A lead bullet ended Mei Yousong's life, Mei Yousong's efforts still had results, paying the price of nearly 10,000 Ming army casualties, most of the Ming army successfully opened a distance from Gao Wei's army, and Wang Shengrong also joined Gao Wei's army at this time.

Wang Shengrong's army continued to pursue the Ming army, and during the march for so long, the soldiers of the People's Army were also relatively tired, and the distance between them and the Ming army not only did not close, but narrowed a little farther.

There was still half an hour before dark, and the Ming army finally fled to Xinfeng County, but a county town is so small, how can it accommodate 100,000 Ming troops.

Mei Yousong entrusted the army to Song Yingchang, Song Yingchang is now the temporary commander of the Ming army, Song Yingchang's idea is not to stay in Xinfeng County, go directly to the capital of Ganzhou, Ganzhou can barely accommodate 100,000 Ming troops, almost able to block the People's Army.

Song Yingchang wanted to leave, and the other Ming generals also wanted to leave, but the corporals didn't want to go.

The generals and commanders all rode horses, walked on four horses' legs, and the lower soldiers walked on two legs, marching for a day, and there were several battles in between, and they were so tired that they couldn't walk.

Song Yingchang understands the strength of the People's Army very well, no matter how much the Ming Army can't hold such a county, staying is death, and only the 30,000 Ming Army who are still on the road can be used as reinforcements, even if it converges with the 30,000 Ming Army, it is still not the opponent of the People's Army.

Song Yingchang could only issue mandatory orders to all departments of the Ming army, not allowed to stay in Xinfeng County, and continue to advance, the officers and commanders all followed Song Yingchang's orders, but many soldiers below were unwilling, they really couldn't walk.

Some officers brandished broadswords to drive away the soldiers, some of them continued to advance under the escort of the officers, but some of the soldiers actually raised their weapons to confront the officers.

Seeing that a civil strife was about to break out, Song Yingchang reluctantly made a decision, he gave all the Ming troops two choices, left Xinfeng County and continued to go north, and could live; Stay in Xinfeng County and wait for death.

Even if Song Yingchang said so, there were still many Ming soldiers who didn't want to leave, and in the end, less than 60,000 Ming troops followed Song Yingchang to continue marching, and less than 40,000 Ming troops stayed in Xinfeng County.

Most of the border soldiers and soldiers left with Song Yingchang, and about one-third of the Zhentian Battalion stayed in Xinfeng County.

Song Yingchang asked the generals, and in the end, it was the guerrilla general Huang Ling, who did not have much background, decided to stay in Xinfeng County, and he would lead 40,000 Ming troops to rely on Xinfeng County to resist more than 100,000 enemies.

Song Yingchang led 60,000 Ming troops to bypass Xinfeng County to Ganzhou Prefecture, and not long after leaving, Wang Shengrong's army came to Xinfeng County and surrounded Xinfeng County before it was completely dark.

After a night's rest, the siege battle began, hundreds of artillery spewed solid shells into Xinfeng County, and the Ming army, which originally did not have much morale, had no morale under the shell bombardment, and did not have the slightest idea of wanting to fight.

Seeing this situation, Huang Ling no longer knew how to continue this battle, he originally thought that he could hold Xinfeng County for at least half a month with 40,000 horses, and there was plenty of grain and grass in Xinfeng County.

Now Huang Ling is only worried that Xinfeng County will not be able to hold even a day.

After several rounds of shelling of Xinfeng County, Wang Shengrong sent someone to send a letter of persuasion to the Ming army in Xinfeng County, saying that as long as the Ming army in the city laid down their arms and surrendered, the People's Army promised not to kill a single person.

In the face of the persuasion of the People's Army, Huang Ling was very hesitant, he knew that Xinfeng County could not hold for a few days, once the city was broken, the end of his Ming army commander was only death, but if Huang Ling led the army to surrender, his family was still under the rule of the Ming Court, once the Ming Court knew that he had surrendered to the enemy, his family would be affected.

After thinking about it for a long time, Huang Ling finally thought of a method that seemed good, he decided to surrender to the People's Army, but on the surface, he could not surrender to the enemy himself, he could let people pretend to arrest him, and then surrender together, so that the Ming Court would not know that he had surrendered to the enemy, nor would he attack his family.

Thinking of this, Huang Ling immediately took action, and while contacting the People's Army, he handed over the task of catching himself to Yang Erhu, the most trusted captain of the pro-guards.

On the other side, Wang Shengrong learned that the commander of the Ming army in Xinfeng County was willing to surrender, but the steps were a little more troublesome, and he felt that the other party was not pretending to surrender, Wang Shengrong allowed Huang Ling's move, and would not reveal to the public that Huang Ling surrendered to the People's Army.

In the afternoon of the same day, Yang Erhu led dozens of his subordinates to arrest Huang Ling, and then summoned the Ming army in the city and told them that if they wanted to live, they would surrender together, the people's army was too strong, and if they continued, they would all die.

Some of the Ming army were unwilling to surrender, but between life and death, everyone would choose the former, and eventually all the Ming troops reached an agreement and surrendered to the People's Army.

In less than a day, the People's Army successfully captured Xinfeng County and harvested 40,000 Ming prisoners.

For Huang Ling, the commander of the Ming army, no matter what mistakes he made before, he can now take the initiative to surrender and effectively reduce the casualties of the People's Army, which can be regarded as a great contribution to the People's Army, and the People's Army will give certain preferential treatment, and will not disclose Huang Ling's affairs to the outside world.

From Huang Ling's mouth, Wang Shengrong learned that the Ming army led by Song Yingchang planned to rely on the capital city of Ganzhou to resist the people's army, and the Ming army did not have many reinforcements, only 30,000 Ming troops who were still on the road or had arrived in the capital city of Ganzhou.

Wang Shengrong convened a brief meeting of senior officers of his department, at which Wang Shengrong made a decision that the People's Army would continue to attack the capital city of Ganzhou to the north, and if there was an opportunity, it could capture the capital city of Ganzhou, and if it captured the capital city of Ganzhou, the People's Army would give up if there were more casualties and withdraw the army according to the situation.

The People's Army and the Ming Army are fighting at this point, only 60,000 of the 200,000 Ming troops have fled to the capital of Ganzhou, and at least 120,000 of the remaining 140,000 people are either killed or captured, and there are still some routs everywhere.

The Ming army suffered a heavy defeat and heavy casualties, and the Ming court could not mobilize more Ming troops to attack the people's army in a short period of time, unless the Ming court wanted to cause turmoil in various places under its rule.

Regardless of whether or not the capital city of Ganzhou is captured next, Wang Shengrong will carry out the second plan, the people's army led by himself will be divided into four, one people's army will still remain in Longnan County and Anyuan County, and the remaining three will go to Huguang, Guangxi, and Fujian respectively, and cooperate with other people's armies to launch an attack on the Ming army, and consume the strength of the Ming army in various places as much as possible under the condition that there will be no large casualties on their own side.

The People's Army already has such an advantage in Jiangxi, and if it pays a certain price, it will not be a problem to capture the whole of Jiangxi, and the territory of the People's Army will be expanded, but Fang Nan has no idea of expanding its territory for the time being.

The People's Army is now facing this problem, because it can lay more territory, but it does not have enough officials to manage various localities, and occupying more territory will actually delay the development of the People's Army.