In the earth-shattering drums and shouts of killing, the battle under Changshu City, which had been stopped for several days, was rekindled, and this time the offensive launched by the Wu army was more fierce than any previous one, Pang Wanchun waved 100,000 troops and stormed the four gates of the small county town, but he seemed to want to take it down in one go.

This time Pang Wanchun was really angry, because it was only at this time that he realized that he had been tricked by someone, not only wasted a few days in vain, gave the Song army in the city a chance to breathe, but also caused a big mess in Suzhou City, an important place in his rear, which was a big defeat that he had never had since the army, and it was also something he could not accept.

Just two days ago, as time continued to drag on, but the defenders of Changshu did not open the city and surrender as agreed, Pang Wanchun had already faintly sensed that something was wrong, thinking that this was Sun Tu's plan to delay the army. So he made an ultimatum, and even waved his army forward again, proposing that the defenders should only be given one last day to consider, and that a full-scale attack would be launched without opening the city.

Before the defenders could respond, that night, several subordinate soldiers with blood on their bodies and embarrassed expressions ran to the army in horror and sent a bad news: "Pang Shuai, Suzhou City was attacked by the Song army, we can't resist it, and the city has fallen into the hands of the enemy!" ”

Pang Wanchun couldn't believe his ears, he only stared fixedly at the subordinate soldiers in front of him, and only reacted after a while: "What did you say? How could Suzhou be lost? Where did the Song army come from, and the southernmost Shandong army were trapped in Changshu City by me and couldn't move......"

"The banner they are playing is the Shandong Military ......," a subordinate explained in a low voice, which also made everyone in the tent look more and more incredulous. This is really a hell of a thing, can the Shandong army still be separated, or can they still fly to the sky and the earth, and fly from their own encirclement to Suzhou in one fell swoop?

"What the hell is going on, you give me a detailed explanation, and there must be no omission!" Pang Wanchun calmed down a little before asking for details.

In fact, most of these people who escaped from Suzhou and reported the news didn't understand what happened that night, so they could only tell everything they knew with one word and one word. Including the powerful and terrifying combat effectiveness of the Song army, as well as the fact that they sneaked into Suzhou, launched a surprise attack at night, burned the granary, and many other things, everyone was very nervous when they heard it, and even Pang Wanchun subconsciously gasped.

According to this, with Pang Wanchun's understanding of the Shandong Army, the Battle of Suzhou really came from their handiwork. But he really couldn't understand how the other party hid his eyes and ears and suddenly appeared in the rear.

At this time, finally a subordinate suddenly shouted: "We have been tricked, Pang Shuai, now it seems that they have never had any sincerity to surrender, and the conditions put forward are to paralyze us, and at the same time, while I am unprepared to retreat, I will secretly send a small group of men and horses to the south......"

Pang Wanchun, who was awakened by a word, was even blushing and red, and was ashamed: "Sun Tu, you are so despicable!" I still regard you as a rare opponent, and I can't imagine that you would use such dirty methods to deceive me! Well, since you're so unruly, don't blame me for leaving nothing to chance! ”

Annoyed and angry, Pang Wanchun no longer had any worries and reservations, and immediately ordered the mobilization of all the soldiers and horses under his command to immediately launch an attack on the four gates of Changshu. This time, he no longer cared about any casualties, nor did he plan to surrender any Shandong elites, but only thought about annihilating this hateful Song army, and then taking advantage of the victory to return to Suzhou and regain control of this important town in the south of the Yangtze River.

As soon as this order came out, even at night, Wu Jun did not delay in the slightest. A huge siege ensued, and waves of military horses continued to rush towards the four cities of Changshu like a wave, and the defenders launched a life-and-death struggle with no tricks.

However, the strength of the Shandong army once again surprised Pang Wanchun and them. Even if they had done their best, even if Sun Tu was not in the city now, relying on the correct command of the many generals he left behind, coupled with the heroic performance of the soldiers after cultivating their spirits in the past few days, they were able to block the enemy's onslaught for a day and night.

However, the losses of the defenders are not small, needless to say the casualties of ordinary soldiers, after a day and a night of hard fighting, the casualties have reached thousands, even those middle and low-level officers, there are also great losses, especially those who are strong in martial arts, the former Liangshan leaders, because they have to fight to the death after the enemy has landed in the city, and the casualties have increased sharply.

Bao Xu, Fan Rui, Li Gon, Ma Lin, Song Wan, Li Li...... In just one day and one night, no less than a dozen brothers were killed or maimed. And the casualties of the military attachés of Shandong Zhucheng, who had previously surrendered to Sun Tu, were not below them. After all, except for some generals who need to preside over the overall situation, these officers all need to lead their troops to rush to the front line, and the battle for the city wall has almost no tricks to speak of, it is all a life-to-life, blood for blood, and the casualties of the soldiers are naturally rolling up.

Of course, the casualties of the besieging side will only be far above the defending side, and after round of fierce attacks, the Wu army that was killed and injured by all kinds of gold juice stones and trees alone is close to 10,000 people, and as for the people killed after going to the city, it is also more than 3,000.

Each time, they came to the city under great pressure, but each time they stepped on the blood and corpses of their comrades to reach the city, they were faced with a more ferocious counterattack. The Shandong army completely showed their strong combat effectiveness and cohesion, even if they were inferior to the enemy in numbers, they were able to drive the enemy off the city through crazy battles again and again.

The head of the city was already stained red with blood, and the corpses were piled up to the brim, and people behind them were smashing the enemy with weapons such as stones and trees.

In the face of such a formidable opponent, repeated setbacks, and continuous casualties, the Wu army finally couldn't bear the strength anymore, and after a day and night of onslaught, the offensive was suspended. After that, some people even begged Pang Wanchun, hoping that he would quickly collect his troops and return to Suzhou to save him, and stop fighting with the Song army to the end because of his momentary anger. In the final analysis, they have been killed by the strong fighting spirit of the Shandong army.

In fact, how could Pang Wanchun not see that this Changshu is really difficult? He also wanted to collect troops and return to Suzhou to save him, but he knew better that there was a great hidden danger in doing so. Because once he retreats, the morale of the whole army will be greatly reduced, and at the same time, he can't know what the situation is in the rear. If the Song army had enough troops and deliberately set up an ambush on the road it had to pass, he would have thrown himself into the net when he returned, and the losses would only be greater.

And more importantly, he absolutely had reason to believe that once he withdrew his troops, the Song army in Changshu would inevitably go out of the city to pursue, and at that time he would really be passive to the extreme.

"Pang Shuai, the last general thinks that this is an opportunity, let's take retreat as advance, pretend to retreat to Suzhou, and transfer the defenders out of Changshu City first. In this way, you can get rid of your worries first, and then turn back to deal with the Song army in Suzhou. One of his subordinates came up with a reasonable strategy.

Pang Wanchun immediately nodded: "This is an idea, then do it." But until then, you can continue to attack the city again and consume more of their troops, so that you can lure them out of the city and kill them all more easily! ”

So for the next two days, the siege continued, but the offensive was not as ferocious as the previous two days. At the same time, the Wu army has also begun to make relevant preparations for retreat - Pang Wanchun also has two preparations, if the Shandong army pursues it, it will set up an ambush to attack it, and if the enemy does not move, it will rush back to Suzhou as soon as possible.

But on the third day when he had finalized the whole plan, another soldier under his command brought an even more anxious piece of information - in the past few days, the Song army occupying Suzhou actually attacked frequently and took down several small county towns near Suzhou, and what shocked him especially was that even Wu County, which he used to hoard grain, had fallen into the hands of the enemy......

"What do you all eat? I have left 3,000 men and horses in Wu County, can't you even hold a small city? It's just a bunch of rubbish! Looking at Wu Guang, the general under his command who was supposed to be stationed in Wu County, Pang Wanchun couldn't help it anymore and scolded.

Wu Guang was anxious for a while, and only after a while did he tell the reason: "The last general...... The last general fell for the tricks of the Song army. They actually sent people to send the leader of General Xu to send our Wu County defenders to the rescue, but as soon as we got out of the city, we fell into an ambush by the Song army. When I led my army out of the siege and fled back to Wu County, I found that it had been occupied by the Song army......"

"How many soldiers does he have? How can it be easy to defeat thousands of your people, and then divide the army to capture Wu County? ”

"There were only a few hundred people who ambushed us, but the combat power was so strong that we couldn't parry it at all. As for those who seized the city, the last general took a few looks from afar, but found that there were actually Suzhou defenders among them......" Wu Guang replied carefully.

Just this sentence made Pang Wanchun's face change again, which was even more ugly than learning that Wu County and other cities were seized by the Song army. Because he knew very well that this meant that Suzhou had really completely fallen into the hands of the Song army, and the other party now had an army of thousands of people in his hands.

"How so? It took me more than half a month to control the situation after I marched into Suzhou that day, how could the Song army do this so easily? ”

Faced with this question, no one present could give an answer, and everyone showed a look of horror. Now it seems that the situation is far worse and more dangerous than they judged, if they do not return to the division, Suzhou is afraid that it will be completely recaptured by the Song army.

And this will also bring more serious consequences, that is, their group of men and horses is about to become a lone army in enemy territory, and the situation will only be more serious than that of the Shandong army. Because they now have no food and grass inside, and no city to rely on outside, once the Song army in the north takes advantage of the situation, there is really only a dead end!