Prince Ning was in shock and confusion in Anqing. He felt that he was surrounded by enemies on all sides and that his cronies had already secretly betrayed him.
A high-risk job such as rebellion requires a strong psychological endurance. Prince Ning was very calm when he was planning the plan in secret, but once he implemented it, he suddenly felt dizzy and everything seemed to be wrong.
Sometimes, he sees through the rumors with reason; sometimes, he feels that the rumors are true.
Wang Yangming's forged letter successfully planted seeds of doubt in Prince Ning's mind. Even though he knew that the prime ministers on his left and right were unlikely to betray him, he was still worried about an ambush in Nanjing, and was unwilling to bypass Anqing and attack Nanjing city life or death.
Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, and they went to meet Prince Ning together: "Your Majesty, what doubts do you have? It's better to attack Nanjing quickly!"
Prince Ning waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, our soldiers boarded the North City of Anqing yesterday. Although they were quickly defeated and retreated, Anqing will definitely not be able to defend it for long. We will definitely be able to capture the city in a few days!"
Liu Yangzheng said: "Your Majesty, our army suffered heavy casualties in attacking the city. Even if we capture Anqing, the gains outweigh the losses."
King Ning insisted on his own way and said: "I am already recruiting troops. Our soldiers will only fight more and more."
Li Shishi suddenly asked: "Did your Majesty hear any rumors?"
Prince Ning smiled and said, "I won't listen to any rumors."
"Then why don't you want to attack Nanjing?" Li Shishi asked.
King Ning explained: "Nanjing may be more difficult to conquer than Anqing. If Anqing is not captured, and Nanjing cannot be captured by then, our army's retreat may be cut off."
Liu Yangzheng suddenly became anxious and said in a panic: "The rebellion will advance but not retreat. Is there any way out? Your Majesty, think twice!"
Li Shishi also said: "Your Majesty and I are sons and daughters. Others can betray you, but I will never betray you. Your Majesty must not fall into the court's plan to alienate you!"
Prince Ning also understood this truth, and those two letters were definitely fake, but he was afraid of going to Nanjing, and he didn’t know what he was afraid of. Wang Yangming just didn’t write the estrangement letter. Once the estrangement letter was sent, Prince Ning
He becomes always timid.
A few days passed, and King Ning was still attacking Anqing. He gave enough time for the officers and soldiers from various places to assemble, and Nanjing successfully recruited tens of thousands of warriors.
At this time, even if Prince Ning went straight to Nanjing, it would probably be difficult for him to get it.
In Nanchang, Wang Yangming was already preparing to unleash his ultimate move.
Wang Yangming, who was in charge of suppressing bandits, already had troops on hand, and he personally recruited and trained the troops, which had fought countless victorious battles in the past two years.
When King Ning rebelled, he paid no attention to the south of Gan.
Wang Yangming immediately gathered troops to put down the rebellion, and officials from all over southern Jiangxi responded one after another. Fei Hong, the cabinet minister who had retired from office, even personally recruited volunteers.
Fei Hong had always belonged to Lao Yinbi in the cabinet, and no one knew which side he was from. As a result, when the emperor and Yang Tinghe were fighting, Fei Hong was suppressed by both sides at the same time, and was forced to resign and go home to retire.
However, when he was a cabinet minister, he refused to accept bribes from King Ning and firmly opposed the reinstatement of King Ning's bodyguards.
Prince Ning held a grudge because of this. When Fei Hong resigned and returned to Jiangxi, he immediately sent people to plunder Fei Hong's hometown. Not only did Fei Hong's house burnt down, but the Fei family's ancestral graves were even dug up. Fei Hong could only take his family there.
He took refuge in the county town. King Ning asked bandits to attack the county town and kidnapped Fei Hong's elder brother and younger brother. Fei Hong's brother was even killed by the bandits.
Now that King Ning was rebelling, he still remembered Fei Hong and sent a small force to arrest him.
Liu Qingyuan, the magistrate of Jinxian County, was a Jinshi in the ninth year of Zhengde and had been an official for only four years. But when he learned that King Ning was rebelling, he immediately summoned Ding Yong to defend and defeated this small force. Together with Fei Hong, he continued to recruit Xiang Yong.
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Hearing that Wang Yangming was gathering troops to put down the rebellion, Fei Hong and Liu Qingyuan went to join them with three thousand local warriors.
Xie Yuan and Wu Xiru, the supervisory censors of Guangdong and Guangxi, had a good relationship with Wang Yangming and actually led troops from Guangdong and Guangxi.
In addition, Wu Wending, the prefect of Ji'an, Xing Xun, the prefect of Ganzhou, Dai Deru, the prefect of Linjiang, Yu En, the governor of Ganzhou, Lin Xuan, the prefect of Raozhou, Zhou Chaozuo, the prefect of Guangxin, Hu Yaoyuan, the general magistrate of Ruizhou, Li Ji, the magistrate of Taihe,
Li Mei, the magistrate of Xingan County, Wang Mian, the magistrate of Wan'an County, Wang Shi, the magistrate of Anyi County, Tong Qi, the general magistrate of Ruizhou... there were a lot of civil and military officials.
In the blink of an eye, Wang Yangming gathered 80,000 troops, which was almost as strong as King Ning's rebels. In addition, there were several official troops heading towards Nanchang!
Linjiang Prefecture, Zhangshu Town.
Seeing that the troops from all walks of life had arrived at about the same time, Wang Yangming immediately convened a military meeting and analyzed the current situation.
Yu En, the commander of the capital of Ganzhou, said: "King Ning is attacking Anqing. Our army should go to the rescue immediately. If King Ning sends his troops to capture Nanjing, it will be difficult to deal with it!"
"Yes, it is important to rescue Nanjing." Lin Xuan, the prefect of Raozhou, agreed.
Officials from various places spoke one after another, and all unanimously recommended going to Anqing.
There is no way, Nanjing is the capital of the Ming Dynasty and the place where Taizu Longxing was established. There is a complete set of court teams there, there are strong cities and vast ponds, and there is countless wealth and population. Once King Ning takes Nanjing, he can easily establish a puppet court.
Furthermore, relying on Nanjing's military expansion and war preparations, even if the imperial court summoned a large army for a crusade, it would be able to persist for at least a year and a half.
Even if King Ning is smart, he can cut off the grain and tax revenue from Jiangnan, leaving Beijing without enough food and wages to fight the war. Then he can seize the opportunity to conquer the land that digests Jiangnan's wealth, and maybe he can separate the southeast and become the world leader.
Nanjing must be rescued, and it must be rescued as quickly as possible.
Only Fei Hong disagreed: "We don't have a navy, so why go to Anqing? Sit by the river and watch the Ningbo war?"
Wang Yangming also said: "Even if we have a navy, we are still as powerful as Ningbo. It is difficult to determine the winner in a short time. Moreover, the army has been hastily assembled, and there is insufficient money and food. Most of the soldiers are brave, and the soldiers lack adequate training.
, it will easily fall apart if something goes wrong.”
Everyone was silent. They naturally knew what the army they had personally recruited looked like.
If King Ning's command is a rabble, then the 80,000 troops gathered by Wang Yangming are not even as good as a rabble, and they are extremely short of money and food supplies!
Wang Yuan and the emperor did send a secret message, asking Wang Yangming to make preparations early. But Wang Yangming was unable to make preparations. He had a bad relationship with the local gentry because of his suppression of bandits. Before King Ning openly rebelled, he had no money and no reason.
Raise an army of tens of thousands.
Wu Wending, the prefect of Ji'an, asked: "What is Duke Shouren's plan?"
Wang Yangming pointed on the map: "Knock down Nanchang first!"
"I disagree!"
"I don't agree either!"
"How can we leave Nanjing alone and not save it?"
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A bunch of officials all opposed it. Although Wang Yangming had the royal flag, he could not mobilize the volunteers organized by the civil servants.
At this moment, those brave men account for more than half!
King Ning is a scammer, and Wang Yangming is surrounded by a bunch of scammers, determined to bypass Nanchang and reach the front line.
Wang Yangming had difficulty convincing everyone, so he could only look at Fei Hong and smile bitterly. After the meeting, the two went to lobby separately, and caught the officials to persuade them one by one.
After three days of persuasion, the officials felt that staying here was not a problem, and agreed that Wang Yangming should try to attack Nanchang first - it was a convenient way anyway, and we would wait until he failed.
Wang Yangming used the excuse that the army must be under unified command, gathered military power as the governor of Jiangxi, and swore to reorganize in Zhangshu Town, then headed north with this group of weak troops who did not understand military orders.
Wu Wen, the prefect of Ji'an, was appointed as the vanguard, but he did not dare to move near Nanchang, and only waited for Wang Yangming to lead the army to join them.
When Wang Yangming approached Nanchang, two more rebel armies arrived, all of them were local warriors summoned temporarily.
Wang Yangming claimed to have an army of 300,000 men, but the officials felt very guilty and did not know how to conquer the fortified city of Nanchang.
Nanchang City is high and deep, and there are more than 20,000 defenders, all of whom are the "elite" troops left by King Ning. On his side, the only ones who can really fight are the thousands of bandit-suppressing soldiers in Wang Yangming's hands.
Once the siege fails for several days, it is estimated that King Qin's army of 80,000 will collapse on the spot.
Wang Yangming sent out a few light cavalry and fired frantically into the city to persuade them to surrender. The message was that 300,000 soldiers had arrived, and those who surrendered were guilty of meritorious service. He also said that King Ning had been defeated by the imperial army, and his life and death were unknown.
The rebels in Nanchang City have made people panic.
Then the detective horse came to report that there were thousands of bandits encamped in the east of the city, and they were at odds with the bandits of Nanchang City.
Wang Yangming immediately moved to the east of the city, sent out miscellaneous troops to feint attack from both sides, and sent thousands of main forces to attack from the east. These thousands of main forces were personally recruited and trained by Wang Yangming to conquer the giant invincible bandits in southern Gansu.
Can King Ning's "elite soldiers" resist?
In less than half an hour of fighting, the rebel camp outside the city was breached.
Wang Yangming specifically left an opening to the west, allowing the rebels to run wildly towards Nanchang City, and ordered not to pursue them for the time being.
Seeing that there were no pursuers, the defenders in the city immediately ordered the city gates to be opened.
The moment the city gate opened, the sentry sent by Wang Yangming hid in the dark to see clearly, and quickly blew the horn to spread the news.
A small number of cavalry rushed towards Nanchang City, shouting that officers and soldiers had arrived.
As for the infantry behind them, they were still several miles away and could not approach the city quickly.
However, the defeated rebels were already frightened. They were completely frightened when they heard the sound of the trumpet. They rushed to squeeze into the city, but they were crowded with each other and couldn't squeeze in, which greatly slowed down the speed of entering the city.
Less than half of the defeated troops entered the city, more than a hundred cavalry came to kill them, frightening both the defenders and the defeated troops.
The defenders wanted to close the city gate, and the defeated troops fought to get in. The two sides actually started fighting among themselves.
When Wang Yangming came with his troops from several miles away, the city gate was already filled with blood. He immediately rushed towards the city gate with his troops, and the defeated troops even more frantically attacked the city. The defenders who defended the city gate fled in panic.
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In just half a day, Wang Yangming led a mob to break through Nanchang City, where more than 20,000 "elites" were stationed.
Dai Deru, the prefect of Linjiang, was riding a donkey and looked dumbfounded outside the city: "Is this the case?"
"It seems that they were defeated." Zhou Chaozuo, the prefect of Guangxin, was riding a mule, and their horses were borrowed to equip the cavalry.
Liu Qingyuan, the magistrate of Jinxian County, laughed exaggeratedly, clapped his hands and praised: "Mr. Yangming is really a god!"