Just when Ma Liang led the troops to collect prisoners of war outside, Jin Shenghuan, who had fled back to the city, had already relieved himself. His son, Kim Do-myung, came to him.

"Dad, I think they are the ones of Zhu Hongsan, I didn't expect that guy to be able to make such a powerful army."

Jin Shenghuan watched as the Qing army outside was retracted and taken to the original camp for detention. Although the number of Ming troops was small, they were orderly, and when the Qing army was gathered, there were still 2,000 people waiting two miles away from the city to prevent the people in the city from rushing out and taking advantage of the fire to loot.

"Son, you and that kid are brothers-in-law, if you have a chance, you can contact them and see if you can let us go!"

Jin Daoming nodded, and summed up in his heart, the other side is so capable of fighting, can you let yourself go?

When the Jin family's father and son were talking, Ma Liang had already led people to take the prisoners into custody. The Qing army was defeated too quickly, and all the baggage grain and grass in the camp were returned to the new army, and more than 5,000 war horses were obtained, which is a good thing. Guangdong lacks animal power, and the horses that pull the artillery are all Yunnan Dian horses, which are too small. Endurance is good, but it is not possible to form cavalry. At that time, Zhu Hongsan was going to let the Francophone merchant transport Arabian horses, which was the perfect configuration of cavalry, but the navigation methods of this era were not good, and it was no problem to transport ten or twenty horses, but it was completely impossible to transport large quantities. Therefore, the dozen or so Arabian horses that were transported were only stallions and lived a happy stallion life, but this far water could not quench the thirst of the near, and it was impossible to form a large number of cavalry in the near future.

Zhang Jiayu had been in the military aircraft before, and knew that His Royal Highness the Emperor had a thirst for war horses, and now he got so many at once, although Mongolian horses are not as good as Arab horses, but this is also a war horse, so when he learned that there were 5,000 horses, he immediately sent Zhu Hongsan* in Guangdong to seal the good news.

After collecting the Qing army, the next step is to attack the city. That night, Zhang Jiayu brought the second horse to discuss how to attack the city.

Speaking of siege horses, it is not good, in their training are all field battles, there is no means of siege at all, plus their artillery is small-caliber in order to pay attention to mobility. Look at the city wall of Ganzhou, which is six or seven meters high, how many times does it take for your small cannon to collapse the city wall.

Ma Rufeng lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "My lord, why don't you dig a tunnel and bury gunpowder under the city wall!" ”

"No, Ganzhou is adjacent to water on three sides, and there is a water vein less than two meters underground, and it was filled before it was dug under the city wall!"

Ma Liang said: "No, let the sailors come along the Gan River, their artillery caliber is large, it should be possible!" ”

Zhang Jiayu thought about it, the nearest sailor was still far away in Nanzhili. The Da Yu Ridge on the border of Jiangxi and Guangdong is one of the five mountains and is one of the major watersheds in the south. The water system south of Da Yuling is all injected into the Pearl River, and the water system to the north is all injected into the Yangtze River, which is completely two systems. If you want to ask for the support of the sailors, you have to go upriver from the mouth of the Yangtze River, enter Poyang Lake, and enter the Ganjiang River to reach Ganzhou. Not to mention the time-consuming and laborious process, the road is full of Manchu territory, and accidents are easy to occur.

Zhang Jiayu thought that there was really no good way, only to fight a battle tomorrow and see.

The next day, the new army had breakfast and began to line up outside the city of Ganzhou, preparing to attack the city.

In the city of Ganzhou, when I saw that the Ming army was about to attack the city, I was scared to death one by one, and I was just defeated yesterday, and I haven't come to my senses!

Seeing the frightened looks of his subordinates, Jin Shenghuan scolded angrily: "You waste, what are you afraid of? Don't you see that we have a city wall! I don't believe that no matter how powerful their Ming artillery is, they can collapse the city wall! ”

While Jin Shenghuan was speaking, the Ming army outside the city began to open artillery to attack the city.

Because Ganzhou faces water on three sides, only one side is connected to the land, so the city wall built by the land is extremely thick, the upper part of the city wall is three meters thick, and the root is seven meters thick. There are two gates connecting the land, namely the south gate of the town and the Baisheng gate, both of which are triple urn cities, and there is also a fort between the two gates, on which more than a dozen small cannons are arranged. Now in order to strengthen their courage, the Qing army in the city did not care whether the range was enough or not, more than a dozen small cannons all opened fire, and began to return fire at the Ming army outside the city.

Ma Liang ordered the artillery company to find a section of the city wall and shoot three times first to see how it was, but he didn't expect that the six-pounder field guns of the new army had no effect on the city wall at all, and hundreds of solid bullets only knocked out a few bricks outside, which had no effect on the main body of the city wall at all.

Zhang Jiayu was also very anxious when he saw it later, do you want to use soldiers to attack the city? Unexpectedly, this idea was rejected as soon as it was mentioned to Ma Liang. How could Maleonn use his own soldiers to attack the city? You must know that every soldier of the new army spends hundreds of taels of silver from training to equipment Zhu Hongsan, plus the pension after the death and the comfort of his family, as long as the new army dies a thousand people, Zhu Hongsan can completely sell Zhang Jiayu's slices for money.

Zhang Jiayu also knows that these new army masters spend a lot, but isn't there no one now?

Thinking of this Zhang Jiayu, a flash of inspiration suddenly came, there are people, aren't there more than 50,000 people in the prisoner of war camp on the side, thinking of this, Zhang Jiayu hurriedly asked Ma Liang to collect his troops and go back to discuss it.

Jin Shenghuan in the city saw that the Ming army had put artillery outside for a while, and then collected the troops and returned to the camp, and he was overjoyed, it seemed that the city wall really worked.

"You guys have seen it, the Ming army can't take the city wall, their artillery can't penetrate the city wall, everyone rest assured! I have already asked people to go back to Nanchang to rescue the troops, and I believe that the governor will send troops to rescue us! Jin Shenghuan is really unconfident in what he said, you must know that the Qing army still has 30,000 people in the city, and the Ming army outside is only 10,000, Jin Shenghuan even has to go to Nanchang to find reinforcements.

However, Jin Shenghuan said it beautifully, but he didn't know the bottom in his heart, now there are reinforcements in the whole of Jiangxi, and the 100,000 people in his hands are all mobile troops, and the rest of them have been taken to Huguang by Belle Kedehun, just saying that just to appease his subordinates.

The other generals of the Qing army didn't care whether what Jin Shenghuan said was right or wrong, at least they saw that the Ming army could not attack the city for the time being, and their hanging hearts relaxed. After the safety was guaranteed, he began to slap Jin Shenghuan's ass.

"Dashuai is really right!"

"After our reinforcements arrive, we will definitely be able to fight the Ming army!"

"Yes, yes! Go to Guangdong! ”

For a moment, the crowd was excited, as if it was not them who were preparing to run away just now.

Zhang Jiayu returned to the camp with the people and said to Erma: "It can't be fought like this, I just thought of a good way!" ”

"Tell me, my lord!"

"We don't have enough manpower, we can use those captives! Siege the city with them! ”

Ma Rufeng hesitated and asked: "But they were still Qing troops yesterday, let them attack the city today, they won't turn back!" ”

Ma Liang also shook his head again and again, saying that this method would not work, so it was better to go to Guangzhou and invite the sailor to come.

"Two generals, we can pick out the strong ones among the captives and buy them with a lot of money, I think four or five thousand people are about the same!"

"But my lord, we didn't come out with much silver, and there was money to buy them?"

Zhang Jiayu said with a smile: "It seems that the two of you usually don't care about military supplies, don't you know how expensive the sugar for you is in the north?" ”

I really don't know this, Ma Liang is a martial artist, he doesn't have a wife, he eats and lives in the barracks, he doesn't take any sugar, he keeps it in the account, and he can probably have dozens of catties in the past few years. You must know that Zhu Hongsan is afraid that his soldiers are not nutritious enough, so each of them will be given half a catty of sugar every month to replenish their physical strength.

Because of his family, Ma Rufeng knew that sugar was very expensive, but he really didn't know how much it was in the north.

Looking at the big-eyed Erma, Zhang Jiayu said: "White sugar is ten taels of silver a pound in Guangzhou, and it is ten taels of silver a tael in Nanzhili, which has increased tenfold, and if it is transported to Shandong and Henan, it will be doubled to twenty times. After all, white sugar is also a kind of food, and it tastes very hungry. ”

Erma really didn't expect that the sugar he sent would cost fifty taels of silver when he arrived in Nanzhili, in fact, what they didn't know was that in the Leizhou Peninsula, where white sugar is produced, the cost price of white sugar was only five coins a pound of silver, which was really violent.

"Hey, hey! The two generals don't know, I brought 30,000 catties of sugar from Nanxiong, which was originally your military supplies, and this time half of it is enough to buy 10,000 prisoners to sell their lives! ”

Erma didn't pay much attention to this kind of strategy at all, and Zhu Hongsan had orders, so they all listened to Zhang Jiayu, so they didn't object.

Zhang Jiayu saw that Erma agreed, after all, this was for their military supplies, and it was really bad not to talk to them. Next, Zhang Jiayu asked his soldiers to go to the prisoner of war camp to find a high-ranking one.

After a while, the kung fu soldiers brought in a general in his forties, with a money rattail on his head, Zhang Jiayu didn't recognize the color of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's uniform, and asked, "What official position are you?" ”

The man knelt down on one knee and said, "Back to my lord, the villain is Wu Sanbao, a subordinate general of Jiangxi General Jin Shenghuan!" ”

Still a general, Zhang Jiayu nodded and said, "Get up, it's a bit of a matter to come to you today!" ”

"Please come down, sir!"

"Hmmm! You also saw that we are attacking the city today, but we are short of manpower, and this officer is going to select 5,000 of your prisoners of war to attack the city, are you willing? ”

Wu Sanbao's face turned green when he heard Zhang Jiayu say this, he was also an old military household, and he knew that the Manchurians and Mongols loved to use prisoners of war and civilians as cannon fodder to attack the city, but he didn't expect the young official in front of him to be so ruthless. But Wu Sanbao really didn't dare not agree, he was already scared by the Ming army, and now he trembled when he heard the sound of cannons.

"My lord, I do!"

Looking at the constipated look of the guy in front of him, he knew what he said against his will, Zhang Jiayu snorted, dropped a paper bag from the table, and said: "Look, as long as you go, each person will have a bag of sugar!" ”

Sugar? Wu Sanbao lay on the ground and opened the paper bag, and saw that it was the best frosting candy, like snow. Wu Sanbao had the courage to put a little bit of it in his mouth with his fingers, it was really sweet, without the bitterness of brown sugar.