A lead bullet ended Mei Yousong's life. Mei Yousong's efforts still had results. After paying the price of nearly 10,000 deaths and injuries of the Ming army, most of the Ming army successfully distanced themselves from Gao Wei's army. In addition, Wang Shengrong also met with Gao Wei's army at this time.

Wang Shengrong's army continued to pursue the Ming army. During the long march, the People's Army soldiers were also tired. The distance between them and the Ming army was not only not closer, but also farther a little further.

Half an hour before it was dark, the Ming army finally fled to Xinfeng County, but a county town was so small, how could it accommodate 100,000 Ming troops?

Mei Yousong entrusted the army to Song Yingchang. Song Yingchang is now the temporary commander of the Ming army. Song Yingchang's idea was to go directly to Ganzhou Prefecture City without staying in Xinfeng County. Ganzhou Prefecture City could barely accommodate 100,000 Ming troops, almost able to block the People's Army.

Song Yingchang wanted to leave, and the other Ming generals wanted to leave, but the soldiers below did not want to leave.

The generals and commanders were all riding horses, walking on four horse legs, and the soldiers were all walking on two human legs. They marched for one day, and there were several battles in the middle, both physically and mentally exhausted, so they really couldn't walk.

Song Yingchang understood the strength of the People's Army very well. No matter how many Ming troops were, they could not defend such a county town, and stayed there would be death. Only the 30,000 Ming troops who were still on the road were still the opponent of the People's Army even if they joined with the 30,000 Ming troops.

Song Yingchang could only issue compulsory orders to the various units of the Ming army, and was not allowed to stay in Xinfeng County and continue to move forward. The officers and commanders followed Song Yingchang's orders, but many soldiers below were unwilling to do so, and they really couldn't walk anymore.

Some officers waved their swords to drive away the soldiers. Some soldiers continued to advance under the command of the officers, but some soldiers actually raised their weapons to confront the officers.

Seeing that an internal strife was about to break out, Song Yingchang had no choice but to give all the Ming army two choices, leaving Xinfeng County and continuing to walk north, so that he could survive; staying in Xinfeng County and waiting for death.

Even though Song Yingchang said this, there were still many Ming soldiers who didn't want to leave. In the end, less than 60,000 Ming troops followed Song Yingchang and continued to march towards the end, and less than 40,000 Ming troops stayed in Xinfeng County.

Most of the soldiers of the border soldiers left with Song Yingchang, and about one-third of the Zhentian Camp stayed in Xinfeng County.

There must be generals and commanders for so many people to stay in Xinfeng County. Song Yingchang asked all the generals. In the end, the guerrilla general Huang Ling, who had no background, decided to stay in Xinfeng County. He would lead 40,000 Ming troops to rely on Xinfeng County to resist more than 100,000 enemies.

Song Yingchang led 60,000 Ming troops around Xinfeng County and headed towards Ganzhou Prefecture. Not long after he left, Wang Shengrong's army came to Xinfeng County and surrounded Xinfeng County before it was completely dark.

After a night of rest, the siege began. Hundreds of artillery guns spewed solid shells into Xinfeng County. The Ming army, which had no morale at all, was completely devoid of fighting under the bombardment of the shells.

Seeing this situation, Huang Ling no longer knew how to continue this battle. He originally thought that he could defend Xinfeng County for at least half a month with 40,000 troops, and there was sufficient food and grass in Xinfeng County.

Now Huang Ling is only worried that Xinfeng County will not be able to defend it for even one day.

After several rounds of bombardment of Xinfeng County, Wang Shengrong sent someone to send a letter of persuasion to the Ming army in Xinfeng County. As long as the Ming army in the city put down their weapons and surrendered, the People's Army promised not to kill a single person.

Faced with the persuasion of the People's Army, Huang Ling was very hesitant. He knew that Xinfeng County could not be defended for a few days. Once the city was broken, the ending of his Ming army commander was death. But if Huang Ling led his army to surrender, his family would still be under the rule of the Ming court. Once the Ming court knew that he had surrendered to the enemy, his family would be implicated.

After thinking for a long time, Huang Ling finally thought of a seemingly good method. He decided to surrender to the People's Army, but on the surface he could not surrender to the enemy himself. He could make people pretend to arrest him and surrender together. In this way, the Ming court would not know that he would surrender to the enemy, nor would he attack his family.

Thinking of this, Huang Ling immediately took action, contacting the People's Army while handing over the task of arresting himself to Yang Erhu, the most trusted captain of the personal guard.

On the other hand, Wang Shengrong learned that the Ming army commander in Xinfeng County was willing to surrender, but the steps were a little more troublesome. He felt that the other party was not pretending to surrender. Wang Shengrong allowed Huang Ling's actions and would not disclose to the outside world that Huang Ling surrendered to the People's Army.

In the afternoon of that day, Yang Erhu and dozens of men arrested Huang Ling, then summoned the Ming army in the city and told them that they wanted to survive, so they surrendered together. The People's Army was too strong, and if they continued, they would die.

Some of the Ming army were unwilling to surrender, but in the two choices of life and death, everyone would choose the former. In the end, all the Ming army reached an agreement to surrender to the People's Army.

In less than a day, the People's Army successfully captured Xinfeng County and harvested 40,000 Ming army prisoners.

For Huang Ling, the commander of the Ming army, no matter what mistakes he made before, he is able to surrender voluntarily and effectively reduce the casualties of the People's Army. This is a great contribution to the People's Army. The People's Army will give certain preferential treatment and will not disclose Huang Ling's affairs to the public.

From Huang Ling's mouth, Wang Shengrong learned that the Ming army led by Song Yingchang planned to rely on Ganzhou Prefecture City to resist the People's Army, and the Ming army did not have many reinforcements, only 30,000 Ming troops who were still on the road or had arrived in Ganzhou Prefecture City.

Wang Shengrong convened a brief meeting of senior officers in his department. At the meeting, Wang Shengrong made a decision that the People's Army would continue to attack Ganzhou Fucheng north. If there was a chance, he could capture Ganzhou Fucheng. If there was a chance, the People's Army would suffer more casualties and give up and withdraw the troops depending on the situation.

The People's Army fought with the Ming army at this point. Only 600,000 Ming army fled to Ganzhou Prefecture City. At least 120,000 of the remaining 140,000 were either killed or captured, and some defeated soldiers were everywhere.

The Ming army was defeated and suffered heavy casualties. In a short period of time, the Ming court could no longer mobilize more Ming troops to attack the People's Army, unless the Ming court wanted to cause unrest in various places under its rule.

Regardless of whether or not he will capture Ganzhou Prefecture City next, Wang Shengrong will make a second plan. The People's Army led by himself will be divided into four, and one People's Army will remain in Longnan County and Anyuan County. The remaining three will go to Huguang, Guangxi, and Fujian respectively to cooperate with other People's Army to launch an attack on the Ming army. In the event of no major casualties on its own side, the Ming army forces will be consumed as much as possible.

The People's Army already has such an advantage in Jiangxi. If a certain price is paid, it will be no problem to conquer the entire Jiangxi. The People's Army's territory is expanded, but Fang Nan has no idea to expand its territory for the time being.
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