Please ask me to be the emperor

"Your Highness, Your Highness, if you don't leave, all the people in our city are counting on you!"

"Your Highness, Your Highness, please stay! We will give you whatever you want. Even if you want my mother, I will invite you here!"

It turned out that after Zhang Shun cleared the defeated troops in Kunshan, he rushed back to Suzhou overnight and completely defeated the defeated troops in Dongjiang Town.

He then decided to give Qian Qianyi two flags and put him in charge of recruiting and surrendering Huang Fei's remaining Taihu troops. He was going to lead his troops eastward and drive away the eager Zheng Zhilong troops.

However, he never expected that the big families in Suzhou and Kunshan would lead a wolf into their houses this time and suffer heavy losses. He was frightened by this group of defeated troops.

Especially after they heard about Xu Ziyi's stupid things in Kunshan, they felt even more chilled down their spines.

People often say: Brothers are like siblings, women are like clothes.

However, as far as my mother is concerned, there is only one for everyone.

Therefore, when they heard that Zhang Shun was leaving, they immediately cried for their father and mother, begged their grandfather to sue their grandmother, and wished they could give their old mother to Zhang Shun, but they did not want him to leave.

Even for this reason, they were very heartbroken and came to reward the army with tens of thousands of taels of military pay and hundreds of cattle and sheep.

After this battle, they finally understood.

"Shun thieves" want money, but "yellow thieves" want lives!

If the money is gone, you can earn it again. If the people are gone, then there is nothing.

Although they tried their best to persuade him to stay, Zhang Shun still had to leave.

Soldiers are valuable and quick. Now Zhang Shun spent a day and a night to finally solve the problem of the army's defeat in Dongjiang River.

If he doesn't seize the time now to eliminate the threat of Zheng Zhilong who occupies Chongming and Shen Youlong who occupies Songjiang, will he have to wait for the other party to come knocking again?

"Report~Gu Menglin asks for an audience!" Just when Zhang Shun insisted on going east, he suddenly saw Gu Tinglin coming.

Although Gu Tinglin was a young master from an aristocratic family, he was able to endure some hardships, and Zhang Shun brought him to his side when he had some skills.

"Oh, please come quickly!" Zhang Shun frowned when he heard Gu Tinglin's words.

Just after he left Gu Yuan, could it be that Zheng Zhilong and Shen Youlong surrounded him again?

"Your Highness, we just received news last night that Zheng Zhilong led his fleet and left Liujiagang, Chongming and other places, heading south!" Unexpectedly, Gu Menglin came over and said straight away.

"What, gone?" Zhang Shun couldn't believe his ears.

It turned out that Zheng Zhilong's navy was powerful and occupied the outlet of the Yangtze River. He was at odds with Zheng Zhifeng who was entrenched in the Zhoushan Islands. Zhang Shun was still worried about how to deal with these two people, but unexpectedly he left on his own.

No wonder Gu Menglin traveled all night and came to report in person.

However, the matter was serious, so Zhang Shun confirmed again and again: "Has this been confirmed before? Could it be a fraud?"

"It's confirmed!" Gu Menglin nodded and said, "Although Chongming is far away, Liujiagang is close at hand. I know everything about Zheng Zhilong!"

It turns out that Liujiagang is not a trivial matter. It was originally the outlet of the Liu River and the starting point for Zheng He's voyages to the West. Its status is obviously average.

However, since the imperial court stopped its voyages to the West, the port has gradually become silted up and is no longer as prosperous as it once was.

Because of this, Zheng Zhilong had to anchor most of his ships in Chongming and a small number in Liujiagang.

By coincidence, Liujiagang happened to be connected to Taicang through Liuhe. The Gu family was originally a wealthy family in Taicang. After stabilizing their position, they naturally knew everything about Liujiagang.

Now Liujiagang is where Zheng's navy landed. Since the ships here have withdrawn, naturally Chongming's ships no longer exist.

Zhang Shun's face was uncertain for a long time after hearing this, and finally he gritted his teeth and said: "In that case, let's go to Songjiang!"

But just when Zhang Shunyi and others decided to go south, he didn't know that six or seven hundred miles away from Suzhou, a group of Ding Zhuangzheng, whose heads were wrapped in white cloth, surrounded the Jinhua City.

"I am ordering the prefect of the city to surrender without killing anyone. If they resist to the end, don't blame me for being unkind!" A young Confucian scholar wrapped his head in a white scarf and ordered with high spirits.

"Yes, Xu Shuai!" The young men on the left and right responded after hearing the words.

It turns out that this "Xu Shuai" is none other than Chen Zilong's good friend Xu Du, one of the backbones of several societies.

Before Chen Zilong discussed the matter with his friends, He Gang and Xu Fuyuan tried their best to recommend Xu Du when he returned to society, saying: "He lives among the best soldiers in the world, and he has trained a brigade for use!"

It turns out that Xu Du was born somewhere else but Jinhua, whose two counties of Yiwu and Dongyang were where the famous Qi Army was recruited in the past.

Although Xu Du was a young master from an aristocratic family, he also liked to make friends with heroes and swordsmen. Therefore, as soon as he received Chen Zilong's request, he began to recruit warriors and heroes, train soldiers, and prepare to do something great.

Unexpectedly, at that time, Zheng Zhifeng and Zheng Zhilong frequently used troops to conquer Zhang Shun, and the food and wages were quite insufficient, so King Lu ordered all prefectures and counties to try their best to collect enough money and food.

The magistrate of Dongyang County was worried about having nowhere to raise food and wages. Seeing Xu Du dissipating his family wealth and recruiting troops and horses, and thinking that no one in his family had been successful in the imperial examination for three generations, he couldn't help but want to extort money.

Therefore, he apportioned 10,000 taels of silver to Xu Du for military use.

The Xudu family was in decline and was already inferior to others. Now they spent a lot of money to recruit warriors and build weapons. How could there be spare money for him?

As a result, the two sides started to have conflicts, and the magistrate used Xu Du's "rebellion" as an excuse to confiscate his home.

Unexpectedly, Xu Du's mother was old and died in shock and fright.

Na Xu was a filial person, but when he saw his mother being forced to die, he rebelled in anger.

At this moment, the "Cangshan Bandits" were causing trouble, and Xu Du had more than a thousand warriors under his command. The two sides hit it off immediately, and they jointly recommended Xu Du as the commander, and respected Zhang Shun as the emperor. They wrapped their heads in white scarves and called them "Baitou Army". Explore nearby states and counties.

In just a few days, the Baitou Army first conquered Dongyang County, and then moved on to Yiwu, Zhuji, Pujiang, Yongkang, Wuyi, Tangxi, Lanxi and other counties. At one time, the entire Jinhua land was almost in their hands, except for Jinhua City.

However, this single move had already frightened King Lu and Zheng Zhifeng to death.

Why?

It turned out that although this "King of Lu" claimed to be supervising the country, he actually did not dare to garrison in Hangzhou, which was close to the rebel army. Instead, he used Taizhou as his base and looked down upon the land south of the Yangtze River.

This Taizhou is located in the coastal area east of Jinhua. If Jinhua is lost, Taizhou will naturally be in danger. Therefore, King Lu had to urgently summon Zheng Zhilong to come back for reinforcements to avoid being taken advantage of by Xu Du.

Naxu was very close to Taizhou, and had contacts with He Gang, Xu Fuyuan, Chen Zilong and others from Fushe, so it was natural for him to understand where King Lu's troops were.

He couldn't help but loudly ordered: "Everyone, work harder and knock down this Jinhua quickly. We will have a foothold."

"If we can still capture Taizhou and capture King Lu, we will have made an immortal contribution!"

"If not, our family and clan will be destroyed today!"

As soon as Xu Du said this, the "Bald Army" couldn't help but scream and launched a fierce attack on Jinhua City.