"So, that guy...... The new army, sure enough, only has more than 20,000 people? ”

After listening to Mr. Ding's report, Hong Chengchou was shocked and suspicious, and muttered with a dark face, "More than 20,000 people, dare to divide into four groups to attack......

"Yes, my lord, they call themselves the Prisoners."

"There is a force that is invading Guangdong, and it is approaching Zhaoqing?"

"Yes."

Hong Chengchou was silent.

If what Mr. Ding said was true, wouldn't they have only a few thousand people per share?

With such a small number of people, why do they dare to bloom everywhere, ignite the flames of war everywhere, and make people everywhere cry out again and again, and frequently ask for help?

Which of the attacked places is not garrisoned by tens of thousands of heavy troops?

Especially Wu Sangui in the west, not to mention holding 100,000 male soldiers, originally took the initiative to attack, but he turned from offensive to defensive in a few days, and he was in a hurry......

The Guanning Iron Cavalry under him is a vegetarian?

Who are these people?

Could it be that the legendary Lianzhu spear is really so powerful that even the Guanning Iron Rider with the Three-Eyed Divine Gun can't stop it?

If the localities really did not exaggerate the military situation, then the situation would have far exceeded expectations, and other places would be unable to protect themselves, so wouldn't the two provinces of Guangdong and Fujian, which are south of the five mountains and far away from the mountains and roads, fall into the mouth of the tiger?

It's full of green soldiers with few firearms!

What else is there to do in this battle?

"Your Excellency...... My lord, this news is true, it is the news that has been repeatedly verified by the small people after the news from the flying pigeons from all over the country has been confirmed by each other."

Mr. Ding's respectful and chattering voice came from his ears, "Their flags, battle suits, and weapons are all different......

"Shhh...... It's no wonder that the strikers of the Pingxi Wang's department collapsed at the first touch, and it turned out that Li Dingguo was also mixed up with that group of people......"

"Yes, there are people from their new army on all sides, only one of them doesn't seem to be ......"

"Where...... Way? ”

Hong Chengchou raised his head sharply and looked directly at Mr. Ding as if he had woken up from a dream.

"Well, the way to Nanchang City is from He County, Xuanguo Gong...... The Ming army under Jiao Lian was the ...... that fled all the way to Jiangxi along the north side of the Luoxiao Mountains after capturing Chenzhou."

Hong Chengchou was stunned for a moment, and said hurriedly, "You mean, this way down Nanchang City is Jiao Lian's department?" Ming army? ”

"Yes, my lord, it is reported that this road is indeed Jiao Lian's department, and there are no consecutive guns, but the power is very large, with a total of more than 30,000 foot riders...... He also carried a cannon in red clothes. ”

Hong Chengchou frowned, picked up the teabowl and lowered his head to take a sip without saying a word, held the teacup and groaned for a long time, and said slowly: "Thank you, sir, for your hard work, go down and rest......"

"Adult ......"

"If you can defeat Jiao Lian, the thief, the old man will go to the court to ask for credit for Mr...... If you can get an official and a half-knight, Mr. will not have to walk the rivers and lakes and sleep in the open in the future. Hong Chengchou knew what this Mr. Ding was thinking.

"Thank you for your love, Xiaomin will follow the work of dogs and horses, and live up to the love of adults," Mr. Ding Huo Ran got up and arched his hand, "It's just ...... The tutor is there......"

"Sir, don't worry, your boss is there, the old man has his own arrangements, and he will never break his word and get fat."

……

After Mr. Ding went out, Hong Chengchou immediately summoned someone to summon his master and all the staff, and discussed the military situation in a hurry......

After some discussion, everyone agreed with Hong Chengchou's decision, and immediately rushed six hundred miles to fly to Chen Tai in Nanchang City, so that he must stick to and wait for help.

At the same time, they respectively flew to Gushan Ezhen Jinli at the mouth of Poyang Lake in Jiujiang, and Zhang Tianlu, the general soldier who stopped in Anren County, and ordered them to rush south and north respectively, and gallop towards Nanchang......

Although the overall situation has deteriorated, Hong Chengchou still keenly captures a glimmer of vitality.

The other party is either a hundred secrets, and in such an important place as Jiangxi, a weak brigade has been arranged......

"As long as it is defeated, then the whole situation will be alive, ahem,"

In the end, Hong Chengchou coughed lightly a few times, and said slowly in Sang Lao's voice, "Whether tens of thousands of troops go west out of Hunan or east into northern Fujian, they can encircle any of them......

As long as the siege of Nanchang is relieved, no matter which direction, with these tens of thousands of fresh troops joining, even if a few lives are exchanged for one of them, no matter how strong the thousands of fierce enemies are, I am afraid that they will not be able to bear it, right?

……

Hong Chengchou's calculations happened a few days ago.

At present, Liu Xulei has occupied Fuzhou, and Zhang Tianlu's more than 10,000 green battalion soldiers have already taken advantage of the gap to approach Jiao Lian's back......

After taking Chenzhou, Jiao Lian and Feng Suqin's independent battalion went all the way east, traveled more than 500 miles along the Luoxiao Mountains, and rushed to Ji'an, Jiangxi.

The road was smooth sailing, and there was hardly any decent resistance, and the few Green Camp defenders in various places had either long since fled or simply surrendered.

When Jiao Lian personally led more than 10,000 iron cavalry to appear outside the city of Ji'an, the Qing army guards took less than 2,000 people to surrender to the city.

Jiao Lian and his men only rested in Ji'an for two days, and after the follow-up brigade arrived with artillery and baggage, they immediately divided their troops into two routes, along the east and west banks of the Ganjiang River, and continued to attack and advance northward.

Perhaps it was the progress that went too smoothly and caused the enemy to be light, Jiao Lian only left more than 1,000 foot soldiers in Ji'an to guard the city, guarding prisoners and a large amount of grain and baggage, while he himself personally led 10,000 cavalry and more than 10,000 foot soldiers from the east bank of the Ganjiang River in a straight line, straight to Nanchang City, 300 miles away.

The only independent battalion of Dayao Mountain, which had modern firearms, led the remaining thousands of foot soldiers to attack along the west bank of the Ganjiang River, and Jiao Lian asked them to take Xinyu County in Linjiang Prefecture along the way, as well as Shanggao and Gao'an counties in Ruizhou Prefecture.

From a military point of view, Jiao Lian's move was very reasonable, not only to block the way for the Qing army to come to Hunan to ensure the safety of the left flank, but also to prevent the Qing army in Nanchang from retreating to Hunan.

In this way, because Nanchang is adjacent to the vast Poyang Lake in the east, once the city is broken, the Qing army defending the city will not be able to scatter and collapse, and there is only one way to retreat north to Jiujiang.

In this era, every time a big city is captured, there are not several times the enemy's troops, and it is quite difficult to besiege the city on all sides and completely annihilate the defenders, so Jiao Lian's tactical move is in line with the strategic plan of driving the Qing army to the Yangtze River step by step to feed the fish.

When Feng Suqin took the initiative to draw out a company to accompany the main action, as an old officer of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Jiao Lian, who was proud of his bravery, may have a bad habit of being greedy for war exploits, or maybe he thought that the right wing had Liu Xulei's unit in Fuzhou to answer him, and it would be safe, so he rejected Feng Suqin's kindness.

What no one expected was that it was this decision that almost cost Jiao Lian's life.

……

Nanchang City, located on the west bank of Poyang Lake, west of the Ganjiang River, east of the Fu River, built in the middle of two big rivers on a small plain, these two big rivers in the northeast of Nanchang not far all into Poyang Lake, so the north of the city around the river longitudinal and horizontal, the waterway is developed, and the south of the city has a large area of hills and farmland.

Nanchang City, when it was the political envoy of Jiangxi Chengxuan, and it is the common place of Nanchang and Xinjian two counties and county offices, the city is deep and the wall is high, and there is a wide moat dug all around, especially the south city wall of more than ten meters high is the most solid.

Nanchang in the middle of the Ming Dynasty is a majestic city with a population of hundreds of thousands, the population is nearly one million at the most, when it was captured by the Qing army, there was a massacre here, so there are only more than 100,000 people left, the city wall has been mostly destroyed, although it has been rebuilt, but it is far less spectacular than the original, and the dwellings outside the city have been few.

It only took Jiao Lian two days to rush to Hewan Town, twenty miles south of the city, and happened to encounter the Qing army of Chen Tai's brigade who wanted to cross the river east.

Jiao Lian immediately made a decision, just halfway to attack, more than 10,000 iron cavalry a charge to break Chen Tai's formation, its more than 20,000 main force fled back to Nanchang City, the rest of the more than 3,000 foot soldiers who had crossed the Fu River, except for a few captured, most of them scattered and fled, I don't know where to go.

Jiao Lian led his troops in hot pursuit, slashing and slashing all the way to the city, and was shelled by the defenders before stopping.

(Question: Where is Lin Xiao going to send someone to excavate graphite ore?) ）