please make me king

Chapter 1366 Misjudgment
"General Li!" Wan Quan's left guard Qian Jimin hurriedly bowed to Li Zicheng.

"Don't be too polite!" Li Zicheng, who had always been taciturn, said politely, then stopped talking, and instead looked carefully at Zuowei City.

Wanquan Zuowei is sixty miles west of Xuanfu City and forty miles south of Wanquan Right Guard. It is located on the south bank of the Yanghe River.

Originally, both Li Zicheng and Song Xiance thought so. Who would have thought that it was not until he personally entered Zuowei City that he discovered that the facts were completely different from what he had imagined.

Do you know why?

It turns out that although Wanquan Zuowei City has more than six miles, it looks quite huge, but in fact its walls are low, the city walls are dilapidated, and its defense facilities have been in disrepair for more than half a year.

In this huge Zuowei City, there are even less people, with ten rooms and nine empty rooms.

Except for guarding Qian Jimin and his three to five hundred soldiers, there were not many people walking around, which almost made people feel like a "ghost town".

"What's going on with Zuowei City?" Li Zicheng observed for a long while, and then couldn't help asking.

"Report, General!" Although Li Zicheng asked endlessly, it did not prevent Qian Jimin from understanding his question.

"This Zuowei City originally had more than [-] residents and [-] officers and soldiers."

"Because of Chongzhen. In the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign, the Tartars invaded the city. The city was vast and sparsely populated, and it couldn't be defended, so it was captured by captives."

"After being burned and killed by the Tartars, many people died and many officers and soldiers were injured, so that the city became more and more empty."

"It's been almost two years, why haven't the people been recruited and the city walls repaired?" Li Zicheng also lived in a remote area, felt the pain of the Tartar invasion, and couldn't help asking.

"Repair? What are you going to do to repair it? Now you can't even pay the food and pay, and you still want to build the city?" Qian Jimin smiled wryly, "Otherwise, everyone wouldn't take the initiative to seek refuge with King Shun."

Well, at this moment Li Zicheng felt a little sympathetic to Zhang Shun.

Where are you "King Shun"?It's like adopting a lot of godsons!

As the leader of a rebel army, he was quite touched by trying to "raise a son" all day long.

Anyway, now that I have become someone else's "godson", I finally can't help worrying about these bad things.

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng couldn't help comforting him and said, "It's okay, everything will be fine when King Shun comes."

"I hope!" Qian Jimin shook his head, looked back at the three or four hundred soldiers who looked like beggars behind him, and couldn't help but respond lightly.

Seeing that he didn't believe him, Li Zicheng wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know where to start.

After being silent for a while, he finally changed his mind and asked, "What's the situation with Wanquan Youwei and Zhangjiakoubao? I wonder if they are still like Zuowei?"

"Wanquan City is thirty paces away on Saturdays, three feet and five feet high. It is located between two rivers. There are two gates in the north and south, shaped like sedan chairs, so it is also called the city of sedan chairs." Qian Jimin shook his head and said. .

"This city has a long wall on its back, facing the ocean water, facing the danger of mediocrity on the left, and the solidity in the clouds on the right", so it is called: Wanquan."

"The city has one general, one commander, one garrison, one commander of the battalion, and five commanders. It has five castles under the jurisdiction of Zhangjiakou, Shanfang, Xinkaikou, Xinhekou and Ximarin. There are about [-] soldiers under his command."

"Oh? Got it!" Li Zicheng pondered for a moment, then waved Qian Jimin back and said, "General Qian can go and get busy, I will take care of myself."

At first, Qian Jimin wanted to make some autumn wind, but when he saw that Li Zicheng didn't show any signs of it, he had to leave in disappointment.

As soon as Qian Jimin left, Fatty Zhang couldn't help asking, "'Chuang Jiang', what should we do?"

"Erge Wanquan right back is a bit difficult to fight, so let's start from other places." Li Zicheng said blankly, "If he wins the other castles, I don't think he can sit still!"

"Hey, don't tell me, this is really a solution!" Fatty Zhang, who was already worried, was taken aback when he heard this, and he couldn't help but feel reassured.

The two of them took a rest in Zuowei City, and then they split into two groups.

The one led by Li Zicheng went straight to Wanquan Youwei; the other led by Fatty Zhang went to Ximarin, Xinhekou and Sanbao of Xinkaikou in the northwest.

Not to mention Fatty Zhang, let's say that Li Zicheng led the horse army and arrived at Wanquan Youwei City in just over an hour.

Wanquan City had already been prepared for battle, and the Shangxi Road Wanquan Right Guard General stood on the top of the city and shouted: "Rebellious ministers and thieves, occupy my town, if you have the guts, just attack!"

Li Zicheng couldn't scold him at all, and after pondering for a while, he replied clumsily: "Nonsense... stop talking nonsense, and see the truth!"

The general was overjoyed when he heard the words, and quickly ordered the guard commander, the garrison and the battalion commander to guard each place to guard against the rebel army attacking the city.

It's just that everyone had been busy for a long time, and finally took a breath, but when they looked outside, they saw that the rebel army was resting at the position just now outside the city, as stable as Mount Tai.

The participating general couldn't help but said angrily: "What a thief, but he is treacherous. Didn't you agree to attack the city, why didn't you attack?"

"Ah? Who said we didn't attack the city?" Li Zicheng responded in surprise, then looked up at the sinking sun and explained.

"By the way, our people have gone to attack Ximarin, Xinhekou, and Xinkaikou. After all the forts are down, we will attack Wanquan City."

"Thief dare!" The general was shocked when he heard the words, and all the people under his command were ashamed.

Do you know why?

It turned out that since the right guard general of Shangxi Road Wanquan raised his army, he would attract a large army of rebels to besiege him.

Therefore, they took the lead in mobilizing the defenders from Ximarin, Xinhekou, Xinkaikou, Shanfang and Zhangjiakou to strengthen the defense of Wanquan City.

It's just that he never expected that this time the rebels not only came with many people, but also horse troops.

As a result, one battalion of horse troops guarded Wanquan City, and the other battalion of horse troops attacked other castles one by one.

"This... it's over!" Everyone in the city looked at me, I looked at you, and my heart suddenly became cold.

"No...it doesn't matter, as long as we last until Xuanfu City is in chaos and the elite soldiers of the Qing Dynasty arrive, there is still hope for everything..." The general couldn't help cheering up.

"Hold it? I don't think it can last!" One of the bosses said with a wry smile.

"Since 'King Shun' can send so many troops out to attack us, I am afraid that Xuanfu City has stabilized its form."

As soon as this person said this, everyone's faces turned ashen.

"Should...how about we go out of the city to fight him, and then worry about it?" Just as everyone was frowning, the guard couldn't help thinking.

"If it doesn't work, we don't want Zhangjiakou at all, and go directly to Daqing!"

"Hey, what's the matter!" Everyone said this, they couldn't help tightening their swords and guns, and said with a wry smile.

"Take advantage of others' shorthands and eat others' shorthands, there is nothing to do!" The ginseng smiled bitterly, and suddenly his mind was at a loss.

Do you know why?

It turned out that in the Ming army guards, a group of low-level officers such as generals, guard commanders, and garrison officers were all related by marriage, and they were deeply intertwined.

Wanquan Youwei and Zhangjiakou Fort, which are trade and mutual markets, are the most prosperous places in the entire frontier with the most complicated stakes.

Others eat meat, they drink soup, and these people have made a lot of money over the years.

However, whether this profit-making status quo can be maintained is what they are most concerned about.

In the end, it was hard to die. News just came from the "Eight Great Masters" who have the most authority in border trade.

The "Fan family" was uprooted in Jiexiu's hometown, but the four families of Wang, Hou, Ji, and Liang joined the "Shun thief".

When the original system could not be maintained, the people who were inclined to take refuge in the "Great Qing Kingdom" were even more dissatisfied with the "Shun Thieves".

As the saying goes: I never see newcomers laughing, but how can I smell old ones crying?
Now that "Shun Thief" has new "merchants" under his command, where is their place to stay?
Therefore, this is the act of instigating "rebellion" by taking advantage of the "shun thief"'s unstable foothold.

It's just that who ever thought that fighting is not a child's play.

The crowd raised the flag on this side, and the soldiers and horses of the "Shun Bandit" came to them on the other side.

(End of this chapter)