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Chapter 219 Will Attack Liaozhou ([-])

At the end of the battle of Zhangzi County, Zhang Shun's tribe suffered a lot of losses, but also gained a lot.Zhang Shun also took the opportunity to find out how good the fighting power of the Ming frontier army was.

After several days of intrusion, he first made him tired, hungry, underdrinking, and sleepless, and then took advantage of Ye to attack, but it was still so difficult to fight, which shows how big the gap between the peasant army and the officers and soldiers is.

What's more, because the frontier troops seldom carry heavy artillery and other things in order to go into battle lightly.If the artillery and luggage are all available, the two sides will open up their battles, face to face with gongs and drums, and have a fair contest.I'm afraid he was killed long ago, and his ashes were scattered.

Zhang Shun planned to disperse these newly captured frontier elites under the command of Zhang Sanbai, Jiang He, and Li Jiyu, but Zhang Shenyan stopped them.

Zhang Shenyan said: "General, I know that you love your talent deeply. It's just that the elite army here is different from ordinary guards. The interior has been peaceful for a long time, and the guards have long been ruined. Many so-called guards are not local ruffians hired to replace them. , that is, jobless vagrants, or tenant farmers and servants of guard officers.”

"So once the battle is defeated, you have nothing to worry about, and you can join our army at will. Even if you are an officer and soldier of the guard in time, because the system has long been corrupted, the family can settle things with some money."

"It's just that the guards here are different from those in the mainland, especially the Second Division of Xuanda University. Because they are always facing the threat of the northern Tartars, they are generally real guards. They actually occupy the land of the guards, and the whole family Live here."

"The number of places in the frontier is limited. Once they are found to be defecting to us, the whole family will be implicated. Therefore, if these people lose supervision, they must either act as government undercover agents or flee secretly. They cannot be used!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Shun thought to himself: Is there such a thing?I thought that the officers and soldiers of our Ming Dynasty had soft knees, and it didn't matter who they ate food with.

So Zhang Shun followed the good advice and simply stripped off the armor and weapons of the more than [-] captured people, and left them in the supply camp as coolies to pull them down.

After the battle was over, Zhang Shun counted the days, and the date he agreed with "Zijin Liang" was getting closer, so he left Zhangzi County and headed north to Licheng County.

Zhang Shun managed to reach Licheng County without going anywhere else, but went straight to the camp of the Rebel Army.The other rebels hadn't returned yet, so Zhang Shun also lost a lot of entertainment.

They first intrigued with Zhang Zongheng, harassed and entangled for several days, and fought hard all night, the soldiers were already exhausted.Therefore, Zhang Shun arranged a guard and asked everyone to take the opportunity to recuperate.

The camp of the rebel army is simple and crude, and it is actually very uncomfortable to live in this midwinter.At any rate, the soldiers under Zhang Shun's command captured a lot of cotton armor, some of which were damaged or unusable. Zhang Shun ordered the soldiers to dismantle them and make cotton clothes for the soldiers who did not have winter clothes.

And the soldiers with cotton armor, just make do with it, use the cotton armor as a cotton coat and pull it down, it's better than freezing to death anyway.And the soldiers of this era are also quite hard-working, so they just make do with it.

This surprised Zhang Shun, he thought the conditions were difficult and the soldiers were going to protest.In fact, Zhang Shun didn't know that even if these soldiers were with the Ming army, they were still at the bottom.In the winter of the past few years, not only did they have no cotton-padded clothes to keep out the cold, they even had problems eating and drinking, so they had to suffer.

Now that he is with Zhang Shun, at least he can still see the hope of surviving the cold winter.

On the second day, "Zijin Liang" returned to the camp first.This guy is also a well-informed guy. When he arrived at the camp and saw that Zhang Shun had arrived, he quickly came over and praised: "Little brother 'Optimus Prime' is really good at using soldiers. A few days ago, that thief Zhang Zongheng was relying on two thousand cavalry. , drove us tens of thousands of people like chickens and dogs. I never thought that now, my little brother, you will use the same force to defeat them, and greatly increase the prestige of my rebel army."

Zhang Shun understood the reason why everyone carried the sedan chair, so he quickly said modestly: "Where, where! It was just the carelessness of the officers and soldiers, and I was lucky enough to win a match! It all depends on the second leader's commanding skills and using his troops like a god!"

The second leader "Zijin Liang" couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he heard the words, and said with a smile: "'Optimus Prime' really knows the general idea, everyone gathered together later, I hope the little brother will not forget today's words!"

Nani?Zhang Shun was taken aback when he heard the words, and thought: I'm just being polite, so you're going to beat a snake with a stick?I think I'm shameless enough. Compared with you, I'm really like a white lotus!
Seeing Zhang Shun looking over, "Zi Jin Liang" should not be embarrassed, he also knew that Zhang Shun would not act according to his "plan" if he did not bleed.Then he stretched out a finger, hesitated for a while, added another finger, and said to Zhang Shun: "If the little brother can act according to the plan, I would like to give you two thousand shi of grain! I know that the little brother joined the gang before At that time, I pulled a hundred carts of grain, and now people eat horse chews, so I’m afraid there’s not much left, right?”

When Zhang Shun heard this, his eyes turned green. At the beginning, due to the inconvenience of transportation, his hundred carts could only transport less than a thousand shi of grain.After several twists and turns in the past few months, I have already finished eating.At present, military rations mainly rely on private collection and caravan purchases. By the way, dried fish from Shengwangping can also serve as part of the military rations, that's all.

Now "Zijin Liang" sent two thousand shi of grain in one mouthful, Zhang Shun was almost ready to agree.However, as a shrewd Chinese, Zhang Shun hesitated for a moment, stretched out three fingers, and bargained: "Three thousand stones!"

"Zijin Liang" frowned, and said unhappily: "Little brother, my brother's food is not blown by the strong wind. Among the rebels, what is the most important? If you ask carefully, it is neither a war horse nor a weapon or armor. The most important thing is the food."

"As the saying goes, 'People are like iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry'. If you are a hero, if you go hungry, a three-year-old child on the side of the road can kill you. I, 'Zijinliang', have always treated you well. Bo, how about this, I will give my little brother [-] shi, a one-buy price! If you succeed, you will succeed, if you cannot fail!"

Zhang Shun couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, and thought: I guess you've been scheming for a long time, what kind of wolf with a big tail are you playing now?
However, this fellow is also the ally of the Rebel Army at any rate, and he is more or less his confidant, so he should not offend him too much.But Zhang Shun didn't want to be underestimated, so he replied straight away: "Thank you so much for the second leader. It's just a few facts, don't worry, I will arrange my subordinates to publicize it more, and there will be no omissions."

"I know that your second master will make arrangements through this. The matter of the second master is my 'Optimus Prime' matter. I dare not sit on the ground and raise the price and make things difficult for the second master. Just rest assured that the second master, if there is an assignment, a certain I must die without hesitation!"

After hearing Zhang Shun's guarantee, the second master "Zijin Liang" returned to the camp happily, and said to the Taoist monk: "The old Taoist priest really has a clever plan, this 'Optimus Prime' thought of the old feelings, and agreed to me. So and so , in the future, the contribution of 'Optimus Prime' will be the contribution of my 'Zijin Liang', it is really a plan to kill two birds with one stone, and I will definitely be able to subdue the 'King of Troubled Times' and 'Armor Breaker'."

It turned out that the former "Zijin Liang" saw that the "King of Troubled Times" and "Pierce the Armor" were quite disobedient to his orders, and worried in his heart, so he asked the Taoist Wuxu for advice, and the Taoist offered him a strategy.It just so happened that Zhang Shun had just defeated Xuanda governor Zhang Zongheng, and his voice shook Shanxi, so "Zijinliang" took the opportunity to make this request.

(End of this chapter)