King Ning was suspicious in Anqing, feeling that he was surrounded by enemies on all sides, and his cronies had already betrayed him in secret.

Rebellion is such a high-risk work, and it is necessary to have a strong psychological endurance. King Ning was very calm when he was secretly planning, but once he implemented it, he was suddenly dizzy, and there seemed to be a problem with everything.

Sometimes, he sees through rumors with reason; Sometimes, he thinks the rumors are true.

Wang Yangming's forged letter successfully planted the seeds of doubt in King Ning's heart. Even though he knew that it was impossible for the prime minister to betray, he was still worried about being ambushed in Nanjing, and he was unwilling to bypass Anqing and attack Nanjing City directly.

Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng were as anxious as ants in a hot pot, and went to meet King Ning together: "Your Majesty still has any doubts?" Hurry up and attack Nanjing! ”

King Ning waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, the soldiers of our army have boarded the northern city of Anqing yesterday. Although it was quickly killed and retreated, Anqing will definitely not be able to hold on for long, and it will definitely be able to capture this city in a few days! ”

Liu Yangzheng said: "Your Majesty, our army suffered heavy casualties in the siege of the city, and even the capture of Anqing is worth the loss." ”

King Ning insisted on going his own way: "I am already recruiting troops, and our soldiers will only fight more and more." ”

Li Shishi suddenly asked, "Did Your Majesty hear any rumors?" ”

King Ning smiled: "I won't listen to any rumors. ”

"Then why don't you want to attack Nanjing?" Li Shishi asked.

King Ning explained: "Nanjing is probably more difficult than Anqing, if we don't capture Anqing, and then we can't take Nanjing, our army's back road may be cut off." ”

Liu Yangzheng was suddenly in a hurry, and said in a panic: "There is no advance or retreat in the rebellion, how can there be any way out?" Your Majesty think twice! ”

Li Shishi also said: "Your Majesty and the ministers are sons and daughters, others can betray, but the ministers are absolutely impossible to betray, Your Majesty must not fall for the court's divisive scheme!" ”

King Ning also understands this truth, those two letters must be fake, but he is afraid to fight Nanjing, and he doesn't know what he is afraid of. Wang Yangming didn't write a letter of separation, and as soon as the letter of separation came, King Ning became always timid.

A few days later, King Ning was still fighting Anqing, and he gave the officials and troops from all over the country enough time to assemble, and the city of Nanjing successfully recruited tens of thousands of villagers.

At this time, King Ning went straight to Nanjing, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to bite down.

And in Nanchang, Wang Yangming is ready to make a big move.

Wang Yangming, who was in charge of suppressing bandits, already had soldiers in his hands, and he personally recruited and trained an army that had won countless battles in the past two years.

When King Ning rebelled, he didn't care about his head and didn't care about Gannan at all.

Wang Yangming gathered troops to quell the rebellion at the first time, and officials from all over southern Jiangxi responded one after another, and Fei Hong, the cabinet minister who had already sent a message, also personally recruited volunteers.

Fei Hong has always belonged to Lao Yinbi in the cabinet, and no one knows which side he is. As a result, when the emperor and Yang Tinghe were fighting, Fei Hong was suppressed by both sides at the same time, and was forced to resign and go home to retire.

However, when he was a minister, he refused to accept bribes from King Ning, and resolutely opposed the restoration of King Ning's guards.

King Ning held a grudge because of this, and when Fei Hong resigned and returned to Jiangxi, he immediately sent people to loot Fei Hong's hometown. Not only did Fei Hong's house burn down, but the ancestral grave of the Fei family was even dug up, and Fei Hong could only take his family to the county seat for refuge. King Ning also let the bandits attack the county seat and kidnapped Fei Hong's brother and younger brother, and Fei Hong's brother was even killed by the bandits.

Now that King Ning is rebelling, he still remembers Fei Hong and sends a small force to arrest him.

Liu Qingyuan, who entered Xianzhi County, was a nine-year jinshi in Zhengde, and he was an official for only four years. But when he learned that King Ning had rebelled, he immediately summoned Ding Yong to take precautions, defeated this small force, and continued to recruit Xiang Yong with Fei Hong.

Hearing that Wang Yangming was gathering troops to quell the rebellion, Fei Hong and Liu Qingyuan took 3,000 villagers to converge.

Xie Yuan and Wu Xiru, who supervised the imperial history of Liangguang, had a good relationship with Wang Yangming, and actually brought troops from Liangguang.

In addition, Wu Wending, the prefect of Ji'an, Xing Xun, the prefect of Ganzhou, Dai Deru, the prefect of Linjiang, Yu En, the commander of Ganzhou, Lin Hui, the prefect of Raozhou, Zhou Chaozuo, the prefect of Guangxin, Hu Yaoyuan, the prefect of Ruizhou, Li Ji of Taihe County, Li Mei of Xinganzhi County, Wang Mian of Wan'an County, Wang Shi of Anyi County, and Tong Qi of Ruizhou...... There are a lot of civilian-military arrivals.

In the blink of an eye, Wang Yangming gathered 80,000 troops, and his troops were almost on par with King Ning's rebels, and several other official troops rushed to Nanchang!

Linjiang Mansion, Zhangshu Town.

Seeing that the soldiers and horses from all walks of life were almost coming, Wang Yangming immediately convened a military meeting and analyzed the current situation.

Yu En, the commander of Ganzhou, said: "King Ning is attacking Anqing, our army should immediately go to the rescue, in case King Ning waves his army to conquer Nanjing, it will be difficult to clean up!" ”

"Yes, it is important to rescue Nanjing." Lin Hui, the prefect of Raozhou, echoed.

Officials from all over the country spoke one after another, and all of them suggested going to Anqing.

No way, Nanjing is the capital of the Ming Dynasty and the land of Taizu Longxing. There was a whole set of imperial court teams there, with strong cities and vast pools, and countless wealth and population. Once King Ning takes Nanjing, he can easily establish a puppet imperial court, and relying on the expansion of the army in Nanjing, the imperial court will gather a large army to crusade, and it will last for at least a year and a half.

Even, if King Ning has a good brain, he can cut off the grain tax in Jiangnan, so that Beijing does not have enough food to fight. Then take the opportunity to conquer and digest the wealth of the south of the Yangtze River, maybe you can divide the southeast, so as to win the world, it is not known!

Nanjing must be saved, and it can be rescued as quickly as possible.

Only Fei Hong disagreed: "We don't have a water master, what are we going to Anqing for?" Sitting by the river and watching Ning Fan fight? ”

Wang Yangming also said: "Even if we have a water division, it is equivalent to Ning Fan's strength, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner in a short period of time." Moreover, the army was rushed forward, and the money and food were somewhat insufficient, and the township warriors accounted for more than half, and the soldiers lacked sufficient training, and it was easy to disperse if there was a slight mistake. ”

Everyone was silent, and the army they personally recruited naturally knew what it was like.

If King Ning's command is a group of rabble, then the 80,000 army gathered by Wang Yangming is not even as good as the rabble, and there is an extreme lack of money and food supply!

Wang Yuan and the emperor did have a secret letter sent to Wang Yangming morning. But Wang Yangming couldn't prepare, because of the bandits, he had a very poor relationship with the local gentry, and before King Ning openly rebelled, he had no money and no reason to raise tens of thousands of troops.

Wu Wending, the prefect of Ji'an, asked, "What is Shourengong's plan?" ”

Wang Yangming pointed on the map: "Knock down Nanchang first!" ”

"I disagree!"

"I don't agree either!"

"How can you leave Nanjing unsaved?"

“……”

A bunch of officials all objected, although Wang Yangming had the banner of the king's order, but he could not mobilize the volunteers organized by the civilian officials.

And at this moment, those townsmen account for more than half!

Ning Wang is a pit goods, and Wang Yangming is surrounded by a bunch of pit goods, and he is determined to bypass Nanchang and go straight to the front line.

Wang Yangming couldn't convince everyone, so he could only look at Fei Hong and smile bitterly. After the meeting was dismissed, the two went to lobby separately and persuaded the officials one by one.

After three days of persuasion, the officials felt that it was not a matter to lie here, and agreed that Wang Yangming would go to Nanchang to try it first - anyway, if he couldn't beat it, he would talk about it.

Under the pretext that the army must be commanded in a unified manner, Wang Yangming gathered military power as the governor of Jiangxi, and swore to reorganize in Zhangshu Town, so he took this group of weak brigades who could not understand military orders to the north.

Wu Wen, the prefect of Ji'an, was designated as the vanguard, but this person did not dare to move when he was close to Nanchang, and only waited for Wang Yangming to lead the army to converge.

When Wang Yangming approached Nanchang, two more rebel armies came, all of which were temporarily summoned by Xiangyong.

Wang Yangming claimed to have an army of 300,000, but the officials were very weak and didn't know how to gnaw down Nanchang Jiancheng.

Nanchang City is high and deep, and there are more than 20,000 defenders, all of which are "elite" troops left by King Ning. And on his own side, the ones who can really fight are the thousands of bandit soldiers in Wang Yangming's hands.

Once the siege cannot be defeated for a few days, it is estimated that the army of 80,000 Qin Wang will be dispersed on the spot.

Wang Yangming sent only a few light cavalry to shoot frantically towards the city to persuade the surrender letter, which was nothing more than 300,000 officers and soldiers had arrived, and those who surrendered the city were not guilty. It is also said that King Ning has been defeated by the imperial army, and his life and death are currently unknown, which has made the thieves in Nanchang City panic.

Then he reported that there were thousands of thieves camped in the east of the city, and the thieves in Nanchang City were at a wrestle.

Wang Yangming immediately moved to the east of the city, sent miscellaneous troops to feint on both sides, and sent thousands of main forces to attack from the east. These thousands of main forces were personally recruited and trained by Wang Yangming, and the invincible opponents of the giant Kou in southern Gannan had already been defeated, which was what King Ning's "elite soldiers" could resist?

In less than half an hour of the battle, the rebels' large camp outside the city was breached.

And Wang Yangming specially left the western opening, let these rebels run frantically towards Nanchang City, and ordered not to chase for the time being.

Seeing that there were no pursuers, the defenders of the city immediately ordered the city gate to be opened.

At the moment when the city gate opened, the sentinel sent by Wang Yangming hid in the dark to see the truth, and hurriedly blew the horn to report the news.

A small number of cavalry frantically rushed towards Nanchang City, shouting all the way that the officers and soldiers had arrived.

As for the foot soldiers behind, they were still several miles away, and they couldn't get close to the city quickly.

However, the rebels were already frightened, and they were completely frightened the moment they heard the sound of the horn. rushed to the city, but they were congested with each other and couldn't get in, which greatly slowed down the speed of entering the city.

Less than half of the rout entered the city, more than 100 cavalry killed, frightening both the defenders and the rout.

The defenders wanted to close the city gates, and the rout wanted to go in, but the two sides fought on their own.

By the time Wang Yangming led his troops from a few miles away, the city gate had already been killed with a river of blood. He immediately rushed to the city gate with his troops, and the routs rushed into the city even more frantically, and the defenders defending the city gate fled in panic.

In only half a day, Wang Yangming led the rabble to break through Nanchang City, where more than 20,000 "elites" were stationed.

Dai Deru, the prefect of Linjiang, rode a donkey and was stunned outside the city: "This is down?" ”

"It looks like it's been beaten." Zhou Chaozuo, the prefect of Guangxin, rode mules, and their horses were borrowed to equip the cavalry.

Liu Qingyuan, who entered Xianzhi County, laughed exaggeratedly, clapped his hands and praised: "Yangming Gong is really a god!" ”