After Zhang Jiayu arrived in Fengcheng, he immediately ordered the army to repair, and at the same time set up a supply base outside Fengcheng County, and a large number of weapons, ammunition, and food items were continuously transported from Ganzhou Prefecture, and the strong combat effectiveness of the Guangdong New Army was built on sufficient logistical support, and Zhu Hongsan had always been stingy with money for his troops.

Liang Yuhan, the commander of Fengcheng County, breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that the Guangdong army had arrived outside the city, Fengcheng was not far from Nanchang, and he already knew that Nanchang was besieged by hundreds of thousands of Manchu troops. In the eyes of Liang County Order, it is only a matter of time before Nanchang City is broken.

Liang Yuhan, as a sixteen-year jinshi of Chongzhen, had already been a second minister a year ago, and I don't know if the Manchu Qing Dynasty can spare himself this time.

After learning of the arrival of the Guangdong army, Liang Yuhan hurried out to greet him, because Zhang Jiayu had the nature of being a messenger, and he didn't serve Shangguan to understand that Liang Yuhan was afraid that his life would be worried.

As soon as Zhang Jiayu arrived outside Fengcheng County, he saw the south gate of the county open, and an official in seven-grade uniforms greeted him with some gentry.

The official among them should be the Fengcheng County Order, and when the county commander saw the red official robe worn by Zhang Jiayu, he hurriedly stepped forward to pay respects.

"The criminal minister Fengcheng County ordered Liang Yuhan to welcome the arrival of the heavenly soldiers!"

Seeing Liang County's order like this, Zhang Jiayu knew that he was afraid that he would provoke his own trouble. However, His Majesty the Emperor had an order that as long as the magistrate opened the city and surrendered, he would keep his post in place, and if he resisted the city, the whole family would be beheaded. So although Zhang Jiayu hated this kind of minister, he still got off the horse and helped up the Liang County Order.

"Liang County Order, please start, Emperor Shenwu has a holy decree, as long as he repents, he can still be forgiven, but if he is wrong again and again, don't complain about the military law of his own official!"

Liang Xianling was so frightened by Zhang Jiayu's beating that he was sweating, and hurriedly bowed his head to show his loyalty.

Zhang Jiayu was pressed for time and didn't have time to listen to Liang Yuhan's nonsense, so he interrupted his flattery and asked, "This place is very close to Nanchang, do you have any news?" ”

"Back to Lord Zhang, the Manchu generals outside Nanchang City began to go around catching villagers and ants to attack the city, and now there are probably hundreds of thousands of villagers who have been captured outside the city, if the adults are one step late, Nanchang will fall!"

Zhang Jiayu was surprised to hear that Nanchang had not been breached, and asked: "Liang County Order, do you estimate that Nanchang can hold out for a few days?" ”

Lord Zhang's words can be embarrassing Liang County Order, how can he, a civil official, know military affairs, and think for a long time and say: "Xiaguan estimates that the city will be broken in this or two days!" ”

Zhang Jiayu saw Liang Yuhan say this, and knew that he might not believe it, so let others take a look.

"Lord Liang, this official is going to set up a big camp outside your city, you can take someone to find a flat and dry place!"

Liang Yuhan heard that the Guangdong army was preparing to camp outside the city and not save Nanchang, so he opened his mouth and asked, "Lord Zhang, don't you go to save Nanchang?" ”

Zhang Jiayu frowned and said, "Do you still need you to teach this official to march and fight?" ”

Liang Yuhan saw that Zhang Jiayu was angry, hurriedly retreated, ordered someone to lead the way for the army, and camped on a flat ground five miles outside Fengcheng County.

Fengcheng County Cheng saw the Guangdong New Army wearing strange clothes passing over from outside the city in batches, and asked Liang County Order in a low voice, "My lord, they all say that Guangdong is rich, and now it seems that it is really worthy of its reputation. ”

Liang Yuhan also nodded and said: "I have a county magistrate in Chaozhou Mansion in the same year, and he said in his letter that Emperor Shenwu will turn into silver, and anything can be turned into money in the hands of His Majesty. ”

Zhang Jiayu didn't care about these two old hats here to guess whether Zhu Hongsan would turn stones into gold, and now what he urgently needed to know was the situation in Nanchang. After setting up camp, he immediately ordered Ma Kun to send scouts to reconnoiter the movements of the Qing army in Nanchang.

The scout returned a day later and brought back first-hand information about Nanchang. It turned out that after the first time the villagers attacked the city on the tenth day of the ninth month, the Qing army stopped moving, concentrated on besieging Nanchang, and began to collect a large number of villagers, preparing to use the villagers to attack the city again. The scouts originally wanted to enter the city through the south gate of Nanchang, but found that the whole city was surrounded by Qing troops, and now Nanchang has completely lost contact with the outside world.

It seems that Nanchang is playing well, it has been more than ten days and has not been broken, and it seems that it is no problem to hold on for a few days. Zhang Jiayu ordered that scouts should be sent every day in the future, so that he could grasp the timing of the battlefield, and then ordered the team to repair outside Fengcheng.

Just three days after Zhang Jiayu arrived in Fengcheng, Duoduo in the Qing army camp outside Nanchang City was also ready for the final siege. In the past ten days, Tan Tai led 10,000 Mongolian cavalry to collect all the villages within a radius of nearly 100 miles, and got all the people to the city of Nanchang, where more than 500,000 Han people are now concentrated.

All these people's food was robbed, young men were used as laborers to build siege equipment day and night, and young women were used as military prostitutes for the pleasure of the Qing army. As for the remaining three or four hundred thousand old and weak, they were completely treated as meat sacks ready to fill the moat. Duoduo was originally going to let them die and attack the city with a mountain of corpses, so naturally he would not prepare food for these people. These old and weak people are outside Nanchang at the end of September, they have nothing to eat, and thousands of people die every time the temperature drops, which is really miserable.

Nanchang was surrounded on all sides at this time and had lost contact with the outside of the city. The city is not bad compared to the hell outside the city, although most of the houses in the city were burned by Wang Deren, but the food is still enough, and you can find a broken house to avoid the cold in cold weather, compared with the outside of the city is like heaven.

Jiang Yueguang stood on the Desheng Gate, looked at the hellish scene outside the city, and asked Jin Shenghuan beside him: "His Royal Highness the King of the County, do you see when the Qing army will attack the city?" ”

Jin Shenghuan has not had a good time these days, his mental pressure is extremely high, and he has eaten and lived on the city wall every day for more than 20 days. Jin Shenghuan listened to Jiang Yueguang's question, touched his beard and said: "Now that five or six hundred thousand people have gathered outside the city, it seems that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is going to attack the city with corpse mountain, and Nanchang City will not be protected!" ”

Jiang Yueguang had been a magistrate in the north, and he had seen the tragic situation of the displaced people in the north, but he was a civil official, and he had never seen the siege method of using people to build mountains, and he had never even heard of it.

"With the mountain of corpses? Do you want to kill them all? Jiang Yueguang asked in a trembling voice.

"Mr. Jiang, the Qing army will not kill them with their own hands, the Qing army will drive these people to the city, and then borrow our hands to kill them, as long as the corpses are piled up to such a high point on the city wall, the Qing army's horse team will directly rush to the city wall. This hand is often used by the Qing army outside the pass, but there are not so many Han people in Liaodong, and it is difficult to gather hundreds of thousands of people. ”

Jiang Yueguang heard Jin Shenghuan say this, his face turned pale, and he muttered, "How is this good!" How good is that! ”

Jin Shenghuan looked at Jiang Yueguang like this, and said with a wry smile: "Lord Jiang, your family is in Guangdong, at least you can leave a descendant, but my old Jin family is in the city, and the city is really dead!" Jin Shenghuan deeply regretted it after speaking, he knew that it was really better to be like this now, although Dong Xuecheng's bastard was hateful, it was better to be blackmailed by him than to lose the head of the whole family. But now there is no way back, if the city is broken, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will not give him a way to live at all, but it is a pity that he has just accepted the two concubines. Thinking of this, Jin Shenghuan called a personal soldier and asked him to find his son Jin Daoming.

Jiang Yueguang felt a lot better when he thought that his son Jiang Huan was in the safety of Guangdong. I'm sixty-four, and I've lived enough in this life, wouldn't it be nice to learn the Cabinet Department once before I die?

Jin Shenghuan looked at Jiang Yueguang's radiant face and knew that this old guy was determined to live and die, but he couldn't do it, as long as there was still a glimmer of life, he had to grasp it.

"Mr. Jiang, when will the reinforcements from Ganzhou arrive?"

Jiang Yueguang was angry when he heard Jin Shenghuan mention reinforcements.

"This Zhang Jiayu is afraid of the enemy, and the old man will go to the emperor to ask for a dream even if he dies, and sue him. Zhang Jiayu said that he could rush to Nanchang on the 20th, but today it is already the 19th, and there is no shadow of half of the boat on the Ganjiang River! ”

Jin Shenghuan and Zhu Hongsan have gotten along, knowing that this bastard emperor is vicious and vicious, Zhang Jiayu should not have the courage not to rescue Nanchang, it must be that bastard emperor has some kind of intrigue, and wants to consume himself and the Qing army.

While Jin Shenghuan was thinking wildly, the soldiers came to report that his son Jin Daoming was here.

Jin Daoming was guarding Zhangjiang Gate, because it was the Water Gate, so the task was not too heavy, and the Qing army offensive on the opposite side was not too intense, so Jin Daoming was unscathed.

Seeing his son coming, Jin Shenghuan hurriedly pulled his son aside and said in a low voice: "Child, I see that the Qing army is attacking the city in the past few days, you will hand over Zhangjiangmen to the deputy general, go home and get ready, if the city is broken, you will kill all your aunts, and your wives and concubines will also do the same, you take your two sons to get a boat out from Zhangjiangmen, you must leave the Jin family behind!" ”

Jin Daoming listened to Lao Tzu's pessimism, and asked in a low voice: "Dad, it's really not good, let's open the city and surrender!" ”

Jin Shenghuan sighed, "There is no turning back for our masters, even if we surrender to the Qing army, we will be killed to avenge the five thousand soldiers who died in Nanchang's garrison Eight Banners, so I can only fight to the end, if I die, you take your children to Guangdong to join your father-in-law, don't be an official in the future, be an ordinary person honestly!" ”

"But... Father! Like clouds there... ”

Seeing that Jin Daoming was still here, Jin Shenghuan scolded angrily: "Bastard, do you know why I asked you not to be an official, just like you, you have to be calculated by Zhu Hongsan's bastard, do you know!" ”

Jin Daoming looked at Lao Tzu and got angry, and he didn't dare to talk back, so he only agreed.

At this moment, the earth-shattering war drums suddenly came from outside the city, Jin Shenghuan hurriedly leaned on the wall to look out, and it turned out that the Qing army camp on the opposite side began to form a team, ready to attack the city.

Jin Shenghuan sighed, the last moment finally came.