Since he had obtained Zhu Mian's promise, Sun Tu naturally would not delay, and sent Tang Feng, the captain of the personal guard, to take people to the official warehouse in the southeast corner of Jinling early the next morning to ask for food, and as for himself, he and Tong Mu went to the city with the escort of several personal guards to check the defense system of the city.

In Sun Tu's view, although the imperial court is constantly dispatching officials and troops from all over the country to arrive, it seems that the imperial court has an absolute advantage, but in fact, with these rabble who only know how to bully the good and fear the evil and exploit the people, it is difficult to block the morale of Fang La's rebel army in the front, and maybe when they will have to fight a tough battle around this Jinling. So before that, it is necessary to have a basic understanding of the entire city, so as not to be blinded before the matter comes.

Because of Tong Mu, the Suzhou magistrate, they were really easy to go to the city that should have been regarded as a military forbidden area - it is also sad to say that the power of the local officials in Jinling is far less powerful than the officials who retreated from Suzhou with Zhu Mian, especially after the killing of Yang Du, the Jinling magistrate, yesterday, the others were even more trembling and did not dare to offend the Suzhou officials.

A few people first went up to the inner city wall, and then walked along the aisle, below is the slowly flowing Qinhuai River, on both sides of the river are the most lively streets, but at this time, only tigers and wolves are in charge of the road and there are not a few people. After a few deliberate glances, Sun Tu's gaze stretched out along the river, and he said softly, "Which gateway is the exit of the Qinhuai River?" ”

Tong Mu already had a good understanding of this city, and immediately replied: "It's Dongshui Pass, there should be a naval army stationed there, and the strength should be seven or eight hundred." ”

"Let's go, go over and have a look." Sun Tu immediately took the lead to the east, before he arrived at the place, his brows were already deeply wrinkled, the situation here is not to his liking, not only are there few soldiers guarding the city, the city wall is also weathered and peeled off badly, and at a glance, you can see that it has not been built well for many years.

In fact, because Nanjing is located in the south of the Yangtze River, far less than those cities in the north that need to guard against the danger of foreign invasion from time to time, so the local officials are also negligent in this regard, and the money has already been privately divided by the relevant officials, as long as the city wall does not collapse, everything will be fine.

Seeing Sun Tu frowning, Tong Mu quickly guessed his mind and said with a smile: "Do you know how Hangzhou was captured?" According to the soldiers who escaped later, the rebels erected ladders to attack the city, but they actually collapsed a section of the city wall in a fierce attack, resulting in the outer city being broken through in an instant. Then in addition, there were people in the city who suddenly made an incident, so in a daze, they took down this important town in the south of the Yangtze River in just half a month. It is said that the last time the walls of Jinling were built with great effort were decades ago. ”

Sun Tu could only smile bitterly and shook his head: "So it is not a fluke that Fang La's gang can suddenly sweep Jiangnan in a short period of time, but the cooperation of the enemy and me." No wonder ......" The latter sentence is no wonder that Zhao Gou fled to Jiangnan later, but was finally chased and killed by the Jin people and fled to the sea to be saved, he stopped it in time and didn't say it. He was quite strange when he saw the relevant statements before, but now he finally understands that at this time, the defense power of the cities in the south of the Yangtze River is simply unable to resist the fierce golden soldiers and iron cavalry who come and go like the wind.

Tong Mu sighed with him: "The problem now is that this flaw cannot be remedied, it is impossible for Zhu Mian to come up with money and food to repair the Jinling city wall, as for the local treasury of Jinling, it has already fallen into the private pockets of Zhu Mian and his subordinates at this time." ”

"In this way, it seems that if we want to defeat the enemy by holding on, I am afraid it will be difficult to do it." After only looking at a section of the city wall, Sun Tu had no interest in continuing to look down, such a serious problem, even he couldn't come up with any defense strategy for a while: "The only way is to leave the city behind and fight the rebels in the wild." ”

"Yes, but those military horses who came to help obviously didn't have such plans, didn't you notice, they have all been stationed around Jinling, and they have no intention of going south at all."

"After all, this is not their jurisdiction, and there is no money and food to reward and incentive, so no one is willing to work hard." Sun Tu said quite understandingly, even if he was him, it was impossible for his soldiers to fight the enemy before the food, grass and money were in place.

Although Sun Tu had lost interest in inspecting the city wall, everyone still walked to Dongshui Pass, which was not far from the east gate. After a condescending look, Sun Tu sighed again: "The checkpoints here are easy to attack and difficult to defend, the so-called navy is just a few more broken boats, if the enemy really attacks downstream, I'm afraid it won't last long." In addition, there are flaws everywhere on the east gate, if I lead the army to attack Jinling, as long as I choose the eastern border to advance by land and water, it will not take ten days to capture this city. ”

After reading this, there was no need to go elsewhere, and it was close to noon, so Sun Tu planned to return to the barracks. But before he could walk any way, a group of men and horses in front of him hurried up to meet him, and when he saw them from afar, the first scribe shouted, "Sun Chan, you can let the little one find him." You actually have such an interest, and you ran up to the city early in the morning to see the scenery...... "Okay, in the eyes of others, Sun Tu went to the city today to see the scenery."

But Sun Tu didn't mean to explain, just looked at the person who came, waiting for Tong Mu to introduce him. The latter was not slow to react, and immediately smiled: "Qianli, this is Mr. Lu Bofei, the mastermind next to Zhu Shuai." ”

"It turned out to be Mr. Lu, but it was disrespectful." Sun Tu also had a banquet with him yesterday, but there were many people at that time, and they didn't bother to remember it, so they really forgot about this for a while.

Lu Bofei was still a little uncomfortable, but when he heard Tong Mu say this, he was a little happy in his heart, because the mastermind was referring to the First Army Division and his staff, which was exactly what he wanted, and he said modestly at the moment: "Tong Tuiguan has an overreputation, and he will come up with ideas to run errands by Zhu Shuai's side, which is not worth mentioning." ”

After a little greeting, Sun Tucai looked at him and said, "Mr. Lu is in a hurry to find me at this time, but what's the matter?" ”

"Oh, but it's Zhu Shuai who has a little thing that he wants to ask Sun Chan to help you. Tong Tuiguan should also know that just half a month ago, there was a sudden rebellion among the people in the city, killing more than a dozen people in the official government, and robbing a batch of grain, and then sneaking into Qixia Mountain to hide. Although Zhu Shuai sent people to search for it several times after that, they all escaped by relying on their familiarity with the terrain, and the impact of this incident on the security of our Jinling is not small. Therefore, Zhu Shuai wanted to ask Sun Zhan to bring people up the mountain to kill them all in order to set an example. ”

Sun Tu looked at him thoughtfully, and then looked at the famous scenery in the distance, and couldn't help but sneer in his heart. This Zhu Mian can really cause trouble, he has already forced the people of Jinling to rebel, and now he throws such a hot potato in front of him, it's not easy to take it.

This is not to say that he does not have the confidence to lead his troops up the mountain to take down those chaotic people, the mountain situation of Qixia Mountain itself is not too dangerous, and the other party has just gone up the mountain not long ago, so it is impossible to rely on the terrain to hold on like those cottages before, with the ability of his soldiers and horses to repeatedly pacify the bandits and bandits in Shandong Mountain, it should not take too much effort to pacify them.

The real problem is that in the identity of these chaotic people, they are actually the victims, if they really attack according to Zhu Mian's intentions, not only will they not be able to get over their conscience, but their reputation among the people will be ruined a lot afterwards, and they may be labeled as a butcher or the like when they will become the public enemies of the people in Jiangnan, which is not what Sun Tu wants to see.

Seeing that Sun Tu frowned slightly, Lu Bofei smiled again: "By the way, Sun Chu, Zhu Shuai also mentioned that our military rations are very limited, and we must first satisfy those teams that can really fight." If you can help us solve this chaos, I will definitely be able to say a few good words for you in front of Zhu Shuai. ”

"Okay." After thinking for a while, Sun Tu finally bowed his head to the reality, nodded and responded: "I will arrange for people to quell the chaos immediately, but when the time comes, I still hope that Zhu Shuai can be true to his word and allocate our army's grain and grass in place as soon as possible." ”

"Of course, with Sun Chan's action, presumably those chaotic people will be corrected." Seeing that Sun Tu should respond to this matter, Lu Bofei was very happy, and after praising him a few more words, he happily said goodbye and left.

And Yue Fei, who followed behind Sun Tu as a personal guard and had never spoken, finally couldn't bear it anymore at this time: "Governor, these people are also forced to go up the mountain out of desperation, what is the difference between us doing this and those other officers and soldiers?" "There is still a big gap between the young and enthusiastic teenager and Yue Wumu many years later.

It was Tong Mu, who glanced at Sun Tu and said with a smile: "Qianli should have his own plans, and he can do the best of both worlds before he can deal with this matter, right?" ”

"The second brother who knows me is also." Sun Tu glanced at Yue Fei with a smile and said, "There are many ways to solve things in this world, and there is not only one way to choose. Did they just want us to pacify the rebellious people who fled to Qixia Mountain, and they didn't say that we must kill them all, we can appease them. ”

"This ...... Will this work? Yue Fei said a little vaguely.

"It's a matter of people. Yue Fei listened to the order...... Sun Tu suddenly turned his face, and after the other party suddenly straightened up, he said: "You and Lu Dawusong will go to Qixia Mountain in the afternoon, find those people, and tell them what I mean, as long as they are willing to come down the mountain, I, Sun Tu, can keep them safe." ”

Although he still had doubts in his heart, Yue Fei immediately answered the order: "Obey the order!" There was still a little excitement on his face, because this was the first military order he had received since he joined Sun Tu's command, which made him make up his mind that he must do things well.

At this time, Sun Tu had already put this matter behind him, but frowned slightly: "It seems that Zhu Mian will not let me go easily, and on the second day of coming to Jinling, he brought me trouble." ”

Little did he know that another trouble had come to his doorstep.