Chapter 286: The Sky Has Fallen

A personal guard of an "uprising" general cut off Li Rusong's head and raised it high, and the general shouted loudly to the gathered Ming army:

"Li Rusong is dead, the enemy is fierce, we can't wait for the enemy, continuing to defend the city will only give us all our lives, join the People's Army with me, and everyone can continue to live."

The Ming army gathered was silent, morale was low, the people's army outside beat the Ming army on the city wall did not dare to take the lead, the Ming army will be defeated in this battle, defeat means death, everyone has parents, wives and children, no one is willing to die like this.

After a moment of silence, a lower-ranking officer of the Ming army shouted: "Everything is up to the general!" ”

Soon, the other Ming troops expressed their obedience to the orders of the rebel general, and the rebel general issued the first order, ordering all the Ming troops on the city wall to retreat and not to fight the people's army.

The order was quickly conveyed to the city wall, and by this time the KPA siege vehicle was already less than a hundred meters away from the city wall, and the two armies were about to enter a close battle.

"Li Shuai is dead, we won't fight with the People's Army, go down the city wall quickly."

"If you don't fight, if you don't fight, if you continue to stay on the city wall, you will die, and you will go down the city wall."

"Come down to the wall with me, brethren, and we won't have to die."

The Ming army on the city wall quickly ran down the city, and the people's army musketeers on the siege vehicle did not know what was sent, and continued to fire at the Ming army on the city wall, resulting in many Ming soldiers being shot and killed by the people's army on the way down the city wall.

Some musketeer regiment officers felt that something was wrong, and immediately asked the musketeers on the siege vehicle to stop firing, and not long after, all the musketeers on the siege vehicle stopped firing and stared at the retreating figure of the Ming army on the city wall not far away.

"How could the Ming army go down the city wall?"

There was a herald to ride a horse to quickly send the changes on the battlefield to Wang Shengrong, Wang Shengrong was full of doubts in his heart, whether his own strength was too strong for the Ming army to abandon the city wall and prepare for street fighting, or whether there were changes within the Ming army in the city.

Wang Shengrong couldn't figure it out in a short period of time, and the best way was to respond to all changes with no change, and order all the troops to continue to occupy the city wall according to the plan.

Outside the city wall, the siege vehicles of the People's Army are constantly approaching, inside the city wall, under the command of the generals of the Ming army of the uprising, the Ming army is gathered on the main street in the city, the weapons are still in their hands, the generals of the Ming army of the uprising have to conduct final negotiations with the people's army, if the negotiations are not successful, the Ming army will bite the people's army even if it dies.

The siege vehicle finally approached the city wall, and the soldiers of the People's Army quickly climbed the city wall through the siege vehicle, and there was no Ming soldier on the city wall, and there were soldiers of the People's Army looking down on the other side of the city wall, and they saw that under the city wall was a dense Ming army.

Seeing that the People's Army had climbed the city wall, a general of the Ming uprising personally went out to negotiate with the People's Army.

Half an hour later, 100,000 Ming troops in the city of Ganzhou put down their weapons, and after cleaning up the debris that blocked the city gate, the People's Army arranged to go out of the Ganzhou capital city and stationed outside the city, and the 100,000 Ming troops plus tens of thousands of people's troops lived in the city together, which was too crowded for the Ganzhou capital city.

The fate of the 100,000 Ming army has been decided, and there may be those who have bullied the common people in these 100,000 Ming troops, and now they will all be exempted from death, and the Ming army officers of the rank of chief or above can choose to stay in the people's army-ruled area after the war, or they can choose to return to the Ming army-ruled area.

Most of the other Ming troops had to stay in the KPA-ruled areas, and they had to work for the KPA for three years, building roads, water conservancy facilities, and even mining, while the KPA was in charge of food and housing, and paid a certain salary.

These 100,000 Ming troops are not completely prisoners, or even an uprising, if they are captured on the battlefield, let alone wages, they will work longer every day, and they may even die of exhaustion.

Of course, the coolies who are exhausted to death are generally people who do not perform well and are in poor health, and the coolies who perform well (only prisoners of the designated army) will soon be transferred, their working hours will be shortened, they will be paid, and if their homes are in the KPA-ruled areas, they can be directly sent home.

At the same time, the rest of Wang Shengrong's army had already taken most of Nan'an and Ganzhou in southern Jiangxi, and the People's Army had already entered Ji'an Mansion in the north of Nan'an Mansion to attack the city.

Li Chengliang's 500,000 army, in the early February 31st battle, in the end less than 300,000 people ran away in the dark, of which 110,000 defeated soldiers were gathered in the capital of Ganzhou by Li Rusong, and now all surrendered, leaving at least 150,000 defeated soldiers scattered and fled, and no longer had the courage to fight with the people's army.

In addition to Li Chengliang's army, there is no other Ming army in Jiangxi that can resist the People's Army, and now that Li Chengliang's army is completely defeated, it can be said that it is only a matter of time before the People's Army takes the whole of Jiangxi.

Nearly two days have passed since the defeat of Li Chengliang's army, and Li Zhengmao of Huguang, who was closest to Li Chengliang's army, and Zheng Yuewen of Fujian Province, have received the news that Li Chengliang has been defeated by the People's Army.

As soon as they got the news that Li Chengliang was defeated by the People's Army, Li Zhengmao and Zheng Yuewen were very happy, in their opinion, Li Chengliang's army of 500,000 horses, and many elite troops under his command, even if they were defeated by the People's Army, the People's Army would suffer heavy casualties, and then it would be their opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

But after learning more information, Li Zhengmao and Zheng Yuewen were stunned, Li Chengliang's army was easily defeated by the People's Army, and the number of casualties of the People's Army was not as many as imagined.

A feeling that the sky had fallen suddenly arose.

The Ming court used Li Zhengmao, Zheng Yuwen, and Tang Qi to hold Li Chengliang hostage, but under Li Chengliang's means, the combined forces of Li Zhengmao, Zheng Yuwen, and Tang Qi were not as large as Li Chengliang's army, and even fewer elite troops.

If Li Chengliang's army fought with the combined forces of Li Zhengmao, Zheng Yuwen, and Tang Qi, Li Chengliang's army would be able to completely defeat the coalition army with less than 100,000 casualties.

The People's Army easily defeated the strongest Li Chengliang army, then it will be easier to beat Li Zhengmao and Zheng Yuewen, most of the Ming court's troops are here, the People's Army defeated millions of Ming troops, and then the Ming court is no longer able to resist the people's army, and the Ming Dynasty is about to change hands after a hundred years of rule!

Li Zhengmao and Zheng Yuwen thought about it briefly and immediately ordered to control the news of the defeat of Li Chengliang's army, if they allowed the news to spread among the various departments under their command and did not need the People's Army to fight, they might throw down their weapons and flee as long as they saw the People's Army appear.

After controlling the spread of the news, Li Zhengmao and Zheng Yuewen thought about what to do next.

Li Zhengmao and Zheng Yuewen received the emperor's secret order and never fought with the people's army to preserve their strength, but now judging from the experience of Li Chengliang's army, neither of them thought that the more than 100,000 men under their command had fought the 50,000 people's army on the opposite side.