please make me king

Chapter 71
Zhang Daojun is nearly forty years old, and he has already experienced a calm atmosphere in the officialdom.Zhang Daojun was only twenty-seven years old when his father Zhang Quan died in Liaoyang.Originally, he was well taught by his grandfather Zhang Wudian and father Zhang Quan since he was a child, and he intended to become an official through the imperial examination.

However, his father left early because of the holidays. For the sake of his own family, Zhang Daojun had to abandon his pen and join the army. He was called "the hereditary commander of Jinyiwei" by Enyin, and because he was a loyal minister, he was later named the commander of the capital by the court.These positions sound very strange, but in fact the grade is not low.

The hereditary commander of Jinyiwei was a fourth-rank hereditary military officer, and Qi Jiguang's family was also a hereditary commander of Dengzhou in those days. In terms of power, it was a little worse than his hereditary commander of Jinyiwei.As for the appointed Commander-in-Chief, he was a third-rank military officer, no worse than Zhang Shenyan, the third-rank civilian officer of the Ministry of Punishment, You Shilang, who was currently coerced by Zhang Shun.

When his father Zhang Quanfang died, he abandoned his pen and joined the army, and he had the ambition to volunteer.At that time, he was taken by Shao Si Kou Deng Wenjie to meet Xiong Tingbi, the governor of Liaodong, and he said loudly: "A real man will be a celibate and take the order from the leader."Even the "Xiong Barbarian" Xiong Tingbi was quite strong, but because his father had just passed away, he was persuaded to return to his hometown to bury his old father.However, he was later promoted to command envoy, starting from the first-rank Zuojun governor and Tongzhi.

Therefore, although this person failed in the political struggle between the court and China, he was still able to be relegated to Weiyanmen Pass with the rank of a hereditary fourth-rank military officer.When the Shaanxi Peasant Army fled to Shanxi, he was also recruited by Shanxi Governor Song Tong Yinzheng to participate in military planning and assist in the suppression of bandits.

This person's family used to participate in military affairs as a civilian, but in his generation they simply switched to military affairs.He himself has both civil and military skills, and has participated in many major military operations of the Ming court. In addition, he has artillery and ammunition left in Douzhuang before, so he is not afraid of the siege and attack of the peasant army under the "Zijinliang" at all.

On this day, he received a report from his family, saying that the bandit came to help again, and he had arrived with artillery.Zhang Daojun was very surprised, and was about to go to watch it, but his mother Huo called him over.His mother, Huo Shi, is also a hero among women. When Wang Jiayin led the peasant army to besiege Douzhuang last year, her son Zhang Daojun was not at home, and there were no family members and soldiers who fought. She overcame all opinions and led the villagers to decide to defend the city. Wang Jiayin was under Dou Zhuang.

Zhang Daojun didn't dare to neglect, and hurriedly went to see his mother.Although Huo is over half a hundred years old, he is still full of energy. When he saw him coming, he asked, "My son is deep, but you have been informed by your servants that there seem to be thieves coming with artillery. If this is the case, this city will be destroyed." It's easy to defend. I wonder if you have a countermeasure in mind?"

This "deep" is Zhang Daojun's word. When he heard his mother's question, he smiled and said: "Mother, don't worry, my son has assisted Sun Xiangguo in casting artillery for many years. I know the difficulty and power of the artillery casting."

"Left and right are nothing more than thieves imitating each other. They have neither gunners nor craftsmen. It is difficult to make a big weapon, but it is not a big problem! Since the construction of my Douzhuang city, the city is three feet high and the wall is five feet thick. How can the thieves break it?"

His mother, Huo Shi, also laughed when she heard the words, and said: "I am old, and the wind is like rain, not as majestic as in previous years. Since you know it well, then you just do it. I am waiting for you in the bedroom." good news."

After Zhang Daojun finished comforting his mother, he went out cheerfully, and his face suddenly became serious.Just now, they were all words of comfort to his mother. His mother had never experienced a major war and did not know enough about the power of firearms.He used to be a senior military officer of the Ming Dynasty, so he naturally had a better understanding of the peasant army from the Shaanxi frontier guard, and his knowledge of firearms surpassed that of ordinary officials.

This artillery can be called a decisive weapon. It can be used to attack the city with live ammunition, and it can be used to defend against the enemy with shotguns.Fortunately, due to financial difficulties in the Ming Dynasty, there were not many advanced artillery used in the training and equipment of the frontier guards in Shaanxi. Therefore, most of the "rogues" in Shaanxi did not master artillery technology. Occasionally, "rogues" carrying artillery were also attacked by officers and soldiers. After being chased and suppressed, it was discarded because it was inconvenient to carry. This is also where Zhang Daojun's confidence in defending the city lies.

Therefore, his first reaction when he heard the appearance of artillery among the thieves was that his family's spies revealed the secret skills of his own supervision of making artillery.He immediately went to his mother's place, and quickly asked his family to take him to the watchtowers in the four corners of Douzhuang Castle.This watchtower is five stories high, with windows on eight sides, so that you can have a panoramic view of the mountains and rivers outside the building.If there is an invading enemy, there is nowhere to hide from dozens of miles away.

Zhang Daojun went up to the watchtower and found that the "Zijinliang" department was setting up artillery under the city.Zhang Daojun recognized at a glance that it was quite similar to a tiger squatting cannon, but the iron hoop was removed, and it looked round, and he almost didn't recognize it after a while.

Seeing this, Zhang Daojun was half relieved, the tiger crouching cannon was designed by Qi Nantang, and it was used in the camp to fire shotguns to kill and injure soldiers.This kind of weapon has long been eliminated, and it does not have much advantage over the new "imitation Western cannon" and "Fran cannon".It is even more like a mosquito bite when used to attack the city, and it can hardly shake the city wall.

Sure enough, the "Zijin Liang" ordered people to fire at the city wall of Douzhuang, which only smashed some bricks, but could not destroy the city wall of Douzhuang.Zhang Daojun couldn't help laughing loudly and said: "For your own use, don't waste your energy. My Douzhuang has two or three thousand stones of grain, and there will be no shortage of food in April and May; the wall of my Douzhuang is rammed with glutinous rice, and the wall is six feet thick. You can't break it by bombarding day and night. If you want to survive, you must surrender early. If not, when the governor of Song Dynasty leads the army to come, it will be too late for you to regret it, and you will be ashamed sooner or later."

The real name of "Zijinliang" is Wang Ziyong. When he saw that he was called out, although he was flustered in his heart, he said firmly: "Song Tong Yin is mediocre, and I have been teased many times along the way. How many times has this person suffered and been fooled along the way?" , I don’t know how to be ashamed, how can I have the face to come to the rescue? If the person doesn’t come, let’s do it, if this person comes, my thirty-six battalions will be here, and he will never come back!”

The two of you come and talk to me.It happened that after Zhang Shun was stationed in the camp, he came to report at "Zijin Liang", then he turned his head and asked Zhang Shenyan, "Who is this? So arrogant, but the owner of Dou Village?"

Zhang Shenyan sneered when he heard this, and told some stories about Zhang Daojun to frighten Zhang Shun.Who would have thought Zhang Shun heard this, and said to Zhang Shenyan with emotion: "My old Zhang family has so many talents? Why can't we work together to conquer the world, but instead serve as the running dog of the Zhu family and help the evildoers!"

Zhang Shenyan sarcastically said: "It's a pity that Lingtang has already followed me, so I can't marry again!"

Zhang Shun was not angry when he heard that, you are marrying Xia Yuhe, the concubine of the future Tartar emperor, so what does it have to do with me, Zhang Shun?

　As the title, please collect it. . .

　　
　
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