Looking at the Yangtze River rolling and flowing in the distance, King Guojun's eyes flashed with complicated colors.

As Kangxi's favorite youngest son, and also the prince who has been discussed, his ability is naturally not too bad, and when he received the Yongzheng holy decree, he felt that things in this place may not be simple, but with what he saw and heard along the way, things seemed to be more complicated than he thought.

At first, it was just a Suzhou Mansion, but the day before yesterday, news suddenly came from Jiangning Mansion that Suzhou Mansion was also lost!

When he heard the news, King Guojun immediately sensed that something was wrong.

As a self-proclaimed prince, King Guojun has been to Jiangnan a lot of times, and although he is not very familiar with the situation there, he can be regarded as knowing a thing or two.

Songjiang Mansion, as a border province in the south of the Yangtze River, is definitely far inferior to Suzhou in terms of both urban defense and military defense strength, and the anti-thieves took the opportunity to sneak attack, so it is understandable that they were overlooked and fell for a while.

But Suzhou is different.

As an important town in the south of the Yangtze River, Suzhou's annual tax revenue is far greater than that of Songjiang Mansion, whether it is city defense or military garrison, it is far more than Songjiang Mansion, plus the previous fall of Songjiang Mansion, Suzhou Prefect is no matter how stupid he is, he should not make the same mistake again.

But Suzhou Mansion just lost it, and it was lost very quickly!

According to the people who fled from Suzhou Mansion, the guards of Suzhou Mansion were directly defeated before they even lasted an hour, which was simply unbelievable in the eyes of King Guojun.

At the same time, however, he received the very important news that many of the refugees had mentioned that they had heard the sound of cannons.

Anti-thieves have cannons?

To tell the truth, when he first got the news, King Guojun naturally didn't believe it, you must know that things like cannons have always been an important item controlled by the imperial court, and idlers can't touch them at all, even if they were the original Nian Qianyao, they couldn't interfere in the production of cannons.

Moreover, the production process of cannons is extremely difficult, and even the current imperial court cannot make a few in a year, let alone a group of so-called anti-thieves.

But as more and more refugees were seen, and almost everyone's descriptions were very similar, there were even people who saw the anti-thieves' shells directly blasting open the gates of Suzhou Mansion.

Listening to the colorful descriptions of these people, King Guojun, who was unwavering at the beginning, was a little shaken at this moment.

One person may be exaggerating, but when a hundred and ten people say so, maybe this is true...

Although he didn't understand where these guys got the cannons, it seems that the origin of this group of anti-thieves should not be as simple as written on the song.

Yin Jishan, that guy didn't write about anti-thieves and cannons in the excerpt.

Thinking of this, King Guojun originally wanted to write a recital and send it to the Forbidden City first, but then after thinking about it, he still forgot it.

After all, he hasn't witnessed it with his own eyes now, and if he just sends it like this, he will be in trouble if something goes wrong at that time.

As a prince, it is enough for the emperor to worry about himself with the army, and at this time, if something goes wrong again, judging from the suspicious nature of his imperial brother, I am afraid it is easy to directly associate himself with the connection with the thief.

This is not an exaggeration, in fact.

This sentence applies to people in the political arena, but not to oneself.

For him, merit is not only a sin, but also a murder if there is a mistake.

So this time he didn't want to come, but the form was so that he couldn't make any choices.

In fact, from the beginning after the starling was cleaned up, he had a premonition that he would have such a day sooner or later, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.

"Your Highness, look, Zhenjiang has arrived!"

Just as King Guojun was deep in thought, a sharp exclamation woke him up from his thoughts.

Looking at the city standing in the distance, King Guojun took a deep breath, at this time the sky had begun to have a little brightness, although the sun could not be seen, but it was much stronger than the night when he couldn't see his fingers.

In order to be in a hurry, he has not stopped much since he came out of Yangzhou, but now he has finally arrived in Zhenzhou, and when he arrives there, he can directly transfer to Jiangning by water.

After driving so many roads in a row, even riding a horse makes people feel tired, and now that the dawn is just around the corner, King Guojun is somewhat impatient.

"What's that?"

But at this moment, followed by a slightly bright sky, King Guojun suddenly noticed that a black shadow seemed to appear floating in the air on the edge of the sky, and it seemed to be getting bigger and bigger.

King Guojun has been reading poetry and books since he was a child, and he has seen strange things over the years, but even so, he still has doubts about the thing in front of him.

What can actually float in mid-air?

But as the shadow got closer and closer, a strange voice began to sound in his ears.

When he looked intently, he realized that there were some "small things" floating next to the black shadow.

The speed of the other party is unhurried, and looking at the direction they are going, it seems that it is Zhenjiang...

"Not good!"

Suddenly, King Guojun suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

This thing can't be the one the intelligence says.

After learning the news of the loss of Suzhou Mansion and the disappearance of Wei Jingguo, King Guojun had many conjectures, so he also sent people to collect a lot of information about the battle of Songjiang Mansion, including a giant object that could float in mid-air.

It's just that until now, no one knows what this is for, but some people have speculated that it may be used to transport troops, because since the appearance of this thing, the number of anti-thieves has also increased a lot.

Originally, King Guojun was still in a state of half-belief in the existence of this thing, but he didn't expect to bump into it like this today.

And when he watched them go straight to the direction of Zhenjiang, King Guojun finally understood at this moment that the news he saw was true!

"The whole army accelerates! Rush to the aid of Zhenjiang Mansion! ”

King Guojun first shouted, and then hurriedly rode forward, and although the soldiers who received the order were curious about what the things in front of them were, they didn't have time to think so much because of the military order, so they could only grit their teeth and rush towards Zhenjiang Mansion.

Looking at the airship in the sky that was getting closer and closer to Zhenjiang, King Guojun kept thinking about the collision between the two.

An hour... No, half an hour, you just need to hold on for half an hour to get there!

At this time, King Guojun still naively believed that as long as his support arrived, he could hold Zhenjiang, and at the same time, he also underestimated the siege ability of the Red Guard soldiers.

In the face of the Qing army, which was still in the era of cold weapons, the attack of the Red Guard soldiers was undoubtedly a dimensionality reduction blow.