The war between the People's Army and the Ming Army continued. The three divisions of Wang Shengrong's army joined forces with Xiong Jian's army and Yan Han army, and launched a large-scale attack on the Ming army in Huguang and the Ming army in Fujian respectively.

Originally, Xiong Jian's opponent, the Ming army of Huguang, the Ming army of Yan Han's opponent, Fujian, and He Yan's opponent, Guangxi, the Ming army of Guangxi, were more Ming army than the People's Army.

Even though there were numbers, the Ming army stayed in the city most of the time, guarding against being ambushed by the People's Army. Even if they left the city, thousands of people would act together.

However, when the Ming army in the three places was stationed in the city, they did not reach the level of Ganzhou Prefecture City, and even the city gates were blocked. In their opinion, the People's Army opposite had a little force and could not capture the city garrisoned by the Ming army. Even if a large number of People's Army attacked, the Ming army could not win but still could not run away? They did not have the idea of ​​sticking to the city.

Under this circumstance, Xiong Jian's army and Yan Han's army, who obtained reinforcements, launched large-scale attacks on the Ming army in Huguang and the Ming army in Fujian.

The army besieged the city, covered by firearms, and melee troops siege the city. The first-board troops blew the city gate with explosives, and the grenadier troops followed the first-board troops and rushed into the city.

With the cooperation of various branches of the People's Army, cities guarded by the Ming army were broken. Although it was a siege, the number of casualties in the People's Army was less than one-third of the Ming army.

Huguang is in crisis! Fujian is in crisis! Guangxi is in crisis!

The news of the attack on the Ming army in Huguang was first sent to Ganzhou Prefecture City. Song Yingchang was shocked when he learned that many cities guarded by the Ming army in southern Huguang were broken.

"No wonder, no wonder the thieves withdrew their troops. It turned out to be supporting other thieves. Now it is Huguang. Will Fujian and Guangxi also be attacked by thieves? What should I do and what should I do?"

Obviously, Song Yingchang had only one way left, which was to divide some of his troops into support of the Ming army in Huguang. With the subsequent arrival of the Ming army, Song Yingchang had more than 90,000 troops in his hands, and it would be no problem to divide 2 or 30,000 troops to support Huguang.

Just as Song Yingchang was about to divide his troops to support the Ming army in Huguang, bad news came from the south. Wang Shengrong's army, who had been resting for many days, once again headed north and was about to arrive in Xinfeng County.

The news of Wang Shengrong's army advancing north made Song Yingchang hesitate. Not long after, the news of the attack on the Ming army in Fujian was also delivered to Song Yingchang. One bad news after another came. Song Yingchang completely gave up the matter of division of troops to support him and could only send people to order the Ming army in Huguang, Fujian and Guangxi to join forces to defend a big city to resist the attack of the People's Army.

On this side, the war between the People's Army and the Ming Army was in fierce battle, and on the other side, the news of Mei Yousong's defeat and death of Mei Yousong has been sent to the capital.

When Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun learned that Mei Yousong's army was defeated, he was shocked and angry. How could he be defeated when hundreds of thousands of troops went to suppress a small rebel?

Ministers from Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangxi and other places hurriedly made suggestions to Zhu Yijun and asked Zhu Yijun to dispatch a large army to suppress the bandits.

The ministers who knew the situation of the Ming Dynasty were silent. They understood that most of the troops that the Ming Dynasty could be dispatched were transferred by Mei Yousong. If they continued to transfer troops from various places, there might be major problems.

There are rioters and thieves in various places every year. Once discovered, they will be wiped out by the Ming army stationed in various places. However, some thieves also fled. Once all the Ming army is transferred away and the thieves will rebel again, the danger will be made everywhere.

Especially the border troops are even more difficult to mobilize. The rebels are in Guangdong and are still far from the capital. If most of the border troops are transferred to suppress the thieves and the Tatar cavalry suddenly attacks, the capital will be in danger.

Zhu Yijun was in the palace. Although he could not see the hardships of the people at the bottom, he was clearer about the military strength of the Ming Dynasty. He also knew how many soldiers and horses could not be drawn to suppress the thieves.

What's more, it is no longer a question of suppressing thieves but not suppressing thieves, but rather a matter of resisting the attack of the People's Army and sending the Ming army to Jiangxi for several months. At this time, Jiangxi, Huguang and other places may fall.

At this time, the chief minister Shen Shixing spoke and said, "Your Majesty, you can invite the thieves."

"Recruitment?" Hearing these two words, Zhu Yijun became even more angry. How could he recruit the thieves who killed hundreds of thousands of Ming troops?

"The emperor calms down. Recruiting amnesty is just a plan, so that the thieves and our Ming Dynasty will temporarily stop swords and swords. Our Ming Dynasty is no longer able to dispatch more troops to Guangdong. For the sake of this strategy, we can only recruit young and strong men to compile new troops as soon as possible, and wait for 10% of the million-strong army to eliminate the thieves."

Hearing this, the anger on Zhu Yijun's face gradually disappeared. It was indeed a good strategy to delay time by recruiting a million troops to train them before eliminating the thieves.

Not only was Zhu Yijun moved, but other ministers in the court expressed their agreement. Even the ministers who were hostile to Shen Shixing were the same. They were all ministers of the Ming Dynasty and were usually hostile. Now the thieves are powerful and have a great impact on the Ming Dynasty. It is impossible to make trouble at this time.

However, it is a question of who will go to recruit the amnesty. The distance from the capital to Jiangxi is too far. When people arrive in Jiangxi, I don’t know what the Ming army has been beaten.

Finally, it was decided that Song Yingchang, who had made meritorious service, went to recruit the People's Army, and the imperial edict for the recruitment was rushed to Jiangxi for 800 miles.

The entire Ming court had never thought about the People's Army's refusal to recruit thieves. In their opinion, the Ming Dynasty's recruitment of rebels was an honor for rebels. When the imperial edict of rebels arrived, the leader of the rebels should kneel down to greet them.

Some ministers even thought that there was no need to train a million troops, and they could destroy the rebels by simply recruiting the amnesty. As long as the rebels accept the amnesty, the court could mobilize the thieves at will and dismantle the thieves and transfer the thieves to various places. At that time, the leader of the thieves would lose the army and let the Ming Dynasty slaughter them.

The imperial edict for the recruitment was still on the way, and the People's Army still launched an attack on the cities where the Ming army was heavily in charge. With the firearms troops, they first arrived and the grenadiers troops, the People's Army captured one city after another, and the Ming army suffered heavy casualties.

Faced with the attack of the People's Army, the Ming army could not defend at all. If the Ming army guarding the city was given a group of thunderstorms, the situation might have changed. However, the thunderstorms were all in the Song Yingchang army, and they were already small in number. If they were dispersed, the Song Yingchang army might be defeated by Wang Shengrong's army. Song Yingchang did not dare to assign the thunderstorms to other Ming troops.

Wang Shengrong's army, Song Yingchang's army launched a tentative attack, and Song Yingchang's army immediately retreated back to Ganzhou Prefecture and did not fight with Wang Shengrong's army at all.

He was defeated twice in charge of the army and once in the process of following Mei Yousong. Now Song Yingchang has almost lost the courage to fight the People's Army and only wants to block the People's Army.

With Song Yingchang's orders sent to various places, and because of the strength of the People's Army, the Ming army on the front lines of Huguang, Fujian and Guangxi began to retreat and gather, preparing to rely on a strong city to resist the People's Army.

Faced with the city where tens of thousands of Ming troops gathered, the People's Army surrounded it, bombarded it with only artillery guns, and did not directly attack the city.

At this point, the plan to weaken the strength of the Ming army has basically been completed. In the past few days, the People's Army had killed and injured more than 40,000 Ming troops in Huguang, Fujian and Guangxi, and the number of casualties in the People's Army was less than 10,000.
Chapter completed!