Please ask me to be the emperor

"The enemy's winning hand has been revealed. I wonder how King Shun is going to respond?" Seeing Zhang Shun's complacency, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but gain a little more confidence and asked subconsciously.

Now that the Ming court had released the Jin soldiers who had been hiding for a long time, it was obvious that they had already figured it out and were preparing to deal the final blow to the rebels.

The officers and soldiers played this skill really well. They took advantage of the opportunity when the rebels were dispersed and invaded the hinterland of the rebels in one fell swoop.

Once the rebel army fails to respond effectively, it will immediately fall apart again. I wonder what King Shun can do to deal with it.

"Our battlefield is here, not there!" Zhang Shun pointed at Xi'an and said with a smile.

"This..." Hong Chengchou couldn't help but remind him, "Xi'an City is in urgent need of attack. Now both sides have been attacking and defending for more than half a month, but there is still no progress."

"If we wait for another attack on the fortified city, the consequences will be disastrous!"

"No, it won't happen this time!" Zhang Shun said confidently, "I predict that within five days, the officers and soldiers will definitely take action!"

"Why is this?" Hong Chengchou thought, maybe there were some changes that he didn't know about.

"Because I cut off their food supply!" Zhang Shun said with a smile.

"What? How can the generals come out?" Hong Chengchou couldn't help but be shocked. Now that the rebel army is in short supply, where did King Shun come from who could complete such a tactical move?

"Actually, there is also a group of rebels at the border between Hanzhong and the surrounding areas, called the Yao Huang Thirteen Family. It is composed of about thirteen leaders, large and small." Zhang Shun explained.

"After I occupied Nanyang, I sent my general Huang Long to integrate them."

"This Huang Long is one of the founders of the Thirteen Yao and Huang families, and with his strong soldiers and horses, he is naturally easy to capture."

"Originally, I planned to keep these manpower to attack Shaanxi or invade Sichuan. However, due to the crisis, I had to forcibly mobilize them."

"I didn't expect these people to be willing to listen to my orders. They were willing to leave the village temporarily, cross Longshan Mountain, and invade Pingliang, Qinzhou, Fengxiang, Pizhou and other places."

"The officers and soldiers already lacked money and food, and Xi'an was besieged by me for a long time. We exchanged firewood for food, which made their military supplies even more insufficient."

"Now that Hou Jin is threatening Yulin and Ningxia, the soldiers, horses, money and food in these two places cannot be easily touched. The only places they rely on are Qinzhou, Pingliang and Fengxiang. Can they stay with me for a long time?"

"Okay, okay!" Hong Chengchou couldn't help but become energetic after hearing this.

To be honest, as long as the rebels can win a complete victory in Shaanxi and seize Qin as their foundation, what does it matter if Nanyang, Ruzhou and Henan are all lost?

Hong Chengchou understood how powerful this was and was naturally overjoyed.

"What about Luoyang?" Although he was a little confused about which pot to drink, Hong Chengchou understood what he was thinking.

If King Shun doesn't want to be a bad person, he must be the one who "takes the blame" for once and persuade him to take over his family.

"He defended the city of Xi'an, why can't we defend the city of Luoyang?" Zhang Shun asked in reply, "Last year, you also led troops to attack Luoyang. You should know how well its defense is."

"This moment is the same as that moment!" Hong Chengchou couldn't help but admonish after hearing this, "The war is dangerous, and a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall."

"The members of King Shun's family are all worth a fortune. If anything happens, King Shun may be uneasy. There are also rumors that there are many soldiers from the west of Henan in the rebel army. I'm afraid that the rebel army will be distraught and fall apart. In an instant!”

Hong Chengchou said it very euphemistically, but in fact he was reminding Zhang Shun that if the news of the fall of Luoyang came and people's hearts fluctuated, the rebel army might collapse again.

After all, the human heart is made of flesh. If all the wives, children, and children at home fall into the hands of the officers and soldiers, how can the soldiers still have the will to fight?

Hong Chengchou's proposal was very simple. It was better to abandon Luoyang City altogether, withdraw his direct line forces, and completely block the news between Shaanxi and Heluo.

When the overall situation for both sides has been decided, what will these soldiers do even if they know the truth?

This matter has finally become a fact. In order to take revenge, they still have to continue to fight against King Shun?

"No, I have already ordered Luoyang City to defend this matter. After I defeat Liang Tingdong, I can then break the siege of Luoyang!" Upon hearing this, Zhang Shun rejected Hong Chengchou's suggestion.

This guy is really ruthless, and all the suggestions he makes are cruel and vicious.

It's just that this land of Heluo is my current base. If I hear his plan, wouldn't I be destroying my foundation?

Yes, you can't have everything in life, you have to prioritize, but you can't be so radical that you can cut off your own thigh, right?

For a while, Zhang Shun thought that this guy was actually "in Cao's camp and his heart was in Han", and his true identity was an undercover agent of the imperial court.

In fact, it was Zhang Shun who thought wrong. Due to the limitations of ancient technology and management levels, the rulers were more brutal in their methods.

Apart from the various typical bloody massacres of the conquered, even in the mid-Ming Dynasty, the problem of millions of refugees in Jingxiang was quelled, using brutal massacres as the basic method.

In the eyes of these people, life is just chips and data, and there is no mercy in their hearts. This is one of the reasons why Xiong Wencan, the governor of Huguang, seemed to have lost his mind after entering Nanyang.

When Zhang Shun rejected Hong Chengchou's suggestion, he immediately began to order the rebel camps to prepare for possible counterattacks by officers and soldiers at any time.

However, neither Zhang Shun nor Hong Chengchou expected that the officers and soldiers who had originally expected to take action five days later suddenly opened the city gate and frequently launched attacks on the rebels outside the city.

Chen Changzhen was caught off guard and was almost defeated by the officers and soldiers. Fortunately, at the critical moment, the siege gunners turned the artillery and violently bombarded the officers and soldiers leaving the city, and finally repelled the officers and soldiers.

However, after this battle, Chen Changzhen realized that he could not continue to attack the city, so he quickly led his soldiers to retreat and slowly retreated to the Liujiaying camp.

"Brother Chen, what is going on? Are there any differences between the officers and soldiers this time?" Zhang Shun did not punish him, but he felt strangely nervous.

"It seems that the formation of the officers and soldiers this time is completely different from Ma Fengyi's stone pillar chieftain soldiers!" Chen Changzhen pondered for a moment and couldn't help but slap his forehead.

"What? Where did Liang Tingdong get the Shizhu chieftain soldiers?" Zhang Shun couldn't help being shocked when he heard this.

"Sichuan soldiers, it's Sichuan soldiers!" Hong Chengchou couldn't help shouting, "This time the trouble is big, and the imperial court mobilized Sichuan soldiers to Shaanxi!"

After being reminded by Hong Chengchou and Chen Changzhen, Zhang Shun immediately responded.

He suddenly realized why the Thirteen Yaohuang Family led by Huang Long and others were so obedient under his orders.

The feeling is that they had received the news that the Sichuan soldiers were heading north, and they thought that the chieftain soldiers wanted to destroy them, so they took the opportunity to go north to avoid their sharp edge.

The reason why the officers and soldiers took action a few days earlier than expected is even simpler. The number of officers and soldiers increased sharply, and it was obvious that the original food and grass were not enough to last for that long.

It turns out that the Jin soldiers in Shanxi are not the decisive factor in the victory of the imperial court, but the newly arrived Sichuan soldiers are.

"Not good!" Thinking of this, Zhang Shun and Hong Chengchou couldn't help shouting in unison, and then looked at each other.

"In this battle, the officers and soldiers do not want to fight for Heluo, but want to conquer King Shun!" Sure enough, the heroes had the same view, and what Hong Chengchou said was also what Zhang Shun was thinking.

"That's right!" Zhang Shun's entire face darkened. This time, I was so conceited that I got myself into a desperate situation.

"Three hundred miles, hurry up, send an order to Cao Wenzhao, let him defend Tongguan City without any mistakes, otherwise I will show you my head!" Zhang Shun, who always showed a gentle image, issued such a murderous order for the first time.