Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1112
Wang Yan is not dead, so Tang Wang and Lu Wang are alone, and neither is Wang Yan's opponent. Only when the two parties unite can they have a chance to compete with Wang Yan. Most of the generals of the Zhejiang army will be a little bit unable to turn around.

Man is a complicated animal with different minds. If the [-] Zhejiang troops in Nanjing had only one brain, it would be easy for them to make correct decisions out of rational considerations. However, with [-] heads, there are thousands of ideas. It is difficult to unify thinking in this situation.

In fact, not to mention [-] heads, even more than a dozen people in the account cannot form a unified opinion.

The monster Wang Yan did not die, and the blow to many generals of the Zhejiang Army was too great. Many of them were willing to join forces with King Lu. A big reason was that they thought that King Tang could get rid of Wang Yan. Yan, they will never meet Wang Yan when they raise their troops.

The prestige of the King of Chu spread far and wide, not only Man Qing regarded him as a fierce tiger, but people in the Ming Dynasty also feared Wang Yan.

Now that Wang Yan is still there, and Jin Shenghuan is also coming to Nanjing, King Lu's plan has failed again, and it is impossible to win Nanjing by relying on him alone.

Feng Jing and others are now timid and want to flee Nanjing quickly, thinking that they will be safe when they return to Zhejiang.They are obviously in chaos.

Xiao Qihui and others knew that retreating to Zhejiang now was just delaying their defeat.

It is impossible for King Tang and King Lu to fight against Wang Yan alone. Now they know that Wang Yan deliberately designed them, and they are all in Wang Yan's calculations. This in itself is at a great disadvantage. Now it is a bit too stupid to withdraw to Zhejiang and let Wang Yan defeat them one by one.

However, there are some things that seem stupid, but they have repeatedly appeared in history, and the reality is always so absurd.

Just like the Qi State back then, just watching Qin State helplessly, defeating each of them, and in the end he himself was quickly finished.

Of course, King Tang couldn't believe it, but King Lu naturally knew this. He and King Tang had a relationship of mutual use and deception.

Feng Jing wanted to return to Zhejiang and let Tang Wang resist for a period of time. In the eyes of Lu Wang, it was no different from Qi. Xiao Qihui and others also disagreed. They led troops to fight, unlike Feng Jing, they did not Tai Zhibing.

Zhejiang does not have the geographical advantages of Sichuan and Sichuan, and they do not have many people in Zhejiang. When Wang Yanping the Tang King, they will not occupy the time.

Timing, location, people and these three things must at least be the same to have a chance to succeed. Now that there are none, how can it be possible to use Zhejiang as a place to compete with the entire Ming Dynasty? Moreover, there is no precedent in history where Zhejiang was successfully separated.

Jin Shenghuan's idea was that the two would join forces to control Nanjing, and then use the rich land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to compete with Wang Yan, or negotiate, in order to protect themselves. Lu Wang was still very tempted.

If the two families work together to connect the land together, there is still some capital. He believes that Wang Yan doesn't want to see Jiangnan being disrupted, so even if they can't beat them, they can still force Wang Yan to compromise.

King Lu was more in favor of Xiao Qihui's opinion, but the key point is that many people in the tent are already timid and will lose their hearts.

There are seven kinds of colors, a hundred kinds of flowers bloom, and a hundred people are together, and people's hearts are not the same.

While King Lu was arguing with his cronies in the camp about whether to stay or go, the various armies in Nanjing suddenly had internal strife of varying degrees.

In the city of Nanjing, on the east side of Taiping Street, is the residence of the Governor of the Five Armies.

At the beginning of the year, when the Ming army was tentatively crossing the Huaihe River and attacking Xuzhou, the governors of the five army governors' mansions also went to Jiangbei to serve as Dai Zhifan's staff who presided over the battle, and learned how to fight in the north and prepare for the Northern Expedition.

After the failure of the Ming army to attack Xuzhou, Dai Zhifan, Li Guo, Liu Shun and others were all left in Jiangbei, so there is only one governor, Gao Yigong, in the current five-army governor's mansion.

This is also Wang Yan's arrangement. Li Guo, Dai Zhifan, Liu Shun and other major generals are outside. Once Tang Wang and Lu Wang raise their troops, they can restrain their troops nearby, counter the rebellion, or defend against the attack of the Qing army in the north.

The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies undertook the task of commanding the army to fight. When the King of Lu came to Nanjing, it became the command center for commanding the various armies and defending Nanjing.

At this time, there was a murderous opportunity in the Mansion of the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies.

After the compromise between the three kings, the military focus of the Ming Dynasty has always been to fight against the strong enemy in the north. The army is deployed on the front line to confront the Qing army and the Jin army.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Yan had an excuse to continuously transfer the armies of King Tang and King Lu to the front line, and then annex and disintegrate them, gradually eroding the power of the two kings.

In order for the two kings to agree to transfer their troops, Wang Yan's troops would naturally have to be sent to the front, so that Tang Lu could agree to transfer their troops.

Only in this way, Nanjing's defense is relatively empty, with only more than 3 people, and Wang Yan took away 2 during his inspection of Huguang this time, leaving only the three battalions of Huben, Huwei, and Huyi in the city. Gong Gong's personal guards, martial arts students, and the Japanese army, etc., add up to more than [-] people.

Among them, the Praise Japanese Army is the Tang King's troops, and most of the rest belong directly to the court. However, if the Tang King dares to stay in the city, it is naturally impossible for the Praise Japanese Army to be the only one. There are his people.

Gao Yigong has been following Wang Yan for a long time, and Zhongzhen Town's ranking in the Five Zhongjun Army has always been relatively high. It shouldn't be so easy to be infiltrated and sold by Tang Wang.

In fact, the old Wuzhong army was indeed not easy to be sold, but Wang Yan gave Tang Wang a chance to infiltrate the Wuzhong army.

Wang Yan's reform of the military system, the replacement of generals in various ministries, and the transfer of soldiers, although it is convenient for the court to control the army, it also allows Tang Wang to take advantage of loopholes.

The Sun Shoufa Department, which was transferred by the court to Nanyang to guard against the Qing army, had a very complicated composition. Sun Shoufa was close to Wang Yan, but the soldiers and horses he commanded were from the original Jiangxi Governor Wanji. Strongly embrace the imprint of the Tang School.

After Wang Yan transferred this team out of Jiangxi, he took advantage of the opportunity of the military system reform to annex this powerful force of 3 people.He transferred the generals of this army to the various departments of the Five Loyalty Army, dispersed them, used the huge system of the Five Loyalty Army to digest and dilute them, and then transferred the officers of the Five Loyalty Army to lead the soldiers and slowly control the entire army .

His plan was very successful, and he annexed 3 troops from King Tang at once, but at the same time, it also brought some problems. In addition to the decline in the combat power of the army, it also gave King Tang the opportunity to infiltrate into the Five Loyalty Army.

Right now, the main force defending Nanjing is still the three Huzi battalions, and among these three battalions, there is a deputy commander, a Tongzhi, and three thousand households, all of whom are members of the Tang king.

(End of this chapter)