King Ning marched in the whole army, and Wang Yangming did the same, and the two sides met at Longtougang.

King Ning claimed to have an army of 100,000, but in fact, there were less than 60,000, and there were not a few who quietly escaped last night. However, there were countless warships, and because the Gan River was not as wide as the Yangtze River, it was difficult for large-scale sailors to deploy formations, and they were densely lined up along the river for several miles.

Wang Yangming seized nearly 100 large and small warships from the forward Ling Shiyi. Seventy or eighty thousand men marched by land and water, but only 3,000 elite soldiers were on the boat, and the rest of the troops were on the shore.

The composition of the personnel on both sides is very interesting, so King Ning will not repeat it. Under Wang Yangming, the civilian officers who commanded the army accounted for ninety percent, and the temporarily recruited township warriors were also more than ninety percent.

They don't know how to fight, and the quality of the soldiers is enough.

"Shhh

Through the clairvoyant mirror, the civil officials saw the sailors who were lined up for several miles, and they all gasped.

Wang Yangming was quite confident, and said with a smile: "How wide can the Ganjiang River be?" King Ning could only put out a long snake formation, and no matter how many sailors he had, he could only fight in a daze. Dear colleagues, our army will win! ”

If it were replaced by half a month ago, these civilian officials would definitely be afraid, but Wang Yangming defeated Nanchang in the first battle and defeated the 20,000 forwards in the second battle. Whether it is a civilian commander or a miscellaneous villager, they have all shown morale and confidence.

At this moment, Wang Yangming said "our army will win", and everyone actually chose to believe it.

The general cannon at the head of Nanchang City was transported by Wang Yangming along the river. However, ordinary ships could not carry it, and in case of battle, they could only move to the shore and fix themselves on a small hill on the shore.

The general cannon has not yet been placed, and King Ning has already moved.

The naval division, which was difficult to deploy in the rear of the rebels, was sent to the shore by King Ning to form a formation. After some adjustments, the troops on the shore attacked first, trying to capture the forts that had not been set up by the officers and soldiers.

Wang Yangming personally waved the order flag, and Wu Wending, the prefect of Ji'an, immediately led his troops to meet the enemy.

Wu Wending was born in a scholarly family, and his father was an official in Guizhou. He had also conscripted thieves before, but in his capacity as a civilian official, he urged the generals to fight in front, and he really didn't lead troops to pick up knives and cut people.

This gentleman brandished a Yanling knife, rushed forward with thousands of villagers, and chopped a thief to death on the spot.

Who said that civil officials can't practice martial arts?

The evaluation of Wu Wending in the history books begins with the words "If you have arm strength, you will bow the horse".

Wu Wending was wearing a fourth-grade official uniform, and he thought that his clothes were in the way, so he had already tied it around his waist. With a Yanling knife in his hand, he actually killed several people in a row, and the thieves in front of him dodged one after another.

It's a pity that most of the townspeople are good people, and they can't compare to the bandits after all!

Wu Wending killed more and more fiercely, but his subordinates were not useful. These townsmen only died a few dozen, so they turned around and fled in fright, leaving Wu Wending there alone.

"Master, let's go, our army is defeated!" The servant who followed Wu Wending shouted.

Wu Wending subconsciously turned around, and suddenly sweated on his forehead in horror, and hurriedly turned around and fled with the rout.

Wang Yangming originally commanded the army to attack around the rear, but when he saw this situation, he immediately changed the order flag and asked the law enforcement team to go up and press the formation.

"Flee the battle!"

The law enforcement team is all Wang Yangming's personal soldiers, and they are even more fierce than the rebels when they kill their own people. Hacked to death more than a dozen times in a row, these villagers were finally frightened and ran back to fight the rebels.

When Wu Wending saw that his soldiers had returned, he immediately stopped retreating and continued to rush forward with his sword.

The official army had just completed the encirclement, and before they had time to flank the attack, thousands of rebels landed and killed together with the troops led by Dai Deru, the prefect of Linjiang.

"Fire!"

King Ning's sailors suddenly attacked, with crossbow arrows and artillery volleys fired at the officers' sailors, including twenty ship-borne Francophone guns.

Many warships of the officers and soldiers were hit, but they were only wounded, and more than 20 soldiers were killed.

"Yang Minggong, the fireboat is ready." Wang Wei, the governor of Ji'an Prefecture, came to report.

Wang Yangming said: "Set fire to the boat." ”

More than 50 small boats loaded with firewood were poured with fire oil and ignited instantly, drifting towards King Ning's sailors.

The Gan River flows into Poyang Lake from south to north, and Wang Yangming is located upstream. But the current here is not turbulent, so behind every fireboat, there are soldiers who are good at the water.

"Stop the fireboat!"

The rebel general who commanded the water battle was none other than Ling Shiyi, who had been defeated in the previous battle. He was the leader of the water bandits in Poyang Lake, and naturally became the general of the water division, and he was the first person in the two armies in terms of professionalism in water warfare.

Under the command of Ling Shiyi, more than ten large ships of the rebels were in front, wanting to rush over for a broadside battle, and the rest of the warships were frantically covering with firepower. As for the ships of the officers and soldiers, they were all pushed away by the rebels with a penny, and none of them could work.

The ship-borne ballistae of both sides were fired at each other all the time, and both used rockets.

After hitting the opposing ships, some of the flames were extinguished, some gradually burned, and soon several ships were set on fire.

The official army sailors were a little unable to bear it, and Wang Yangming was also a little nervous, he was not good at fighting water wars!

Finally, the battery on the shore was erected.

More than ten old antique general cannons made in the early Ming Dynasty fired a salvo at King Zhun Ning's ship. This thing is so powerful and has a very long range, and Ning Wang's Franc cannon can't fight back.

"Boom, boom!"

One cannonball after another bombarded and landed around King Ning's ship, splashing countless splashes in an instant.

There was a side ship next to it that was particularly unlucky, the hull was blasted out of a large hole, and the cabin was frantically flooded just waiting to sink. There is no way, this kind of general cannon was originally used for siege cities, where can the wooden hull carry it?

King Ning was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "Quickly retreat!" ”

Li Shishi immediately dissuaded: "Your Majesty can't, as soon as the handsome ship retreats, I am afraid that the whole army will be defeated!" ”

Liu Yangzheng held the clairvoyant mirror and said: "The enemy's naval division is about to be defeated, Your Majesty only needs to hold on for a few more moments, and our army will be a great victory." ”

Before the officers and sailors were defeated, the rebels on the shore were the first to be defeated.

However, when the two armies were at a stalemate, Ganzhou commanded Yu En, and suddenly joined the war group with a thousand elite soldiers. These are all well-trained regular soldiers, much more powerful than the bandits and village warriors who fought bad battles before, and at the critical moment, the thousands of rebels in front of them collapsed instantly, and the thousands of rebels on the flanks also collapsed.

Broadside battles have begun on the river, and the bandits are pressing the officers and soldiers to fight.

Xing Xun, the governor of Ganzhou Prefecture, is also a civil official who can cut people. There were big thieves in Ganzhou, Xing Xun found out that this person was quite chivalrous, so he personally went to the bandits' den to appease him. He didn't bring a sword, he didn't bring a guard, he only wore a Confucian robe, and two domestic servants followed, and he actually said that the Ganzhou giant was attached to the imperial court.

At this moment, the rebel sailors had already boarded the ship and killed the officers and soldiers to retreat. Xing Xun swung his sword to slash the two of them, and shouted: "Gentlemen, the comrades on the shore have won, and we must not lose face." Kill these thieves with me! ”

For a time, the officers and soldiers on the ship were like rainbows, and followed Xing Xun to counterattack.

Ling Shiyi didn't know how to use the order flag, and was used to commanding with a whistle. There was a whistle before, and the second batch of warships came over, and the other side of Xing Xun's ship was also taken over, and the two sides directly killed Xing Xun and retreated into the cabin.

Many officers and warships were treated in this way, and they were about to be defeated.

Wang Yangming and Wang Yuan are worthy of being masters and apprentices, and they like to take risks when fighting. Regardless of the battle situation on the river, and even when his ship was flanked, Wang Yangming did not order a retreat, but personally raised his sword to fight with the rebel sailors.

"Boom!"

The general artillery on the shore finally ushered in the second salvo.

King Ning's warships were too many, and there weren't too many gaps to cruise around and dodge. Moreover, the rebels' morale was unstable, and King Ning did not even dare to move when he sat on the ship, just because the indiscriminate movement might lead to a rout.

Fixed targets, more than a dozen artillery salvos.

In the first round, all of them missed, and in the second round, two shots hit, and a guard beside King Ning was directly bombarded by the cannonball, and half of his body was destroyed.

"Hit!"

"King Ning is dead!"

At the beginning, dozens of officers and soldiers on the shore shouted in unison, and then thousands of people shouted in unison, "King Ning is dead." Coupled with the rout of the rebels on the shore, the rebel sailors actually chose to flee one after another under the absolute superiority, and the third group of warships sent by Ling Shiyi retreated directly.

Seeing this situation, King Ning didn't care about life and death, and hurriedly shouted: "I'm fine, kill the enemy quickly...... I'm not dead, I can't quit! ”

"Kill!"

Xing Xun, who was forced into the cabin, had only more than 40 people around him, and he chased more than 200 rebels to slash and kill. Those rebels had no fighting spirit, thinking that King Ning was really dead, but they only knew that they were fleeing frantically, and many of them jumped directly into the river in a panic.

Liu Yangzheng said with an unwilling face: "Your Majesty, withdraw and go to reorganize the army, this battle can't go on." ”

The rebel sailors quickly retreated, and the officers and soldiers suffered heavy losses and had little confidence to pursue.

However, of the more than 10,000 thieves on the shore, only two or three thousand escaped back to the ship.

King Ning returned to Qiaoshe Town, and the first thing he did was to connect the warships together. Of course, he has read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and he also knows what is going on with the burning of Chibi, but he can't connect the warships, and the warships will escape at the slightest breeze.

Even, if the ship is not connected, countless warships will escape tonight!

The barbecue grill has been set up by King Ning, just waiting for Uncle Wang to come over and set it on fire......