"Well, Hong Xu has always done things safely." Zheng Zhilong nodded.

Zheng Du said: "Father, according to what the child saw, it is better to send troops to capture the emperor, why do you need to make such trouble?" ”

"You, you can't learn from your eldest brother......" Zheng Zhilong frowned and said.

But even though he thought that although his eldest son was extremely intelligent and capable, he turned his elbow outward, and he was always with the emperor's party.

He let out a long sigh, looked at the mediocre second son in front of him, and patiently explained: "Even if Huang Mingjun has been with Long Wumei recently, he has already transferred his department to Yanping, and it is not easy to win the emperor.

"Let's just say that the world is so big, how many royal relatives surnamed Zhu are hundreds? Zhu Yujian was captured, Zhu Yuao would immediately ascend the throne in Yingtianfu, and even if Zhu Yuao was captured again, Zhu Yihai in Zhejiang would be the emperor again. Do we send an emperor to the Manchurians to reap a big harvest, or is it more in line with the Qing court to send an abdicated Zhu Yujian? ”

Zheng Du was immediately impressed, and nodded desperately: "It's better for my father to think about it!" Naturally, it's good to send an emperor! ”

Surrounded by the guards and accompanying officials, the wide chariot moved steadily and slowly forward.

In the middle of driving, Zhu Yujian was holding a unique ancient book of "The Heart of the Floating World" and reading it with relish. He didn't have any other hobbies since he was a child, but he liked to read and collect books.

This time, he still brought more than a dozen carts of love books, and his travel speed was extremely slow. I started driving yesterday, and now it is noon, and I have not yet walked forty miles.

Zhu Yujian is not in a hurry.

First, Queen Zeng is pregnant, so it is not advisable to go too fast. Longwu was determined to leave Fujian this time, and in order not to be constrained, he insisted on bringing the prince who had not yet been born. Second, Nanchang has not yet recovered, and he knows that it is a fortified city that has been operated for hundreds of years, and it will be difficult to capture it in a moment. The holy car walked slowly, so as not to put too much pressure on the front-line soldiers.

As soon as they arrived at the outskirts of Nanping County, the advance of the forbidden army found that there were dense people waiting on the official road in front of them, and there were at least thousands of people in front of them.

The two Praetorian cavalry immediately turned back to warn. Longwu's forbidden army was only a few hundred, and if those people in front of them wanted to be unfavorable to the emperor, they would not be able to protect them at all.

Zheng Chenggong, the commander of the forbidden army, heard that thousands of people were blocking the road, and he couldn't help but be shocked, and urgently ordered the forbidden army to form a defensive formation, and wanted to send people to Pegasus to contact Huang Mingjun, but Huang Mingjun's headquarters was still far away, and he didn't know if he could catch up.

Before the people could be sent out, he suddenly heard someone shouting in front of him.

"It's the saint's chariot!"

"Long live Lord is here!"

A large group of people greeted them with a hula, and fell to their knees outside the defensive circle of the Imperial Forest Army, but it seemed that they were ordinary people, and many of them were even ragged and unkempt, more like refugees.

Someone in the crowd shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live!" ”

The people who stopped the people also followed the mountain and shouted long live.

These "common people" and "refugees" were gathered by Hong Xu using his connections in the local clan.

Dozens of his henchmen were dressed in rags and mixed in with the bottom of the pot to give orders in the crowd.

"Long live Lord, you can't go!"

"If you're gone, we'll have no hope."

"Wangsheng Shang stays in Fujing, and only with you can there be hope for our small people!"

"You love the people like a son, we are reluctant to let you go......"

Zheng Chenggong was very helpless by the scene in front of him, these people just knelt on the ground, what to hear, they couldn't catch up, and it was not easy to use force. He could only keep urging the forbidden army to stabilize its position, and not let people approach.

After a while, Long Wu came down from the imperial chariot, and saw tens of thousands of people kneeling in front of him, shouting to keep himself, only thinking that the people were grateful for the emperor's grace and spontaneously saw him off, and he couldn't help but feel a little excited in his heart.

But by the afternoon, the men showed no sign of leaving.

Zhu Yujian saw that most of them were in shabby clothes, with yellow faces and thin muscles, and they were very pitiful, and he also instructed Pang Tianshou to prepare porridge and rice for them.

It wasn't until it was getting dark that he finally felt that something was wrong.

Zheng Chenggong was worried that there would be unscrupulous people hiding among these people after dark, and suggested that it would be advisable for the imperial driver to return to Nanping County. Zhu Yujian had no choice but to agree.

Since then, as long as the emperor leaves Nanping County, these tens of thousands of "people" will gather on the outskirts of the county to "retain" the emperor.

Even though Huang Mingjun led troops to escort him soon after, there was nothing he could do about these unarmed people. In this way, Longwu was dragged in Nanping, and he was still unable to move until a month later.

……

Outside the city of Nanchang.

In the big tent of the Ming army.

Su Chengyu, Yang Tinglin, Wan Yuanji, Zhao Yinxuan, and Zhu Youling gathered together, and Zhang Jiayu and Wan Yuan Ji and Zhao Yinxuan's lieutenants were also present.

In addition, there are several unfamiliar faces.

Yang Tinglin first pointed to a slightly chubby, long-faced middle-aged man: "This is Guo Weijing, the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials, who led the newly recruited 5,000 Ji'an soldiers to assist in the attack on Nanchang. ”

Su Chengyu saw a familiar face behind Guo Weijing - Su Guansheng, a university scholar, probably came with Guo Shilang to participate in the Nanchang War.

Wan Yuan Ji looked at Su Guansheng with the most special eyes, thinking in his heart that he would find a way to keep him in the camp no matter what.

Yang Tinglin continued to introduce, "This is Li Suiqiu, the director of the Ministry of War, who was recently recruited by the Shui Kou Luoming Department in Guangdong. This time, the new Luo garrison came to Nanchang with more than 500 war boats to help in the war, and the Jianyu on the Ganjiang River had no power to fight back! ”

Later, he introduced Tong Yizhen, a staff general sent by Ding Kuichu, the governor of Liangguang, and this time he galloped to the aid of Nanchang with 4,000 men and horses.

There are also Cao Zhijian, the chief soldier under He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, who led more than 2,000 troops to help in the war.

"There are 8,000 wolf soldiers in Guangxi, and they will also arrive in Nanchang today." Yang Tinglin said hesitantly, "This time, the armies from all walks of life gathered in Nanchang, our army has more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, and Jin Shenghuan in Nanchang City has only more than 10,000 defeated soldiers. We should work together to recover Nanchang in one fell swoop and welcome the west! ”

Everyone responded in unison, and they were united.

Only Su Chengyu shook his head in his heart, when the war situation in Jiangxi was tense in the past, Yang Tinglin asked for help and transferred troops everywhere, except for Zhao Yinxuan in Yunnan, he didn't see a family send troops to come.

Now that the soldiers are besieging Nanchang, they see that Jiangxi is about to recover, but so many people have come at once.

Let's just say that Ding Kuichu and He Tengjiao's troops set off as early as August and September last year, and they spent five months on the road, and when Jin Shenghuan's troops were defeated, they immediately miraculously arrived in Nanchang in more than ten days.

It can be seen that Daming is not without strength, and the main problem is still a plate of loose sand, each with a small abacus.

At this moment, he heard Yang Tinglin's words and said: "However, Nanchang City has been in operation for a long time, it is extremely strong, and all kinds of city defense equipment are complete, and it is difficult to conquer urgently. The Ji people led their troops to attack several times the day before yesterday, killing and wounding hundreds, but they did nothing. "This auspicious person is the expression of 10,000 yuan.

"Yes, the lower officials thought, I should dig a ditch around the city, and build an earthen fortress to surround it, and the army will be in strict formation, and the thieves and soldiers will not jump out. When the food in the city is exhausted, it will be ruined! ”