Wang Yuan did not give Wei Ba time to react, and immediately ordered him to lead his troops to follow, 3,000 Huguang elite soldiers, 3,000 Jiujiang troops, and went straight to Nankang (that is, Lushan City).

Nankang, like Jiujiang, is a capital city, built next to the water, and garrisoned by thousands of rebels.

Wei Ba behaved very actively, rode to the outside of the moat, and shouted into the city: "Lei San, Lao Tzu is Wei Ba." Wang Erlang led the court with an army of 500,000 troops, and King Ning saw that he could not become an emperor. Lao Tzu has surrendered, you should also open the city gate quickly, no matter how late it is, you won't even be able to grab a bite of hot shit! ”

Lei San leaned on the female wall and looked down, and shouted strangely: "Wei Laoba, why did you come down?" ”

Wei Ba said: "Wang Erlang has an army of 500,000, can Lao Tzu not surrender?" Hurry up and kill the eunuchs in the city, lead the troops out of the city to join me, and let's follow Wang Erlang to fight King Ning together. Seal your wife and shadow at this time! ”

"Then you wait, I'll go and kill the prison army, and use the eunuch's head as a vote!" Lei San shouted.

Wei Ba rode back and said in a flattering tone: "Second master, wait a minute, Lei San killed the eunuch." ”

"Okay, I'll wait." Wang Yuanqiang couldn't help but laugh.

Song Ling'er, Yuan Da, the thirteen Song clan guards, the twelve brocade-clothed guards, and the Huguang guerrillas who followed Wang Yuan to quell the rebellion, all looked at Nankang City with strange expressions at this moment.

Yuan Da couldn't help but ask Wei Ba: "General Wei, how can your rebellion be the same as singing?" If you say the opposite, you will go down. ”

Wei Ba explained: "Nanchang is lost, and I still make a fart, my wife and children are all in Nanchang City!" ”

Everyone instantly understood that King Ning didn't believe in his generals, and forced his subordinates to send their families to Nanchang as hostages. This was understandable, but Wang Yangming took Nanchang away. The thieves were worried about the safety of their families, and secondly, they felt that King Ning's rebellion might fail, but in fact, everyone had been thinking about surrendering for a long time, but they couldn't find a way to surrender.

Wang Yuan did not bring 3,000 elite soldiers, but only single-handedly showed his identity, and these thieves would choose to sacrifice the city.

As for Wang Yuan, why did he dare to risk his life?

It's because Wang Yangming easily recovered Nanchang!

Nanchang is the base camp of King Ning, and the defenders should be the most elite, but they were taken by Wang Yangming with a rabble for half a day. What level should the anti-thieves in Jiujiang City be? Are they afraid of Nanchang if they lose?

Wang Yuan is just reckless, but he is not stupid.

Wei Ba deliberately let the soldiers lie on the gap in the women's wall, revealing half of their bodies and bows and arrows, which seemed very scary, but in fact, the bowstrings were not opened. If the soldiers on the city wall really pulled the bowstring half-open, Wang Yuan would have jumped into the river and ran away, how could he gamble for his life?

Wang Yuan asked Wei Ba, "What's your name?" ”

Wei Ba smiled and said, "Second Master, my name is Li Qu." ”

"Isn't your surname Wei?" Wang Yuan found it interesting.

Wei Ba replied: "To do unsightly deeds, who still uses their own surname?" I am afraid of insulting my ancestors. To put it bluntly, I defeated the nine clans, and the court couldn't find where my ancestral grave was. ”

During the chatting between an official and a thief, Nankang Mansion City suddenly opened, and Lei San carried a head and put down the moat suspension bridge and came over.

"Wei Laoba, the prison army was killed by me, this is an official sent by the imperial court?" Lei San asked.

Wei Ba pointed at Wang Yuan and said, "This is the famous Wang Erlang." ”

Lei San was suddenly in awe, his eyes were full of admiration, and he knelt down and said, "The grass people kowtow to the second master!" ”

"Get up," Wang Yuan asked, "how many defenders are there in the city?" ”

Lei San said: "There are four or five thousand, or maybe five or six thousand. ”

Wang Yuan laughed happily: "You don't know how many soldiers you have?" ”

Lei San explained: "The soldiers are not mine alone, you are a little, I am a little, and they will come together to defend the city." The eunuch also has soldiers, and I have led people to kill them, and the other brothers are willing to surrender to the court. This guy turned around and beckoned, "Come over and meet Second Master Wang!" ”

A bunch of bandits, big and small, came to pay their respects. They used to be notorious for their murder, but now they see Wang Yuan, but they are like mice seeing cats.

At this time, the sky was getting dark, but Wang Yuan was unwilling to stay, so he asked Lei San to lead three thousand troops to follow, and the rest of the troops stayed in Nankang.

Wang Yuan asked the soldiers to carry torches and hurry, regardless of whether there were night blindness patients or not, anyway, they marched to Wucheng in the middle of the night.

Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, Taishi Ci of Eastern Wu had built a city here, and it was called Wucheng because it was adjacent to Wu Mountain. Across the river is the county seat of Haidu, which is the Haiduan Hou, which was flooded overnight in the Song Dynasty, and only the Wucheng built by Tai Shici remained.

In the Ming Dynasty, Wucheng was very prosperous in commerce, and the scale was comparable to that of a county seat in a border area.

Wang Yuan asked Wei Ba to swim across the river and ordered the gentry and merchants of Wucheng to prepare grain and boats. The big boat had long been taken away by King Ning, and there were still a small number of small boats left to use, carrying grain across the river to make a fire and cook rice - well, Wang Yuan advanced with light troops, and did not bring a grain of grain.

Of course, there were no things to camp on, and the whole army rested near the river, and then sent sentries to stand guard on all sides.

Wei Ba and Lei San, estimated to have been poisoned by "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin", wore armor and knives and volunteered to serve as Wang Yuan's night guards.

Early the next morning, the army marched.

More than 9,000 people had to cross the river, but there were only a few dozen small boats, and the crossing was chaotic. There were no pursuers behind him, and some soldiers rushed to get on the boat, overturned the boat and drowned an unlucky man.

Wang Yuan had already made arrangements to number the various ministries, and strictly ordered them to board the ship in turn, but the specific implementation was still painful.

A group of rabble, crossing the river actually tossed for most of the day, and it was almost evening when the whole army crossed the river!

At this moment, a large group of soldiers and horses suddenly appeared in front.

The twelve brocade clothes and the thirteen Song clan guards were all thrown out by Wang Yuan as sentry horses, but the other party didn't even have sentry horses.

Zhu Gang, a hundred households of the Jinyi Guard, observed with a clairvoyant mirror, and found that the person in command in front seemed to be a civilian official, and his subordinates were dressed in a mess, and he couldn't figure out whether it was a thief or an official army. He ran over and asked, "Are you a rebel or an officer?" ”

The other party was also taken aback, and the person in charge of the army replied: "I am Chen Huai, the prefect of Fuzhou, and I am ordered to crusade against the traitors." Who are you? ”

Zhu Gang replied: "Wang Yuan, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, is ordered by the emperor to beg for thieves!" ”

It is a great joy for friendly forces to join forces.

Wang Yuan brought Song Ling'er over to meet him, and after inquiring carefully, he learned that there were four prefects in front of him. They are, Chen Huai, the prefect of Fuzhou, Lin Hui, the prefect of Raozhou, Zhou Chaozuo, the prefect of Guangxin, and Zeng Yu, the prefect of Jianchang. They were sent by Wang Yangming to Jiujiang and Nankang, not seeking to break the city, but only to stop the thief army from rushing to the main battlefield.

Chen Huai asked: "Wang Shilang led the crowd south, but he was intercepted by Jiujiang and Nankang thieves?" ”

Wang Yuan summoned Wei Ba and Lei San and said with a smile: "These two people are the guards of Jiujiang and Nankang, and they have already surrendered to Cheng and will go with me anyway." ”

The four prefects were speechless for an instant, and they really deserved to be Wang Yangming's students, and the master and apprentice were so elusive in battle.

Zeng Yu asked, "Why is Wang Shilang in Jiangxi?" ”

Wang Yuan explained: "I took leave to return to my hometown to get married, and returned to Beijing with my wife to perform my duties, and when I went to Huguang, I heard that King Ning had rebelled, so I came with 3,000 elite soldiers to quell the rebellion. By the way, the general system of Huguang Wei has already led the water division to block the mouth of Poyang Lake. How is the battle on Yang Minggong's side? ”

Zhou Chaozuo said: "Maybe the fight has started." ”

……

According to the record of "Ming Wuzong Record", Wang Yangming not only did not work, but made serious mistakes.

The content is roughly as follows: King Ning led the elite to attack Anqing, and those who stayed in Nanchang were all old and weak. Hearing that the official army was coming, the righteous people in the city climbed the city tower one after another to help the official army kill the rebels. Wang Yangming didn't know about this, and he was afraid that it would be difficult to conquer Jiancheng, so he cowered and didn't dare to move forward. Wu Wending, the prefect of Ji'an, was brave and took the lead in leading the troops to attack the city, and when Wu Wending entered the city, Wang Yangming sent troops to attack the city with a cloud ladder. Therefore, the first merit of conquering Nanchang should be recorded on Wu Wending's head. And Wang Yangming's corporals and soldiers are all rabble, and the discipline is very bad, after entering the city, tens of thousands of good people were killed, and the corpses were piled up on the streets of Nanchang.

There is even more nonsense, saying that Wang Yangming and Liu Yang, the right prime minister of the rebels, are good friends, and they once went to King Funing's birthday banquet together. After quelling the rebellion, in order to extinguish the mouth, Wang Yangming killed Liu Yangzheng.

This is the "Records of Ming Wuzong" compiled by Yang Tinghe!

There is indeed an indiscriminate killing, but it was done by the township of Fengxin County. But on the second day of entering the city, Wang Yangming blasted this township out of the city and sent it to guard the ferry outside the city, which could slaughter tens of thousands of people overnight?

However, he said that after the capture of Nanchang, there were disagreements within the official army again.

Some officials suggested stationing in Nanchang, and some suggested rushing to Anqing. After arguing like this for several days, the spies from the front came to report that King Ning's army had returned to Poyang Lake.

The officials asked to stick to Nanchang and wait for King Ning to come and break the bloodstream.

Wang Yangming tried his best to resist public opinion and insisted on taking the initiative.

The forward general sent by King Ning, Ling 11, a water bandit from Poyang Lake, commanded 20,000 troops and went straight to Nanchang.

How did Wang Yangming deal with it?

He sent the prefects of Ji'an, Ganzhou, Yuanzhou, and Linjiang, each with 500 elite soldiers, to set off along the Ganjiang River in four routes. He also asked Ganzhou to command Yu En to lead 500 troops and use small boats to lure the rebels on the river. In addition, there are more than 10 people from the prefect, the general judge, the magistrate, and the magistrate, each leading 100 elite soldiers, and arranging suspicious soldiers on both sides of the Ganjiang River. Then, he asked the remaining four prefects to lead 1,000 elite soldiers to intercept the rebels in Jiujiang and Nankang.

Well, Uncle Wang only sent more than 4,000 soldiers, and he also divided nearly 20 troops. Among them, more than 3,000 soldiers fought against more than 20,000 forward troops of King Ning, and 1,000 soldiers were thrown to intercept the enemy's reinforcements.

There is no way, Wang Yangming can only fight a few thousand in his hands, and he has to divide troops to garrison Nanchang and guard the surrendered rebel party in the city. As for the tens of thousands of villagers, they are too lazy to bring them out to fight again, and they just consume food in vain.

The battle process was very simple, Wu Wending and Yu En, one took the land route to go around the back, and the other took the water route to meet the enemy head-on.

One after the other, feints and feints.

And each of them only brought 500 elite soldiers, and it would not turn into a rout.

There were more than 20,000 anti-thief forwards, competing for merit and killing, and the formation was chaotic.

Xing Xun, Xu Lian, and Dai Deru each led 500 elite soldiers to stop and kill. The remaining hundreds of people hid on the shore, beating gongs and drums to create a formation of tens of thousands of ambush troops, frightening the rebels into a direct rout.

More than 20,000 forward troops of King Ning were chased and killed for more than ten miles, more than 2,000 were captured and beheaded by the official army, and more than 10,000 were drowned in the river.

Moreover, Wang Yangming captured countless warships, and finally had the capital to fight a water war with King Ning.

The whole process of the operation is absurd and unbelievable.