The soldiers took Muzhou City without blood, which was of course a good thing for the officers and soldiers of the Song army, because this means that the Jiangnan Rebellion has been completed. But Sun Tu was not satisfied in his heart, this place was almost an empty city, leaving only a small number of old, weak, sick and disabled is one of them, and the escape of Fang La and other key figures is the second, which made him know very well that this battle has not yet reached the real end.

Therefore, after entering the city, he sent people to appease the people and put up notices explaining that the government would not hold the people accountable for the rebellion at the beginning, and on the other hand, he also sent a large number of scouts to the area of Qingxi County, Fangla's hometown, to investigate the news, hoping to find out their whereabouts and whereabouts as soon as possible, so as to catch these anti-thieves before they completely escaped and left.

But then the development of things was not too satisfactory, on the last day of March, there was finally a definite news back, suspected that Fang La and others led the crowd into the deep mountains around the Gangyuan Cave, where the terrain is complex and the forces are more mixed, unless the iron heart is directly bloodied and suppressed, I am afraid it will be difficult to drive the army into the mountains.

Moreover, even if Sun Tuzhen plans to be a butcher, the cost of this matter is also very high, fighting in the home field of those natives of Qingxi, even if the elite is like the Qingzhou army, he will not be able to take any advantage, and excessive casualties are something he will never accept.

When the relevant news continued to be summarized and reported, Sun Tu also felt a little tricky and powerless: "How is this good?" Do you really want to use the strong one to plow all the mountain people here at any cost? ”

"General, don't, in this way, your reputation in Jiangnan will be completely ruined." Tong Mu hurriedly reminded: "Since you already plan to use Jiangnan as another base, you must not do such a thing. What's more, if you really do it, a murderous sin will fall on you, and those people in the court are still waiting for you to make a mistake......"

Sun Tu nodded clearly: "But can we have a better way to deal with it?" Fang La was originally brought out by Naqingxi, and the villagers naturally wanted to protect him, but now that he has escaped into the mountains and forests, can they still let them hand over the people? ”

"Why not, people's hearts are originally to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, as long as the local mountain people know that this person is a big disaster, and keeping him will only bring disaster to themselves and their relatives, I think someone will always change their minds." Zhu Wu expressed his thoughts: "In addition, we can also induce them to take advantage of the local mountain leaders or something to our side......"

"Brother Zhu, good way, general, this plan is indeed feasible, as long as we can spread the relevant statements as soon as possible, we are not afraid that those people will not comply. Even if that Fang La does have some fame in the local area, it can't compare to his own net worth and the gold and silver wealth that he can get. Wu Yong also nodded.

Sun Tu frowned and thought for a while, then looked at the generals in front of him: "What do you think?" ”

"If you can win Fang La at the lowest cost, you can do it." First Dong Ping, and then some other generals also echoed. After following Sun Tu for a long time, these people are no longer reckless men who only shout and shout to kill like in the past, and they will look at things in the long run.

Sun Tu swept through everyone, and finally nodded in approval: "Then according to everyone's wishes, first find a way to contact the people in Qingxi and Bangyuandong and other places, and use both soft and hard, so that they can be used by me." Let's hope it doesn't take too long. ”

"General, I think the most important thing we should do now is to send this good news back to the imperial court, so that the great work will be completely in hand, even if some people want to make trouble again, they will not be given any chance." Tong Mu reminded him in time.

The other subordinates were also slightly stunned, and then looked at Sun Tu expectantly. Indeed, this time they quickly quelled the Jiangnan Rebellion under the leadership of Sun Tu, and this credit is really too great, naturally no one wants this kind of credit to be shared. Especially when Uncle Zhang and the two of them have come before, some people are worried that they will have a long night and a lot of dreams.

Sun Tu thought about it for a while, then nodded and responded: "It's okay." Now that the cities that have been captured by the rebels in the past few years have been taken back, and Fang La has been beaten by us and escaped into the mountains, it is indeed time to ask for credit for you. As he spoke, he smiled again: "We all have military merits, and we must all be able to be promoted by then, and finally we will be able to lead a landlord." ”

This made everyone rejoice, even if they always said that they wanted to be an idle cloud and wild crane in the past, when they thought that they would become a military attache of the imperial court in the near future, and the real wife and shadow son, they were all smiling and felt that their future was bright. As for Song Jiang and the others, they were even more full of joy, but they didn't scream out like others because they were in the city, but the smile on their faces couldn't be hidden.

So, after entering April, Sun Tu carried out three things at the same time, one of which was to send the good news of crossing the Wulong Ridge, breaking the Muzhou City, killing Fang La, and escaping into the deep mountains, and soon being able to completely exterminate it to the Beijing Division; the second is the idea of contacting Qingxi, especially the mountain leaders in the area of Bangyuandong, hoping to deal with Fang La by wooing them; The third is to widely expose the people, bluntly saying that Fang La's crimes are extremely heinous, and the determination of the court to exterminate him, in order to put enough pressure on those people.

These last two things are obviously not something that can be done in a short period of time, and it is not easy to contact those mountain leaders like the emperor of the earth. But the first thing, because the fastest military post was used, and the good news was sent to Bianjing in an expedited way of 600 miles, so in only a few days, the army had been reported to the military headquarters.

This time, Sun Tu did not send a few more good news to other yamen as before, because this matter was a foregone conclusion, and it was related to the overall situation of Jiangnan, and no one dared to hide it anymore.

And things were just as he expected, the officials of the Ministry of War were also shocked after receiving this good news, and did not dare to make their own claims, so they quickly reported it to the Privy Council, and later that day, it was delivered to Gao Yu.

When he saw this good news, Captain Gao's whole face sank suddenly. Although he wanted to see the news of Jiangnan's chaos, he wanted to see the signature behind him was Uncle Zhang. It's good now, this good news is completely handled by Sun Tu, but he didn't even mention the two bosses and the prison army.

What does this mean, Gao Yu naturally knows it: "Waste! No wonder there has been no news since the two of them went to Jiangnan, and now it seems that they have been completely suppressed by Sun Tu, and they have not even been able to get back a little military power from him. Sun Tu, you are so bold, you dare to make such an assertion, and commit the following crimes! ”

But after being angry, he had no way to do what Sun Tu did. Because he won Muzhou, the credit for killing Fang La, who had escaped into the mountains, was real, maybe soon, he would be able to behead or capture Fang La alive, so that the credit was all his, and it was too late for the court to reward him, so how could he be punished for this trivial matter?

Even if Gao Yu is now trusted by the emperor, even if there is Liang Shicheng, and even Cai Jing can help him deal with Sun Tu together, in the current situation, I am afraid that he will not be able to do it.

And what worries him even more is that once Sun Tuzhen is promoted with this great achievement, with his bold personality and his grievances with himself for many years, he is afraid that he will follow in Zhu Mian's footsteps.

The more he thought about it, the more panicked he felt, Gao Yu couldn't help it anymore, so he quickly went to find Liang Shicheng and explained the current problem. Liang Shicheng also fell into a long silence after reading this good news. After a while, he gritted his teeth and said: "This Sun Tu really swept away the Jiangnan Rebellion, then it will become a big trouble in the future, and we can't let him go easily." ”

"Xia Guan knows, but now ...... It's hard to even move Uncle Zhang when they go at night, and now that he will be rewarded again, can we still deal with him? Gao Yu was really a little panicked, and his words became more and more direct.

"If he is allowed to stay in Jiangnan, it will naturally be impossible to do it, but if he can be transferred back to Bianjing from Jiangnan, it will be different. In the end, he was just a military general, in my Great Song Dynasty, even if he was a military general who had made great contributions, it was nothing more than that, Di Qing back then could only compromise and seek perfection, but he couldn't even keep his subordinates? Moreover, with his character and those DPRK and Chinese officials who offended him before, as long as he returns to Beijing to take up his post, it will not be long before he will be able to give us an opportunity to take advantage of! ”

Gao Yu smiled bitterly, of course he knew the truth very well, but the question was: "Then Sun Tu is not stupid, and he knows better that he and I will become fire and water sooner." Even Tong Guan could figure it out before, he avoided the frontier early, how could he be transferred back obediently? ”

After a pause, he added: "He even dared to put Zhang Shuye, the two commanders appointed by the imperial court, under house arrest and not give them any chance, how could he come back with an order when he was in Jiangnan?" If we really push him into a hurry and there is a mutiny, we can't afford to wait. "He is really afraid of Sun Tu, a guy who has no scruples, maybe nine out of ten generals in the world will not be able to do anything about rebellion, but this Sun Tu, just from what he has done in the past, you can see that this is a guy who does not play cards according to common sense, maybe he will really raise the anti-flag and rebel directly.

Liang Shicheng was stunned for a moment, he really didn't think about it so deeply. But soon, he laughed again: "If it had been a few days ago, I might have been worried that this would have happened. But now, it's no longer a problem. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Let's take a look at this first." Liang Shicheng took out a letter and handed it over. And after reading the letter sent by the subordinate officials, Gao Yu really showed a smug smile on his face: "It turns out that we have caught the biggest weakness of his Sun Tu, so we are not afraid that he will not give in!" ”