Rebellion and uprising have always been a point of no return in all dynasties. After embarking on this path and experiencing the wonderful taste of rights, it is naturally impossible to go back to the past.

But at the beginning, Zhang Shicheng didn't regret it at all.

It's not just because of the feeling of destroying homes and wantonly killing the big people in the past who didn't even look at themselves, which is really wonderful. is even more because after the uprising, the development speed of their rebel army was so fast that Zhang Shicheng himself was a little unimaginable.

In just over half a month, Zhang Shicheng and his team attacked Taizhou and gathered more than 10,000 people. And it was extremely easy to get the recruitment of Li Qi, the prefect of Gaoyou, and everything went smoothly to the point that Zhang Shicheng didn't dare to imagine.

In the past, those generals who were fighting for tigers and eating fat and strong people one by one were fat and strong, and when they faced them on the battlefield, they were as timid as rats all the time.

They just struck the gong a few times, and then shouted a few times, and the Dayuan officers and soldiers who were fighting against them on the opposite side lost their armor for a while.

So when he saw this scene with his own eyes, Zhang Shicheng really regretted that his intestines were blue.

His grandmother's had known that all of these officials were all of this virtue, and I had already rebelled against labor and management, and his mother had to suffer like this.

Yes, this is what Zhang Shicheng thought when he laid down Taizhou City. He really didn't expect that the officers and soldiers would be so vulnerable, if he knew that the officers and soldiers were so vulnerable, he would not have been afraid, and ran south from his hometown Baijuchang, three or four hundred miles away, to Taizhou.

Therefore, when he realized that the Yuanmeng court was simply a paper tiger who was incompetent to the bone.

The last bit of awe he had for the Yuanmeng court was completely swept away.

But after all, he was born in Yanding, he has never read a book, and he doesn't know a single character of Douda, he is actually a person who is a little rich and safe in his bones. This can also be seen from the confrontation between him and Zhu Yuanzhang later.

So not long after the capture of Taizhou City, the Yuanmeng court casually took an official position to recruit him. Zhang Shicheng was so happy that he happily agreed to the recruitment of the Yuanmeng court.

But there is no way, after all, 32-year-old Zhang Shicheng has been a smuggler for more than ten years. Doing things that violate the law and discipline is like drinking cold water, how can he be an 'official'.

Moreover, they laid down the city of Taizhou, which is hundreds of miles away from their hometown Xinghua.

The overlord of Chu has a good saying, 'The rich and noble do not return to their hometown, such as embroidering clothes at night, who knows.' So within a few days, Zhang Shicheng and the others couldn't stay in Taizhou.

Therefore, with a confused internal strife, Zhang Shicheng and his brothers, as well as more than 10,000 township soldiers who had been killed with him from Xinghua, couldn't help but leave Taizhou City and went north to Xinghua.

But as a result, Zhao Lian, the governor of Huainan Jiangbei Province, who recruited them, quit. Naturally, I couldn't help but have the idea of getting rid of Zhang Shicheng.

However, he didn't expect that before Zhao Lian could make a move, Zhang Shicheng played a hand and made the first move. led his troops to raid Zhao Lian's military camp at night, and directly killed Zhao Lian, who was caught off guard. And then attacked Xinghua City.

After killing a Jinshi and the first counselor, Zhang Shicheng naturally understood that even if it was for the sake of face, the Yuanmeng Imperial Court would definitely not let himself go so easily.

Therefore, after attacking Xinghua City, he pretended to ask the Yuanmeng court to surrender, and at the same time, he couldn't help but prepare with his troops.

And after that, as he expected, although he asked to surrender, the Yuanmeng court was not ready to let him go anymore. Instead, he sent Li Qi, the prefect of Gaoyou, to lead his troops out to guard Yongshe Lake in preparation for an attack on Zhang Shicheng.

However, this Li Zhuangyuan Li Governor has nothing to say about reading and writing, but he really doesn't know anything about marching and fighting.

Zhang Shicheng casually used a trick to play this Li Zhuangyuan and Li Governor's Mansion. Then, Zhang Shicheng easily laid down the important town of communicating the north and south of the canal on this day - Gaoyou City.

Gaoyou, located in the north of Yangzhou, like Xuzhou, is also an important throat town connecting the north and south of the canal.

Therefore, the fall of Gaoyou City is also equivalent to getting rid of the canal traffic that was finally opened up a few years ago, and was cut off by the rebels again. As a result, Dadu, which is thousands of miles away, will once again fall into the embarrassing situation of having no Cao Yun to replenish and officials to go hungry.

Therefore, when the news of the fall of Gaoyou City came, the officials of Huainan Jiangbei Province, which had just been set up by the imperial court, were also completely panicked.

After all, if Cao Yun was so broken, they would undoubtedly be hostile to all the central officials in the entire northern part of the capital. And by then, a few of these people's heads won't be enough to cut off.

So in order to save their lives, these officials are also completely shameless. They actually planned to recruit Zhang Shicheng again, and this time they were also ready to generously offer Zhang Shicheng a price of 10,000 households.

However, what these people didn't expect was that for the official position of the Yuanmeng court, Zhang Shicheng, who had been an official once, was not uncommon.

After all, as long as he becomes an official, he Zhang Shicheng must listen to others. Therefore, after laying down Gaoyou City, the high-spirited Zhang Shicheng simply learned from Xu Shouhui, Peng Da, Zhao Junyong and others, and built a country for himself and crowned a king.

The name of the country is called Da Zhou, and he himself calls himself King Cheng, Jianyuan Tianyu.

And for this, Zhang Shihua, who is thousands of miles away, naturally still doesn't know. However, if Zhang Shihua knew about this, Zhang Shihua himself would definitely be extremely happy.

Because he was afraid that he would attract the full force of the Yuanmeng court to besiege him because of the reason that the tree was very popular. But he didn't expect that at this time, Zhang Shicheng, who had the same surname as him, was full of ridicule, and suddenly pulled away all the hatred of the Yuanmeng court.

But whether you know it or not, the plan to attack De'an Mansion will not be shelved because of this.

Therefore, when the army of Zhang Shihui and Zhang Mingtong spent the night peacefully on the side of Zaoyang, the army of more than 14,000 people, together with nearly 10,000 mules and horses, and countless soldiers and civilians, also started again, and continued to kill Suizhou more than 200 miles away.

I have to say that in the territory of De'an Mansion, the official road that has been in disrepair for a long time is really much more difficult to walk than the official road in Xiangyang.

And with the departure of the army from Xiangyang, the logistical pressure increased greatly. So much so that Zhang Shihui's marching speed couldn't help but decrease again, and even dropped to the point that the army was only fifty miles a day.

Therefore, it is precisely for this reason that after having sufficient time to react, the De'an Mansion was able to discover this huge army in time.

In fact, at the beginning, De'an Mansion was also considered a site of Xu Shouhui.

And the first to occupy this territory was the generalissimo of the army under Xu Shouhui's account, Ming Yuzhen of Suizhou and Suixian.

However, because of Zhang Shihua's incurrence, the original history has undergone a great deviation. So much so that when Zhang Shihua went to Xiangyang, Ming Yuzhen led his troops to leave De'an, went south to Huguang Province, and led troops to help support Ni Wenjun.

Therefore, in the days when Zhang Shihua was attacking Xiangyang City, the entire territory of De'an Mansion was once again recovered by the Yuan and Mongolian courts.

And now, with the Yuanmeng court's all-out strangulation of the Tianwan regime, the Tianwan rebels, who were once active in Chuyang, Hanyang, Wuchang and other places, can't help but be besieged in Huangzhou by the Yuanmeng court.

So much so that after such a long time, except for Yu Junzheng in Zhongxing Anlu, Zhang Shihua has not even contacted other rebels who are subordinate to the Tianwan regime.

Therefore, this time, Zhang Shihua attacked De'an Mansion, in addition to expanding his own strength and taking the initiative in the battle with the Yuanmeng court as much as possible, the more important thing was to open up the channel of contact between him and the Tianwan regime.

There is a saying that 'a skinny camel is bigger than a horse'. Although it is said that the Tianwan regime is no longer good.

But in terms of fame and prestige, the Tianwan regime still has this strong appeal in the Jiangnan region.

Historically, the Tianwan regime was hit hard at the end of the thirteenth year of Zhizheng, but it was resurrected in the fifteenth year of Zhizheng. The Tianwan regime established by Peng Yingyu had a strong appeal in the entire Jiangnan region.

Therefore, out of strategic considerations, at this time, Zhang Shihua does not mind cooperating with the Tianwan regime in a crisis.

Anyway, judging from the current situation, the cooperation between the black-clothed army and the Tianwan regime, and it must be Zhang Shihua's black-clothed army who has the initiative in it.

But these are all later words, so let's not mention them at this time. Just now, when the De'an Mansion knew that Zhang Shihua's army was coming, under Zhang Shihua's prestige in the past, the De'an Mansion couldn't help but feel like a great enemy, and it was terrified.

"Quick, give me help from the Fucheng side. Let the Fucheng side immediately send troops to support! "Suizhou Suixian, in the official office in the county. Because no one wanted to come to Suizhou, a place that was attacked on three sides, Fang Tianhua, the governor of Suizhou, who was quickly promoted from Bapin County from above, couldn't help but shout like this in the official office after receiving the news that the black-clothed army was coming.

However, at this time, it was not only his gaffe in the state, but also the thousands of households, Tongzhi, judges, Guo County Order, Confucian Promotion, and the like in the state, all of them now had panicked expressions.

After all, after the incident of Ming Yuzhen, Suizhou is now much more dilapidated than before.

At this time, the total number of soldiers in the county is less than 2,000. If you want to protect yourself with such a small number of troops, unless you are like Ming Yuzhen back then, you will take your clansmen to the green mountains to form a fence and consolidate yourself, otherwise you will sit and wait for death.

Therefore, these words shouted by Zhizhou Fang Tianhua in panic were unanimously approved by the officials present at this time.

After all, judging from the marching speed of the black-clothed army, it would take at least four days to reach Suizhou. And four days was enough for reinforcements from the Fucheng side to arrive.

"Lord Zhizhou is right, at this time, only the Fucheng side sends troops to resist the army of black-clothed thieves. But my lord, at this time, we can also use the method of clearing the wilderness with strong walls to stop the invasion of the black-clothed thieves! Suizhou Qianhu Wu Kang said at this time.

Hearing Wu Kang's words, Zhizhou Fang Tianhua's eyes couldn't help but light up.

is different from him, the governor who was quickly promoted, Wu Kang, a thousand-household official, who has killed people and fought battles, and has been promoted by his military exploits.

Therefore, in terms of warfare, Qianhu Wu Kang is much more proficient than him, the Zhizhou.

So after thinking that he had found a life-saving straw, Fang Tianhua looked at Wu Kang and couldn't help but say to him with great eagerness: "General Wu, you are one of us who has been in battle for a long time. So this time, we're all in for you. ”

"You say, apart from the strong wall Qingye, how else should we resist the black-clothed thief?" Fang Tianhua asked, but he even used honorifics.

However, at this time, Wu Kang didn't care about his Fang Tianhua's former and backward respects, at this time, he just said with a solemn face: "My lord, we have many mountains in Suizhou, and there is only one road in the northwest between the mountains and hills. ”

"So in terms of topography, we are also a terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. So, if we want to resist the Black Thieves, we must also make full use of our geographical advantage. Therefore, my lord, in addition to the strong walls and clear fields, we should also gather the soldiers and horses in the county in the northwest of the county and make every effort to guard the checkpoints of the official road. ”

"Do your best to guard the checkpoints, then in this way, our county seat will not be very empty." Hearing Wu Kang say this, Fang Tianhua couldn't help but hesitate.

And for this, Wu Kang seems to have expected it a long time ago.

So at this time, he still looked at Fang Tianhua with righteous words and said, "My lord, that checkpoint in the northwest is the place where the black-clothed thieves must attack us. Guarding where it is the same as guarding the county seat. So you don't have to worry about the emptiness of the county at all. ”

"This ...... In that case, then everything will be done according to the general's wishes! Gritting his teeth, Fang Tianhua finally made up his mind.

Because he also knew that relying on a small city like Suixian alone, it was really impossible to resist the attack of the army of the black-clothed army. So in this way, it can only be done according to Wu Kang's method.

Therefore, in this way, with the words and words of these people in the official office, a simple plan could not help but be formulated by them.

However, whether this method can stop Zhang Shihui and their attack is the most bottomless thing in the hearts of Fang Tianhua.

After all, the reputation of the invincible army of the black army is too loud, and they naturally won't have too much confidence in their hearts about this. So at this time, these people can only take one step at a time.

(To be continued........................ ）