please make me king

Chapter 937

This three hundred is also a person who does things, and he does it when he thinks about it.

While writing a letter to Zhang Shun, he asked to send the "God of the River" Huang Shoucai to help him, and at the same time began to secretly collect wood and ships, preparing for a big fight.

At that time, Zhang Shun dispatched Huang Shoucai and others who had nothing to do and spent every day fishing and drying nets in the spirit of "beating children on rainy days is idle".

Huang Shoucai and the sailors under his command not only receive their salary on time every month, but also can fish to subsidize their household. They are living a happy life, where do they want to go?
It's just that "eating the king's salary is a matter of loyalty to the king", they also had to pack their bags and set off according to the military order.

Since there is no waterway from Luoyang to Xiangcheng, the ships under Huang Shoucai's command could not pass.

He could only choose dozens of backbones, and they rushed overland to Xiangcheng with him.

When Huang Shoucai arrived, Zhang Sanbai had collected fifty or sixty ships of various colors.

"How is it? You can leave at any time, right?" Zhang Sanbai smiled proudly at Huang Shoucai.

"If General Zhang just wants to transport people, he can directly recruit boatmen, so why should I, Huang Shoucai, come all the way to support him?" Huang Shoucai said with a serious look.

"Oh?" Zhang Sanbai was taken aback, and hurriedly asked for advice, "It's a certain ignorant, making me laugh. Zhang would like to hear more about it, and please teach me!"

Huang Shoucai has changed from a man proficient in water conservancy to a naval general, and he has some experience.

Hearing this, he couldn't help laughing and said: "As the saying goes, 'ships from the south to horses from the north', use their speed and also use their load."

"Both ships and horses are faster than infantry, so their battle defense is dominated by bows, arrows, firecrackers, and artillery."

"However, there is a difference between boats and horses. Horses travel on land while ships travel on water. Therefore, as long as there is flat ground, war horses can go there; if there is no water flow, war boats cannot pass. This war boat is not as good as war horses."

"But the fighting horsepower is weak, and it can only carry one person and one armor. Even if it is used to pull the cart, it is no more than a thousand catties."

"This is not the case with warships. It can range from a thousand catties to tens of thousands of catties. Therefore, if you use a ship to carry people and a ship to carry guns, you will be invincible."

"I would like to choose gunboats specially for firing cannons, paddle boats for jumping gangs, and cargo ships for carrying people and goods, and transporting troops, horses and luggage. What do you think, the general?"

"Okay, that's fine, just take what you say!" Zhang Sanbai didn't understand the law of water warfare, so he simply entrusted all matters to the "God of the River" Huang Shoucai.

That Huang Shou was authorized by Zhang Sanbai, and began to choose to build ships, install artillery, and choose sailors and boatmen.

After working hard for more than a month, I barely managed to form a navy.

It is said to be a navy, but in fact, except for thirty or forty combat ships, the rest are all transport ships converted from cargo ships.

At that time, when everything was ready, Zhang Sanbai hurriedly wrote to Zhang Shun, preparing to attack Yancheng, which was stationed like a tiger, by land and water.

It's just that Zhang Shun's entire strategic focus was on Nanyang and Shaanxi at that time, so how could he have the will to attack to the east?

Zhang Sanbai's application failed several times, so he had to secretly write a letter to his sister Ma Yingniang, hoping that she would give her a little bit of pillow comfort.

At that time, Ma Yingniang was fighting with Zhang Shun's other wives, protesting against Zhang Shun's acceptance of Zeng Huang and the four daughters of the Zhu family. How could he care about him?

As a result, he worked for nothing for a month or two, and it was useless. Zhang Sanbai couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.

Huang Shoucai couldn't get used to the fish here, so he asked Zhang Sanbai to let him go back to Luoyang.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Sanbai suggested again: "Since King Shun forbids me to send troops, then these ships can't be wasted."

"Nowadays the rebel army has just started and supplies are scarce, why don't Mr. Huang lead the fleet and do some small business?"

"Firstly, I can get acquainted with the waterways here, and secondly, I can earn some pocket money for the brothers!"

"Is this... is this going to work?" Huang Shoucai always felt that this was a bit of a private use.

"Why can't it work? This navy was built by us, and we chose to build this ship. Even if King Shun came in person, he would not be able to say a word!" Zhang Sanbai relied on his sister Ma Yingniang's favor, so he could No matter what Zhang Shun's plan is, let's do it first.

"Okay, that's fine!" Huang Shoucai couldn't help but nodded when he heard the words. Anyway, the lord and uncle will take care of the matter, so what are you afraid of?
It turns out that Xiangcheng also happens to have a wharf. Although it is not as good as Sheqi Town in Nanyang and Beiwudu in Wuyang, it can be regarded as a transit point for the distribution of goods from Ruzhou to Ying and Huaihe Rivers.

It is not impossible to sail up the Ru River from Xiangcheng.It's just that firstly, the drought and flood are uncertain, and the river is full and sometimes short. Second, from Erligou to the northwest of Xiangcheng, the current is so fast that there is a danger of overturning.

It just so happened that Ruzhou is now under the rule of Li Xin, and the two of them immediately took over several shipments to Zhou's store, making a small fortune.

On this day, there was another grain transshipped from Zhoujiadian in Chenzhou, and it was going to be transported to Xiangcheng. Huang Shoucai led the fleet to transport it back.

Knowing this, Zhang Sanbai couldn't help but have an idea, and wanted to write a letter to persuade King Shun.

Unexpectedly, without waiting for his letter to be delivered, Zhang Sanbai received Zhang Shun's order first.

Zhang Sanbai and Huang Shoucai opened it in amazement, and saw that it read: Zhang Sanbai and Jiang He went down the Shahe River and Yinghe River respectively, and met at Zhoujiadian, and then attacked Yingzhou with great fanfare. The momentum of Fengyang!
"Okay, okay, finally I, Zhang Sanbai, will be in my early years!" Zhang Sanbai couldn't help but said happily, "Mr. Huang, no, I should be called Admiral Huang now. I order you to prepare everything as soon as possible. Within three days, I will Lead land and water troops to attack Yancheng!"

"Why did you attack Yancheng?" Huang Shoucai asked strangely when he heard the words.

"Of course it's for Dongjin?" Zhang Sanbai was puzzled, and thought to himself, why are you deliberately trying to find fault?

Unexpectedly, Huang Shoucai smiled and said: "The general doesn't know something. In fact, although the fierce tiger is stationed in Yancheng, it doesn't care about the boats on the water."

"Since King Shun only ordered us to attack Yingzhou, why bother?"

"What Mr. Huang said is true!" Zhang Sanbai was taken aback when he heard the words, and couldn't help but said, "It really makes sense!"

Immediately, Zhang Sanbai simply did not do anything, and after rectifying the troops, they all hid in Huang Shoucai's navy, sneaked across Yancheng in the silence of the night, and went straight to Zhoujiadian along the Shahe and Yinghe rivers.

This week's shop is about the same location as Yingqikou where Zhang Shun took the boat, but it is a better ferry.

This Zhoujiadian is located at the confluence of the three tributaries of Jialu River, Ying River and Sha River, and finally formed the famous Zhoukou Town in later history.

It once replaced the famous Zhuxian Town in the Qing Dynasty and became the number one commercial center in Henan.

Now, although Zhoukou Town has taken advantage of its favorable location, there are already mature prototypes of commercial towns such as docks and shops, but it has not yet developed, and there is no garrison, so Zhang Sanbai easily seized the place.

It's just that Jiang He is not as convenient as Zhang Sanbai, and he is still marching on the road.

Waiting left and right, but Jiang He was nowhere to be seen.

Zhang Sanbai simply pulled Huang Shoucai and said: "Soldiers have heard of their clumsy speed, and it has not been a long time since they have been gambling!"

"Since our army has won by surprise and captured Zhoujiadian, why not go down the river and capture Yingzhou in one go?"

Huang Shoucai was taken aback by this guy's audacity, he couldn't help persuading him: "Then Yingzhou is the gate of Fengyang, and there are Yingzhou guards stationed there, how can we suddenly get it?"

"If the soldiers are under the fortified city, it will be a minor matter if we lose our lives, but it will be a major matter if King Shun is destroyed!"

Hearing this, Zhang Sanbai couldn't help being unhappy and said: "I heard that people who are good at water drown, but I have never heard of the river god who refuses to enter the water."

"Why don't you discipline yourself because of the danger, but only use it to warn others?"

"If Yingzhou is really well-prepared, even if Jiang He joins forces with me, it won't be enough; if Yingzhou is unprepared, my battalion is enough, so why borrow the power of others?"

In the city of Yingzhou, where would you expect that the rebels had already prepared boats and went down the river to take the city directly.

Only when Yingzhou Zhizhou, Tongpan, and Yingzhouwei Commander and others were escorted to the lobby by the rebel soldiers, waiting for Zhang Sanbai's interrogation, the officials still couldn't believe that they were killed by the ""siege"" thousands of miles away. Shun thief" was captured!
(End of this chapter)