please make me king

"General, Zhangjiakou Fort is ahead." Commander Wanquan Right Guard pointed to the city not far away.

Li Zicheng looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a small town standing under the dam, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the river on one side.

The so-called "ba" here is not Chinese, but a Mongolian pronunciation of mountains.

The Mongols used mountains as dams. The so-called "Bashang" refers to the Bashang Grassland that is blocked by mountains to the north of Zhangjiakoubao; the so-called "Baxia" refers to the Bashang Plain in Northwest Hebei.

This Zhangjiakou is located at the exit from "Baxia" to "Baxia". The grassland in the north of Shizitun is the place where various tribes live and graze, so it is an important hub and a place for mutual markets.

Then Li Zicheng waited and watched for a long time, then asked Fatty Zhang to speak out.

The fat man rode forward and shouted loudly: "King Shun is benevolent and righteous, and he never misses the past."

"Now Wanquan Youwei, Ximarin, Xinhekou, Xinkaikai, and the dining room castles are all down, and the general situation is over, how can you be lucky to sit and guard the isolated city? If this is the case, why don't you come down early, and still not lose your position of wealth! "

"Being crowned by a monkey, how dare you become king?" Unexpectedly, just as Fatty Zhang finished speaking, Zhangjiakou Fort guards shouted loudly, "Now when my Qing army arrives, you will be wiped out in front of your eyes, how dare you bark?"

"If you are acquainted, quickly vote for me, and still not lose the wealth of the new dynasty!"

"Oh? 'Great Qing Kingdom'?" Fatty Zhang couldn't help sneering when he heard the words, "The right-wing army of the 'Great Qing Kingdom' was destroyed by King Shun long ago, from the famous king Azig down to the horsemen and pawns. which one?"

"What?" As soon as Fatty Zhang said these words, the faces of everyone in Zhangjiakou City turned pale with horror.

Everyone knows that after Azig, the "king of Yingwu County of the Qing Dynasty", entered the customs, he led the army to Taiyuan, Shanxi.

In the past, in order to gain momentum, one counted as ten, known as the "[-] army".

As a result, the bigger the cowhide was blown, the louder it exploded when it was punctured.

Originally seeing the rebel army arriving at the Xuan Mansion, although these people didn't think about it, they might not have bad guesses in their hearts.

Now that Fatty Zhang "confirmed" it, all that anger was immediately vented.

"What to do? What to do? Even King Azig of Yingwu County and Rao Yubeile Abatai were beheaded. How can thousands of people like me resist this wolf-like army of 'followers'?" The merchants had already looked ashen, and they all said in frustration.

Seeing that the Zhangjiakou Fort's defense situation is not good, he couldn't help shouting: "A man can't eat with nine tripods, that is, cook with nine tripods. Now that all of you are entrusted with your wealth and lives here, how can you back down?"

"Not to mention, I still have Badu'er, Qingbadu'er, and Heluo Qi to help me, why should I be afraid of their thousands of troops?"

Don't look at this Jiakou Fort's garrison shouting loudly, and the morale is getting lower and lower as a result.

Do you know why?

It turned out that this Jiakou Fort had [-] soldiers, one Laiyuan Fort, fifty-eight side piers, and thirty-one Fire Road piers.

Among them, there were [-] soldiers stationed in Laiyuanbao, and there were ten large and five small ones in Biandun and Huoludun.

Calculated in this way, there are actually no more than [-] soldiers in the entire Zhangjiakou Fort.

For this reason, the merchants in Zhangjiakou Fort have money and strength to contribute, and they have raised [-] strong guards.

As for the tribes such as Baduer, Qingbaduer, and Heluoqi, in fact, because of Lin Danhan and Hong Tai's successive expeditions to the west, those who migrated early did not know where they went.

However, the Zhangjiakou Fort defense took the opportunity to recruit three or four hundred men, which is better than nothing.

Not to mention how Zhangjiakou Fort's defense is concerned, let's say that the fat man saw that the city was speechless from his fright, so he hurried back on his horse and reported to Li Zicheng: "'Chuangjiang', the enemy's courage in the city has been broken, please attack quickly. !"

"Okay, let's shoot!" Li Zicheng was also old in military affairs, so it didn't make sense that he couldn't see the flaw that the fat man could see.

Following Li Zicheng's order, two more cavalry separated from the rebel formation.

Taking a closer look, these two cavalrymen each dragged ten cannons behind them, which were exactly what Zhang Shun called "flying iron cannons".

Ten horses and one cannon, for the rebels who are in short supply of war horses, luxury is really a luxury.

However, it is also really easy to use.

For example, Li Zicheng's horse army should be the same as the Houjin Azige tribe who penetrated into the hinterland of the rebel army.

Although the mobility and impact of the soldiers have been greatly enhanced, their siege ability has been greatly weakened. Once they encounter a city that cannot be taken by a group of people, they will be helpless.

"Pao, where are they?" Just as the two artillery flags of the rebel army were deployed outside the city, the guards, merchants and soldiers on the Zhangjiakou Fort couldn't help being startled and shouted one after another.

"'Crossing Bandit' is good at attacking, 'Cao Bandit' is good at fighting, and 'Shun Bandit' is good at shooting. They really deserve their reputation!" The defense of Zhangjiakou Fort was a little dumbfounded.

"What should we do, what should we do? Can we still hold on?" Fan, Wang, Jin, and Liang, a group of businessmen, suddenly started nagging like ants on a hot pot.

"Don't panic, I'll send someone to Yangfangbao and Ningyuanzhanbao for help."

Except for Shangxi Road, Yangfangbao and Ningyuanzhanbao are the closest to Zhangjiakoubao.

However, these two castles are not very big, and the garrison is only two or three hundred people. How can they send out troops to help him?

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay when they heard the words, and their morale became more and more low.

However, while the artillery of the rebel army continued to destroy the defensive facilities on the city, some scouts rushed to report to Li Zicheng: "General, we found another fort five or six miles north of the city. It is close to the side wall. I don't know what it is called." Fort."

"Huh?" Li Zicheng couldn't help but turned his head and asked Wan Quan's right guard commander, "I don't know what kind of fort this is called?"

"Ah?" The guard commander heard Li Zicheng's expressionless face, and responded quickly.

"This is called Laiyuan Fort, and there are [-] soldiers stationed there. It was originally set up after the Longqing peace talks, and it was specially set up to fight with the Tartars."

"The most prosperous one is Deshengbao in Datong, and Zhangjiakoubao in Xuanfu, that's all."

"Oh?" Li Zicheng and Fatty Zhang couldn't help but look at each other when they heard this, with smiles on the corners of their mouths.

This guy is dishonest!
"'Chuang Jiang', you go ahead, I'm going out and sneaking!" Fatty Zhang guessed that there might be something good in the castle, and he couldn't help but said hastily.

"Okay, then you go!" Li Zicheng said helplessly.

He had tried his best to realize Zhang Shun's promise to be king, but he still didn't expect that this fat man was simply a "blessed general".

He has worked so hard and has yet to get anything. He has already achieved the record of capturing three castles. He is really more popular than others.

It's over, it's over!

Seeing this, the commander of the guard didn't understand that they had guessed the truth, and his face turned ashen.

"What's the matter, what's in there?" Seeing this guy's reaction, even Li Zicheng, who had always been taciturn, couldn't help asking curiously.

"No...it's nothing..." The commander of the guard immediately denied it.

It's just that he just denied it halfway, and suddenly remembered that all of this was futile, so he admitted with a sad face: "Actually, it's nothing, just some war horses... and food."

"War horses and food?" Li Zicheng was surprised when he heard the words.

"Didn't it mean that the nomadic tribes in the north of Zhangjiakou have fallen into disarray?"

In the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign, Tiger Rabbit Khan conquered the Tumote tribe and took away many tribes.Later, Hong Tai conquered tigers and rabbits in the west, defeated and captured an unknown number of tribes.

How many Tartars can there be in the Bashang Grassland now, and how many extra horses can be exchanged for food?