please make me king

Chapter 53
These thieves were originally rogues, and there were three things that were most important to them: first, the escaped horses, second, the weapons in their hands, and third, the food in their mouths.These three are all life-saving things, so when everyone saw that he had donated food, they no longer pursued the matter.

Since then, Zhang Shun has enjoyed leisure and took the opportunity to observe the tactics of attacking and defending the city.This time following the "Zijinliang" are still the two battalions of "Laohuihui" and "Eight King Kong". Skills and basic tactical literacy are good.

The rebel army claims to have [-] people, but in fact, excluding the family members, old and young, the actual number of combatants is only about [-].They besieged Dou Village, which was [-] paces in circumference, so watertight and airtight that even birds could not fly out.It's just that this fortress is very tall, almost as high as a three-story building in later generations, and there are four gates in the east, west, north, south, and urn, which is really difficult to capture.

There are not many people defending the walls of Douzhuang City, roughly a few hundred people.However, the opponent has a favorable location and firearms, and the city is not very big in the first place.As a result, although there were a large number of rebels, there was no way to form a formation and take advantage of the large number of people. They could only use refueling tactics and attack wave after wave.It is also what people often say when playing games in later generations, "Gourd baby saves grandpa".

Zhang Shun didn't know how to siege the fort, and he was in a different place, so he couldn't think of a way to break through the fort.To be honest, in Zhang Shun's view, unless the cannons directly smashed down the city walls or smashed through the city gates, there was really no way to win this fort.

Zhang Shun watched for a long time, and found that the rebels had been repelled several times. He was thankful that he gave some food in exchange for avoiding the siege of the city, so that he saved the lives of his soldiers in vain.While shaking his head secretly in his heart, it is no wonder that "Sun Tzu's Art of War" said: The method of siege is a last resort.Repairing sculls, benwen, and tools will be completed in three months; from the distance, it will be completed in three months.If the generals are overwhelmed by their anger and ants attach themselves to them, killing one-third of the soldiers, but the city cannot be pulled out, this attack will be a disaster.

This method of siege was originally the worst strategy among the worst strategies, and this method of attacking the city with ants was even worse.The only surefire solution is to manufacture complete siege equipment and draw it slowly. I don't know if Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, will give this opportunity.

The rebel army tried again, leaving behind dozens of corpses. Seeing the low morale, "Zijin Liang" had to order the siege to be suspended, and prepare the siege equipment for a long-term plan.Zhang Shun thought that Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi who was the greatest threat to them, was actually afraid of beating wolves with a stick.

Although Shanxi is one of the nine borders, it is actually a second-tier border town. Unlike Datong and Xuanhua, which face the threat of Mongolia and the Qing Dynasty directly, it exists more as a support and backup for the second town of Xuanda.Therefore, the quality of the soldiers and generals in Shanxi Town is far inferior to that of the other eight towns, but they must stay behind to defend against the threat from the north. Therefore, Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, can't mobilize many troops, not to mention that the peasant army is not only gathered in Zezhou at this time.

For example, Wang Gang, He Dicao, Baowu, Short Maozi and other rogues who came across the river from Shaanxi in Luliang Mountain.And there are more on the Taihang Mountain side. The thirty-six battalions brought by the "Zijinliang" are basically scattered in the Taihang Mountains, waiting for an opportunity to attack the city and plunder the land. It is really hard to guard against.

The governor of Shanxi, the full name of the governor of Shanxi in the Ming Dynasty was the governor of Yanmen and other customs and the governor of Shanxi. Six roads are prepared, the four prefectures of Taiyuan, Pingyang, Lu'an, and Fenzhou of the Shanxi Chief Secretary, the three prefectures of Liao, Qin, and Ze, the nine guards of Taiyuan and other left and right of the Shanxi Capital Division, and the nine castles of Qinzhou and Ninghua.

It seems that there are many soldiers and generals, and the men are strong and the horses are strong. In fact, the three passes of Yanmen, Biantou and Ningwu cannot be moved first. This is the core pass for Shanxi to defend the north; All kinds of guards and castles in the city cannot be moved.

The remaining Fenyang Guards and Pingyang Guards were to be used to defend and wipe out bandits near Luliang Mountain, so they could only mobilize troops from Taiyuan Guards, Luzhou Guards, and Ningshan Guards.According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, the number of guards was [-]. In fact, the guard system was broken at the end of the Ming Dynasty. It would be good if a guard could have two to three thousand soldiers capable of fighting, not to mention some soldiers who had to stay behind to guard the nodes. land.Therefore, Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, actually had only about [-] to [-] soldiers.

"Zijinliang" plus "Lao Huihui" and "Eight King Kong" also have [-] or [-] soldiers capable of fighting, so Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, has to wait for the opportunity, and it is not uncommon to lose a battle accidentally, let alone "Zijinliang" There are still other camp bandits under his command, ranging from two to three thousand to more than ten thousand.In case the confluence attacked Song Tongyin, he, the governor of Shanxi, would have to do his best, so he couldn't help but be careless.

"Zijinliang" led "Old Huihui" and "Eight King Kong" to manufacture siege equipment, Zhang Shun also received a task of casting artillery.As for how to cast cannons, Zhang Shun didn't know anything about it. The only thing he knew was the famous "casting cannons with iron molds" technique he learned in history class.This technology was also mentioned in the online novels he read in his previous life, but Zhang Shun had a glance at ten lines at the time and didn't read it seriously at all.Just remember that it seems that the cannon cast this way will reduce performance, but it can be cast faster.

But Zhang Shun is not worried. This is Yangcheng. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it even claimed that the iron output accounted for [-]% of Shanxi, and there was a saying everywhere that "iron is cheaper than mud", which shows how prosperous the iron smelting industry in Yangcheng is.The previously mentioned Run City, which is not far from here, is a famous iron smelting town, and iron goods sell well all over the country.

So Zhang called Liu Gang along the way and asked him about the casting.Regardless of his age, Liu Gang is very proficient in iron making and casting.Zhang Shun secretly took a careful look at the available manpower under his command, and suddenly found that, except for Wu, most of the people available under his command were old men.Leaving aside the "gone" Daoist Ma, Zhao Yutou, Chen Jindou, and even a captive Zhang Shenyan are all old people.Could it be that besides being born out of phase, he has the aura of an old man?
In fact, Zhang Shun thought too much about it.The agricultural society did not develop a scientific way of thinking, and was still dominated by empirical science.Most of these older people are experienced people, so there was a saying of "respecting the elderly" in ancient times.This is not just "respecting the elderly", but also respecting knowledge and culture, respecting intellectual experience, rather than advocating force, simple-minded and muscular.

Of course, like some barbaric lands where the strong bully the weak and the few are tyrannical, the young and strong are the criterion, and the old are mostly the targets of abandonment.This also just shows that these places are barbaric, living in the skin of civilization, without the heart of civilization, the so-called "human face and animal heart".

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