On the other side, after seeing off Wang Yuanming, Liu Fangming pretended to spend the night as if nothing happened, and only then rode a carriage to the Nanchang Mansion the next day to meet Xia Yiyu.

As soon as he saw Xia Yiyu, Liu Fangming proposed that the Ming army was menacing, the city wall of Nanchang City was long, and only more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in the city could not defend all the city walls, and the 30,000 Ningxia troops outside the city must be transferred into the city to assist in the defense in order to hold the city.

But Xia Yiyu still had concerns, not only because the soldiers and horses in Ningxia came from poor rural areas, and the military discipline was corrupt, but Liu Fangming's betrayal of the Ming court was also one of the factors.

Let's ask, who can really believe in such a person who has had the experience of betrayal, it is precisely because ordinary people will not believe in and reuse this kind of person, that it seems that those in power in history who do not care about the past and reuse people are open-minded and have the talent to understand people.

If Liu Fangming rebelled, three-fifths of the 50,000 defenders in the city were Ningxia people, and they were still brave and good at fighting, and the 20,000 soldiers and horses under Xia Yihe had no ability to resist at all.

Therefore, in the face of Liu Fangming's request, Xia Yiyu hesitated and did not respond positively, and seeing that the Ming army was approaching step by step, Liu Fangming finally got annoyed under his drag, and scolded him:

"Xia Yiju, don't forget, this official is the chief military officer of the right road in Jiangnan who was personally ordered by the imperial court, and this Jiangxi defense chief officer also has the right to dispose of it, and this official discussed with you before to give you face, but don't give face and shame!"

"You!"

Xia Yiyu was also angry, he stood up and glared angrily at Liu Fangming, he wanted to open his mouth to say "vertical", but when the words came to his mouth, he still swallowed back in the face of Liu Fangming's cold gaze.

He came to his senses in an instant, now is not the time to clash head-on with Liu Fangming, if he really annoys the other party and forces him to join the Ming army, he and Nanchang City will be finished.

Therefore, he muttered in his heart that "the vertical son does not conspire with each other", but on the surface, he was forced to accompany the smiling face, and said softly: "The lower official did not see the situation clearly, and almost missed the big thing, and asked Lord Liu to punish him, and Lord Liu's grade is also higher than that of the lower official, so the lower official has the courage to hand over all the defense of Nanchang City to Lord Liu for command." ”

Generally speaking, guest troops like Liu Fangming from other places will politely shirk and return the leading power of defense to Xia Yiyi.

But...... That Liu Fangming seemed to have a very low EQ, and he had no intention of shirking it at all, he nodded with a serious face, and said:

"Since Lord Xia said so, it is not easy for the official to shirk, let's perform our duties, this official is a military attaché and is responsible for leading troops to fight, and Lord Xia is a civilian official, please be responsible for the pacification work in the city."

“……”

Xia Yiyu was stupid when he heard his answer, where had he ever encountered such a thing, but the words were all spoken, and it was too late to catch it back, he could only force a smile on his face, watching the military power being handed over to Liu Fangming, who he couldn't trust.

Liu Fangming didn't expect Xia Yiju to hand over the military power to him so happily, but he also knew that the other party was playing to retreat, but he didn't follow the other party's script, and when he saw Xia Yiju's regretful but forced smile on his face, his heart was full of revenge pleasure.

Subsequently, Liu Fangming urgently ordered the troops and horses stationed in Qingshan Lake to withdraw into the city before the Ming army and take over the defense of Nanchang - on the surface, he was taking over the defense of Nanchang, but in fact, he was planting his own people in various gates and key departments to prepare for the mutiny.

Now that the command of Nanchang's defense has fallen into the hands of Liu Fangming, the next thing is naturally a matter of course.

On the thirtieth day of the first month, the Qing army finally withdrew into the Qingshan Lake camp before the arrival of the Ming army, as if it was an appointment, and the next day the Ming army came to Nanchang City.

Zhang Mingyang and others looked at this city that they had besieged unsuccessfully, and they were full of spirits, they were forced to withdraw because of the arrival of reinforcements from the Qing court, and now they have returned, vowing to take the capital of Jiangxi completely.

Well...... Su Yan did not tell them that Liu Fangming was already willing to surrender, so they were still gearing up, wanting to make a contribution in the Battle of Nanchang.

After the Ming army approached the city, they did not rush to attack the city, but only built a siege camp outside the city that stretched for several miles.

Liu Fangming also pretended to carry out defense deployment, and during this period, Xia Yiyu also came to check worriedly (this chapter is not finished!). )

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look, but seeing that Liu Fangming is so attentive to the arrangement of defense, he can only choose to believe him.

On the first night of the siege, at the signal of Liu Fangming, his cronies took advantage of the night to take a hanging basket down the city gate and came to the Ming army camp.

In addition to Liu Fangming's handwritten letters, Liu Fangming's cronies also had Liu Fangming's mutiny plan, and by reading the letters and listening to the cronies' accounts, Su Yan gradually understood Liu Fangming's plan.

As the so-called night of murder in the dark moon and high wind, night has always been the best cover color for all kinds of ill-intentioned people to commit crimes, although Liu Fangming thought he was the righteous party, he still put the mutiny plan in the night two days later.

At nightfall, the three gates of Yonghe, Hue, and Jinxian, which were controlled by the Ningxia army, would be opened from the inside, and the torches would be shaken three times, and as soon as the code appeared, the Ming army would launch an attack on the city.

At the same time, General Liu Fang personally led the soldiers and horses to besiege the Nanchang Mansion, the arsenal, the martial arts training ground and other important places, captured Xia Yiyu, and the two armies should work together to completely take the Nanchang Mansion City.

This plan cannot be said to be brilliant, it can only be said to be decent, after all, Liu Fangming's subordinates occupy more than half of the troops in the city, and they have mastered the important tasks of city defense, and it is already a sure thing to take Nanchang Mansion.

But will things really go this way?

Two days later, at night on the fourth day of the second lunar month, just as Liu Fangming arranged, the three gates of Yonghe, Hue, and Jinxian all lit torches and shook them three times outside the city.

Almost at the same time, three cannons rang out in the city of Nanchang, and then there were earth-shattering shouts of killing in various parts of the city, and the Ningxia soldiers and horses took the three cannon shots as the signal, and each of them tied a white cloth on their left arm to identify the enemy and the enemy, and rushed to the defenseless Nanchang defenders in the city.

Ningxia Green Camp has been fighting on the frontier for many years, how can the defenders in the city beat them, and they attacked suddenly, and they each broke and fled in an instant.

In the melee, Liu Fangming personally led his family and elite soldiers and horses to besiege the Nanchang Mansion, and the guards of the Mansion were defeated after a moment of resistance, and when Liu Fangming entered the backyard of the Mansion and intended to capture Xia Yiju, he was shocked to find that the backyard had long been gone.

Not only that, but shouts of killing also sounded in all directions outside the high walls of the yamen, Liu Fangming's face changed greatly, and he was in a hurry, and he was about to break out of the yamen gate in a hurry, but when he rushed to the gate, he was shocked to find that his younger brother Liu Fangzhou actually led the troops to stand beside Xia Yiyu and was looking at him with a smug face.

"Liu Fangming, you have been tricked! The yamen is surrounded by my soldiers and horses, and I will be captured before I come out! ”

Xia Yiyu shouted loudly.

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