please make me king

Chapter 1223 Internal friction

"His Royal Highness Shun!" Zhang Tianlin, who had been attacking the "Guo Tian Xing" for a day, just lay down, and suddenly heard that the soldiers came to report the arrival of the "Shun King", so she hurriedly dressed and went out to greet her.

"How is the battle going now, how many days will it take to take down this Pingyang mansion!" Zhang Shun couldn't help asking after he entered the camp and sat down.

Seeing Zhang Shun coming overnight, Zhang Tianlin knew the importance of the matter, she couldn't help pondering for a moment and said: "Prince Shun is Rong."

"This city of Pingyang is strange for twelve miles a week. It is four feet five feet high and the pool is two feet five feet deep."

"The city walls are all covered with bricks and have four gates. The east is called Wuding, the west is called Heyi, the south is called Mingde, and the north is called Zhenshuo."

"There is an urn outside the city gate, a city tower above the city gate, and a turret at the corner of the city. In addition, enemy towers, nest shops and other facilities are all available."

"In the seventh year of Zhengde, the Ming Dynasty established Dongguan City in the east of the original Pingyang City."

"There are strange things in the city on Saturdays. The height of the city is three feet two, and the top width is one foot eight. They are all covered with bricks. There are six gates on three sides, four turrets on each, and seventeen enemy towers."

"The city is adjacent to the Fen River in the west, the Jushui River in the north, and the Guocheng City in the east. The rebel army is not in a position to besiege it. They can only attack from one point in the south, so the progress is quite slow."

After listening to Zhang Tianlin's detailed talk, Zhang Shun understood the difficulty of attacking Pingyang City.

Two sides of this place are facing water, and another side has a new outer city outside the city, forming a double-city structure. These three places are not conducive to the attacker's attack.

Originally, a large city with few soldiers like Pingyang City was very unfavorable for the defenders to defend.

However, due to the special terrain of Pingyang City, the advantage of the rebel army with many generals was avoided.

"How is the preparation of the artillery going?" Zhang Shun pondered for a moment, then asked involuntarily.

"The 'General Qingtian Cannon' has reached ten guns, and now six are unloaded, and the remaining four are expected to be unloaded tomorrow morning." Zhang Tianlin heard Zhang Shun's words, how could she not understand what he meant?
"There are now twelve 'Flying Bullets', ten 'Golden Cannons', and fifteen 'Field Cannons'."

"Almost all the artillery of the three battalions under my command was brought in, and only Dang Shousu left five 'golden cannons' for him, just in case."

According to the establishment of the rebel army, a battalion is equipped with ten "battalion cannons", including five "golden cannons" and five "field cannons".

Although Zhang Tianlin has a large number of troops and excellent soldiers, they are not Zhang Shun's direct descendants after all, and the soldiers have not been reorganized according to the standards of the rebel army.

So although his standard battalion has five thousand soldiers, the actual artillery equipment is no more than that of Dang Shousu and Zhang Rukui.

"By the way, where's Zhang Rukui?" Zhang Shun came for a while, but he didn't see another rebel general.

"He picked two hundred elites and is going to steal the city!" Zhang Tianlin hesitated for a moment.

"Nonsense, now that the enemy is on guard day and night, how can he take advantage of it? If he insists on doing this, he will lose his family and life in vain!" Zhang Shun keenly sensed that Zhang Rukui's action was inappropriate this time, so he couldn't help but order directly road.

"Send someone to call him over, and say that if I want to see him, I have to hit the south wall and not look back."

"The last general takes orders!" Zhang Tianlin hurriedly dispatched soldiers to look for him.

Only then did Zhang Shun frowned and said: "Since we can't take chances this time, we can only go head-to-head. We can't expect the enemy to surrender every time we go."

"We can fight skillful and wise battles, and we must also be able to fight tough and evil battles."

Zhang Tianlin couldn't help being terrified when she heard the words, the so-called "tough battle" and "evil battle" naturally required a lot of lives.

"Who is the artillery officer this time?" Zhang Shun asked again.

"This person's name is Zhao Yi, and he is a general sent by Li Shi'an, the head of the Second Artillery Corps. He is not very familiar with the latter." Zhang Tianlin said hastily.

"Oh? It seems that the 'infantry coordination' tactic can be used!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but nodded.

Whether it is Zhang Tianlin, Zhang Rukui, or Dang Shousu, they are all leaders of the rebel army who have taken refuge in Zhang Shun, and their tactics are not as sophisticated as Zhang Shun's direct descendants.

However, the key to "infantry and artillery coordinated tactics" lies in the artillery.

Since the gunner is his own, it is not impossible to use some soldiers who dare to charge to cooperate with them to achieve corresponding effects.

"His Royal Highness King Shun, why are you here?" Just as Zhang Shun was thinking, he heard a call and pulled him back from his contemplation.

"Why are you here? If I came late, I'm afraid I didn't come to collect your body!" Zhang Shun sneered.

"There is no opportunity to take advantage of it, and you dare to steal the city. Zhang Rukui, you are very brave!"

"Ah, King Shun, I don't think there has been any progress." Zhang Rukui scratched his head and smiled awkwardly.

"You are also an old man of the Rebel Army, how could you make such a low-level mistake?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but wondered.

All the leaders who were born in the rebel army, there were not many strong-headed ones, and the strong-headed ones had already been chopped off by the Ming army.

"He...his nephew was accidentally hit by the artillery of the Ming army when he was attacking the city during the day..." Zhang Tianlin explained in a low voice.

"Then you don't persuade him?" Zhang Shun subconsciously asked.

Immediately he realized that these people were rebellious and rebellious, even if Zhang Tianlin, the "Guotianxing" had a great reputation, they might not obey him.

Sure enough, Zhang Tianlin curled her lips and remained silent.

If it weren't for these two people not obeying the military order very much, this Pingyang City would not be so difficult to fight.

"One person does the work and the other person does it. This is not General Zhang's business!" Unexpectedly, Zhang Rukui couldn't sit still and couldn't help yelling loudly.

"That dog officer killed my nephew, I will kill him to avenge him!" Zhang Rukui couldn't help shouting.

It turns out that Zhang Rukui and Dang Shousu have been working together for many years, and their relationship is extraordinary.

After Zhang Shunzhen made these two generals, they led a battalion each, and had the capital to compete with Zhang Tianlin, so they didn't obey his orders a little bit.

In fact, Zhang Tianlin is not entirely to blame for this matter. If Zhang Shun hadn't engaged in a balance of power, perhaps with Zhang Tianlin's prestige and strength, he would have already been instigated.

Of course, if a general like Zhang Tianlin commanded other people like his arm, it would be Zhang Shun's turn to lose sleep.

Zhang Shun couldn't help but said angrily: "Are you still reasonable? If you violate the order, you will be executed according to the law!"

"Zhang Tianlin, tell me whether he should be killed or not?"

"Guotianxing" Zhang Tianlin knew Zhang Shun was supporting him when he heard Zhang Shun's words. He quickly smiled and said, "It should be like this according to the law, but this time I didn't order Zhang Zongbing to stop, and I also asked King Shun to stop him." be punished together."

"Okay, okay, that's great!" Zhang Shun laughed angrily, "Zhang Tianlin's ineffective command, Zhang Rukui's improper use of troops, according to the law, he will be punished fifty times."

"Because now is the time for employing people, I have the right to let you take the blame and make meritorious deeds."

"If you can capture Pingyang City in the next few days, don't mention anything; if you can't, we will settle the old and new scores together, and then we will argue with you!"

Zhang Rukui looked at Zhang Tianlin gratefully when he heard the words, and quickly assured him: "His Royal Highness King Shun, don't worry, if you can't take Pingyang City within three days, your subordinates will come to see you!"

No, I haven't set a deadline for you yet, so why don't you put this up for yourself?

Could it be that the birthday man hanged himself, tired of work!

Zhang Shun didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he never imagined that there were such idiots in the world.

In fact, Zhang Shun underestimated this person.

This guy and Dang Shousu have their own way of survival in the situation where all the volunteers lose their property and lives one after another.

This piece of Rukui saw Zhang Shun in person, how could he not know that he hated King Shun?
Therefore, he hastened to overweight himself, hoping to take this opportunity to restore his image.

(End of this chapter)