But seeing Wang Mingyang's resolute look, it didn't look like he was joking! After all, he was his idol and old friend when he was young, so he decided to take a gamble on Wang Mingyang and see if they could even out the situation with just a flag.
One hundred thousand rebels!
So according to Wang Mingyang's plan, they first went to the nearest Lin'an Prefecture to gather the soldiers and horses there.
By the way, Wu Ziding, the prefect of Lin'an Prefecture, was also a happy man. When he saw Wang Mingyang coming, he was overjoyed: "It's great, sir, to put down the rebellion! I wonder how many troops you have brought with you?"
Wang Mingyang was even more happy than him. He pointed at Du Fei and said: "If you include him, there are two people. If you don't include him, it's just me!"
Wu Ziding's expression changed: "Sir, you are so funny! You still have the heart to joke at this time!"
"I really didn't lie to you, it's just the two of us~~ Of course, there is also this thing!" Wang Mingyang said as he put out their only weapon.
"Flag!" Wu Ziding's face regained some energy after seeing it, but then it dimmed again: "It's useless. The entire garrison in Jiangxi Province is fleeing now. If you take out this thing, they may not listen to you.
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Wu Ziding was not a timid person, he was just a person who said whatever he had to say. In his opinion, the court must immediately send out a large army to eliminate King Ning, otherwise it would be troublesome when he captured several important towns. Now People in Jiangxi are panic-stricken, and we can't blame the soldiers for running away regardless of their dignity. The main reason is that everyone has witnessed Prince Ning's domineering power here for many years, and they are afraid that if they get into a fight with each other, it will be dangerous. Needless to say, if they lose, they may lose. In the end, a big black pot will be covered. Therefore, everyone holds the idea that doing more is worse than doing less, and retreats in the face of King Ning's motley army. At this time, just bringing a flag is not enough. Troops stationed in various places in Jiangxi Their morale had already collapsed before the war even started.
It stands to reason that Wu Ziding's analysis can be said to be clear and logical, but he ignored one thing - Wang Chongyang's personal ability.
There are many types of personal abilities. Some people have strong strength, some people have flexible brains, and some people can run faster~~~~ But Wang Chongyang showed his specialty to the two of them that day: that is to incite people's emotions.
Ability, and the ability to persuade people. He spoke impassionedly to a group of about a few thousand garrison troops who had retreated from Nanjing to Lin'an. His words were sincere and his words came from the bottom of their hearts. Everyone who heard them wiped their eyes with tears and immediately shouted like thunder.
He was very determined to stay and put down the rebellion.
As King Ning captured more and more places, more and more scattered soldiers fled, and his inspiring words became more and more touching! Unknowingly, within a few days, they had gathered like a snowball.
More than 30,000 people were recruited. Of course Du Fei was not idle, using his own unique methods to quickly train these chaotic new troops.
Wu Ziding saw that his own strength had increased nearly three times in just a few days, and he suddenly felt that there was hope for suppressing the rebellion, so he also helped to gather local braves from other places, and they all came here regardless of whether they were good, bad, old, young, fat or thin.
Don't worry about anything first. Let's talk about it alone. At least standing there is quite bluffing.
Du Fei's training suddenly became more difficult, because many of these newly recruited troops were honest farmers who had never touched weapons in their lives, and there were also some bad elements such as bandits and bandits. They had strong opinions on Du Fei's high-intensity training.
Da, from time to time, they wanted to cause trouble to force Du Fei to give them preferential treatment. As a result, they immediately tasted Du Fei's riding crop and military stick, and they regretted giving birth to them. Those oily veterans in Nanjing were all cured back then.
Now, are you still afraid of these small fish and shrimps?
There were also serious internal disagreements on King Ning's side. Bai Lang and his advisers all suggested that King Ning go straight to Nanjing, so that he could seize the gateway to the south of the Yangtze River before the imperial court's recruiting army arrived, and thus occupy the entire
Jiangnan.
But King Ning personally insisted on conquering all of Jiangxi first, and then slowly developing based on Jiangxi. To say that both ideas have a certain truth, attacking Nanjing is more risky, but the reward after success is the entire
Jiangnan! King Ning can occupy half of the country to compete with him. The effort and reward are directly proportional.
According to King Ning's own ideas, it would be a more reliable choice to act slowly and steadily. After all, King Ning knew how many bowls of food his army could eat.
At this moment, Du Fei and Wang Chongyang, in order to buy time for themselves to expand their power, specially sent spies to the cities occupied by King Ning to post notices. The notices were written in easy-to-understand terms with pictures and texts, and they directly took Prince Ning as their leader.
A bounty was placed on a wanted dangerous person. It also clarified the old policies such as "lenity for confession and severity for resistance". At the end, it was specially noted in large characters that the imperial court had sent Liu Zongye, Hu Xuefan and other famous generals to lead an army of 150,000 to Jiangxi.
, will launch a general attack on the rebels today. If you want to bring order to the chaos, please hurry up and wait for the ultimatum.
Fortunately, King Ning's army was not of high quality and not many were literate. King Ning promptly sent people to take down these small advertisements. While he angrily denounced this immoral and non-environmental behavior, he understood in his heart.
: An army of 150,000! Fifty thousand more than mine! Although he has not paid much attention to the cultivation of his own cultural quality since he was a child, he can still do this arithmetic problem. King Ning, who was already full of doubts, was even more hesitant at this time.
He didn't realize that he had made the third and most stupid choice, which was to stand still!
If we follow White Wolf's plan to attack Nanjing in one fell swoop, we will be defeated and regretful whether we succeed or not.
It was also a good choice to quickly capture the entire Jiangxi according to his own ideas. After all, most of the Jiangxi defenders were already frightened (except Lin'an). As long as he waved his hand, the cavalry would pass by his city, but he did not do this.
He was frightened by the 150,000-strong army fabricated by Wang Chongyang and Du Fei out of thin air. He believed that the imperial army would soon concentrate its forces to attack his city, and now he just wanted to hold on to the few cities he captured.
At this moment, Wang Mingyang, who was urgently expanding his army to prepare for war, felt that it was too easy for King Ning to live in peace. He heard that the two main advisers of King Ning were Liu Yangzheng and Li Shishi. It is said that the IQ and military level of these two people were unparalleled.
Above the passing line, apart from Bai Lang, he is the most understanding person under King Ning. Wang Chongyang smiled and wrote a few wax pill books for a dead soldier to deliberately bring into Nanchang City, and then was deliberately dug out by King Ning. King Ning saw
He was very pleased that the search team, which had always been very slow, finally caught the enemy's spy. When he opened a few wax pill books, he was so frightened that he was half-hearted. The wax pill books read: "Please invite Mr. Liu Yangzheng and Mr. Li Shishi."
Today, please quickly persuade King Ning to leave the city and attack Nanjing! After he leaves the city, a large army will surround him and annihilate him! The two gentlemen’s astonishing achievements will be rewarded heavily by the court, etc.~~~~"
Prince Ning was stunned for a moment, but he was not stupid enough to believe whatever he heard. These two people had been with him for a long time, and he had a certain degree of confidence in them.
But what happened next can only be said to be God's will. The two masters Liu Yangzheng and Li Shishi came early and late, but they visited Prince Ning on the night of the day when the wax pill book appeared and persuaded him to send troops to Nanjing!
This suddenly made King Ning suspicious, and he became even more determined to huddle all his troops within the three cities of Nanning, Luomachuan, and Zhuocheng and not be able to leave.