As Wang Lanping quickly shrank his forces into the city, he almost gave up all the defenses outside the city, which made the seven besieging generals stationed outside the city at a loss, and they all did not move, there was a lesson before, Gao Jie was not in the hands of Wang Lanping and Shi Kefa in this way, and the seven of them insisted that this was Wang Lanping's conspiracy, and they must not be fooled lightly, this battle cannot be lost, and if they lose, they will be doomed.

But they didn't want to give up this good opportunity, in case it was really Wang Lanping who knew that he was invincible and contracted his forces, at that moment, the seven of them discussed it and decided to go over and have a look first.

At that time, more than 100,000 soldiers and horses under the city of Nanjing gathered, one after another, all over the mountains and fields, surrounded the city of Nanjing, and shouted again and again: hand over Wang Lanping, and return to the saint.

Zhu Yousong led a group of civil and military officers to the city with the support of the eunuchs, only to see that the swords and guns outside the city were like forests, and the flags covered the sky, and the soldiers were so many that they were like a tide, and they couldn't see it, and they were so frightened that their legs and stomachs were twitching, if it weren't for the presence of this Wang Lanping and many ministers, he really wanted to retreat back to the palace and hide.

The seven people under the city walked out of the team, came to the city, and said in unison, "Your Majesty, the ministers and others are in armor, and they can't pay full salutes, dare to ask the emperor if he is well?" ”

Zhu Yousong didn't know any of these generals, but he was so scared that his body just shrank back, but Wang Lanping pushed him from behind, if you don't bring out the emperor's shelf at this time, if you can suppress them in the future.

Zhu Yousong couldn't, so he had to bite the bullet and say, "Don't worry about you, why did you bring the troops here to do something?" Don't hurry up and get down."

One of the seven people came out, this is the Songjiang General Army, in terms of strength, he is the worst among the seven, but the desire to fight is extremely strong, because Songjiang Mansion is located around Nanjing, under the rule of Nanzhili, Songjiang General Army wants to expand its own power that is bound to threaten the stability of Nanjing, so yes, when other governors and general soldiers are growing stronger day by day, he is still standing still, this time into Nanjing, he is the most active.

The general army of Songjiang took a step forward and pointed to the big banner of the word 'king' on the head of the city, "Your Majesty, Wang Lanping dared to hold the Son of Heaven hostage, causing chaos to the government and the opposition, we and all of us are favored by the Ming Dynasty, the king is worried about the humiliation of the ministers, the king humiliates the ministers and dies, if the emperor is not released from prison, what faces do the ministers have in the heavens and the earth, here, only for the 'Qing Jun side' is the dynasty outline, the emperor should not worry"

Zhu Yousong glanced at Wang Lanping embarrassedly, raised his voice and said, "Nonsense, the court and the court are harmonious, why do you come to talk about this, quickly withdraw the army, I remember that you have a heart to protect you, and this matter will not be remembered."

Songjiang General waved his hand, "The emperor can't be blinded by Wang Lanping's rhetoric, he is a traitor, a traitor who brings disaster to the country and the people, and everyone will be punished."

As soon as Songjiang's words fell, a person walked out from behind Zhu Yousong, standing majestically at the head of the city and looking down at the crowd, "I'm Wang Lanping, do you want to kill me?" ”

Suddenly, a figure flickered at the head of the city, and thousands of strong bows and crossbows surged up the wall and stomped on them, aiming at the seven people below.

The seven men were astonished, and the horses spun around in shock.

The governor of Gannan raised his horsewhip and pointed at Wang Lanping and said, "Chaotic ministers and thieves, quickly release the emperor, go out of the city and surrender, I will leave you with a whole corpse."

Wang Lanping laughed, and then suddenly changed his face, "Release the arrow!" ”

Arrows are like flying locusts, and a forest of arrows grows around the seven people, which scares the seven people into a colorless face, but fortunately, Wang Lanping has the intention to spare their lives, these seven people can't die now, otherwise the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses outside the city will be in chaos, and I don't know how many lives will be destroyed.

Wang Lanping waved his hand, the rain of arrows stopped suddenly, and he said, "Listen, I, Wang Lanping, disdain to be your enemy, and now that the captives are coming, when the Ming Dynasty survives, I don't want to kill each other, so I will reorganize the military horses, turn the muzzle, and cross the river to fight the Tatars."

The seven people were flustered for a while, and after a while, another person came out and answered, "Fart, Wang Lanping, don't you look at it, Nanjing City has been surrounded by us, the Tatar is just a disease of the moss, you are the real rebel and thief, give you an hour, otherwise, we will wave our army to attack the city, after the city is broken, you and your champion army will not survive"

Wang Lanping smiled slightly, "Can't get through? I really want to see it," he said, and with a wave of his hand, the flag soldier on the side waved the flag violently.

At this moment, from the northeast corner of the city, there was a sudden sound of killing, mixed with a roaring explosion, and the seven people hurriedly turned their heads to look, only to see that the battle flags over there had fallen one after another, and the team was in chaos.

Before the seven people could react, they could see smoke rising from a distance more than ten miles outside Nanjing.

The seven people looked at each other, not knowing what was going on, the general soldier of Songjiang was angry, pointed to the head of the city and scolded, "Wang Lanping, what trick are you playing, don't think I don't know, there are only 30,000 people in your city, but there are more than 100,000 soldiers and horses behind Lao Tzu, if you want to fight, you will accompany you to the end."

Wang Lanping said, "There are not many soldiers in the elite, don't you know this truth?" But I want to warn you, can you still mobilize the soldiers who have run out of food? ”

The seven people were stunned, "Wang Lanping, what do you mean?" ”

"Report! Generals, military situation" At this time, a person ran from behind them, and it seemed that the appearance of a person was panicked, as if something serious had happened.

The seven people were angry, turned their horses' heads, snorted at Wang Lanping, and retreated.

"General Bao, just received the battle report, the Songjiang soldiers besieging the city in the east of the city were scattered by the cavalry of the champion army who were killed from the city, and the enemy took the fort directly, destroyed all the artillery in the east of the city, and then retreated to the city."

The general army of Songjiang was furious when he heard the news, "Wang Lanping, he actually took me first, I fought with him, come, order my department, go all out to attack the city" This time the face was planted, and before the war started, he was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses.

Songjiang general army to fight, but the other six generals are not stupid, Nanjing City is the south of the Yangtze River and even the north and south of the river is known as the strongest city, the city is high and deep, each gate is equipped with a double urn city, in the case of not completely understanding the defense of the city, want to rashly attack the city, it is too difficult, and not everyone is a fool, anyway, we have a large number of generals, millions of soldiers and civilians in the city, this daily food consumption is an astronomical amount, why not besiege the city to trap him, force him to surrender, this has the greatest chance of victory, and the loss is the smallest.

Everyone finally persuaded the general soldiers of Songjiang not to use troops without authorization, and at this moment, another battle report came.

"Report, the Song Xian Department of the Champion Army suddenly attacked our army's grain and grass camp, and 300,000 stone grain and grass turned into ashes"

This is really a bolt from the blue, the governor of southern Gan has the most soldiers and horses, and the most military rations are hoarded there, his face turned iron when he heard this, and he stepped forward and grabbed the clothes of the messenger, "Nonsense, isn't there 10,000 people guarding there?" How do you say that if you lose it, you will lose it? If you dare to disturb the heart of my army, I will break your body into ten thousand pieces"

"Song Xian's cavalry may have been ambushed there a long time ago, taking advantage of the siege of the city, suddenly attacked, the defenders rushed to meet the battle, and only grabbed a small amount of military rations, most of which were burned"

After listening to what he said, the general soldier of Songjiang drew his sword sharply, pierced the messenger, and then he said, "While the news has not yet spread, we should now take Nanjing in one go."

General Hangzhou shook his head when he heard this, "Nanjing City is not so easy to take, God knows what tricks he Wang Lanping has, he is ghostly, we have to think about it in the long run."

The general soldier of Songjiang wiped the blood stains on the sword on the body of the man at his feet and said, "How can there be time, the grain camp is burned, and the grain stored in the army can last for another five or six days at most, and then we will be in chaos without a fight."

The governor of Gannan said, "Yes, if you want to fight, take advantage of it now, if the news of the burning of military food spreads among the army, which of you can appease your subordinates?"

General Hangzhou was still not very happy to attack the city like this, and he proposed again, "Otherwise, we will retreat fifty miles one after another, and when Zuo Liangyu's army arrives and has military rations, we will have a better chance of winning if we join forces again."

Songjiang General Soldier has just suffered a big loss, and his anger is not smooth, "Wait for him, he is still thousands of miles away from here, and when he comes, the daylily will be cold, besides, as soon as he comes, even if he takes Nanjing, our brothers will only listen to him, let's fight"

After a period of noise, everyone unanimously agreed, launched an attack after dark, and took Nanjing City in one fell swoop.

At the moment, more than 100,000 soldiers and horses left the city for ten miles and went down to the village, regrouped, buried the pot to make food, ate and drank enough, and waited for dark.

But it was said that Wang Lanping saw that things were going on outside the city, and he was busy in the city.

The night came quietly, the sky was overcast, and after a while, it rained heavily.

In the rain, Wang Lanping took the generals, opened the east gate, stepped on the muddy road, and went to the mouth of the Yangtze River, where Zheng Hongkui's sailor was responding, and there was a big flag in front of the team, which read: Look north of the rivers and mountains, and destroy the thieves.

Song Dali walked beside Wang Lanping on his side of the horse, he is no longer the commander of the heavy cavalry battalion, just a guard officer of Wang Lanping's personal guards, although the official position is not there, but the friendship is still there, he endured the stick wound on his buttocks, and said sullenly, "I, I don't understand, even I can see that these people are a group of rabble, we occupy Nanjing City, how much they come and let them have no return, why do you want to leave, Huaining City is like this, Nanjing is like this, I, I can't figure it out"

Wang Lanping touched the rain on his face, "If you can't figure it out, act according to the military order, no one will let you figure it out"

Song Dali's temperament came up together, "Then isn't all this what we did in Nanjing City in vain?" ”

Wang Lanping said, "If you hadn't killed King Jin, would you have been able to get to this point?" I know they will come sooner or later, but according to my plan, it is not now, I have to settle down in Jiangbei and stabilize the situation in Nanjing, and I am not afraid of how many times they will come at that time."

Song Dali rolled his eyes, "Sooner or later, you have to fight, just fight, you also saw it just now, Master Hou, the Songjiang soldiers are really vulnerable, why don't you continue to fight in one go"

Wang Lanping said, "Yes, I want to too, but we only have 30,000 people, what if we run out?" Even if you can win, it is a miserable victory, not to mention that the other party has more than 100,000 people, just now I was lucky to win for a while, and then their guard is heavier, to fight, protracted, hundreds of thousands of captives are less than 100 miles away from Yangzhou City, Yangzhou is going to be lost, what use do I want Nanjing, before I regroup, the captives have already come to Nanjing City, who will save us then? Now let's go, hold Yangzhou, and repel the Manchurians, the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops here can at least give me a strong momentum, and at that time, it's not too late for us to fight back."

Song Dali was still unconvinced, "At that time, will there still be a place for us in the court?" ”

Wang Lanping said angrily, "Don't think about it, I remember your sins, the enemy is current, let's protect Yangzhou first."

Outside the city of Nanjing, seven generals were about to issue an order to attack, when a soldier entered the tent and reported that someone had come from the city of Nanjing.

Several eunuchs held the holy decree in their hands and walked into the seven-person tent generously.

"There is a decree in the saint, I can't bear to see the relatives and enemies happy, I have ordered the Marquis of Dingnan to lead the army to cross the river to the north, gallop to aid Yangzhou, block the thieves, and hope that all the generals will read the grace of the Ming Dynasty, strike the army and truce, and resist foreign humiliation together, then I am very grateful, in order to regard me as magnanimous, I will entitle all of you as Marquis of Jin, hereditary descendants"

Everyone was surprised, what's going on, just now the champion army was still a small victory, how to say go away, everyone didn't believe it, personally ran to the city of Nanjing to see, sure enough, the city head of the word 'king' banner has disappeared, not a single guard, replaced by just a piece of the same flag, on the book: the north of the country, the destruction of the thief.

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In the Manchu Sizhou camp, Prince Duoduo of Qingyu looked at the sand table in front of him and stared at Yangzhou City tightly.

A soldier walked into the big tent, "Report, marshal, Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, sent someone to report, the 50,000 people in the vanguard of his department have been less than 100 miles away from Yangzhou, and they have also been explored, and Shi Kefa, the governor of Yangzhou in the Ming court, has shrunk his troops, removed all the military villages on the periphery of Yangzhou, and all of them have retreated in Yangzhou City."

Duoduo was overjoyed, "Okay, the Ming court used this person to guard Yangzhou, how can there be no reason to die, the order, ordered Kong Youde to speed up the march, take Yangzhou, Nanjing is just around the corner, and order Ao Bai to lead 30,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners to help Kong Youde, after the siege of the city, it is best to make Shi Kefa surrender, if he returns to our court, it will greatly hit the Ming court's resistance heart"

"Huh!"

Immediately afterwards, Duoduo issued another military order, "Sent an order to the Red Flag to strengthen the mountain and order him to take the Huai'an Army of Zheng Sen of the Ming Army in the shortest possible time, and then join Yangzhou to prepare for the attack on Nanjing"

"Huh!"