Zhang Xianzhong was full of ambition at this time, he took the two cities of Xiangyang and Wuchang with a sneak attack, killed the king of Xiang and the king of Chu, confiscated their mansions, obtained gold, silver and jewelry, and the grain was piled up.

Now he has money, food and a strong city as a barrier, and the officers and soldiers have come twice, but they have not made any good money, but they have broken two court officials, Xiong Wencan, the prime minister of the five provinces, was cut down by Chongzhen, and Yang Sichang, a scholar of the Shangshu Cabinet of the Governor of the Five Provinces, was directly angry and died outside Xiangyang City.

It is rumored that this guy died of illness, but Zhang Xianzhong thinks that this guy was angry with himself, even if he is really sick, it is not because he is angry with himself.

In short, with the two heroic cities of Xiangyang and Wuchang in hand, he felt that he had sat back and relaxed, at this time, his ambition was irrepressible, he discussed with Luo Rucai, simply, one did not do two endlessly, took all the cities of Xiangyang, Chengtian and Wuchang, dominated the hinterland of Jingchu, built the country, and ceded the land to be the king!

After Yang Sichang was angry with him, the officers and soldiers seemed to be afraid of him, either retreating to Yunyang Mansion, or hiding in Changsha Mansion, and did not dare to come over to pick his tiger beard, he simply transferred Luo Rucai and his 50,000 horses to Wuchang, and left 50,000 horses to garrison Xiangyang, and then took the remaining 100,000 horses to attack in all directions, pounced on the remaining cities of Xiangyang, Chengtian, and Wuchang.

Just when he got carried away, Zhang Bin quietly came to the Fuguang army camp outside Fuzhou.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong's marriage had already been completed, and the crown prince Zhu Cihong had already been sent back to the capital by him along with his family and Zheng Chenggong and his wife.

Chongzhen obviously couldn't bear it, and urged him to speed up the army to reinforce it, even if he could hold the Sanfu City.

If it is someone else's governor of the five provinces of soldiers and horses, if the Fuguang soldiers are really newly recruited, then Zhang Bin will be finished, and the 100,000 newly recruited young men may not even be as good as the peasant army, he will be the same as Sun Chuanting in history, just gathered 100,000 troops, and was forced to fight a decisive battle with the anti-thieves, and the result can be imagined.

Fortunately, Zhang Bin is not the Sun Chuanting in history, and the 100,000 Fuguang Army is not a real recruit, although it has only been assembled and practiced for more than a month, it is not inferior to the regular Ming army, plus their weapons and equipment, the combat effectiveness is quite terrifying.

Zhang Bin checked the results of the exercise, and then ordered Fu Guangjun to set off by boat and go straight to the sea base outside Songjiang Mansion.

What does this mean, it is obvious that Zhang Xianzhong is turning the world upside down in Huguang, what is he doing along the coast of Nanzhili, does he want to clean up the fifth battalion of Gezuo that is operating near Lujiang Mansion first?

Of course not, he did not do this in the opposite direction, because according to the normal march path, he had to lead the army through the reckless Chongshan in the north of Fujian, across the entire Jiangxi, in order to reach Huguang Changsha Mansion, and then across the Yangtze River, to Wuchang Mansion, so that all the way through the mountains and rivers, across more than 2,000 miles, the number of chariots is amazing, it would be good for the Fuguang army to arrive at Wuchang Mansion in a month.

And the sea route is different, Fuzhou sea area to Songjiang sea area is only more than 1,500 miles in total, with the speed of the wheel, you can reach it in one day, and the sea area of Songjiang Mansion is only more than 1,600 miles away from Wuchang Mansion, even if it is along the Yangtze River upstream, with the speed of the wheel, it only takes two days!

This seems to be a tossing and turning, although it is an extra mile of travel, in fact, the speed of the transfer of the army has increased more than ten times, and there is another advantage of the 100,000 army taking the waterway, that is, they will not be tired at all, because they don't need to walk by themselves, just take a boat to rest!

At this time, the number of wheels under Zhang Bin is also quite terrifying, there are more than 200 wheels under the original pure wood, and more than 500 wheels have been built in recent years to improve into light ironclad warships, that is to say, the number of wheels under his hands has reached more than 800!

It's not that he doesn't want to build more warships, his current predicament is the same as that of the Netherlands, no matter how many warships are built, no one will open them!

Because the number of sailors under his command was already limited, a Weiyuan battleship needed nearly 300 sailors and gunners, and a Zhenyuan cruiser needed more than 50 sailors and gunners, so after building 100 Weiyuan battleships and 50 Zhenyuan cruisers, he ordered to stop the production of large warships and go all out to produce light ironclad ships.

The lesson of the Dutch navy's defeat taught him that naval battles could not be won by battleships alone, and that if they were not protected by small warships or battleships, battleships would have to fall on their stomachs if they encountered a deadly arsonist ship.

This light ironclad ship was originally prepared for naval warfare, but this is good, a light ironclad ship has more than four or five war horses for a dozen people, and it is more than enough to carry 100,000 Fuguang military uniforms, as for chariots, grain, grass and baggage, etc., it must first be transferred to the overseas base of Songjiang Prefecture by the Zhenyuan cruiser, and then come back to pick it up after the wheels have finished transporting the people.

In this way, Zhang Bin led 100,000 Fuguang troops to the overseas base of Songjiang Prefecture to repair for a night, and then took the wheel boat upstream, straight to Wuchang City, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai did not know what was going on, and the Yangtze River outside Wuchang City was full of Ming army wheels.

Standing on the wall of Wuchang City, you can see more than ten miles of the river, all of which are the wheels of the Ming army, and you can't see the head at all!

Luo Ru saw that dozens of small fishing boats under his command were smashed into sawdust by countless cannonballs, and his horrified soul was about to fall.

When will the wheels of the Ming army be equipped with artillery, so many wheels, even if there is only one artillery on each wheel, it is nearly a thousand artillery, Wuchang City is on the Yangtze River, the shells of the Ming army will definitely be able to smash into the city, nearly a thousand shells at a time, that guy, can the city wall be blocked?

He was wrong, there were not thousands of wheels under Zhang Bin, and not every wheelship had artillery on it, only the light ironclad ships that were modified later had artillery, and the total number of guns was less than six hundred.

However, this amount is terrifying enough, and the walls of Wuchang City may not be able to withstand it.

Zhang Bin did not rush to attack, but ordered the Fuguang army to land, set up a large camp on a large flat land between Wuchang City and the Yangtze River, and then ordered more than 200 wooden wheels to sail back to receive chariots and grain and grass baggage, while more than 500 light ironclad ships stopped on the river outside Wuchang City to prepare to bombard Wuchang City!

Luo Ru was so shocked that his soul was about to fall, Zhang Xianzhong was also frightened when he received the news, he originally thought that with the defense of Xiangyang City and Wuchang City, the imperial court had no way to take him, but now, he is not so confident, thousands of artillery, can the city wall withstand it?

At this time, Zhang Bin is not too sure, if the light ironclad ship is a two-thousand-pound Franc cannon, he can be sure, whether it is Wuchang City or Xiangyang City, it can't withstand the bombardment of so many artillery, what city wall is scum in front of more than 500 two-thousand-pound Franc machine guns, not to mention the collapse of the city wall, it is easy to sweep away all the arrow buttresses and female walls on the city wall, when the time comes, the city wall is not much different from not, who dares to stand on the bare city wall to eat cannonballs, waiting to be smashed into meat paste?

However, the light ironclad ship is not equipped with a two-thousand-pound Franc cannon, but a five-hundred-pound Franc cannon, and a cannonball that is only a little bigger than a fist can sweep the arrow battlements and women's walls on the city wall?

He wasn't sure about this either, he only knew it if he tried it.

However, he didn't start trying it immediately, because the main ones he transported this time were soldiers and war horses, and he didn't even bring much grain and grass, let alone ammunition, and there was only a round of five shells on each light ironclad ship, and it was gone after the fight.

In Wuchang City is Luo Rucai and his 50,000 horses, this Zhang Bin has already received the report, he even wants to appease it first, after all, Luo Rucai is not Zhang Xianzhong, this guy does not have much bad deeds, just like Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing, if he can accept the appeasement, Chongzhen will definitely not have any opinions.

He doesn't really want to fight to the death with the thief, as long as people can accept the appeasement, what else does he want to play in his own hands and get the sentence back, it is simply impossible.

Therefore, after Zhang Bin set up the camp, he personally wrote a letter of surrender and ordered people to shoot into the city, and see if Luo Rucai in the city would surrender or not.

Will Luo Ru surrender?

Of course he surrendered, but it was not a real surrender, but a trick to surrender!

Less than half an hour after the letter of surrender was shot into the city, Luo Rucai sent an envoy to the camp of the Ming army, expressing his willingness to accept the appeasement of the imperial court.

He roughly meant, I surrender, I surrender, as long as the imperial court provides me with 50,000 horses and grain and grass, I promise to stay in Wuchang City and not go anywhere.

Zhang Bin listened to the messenger's relay, and almost didn't laugh off his big teeth, he wanted to play with me, okay, let's play for a few days first.

He directly asked the envoy to go back and tell Luo Rucai that he couldn't be the master of this, so he had to ask the emperor and ask Luo Rucai to wait for more than ten days.

Luo Rucai heard the envoy's reply, and felt proud in his heart, it seems that the artillery of the Ming army can't take the city wall, and this Zhang Bin can only be the same as Xiong Wencan and Yang Sichang, looking at the city and sighing, helpless.

He thought that the next step should be a long negotiation, he had already experienced in this area, and Zhang Xianzhong's original move to slowly reduce the price was his idea.

Last time, this delay tactic was quite successful, descending and descending, Jiannu ran to attack the capital, the Ming army had to return to Shiqinwang, they didn't spend a single soldier, the officers and soldiers withdrew, and they gave them more than 200,000 stone grain and grass in vain!

This time, he is going to reduce the price to 10,000 first, to 40,000 and then start to reduce the price, 5,500 to 5,000, to 30,000 and start to reduce the price, 2,200 and 20,000, and then start to reduce the price, 1,111 to drop, so that you can play nearly 30 times back and forth, one trip is more than ten days, and more than 30 trips are nearly a year.

Do officers and soldiers carry it for a year?

Will Jiannu take the opportunity to attack the capital again?

Will Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo honestly wait to see the results here?

He believed that the officers and men would definitely have to leave after carrying it for a year, and if nothing else, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong would certainly not honestly wait for the results; as soon as they saw that the main force of the officers and men was trapped here, they would definitely continue to attack the city and seize the land, and at that time, it would be up to the officers and men to see whether they retreated!

His wishful thinking was crackling, but unfortunately, Zhang Bin was not Xiong Wencan, let alone Yang Sichang, he still wanted to play fraud, but there was really no door.