People behind can smell the alcohol emanating from the people in front and follow them forward. In order to be lightly armed, he also ordered the first echelon of 1,700 men and horses to wear no armor. He took nothing with him except his ordnance, so as not to make a sound when his armor clanked when he climbed onto the city, alerting the rebels at the top of the city. After making all preparations and estimating the approximate time, Zhang Tiande waved his hand and ordered to set off.
Because the rebels at the top of the city lost all their cannons when they fled into Nan'an Mansion. Nan'an Prefecture itself has only a few hundred veterans, and it is not a military powerhouse, nor does it have heavy equipment such as bed crossbows. Therefore, when Zhang Tiande set up the camp, he set up the camp less than five miles away from the rebels. In addition, except for the city ladder and the shield, he carried almost no heavy equipment.
The men responsible for the sneak attack moved very quickly. After all, they were all well-trained veterans. Except for the last cavalry, the two thousand troops and horses made almost no sound except for the rustling of footsteps from the camp to the gate of Nan'an City. All the way to the edge of the moat, the rebels at the top of the city didn't notice anything. As for where to start, Zhang Tiande, who had been directing operations during the day, knew very well.
At this time, Nan'an City was overly exhausted from the past few days and overly relaxed before dark. Not to mention that most of the defenders were fast asleep, but most of the people on alert were asleep. Apart from the slight crackling sound made by the torches on the top of the city, there was only a snoring sound on the top of the city. Inside the tower, there were sounds of women crying and cursing.
Obviously at this time, there are still people who don't care about the battlefield and are torturing the poor woman. It was almost easy to reach Zhang Tiande at the bottom of the city. After a large group of officers and soldiers waded across the moat silently, the water was no deeper than their waists and the water was shallow, no more than their ankles. With a wave of his hand, nearly sixty ladders cautiously approached the top of the city.
At this time, Nan'an City, let alone the city wall, was in dilapidated condition. For several days, under the continuous bombardment of several thousand kilograms of cannons, it became even more dilapidated, and some places simply turned into a slope. Even the moat is in disrepair. In other words, the original funds for repairing the city walls were all pocketed by some officials, and many places were almost stagnated into flat ground.
According to Da Qi's defense requirements for the city, this moat must be as deep as one person deep and as wide as three feet wide. After experiencing many flash floods in the past few years, most of the river sections have now been silted up and no longer play any role. For the original local officials, it was enough that their city walls could prevent bandits. As for guarding against the economical army, I have never thought about it.
At the time, Nan'an Mansion was the nearest larger city to Ganzhou Mansion. In addition, when Ouyang Shan was pursuing, he consciously blocked the rebels' northward retreat route. With the pursuers behind them and almost frightened, the rebels panicked and chose their way out. Instead of running to Ji'an Prefecture in the north, they ran all the way west to Nan'an Prefecture, which was dilapidated and had a small population.
Guarding the dilapidated city, facing the elite soldiers of the four famous battalions in the world, even though Zhang Tiande had not really attacked the city at all these days, he was just bluffing, but he also frightened the defenders in the city so much that they were exhausted. Now, the actions of the Prince of Guilin have made the defenders even more desperate even though their morale has been restored. And there are very few experienced generals in the army.
The guy in charge of defending the city clearly made an empiricist error. He thought that the officers and soldiers outside the city only intended to trap them to death, and that they had no intention of attacking the city tonight as before. After barely holding on to energy for the first half of the night, I could hardly bear the exhaustion in the second half of the night, and lay on the top of the city and fell asleep. No one is taking care of even the most basic tasks of guarding the city, the daily patrol work that must be done.
The few guys who were still spirited didn't even want to put on any clothes in the cold weather of early spring on Jiangnan West Road, so they went naked to the city tower and caused trouble to the poor women locked there. At dawn, Zhang Tiande's first batch of 500 warriors took advantage of the last hint of darkness to climb up to the top of the city. They found that even the sentries were leaning against the city wall with their spears in hand, drooling from their sleep.
When the five hundred soldiers, like a silent chopping of melons and vegetables, gathered the rebels near the east gate, they killed one and opened the city gate without waking up the rebels in other directions. It wasn't until Zhang Tiande and all his elite troops rushed into the city, and a few rebels came out of the east city tower to enjoy themselves, that they realized something was wrong. There were just a few people who were hacked to death by a flurry of knives as soon as they shouted.
It's just that although these guys shouted and called the police, it was already too late. When they sounded the alarm, Zhang Tiande's second echelon of five hundred cavalry had already rushed into the city along the lowered suspension bridge and the wide-open city gate. Although the rebels on the top of the city were awakened by their shouts, they found that the army's swords, guns and wide-open bows and arrows were clearly pointed at them.
Zhang Tiande, who rushed into the city, ignored the rebels on the city wall. His men will take care of those rebels. He brought five hundred troops and horses, and based on the confession of a seventh-grade rebel military attaché captured halfway, he rushed straight to the prefect's Yamen regardless of the situation. Because according to that guy's confession, the rebel king and the false emperor, as well as the so-called civil and military personnel who escaped from Ganzhou with the rebel king, all lived there.
But this time, his luck was not so good. Compared with the laxity of the defenders at the top of the city, the security around the Nan'an magistrate's office was much tighter. Before they reached the magistrate's office, they were discovered by pro-army soldiers guarding the surrounding area. It has reached such a point, then no one has any way out. As soon as the two sides met, they started fighting each other. These pro-soldiers were all loyalists and confidants of the Guilin County Prince who were fed with money on weekdays. In addition, they had the same number of men and horses as Zhang Tiande led, so they fought extremely tenaciously and fiercely.
The sounds of fighting and shouting outside alerted the personal guards inside the yamen. The guard leader couldn't help but be shocked when he received a report from pro-army troops who were fighting outside. He did not expect that the officers and soldiers rushed into the city so quickly and silently, and even rushed to where Xingzai was. Regardless of etiquette, he took a few personal guards and rushed directly into the room where the Prince of Guilin lived.
He immediately woke up the Prince of Guilin, who was still sleeping soundly with several women in his arms because he was too exhausted last night. After getting him dressed in a hurry, he didn't even bother to explain. He ran outside when he saw someone. He carried him all the way to the gate of the magistrate's office, pushed him onto the horse, and protected his master. Under the cover of more than a hundred personal guards, they fought towards the outside of the city.
At this time, the King of Guilin, who finally woke up from his sleep, looked at the two armies fighting in a group outside the prefect's Yamen, and knew that the matter was urgent. If you don't run away, you will really be left here. He didn't want to be captured alive by the court, let alone die here, and he didn't care who should be held responsible. He didn't care about anything. He took the horse's reins and rushed towards the south of the city, which was still calm at the moment.
As for Emperor Hongwu, the prince, the queen and princess who became his lover, and the counselors were all left behind. After all, he is the king of Guilin. Although he is full of merchant habits and always likes to care about everything, he is decisive in killing at critical moments. After the government troops had entered the city, he knew that even if he gathered the defenders from other directions, it would be difficult for him to defend Nan'an Mansion.
After running to Nancheng, he gathered the garrison of Nancheng, opened the city gate and ran away. As for everything in Nan'an City, it was completely abandoned. But before leaving, he almost shed tears when he looked back at Nan'an City, where there were shouts of killing everywhere. When he first started the army, he never thought that he would be defeated so miserably.
Just thinking about the reinforcements on his side that must be rapidly moving south for reinforcements, as well as the hundreds of thousands of troops in Huguang, he immediately gritted his teeth and said: "The four major camps, and that damn Ouyang Shan, are now in Gudu. Remember. No matter how you treat Gu today, Gu will definitely return it to you tenfold or a hundredfold in the future. Gu has not yet failed, let’s wait and see.”
After that, he gritted his teeth and took the reins of his horse, and rushed out in the direction of Meiguan in the south. There are still five thousand of his troops and horses there, and he will be safe when he reaches Meiguan. And just when he took the six to seven hundred remaining soldiers, less than thirty miles away from the city, he heard the sound of a cannon, and then a large number of troops and horses rushed out from the mountains on all sides, killing him and the few remaining troops and horses. Surrounded in a valley.
Facing the encircling army and horses, Ouyang Shan did not know at this time that he had led his troops back north. The one who besieged him in Nan'an Mansion was the King of Guilin, Ouyang Shan's deputy. He gritted his teeth in anger: "Ouyang Shan, I didn't expect that I really underestimated you. If I had known that you were so evil, I should have let you Ouyang Shan." The entire family was wiped out, instead of just poisoning the old man."
But he also knew that no matter how much he cursed, he could not solve the current predicament. Knowing that he was even more unlikely to be captured alive, the King of Guilin looked at the one hundred bodyguards around him, all composed of martial arts people, and gritted his teeth and said: "You usually always praise your abilities, but today you are all Take it out and let me see if you are what you brag about on weekdays."
He clearly knew that the six to seven hundred infantry troops following him were now implicated and frightened, and had long since lost their fighting power. Whether he can escape and ascend to heaven today depends on himself, the king of Guilin, who has a hundred personal guards and soldiers. At this time, he shouted even more generously: "Today, you just need to carry the orphans safely to Meiguan. When you return, each of you will be rewarded with a reward of one hundred taels and one thousand taels of silver. You can choose the beauties from the royal palace."
In order to protect himself from the encirclement safely, he spent a lot of money this time. In the past, the reward money was no longer given, but gold and silver were given directly. Not counting the one thousand taels of silver, just one hundred taels of gold converted into money was enough to keep these people well-clothed and well-fed for the rest of their lives. In addition, beauties, who originally had wealth and glory, all depended on him, and these people in the world were like eating chicken blood.
The personal bodyguards charged directly towards the south with their swords waving. Guan Sheng, who originally wanted to shout to these people to put down their weapons and surrender, saw that these people were all personal soldiers. Therefore, I simply gave up the idea of asking him to surrender and directly greeted him with a spear and a halberd. Unfortunately, he did not bring many archers with him this time, only one hundred and twenty horse archers.
The personal bodyguards of the Guilin County Prince, who were all composed of people from the Jianghu, were basically unable to play a big role when faced with swords, guns, bows, arrows, and firearms when the armies fought against each other on the battlefield. But in this situation, to protect a person from breaking out, their skills can still be put to use. Especially his pro-soldiers, all of whom have received certain formal training.
Not only do they know martial arts, they can also form a team and charge into battle when necessary.
