Daming Nanjing.

In the past few days, the people in Nanjing City have been terrified, and there are rumors that the Han army, which occupies Huguang Jiangxi and establishes itself as the king of Han, is the number one thief of the Ming Dynasty, Mo Wen, has almost reached the Taiping Mansion.

The Taiping Mansion is only a hundred miles away from Nanjing, and once the Taiping Mansion is breached, the soldiers and horses of the Han army can come to the city in just one day.

At this time, in the city of Nanjing, not only the ordinary people were panicking, but even the dignitaries and nobles in Nanjing were at a loss.

Since the rebellion of Chongzhen in the seventh year, this Han king has occupied the territory of the three provinces south of the Yangtze River in less than three years.

Now the 100,000-strong army of the Han army is storming Taipingfu, and the next stop must be Nanjing.

Nanjing is where the Mausoleum of Emperor Taizu is located, if Nanjing City is breached, doesn't it mean that the Ming Dynasty is really exhausted?

The dignitaries began to look for their own way out. Those who are able to do so have begun to prepare to escape from the city with their families and mouths.

Some people want to escape, and naturally some people want to stay.

Chen Guangyu, who stayed in Nanjing's outer city garrison, naturally wanted to stay, and as a garrison in Nanjing, his mission was to help the emperor defend the Ming Dynasty's Nanjing Yingtianfu.

There were five guards in Nanjing, and there were two eunuchs in the garrison, namely Liang Hongtai and Zhang Yingqian, who were internal officials and eunuchs from Beijing.

After the founding of the country, the ninth Ningyang Hou Chen Guangyu, as well as the counselor Fan Jingwen, the sixth Nan and Bo Fang Yiyuan.

Among them, the two inner city guards and the outer city guards Chen Guangyu were the three who had the most power.

These three people can be said to be full of words in the city of Nanjing, and now that the war is approaching, the three of them hurriedly met to discuss the defense of the city.

During the meeting, Liang Hongtai, the number one, said: "Two, now the 100,000 army of the Mo thief is about to hit Nanjing, Long Live Lord already knows about it, Long Live Lord told our family, if Nanjing is lost, the five of us will have to be beheaded all over the house!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became wrong.

Fan Jingwen and Fang Yiyuan wanted to get up and speak, but seeing that their boss Chen Guangyu hadn't spoken yet, the two couldn't help but press the impulse in their hearts, and sat on the stool honestly, looking at Chen Guangyu with straight eyes.

Chen Guangyu is a garrison of the outer city, and the matter of defending the city can be said to be in power.

The two eunuchs are the guards of the inner city, and the palace is their jurisdiction, and outside the palace is his Chen Guangyu's business.

If Nanjing is really going to be breached, he, the garrison of the outer city, will bear the brunt, and he doesn't know if the two dead eunuchs will die, but he, the marquis, will definitely die, and Ningyang Hou, who has been passed down for the ninth generation in his family, will no longer exist.

Chen Guangyu was born in a military family, but he himself did not have much experience in military affairs.

He is a pampered and well-born marquis, where does he know how to march and fight, and arrange the matter of defending the city.

Fan Jingwen, the counselor of the military aircraft under him, has some real materials.

Chen Guangyu couldn't help but look at Fan Jingwen.

Fan Jingwen saw Chen Guangyu's gaze and immediately understood the meaning.

He got up and bowed his hand to the two eunuchs and Chen Guangyu, and said: "Three lords, the matter at hand, we should immediately order the officials and troops of the two provinces of Chuannan Zhili and Zhejiang to rush to Nanjing City immediately, otherwise once it is delayed, as soon as the anti-thief army arrives, Nanjing will be in danger." ”

The two eunuchs couldn't help but nod their heads when they heard this, and even agreed to the proposal.

On the same day, Chen Guangyu, in the capacity of the garrison of Nanjing, issued orders to the two provinces of Nanzhili and Zhejiang, ordering the officers and troops in the two provinces to immediately move closer to Nanjing and prepare to defend the city.

Half of the soldiers and horses in Zhejiang and Nanzhili were quickly recruited and transferred into the city by Chen Guangyu, and in just three days, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses arrived from various states and counties.

The troops were led either by the local magistrate or by the local garrison.

In less than half a month, 150,000 troops were assembled in Nanjing.

said that it was 150,000, but in fact, Chen Guangyu knew in his heart that the total number of his soldiers and horses was only 70,000, and this number of soldiers and horses was still made up by half of Zhejiang and Nanzhili.

With these 70,000 horses, Chen Guangyu really has no bottom in his heart, and he doesn't know if he can hold Nanjing.

However, in order to stabilize the morale of the army and the people, Chen Guangyu claimed to be an army of 150,000 to the outside world, and made many flags, forging a picture of an army of 150,000 in the city.

Although the real number of soldiers and horses is only 60,000, this number is far above the number of Han troops besieging the city.

Peng Jinhong, who had just successfully captured the Taiping Mansion, originally planned to take advantage of the victory to pursue and immediately march east to Nanjing, but when he learned that 150,000 Ming troops had been assembled in the city, Peng Jinhong was stupid.

He has only 30,000 horses in his hands, and this point of people to attack Nanjing City, which is five times his size, is not no different from looking for death.

Peng Jinhong immediately ordered the army to be repaired in Taiping Mansion, and wrote to Mo Qian to explain the situation in Nanjing.

Mo Qian, who was sitting in Wuchang, was also shocked after receiving Peng Jinhong's letter.

He summoned civil and military officials and said: "Chen Guangyu, the garrison of Nanjing City, has gathered 150,000 troops, and is now waiting for me to attack in Nanjing City, everyone, what do you think?" ”

When Shi Kefa, who had just joined, heard this number, he immediately stood up and said, "King, it is absolutely impossible to have 150,000 soldiers and horses in Nanjing City. ”

"Oh? Why is Xianzhi so sure? ”

"When Weichen was the governor of Tai'anqing, he knew the reality of Nanzhili and Zhejiang provinces, although these two places have a large population, but in the past two years the drought in the two provinces has been serious, and the people are hungry.

Although the two provinces are provinces with large populations, in recent years, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have attacked frantically in the area of Chuzhou and Luzhou, and almost almost defeated Chuzhou Mansion.

Now Li Zicheng is wandering around Kaifeng, Henan, almost all the officials and troops of the imperial court are in Henan, and most of the Ming army in Nanzhili is also in Henan.

Not to mention Zhejiang, since last year, Zhejiang has fallen into a major drought, as many as one million people have fled the famine, the imperial court is simply unable to provide disaster relief, and nearly 100,000 people in Zhejiang will rebel.

But they fought separately and didn't know the truth of reporting to the regiment for warmth, so Zhejiang's rebellion has not been big, but those ordinary people who can't survive have restrained most of Zhejiang's officers and soldiers, and where is there still troops in Zhejiang to rescue Nanjing at this time, at most 30,000.

According to Weichen's calculations, there are no more than 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers and horses in Nanjing today, and it is impossible to have more. ”

After analyzing it together, Mo Qian nodded again and again when he heard it, he also felt that it was impossible for Nanjing City to hide 150,000 troops, and the Ming Dynasty really had to have so many troops, so when he fought Anqing and Taiping, Nanjing had already sent troops to the rescue, so why wait until the soldiers came to the city to show so many soldiers and horses.

"But seventy or eighty thousand people, which is also twice the number of our Han army, we don't have many soldiers and horses, and this Nanjing City may not be able to fight!"

Li Banghua on the side expressed his worries.

In the past few years, the Han army has developed rapidly, and the strength of the army has increased from 10,000 or 20,000 to six battalions today, the number of which has increased several times, but the scene is very open.

Guangdong now has two battalions of soldiers and horses, and Qian Dayou is attacking Guangxi at this time, and it is not known what the situation of the battle will be.

Jiangxi has a battalion of standing soldiers and horses, but those soldiers and horses are scattered in various provinces and counties, once withdrawn, then Jiangxi is equivalent to no defense, once someone with a large army into Jiangxi, then the hometown will be dangerous.

So now Mo Qian can only use 30,000 soldiers and horses.

Gu is fighting 30,000 against 70,000, and it is still a siege, I'm afraid this battle is not easy to fight!

Compared with Li Banghua's pessimism, Mo Qian is very optimistic.

He looked at Shi Kefa and asked him: "Xianzhi, how is the combat strength of the Ming army now?" ”

Shi Kefa shook his head and said: "The combat power is low, and the soldiers have been underheard by the imperial court all the year round. ”

"In the rich land of Nanzhili, even the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili are not loud?"

Shi Kefa couldn't help but sneer when he heard this, and said: "Although Nanzhili is rich, but the rich things are those high-ranking officials and nobles, squires and landlords, the Xu family of Songjiang Mansion, the ancestor is the first assistant of the Jiajing Dynasty, Xu Jie, the king knows how many fields the Xu family has in Songjiangjiangzhou?" ”

Mo Qian shook his head.

Shi Kefa stretched out two fingers: "200,000 acres!" ”

Hearing this number, Mo Qian was shocked.

"The dignified Shoufu family actually occupies so many fields, can those mouths of his Xu family eat so much rice?" Mo Qian said with some anger.

"Hehe, what are you afraid of if you can't finish eating, now there is a disaster in half the world, rice is real money, the king can know, a stone of rice from Suzhou to Shanxi, how much silver can be sold."

"How much do you sell?"

"The rice family in Suzhou is stable, and one stone of rice is only one tael of silver, but when this stone of rice is transported to Shanxi, it can be sold for five taels and one stone, or even more."

"So profitable? But Suzhou to Shanxi, you have to go through Henan, Henan is going to be a bandit, how did they transport it? ”

"The Xu family has hands and eyes, and they naturally have their own channels." Shi Kefa said.

"Hmph, after the widow heard that Yan Song fell, Xu Jie was the first greedy in the Ming Dynasty, and now it seems that the name is well deserved, a big landlord like this, after the widow takes Nanjing, he will raid his home!"

Anger is anger, and business still has to be discussed.

Now that there are not enough troops, whether and how to fight Nanjing is a problem.

Li Banghua proposed not to attack Nanjing first, but to stop the army at Taipingfu, and the army's money and grain were transported from Nanchang and Wuchang.

This proposal was directly rejected by Mo Qian.

Mo Qian said: "30,000 horses, 20,000 people, just eating a day is an astronomical amount, not to mention the garrison in Taiping, but not garrisoning, this is too peaceful and celebrated in vain."

Since they have all hit the city of Nanjing, the widow doesn't care whether this Nanjing is a stone or not, the widow has to try his teeth, and the order is that the widow will go to Taiping in person and command the army to attack the city! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone knew that the King of Han was determined to fight Nanjing, no matter whether he could fight it or not, how could he know if he didn't try.

If you want to fight Nanjing, you naturally have to increase your troops, Mo Qian directly recruited peasant soldiers in Huguang, and transferred 10,000 reserve peasant soldiers in Jiangxi, gathered 20,000 horses, and set off on the first day of the first month of March, and went down the river in a mighty way.

On the third day of the third month of March, Mo Qian led a large army to Taiping Mansion.

In the Taiping Mansion, Mo Qian summoned the former general Peng Jinhong.

When Peng Jinhong saw Mo Qian coming in person, he knew that King Han was going to attack Nanjing.

He was suddenly a little excited in his heart, hit Nanjing, Nanjing is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, if he really defeats Nanjing, then the king of Han will ascend the throne and become the emperor just around the corner.

On the fifth day of the first month of March, after two days of repairs, Mo Qian personally led an army of 50,000, known as 100,000 to the outside world, starting from Taipingfu, advancing by land and water, and heading straight to Nanjing City, Yingtianfu.

Chen Guangyu, the garrison outside Nanjing, learned that Mo Qian had come in person, and his heart was suddenly a little uncertain.

He, Ning Yanghou, who was pampered and well-born, was really not sure that he would be able to defend Nanjing, and the reason why he had no bottom was mainly because Mo Qian was too capable of fighting.

Since the incident, Mo Qian has fought dozens of battles, large and small, but he has never lost a single one.

He himself has created a classic battle of winning more with less, for such a famous handsome Chen Guangyu, who has no experience in battle, where can he not panic in his heart.

Chen Guangyu hurriedly summoned Fan Jingwen and Fang Yiyuan's two subordinates.

The three of them were just about to discuss how to defend the city, when suddenly a eunuch from the palace came and said that Liang Hongtai was looking for him.

Chen Guangyu had no choice but to enter the palace, where he met Liang Hongtai and Zhang Yingqian.

As soon as Liang Hongtai saw Chen Guangyu, he asked: "Ningyang Hou, our family heard that Mo Wen from Wuchang came in person?" ”

Chen Guangyu nodded.

After receiving a positive reply, Liang Hongtai and Zhang Yingqian couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"Ning Yanghou, have you thought of a way to defend the city?"

Chen Guangyu shook his head.

Seeing Chen Guangyu's attitude, Liang Hongtai couldn't help but be angry.

"Chen Shoubei, Nanjing City is the capital of my Ming Dynasty, you can't escape the blame! Hum! ”

After speaking, Chen Guangyu was driven out of the palace.

Chen Guangyu was angry with the two eunuchs, so he could only return to his governor's mansion and see his two subordinates.

He said straight to the point: "Two, now that the army is pressing, I don't think there is any hope for the two eunuchs in the palace, whether this Nanjing City can be defended or not, it depends on the three of us!" ”

Fang Yiyuan, who was on the side, said bluntly: "In addition to collecting money and buying and selling officials in Nanjing City, what will they do?" I don't even have a handful, I can't play with a woman if I want to, the garrison lord, according to the subordinates, let's just rush out of the city with the army and fight the Han army! ”

As soon as this proposal was finished, Fan Jingwen on the side immediately objected: "No, this is a stupid trick!" ”

"Fan Shenji, what do you have a good idea?" Fang Yiyuan was a little angry.

"For today's plan, there is only a dead defense, Nanjing's city defense is strong, the Han army wants to fight Nanjing, it is not a simple matter, we have 70,000 soldiers and horses, enough to defend the city, if the army goes out of the city for a decisive battle, it is no different from sending it to death, I don't agree."

Chen Guangyu agreed with Fan Jingwen's opinion, and he also felt that the decisive battle out of the city was a stinky move.

"If we don't fight a decisive battle, are we really ghosts being turtles in this city?"

"What's wrong with being a turtle, at least it won't die, if you really want to go out, it's definitely going to die."

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