At this time, He Luo would offer advice to Tan Tai and learn Sun Bin's strategy to save Han and Wei, Tan Tai suddenly woke up and immediately ordered the army to go straight to Nanchang day and night. On April 28, www.biquge.info Qing army entered the territory of Nanchang Prefecture. When the news came, there was a big earthquake in the city of Nanchang.

Because Wang Deren led the rest of his troops to reinforce the battle in Ganzhou in April, which caused a serious shortage of defensive strength in Nanchang City, Jiang Yueguang panicked and hurriedly sent people to Ganzhou to order Jin Shenghuan to return to the division.

In this extremely critical situation, Jin Shenghuan's elder brother Jin Chenggong secretly surrendered to the Qing army and promised to respond. Fortunately, Song Kuiguang, the chief soldier who stayed in Nanchang, found out about the incident and decisively killed his brother for Jin Shenghuan's righteous annihilation, so as to avoid a crisis in Nanchang City. Just when Song Kuiguang quickly attacked to resolve the crisis, one of Wang Deren's generals who stayed in the city led his subordinates to suddenly escape, which further aggravated the uneasy atmosphere in the city.

The continuous unfavorable military reports made Jin Shenghuan, who was in Ganzhou, feel that the situation was serious, and wanted to withdraw the siege and return to Nanchang, so he found Wang Deren to discuss countermeasures. However, what Jin Shenghuan didn't expect was that Wang Deren's idea was completely unexpected.

Wang Deren suggested to him: "According to the opinion of the last general, the news that Nanchang is about to be besieged will not be notified to the three armies first, and the city will be attacked with all its strength and the city will be quickly broken." Then he joined forces with General Li of Guangdong, sent troops to jam Jiujiang, and sent 100,000 troops to the Tartars, and the daily food and salary consumption was very large. The Tartars fought for Ganzhou, our army waited for work, the battle was won, the code was solid, and the siege of Nanchang was naturally solved. If the army is withdrawn like this, the strong enemy is in front and Ganzhou is in the back, which is a dangerous road. ”

Jin Shenghuan felt reasonable after listening, but still a little hesitant, when he first arrived in Ganzhou City, he was high-spirited, but at the moment he was a little less confident, the root cause of all this is the siege of Ganzhou that lasted for more than a month. This protracted battle under the city of Ganzhou dealt a serious psychological blow to Jin Shenghuan, so that although Wang Deren clearly gave a guarantee to quickly break through the city, Jin Shenghuan could not believe it. If it drags on here for a few more days, it is estimated that Nanchang's old capital will be lost.

Just as Jin Shenghuan was about to withdraw his troops, Li Chengdong took his 20,000 headquarters and more than 30,000 troops from Zhongjie Town, Guangdong Town, and Guangxi Town, which originally planned to stay in Xingdu, and Chen Youlong's army, as well as a siege artillery team composed of ten-pound and twelve-pounder Hongyi artillery. Entered Ganzhou from Nanxiong in Guangzhou, successfully joined Jin Shenghuan's troops, and brought the emperor's holy decree: the task of attacking Ganzhou was taken care of by Li and the two towns of Guangxi and Guangdong, and the 50,000 troops of Jin and Wang's second division and Liu Wenxiu's nearly 10,000 elites of Zhongjie Town quickly returned to the division, recaptured Jiujiang, and saved the situation in Jiangxi.

The timely reinforcements of Li Bu and the Ming army's Beijing camp made Jin Shenghuan breathe a sigh of relief, the millions of family fortunes, wives and concubines in Nanchang City, had already made him unwilling to fight, and Yongli's holy decree was exactly what he wanted, so he decisively issued an order to withdraw the army and quickly returned to Nanchang.

And more than 10,000 foot cavalry of Wang Deren's department joined forces with Liu Wenxiu's army, adhering to the holy decree to recapture Jiujiang.

On the third day of the fifth month, the army led by Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren returned to Nanchang, and when they passed through Beisha on the way, they met another branch of the Han Eight Banners of the Qing army and immediately began a battle. There was no suspense about the outcome of the battle, more than 60,000 troops, including more than 10,000 cavalry, against three or four thousand Qing cavalry, and the Qing army was quickly defeated. The Ming army successfully won the first battle and captured four or five Hongyi cannons from the Qing army, which restored Jin Shenghuan's self-confidence a little.

After the army entered Linjiang Mansion, Jin and Wang divided the troops according to the plan, Wang Deren and Liu Wenxiu took the elite cavalry of more than 25,000 infantry of the headquarters, marched rapidly overnight, and went straight to Jiujiang, the Qing army left in Jiujiang to help Yang Jie, the general soldier of the reinforcement and suppression, was not well established, and was caught off guard by the elite flying cavalry of the Ming army, and Jiujiang finally returned to the hands of the Ming army again.

On May 23, the main force of the Qing army, Manmeng and Eight Banners, rushed to Nanchang one after another, and nearly 100,000 troops gradually surrounded the city of Nanchang. During this period, Jin Shenghuan led 20,000 elite soldiers in the city out of the city to meet the Qing army Manmeng Eight Banners, and was defeated by the Qing army in Qili Street, and the troops suffered heavy losses and were forced to retreat to Nanchang.

The battle situation was reported to Jiang Yueguang, the governor of Jiangxi, but Jiang Yueguang didn't believe it at first. Because although he doesn't know much about the combat effectiveness of the Qing army's Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, he is still very clear about the situation of the army brought out by Jin Shenghuan. That part of the sergeants is definitely the most elite in Nanchang City, among them there are many veterans who followed Jin Shenghuan to the south and the north before the Qing Dynasty, the combat experience is extremely rich, and has always been the main force in the army, the reason why Jin Shenghuan was able to occupy the entire Jiangxi without relying on the strength of the Qing army, relied on these 20,000 soldiers and horses.

When Jin Shenghuan appeared in front of Jiang Yueguang with a depressed face and told him about the battle, Jiang Yueguang realized how fierce the Qing court was this time. After realizing the insurmountable gap between his own army and the main force of the Qing army's Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, Jiang Yueguang and Jin Shenghuan had a secret discussion and decided to immediately send an envoy out of the city to ask for help.

Among them, Wu Zongzhou went to Huguang and Changsha to personally march to the camp, Zhu Mouxing went to Jiujiang for help, and Li Xi went to Ganzhou for help.

Jiujiang, the closest to Nanchang, was the first to reply, and Wang Deren replied: "Jiujiang is the Yangtze River, the gateway to Jiangxi, and the only way for the Qing army to transfer grain and salary. Jiujiang City is small and solid, easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as Jiujiang is adhered to, it will become a horn with Nanchang. The Qing army will be weak if it divides its forces to attack us, otherwise the food and salary will not continue. Nanchang led troops out of Xu, both east and west, internal and external attack, 100,000 Tartar troops are not difficult to break. If you abandon Jiujiang and stay in a lonely city, you will be like a tiger falling into a well, and you will be dead. ”

Jiang Yueguang, Jin Shenghuan did not listen, in order to ensure that Nanchang was not lost, he urged fifteen times in a day and night, Jiujiang was short of food, Wang Deren had to lead the headquarters of 10,000 cavalry elite into Nanchang to aid Nanchang, leaving Liu Wenxiu in the Beijing camp 10,000 elite Zhongjie Town and the remaining 5,000 soldiers and horses of his army to stay in Jiujiang to contain the main force of the Qing army.

Not long after Wang Deren rushed back to Nanchang, the main force of the Qing army had almost completed the encirclement of Nanchang.

The Qing army's 100,000-strong expedition, coupled with the unexpected seizure of Jiujiang, the poor transfer of food and salary, the 100,000-strong army needed a huge amount, and they could only think of a way locally. So the Manchu chief Tan Tai gave an order, and the people, men, women, and children of one or two hundred miles around Nanchang City, were driven to the Ganjiang River to build a pontoon bridge. The construction of pontoon bridges is just an excuse, it is true to exterminate the Han people and seize food.

Under the punishment of leather whips and sticks, the people who served could only drink a bowl of thin porridge every day, which was the shabu-shabu water for the Qing army to finish eating. Hundreds of thousands of people built a seven-mile-wide pontoon bridge to block the entire Ganjiang River. The Ganjiang River is the dry season, just leave the holes.

Tan Tai built a high platform seven or eight zhang high outside the Yonghe Gate, and every move in Nanchang City was in full view. The pontoon bridge was repaired, the high platform was repaired, the people were all dead, and the Qing army received a lot of food.

The worst were the young women, and each battalion was divided into a few, and more than 10,000 of the 50,000 or 60,000 women were raped to death, and the rest died one after another. There are no more people in the Nanchang area, and the crops have become pastures for horses. Before the war began, hundreds of thousands of people in Nanchang had died, and Nanchang Mansion became a hell on earth for a while. (To be continued.) )