The backup was cut off, he was besieged, and even his own boss colluded with the enemy, and Sun Tu and the Shandong army in Changshu were completely in a desperate situation. In such a situation, if someone else had changed, I was afraid that he would have already collapsed and given up, or desperately broke through, or agreed to the persuasion of the Wu army to surrender and became a branch of Fang La's anti-army.

But Sun Tu did not complain about this, let alone give up the idea of surviving in death and winning in defeat, and soon formulated a bold and risky idea to a little crazy - to jump out of the encirclement with a small number of elite soldiers, and take Suzhou with lightning speed, so as to completely reverse the situation!

This strategy may seem crazy, but it actually makes a lot of sense. Because now in order to be able to eat the Shandong army in one go, Pang Wanchun has mobilized all the troops that can be used in the Suzhou area and put them into the battle against Changshu, so that the rear will inevitably be empty, even if it is a key city like Suzhou, the remaining troops will inevitably be insufficient, which is a great opportunity for him to take advantage of the weakness.

And once Sun Tu really takes Suzhou, the result will be completely different, Suzhou is not comparable to Changshu, as long as the news spreads, even if Zhu Mian has other thoughts, he can only cooperate with the troops, otherwise even the court will not let him go, and he will be suspected of colluding with the thieves.

Of course, there are still problems for Sun Tu, first of all, how to break out of the encirclement, and then how to enter Suzhou City - although the remaining troops in Suzhou are already insufficient, there are always thousands of men and horses, and it is still whimsical to rely on a few hundred elites to break the city, so some other means have to be used.

The former problem was easily solved with Qin Chi's persuasion and Pang Wanchun's initiative to retreat, but the latter problem was difficult to solve, at least two days ago, he arrived at the city of Suzhou, and after checking the defense of the city at night, Sun Tu came to the conclusion that he could not attack and could only outwit.

As for how to outwit, with the appearance of Simmer, there is an answer.

It is said that as early as before Sun Tu led his troops to the south, he had asked Tong Mu'er to send Xie Mo out of Jinling and take him to the south. Of course, at that time, he didn't know that this Gongzi Xie could play such a big role, purely because he hoped that he could use his reputation to establish a good relationship with the people, so as to offset some of the statements of Fang La's side.

Relying on the contact secret that the Shandong army has always used, Xie Mo, who escaped from Jinling and went south with the help of Tong Mu, really joined Sun Tu in Suzhou City. As a celebrity in the south of the Yangtze River, he has a deep friendship with businessmen and celebrities from all over the world, counting the days, he soon proposed that Sun Tu find Su Mao, a big businessman in Suzhou, to help, because with his family's wealth and status, he can easily send hundreds of people into Suzhou without knowing it.

Sun Tu immediately adopted his suggestion, and then there was this meeting in Hanshan Temple - with Xie Mo's reputation, it was not too difficult to get Huikong to help meet Su Mao alone.

And after Su Mao agreed to help them, things became no longer difficult-

On the morning of the sixth day of the second lunar month, as the sky brightened, the city gate of Suzhou, which had been closed all night, finally opened slowly, and then many soldiers came to the gate with knives and guns, yawning and waiting.

Although the war is still going on, the city of Suzhou has not been completely closed, which is not only a means used by the new Wu regime to stabilize the hearts and minds of the people and the army, but also has a more practical consideration, that is, to collect taxes from it. Because now with the expansion of the war, the monarchs and ministers of Wu have become more and more overstretched, and they need to use various methods to obtain money and food supplements. The collection of gate taxes and commercial taxes is one of the most immediate ones.

However, these things that even Zhu Mian had never done in the past were naturally not accepted by the people, so now the people entering and leaving the city gate of Suzhou have become extremely rare, making a prosperous city deserted.

But the situation was different yesterday and today, early yesterday morning, the Su family spent a lot of money to open the city gate early, and also took a hundred and ten people out of the city. And today, the soldiers defending the city saw from a distance a larger contingent of monks and laymen carrying various sacrificial utensils coming slowly, and the leader was naturally the most familiar Su Yuanwai.

Although everyone was already familiar with it, the soldiers still stopped the whole team according to the rules and asked, "Outside the Su Yuan, what are you doing?" There were only more than 100 people who went out of the city yesterday, but why did they more than double when they returned to the city today? As he spoke, his gaze swept over the large group of people behind him.

Su Mao said with a smile: "The military master doesn't know, yesterday he went out of the city to worship the ancestors in the temple, and today it is the villain who took all the monks in the temple to his home to worship again." This is a habit that has been maintained for many years, but I dare not change it, otherwise it will be disrespectful to my ancestors. ”

"And that kind of thing?" The more than ten soldiers guarding the door couldn't help but mumble, feeling that rich people have a lot of things, and worshipping an ancestor still has so much attention.

At this time, the movement in front of the city gate had also alarmed a garrison officer, and he also greeted him with a straight face, and after looking at these many people, his brows furrowed: "Do you know that Jiangnan is fighting now, and my Suzhou is very close to the Song army, so we don't dare to be sloppy." ”

"What the general said is that the villain will never dare to cause trouble for you. It's just that...... Please be accommodating...... you said, Su Mao glanced at him, and the entourage around him immediately handed over a huge money bag respectfully: "This is the villain's filial piety to you alone, and the taxes for entering the city must be a lot, and they will all be offered." I also hope that the military masters will let us into the city for the sake of the ancestors. After finishing speaking, he made a lot of arching, but he put his posture to the lowest.

"That's right......" Although the officer still put on a pretentious appearance, the greed in his eyes had already betrayed him. Sure enough, after only "considering" for a moment, he nodded and said, "Since you are also out of filial piety, then we will open the net and let you wait in." However, everyone has to be searched, that's the rule! ”

"Yes, yes, the little one understands." Su Mao hurriedly responded, and then took the lead in opening his hands to let people search.

Then there was a lot of busy work in front of the city gate, but it was a troublesome thing for more than ten people to search hundreds of people, except for the beginning when everyone searched decently, the next two or three hundred people were just making a show. As for the various magic weapons that were placed in the box and were to be carried into the city, they just opened the lid and glanced at it and put it into the city. To be honest, Suzhou City, which is garrisoned by 3,000 people, really doesn't take these 300 or 400 people seriously, so it does so much just to knock the Su family on the line.

So in the end, the search was completely a false thing, they couldn't find the weapons hidden in the mezzanine of the box, and they didn't even see that more than half of the Su family members who went out of the city yesterday had already been replaced. Anyway, it wasn't dawn yesterday, how could they remember who the family members who followed Su Mao out of the city were sleepy-eyed? As for the "monks" with their heads bare, they are even less valued.

It only took half an hour for this team of three or four hundred people to successfully pass the inspection of the city gate and truly enter Suzhou City.

The corners of Sun Tu's mouth, who was mixed in, curled up, things were far smoother than he imagined, of course, if Su Mao, a big businessman in Suzhou, had not come forward and sprinkled a lot of money to open the way, the matter would have to be said separately. Thinking of this, he looked back at the soldiers who had already gathered into a pile, and found that they had begun to divide the money, and the golden ones were the treasure money of the Great Song Dynasty.

This made Sun Tu suddenly have a thought in his heart, now it is not only the anti-thief side, but also the enemy country such as the Western Xia Liao State that has the most internal circulation is also the money system of the Great Song Dynasty, it can be said that from an economic point of view, the Great Song Dynasty is the existence that dominates everything. Obviously, the Great Song Junchen never thought of using this advantage to fight the enemy, should he use his brains on this in the future?

Of course, this is all in the future, and the most important thing now is to take advantage of Suzhou's emptiness and unpreparedness to seize it first!

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Outside Changshu City, Wu Army Barracks.

Pang Wanchun was looking at Zhu Wu with a gloomy face: "It's been almost ten days, why hasn't Sun Tu opened the city and surrendered?" Isn't it that you have gone back on your word and are planning to fight to the end, and it was just a delaying tactic before, right? ”

Zhu Wu, who came out of the city for delay, smiled: "Pang Shuai, please calm your anger, this matter is indeed something we owe a little bit of consideration." Because just two days ago, after Sun Zhan said the news that he planned to surrender to you, not only the Huainan Army opposed it again and again, but even many of the generals of our Shandong Army expressed their dissatisfaction. It is precisely in order to appease all the soldiers that my family is in charge of it, so I don't dare to take action for the time being.

"But Pang Shuai, please rest assured, in a few days, the matter will be resolved satisfactorily. We have said that he will do what he says and lead the entire Shandong army to submit to you. ”

"Hmph, you'd better not try to play any tricks, or I won't leave any prisoners in the event of a broken city!" Pang Wanchun was also a little annoyed, although he had not attacked the city in the past few days, the pressure on the grain and grass in the army was getting bigger and bigger, and he really couldn't afford to drag it out. So after a pause, he made another ultimatum: "No matter what excuse you have, three days, I will only give you three days." If I don't open the city again, I will lead the army to attack the city again, and then there will be no more mercy. ”

"Yes, yes, the villain understands, I will go back and report to the jurisdiction, and I will give Pang Shuai a satisfactory answer within three days." Zhu Wu was also easy to speak, so he immediately responded to the matter, and then said goodbye and left.

Although the other party agreed, Pang Wanchun was still a little uneasy in his heart, and he always felt that something was wrong. But if you think about it carefully, you can't tell what went wrong, so you can only watch it for another three days......