please make me king

Chapter 898

The seventy-mile night journey is not done in one breath.

Zhang Shun made estimates based on his own physical consumption, and arranged for the soldiers to rest from time to time.Eat some dry food and drink some water.

On the road, from time to time, they encountered straggling rebel cavalry and scattered cavalry of officers and soldiers, so Zhang Shun sent people to gather them up.

In fact, in this era of conventional marching, infantry marched fifty miles a day.

The infantry under He Renlong's command were originally elite officers and soldiers. Although they marched seventy miles at night this time, under Zhang Shun's encouragement and arrangement, they could actually do it.

In order to prevent the soldiers from falling behind and escaping, Zhang Shun specially arranged for He Renlong to gather the soldiers behind.

When the rebel army arrived near Huazhou, they re-counted the number of people, and only [-] people were missing.

Zhang Shun felt in his heart that the [-] people might not all be left behind, maybe it was He Renlong who took the opportunity to pay for nothing.

It's just that now is not the time to talk about this, Zhang Bian pretended to be deaf and dumb, just treating them as if they were all lagging behind.

In other words, when Zhang Shun led He Renlong's troops to Huazhou city, Zuo Guangxian's defeated army and He Jin's pursuers had just arrived in Huazhou.

Zhang Shun and others walked on two legs, although their feet were worn out.But He Jin and Zuo Guangxian were delayed in a series of fighting actions such as back and forth fighting and detours between the two sides.

It is said that Zuo Guang, the general soldier of Shaanxi, retreated all the way to the outside of Huazhou City, first gathered his troops and repelled He Jin's cavalry to the death.Then he quickly fled into the city and closed the city gate tightly.

After hearing the news, the magistrate of Huazhou city and the deputy general in the city hurried to see Zuo Guangxian, the general soldier of Shaanxi.

As soon as these people entered the door, they didn't care about etiquette and asked: "Zuo Zongbing, how is the battle in Huayin?"

"When I heard that the officers and soldiers were defeated, rumors spread everywhere in the city, and people were in panic. Please ask the general to clear up the confusion for us!"

"Nonsense!" Zuo Guangxian couldn't help scolding angrily when he heard the words, "Who is making rumors and dare to arrange this general?"

"It's just that that villain, Zhao Guangyuan, actually turned to the bandits in front of this general. He was cut to pieces by thousands of swords, and I don't understand the hatred of this general!"

"Huh? Huayin is lost?" The prefect of Huazhou and the deputy general looked at each other, and asked tentatively after a long while, "But King Shun is here?"

"That's right, this general and the 'Shun Thief' fought hard under Huayin City, Zhao Guangyuan didn't want to go out of the city to attack this beast, but he openly defected to the enemy while we were fighting hard, so that the morale of the officers and soldiers was so high Fall. I will have to go back to Huazhou and make another plan!"

"Can Huazhou City be defended?" Huazhou Zhizhou hesitated for a moment, thinking: I heard that King Shun's benevolence is different from other thieves.If you really don't have enough persistence, it's not impossible to vote for a thief!

"How can we not defend it? There are still [-] defenders left by the general, and I have [-] cavalry under my command." Zuo Guang said with a worried face first, "How can this small Huazhou City not be defended?"

As soon as Zuo Guangxian, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi, heard a cannon fire outside, everyone was startled.

"What's going on? Who's firing cannons indiscriminately!" Zuo Guangxian was upset and overwhelmed with anger, thinking that in order to stabilize the situation in Huazhou City, he had to arrest a few people and chop Liwei in public.

wrong!As soon as Zuo Guang spoke first, he immediately felt that there was something strange in it.

It turns out that most of the Qin soldiers in Shaanxi were good at cavalry, but not artillery.Although Chen Qiyu, Hong Chengchou and others later strengthened the firearms of the officers and soldiers when they served as governors, most of them were still small-caliber artillery of the Frangler, the Captive Cannon, and the generals.

But Zuo Guang, commander in chief of Shaanxi Province, was a veteran general with a lot of experience in the battlefield. Hearing the sound of the cannon alone, he felt a little familiar, vaguely similar to the cannon of the rebel army.

"General, the sound of the cannon is wrong!" Not only Zuo Guang heard it first, but the deputy general also heard something strange.

"Go out and have a look!" It happened that Zuo Guang didn't care about taking off the armor at first, but now it's easy.

Surrounded by Zuo Guangxian's personal guards, the three arrived outside the mansion in stride.I saw that the people in the city were in a mess, many people yelled and cleaned up their stalls and belongings, as if they were going to flee.

Zuo Guang frowned first, and pointed out to the governor of Huazhou: "People like this will definitely add chaos during wartime."

"As soon as possible, arrange the manpower and organize Ding Zhuang to guard them all. Except for Ding Zhuang, the rest of the people will be driven back to their homes, and they are not allowed to go out casually. Anyone who violates the law will be killed or punished as spies!"

"By the way, after the young people are organized, more houses and tile houses will be demolished, and the wood, bricks and stones will be transported to the city for defense!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Huazhou Zhizhou looked honest, as if he didn't know that he was a civil servant, and he didn't need to listen to his orders at all.

The three of them were planning a defensive strategy when several deafening cannon shots came over.

The city was filled with screams and shouts again, Zuo Guangxian's face became even more ugly, and he quickly ordered his soldiers to separate from the crowd and rush towards the city in three steps at a time.

Not long after, the three climbed up to the tower to have a look, and saw several phalanxes neatly distributed outside.

There are five small formations of infantry, and three or five small formations of cavalry.What was even more surprising to Zuo Guangxian was that there were more than ten cannons distributed in front of the formation, and they were being loaded under the command of the gunner!
"Where did this thief get the artillery?" The lieutenant couldn't help trembling.

"Promise!" Zuo Guang snarled angrily, turned his head to look carefully, and saw a large flag flying among the central army of the rebel army, with the word "handsome" written on it in a silver hook and iron painting.

"To be worthy of King Shun's relentless pursuit, Zuo can be regarded as the number one officer among the officers and soldiers!" Zuo Guangxian, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi, couldn't help laughing bitterly.

It turned out that this flag was Zhang Shun's Chinese army flag.Zuo Guangxian played against him many times, and was very impressed by Zhang Shenyan's good handwriting.

"Let's go!" Zuo Guang couldn't help feeling lost, and sighed, as if he had aged ten years.

"Where are you going?" the lieutenant asked inexplicably.

"Is General Zuo going to give up Huazhou City?" The governor of Huazhou became much more sober.

"We can't hold it anymore! We don't have time to organize defense!" Zuo Guang shook his head first and said, "The officers and soldiers are newly defeated, and rumors are spreading all over the city. People are disturbed, how to defend it?"

"What's more, you are the governor of Huazhou. You should know that the "earth dragon turned over" back then. The Huazhou city wall looks tall and strong, but how many artillery can it withstand the enemy?"

It turned out that eighty years ago, during the Jiajing period, a shocking earthquake occurred with Huazhou as the epicenter.

The scope of the earthquake affected Gansu and Ningxia in the west; Shandong and South Zhili in the east; Shanxi and North Zhili in the north; Huguang in the south, and even thousands of miles away in Fujian and Guangdong and Guangxi.

At that time, Huazhou was "unspeakably miserable, the mountains and rivers changed, and the roads changed."

It is even more "the people's houses have collapsed without a trace", "the walls of Huajun have collapsed, and the territory has been ruined."

The city wall of Huazhou was also destroyed in this terrible earthquake. Although it was rebuilt later, the foundation of the old city still remains.

Who can guarantee that the Huazhou city wall can withstand the terrible "big cannon" in the hands of the "Shun thief"?

Originally, Zuo Guangxian, the governor of Shaanxi, planned to repair it after returning to Huazhou City, and try to defend it for the time being.

Now that the thieves are in a hurry to persecute them, how can they come here?

For the current plan, I am afraid that I will return to Xi'an for the time being and make further calculations!

(End of this chapter)