Chapter 243 King Ning’s defeat
Wang Shouren also frowned. He was not worried that Nankang City would be caught in a two-sided attack. What he was really worried about was that more officials and gentry who were dissatisfied with the government would ignore the fundamental interests of the country and the aspirations of the people and follow Ning Ning. If the king rebels, it will only cause greater turmoil in the world, which will not be beneficial to the country or the people.
"This Prince Ning has threatened to save the world as his own duty. If he succeeds in the future, he will rule the world together with the gentry. He will strictly order the world to respect the gentry and not punish the gentry. This method of winning the hearts of the world's gentry has indeed made many short-sighted gentry They will believe that Prince Ning will be the good emperor they think;
But how do they know that although the dynasty is only His Majesty's kingdom, the country is the country of the people of the world. The people of the world want peace and not chaos. They are acting against the world and will only be punished by the world, and may even cause Your Majesty to do so. The relationship with the gentry will become even worse in the future!
The relationship between monarch and ministers that has already been eased has to be destroyed by this group of selfish and short-sighted people. Now I can only hope that the emperor is wise and will not blame all the scholars like me for being fools! ”
Wang Shouren sighed angrily in his heart for a while, and then said:
"Don't worry about Nankang being attacked from both sides. I have been prepared for this day a few years ago. Nankang City is fully prepared with weapons and food. Moreover, I am stronger than Xu Zan, the prefect of Jiujiang, in terms of Jiujiang's military strength." Clearly, all he can command is The total number of soldiers and horses in several counties in Jiujiang is less than 10,000, and the training is insufficient. The governor's standard battalion is only 3,000 in name, but actually 20,000, which is not enough to fear him and Prince Ning's joint attack on Nankang. I even think that He doesn’t even have the guts!”
"The most important thing to consider now is to put down the rebellion of Prince Ning as soon as possible. The sooner the rebellion of Prince Ning is put down, the better, so that those people with evil intentions in the world (Wang Yangming here refers to other vassal kings and some civil servants and gentry) will be able to overcome You should have known that being a thief would only ruin your reputation!”
As Wang Shouren spoke, he asked Zhang Lun again: "Did Jin Yiwei send someone to notify Wu Wending?"
"I've already informed you, and there are also Jinyi guards in Nanchang City. I'm afraid I've been ordered to inform you first," Zhang Lun replied.
"That's good. Wu Wending has his official Jun Ling and His Majesty's edict. He can directly command our 80,000 troops to gather in Nanchang Mansion. It won't be a problem to join forces with us to put down King Ning's rebellion. The most important thing now is to have Wu Wending The 80,000 troops led by him came Before, King Ning had to find a way to let him stay in Nanchang for a longer time. Now that Xu Zan, the prefect of Jiujiang, surrenders to the enemy, King Ning will definitely know that King Ning will be so excited that he can't wait to raise his troops and march north. ”
After Wang Shouren said this, he continued to think: "Now we can only use counterintuitive tactics. Immediately let the Jin Yiwei lurking in Nanchang find a way to implement the counterintuitive plan so that King Ning can get the court secrets about Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng. It is best to let Ning Wang believed that Li Shishi and Liu Yang were sent by the imperial court The spy who deliberately instigated him to rebel! And I believe that the imperial court will let Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng try their best to persuade King Ning to raise his troops to the north, and then Xu Zan, who pretends to surrender, joins forces with his own officers to ambush him. Dare to leave Nanchang City and go north easily.”
"Take your orders!"
After Zhang Lun said that, he turned around and left.
Wang Shouren continued to order the officials and people of Nankang City to strengthen the defense of the city wall.
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Xu Zan, the prefect of Jiujiang, had indeed sent people to cross Poyang Lake by boat. Jing Jinxian came to Nanchang City, informed King Ning of his intention to join King Ning, and asked King Ning to lead his army north. He would assist Ning. The king took advantage of the situation and went down to Anqing.
Xu Zan had long been resentful of the imperial court's disrespect for scholar-bureaucrats and the use of public opinion to allow those who were corrupt to be stripped of their skins. In addition, he was also very corrupt and had some paranoia about being persecuted. He always felt that he would also be found out, so, After he heard about Prince Ning's rebellion, he decided to join him without even thinking about it. Moreover, Prince Ning's message contained a message about paying respect to the gentry, which made him feel that he could conquer the world together with Prince Ning.
However, he did not give King Ning the best strategy to capture the capital as Wang Shouren thought. Instead, he suggested that King Ning go north and capture Anqing and then Nanjing on the grounds that the capital was difficult to attack.
After all, he is a southerner, and it is easier for him to focus on Jiangnan.
In addition, Xu Zan also specially ordered his people to tell King Ning: "My minister Xu Zan heard from afar that King Ning was a righteous teacher and wanted to inherit the way of heaven and get rid of the foolish king. Today, he specially led soldiers and horses from five counties in Jiujiang to help King Ning, and another Prepare 30,000 stones of food to reward Master Wang, and hope that King Ning will ascend to the great treasure soon, rectify the emperor's bloodline, and conquer the world! "
King Ning couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "I have heard for a long time that righteous people regard the gentry as stupid dogs, and often kill ten clans, and even use public opinion to threaten them, so that loyal people are wronged and traitors are filled in the court. This time, I specially honor the Queen Mother. Chao, punish Destroy the righteousness of the heirs who pretend to be filial piety! I hereby emphasize again that if we are to succeed in saving the world in the future, we must rule the world with the gentry, establish a prime minister, do not punish the gentry, do not punish the gentry, and do not humiliate the gentry!”
After Prince Ning's words came back to Jiujiang, the civil servants and gentry in Jiujiang City were overjoyed. If Prince Ning were in Jiujiang now, they would have been tempted to wear Prince Ning's yellow robe.
King Ning was overjoyed and made Xu Zan the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel.
But coincidentally, King Ning accidentally got two secret letters at this time. The secret letters were reported by the servants of Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng's family, who were naturally undercover agents installed by him. The content of the secret letters was that Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng were undercover agents of the imperial court. Moreover, the imperial court told Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng to immediately find an opportunity to persuade King Ning to send troops north immediately, because Xu Zan and Wang Shouren had already laid an ambush waiting for King Ning to trap him.
Prince Ning did not really believe the contents of the secret letter. He still summoned Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng and asked them what they thought of Xu Zan's advice.
Li Shishi was not really stupid. As soon as he heard that Xu Zan, the prefect of Jiujiang, had taken refuge, he immediately admonished: "Your Highness, we must take Nankang immediately and send our troops northward!"
"I also think so. We cannot wait until the imperial army gathers on the riverside before moving. By then we will have to stick to Nanchang!" Liu Yangzheng replied.
Without those two secret letters, King Ning would have believed their words, but now that King Ning found that the advice of Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng was completely consistent with what was said in the secret letters, he naturally became suspicious and said:
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"I think it is not appropriate now. We should go ahead without using food and supplies. We should make sufficient preparations first and then proceed. We should continue to defend Nanchang and continue to build warships! Be ready to send troops northward at any time."
Prince Ning's delay lasted almost a month. Wu Wending's 80,000 troops had almost passed Linjiang Prefecture and headed straight to Fengcheng, and were less than two hundred miles away from Nanchang City.
At this time, King Ning seemed to have suddenly enlightened and realized that he might have been deceived, because he found that Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng did not continue to urge him to go north, and secondly, there did not seem to be any 160,000 troops from the imperial court coming from all directions. Shadow, he began to realize that the people in the imperial court were deliberately secretly trying to delay the time for him to send his troops north, and provide enough time for the imperial court to mobilize the army.
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Almost a month later, King Ning suddenly ordered his troops to march north and take Nankang directly.
But as the saying goes, a vigorous effort can only lead to failure. After the 100,000 soldiers and horses under King Ning (actually only 60,000) stayed in Nanchang City for a long time, they had long lost the morale they had when they first rebelled. Moreover, because of King Ning’s Due to connivance and lack of military discipline, King Ning's troops burned, killed, and looted in Nanchang Mansion until they lost much of their fighting power. When they arrived in Nankang City, they were no more than a group of thieves who were robbing homes and houses.
In fact, many of the soldiers and horses under King Ning's command were indeed desperadoes, composed of many gangsters.
Therefore, when King Ning ordered to attack the city, the soldiers and horses under King Ning had no rules at all, and they could not distinguish between the types of troops. There were cavalry on horseback, archers, and thieves wielding axes.
Wang Shouren's side was well prepared. The artillery fired first. The iron-core copper-tied giant cannon on the city gate fired explosive bombs directly into King Ning's front army. In an instant, it stirred up dust and countless corpses, and the explosion shocked Ning. The king's army was in chaos.
The soldiers and horses of King Ning's front army retreated in a hurry.
King Ning was furious when he saw this, and ordered those who attacked the city wall to be rewarded with fifty taels of silver. He also rewarded each soldier with ten taels of silver. As a result, the morale of King Ning's soldiers and horses recovered somewhat, and they headed south again regardless of their safety. Kangcheng attacked.
The cannons of this era were not the modern reloading cannons, so after a shot was fired, the reloading was relatively slow, which gave King Ning a chance to rush in.
However, as soon as King Ning's soldiers and horses rushed in, the officers and soldiers on the city wall immediately opened their firearms. The bullets fired from the percussion guns were fast and accurate, and had strong penetrating power, shooting down the rebels in pieces. land.
Ling Shisan, a martial artist who had taken refuge with King Ning and had been named General Xuanwu by King Ning, hugged the moon with both hands, performed Tai Chi with his toes, and shouted: "Look at my iron cloth shirt! Block your bullets!"
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Snap!
Ling Shisan was immediately shot by Wang Shouren, blood was pouring from his forehead, and he fell to the ground shortly after.
Another man named Liao Qingfeng boasted that he was an expert in light kung fu, and shouted "Chasing the Qingfeng!" Then he jumped directly to perform a stunt on the city wall, but was blown up by a grenade in the hand of a defender. into pieces.
At this time, a group of rebels poured a bag of blood from their heads, and then one of the leading generals shouted: "Brothers, we are all soaked with black dog blood now, so we no longer need to be afraid of their magic. I’m invulnerable, come on!”
So, a group of rebels who followed King Ning but looked like thieves rushed over. They were bloody and looked very scary. However, at this time, the officers and soldiers guarding Nankang City set fire to the Ming army. The Tiger Crouching Cannon that had been developed by the Military Equipment Bureau bombarded these rebels who were soaked with black dog blood into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood with a few bang bang bang sounds.
King Ning directly lost more than 10,000 people on the first day of his attack on Nankang City. His morale was greatly damaged, and he could only make a temporary truce.
At this time, Wu Wending had sent cavalry to surprise Nanchang City.
But after King Ning learned that Nanchang City was lost, he did not try to use all his strength to capture Nankang City directly when the defenders of Nankang City were also exhausted. Instead, he chose to send his troops back to Nanchang, because his splendid palace was in Nanchang. He couldn't bear it.
Seeing this, Wang Shouren simply asked Zhang Lun to lead his elite troops out of the city, and directly fought at Huangpingdu with King Ning's troops who were eager to retreat to Nanchang. As a result, King Ning's troops were defeated and he lost nearly 20,000 troops.
Then, King Ning could only prepare to besiege Nanchang with more than 30,000 remaining troops. As a result, Wu Wending took the initiative to attack and killed King Ning and was defeated.
King Ning could only escape to Jinxian and connected the warships with iron cables to form a water camp.
So, after Wang Shouren learned that King Ning had escaped from the water and turned the boat into land, he decided to light a fire.
Let me reiterate, the plot of this chapter is adapted from historical data, and it is not that the author really wants to lower the villain’s IQ! It’s not about lowering the villain’s IQ! It's because sometimes reality is more absurd than fiction, and sometimes historical facts are more absurd than fiction. Really, I kid you not. Also, in the period that had just entered the age of firearms, many armies did not know enough about firearms and came up with various ways to deal with firearms. The above bloody inspiration also came from the information of the late Ming Dynasty. However, the Ming Dynasty At the end, there is an even more absurd way of fighting on the battlefield, which is to place the Yin-0 Gate Formation and the Yang-0 Gate Formation. Interested readers can learn about it. Thanks to the book friend Dandande for the reward of 100 starting coins and 294090690100 book coins
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