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I saw Wang Lun looking around with red eyes. At this time, under the bombardment of hundreds of artillery pieces from the imperial army, it can be said that the entire rebel position was completely plunged into chaos.

Originally, with the range of the artillery, it was impossible to reach a radius of more than ten miles. After all, the range of the artillery was actually quite limited. At most, some of the rebels at the forefront would be threatened by the artillery fire.

But as the rebels in front were scattered and fled after being bombarded by artillery, panic spread directly among the army.

Even the rebels who were not affected were affected one by one. The panic was like a plague. When the imperial army began to charge, with the earth shaking and the sound of killing, the rebels in the rear unexpectedly Some people started to run away quietly.

Once the situation of escape appears, if it cannot be stopped in time, it will inevitably spread at an extremely fast speed.

So what Wang Lun saw at this time was a chaotic scene, and besides dozens of personal guards, there were scattered and fleeing soldiers everywhere.

Wang Lun, who had completely given up the idea of ​​gathering the army to resist the imperial army, had only one thought at the moment, that is, he could not die here no matter what.

He still has a good life. He has collected a lot of wealth during this journey, whether it is money or beauty, he has not enjoyed enough yet.

"go!"

With a low shout, Wang Lun directly took his personal guards, mixed with Yang Qing and others among the defeated army, and fled towards the distance at an extremely fast speed.

The rebel army, which was already in chaos, did not have the general who presided over the situation to stand up at this time, and the result can be imagined.

If it is said that some manpower stood up to fight against the madness and gathered some routs, maybe it could delay the charge of the imperial army a little bit. At this moment, even the commanders like Wang Lun and Yang Qing have escaped, and the [-] army is like this. completely collapsed.

Li Huan led [-] cavalry to charge and kill among the rebels like a bolt of lightning, but any sign of rebels gathering would immediately attract the cavalry's attack.

Half a day passed, and the [-] rebels still collapsed under the charge of the cavalry. In addition, the follow-up infantry chanted slogans of surrendering and not killing while charging, and many rebel soldiers fled around like headless chickens. They simply dropped the weapons in their hands and knelt on the ground one by one begging for mercy.

Xu Ying's body was stained with blood, and there were a large number of infantry behind him, but at this moment, there were very few resisting rebels on the battlefield.

At a glance, it was either the beheaded rebels, or the rebels who dropped their weapons and begged for mercy. At this time, all the soldiers and horses of the imperial court were busy gathering the surrendered rebels.

Li Huan was riding on the horse, looking at the direction of Nanjing City from a distance. Don't think that there must be a tragic fight in Nanjing City right now.

Ordinarily at this time Li Huan should lead the army to Nanjing City, but seeing the scattered and fleeing rebels, even Li Huan had to suppress the idea of ​​rushing to Nanjing City immediately.

With Xu Yu sitting in the town, and the city of Nanjing being high and extremely strong, even if King Ning's rebels attacked with all their strength, it would not be so easy to break into Nanjing.

So Li Huan didn't have to worry too much about the safety of Nanjing City at all, and the more important thing at this moment was to gather together the defeated rebels.

Most of these defeated rebels are tenant farmers of local powerful families. Although there is information about Jin Yiwei, it is impossible for Jin Yiwei to find out all the people and forces who have colluded with King Ning.

However, with the existence of these rebel prisoners this time, a little interrogation will be able to find out those powerful gentry who brought their own money and food to help King Ning, at least it will reduce some of the fish that slipped through the net when he cleans Jiangnan in the future.

The [-] rebels were killed in battle, and some of the rebels who fled without a trace at the first time were eliminated. Now the number of prisoners is more than [-].

The custody of these more than 5000 captives alone was a big problem. For this reason, Li Huan had to dispatch [-] people to guard them.

In the evening, Li Huan, who had finally arranged for the rebel prisoners, looked at Xu Ying, Zhang Huai, Zhu Liang and other generals who were in full armor outside the camp, waiting in full force.

When Zhang Huai, Xu Ying, Zhu Liang and the others saw the crowd walking out of the camp, especially when their eyes fell on Li Huan, surprise and anticipation flashed in their eyes.

"General, according to your instructions, the army is ready and ready to go at any time!"

Li Huan looked at the setting sun that was about to set in the sky, his eyes flashed a bright light and he said in a deep voice: "Give me the general's order, and the army will move out!"

They are about tens of miles away from Nanjing City. If this distance is called a quick march, it will take more than an hour at most.

It can be said that when we arrived at the foot of Nanjing City, it happened to be nightfall.

Here, Li Huan's army marched towards Nanjing City, but Nanjing City was experiencing a tragic fight at the moment.

King Ning and the others were not fools either. After receiving a lot of help from the powerful, King Ning made up his mind to storm Nanjing City, and King Ning made proper arrangements for this.

Wang Lun and Yang Qing, two highly trusted generals, lead an army of [-] to resist the imperial rebels. In King Ning's opinion, such an arrangement is absolutely perfect.

He didn't ask Wang Lun and Yang Qing to defeat the court's reinforcements, as long as they could hold back the court's reinforcements. When he broke through Nanjing City, tens of thousands of court reinforcements would naturally be no problem.

So after Wang Lun and Yang Qing led the army to leave, King Ning personally led a group of men to the front line to supervise the battle.

The sky was bright, and the offensive of the rebels had already begun. Under the arrangement of Yang Dai, a large number of rebels carried siege ladders, pushed and crashed cars, and dozens of large and small artillery gathered together launched a fierce attack on Nanjing City. offensive.

Perhaps it was because of King Ning and others supervising the battle, or because the rebels attacked the city for the first time, at least the morale displayed by the rebels was not bad.

It’s just that Wei Guogong Xu Yu is in charge of the city, and a wave of cleaning has been completed in the city at this time, but all the dignitaries, officials, and gentry who have been exposed to collude with King Ning have been taken down at this moment, to a certain extent It can be regarded as unifying the power in the city, which greatly reduces the possibility of the rebels cooperating inside and outside.

At this time, Xu Yu personally supervised the battle, and even many nobles chose to climb the city wall to supervise the battle at this time, whether they were afraid of Li Huanqiu's future settlement or to gain some military merit.

It is conceivable that under such circumstances, the city of Nanjing, which was originally a high and strong city, would stand still even under the fierce offensive of the rebels.

One morning passed, and apart from thousands of corpses left by the rebels under the city of Nanjing, there was not even a single person who made it to the top of the city.

The rebel soldiers who were sent to attack the city were overwhelmed by the tragic scene of the siege after the initial momentum. If many rebel soldiers were not afraid of being behind, Yang Dai personally led a company to kill hundreds of deserters. If it is the supervisor team, I am afraid that they have been scared and fled away.

In the siege battle, the siege party was originally the one that was under great pressure of death and injury. King Ning's rebels were able to continue the siege for half a day, and the general Yang Dai definitely played a great role.

It can be said that if Yang Dai hadn't divided the army into five armies, the front, middle, back, left, and right armies, each army had about [-] people. Except for the Chinese army as a reserve guarding the camp, the other four armies, each army It will be rotated every hour.

In addition, Yang Dai mobilized thousands of elites to personally supervise the battle, and hesitantly killed hundreds of deserters in a row to frighten the army's morale, which made a group of mob-like rebels barely look a little bit better.

However, this is all that Yang Dai can do. Under his driving and deterrence, after a morning of siege and fighting, the two troops of the front army and the rear army, in addition to paying a very heavy price of death and injury , the more important point is that the morale of the army has obviously become extremely decadent.

Looking at the sun above his head, Yang Dai looked at the Nanjing city in front of him, and he couldn't help but a bit of haze flashed in his eyes.

He knew that Nanjing City was easy to defend and difficult to attack, but before he tried it, Yang Dai still had a little bit of luck in his heart, but after this morning's siege, Yang Dai clearly realized what the Nanjing City was. How strong and difficult to break through.

Even Yang Dai felt a little hopeless in his heart, such a fortified city, unless there was civil strife in the city, otherwise, even if he was given an army of one million, he might not be able to guarantee that he could break it in less than a few months.

However, looking at King Ning's flying high flag in the rear, Yang Dai knew that King Ning and others were watching his every move at this moment.

Since he was ordered by King Ning, he has no way out, either he will break through the city of Nanjing and become famous all over the world, and enjoy endless glory and wealth, or he will lose his life.

Regardless of whether he was killed by the furious King Ning, or eventually fell into the hands of the court to confiscate his family and exterminate his family, anyway, he could not take Nanjing City, and his fate can be imagined.

Among the Chinese army, on the high watchtower, King Ning and others naturally watched the battle from a distance when Yang Dai commanded the army to attack the city.

Li Shishi, Wang Jia and others naturally saw the scene of the siege under the city of Nanjing in their eyes.

To be honest, neither Li Shishi nor Wang Jia felt that there was anything to blame for Yang Dai's commanding ability.

Maybe Yang Dai is not a famous general, but commanding the army can be regarded as quite satisfactory. At least so many armies under his command did not appear to be a mess, but seemed to be quite organized.

It's just that the solidity of Nanjing City made Li Shishi, Wang Jia and others look quite ugly. Even though they had been mentally prepared for a long time, but now watching the whole morning pass, the casualties were so heavy that they couldn't even climb to the top of the city once. The impact on King Ning and the others was quite large.

After all, Jiangnan has been in peace for hundreds of years, and Nanjing City has never experienced any war. It is definitely the first time in a century that the flames of war have burned to Nanjing City. It also makes Wang Jia, Li Shishi, Ning Wang and others who have never been on the battlefield For the first time, they realized that Nanjing City was not as easy to break through as they thought.

The front and rear armies retreated one after another, and there was a temporary calm in the city of Nanjing. Yang Dai obviously hesitated, whether to continue to send the left and right armies to attack the city one by one, or to suspend the siege, and then come up with a better way to attack the city.

Here, Yang Dai was a little hesitant, but King Ning, who was watching the battle, saw the offensive stop. King Ning, who was already in a bad mood, turned a little gloomy and said, "What's going on with Yang Dai? Didn't he know that he had to go all out and never give the soldiers defending the city a chance to breathe?"

On the contrary, Wang Yan stroked his beard, coughed lightly and said to King Ning: "My lord, don't worry, maybe General Yang has other arrangements. It is now noon, and the army is quite tired after a whole morning. It is not weak to let the army take a rest. Invite General Yang to come and inquire."

After listening to Wang Jia's words, King Ning pondered for a while and said to the guards beside him, "Go and tell that Dai Yang came to see Gu."

Here, Yang Dai was preparing to order the deployment of the left and right armies into the battlefield, when he suddenly saw the relatives of King Ning coming.

"General Yang, the prince has an order, ordering you to go see him quickly."

Yang Dai was somewhat puzzled, but he didn't dare to hesitate at all about King Ning's summoning, so he temporarily handed over the army to the deputy general, and Yang Dai hurriedly went to see King Ning.

At this time, King Ning and the others had already got off the watchtower. Looking at Yang Dai who came in uniform, the gloomy look on King Ning's face subsided a bit, but it could be seen that King Ning was in a bad mood.

Before Yang Dai could speak, King Ning said to Yang Dai in a deep voice: "Yang Dai, tell me how many days it will take you to break through Nanjing City?"

Yang Dai couldn't help being stunned when he heard the words, he naturally saw King Ning's gloomy face. Hearing King Ning's culture at this time, Yang Dai felt bitter.

How dare he guarantee to break through the city of Nanjing in a few days.

But facing King Ning's question, Yang Dai had to answer, but he didn't know how to answer King Ning. Could it be that he directly told King Ning that the defense of Nanjing City was beyond his imagination? How long does it take to break through.

Fortunately, at this moment, Wang Jia said from the side: "General Yang, Nanjing City is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The prince also saw the situation of attacking the city just now. There are no outsiders here. If you have anything to say, just speak up."

After listening to Wang Jia's words, Yang Dai couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After pondering for a while, Yang Dai slowly said: "Back to the lord, the last general can't guarantee how long it will take to break through the city of Nanjing..."

"What, you actually told this king that you don't know, what does this king want you to do..."

After hearing Yang Dai's words, King Ning's complexion changed drastically, and he roared at Yang Dai almost as a conditioned reflex.

Yang Dai was obviously prepared for King Ning's roar and anger, but stood there silently, enduring King Ning's anger.

Thinking that the imperial army is close at hand, and I don't know how long Wang Lun and Yang Qing can delay. It can be said that he put all his hopes on Yang Dai, and only hoped that Yang Dai could break through Nanjing City as soon as possible. One can only imagine how disappointed King Ning was in his heart if he gave him such an answer.

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