However, as soon as the army came out of Ningxia Town, Liu Jin, who had been prepared for a long time, issued a general order in the name of the imperial court to the nine sides, and King An coerced the Ningxia border army to rebel, and according to the holy will, it should be extinguished as soon as possible.

As soon as this decree was issued, the major military towns around Ningxia were waiting to exert their efforts together, although there was no actual move to attack the Ningxia border army, but it also caused the morale of the Ningxia border army to plummet.

In addition, Liu Jin's 70,000 troops suddenly came out, and with the help of the Shenji Battalion equipped with firearms, the Ningxia rebel army, which had more than 60,000 people, was stunned at once.

After losing a lot of rebel brothers, King An also saw that his previous plan would never succeed, and was worried that the back road would be lost, so he ordered Zhu Zhi to take a part of his men and horses back to Ningxia to fortify the defense, but he took a large army to defend in a rather dangerous military fort between Ningxia and Huamachi, trying to delay the offensive pace of Liu Jin's army.

It's just that he didn't expect that what Liu Jin was trying to kill was actually King An! Many other people in the Ningxia rebel army were not taken seriously by Liu Jin.

Therefore, after knowing King An's actions, Liu Jin instructed the army, pretended to intercept Zhu Zhi's army, and then let go of the road and let Zhu Zhi retreat to Ningxia with the army.

After Zhu Zhi's army went, he ordered several military towns to join him in besieging the military fort where King An was located, intending to break through the military fort and kill King An.

But there were two things that he didn't expect. One of them is that several major military towns such as Gansu refused to cooperate with Liu Jin and besiege King An on the grounds that Zhu Zhi's army returned to Ningxia, saying that they would destroy Zhu Zhi's rebels in order to prevent Ningxia from being poisoned.

The second thing is that King An's side is no longer those ordinary guards, but there are many masters of the rivers and lakes. Among them, there are many famous masters like Gu Xiaotian, the elder of the Tianlong Gang, as well as rising stars like Ouyang Jin, the one-armed hero, and Duan Heng, the deputy gang leader of the Tianlong Gang.

There is not enough army outside to capture the military fort where King An is located. There are so many martial arts masters in it, trying their best to defend for King An, for a while, although Liu Jin has an army of 70,000, there is no way to break through this military fort for a while.

On the day when the Black Stone Cliff was trapped, and at the same time the day Zilong went south, Liu Jin was impetuous, and finally activated the poison plan provided by the strategists, striving to break through the military fort as soon as possible.

This poisonous plan, which was mentioned by Elder Xu, was to use elite warriors to infiltrate the people and attack the Anwang Fortress. The poison of the second plan is that no matter how King An responds, it will be greatly beneficial to Liu Jin.

If King An cares about the people, then the elite soldiers mixed in with the people can deceive the defense of the military fort and finally break the military fort, so that King An has no way out and can only be captured.

And if King An didn't care about the people and ordered the slaughter of these people, Liu Jin would be able to take a walk King An had ill intentions, and even the people of Ningxia were wantonly killed, which made his military spirit shaken and collapse without a fight.

In order to prevent someone from coming to save King An, and also to disturb the sight of those people, Liu Jin also divided a part of the army, and used the same method to constantly attack other military forts, and after breaking it, all the Ningxia soldiers who surrendered were killed.

As soon as such a poisonous plan came out, King An was indeed a little helpless at first. For the safety of Ningxia City, King An distributed half of his troops to Zhu Zhi and Jiang Zheng.

Therefore, at this time, there were only more than 20,000 men and horses left in the military fort. In the face of the siege of Liu Jin's elite army of 70,000, not to mention an attack, even the defense was extremely difficult.

At this time, in order to defeat King An quickly, Liu Jin also resorted to such a poisonous plan to coerce the people, and King An, who loves the people like a son, almost wanted to be desperate and surrender directly, so as not to make these people suffer.

At such a life-and-death juncture, the old subordinates under King An, as well as the martial arts people led by Gu Xiaotian and Ma Fengyue, tried their best to dissuade King An from surrendering.

So a discussion about whether to fight or surrender began near the tower of the military fort. Seeing that everyone was persuading him hard, King An also pointed to the Ningxia people who were like cattle and sheep, who were tied up by Liu Jin's soldiers and staggered towards the military fort step by step, and said: "The people of Ningxia are so innocent, they have suffered such a great crime for my own thoughts, if I am still obsessed, I am afraid that these people will die tragically under the arrows of our army in a while!"

"Hey!" Sun Jingwen, as King An's most relied on staff, had to take the lead in saying at this life-and-death juncture, "Your Highness, all of you are not for yourself, but for the sake of the Ming Dynasty! At this time when the imperial court is in danger, it is the time for His Royal Highness to serve the imperial court, how can he give up because of some difficulties?"

"Yes, Your Highness!" He Jing was dressed in a military uniform, shaking his armor, and clenched his fists and said, "Mr. Sun is right! If we surrender, it doesn't matter what happens to those of us below, but Your Highness, you will definitely not survive! After all, Your Highness has opposed Liu Jin several times, and this time he poured all his army to besiege His Highness here, obviously he didn't want to give His Highness a way to live!"

"Hahaha......" King An heard He Jing's words, but he couldn't help but look up to the sky and smile, in the laughter, there was an endless sense of desolation, but there was a bit of arrogance, and he said with a smile, "I, Zhu Ningxiao, have never been afraid of death since I was sensible! Back then, I roamed the rivers and lakes, countless times in the crisis of life and death, but I was never discouraged, even if I was killed this time, what was there to fear!"

Seeing that King An seemed to be really about to surrender, Gu Xiaotian, who had not spoken, couldn't help but speak, but King An obviously didn't finish speaking, smiled apologetically at Gu Xiaotian, and then said: "What I am afraid of is the innocent people who suffered because of me, and they were tragically poisoned, and after my death, I was also recorded by the historian, saying that I Zhu Ningyan was lustful for profit, had bad intentions, and suffered infamy for eternity!"

Ma Fengyue has always been unclear, and seeing that King An has been emphasizing not to harm the people, he couldn't help but agree and said: "What His Royal Highness said is reasonable, how innocent the people are, how can they be poisoned by Liu Jin because of us! It's better to be like this, His Royal Highness tied me Ma Fengyue, sent it to Liu Jin and the court, and completed the orders of the court, so that Liu Jin would have no excuse to continue attacking our Ningxia! Anyway, I also saw that this Liu Jin must have been instructed by the Queen Mother, mainly to kill me and cover up the events of the year!"

"The Ma gang leader's words are wrong!" Wang An shook his head and said, "Maybe I also thought the same as the gang leader before, thinking that Liu Jin had the will of the queen mother and wanted to kill you and cover up the events of the year! But when I got out of Ningxia with all my army, I was quickly blocked back by Liu Jin leading various armies, but it shows that Liu Jin had a premeditated plan, and his real target was actually me!"

Gu Xiaotian, who was standing beside Ma Fengyue, heard that Ma Fengyue actually proposed to exchange his life for Liu Jin's retreat, but he couldn't help but be startled.

You must know that although Ma Fengyue has no blood relationship with Zilong, in Zilong's mind, Ma Fengyue is his mother. If he sits back and watches Ma Fengyue die, he will not be able to give advice to Zilong.

Seeing King An's denial at this time, he was also busy and said: "What King An said is right! Liu Jin has set up such a big formation this time, I am afraid that if we surrender, we will die and be lifeless, but if we don't surrender, there is still a glimmer of life!"

"Oh, where does the vitality come from?" Sun Jingwen didn't want King An to continue to say that he wanted to surrender, so he immediately asked, but he wanted to delay King An's surrender with the vitality in Gu Xiaotian's mouth.

King An also knew what his confidant meant, and smiled bitterly at Sun Jingwen, and did not categorically refuse, but looked at Gu Xiaotian to see what his so-called vitality was.

At this time, even if Liu Jin didn't use the poisonous plan of the people to attack the city, he only relied on the dignified army of 70,000 to break through the military fort that the 20,000 rebel army retreated in this hurry, but he was afraid that it would not take him three days.

And now Liu Jin in order to break through the military fort as soon as possible, so that his authority is unshakable, but he brazenly resorted to the poisonous plan of the people to attack the city, King An's rebel army is mostly Ningxia locals, so that when fighting, he must be timid, even if King An does not surrender, it will not last a day.

Now this military fort can be said to have fallen into a desperate situation where there is no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the ground. This is also the reason why King An categorically asked to surrender, and exchanged the lives of the top leaders of the rebel army for the survival of his soldiers and people outside the city.

Although Gu Xiaotian is just a reckless person, he can also see the situation of this military fort now, seeing Sun Jingwen asking, he pondered for a moment, planned for a while, and then said slowly: "King An, everyone, have you forgotten that we have an incident in Ningxia, but there is another way to reinforce the army?"

"Huh?" King An and the big guy were stunned when they heard Gu Xiaotian's words, and immediately understood who Gu Xiaotian was talking about, King An was first relieved, and then shook his head and said, "Yes, what Mr. Gu said, it should be Zilong, right?"

"Exactly!" Gu Xiaotian saw that King An guessed it, and immediately said excitedly, "Zilong is the well-deserved king of Hetao, the people of this Hetao are fierce, and every herdsman is a ranger. We have long agreed with Zilong that he will lead the Hetao army south as soon as possible, join the Ningxia rebel army, and march to the Beijing division together!"

"That's right!" King An said with a wry smile, "But the date that Zilong and I agreed on is the end of April and the beginning of May! Now there is still nearly half a month before the end of the month, can we survive half a month?"

"This ......," Gu Xiaotian was speechless for a while when he heard this.

Seeing that Gu Xiaotian had nothing to say, King An continued: "What's more, judging from Liu Jin's actions this time, he was premeditated to deal with us in Ningxia, so do you think he will ignore Zilong?"

"Your Highness, what do you mean?" Ma Fengyue was most concerned about Zilong, and when she heard that Zilong was likely to be in danger, she couldn't help but ask.