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With a heart against unpreparedness, Liu Neng commanded 3,000 soldiers to quickly rush into Jiujiang City, occupied the Yingchun Gate, and killed the guard general Feng Shuangxin.

Although there were still 5,000 thieves in Jiujiang, they were scattered across the entire city wall and seven gates, and there were less than 1,000 people guarding the Yingchun Gate, so of course they could not resist the sudden attack of the Ming army.

After occupying the Yingchun Gate, Liu Neng immediately ordered Xu Qingtian and Shen Lian to bring 1,000 soldiers each, and attack the north and south from the Yingchun Gate along the city wall, attacking the city gates all the way.

It is now night, and many of the thieves defending the city have no idea what is happening, and they don't even know that the Yingchun Gate has changed hands, and the Ming army has entered the city, and the siege battle is going very smoothly.

In the camp of the Ming army at Yingchun Gate, the 10,000 army led by Wang Fuchen has completely fallen into the trap, and in the explosion of countless grenades, the entire army has been blown to pieces, and it is completely unorganized. The raid camp fell into a trap, the morale of the thief army collapsed, and they tried to flee back to Jiujiang in a panic, but everywhere there was a blockade from the Ming army, and from time to time in the darkness there were arrows and projectiles flying, and cannibalism happened from time to time.

Wang Fuchen rushed left and right with hundreds of personal soldiers who were with him, paying a huge price, and when he finally broke out of the Ming army camp, he saw that there were less than 100 people left around him.

Looking back, the camp of the Ming army was like a giant beast, engulfing all his 10,000 troops.

There was also a shout of killing from the direction of the north, it should be Wang He fighting fiercely with the Ming army. Since the Ming army had set a trap early, Wang He's 5,000 men would never be able to escape. Wang Fuchen had no intention of joining Wang He, but fled back to Jiujiang City with dozens of his subordinates.

However, before he could escape to the city, the faint sound of fighting and the sky-high fire from the city made him stop all of a sudden, and his face showed deep despair.

I didn't expect the Ming army to be so meticulous, first lured himself to attack the camp and set a trap, and then took the opportunity to capture Jiujiang City!

"Lord, where are we going?" The soldiers who followed him also understood what was happening, and asked desperately.

Where to go? The 20,000-strong army was wiped out, Jiujiang fell, where else could I go? Maybe he can flee to the south to find Emperor Zhang Xianzhong, but he lost his city and land, and his subordinates were mourned, can he still spare himself with Zhang Xianzhong's cruelty? Wang Fuchen smiled bitterly.

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The sun rises in the east and shines warmly on the earth.

After a night of fighting, the entire battlefield has fallen silent, only the fire that has not yet been extinguished is billowing green smoke.

The original camp was almost in ruins, with countless corpses lying on the ground, and thousands of Ming soldiers were inspecting the battlefield, collecting weapons, picking up various materials, treating the wounded, and burying the corpses.

At the head of Jiujiang City, the banner of the thief army has been dropped under the city and replaced with the battle flag of the Ming army.

Bands of soldiers, armed with knives, guns and weapons, escorted the captives through the city gates.

At the Yangtze River wharf in the north of the city, dozens of large ships were moored, and Chen Yue left Jiangxinzhou with the people of Jinglue Mansion and entered Jiujiang City.

As the greatest contributor to this battle and personally led the troops to defeat Jiujiang, Liu Neng was unanimously praised by everyone, although his mouth was modest, his face faintly showed excitement.

Being able to lay down Jiujiang day and night won several days for the later arming. According to the Tanmalai newspaper, Zhang Xianzhong has arrived in Nanchang with a large army, with more than 300,000 soldiers and thousands of ships, and has set up a company camp on the shore of Poyang Lake that is dozens of miles long.

Jiujiang to Nanchang more than 300 miles, the march of the army only takes less than ten days to arrive, leaving not much time for the Ming army to prepare. And thinking about Zhang Xianzhong's army of as many as 300,000 makes people's scalp tingle.

Although most of these 300,000 people were peasants who had not long laid down their hoes, at least more than 100,000 of them were recruits after Zhang Xianzhong entered Jiangxi. But among them, there are also elite soldiers who have been with Zhang Xianzhong for a long time, which should not be underestimated.

And the Ming army only had more than 60,000 people, and they also guarded two places at the mouth of Jiujiang Lake!

Although it is said that the soldiers are not expensive, when the number reaches a certain level, the pressure on the other side is obvious.

Fortunately, the Ming army won several battles in succession, annihilating as many as 50,000 thief troops, but they themselves lost, which undoubtedly greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers.

With the command of Chen Yue, the first military general of the Ming Dynasty, and the invincible fleet on the water surface of Poyang Lake on the Yangtze River, even the new recruits of the Beijing camp who had not fought many battles at all were optimistic about the battle with the thief army.

The soldiers can be optimistic and relaxed, but Chen Yue can't be relaxed, the huge army of 300,000 thieves makes him have to be cautious.

The established strategy has already been decided, that is, to defend the mouth of Jiujiang Lake, consume the spirit of the thieves with a brutal defense of the city, and then find an opportunity to take the initiative to attack, decide the outcome of the battle, and completely leave the main force of the thief chief Zhang Xianzhong in Jiangxi.

During the daytime bombardment, Jiujiang City was damaged a lot, and it had to be repaired, and in order to strengthen the defense, it was also necessary to build countless horse-faced structures outside the city wall, build forts, and build a fortress mode like Hukou. Otherwise, with the meager strength of the Ming army, it would be difficult to hold Jiujiang.

Fortunately, in the previous battle, more than 10,000 thief soldiers were captured, which made it possible to have sufficient manpower to build the city, and Zhang Xianzhong's army still had nearly ten days to attack, and everything should be in time.

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The city of Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi, has fallen, and there are thieves everywhere inside and outside the city.

The people in the city have already gone through rounds of robberies, and countless world-famous gentry and wealthy families have come to a miserable end.

Drastic measures were taken against the gentry and wealthy families, whether they were the Shun army or the Western army. Shun Jun was more merciful, but forced the gentry and wealthy officials to hand over their family's wealth in the form of food assistance, as long as they could hand over the full amount, often the whole family could escape for their lives.

However, the methods of the Western army are much more cruel, often directly entering the house, killing all the old and weak, robbing all the wealth, and often setting a fire when leaving.

Although Zhang Xianzhong established the country and became emperor, he also had a plan to operate the territory, and explicitly prohibited this kind of extermination, but it could not completely eliminate this phenomenon of plundering.

One is that the military discipline of the Western Army is already poor, and the other is that most of the soldiers of the Western Army are from poor people, and they hate those gentry who were high in the past, and no one will let go of the opportunity to loot.

Once the desires in the heart are indulged, it is already difficult to stop them, and it is really difficult to prohibit them after experiencing the pleasure of robbing wealth, raping and plundering.

Wherever the Western Army passed, the gentry and wealthy families suffered a catastrophe, countless gentry were wiped out, and at the same time, the Western Army also accumulated a large amount of wealth.

However, when the pleasure of this conquest was the coolest, the news of the Ming army's killing suddenly came, Hukou fell, Jiujiang fell, and the back road of the Western Army was completely cut off, pouring cold water on the heads of all the soldiers of the Western Army.

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