can have hundreds of thousands of troops from the mere refugees and even establish a country and become the emperor, Zhang Xianzhong naturally does not give in vain, and has a keen sense of smell on the battlefield. Vertex updates are the fastest

When the news of Hukou being captured by the Ming army reached Ji'an, Zhang Xianzhong decisively ordered to stop the siege and the whole army retreated to Nanchang.

Ji'an is just a small city, and it doesn't have much to do if it can't be defeated, and if the officers and soldiers occupy the mouth of the lake and block the waterway out of Poyang Lake, and then even take Jiujiang City, hundreds of thousands of western troops will be blocked in Jiangxi, and Zhang Xianzhong naturally knows this kind of consequences.

However, he was afraid of something, Zhang Xianzhong had just led the army back to Nanchang, and the bad news of the loss of Jiujiang and the death of his son Zhang Wenxiu reached Nanchang, which made Zhang Xianzhong angry and frightened.

Zhang Xianzhong is naturally very clear about the ability of his righteous son Zhang Wenxiu, that is definitely a general who can stand alone, otherwise Zhang Xianzhong would not have let him lead an army of 50,000 to defend Jiujiang City.

But now, Jiujiang is lost, 50,000 troops are dead, and Zhang Wenxiu is dead! In less than ten days, such a big thing happened!

That's an army of 50,000, most of them are veterans who followed into Sichuan, how can they not even hold a mere Jiujiang City? Could it be that the strength of the Ming army is so strong that it is?

Out of fear, Zhang Xianzhong did not quickly drive to Jiujiang with a large army, but stationed in Nanchang on the spot, while listening to the reality of the Ming army, while waiting for the return of the troops sent to attack the provinces of Jiangxi.

In addition to the 50,000 people stationed in Jiujiang, as well as the 150,000 people around Zhang Xianzhong, more than 100,000 people were sent to attack various prefectures and counties.

And Zhang Xianzhong's caution also gave the Ming army in Jiujiang more time to prepare, which Chen Yue did not expect in advance.

Five days after the fall of Jiujiang, Wang Fuchen and his entourage fled to Nanchang with dozens of people. Although he was afraid of Zhang Xianzhong's brutality, Wang Fuchen had no way out. Jiujiang is in the hands of the Ming army, and Jiangxi Huguang is under the control of the Great Western Army, unless he takes dozens of his men to become the king of the mountain, Wang Fuchen has no way to escape.

Moreover, Wang Fuchen's family members are all in the Western Army, and if he does not return, his family will inevitably be implicated. With a heart, Wang Fuchen returned to Nanchang with his subordinates, hoping that Zhang Xianzhong would be kind and exempt from his own sins.

As soon as he arrived in Nanchang, Wang Fuchen and a group of his own soldiers were immediately controlled, and Zhang Xianzhong did not kill him, because he wanted to know the loss of Jiujiang from his mouth.

Wang Fuchen had already thought of his rhetoric along the way, and immediately explained the course of the battle. From Zhang Wenxiu taking the initiative to lead 30,000 troops to try to recapture Hukou but the whole army was wiped out, to the Ming army attacking the city wall with artillery fire under Jiujiang City. Seeing that the city wall was about to be collapsed by the Ming artillery, in order to hold on for a few more days until the army came to help, he had to risk attacking the Ming army's camp at night, but he fell for the Ming army's tricks. and other things were told to Zhang Xianzhong in 1510.

Because Wang Fuchen knew that there would definitely be a lot of routs fleeing back to Nanchang, and the matter was not concealed at all, but in order to reduce his own responsibility, he did not say that he fell for He Jiuyi's tricks to cause Jiujiang to lose, but said that he took the initiative to attack Mingying and failed.

Wang Fuchen knows Zhang Xianzhong's character, Zhang Xianzhong is cunning by nature, he thinks he is extremely smart, and the most despised person is a stupid person, because he is stupid, he didn't see through He Jiuyi's treacherous plan, if Zhang Xianzhong knows, he will definitely not be able to spare himself.

And in order to avoid the leakage of the news, He Jiuyi sent someone to contact him Only he and his henchman Wang He knew, and now Wang He did not know whether he was alive or dead, so no one knew, so Wang Fuchen concealed the matter.

True and false, nine true and one false, even Zhang Xianzhong couldn't hear the flaws in Wang Fuchen's words.

"Your Majesty, the sharpness of the Ming army's firearms is extraordinary, its red-clothed cannons are as many as hundreds, and hundreds of cannons are eroded for dozens of miles, and its power is earth-shattering. General Funan is Shuizhai was continuously attacked by the red-coated artillery of the Ming army, and the camp was broken, the soldiers suffered heavy losses, and the morale was greatly reduced, so it was defeated. The Ming army shelled Jiujiang from the river with huge ship-borne artillery, and in just one day, the Jiujiang city wall was blasted out of several cracks, and the criminal general was worried that the city wall would be broken on the next day and thus lost, so he took the liberty of taking advantage of the night to sneak attack the Ming army's camp. Who knew that Chen Yue, the puppet of Qi Guogong, was very cunning, and he actually prepared in advance and set a trap in the camp. I took 15,000 troops to an ambush in the camp of the Ming army, and only escaped after a night of fighting, but the Ming army actually took the opportunity to send troops to defeat Jiujiang.

Your Majesty, the loss of Jiujiang is completely the responsibility of the criminal general, and the criminal general should not attack without authorization, and I hope that Your Majesty will only investigate one criminal general for the sake of the saddle horse labor for many years, and exempt the other soldiers from the crime! ”

After Wang Fuchen finished speaking, he knelt down deeply and kowtowed again and again.

"Qi Guogong Chen Yue!" Zhang Xianzhong said Chen Yue's name, his brows furrowed deeply. He already knew about Chen Yue's Daming, and he could defeat the southern invasion of 100,000 Qing soldiers on two roads, and try his best to protect the Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji, so he would naturally be very concerned about such a fierce general Zhang Xianzhong.

In the whole world, there are not many people who can convince Zhang Xianzhong, and there are only a few people such as Yang Sichang and Li Zicheng, the governor of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Yang Sichang almost annihilated the entire rebel army in northern Shaanxi with the encirclement and suppression strategy of "four positives", "six corners", and "ten-sided net", and Zhang Xianzhong was also hunted down to the sky and almost existed. And Li Zicheng's ferocity and cunning are not under Zhang Xianzhong, if it were not for the secret help of "Cao Cao" Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong would almost be swallowed up by Li Zicheng.

Of course, there is a more powerful Manchu Tartar, but because he has not been in contact with it, Zhang Xianzhong does not know how powerful the Manchu Tatar is. However, judging from the fact that Li Zicheng in his heyday was defeated by the Mantars one after another, chased and killed all the way, and finally died in Jiugong Mountain, the Manchu Tartars' combat power should definitely not be underestimated.

And this Chen Yue's ability to defeat the 100,000 Manchu Tartar army is absolutely terrifying, which makes people have to admire. Now that Zhang Wenxiu and Wang Fuchen were defeated by Chen Yue, Zhang Xianzhong also took it for granted, so he didn't have much to blame Wang Fuchen.

"Your Majesty, judging from General Wang and the soldiers who fled back, the strength of the Ming army lies in the strength of firearms, but it is not without weaknesses." Wang Zhaolin, the prime minister of Zuo, who had been listening quietly on the side, said suddenly.

In later generations, Zhang Xianzhong was known as a murderer, and because of his entry into Sichuan, the number of people in Sichuan decreased sharply, and Wang Zhaolin was said to be the planner of Tuchuan.

In fact, this was completely the slander of the ruling class in order to shirk its guilt, and poured its own sins on the head of Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army, who was no longer able to speak.

The reason why Zhang Xianzhong attacked Sichuan was to listen to the advice of Pan Duao, Wang Zhaolin and other strategists, and take Sichuan as his foundation. If all the people of Sichuan are killed, who will pay him for food? Who will feed his army of hundreds of thousands?

Although Zhang Xianzhong is brutal, he is not stupid, how could he do such a stupid thing.

And Wang Zhaolin, who was slandered as the counselor of Tu Chuan, was even more wronged.

Wang Zhaolin can be named the left prime minister by Zhang Xianzhong, and his ability is naturally good. Another time and space was beheaded by Sun Kewang Li Dingguo, and the basin was detained on his head, which was just the result of the struggle for power. After all, his power was too great, and he threatened Sun Li to control the entire Western Army. In order to control all the armies, Sun and Li not only killed Prime Minister Wang Zhaolin, but even Zhang Xianzhong's queen was killed together. Li Dingguo is a hero of the resistance to the Qing Dynasty, and Wang Zhaolin, who was killed by him, is naturally a traitor, coupled with the slander of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the dirty water splashed on him naturally cannot be washed off.

And the joint Shun army out of Sichuan and Ming, Wang Zhaolin was the first to mention, first with the support of Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, and finally succeeded. Therefore, in Zhang Xianzhong's heart, Wang Zhaolin is really a strategist and important minister who can be relied on.

Now hearing Wang Zhaolin say this, Zhang Xianzhong's expression suddenly became solemn.

"Prime Minister, can you tell me more about what weaknesses the Ming Army has?" Zhang Xianzhong asked eagerly, although he became the emperor of the Great Western Kingdom, he did not have the consciousness of the emperor, his mouth was full of my northern Shaanxi dialect, and he rarely called himself me.

According to General Wang and other defeated soldiers, the Ming army in Jiujiang added up to more than 60,000 people, but it had to defend the two cities at the mouth of Jiujiang Lake, and there were only 20,000 or 30,000 people in each place. We have an army of 300,000 people, and we can recruit more people if we need to. Wang Zhaolin smiled.

Of course, everyone knows the meaning of the requisition, which is nothing more than forcing the people of Jiangxi to join the army to attack the city as artillery fire, and the entire Jiangxi has a population of 10 million, and there is naturally no shortage of manpower.

"The second shortcoming is the firearms of the Ming army." Wang Zhaolin's next words puzzled everyone, but Wang Zhaolin quickly solved everyone's doubts.

"The strength of the Ming army lies in firearms, but the shortcomings are also firearms. There were hundreds of red-coated cannons in the Ming army. However, each of the red-coated cannons weighed five or six thousand catties, and it was extremely inconvenient to move, so as General Wang said, the Ming army could only fight with warships carrying red-coated cannons. As long as we try not to fight with the Ming army in Poyang Lake, the red-coated cannons of the Ming army will not be able to exert much power.

Of course, they can move the red-coated artillery to the head of the city and block our army's siege with artillery, but although the red-coated cannon is powerful, it can only attack from afar, and the Ming army is too weak to directly confront our army, as long as our army approaches the city wall, it will not have much effect. So there's no need to be overly afraid. ”

Wang Zhaolin's words made everyone nod again and again. Firearms, there are also a lot of them in the Western Army, and all kinds of artillery guns have been widely used in the Western Army, so everyone thinks that there is nothing remarkable. Only when Wang Fuchen saw everyone like this, he sighed secretly in his heart, only after experiencing the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army, did he know how powerful their firearms were!

"Your Majesty, there is another weakness of the Ming army's firearms, that is, they cannot be used on rainy days. It's already the middle of March, and soon the rainy season will come, and we can also take advantage of the rainy weather to launch an attack on the Ming army.

Although the Ming army is strong, there are only more than 60,000 people, and the strength is only one-fifth of ours. Dingbei General Zhang Nengqi also said.

"Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi, is the first general of the Puppet Ming, and his subordinates are also the only remaining elite of the Puppet Ming, if Chen Yue can be killed in Jiujiang, the Puppet Ming will have no more generals to send and no troops available! Our army can take the opportunity to go down the river, defeat Nanjing, eliminate the Ming Dynasty, and dominate the world! ”

The right prime minister, Yan Ximing, also said excitedly.

Everyone said one sentence to another, and Zhang Xianzhong, who listened to it, became more and more excited, and couldn't help laughing.

"This battle is equivalent to the decisive battle between my Daxi and the Ming army, if anyone wins, he will own the whole world, you can't take it lightly, you must be cautious and cautious. The minister proposed that he could send someone to Huguang to deliver a letter, and ordered Zhang Dingguo, the general of Anxi, to stop the attack on Liangguang and lead the army to Wuchang to put pressure on the Ming army from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. At the same time, he sent a message to the Shun army, asking Li Guo to lead the army to attack the Fengyang area, contain the Ming army's army in Jiangbei, and reduce the pressure on our army. ”

Wang Zhaolin proposed again.

Wang Zhaolin's words made Zhang Xianzhong nod again and again, and all the generals were also convinced, this is already focusing on the whole world for layout.

So, Zhang Xianzhong wrote down several holy decrees and sent people to pass them to Zhang Dingguo and Li Guo respectively. Although Jiujiang was occupied by the Ming army, the envoys could choose to cross the mountains and mountains and go to Huguang by land, but the mountains were rugged and impassable, and they could not pass through the army.

Zhang Dingguo will definitely lead the troops back after receiving the holy decree, as for Li Guoken's refusal to obey Zhang Xianzhong's holy decree, I don't know, after all, the two sides belong to two camps, but as long as Li Guo is not idle, he can share the pressure for Daxi.

Under Zhang Xianzhong's order, the entire western army in Jiangxi moved, countless people and horses moved to Nanchang, and the joint camp outside Nanchang was dozens of miles, with more and more troops, but to the surprise of the Jiujiang Ming army, the western army had no tendency to march to Jiujiang.

This situation was of course a good thing for the Ming army, as it could give the Ming army enough time to repair the city defenses and mobilize reinforcements, and Jin Shenghuan's army of 50,000 was only a few days away from Jiujiang.

However, this abnormality still made Chen Yue feel uneasy, and the attack of the thief army that he was worried about did not appear, and there must be a bigger conspiracy brewing! Under Chen Yue's order, Liu Neng's Jinyi guard spies were quickly dispatched to investigate the movements of the thief army. At the same time, the people in Jiujiang City were all requisitioned, together with 30,000 soldiers of the Beijing camp and more than 10,000 thieves, and began to build fortifications day and night.

The trenches outside the city were dug deep and wide, and the excavated earth was used to build the horse-faced city wall, and every fifty steps was built a protruding wall in the shape of a horse-faced wall, like a spike extending from the city wall. At the same time, more than 20 forts were built on the two city walls in the southeast, and 100 cannons were removed from the Galen ship and placed at the head of Jiujiang and Hukou City.

At the same time, Chen Yue repeatedly asked the Nanjing Imperial Court for additional military weapons, food, and various materials. Since the thief army has adopted a steady and steady strategy, it is impossible to defeat the thief army quickly, and the lack of troops has become Jiujiang's biggest shortcoming. There are still a large number of troops in the area of Daming Jiangnan, Zhejiang and Zhili, although the combat power is not very good, it can be used to defend the city.