Water Margin people

"General Sun, since we are all near Huzhou, why not fight Huzhou with us!"

Zhang Zhi looked at Sun Lei and invited him.

"Thank you General Zhang for your kindness, but the military order is in hand!"

Sun Lei still refused. Although he made a disguise, it is best not to have too much contact with the officers and soldiers.

"That's right, then I'll leave first."

Zhang Zhi smiled, cupped his fists and led the people away.

"Brother, this is too simple, isn't this person checking documents and sealing letters?"

Seeing that Sun Lei had dismissed the officers and soldiers with a few words, Fei Bao was in disbelief.

"How difficult can it be? Who would have thought that someone would dare to pretend to be an officer? Besides, there are dead bodies of thieves in this place. How can you not believe it?"

Sun Lei said with a smile.

"Let's continue going south, to Chongde!"

Sun Lei looked at the crowd and said, it should be Han Shizhong and Wang Yuan who attacked Xiuzhou, it's better not to meet each other.

Since it is pretending to be an official army, there is no need to hide it, and the army marches directly on the official road.

It may be because many Mingjiao believers were killed in the battle just now, and the Mingjiao people around are hiding.

All the way went smoothly to Chongde, Chongde is located between Hangzhou and Xiuzhou, there is a canal and canal connecting Hangzhou and Xiuzhou, just passing through Chongde.

Chongde is a small city, the city wall is only one foot long, and there are only more than 1000 Mingjiao believers guarding it.

"The army is here!"

When the Ming Cultists on the city saw the officers and soldiers coming, they roared in horror. After a while, there were hundreds of Ming Cultists on the city wall, holding various weapons and preparing to defend the city.

"Take them!"

Seeing this small town, Sun Lei waved his hand and ordered.

Pang Wanchun immediately stepped forward with two hundred crossbowmen, the arrows flew, and the Ming Cultists on the city wall were killed and injured immediately.

"kill!"

Lu Zhishen and Wu Song led the army and rushed directly to the city wall. They climbed the ten-foot-high city wall with just one leap.

"I am coming too!"

Yue Fei also wanted to go up when he saw it.

"Don't go, what's the point of a group of rabble?"

Sun Lei shook his head.

The battle ended in just a moment, and the mob was no match for Liangshan's army.

Entering Chongde City, the inside is already full of smog and the streets are dilapidated. If there are not some people, I really think this is a deserted city.

"Put our banner! This place has been recovered!"

Pointing to the city wall, Sun Lei said that it would take more than a month for the officers and soldiers to reach here. During this time, they will be safe in Chongde.

"Erlang, where is Master Lu?"

Sun Lei looked at Wu Song who came back and asked.

"The people in the city are suffering, and Master Lu is comforting the people."

Wu Song sighed and said, thieves are like a comb, and soldiers are like a grate. Mingjiao these people are more cruel than thieves and soldiers. They force people to join the religion, and those who don't follow are directly labeled heretics. There are all kinds of methods. In the extreme, burning, killing and looting are all light.

"Ugh!"

Sun Lei sighed and didn't say much. It's not surprising that Ming taught these people to do evil.

The Liangshan army immediately began to strengthen the city wall and prepare the defense equipment when they arrived in Chongde. The Mingjiao would never give up the front line of Chongde and Xiuzhou. This is the acropolis of Hangzhou. Without these cities, Hangzhou will face the enemy directly.

It took Lu Zhishen a long time to come back, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot, looking at the arrested Mingjiao followers, murderous aura emanated from his body in an instant.

"Stop staring at them, pull them and kill them! Appease the anger of the people!"

Sun Lei didn't even ask what kind of purgatory the city was, but directly waved his hands and said that he didn't have any extra food to feed these evil Ming Cult thieves.

Lu Zhishen looked at those Mingjiao believers and asked the soldiers to drag them away with a wave of his hand. He was really motivated to kill. These villains raped and plundered the city and mutilated the people.

The matter of Chongde was settled, and the army had a foothold. Without hesitation, Sun Lei took a small group of people and headed towards Xiuzhou.

"Xiuzhou's defender is Duan Kai, and later Changzhou's Qian Zhenpeng, Jin Jie, and Xu Ding. Combined with the dense waterways around Xiuzhou, it can be regarded as a self-protection force."

Sun Lei walked and looked at the information in his hand.

"Qian Zhenpeng?"

Wu Song became interested. The last time he came to Jiangnan with Sun Lei, this Qian Zhenpeng had appeared before, so he was considered a character.

"It's a pity, he met Han Shizhong!"

Sun Lei shook his head. Qian Zhenpeng was capable, but he was not enough when he met Han Shizhong.

"Brother, fight ahead!"

Ou Peng got up and ran back to report.

"Go, go and see!"

Sun Lei nodded.

Not long after walking forward, Sun Lei led his people to stop on a high slope, where there was a forest hidden, and saw the screams of killing under the city of Xiuzhou, and the officers and soldiers were constantly attacking the city.

"This city in the south of the Yangtze River is really... Sigh!"

Everyone looked at the one-foot-high city in Xiuzhou and shook their heads. The northern city wall must be at least two feet high. The city wall that is only half the height in the north is really awkward. It feels like a courtyard wall. Climb up and turn over can jump over.

At this time, Han Shizhong was commanding the army to attack the city. The cooperation of the imperial army was far better than that of Mingjiao. Although it was an attack, it suppressed the defenders.

"No, if you fight like this, you won't be able to break the city!"

Yue Fei looked at the battle formation in the distance and shook his head. Han Shizhong seemed to fight fiercely, but in fact the army still couldn't get up the city wall. No matter how fierce the fight was like this, it would be exhausting, and it would not be able to break through the city for a while.

"Then how do you say to fight?"

Sun Lei looked at Yue Fei and asked.

"We should attack a small part of it. The city wall is so short that as long as we attack it fiercely, it can always be broken. Besieging it from all sides like this is a waste of energy. Those people in the Mingjiao are taking advantage of it while waiting for work."

Yue Fei opened his mouth and said.

"If you attack one point, the Mingjiao people will definitely flee before the city is destroyed. After the battle between Runzhou and Changzhou, the officers and soldiers knew very well that they must be killed if they deal with Mingjiao people. Letting them escape will be a future disaster."

Sun Lei shook his head and said, the imperial court is now sending troops everywhere, but they are besieging and killing the people of the Ming Cult, obviously to weaken the power of the Ming Cult, and fighting in the way of ants eating away at them. At this time, the main purpose is to kill the enemy, not to attack the city.

"Withdraw!"

Ou Peng said, and the officers and soldiers under Xiuzhou City in the distance slowly withdrew.

"If we continue to fight like this, I'm afraid it will take more than half a month to break through the city!"

Lin Chong said.

"Let's take another look, just hide in the woods first!"

Sun Lei said, the soldiers quickly set up some covert tents in the woods, and as long as no one entered the woods, they would not be able to find them.

"General Han, thank you for your hard work. The culprits ran away with their heads in their hands in today's battle! The city will be destroyed if we go on like this."

Wang Yuan looked at Han Shizhong with a smile and said.

"How can there be any progress, it's too slow to play like this!"

Han Shizhong was not very satisfied. In his opinion, this kind of small town should be captured in three to five days, and then go to besiege Suzhou, which is the key to this battle.

"We only have an army of [-], so we can't attack by force! That's not bad, just fight steadily!"

Wang Yuan said with a smile.

Han Shizhong didn't respond, he was a little impatient, the situation in Yangzhou is unclear now, they are advancing too slowly, they should end the battle quickly and return to aid Yangzhou.