When did the nightmare start? I don't know if he was frightened by the sudden change in front of him, or if his hope was suddenly shattered, which made him feel so agitated that he had lost the ability to think, in short, it was difficult for Zhu Chenhao to determine this. [No pop-up novel network]

It started with an emergency in Nanchang? No, apparently not.

According to the latest news from the palace guards, other prefectures and counties are still in the stage of assembling soldiers and horses, only Wu Wending's movements are very fast, he has already converged the Linjiang soldiers and horses a few days ago, and went straight to the city of Nanchang.

But in the face of Xiongcheng, he is also at a loss, although most of the people in the city are old and weak, but the Yichun King Zhu Gongzhang who stayed behind, and the internal official Wan Rui are quite wise and strategic, and they have already organized the people in the city.

Wu Wending came in a hurry, and he didn't bring much siege equipment, and the local army was not very good at attacking fortifications, so the situation in Nanchang was not as bad as imagined.

After getting the news, Zhu Chenhao was still very proud for a while, yes, the suggestion not to return to help was made by Lu Wan, but it was himself who made the final decision. Wu Wending really planned to surround Wei to save Zhao, while the others were just bluffing, waiting until he entered Nanjing and came back to clean up the mess.

However, things were far from going as smoothly as he expected. The process of going to Anqing was smooth, but after arriving in Anqing, he quickly understood why Wang Jianzhi went to Nanjing first. Anqing is ready to defend to the death, maybe it is not difficult to conquer Anqing, but that is definitely not something that can be done in a moment.

Zhu Chenhao's preparation was much more adequate than Wu Wending, who responded to the battle in a hurry, with dozens of ladders, crashes, and even wells, of course, his biggest reliance was on the dozens of general cannons.

These things have been used, but in addition to verifying the determination of Anqing people to defend themselves, they have not played their due role. No matter what kind of equipment, the siege of the city still has to rely on people, a number of bandit-born rebels to fight this kind of tough battle, it is really not very powerful, a fierce attack, the people who attack the city are very few, the city is far away.

The general artillery is very powerful, for these things, Zhu Chenhao spent at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to get his hands on the original Shenji Battalion, he has always been very precious, and he didn't even take out the battle against Jiujiang, in order to use it at the most critical moment.

But, once again, he was disappointed. The gunners in the army are also all from the Beijing camp at his expense, and they have been practicing until now, and their artillery skills are still very good, and their accuracy is also very good, and in the first round of shelling alone, there are at least five shells in the middle of the city gate.

Encouraged by this, the subsequent shelling became more and more accurate, and the shells fell on the city gate one after another. Anqing is a big city, the city walls are very thick, and if the general cannon wants to smash it open, it is possible to hit the same position one after another unless it shoots accurately. But compared to the city walls, the city gates are much more fragile, and according to common sense, such a blow is enough to break the city gates.

Alone, after repeated blows, the city gate even had a few breaches, but it stood still. It can be seen through the breach that the back of the city gate is full of sandbags, earth and stones, and it is obvious that the people of Anqing have even blocked the city gate, and they are ready to defend it early.

The grief and indignation at that time, Zhu Chenhao is still deeply impressed, he really can't figure it out, why did these people in Anqing City do this? I don't even want my life, just to protect the faint king's country? Didn't those people in the capital say that the perverse actions against the monarch and the ministers had already made the heavens angry and resentful? Have the people of the world been holding grudges for a long time?

Isn't it supposed to be very prestigious and virtuous, so that the people of the world can enjoy a long drought?

Why did things turn out the way they are? The entire Jiangnan is on the opposite side of itself, and there are many iron-hearted backbones like Zhang Wenjin and Wu Wending. That Wu Wending is relatively easy to understand, that person has always been this kind of stunned temper, and he takes things like orthodoxy and loyalty more seriously, but isn't that Zhang Wenjin a standard scholar?

In addition, those people in Beijing and Nanjing had expressed their attitudes openly or implicitly, saying that they would try their best to cooperate after raising troops.

Over the years, their cooperation has not been small, without the funding of Jiangnan people, they would not have been able to gather so many soldiers and horses; Without the cooperation of the senior officials of the DPRK and China, the warning information on the Jiangxi side may have aroused the vigilance of the imperial court long ago. He was able to raise troops smoothly, and he also seized this excellent opportunity, and Wang and Lu, who rushed to assist, also had a lot of merit as counselors.

But that's not enough!

If everything is the same as promised, Anqing should be the same as Jiujiang, which can be broken with a snap of a finger; In addition to Ji'an, all the prefectures in Jiangxi should quietly wait and see, or raise troops to respond; And Wang Jianzhi, who ventured to Nanjing, should have almost returned with the news, telling himself that Nanjing was already under control.

But now, what are you facing? There is no way forward, there are pursuers behind, and the real nightmare also comes from the river, in the billowing black smoke that covers the sky, thunder and lightning flash, with the roar of hundreds of cannons, cannonballs fall from the sky like a meteor fire shower, ravaging their own camp over and over again...... In fact, the big camp is already in the past tense, Zhu Chenhao really can't see that half of the camp in front of him is a raging fire, which is full of stumps and broken arms, and the other half is crowded with deserters running and running in poor clothes, which is more miserable than the Jiujiang City at the time, and what is similar to his majestic and mighty camp.

Is this what I have gained in exchange for my painstaking efforts and the unswerving belief of my ancestors for more than 100 years? He smiled miserably, looking extremely desolate in the sky-high firelight.

"Lord Wang, retreat first, as long as you retreat away from the riverbank, there is still a chance to regroup!" In the fireworks, Lu Wan rushed out.

The general trend has gone, he still put on a posture that refuses to give up, and his eyes are also very good, in such a chaotic situation, a small number of soldiers gathered around him, and he also found Zhu Chenhao who was wandering around in the camp.

"Retreat?" Zhu Chenhao glanced at Lu Wan, his eyes were indifferent, and he muttered to himself, "Where can I retreat?" Nanchang? No, Nanchang has been surrounded; Jiujiang? There is no city there, so what's the use of going back? What's more, Lin Cheng and Chen Huai are already on the way, and the Huangzhou sailors have also gone down the river, Mr. Lu, where did you tell this king to retreat? ”

"This ......," Lu Wan hesitated.

"Where are the reinforcements and internal responses that they promised? It can't be the ones on the river, right? The messy river breeze blew a thick smell of gunsmoke, and when he spoke again, Zhu Chenhao's voice was already a little crying.

"Before the death of the first king, he told the king not to trust the scholars, especially in military affairs, he said that Xiucai rebelled for three years, no matter how good he usually promised, when it comes to the critical moment, the reader will be at both ends of the snake and the mouse, trying to bet on both sides."

"Hehe...... he laughed miserably: "What the first king said is right, at least in this king, these things have been fulfilled, except for Mr. Lu, you and Mr. Wang are because of the enmity of the broken family, and they are all helping the king, everyone else is just waiting to see the results, but the king doesn't understand, it's okay if they don't help, but why are they so sparing no effort to go against this king?" ”

He raised his hand tremblingly and pointed to Anqing City, at this time, the city gate of Anqing City had been opened, and countless soldiers and horses poured out like a tide.

"Mr. Lu, look, Yang, it is Anqing's banner of commanding Yang Rui, but do you know who 'Xu' is? Haha, it's Wei Guogong's! The latter ones, Zhao, that is the soldiers and horses of Zhao Deru garrison in Nanjing, Zhou ......"

He pointed to the banner on the opposite side, laughing with tears in his eyes, "Mr. Wang is finished, from Nanjing to Anqing, all the prefectures and counties have sent soldiers and horses, retreat?" Don't be stupid, Mr. Lu, we have no way to live. ”

"Boom! Rumble! As if to cooperate with his words, the cannon sounded again, the fire was flourishing, in the early morning of midwinter, the sky was not yet bright, and the firelight replaced the rising sun, reflecting Zhu Chenhao's expression vividly, looking like he was crazy.

The soldiers and horses that came out of the city were not guards, and the whole team took a long time, so the artillery bombardment from the river did not stop, but changed from salvo fire to free fire, and the artillery fire also extended from the river to the south, continuing to bring panic and chaos to the rebels, and did not give them the slightest chance to regroup.

"We also have artillery, you are doing your best, the prince has spent a lot of money on you, even if you can't hit the enemy, at least you have to fire two cannons, right?" In the interval between the explosions, the chief soldier Yang Qing roared unwillingly, from a bandit to a general, what a gorgeous turn! However, the dream was shattered, and he vented his resentment on the artillerymen.

"Lord Yang, our cannons are all fixed, we can only hit the city wall, if we want to turn to the river, it will take at least half an hour, how can there be that vacancy now?" The artilleryman always defended himself very aggrievedly, he actually wanted to join the fleeing team, but he never wanted to be caught by Yang Qing, so he could only helplessly clear the other party's illiteracy.

"In fact, even if we bombard, we are not opponents, if we fire from here, the general's artillery will hit the river at most, and it will not reach those gunboats at all, and the rate of fire will not be successful, when we fire one cannon, they can shoot at least two cannons, and the power of the artillery will ......."

"Get out, get out of here!" Yang Qing angrily pushed away the artilleryman, who stumbled, rolled on the ground twice, then got up and ran away in a puff of smoke, and his figure quickly disappeared into the fire and smoke in the sky.

But whether it was Yang Qing, or Zhu Chenhao and Lu Wan who were watching from the sidelines, they didn't care, the catastrophe was coming, what was a mere deserter?

The intensity of the artillery bombardment was weakening, and with it was the army that was slowly pressing over, this army of soldiers and horses, regardless of its size or combat strength, was completely under the previous rebels, and it was crushed with a dignified force, and it could not be stopped.

Yang Qing pulled out his sword and rushed forward, and then fell down with a cluster of arrows, he made the best example for those who had the heart to resist, the rebels were completely dispersed, and Wang Shi did not give up after him.

Lu Wan saw that he could not persuade King Ning, so he also joined the fleeing team, but he was a civil official, and he started late, and what was waiting for him was either captured or trampled to death, in short, he couldn't escape, at least Zhu Chenhao thought so.

"This king chose the wrong opponent and the wrong ally, and he ended up in such a field now, it is precisely because he is to blame." Zhu Chenhao let out a last sigh, mustered up the last courage, pulled out his long sword, and put it on his neck.

Eleven years in advance of this rebellion, the final process is shorter than in history, King Ning passed the world at the end of October, only 30 days after the end of the Anqing War, after the last internal rebel forces were eliminated, the history of the Ming Dynasty opened a new page.

(To be continued)