The Gongyi battalion arrived at the city of Ji'an Mansion and set up camp to prepare for the siege.

The Qing army guarded the high into the warehouse and waited for it.

Gao Jinku was born in the Shaanxi Peasant Army, and was the general of Gao Jie, one of the four towns in the south of the Yangtze River. Not long ago, he was sent by Hong Chengchou to Jiangxi to support Jin Shenghuan, and brought 3,000 men and horses to attack Ji'an Mansion.

After the Gongyi battalion arrived in Yongxin County, Gao Jinku received a report from Jin Shenghuan that this Ming army was uncertain, and there were strangers to help each other, and it had blown up several county towns with heavenly thunder, so it was necessary to be cautious......

Gao Jinku scoffed at this.

He was an ordinary peasant kid, in order to be able to eat a full meal to join the peasant army, mixed in the military camp for more than ten years, was a hero, pretended to be a bear, killed many people, and almost died several times, step by step climbed to the position of the second rank deputy general, no longer the uninformed country boy, became a ruthless Manchu officer.

He had no faith, surrendered to the Manchus without any psychological burden, and slaughtered his compatriots without mercy, as long as he could be appreciated by the Manchu masters and enjoy all the glory and wealth...... Isn't this what this is like in this life, when you close your eyes, you don't know anything, even if you are infamous for a thousand years, what does it have to do with me?

In a sense, he is a simple materialist, who does not believe in fairies and ghosts, but only in his own eyes and his own life experience. He has never seen a real master, but he has seen a lot of swaggering and deceiving magic sticks, as long as he cuts it with a knife, he will also move his head.

Blowing up the city wall with the Heavenly Thunder Spell seemed to him to be a joke.

"I must have been tricked!" Gao Jinku can be sure that the walls of those counties are definitely not blown up. After the Ming army broke through the county seat, in order to be easy to attack next time they came, it was normal to destroy the city wall, and they released rumors that there were gods to help the war, just to confuse the ignorant people and intimidate and confuse the Qing army.

Jin Shenghuan didn't personally inspect those city walls, and his subordinates mistakenly believed the rumors and exaggerated them, and he didn't have much knowledge, so he took this rumor seriously. As for how the Ming army broke through those county seats. There must be another reason, those county towns are weak, the cities are low, and they are not prepared for a sudden attack by the Ming army, so it is not surprising that they were easily breached.

But this Ming army is also too arrogant. Dare to attack the capital city of Ji'an Province!

Gao Jinku was very surprised by this.

The main force of the Qing army was pressing over from the north and south, relying on the natural danger of the Ganjiang River to form a semi-encirclement situation. The Ming army had no way out but to retreat to Huguang. But instead of retreating, they advanced, and even came to attack the capital city of Ji'an. The city is much stronger than the county seat, and there are 3,000 elites under Gao Jinku, which is enough to resist the attack of the Gongyi battalion.

"It's definitely a feint!" Gao Jinku meditated. finally guessed the intention of the Ming army. They made a big show and opened a pair of jiashi to storm the capital city of Ji'an, but in fact, they aimed at several nearby county towns and ferries, and attracted the attention of the Qing army. Suddenly turned around and seized a certain ferry, crossed the Gan River and rushed into the eastern part of Jiangxi.

Going deeper, the Ming army may also use the tactic of luring the enemy to attack these county towns and ferries, luring the defenders of Ji'an Prefecture to fight out of the city, destroying their own troops in the field battle, and easily capturing the city of Ji'an Prefecture...... All in all, the Ming army would not storm Ji'an, but would use tactics to break through the encirclement of the Qing army.

Gao Jinku was born in the peasant army and was very familiar with this tactic, but the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers rarely fought on the go, so he didn't think of it for a while. After solving the doubts in his heart, he immediately sent people to the nearby ferry county to send all ships to the other side of the Gan River, and then closed the city gate, no matter what the Ming army did, they were not allowed to go out of the city to fight.

You have your thousand plans, I have my old idea, Gao Jinku decided to respond to all changes with inconvenience, stick to the city, and wait for Jin Shenghuan's main force.

In his estimation, the Ming army's soldiers should be between 10,000 and 20,000, and the total strength is probably less than 30,000. And there are only 3,000 green battalion soldiers in Ji'an Mansion, which is the capital for him to be promoted and make a fortune in the future, and he can't fight hard with the Ming army.

As for the 150,000 troops mentioned in the Ming army's text, he simply ignored it, if the Ming army really reached this scale, the amount of grain and grass that needed to be carried would be an astonishing number, and it would be impossible to intersperse movements back and forth in Jiangxi so easily.

"This team is really a strong army!"

Gao Jinku stood on the city tower, watching the Gongyi battalion in front of the city, thousands of people have their own division of labor, skillful cooperation, not only to ensure efficiency, but also to show any flaws. As soon as the connoisseur stretched out his hand, he knew if there was one, and Gao Jinku concluded that the combat effectiveness of the Gongyi battalion was not under his own green battalion soldiers.

He had fought for decades, and just a cursory look at the size of the Gongyi battalion judged that the opponent's strength was less than 10,000 people, and it was obvious that the Ming army had other arrangements.

It's not strange, it's self-defeating.

Gao Jinku passed down the order, mobilized the young and strong people in the city to help defend the city, as long as they helped to carry the earth and stones, they would take care of the food, and those who dared to go up the city wall to fight with the Ming army would be rewarded with silver every day, and those who did not come from hiding at home would be executed.

He had already made up his mind, so he retreated to the city of Ji'an Mansion to defend to the death, no matter what bait the Ming army thrown, or conquered the nearby county seats, he would not go out of the city to fight. Except for Ji'an, the nearby ships were sent to the other side of the Gan River, as long as the Ming army could not find a boat, they could not cross the Gan River, and sooner or later it was a dead end.

As expected, the Ming army really resorted to luring the enemy.

After they had set up their camp, they approached the moat, and built several earthen houses less than 200 paces from the drawbridge, and brazenly dug tunnels. The generals of the green battalion under Gao Jinku asked for orders to lead their troops out of the city to teach the Ming army a lesson, destroy all these earthen villages, and fill in the tunnels of the Ming army by the way, but Gao Jinku stopped the reckless behavior of his subordinates and watched the Ming army busy there with a cold eye.

"Is this going to be attacked with a hole? Hmph, it's nothing more than trying to lure me out of the city to fight. "Gao Jinku fought an old battle, knowing that it takes a lot of time to attack the city in the tunnel, and it is nothing to dig the tunnel in front, the key is to dig under the city wall, and use a lot of wooden stakes to support the cornerstone of the city wall, dig out a large enough hole at the bottom of the city wall, and then pour oil to burn the wooden pillars to destroy the city wall.

To complete this complex set of procedures, there is no more than ten days without coming up. (To be continued......)