As Jiang Yueguang predicted, the Qing army arrived at the periphery of Nanchang on the second day of September.

Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren looked at the Qing army outside the city, their faces were green, they had fought with the Qing army before, and they knew the combat effectiveness of these barbarians, and now it seems that the main force on the opposite side is the Mongols, and there are about thirty or forty thousand people under the white flag and the white flag. The Manchu military system has 7,500 people under one banner, but the Dolgon brothers are the banner owners of the two white flags, so the power of the two white flags far exceeds that of the other flags, but these tens of thousands of people have also made the elite of the two white flags exhausted, and it seems that Dolgon is ready to play with his life.

What Jin Shenghuan and these people didn't know was that Jiangxi dealt a very heavy blow to the Manchus anyway. Jiangxi's geographical location is very important, it is located in the middle of South China, bordering several major provinces in South China, and now the Manchus are using troops in Huguang and Zhejiang, and the loss of Jiangxi makes these two sides very passive, so Dolgon must recover Jiangxi anyway.

In fact, Jin Shenghuan's current situation is much stronger than in history, in which Jin Shenghuan led his troops to attack Ganzhou, and was copied by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Jin Shenghuan had no choice but to return to the division to rescue Nanchang, but in this way, Nanchang also guarded for half a year. However, in history, Jin Shenghuan still had 100,000 veterans who had been trained by the war, but now there are only 60,000 veterans who have been harmed by Zhang Jiayu, and 20,000 have been lost by Wang Deren in Jiujiang. Now there are only 40,000 veterans in Nanchang City, plus 50,000 new recruits in the past few months, a total of 110,000 people, against the 160,000 Mongolian army outside the city.

Jin Shenghuan took more than 20 generals to the tower of Deshengmen in Beicheng, and saw the dense Qing army camp outside the city, Jin Shenghuan said: "The Qing army has an unstable foothold from afar, and it is the time to go out of the city to intercept the first merit that the general and I went out together!" “

Jiang Yueguang saw that Jin Shenghuan was going to go out of the city desperately, so he hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, "Your Highness, the Qing army is strong, we should rely on Nanchang Jiancheng to hold on and wait for help!" ”

"Stuck on the sidelines? Is there anyone else who can come to our rescue? “

"Your Majesty has issued a holy decree and ordered Zhang Jiayu to reinforce us, and I have sent someone to send a letter to Zhang Jiayu in Ganzhou, so that he can quickly lead the army to come to the rescue, Your Highness can rest assured!"

Jin Shenghuan smiled bitterly, it is better to count on that bastard emperor than to count on himself, not to mention that Zhang Jiayu only has more than 10,000 people, even if he can fight no matter how much he can fight, he is not the opponent of the more than 100,000 Qing troops on the opposite side.

"Don't say more, Lord Inspector, now that the Qing army has just arrived, and most of our city are recruits, we need a victory to boost morale! Brother Wang Xian, would you like to attack the enemy camp with me? ”

Wang Deren scolded Jin Shenghuan in his heart for pulling himself to death, but there was no way, his 20,000 people were wiped out, and now Jin Shenghuan is powerful, and he can't be disobedient.

"Haha, the eldest brother is so interested, the younger brother will accompany the eldest brother to the soup!" Wang Deren had no choice but to grit his teeth and say cruel words.

Jin Shenghuan nodded, "Very good, come on, prepare five thousand cavalry, I want to go out and charge!" ”

Jin Shenghuan originally had 50,000 cavalry, but they were all lost in Ganzhou. Zhang Jiayu can let it go, but the horse is dead or alive and does not agree. Jin Shenghuan had no choice but to play around in many ways, and it was easy to organize these five thousand cavalry.

The Manchu army had just arrived in Nanchang at this time, and before they set up camp, they saw the north gate of Nanchang open, and a group of cavalry walked out of the city gate and lined up outside the city.

Duoduo looked at it on his horse and said with a smile: "Yohe, it seems that Jin Shenghuan, this barbarian, is ready to charge with us with a cavalry." Hu Xi, you take 2,000 people and let these barbarians see how our Eight Banners athletes fight! ”

Hu Xi is the younger brother of He Luohui, who has just turned twenty years old this year, and when he is eager to make a contribution, he heard Duoduo say this, and saluted on the horse: "Thank you master for this grace to the slave!" ”

He Luo was afraid that his younger brother would be young and rash, so he said to Duoduo: "Master, can you let the minions lead the men of the headquarters to Hu Xi as a guard?" ”

Duoduo shook his head and said, "He Luohui, we will all be old, how can the young eagle soar in the sky without experiencing wind and rain?" It's up to Hu Xi this time! ”

Hu Xi was overjoyed when he heard Duoduo say this, and went down with his guards to prepare.

He Luo was worried about his younger brother no matter what he said, and ordered his 100 Bayala personal soldiers to protect Hu Xi.

Hu Xi led the two thousand elite of the White Flag, and it was the old subordinates who had followed Duoduo to fight for many years, and they all laughed when they heard them fight against the 5,000 Ming Army, and they all said that they were no problem at all.

Jin Shenghuan spread out his team outside the city, and saw about 2,000 cavalry pulled out from the opposite side, seemingly preparing to resist him.

Jin Shenghuan saw the group of cavalry on the opposite side playing and laughing one by one, and he didn't feel any nervousness at all, and scolded: "These Manchu Tartars are too fucking angry, this is looking down on us, let them know that Grandpa's cavalry is not vegetarian!" ”

The Ming army had already formed its ranks, and under the leadership of Jin Shenghuan, they began to jog in small steps, moving the muscles and bones of the horses, and preparing to charge the battle for a while.

On the other hand, on the side of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, these white flag cavalry were worthy of being the fighting nations of the Far East, looking at the giggling, but when the horses were jogging, they slowly formed a battle group dominated by Baya soldiers, and when the horses on both sides were about to approach, they picked up maces and other heavy weapons.

Many people in later generations said that the Qing army was a nomadic army, but in fact, this is not true, the Qing army is completely different from the nomadic army of the Mongols. In fact, the writers of history books in later generations were all literati, and naturally regarded all cats and dogs other than the Han people as the kind of Mongolian light cavalry during the Genghis Khan period. In fact, a considerable amount of light cavalry and cavalry archery is only auxiliary, the main force that determines the outcome of the battle is still the shock cavalry, that is, the heavy cavalry, relying on the cavalry as the main force only the Xiongnu and Mongolia, Xianbei, Turkic, Rouran, Tubo, Jurchen, etc.

As for the fighting style of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, that is, the Qing army, the cavalry was even less advantageous, and everyone can notice that the mountainous terrain in the eastern Liaodong region was not conducive to the cavalry in itself, regardless of melee cavalry or long-range cavalry. In fact, the soldiers in the mountainous areas are basically good at infantry, and the Qing army is naturally no exception, and it is also a force dominated by heavy infantry. Of course, now the Manchu Qing Dynasty is on the rise, and the heavy cavalry outside the pass has not yet died, so it is still very strong against the Ming army.

As soon as Jin Shenghuan's cavalry came into contact with the Manchu heavy cavalry, it was immediately like a hot knife cutting butter, and the formation was cut in half by these Baya soldiers who hit the head, and there was no suspense at all in the next battle. Jin Shenghuan's cavalry are all selected veterans, and their combat effectiveness is also very strong, but they are still much worse than the Manchu cavalry who are engaged in fighting outside the border all the year round, and Jin Shenghuan can't hold on without ten minutes.

Wang Deren saw that his side's combat effectiveness was really not good, so he came to Jin Shenghuan and shouted: "Big brother, you really can't beat it, withdraw it!" ”

Jin Shenghuan glanced at his own people around him, there were less than three thousand people, and half of them were wiped out in less than a quarter of an hour, Jin Shenghuan sighed and said, "Withdraw!" After saying that, he fled back to the city under the protection of the guards.

Fortunately, the Qing army only attacked the Ming army this time, and did not plan to seize the city, so when they saw Jin Shenghuan running away, they didn't chase after it, and hacked the injured Ming army on the ground to death, and rode back to the camp one by one.

Duoduo didn't say anything when he saw the defeat of the Ming army, ordered the Qing army to camp, and then sent Tan Tai to lead the army to sweep the four townships, collect grain and grass and build siege tools to prepare for tomorrow's siege.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty prepared their own people for this southward march, and the army consisted of 30,000 Manchurians, 50,000 Han troops and eight banners, and 80,000 Mongols. As for the unreliable Nanming new annexed army, none of them were brought, so the cannon fodder for this siege became the Eight Banners of the Mongols and the Han Army.

Early the next morning, Duoduo led 10,000 Manchurian elites, 10,000 Mongolian Eight Banners, and 10,000 Han Army Eight Banners to attack Deshengmen, Tan Tai led 30,000 Mongols to attack Yonghemen, and the naval army Arima Guozhu led 30,000 Han Army Eight Banners to attack Zhangjiangmen, and the Nanchang City Defense Battle officially began.

Jin Shenghuan saw that the enemy began to attack the city, and the first wave was the enemy's rockets, but fortunately, the northern city was burned by Wang Deren, and the rockets of the Qing army had no effect at all. The second wave was the Menghan Eight Banners carrying the ladder, and these guys were the first batch of cannon fodder.

Nanchang City did not experience a major siege battle at the end of the Ming Dynasty, so both the city wall and the city gate were intact, but there was a lack of fire oil and tools to defend the city. The latter one is easy to do, this large area of the north city is all ruins after the fire, what stones, wood is there, these days Jiang Yueguang organized the strong men in the city to transport the stones and wood to the city.

When the besieging soldiers came to the city, the siege officially began. The sassal woods, wolf tooth slaps, broken dragon stones, and so on on the city wall were thrown down one after another. The sassaga is a large stake covered with iron spikes; The wolf's tooth swatter resembles a large fly swatter, but this fly swatter also has a pointed end on it; The Broken Dragon Stone is a stone mill with a perforated center, square and round, connected by iron chains, and thrown to kill and injure enemy troops. In addition to these, there are also disposable tools for defending the city, such as earth-shattering thunder, swarms of bees, fire crows, and other gunpowder tools. In addition to these, there is also a cauldron of boiling hot oil, which is poured down the preset passage in the city wall, and each time the aroma of fried meat skin wafts up.

The combat effectiveness of the Qing army is indeed much stronger than that of the previous new annex army, and Deshengmen has been attacked several times here, and it is Jin Shenghuan who rushed desperately with the guards to rush down. This siege battle was fought until dark, and the Qing army was also exhausted, and began to retreat when they saw that it was dark.

Seeing that the Qing army had retreated, Jiang Yueguang began to organize strong men to transport materials to the city wall and treat the wounded. After this day's battle, Jin Shenghuan was slashed by the enemy in many places, and when he saw that Jiang Yueguang had also gone to the city, he quickly stood up and saluted.

Jiang Yueguang saw that Jin Shenghuan was injured, stopped Jin Shenghuan and said, "The prince has worked hard!" Today is finally over! ”

Jin Shenghuan nodded and said: "This is the first day, most of the tools to defend the city have been destroyed, if I hadn't led the team to press on it just now, the city would have been occupied." ”

Jiang Yueguang also knew the danger, and hurriedly asked, "Lord Wang, what do you need me to do?" ”

Jin Shenghuan grabbed Jiang Yueguang and said word by word: "Master Inspector, let Zhang Jiayu come to save Nanchang, if they don't come, I guess I won't be able to hold out for half a month!" ”