Late Yuan Dynasty: I am the true emperor

Chapter 454: Jiangxi Changes Ownership (Two in One)

After the battle began, Jiujiang was the first to make progress. Firstly, it was because Jiujiang was closest to the starting position, and secondly, the northern outskirts of Jiujiang had already been cleared, so it was time to besiege this core.

Thirdly, Jiujiang controls the northern gate of Jiangxi and guards the upper reaches of the Yangtze River leading to Wuchang. If they don't take it down first, the Yuan army can block the water transportation of the Shengwu Army at any time, which will make them very uncomfortable.

On the morning of the first day of September, Liao Yongan crossed the Yangtze River from Huangmei in Jiangbei and arrived at the south bank. Yu Que, Li Zongke and Wang Rongzhong did not dare to go out of the city to fight. After the Jiangxi Yuan army navy under the command of the barbarian Hague was completely wiped out, they were unable to stop the Shengwu Army from crossing the river, so they could only watch Liao Yongan calmly come to the city of Jiujiang.

There is not much to say about the subsequent siege. The city's military role is more like a material storage base, which can accommodate military stations and granaries for soldiers to rest. Of course, it is not ruled out that the city also has the function of a defensive fortress.

But to play this role, first of all, you must have a steady supply of external aid and the ability to fight in the field in the city. If you don't have these two, the fall of an isolated city besieged by the enemy is only a matter of time. It just so happens that Jiujiang has neither of these two, or in other words, they have no ability to fight in the field, and their reinforcements are blocked by Liao Yongan.

There are only three directions that can provide support to Jiujiang now. One is Ruichang in the upper reaches of Longkai River, which is more than 60 miles west of Jiujiang. The second is De'an in the south at the western foot of Mount Lu, but it is 90 miles away from Jiujiang, all by land. It takes two days to march by land at a fast pace and three days at a slow pace. It would be even better if the reinforcements dared to march miles a day to come to help. It is estimated that they would be exhausted when they arrived at the destination, and could only deliver food.

The biggest threat in the surrounding area is only from Xingzi County, the capital of Nankang Road. Xingzi County is surrounded by Lushan Mountain to the west and Poyang Lake to the east. It has an excellent geographical location with mountains behind and water in front. It also blocks the narrowest part of Poyang Lake. If the Yuan army wants to support Jiujiang from here, they can take a boat across Poyang Lake and launch a surprise attack from the side of the Shengwu Army.

Even if the Yuan army in Xingzi County did not directly support Jiujiang City, but just watched from the periphery, it was enough to make the Shengwu Army feel sick, so Liao Yongan decided to eliminate this foreign aid first.

He had an entire field army under his command, and it was not necessary to use so many troops just to attack the city of Jiujiang, so Liao Yongan divided the troops into three parts.

The Fourth Army was led by Miao Daheng, which included his own 48th Army and Hua Yunlong's 42nd Army, plus Miao Youzhen's rd Navy Regiment and a Guard Division, totaling more than people. They advanced westward along the Yangtze River and attacked Qichun on the north bank of the Yangtze River. After taking Qichun, they set up a material storage point to make logistical preparations for the subsequent attack on Wuchang.

Liao Yongan himself led the Third Army to attack northern Jiangxi, but the only troops actually used to attack Jiujiang were two divisions and six regiments of his own 35th Army, plus half of the Imperial Guard Division, totaling more than people.

Then he let Xu Da lead the 47th Army and another half of the Imperial Guard Division, together with Sang Shijie's Second Navy Regiment, to attack Xingzi via Poyang Lake, destroy Jiujiang, the most important external aid, and prevent themselves from being disturbed by the reinforcements of the Yuan army during the siege.

As for De'an to the south of Jiujiang and Ruichang to the west, it doesn't matter. Those two counties can't cause any big waves.

After making all these preparations, Liao Yongan began to build artillery batteries outside Jiujiang City, surrounding three sides with one gate, and attacking the north, south and east sides at the same time, leaving only the west unattacked. The west happened to be in the direction of Ruichang. There were no other cities within hundreds of miles of Ruichang, and the terrain was not dangerous enough. It was also an isolated city. If the defeated soldiers of Jiujiang dared to run to Ruichang, they would still be dead.

Moreover, it was not certain whether they could run to Ruichang, which was sixty miles away. Liao Yongan had grown up learning Lu Jin's quick-learning military tactics, and he liked to pursue the fleeing enemy troops.
On the first day of September, the 35th Army crossed the river, set up camp, and built artillery positions. On the second day of September, the attack officially began. The heavy howitzers first used solid bullets to destroy the parapet and arrow tower on the city wall, and then used ricochet tactics to clear all kinds of city defense equipment on the city wall, such as gold juice, oil pans and the like. Finally, they used shrapnel grenades to attack the defenders on the city wall, scaring them so much that they dared not stand on the city wall.

It was a standard artillery siege operation process. In the last round of artillery fire, the heavy armored infantry who covered the trap camp climbed up to the top of the city wall and threw hundreds of grenades at the Yuan army hiding on the stairs behind the city wall. Bombs suddenly rained down from behind the city wall, making the Yuan army cry for their parents.

The heavily armored infantrymen of the Xianzhen Camp took advantage of the situation and rushed into the collapsed enemy army with siege weapons such as sabers, lances, and long-handled axes. Under the fierce attack of swords and axes, even the armored soldiers of the Yuan army were unable to resist and died one after another under the can openers specially made by Lu Jin.

The Xianzhen Camp quickly seized control of the city gate from inside the city, opened it, and led the large army into the city. The siege troops, which had been prepared for a long time, also rushed to the combat areas that had been divided in advance under the guidance of the local intelligence station.

Wang Rongzhong, the governor of Jiangzhou Road, was commanding the Yuan army in street fighting after the city was captured. He was blown into pieces on the spot by a light howitzer that followed the main force into the city, and the pieces were scattered all over the street.

Yu Que, the provincial governor of Jiangxi, led a group of Yuan soldiers and was chased to the gate of the government office. On both sides of the street were more than a hundred musketeers and a light howitzer who were surrounding them.

Facing hundreds of black gun muzzles, Yu Que knew that the game was over and he was unwilling to surrender and suffer humiliation, so he sighed deeply and committed suicide with his sword in front of the government office. At the moment his body fell, the rest of the Yuan army laid down their weapons and surrendered, and Jiujiang was declared recovered!
Yu Que's nephew-in-law Li Zonke, seeing that the Shengwu Army's street fighting was fierce, was unable to defeat them and was forced to summon the remaining Yuan army soldiers and break out of the city from the west gate, which surrounded three gates and one. As a result, he was relentlessly pursued by Yin Congdao, the commander of the 120th Division, who had been waiting outside the west gate, and two regiments of main infantry and a battalion of musketeers.

Yin Congdao led 10,000 men and chased Li Zongke's more than 6,000 defeated soldiers for a whole day and night, and chased them westward for 60 miles, all the way to the city of Ruichang in the west. Seeing this, the Yuan army garrison commander of Ruichang did not dare to open the city gate for fear that there was a fraud. He suspected that Li Zongke's defeated soldiers were impersonating the Shengwu Army.

Ruichang's gates were not opened, which made things difficult for Li Zongke. They had already been defeated and had been chased all the way. Their morale had collapsed and they were completely exhausted. Now they had to face the frenzied killing of tens of thousands of Shengwu Army soldiers under their own city. In the end, Li Zongke was shot into a sieve on the spot by that battalion of musketeers, and the rest of the defeated Yuan army from Jiujiang all surrendered to Yin Congdao under the city.

The Yuan army in Ruichang was standing on the top of the city wall and witnessed with their own eyes the brutal massacre of their friendly troops by the Shengwu Army. Their morale immediately plummeted and their military spirit was shaken.

In addition, there were spies in the city spreading rumors to undermine the morale of the Yuan army. When Yin Congdao was standing under the city to persuade them to surrender, the spies from Ruichang took the opportunity to set fire to the city, which immediately caused chaos in the city. Seeing this, the defender of Ruichang knew that it was impossible to defend the city. Finally, under the persuasion of Yin Congdao, he wisely chose to open the gates and surrender the city. Ruichang was also declared to have been recovered.

At the same time, Xu Da lived up to expectations and led a 47-strong detachment of the th Army to capture Xingzi County on the third day of September, capturing this strategic point on the shores of Poyang Lake. He left hundreds of auxiliary troops to guard the city and continued to march westward, sweeping towards De'an, Jianchang (Yongxiu), Jing'an, Fengxin and other places.

After taking Jiujiang, Liao Yongan left Qin Conglong, the right governor of Jiangxi Province, to take charge of the overall situation. He and his two commanders Yin Congdao and Jin Chaoxing regrouped the main force of the 35th Army. After joining forces with Miao Daheng's Fourth Army that had just taken Qichun, they once again gathered an army of more than and marched westward to Wuchang, preparing to fight against the main force of the Miao army under Yang Tongguan in the Wuhan (Wuchang, Hanyang) area.

Only Xu Da's 47th Army was left to continue sweeping and surrendering the remaining Yuan army forces in northern Jiangxi.

At the same time, Chang Yuchun and Liao Yongjian on the southern route also made progress.

The Tenth Army of Liao Yongjian and Wang Zhiyuan set out from Quzhou and headed straight for Shangrao. They basically did not encounter the main force of the Yuan army along the southernmost route. In addition, Xinzhou Road was once Peng Yingyu's base camp, where many remnants of Xu Song were hidden. Inspired by the Shengwu Army's rapid advance and the manifesto, many remnants of Xu Song ran out of the mountains, forests, lakes and swamps and took the initiative to surrender to Liao Yongjian's troops. Not only did they not suffer much loss along the way, but their troops increased as the battle went on.

Chang Yuchun and Deng Shunxing's Ninth Army, well, it cannot be said that it was not smooth. It should be said that they were the only group that encountered the main force of the Yuan army that dared to fight in the field.

The Ninth Army set out from Hukou and Wuyuan east of Poyang Lake and divided into two routes to attack Poyang (Boyang), the capital of Raozhou Road. Along the way, many remnants of Xu Song ran out to surrender. The attack on Poyang was relatively smooth, but when it marched towards Yugan, it encountered the main force of the Yuan army in Jiangxi.

Yugan is located at the southernmost tip of Poyang Lake and is the last barrier to the east of Nanchang. If it cannot be defended, the Shengwu Army will be able to march directly to the city of Nanchang. Xingji, the governor of Jiangxi Province in the Yuan court, did not want to stay in Nanchang to fight a city defense battle, so he quickly gathered the main force of the Jiangxi Yuan army and marched to Yugan to fight Chang Yuchun.

The generals commanding the Yuan army included Wang Weigong, a trusted and beloved general of Xingji, the governor of Jiangxi Province. He led an army of 5,000 and had previously followed Xingji to attack Susong. He had witnessed the power of the Shengwu Army and had also seen the bastion in Lei Chi.

There was General Fu Tong, who was Yu Que's nephew and also led 5,000 soldiers; there was the militia marshal Hu Boyan, who led 10,000 soldiers. Of course, this was not considered the main force. What really made them dare to fight Chang Yuchun head-on in the field was the 30,000 Yuan troops from Jiangsu and Zhejiang led by the brothers Dong Tuanxiao and Dong Angxiao.

Last July, it was the Yuan army from Jiangsu and Zhejiang led by these two brothers that defeated the main force of Peng Yingyu's Eastern Army in Hangzhou, and then chased Peng Yingyu for thousands of miles, all the way from Hangzhou to Jiangxi, and finally killed Peng Yingyu.

Later, they participated in the encirclement and suppression of Ou Puxiang in Yuanzhou Road. They fought back and forth with Xu Song in Yichun for more than half a year. It was not until this year that the battle-hardened Yuan army from Jiangsu and Zhejiang finally defeated Ou Puxiang completely.

Dong Tuanxiao was the main general and Dong Angxiao was the deputy general. The two brothers led 30,000 troops; Wang Weigong was the left deputy general and led 10,000 troops with Fu Tong; Hu Boyan was the right deputy general and also led 10,000 troops. The main force of the Yuan army in Jiangxi totaled 50,000 troops, and they took the initiative to go to Yugan to fight Chang Yuchun.

As for Chang Yuchun, his Ninth Army had its own 43rd Army and Deng Shunxing's 46th Army, totaling people, and a Royal Guard Division of people, totaling more than people, giving him a slight advantage in numbers.

In terms of generals, there are the commander of the Fifth Field Army, Chang Yuchun; the commander of the 109th Division, Ping Ding (a native of Chuzhou, Ping An's father); the commander of the 135th Division, Zhou Xing, a native of Chaohu, from the Imperial Guards, who fought all the way across the river; the commanders of the 139th Division, Deng Shunxing, Deng Youlong (Deng Yu's father and brother), and Hu Dahai, who is currently the regiment commander; the commander of the 140th Division, Qin Rong, a member of the Qin family of Chao County, from the old Imperial Guards.

The two sides have equal military strength and are both experienced and victorious armies. The only difference is that one of them won the victory over Xu Song, while the other won the victory over the Yuan army. Both sides are elite troops with high morale and no one is willing to give in.

Thus, this epic battle that determined the ownership of Jiangxi, with a combined force of more than 100,000 troops from both sides, unfolded on the plains at the southernmost end of Poyang Lake.

When Chang Yuchun was still in Poyang, the scouts on the front line had already gathered intelligence that a large Yuan army under the flag with the word "Dong" had arrived in Yugan, with a strength of tens of thousands. Their camp was well-organized and looked very elite. The exact number of people was unknown, but it seemed to be quite a lot. This should be the main force of the Yuan army in Jiangxi.

Sure enough, that night someone from the Nanchang Intelligence Station rowed a small boat to Poyang and reported to Chang Yuchun the details of this Yuan army. The leading general was named Dong Tuanxiao, who had chased Peng Yingyu for thousands of miles from Hangzhou to Jiangxi. He also said that this army came from Nanchang.

After Chang Yuchun found out the enemy's details, he immediately called a meeting of the generals. After discussion among the generals, their first thought was to send more troops. They clearly had the advantage in terms of military strength, so why not use it?
Of course, the reinforcement does not mean to continue to increase the number of ordinary infantry. They already have enough ordinary infantry. What they need more reinforcements now are technical troops!
Then Chang Yuchun wrote a letter to Xu Da, who was not involved in any major battles in northern Jiangxi, and borrowed a musket regiment and 32 field guns from two imperial guards battalions. He asked Sang Shijie's Second Naval Regiment to transport the troops across Poyang Lake, and then borrowed 40 more guns from Sang Shijie's navy. Anyway, they didn't have any enemy naval forces to fight, so the guns on the ships would be idle anyway.
So before the battle even started, Chang Yuchun had already increased his troops to 96, with 40 musketeers, 136 cannons from six imperial artillery battalions, plus 8 cannons borrowed from the navy, totaling cannons, more than the Xiaomaoshan Battle that Lu Jin had commanded himself. The density of firepower had reached an abnormal level.
And that was not the end. Chang Yuchun appointed Hu Dahai to lead a main infantry regiment and a heavy armored vanguard regiment of the Imperial Guards Division, a total of two regiments with 9000 people. Each person carried a grenade and served as the surprise force in this battle. They hid in Poyang Lake on the navy's ships and waited for Chang Yuchun to engage in a head-on battle with Dong Tuanxiao. Then Hu Dahai would land from behind the Yuan army and attack their rear or flanks.

After completing all these preparations, Chang Yuchun led his troops to march towards Yugan in a mighty manner.

On the tenth day of September, the Ninth Army arrived at the north of Yugan City. Dong Tuanxiao had already lined up his troops and waited for a long time. Both sides wanted to have a head-on battle. Whoever won would become the master of Jiangxi, so they lined up their troops very actively. In this battle, whoever runs away will be a dog!

Dong Tuanxiao's side still used the traditional ancient square formation, which was divided into five armies: front, middle, rear, left and right. Hu Boyan and Wang Weigong were responsible for the two wings, Fu Tong was in the rear army to provide cover, Dong Tuanxiao led the middle army and sat in the center, and his brother Dong Angxiao personally led the front army to meet the enemy in front.

However, before the two sides engaged in battle, Dong Tuanxiao saw the formation set up by Chang Yuchun on the opposite side and laughed out loud on the spot, then turned serious with a puzzled look on his face.
I saw that Chang Yuchun on the opposite side had deployed his troops in a horizontal formation similar to the one Lu Jin had deployed at Xiaomaoshan. The first row was composed of 9,000 musketeers, all deployed horizontally, forming a broad front more than a mile wide. However, the first row was very thin, with only three rows of soldiers.

Dong Tuanxiao was very confused. Even if they were all strong, could these three rows of soldiers stop the charge of his front army? If Chang Yuchun wanted to take the initiative to attack, could the assault force composed of three rows of soldiers break through his front line? I'm afraid not.

If this is the case, as the saying goes, there is no false reputation under a great name, and the Shengwu Army is also an army that is used to fighting and always victorious, why would they deploy such a formation that can neither defend nor attack?
Chang Yuchun's side was not finished yet. Behind the first row of musketeers, there were 136 cannons lined up in a row. All of them had been unloaded from the horses, and the artillerymen were pushing the cannons and ammunition carts slowly forward.

Behind the artillery were 11 large spear phalanxes consisting of 44 main infantry regiments. Each phalanx was organized into battalions and all faced forward. There should have been 12 regiments, and with the vanguard regiment of the Imperial Guards, there should have been 13 regiments in total. However, Hu Dahai and the vanguard regiment were transferred to the rear of the Yuan army as a surprise force.

Behind the phalanx of spears was a chariot formation consisting of 11 auxiliary chariot battalions. Hundreds of four-wheeled carriages formed a solid fortress behind the entire army. Even if they failed to win the battle the first time, the main force could slowly retreat and hide in the chariot formation as a backup.

After the entire army was deployed, the entire formation looked even more strange. There were no wings, no backup, and the entire army was moving forward. It seemed that they were going to use tens of thousands of people in a frontal attack. But why not put the spearman phalanx with the strongest attack power in the front?

Dong Angxiao was full of doubts, but at this time the sound of drums rang out behind him, and the rumbling of the war drums shook the surrounding area. That was the signal from his elder brother Dong Tuanxiao urging him to advance.

"The whole army moves forward slowly!"

Dong Angxiao immediately drew his sword and shouted, pointing the flag forward, and the entire Yuan army formation began to move slowly forward.

Dong Tuanxiao also knew that the firearms of the Shengwu Army were powerful, so he was not unprepared. He prepared more than 200 large shield carts before the war. The front of the chariot was a "composite armor" made of two layers of thick bamboo strips sandwiched with wet mud, and covered with a layer of wet quilts soaked in water on the outside, which was both bulletproof and fireproof. Together, it was four or five inches thick, like a moving city wall. There were battlements on each vehicle, and two musketeers holding matchlock guns stood on them, who could stand on the vehicle and shoot forward.

Behind the shield car line was a large number of archers, and further back was an assault phalanx composed of sword and shield soldiers and spearmen, which together formed the vanguard.

With such a formation, it would be difficult to break it with only flintlock rifles without cannons.
Both sides moved forward slowly. Unlike the rumbling drums of the Yuan army, the Shengwu army played tin drums and bamboo flutes. The front army played cheerful songs, and the musketeers in the front row sang along. "We are all sharpshooters, and every bullet kills an enemy~

"We have artillery behind us, and we are good at destroying cities and strongholds.

"With our infantry and artillery working in coordination, there is no enemy formation that we cannot break through.

"We are united and of one mind, the roar of guns and cannons terrifies the gods and ghosts~"

An artillery officer of the Imperial Guards walked at the front of the army with a rangefinder made of bamboo tubes. He used the density differentiation woven with fine silk on the lookout board to look at the Yuan army on the opposite side. He determined the approximate distance to the enemy by looking at how many dense positions a human figure in the distance occupied on the lookout board. This is a distance-measuring principle similar to that of a telescope, except that there is no lens on it.

When the two sides were only one kilometer apart, someone immediately waved a flag and the entire army stopped and began to organize their formation based on the flag. When the Yuan army on the opposite side saw that the Shengwu Army had stopped, they thought that they were afraid and moved forward even more excitedly. They thought that the Shengwu Army would be as easy to defeat as the Xu Songxiang Army before, and that as long as General Dong led them to charge once, they could easily defeat the enemy army.

However, at this time, the musketeers in the first row of the Shengwu Army's front line dispersed by company and withdrew from the gaps between the artillery to behind the artillery. A total of 136 black muzzles were exposed in the first row of the army, all pointing at the shield car line of the Yuan army opposite.

After the loading order was issued, each artillery crew began to adjust the direction and elevation of the artillery and load the corresponding ammunition. When the Yuan army continued to approach and there was only 600 meters between the two sides, the artillery of the Shengwu Army opened fire, and once fired, it was a continuous bombardment!

The artillery received orders to attack the shield vehicle in front in company units, with four guns in a group. All shield vehicles must be destroyed within ten shells, and then the entire army will fire ten rapid shots.

Four guns fired at a target together, and the target was a unit as large as a shield car. Even if one or two guns missed the target, at least one or two shells could hit the enemy's shield car.

Boom boom boom boom boom——

After a round of volleys from the entire army, 28 shield carts of the Yuan army stopped on the spot. Some were directly broken into pieces and scattered all over the ground. Even those that were not broken into pieces at least suffered varying degrees of damage. Some were so accurate that they only made a hole the size of a watermelon on the front of the shield cart, killing several people at the back. The Yuan army could continue pushing the cart forward after replacing people. Some had their wheels broken, so they could not be repaired in a short time, so they had to stop.

Boom boom boom boom boom——

Dozens of seconds later, there was another round of volleys, and more than 30 shield carts of the Yuan army were stopped again. Although not many people were killed, the casualties of the Yuan army from the first round of artillery fire to now were less than 1. However, the efficiency of the Shengwu Army in destroying the Yuan army's shield carts was too high. After only two rounds of artillery fire, at most a minute, Dong Tuanxiao's more than 4 shield carts were reduced by /, and there was still at least a mile distance in front of him. If he continued to fight like this, by the time he reached the enemy's front, he would have no shield cart left.

As a last resort, Dong Tuanxiao could only speed up the rhythm of the drums to speed up the entire army's advance. The density of the Yuan army's drum beats suddenly increased a bit.

Meanwhile, the Shengwu Army was still bombarding in an orderly manner.

Boom boom boom boom boom——

After another round of shelling, more than 30 of Dong Tuanxiao's shield carts stopped again. After three rounds of shelling, at least shield carts were gone. Dong Tuanxiao was anxious, but there was no good way. If he didn't attack now, and wait until all the shield carts were destroyed, and then stop in place to form a battle line and wait for the Shengwu Army to attack, he would only be beaten.

Boom boom boom boom boom——

The bombardment was still going on. The tactic of four guns jointly attacking a shield vehicle was very efficient. If one gun was attacking a vehicle, at a distance of 600 meters, it would be very likely that several shots would miss the target, after all, many of the artillerymen were new recruits on the battlefield for the first time.

This not only wastes time, but also ammunition, and puts increasing mental pressure on the gunner. The more he misses the target, the more anxious he becomes, and the more anxious he becomes, the less likely he is to hit the target, and he is more likely to make mistakes. Now, with four guns firing at one target, there is always one that can hit the target, and the others that missed the target will be very relaxed and can aim and fire more calmly.

Moreover, as the distance between the Yuan army shortened, the hit rate of the artillery shells became higher and higher, and the gunners became more relaxed. By the end of the seventh round of artillery fire, all of the more than 450 shield carts in front of Dong Tuanxiao's formation were gone. All were destroyed and lying in the middle of the road. At this time, the distance between the two armies was still more than meters.

At this moment, Dong Tuanxiao hesitated, wondering whether to continue moving forward and take the initiative to attack. With the current intensity of the Shengwu Army's artillery fire and without the cover of the shield vehicles, he would definitely suffer even greater losses when he rushed to the enemy's formation.

However, he was reluctant to give up this attack. After all, the battle had already begun, and he understood the principle of making a strong push at the beginning, then declining at the second, and finally exhausting the effort.

Moreover, the seven rounds of artillery fire from the Shengwu Army did not actually cause very many casualties to him, because they were mainly aimed at the shield carts. Even if there were a few casualties, they were caused by the shield carts. So, although the 136 cannons fired seven rounds and fired nearly a thousand shells, the casualties of the Yuan army were less than two thousand so far. This made Dong Tuanxiao think that maybe he could take a gamble.

The most crucial thing is, Lu Jin once said that as the temperature of the barrel rises, after continuous shooting, even if the same amount of gunpowder is used, the expansion multiple of the gunpowder gas will increase exponentially under the high temperature and high pressure environment, which will greatly increase the probability of barrel explosion.

Although Dong Tuanxiao did not understand the principle behind this, he also had musketeers under his command. The matchlock guns of the Yuan army, if fired continuously for about ten rounds without cooling, would really have the risk of exploding, so in their eyes, muskets were not as useful as bows and arrows.

Now the Shengwu Army has fired seven rounds in a row. How many more rounds can they continue to fire?
If the enemy cannot fire now and I happen to stop, then I have to wait until the enemy's artillery cools down before I attack again. Wouldn't the shield carts and more than a thousand soldiers have died in vain?
So do you want to take a gamble?
Just when Dong Tuanxiao was hesitating, as if seeing his hesitation, Chang Yuchun also cooperated very well and made adjustments to the formation. He ordered the artillery to stop firing and cool down the cannons, but at the same time prepared ten rapid shots, and then waved the command flag to order the musketeers who had just retreated behind the artillery to stand in the first row again.

Dong Tuanxiao was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately shouted, "Their cannons are too hot, they can't continue firing, now is the time, the whole army should speed up the attack!"

The sound of war drums became more rapid again, and the Yuan army instantly began to accelerate forward, and in the blink of an eye they had reached a distance of 400 meters.

However, at this moment, the Shengwu Army's flags were flying again, and Chang Yuchun withdrew his order. The first row of musketeers were withdrawn behind the artillery, and 136 black muzzles were exposed in front of the formation again.
To cheat! To sneak attack!!!

When Dong Tuanxiao saw the change in the formation of the Shengwu Army on the opposite side, his pupils suddenly shrank, and he thought to himself that he had fallen into the trap of the enemy army. However, this time he was not given any chance to react. The 136 cannons in front of the Shengwu Army began to fire their best ten-round rapid fire.

What the hell is the point of aiming? Facing a large army of tens of thousands of people, the only way to win is to fire your artillery shells into the enemy's army as quickly as possible!

Boom boom boom boom boom——

The continuous artillery bombardment suddenly caused the small plain south of Poyang Lake to shake. The smoke in front of the two armies condensed into thick white fog, which was blown towards the right wing of the Yuan army by the northwest wind after the beginning of autumn.

The shells ricocheted towards the enemy crowd. Those who were directly hit were instantly torn into pieces by the solid iron bullets. Those who were hit on the shoulders and thighs had their limbs instantly separated from their bodies. Those who were hit in the head had their bodies immediately beheaded and fell to the ground.

At a distance of four hundred meters, even a solid iron bullet fired from an eight-jin field cannon could easily kill five to ten people.

Ten-round rapid fire, a subject that must be completed within 200 seconds in the artillery combat regulations, really appeared on the battlefield at this time, and immediately made the soldiers on both sides fall into anxiety and feel like every second was a year.

The Yuan army was being beaten so fast that every second seemed like an eternity, hoping that the bombardment would end soon, while the Shengwu army was waiting for the order to charge so fast that they all wanted the artillery to finish firing as soon as possible, leaving more heads for themselves. Otherwise, if the artillery had killed all the people, where would the infantry find military merit? !
Boom boom boom boom boom——

It was as if a volcano erupted in front of the Shengwu Army. A large amount of gunpowder smoke and whistling shells cut through the sky and flew into the enemy camp, instantly turning the Yuan Army's formation into a scene like hell. There were broken limbs and arms everywhere, and corpses were strewn all over the battlefield. The howling of the Yuan Army soldiers was like evil spirits crawling out of the underworld. They struggled and wailed, and shed their last drop of blood in despair.
Toot-tut-tut-tut-tut————

As soon as the cannon fire stopped, the long-lost sound of the charge rang out from the Shengwu Army's front. The Yuan Army's drums had long been drowned out by the cannon fire, but the Shengwu Army's war drums had just sounded.

Dozens of cowhide drums were beaten so hard that the earth shook. Countless soldiers of the Shengwu Army, like a flood, rushed towards the crumbling Yuan army through the passage left by the artillery. The crowd came one after another, continuously!

"Come on!"

"Kill!"

"Whoever captures the enemy general's head will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver and be recorded as a first-class merit!"

"My sons, ennoble your wives and children, build your career, and do great things. Now is the day. Follow me and kill!"

Faced with the surging tide of the Shengwu Army, the broken dam of the Yuan army was no longer able to resist and was instantly washed away and submerged by the red flags and the tide, until it disappeared in the red ocean!

At this moment, the Yuan army, which was turning around and fleeing, was suddenly horrified to find that nearly ten thousand soldiers of the Shengwu Army had crawled out of the Xinjiang River behind their formation, and rushed towards them like evil spirits coming to claim their lives.

A special force of 9,000 people led by Hu Dahai entered the Xinjiang River from Poyang Lake on a navy ship, and secretly went around to the south side of Yugan at night. After hearing the sound of artillery fire from the main battlefield, they began to maneuver towards the battlefield. At this time, they finally arrived at the battlefield and completely blocked the last way of survival for the defeated Yuan army!
The thirteenth year of Zhizheng, 4050 AD, 1353 AD, the tenth day of the ninth month.

The main force of the 50,000 Jiangxi Yuan army led by Dong Tuanxiao, the last elite force of the Jiangxi Yuan army, was completely wiped out by the Ninth Army led by Chang Yuchun on the plain south of Poyang Lake, just under the city of Yugan.

At this point, the Yuan court could no longer provide a mobile force of tens of thousands of people in Jiangxi to stop the attack of the Shengwu Army. The rest of the city defense troops, which numbered hundreds or thousands of people, were nothing more than struggling to survive under the powerful offensive of the Shengwu Army!

After witnessing this epic battle, the garrison commander of the Yuan army in Yugan decisively chose to surrender without waiting for Chang Yuchun to direct his 70,000 troops towards his small city.
At this point, the last outer barrier of Nanchang, the core city of Jiangxi, was torn open by Chang Yuchun. Moreover, there were already few defenders in Nanchang at this time. All the elite troops were sent to Yugan by Xingji and were taken over by Dong Tuanxiao. Nanchang was almost like an empty city at this time.

After Chang Yuchun captured Yugan, he did not rest for a single day and immediately sent the 109th Division from Pingding as the vanguard of the entire army. They marched miles a day and rushed day and night, and arrived at the city of Nanchang on September .

Dong Tuanxiao's military flag and the heads of Dong Tuanxiao, Dong Angxiao, Hu Boyan, Fu Tong and Wang Weigong were hung on bamboo poles and thrown towards the bottom of Nanchang City. The morale of the few remaining defenders collapsed immediately. The main force was wiped out after only a few days of operation. How could they fight with less than 3,000 people left?
Finally, under the instigation of spies who had been operating in Nanchang for a long time, the defenders opened the city gates and chose to surrender, and Pingding successfully recovered Nanchang.

Xingji, the governor of Jiangxi Province, saw that the situation was hopeless and the old man did not want to be a prisoner, so he hanged himself in the lobby of the government office. When Pingding followed the intelligence personnel into the Nanchang government office, what he saw was Xingji's corpse playing on a swing.

He ignored the old man and walked straight to the table, picked up the seal of the Jiangxi Provincial Governor, and nodded with satisfaction.

On the evening of September 13, the 13th year of Zhizheng, Jiangxi changed its owner!

(End of this chapter)