Please ask me to be the emperor

Not to mention how Chen Changzhen fought for his life here, but when Zhang Shun saw the rebels coming to Jindou Pass, he was worried that Chen Changzhen would be alone, so he quickly sent a group of troops to respond.

Unexpectedly, the officers and soldiers in the city also knew that the time to fight for their lives had come, and they braved the rebel artillery fire and moved two Hongyi cannons over.

The two artillery pieces were hidden behind the parapet, one on the left and the other on the right. They formed a crossfire and fired out a hail of cannonballs.

Only two gunshots were heard, and the rebels who were quickly leaping towards the closed door fell down like wheat being harvested.

Just when everyone was panicking and fleeing back. Suddenly I saw a young general leaping up and shouting loudly: "The enemy's artillery has been exhausted. If we don't advance now, when will we wait?"

He actually took the lead and rushed over. The other soldiers were inspired by this and couldn't help but shout loudly. They got up from the ground and rushed towards the checkpoint. Not long after, more than a hundred people rushed past.

Zhang Shun breathed a sigh of relief and quickly ran to the artillery position and shouted sternly: "Aim the artillery on the city and hit me hard!"

"King Shun, King Shun! It's dangerous here, just let me take command!" Captain Zhang was startled when he saw Zhang Shun running to the cannon, and hurriedly ran over to pull him away.

In this era, even well-cast artillery often had its barrels exploded, so gunners were often paid twice as much as ordinary soldiers.

Governor Zhang was worried that if something happened to him, he would die without redemption.

"Don't pull me! Whether they are right or not, I will be right!" Zhang Shun said angrily.

Chen Changzhen is his sworn brother. Not only is he his core supporter, he is also the one who rushes forward regardless of his wealth and life at critical moments.

If he is defeated in this battle, not only will the morale of the rebel army suffer a major blow, but even the increasingly powerful troops of the surrendering army will be in danger of turning against the guest.

Zhang Shun pulled the gunner away, closed one eye, and took aim according to the "three points and one line" method, and found that the "Qingtian General Cannon" had been aimed at the female wall closed by Jin Dou.

There was a hole in the wall, and a Hongyi cannon with smoke still coming from the muzzle was stuffed inside.

Zhang Shun looked at the position of the parapet, estimated the distance in his mind, and then ordered: "Raise this cannon another half minute!"

In this era, gunners fired cannons and had learned to use tools such as gauges, rulers, and sight tables.

The gun ruler is used to measure the amount of gunpowder used in shells made of different materials, the reference table is a simple table of shooting parameters, and the gun measuring rule is used to measure the shooting angle of the artillery.

Due to the low level of education of gunners in this era, it was difficult to calculate complex data, so normal shooting relied on correction data and fired according to the table.

As for the "Guide for Measuring Guns", Sun Yuanhua once described it in his "The Divine Machine of Western Law": It is shaped like an overlay, made of copper, and the hook is more than a foot long. The length of the stock is one inch and five cents, with Pythagorean as the guiding heart. Make only one quarter of the rule, with the center of the rule through the orifice, tie it with a thread, use a hammer at the end of the thread, follow the rule around the edge, and divide it into twelve points.

Although this book was written in the fifth year of Chongzhen, its usage had already spread to Ming army artillery camps all over the country.

It is generally controlled by mid- to low-level officers in the artillery battalion, and can adjust and correct the trajectory at any time at critical times.

There were also quite a few people in the rebel army who knew artillery from the frontier army. After being discovered by Li Shi'an of the "Second Artillery Regiment", he also promoted this skill to the entire "Second Artillery Regiment".

This measuring stick is actually a quarter right-angled compass, which is evenly divided into twelve points, and each point is exactly 7.5° in later generations.

Now in order to hit the target accurately, Zhang Shun thought it was not precise enough, so he ordered it to be raised by half a minute.

After receiving the order, the gunner quickly used a wooden hammer to hammer the trapezoidal wooden block at the tip of the Wanjin Hongyi cannon, slightly lowering the rear end of the cannon.

Zhang Shun took another look and felt that it was almost done, so he ordered: "Load the gun and shoot!"

Subsequently, the gun commander issued orders one by one in accordance with the "Artillery Launch Regulations" to complete Zhang Shun's mission.

Wait until the gunner shouted: "Fire!"

The "Qingtian General Cannon" spit out tongues of fire deafeningly, and a cannonball hit the parapet of the Hongyi Cannon, smashing it to pieces.

The three-piece soil clods flew up like cannonballs, hitting the gunner behind the parapet, and a scream suddenly rang out.

bingo? Zhang Shun was also surprised. He thought he needed to calibrate several shots before he could hit the target, but he didn't expect that he could hit the target with one shot!

"Hit the other door!" Zhang Shun ignored his excitement and gave the order decisively.

This time, his good luck was gone. After Zhang Shun took aim personally, he fired five or six times in a row before destroying the closed Hongyi cannon in one fell swoop.

The fighting outside the customs is very lively, and the battle inside the customs is also on the line of life and death.

Chen Changzhen made a prompt decision and blocked the way for the officers and soldiers to go down from the stairs to the pass. Not long after, another twenty or thirty officers and soldiers surrounded him from behind.

It turns out that in addition to this staircase in Jindou Pass, there is another staircase behind the level.

Chen Changzhen suffered the disadvantage of not knowing its structure and was immediately surrounded.

However, although there are many officers and soldiers, it is still difficult to take advantage of their numerical advantage.

Chen Changzhen's men are all elites, and they are also wearing double armor. How can they be afraid of him?

After just charging all the way, Chen Changzhen was worried that his soldiers were exhausted, so he ordered his soldiers to lean against the city wall as much as possible to resist the two-sided attack by the officers and soldiers.

This not only reduces the contact area between the two parties, but also saves physical energy, killing two birds with one stone.

It's just that although this method is good, it has the biggest problem. Without reinforcements, Chen Changzhen and the twenty or thirty men under his command would sooner or later run out of energy, and in the end they would not even be able to escape.

How could Chen Changzhen not know about this possibility? But he trusted Zhang Shun, so he didn't take it seriously at all.

Inexplicably, Chen Changzhen remembered a sentence in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "The king and his ministers are called brothers, but they are actually brothers."

The affection between men is completely different from the affection between men and women and the affection between women.

"Three cups of Turanuo will make the five mountains lighter!"

Don't look at the normal chatter between men, it seems that there is no serious friendship, but often at critical moments, they can stab each other for no reason.

Chen Changzhen is such a person, and he believes that Zhang Shun is also such a person. This is a man's intuition.

I can't help but see that this sentence is illogical. In fact, Chen Changzhen has been traveling around the world escorting escorts since he was fifteen or sixteen years old, and he has only relied on this heroic spirit to move around the world.

People from all over the world are strangers to each other. If you want to make friends and be favored by others, you can't do it without some intuition.

Therefore, whenever Chen Changzhen went to a mountain village to pay homage to the mountain, he would "go to the meeting alone" and go up the mountain alone.

When he reached the mountain, he threw the Qinglong Yanyue Sword on the ground and shouted loudly: "We are all brothers in the four seas. I am Chen Changzhen of Wen County. I am passing by the treasure land and begging you for a bowl of wine!"

If the wine is drunk, this matter will become seven or eight; if the wine is not drunk, then the matter will most likely go south.

And he, Zhang Shun, and Xiao Qinhu were the ones who drank this bowl of wine, and it was the sworn wine of chopping off the chicken head and worshiping the handle.

I don't know how long it took, but Chen Changzhen held the Qinglong Yanyue Sword, slashing left and right, beheading several people in a row. He was unstoppable and killed the officers and soldiers who were swarming up.

He then took two steps back and leaned against the city wall, breathing heavily.

"You are desperate. If you don't surrender now, how long will it take?" The officers and soldiers couldn't help but use their scheming tactics.

"Hahaha!" Chen Changzhen couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "You are about to be defeated, why do you say this?"

When the officers and soldiers saw that the thieves were stubborn to the end, they had no choice but to attack again. While the two sides were fighting, suddenly there was a commotion behind the formation of officers and soldiers, and the sound of fighting broke out again.

Chen Changzhen was refreshed and couldn't help shouting: "The reinforcements have arrived, please follow me to support them!"

What the officers and soldiers expected, Chen Changzhen and others were surrounded, and they dared to take the initiative to attack.

Suddenly being attacked from both sides, how could the officers and soldiers at the checkpoint resist?

After a while, Chen Changzhen killed all the officers and soldiers. When he looked forward, he saw that the person coming was Zhang Rujing.

"What's the situation?" Of course Chen Changzhen would not think that Zhang Shun was taking military and national affairs as a joke and sent a baby over.

"The outside was blocked by officers and soldiers' Hongyi cannons, and so many people couldn't get in for a while!" Zhang Rujing took a breath.

Chen Changzhen glanced at the men and horses brought by Zhang Rujing, nodded and said: "That's enough, let me destroy these hawks and lackeys!"

The two sides gathered together and turned back to kill the officers and soldiers.

Chen Changzhen is good at martial arts, and even without a horse to help him, he is still a strong warrior.

With Chen Changzhen as the arrowhead, the officers and soldiers as the backing, and Zhang Rujing assisting him, everyone lined up and launched a counterattack against the officers and soldiers.

Chen Changzhen killed one step at a time, killing and drinking at the same time, as if there was no one in the desert. Fighting in this narrow space is, as Zhao She said: Like two rats fighting in a den, the brave one will win!

Chen Changzhen bravely refused to block him and fought all the way to the stairs.

He was getting ready to kill, but when he saw that the officers and soldiers were timid, he simply climbed up the steps and continued to charge.

The blade of the Qinglong Yanyue Sword in Chen Changzhen's hand became blunt, so he turned it over and continued to chop with the back blade.

The back of Qinglong Yanyue Sword is like a reverse-edged machete, but its cutting ability is even stronger.

Some officers and soldiers blocked it with shields, but Chen Changzhen split the wooden shield with a knife, and then killed him on the steps with a knife.

Killing and killing, Chen Changzhen felt that the resistance in front of him was relieved, and he suddenly reached the top of Jindou Pass.

Chen Changzhen looked at the hundreds of officers and soldiers behind closed doors, and wanted to kill them again with his sword.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he moved, someone shouted "Ghost", then abandoned the sword and gun, turned around and fled to another step.

It turned out that Chen Changzhen was already covered in blood from the fighting all the way, and there was not a single clean spot on his body.

The officers and soldiers had experienced the double blow of the "Qingtian Grand Cannon" and Chen Changzhen, and their morale was already on the verge of collapse, and they were just missing this last step.