Please ask me to be the emperor

The rebels took advantage of the darkness and moved toward the old county town. It's just because the mountain road is uneasy and the night is dark. Zhang Shun was afraid that he would accidentally hurt the horse's hoof and lose the cavalry, so he had to order the rebels to dismount and walk.

Zhang Shun has always cherished these 1,500 cavalrymen since he got them. In the past, if a cavalryman died in battle, priority would be given to recruiting cavalrymen from the infantry to replenish them; if a warhorse fell ill and died, priority would be given to selecting warhorses from captured troops in order to maintain the elite cavalry of these three divisions.

Now that Tang Jiuzhou has become his own, Zhang Shun is not in a hurry. He led everyone to walk for more than an hour before arriving near the old county town.

It was getting late at this time, and there were no archers from the Inspection Department patrolling the vicinity of Jiuxian Town, and no one was patrolling on alert. Zhang Shun estimated that these people had gone home and rested at the Inspection Department and other places.

Zhang Shun couldn't help but smile when he saw this, and thought to himself: This Tang Jiuzhou is indeed a typical military general in the late Ming Dynasty! This group of people is very unique in fighting. They are not afraid of death and take the lead, but they also often like to escape from the battlefield and betray their teammates. When fighting, they are not willing to explore intelligence and patrol, and are often unprepared.

Based on the rebel army's experience in fighting with them in Shanxi, Zhang Shun once privately commented that they were "strong but without plans, cowardly but without strategies. They don't know what they are attacking when attacking, and they don't know what they are defending when defending."

Zhang Shun felt a little at ease when he saw that Tang Jiuzhou was indeed not on guard at all. However, for the sake of stability, Zhang Shun specially sent several spies to disguise themselves as ordinary people passing by and sneak into the town to observe the activities of the inspection department.

After waiting for half the night, the spies reported one after another that there was no movement in the inspection department. Zhang Shun was relieved when he saw that the town was really defenseless. He ordered "King Zuo Jin" to lead fifty good men, and sneaked in with sharp swords.

Jiuxian Town is somewhat similar to Luanchuan Town, but it has no city, no walls, and no defensive buildings. Only the Inspection Department can be used as a small castle for defense.

It was already dark, and the people in the town had already gone to bed. How could they know what was going on in the town? "King Zuo Jin" and others took the opportunity to approach the inspection department, threw hook ropes, and climbed in secretly.

After a while, a burst of fighting was heard inside. Zhang Shun knew that "King Zuo Jin" had launched an attack, so he quickly ordered "Ge Liyan" to lead five hundred soldiers to break open the gate of the inspection department and rush in to meet and assist "King Zuo Jin".

"Grey Eyes" had already led people to find a log, and dozens of people rushed towards it while shouting slogans.

Since the inspection department was unprepared, the door was only bolted and no other measures were taken. They were only bumped into by the rebels three or four times, breaking the latch, and then swarmed in and fought their way in.

After "Grey Eyes" rushed in, the sound of fighting in the inspection department only sounded for a while, and then gradually became silent.

Afterwards, "King Zuo Jin" personally ran back and reported to Zhang Shunhui: "Lord, we have killed all the officers and soldiers, and the 'Grim Eyes' are searching for the remaining officers and soldiers who fled. There is only one patrol here, and I killed it." He was wounded and captured alive, I wonder if my lord wants to interrogate him on the spot?"

Zhang Shun nodded in agreement upon hearing this. He was feeling strange. Although Tang Jiuzhou was an incompetent person, he was still considered a deputy general soldier. He had more than a thousand elite men under his command. How could he be so bad?

For this reason, I deliberately left Liu Cheng as a surprise soldier, but before the surprise soldiers could take action, he was defeated by the rebels. It was really strange!

After a while, Zhang Shun saw "King Zuo Jin" commanding two soldiers and dragging up a fat man.

Zhang Shun looked through the light of the soldiers around him and saw that this man was wearing brocade clothes and his face was pale. Someone had cut him on the chest, and he was bleeding, half of his clothes were dyed red. At first glance, he looked not like a patrol inspector, but like a rich man.

The knife wound on his chest must have been inflicted by "King Zuo Jin". Zhang Shun was not good at martial arts, so he didn't know if any of his key parts were injured, and he didn't know if he would survive the night.

So, Zhang Shun quickly asked: "Are you the patrol inspector of this old county and town? Where did Tang Jiuzhou go?"

The inspector looked like he was dying and replied intermittently: "General Tang had dinner at my place in the evening, and then headed east overnight!"

Ah! His feelings were in vain again, so Tang Jiuzhou might as well be nicknamed "Flying General".

Zhang Shun secretly resented it. Fortunately, he felt that two legs could not run with four legs anyway. How could the soldiers under your command, Tang Jiuzhou, travel day and night without rest or sleep? If you can really lead an army to travel a thousand miles a day and eight hundred miles a night, then I can simply capture you with just my hands, and what kind of rebellion are you going to do!

Afterwards, Zhang Shun simply ordered his soldiers to rest for one night in Jiuxian Town. Early the next morning, taking advantage of the morning light, we galloped eastwards.

What's going on with Tang Jiuzhou? It turned out that he was afraid that Zhang Shun would be impatient, and he had been at the border for a long time, and he was well aware of the speed advantage of cavalry pursuit. Therefore, he did not stay overnight along the way, but just drove the soldiers to escape to Song County as quickly as possible.

Tang Jiuzhou's subordinates are all elites from the Nine Sides. Although their combat effectiveness is not top-notch, their ability to escape is top-notch.

Under the pressure of Zhang Shun's cavalry, this group of "elites" actually marched 1,670 miles in two nights and one night and arrived at the foot of Song County.

This Song County was just besieged by the rebels such as "General Chuang". Under the supervision of the county magistrate He Fu, the rebel attack was just repelled. Now that Song County is still frightened, how can it dare to open the city gate at night and let in more than a thousand armed soldiers of unknown origin? So Tang Jiuzhou and other border troops were turned away.

This made Tang Jiuzhou very angry. If it were another county, he might have ordered an attack on the city.

It's just that He Fu in Song County has always known soldiers. He even repelled tough bandits like "Chuang Jiang", let alone his little deputy general Tang Jiuzhou?

Tang Jiuzhou had no choice. The soldiers under his command had already been driven away by him and were complaining. If they were not appeased in time, a "mutiny" might happen.

Fortunately, this fellow was of similar moral character to Zuo Liangyu. Considering that the bandits were defeated this time and that they would be the laughing stock of He Fu, the magistrate, he ordered the soldiers to be divided into seven or eight teams and went to separate villages to spend the night.

Saying it is "overnight" is actually taking the opportunity to kill good people and take credit, causing harm to the people. This is not because Tang Jiuzhou is arrogant, but because he feels that "Chuang Jiang" and others have failed here, and King Shun will definitely not come over to fight with Song County after seeing his family missing.

It's just that he had all the information, but he didn't expect that after King Shun Zhang Shun and other rebels separated, they broke off contact and had no information about each other.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Shun blind cat broke into a dead mouse. When I arrived at Niuzhai Village near Song County in the early morning, I happened to stop Tang Jiuzhou and others who were causing trouble there.

It was fitting that Tang Jiuzhou was unlucky. Last night he led more than a hundred people and broke into a village without thinking about it. He just ordered his soldiers to clean up these "noisy fools" so that he could rest early. Unexpectedly, he encountered a hard fight and delayed his entry into the city.

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