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Chapter 203

Wang Shengrong's army attacked Ganzhou Fucheng for six consecutive days. Except for the third day, he sent a large army to try to attack the city, the remaining five days were bombarded Ganzhou Fucheng.

The siege on the third day was obviously a failure. For this reason, the People's Army killed and injured more than 1,000 people and successfully blew up the South City Gate, but the South City Gate Cave was blocked by the Ming army and the People's Army could not enter the city at all.

Wang Shengrong speculated that the gates on all sides of Ganzhou City had been blocked. Under such circumstances, it was very difficult to capture Ganzhou City. In the end, Wang Shengrong decided to give up attacking Ganzhou City, withdrew his troops, and retreated to Longnan County and Anyuan County to implement the second plan and divide his troops to support the other three troops on the Guangdong border.

The People's Army withdrew, and the Ming army in Ganzhou Prefecture finally breathed a sigh of relief. Death was so close to them, and it was already a great luck to be able to survive.

Seeing the People's Army retreat, Song Yingchang breathed a sigh of relief, but at this time, Song Yingchang frowned and was thinking about why the People's Army withdrew. Under normal circumstances, even if the People's Army could not capture Ganzhou Prefecture City, it would be besieged for a while and would not withdraw so quickly.

After thinking about it, Song Yingchang only had one answer in his mind. Judging from the past battles with the People's Army, it should be that the People's Army was unwilling to cause too much damage to itself. Every time he won, he would not continue to attack blindly. This time the same is true. If the People's Army continued to attack Ganzhou Fucheng, many people would die.

Of course, this cannot be said that the People's Army is afraid of death. If the People's Army is afraid of death, the Ming army would not have been beaten to this point.

The People's Army retreated, but the Ming army did not dare to leave Ganzhou Prefecture City, and no one knew whether the People's Army would come back.

At the end of a war, only 60,000 Ming troops were left, with deaths and injuries so severe that if Mei Yousong was still alive, he would have to be dismissed from office, and even more serious he would have been executed.

Song Yingchang no longer knew how the court should deal with the People's Army next. He could not defeat hundreds of thousands of troops. Could it be that he really had to gather a million troops to wipe out the People's Army?

Wang Shengrong's army retreated to Longnan County and Anyuan County, and immediately divided into four parts. Half of the 140,000 people stayed here. Under the command of Wang Shengrong, there were 70,000 people left. One group of ten thousand people went to support Xiong Jian's troops, one group of 30,000 people were also in the north of Guangdong, and one group of 30,000 people supported He Yan's troops in the east of Guangdong, and the last group was 30,000 people, to support Yan Han's troops in the east of Guangdong.

As the main force, the firearms troops first arrived and the grenadier troops were allocated to the four units according to the proportion. In this way, Wang Shengrong's troops had two infantry regiments left.

With the strength of Wang Shengrong's 70,000 troops, even if there are 100,000 Ming troops attacking, they can be defeated, and it is no problem to defend Longnan County and Anyuan County.

The division of troops ended, and the other three units set out immediately.

The news of the People's Army defeating the Ming army has long been passed back to Guangzhou City. The People's Army killed and captured more than 10,000 Ming troops at the cost of 10,000 casualties, and won a great victory!

After receiving the news of the victory of the People's Army, Fang Nan finally smiled and knew that Wang Shengrong's plan to divide his troops to support other departments. The plan was recognized by Fang Nan, Hu Zhuang and others. If this plan was successful, it would continue to consume the Ming army's strength and buy more time for the People's Army to develop.

Not long after, the news of the People's Army's victory over the Ming army once again spread throughout Guangzhou City. The joy of harvest had not yet receded from the faces of the people. The victory of the People's Army made the smiles on the faces of the people even more powerful.

"The People's Army has won again, and the People's Army will continue to win, and my farmland will not be stolen again."

"It's great. The People's Army has won again. I'll send some to the People's Army this year."

...

The People's Army once again defeated the Ming army, and most people would smile when they heard this news, but the small group of people in Guangzhou who were still loyal to the Ming court felt as if the sky had collapsed after hearing the news.

"Your Majesty, why are the official army defeated again? We are so miserable under the rule of the thieves. You should send a large army to rescue us."

"Impossible! Impossible! How could the little thief keep defeating the official army? This is fake news. The thief is lying to us. I will not be fooled. The official army must have defeated the thief. In order to stabilize the people's hearts, the thief spread this fake news."

"Is it that God will destroy my Ming Dynasty?"

...

No matter how these scholars and scholars who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty were wailing, no one had ever thought of committing suicide and still lived under the rule of the People's Army.

Interestingly, several literati and scholars saw that the People's Army had been defeating the Ming army and felt that the People's Army could replace the Ming Dynasty and actually had the idea of ​​defecting to the People's Army.

"The Ming Dynasty and the People's Army have lost consecutive battles and defeats. This is the destruction of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty has been exhausted. We cannot go against the will of heaven. The Grand Commander is the true emperor. We should follow the Grand Commander."

In the words, even the "thief" who often talks about them disappeared.

Because of the news that the People's Army once again defeated the Ming army, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, Liang Xin and others gathered together to discuss what changes would happen to the situation in this victory of the People's Army.

Xia Jingshan was the first to say: "I think this time the People's Army won a great victory, at least one year, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to launch a new attack on the People's Army. The People's Army has gained a foothold in Guangdong. Give the People's Army time to develop. The Ming Dynasty will not try to wipe out the People's Army. We have no worries about our lives under the rule of the People's Army."

"It's really magical. The Ming Dynasty is so powerful, but it was defeated by a small People's Army many times, allowing the People's Army to develop smoothly. I don't know if it was because the Ming Dynasty was exhausted or the People's Army was too strong, and that great commander-in-chief was really extraordinary." Liang Xin also said.

"It has been a problem for the Ming Dynasty to lose hundreds of thousands of people, and it is difficult to draw troops to attack the People's Army for a short time, and even resist the expansion of the People's Army. However, this People's Army is also extraordinary. It has the strength to expand its territory, but it has been staying in Guangdong. This makes me feel that the People's Army has the possibility of seizing the Ming Dynasty."

In Jiang Ci's words, his confidence in the People's Army overthrowing the Ming Dynasty increased a lot. In the past, there were too few people who believed that the People's Army could overthrow the Ming Dynasty. Even if Guangdong was occupied by the People's Army, the population under the Ming Dynasty was ten times that of the People's Army. The People's Army could expand its army by 300,000, and the Ming Dynasty could expand its army by 3 million.

Three million Ming troops were against the 300,000 People's Army. No matter how sharp the People's Army's firearms were, they could not be as good as ten. What's more, the People's Army could not equip all 300,000 people with firearms.

However, the situation in the Ming Dynasty could not have expanded its army by three million at once, and it could not even be expanded by one million. Expansion of its army requires money, food, weapons, etc. These are all things that cannot be gathered in a short time.

One time, hundreds of thousands of people were sent to attack the People's Army, but they were easily defeated by the People's Army. No matter how you look at it, you can't tell that the Ming Dynasty could wipe out the People's Army. Now, there is a possibility of unrest in various places under the Ming Dynasty.
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