were all courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, and they were usually hostile, but now the thieves are powerful and have a great impact on the Ming Dynasty, so it is impossible to make trouble at this time.

However, it is a question who to send people to Zhao'an, it is too far to send people from the capital to Jiangxi, and when people arrive in Jiangxi, I don't know what the Ming army has been beaten into.

In the end, it was decided to let Song Yingchang, who had made meritorious contributions, go to Zhao'an People's Army, and Zhao'an's holy decree was sent to Jiangxi for 800 miles.

The entire Ming court did not think about the refusal of the People's Army to recruit An, in their opinion, it was the honor of the anti-thief to recruit the anti-thief, and when the holy decree of Zhao'an arrived, the leader of the anti-thief should kneel to greet him.

Some ministers even think that there is no need to train a million army, just by recruiting an army to destroy the anti-thief, as long as the anti-thief accepts Zhao'an, then the court can transfer the thief at will, dismantle the thief army and transfer it to various places, and then the leader of the thief will have no army, and he will be slaughtered by the Ming Dynasty.

The holy decree of Zhao'an was still on the way, and the People's Army still launched an attack on the cities of the Ming army's heavy troops, and with the cooperation of the firearms troops, the pioneer troops, and the grenadier troops, the People's Army captured one city after another, and the Ming army suffered heavy casualties.

In the face of the attack of the People's Army, the Ming army could not hold it at all, if the Ming army defending the city was given a batch of earth-shaking thunder, maybe there would be other changes in the situation, but the earth-shaking thunder was all in Song Yingchang's army, the number was already small, and then dispersed, Song Yingchang's army may be defeated by Wang Shengrong's army, and Song Yingchang did not dare to assign the earth-shaking thunder to other Ming troops.

Wang Shengrong's army Song Yingchang's army launched a tentative attack, and Song Yingchang's army immediately retreated back to the capital city of Ganzhou and did not engage Wang Shengrong's army at all.

Twice he personally led the army and was defeated once, and once he followed Mei Yousong was also defeated, and now Song Yingchang has almost lost the courage to fight with the People's Army, and only thinks about blocking the People's Army.

With Song Yingchang's orders sent everywhere, and because of the strength of the People's Army, the Ming troops on the front lines in Huguang, Fujian, and Guangxi began to retreat and assemble, preparing to rely on a fortified city to resist the People's Army.

Faced with the city where tens of thousands of Ming troops were gathered, the People's Army surrounded it and only bombarded it with artillery, without directly attacking the city.

In the past few days, the People's Army had killed and wounded more than 40,000 Ming troops in Huguang, Fujian, and Guangxi, and the number of casualties of the People's Army was less than 10,000.