On the night when Wang Shouren stopped the rebels from reinforcing the rebels at Poyang Lake, Wan Rui, who was bent on showing his strength in this battle to defend the city, received an order from Zhu Chenhao sent by the military pigeon, ordering him to immediately lead 20,000 soldiers and horses in the city to carry all the grain and grass materials, as well as the families of the palace officials and the 10,000 soldiers and horses who came to meet him, and withdraw to a place called Yang Village on the west bank of Poyang Lake to board a ship and evacuate.

This order made Wan Rui extremely angry, obviously he was fully prepared, just waiting for Wang Shouren to attack the city to give a head-on blow, Nanchang City can obviously be impregnable, what kind of evil wind is this the emperor smoking, and suddenly asked to give up Nanchang.

Thinking of the various actions of Wang Shouren's soldiers and horses under the city during the day, Wan Rui was very angry in his heart, Wang Shouren's soldiers and horses shouted and persuaded to surrender under the city during the day, they lay naked under the city to bask in the sun, laughing and playing unscrupulously, as if they were not staying in the battlefield, but in their own backyard. There were even soldiers who deliberately urinated in the direction of the city, and when they were done, they shook the black thing and humiliated the defenders of the city. After these were reported to Wan Rui by the defenders, Wan Ruiqi's seven orifices smoked.

But he also understands that what these guys do is to go out of the city to fight them, although he is angry, but Wan Rui will never do this, and if he gives up the strong city defense, his advantage will be gone. Although Wan Rui did not hesitate to expose the secret of the fort installed at the head of the city and blasted the soldiers who committed suicide into meat sauce, the evil spirit in his heart was still difficult to dissipate, and he waited for Wang Shouren to teach them a hard lesson when he attacked the city.

It's good now, the emperor ordered the evacuation, isn't this really the 'shrunken turtle bastard' that those scolding soldiers said yesterday? What is the difference between evacuation and escape? It's just a different word.

"Don't go, resolutely don't go, isn't the emperor worried that Nanchang won't be able to hold it? I want to prove it to the emperor, Nanchang is a city that can never be broken in my Wan Rui's hands, just like the peak of Lushan Mountain. Excited, Wan Rui suddenly said a wonderful analogy.

"But general, this is the emperor's order, once the emperor's family has a mistake, you can't hold it." The adjutant general was busy.

"In this way, you take 5,000 men and horses to escort the grain, grass, supplies and personnel to join the men and horses who receive them, and I will stay to guard Nanchang City. Sooner or later, the emperor will understand my hard work, once Nanchang is lost, everyone's nest is gone, what kind of war is there to fight? ”

"But the general, in this way, you will fight alone, as soon as we get on the ship, then we will follow the emperor to attack Nanjing, it is impossible to leave the warship waiting for you, you are also disobeying the holy decree and military orders, but you have to think twice."

"You don't care, what you go is to leave 50,000 stones of grain and grass, and you take the rest away. When the emperor can't capture Nanjing, he will know how happy it will be to have Nanchang City as a nest in the rear, and at that time, the emperor will not blame me. Wan Rui was determined to defend Nanchang, and his expression was quite resolute.

His lieutenant knew that there was no way to persuade him, so he had to do what he ordered. By the afternoon, all the grain and grass materials were loaded, and the families of the royal palace and many officials were also settled with the army.

In the evening, the soldiers on the lookout of the city came with the news that they found a sentry horse galloping from the east, Wan Rui climbed to the top of the city to take a look, and immediately understood that it was Wang Shouren himself who had arrived when he saw the banner. The strange thing is that the officers and soldiers under the city did not officially attack for two days, and it turned out that Wang Shouren himself was not present, and as soon as he came, the siege battle was about to begin.

Although the enemy army had 10,000 more horses, Wan Rui was still not afraid, and he ordered people to drive the people in the city to carry sandbags and build fortifications more than three feet high above the city wall of Nanchang, which was more than a few feet high, and concentrated all the soldiers and horses on the city wall, ready to fight to the death. He believed that even if he only had 15,000 men in his hands, Wang Shouren's 30,000 men would not even want to attack the city.

On the other hand, Wang Shouren, who rushed to the city of Nanchang for more than ten hours, was shocked by a news reported by Wang Mian before he could take a breath, and more than a dozen soldiers who escaped from the artillery at the head of the city yesterday exchanged their lives for a military secret, that is, there was an artillery installed at the head of the city of Nanchang. Wang Shouren is not a lonely person, he knows what artillery means, that thing is not ordinary fierce, whether it is attacking or defending the city, it is a divine weapon.

Originally, in conventional siege operations, Wang Shouren was still a little sure, after all, the strength was superior, even if he fought hard, it was not an impossible task to break through Nanchang, but once there was an artillery defense at the head of the city, it would be very different.

In order to verify the report of the crown, Wang Shouren could not take a break, and while the sky was still a little bright, he organized a tentative siege of the city, the purpose of which was to see the number and power of the artillery at the head of the city. When the 3,000 soldiers and horses in a straggler formation cautiously stepped through the barren grass and marched towards the south gate of Nanchang City, dozens of artillery pieces on the head of the city let out a deafening roar in an instant, gathering more than a thousand steps, and dozens of black smoke suddenly came out of the formation of officers and soldiers who were still far away from the range of bows and arrows, and stones, rubble, iron sheets, and steel balls flew in all directions, even if the formation was loose, this round of artillery bombardment still took the lives of hundreds of soldiers, and each shell must kill and injure three or four soldiers on average, and many soldiers around were injured.

One round of artillery made these 3,000 soldiers and horses who were trying to attack lose 10% of their combat strength, which was simply jaw-dropping.

These artillery pieces are one of the sharp weapons that Zhu Chenhao has painstakingly prepared for so many years, he sent people to the southern coastal areas to contact the Portuguese, and spent a lot of money to purchase this cannon with a gun carriage, called the Franco machine mother gun, which is the most advanced Western artillery in the world today, with the characteristics of fast rate of fire, good safety, fast heat dissipation, and long life. After calculation, it only takes 20 breaths for three shells of this Franc machine gun to be fired, which shows its horror.

The fly in the ointment is that this kind of artillery is less airtight, and the design principle of the sub-cannon leads to this insurmountable shortcoming, there is a huge gap between the boring mouth of the sub-cannon and the mother gun, and the firing power of the guide is leaked, so that the firing range is not far enough. Otherwise, Wang Shouren's general camp was set up three miles away from the city, which happened to be a target for artillery. Wang Shouren didn't know this, but he inadvertently avoided the doom of the cannon bombardment.

But even so, the huge damage caused in the feint formation thousands of steps away still made Wang Shouren almost drop his jaw, he did not hesitate to give the order to retreat, and the three thousand soldiers and horses were chased by the back two rounds of shells and exploded three rounds, and finally escaped the range of their firepower; After the counting, the number of casualties was as high as more than 500, and in the blink of an eye, he lost 500 combat effectiveness.

The intelligence obtained from the 500 casualties was, first, that there were a large number of artillery pieces at the head of Nanchang City, and there were more than 20 guns that had just fired, and it is not known how many artillery pieces had not fired; Second, the artillery was equipped with flowering shells, and the speed of fire was very fast, the interval was very short, and the firing range should be within 1,000 steps.

Wang Shouren quickly calculated in his mind, no matter how many there were, just from the siege to the dead corner by the moat under the city, his soldiers and horses would suffer at least thirty or forty rounds of bombardment, not counting the shooting of the bow and arrow at the head of the city after entering the range of the bow and arrow, with the lethality of this artillery, any shield and armor were all in vain, and they were blown up to the point of death or death, and there was no possibility of resistance at all.

In this way, if all of his 30,000 soldiers and horses rush up to attack, I am afraid that he will have to pay at least 30% of the casualties when he rushes to the city, that is to say, before the city is attacked, 10,000 soldiers will be killed first, how can this battle be fought? Playing a ball?

The generals in the army obviously realized this, they looked at Wang Shouren helplessly one by one, Wang Shouren knew that they had no good ideas, so he ordered to stop the feint, the whole battalion was on guard, retreated from the crowd, blew out the candles in the tent, and quietly disappeared in the darkness to think about the siege strategy.

Wan Rui was extremely proud, he stood at the head of the city with his waist crossed, looking at the black Wang Shouren camp in the distance, and highlighted a mouthful of thick phlegm, and the moment the thick phlegm of the parabola fell to the ground, he heard the sound of smug laughter.

"Hahaha, the rats still want to compete with Lao Tzu, Wang Shouren is a scholar who has no power to tie the chicken, this time he is probably scared to pee his pants, aren't his subordinates very arrogant? Tomorrow send a few loud voices, hmm...... Find a few big brothers, go to his camp and shout and scold, sprinkle a few bubbles of urine and pull a few bubbles of, so that they can also taste the taste of humiliation. ”