The adjustments made by the Prince of Guilin are almost like gambling. The counselors and officials here, you look at me, I look at you, you all feel that something is wrong, but you can't tell what is wrong. They have no problem with playing some conspiracy tricks and coming up with some destructive ideas. But this kind of confrontation between two armies, with large armies fighting each other, is not what they are good at.
As for those officials and civil servants, when it comes to war, they have all seven or six skills, and the rest are completely ignorant. Although there are not many military attachés here, they are all close friends of the Lord, but they have either never fought in a war, or they are low-level military attachés who have been promoted beyond their ranks. Commanding thousands of people to fight is completely different from large-scale battles involving tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people.
But having said that, the officials present felt that this leader had abandoned the Huguang battlefield in disguise and transferred all the main forces to the Jiangnan West Road battlefield. Something was wrong there. But no one could tell what was wrong. Seeing these guys like this, the King of Guilin couldn't help but feel tired and pinched the bridge of his nose, knowing that nothing would come of it.
After waving his hand to signal these guys to go rest first, his intestines were almost green with regret. Over the years, I have collected a lot of counselors, but there are too few of them who are upright and can be used in battlefields and to govern the place. He originally thought that by using the court's chicken to lay eggs, he spent a lot of money on military attaches from all over the Yangtze River, so that he could bribe these military attaches for his own use, but he neglected the training of military attaches.
As a result, that damn guy in Jingzhao Mansion had a major rotation of military attachés in the second half of last year. All the hard work I had spent on those military attaches over the years was wasted almost in an instant. Now I have a lot of military attaches in my hands, but only a few of them can actually be used. The military attaches on Guangnan East and West Road, plus those on Fujian Road, are either useless or too selfish.
I just don't have the kind of overall talent that Yu Mingyuan has, but if there are Cao Rui, Zhao Wuye, and Ouyang Shan who are performing amazingly on the Jiangxi battlefield now, none of these generals would be able to achieve this. It seems that Jiang Ning has been captured long ago. It's a pity that I don't have any of these generals who are good at conquering and fighting. There are only people like Zheng Tong who are arrogant.
Now, I can only hope that Song Yan in front can go south to rescue me as soon as possible. But the king of Guilin was vaguely worried. Song Yan, who had been serving as an official on Guangnan East Road, was Cao Rui, the governor of Jiangnan Military Affairs, or Ouyang Shan's rival outside Nan'an City. What's more, there was Zhao Wushu who held back his advance with only a bunch of garbage-like guards.
At this time, the Prince of Guilin, who was extremely agitated, returned to the Yahou Hall of Nan'an Prefecture where he was temporarily stationed. But at this time, the two women waiting for him in the back hall were waiting for him tremblingly. These two women were none other than the Emperor Hongwu, the Queen and the Crown Princess. The experience of breaking through the capital city of Ganzhou and then breaking out all the way to Nan'an in the past few days frightened them.
Even now, they have been stationed in Nan'an City for several days and have not yet recovered from the battle in Ganzhou City. What's more, Emperor Hongwu, who had lost all his concubines in Ganzhou yesterday, actually broke out of Ganzhou City when he saw his queen and princess. Emperor Hongwu, who was so stupid that he still didn't know about the relationship between the two daughters and the prince of Guilin, thought it was lucky that the two women stood out.
Emperor Hongwu, who had no concubine by his side, became more and more beautiful after seeing his wife and his daughter-in-law being favored by the Guilin County King. He didn't care about the relationship between the two girls and himself. Then when a certain kind of insect came over him, he had to forcefully call two girls to sleep with him. As a result, the two girls are now members of the King of Guilin. How can the King of Guilin allow others to get involved?
This lustful Emperor Hongwu, who had not really realized his identity and what he was, and still regarded himself as an emperor, should be given a lesson. The soldiers around the Prince of Guilin, who didn't take him seriously at all, beat him half to death in front of the two girls, dragged him out and threw him into a cold room to extinguish the fire. The tragic situation at that time also frightened the two girls.
After the Prince of Guilin came in today, the two girls, who had not yet recovered from the shock, looked extremely frightened when they saw him. Instead of being extremely obedient in the past, he actually started to struggle when facing the Guilin Prince. Looking at the frightened and struggling two girls, the King of Guilin sneered. He grabbed the Hongwu Queen and pressed down forcefully.
When the room calmed down, the two girls were also covered in bruises and purples, with teeth marks everywhere and traces of pinching and twisting. He took out his anger on the two women after losing battles one after another these days. After getting up on the second day, looking at the two girls who were still suppressing their sobbing, the King of Guilin said coldly: "Serve me well, and I won't treat you badly in the future."
"You are just a concubine of Gu now. Don't take yourselves too seriously and don't think about resisting Gu. Don't even think about that guy supporting you. He is just a brand established by Gu. If I can establish him now, I can also destroy him at any time. If he is still not honest and thinks about things he shouldn't think about, I will send him to meet his ancestors at any time."
Hearing the cold words of the King of Guilin, the two women raised their heads and looked at the cold face of the King of Guilin, trembling without daring to say a word. Looking at the plump figures of the two women, the Guilin County Prince couldn't help but feel angry again. After swallowing a pill without even water, the princess was pushed back on the bed before she could react, and a huge pain came from another place.
After the Prince of Guilin had once again enjoyed himself, he put on his clothes and turned around to leave. The two girls couldn't even speak because of the pain caused by certain parts being forcibly taken over. They could only look at the back of this man who was completely different from before with a look of horror on his face and relied on each other, transforming into a beast almost overnight. I don’t know what kind of treatment I will encounter next.
The Prince of Guilin turned around and left the room. Just after returning to the main hall, while having breakfast, I heard the sound of cannons coming from outside the city again, and I couldn't help but feel even more upset. Those cannons were all fine cannons that he had painstakingly crafted by setting up an artillery station on Guangnan West Road before he raised his troops. When he withdrew from Ganzhou Mansion, everything fell into the hands of Ouyang Shan, and now he is using it to bombard him.
Looking at the table, there were only a few dishes on the table. It could be said that he had never had such a sloppy breakfast before, and the Guilin County Prince felt even more depressed. The cooks who had followed him for many years and were taken almost everywhere he went were also left behind in Ganzhou Mansion. He could only eat the meals prepared by a chef temporarily recruited from Nan'an City. And now there is an even greater shortage of food and grass in the city, not even a piece of meat.
The Prince of Guilin, who had little appetite and could not eat such a simple meal, hesitated a lot, but still decided to go to the city to have a look. At least it would boost morale, which was low due to being trapped and lacking food and supplies. Even the sound of cannons outside the city and the shells that kept falling on the city made him a little worried. What particularly upset him was that he had cast those cannons and cannonballs.
However, although this man is a little older, his business habits are a little too heavy. But I also know the priority of things. At least until the reinforcements from Jiujiang Prefecture arrived, he still needed to rely on the defenders to defend the city. Finally, he led a large group of guards to the east city gate. It was just the first time he stepped onto the tower since he was trapped, and he was stunned by the scene in front of him.
Since being trapped in Nan'an City, the opponent has not attacked the city. In addition to the cannons seized from Ganzhou every day, a large number of crossbows were used to bombard the city walls. Troops and horses were mobilized from time to time to circle Nan'an City with great fanfare. But every time they were outside the bow and arrow range of the city wall, they stopped and retreated, and there was almost no big movement. Not only did the defenders at the top of the city become extremely exhausted, but they also suffered heavy casualties.
Even the cannonballs fired by the enemy were nothing more than solid bullets. But when those big iron balls weighing more than ten kilograms were hit, the Nan'an city wall, which was not strong enough, could not provide enough shelter for the defenders on the wall. Coupled with the equally powerful bed crossbows, even though the opponent never really attacked the city, the shelling in the past few days caused many casualties to the defenders.
The Prince of Guilin still knew how much medicine and artillery shells he had stored in Ganzhou. In order to control the troops on the front line, he sent almost all of the precision-cast cannons that were originally shipped to Ganzhou to the front of the army, except for 30 of them as reserves. But the shells and ammunition have always been tightly controlled. Every three days, enough medicine and artillery shells for four days were shipped to the army.
From Ganzhou Prefecture to Nanchang, and even to the current battlefield of Jiujiang Prefecture, there is Ganshui water transport that can be used. After arriving in Ganzhou, those cannons were sent along the waterway to the Nanchang Prefecture Army. Therefore, although only four days' worth of artillery shells and ammunition are shipped to the army at a time. But the Prince of Guilin never worried about the shortage of military personnel. Because he has stored tens of thousands of kilograms of high-quality medicine in Ganzhou Prefecture.
There are also more than 100,000 rounds of solid artillery shells of various weights, as well as hundreds of thousands of kilograms of lead. As well as a large number of crossbows, bows and arrows. Not counting cannonballs, just the arrows used by crossbows and the feather arrows used by archers. We have 130,000 and 2 million in reserve respectively. It can be said that, except for some supplies on the Huguang battlefield, all of his reserves on Guangnan West Road over the years are in Ganzhou.
As a result, they did not expect the other party to raid Ganzhou. Ganzhou, which he used as his base camp in Jiangxi battlefield, was abandoned in a short period of time. These weapons that he used to fight for the battlefield in Jiangxi were now used by his opponents against him. The artillery bombardment outside the city could hardly be heard. The city wall was riddled with holes, the defenders were also beaten to death and wounded, and corpses were everywhere on the city wall.
The defenders who were still guarding the top of the city did not dare to raise their heads at all, for fear that those big iron balls coming in from outside the city would smash them into meat patties. Such a tragic death is difficult for ordinary people to accept. So much so that no one dared to come forward to clean up the corpses that had been killed by cannons or shot with bed crossbows, leaving them scattered at the top of the city. It exudes an extremely unpleasant smell.
The scene in front of him left the Guilin County King speechless for a long time. The smell from the corpses gave him a headache, and he didn't even dare to look at the remains of the war dead on Jiangnan West Road, where flies were everywhere in the hot spring temperatures. After a long time, he gritted his teeth and said, "Ouyang Shan, Gu Neng poisoned me to death back then, but now I really think I can't do anything to you?"
I was just angry, but the scene in front of me had to be resolved. Spring is a time when epidemics are easy to spread. If another serious epidemic spreads in Nan'an Mansion because of those corpses, it will really be over. Although he didn't care if all the people and defenders in Nan'an Mansion died. But the key now is that he, the king and prime minister of Han, is also in the city now.
