Wang Shouren also frowned. He was not worried that Nankang City would be in a double attack. What he was really worried about was that more officials and gentry who were dissatisfied with the government would ignore the fundamental interests of the country and the will of the people. Following King Ning's rebellion would only cause greater turmoil in the world, and it would be of no benefit to the country and the people.

"This King Ning threatens to take saving the world as his responsibility. If he succeeds in the future, he will definitely rule the world with the scholars and officials, strictly order the world to respect the gentry, and do not punish the gentry with punishment. This method of winning over the hearts of the scholars and officials in the world has indeed made many short-sighted gentry believe that King Ning will be the good emperor they think;

But how could they know that although the dynasty is just the country of Your Majesty, the country is the country of the people of the world. The people in the world are concerned about peace and chaos. If they do this, they will act against the world and will only be punished by the whole world, and may even lead to the worse relationship between Your Majesty and the gentry in the future!

The relationship between the monarch and the ministers that had already eased had to make these selfish and short-sighted people only destroy it. Now we can only hope that the emperor will be wise and not blame all scholars for being fools!"

Wang Shouren sighed in his heart for a while, then said:

"Don't worry about Nankang's attack on both sides. A few years ago, I had already prepared this day. Nankang City had all the weapons and food. I knew better than Jiujiang's prefect Xu Zan. What he could command was nothing more than the troops in several counties in Jiujiang, which was less than 10,000! In addition, the training was insufficient. The governor's model battalion was nominally only 3,000, but in fact it was 20,000, which was not enough to be afraid that he and King Ning attacked Nankang together. I even thought he didn't have the courage!"

"The most important thing to consider now is to quell the rebellion of Ning King as soon as possible. The sooner the rebellion of Ning King, the better. This will make those in the world who have ulterior motives understand that following the thief will only be ruined!"

Wang Shouren said and asked Zhang Lun again: "Has the Jinyiwei sent someone to inform Wu Wending to go?"

"I have already gone to inform you, and there are also Jinyiwei in Nanchang City. I'm afraid I have been ordered to inform you first," Zhang Lun replied.

"That's good. Wu Wending has his official Jun Order and His Majesty's Majesty's Imperial Order. Directly commanding our 80,000 troops to gather in Nanchang Prefecture. Joining forces with us to quell the rebellion of King Ning. The most important thing now is to let King Ning stay in Nanchang for a few more days before the 80,000 troops led by Wu Wending come. It is necessary to think of a solution. Now, when the prefect of Jiujiang Xu Zan surrenders to the enemy, he will definitely let King Ning know that King Ning is excited. If King Ning is excited, he will be eager to raise his troops north."

Wang Shouren continued to think: "Now I can only use the counter-espionage plan. Immediately let the Jinyiwei hidden in Nanchang find a way to implement the counter-espionage plan, so that King Ning can get a secret letter about Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng. It is best to make King Ning believe that Li Shishi and Liu Yang are spies sent by the court to deliberately instigate him to rebel! And I believe that the court will let Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng strongly persuade King Ning to raise troops north, and then Xu Zan, who pretended to surrender, join forces with his official to ambush him, the true and false, and the false, made King Ning dare not leave Nanchang City and go north easily."

"Receive the order!"

After Zhang Lun said that, he turned around and left.

Wang Shouren continued to order the officials and citizens of Nankang City to strengthen defense of the city wall.

...

Xu Zan, the governor of Jiujiang, had indeed sent people to cross Poyang Lake by boat. After Jinxian came to Nanchang City, he informed King Ning of the matter that he wanted to surrender to King Ning, and asked King Ning to lead his army north. He would assist King Ning to take advantage of the situation and go to Anqing.

Xu Zan had long been resentful of the court's disrespect for the literati and officials and used public opinion to make the greedy people peeled the skin and grass. In addition, he was also very corrupt and had some persecution paranoia, and always felt that he would be found out. Therefore, after hearing that King Ning rebelled, he decided to surrender first. Moreover, King Ning's manifesto also had content to respect the gentry, which made him feel that he could let go and conquer the world with King Ning.

However, he did not give King Ning the best strategy to take the capital as Wang Shouren thought, but instead suggested that King Ning go north and then take Anqing and then Nanjing on the grounds that the capital is difficult to attack.

After all, he is a southerner and his attention is easier to focus on Jiangnan.

In addition, Xu Zan also specially ordered his people to tell King Ning: "My minister Xu Zan has heard that King Ning is a righteous army, intending to inherit the way of heaven and eliminate the foolish monarch. Today, he specially led troops from the five counties of Jiujiang to help King Ning, and prepared 30,000 stones of food to reward the king's army. He also hoped that King Ning would ascend to the great treasure as soon as possible, correct the bloodline of the emperor and build the world! Alas!"

When King Ning heard this, he was overjoyed and said, "I heard that Zhengde regards gentry as straw dogs for a long time. He often destroys the family of ten clans, and threatens them with public opinion, which leads to loyalty and good people being wronged and treacherous and treacherous slandering in the court. This time, I specially followed the imperial edict of the empress dowager to kill Zhengde who pretended to be the descendants of Xiaozong! This time, I emphasized again that if you save the world in the future, you will be able to rule the world together with the gentry, and set up a prime minister, and do not punish gentry, and do not humiliate gentry!"

After King Ning's words were passed back to Jiujiang, the civil servants and gentry in Jiujiang Prefecture were all overjoyed. If King Ning was in Jiujiang now, I would have been unable to help but put on King Ning's yellow robe.

In addition to being overjoyed, King Ning hurriedly appointed Xu Zan as Minister of Personnel.

But coincidentally, King Ning accidentally received two secret letters at this time. The secret letter was reported by the slaves of Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng's family, which were also undercover agents who were stationed by him. The secret letter was that Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng were undercover agents of the court, and the court told Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng to find an opportunity to persuade King Ning to immediately go north because Xu Zan and Wang Shouren had ambushed troops waiting for King Ning to get into the trap himself.

King Ning didn't really believe the content of the secret letter. He summoned Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng and asked the two of them what they thought about Xu Zan's suggestions.

Li Shishi was not really stupid either. When he heard that the Jiujiang Prefect Xu Zan surrendered, he immediately advised: "Your Highness, now you should take down Nankang immediately and lead your troops north!"

"I also think this is the case. We cannot wait until the imperial army gathers on the riverside before moving. At that time, we will have to defend Nanchang!" Liu Yangzheng replied.

If there were no two secret letters, King Ning would believe them, but now King Ning found that the suggestions of Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng were exactly the same as those stated in the secret letter, so he naturally became suspicious and said:

"I think it is not suitable now. Before the troops move, we should prepare enough before we talk about food and grass. We should continue to defend Nanchang and continue to build warships! We should be ready to rush our troops north at any time."

After King Ning's delay, it took almost a month.

Wu Wending's 80,000 troops had almost passed Linjiang Prefecture and drove directly to Fengcheng, less than two hundred miles away from his Nanchang City.

At this time, King Ning seemed to have suddenly become aware that he might have been fooled, because he found that Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng did not continue to strongly demand that he go north. Secondly, there seemed to be no sign of the 160,000-strong army of the court coming from all sides. He began to realize that it was the people from the court who deliberately secretly used a plan to delay his troops to go north, and provided enough time for the court to mobilize the army.

then.

Almost a month later, King Ning suddenly ordered the troops to go north and take direct attack on Nankang.

But as the saying goes, one move will decline again and again, and the 100,000 soldiers and horses under the command of King Ning have been in Nanchang City for a long time, and after he has been in Nanchang City, he has long lost the morale of the initial rebellion. Moreover, because King Ning's indulgence and military discipline are dispersed, the soldiers and horses of King Ning have almost burned, killed, robbed and robbed in Nanchang Prefecture. When he arrived in Nankang City, he was almost the same as a group of thieves who were robbing their families.

In fact, many of the soldiers and horses under King Ning were indeed destined people from the world, and were composed of many thieves.

Therefore, when King Ning ordered the siege of the city, the troops under King Ning had no rules at all, and they could not distinguish between the troops. There were cavalry riding horses, archers, and thieves wielding axes.

Wang Shouren had already made sufficient preparations. The artillery fired the cannon first. The iron-core copper-tied cannons on the city gate directly fired flowering bullets into the Ningwang's front army. In an instant, countless dust and corpses were stirred up, causing chaos in the Ningwang's front army.

The soldiers of the Ning King's former army hurriedly retreated.

Seeing this, King Ning was furious and hurriedly ordered those who attacked the city wall to reward fifty taels of silver, and first rewarded ten taels of silver for each soldier. So, the morale of the soldiers of the Ning King recovered a little, and he rushed towards Nankang City without hesitation.

The cannons of this era are not the modern type of loading cannons, so they loaded slowly after one shot, which gave Ning Wang's army a chance to rush in.

However, as soon as these Ning King's soldiers rushed in, the officers and soldiers on the city wall immediately turned on firearms, firing out bullets from the guns was fast and accurate, and had strong penetration, which directly shot these rebels into pieces to the ground.

Ling Shisan, a gangster who defected to Ning Wang and had been named General Xuanwu by Ning Wang, also held Yue with both hands, scratched Tai Chi with his toes, and shouted: "Look at my iron cloth shirt! Block your guns and bullets!"

Bang!

Ling Shisan was immediately shot by Wang Shouren, and blood gushed from his forehead, and then fell to the ground within a short while.

Another man named Liao Qingfeng claimed that he was very good at light skills and shouted "Chasing Qingfeng!" and then jumped deeper and wanted to perform his unique skills on the city wall, but was blown into pieces by a grenade in his hand.

At this time, a team of rebels dripped a bag of blood off their heads, and then one of the leading generals shouted: "Brothers, we are all covered in black blood now, so we don't have to be afraid of their magic, and they are invulnerable to swords and guns. Bounce me!"

So, a team of rebels following King Ning who rebelled but looked like thieves, rushed over, and they looked bloody, which looked very terrifying. But at this time, the official army guarding the city of Nankang City ignited the tiger squat cannons developed by the Ming Military Weapon Bureau. With a few bangs of cannons, they bombarded the rebels with black blood into a sea of ​​blood.

On the first day of attacking Nankang City, King Ning directly lost more than 10,000 people, and his morale was greatly damaged, so he had to temporarily quit.

At this time, Wu Wending had sent cavalry to attack Nanchang City.

But when King Ning learned that his Nanchang City was lost, he did not want to make every effort to use the defenses of Nankang City and were exhausted, but chose to return to Nanchang because his magnificent palace was in Nanchang, and he was reluctant to leave.

Seeing this, Wang Shouren simply asked Zhang Lun to lead his elite troops out of the city and directly fought with King Ning in Huangpingdu and was eager to retreat to Nanchang. As a result, King Ning's troops were defeated and lost nearly 20,000 troops.

Then, King Ning could only bring more than 30,000 remaining troops to prepare to besiege Nanchang. As a result, Wu Wending took the initiative to attack and killed King Ning and defeated him.

King Ning could only escape to Jinxian, connect the warships with iron ropes, and form a water camp.
Chapter completed!