Chapter 437 reinforcements are coming
When these Baiyala new forces joined, the battle for the city wall changed. The battle situation gradually developed in a direction that was not conducive to the Ming army.
When Jin Shenghuan saw this, he knew that the situation was hopeless and that his defense line collapsed was only a matter of time. Thinking of this, Jin Shenghuan looked at the direction of his home in the city, he didn't know if his son Jin Daoming could escape with his two grandchildren.
After a night of hard battle, the Ming army suffered heavy losses. Jin Shenghuan felt sad when he saw the old brothers who had followed him for many years. Anyway, the family had already arranged it, so it would be better to break it up. It would be better to save the Qing army from living a life rather than death.
Thinking of this, Jin Shenghuan was about to smear his neck, and when he was about to take action, he was pulled by the personal soldiers beside him.
"Master, what do you think is there?"
Jin Shenghuan looked in the direction pointed by his personal soldiers and vaguely heard the sound of drums.
The sky is bright now, and the solar term is late autumn, so the fog is very heavy in the morning. The entire Nanchang is surrounded by a heavy fog, and there is no sign of people a mile or a mile away.
Although there was no figure, the drums and the sound of the military horns could be heard. Jin Shenghuan was overjoyed when he heard this. This special drum sound was exactly the small drums of the Guangdong New Army. It seemed that reinforcements had arrived.
Perhaps the Qing army outside the city also received news. The Qing army, which had already gained the upper hand on the city wall, retreated one after another. When the exhausted Ming army saw the Qing army retreat, they didn't even have the strength to cheer and sat on the ground and gasped.
He Luohui was about to win, but for some reason Tan Tai sent someone to inform him to retreat. He Luo, covered in blood, returned to the camp and saw Tan Tai and asked, "General, I am going to occupy Deshengmen, why did you let me down!"
Tan Tai said with a blue face, "Just heard the news that the 50,000 Mongolian cavalry in Kundu were defeated by someone, and the entire army was wiped out. Only less than two thousand people ran back!"
He Luo would be shocked. The cavalry of 50,000 people disappeared. Who was the other party?
"General, Kundu is so greedy for wine. It's not that he has drunk too much and has fake information!"
Tan Tai shook his head, "Kun is all good wine, but I believe he will not be confused about the importance of such a major event! Don't make a conclusion now, the Ten Kings also know the news, gathering generals in the big tent, let's go quickly!"
He Luo would follow Tan Tai to Duoduo's tent. The news of failure on the outside had a great impact on Duoduo, and his already gray face was even more like white paper. Duoduo was asking a Mongolian commander who escaped from the front, and it was the news that he had brought back to Kundu.
The war was not going well, and Duoduo was also very anxious and forced himself to ask: "Tell me what's going on! Why are all 50,000 troops lost in less than an hour! And Kundu?"
The commander of the thousand-man said tremblingly: "Report to the respected His Highness of the Ten Kings, after receiving the military order, we Mongolians stationed in Shengmi Ferry fifteen miles away in Nanchang under the leadership of the commander Kundu. There was nothing happening in the middle of the night. The commander of Kundu called several commanders of ten thousand men to go to his place to drink. But when it was almost dawn, a team of thousands of people who were patrolling came back to report and found signs of a large number of troops marching. The commander of Kundu took advantage of the alcohol to bring all his troops to fight a victory. Who would have thought that at the Shengmi Ferry, the Ming army warships rushed out in the fog. Their artillery was very powerful, and each cannon could defeat more than a dozen of our soldiers. The commander of Kundu originally wanted to destroy them while the Ming army had not yet established a firm foothold, but he didn't expect that he was hit by the Ming army's artillery by the riverside, and his corpse was gone! The other brothers saw that they could not fight, and the villain was deeply favored by the emperor, so they came back to report to the ten kings!"
Duoduo and the generals in the tent felt relieved when they heard this. It turned out that the 50,000 troops in Kundu were not completely wiped out, but were dispersed. The Qing generals all knew the nature of these Mongolians. The current Mongolian army was not as good as their ancestor Genghis Khan, so they were more powerful in riding and shooting, and fighting on the battlefield might not be as good as the Han army flag. So everyone thought that the 50,000 Mongolians were caught off guard by the Ming army, and the birds and beasts scattered after Kundu, who was commanding the army, died.
Duoduo felt relieved and asked, "Did you see clearly the Ming army opposite there? What flag is it?"
"It was dark at that time and there was heavy fog on the river surface. The villain really didn't see clearly. He just saw that there were warships on the river surface, and the largest ones were as high as the Nanchang City Wall!"
As soon as Duoduo said this, he moved his heart. Could it be that the Ming Navy in Guangdong came? As a senior executive of the Qing Dynasty, he knew that at the battle at the Yangtze River Estuary, hundreds of Qing warships could not deal with the five Ming ships, and they were also shot in Jiangyin, killing one prince and one Beile. The big ship at that time was the type of sea ship with the same height as the city wall. Did he come to Nanchang from the Yangtze River this time?
Duoduo thought about it and thought it was impossible. The estuary of the Yangtze River is thousands of miles away from Nanchang. There are Qing army-controlled areas along the way. It is impossible that they all hit the door. He has not received any news yet. What's more, the sea boats are drifting and can still sail on the Yangtze River. They can't move when they enter the Poyang Lake water system. Duoduo thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out, so he simply didn't think about it anymore. It's better to fight a war than to think about it. The war in Nanchang is now at a critical moment. If the Ming reinforcements, the external troubles, will be in a situation where they are attacked from both sides.
While Duoduo was pondering, a military commander came to report to him. Five miles outside Yonghe Gate, a large number of troops wearing strange clothes were found under the banner of the Ming army.
Duoduo was overjoyed when he heard the messenger say this. He was afraid that the Ming army would rely on the firepower of giant ships by the river, so that it would be difficult for him to deal with him. It would be very likely that the Ming army in Nanchang City would break through successfully. But he didn't expect that the generals of the Ming army opposite had abandoned their boats and landed on the shore. He wanted to have a field battle with him. He didn't know that I, the Eight Banners athlete, were afraid of people in the field battle?
"How many Ming troops are there opposite?"
"When you go back to Your Highness Ten Kings, the fog has not yet dissipated, and you can't see clearly, but you can't see 20,000 people at present!"
When the generals in the camp heard that there were only 20,000 people, they couldn't help but clamor.
"Your Highness, there are only 20,000 people. Please give the 20,000 troops to the 20,000 troops. The 20 will decide to take the head of the Ming general!"
"Your Highness, just give me ten thousand people!"
Seeing the generals asking for battle, Duoduo waved his hand and asked these guys to stop the noise.
"Tan Tai, you can lead He Luohui and other generals to surround Nanchang. Don't let the Ming army rush out in the city and let our army be attacked from both sides! I will deal with the Ming army outside the city myself!"
When Tan Tai heard that Duoduo was going to do it himself, he quickly asked, "Ten Kings, let the generals go to such small things, your body..."
Duoduo smiled and said, "My health is probably not good. I will hand over the army to you after the Nanchang war. I will go back to Beijing to recuperate. This battle will be my final battle!"
Tan Tai had no choice but to hold his fists and agree. Duoduo did not mobilize the army besieged, but only brought the reserve team's 20,000 white flag elites and 10,000 Mongolian cavalry and 10,000 Han military flags. In Duoduo's eyes, he could already deal with the 20,000 Guangdong Ming army.
By the time Duoduo was ready, it was already 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning of the later generations (the ancient times said it was difficult, and it was calculated according to the 24-hour period in the future). At this time, the sun rose and the heavy fog outside Nanchang City had dissipated. The Ming and Qing armies in the city and outside the city could see the Ming armies in Guangdong standing five miles outside Yonghe Gate.
The Ming army in Guangdong had less than 20,000 people, lined up in sixteen platoons. There were five musketeers in front of each platoon, and artillery troops not far behind. Now the Ming army has been unfolded, and the upper red and lower blue uniforms on the upper and lower sides are particularly beautiful under the sun in the morning.
The arrival of reinforcements greatly boosted the morale of the defenders in Nanchang City. In addition, the Qing army stopped siege, and civil officials who had no mission to defend the city ran to Yonghe Gate to watch. Even the commander of Desheng Gate, Jin Shenghuan, came.
Jiang Yueguang, the general of Huguang, was watching the fun, but unexpectedly, Jin Shenghuan also came and asked quickly: "Prince, why are you here? What should I do with Deshengmen?"
"Don't worry, Lord Jiang, I have already told the deputy general over there. Now the Qing army's full attention is on the Guangdong New Army and will not attack the city!"
"Since that's the case, should we send troops out to pick up reinforcements?"
When Jiang Yueguang asked him to go out to pick him up, Jin Shenghuan quickly shook his head. The five thousand cavalry he had saved up last time did not even arouse any waves. Now he dared not go out of the city!
"Mr. Jiang must not be. The Tartar thief Chief Duoduo is very cunning. He must have thought that our army could leave the city to respond, so he must set up a trap outside the city. It is better not to leave the city!"
Jiang Yueguang thought about it and it was true that he had seen the cavalry duel half a month ago, but reinforcements outside the city were right in front of him, so it would be better not to go out.
"Prince, how likely do you think the Guangdong New Army has to win!"
This sentence is right. Jin Shenghuan suffered a great loss from the Guangdong New Army in Ganzhou, but Jin Shenghuan didn't want to mention that kind of shame. Now, he heard Jiang Yueguang's question, so he had to say: "Xiao Wang estimated that the victory or defeat was 55. If the Qing army had only tens of thousands of people, the Guangdong New Army could win sharply with firearms. However, there are more than 100,000 Qing troops opposite, while the Guangdong New Army had less than 20,000, so we will not be optimistic about the Guangdong New Army!"
Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren were both defeated generals of the Guangdong New Army. They also nodded in agreement with their general's opinion, and were not optimistic that the new army would win.
When Jiang Yueguang saw that he didn't have hope of victory, the joy of the reinforcements in his heart was washed away. Didn't Zhang Jiayu's letter say that the army of 50,000 is good? Why is there less than 20,000 people? And didn't Zhang Jiayu say that he could arrive in Nanchang on the fifteenth day, why did he arrive today on the twenty-one day?
Chapter completed!