The battle outside the city was just over an hour, Wang Lanping completely defeated the 20,000 Guangxi army at the cost of 100 casualties, which undoubtedly made the 30,000 people defending the city frightened, especially Li An, he seemed to regret it a little, originally he was just transferred to the capital, although he couldn't be a powerful feudal official, but in the end it was also a level transfer, which tendon is not right to fight, this time it's good, the net worth and life have to be lost, blame yourself for being greedy for a while, and listened to the coaxing of Zhu Youlang, the king of Gui, If you say anything about other major events, you must crown yourself as the king, and you will enter the prime minister in the future, but this time, King Gui can't even find a figure, and he still talks about seizing Zhu Yousong's throne.

Li An and King Gui and others conspired except for himself, no one knew, everyone thought that Li An was in order to protect everyone's interests in Liangguang and did not hesitate to fight, but, looking at the current situation, self-protection is enough, more than 10,000 Guangxi soldiers who have just surrendered are all kneeling in the open space in the west of the city, a large area of black pressure, no one looks at but no one dares to run, extreme tension and hot weather prompt some of them to faint, but no one pities them, the defeated army has never had dignity, even if what awaits them will be a massacre, They would rather kneel like that, too.

Wang Lanping looked at the soldiers who dared to move in the distance, and couldn't help but think of the massacre of the Japanese army in Nanjing in the later generations, shook his head and smiled bitterly.

The army of the Dingyuan battalion moved slowly, without uproar or chaos, and the artillery team was also rapidly building a position, and the thirty cannons were all aimed at the city tower without exception.

What else can Ang Lee do at this time, wait for help? It seems that no one has come to help him, and King Gui, who once swore that he would be the emperor, couldn't even see a shadow, but if he didn't keep it, could he still surrender? Thinking about those officials in Huizhou, King Han casually found an excuse to kill them all, and he was afraid that this crime would be enough to kill people ten times.

A group of officials and generals of Nan'an gathered around Li An, Li An could see a kind of despair on their faces, the massacre just now really frightened them, the 30,000 defenders who had never fought a battle could not stop the army of the Han King, and Nan'an City was afraid that it would not be able to hold out for even a day.

Li An knows that the more he is at this time, the more he can't mess with himself, and he will be defeated if the Guangxi army is defeated, but he still has 30,000 descendants in his hands, even if he can't win Wang Lanping, he will fight, and he will be forced to accept the conditions, and he will be spared from death at the very least.

Li An pressed the hilt of the sword in his hand, walked in front of everyone in turn, his attitude was not as hot as before, he was all on this, and he had no plans to lose his temper, and said softly: "Everyone, you are all colleagues who have followed Ben Shuai for many years, and I Li has never treated everyone badly, now it has reached the moment of life and death, you all know what kind of person Wang Lanping is, surrender is absolutely no way to live, the only thing we can do is to work together, stay in Nan'an City, force him to give us a way to live, Li please everyone"

Listening to Ang Li's words, no one spoke, and there was nothing to say, only the decades of tranquility in Liangguang raised a bunch of sheep soldiers.

At this time, someone pointed to the city and shouted to Li An: "Li Du, there are people from the city."

Everyone hurriedly stretched out their heads to look, and three horses galloped over, and immediately one of them held a banner high, which was the banner of Zhang Tongchang, the new governor of Liangguang.

Li An looked at it, and his heart was a little relieved, it seemed that Wang Lanping wanted to talk, how to say that Nan'an City is also a city, how can it be so easy to fight, and he immediately ordered the archers not to release arrows.

Zhang Tongchang reined in his horse under the city wall, glanced at the thousands of arrows that were aiming at him, his scalp was numb, and cold sweat involuntarily flowed down, it was not that he was timid, who faced this situation like this, there is no one in this world who is not afraid of death, as long as a person accidentally shoots an arrow, he will become a hedgehog on the spot.

Zhang Tongchang swallowed his saliva, calmed down, and shouted towards the city: "I am Zhang Tongchang, the new governor of Liangguang, let Li An come out to answer"

Li An stretched his neck and snorted coldly: "What are you looking for me, if you want to persuade me to surrender, don't open your mouth, there are still 30,000 defenders in this Nan'an City, it's a big deal that the jade is burned."

Zhang Tongchang laughed and said, "Ang Li, you are also the one who has been in charge of the army, are you still lucky in the first battle?" Tell you, this governor is not here to persuade you to surrender, you are not qualified to do so" After that, Zhang Tongchang took a few steps forward and arched his hand along the defenders on the city wall: "Soldiers, you are all people with families and rooms, you are soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, your parents, wives and children are waiting for you at home, why bother to fight against the court for the selfish interests of Li An, even if you all die here today, what is the point, your family can't even get the pension money and will be charged with rebellion and subordination, and you will never get ahead in your life, In the future, your son will be destined to be a prisoner from the day he was born, and your daughter will become someone else's slave for the ****, all of this is left to them by you, soldiers, think about it, stop helping the abuse, lay down your arms and surrender to the king of Han, the king of Han promised you, everything is not to blame, and the war is over......"

Before Zhang Tongchang's words were finished, Li An interrupted him with a violent shout, "Enough, surnamed Zhang, don't be demagogic here, brothers, don't believe him, Wang Lanping brought disaster to the country and the people, and said to the court officials to kill him, will he take you seriously?" Don't dream, the old man promises you, when Wang Lanping is defeated, the old man scatters all the family wealth, all to the brothers, come, release arrows, shoot him"

However, the defenders in the city seemed to believe in Zhang Tongchang more, but they also believed it, the most important thing was that they saw the fierceness of the Han Dynasty's army, which was too scary, compared to Li An's and Zhang Tongchang's Xu Hao, they were more willing to believe their eyes.

The defenders looked at each other and hesitated.

Zhang Tongchang under the city heard that he was going to release the arrows, he was not stupid, and immediately threw down a sentence, "It's useless to say more, the soldiers should consider it themselves" and then pulled out the horse and whipped and ran, and then slowed down for a while, maybe when the defenders came back to their senses, he would really become a hedgehog.

Li An was furious, "Why don't you release the arrow, release the arrow"

All the defenders were soldiers, and he hurriedly pulled his bow and radiated, but Zhang Tongchang had already run away, and the arrows shot into the dust raised by the horse's hooves.

Finally, someone still mustered up the courage, this battle can not be fought anymore, I saw Zhao Bingzhen, the political envoy of Guangxi, and the governor of Guangdong glanced at each other, nodded, walked to Li An's side together, bowed his hand, Zhao Bingzhen whispered: "Li Du, the army's heart has been shaken, this battle can not be fought again, it is better "

Li An was immediately furious, and put a kick on Zhao Bingzhen's stomach, and then pulled out the long sword at his waist, and pierced his chest with a 'poof', "How about it, do you want to open the city and surrender?" Over the years, you, the old horseman, have been the most greedy, and you still want to leave a way back for yourself, right?" the sword in Li An's hand turned, and blood immediately sprayed his face.

Zhao Bingzhen fell to the ground, with a sword in his chest, blood immediately gushed out of his mouth, his face was pale, he grabbed the blade of the sword with both hands, and said painfully, "I, I am an official of the imperial court, you, if you say kill, kill, I ......" The words were endless, and the people were desperate.

The people around were all stunned, including the governor of Guangdong, who also wanted to speak just now, and they were all stunned.

But before they could sober up from Ang Lee's obscenity, they heard the cannon outside the city roar again.

Rumble! Rumble!

With the roar of the cannon, one side of the arrow tower in the corner of the west city has been hit dozens of times, the bricks and stones are flying around, the smoke and dust are big, and in the blink of an eye the cannon has blasted out a row of hollows, the tall arrow tower is immediately crumbling, and the hundred and ten musketeers and longbowmen in it are suddenly in a mess, and before they can escape, the arrow tower has collapsed, and none of the people inside survived.

The people on the city wall were panicked, the defenders were running around, Nan'an City was just a small city, and there was no power to fight back in the face of Wang Lanping's cannons, except for being hit by the cannons, waiting for death.

With the fall of the corner tower of the west city, the general cannon outside the city aimed the muzzle of the cannon at the corner tower of the east city, and before the cannon was fired, the people inside realized the danger and rushed outward one by one, for fear of being buried alive under the city wall.

It was another row of artillery bombardment, and the corner tower of the West City did not fall, but it was already full of holes, and it was bombarded by the cannon to almost as high as the city wall, and it completely lost the role of the corner tower.

The defenders on the city walls were running in all directions, and from time to time someone was hit by flying bricks and stones, and the flesh and blood were blurred.

Zhou Xian, the commander of the capital, watched all this and knew that he couldn't wait any longer, if he continued like this, the city would be broken in less than an hour, and it would be too late to surrender by then.

Zhou Xian waved Li An's hand holding the sword tightly, and said anxiously: "Li Du, don't resist, Kaecheng has surrendered, there is no chance"

Li An gritted his teeth and wanted to swing his sword to slash him several times, but his arm was held down by him, so he had to say: "Fight is death, if you don't fight, you will die, why don't you fight and wait for others to slaughter?" ”

Zhou Xian knew that it was impossible for him to surrender, so he shouted, "Brothers, don't resist, capture Li An and surrender to the King of Han"

Everyone had thought this a long time ago, but they didn't take the lead, and when they heard Zhou Xian's roar, they couldn't help but shout in their hearts:, you just have to say no like this.

Immediately, the army rushed up and snatched Li An's knife, no matter how much he struggled, he was still tied up by the soldiers, Li An was so angry that he scolded: "ungrateful, a group of villains, let me go"

It's all on this, who will listen to him, the city gate under the city is being bombarded indiscriminately by the cannons of the Han King, and the city gate may fall when it will fall.

Li An saw that the situation was not good, and immediately said: "Zhou Xian, okay, I will listen to you, let me go, I will talk to King Han"

Zhou Xian is not stupid, he smiled awkwardly and said, "Lord Li, I have wronged you, without your vote, how can we surrender, come here, erect a flag, and hang Li An on the city wall with a rope, let's not fight"

The armies immediately moved together, for fear that they would be slow.

In the distance, Wang Lanping looked at the several white flags shaking at the head of the city, smiled coldly, and said to Cao Dingjiao: "Mingjin collects the troops and enters the city."

**

Nan'an City, a small city on the border of Jiangxi, with a total population of less than 40,000, did not have many soldiers brought by Li An, when the war just started, the people of the whole city were too scared to go out, since ancient times, the war has always been the most suffering of the common people, no matter who wins, the city is not waiting, the soldier designated to search the whole city, many people have begun to dig cellars, and hide the food and property at home.

It's just that as the army of the Han Dynasty walked on the streets of Nan'an City, it didn't seem to have happened, and the soldiers lined up in a column and walked into the city neatly, as if they didn't see the people who were hiding along the way, and the military discipline was quite serious.

It didn't take long for the common people to be afraid, the soldiers and horses that entered the city were different from the soldiers who came before, and they looked particularly energetic and majestic, and after a while, some people stood on the street and cheered, because they beat away Li An's soldiers, and beat away the group of bandit soldiers who did all kinds of evil, and gave the people a bad breath, especially when Li An was escorted on the street, all kinds of dirt greeted him.

In the yamen of the Nan'an prefect's mansion, Wang Lan sat in the main hall, and a bunch of officials and generals knelt down in the hall, surrounded by stubborn armor soldiers, silent.

Wang Lanping casually flipped through the money and grain tax account books in Nan'an City, closed it for a long time, raised his chin and said to the people kneeling in the hall: "Who is Su Shun, the prefect of Nan'an?"

"The criminal official is, the king of Han, the criminal official was forced to fight against the heavenly army with Li An, the criminal official is just a small prefect, people are soft-spoken, please the king of Han to investigate"

Wang Lanping smiled slightly, "Master Su, don't be afraid, the king knows that there is nothing wrong with you about the rebellion, get up"

Su Shunru was pardoned, "King Xie Han is considerate, the criminal official is incompetent, please punish King Han"

Wang Lanping patted the account book on the desk and said with a smile, "No, you are not guilty, you have served in the Nan'an prefect for three years, you have lived up to the emperor's grace, and you have lived up to the people's hearts, you are a good official, although the Nan'an Mansion is small, the people can live and work in peace and contentment under your rule, the market is prosperous, and the taxes over the years have never been in arrears.

Su Shun was embarrassed for a while, and immediately knelt down and said: "It is within the duty of the criminal official to benefit one party for the sake of the official, how dare you be greedy"

Wang Lanping laughed, "If you make a mistake, you will be punished, and you should be rewarded for your merits, so let's do it, you are not the prefect of Nan'an, this king will promote you as the political envoy of Jiangxi, and you will go to your post tomorrow, and the holy decree will come later."

Su Shun was really frightened, he thought he was going to kill his head, but he didn't expect to be promoted instead, promoted from the prefect to the political envoy, and jumped several levels in a row, and it seemed that he couldn't refuse.

"King Xie Han, the kindness of the King of Han to the lower officials, the lower officials are unforgettable"

Wang Lanping waved his hand, "Well, go down, before you leave office, appease the people in the city and tell them that Li An rebelled to peace, and everything in the market is the same, if there are soldiers who are in trouble, let the people come directly to this king to complain."

As soon as Su Shun left, all the generals in the hall were overjoyed, it seems that the King of Han is not as terrible as the legend, and the surrender is really right, maybe the official position can be kept. (To be continued.) )