On the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, the entire Guangzhou City was decorated with lights and colorful colors, and men, women, young and old all had a smile on their faces. This was probably the happiest Mid-Autumn Festival that the people at the bottom had celebrated.

This year is smooth sailing, and it is another great harvest year. What’s more important is that the people at the bottom all have their own land. They are ushering in the first harvest year. With so many harvests, they will no longer be hungry before the autumn harvest next year. They can also sell some food, buy cloth to make new clothes, or buy some fish to eat during the New Year and the Festival.

The people thank God for giving them a good harvest, and the people are even more grateful to the People's Army for giving them land. They silently pray for the People's Army and hope that the People's Army will win every battle.

The people smiled because of the Mid-Autumn Festival and the autumn harvest, but Fang Nan and many senior executives of the People's Army did not have many smiles. They were all waiting, waiting for the battle report on the front line.

This battle is crucial to the People's Army. The People's Army has defeated the Ming army twice in a row. As long as the Ming army is severely damaged, it will take a year or even several years for the Ming court to assemble a large army to attack the People's Army.

After all, since the People's Army raised the flag, it has been fighting with the Ming army, killing and capturing hundreds of thousands of Ming troops. The Ming court has a million troops. After losing hundreds of thousands of troops, it is necessary for the Ming army to guard the borders and various places, and it is impossible to draw many people to attack the People's Army.

There were fewer Ming troops drawn, but they only came to deliver vegetables to the People's Army. There were more Ming troops drawn, and there would be turmoil in various places, and the border was in danger of losing. The Ming court only had the only way to recruit young and strong troops to expand the army. However, it was not possible to expand hundreds of thousands of troops in a short time, and the new recruits were very poor and it took a certain amount of time to train.

Of course, this is when the People's Army stayed honestly in Guangdong. If the People's Army continued to expand, the Ming court would definitely not care about the situation in various places and try to draw the Ming army to deal with the People's Army. The traitors in various places were just small-scale riots, but the People's Army was in danger of taking away the Ming Dynasty.

When Wang Shengrong's army fought with Mei Yousong's army on the Jiangxi battlefield, the People's Army also frequently attacked and launched attacks on the Ming army on the three battlefields of Huguang, Guangxi and Fujian. However, the Ming army basically hid in the city, and the results achieved by the various divisions of the People's Army were relatively small.

The People's Army will not easily attack the city. If you want to capture a city that the Ming army is heavily guarded by the Ming army, the People's Army will pay a considerable price of casualties. This is not a good thing for the People's Army with limited troops.

Wang Shengrong's army successively repelled Mei Yousong's army and captured Xinfeng County. After resting in Xinfeng County for a night, the army set off and marched towards Ganzhou Prefecture.

Wang Shengrong's army's actions were soon discovered by the Ming army. After learning the news, Song Yingchang was very hesitant.

At this moment, Song Yingchang had less than 70,000 troops, of which nearly 60,000 were defeated soldiers with low morale, nearly 10,000 were the Ming army that had already rushed to the battlefield, and the rest were the defenders of Ganzhou Prefecture City.

There were less than 70,000 people in his hand, and most of the artillery were thrown on the battlefield, while the enemy had more than 100,000 troops, thousands of musketeers with amazing combat power, and grenadier troops like Zhentian Camp.

Song Yingchang didn't know whether he could defend Ganzhou Prefecture with his 70,000 troops. Then Song Yingchang summoned all the generals to discuss the matter together.

"Sir, the last general believes that Ganzhou City cannot be defended, and our army has no morale. It is better to retreat to the rear and rest, mobilize more troops, and then fight the thieves."

"No, sir, we cannot retreat. No one in the entire Jiangxi except our army can resist the thieves. We must defend Ganzhou City."

Soon, a group of Ming army generals were divided into three factions, one faction advocated withdrawal, the other faction advocated persistence, and the other faction was neutral.

The generals who advocated withdrawing the troops were all afraid of the People's Army in their hearts. They were already afraid of being beaten by the People's Army and were worried that Ganzhou Prefecture City would be captured by the People's Army, so they would all die here.

However, several of them believed that Ganzhou Prefecture City really could not be defended. Staying in Ganzhou Prefecture City was waiting for death. It was better to withdraw troops and accumulate strength before fighting the People's Army. Simply put, it was to stay in the green mountains without fear of burning firewood.

The generals who advocated defending Ganzhou Prefecture were almost all very loyal to the Ming Dynasty. They did not want to see more of the Ming Dynasty captured by the People's Army. They would rather use their bodies to block the People's Army.

After the quarrel between the generals, Song Yingchang made the final decision.

"Okay, don't argue anymore. I decided to stick to Ganzhou City. Once our army retreats, the thieves will continue to pursue, retreat again and again, and the entire Jiangxi will fall. We have 70,000 troops. Can't even defend a Ganzhou City? We still have the thief to rush to the city and let them see the power of the thief."

When Song Yingchang heard about the thunder of the sky, some Ming generals who were unwilling to defend Ganzhou City hesitated. With the thunder of the sky, the confidence of defending Ganzhou City was indeed increased a lot, but unfortunately the number of thunder of the sky was too small.

At the end of the meeting, the Ming army had to defend Ganzhou Prefecture City. Under the mobilization of Song Yingchang, the Ming army of each department took action immediately. The first thing he had to do was to block the city gates on all sides of Ganzhou Prefecture City and prevent the People's Army from rushing into the city by blowing up the city gates.

Once the city gate is blocked, the People's Army will have to climb the city wall through a ladder or blow up a section of the city wall. For this reason, the People's Army will have to pay a heavy price.

As soon as Song Yingchang's army was ready to defend the city, Wang Shengrong's army came outside the Ganzhou Prefecture City, and more than 100,000 troops surrounded Ganzhou Prefecture City.

Looking at the situation in Ganzhou Prefecture City, Wang Shengrong understood that the Ming army would stick to Ganzhou Prefecture City and be able to conquer Ganzhou Prefecture City with its own strength, but would make a heavy effort.

After thinking for a little while, Wang Shengrong sent people to the rear to let the artillery troops advance faster. He had just surrounded Ganzhou Prefecture City. It was not Wang Shengrong's habit to retreat without fighting. He first bombarded the cannons, and then tried to find an opportunity to break the city.

Soon, the artillery troops and the artillery abandoned by Mei Yousong's army were sent to Ganzhou Fucheng. All the artillery was divided into four parts and set up on all sides of the city, and the bombardment began.

Accompanied by flames and black smoke, solid shells shot towards Ganzhou Prefecture City, either hitting the wall or crossing the city wall into the city. Only a few shells hit the city wall, causing slight casualties to the Ming army.

Although there were few casualties and injuries caused by the bombardment, the morale that the Ming army had just accumulated was completely destroyed by the continuous bombardment. At this moment, I don’t know how many Ming soldiers who were trembling under the bombardment hoped that the People’s Army would launch a siege directly, and they fought with the People’s Army with swords and guns.

Faced with the People's Army's bombardment, the Ming army guarding the Ganzhou Prefecture City could not counterattack at all. There were too few artillery in the Ganzhou Prefecture City, and the Ming soldiers did not dare to use artillery to fight against the People's Army.

Feeling the bombardment of the People's Army, Song Yingchang was a little worried, but he had no way to deal with it.
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