"Your Highness, the city of Nanchang is ahead!"

After the Ming coalition left a small number of troops to station in Jiujiang, the main force went straight south and marched fiercely and finally arrived in the outskirts of Nanchang.

The situation here is very different from what Zheng Chenggong and others imagined.

As the provincial capital of Jiangxi, shouldn’t Nanchang be very prosperous?

When Zheng Chenggong was still a student at the Imperial College in Nanjing, he had been to Nanchang with his friends.

He remembered that there were many markets outside Nanchang City at that time, and merchants were shouting loudly.

Why did it look so desolate just over ten years?

The shop market outside the city disappeared, only a large area of ​​barren land was empty.

There are weeds on the ground, and it seems that one or two poisonous snakes may emerge at any time.

It is heartbreaking that this once prosperous homeland of the Ming Dynasty has become what it is today.

"Duke Lin, why do I feel that there are many troops outside this city?"

Although the distance was a bit far away, Zheng Chenggong vaguely saw a dark area surrounding the city.

If he had no idea, it would be the army.

"I'll send some people to check it out."

Li Laiheng immediately ordered the scout team to check.

The first thing now is to determine whether the army outside the city is an enemy or a friend.

If it is an enemy, you must be prepared to start a war.

After the Battle of Jiujiang, the Kuidong coalition had almost been restored. As for Zheng Chenggong, he had never even fought, which could be said to be accumulating energy.

Even if the war begins now, the Ming army is not afraid.

The two brothers Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun were chatting and laughing, and even talked about how to celebrate after entering the city.

In a short while, the scouts left and returned.

The news reported was that the besieged were friendly forces.

"It turned out to be Your Majesty and King Jin. I didn't expect that they would arrive first."

Li Laiheng murmured.

There was a bit disappointment in the words.

"It's nothing, after all, we are closer to Changsha than us. Besides, we have also captured Jiujiang."

Yuan Zongdi stroked his beard and said, "Your Majesty ordered us to walk along the Yangtze River."

"Yeah, even if the old thief Hong is in a siege, he will never escape even if he has wings."

"When the city is broken, the old thief Hong will dig out the liver and relieve the hatred in my heart."

Seeing the rise of chatting among the crowd, Zheng Chenggong really didn't want to interrupt everyone's enthusiasm.

But he still felt that he should meet the emperor first.

Otherwise, it would be too rude.

"Let's go and meet His Majesty first."

When everyone heard the sound, they reacted and laughed: "His Highness Zhong is talking very much. We are arguing about these things here, so let's meet your Majesty first."

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However, the personal soldiers reported to Zhu Youlang that the Kuidong Xun and the Zhongwang Zheng Chenggong, and that the soldier Zhang Huangyan asked for a meeting.

Zhu Youlang was overjoyed when he heard this and quickly summoned him.

He waited for so long and finally waited everyone.

Zhu Youlang, the honors of Kuidong, had seen them before. However, Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan, had only seen them in history books.

Zhu Youlang was very excited when he thought of seeing the true faces of the two national heroes with his own eyes.

But on the other hand, he warned himself to maintain the majesty and reserve of the emperor and not to be too excited.

In a short while, a group of nobles and military generals were led into the crowd.

"I'll pay homage to Your Majesty!"

The account has collected all the generals that the Ming Dynasty can fight.

Zhu Youlang was very pleased to see the brave generals.

With these powerful generals here, why worry about not prospering in the Ming Dynasty?

"King Zhong, Zhang Benbing has worked hard all the way. Duke Linguo, Duke Jingguo, and Duke Wan have worked hard too."

Zhu Youlang stepped forward and helped everyone up kindly, and said with a smile: "I was thinking a few days ago that the Qing family should have taken Jiujiang. I didn't expect that they had arrived outside Nanchang City faster than I thought."

Zhu Youlang deliberately paid attention to Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan when he spoke.

He found that Zheng Chenggong was much younger than he thought, but there were a lot of white silk on Zhang Huangyan's hair.

Zhu Youlang is observing Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan. Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong are not observing Zhu Youlang.

Zheng Chenggong thought to himself that he finally saw His Majesty’s true face today.

When he was in Fujian, Zheng Chenggong and Zhu Youlang, who was based on Guangdong and Guangxi, were not far away.

But at that time, the two could be said to be from two camps, so Zheng Chenggong and Zhu Youlang had no intersection, so naturally they had never met Zhu Youlang.

When Emperor Longwu Emperor Shaowu died one after another, the Ming Dynasty was left with only Yongli. Although Zheng Chenggong changed to respect Zhu Youlang, he lost the opportunity to meet because he was too far away from the emperor who moved to Guizhou.

As for Zhang Huangyan's situation, it's almost the same.

He has been operating along the southeast coast with his foundation in the Zhoushan Islands.

Moreover, at that time, Zhang Huangyan respected King Zhu Yihai of Lu, who claimed to be the governor of the country. Zhang Huangyan also existed as an auxiliary minister.

Later, Zhoushan was captured by the Qing army, and the disheartened King Lu went to the state of regent and signed a title to Fujian to join Zheng Chenggong.

So Zhang Huangyan had never seen Zhu Youlang.

But when they saw Zhu Youlang's first meeting, they actually felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

Maybe it's because the Zhu family all look similar.

Or maybe Zhu Youlang has a legendary emperor-like image.

No matter what, the two of them just think that Zhu Youlang has his own aura and has the demeanor of the emperor.

"Your Majesty is the leader in the army, how dare you not take your life?"

Zheng Chenggong said in fear and trepidation.

"Don't be so restrained in front of me. I also want to have a good chat with King Zhong about how he broke through Nanjing."

"Report to Your Majesty, the Battle of Nanjing can be said to be a long story. Mr. Rong will tell you slowly. But now we should still focus on taking down Nanchang City."

Zhu Youlang did not think that Zheng Chenggong's move was against his intention, but instead thought that Zheng Chenggong was very pragmatic.

Zhu Youlang likes the pragmatic person very much.

Now we should really focus on siege.

"Okay, then I will talk about the situation of the Nanchang Battle. I believe the Qing family has also noticed it. The digging of tunnels outside the Nanchang City. In fact, the Donglu tried to leave the city and fight in a field not long ago, but was beaten by me and fled back to the city. I ordered people to surround the Nanchang City, just wait for the Qing family to arrive before joining the troops to attack the city."

Zhu Youlang described the story of the Battle of Nanchang in a few words, and everyone was very satisfied with hearing it.

Yuan Zongdi even started to get ready to try.

"Old thief Hong is really overestimating his strength. He actually dares to go out of the city to fight."

"Yes, Your Majesty is wise and divine martial arts, and King Jin is extremely skilled in martial arts. Who gave the courage of Old Thief Hong?"

Liu Tichun also added from the side.

"Your Majesty will order the attack on the city, I would like to be the pioneer."

As the leader of Kuidong Xuns, Li Laiheng stood up unswervingly at this time.

Isn’t this what His Majesty the Emperor is waiting for? At this time, the Thirteen Kuidong families must not retreat!

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Chapter completed!