The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 79 Wrong decision
Jin Shenghuan's face was terribly gloomy.He picked up the binoculars and looked towards the other side of the Ganjiang River. A gray-black city with a strange shape stood there, like a monster made of iron and stone, strangling the ferry on the west bank.

At the beginning of last month, he mobilized all the heavy artillery in his hands and placed them on the east bank of the Ganjiang River to storm Zaokou Fortress.

Under the concentrated bombardment of six [-]-jin and four [-]-jin Hongyi cannons day and night, it took only thirteen days for the city wall of Zaokou to collapse.

Just as he was happily preparing to send his troops to capture Zaokou, he unexpectedly discovered that behind the city wall of Zaokou, the Ming army had built a smaller fort at some point.

He didn't care at first, and still ordered the heavy artillery to bombard. At that time, he still smiled and said to Wang Deren, whether it was my artillery bombarding faster or the Ming army building the city faster.

Unexpectedly, this small gray and black fortress was as hard as steel. Ten cannons bombarded it for ten days in a row without even making a hole!
Now he has been on the other side of Zaokou for more than a month, and the cannons have been blasting non-stop for more than a month, but he still failed to break through the damn fortress on the opposite side!

And in this more than a month, Zhu Linmi, who had "extorted" him more than 4000 taels of silver, brought less than [-] troops and fought all the way from Fuzhou to Jiujiang. At this time, he had crossed the Ganjiang River and rushed towards Nanchang .

Now Wang Deren actually persuaded him to leave his mouth and go back to defend Nanchang!
"Going back to Nanchang?" He glared at Wang Deren, "I swore in front of Prince Ying last year that I would take the land of Jiangxi and dedicate it to the imperial court. Now that the situation in Jiangxi has not opened up at all, if he retreats to Nanchang again, Azig will definitely send someone Manchurians to take my place!
"Look at Zuo Menggeng, because he lost his military power, he was locked up in Beijing like a dog."

Seeing that he was angry, Wang Deren had to stand aside and dare not speak out.

Zuo Menggeng was the son of Zuo Liangyu, Marquis of Nanning in the Hongguang Dynasty.In the early years of Hongguang, Zuo Liangyu led hundreds of thousands of troops to march towards Nanjing under the name of "Qing Emperor's Side", but died of illness halfway.

After Zuo Menggeng took over his father's army, he was defeated by Huang Degong in Tongling. He felt that he had no hope of taking Nanjing, so he led an army of 20 troops to surrender Azig, Prince of Qingying.As Zuo Menggeng's subordinate at that time, Jin Shenghuan also voted for the Qing court.

However, after this Zuo Menggeng surrendered, he was asked by the Qing government to "go to Beijing for an audience", which took away his military power in a disguised form.

If he just retreated to Nanchang like this, Yang Tinglin would definitely follow behind him and take back Ji'an, Linjiang and other mansions all the way.Jin Shenghuan felt as uncomfortable as eating a dead mouse. South Jiangxi was not gained, and North Jiangxi was lost. If he lost these western state capitals, wouldn't he only have a corner of Nanchang Mansion in Jiangxi?

He knew that the reason he was able to lead an army to dominate was because the Manchu master wanted to use him to capture Jiangxi.If one day the master finds out that he is unable to complete this task, he will kick him away unceremoniously like a dog.

The soap mouth must be removed first!His eyes were cold, and his heart was secretly ruthless, even if he paid huge casualties!After quickly capturing Zaokou, he took advantage of the victory and went south in one fell swoop, besieging Ganzhou to death.At that time, I can lead the main force to return to Nanchang!

Even if Yang Tinglin broke through the siege of Ganzhou, Wang Deren could retreat to Zaokou to defend.As long as he can hold off the Ming army for a few months, after he has dealt with Zhu Linming and stabilized the situation in northern Jiangxi, he can turn around and deal with Yang Tinglin.

Only in this way can the situation in Jiangxi be regained control.

Jin Shenghuan made up his mind, fixed his eyes on the sixty to seventy-foot-square fort on the opposite bank, and said to Wang Deren: "Pass down my military order, tonight we will prepare meals at Yin time, and march at Mao time. The whole army will storm Zaokou!"

"Brother, this... the price is too high."

Wang Deren felt his throat was a little dry.He knew that the Qing army currently has a main force of 4, plus the miscellaneous troops transferred from various places in Jiangxi, the total is nearly [-].On the opposite side, the Ming army is only less than [-], and Zhang An's [-] dragon and tiger army is the only one that can fight.If they attack hard, Zaokou should be able to take it, but the casualties on his side are definitely not a small number.

"Don't say any more, this battle is related to the situation in Jiangxi." Jin Shenghuan said impatiently, "Go!"

"Subordinate, obey the order!"

Just like that, Kim Seung-hwan made possibly the worst decision in his life.

The sky was getting brighter, and thousands of small and large boats suddenly appeared behind the mist on the Ganjiang River, heading towards the west bank to cover the sky and block out the sun.

Immediately, soldiers on the Zaokou Bastion shouted a warning, and then the heart-shattering low-pitched horn sounded all around.

Soon, the only two Hongyi heavy cannons of the Zaokou Ming Army began to roar towards the river.The two guns were mounted on the fort on the inner layer of the bastion, and the gunners could clearly see the situation on the river.

An iron ball weighing eleven catties fell into the river, splashing water more than three feet high.The Ming army scored a hit in the second round of shelling—with such densely packed boats on the river, it was hard to miss—a five or six-foot-long wooden boat sank into the bottom of the river in an instant with more than a dozen Qing soldiers sitting on it.

However, it only took a moment to cross the river that was more than one mile wide. After the two cannons sank more than a dozen ships, the brigade of Qing soldiers had already landed on the west bank of the Ganjiang River.

As an excellent ferry, Zaokou has been repaired by countless generations, and the terrain is very flat.Wang Deren wiped the water from the river on his face—just now a shell scraped his boat and fell into the river, and the splashing water drenched him all over—he first ordered his confidant Huang Tianlei to follow suit The soldiers lined up on the west side of the fortress to block Yang Tinglin's main force.

Zaokou Fortress is only sixty to seventy feet square, and there are at most three to four thousand people stationed inside. The Ming army brigade will surely reinforce him from the outside when he attacks the city.Therefore, it is necessary to block the reinforcements, and it is possible to seize the fortress.

Then he ordered Jia Xiong to lead [-] miscellaneous soldiers to set up siege equipment near the fortress first.

Obviously, these people are just cannon fodder.When they set up the siege equipment, they were almost disabled. Later, Wang Deren led the elite to use these siege equipment to break the city.

To say that Wang Deren's battle-tested Dashun soldiers are really good, they crossed the river to complete formation, and Wanji's troops hadn't all assembled yet.

Seeing that Huang Tianlei had set up a defensive position on the west side of the fortress, Wang Deren was also determined.

He knew that with the combat power of Yang Tinglin's troops, even if they fought desperately, it would take at least a whole day to break through the defense line of the ten thousand soldiers.

With such a long time, if you attack the fortress at any cost, it is enough to take it down.He led people to attack Xiuwu City, which was much bigger than the fortress in front of him, and it only took one day to attack it, but he lost nearly ten thousand men in that battle.

Soon, around the bastion, the sound of gunfire and the screams of the Qing army rang out.

Wang Deren ordered his subordinate Guo Tiancai to lead the [-] ordinary Qing troops to supervise the battle in the front row. If the [-] cannon fodder miscellaneous soldiers led by Jia Xiong dared to retreat, they would be hacked to death immediately on the spot.

He personally led the remaining [-] soldiers to gather strength in the back row, and when the trench filling carts, ladders, and curtain carts were all in place, these people could wait for work and rush into the city in one go.

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