Nankang City is the administrative seat of Nankang Prefecture. It is located on the west bank of Poyang Lake and at the southern foot of Mount Lu. It is surrounded by water on three sides and guards the main road from Poyang Lake to the Yangtze River.

Soon after Sun Sui, the governor of Jiangxi Province, took office, he transferred the military supplies in Nanchang City to Nankang City in the name of preventing thieves, and strengthened the defense of Nankang City.

A thousand households were stationed, and an inspection department was set up in the north of the city. The north and south corresponded to each other to protect Nankang City.

On September 23, the 13th year of Zhengde's reign, the weather was gloomy, with continuous autumn rain. Heavy fog arose on the surface of Poyang Lake, and the outline of Nankang City was looming in the fog.

It's late autumn, and this thick fog makes it even more humid, cold, and stuffy, making people feel extremely unhappy.

As night falls, the city gates close.

A lantern was hung on the Qiao tower outside the south of the city. The dim yellow light was as weak as a firefly under the thick fog at night. Near the Qiao tower was the Ming army's water village. At this time, the gate of the water village was closed.

A small group of Ming soldiers paraded past listlessly with swords on their backs.

As the night progressed, the thick fog turned into drizzle and fell, making the roofs and streets wet.

In Nankang City, in a side street and narrow alley near the South City Gate, a house still had the lights on. Under the dim light, three men were sitting around a low table drinking and eating peanuts, chatting in a low voice.

Touching the sky.

These three men's movements were bold and rough, their expressions were fierce, their eyes were full of fierceness, and they exuded a general aura of roughness. These three men were the three guards raised by Prince Ning's Mansion: Yang Qing, Li Fu, and Wang Ru.

Before being snared by Prince Ning's Mansion, these three people were all criminal thieves who committed all kinds of crimes.

Bang bang bang bang...bang!

The sound of the fourth watch was heard on the street, and the three thieves put down their wine glasses in unison and looked at each other. The leader of the thieves, Yang Qing, peeled a peanut, threw it into his mouth, chewed it loudly, and said lightly: "Let's do it!

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The three thieves stood up, put on watchman's attire and bamboo hats, and walked out of the house with weapons in hand.

At the same time, a dozen men in black clothes wearing night clothes emerged from several nearby houses and gathered together in the alley. There seemed to be about forty or fifty people.

The three giant thieves, wearing bamboo hats, walked out of the alley first and headed towards the south city gate. They didn't go far before they met two watchmen.

"Who... Hey, Lao Zhao? It's not time to change the guard yet, why are you out so early?" The two watchmen could vaguely see the person wearing watchman's clothes through the weak light of the lantern.

I thought it was my colleague who came to take over.

"Come early so I can send you on your way!"

Yang Qing smiled ferociously and stepped forward. A cold light flashed in his hand, and the dagger had already pierced the throat of one of the watchmen. The other watchman was shocked, but before he could give a warning, Wang Ru wiped his neck from behind Yang Qing.

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"Hey, it's like killing a chicken ear!" Wang Ru wiped the dagger on the watchman's clothes and threw the body away with a look of contempt on his face.

The three murderous thieves followed the same pattern and attacked the watchman on the street. The men in black who followed him dragged the body into the alley to cover it up. They acted closely and skillfully, and they were obviously fully prepared in advance.

Soon, the three thieves arrived near the city gate. The soldiers guarding the city gate were all government officials and militiamen, a total of about 20 people.

"Who is it?" An alert government officer first spotted Yang Qing and others approaching, and immediately raised his spear and shouted.

"On duty!" Li Fu said, but his footsteps did not stop at all, and he even accelerated and rushed forward. The officer noticed something was wrong, and hurriedly retreated and stabbed him with his gun. Unfortunately, such a scumbag with a combat power of only 5 is too fast.

It was too slow, coupled with the hasty response, the neck was cut off by the flash of the sword before the spear was pierced.

The heads fell to the ground and blood spattered. The other government officials guarding the city gate were so frightened that some even dropped the lanterns they were holding. Three thieves, Yang Qing, Wang Ru, and Li Fu, rushed forward and chopped melons and vegetables instantly.

It knocked over several people, and the screams echoed through the night sky.

Dozens of men in black followed and killed all the government servants in just half a cup of tea.

Rumble…

The heavy city gate slowly opened, and Yang Qing rushed to the top of the city holding a torch, drawing the torch in circles.

Immediately afterwards, countless torches were lit simultaneously for several miles outside the city, and two teams of men and horses rushed fiercely towards the water village from the land.

"Enemy attack!" The Ming army sentries screamed in the water village, and the gongs rang loudly...

In the darkness, the sound of firecrackers was like exploding beans, the cry of death, and the shrill screams completely broke the silence of the night.

There were nearly five hundred people who attacked the Ming army's water stronghold. They also used firecrackers, bows and arrows and other standard weapons, but they wore miscellaneous clothing.

These people were obviously well-trained, and they quickly invaded the Ming army's water stronghold and set fire to all the barracks and warships. In just half an hour, the entire water stronghold was engulfed in raging fire.

It is said that there were originally a thousand officers and soldiers stationed in the water stronghold, but recently Sun Sui transferred 900 people to Poyang Lake to participate in the suppression of bandits, so there were only a hundred officers and soldiers left in the water stronghold.

The attacking thieves were as powerful as the regular army, and their number was five times that of the defenders. Therefore, under a sudden attack, they quickly breached the water stronghold. All the defenders, including one from a hundred households, were killed.

kill.

These thieves killed all the defenders of the water village and immediately rushed into Nankang City through the opened city gate. They divided their troops into two groups and rushed towards the government prison and armory in a familiar way.

In the prison of Nankang Mansion, Wu Sanba, the leader of the Qianshan Bandits, was lying on a pile of dirty straw and shivering.

After more than two months of torture and interrogation, this green forest gangster who once killed many people has been tortured to the point of being reduced to a human shape. He is as skinny as a stick and has sunken eye sockets, like an old man in his dying years.

It was already late autumn, it was still raining, and it was very cold at night. Wu Sanba was only wearing a tattered prison uniform, so he was shivering from the cold, and it was impossible to fall asleep.

After tossing and turning for a long time, unable to sleep, Wu Sanba simply sat up and read the names of his enemies over and over again: Sun Sui, Liu Qingyuan, Xu Jin, the Xie brothers...

It is said that this Wu Sanba is indeed a tough guy. After being severely interrogated for more than two months, he still refused to admit his relationship with Prince Ning's Mansion.

"Everyone deserves to die. If I escape alive, I will kill your whole family!" Wu Sanba squeezed out the whole sentence word by word from between his teeth, and his deep-set blind eyes revealed deep hatred.

.At the moment, only the rage of hatred can make him forget the coldness of his body.

At this moment, several screams came from outside the prison, and the sound of fighting came clearly. Wu Sanba stood up as if he had been electrocuted.

Bangdang...

The cell door opened with a sound, and two bloody heads rolled in. Wu Sanba recognized that these were the guards guarding the door, and his breathing suddenly became rapid.

Leaning slightly, three people came out carrying bloody swords. They were Yang Qing, Wang Ru, and Li Fu, three powerful thieves.

"Master Wu, the prince ordered me to pick you up from prison!" Yang Qing chuckled, stepped forward, and cut off the iron chain of the gate with a knife.

Wu Sanba was stunned, then looked up to the sky and smiled, until tears flowed from his sunken eye sockets: "God has eyes, God has eyes... Hahaha!"
Chapter completed!