Wang Yuan did not give Wei Ba time to react, and immediately ordered him to lead his troops to follow. Three thousand Huguang elite troops and three thousand Jiujiang surrender troops went straight to Nankang (i.e. Lushan City).
Nankang, like Jiujiang, is a prefectural city, built next to the water, and garrisoned by thousands of rebels.
Wei Ba was very active. He rode outside the moat and shouted into the city: "Lei San, I am Wei Ba. Wang Erlang has led the imperial court with an army of 500,000 people. King Ning is seeing that he will no longer be the emperor. I am
We have already surrendered, so hurry up and open the city gate, otherwise you won’t even be able to get a bite of the hot shit!”
Lei San lay on the female wall and looked down, shouting strangely: "Wei Laoba, why did you surrender?"
Wei Ba said: "Wang Erlang leads an army of 500,000 people. How can I not surrender? Hurry up and kill the eunuchs in the city and lead the troops out of the city to join me. We will follow Wang Erlang to fight against King Ning. Let's grant him the title of wife and son.
Right now!"
"Then just wait, I will kill the eunuchs immediately and use the eunuch's head as a token of surrender!" Lei San shouted.
Wei Ba came back on horseback and said in a flattering tone: "Second Master, wait a moment, Lei San has gone to kill the eunuch."
"Okay, I'll wait." Wang Yuan suppressed his laughter.
Song Ling'er, Yuan Da, the Thirteen Song Guards, the Twelve Imperial Cavalry Guards, and the Huguang guerrillas who followed Wang Yuan to suppress the rebellion, all looked at Nankang City with strange expressions at this moment.
Yuan Da couldn't help but ask Wei Ba: "General Wei, how can your rebellion be like a show? You will rebel when you say it, and surrender when you say it."
Wei Ba explained: "Nanchang has been lost, and we are going to start a ridiculous rebellion. My wife, children, and children are all in Nanchang city!"
Everyone immediately understood that King Ning did not trust his generals and forced his men to send their families to Nanchang as hostages. This was understandable, but Wang Yangming took Nanchang away. The rebels were worried about the safety of their families, and secondly they felt that King Ning was rebelling.
I'm afraid it's going to fail. In fact, everyone has been thinking about surrendering for a long time, but they just can't find a way to surrender.
If Wang Yuan did not bring three thousand elite soldiers and only showed his identity single-handedly, these rebels would choose to sacrifice the city.
As for Wang Yuan, why did he dare to risk his life?
It was because Wang Yangming easily regained Nanchang!
Nanchang is the base camp of King Ning, and the defenders should be the most elite, but Wang Yangming led a ragtag group of people to attack after a long time. So what level should the rebels in Jiujiang City be? Are you afraid of losing them in Nanchang?
Wang Yuan is just reckless, but not stupid.
Wei Ba deliberately made the soldiers lie down in the gap of the female wall, exposing half of their bodies and their bows and arrows. It looked very scary, but in fact the bow strings were not even stretched. If the soldiers on the city wall had really pulled the bow strings halfway, Wang Yuan would have jumped into the river long ago.
How could he risk his life if he ran away?
Wang Yuan asked Wei Ba: "What is your name?"
Wei Ba smiled and said: "Second Master, my name is Li Que."
"Isn't your surname Wei?" Wang Yuan found it interesting.
Wei Ba replied: "Who would use their real name when doing something shameful? I'm afraid of humiliating my ancestors. To put it more bluntly, I'll defeat the nine tribes and the court won't be able to find my ancestral grave."
While the officials and thieves were chatting, Nankang Fucheng suddenly opened its doors, and Lei San came over with his head in hand and lowered the moat suspension bridge.
"Wei Laoba, the supervisor was killed by me. Is this an official sent by the imperial court?" Lei San asked.
Wei Ba pointed at Wang Yuan and said, "This is the famous Wang Erlang."
Lei San was immediately in awe, his eyes full of admiration, and he knelt down and said: "The common people kowtow to the Second Master Wang!"
"Get up," Wang Yuan asked, "how many defenders are there in the city?"
Lei San said: "There are four or five thousand, maybe five or six thousand."
Wang Yuan laughed happily: "You don't know how many soldiers you have?"
Lei San explained: "I don't have the soldiers alone. You and I will work together to defend the city. The eunuchs and supervisors also have soldiers, and I have killed them. The other brothers are willing to surrender to the court." This guy.
Turning around and waving, "Come quickly and pay homage to Mr. Wang!"
A bunch of bandits, big and small, came to see him one after another. They used to have a notorious reputation, but now when they saw Wang Yuan, they were like a mouse seeing a cat.
At this time, the sky was getting dark, but Wang Yuan did not want to stay, so he asked Lei San to lead three thousand troops to follow, while the remaining surrendered troops stayed in Nankang.
Wang Yuan asked the soldiers to hold torches and march on. Regardless of whether there were night blindness patients or not, they marched to Wucheng Town in the middle of the night.
It is said that during the Three Kingdoms period, Taishi Ci of the Eastern Wu built a city here. It was called Wucheng because it was adjacent to Wu Mountain. Across the river is Haihun County, which is the Haihun of Haihunhou. This county was submerged overnight in the Song Dynasty, leaving only
The Wucheng built by Taishi Ci still remains.
By the Ming Dynasty, Wucheng Town's business was very prosperous, and its scale was comparable to that of a county town in the border areas.
Wang Yuan asked Wei Ba to take people to swim across the river, and ordered the gentry and merchants in Wucheng Town to prepare food and boats. The big boats had long been taken away by King Ning, and there were still a few small boats available to carry food across the river and make fires for cooking - well, Wang Yuan
The light troops advanced without even a grain of food.
Of course, there were no facilities for setting up camp. The whole army rested near the river, and sentries were sent out to stand guard on all sides.
Wei Ba and Lei San were probably deeply poisoned by "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin", so they wore armor and swords and volunteered to serve as Wang Yuan's night guard.
Early the next morning, the army set off.
A total of more than 9,000 people needed to cross the river, but there were only a few dozen small boats, and the order of crossing the river was chaotic. There were no pursuers behind them, but some soldiers rushed to get on the boat, capsized the boat, and drowned an unlucky man.
Wang Yuan had already made arrangements to number each department and strictly ordered them to board the ship in order, but the specific implementation was still a pain in the ass.
It was a ragtag group of people who struggled to cross the river for most of the day. It was almost evening when the whole army crossed the river!
At this moment, a large group of soldiers suddenly appeared in front.
Twelve Jin Yi Ti cavalry and thirteen Song clan guards were all thrown out by Wang Yuan to serve as sentry riders, but the opponent did not even have sentry riders.
Zhu Gang, a member of the Jinyi Guards, observed with a telescope and found that the leader in front seemed to be a civil servant, and the soldiers under his command were dressed in a mess. It was unclear whether they were rebels or official soldiers. He rushed over and asked: "Are you rebels or official soldiers?"
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The other party was also startled, and the commander of the army replied: "I am Chen Huai, the magistrate of Fuzhou, and I have been ordered to attack the rebels. Who are you?"
Zhu Gang replied: "Wang Yuan, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, was ordered by the emperor to fight against thieves!"
It is a great joy for the friendly armies to join forces.
Wang Yuan brought Song Linger over to meet him. After careful inquiry, he found out that there were four prefects in front of him. They were Chen Huai, the prefect of Fuzhou, Lin Xuan, the prefect of Raozhou, Zhou Chaozuo, the prefect of Guangxin, and Zeng Yu, the prefect of Jianchang. They were sent by Wang Yangming
Jiujiang and Nankang did not seek to destroy the city, but only wanted to stop the rebel army from rushing to support the main battlefield.
Chen Huai asked: "Shilang Wang leads his troops south, but will they encounter Jiujiang and Nankang rebels and intercept them?"
Wang Yuan called Wei Ba and Lei San over and said with a smile: "These two are the Jiujiang and Nankang defenders. They have surrendered and will go with me on the expedition."
The four prefects were speechless for a moment. He was indeed Wang Yangming's student. Both master and apprentice were so elusive in battle.
Zeng Yu asked: "Why is Wang Shilang in Jiangxi?"
Wang Yuan explained: "I took leave to return to my hometown to get married, and I took my wife back to Beijing to perform my duties. When I walked to Huguang, I heard that King Ning was rebelling, so I came with 3,000 elite soldiers to put down the rebellion. By the way, Huguang Wei Zongzhi has already led
The navy blocked the entrance of Poyang Lake. How is the situation on Duke Yangming's side?"
Zhou Chaozuo said: "Maybe the fight has started."
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According to the "Records of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty", Wang Yangming not only failed to achieve success, but also made serious mistakes.
The content is roughly as follows: King Ning led the elite to attack Anqing, and those who stayed in Nanchang were all old and weak. When they heard that the government troops were coming, the righteous people in the city boarded the tower one after another to help the government troops kill the rebels. Wang Yangming did not know about this
, but also feared that it would be difficult to conquer the fortified city, so they cowered and did not dare to advance. Wu Wending, the prefect of Ji'an, was brave and took the lead in leading troops to attack the city. After Wu Wending had all entered the city, Wang Yangming sent troops to build ladders to attack the city. Therefore, the first success in conquering Nanchang should be
It was recorded on Wu Wending's head. The soldiers under Wang Yangming's command were all a mob with very poor discipline. After entering the city, they killed tens of thousands of good people and took credit for their merits. The streets of Nanchang were filled with corpses.
There are even more nonsense contents, saying that Wang Yangming and Liu Yang, the right prime minister of the rebels, were good friends and once went to King Funing's birthday party together. After the rebellion was suppressed, Wang Yangming killed Liu Yangzheng in order to silence him.
This is the "Records of Ming Wuzong" compiled by Yang Tinghe!
Indiscriminate killings indeed occurred, and they were committed by the rural warriors of Fengxin County. But on the second day after entering the city, Wang Yangming blasted these rural warriors out of the city and sent them to guard the ferry outside the city. How could they massacre tens of thousands of people in one night?
However, he said that after the capture of Nanchang, differences emerged again within the army.
Some officials suggested garrisoning in Nanchang, and some suggested rushing to assist Anqing. After arguing like this for several days, spies from the front came to report that King Ning's army had returned to Poyang Lake.
All the officials asked to stick to Nanchang, waiting for King Ning to come and have a bloody encounter.
Wang Yangming, however, ignored all opinions and insisted on taking the initiative.
The forward general sent by King Ning was Poyang Lake water bandit Ling Shiyi, who led an army of 20,000 and headed straight for Nanchang.
How did Wang Yangming respond?
He dispatched the prefects of Ji'an, Ganzhou, Yuanzhou and Linjiang, each with 500 elite troops, and set out along the Ganjiang River in four directions. He also asked the governor of Ganzhou to command Yu En to lead 500 troops and lure the rebels in small boats on the river. There were also prefects.
, Tongpan, Tuiguan, and county magistrates, and more than ten people, each led a hundred elite soldiers, and deployed suspicious troops on both sides of the Ganjiang River. Then, the remaining four magistrates were asked to lead a thousand elite troops to intercept the Jiujiang and Nankang rebels.
Well, Uncle Wang only sent more than 4,000 soldiers, and they were divided into nearly 20 divisions. Among them, more than 3,000 soldiers faced King Ning's more than 20,000 forward troops, and a thousand soldiers were thrown to intercept the enemy's reinforcements.
There was no way, Wang Yangming only had a few thousand who could fight, and he had to divide his troops to garrison Nanchang to guard the surrendered rebels in the city. As for the tens of thousands of rural warriors, he was too lazy to bring them out to fight again, and they just wasted food.
The battle process is very simple. Wu Wending and Yu En, one takes the land route to get around the rear, and the other takes the water route to meet the enemy head-on.
One after another, feigning attack and feigning defeat.
Moreover, each of them only brought 500 elite troops, so they would not feign a defeat and turn it into a rout.
There were more than 20,000 anti-thief vanguards, vying for power and pursuit, and the formation was in chaos.
Xing Xun, Xu Lian, and Dai Deru each led five hundred elite soldiers to fight out. The remaining hundreds of people hid on the shore, beating gongs and drums to create an ambush formation of tens of thousands, which frightened the rebels into defeat.
King Ning's more than 20,000 forward troops were chased for more than ten miles, more than 2,000 were captured and killed by the army, and more than 10,000 fell into the river and drowned.
Moreover, Wang Yangming captured countless warships and finally had the capital to start a water war with King Ning.
The entire combat process was so absurd and unbelievable.