Wang Shouren also frowned, he was not worried about the problem of Nankang City falling into a two-sided attack, what he was really worried about was that there would be more officials and gentry who were dissatisfied with the government and would ignore the fundamental interests of the country and the aspirations of the people, and follow King Ning to rebel, which would only cause greater turmoil in the world, and it would not be beneficial to the country or the people.

If he succeeds in the future, he will rule the world with the scholars, and strictly order the world to respect the gentry and not punish the scholars and doctors, and this means of winning the hearts of the world's gentry does make many short-sighted gentry believe that King Ning will be the good emperor they think;

But how do they know that although the dynasty is only His Majesty's country, the country is the country of the people of the world, and the people of the world are in peace and do not think about chaos, they are doing this against the world, and they will only be condemned by the world, and even lead to a worse relationship between His Majesty and the gentry in the future!

The relationship between the monarch and the minister, which has been eased, has to be destroyed by this group of selfish short-sightedness, and now I can only hope that the Son of Heaven will not blame me and all other scholars as fools! ”

Wang Shouren sighed indignantly in his heart for a while, and then said:

"Don't worry about the problem of Nankang being attacked by the enemy, a few years ago, this official was ready for this day, Nankang City is complete armament and grain and grass, and for the strength of Jiujiang, this official knows better than his Jiujiang prefect Xu Zan that what he can command is nothing more than the soldiers and horses of several counties in Jiujiang, which add up to less than 10,000! And the training is insufficient, the commander's pacesetter battalion is only 3,000 in name, but in fact it is 20,000, which is not enough to be afraid that he and King Ning will attack Nankang together, and even the official thinks that he doesn't have the courage! ”

"The most important thing to consider now is to quell the rebellion of King Ning as soon as possible, the sooner the rebellion of King Ning is quelled, the better, so that those people in the world who have evil intentions (Wang Yangming refers to both other vassal kings and some civil officials and gentry) understand that being a thief will only ruin their reputation!"

Wang Shouren said and asked Zhang Lun again: "Did Jinyiwei send someone to inform Wu Wending to go?" ”

"I've already been informed, and there are also Jinyi guards in Nanchang City, I'm afraid that I have already been ordered to inform them first," Zhang Lun replied.

"That's good, Wu Wending has the official Jun order and His Majesty's holy decree, directly command our 80,000 soldiers and horses to gather in Nanchang Mansion, and join forces with us to quell King Ning's rebellion is not a problem, now the most important thing is to let King Ning stay in Nanchang for a few more days before the 80,000 soldiers and horses led by Wu Wending come, and must think of a way, now that Xu Zhan, the prefect of Jiujiang, has surrendered to the enemy, he will definitely let King Ning know that this King Ning is excited and can't wait to raise troops to the north."

As soon as Wang Shouren said this, he continued to think: "Now I can only use the counter-plot, immediately let the Jinyi Wei hidden in Nanchang find a way to implement the counter-plot, so that King Ning can get the secret letter of the court about Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng, it is best to let King Ning believe that Li Shishi and Liu Yang are the spies sent by the court to deliberately instigate 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 troops to the north, and then Xu Zhan, who pretended to surrender, joined forces with his official to ambush him King Ning. ”

"Command!"

Zhang Lun said and turned away.

Wang Shouren continued to order the officials and citizens of Nankang City to strengthen the defense of the city wall.

……

Xu Zhan, the prefect of Jiujiang, had indeed sent someone to cross Poyang Lake by boat, and came to Nanchang City through Jinxian, and informed King Ning of his intention to join King Ning, and asked King Ning to lead his army north, and he would assist King Ning to take advantage of the weakness to go down to Anqing.

Xu Zan has long been resentful of the court's disrespect for scholars and doctors and the use of public opinion to let the ink greed be stripped of the grass and resentful, plus he is also very corrupt, and some persecution paranoia, he always feels that he will also be found out, so after he heard that King Ning rebelled, he decided to take refuge without thinking about it, not to mention that King Ning's text also has the content of respecting the gentry, which makes him feel that he can let go and fight a piece of the world with King Ning.

However, he did not give King Ning the best strategy to take the capital as Wang Shouren thought, but suggested that King Ning take Anqing and then Nanjing after going north on the grounds that the Beijing division was difficult to attack.

After all, he is a southerner, and his attention is more likely to be on Jiangnan.

In addition, Xu Zan also specially ordered his own people to tell King Ning: "Minister Xu Zan heard that King Ning is a righteous teacher, and intends to inherit the way of heaven, except for the faint king, today he specially led the soldiers and horses of the five counties of Jiujiang to help King Ning, and prepared 30,000 stones of grain to reward the king's division, and wished that King Ning would ascend to the great treasure as soon as possible, and Kuang Zheng Huangming's bloodline would create the world!" Alack! ”

King Ning couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "I have heard that Zhengde regards the gentry as dogs, and the ten clans are destroyed at every turn, and they are threatened by public opinion, so that the loyal and good are wronged, and the traitors are full of the court. This king once again emphasizes that if he succeeds in saving the world, he will rule the world with the gentry, set up a prime minister, and will not punish the gentry, not punish the gentry, and not humiliate the gentry! ”

After King Ning's words were transmitted back to Jiujiang, the civil officials and gentry in Jiujiang Mansion City were all overjoyed after hearing it, if King Ning was in Jiujiang now, I was afraid that he would have to add King Ning's yellow robe a long time ago.

King Ning was overjoyed, and he was also busy sealing Xu Zan as the secretary of the ministry.

But coincidentally, King Ning inadvertently got two secret letters at this time, the secret letter was reported by the servants of Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng's family, and the content of the secret letter was that Li Shishi and Liu Yang were undercover agents of the imperial court, and the court told Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng to immediately find an opportunity to persuade King Ning to immediately move his troops north, because Xu Zan and Wang Shouren had laid an ambush and waited for King Ning to go into the trap himself.

King Ning didn't really believe the contents of this secret letter, he still summoned Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng and asked what the two of them thought of Xu Zhan's suggestion.

Li Shishi is not really stupid, as soon as he heard that Xu Zhan, the prefect of Jiujiang, had taken refuge, he immediately admonished: "Your Highness, now you should immediately take Nankang and wave your troops north!" ”

"The minister also thinks that this is the case, we can't wait for the imperial army to gather on the riverside, and then we can only stick to Nanchang!" Liu Yangzheng replied.

If it weren't for those two secret letters, King Ning would have believed them, but now that King Ning found that Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng's advice was completely consistent with what was said in the secret letter, he naturally became suspicious, and only said:

"This king thinks that it is not suitable now, the soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first, first prepare enough and then say, when continue to stick to Nanchang, and continue to build warships! Always ready to wave your troops north. ”

King Ning was delayed for almost a month.

Wu Wending's 80,000 soldiers and horses had almost passed through Linjiang Mansion and drove directly to Fengcheng, less than two hundred miles away from his Nanchang City.

At this time, King Ning also seemed to have suddenly opened his mind, realizing that he might have been fooled, because he found that Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng did not continue to strongly ask him to go north, and secondly, there seemed to be no shadow of the 160,000 troops of the imperial court coming from all sides, and he began to realize that it should be the people of the imperial court who were deliberately secretly planning to delay the time for him to move his troops north, and provide enough time for the imperial court to mobilize the army.

Thereupon.

Almost a month later, King Ning suddenly ordered his troops to move north and take Nankang directly.

But as the saying goes, after a drum of strength and then three times and exhaustion, the 100,000 soldiers and horses under the command of King Ning (in fact, only 60,000) have been in Nanchang City for a long time, and they have long lost the morale of the initial rebellion, and because of King Ning's connivance and sloppy military discipline, these soldiers and horses of King Ning have almost burned and looted in Nanchang Mansion without much combat effectiveness, and when they arrived in Nankang City, they were similar to a group of thieves who robbed houses.

In fact, many of the soldiers and horses under the command of King Ning were indeed outlaws in the rivers and lakes, composed of many river and ocean thieves.

Therefore, when King Ning ordered the siege of the city, the soldiers and horses under King Ning had no rules at all, and they could not distinguish between the types of troops, including cavalry on horseback, archers, and thieves wielding axes.

Wang Shouren's side was already fully prepared, the artillery fired first, and the iron-core copper-tired giant cannon on the city gate fired one after another into King Ning's front army, which instantly kicked up dust and countless broken corpses, and exploded King Ning's front army into chaos.

The soldiers and horses of King Ning's front army all retreated in a hurry.

King Ning was furious when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered those who attacked the city wall to be rewarded with fifty taels of silver, and also rewarded each soldier with ten taels of silver, so the morale of King Ning's soldiers and horses recovered a little, and he hurriedly attacked Nankang City again.

The cannons of this era are not the kind of cannons that are loaded in modern times, so after a cannon, the reloading is relatively slow, which gives the Ning Wang's soldiers and horses the opportunity to rush in.

However, as soon as these soldiers and horses of King Ning rushed in, the officers and soldiers on the city wall immediately opened firearms, and the bullets fired from the muskets were fast and accurate, and the penetrating power was so strong that these rebels were directly shot to the ground in pieces.

Ling Shisan, a person from the rivers and lakes who had taken refuge in King Ning and had been named General Xuanwu by King Ning, also specially held the moon with both hands, drew Tai Chi on his toes, and shouted: "Look at my iron cloth shirt!" Block your bullets! ”

Syllable!

This Ling 13 was immediately shot by Wang Shouren, his forehead was gushing blood, and he fell to the ground in a short time.

Another person named Liao Qingfeng boasted that he had done a good job, shouting "Chase Qingfeng!" Then, he jumped directly into the city to perform the stunt of flying eaves on the city wall, but was blown to pieces by a grenade in the hands of one of the defenders.

A group of rebels poured a bag of blood off their heads at this time, and then one of the leading generals shouted: "Brothers, we are all drenched in black dog blood now, so we don't have to be afraid of their demon magic anymore, I am invulnerable, rush me!" ”

So, a group of rebels who followed King Ning to rebel but looked like thieves rushed over, and they were bloody, which looked very terrible, but at this time, the officers and soldiers defending the city of Nankang City ignited the tiger squat cannon that had been developed by the Daming Ordnance Bureau, and with a few cannon bangs, these rebels who were drenched in the blood of black dogs were bombarded into a sea of corpses and blood.

King Ning directly lost more than 10,000 people on the first day of attacking Nankang City, and his morale was greatly damaged, so he could only temporarily suspend the war.

At this time, Wu Wending's side had already sent cavalry to attack Nanchang City.

But after King Ning learned that he had lost Nanchang City, he didn't want to take Nankang City directly when he tried his best to use the defenders of Nankang City and was tired, but chose to wave his troops back to Nanchang, because his splendid palace was in Nanchang, and he was reluctant.

Seeing this, Wang Shouren simply let Zhang Lun lead the elite troops out of the city, and directly fought a battle with King Ning's soldiers and horses who were eager to return to Nanchang in Huangpingdu, resulting in a great defeat for King Ning's soldiers and horses, and the loss of nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses.

Then, King Ning could only prepare to besiege Nanchang with more than 30,000 remnants, but Wu Wending took the initiative to attack and killed King Ning again.

King Ning could only flee to Jinxian and connect the warships with iron cables to form a water camp.

So, after Wang Shouren learned that King Ning had escaped from the water and the boat to land, he decided to light a fire.