please make me king

Chapter 972
Sure enough, the rebel army, as expected by Zuo Guangxian, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi, started digging trenches and building walls after breakfast that morning.

But in terms of the number of people, these [-] young men are already on par with the team led by Zhang Shun this time.

Therefore, the organization and management of these [-] people is also a very difficult task.

However, in order to coerce these young people, the rebels have actually made simple preparations for them.

Zhang Shun's three subordinates, Xu Quan, Wen Tingjian, and Zhang Shifan, may not be able to lead troops in battle, but they have basically experienced complete grassroots experience.

In particular, Wen Tingjian and Zhang Shifan served as county magistrates for several months, and they already possessed certain organizational and management capabilities, and they were quite handy in managing these young men.

Among them, who digs the soil, who bears the load, who boils water and cooks, who delivers water and food, and who conducts personnel rotation and a series of trivial matters, and so on.

And Zhang Shun also sent people to watch over these people carefully, for fear that if they were attacked by officers and soldiers, these people would run around and mess up the position of the rebel army.

After this series of operations, the rebel army made very rapid progress, and dug forward half a mile in a short time.

"No, we can't just sit and wait!" Zhang Yingchang couldn't bear it anymore, and he couldn't help asking, "The thieves will dig ditches, and I'll have feet and hands, why not?"

"Please join me with five thousand soldiers. I will definitely dig a gap in the right flank of the bandits, so that they cannot get in!"

"Okay, in a while, I will personally supervise Liu Shaozong, the commander in chief of Gansu, Zuo Guangxian, the commander in chief of Shaanxi, and Ge Lin, the deputy commander in chief, to raid the formation for you!" Liang Tingdong, who was having a headache about how to deal with the officers and soldiers, couldn't help but exulted when he heard the words.

Not long after, the gates of the officers and soldiers' barracks were opened wide, and some horses galloped out to stand outside the barracks.

Then other soldiers and horses filed out and began to form formations in front of the rebels.

Since the distance between the camps of the two sides was only two miles, the officers and soldiers were almost within the coverage of the rebel artillery as soon as they went out.

This time the general who rotated to the front of the rebel army was the "living Cao Cao" Luo Rucai, and he directly ordered the gunners in the battalion to launch artillery to bombard the officers and soldiers who had just left the battalion.

The officers and soldiers did not show any weakness, and also pulled out artillery to carry out confrontational bombardment. For a while, the sound of artillery and gunpowder smoke once again filled the entire battlefield.

And Zhang Yingchang and Ge Lin's Fanqi also took the opportunity to sneak out. The former only came to the right flank of the rebel army, while the latter wandered on the battlefield to cover their flanks.

"Okay, well done!" This time it was "Guotianxing" Zhang Tianlin's turn to defend the flank trench wall, and she couldn't help but shouted, "Straight mother thief, this time it's time for me to fuck!"

At the same time, He Jin's two thousand cavalry and Zhang Tianlin's more than a thousand cavalry also appeared outside the earth wall of the trench, staring at the officers and soldiers on the opposite side.

But this time, everyone has no plans to go all out for the time being.

After suffering the loss of "Han'er" last time, Zhuo Erlingzhen, the teacher of the Nasina Nationality, and Ye Binggan, the head teacher of Xining Wei, were no longer as rampant as before.

Now their task is to protect Zhang Yingchang's five thousand elite flanks, so they are not in a hurry to attack.

The more than a thousand cavalry under He Jin and Zhang Tianlin went to battle this time, one is to look at the officers and soldiers' flaws, waiting for an opportunity; Tianxing" Zhang Tianlin's defense created too much pressure.

Whose life is not life?

Since they saw that the opponent Fanqi did not fight, they had no interest in fighting the opponent.

Of course, "Ming Yan" is still not possible!

In order to show that they worked hard, the two sides still dispatched small groups of cavalry to chase each other and show off their skills.

But talk is better than nothing, irrelevant to the overall situation.

The pawns did not have such a good fate.

When the officers and soldiers approached more than a hundred trenches, the artillery of the rebel army began to ring.

Countless scattershots, like headless mosquitoes, struck head-on.

However, this time the officers and soldiers did not fall down in response. Instead, the officers and soldiers standing in the front row propped up an object to block a large number of lead bullets.

"Get out of bed?" Zhang Tianlin was taken aback for a moment, and immediately realized it.

The so-called rolling quilt refers to the quilt used by others.

Just as the rebel army discovered that quilts can block bullets, officers and soldiers have been fighting for so many years, and apparently some people have realized that these quilts can defend against projectiles to a certain extent after being soaked in water.

Of course, this thing is not absolute, the less powerful lead bullets can stop it, but if it is a more powerful lead bullet, you will die or die as you like.

"Change solid bullets!" Zhang Tianlin gave the order with a sneer.

Immediately, the cannons of the rebel army sounded again, and this time, no matter whether it was rolled quilts or shield armor, they could no longer use force.

The terrible solid bullets plowed a few bloody paths deep in the formation of officers and soldiers, and the broken limbs splashed all over the ground.

It's just that although this kind of damage is terrible, compared with shotgun, the range of damage is much smaller.

Soon, the officers and soldiers and the rebels faced each other across the trench wall, almost face to face.

It's just that the small trenches and earthen walls in front of them are like natural moats, and the officers and soldiers can't get through them at all.

So, both sides lit the matchlocks at the same time, and then picked up the bird guns in their hands.

"Tom tom tom~" The bird gun suddenly shot out tongues of fire, and the two sides coincidentally fell down like onions upside down.

The first row retreated, and the second row moved forward a few steps without hesitation.

Opponents pointed at the black muzzle of the bird, and big drops of cold sweat flowed from their foreheads.

"You bastard, why don't you hurry up and fill the trench!" Lintao Zhang Yingchang couldn't help being furious when he saw this, "How can you delay the opportunity you bought with your wealth and life!"

Before Zhang Yingchang finished speaking, the second round of shooting was over.

Many people fell on their backs, and some fell headlong into the trench, but it saved a lot of effort for officers and soldiers to fill the trench.

After receiving Zhang Yingchang's order, hundreds of officers and soldiers, holding the shovel and shovel, rushed up under the cover of the gunman's life.

It's just that these people came to the trench with great difficulty, but they were dumbfounded!
How do you feel?

It turned out that when the rebel soldier dug the trench, he didn't pile up the residual soil outside, but piled it inside the trench.

This led to the officers and soldiers rushing up desperately, but there was actually no residual soil to fill the trench in front of them!

"Tom tom tom~" Another burst of bird guns sounded.

The officers and soldiers were dumbfounded on the spot, but the rebels were not dumbfounded.

It just so happened that these officers and soldiers who filled the trench were mixed with the crowd of officers and soldiers on the opposite side, which greatly increased the hit rate of the rebels' blunderbuss.

Only this time, forty or fifty officers and soldiers were killed or injured immediately.

"What's going on, do you want to die? Zensheng didn't do anything!" Seeing the officers and soldiers behind in a daze, Zhang Yingchang couldn't help yelling loudly.

"Mr. Zhang, it's not because our army doesn't work hard, there is really no soil to dig!" Some soldiers hurried back and reported quickly.

"What?" Zhang Yingchang was taken aback when he heard the words, he couldn't help but sneak up to him, and stretched his head to have a look.

There was only a wide and deep ditch lying in front of him, and the remnants of the original ditch had been piled up into the opposite earth wall.

"Who the hell is so wicked!" Seeing this, Zhang Yingchang couldn't bear it anymore, and couldn't help but cursed.

"Ahh!" Zhang Shun sneezed violently and rubbed his nose subconsciously.

"Ah, Your Highness King Shun, are you alright?" Fatty Zhang, the "King of Qi", couldn't help but greeted quickly when he saw this, "Did you catch a cold because there was no camp last night?"

"It's nothing, it must be that my mother-in-law misses me again, ah, ah, ah!" Zhang Shun slapped several times in a row, and couldn't help apologizing to everyone, "there are more wives in the family, and it is estimated that ten hits Eight would be fine. Ahhhhhh!"

(End of this chapter)