It happened that He Luo would offer advice to Tan Tai and learn from Sun Bin's plan to save Han and attack Wei. Tan Tai suddenly realized and immediately ordered the army to travel day and night to Nanchang. On April 28th, the Qing army's vanguard entered the Nanchang Prefecture. The news came, and the city of Nanchang was shaking.

Since Wang Deren led his remaining troops to reinforce the battle in Ganzhou in April, the defensive power in Nanchang City was seriously insufficient. Therefore, Jiang Yueguang was panicked and hurriedly sent people to Ganzhou to return to the army.

In this extremely critical situation, Jin Shenghuan's brother Jin Chenggong secretly surrendered to the Qing army and promised to be an internal supporter. Fortunately, Song Kuiguang, the general who stayed in Nanchang, discovered the matter and decisively killed his brother for Jin Shenghuan, which avoided a crisis in Nanchang City. Just when Song Kuiguang rushed to resolve the crisis, a subordinate of Wang Deren, who was left in the city, led his subordinates to suddenly break the pass and escape, which further exacerbated the uneasy atmosphere in the city.

The unfavorable military newspapers sent continuously made Jin Shenghuan, who was in Ganzhou, feel that the situation was serious and wanted to withdraw the siege and aid Nanchang, so he asked Wang Deren to discuss countermeasures. However, what Jin Shenghuan did not expect was that Wang Deren's idea was completely beyond his expectations.

Wang Deren suggested to him: "According to the last general's view, the three armies will not be informed of the news that Nanchang is about to be surrounded by siege. They will attack Ganzhou with all their might and break the city quickly. Then they will join forces with General Li of Guangdong to send troops to block Jiujiang. The Tatars sent 100,000 troops. The daily food and salary was consumed very much. As long as the Tartars' food and salary channels were cut off, the army would not be difficult to break. The Tartars fought for Ganzhou, and our army would wait for labor, and the battle would be victorious. The rules would be solid, and the siege of Nanchang would naturally be lifted. If the troops were withdrawn like this, the strong enemy was in front and Ganzhou was in back, which was a dangerous road."

Although Jin Shenghuan felt reasonable after hearing this, he was still a little hesitant. When he first arrived at the city of Ganzhou, he was very energetic, but at this moment he was a little unconfident. The root cause of all this was this more than a month-long siege in Ganzhou. This protracted battle under the city of Ganzhou caused a serious psychological blow to Jin Shenghuan, so that although Wang Deren clearly gave a guarantee to quickly break the city, Jin Shenghuan could not believe it. After dragging it over for a few days, Nanchang's old capital would probably be compensated.

Just when Jin Shenghuan was planning to withdraw his troops, Li Chengdong brought 20,000 troops and the Zhongjie Town of Liu Wenxiu, Tang Wenyao, Chen Youlong's troops, Zhongjie Town, Guangdong Town, Guangxi Town, and a siege artillery team composed of ten-pound and twelve-pound red artillery guns. He entered Ganzhou from Nanxiong, Guangzhou, and successfully joined Jin Shenghuan's troops, and brought the emperor's imperial edict: the task of attacking Ganzhou was led by Li, Guangxi and Guangdong towns, and the 50,000 troops of Jin and Wang's troops and nearly 10,000 elite troops of Liu Wenxiu's troops returned to the army, recaptured Jiujiang and saved the situation in Jiangxi.

The timely reinforcements of Li's troops and the Ming army's Beijing camp made Jin Shenghuan breathe a sigh of relief. The millions of wealth, wives, concubines and children in Nanchang City had already made him unwilling to fight. Yongli's imperial edict was just right, so he decisively issued an order to withdraw his troops and quickly returned to Nanchang.

Wang Deren's army joined forces with Liu Wenxiu's army to seize Jiujiang with more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry.

On the third day of the fifth month, the army led by Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren returned to Nanchang. On the way, they met with a Han Eight Banners of the Qing army and immediately started a battle. The result of the battle was no surprise. More than 60,000 troops, including more than 10,000 cavalry, faced three or four thousand Qing cavalry, and the Qing army quickly retreated. The Ming army successfully won the initial battle and seized four or five red barbarian cannons from the Qing army, which restored Jin Shenghuan's confidence to a little.

After the army entered Linjiang Prefecture, the two troops of Jin and Wang divided the troops as planned. Wang Deren and Liu Wenxiu brought more than 25,000 elite infantry and cavalry in the headquarters, marched overnight and headed straight to Jiujiang. There was insufficient news about Yang Jie, the general of aid and suppression left by the Qing army, who was left by Jiujiang. The more than 10,000 green camps of Han Eight Banners in their headquarters were not stable, and they were caught off guard by the elite flying cavalry of the Ming army. Jiujiang finally returned to the hands of the Ming army again.

On May 23, the main force of the Qing army, the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolian, rushed to Nanchang, and nearly 100,000 troops gradually surrounded Nanchang City. During this period, Jin Shenghuan led 20,000 elite troops from the city out of the city to fight the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolian, and was defeated by the Qing army on Qili Street. His troops suffered heavy losses and were forced to retreat to Nanchang.

The battle situation was reported to Jiang Yueguang, the governor of Jiangxi. Jiang Yueguang did not believe it at first. Although he did not know much about the combat effectiveness of the Qing army's Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners, he was still very clear about the situation of the army brought out by Jin Shenghuan. Those soldiers were definitely the most elite in Nanchang City. Among them, there were many veterans who followed Jin Shenghuan to fight south and north before surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. They had extremely rich combat experience and were always the main force in the army. The reason why Jin Shenghuan was able to occupy the entire Jiangxi without relying on the power of the Qing army was that they relied on these 20,000 soldiers.

When Jin Shenghuan appeared in front of Jiang Yueguang with a frustrated look on his face and told him about the battle, Jiang Yueguang realized how fierce the Qing court was. After realizing the insurmountable gap between his own army and the main force of the Qing army's Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners, Jiang Yueguang and Jin Shenghuan had a secret discussion and decided to send an envoy out of the city to seek help immediately.

Among them, Wu Zongzhou went to Changsha, Huguang to conduct an expedition, Zhu Mouxing went to Jiujiang for help, and Li Si went to Ganzhou for help.

Jiujiang, the closest to Nanchang, was the first to reply, and Wang Deren replied: "Jiujiang is the key to the Yangtze River and the gateway to Jiangxi. The Qing army must pass to transport food and money. Jiujiang City is small and solid, easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as you stick to Jiujiang, it will form a horn with Nanchang. The Qing army will divide its troops to attack me, and the food and money will not be continued. Nanchang leads troops to slowly, and fight east and west, attacking both inside and outside, and it will not be difficult to break the 100,000 Tatar troops. If you abandon Jiujiang and trap the lonely city, it will be like a tiger falling into a well, and you will die."

Jiang Yueguang and Jin Shenghuan did not listen. In order to protect Nanchang, he urged him fifteen times a day and night. Jiujiang was short of food, so Wang Deren had to lead his headquarters' 10,000 elite cavalrymen to aid Nanchang, leaving behind 10,000 elite Zhongjie Town soldiers of the Beijing camp and the remaining 5,000 remaining soldiers and horses of his army to stay in Jiujiang to restrain the main force of the Qing army.

Not long after Wang Deren rushed back to Nanchang, the main force of the Qing army had almost completed the encirclement of Nanchang.

A 100,000 Qing army was on an expedition, and Jiujiang was accidentally seized, and the food and salary transfer was not smooth. The 100,000 army had a huge need, so we could only think of solutions locally. So at the order of the Manchu chief Tan Tai, the people around Nanchang City, regardless of men, women, age and age, were driven to the Ganjiang River to build a floating bridge. Building a floating bridge was just an excuse to eliminate the Han people and seize food.

The serving people could only drink a bowl of thin porridge every day, which was the shabu-shabu water that the Qing army had finished their meal. Hundreds of thousands of people built a seven-mile-wide floating bridge, blocking the entire Ganjiang River. The Ganjiang River was in the dry season, so just leave a tunnel.

Tan Tai built a seven or eight-meter-high platform outside Yonghe Gate. He saw all his every move in Nanchang City. After the floating bridge was built, the platform was built, all the people died, and the Qing army obtained a lot of food.
Chapter completed!