Since the beginning of the year, in the past few months, Jiangxi has been continuously conquered, the army and the people have been killed and wounded innumerable, the white bones have been exposed, and they have basically been beaten into a pot of porridge, and the enemy and us have opened up at least five battlefields in this province alone.

They are in Jiujiang, Nanchang, Luling, Ganzhou, Ningdu Prefecture five places.

In addition to leaving tens of thousands of the main forces of the Eight Banners to trap Nanchang to the death, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's general of the Southern Expedition, Manchuria's Zhenghuang Banner Gushan Ezhen Tan Tai sent Chengshun County King Le Ke Dehun and the white flag Gushan Ezhen Tulai He Luohui and Zhenghuang Banner Gushan Ezhen Tulai each led 20,000 foot cavalry, to more than 10,000 equal points of Jiujiang and Luling and Ningdu Prefecture.

The attack on Jiujiang was to pull out the nails behind him, clear the obstacles, and ensure the safety of the rear of the army and the smooth flow of the grain route;

The attack on Luling and Ningdu Prefecture was to rescue Ganzhou, and since Nanchang could not be conquered for a while, the rescue of Ganzhou became extremely important.

Ganzhou is located in the place where the Zhangjiang River and the Gongjiang River converge into the Ganjiang River, which is in the shape of a peninsula facing water on three sides, and only the south gate is not blocked by a river. In addition, the city of Ganzhou has a high terrain and a fairly wide field of vision. Looking out of the city, the vastness is endless.

It is connected to Fujian in the east and Hunan in the west, which is not only a barrier for Guangdong, but also a dangerous checkpoint for entering Jiangxi, and the importance of its strategic position is self-evident.

Luling is about two hundred miles northwest of Ganzhou, and Ningdu Prefecture is also about two hundred miles northeast of Ganzhou.

The Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners had 100,000 cavalry, but there was no large-scale naval division on the battlefield in Jiangxi, and they could not transport troops from the waterway, so if they wanted to rescue Ganzhou, they could only attack by land, and they had to first defeat Luling and Ningdu Prefecture.

The Manchurian Tatars were long in field battles, but short in siege.

Jiujiang City is the second largest military and economic town in Jiangxi, it was originally built tall and strong, the walls are all poured with solid stones, especially the 10,000 loyal troops of Liu Wenxiu's department who defended the city are still the elite selected from the west, plus the thousands of elites of Wang Deren's department and tens of thousands of young men who organized from the city to defend the city, and there are 30,000 or 40,000 people who defend the city. Without superior forces and a sufficient number of artillery pieces for continuous shelling, it is difficult to break through the city in a short time.

Luckedhun is known as a famous general, but there are only 20,000 or 30,000 partial divisions, and the number of artillery is not much left after several diversions.

In the entire Jiangxi battlefield, the real crisis is Luling and Ningdu Prefecture.

The defense of Luling is more than 10,000 infantry of Tang Wenyao, the general soldier of Guangdong Town, and the defense of Ningdu Prefecture is more than 10,000 infantry of Chen Youlong, the general soldier of Guangxi.

And Luling and Ningdu Prefecture are only intermediate cities at the state capital level, because the geographical location is not very dangerous, so the construction is not tall and strong, in the white flag solid mountain town He Luohui and the yellow flag solid mountain Ezhen Tulai two members of the Tartar fierce attack of the fierce general, danger is full of dangers, several times almost lost.

Therefore, there is not much time left for Li Chengdong to attack Ganzhou, from the moment he chooses to do it anyway, he has no way to retreat completely, and if this battle is not successful, he will become a benevolent!

No imperial court can tolerate several defections, both ends of the first rat, and capricious generals, which is also the reason why Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong did not surrender to the Qing court again even if they died in battle after the reversal.

Therefore, in order to save his life and future wealth, he did not hesitate to fight hard, since he took over the siege of Jin Shenghuan's troops for more than a month, he was not afraid of sacrifice, and fought fiercely with the three armies, in order to take Ganzhou as soon as possible, even if he died more soldiers, he did not hesitate, and he had no idea of preserving his strength at all.

The main general in the city, Gao Jinku, the Han army inlaid with red flags, and Liu Wuyuan, the governor of Southern Jiangxi, and others encountered such a deadly fight, even if they relied on the dangerous terrain of Ganzhou, they still suffered a lot.

Killed 1,000 enemies, lost 800 self-inflicted losses, was besieged by the two armies of Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong for several months, countless fierce battles, and the soldiers in the city also suffered heavy casualties. Like Jin Shenghuan in Nanchang City, both sides are almost at the point of running out of oil and lamps, and it depends on who can hold on to the end.

The two sides frantically tug-of-war until Yu Long, the chief soldier of Fubo Town, arrived in Ganzhou with 10,000 sailors and a fleet of sailors full of food supplies, guns, and ammunition, and the stalemate gradually reversed.

Yu Long's arrival not only represents the addition of a new force, but most importantly, he brought Li Chengdong a special soil engineering force, which is not many in number, only about 100 people.

This earthwork force of more than 100 people was an engineering unit secretly established by Zhu Youlang after the breakthrough of Zhaoqing, which concentrated gunpowder craftsmen who were proficient in the use of gunpowder, carpenters who were proficient in carpentry, miners who were good at digging tunnels, and command and management personnel, and their task was to specialize in using gunpowder coffins to blow up the city wall.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period of the late Qing Dynasty, the tactic of putting gunpowder in a coffin to blow up the city wall was first launched by the Taiping army, and then bombed all the way from Jintian in Guangxi to Jinling.

In order to avoid this kind of good recipe for breaking the city from being stolen by the Tartars, causing irreparable losses to his side, Zhu Youlang adopted extremely strict confidentiality measures, and all the researchers were isolated, except for a few henchmen, no one else knew that he had such a special technical force.

Before the decisive battle of Yiyang, when Yu Long was sent to support the war in Ganzhou and Nanchang with food and ammunition, Zhu Youlang secretly ordered this special earthwork force to be handed over to Yu Long's pipe belt and ordered him to assist Li Chengdong's troops in breaking the city.

With the unremitting efforts of the geotechnical troops, within a few days, the southern city of Ganzhou was blown out of several gaps, but the gaps are relatively small, one is because the geotechnical troops have little actual combat experience, the technology is not solid enough, and the other is because the city of Ganzhou is too strong, the south city wall near the landing is all solid stones, boulders are poured, only the other three gates are safe enough to be ordinary masonry structure. If it weren't for that, it would have collapsed by the gunpowder coffin.

Even so, it has already made Li Chengdong overjoyed, his troops lacked heavy artillery, originally thought that the city could only be filled by human life, but he did not expect to be beaten by the earthwork troops who came to help, dug a few tunnels, used a few coffins and some gunpowder, and blew up many gaps.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ……”

After a few earth-shattering loud noises, the southern city wall finally couldn't withstand the power of the explosion, and began to crack at the small gap, and after a boom, accompanied by smoke and dust in the sky, a large gap for several people to pass through at the same time appeared in front of the two armies.

The gunpowder of several coffins exploded at the same time, the power was extremely great, and under the strong shock wave, the Qing soldiers guarding the southern city wall were blown up and lay on the ground, and the stumps and broken arms flew everywhere, either dead or injured, and let out a terrible wail and scream, and most of the people who were not killed were stunned by the shock wave! Including the Han army with red flags, Liu Wuyuan, the governor of Southern Jiangxi, was also stunned on the spot!

When the remaining Qing soldiers saw this, they were terrified, they had never seen anything in the world, thinking that the Ming army had immortals to help them, and they used immortal magic to summon the heavenly thunder bombardment, how could the magic of immortals be resisted by ordinary people? One by one, their morale was greatly depressed, and they either stood on the spot or cowered.

No matter how the main general Gao Jinku shouted orders in his throat, he did not dare to approach the southern city wall again, so that a large number of sacks and sandbags filled with sand and soil that had been prepared in advance to fill the gap in the city wall were not used, and the best opportunity to fill the gap was missed.

Take advantage of his illness and kill him!

"Sons, rush with this town!"

Li Chengdong brandished his saber, his face covered with gunpowder smoke was full of joy and excitement, after besieging the city for more than a month, five or six thousand soldiers were killed and wounded, after paying such a heavy price, seeing that the city was about to be broken, can you not be excited?

With his order, the three armies set out, lined up in siege phalanxes, carried ladders, and crossed the moat along the passage, except for some that rushed directly to the gap in the city wall, and the rest of the city set up ladders one after another, and climbed towards the city.

For a time, there was a tragic shouting of killing everywhere in the city.

Without the protection of the city walls, all resistance was in vain, and the Qing soldiers, who had less than 2,000 troops left, were soon killed and dispersed by the influx of Ming troops.

Gao Jinku was physically exhausted due to the supervision of the war for too long, and led his troops to fight in Xicheng, and saw that the whole city had fallen and raised his knife to commit suicide, and Liu Wuyuan, the governor of Southern Jiangxi, was captured alive on the spot, and all the eight banners of the Han Dynasty were killed!

From the beginning of March of the second year of Yongli (AD 1648), Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren's army of 50,000 or 60,000 troops besieged the city, to the beginning of July, in four months, the Ming army surrounded twice, gathered reinforcements several times, and fought dozens of fierce battles with the Qing soldiers in the city, and fought countless hard battles.

Finally, before the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners came to the rescue, they captured Ganzhou, a military town that was also extremely important to the Manchu Qing Dynasty!