This Nanchang siege battle is also another proof that relying on ordinary guards and temporarily recruited young men cannot stop the Tang Army, and even the least resistance can be done.

However, it is precisely because most of the defenders in Nanchang City are guards, at least a small number of local recruits, that the Fourth Mixed Regiment was able to capture Nanchang City so smoothly!

If more than 10,000 people are the superintendent and the border army, then the fourth mixed regiment is not so easy and easy, I am afraid whether it can take Nanchang or not.

At the beginning of Luling City, Ji'an, in the face of the onslaught of 30,000 Tang Army and more than 100 artillery pieces, the Ming army in the city carried out stubborn resistance and brought a lot of casualties to the Second Army.

However, at the beginning, it was only the new army and the border army that fiercely resisted, and although the ordinary guards and young men in the Ming army defending the city were more numerous, they played a role less than one-tenth of the new army and the border army.

An army like the Ming Army's inland guards, if it was placed on the side of the Datang Army, would have been eliminated a long time ago, avoiding wasting military spending and food, and in fact, the Datang Army really did this, and the garrison army with a total strength of nearly 100,000 people before was stronger than the Ming Army's guards, but if it was eliminated, it would be eliminated.

And now, there is no longer the idea of using prisoners of war to organize armies on a large scale!

Now only a very small number of prisoners of war captured by the Tang Dynasty Division can continue their military career, and such people have to be selected first, and then go through complete recruit training before they can join the current Tang Dynasty Division, and more prisoners of war, most of them have become laborers in the reclamation regiment, and they are reclaimed and farmed in the rear, and some of them continue to stay in the prisoner of war camps, and dig resists and build roads and bridges in major mines.

Even within the Ming Dynasty, they knew that the local guards in the interior were not of great use, and Zhang Yue wanted to eliminate the local guards more than once, so as to free up military funds to expand the scale of the new army.

However, the Ming military guard system formed in the past two hundred years, even if it has been decayed, it does not mean that it can be abolished, there are too many restrictions here, even Zhang Yue, who is the most prominent among the many feudal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, is powerless about it.

The more than 10,000 guards in Nanchang City only resisted for one afternoon, only one afternoon!

After more than 300 people were killed and wounded in the resistance at the head of the city, the whole army was declared defeated and Nanchang was lost!

However, after the city was broken, the casualties of the defenders in the city were even more, well, this is mainly because the Tang Army blocked the main roads in the city, and some of the routers who wanted to take the opportunity to escape or destroy were killed and injured a lot, and this number could not even be counted, because the city was too chaotic now, and the fourth mixed regiment was too lazy to count how many defeated soldiers they had killed and wounded.

In this battle, the Fourth Mixed Regiment lost more than 20 people killed and more than 60 wounded, and it is worth noting that more than half of the casualties also occurred after entering the city, if strictly speaking, the casualties in the siege stage were less than 50 people!

The total casualty figure of the 4th Mixed Regiment was not even a tenth of the casualties caused by yesterday's battle with the Ming cavalry!

And this battle can be regarded as the easiest battle fought by the Tang Army in the past year or so, attacking twice as many enemies with inferior forces, and killing and wounding less than 100 people to capture a city like Nanchang with quite complete fortifications.

Nanchang City, not only has a thick city wall, but also has at least dozens of artillery, although most of the other artillery is old, some of the newly made five-catty, seven-catty cannons and shotguns were taken away by Zhang Yue's main force, but still the defensive force is sufficient!

If it was replaced by a unit with a relatively strong will to fight to defend, it was absolutely impossible for the whole army to collapse after two or three hundred casualties!

After stepping on the head of Nanchang City, Gu Shizhong couldn't help but sigh: "It would be nice if the puppet Ming thief army were all these guards!" ”

Next to him, he also said: "Yes, if the thief army is like this, in less than three years, my Tang Dynasty King will be able to pacify the universe and lay the foundation of the Tang Dynasty!" ”

It's a pity that their idea is impossible to realize, the Ming Dynasty also knew that the inland guards were unusable, and they didn't expect to rely on the guards to suppress the puppet Tang Dynasty, and now the main force fighting against the puppet Tang thief army in the south is the border army and various newly recruited and trained recruits, such as the new army under Zhang Yue, the thief army under Yu Dayou, and the local recruits of local civil officials and military generals.

Zhang Yue's department, which is running after the Second Army, is the main force of this kind of troops!

And these border armies and various recruits, although their combat effectiveness is still not as good as that of the Tang Army, they are much better than the local guards!

After seizing the city wall of Nanchang, Gu Shizhong quickly let the troops control the various transportation arteries and important buildings in the city, mainly warehouses, official yamen, etc., he was not even too lazy to meet the surrendered Ming army civil and military officials, but the first time was to command the troops to quickly enter the city, and then re-strengthen the city defense.

Transporting the artillery into the city and moving it to the city, sorting out the artillery captured from the Ming army, re-arming, and then if you want to hold Nanchang City, the city wall defense and artillery are the most important.

At the same time, it is also the first time to directly declare martial law in the whole city, the people in the city are not allowed to go out on the streets at night without reason, even if they go out during the day, they must be ready to accept the interrogation of patrol soldiers at any time. Kill on the spot!

And immediately accepted a large number of warehouses of the Ming army, Nanchang as the main defensive city before Zhang Yue's main force, that is a large amount of food and ammunition hoarded, although it was taken away by Zhang Yue's main force before, but the food and ammunition left in the city and numerous, of which food alone, is enough for 100,000 troops to eat for a month.

At the time of the breach, although some Ming generals and officials tried to burn the food and ammunition, most of the Ming army was dispersed, and the fourth mixed regiment also moved quickly, so only a small part was burned, and most of them were rescued.

With these food and ammunition, Gu Shizhong's department can hold on for at least a few months with peace of mind!

However, in order to better defend Nanchang, Gu Shizhong didn't want to let Nanchang City become chaotic, and then add too much trouble to himself, but he didn't have the time and energy to deal with the internal affairs in Nanchang City, so he transferred a few administrative officers, and then demoted from the Ming army officials who took the initiative to surrender, and at the same time accepted a large number of officials in the city who originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty, and began to carry out strict military management of Nanchang City!

Because Gu Shizhong knew that it wouldn't be long before the Ming army's counteroffensive would come!

And it is not the 10,000-strong Ming army that returned to Nanchang, and it will be Zhang Yue's 100,000 main force.

Gu Shizhong even thought about it with his toes, once Zhang Yue learned that Nanchang was lost, he would definitely be furious, and then he would lead the army back to Nanchang!

This also means that the Fourth Mixed Regiment will likely face the attack of Zhang Yue's main force in a few days!

And after seizing Nanchang, the Fourth Mixed Regiment said that it was impossible to retreat, Li Chunjing and he spent so much effort, isn't it just to seize Nanchang City and open the water transportation channel to Poyang Lake and even the Yangtze River!

If this retreats, then it means that the previous achievements are lost, how can this be worthy of thousands of soldiers who have died and injured outside Nanchang City!

Gu Shizhong must hold Nanchang, even in the face of the attack of the 100,000 main forces of Zhang Yue's department, he must hold on, waiting for the arrival of the main force of Li Chunjing's second army!

In order to defend Nanchang, the interior of Nanchang City must remain stable, the implementation of strict officers and martial law is necessary, and the implementation of material control is also necessary, after all, there are still a large number of people in the city.

Although some of the people in the city had fled Nanchang in advance because of the war, there were still more than 30,000 people in Nanchang, plus nearly 10,000 Ming defenders who surrendered, were captured, or remained in the city.

And these people can't let them mess up, and they can't say that they are all killed or driven out of the city.

These people are the labor resources when defending the city, and Gu Shizhong is also counting on using them to repair the city fortifications and help build some equipment for defending the city.

Therefore, after daylight the next day, the Fourth Mixed Regiment began to recruit young people in the city, accelerate the construction of the fortifications at the head of the city, and build the fortifications in accordance with the Tang Army's own way.

For example, the artillery positions deployed at the head of the city, they will not be deployed directly behind the battlements!

Although the solid shells of field artillery cannot cause much damage to the main body of the city wall, they cannot be stopped by hitting the battlements, and in order to protect the artillery and other defenders, the city walls must be reinforced on the basis of the battlements.

For example, in artillery positions, piling up a large number of sandbags in front of the artillery is a must!

When Gu Shizhong was arming in Nanchang City!

The news of the fall of Nanchang also spread slowly, and finally the defenders in the city still had a little conscience, and when the city was broken, they sent a herald to carry a letter, and Pegasus reported to Zhang Yue!

However, it was not Zhang Yue who got the news first, but the tens of thousands of Ming troops who were rushing to Nanchang!

The next day, after the more than 10,000 Ming army, which was only fifteen kilometers away from Nanchang City, learned that Nanchang had been broken by the puppet Tang thief army, although a few stunned young people said that they would take advantage of the thief army's unstable foothold to counterattack Nanchang, but those senior generals were still very stable!

Besiege?

Are you kidding!

Don't pull us in if you're looking for death!

They didn't even dare to go to Nanchang City, for fear that the puppet Tang thief army would take the initiative to kill them, so they stopped almost ten kilometers away from Nanchang City, on the one hand, they sent people to monitor Nanchang City, and on the other hand, they also sent people to report to Zhang Yue to ask for help!

If you want to recapture Nanchang, it is unreliable to rely on their 10,000 people, and you have to send the main force back from Zhang Yue's side!

After the news reached Zhang Yue's side, Zhang Yue did not jump like thunder this time, but sighed and muttered: "The situation is difficult!" ”