Please ask me to be the emperor

Seeing that Deng Qi was about to eat people, Zuo Liangyu had no choice but to stand up and persuade him: "General Deng, calm down. Victory or defeat is a common thing for military officers."

"A common thing! A common thing! A common thing!" Deng Qizheng couldn't find a place to vent his anger, so he caught Zuo Liangyu and scolded him, "That person is not immortal. Isn't it common for people to lose their heads!"

Ma Fengyi was not feeling well at first. When she heard this, she shouted angrily: "I have fought a lot of battles, but I have never fought such a useless battle! The white-poled soldiers under my command are brave and good at fighting. The world is so big that I have never fought such a useless battle." Afraid of others. But this time, after being bombarded with artillery for so long, I didn’t even touch the opponent’s hair!”

When Deng Qi saw that Ma Fengyi was trying to accuse him, he couldn't help but become even more angry and was about to scold him back. At this time, Tang Jiuzhou, who was soft-spoken, quickly stood up and said: "Everyone, please calm down and listen to me."

"This rogue bandit dares to fight, but compared with the Beilu and She'an bandits we have fought, he is nothing. It's just that our incident happened suddenly this time and we marched in a hurry. We didn't carry the Hongyi cannon, so we asked them to You are trying to be cruel. If our army has three or five Hongyi cannons here, they will not be able to survive or die!"

When Deng Qi heard this, his anger subsided a bit. So he asked: "Commander Zuo, you are often at the border. Do you know if you have a Hongyi cannon to use?"

Hearing this, Zuo Liangyu smiled bitterly and said: "We all went into battle lightly and came to exterminate the bandits. Who has the time to carry this iron knot? If I had this thing, I wouldn't have suffered the humiliation of being defeated before."

When everyone was at their wits' end, a sharp voice suddenly rang out: "If we had this Hongyi cannon, would we be able to eliminate this group of bandits?"

Everyone looked up and saw a white-faced and beardless servant. This was the eunuch sent by Emperor Chongzhen to supervise Deng Qi, Zuo Liangyu and others.

When Deng Qi and Zuo Liangyu heard this, they understood in their hearts and quickly asked: "Do you have any connections, father-in-law?"

"There is no way!" The eunuch said with a sharp smile, "There is a way!"

"Pu Zheng, the king of the capital camp, is leading the imperial army to help in the battle. Why don't we write to him quickly and ask him to bring more Hongyi cannons from the capital to defeat thieves!"

Deng Qi, Zuo Liangyu, Ma Fengyi and Tang Jiuzhou were overjoyed when they heard the news. They quickly wrote a letter and sent people to rush north to the capital in order to solve the advantage of the rebel artillery.

Not to mention the calculations of the officers and soldiers here, the rebel camp over there was filled with joy. Since Zhang Shun took on the title of leader of the Thirty-sixth Battalion, he could not be stingy.

Anyway, he had a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, so Zhang Shun simply took some out and rewarded the meritorious people.

In terms of merit, Li Shi'an's artillery merit ranks first. "Grey Eyes" found out and prevented the officers and cavalry from attacking the artillery position, ranking second in merit. The remaining Liu Cheng, "King of Zuo Jin", "Eight Great Kings", "Living Cao Cao" and "King of Troubled Times" each have their own rewards.

However, it was difficult for Zhang Shun to get the money. He insisted that the rebels report their heroes and warriors and receive rewards.

"Eight Kings", "Living Cao Cao" and "King of Troubled Times" heard this, you look at me, I look at you, okay, you really think of yourself as the "emperor".

But they had no choice. After all, the three of them, Zhang Shun, the leader of the alliance, took the responsibility of the alliance leader. It is no wonder that Zhang Shun divided and disintegrated their generals as the alliance leader.

Not to mention what they were thinking, Zhang Shun finally stabilized his position, defeated the officers and soldiers, and was in the limelight for a while.

But after that, no matter how the rebels challenged them, the officers and soldiers stayed behind closed doors and concentrated on secretly reinforcing the camp.

This gave Zhang Shun a headache. On the surface, he claimed to "break the three palaces and capture the three kings." In fact, he wanted to eliminate this group of officers and soldiers, ease the military pressure on the rebels, and enhance his prestige.

Zhang Shun had to call in Li Shi'an to bombard the camp facilities with artillery. However, although this artillery was powerful, it was far from the power of later artillery.

Even if part of the officers' and soldiers' camp was destroyed, the rebels still could not rush in. On the second day, the repairs were completed in time by the officers and soldiers, and the methods of the previous day had to be repeated.

After struggling like this for a few days, Li Shi'an couldn't stand it any longer and hurriedly ran over to report: "General, we can't keep on wasting like this. Our artillery is still good, but the barrels of other rebel artillery have already exploded. If they all explode, , I can’t explain it to the other rebel leaders!”

"What's more, the rebels don't use many firearms, and only 50% of the gunpowder they carry is used up. After such a long time, there is no gunpowder at the critical moment, which is detrimental to our army."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Shun tried to retreat to Huaiqing Mansion to attract officers and soldiers to attack, but the distance between the two sides was too close. When the rebels just left the camp, the officers and soldiers took the opportunity to attack the original camp of the rebels and almost occupied it.

Zhang Shun had no choice but to turn around and repel Deng Qi and other officers and soldiers, reoccupy the rebel camp, and confront the officers and soldiers. As a result, after going back and forth, before Zhang Shun had time to open up the situation, the food in his hands was gradually disappearing.

Fortunately, Zhang Shun had been prepared. On the ninth day of June, Zhang Shenyan and Xu Ziyuan finally sent news that Li Baihu had kept his promise and had sent five thousand dan of food.

However, Li Baihu had only one request: to come and see Zhang Shun. Zhang Shun was watched, and he didn't want to lose a piece of meat, so how could he refuse? Then he agreed.

How can Li Baihu transport so much grain this time? It turned out that after he returned to Chenzhou, he sold his property, went to Nanzhili to buy grain, and transported it all the way to Zhuxian Town by water.

Then they took the land route and transported it to the Yellow River. Huang Shoucai, the "River God", summoned many ships to transport it all the way to Wuzhi County.

At this time, Jiang He had been waiting for a long time with his five hundred men. After picking up Li Baihu's team, he passed through Xiuwu and Huojia all the way to Huixian.

Deng Qi, Zuo Liangyu and others were still eagerly waiting for Wang Pu to arrive with the Hongyi cannon. How could they notice that the rebels were short of food? He only said that "rogue bandits" live by predators and have no logistics to speak of, so they have no defense.

This allowed Li Baihu, escorted by Jiang He, to reach Zhang Shun's camp easily. In order to boost morale, Zhang Shun specially asked his soldiers to carry food under the watch of all the rebels.

How to hand over the grain here has already been taken over by Song Xiance, and Zhang Shun personally welcomed Li Baihu into his big tent.

The two sat apart and drank a few sips of tea. Li Baihu looked around and said with emotion: "The general is indeed a man who does great things. Now he is in charge of the lives and deaths of tens of thousands of people. The camp is still so simple and has no family members." The maid taking care of you is really noble and honest, and you are willing to live in poverty!"

As soon as Zhang Shun heard that this sounded wrong, he knew that Li Baihu must have mentioned his daughter again, so he pretended not to know and asked, "What does Li Baihu mean?"