Jin Shenghuan's face was terrifying. He picked up the binoculars and looked across the Gan River, where a gray-black, strange-looking walled city stood like a monster cast of iron and stone.

At the beginning of last month, he mobilized all the heavy artillery in his hands and placed it on the east bank of the Gan River to storm the fortress of Sokou.

Under the concentrated bombardment of six 2,000-jin and four 1,400-jin Hongyi cannons day and night, it took only 13 days for the city wall of Soakou to collapse.

Just as he was happily preparing to wave his army to seize the soap, he unexpectedly found that behind the wall of the soapmouth, the Ming army had built a smaller walled city at some point.

He didn't care at first, but still ordered a heavy artillery bombardment, and at that time he also smiled and said to Wang Deren, look at whether my artillery bombards faster or the Ming army builds the city faster.

Unexpectedly, this gray-black trumpet fortress was as hard as steel, and ten cannons bombarded it for ten days in a row, and not even a single hole was blasted out!

Now he has been on the other side of the soap for more than a month, and the artillery has been bombarding for more than a month, but he still hasn't been able to break the damn fortress on the other side!

And in the past month or so, Zhu Linmiao, who had "blackmailed" him more than 100,000 taels of silver, only brought less than 4,000 men and horses from Fuzhou all the way to Jiujiang, and at this time had crossed the Ganjiang River and rushed towards Nanchang.

Now Wang Deren actually persuaded him to drop the soap mouth and return to Nanchang!

"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 I retreat from Nanchang again, Azig will definitely send a full man to replace me!

"Look at Zuo Mengeng, because he lost his military power, he was confined in Beijing and raised like a dog."

Wang Deren saw that he was angry, so he had to stand aside and dare not speak again.

Zuo Menggeng is the son of Zuo Liangyu, Marquis of Nanning in the Hongguang Dynasty. Zuo Liangyu led hundreds of thousands of troops into Nanjing in the name of "Qingjun side" in the early years of Hongguang, but died of illness halfway.

After Zuo Mengeng took over his father's troops, he was defeated by Huang Degong in Tongling, and felt that there was no hope of taking Nanjing, so he led an army of 200,000 to surrender to the Qing Ying prince Azig. Jin Shenghuan, as Zuo Mengeng's subordinate at that time, also voted for the Qing court.

However, after this Zuo Mengeng surrendered, he was asked by the Qing court to "enter Beijing to see him", and seized his military power in disguise.

If he retreats to Nanchang like this, Yang Tinglin will inevitably follow behind his ass and take back Ji'an, Linjiang and other prefectures all the way. Jin Shenghuan felt as uncomfortable as eating a dead mouse, southern Jiangxi did not gain, northern Jiangxi lost, if he lost these western state capitals, wouldn't he only have a corner of Nanchang Mansion left in Jiangxi?

He knew that he could lead a large army to be powerful and prosperous, because the Manchu master wanted to use him to seize Jiangxi. If one day the master finds that he is unable to complete this task, he will unceremoniously kick him away like a dog.

You have to take down the soap mouth first! His eyes were cold, and his heart was secretly ruthless, even if he paid huge casualties! After quickly seizing the soap mouth, he took advantage of the victory to go south in one fell swoop and besiege Ganzhou. At that time, he will be able to lead the main force back to Nanchang!

Even if Yang Tinglin broke through the siege of Ganzhou, Wang Deren could retreat to Soakou to defend it. As long as he can hold back the Ming army for a month, and when he cleans up that Zhu Linmiao and stabilizes the situation in northern Jiangxi, he can turn back to deal with Yang Tinglin.

Only in this way can the situation in Jiangxi be brought back under control.

Jin Shenghuan had made up his mind, stared at the fortress on the opposite bank that was sixty or seventy zhang square, and said to Wang Deren: "Pass on my military order, cook dinner tonight, and march into the army at the end of the day." The whole army stormed the soap mouth! ”

"Big brother, this ...... The cost is too great. ”

Wang Deren felt that his throat was a little dry. He knew that the Qing army currently had a main force of 30,000, and with the miscellaneous troops transferred from various parts of Jiangxi, there were nearly 40,000 in total. The Ming army on the opposite side was less than 20,000, and only Zhang An's 6,000 Dragon and Tiger Army could fight. If it is attacked hard, it should be able to take it, but the casualties on his side are definitely not a small number.

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

"Subordinates, obey!"

In this way, Jin Shenghuan made what may be the worst decision of his life.

The sky is slightly bright, and there are large and small boats on the Ganjiang River that cover the sky and the sun.

Immediately, a soldier on the soap mouth fortress discovered the Qing army's fleet, and immediately sounded a low horn sound that made people tremble.

Soon, the only two Hongyi heavy cannons of the Sakou Ming army began to roar towards the river. The two guns were erected on the inner turrets of the fort, and the gunners could clearly see the situation on the river.

The eleven-pound iron ball smashed into the river, splashing more than three feet high. The second round of artillery bombardment of the Ming army hit - such a dense ship on the river surface that it was difficult to hit it - a wooden boat five or six zhang long and more than a dozen Qing soldiers sitting on it sank to the bottom of the river in an instant.

However, it only took a moment to cross the river, which was more than a mile wide, and after the two cannons sank more than a dozen ships, the Qing soldiers had already landed on the west bank of the Gan River.

As an excellent ferry port, the terrain is very flat after countless generations of repairs. Wang Deren wiped the river water from his face—a cannonball just now grazed his boat and plunged into the river, and the splashing water soaked his whole body—first ordered his henchman Huang Tianlei to lead 10,000 Dashun soldiers to line up on the west side of the fortress to block Yang Tinglin's main force.

The fortress is only sixty or seventy zhang square, and there are at most three or four thousand people stationed in it, and the Ming army will definitely be reinforced from the periphery when he attacks the city. Therefore, it is necessary to block the reinforcements and force the fortress to be possible.

Then he ordered Jia Xiong to lead 10,000 miscellaneous troops to erect siege equipment near the fortress first.

It is clear that these people are just cannon fodder. When they set up the siege equipment, they were almost disabled, and then Wang Deren personally led the elite to use these siege equipment to break the city.

To say that the battle-hardened Dashun soldiers under Wang Deren are indeed good, and when they crossed the river to complete the formation, Wan Yuanji's troops had not yet been assembled.

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

He knew that with the combat strength of Yang Tinglin's troops, even if he fought desperately, it would take at least a whole day to break through the defense line of this 10,000 Great Shun soldiers.

With such a long time, if you attack the fortress at any cost, it is enough to take it.

Soon, around the fortress, the sound of guns and the screams of the Qing army were already resounding.

Wang Deren ordered his subordinate Guo Tiancai to lead 10,000 ordinary Qing troops to supervise the battle in the front row, and all the 10,000 cannon fodder miscellaneous soldiers led by Jia Xiong who dared to retreat were immediately hacked to death on the spot.

He himself personally led the remaining 10,000 soldiers to accumulate strength in the rear row, and only waited for the trench carts, ladders, and mantle carts to be in place, and these people could wait for their work and rush into the city in one go.