Wang Yan is not dead, then the Tang King and the King of Lu are alone, no one is Wang Yan's opponent, only the two parties can have a chance to compete with Wang Yan, but the two parties were still opponents just now, and now they are going to turn into a cooperative relationship, and the vast majority of the generals of the Zhejiang army will be a little unable to turn around.

Man is a complex animal, people's hearts are different, if the 40,000 Zhejiang troops under the city of Nanjing, only one brain, then out of rational considerations, it is easy to make the right decision, but 40,000 heads, more than a thousand ideas, want to unify the mind in this situation, it is difficult.

In fact, not to mention 40,000 heads, even more than 10 people in the tent cannot form a unified opinion.

Wang Yan, the demon did not die, the blow to many generals of the Zhejiang army was too great, many of them were willing to raise troops with King Lu, a big reason is that they thought that the Tang King could get rid of Wang Yan, and they would not meet Wang Yan at all.

The prestige of the king of Chu was far and wide, not only the Manchu Qing regarded him as a tiger, but also the people of the Ming Dynasty were also afraid of Wang Yan.

Now that Wang Yan is still there, Jin Shenghuan is also coming to Nanjing, King Lu's plan has failed again, and it is impossible to take Nanjing by his side alone.

Feng Jing and the others are now timid, and they want to escape from Nanjing as soon as possible, thinking that they will be safe if they return to Zhejiang. They are obviously in a mess like this.

Xiao Qihui and others knew that returning to Zhejiang now was just a time to delay defeat.

King Tang and King Lu, neither side alone, can fight Wang Yan, now they already know that Wang Yan deliberately designed them, they are all in Wang Yan's calculations, which itself is at a great disadvantage, and now they have to withdraw to Zhejiang, let Wang Yan break each other, it is really a little too stupid.

However, some things seem stupid, but they have appeared many times in history, and the reality is always so absurd.

Just like the Qi State back then, he just watched the Qin State like this, broke through each of them, and finally ended up quickly.

Although King Tang couldn't believe it, King Lu naturally knew that he and King Tang had a relationship of mutual use and deception.

Feng Jing wanted to retreat to Zhejiang and let the Tang King resist for a while, in the eyes of King Lu, it was no different from the Qi State, and Xiao Qihui and others did not approve, they led troops to fight, unlike Feng Jing who did not know much about soldiers.

Zhejiang does not have the geographical advantages of Sichuan and Shu, and they do not have too many people in Zhejiang.

Time, location, and people must be at least the same as these three things, in order to have a chance to succeed, and now there is no one, how can it be possible to use Zhejiang to compete with the entire Ming Dynasty, and there is no precedent in history for the success of Zhejiang.

Jin Shenghuan's idea was that the two families would join forces to control Nanjing, and then use the rich land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to compete with Wang Yan, or negotiate in order to protect themselves, and King Lu was still very tempted.

If the two join forces to connect the territory, there is still some capital, and he believes that Wang Yan does not want to see Jiangnan disrupted, so even if they can't beat it, they can still force Wang Yan to compromise.

King Lu agrees with Xiao Qihui's view, but the key is that many people in the tent are already timid, and people's hearts will be scattered.

There are seven kinds of colors, flowers bloom in a hundred ways, a hundred people are together, and people's hearts are not the same.

Just when King Lu was arguing with his cronies in the camp about whether to stay or leave, the armies in Nanjing suddenly had varying degrees of internal strife.

In the city of Nanjing, on the east side of Taiping Street, is where the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is located.

At the beginning of the year, when the Ming army was trying to cross the Huai River and attack Xuzhou, the governors of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies also went to Jiangbei to serve as the staff officer of Dai Zhifan, who presided over the campaign, and by the way understood how to fight in the north and prepare for the Northern Expedition.

After the failure of the Ming army to attack Xuzhou, Dai Zhifan, Li Guo, Liu Shun and others were all left in Jiangbei, so now in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, there is only one big governor with one merit.

This is also Wang Yan's arrangement, Li Guo, Dai Zhifan, Liu Shun and other major generals are outside, once the Tang and Lu kings raise troops, they can control the troops and horses nearby, carry out counterinsurgency, or defend against the attack of the Qing army in the north.

The Governor's Office of the Five Armies undertook the task of commanding the army to fight, and when King Lu came to Nanjing, it became the command center for commanding all armies and defending Nanjing.

At this time, in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, there was a killing machine.

After the compromise of the Three Kings, the military focus of the Ming Dynasty has always been to fight against a strong enemy in the north, and the large armies are deployed on the front line to confront the Qing army and the Jin army.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Yan has an excuse to constantly transfer the armies of the Tang King and the Lu King to the front line, and then annex and disintegrate, gradually encroaching on the power of the two kings.

In order to get the two kings to agree to transfer troops, Wang Yan's men and horses naturally had to be sent to the front line, so that Tang Lu could agree to transfer their troops and horses.

It's just that in this way, Nanjing's garrison is relatively empty, with only more than 30,000 people, and Wang Yan took 10,000 with him during his inspection of Huguang this time, and there are only three battalions of Huben, Huwei, and Huyi left in the city, plus Gao Yigong's personal guards, martial arts students, and Japanese soldiers, etc., totaling more than 20,000 people.

Among them, the Japanese army is the Tang King's people, and most of the rest belong directly to the imperial court, but the Tang King dares to stay in the city, naturally it is impossible to only support the Japanese army.

Gao Yigong has been following Wang Yan for a long time, and Zhongzhen Town's ranking in the Five Loyal Armies has always been relatively high, so it should not be so easy to be infiltrated and sold by King Tang.

In fact, the old Wuzhong Army was indeed not easy to be sold, but Wang Yan gave Tang Wang a chance to infiltrate the Wuzhong Army.

Wang Yan's military reform, the transfer of generals in various ministries, and the transfer of generals made it easier for the imperial court to control the army, but it also allowed the Tang King to take advantage of the loopholes.

Sun Shoufa, who was transferred to Nanyang by the imperial court to guard against the Qing army, was very complex, Sun Shoufa was close to Wang Yan, but the soldiers and horses he commanded were the original Gan Governor Wan Ji, and the generals and soldiers below had a strong imprint of the pro-Tang faction.

After Wang Yan transferred this force out of Jiangxi, he soon took advantage of the opportunity of military reform to annex this 30,000-strong force. He transferred the generals of this army to all departments of the Wuzhong Army, broke them up, used the huge Wuzhong Army system to digest and dilute them, and then transferred Wuzhong officers to lead the soldiers and slowly control the entire army.

His plan was very successful, annexing the Tang King's 30,000 horses at once, but at the same time, it also brought some problems, in addition to the decline in the combat power of the army, it also gave the Tang King the opportunity to infiltrate the Wuzhong Army.

At present, the main force defending Nanjing is still three tiger battalions, and among these three battalions, one deputy commander, one Tongzhi, and three thousand households are all Tang Wang's people.

(End of chapter)