please make me king

Chapter 1712
"Drive, drive!" Zhang Shun was wearing a heavy armor, and was galloping westward on his horse, sweating profusely.

There was still a round package hanging on the saddle, and most of it was stained with dark brown blood.

It is 150 miles from Taicang to West Suzhou, 150 miles to Chongming Island in the east, and 150 miles to Songjiang in the south, where Taicang is located.

After the rebel army interrogated the captives, Zhang Shun knew that this attack was a joint force of Huang Fei, Zheng Zhilong, and Shen Youlong, the remnants of the Ming army.

The arrangement of the three is to occupy Suzhou, Chongming and Songjiang respectively, and then use this as a springboard to besiege Gu Yuan.

If we want to remove the current military threat, we must start with the arrangement of these three parties.

Now the coalition forces have been defeated, and the three parties fled separately.

Needless to say, the Dongjiang soldiers will naturally flee back to Suzhou, the navy will flee to Chongming, and Shen Youlong's Ding Zhuang will flee to Songjiang.

However, Zhang Shun's troops are limited, obviously not enough to pursue in three directions at the same time, so he can only choose one of the most important ones as the primary target.

Without even thinking about it, Zhang Shun chose the Dongjiang soldiers fleeing westward as his first target.

One thing is that Dongjiang soldiers have the strongest combat power, and they are the main force used by the gentry and literati in Suzhou in the south of the Yangtze River to fight against Zhang Shun.

Second, Huang Fei, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Navy of the Ming Dynasty who aided the suppression of the Northeast, and the admiral Guan Liao, Tongjin, Huaihaijiang Township, and Huang Fei, who acted cheaply, died in battle.

Sure enough, not long after Zhang Shun left Guyuan, he saw the fleeing Dongjiang soldiers looting nearby people.

He had no choice but to leave some men to drive and kill, while chasing westward as soon as possible.

This group of soldiers who had withdrawn from the Liaodong battlefield were not only extremely fierce in battle, but also did their part in the disaster.

"Looking at this hour, it's probably about the same time?" The Zhou's manor was already full of guests at dawn, and one of the young people surnamed Xu couldn't help but yelled.

"Xu Ziyi, you're the only one in a hurry!" Everyone laughed and said, "Now that Governor Huang's army is gone, how can the 'Shun Bandit' be safe?"

"Hey, if you say I'm impatient, why don't you feel anxious?" Xu Ziyi couldn't help retorting when he heard the words, which immediately made everyone laugh.

It turned out that these people were all representatives of prominent families in Suzhou and Kunshan, but now they gathered together to deal with "thieves who go against the law."

Among them, Huang Fei was able to conquer Suzhou City so quickly, and arrived at Guyuan via Kunshan, naturally the strength of these people was indispensable.

"Once this 'Shun Thief' is over, I'm afraid Mrs. Gu won't be able to do so either!" someone said earlier.

"Hey, be careful with your words, be careful with your words!" Someone listened, and couldn't help but answer the words in a strange way.

"What does it matter if you don't care about this?" Unexpectedly, another person laughed.

It turns out that his family is also the Gu family, although they have some relationship with the Gu family in Taicang, after all, they are not a family anymore.

"You think I'm talking about you, but I'm talking about him!" Someone was angry again, and pointed at Xu Ziyi obliquely.

As soon as these words came out, everyone burst into laughter.

"Ye Haolong, what do you mean!" Xu Ziyi couldn't help but burst into tears when he heard the words.

"It's nothing interesting, it's just that someone took a fancy to the young lady, but it turned out that the young lady went to a higher branch!" That Ye Haolong laughed.

It turned out that Xu Ziyi had heard that Gu Qiji was both talented and beautiful, and could be a good match, and he had long wanted to marry him.

It is inevitable to mention it to other people in private, so as to stop others from asking for marriage.

It's just that he never expected that Zhang Shun would make a horizontal move, and the cooked duck suddenly flew away. One can imagine how depressed he was.

"I'm not going to tell you, just wait for my good news!" Xu Ziyi suddenly smiled after hearing that his face was cloudy and cloudy, and sat down with all his anger dissipated.

"What's wrong with you, are you mad?" Everyone asked in amazement.

"Stupid? Which one is stupid? Everyone will know when the news comes out!" Xu Ziyi replied with a smile on his face.

"Cut, playing tricks!" Everyone didn't care, but Xu Ziyi sneered secretly.

What do you mean?

It turned out that this fellow admired Gu Qiji so much that he felt forbidden.

After hearing that she was "possessed" by Zhang Shun, she became murderous.

However, unlike "Licking the Dog" Lu En, he hated the house and black, even Gu Shi and Gu Qiji.

So, he used an old servant he had bought earlier to add some ingredients to the Gu family's big fish.

According to his mind, if the test fails, Zhang Shun and the Gu family will die and fall down.

If it turns out, it means that the Gu family "deliberately murdered King Shun", ransacking the family and exterminating the family, as it should be.

So, he is holding back now, and is going to surprise everyone in a while.

"It's not good, it's not good!" Said surprise, surprise, just when Xu Ziyi was thinking about it, suddenly a few servants stumbled in.

There are their own, and there are several others.

"Why panic?" He couldn't help asking first.

"Captain Huang was defeated. His rout soldiers rushed back, killing people and humiliating women. They just broke into our garden, and those dog servants scattered in fright..." The servant replied panting.

"What?" Xu Ziyi felt his eyes go dark, and almost passed out on the spot.

"What about Huang Fei? Could it be that he has surrendered as a thief?" someone asked in disbelief.

"I heard... I heard that he was beaten to death, his head... was cut off..." The servant's voice trembled, obviously terrified.

"Hurry up, go back and have a look!" Now everyone was not in the mood to read Xu Ziyi's joke, and couldn't help jumping up.

Then Xu Ziyi didn't care about anything, and hurried home.

When he just arrived at the door of his house, he saw a few servants and ran out in a panic.

"Where's my mother?" Xu Ziyi couldn't help but grabbed someone and asked.

"Madam... Madam is inside..." The servant was startled, and quickly pointed inside.

"Mother!" Xu Ziyi quickly abandoned the man and ran into the yard.

"Master, you can't go in..." The servant still tried to hold him back, but how could he stop?

When he rushed into the courtyard, he couldn't help but see a few ruffians holding down a few women and beating them violently.

"Dog thief, let them go!" Xu Ziyi couldn't help shouting, and then rushed up after finding a wooden stick that the servants had discarded earlier.

"Bang bang!" Before he could rush to the front, he was shot open by two soldiers waiting in line, and then he was full of old punches.

"Hold it, let him see!" a leader-like ruffian ordered while panting.

"Okay!" The two routs grinned, pulled him to him, and pressed him to the ground.

"Dog thief... dog thief..." Xu Ziyi couldn't help beating and scolding, while struggling desperately.

It's just that the fingers of these two routs were like steel claws on one side, even though he seemed to be struggling, they didn't move at all.

"Thief dare!" Just when he was about to explode in anger, he suddenly heard a loud shout, and then released the fingers of the two people who were holding him down.

He hurriedly struggled, but saw several arrows raining on the two of them.

He quickly picked up a waist knife, and was about to strike at one of them, but he was snatched away first, and he shot dead there.

"Mother, mother!" He quickly dropped the knife and frantically pushed the man away, revealing a naked woman covered in blood.

"Brother!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, handed him a piece of clothing, and motioned him to cover her quickly.

"Okay, okay!" Seeing that, Xu Ziyi quickly took it and prepared to cover her.

Unexpectedly, at this moment of stupefaction, the woman suddenly picked up the waist knife that Xu Ziyi had discarded just now, and stabbed it into her chest.

"Mother!" Xu Ziyi didn't expect her to be so decisive, he threw away the clothes, hugged her and shouted heart-piercingly.

Seeing such a tragedy in the world, Zhang Shun couldn't help feeling heavy in his heart, so he waved at the others and retreated.

"It's so miserable!" The four daughters Dong Xiaowan, Gu Qiji, Bian Yujing and Bian Min, whose thighs were still hurting as soon as they went out, couldn't help but muttered with pale faces.

The four daughters who were born in a place where fireworks are prosperous, rich and gentle, have experienced more things in the past two days than they have seen in their younger lives.

Blood, dead bodies, and insulted women, everything impacted their fragile nerves.

"Your Highness..." The four of them couldn't help leaning closer to Zhang Shun, as if they could regain some sense of security in this way.

"Okay, let's go to the next place!" Zhang Shun sighed, and ordered unconsciously, "Every moment we delay, someone will suffer for a moment!"

There are a lot of defeated soldiers in Dongjiang, and most of them are concentrated in the families of various families in Kunshan, which makes Zhang Shun find it easy.

It was so easy to be so busy that it was getting late, so I caught and killed all these people, and attracted a lot of gratitude from the gentry.

"Master, someone is looking for him!" Just when Zhang Shun was exhausted and wanted Dong Xiaowan and Gu Qiji to help him take off his armor and catch his breath, Wukong came to report.

"Oh, let him come over!" Zhang Shun was so hot that he didn't want to talk much.

"General, thank you for your life-saving grace. Now I am in a state of desperation, so I prepare a small gift as a token of gratitude!" Not long after, a familiar young man came over.

He was in a daze, his eyes were swollen from crying.

Following his order, the servants around him quickly brought over some gold and silver, soft drinks, and food.

"You're welcome, you're welcome!" Zhang Shun replied feebly, and stood up to see off the guests.

"Uh... dare to ask the general's name, so that I can repay the favor in case in the future..." The young man was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something and couldn't help but turn around and ask again.

"Oh, my surname is Zhang and my name is Shun. Everyone calls me 'King Shun'..." Zhang Shun said with a smile.

"It's you! You're not dead!" Unexpectedly, the young man Xu Ziyi couldn't help shouting when he heard the words.

"What do you mean?" Zhang Shun's expression darkened when he heard this, and he suddenly remembered the few volunteer soldiers who were poisoned to death by the big fish.

"It's not interesting, I just want to ask you if Gu Qiji is having fun!" Unexpectedly, Xu Ziyi asked like a madman suddenly.

"Oh, it must be fun, she is so young ... even my old mother ... ah ah ... my old lady was killed by you!"

"No, my old lady was killed by me, or you saved us...Ah, Xu Ziyi, you have to suffer on your own, and today..."

"Shut up!" Gu Qiji heard him say such obscene words, and she was the murderer who tried to poison Zhang Shun, her eyes opened immediately, and she was about to step forward to reason with him.

"Don't go...he...he's gone crazy!" Zhang Shun quickly grabbed Gu Qiji with one hand, and looked at him with some pity.

It turned out that under repeated stimulation, he finally broke the string in his mind and went crazy.

As the saying goes: those who play with the sword will die by the sword!
The large Suzhou households themselves do not have much military strength, and they still want to "borrow troops to help suppress", isn't it just seeking skin from a tiger?

Thinking of this, Zhang Shun couldn't help but look around. Wherever his eyes went, the big families in Suzhou and Kunshan couldn't help but bow their heads one by one.

He suddenly understood that the reason why these defeated soldiers were able to accurately find these big households was probably inseparable from the warm hospitality of these big households when the Dongjiang soldiers came east.

In fact, things were even more outrageous than Zhang Shun imagined. It turned out that when Huang Fei entered Suzhou and Kunshan, in order to hurry, the big families in these cities dispersed the entertainment.

For example, if you take care of ten people, I take care of twenty, so that after these people are defeated and come back, they are familiar with the road, and they don’t ask for it!

(End of this chapter)