In the fourth year of Longwu, on February 20, the flag flew outside the city of Nantong, covered with tens of thousands of horses from Lu Jianguo and Xie Qian, and filled with accents from Shandong, Lianghuai, Jiangnan, and Zhejiang.

This dispatch of troops is another major action of the Lu Jianguo regime after the failure of the blockade of the Yangtze River, which is related to whether the Lu Wang group can gain a foothold on land.

In order to support this operation, Lu Jianguo loaded all the more than 600,000 taels of silver obtained from the blockade of the Yangtze River and sent them to Guangdong, and entrusted Wang Yan to help him buy grain in Nanyang.

Lu Jianguo sent 10,000 troops, led by the general Zhang Mingzhen, and Zhang Huangyan, the squire of the military department, as the supervisor of the army, to control Xie Qian's tens of thousands of horses and attack Nantong City.

Although Xie Qian's number is large, the quality is far inferior to that of Lu Wangjun, plus he is a new king of Lu, Zhang Mingzhen is the most capable general of King Lu, so he has no opinion on the war being commanded by Zhang Mingzhen.

The army besieged the city for a few days, according to the convention, first shoot the book to surrender, solve the problem with the lowest cost, can not say that the other party is a disgusting thief, do not try to surrender, must come up to attack, this is a problem with the braincase.

The art of war, the siege of the city, a letter of surrender, the enemy does not accept, there is no loss, in case you accept, you can easily occupy the city, and if the enemy is really a heinous person, find an excuse to kill it, it is not a big problem.

However, Liu Qingtai, the defender of Nantong, obviously did not mean to surrender in Kaicheng, and the army was in a hurry, so there was only one way to attack.

At this time, Xie Qian and Zhao Shuxiang walked between the military camps, and the siege equipment had been almost built, Zhang Mingzhen beat drums and gathered generals today, and summoned many generals to his tent to discuss matters.

The two armies are in the joint camp, it is inevitable that there will be many incidents, the two of them inspected the barracks, and then went to the Lu army camp at the foot of the wolf mountain, passing through various righteous army camps along the way, the barracks are in full swing to build all kinds of siege equipment, the most conspicuous is a long ladder.

They passed through several simple camps, and several volunteer generals were already followed behind them, and when they reached the camp in the east, a drum was beating in Zhang Mingzhen's camp.

A few people stood outside the camp, seeing that the Lu army camp was densely populated with flags, and the soldiers were patrolling back and forth, and the entire camp was very orderly, unlike the righteous army, Xie Qian couldn't help but feel a little envious in his heart, and his confidence was released.

If all the people under his command are like this, then he will sweep through the two Huai Shandong, and even recover Yanyun and achieve the cause of the king.

Many of the leopards of the rebel army were slightly admired in their hearts. At this time, at the foot of Wolf Mountain, there was a sudden noise of gongs and drums, and a burst of trumpets came, and everyone looked up at Wolf Mountain, only to see a group of soldiers pulling a Hongyi cannon to the top of the mountain.

Seeing this, Zhao Shuxiang said to everyone: "Inspector Zhang is going to set up artillery, looking down on Nantong City, with this batch of artillery suppression, I don't think it's a big problem to break through Nantong." ”

After staying outside the camp for a while, they entered the camp, where they could see the Lu army fleet on the river, and a large number of soldiers were adding guards to the ships, putting on cowhides, and putting long ladders on the ship's building.

Xie Qian and others came to Zhang Mingzhen's handsome tent, several elite armor soldiers were guarding outside, a big flag fluttering in the wind, the big "Ming" word in the middle, next to the Ming Guanglu Doctor Naval Army Governor Department Shangshu Inspector Jiangnan Dingxi Hou Zhang, the title is terrifying.

Although these official positions are just King Lu****** entertaining himself, they are enough to frighten Xie Qian and others.

Everyone did not dare to slack off, respectfully entered the tent, the tent was very large, only to see that the handsome seat in the middle was empty, there was a row of seats on both sides, the supervisor Zhang Huangyan was dressed in a scarlet official robe, with a jade belt around his waist, and sat on the left with a black sand on his head, and then a group of officers wearing iron armor, red cloaks, disc helmets, and a foot of white feathers.

They sat on the left side of the big tent together, and when they saw Xie Qian and the others coming in, they all turned their heads to look at each other, and their movements were neat.

This group of people has distinct clothes and armor, like a rich man, while Xie Qian's armor is different, and there are all kinds of tatters, just like the long-term workers of the landlord's family.

This made them feel the huge difference between the classes, which made the two Huai Tigers a little ashamed of themselves, and some of them were not good.

At this moment, the second drum sounded, Xie Qian hurriedly arched his hand, and led the generals to sit on the seats on the right.

At this time, some rebel generals came in one after another, slowly filling the seats on the right, and the personnel were basically all there, just waiting for Zhang Mingzhen to come out.

After a long time, the third drum sounded, Zhang Mingzhen was wearing fish scale armor, a tiger headband around his waist, a phoenix wing helmet on his head, a three-foot-long red feather, wearing a red cloak, striding out from behind the screen, sitting on the middle seat, two elite soldiers, standing behind him with a war knife.

is also Hou Ye, looking at the posture, this is the authentic person.

As soon as Zhang Mingzhen came in, the generals on both sides stood up together, and after he sat down, they saluted in unison: "See the Inspector!" ”

Xie Qian was named Gao Yuanhou on the title, but the title was much worse than Zhang Mingzhen, and in order to recover Xie Qian's troops, King Lu specially added the name of the supervisor to Zhang Mingzhen, so as to control Xie Qian.

Zhang Mingzhen's face was calm, and he waved his hand: "You don't have to be polite, please take a seat!" ”

Everyone sat down together when they heard the words, and then the magistrates began to name them one by one, first pointing out many generals and colonels of the Lu Army, Ruan Jin, Ruan Mei, Liu Shixun, Zhang Mingyang, Ma Tai and other fifteen officers with more than 1,000 households were all present, Xie Qian couldn't help but look at the end of the right row, there were still two empty seats, and his heart began to get anxious.

The development of the rebel army is too fast, the organizational structure is scattered, Xie Qian is the leader of the rebel army, but his subordinates also have their own people, so it is difficult for him to implement strict military regulations.

After the town magistrate finished ordering the Lu army, he began to point the righteous army, and after the three drums, it happened that the two righteous army generals outside the west city did not come, Xie Qian was about to stand up and explain, but the curtain suddenly opened, and the two volunteer generals hurriedly came in and stood at the end of the righteous army.

Zhang Mingzhen glanced at the two of them coldly and asked, "Ding Mingwu, Wang Kuiguang?" ”

The general of the rebel army, Zhang Mingzhen didn't know, he was talking about the two people he hadn't just clicked.

When the two of them heard this, they felt that the atmosphere was wrong, and they came out with some cringe, and saluted Zhang Mingzhen, but Zhang Mingzhen waved his hand and said lightly: "This governor beats the drum to gather the generals, the three links are not coming, read the new return of the two of you, I don't know the order of the lieutenant general, the death penalty can be avoided, but the military order is like a mountain, go out and get fifty military sticks!" ”

The rebels are used to being casual, where did they think of such a scene, the two of them showed fear on their faces, and hurriedly explained: "Supervisor, the two of us are outside the West City, the distance is the farthest, so I came late, and the Inspector fell lightly..."

Zhang Mingzhen didn't listen to the explanation, he had to fight this board, tens of thousands of righteous troops, military discipline was scattered, and there were many mountains, if he didn't fight, he couldn't establish prestige, and if he didn't fight, how could he lead these people to attack Nantong.

Zhang Ming waved his hand, "Supervise the standard, pull it out!" ”

Xie Qian wanted to speak when he saw this, but Zhao Shuxiang on the side stopped him with his eyes.

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