Just when Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren set fire to the city, Jiang Yueguang, who was far away in Linjiang Mansion, was hurrying.

Jiang Yueguang left the Ganzhou Mansion on June 21, and when he was in Ganzhou, the damn Zhang Jiayu did not let Jiang Yueguang leave early for various reasons. Either the food and grass are not ready, or the weapons are not ready, or there are no ships. In the end, Jiang Yueguang was unable to use the official authority of the governor of Jiangxi to force Zhang Jiayu, so he was ready to stop on June 20.

Zhang Jiayu was going to lead the civil and military officials of Ganzhou to see off Lord Futai, but Jiang Yueguang had the intention of drinking and eating, so he turned down Zhang Jiayu's banquet on the grounds of time urgency, and took the troops on the road the next day.

These 30,000 people are all young and strong selected by Jiang Yueguang, and they are all between 20 and 35 years old, and they are the absolute main force. The commander of the army was Song Kuiguang, Jin Shenghuan's lieutenant officer, who was captured in the Battle of Ganzhou and was ordered by Jin Shenghuan to lead the army.

Due to Jiang Yueguang's urging, Zhang Jiayu did not do anything with weapons, after all, letting these cannon fodder go to Nanchang can also consume the strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zhang Jiayu only restricted Jiang Yueguang in the means of transportation.

Originally, Jin Shenghuan's 100,000 horses had nearly 20,000 war horses, and more than 10,000 were injured on the battlefield. Jiang Yueguang also asked Zhang Jiayu for it, but Zhang Jiayu refused on the grounds that there was no emperor's will. And said to Jiang Yueguang that if you want a war horse, you must go to the Guangzhou Military Aircraft Department, and then let the emperor decide, and then order it to be allocated to Jiang Yueguang War Horse.

Jiang Yueguang thought that Ganzhou was thousands of mountains and rivers away from Guangzhou, and it would be too late for the emperor's order to come down, and when he got the war horse and rushed to Nanchang, Jin Shenghuan's grave grass could be one person high. In order to be in a hurry, Jiang Yueguang didn't make a fuss about horses, but the boats must be enough.

Of course, the waterway from Ganzhou to Nanchang is the fastest, and a march of 30,000 people requires 500 large ships. Zhang Jiayu immediately disagreed when he heard that 500 ships were needed, and only 100 ships could be prepared here in Ganzhou, and 500 ships were really not available.

Jiang Yueguang saw that Zhang Jiayu said this, and it was not easy to use his identity as a governor to force him, although Zhang Jiayu was an envoy of Jiangxi and was under the jurisdiction of Governor Jiang Yueguang. But Zhang Jiayu is the emperor's confidant, and of course Jiang Yueguang, the old fritter, can't be too stiff with Zhang Jiayu.

In this way, the two third-grade masters began to bargain like hawkers, and finally said that Zhang Jiayu promised to give 300 ships. Jiang Yueguang calculated that each ship would be enough for a hundred people, so let's squeeze a little.

But when it was time to set off, Jiang Yueguang was dumbfounded, Zhang Jiayu gave him the right number of boats, but there were only one hundred big ships, and the other two hundred were all kinds of small boats.

Song Kuiguang asked on the side: "Lord Futai, this boat is too small to fit many people!" ”

Jiang Yueguang sighed, where can he go back to Zhang Jiayu to find Zhang Jiayu now, so he only asked, "How much can I pretend?" ”

"Lord Huifutai, at most, it can hold 17,800 people, and any more will be in danger of capsizing!"

There was no choice but to do this, Jiang Yueguang said: "You choose the elite 17,000 people to go first by boat, and I will take the rest of the people by land." ”

Song Kuiguang had no choice but to take orders to make arrangements.

It only takes five days to travel down the river from Ganzhou to Nanchang, but it is a passenger ship. The army can travel much slower, to maintain the formation, and to go ashore to set up camp every day, Song Kuiguang estimated that it will take about ten days, in fact, it is not less than taking the land route.

When Jiang Yueguang walked to Linjiang Mansion, he received a letter from Jin Shenghuan asking for help, Jiang Yueguang was shocked after seeing it, he didn't expect Jin Wang and the others to start so early. Of course, Jin Shenghuan did not say in the letter that it was because Wang Deren and Dong Xuecheng were jealous that he did it in advance, but stated in the letter that Governor Zhang Yutian was ready to do it in advance, and he and Wang Deren did it in advance when they were not well prepared. Now he only has more than 7,000 people in his hands, and I hope that Lord Jiang will bring 30,000 reinforcements soon.

After reading the letter, Jiang Yueguang immediately ordered Song Kuiguang on the fleet not to wait for him, and rushed to Nanchang at full speed to reinforce Jin Shenghuan, and he himself urged the army to hurry up.

Song Kuiguang's 17,000 men arrived in Nanchang on the first day of July, and Jiang Yueguang also arrived in Nanchang on the fifth day of July.

Looking at the Nanchang city wall, Jiang Yueguang breathed a sigh of relief, and finally arrived, with these 30,000 people, Jin Shenghuan should be able to hold out for a while.

The closer he got to Nanchang, the more Jiang Yueguang found that something was wrong, and on both sides of the road were refugees who had fled. These people are different from the homeless people from the north, and the long-distance travel from the north is basically yellow-faced and thin-skinned. However, these homeless people did not starve, and one by one they were disgraced, as if they were angry.

Two miles away from Nanchang, Jiang Yueguang saw a row of people standing on the side of the road in front of him, it was Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren, and Song Kuiguang, who came in advance.

Jin Shenghuan saw Jiang Yueguang coming, so he hurriedly stepped forward and arched his hand: "The Inspector has worked hard, the last general and others welcome the Lord back!" Wang Deren and others also stepped forward to welcome.

Jiang Yueguang was anxious to understand the situation, grabbed Jin Shenghuan and asked, "General Jin!" You wrote to me about the Nanchang crisis, how is it now? How is the battle going? ”

Jin Shenghuan's old face turned red and said: "Don't worry, Lord Governor, the last general has driven the Tartar governor Zhang Yutian out of the city, and all the tens of thousands of Tartars in the city have been killed, and the political envoy Chi Bianlong and the governor Dong Xuecheng have been killed, and now the whole city of Nanchang is in our hands!" ”

Jiang Yueguang heard it, this Jin Shenghuan really has two hits, and he can defeat tens of thousands of Tartars with only seven or eight thousand men and horses in his hands, it seems that Daming Zhongxing is promising!

Hearing Jin Shenghuan say this, Jiang Yueguang was in a good mood and said with a smile: "General Jin! General Wang! You are all brave men! ”

Hearing Jiang Yueguang say this, Jin Shenghuan couldn't say anything, it seemed that he had to go into the city to talk about it.

"Master Overseer, please go into the city and rest!"

The 13,000 men and horses led by Jiang Yueguang were arranged to be resettled in the camp outside the city, and Jiang Yueguang, Jin Shenghuan and other generals entered the city.

Jiang Yueguang came from Ganzhou, so he naturally had to go to the Huimin Gate in the south. As soon as he entered the city, Jiang Yueguang found that something was wrong, why were there so many disgraced homeless people in the city. Passing through the southern city and entering the western city, there are broken bricks and broken walls everywhere, some people rummaging through the collapsed houses, and children who have lost their parents sitting on the side of the street wailing and crying. The city's inspection department organized a corpse collection team to pull the dead out of the city one by one to prevent the plague.

Jiang Yueguang, who was originally very happy, saw this miserable situation, his face became very gloomy, and he asked in a low voice, "General Jin, what's going on?" ”

Jin Shenghuan Si Ai Ai said: "Master Governor, this is the case, the Tartars of the North City saw that they couldn't beat us, so they set fire to the city, the West City is okay here, and the North City has become a white land, and there is not a complete house!" ”

Jin Shenghuan put all the basins on Manqing's head, and there was no proof of death anyway. But how can Jin Shenghuan's careful thinking hide from Jiang Yueguang, Jiang Yueguang has been in the officialdom for more than 20 years, so he can't see Jin Shenghuan's careful thinking. According to what Jin Shenghuan said, the Manchu Tartars finally broke the city and burned the city, but the water network in Nanchang City was dense, and now most of Nanchang City has been destroyed, which is not something that the Tartars can do when they are in danger. In order to achieve this effect, only organized and planned multi-head arson, it seems that Jin Shenghuan said to destroy the fire attack of tens of thousands of Tartars.

Jiang Yueguang is worthy of being an old bureaucrat, and he guesses the situation as well, but he is not ready to investigate deeply. Now is wartime, we must use extraordinary methods, if Jin Shenghuan is punished, will not destroy the Great Wall.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yueguang suppressed his anger, pretended to be suddenly enlightened, and said: "I see, this Manchu Tartar is too vicious!" General Kim killed well! But now, please ask General Kim to mobilize troops to assist in local disaster relief! ”

Seeing Jiang Yueguang let himself go, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren were overjoyed. Wang Deren said on the side: "Master Inspector, please rest assured! I have ordered 5,000 men to go into the city to collect the corpses, and there will be no plague. ”

Jiang Yueguang sighed, and thought in his heart: Xing the people are bitter! The dead people are suffering! When will this troubled world end?

The yamen in the northern city were burned to the ground, and the ditches were full of dead bodies, which was not a place to settle down at all. Jin Shenghuan only welcomed Jiang Yueguang to his home, his home is in Dongcheng, next to East Lake, and it is still intact.

Entering the living room, Jiang Yueguang saw that there were already a few people sitting in the room, and these people saw Jiang Yueguang coming and quickly got up and said, "Welcome back to the Inspector!" ”

Jiang Yueguang looked at the people in the house, he knew a few, and the one sitting on the top was Liu Siyi, a native of Nanchang, a Jinshi in the forty-seventh year of Wanli; There is also Yu Yinggui, Wanli forty-one years of Jinshi, these two people are considered the gentry of Nanchang, and there are two other people Jiang Yueguang does not recognize.

Jiang Yueguang arched his hand to Liu Siyun and Yu Yinggui, and said, "The two gentlemen are also out of the mountain?" ”

Yu Yinggui is the oldest among them, and he smiled and said: "Yan and the virtuous brothers are out of the mountain, how can I fall behind!" ”

Jiang Yueguang said with a smile: "This official is in the edict of Emperor Shenwu, and he supervises Huguang and Jiangxi!" Since the two gentlemen are out of the mountain, the political envoy of Jiangxi will be annoyed by Brother Liu, and the governor of Huguang will be annoyed by Brother Meng Yu! ”

Although the qualifications of the two are not inferior to Jiang Yueguang, but now Jiang Yueguang's official position is greater than the two of them, so Liu Siyun and Yu Yinggui hurriedly stood up and tidied up their clothes and bowed down to receive the order.

Jiang Yueguang looked at the other two and asked, "Who are these two?" ”

Jin Shenghuan hurriedly said: "This is my secretary Chen Fang, and that is General Wang's shogunate Wu Zun Zhou. These two have made a great contribution this time anyway, please praise the Inspector! ”

Jiang Yueguang nodded, it is not possible to win a battle without giving benefits.

"Chen Fang can be the prefect of Nanchang, and Wu Zunzhou is the governor of Jiangxi, so is it good for the two generals to make such an arrangement?"

The prefect is a four-grade person, and the power in the hands of the inspector is very heavy, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren are very satisfied, and they nodded again and again and said yes.

Jiang Yueguang saw that the fruit was divided, and then said: "A few adults, now let's discuss what we should do next?" ”