Please ask me to be the emperor

No wonder Zhang Shun was angry, because there was a drought this year and grain production was greatly reduced. Along the way from Dengfeng to Luoyang, many people died of starvation on both sides of the road.

After entering Luoyang City, he saw that many of the people had good looks, and he had a vague feeling that this matter was somehow related to King Fu.

Zhang Shun was originally born in Chenzhou in western Henan, which was probably six or seven hundred miles away from Luoyang and still had King Fu's farmland. This place in Luoyang was originally the place where Prince Fu established his vassal, and probably 70% to 80% of the nearby cultivated land belongs to Prince Fu's palace.

Seeing that the traitor was so arrogant, Zhang Shun no longer wanted to persuade him to surrender, so he ordered Zhao Lizi to lead people to break through the gate of the mansion and prepare to kill the generals in.

When Zhao Lizi found the log, he was ready for the soldiers to pick it up and hit it against the city gate. I just didn't expect that the Zhaobi would be in the way and the soldiers couldn't do anything.

Zhao Lizi disliked the blocking of the screen wall, so he wanted to be pushed away. As a result, thirty or fifty people tried their best to push it away, but they couldn't push it away.

Seeing this, Zhang Shun said: "Why go to such trouble? Who said that to enter the palace, you have to go through the palace gate? The rebel artillery has not had time to arrive. There must be artillery, gunpowder and other supplies in the city. We only need to blow up a courtyard, and we can attack it soon. Yet?"

Zhao Lizi also reacted after hearing this, and quickly ordered thirty soldiers to divide into three waves to find the armory in the city.

After a while, the thirty soldiers came back happily carrying a coffin. They told Zhao Lizi that although there were no artillery in the armory here, there was at least a lot of gunpowder and thousands of sets of weapons and armor.

They found gunpowder but had no utensils to store it, so they brought a coffin from a nearby coffin shop and filled it with gunpowder.

Zhao Lizi frowned when he heard this, and couldn't help scolding: "If you don't have any equipment, just look for a few suitcases and wardrobes. Why did you bring a coffin here? It sounds unlucky."

Zhang Shun was deeply educated in materialism in his previous life, so he did not shy away from these things, so he smiled and said: "It's easy to be easy, but what's the point of being poor?"

Seeing that Zhang Shun was not angry, Zhao Lizi gave up and quickly ordered his soldiers to find a shovel and dug in the corner of the nearby wall for a while, then dug out a square pit. Then, he ordered the soldiers to put the coffin in and blow up the city wall.

Originally, the rebels were not particularly good at these methods of using gunpowder. Fortunately, Zhang Shun recruited thousands of miners from "Mao Hulu" near Lushi and Song counties.

In the past, they used gunpowder for blasting in order to open mines, but they are quite familiar with this technique.

Zhao Lizi followed the method of an old miner and half-buried the coffin in the corner, then lit the fire from a distance.

Not long after, there was only a loud noise, and the tall and solid wall of Prince Fu's Mansion burst with the sound, and the violent explosion of gunpowder blew out a gap more than ten feet wide.

Before the smoke cleared, Zhao Lizi shouted loudly and led his elite troops to rush in.

As soon as Zhao Lizi rushed into the palace and cleared away some of the gunpowder smoke in front of his eyes, he happened to see a group of people making a mess in front of him.

He stepped forward, shot one man to death, and shouted loudly: "King Shun raised his army for the common people. Those who surrender will not be killed, but those who resist will die."

In the end, how could this group of people listen? Seeing Zhao Lizi burst in, they immediately dispersed.

Zhao Lizi was about to catch up, but another pair of men and horses arrived and tried their best to resist Zhao Lizi and others.

These people only wore armor in the front row, and most of them in the back row wore tattered cloth. Even the bows, arrows and spears were not very good. Zhao Lizi was confident that he could kill this group of people in a matter of seconds.

I just didn't expect that they were fighting for a while. The group of people suddenly dispersed to the left and right. Zhao Lizi was waiting for his troops to pursue him when he saw several Crouching Tiger Cannons and General Cannons in front of him.

What do you think? It turned out that Zhang Shun's attack on Luoyang City happened suddenly. The officers and soldiers were caught off guard and were not allowed to use the city wall for defense.

In the city, Wang Shaoyu, the commander-in-chief of Henan Province, and Wang Yinchang, the deputy envoy of military preparations, made a prompt decision and led some of the guardsmen to take weapons and artillery and hid in Prince Fu's Mansion to prevent Prince Fu from being humiliated by thieves.

When they heard that the rebels were preparing to attack at Wangjing Gate, the north gate of Prince Fu's Mansion, they had already deployed their soldiers and artillery, preparing to defeat and kill the current enemy in one fell swoop.

It's just that they made the same empiricist mistake as Zhao Lizi. They only thought that the rebels would come from the gate of the mansion, and they only ambush soldiers and horses on the left and right of the gate of the mansion, and placed the artillery behind the gate of the mansion.

They just waited for the rebels to attack the gate, fired their artillery, and killed the rebels. Then they launched an ambush, attacked from both sides, and defeated the enemy in front of them in one fell swoop.

It's just that the commander-in-chief Wang Shaoyu and the deputy military envoy Wang Yinchang failed to predict that someone would not leave the door, and instead blew open the city wall.

The place where Zhao Lizi exploded with gunpowder was exactly where Wang Yinchang, the deputy envoy of military preparation, ambushed. Wang Yinchang and others were caught off guard and were killed on the spot, injuring many soldiers, and were even stunned by the explosion.

So Zhao Lizi took the opportunity to rush forward and easily defeated the group of officers and soldiers. But Wang Shaoyu also took the opportunity to react. He saw that the rebels had sophisticated armors and weapons, superb martial arts, and high morale, and he was unable to resist.

While he ordered the soldiers to resist with all their strength, he quickly ordered the soldiers to bring the artillery over and prepare to fire.

Fortunately, the commander-in-chief, Wang Yinchang, was composed of guards soldiers who had not received much training, and their cooperation was not very rigorous.

After Zhao Lizi and others saw the artillery in front of them, they hurriedly retreated outside the mansion. When Wang Shaoyu saw this, he quickly urged his soldiers to light the fuse.

However, these soldiers never released the artillery. They hesitated for a long time, then touched the line of fire with their torches, and then fled far away, for fear that the artillery would explode.

This back and forth gave the rebels time to prepare. By the time the cannons fired by the officers and soldiers, most of the soldiers had already exited the palace under the leadership of Zhao Lizi, and only a few soldiers were attacked by cannon shot.

Fortunately, the soldiers were fully armored, only three or five were slightly injured, and one or two lost their lives.

After the artillery fire, Zhao Lizi quickly led his soldiers to fight in, beating the commander-in-chief Wang Shaoyu back steadily.

Fortunately, the deputy military envoy Wang Yinchang was also quite capable. He had already taken the opportunity to gather the defeated troops and came to support them again.

There was not a big gap in the palace wall. Zhao Lizi and others were surrounded by officers and soldiers on three sides. They could not move, so they had to withdraw from the palace again.

No wonder Zhao Lizi felt uncomfortable. When he invaded the palace, in order to prevent unexpected situations from being blamed, Zhang Shun specially ordered each time to divide into small groups to attack.

The last time they were threatened by artillery fire from officers and soldiers, Zhao Lizi and others were able to evacuate quickly, which also benefited from this. Otherwise, the front team would have been unable to retreat, and the rear team would have been unable to advance. They would have formed a chaotic mess and been killed and injured by a burst of artillery fire from the officers and soldiers.

Fortunately, Zhang Shun was not in a hurry. He only waited for Liu Cheng, He Jin and He Yilong to take down the city gates and lead their troops to surround them on all sides, so that the lucky king would not be able to fly out.

The old god was present on Zhang Shun's side, but there was a person in Prince Fu's Mansion over there who couldn't sit still and quickly suggested to Prince Fu: "Your Highness, the situation is urgent. Please send money from the treasury to buy dead soldiers in time to prevent the palace from being broken into by thieves! "

This blessed king was fat and strong, piled on the throne like a big lump of meat, and said with a troubled expression: "It's not that I am stingy, it's just small and big difficulties. My royal family has a great cause. It’s so big that it has to feed tens of thousands of people, but it’s not enough to feed, clothe, and shelter itself, so how can there be enough food for them?”

"Besides, it is your officials' duty to protect the country and the people, so what does it have to do with my palace?"

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