Water Margin people

Chongde.

"Brother, Mingjiao's [-] troops are coming from Hangzhou! The vanguard army has arrived twenty miles away."

Jiao Ting watched Sun Lei report.

"A [-]-strong army? Send an order to go down and withdraw! Go west, in the direction of Huzhou!"

Sun Lei nodded.

The officers and soldiers withdrew, and the Mingjiao vanguard quickly found out the news.

"Marshal, the enemy only has 2000 people, how about we go after them and do them!"

Li Tianyou said excitedly.

"The enemy has gone to Huzhou. That's Zheng Biao's business. It has nothing to do with us. Hurry to Xiuzhou!"

Fang Qifo shook his head and said, his mission is to take Xiuzhou and break the siege of Suzhou.

The two armies just missed each other peacefully.

After entering the boundary of Huzhou, Sun Lei turned south with his army and entered Yuhang and Lin'an.

Xiuzhou.

"One hundred thousand troops!"

Wang Yuan had a worried look on his face. Not long after they conquered Xiuzhou, news came that Fang Qifo, one of Fang La's right-hand men, led hundreds of thousands of troops to kill him.

"It's [-], but it's called [-]!"

Han Shizhong corrected.

"Even an army of [-] is not easy to fight!"

Wang Yuan's face was full of sadness, he only had [-] troops here, and it would be difficult to defeat six of them.

"It's all about [-] thieves, it's up to me then!"

Han Shizhong said indifferently, even if the two armies were confronting each other, he would not be afraid of [-] bandits with an army of [-], not to mention that there was still a city, so he was full of confidence.

"Send the order, the crossbowmen go to the city!"

Han Shizhong looked at a group of soldiers and ordered that this time he wanted to let the thieves know how powerful the official army standard crossbow is.

As soon as Fang Qifo's army arrived in Xiuzhou, he began to attack violently. He had already checked, and there were only [-] officers and troops in Xiuzhou.

"kill!"

Li Tianyou commanded the army to attack the city.

"Stupid thief!"

Han Shizhong saw that the thieves were attacking the city with a ladder on their shoulders as soon as they arrived, and said with a sneer, he had already driven hundreds of miles, and he didn't even take a break to attack the city with simple equipment. What's the difference between this and death?
Bows, crossbows, stones, and logs all greeted them. Although the Mingjiao army was brave and fearless, they were eventually killed and retreated, leaving behind corpses all over the place.

"These thieves are really stupid!"

Han Shizhong shook his head.

"I didn't expect that, this thief doesn't know anything about the art of war, he's far behind those in Runzhou and Changzhou! Could it be that Hangzhou is full of Mingjiao thieves like this?"

Wang Yuan's face brightened, if the next Mingjiao thieves were like this, then they would be easy to beat.

"Most of these Mingjiao people were civilians before, and they joined the Mingjiao after being bewitched. They don't know anything about marching and fighting. The more they are in the rear, the less combat experience they have. Maybe the thieves will fight better in the rear!"

Han Shizhong's face lit up after hearing Wang Yuan's guess, and he also had a guess.

"Report, General, there is an urgent military report!"

A soldier ran up the city wall and shouted at Wang Yuan and Han Shizhong.

Wang Yuan immediately took the military newspaper and read it. The more he read, the more information he got.

"Great, Privy Tong is here!"

Wang Yuan laughed and said.

"Private Tong? Isn't he in Hebei!"

Han Shizhong's face changed, Tong Guan was No. 1 in the Song Army.

"Your Majesty felt that Jiangnan was important, and Sun Lei appeared in Jiangbei again. He was worried that the extermination of Fang La would be hindered, so he quickly recalled Tong Xiang from the north."

Wang Yuan said with a smile.

"Is that Tongxiang going to deal with Sun Lei?"

Han Shizhong asked.

"No, Tong Xiang also thinks it is very important to exterminate Fang La, so he came to Jiangnan directly by boat! And he has already sent people to support us!"

Wang Yuan said with a smile.

"What about the general Wang Zhi?"

Han Shizhong pointed to the north and said.

"Maybe let General Wang Zhi continue to hold Sun Lei back. Yangzhou city is tall and the moat leads directly to the Yangtze River. The thieves can't do anything!"

Wang Yuan opened his mouth and said.

"Don't care about Sun Lei!"

Han Shizhong didn't understand, maybe he was a little too arrogant.

Sun Lei, who was hiding outside Lin'an City, also learned the same news, and also knew that Tong Guan had brought Xin Keshi, Yang Weizhong, Li Ming, Yi Jing, Zhe Kecun and others this time.

"Only brought [-] soldiers and horses! It seems that Tong Guan still wants to regain Yanyun, and the main force stays in Hebei."

Sun Lei looked at the letter in his hand and said.

"Hebei soldiers and horses have been out of battle for a long time. I'm afraid Tong Guan is buying time to train soldiers?"

Lin Chong said.

"Military training is for sure. Tong Guan is probably scolding the frontier generals for being useless in his heart."

Sun Lei nodded and said, the reason why he wasn't worried about Cangzhou was because the Hebei army was too hip, and they were just a little better than the Mingjiao people in front of them.

"But Tong Guan may have other reasons for coming to Jiangnan, especially money. Tong Guan has great ambitions. Now he has no shortage of soldiers and horses, but money and food are a big problem. Even if he gets part of Lu Junyi's family property, it is still a drop in the bucket. This Jiangnan Wealth, Tong Guanke also knows."

Sun Lei said, Tong Guan is now under one person and above ten thousand people, the real No. [-] figure in Song Dynasty. You can become king!Become the first eunuch to become king.

"Brother, Tong Guan is here, shall we retreat first?"

Fei Bao looked at Sun Lei and said, Tong Guan's arrival made the situation more complicated.

"Fang La hasn't killed yet, so don't rush away! The muddier the water, the easier it is to catch fish! I believe Fang La has also heard the news now, let's see what he will do!"

Sun Lei said with a smile, Tong Guan's arrival actually has little impact, Fang La's defeat is already set, he just wants to speed up the process, so that the chaos in Jiangnan will end sooner.

Xiuzhou.

The siege was still going on, Fang Qifo continued to attack for several days, and the most recent army had already attacked the city wall.

But the officers and soldiers defended very resolutely, relying on the advantage of armor, fought bloody on the city wall for a long time, and finally defended the city.

"Damn it, it's just a little short!"

Fang Qifo roared angrily, his army had suffered nearly [-] casualties in the past few days, but he still failed to take Xiuzhou.

"General, enemy reinforcements are coming soon! There are tens of thousands of people."

Li Tianyou hurriedly ran to speak.

"Get out first!"

Fang Qifo said bitterly.

Looking at the retreating enemy in Xiuzhou City, Wang Yuan heaved a sigh of relief. Although the enemy's combat strength was low, they couldn't hold back a large number of people, and they were brave enough to die. They had exhausted their arrows after a few days of attacks.

Han Shizhong didn't care about these, and commanded the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, destroy the ordnance left by the enemy, and strengthen the city wall destroyed by the enemy.

To the north of Xiuzhou.

Xin Xingzong and Liu Guangshi are marching with the army.

"If I had known that Mingjiao and these people were so easy to fight, I would have been back long ago!"

Xin Xingzong laughed and said that along the way he had killed several waves of defeated soldiers of the Ming Cult.

"Sun Lei is really that hard to beat?"

Liu Guangshi looked at Xin Xingzong and asked suspiciously, Sun Lei is very famous now, but he has never actually met him.

"That's not an ordinary difficult fight, I'd rather fight with Xixia people!"

Xin Xingzong said with a wry smile, he didn't want to say that either, but the fact that they were defeated by Sun Lei had already spread, and denying it at this time would be sophistry.

"Is it more difficult to deal with than the Western Xia people?"

Liu Guangshi asked with interest, the more he was like this, the more interested he was in Sun Lei.

"When Fang La is wiped out, take troops to Jiangbei to meet Sun Lei!"

Liu Guangshi calculated in his heart that this time he was going out with his father Liu Yanqing, and he was just a general in the army.