Please ask me to be the emperor

Zhang Shun knew very well that he should not set up flags randomly when doing things, otherwise he would not end well. This "Purple Golden Liang" is a typical example.

His pointed wooden donkey was indeed perfect, and a two-inch caliber tiger squatting cannon was hidden inside. He pushed it near the city gate, aimed it at the Douzhuang city gate, and fired a shot at the left gate of the west gate. The large and small holes shocked all the servants and villagers guarding the city in Douzhuang.

Zhang Daojun quickly ordered the imitation Western artillery to be loaded with live ammunition and fired. Just after one round of firing, the pointed wooden donkey pushed by the "Zijin Liang" men exceeded the shooting range. Unfortunately, Douzhuang's imitation Western artillery was not able to hit even a pointed wooden donkey.

"Purple Golden Liang" became increasingly happy and said to Zhang Shun: "Thanks to the artillery of brother Optimus Prime, otherwise it would be difficult to capture this city."

Zhang Shun looked at him strangely and thought: This guy has been struggling under this city for more than half a month, but he has made no progress at all. How can he boast of the courage to attack this city today?

Zhang Shun didn't know that although "Zijin Liang" and others were from the frontier army of the Guards Station, they had been fighting against Taolu in Yansui for many years and had no experience in siege. The so-called Taolu was the Ming Dynasty's contemptuous name for the Tatars and Oara Mongols who settled in the Hetao area. These people basically live by water and grass and have no fixed place. Therefore, the methods of fighting between Yansui and others are mainly field battles, supplemented by city defense, and there is no method of attacking the city.

In the past few days, the "Purple Golden Liang" mostly used the simple "ant attack" method, which was just relying on long ladders to climb the city to pile up lives, and there was no sophisticated siege strategy. It was only in the past few days that his counselor Han Tingxian gave him a plan that led to the current attack on the city.

It's a pity that "Purple Gold Liang" underestimated Zhang Daojun. When he saw "Purple Gold Liang's" pointed wooden donkey arriving at the bottom of the city, he ordered the villagers' slaves to throw stones downwards in an attempt to destroy the pointed wooden donkey. As a result, because the pointed-headed wooden donkey cooperated with the artillery, it could shoot without getting close to the city gate. The stones thrown from the city could not hit that far and could not damage the pointed wooden donkey.

So Zhang Daojun ordered the farmer's servant to throw an iron hook at the pointed wooden donkey, and the iron hook hit the top of the pointed wooden donkey. He also asked dozens of people to work together to pull apart the top of the pointed wooden donkey, and then fired with quick guns and three-eyed blunderbuss.

The pointed-headed wooden donkey lost its protection, and immediately the small flag unit of ten people suffered heavy losses, and almost the entire army was wiped out. Zhang Daojun followed suit, and the tops of the pointed wooden donkeys made by the "Purple Gold Liang" were pulled open one after another. Then, except for some soldiers who escaped back, most of them were stained with blood on the spot. "Purple Golden Liang" suddenly not only lost some of its siege elites, but also abandoned eight cannons that were still warm in their hands.

Zhang Daojun was overjoyed when he saw it, and he quickly opened the city gate, and with his servants as sharp knives and the villagers as his backing, he went out to seize the artillery. The "Purple Golden Liang" became angry when they saw it, and quickly ordered their soldiers to use artillery to suppress the opponent, while releasing their cavalry to launch a surprise attack on the soldiers sent by Zhang Daojun outside the city.

Zhang Daojun was also shocked. A few days ago, during the siege of the city, everyone was pecking at each other, but they were not very good at it. Our "Purple Gold Liang" was only at this level, but he never thought that the opponent actually held a cavalryman in his hand.

In fact, this is because Zhang Daojun has been in the mainland for a long time and underestimated the Shaanxi rebels. Since the Shaanxi rebel uprising, he was killed by Hong Chengchou and others until he was bleeding like a river, and his legs were so slow that he died early. No matter what specialties those left behind, they could at least ride a horse, and some of them were even the elite cavalry on three sides of the Ming army who often fought against the Taolu.

The cavalry was released from this compartment, and Zhang Daojun quickly ordered artillery support from the city, but the effect was still not very good. Except for the servants brought back from Liaodong who were able to retreat as soon as possible, the villagers and slaves who left the city were instantly cut to pieces by the horses under the command of "Purple Gold Liang", crying for their fathers and mothers.

Zhang Shun's eyes lit up when he saw it, and he thought: These are only one or two hundred cavalry, and they are so powerful when charging. If there are thousands of cavalry, how powerful will they be in this era of hot and cold weapons? No wonder the infantry in later online novels basically only includes pikemen and musketeers, which are specially designed to target the enemy's cavalry.

The two sides fought for a while, and Zhang Daojun was defeated and lost a lot of blood. He left behind more than a dozen corpses and retreated. The cavalry under the command of the "Purple Gold Liang" wanted to take the opportunity to attack the city, but they did not expect that the servants under Zhang Daojun fought and retreated. The city was also supported by artillery, fast guns, three-eyed blunderbuss and other firearms. The cavalry of the "Purple Gold Liang" could not get close to the city and suffered losses. Five or six of them had no choice but to tie the cannons with ropes and use horses to pull back the discarded cannons.

Although "Purple Golden Liang" also suffered a small loss this time, it at least suppressed Zhang Daojun's arrogance. "Purple Golden Liang" made a big publicity in the camp, rewarded the cavalry who made meritorious service, and boosted the low morale.

In the middle of the afternoon, the "Purple Golden Liang" reorganized their team, built two arrow towers outside the city, and ordered people to shoot into the city with bows, arrows, and firecrackers to suppress the defenders on the Douzhuang city wall. Others rushed to the gate of Douzhuang with oil and straw, ignited a fire, and burned the gate of Douzhuang.

Zhang Daojun ordered people to pour sand down from the city to extinguish the fire, and at the same time he ordered people to use artillery and arrow towers set up in the "Purple Golden Liang" to shoot at each other. As a result, because the city gates were somewhat sunken into the city wall, the fire could not be extinguished in time, and two city gates were burned down by the "Purple Golden Liang". However, the Wengcheng still exists, and the "Purple Golden Liang" still cannot attack the city. The shotgun shells used by the artillery were too close to reach the arrow tower of the "Purple Gold Liang"; the solid bullets were almost unable to cause damage to the wooden frame structure of the "Purple Gold Liang" arrow tower. What's more, the wind and water were changing, and the sun was setting at this time, which just happened to dazzle the eyes of Douzhuang's guards, leaving Douzhuang with no ability to fight back until he was beaten.

If it were anyone else, he would definitely be unable to use this arrow tower, but who is Zhang Daojun? He had helped the imperial court supervise the manufacture of various Western-style artillery and was quite familiar with some Western ammunition types. Immediately ordered people to make refined bombs, also known as mandarin duck bombs, which are the chain bombs used in Zhang Shun's later generations of voyages.

There is a Mars Temple in Douzhuang City, which is a fire temple dedicated to Zhu Rong. It was the factory where Zhang Daojun was responsible for supervising the production of Western-style artillery a few years ago, and all the craftsmen there were supported by the Zhang family. After receiving Zhang Daojun's order, he quickly made a few mandarin duck pop-ups.

Zhang Daojun ordered people to load these mandarin duck bombs into imitation Western artillery and bombard the arrow tower of "Purple Gold Liang". Sure enough, after the chain bullets were fired, they spread out from the middle, swirled and hit the wooden structure of the arrow tower, shattering the wooden structure. It only took a few shots to destroy the two arrow towers instantly. Unfortunately, dozens of soldiers on the arrow tower had no time to get down, so they fell from the tower screaming and were smashed to pieces.

When "Purple Gold Liang" saw this situation, his face turned purple with anger. On the contrary, Zhang Shun was very interested in the shells fired by Zhang Daojun's artillery: Is this the chain bomb in the game? How could such a weapon appear in this small Douzhuang?