Sixty miles away.
As soon as Li Dingguo arrived at Liangshanji, he received a message from the families of the Yuyuan Army: a large number of ships loaded with cargo appeared near Anping Town, including merchant ships and naval warships.
Because there were too many boats, the trackers couldn't pull them all together.
The local government recruited nearby residents to pull the boats to the shore.
Li Dingguo asked the families of the Yuyuan Army: "What are the origins of these ships?"
"According to the boatmen, this is Zhu Guobi's baggage train."
"Baggage train?" Li Dingguo laughed: "Zhu Guobi is still too young. He actually put the baggage train at the back!"
Zhu Cijiong grinned: "You are bullying Zhu Guobi a bit. Who doesn't put the baggage behind when marching to war?"
Li Dingguo chuckled twice and asked, "Your Highness, the time is ripe, shall we do it?"
Zhu Cijiong nodded: "Let's do it."
As the order was given, the army split into two groups.
Zhu Cijiong and Li Xianzhong continued northward with 3,500 cavalrymen and besieged Anping Town.
Li Dingguo entered Yuyuan again and lay in ambush.
In the evening of that day, Zhu Cixiong and Li Xianzhong's troops arrived outside the city of Anping.
At this time, the water outside the city was full of boats.
There were merchant ships of caravans, fishing boats of fishermen, and more were supply ships and warships of Zhu Guobi’s navy.
Seeing the cavalry suddenly appearing on the shore, Zhu Guobi's navy thought they were friendly troops and waved to them.
What responded to them was not greetings, but arrows.
A hail of arrows fell, and the rebels on the warships and baggage ships screamed in pain.
Only then did they realize that the cavalry on the shore were enemies, not friendly forces.
To survive.
Someone jumped into the water and swam to the other side.
Someone cut the ropes and planned to float downstream to get out of the range of arrows.
But there were too many ships on the water and there was no way to escape.
The surface of the water suddenly became a mess.
Others hid behind the side of the ship and used various weapons to fight back against the Ming army on the shore.
But as soon as they showed their heads, they were hit by arrows.
As the second wave of arrows fell, countless rebels began to surrender.
At this time, the Ming army on the shore shouted: "Your Highness Prince Ding has been ordered to suppress the rebellion. Considering that you are all citizens of the Ming Dynasty, you will not be killed if you surrender. Otherwise, you will be killed without mercy!"
"Don't shoot, we surrender, we surrender!"
A cry of surrender was heard on the water.
As more and more people surrendered, the situation at the scene became much more orderly.
Li Xianzhong didn't pay attention to this place. He was staring at the Anping Town wall in the distance.
Before coming here, Zhu Cijiong told him to capture Anping Town to force Zhu Guobi to speed up the march.
The city wall of Anping Town has a circumference of eight miles and is less than three meters high.
Looking at the towering and solid city walls and the countless soldiers beside the battlements, Li Xianzhong said worriedly, "Your Highness, I'm afraid we can't take Anping Town by ourselves."
"Haha!" Zhu Cijiong smiled faintly: "Why?"
"We only have cavalry, no infantry or siege equipment.
"Hehehe..." Zhu Cijiong smiled even more.
Li Xianzhong was frightened by his laughter and asked in a deep voice, "Why are you laughing, Your Highness?"
Zhu Cixiong stopped laughing and looked into Li Xianzhong's eyes. "As the saying goes, the best strategy is to attack the enemy's plans, the next best is to attack their alliances, the next best is to attack their troops, and the worst is to attack their cities. Attacking cities is a last resort. This is not Liaodong, and our enemy is not the Jiannu. There is no need to attack the city with force."
Under Li Xianzhong's puzzled eyes, Zhu Cijiong shouted behind him: "Someone come!"
A personal soldier came to his side on horseback and said, "I am here!"
Zhu Cijiong ordered: "Contact the Jinyiwei in the city and tell them that our army will besiege the city at Chenshi tomorrow. Order them to set fire to the city at the end of Maoshi tomorrow and open any city gate at Chenshi."
"I obey your command." The personal soldier said goodbye and left.
The personal soldiers around Zhu Cijiong were all from the Jinyiwei.
Not only can they protect Zhu Cijiong's safety, but they can also help Zhu Cijiong pass information to other Jinyiwei.
An hour later, Zhu Cijiong, who had completed the supply, led his troops away.
The rebels outside the city who had surrendered to Zhu Cijiong were immediately dumbfounded.
They wanted to leave with Zhu Cixiong, but their two legs could not catch up with the four legs of the war horse.
The rebels who did not surrender were stunned for a moment.
After realizing what was happening, they abandoned their boats and went ashore, came to the outskirts of Anping Town and demanded to enter the city.
The defenders in the city didn't know if there were spies inside, so they didn't dare to open the city gates.
The rebels outside the city were immediately furious and even prepared to attack the city.
Even so, the defenders did not open the city gate.
The two sides started swearing at each other and the situation became deadlocked.
The scouts sent by Zhu Guobi took in all the situations and returned along the same route to pass on the news.
Zhu Cijiong and Li Dingguo not only did not intercept these scouts, but secretly sent troops to protect them.
They were afraid that they would encounter robbers on the way and the message would not be delivered on time.
Early morning of September 11th.
When Zhu Guobi arrived in Yuncheng, he learned that the baggage train was attacked and Anping Town was under siege.
He suddenly became anxious and shouted an order: "Order everyone to rush to Anping Town as quickly as possible."
Tens of thousands of troops quickened their pace and marched.
When passing by Yuyuan, Liu Kongzhao reminded: "There may be ambushes inside, so it is better to be careful."
Zhu Guobi originally wanted to send troops into Yuyuan to search as he had done before.
But the situation was urgent and he could no longer care about much.
We can only march at risk.
"Report!"
Inside Yu Garden, a scout came to Li Dingguo and said, "There are a large number of rebels passing outside Yu Garden. Their cavalry is in the front, numbering about 10,000. The infantry is behind, and the team is too long to count."
Li Dingguo stood up and said, "Order all units to let the rebel cavalry go, and attack the rebel infantry as they pass by."
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