When Gan Hui and Yu Xin were taken out of prison, one was held by someone, and the other was carried by several people. Both were seriously injured, but after Zhang Huangyan invited the doctor to see them, he said it was okay, but it was just an external injury, and his muscles and bones were broken. After raising him for a few days, he became a lively man with a dragon.

"Sir Shangshu"

Yu Xin felt guilty and struggled to get up from the stretcher to treat Zhang Huang with respect. He thought he was rescued by the Zhejiang Army.

Gan Hui noticed that the soldiers wearing red military uniforms behind Zhang Huangyan were not from Zhejiang Army. The Zhejiang Army generals he was familiar with did not appear, and they did not even see Xu Yungeng, a member of the Zhejiang Army. Zhang Shangshu had only a strange young man who looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

Zhang Huangyan briefly told Gan and Yu. Gan and Yu were stunned after hearing this, and couldn't believe it. Unexpectedly, the young Duke of Yanping failed to capture Nanjing City, but the young Duke of Guangdong easily broke the city with more than 10,000 troops.

Gan Hui calculated the time. When they arrived at the city of Nanjing, the Taiping Army might have just entered Jiangxi. As a result, after they took Nanchang, the entire army immediately advanced eastward and rushed to Nanjing City as soon as they arrived. They attacked the city without any delay. Although they succeeded too easily, it was also the cause and effect of Fangshan's battle. Therefore, only the commander's success was the result of his own vassal lord, his own vassal lord would be much inferior. If his own vassal lord could have been so decisive that day, he would not be deceived by Lang Tingzuo and Guan Qizhen's nonsense, and delayed for a month under the city, the Nanjing City would have long been the Zheng army.

Yu Xin asked about the situation of the vassal lord at this moment, and he looked worried when he spoke. He thought he was worried about whether he would be punished by the vassal lord after he went back. After all, if Yu Xin had not been careless and had condoned the military discipline, he would not have suffered a crushing defeat.

Zhang Huangyan told them about the situation when King Yanping had withdrawn to Chongming, and most of the Zheng army retreated to Jinxia. When he heard that the vassal lord had returned to Jinxia, ​​Yu Xin looked very sad. He was relieved and felt abandoned. Gan Hui didn't think that way. The city of Nanjing was really defeated too much, and he brought so many families in the army. The vassal lord had no place to settle in Haikou. How could he stay for a long time and how could he save them? Therefore, the vassal lord had to return to Jinxia, ​​otherwise once the food was eaten up, the remaining army would collapse.

The grace of saving life is unforgettable.

Gan Hui asked Zhang Huangyan to take them to see Zhou Shixiang to thank the young Duke who only heard of his name but did not see his appearance for saving his life.

Zhang Huangyan said it was not necessary. He said that Guangdong was busy supervising troops to attack the city, and asked Gan Hui and Yu Xin for help if there were other important matters.

Gan Hui hurriedly said that the Duke of Guangdong had a life-saving grace for them. Since they had something to do, they asked him to do it, even though he ordered him to ask Shangshu Zhang to pass the message. Although Yu Xin was seriously injured and could not move, he also patted his chest and expressed his willingness to serve the Duke of Guangdong to thank him for his life-saving grace.

Zhang Huangyan immediately told him what Zhou Shixiang meant, but he asked Gan. Yu came forward to rectify the rescued Zheng army soldiers, and then cooperated with the Taiping army to clear out the remaining Qing army in the outer city and control the Qing army strongholds outside the city. If possible, the Zheng army would need to cooperate in attacking Zhenjiang to lock the river mouth.

Zhang Huangyan had no scruples and said bluntly that the Taiping Army did not have many troops entering Nanjing, and there were many Qing troops near Nanjing. In addition, the Manchu Tatar Chiefs have also led their troops to Xuzhou at this moment. Therefore, although Nanjing was sent, the overall situation was still not optimistic. Therefore, Gan Hui and the others were urgently needed to reorganize the captured soldiers of the Zheng army. Otherwise, the force would be very anxious.

How could Gan Hui and Yu Xin not help? However, because Yu Xin was unable to move, Gan Hui was worried that it would be a mistake, so he told Zhang Huangyan that he would first meet his captured subordinates and would take as much as he could to contain and rectify them. He would first cooperate with the Taiping Army to wipe out the Qing army in the outer city, and then clear the Qing army strongholds in the outer city.

Zhang Huangyan had no objection. He told Gan Hui that most of the officers of the Zheng army were imprisoned in the inner city of Nanjing, and most of the ordinary soldiers and family members were imprisoned in the Qing army camps at the Jinchuan Gate of the outer city. These people were basically rescued by the Taiping Army, and there were about 7,000 people, including the family members. In addition, according to the confession of the Qing army prisoners, there were many Zheng army in the city named Qing army strongholds, and they were taken to work hard labor to repair the forts and strongholds that were destroyed by the Zheng army that day. At the end, Zhang Huangyan hesitated for a moment and told Gan and Yu that the female family members captured in Zheng army's family were very unbearable.

After hearing this, Gan Hui and Yu Xin were silent for a moment. They were actually mentally prepared for the consequences of the captured female family. When the Qing army successfully attacked Jin Xia, they kidnapped thousands of female family members of the Zheng army as camp prostitutes, tortured them day and night, and only more than a hundred survivors were finally survived. After seeing their relatives, most of the more than a hundred poor women chose to commit suicide because their bodies had completely collapsed and their hearts were even more dead.

Zhang Huangyan also sighed and introduced the Taiping Army Qianhu Namutu and Baihu Anjun Envoy Wu Chongshan behind him to Gan. The two of them knew each other and said that this was sent by the Duke of Guangdong to Gan Hui for dispatch and help rectify and rescue the captured soldiers of the Zheng army.

Seeing that it was a Mongolian, Gan Hui was stunned for a moment, but did not ask any more questions. He immediately resigned from Zhang Huangyan and rushed to Jinchuan Gate with dozens of Zheng army officers rescued from the prison. When he arrived at the Qing army camp at the Jinchuan Gate, Gan Hui saw the Taiping Army distributing the captured Qing army weapons to the rescued Zheng soldiers. Na Mutu stepped forward to show the order of the military commander's office. The hundred households in a third town in Jinchuan Gate handed over the place to Gan Hui and others, and led the troops back to the camp command post.

Most of the Zheng army soldiers detained at Jinchuan Gate were Iron Man elite soldiers under Yu Xin. Although they suffered a lot, most of them were physically injured, which was not in the way.

Gan Hui ordered the officers to go down and pick 50 soldiers who can run and move, then gathered them together, gave a few brief statements, and rushed to Yifeng Gate and Guanyin Mountain in the outer city with the Taiping Army led by Mutu. There were many Qing army strongholds and many Zheng army who were doing hard labor.

When Zhang Huangyan returned to Zhou Shixiang, Zhou Shixiang was personally presiding over the attack on the city.

Mancheng was originally an imperial city built by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. It was wide and majestic, with high and thick walls, which was conducive to persistence and was not easy to attack. The city was equipped with a training room, bow room, arrow road, firearm warehouse, artillery field, school factory, martial arts hall, sentry room, military ration warehouse, etc. Although it is called the city, it is actually a Qing army fortress and military camp, but there are only a large number of families in it.

According to the captured Han army, since the establishment of Manzhou City, the Manzhou soldiers stationed in the city have remained at more than 4,000 soldiers, with a population of 30,000 to 40,000, and were controlled by General Jiangning to suppress the southeast. However, in the Battle of Zhenjiang, the more than 4,000 Manzhou Eight Banners soldiers brought by Guan Xiaozhong were almost wiped out by the Zheng army, and only more than 100 people fled back to Nanjing. Many Manzhou people in the city were all men dead because of this. Later, hundreds of Manzhou soldiers stationed in Hangzhou came to Hangzhou, and other places and more than 1,000 Manchu soldiers brought from Anqing, which led to the number of full soldiers in the city reaching 2,000. But there are definitely not so many in the city now, mainly because hundreds of Manchu soldiers followed Gushan Ezhen Dayali to Jiangbei. In addition, when Yue Le left the city, he also brought 800 Manchu soldiers, so the Han army captives estimated that the number of full soldiers who could fight in the city would definitely not exceed 1,000.

This number was recognized by Zhou Shixiang and Zhang Huangyan, but they didn't know that at this moment, the whole city was full of soldiers.

Mancheng, as early as the moment the Taiping Army invaded the inner city, Tong Haonian, Jialazhangjing in the city, mobilized all the man who could move Manzhou to the city. In addition, more than two thousand Manzhou women also came to the city with weapons. Unlike the Manzhou women who outsiders thought, these Manzhou women in Jiangning were very skilled in bowing and horses. (To be continued.)
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