In addition to the 20,000 elite defenders, the Nanjing court withdrew the youth and power of the outer Guo city into the city before the arrival of King Lu's soldiers in Nanjing, and the hired workers of each workshop were used to defend the city.

These hired men are much better than the average city worker.

In a wealthy city like Nanjing, most of the young and strong people in the city, including the people in the countryside, are very pampered, like to enjoy, fear life and death, and the atmosphere of the market is too heavy to be a soldier to fight.

When Qi Jiguang was training Zhejiang soldiers, he said, "The name of Zhejiang Township Soldiers can be used, at first it was Chuzhou, then Shaoxing, then Yiwu, and then Taizhou." As for other places, although Han and Bai are reborn, they are not available! ”

Then he summed up some reasons, saying that Chuzhou was the beginning of the township soldiers, because of its husband of mountains and mines, Su Xi fighting, so it was famous, Shaoxing is from Shengxian, Zhuji, Xiaoshan, and along the coast, there are a large number of fishermen, Yiwu is mountainous and mineral, and Taizhou is because of Tan Lun.

Other soldiers, such as Hangzhou and other places, are cunning, cowardly, and treacherous, and have not been given the order of my encouragement, and the people have already planned for it.

From the situation in Zhejiang, it can be seen that Qi Jigong selects soldiers mostly from economically less developed areas, and as for the soldiers in those prosperous places, he said that even if Han Xin and Bai Qi are alive, they can't take them, and throughout history, there are indeed some such phenomena.

It is true that most of the young and strong people in Nanjing City are soft and cowardly, treacherous, and useless, doing business to make money, reading and writing, and fighting wars are not good, but in the city outside Nanjing, hundreds of thousands of outsiders gathered in Nanjing City to beg for a living can be used.

In particular, the hired workers of those workshops, they eat and live together every day, work together, obey the management of the foreman, and have their own organization, which is equivalent to a long period of training, high discipline, and a little training, they can barely form an army.

The Nanjing court recruited all of them to help defend the city, which brought great trouble to the king of Lu to attack the city.

The time is about to enter August, the army of King Lu has been trapped under the city of Nanjing for several days, in the face of the tall city of Nanjing and the wide moat, the Zhejiang army is only 40,000 people, it is difficult to make any achievements.

When Wang Yan attacked the city of Nanjing, more than 100,000 men and horses of the three families attacked on three sides, and they built pontoon bridges and dug tunnels.

King Lu made several tentative attacks, but they were unsuccessful, and the preliminary statistics of the losses in the army amounted to more than 3,000 casualties.

Zhejiang soldiers totaled 60,000, 20,000 sailors used to block the Yangtze River, 40,000 people used to attack the city, and now there is no progress, so the loss of nearly 10% of the infantry army, such a large casualty, can not help but shock King Lu.

After careful counting, the casualties of more than 3,000 people were mainly killed by the firearms of the defenders. In particular, the Wusheng team of the Nanjing Martial Arts Academy, the self-generated fire guns used far exceeded the Zhejiang soldiers in power and range, and the soldiers besieging the city were killed by the defenders from a long distance.

In the city of Nanjing, the king of Tang was very satisfied with the current situation, and used the private wealth of the palace several times to praise the soldiers who defended the city.

Now that the defenders have blocked King Lu from the city, he only needs to wait for the news of Wang Yan's death, Jin Shenghuan's army and Zheng Chenggong's sailors will arrive, and he will be able to steal the power of Nanjing, and then command the army to quell King Lu's rebellion.

At the beginning of the recovery of Nanjing, the three parties compromised and determined the institutional framework of the three kings governing and taking turns to be regents.

Now it's good, the three kings of Lizheng, King Lu rebelled, Wang Yan was killed, and he was left alone, and it was natural for him to inherit the position of regent.

Thinking of this, Tang Wang was excited and couldn't sleep, and almost every day he would climb the Xicheng to overlook, hoping that Jin Shenghuan would send him good news.

Unlike the good mood of the Tang King, the King of Lu was very anxious, although he besieged Nanjing, but he could not break through Nanjing in a short time.

It was impossible for the Nanjing court and the Tang Dynasty to give him too much time, and let him be trapped in the city of Nanjing, as long as their soldiers and horses arrived, the king of Lu could only be defeated under the city of Nanjing.

Although there were many people in Jiangnan who instigated King Lu to continue the attack, overthrow the Nanjing court, prohibit the spread of the Wangmen doctrine, change the mercantile policy, govern the country with reason, and restore etiquette and music, but this group of mouth cannons, just talking but not practicing, except for some political speculation, these sour Confucians did not give him much support.

Xinxue, especially the later Taizhou school, from the current point of view, can be classified as "reactionary thought" in the feudal era.

The most influential Taizhou school in the Wanli period was mainly engaged in ideological emancipation activities and criticized the government, which was a bit anti-feudal.

This kind of thinking has been suppressed in the Ming Dynasty, He Xinyin, a representative of psychology, was arrested and imprisoned, and the academy was also closed by the imperial court and gradually declined.

Since Wang Yan took power, he has vigorously promoted the study of mind and emphasized the study of mind, which naturally caused the dissatisfaction of the people of science. In the south of the Yangtze River, there are many people who are influenced by psychology, and there are also many people who adhere to science.

Any kind of doctrine has advantages and disadvantages, and science has the use of science, but when it developed to the Ming Dynasty, its disadvantages outweighed its positive significance, so it had to withdraw from the stage of history.

Over the years, science has gradually lost power, and many people can only nest in the countryside, and many people are very dissatisfied with the imperial court.

Of course, these science people are not stupid, although they are dissatisfied, they dare not jump out.

This time it was an opportunity for King Lu to oppose them, but this group of people were all human spirits, and before King Lu took Nanjing, they would only wave their flags and shout, and they would not really fully support King Lu.

If they can take Nanjing, King Lu can still succeed, but if they can't take Nanjing, they follow King Lu, but they dislike their long life.

It is precisely because the vast majority of people have a wait-and-see attitude that although King Lu raised the banner of the third prince of Zhu, although the momentum is great, he has not received much substantial support.

These days, King Lu has rarely had anything to do, and the person sent to contact Zhang Mingzhen sent back the news that King Lu's 30,000 horses in Jiangbei have been controlled by Dai Zhifan, and the messenger has not contacted Zhang Mingzhen at all, and Xie Qian of North Korea cannot be counted on.

In addition to the failure to contact the old Jiangbei department, there was also unfavorable news from the naval division, Liu Shun of Yangzhou and Mandazhuang of Chongming joined forces, and there seemed to be a move to rescue Nanjing.

Feng Jing, the henchman of King Lu, saw that Nanjing could not be defeated again, and Zhejiang was empty, so he persuaded King Lu to withdraw his troops, retreat to Zhejiang, and welcome Zhu Cihuan to Hangzhou, use his banner, and implement armed secession.

Others, such as generals Wang Yi and Ruan Jun, resolutely opposed Feng Jing's suggestion, believing that they should now make a desperate bet to take Nanjing, and only by defeating Nanjing can they break the game.

King Lu is also very unwilling in his heart, he is still waiting, he still has a chance, that is, when the news of Wang Yan's death comes, and the people in Nanjing are in turmoil, he still has some chances.

If Wang Yan really died in Anqing, the smarter people would know that it was Tang Wang's doing, even if Tang Wang didn't admit it, everyone would still know it.

The Wenchen in the court is more shameless, and may compromise with the Tang King, but Wang Yan has been ruling the world for nearly ten years, so many henchmen are old, don't you want to avenge him, King Lu can always find a few people, win them over, and take the opportunity to turn the tables.

On this day, it was the first day of August, and King Lu was peeking at the city defense of Nanjing, and in recent days he was racking his brains and thinking hard about how to break the city. The methods used by Wang Yan to attack Nanjing, he almost copied them.

The Zhejiang soldiers captured the people, secretly dug tunnels, built equipment to build pontoon bridges, and even sent people to the city to send a letter to Gao Yigong, telling him that Tang Wang and Jin Shenghuan would ambush Wang Yan in Anqing, but Gao Yigong did not give him any response.

King Lu wore a suit of gold armor and led a team of cavalry, galloped under the city of Nanjing, and finally stationed his horse on a high slope to observe the moat of Nanjing and find a suitable place to build a pontoon bridge.

At this time, a sound of horses' hooves suddenly came from a distance, and King Lu, who heard the movement, turned around, only to see Ruan Jun beating the horse and galloping, until he ran to the bottom of the high slope, before he restranded the war horse, and then held the horse whip in one hand and the war knife in the other, and came to King Lu with an anxious look.

When King Lu heard this, his face sank, but then he nodded and said, "Got it." ”

(End of chapter)