The "Ming Wu Army" trained troops in the art of war of General Qi Jiguang, and small-scale infantry melee combat was its magic weapon to defeat the enemy.

Therefore, in the face of the White Lotus Sect, whose number was several times that of their own, the soldiers of the "Ming Wu Army" did not panic in the slightest, and came up with the routine of dealing with the enemy's siege in a narrow space, three or five people, a dozen or so, naturally formed a short and concise small formation, taking care of each other and fighting with the opponents who rushed up, and at the same time protected Ji Qingwen, Li Yan, Li Yuanyin, Liu Rushi and others in the core, preventing the enemy army from approaching half a step.

And these small formations, large or small, flexible and maneuverable, are the legendary "Mandarin Duck Formation".

"Gunyuin" is also a large-scale brothel.

And this so-called "large scale" is just enough to accommodate a few more rich and wealthy people looking for flowers and willows, but it is far from enough for the army to fight back and forth.

Therefore, although the number of White Lotus Sect disciples was large, they were indeed surrounded and killed from all directions, but although they were ten times and a hundred times larger than Ji Qingwen, they were unable to deploy their forces in the narrow central hall, so they did not truly transform the numerical advantage into victory.

After all, these White Lotus disciples were originally urban civilians, although they were bewitched by the cult doctrine and urged by Xu Daoqing to supervise the battle, but after half an hour of bloody fighting, they finally knew the strength of the officers and troops in front of them, and their sharpness was greatly reduced, and they gradually slowed down the momentum of the attack.

On Ji Qingwen's side, although he currently has the upper hand with only a small number of troops, the opponent's forces are objectively more than his own, so he does not dare to take it lightly, taking advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's offensive gradually weakening, he retreats to the gate of the "Jade Courtyard" in an organized manner, wanting to find an opportunity to break through.

At this moment, when the situation was a little anxious, the situation suddenly changed significantly.

The "Big Three" who were originally responsible for commanding the defense of Nanjing City—Xiong Mingyu, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, Han Zanzhou, the eunuch of the Nanjing garrison, and Liu Kongzhao, the commander of the Nanjing garrison—led 6,000 Nanjing defenders and finally rushed over.

It turned out that these people may not be good at using troops, but they also know some common sense on the battlefield, and they did not withdraw the whole army, but left a few eyes and ears here to listen to the news.

When they heard that the White Lotus Sect Leader Xu Hongru had re-led the army and turned back, they were all overjoyed, thinking: This Xu Hongru is seventy years old, and he has lived to be a dog for so many years, and he finally escaped, but he came back to die-he may not have lived enough, and he wants to go to the West as soon as possible?

But when they heard that Xu Hongru did not come back alone, but gathered more than 10,000 White Lotus Sect disciples, they were stunned

Stunned.

You must know that Nanjing City is the place of the Ming Dynasty's dragon prosperity, Zhu Yuanzhang is based on this place to sit on the Ming Dynasty dragon chair, Nanjing is also known as Yingtianfu, echoing with the Shuntianfu of the Beijing Division, is the core of the Ming Dynasty's rule in the south. It is precisely because of this that although Nanjing is not as tightly guarded as Beijing, it is unlikely that tens of thousands of rebellious people will invade, and even if such a situation occurs, the Nanjing city gate officials should immediately report the enemy's situation, rather than such a silent appearance.

Therefore, when these three well-numbered adults in Nanjing City heard such news, they were all suspicious and very suspicious that the spies in front had lied about the military situation, so they sent a few more people over to find out the situation thoroughly.

Later, the spies in the past were more clever, and the information they heard was more detailed, and they reported that the mouths of these White Lotus Sect rioters were all speaking with the local accent of Nanjing, so it is speculated that these people were the followers of the White Lotus Sect developed in the city of Nanjing, and they were originally in the city wall. Moreover, there are many of them, and they are very familiar with the terrain, streets, and houses of Nanjing, so it is naturally more difficult to clean up the chaos in the city.

Hearing such news, the three adults all became nervous, and thought that the opponent was so numerous that the more than 2,000 people who had just gathered - even if Shen Liangzuo brought him from the capital division - would not be enough to quell such a serious White Lotus Sect rebellion.

Therefore, the three adults discussed that one of the three leaders should go first to rescue Ji Qingwen who was in siege, and the other two gathered the rest of the team in place, and then came over to support and respond.

This method is good, but these three people want to wait for reinforcements in place, and no one is willing to lead a few men and horses to fight against the Ten Thousand White Lotus Sect bandits - not to mention that the purpose of the battle is to rescue Ji Qingwen, the unlikable Suzhou weaving admiral.

After such a meal, it was not until Ji Qingwen's department withstood Xu Hongru's three attacks that these three adults gathered 6,000 people, together with Shen Liangzuo's 2,000 people, a total of 8,000 people were divided into two ways, and they all went to the outside of the "Qunyu Courtyard".

The Qinhuai River and the Confucius Temple where the "Jade Courtyard" is located are the most prosperous places in Nanjing, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going, and they have never seen such a scene, and they have actually forgotten that now this is the scene of the imperial court's encirclement and suppression of the cult rebellion, although they let the road go with the army, but the restaurants and restaurants on both sides of the road are full, and they have poked their heads out of the balconies and windows to look outside.

I saw that more than 8,000 people from the imperial court rushed up, not talking about tactics or command, and felt that just by relying on the reputation of the imperial court officials and soldiers, they could scare the rabble of the White Lotus Sect on the opposite side into scattering.

However, although the White Lotus Sect was only a city civilian, and it was inevitably a little nervous to fight against so many imperial court officials and soldiers for the first time, they were not frightened at all, and still pinched the crude tools in their hands as weapons, standing in place and waiting for the upcoming battle.

Seeing that the two sides were about to be killed, they saw that a woman in red suddenly jumped out of the White Lotus Sect camp, and directly entered the official army formation, holding two daggers, jumping up and down, flying left and right, and killing the official army.

The onlookers upstairs on both sides saw that this woman's skills were unusually sharp, but it was rare that her figure was also extremely good-looking, as if she was not doing murderous deeds downstairs, but dancing a beautiful and terrifying dance.

This person is Zhou Xiuying, the saint daughter of the White Lotus Sect.

In fact, the White Lotus Sect had long planned to use Wei Zhongxian's inheritance as the capital, recruit troops and horses in the city of Nanjing, collect believers, and prepare to launch a riot in the city when the time is ripe, take Nanjing City in one fell swoop, and then continue to expand the territory with Nanjing as the center, and then create the fact that the river is divided and ruled with the imperial court, and finally entangle the power of the southeast to take the world in one fell swoop.

Such a course of action was a new method that Xu Hongru came up with only after he repeatedly launched the White Lotus Sect rebellion in the countryside in the first half of his life, and was easily eliminated by the imperial court.

In fact, Xu Hongru himself did not know that his plan was also in line with the rapid development of the commodity economy in the late Ming Dynasty, and the city had slowly become a node for the convergence of forces from all sides.

Although Xu Hongru had been prepared for a long time, now was not the time he had originally scheduled to raise the flag to rebel - not to mention anything else, just the White Lotus Sect that he has mobilized now, although the number is not small, but they don't have any decent weapons in their hands, how can they confront the serious court officials and soldiers?

Therefore, Xu Hongru originally only planned to concentrate his forces to take Ji Qingwen, and then dismissed everyone, but he didn't expect that Ji Qingwen was actually a hard bone, and the guards of about 200 people fought for almost a morning, but they couldn't beat it down, but finally attracted the attention of the defenders of Nanjing, and began to gather troops to clear themselves.

Thinking of this, Xu Hongru couldn't help but be a little discouraged, and said to Zhou Xiuying beside him: "Xiuying, it seems that our plan has been disrupted by this kid Ji Qingwen again." There is no way, it is better to take advantage of the current situation chaos, we brought our cronies, took the treasure, and escaped first, so as not to worry about the time when there will be no comeback in the future. ”

At this moment, Zhou Xiuying showed a far-sighted insight that was different from other women, and said: "Daddy, I don't think there is anything to be afraid of in the imperial court. It's better for me to lead my 'women's army' to kill first, if I can frustrate the enemy's spirit, my father will lead the army to cover up, and I will naturally succeed in one fell swoop. If we can't defeat the officers and soldiers, it's not too late for us to discuss the next step. ”

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