After several struggles, the rebels were determined not to rush forward. Even if they wanted to, they couldn't do it because the dead bodies had covered a large area beside the city wall. It was difficult for even the siege vehicles to enter.
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King Ning was thinking about how to encourage the sergeants to fight again, but before he could think of it, he saw the city gate opened by itself! A group of fierce barbarian cavalry rushed out! It turned out to be Liu Yin who was watching the battle on the top of the city.
Seeing that these enemy troops were really bad, we simply pulled them out to fight in the field with them.
The unprepared rebels were immediately rushed to pieces, and the fire commanders and infantrymen of the Nanjing defenders followed closely behind and attacked the panicked rebels head-on! The huge rebel camp began to retreat involuntarily.
King Ning saw that the soldiers' morale was low due to the ineffective attack on the city and they could not fight with them, so he ordered a retreat out of a plan.
When he retreated to Huangjiadu in Poyang Lake, his navy ships had already arrived. The disgraced King Ning suddenly gained some confidence and set up camp by the lake to rest and reorganize his troops. He knew that if he continued to waste his time like this, he would have no chance of winning.
No more. The only plan for now is to quickly fight Wang Mingyang, and then retreat to take back Nanchang. If we attack Nanchang directly, we will definitely be attacked by Wang Chongyang and the Nanchang defenders from both inside and outside. Because Ning suffered too much losses.
Wang also gradually gained immunity.
A few days later, in the early morning, in a patch of reeds, a group of officers and soldiers quietly reached a place not far from the rebel camp. As they were about to break out, they ran into a group of soldiers who had the same purpose as them.
enemy.
Prince Ning gradually summed up his experience and lessons in the fight with Wang Mingyang and Du Fei, and he was also learning and making progress. The coaches of both armies felt that it was quiet at dawn here, and they had to make some noise before they were willing to accept it. As a result, both sides rushed to fight for a while.
The tortoise's fist flurry ended in a hurry after some damage.
After King Ning retreated, he regretted it again: Why don't you want the fat meat that was delivered to your door? He ordered all the soldiers of the three armies to charge and chase the enemy army, and by the way, they rushed into the enemy camp!
King Ning looked at his 50,000-strong army with great ambition and a hint of helplessness as they rushed forward bravely. He knew that he had to throw out a lot of money again. In order to boost morale, he ordered the silver reward troops who rushed in front during the battle.
One thousand! Five hundred were injured!
This quite creative policy immediately aroused the enthusiasm of the rebels to charge, and all of them bravely took the lead and were not afraid of dangers - five hundred people were injured!
When they entered an open area, thousands of cold muzzles suddenly protruded from the reeds next to them. After a burst of smoke, many of the rebels who planned to fight bravely and were wounded died directly. The rest looked like it was not easy to make money.
Those who had to sacrifice their lives also changed their minds and retreated.
When King Ning saw an ambush ahead, he led his sergeants back to the camp. Unexpectedly, there was another burst of arrows! It turned out that there were people waiting to greet him halfway. King Ning's troops were immediately attacked from both sides. This was a fierce battle.
In the brutal encirclement and annihilation battle, Wang Mingyang devoted almost all the troops he could mobilize, nearly 50,000 men. It seemed that the two sides should be evenly matched in numbers, but their moods were very different. After heavy casualties, the sergeants jumped into the lake to escape.
Some of them were lucky enough to swim onto their own navy warships, but some others drowned in the lake due to poor swimming skills. King Ning used his own strength to swim back to his own ship.
Navy warships. After they settled down, they carefully counted their troops and found that the 50,000 men had shrunk by one-third, leaving only more than 30,000 men!
This is not the worst thing. What is even worse is that the whole army is immersed in an atmosphere of despair. From time to time, some of his generals secretly test themselves with their eyes, with expressions that seem to say: Boss
, the fight is like this, we might as well surrender!
So he held a final military meeting.
Everyone in the meeting lowered their heads and said nothing. Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng, the two most eloquent counselors at ordinary times, could not open their mouths at this time, as if they had been drunk.
The military affairs meeting turned into a memorial service, and King Ning burst out in silence: "No one should have the idea of destroying the morale of our army! We will definitely turn defeat into victory!"
Everyone looked directly at him without hesitation: Morale? They knew that as generals in the army, they should not destroy their own morale, but the problem was that their own morale was gone.
After the battle at Huangjiadu, although the entire army was not wiped out, the morale of the entire army was completely wiped out. Now it is difficult to boost morale no matter how much money you give. Because although most of the sergeants are greedy for money,
But there is basic common sense: if your life is gone, what use is the money?
But King Ning was still stubborn and refused to admit defeat, because he still had the last bargaining chip - the gunboat!
Although his quartermaster was stingy when it came to buying equipment, Prince Ning would sometimes make his own decision and directly purchase the weapons he liked.
There are many rivers and lakes in the south of the Yangtze River, and they are connected vertically and horizontally for thousands of miles. He believed that the naval force of ships was of great use, so he spent huge sums of money to form a naval force very early and purchased huge ships and artillery. But the artillery at that time was not the kind of modern artillery.
Type, it still has more attributes that belong to firearms.
In recent years, he has purchased a total of more than 140 giant ships, each of which is equipped with artillery. In addition, his thousands of sailors are well-trained professionals, far more capable than his infantry.
His generals were shocked when they saw these ships and warships that had just arrived from afar for reinforcements: It turns out that King Ning still has a hand!
After all, he is a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, so even if he is a cunning rabbit, it is still necessary. King Ning stood on the huge flagship and ordered all the ships to fire on the enemies on the land. Suddenly, the reeds were filled with flames and a mess. King Ning was proud of it.
Showing his secret weapon to his generals temporarily alleviated the despair in the army.
Fortunately, the artillery was not very powerful at that time. Wang Mingyang's army stabilized its position and retreated without suffering too many losses, leaving the firing range of King Ning's artillery.
After Wang Mingyang suffered a loss, he also transferred dozens of ships. However, the quality, quantity and personnel quality were far behind those of King Ning; the war seemed to have returned to the starting point.
Wang Mingyang was thinking about how to use the limited troops and medicine in his hands to fight against King Ning's fleet, which had strong ships and powerful guns, but after thinking for a long time, he still had the solution. Because fighting on water is not as good as fighting on land, many tricks are not effective.
Wang Mingyang thought hard all night, and finally came up with a cruel move. He was going to play some tricks.