Zhu Chenhao and the rebel officials were very suspicious, they didn't know what tricks Song Nan was playing, they were going to fight to the death, and they sent someone to send something to carry in a small boat?

Doubts are doubts, the ownerless boat floating on the river needs to take a look, Wang Lun ordered more than a dozen soldiers to take a small boat to row carefully towards the boat, the soldiers on the boat are also very nervous, after a few circles, with a long penny to pick up the white cloth covering the boat; This provoked it tightly, and the more than a dozen soldiers under the exposed things were scattered.

There are two big red coffins side by side in Xiaozhoushan! The scarlet eyes are dazzling and conspicuous above the clear water, and it is very strange.

"Fuck! Bad luck tight. The leader of the team let out a mouthful of spat and cursed, but the panic was only temporary, it was just a sudden visual impact, for these soldiers, dead people were commonplace, not to mention two coffins, but they quickly calmed down.

"Chief, there seems to be a letter on the coffin." A soldier shouted as he pointed above the coffin.

The little leader looked intently, and saw that a letter was placed on the lid of a coffin, pressed by a small golden hairpin, and the river wind blew the corner of the envelope, as if it would soon blow the letter and the golden hairpin into the river; The little leader immediately ordered to row closer, reached out and took the golden hairpin and the envelope, and did not care about the boat carrying the coffin, and ordered to turn around and row back, and after a while, the golden hairpin and the letter were delivered to Zhu Chenhao on the city tower.

Zhu Chenhao saw the golden hairpin at a glance, and his heart was suddenly shocked, this golden hairpin seemed familiar, and after taking a closer look, he shouted in shock: "This is the golden hairpin on the head of the concubine, where did Song Nan get it?" Could it be that Concubine Ai and her mother were captured by him? ”

The officials were also puzzled, and Liu Yangzheng reminded: "Lord, isn't there a letter?" ”

Zhu Chenhao hurriedly picked up the letter and took out the letterhead and unfolded it, but saw that the dragon flying and the phoenix dancing on the letterhead were a letter written by Song Nan himself.

"King Ning, I'll call you that the last time, but in fact, you are already a rebel minister and a rebel thief of the Ming Dynasty, but I don't want to call you that. You and I are old acquaintances, although there are dirty frictions, but there is no big grudge between you and me, this is a private message, but there is no need to blame you. ”

Zhu Chenhao sneered and continued to watch.

"A few years ago, you and I first met in the capital at the emperor's wedding, when the prince's graceful demeanor and grace were impressive, and then although you and I didn't have much contact, Song admired and respected the prince very much in his heart, but what he didn't expect was that the prince went astray, and he had already had a rebellious heart, which was embarrassing and incomprehensible, and Song was also heartbroken."

Zhu Chenhao spat at the mouth and scolded in a low voice, and continued to read the letter.

"Actually, Song seems to be able to understand the behavior of the prince, when the king of Anhua rebelled, Song asked him why he did this, and his answer must represent your voice, he said that he is also the blood of Taizu, so he has the qualifications to sit in the world; In the past, King Yan Jing was unable to successfully ascend to Dabao, which is a successful example, and I think it is the precedent of King Yan that gives you the basis for action and the motivation to act. ”

"To tell you the truth, I don't have much interest in who of your Zhu clan ascends to the world and who sits on the country; The world belongs to your old Zhu family, and you Zhu descendants love to rob as much as you want. However, you have forgotten an important thing, you are snatching the throne, but at the cost of exhausting the financial resources and lives of the people of the world, at the cost of destroying the lives of the people, every dispute, there will be thousands of miles of white land, millions of famines, wolf smoke everywhere, starvation all over the wilderness, and then the suffering of hundreds of millions of people, in exchange for you to sit on the world and enjoy the imperial power, is this fair? You must say that the lives of the people are like mustard, they are all subjects, and they should work for the imperial power to suffer, this is their born mission; But I tell you, you are wrong, your life is not much more noble than the people, if you were not born in the family of the royal family, you are also a mustard, a person who slaughters dogs on the street, then it makes no difference. The prince is a smart man, he will definitely think about this question, and he will definitely understand what I mean. ”

Zhu Chenhao's face turned pale, and he scolded angrily: "I'm afraid this guy is crazy." ”

"Song has never told anyone these thoughts, but for some reason, he is willing to share his thoughts with you, King Ning, maybe this is a fate between you and me; Originally, I thought I could become good friends with the prince, but I didn't expect it to come to this day, which shows that the unpredictable nature of the world is unpredictable. Now my army is surrounded here on all sides, Anqing Mansion is already a lonely city, if the prince is a smart person, he should not be doing useless resistance, if the prince is to the lives of the army and the people, he should open the city and surrender to avoid the recurrence of the war, and the lives of the people will be ruined. The prince exchanged his life for the lives of tens of thousands of people, and he will be praised by the people of the world in the future, why not seek the name of his death after knowing that he will be defeated? If the prince can do this, Song will be the first to praise this move in the court, which can be regarded as the prince reining in the precipice. ”

Zhu Chenhao sneered a few times, suppressed his anger and read the last few sentences of the letter.

"A few days ago, after the Meizizhou War, when my soldiers salvaged the corpses in the river, they found the corpses of two women, according to the right attendant of the Nanjing Military Department, Lord Huang Jue, it seems to be Lord Ning and Princess Lou of Ning, Song couldn't believe it, and the special person collected the two corpses into the coffin and sent them to the prince for identification, if it were not for the Lord and Princess Ning, the prince didn't have to care, I would order someone to put the two coffins into the ground for peace. If it was the corpses of the Lord and the princess, Song would not know what to say. Thinking of the prince's dignified man, he was once known as a virtuous man in the world, but now he can't even protect his mother and wife, let your loved ones die unexpectedly, and even let the river fish gnaw at the corpse capital and can't be at peace, Song is really ashamed of the prince! What are you planning, my lord? The throne is hopeless, the family is ruined, if I and the prince change places, Song will have no face to stand between heaven and earth, let alone eat and sleep as if nothing happened. Song Nan worships, Wang Ye Jin'an! ”

Zhu Chenhao had nowhere to vent the sullenness in his chest, and after reading the last paragraph, he opened his mouth and coughed dryly, and suddenly saw a mouthful of red blood spurting out; The officials were shocked and hurriedly asked, Zhu Chenhao closed his eyes and shook his head, and said in a low voice for a while: "Order someone to welcome those two coffins into the city quickly, inside are the old princess and the concubine Lou, Song Nan is right, I, Zhu Chenhao, am a son of man and a husband in vain, what face is between heaven and earth." ”

Wang Lun hurriedly ordered the coffin to be dragged back, Liu Yangzheng had already read Song Nan's letter quickly, and comforted Zhu Chenhao in a low voice: "The emperor must not hurt his body, Song Nan is sinister, and when he is about to fight, he will return the corpses of the old lady and the princess to make the emperor lose his fighting spirit, his letter seems to be peaceful, but every sentence is a soft knife to cut people, the emperor must not be disturbed by his tricks." The big war is imminent, the emperor is in good spirits, as long as we can withstand a few rounds of their attacks, Anqing Mansion will be able to stand, the soldiers will be greatly confident, and there will be hope. ”

Zhu Chenhao gritted his teeth and nodded: "I know his intentions, I will not let this fight succeed, come here, move the war drums to the city, I will personally beat the drums to cheer for my soldiers." ”

……

The calm before the war was very short, the sun was three poles, the time had passed, the warships of Song Nan's army on the river began to slowly swing out of formation, with several horns and cannons shook the sky, the soldiers of the two armies were nervous, they knew that this last battle was about to begin.

At the same time that the imperial warships on the river had just begun to move, the rebel soldiers on the northern wall of Anqing City saw a scene that frightened them. The horses outside the city soon reported back the news that Xu Tai's army had arrived in the city.

Outside the West Gate, the soldiers and horses of the Jingying battalion of the Jiangpu battalion, which had rushed along the land route to catch up with the fleet, also appeared outside the West Gate at the same time.

This was not enough, on the river, when the imperial fleet began to rush towards the rebel fleet, on the river behind the rebel fleet, more than a dozen warships raised their sails and were rushing towards the rear of the rebel fleet at the speed of an arrow from a string.

Four-pronged, south, east and west affairs at the same time to attack! This is the array of heaven and earth, which is the reason why Song Nan slowly went up the river and arrived at Anqing Mansion on the fifth day.

Song Nan is no longer willing to play a tug-of-war with Zhu Chenhao, what he needs is a devastating decisive victory, and he can't leave any hope for Zhu Chenhao to escape. Therefore, when the fleet was on the way to the river, he used the harrier eagle to convey the order, so that Jiang Bin and Xu Tai felt the battlefield at the same time, and the time was on the morning of February 28, the eighth year of Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty.

Song Nan issued a strict order, any army and horses, can not delay the arrival of Anqing for any reason, even if the soldiers and horses of the Jiangpu battalion under the leadership of Ma Ming and Peng Yang marched westward by land, and several cities and prefectures needed to be recovered in the middle, Song Nan would never allow them to delay. For this reason, Ma Ming and Peng Yang had to divide their troops, and Peng Yang led 10,000 soldiers and horses to clear the rebel towns and state capitals along the way, while Ma Ming led more than 20,000 soldiers and horses to march lightly, which could keep up with the footsteps of Song Nan's fleet on the river.

Jiang Bin's 5,000 men suffered some losses after taking Nankang and Jiujiang, but the good news was that after taking Jiujiang, more than a dozen rebel ships were captured, which made it possible for Jiang Bin to quickly descend the river and rush to the battlefield of Anqingfu. And Jiang Bin was also regretting missing the Battle of Nanjing, in fact, Song Nan didn't give the order, and he had already taken the warship on the way.

The battle on the river began instantly, although there were only a dozen Jiang Bin's boats in the rear, but their fierce momentum made the formation of the rebel fleet have to respond, in fact, Jiang Bin's dozen boats did not even have a single cannon, when captured, the rebel soldiers lifted all the three cannons installed on it into the river, but Jiang Bin didn't care at all, he didn't know how to fight in the water, he only ordered to rush towards the center of the enemy fleet regardless of it, it was best to get on the opponent's warship, and then jump on it to fight hand-to-hand.

It was this haphazard rush that had an unintended effect, and the rebel fleet had to retreat to the river on both sides, and sent out seven or eight ships equipped with Franc cannons to fire at the ships in the rear. And in this way, it gave the frontal imperial fleet the opportunity to approach calmly.

Mao 18 showed his talent in water warfare, with more than a dozen big ships as cover, followed by the warship equipped with Mrs. Song's rocket artillery, after approaching a certain distance, the rocket artillery let out an earth-shattering roar, and the water column on the river was suddenly in the sky, the warships shuttled, and the arrows and guns flew wildly, and quickly entered the climax of the battle.