Because the attrition of the infantry was relatively serious, the combat effectiveness of the Fourth Mixed Regiment had been greatly weakened, so Gu Shizhong also adopted some workarounds, and he began to transfer some soldiers from the two baggage battalions and three artillery battalions, mainly baggage soldiers and transport troops, and temporarily replenished them to the infantry battalions that had suffered losses.

In order to restore the five infantry battalions in the 4th Mixed Regiment to combat effectiveness!

Although in the past, in most cases, these auxiliary forces would not participate in front-line battles, and would only participate in some defensive battles on a limited basis, but that was just an ordinary situation, and now, Gu Shizhong's lack of troops no longer took care of them being just auxiliary forces, but prepared to let them participate in front-line battles.

Although these baggage troops and some transport troops are auxiliary troops, they are also regular troops, and they have also received complete infantry tactical training, and although their comprehensive quality cannot be compared with that of regular infantry, they are at least stronger than simple recruits.

As for the lack of manpower in the baggage and artillery units after the transfer of these auxiliary soldiers, it was difficult to complete the existing tasks of transporting a large number of artillery and baggage, so Gu Shizhong on the one hand used more than 200 captured cavalry prisoners of the Ming Army to transport them, and in addition, he also recruited several civilians from the two villages on the road.

Because of the urgency of the situation, Gu Shizhong didn't care about maintaining the attitude of the king, and when recruiting people, it was not voluntary as before, but mainly coercion.

Otherwise, he would not have been able to recruit so many people in just two villages, because he had recruited all the young men in these two villages.

Of course, even if it is forcibly recruited, Gu Shizhong still cannot be as unscrupulous as the Ming army, and he will still give certain supplements when recruiting, such as distributing a certain amount of food to the families of these young and strong people, and at the same time, he will not let these young and strong people bring their own dry food to work on the road, but will provide sufficient food.

And promised that after the troops arrived in Nanchang, they would directly distribute a certain amount of silver for them to return.

From this place to Nanchang, in fact, there is only one day left, although these people are dissatisfied, but on the one hand, they are forced by knives and guns, on the other hand, there is enough food to eat, and there is food to leave for their families and money, so the work is quite hard.

And to give more generous preferential treatment than the usual recruitment, Gu Shizhong also did this deliberately, now Gu Shizhong does not have much time to waste on the road, he needs to rush to Nanchang within a day, at the latest tomorrow noon must arrive at Nanchang City, and then prepare to attack the city.

Along the way, he needed these men to work hard to transport artillery and baggage.

Otherwise, if these people are passive and slacking off, it will greatly delay his march, and at that time, even if he can kill a few people to deter, it will be useless.

Relying on these methods along the way, Gu Shizhong finally arrived at the foot of Nanchang City with the Fourth Mixed Regiment, and did not drop a single artillery piece or ammunition truck!

This has to be said to be a small miracle in the history of the march of the 4th Mixed Regiment!

You must know that the 4th Mixed Regiment has been strengthened, with dozens of field guns and enough ammunition for three large-scale battles, and the shells alone carry as many as 10,000 rounds.

Either so many shells can be smoothly brought to Nanchang City, especially when a large number of baggage and transport troops are being transferred to temporarily serve as infantry, the Fourth Mixed Regiment can still do it, which can be said to be quite difficult.

On the morning of the next day, the Fourth Mixed Regiment of the Tang Army, which had gone through a lot of hardships along the way, finally successfully arrived at the city of Nanchang!

When Gu Shizhong looked at Nanchang City, which was only five or six hundred meters away, he couldn't help but sigh, this journey is really not easy!

Just when Gu Shizhong arrived at Nanchang City with his troops, Zhang Yue also received the news of the fiasco defeat of the Supervising Cavalry!

When he heard the fiasco of the Governor Biao's cavalry, Zhang Yue couldn't believe his eyes, and thought that he had read the wrong battle report, and after he repeatedly confirmed the authenticity of the battle report, he directly scolded Wang Bianyi in front of a group of subordinates for being a pig's brain.

This official asked him to just contain and drag down the pace of the puppet Tang thief army, who gave him so much courage to take the initiative to attack the infantry phalanx of the puppet Tang thief army?

Zhang Yue, who was extremely angry, directly sent his own descendants to rush to the place where the superintendent cavalry was, and then knocked Wang Bianyi to the ground and escorted him back to see the trial!

Wang Bianyi also felt that he was quite aggrieved, he blamed that bastard Zhao Qianhu, he would have sent him to death, and he had pulled him into the water, if it wasn't for Zhao Qianhu who rushed up directly, how could he Wang Bianyi rush up with the main cavalry.

But it's too late!

At this time, Gu Shizhong had already set up dozens of artillery pieces, and then began to carry out a large-scale artillery bombardment of Nanchang City, and the twelve heavy howitzers roared one after another.

The heavy grenade flew hundreds of meters, and then landed on the city, or exploded after falling on the city wall, every explosion was huge, if there were Ming soldiers within the explosion range, it would immediately be heavy casualties, and if it fell in no one's place, it would also kick up a large cloud of smoke and dust.

In addition, the other 30 or so field guns also did not stop, and launched an artillery bombardment towards the city, and it didn't take long for the city gate tower to be bombarded, and even the city walls were full of potholes, and many battlements were directly smashed open.

Although the shelling could not cause any actual casualties to the city wall itself, those shells of dozens of catties were actually useless against the city wall that was almost more than ten meters thick, but the fierce shelling completely swept the city head.

The Ming soldiers who were still waiting at the head of the city were killed and wounded in an instant, and the Ming artillerymen who tried to control the artillery on the city to fight back were also killed and wounded.

By the evening of the same day, the Fourth Mixed Regiment had not yet begun to use infantry to attack the city, and the Ming army defending the city had already suffered hundreds of casualties, some of them were killed by shells and stoned to death at the head of the city, and some were killed by grenades behind the city walls.

In the evening, Deng Mingjun, who was defending the city, didn't even dare to go to the city, and even some open areas behind the city walls didn't dare to stay, because the thieves' grenades would fly over the city and then fall in the city and explode.

And the retreat of the Ming army is also the effect that the Tang Army needs to cause to carry out fierce artillery bombardment!

If artillery could not suppress the Ming army at the head of the city, then the hoplites could not attack the city.

"My lord, the effect of artillery suppression is better, if it goes on like this, when it is dawn tomorrow, when our infantry attacks, it will be met with too much resistance!" At this time, there was a major who said this to Gu Shizhong.

But Gu Shizhong said: "Tomorrow? No, tomorrow, the variables are too great, so get the troops ready, and in half an hour we will start the siege. ”

The subordinates looked puzzled: "Attack the city in half an hour?" Half an hour later, it was almost dark! If you attack at night, I'm afraid it's not easy to fight, and it's not convenient to enter the city later! ”

Gu Shizhong said: "I know, but time doesn't wait for me!" Wait until tomorrow to act, and the Ming infantry will also arrive, and it will be even more difficult to fight the enemy on the back at that time! ”

I learned from the prisoners of the Ming army that the Ming army returned to Nanchang not only cavalry, but also tens of thousands of infantry, and these 10,000 infantry are rushing towards Nanchang, according to their itinerary, it is estimated that they will be able to arrive tomorrow.

So there isn't much time left for Gu Shizhong!

Anyway, you will light torches to fight, although it is more difficult than during the day, but it is not insurmountable, after all, this is not a night march, let alone a night sneak attack or something.

They are just raising torches and attacking, he wants to turn night into day!

The sky gradually darkened, but it was not completely dark, at this time, Gu Shizhong also issued an order to launch a general attack, and the infantry troops that had already been prepared rushed towards Nanchang City like a tide.

The Ming troops in Nanchang City also began to run to the head of the city to prepare for defense under the urging of generals at all levels, but under the fierce artillery fire of the Tang Army, these Ming soldiers who had just gone to the city were killed and wounded. went straight to be a good citizen.

As a result, this siege battle progressed much more smoothly than Gu Shizhong had expected!

Gu Shizhong, who was originally ready to fight a tough battle, found that after his infantry charged, the Ming army in the city did not resist much at all, and the soldiers of the assault battalion only encountered sporadic obstruction and climbed to the top of the city!

After the assault battalion of the 4th Mixed Regiment landed at the top of the city and opened the city gates, the total casualties of the 4th Mixed Regiment were only about 40 people!

After the city gate was opened, the main force of the Fourth Mixed Regiment quickly entered the city, and then cleared the Ming army of the other city walls.

For these stragglers, Gu Shizhong is also too lazy to take care of them, as long as they don't gather to resist, Gu Shizhong doesn't spend too much effort on them, they can flee if they want to!

But if these Ming troops dared to gather and resist, then the 4th Mixed Regiment would launch a fierce attack and scatter them again, without giving them a chance to regroup.

The army is defeated, this is the best description of the Ming army defenders in Nanchang City now!