Huang Shu did not know that his whereabouts had been discovered by the people of the Chu Wangfu and Jingzhou Mansions. He also thought that he had a plan, and after entering the city of Jingmen, he took the name card given to him by Gu Junen when he went back to Jiangnan to pass through Wuchang, and asked Wang Deren, the guard of Jingmen, to inform him of his intention. Then, under the protection of Wang Deren, he galloped all the way to Hanyang City, which was shrouded in the sound of rumbling cannons.

The artillery bombardment by the Ming and Shun armies across the Yangtze River continued, but the Ming army clearly had the upper hand. Because a few days ago, another batch of artillery was transported from Nanjing to Wuchang. This is a batch of twelve-pounder Hongyi cannons that have just been delivered, there are as many as twelve in total, all of which are cast in bronze, and they are also equipped with Chinese cannon gauges and rulers. Along with this batch of artillery, there were also 50 graduates of the second phase of the Nanjing Jiangwutang Artillery Department led by Xu Ermo.

The first phase of the lecture is very short, only three months, and it is a short-term training class. The second phase of the class has doubled to six months. The class hours of the third phase of the lecture hall have doubled to one year.

After obtaining twelve brand-new twelve-pounder Hongyi cannons, the artillery firepower of the Wuchang Ming army immediately overwhelmed the Dashun army of Hanyang. Not including the three-pounder regimental guns used in field battles and the Hongyi cannons equipped on the Centipede ships of the naval army, there are as many as twenty-two heavy artillery pieces that the Wuchang Ming Army can use to shell Hanyang! Among them, there were twenty twelve-pounder Hongyi cannons, one each of the twenty-four-pounder cannons and the thirty-six-pounder cannon.

And there will be more cannons shipped to Wuchang from Nanjing and Shanghai downstream - if the Bugarao factory in Macao is also included, there are now five cannon factories in Zhu Cihong's Nanming that use Western technology to cast bronze cannons, including the Bujialao factory, the Anping factory, the Shanghai López factory, the Shanghai Jiangnan factory, and the Nanjing Artillery Bureau. The total monthly output of various bronze cannons can reach as many as sixty or seventy pieces.

If you want to fight the cannon, Li Zicheng has no chance of winning!

Therefore, when Huang Shu arrived in Hanyang, the city wall around Chaozongmen in the south of Hanyang City had been bombarded by twenty twelve-pound Hongyi cannons erected on the wall of Hanyangmen on the opposite bank, and many places had collapsed into gaps.

And the two giant cannons on Phoenix Mountain are no longer firing at Turtle Mountain - because the trees on Turtle Mountain are dense and it is too far away from Hanyang Gate, the artillery of the Ming army cannot observe at all, so they can't hit the artillery positions of the Dashun army when they fight around. Therefore, Wu Sanfu and Feng Sizhong simply abandoned the plan to suppress the artillery of the Shun army, and instead bombarded the urban areas of Hanyang and Hankou in order to create panic.

Although there were only two huge cannons, it was impossible to cause too much damage to Hankou and Hanyang. However, the stone bullets that would fall from the sky at any time still caused serious psychological pressure on the Dashun troops stationed in the two cities.

Of course, Li Zicheng is no exception, and he doesn't want to be smashed by stones falling from the sky when he sleeps at night. So he moved his garrison from Hanyang Mansion to outside Hanyang City, a villa on the edge of Moon Lake - Moon Lake is located in the north of Turtle Mountain, there is Turtle Mountain to cover it, so you don't have to worry about the big stones bombarded by the Ming army's giant cannons.

However, it is always disadvantageous for the army to be under the guns of the Ming army.

Therefore, before Huang Shu arrived, Li Zicheng was already discussing with his subordinates the construction of the fortified city of Guishan to hold the key points of Jianghan, and then burned the two cities of Hankou and Hanyang to retreat, and then switched to the policy of using the main force to capture Jiangling.

It turned out that the envoy sent by Li Zicheng to Chengdu to contact Zhang Xianzhong earlier returned, and brought back good news - Zhang Xianzhong was willing to join forces with Li Zicheng, and promised to take a step back and change his name to King Daxi. And Chengdu, Long'an, Shunqing, Baoning and other four prefectures, plus Tongchuan Prefecture, Qiongzhou, Yazhou, Meizhou, Jiading Prefecture and other five prefectures, as well as Songpanwei, Tianquan Division, Lizhou Division and other places for the fiefdom of the Great Western Kingdom.

However, Zhang Xianzhong has read books, and of course he is familiar with "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and knows how Liu Bei pitted Liu Zhang. Of course, he refused to be Liu Zhang's second, so he kept an eye on it and disagreed with Li Zicheng to go to Hanzhong to "aid the west". He also sent his righteous son Zhang Dingguo (Li Dingguo) to garrison Baoning Mansion and Zhang Wenxiu (Liu Wenxiu) to garrison Long'an Mansion to block Li Zicheng's army.

At the same time, Zhang Xianzhong asked Li Zicheng to march along the river and attack the Ming army occupying Chongqing and Kuizhou with the Great Western Army.

Since the artillery could not fight the Ming army, Li Zicheng also knew that there was no way to continue eastward. No matter how many ships he builds, he won't be able to pass under the muzzles of dozens of Hongyi cannons! So he could only stop at Hanhan and Hankou.

Of course, it was not easy for Zhu Cihong to cross the river to take Hankou and Hanyang, and to open up the waterways to the west and north.

After all, the Yangtze River is known as a natural hazard! And the current artillery firepower is enough to block the water surface of the Yangtze River and the Han River, so once the construction of Guishan Castle is completed. The Dashun army was able to blockade the Han River and the Yangtze River with a small number of Hongyi cannons and a large number of general cannons.

Before pulling out the fortress of Guishan City, even if Zhu Cihong's army could cross the Yangtze River, it would not be able to let go of its hands and feet to attack the prefectures and counties between Jianghan and Han. After all, the throat of the army's logistics is still stuck in Guishan City!

Therefore, Li Zicheng decided to use Guishan City to delay the main force of Zhu Cihong's Ming army, and then move his army westward to capture Jiangling and Yiling, and then go up the river to enter Kuizhou and Chongqing after the water rises in the spring next year.

At this time, Zuo Mengeng's envoy Huang Shu arrived at the Moon Lake Palace outside Hanyang City, and there was really a little bit of heaven helping Li Zicheng!

There are more and more readers around Li Zicheng, so he has gradually figured out the hearts of these scholars. Although these people don't have any great skills, most of them are self-righteous, and they feel that they are like Zhuge Liang, and they can't wait to meet Uncle Liu Huang, who is looking at the thatched house.

Therefore, Li Zicheng also gave enough face to Huang Shu who he sent to the door, and it was impossible to look at him three times, but it was still possible to greet him outside the palace gate.

Huang Shu, who followed Gu Junen to the Moon Lake Palace, saw Emperor Li, who was dressed in a simple blue robe and had a smile on his face, he was moved, so he hurriedly took a few steps forward and knelt down and kowtowed.

"Long live the emperor when he knocks on the minister, long live the emperor!"

Li Zicheng hasn't given him an official yet, he has already been proclaimed a minister!

Li Zicheng is also a Ming monarch and a hero, and when he went up, he helped Huang Shu up, and said with a smile: "I heard Mr. Huang's name when I was fighting in Zhongzhou, and at that time, I wondered why Emperor Ming didn't reuse it if he had such a talent?" If it is Mr. Early, why is the world like this? Today's Mr. came back to Li, it is really a great blessing from God! ”

I finally met the master...... Huang Shu is really moved from the bottom of his heart!

Although Zuo Liangyu's father and son took him a lot, they didn't treat him as a character like Zhuge Liang. Moreover, the father and son of the Zuo family are not the characters of the emperor, they will be eliminated by this troubled world after all.

Huang Shu had already figured it out when Li Zicheng played the banner of Jikou Juntian, and the world in the future will be clear, smooth, and bright!

Although Dashun is the weakest among these three points, it may also have a foundation of more than 100 years, and it is not a big problem for Li Zicheng to be the master of Shun. And if he Huang Shu takes refuge in the past, how can he be a Zhuge Liang today, right?

Li Zicheng had already squeezed Huang Shu's little hand with a smile and stepped into the Moon Lake Palace together. In the main hall of the palace, the banquet has been set up, which is very rich!

There are gourd chicken, mutton in the water basin, steamed pot, pig's trotters with pig's trotters, milk soup pot fish, and of course, Li Zicheng's favorite Wuchang fish sandwich bun recently - today's dish is not steamed fish, but fried fish sandwich bun, which is fresh, fragrant and crispy, which is called a beauty!

Huang Shu also pretended to be a celebrity, while gnawing the hard buns and the hard fish (overblown, Li Zicheng is a big thief, and it is not difficult to gnaw, where can Huang Shu compare?) On the one hand, he also talked about the situation in the world.

In fact, it is the set in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", taking Jingzhou, seeking Sichuan, and then the Northern Expedition to Guanlong or something. Li Zicheng also pretended to be an educated master, and patiently listened to him say something that storytellers know. finally boiled until Huang Shu was too addicted to Zhuge Liang, and then finally got to the point.

"The emperor," Huang Shu said, "The minister has a plan, he can take Jingzhou and Dinghu for the emperor!" ”