Woe and blessing depend.

A planned fire certainly caught Sun Tu and his soldiers off guard, and destroyed half of Hangzhou City, losing more than half of the wealth and food that had been successfully obtained, but it also brought an opportunity to the Song army, an opportunity to win the hearts of the people and win the trust of the people in Jiangnan.

After Sun Tu's order, the Song army, especially the officers and soldiers of the Shandong Army, who had just ended a major battle, immediately threw themselves into a new battle to save the fire and save the people. In the next few days, they ran all over the city, doing their best to fight fires and disaster relief, and at the same time welcomed the people in the city into the barracks for resettlement, even the people who had been bewitched and escaped from Hangzhou before, as long as they turned back, they were treated kindly and properly settled, and there was no legend that they would be dealt with strictly, or even questioned.

Not only that, but the officers and soldiers also took out all the food and clothing that should have belonged to them for the people in need, and would rather venture into the city to find a place to rest than give the military tents to the people to settle them. All this fell into the eyes of the people, and after they personally felt the difference between this Great Song Dynasty official army, everyone was greatly moved, and truly understood what it means to be a unity of the army and the people.

The original misunderstanding has long been dissipated, and now the people only have a strong respect and gratitude for this official army, especially for Sun Tu, who regards this general who arranged everything as a reborn parent and protector. Today, at the suggestion of some old men and gentry, the people finally mustered up the courage to ask the soldiers left behind in the camp to thank Sun Tu, and then the matter was quickly reported.

Sun Tu did so much with the intention of this, in order to win the hearts of the people in Jiangnan, with this opportunity, of course, it is impossible to refuse. That's why he came out of the secret passage, and he came to the barracks as promised. At this time, hundreds of people's representatives were already waiting in front of the barracks, and when they saw Sun Tu riding a horse, they all knelt down in unison: "The grass people are waiting to thank General Sun for taking care of him for his life...... " said, and some people kept kowtowing.

Sun Tu saw the row of white-haired old men at the front of the crowd at a glance, and quickly got off the horse, stepped forward a few steps forward to hold the old man at the front, and helped him up with force: "Old man, please get up quickly, I can't afford to wait for you to wait for such a big gift!" After helping him up, he stretched out his hand to help the other two old men on the side as well, and continued: "Fellow villagers, if you have anything to say, you don't have to do it. I'm just doing what a court official should do......"

The old man who was helped up by him was full of excitement, and said in a trembling voice: "Where is General Sun, how many things you and the soldiers have done for me Hangzhou and our people, the big guys are all in the eyes, we are really ashamed...... If we had known that the official army was such a benevolent and righteous army, how could we have done something to collude with the anti-thieves, and we would have taken our brothers and nephews to help the official army defeat those anti-thieves. ”

"Yes, General, it was I who waited for the lard to be blinded and bewitched by those thieves to do that series of things, and I am really ashamed." The old man continued, with a look of shame and self-reproach.

Other people also followed suit, saying how ashamed they were, and that they were deceived by others to become enemies of the officials and soldiers, and bluntly said that they would fully cooperate with the officials and troops in the future to rebuild and govern Hangzhou......

Today, those who can come to see Sun Tu as representatives of the city are all figures with considerable background in Hangzhou, including both old officials who are at home in Zhishi, gentry and landlords with solid family property and high popularity, and some young people who are scholars who have their own merits but have not yet entered the office. And with their assurance, it means that Hangzhou will be re-subordinated to the imperial court from now on, and it will no longer be possible to be in the same league with Fang La and other thieves.

This judgment made Sun Tu very happy, and a large part of what he did was for this. At that moment, he hugged his fists and said: "All the folks, fathers and elders can get lost at this time, and it is really my Hangzhou, my Jiangnan, and my blessing in the world of the Great Song Dynasty." In fact, the official also knew that everyone had come to this point because of the situation, because the traitorous officials in the court were in charge, and there were corrupt officials in the local area who acted perversely, so they forced everyone to go with the anti-thieves in order to protect themselves. Other officials are not good at making many guarantees, but there is one thing I can say bluntly, Hangzhou will be very different in the future, as long as the soldiers under my command are still there, the court will not embarrass you. ”

These responsible words naturally won a burst of cheers and praise from everyone. Seeing this, Sun Tu struck the iron again and said while it was hot: "You also know that this rebuilding of the home is not an overnight thing, and it is not something that my soldiers can do alone, so I ...... next."

Before he finished speaking, the people already responded loudly: "General Sun, I and the people of Hangzhou have long intended to go back and rebuild our Hangzhou City with the soldiers, I don't know if you will agree, rest assured that I will go back?" ”

"What's wrong with that? Everyone is for the good of Hangzhou, not only you, as long as you are the local people of Hangzhou, no matter what mistakes you have made before, as long as you come back at this time, I promise that you will not be guilty of the past. You can also let people spread the news, so that more relatives and friends who don't know the truth can go home as soon as possible. Sun Tu hurriedly announced loudly, naturally greeted with a burst of cheers.

For a while, many people were so excited that they knelt and kowtowed, and their last little scruples were finally relieved, at least now it seems that this General Sun really has the heart to make decisions for them, and they are also sincerely grateful to Sun Tu.

Sun Tu didn't dare to slack off, so he quickly stepped forward and helped up a few people who kowtowed, and fortunately he was relieved. He believes that as long as the people here really recognize him, then the entire Jiangnan will completely dissipate their prejudices against themselves. When attacking Wuzhou to the west, the local people may have to stand on their side and help calm down the turmoil that lasted for two or three years.

While talking, Sun Tu walked to a man who was still kneeling there and kowtowing, bent down, and said: "This brother should get up and speak first, I have ......already understood your intentions" At this point, he suddenly had an alarm in his heart, and his body quickly retreated with a wrong step.

And the man who was still grateful, kowtowing more than once, suddenly raised his head, a sinister smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and when his hand was flipped, a cold light had rushed straight to Sun Tu's chest with a sharp roar!

The sudden speed of this change was really beyond the expectations of too many people, not to mention the people around who were still grateful, even those guards who followed Sun Tu did not expect that someone would assassinate Sun Tu at this time, when they found out, the cold light had reached Sun Tu's chest, all they could do was to exclaim, someone had already rushed forward, but it was obviously too late.

Jiang Shihu watched with murderous anger as the Sleeve Arrow flew out like lightning, waiting for the moment when the blade entered his body. He had been waiting for this moment for many years, and now that he saw that the great revenge was about to be avenged, he only felt that the blood in his whole body had begun to boil. He wants to take matters into his own hands and watch Sun Tu being killed by himself up close with his own eyes, even if he will be dismembered by a knife later!

For this day, he has paid too much and planned too much. Originally, he thought that he could rely on helping Fang La to fight for the Great Song Dynasty, and in the process, he would eradicate Sun Tu, the great enemy. He did almost kill Sun Tu...... But in the end, it fell short!

Sun Tu not only saved his life in the Battle of Changshu, but also achieved a series of great victories, and finally led his troops to Hangzhou. Until then, Jiang Shihu already knew that everything was a certainty, and it was no longer possible to kill this terrible opponent on the battlefield, even if Pang Wanchun and Fang Fei still had some confidence, but he had already given up.

So there is a layout in Hangzhou. Sending Fang La away from Hangzhou before certainly meant to retain the last glimmer of hope, but his real purpose was to be able to do something in the palace. Because once the emperor leaves the city, the palace is under his control, and he can set a trap in it.

Jiang Shihu guessed that once the city was broken, Sun Tu would inevitably lead the army to the palace, and as long as he waited there, he could borrow those fire oil hay and burn him alive with fire to avenge his brother's killing! In order to be foolproof, he even arranged a backhand outside the palace, so it can be said that as long as Sun Tu leads people into the palace, he will be able to kill him.

It's a last resort, and it really lives up to its name. However, people are not as good as heaven, because Pang Wanchun led people to break through the siege, and Dong Ping and others outside the city were difficult to resist, Sun Tu actually temporarily led troops to pursue, but handed over such a major event as capturing the palace to the people below. So in the end, what appeared in front of Jiang Shihu was replaced by other Song generals!

This was indeed a big surprise to him, but fortunately, he still kept a hand and was able to get out through the secret passage in the palace early, so that there was no tragedy of dying before his ambition was paid. But at the same time, Jiang Shihu also knew one thing very well, that is, after this plan failed, it would become more and more difficult for him to kill Sun Tuke again.

In the end, he finally decided to gamble, risking his own life to stay among the people, waiting for the last chance to approach Sun Tu and assassinate him.

And this time, the opportunity really came. Not only did he blend in with these grateful people, but he also met Sun Tu up close. What surprised him even more was that Sun Tu actually came to him, and he reached out defenselessly to help himself who was pretending to kowtow.

The opportunity was in front of him, Jiang Shihu did not hesitate at all, he had already raised his hand, and stimulated the sleeve arrow that was quenched with poison and visible blood to seal his throat, and went straight to Sun Tu's chest. He even vaguely saw the arrow entering his body, and he only felt tears in his eyes: "Big brother, my revenge, I finally want to avenge you——! ”