Two days later, Pang Wanchun had personally led 20,000 elites as a vanguard army to Suzhou City, and then let him see an unbelievable and amazing scene-

The head of the city of Suzhou has already been guarded in a forest, waiting for the battle, and the swords, guns and arrows are standing there like a forest, so that people will feel frightened when they look at it from a distance, only a rough sweep, he has calculated that the soldiers and horses deployed at the head of the city have five or six thousand people, if you add the possible reserve men and horses, now the defenders in the city are not under its forward army.

What surprised him even more was a big banner with the character Sun flying high at the head of the city, which was the flag of the general he was very familiar with recently, and it was the banner of Sun Tu. This made Pang Wanchun's face change again: "How could Sun Tu appear here?" Or is this just a bluff ploy on their part? He really couldn't believe that the defenders of Changshu would defend the city without the main commander of the three armies, and repeatedly desperately repelled his full onslaught.

What now? An extremely critical issue has been placed in front of Pang Wanchun, according to the previous plan, since he personally led the striker to Suzhou, it was naturally in order to be able to take Suzhou back immediately. But judging from the current defense of Suzhou City, the reluctant attack is likely to hit a wall here, and the losses will be heavy.

But Pang Wanchun knew better the consequences of delaying, and when the Song army on the Changshu side rushed to respond, and even the Song army in Jinling tore up the tacit understanding after knowing the battle situation in Suzhou and brazenly sent troops, the battle around Suzhou City became more and more difficult.

After quickly weighing and thinking in his heart, he finally made up his mind: "Order the three armies to launch an attack on the northern city of Suzhou immediately." We must concentrate all our forces and take down this side of the city gate first! "To be honest, even if the facts are in front of him, Pang Wanchun still can't believe that the Song army can recruit thousands or even tens of thousands of men and horses to defend the city in just a few days after taking Suzhou, in his opinion, most of the seemingly majestic defenders at the head of the city are ordinary people who are forced to go to the city, as long as they wave their troops to attack, the defenders will inevitably be chaotic and collapse!

Until now, he had decided that the number of Song troops who could quietly move south from under his nose was definitely not many, maybe only a few hundred, how could he be able to defend such a big city as Suzhou?

When Pang Shuai's orders and guesses were issued, the soldiers of the Wu army, who were still a little panicked, quickly calmed down, and immediately launched the first wave of attacks on the Suzhou City Gate in the sound of drums and trumpets.

Sun Tu, who had already seen the enemy soldiers in the city, only smiled lightly when he saw this, and under his orders, those newly recruited sergeants also began to act in an orderly manner. When the enemy rushed to the city, bows, arrows, wood and stones and other weapons of the city had been smashed down like raindrops, and the enemy screamed again and again, and the momentum of the forward rush was immediately contained.

This Suzhou city is not comparable to a small county town like Changshu, the city wall here is twice the size of the county seat, plus a variety of complete city defense weapons can be called to the enemy below as if they don't want money, even if the defenders are only those who have not fought much, its lethality is not much weaker than the elite of the Shandong army. Moreover, as the enemy continued to fall, the soldiers who were still a little uneasy also let go of their hands and feet at this time, and the range of arrows and stones was also larger, thus causing more casualties of the Wu army.

Because of the rapid march, the Wu army, which had exhausted a lot of physical strength, was even more unstable after facing such a tough resistance, and before Pang Wanchun ordered the withdrawal of the army, it had already retreated back in some embarrassment, leaving only about 200 corpses under the city, but it could not even touch the city wall of Suzhou City.

When they saw that the menacing enemy had retreated in disarray, the troops in the city made bursts of clamor and cheers, and their confidence in defending the city was even stronger. Especially soon, those wealthy merchants brought a box full of copper coins and a large amount of wine and meat to the city, and after rewarding the soldiers, the morale of the city head was greatly boosted, and the cheers rang out loud and reached the Wu army that had withdrawn for several miles.

Sun Tu was able to raise such a garrison army in a short period of time, naturally relying on the strong support of a group of merchant landlords led by Su Mao. After agreeing to his request, these merchants really threw out a lot of money and food to recruit the people of the city to defend the city.

There is a way that there must be brave men under heavy rewards, with the response and propaganda of many merchants in the city, and some of Wu Jun's own actions are not very popular with the people, Sun Tucai put together such a team of 10,000 people to guard Suzhou City.

Of course, such an army, which is mostly cobbled together by ordinary people, is naturally far from being able to compare with the Wu army, which has become a scale and structure, but when it is used to defend the city, as long as it obeys the dispatch order, it is enough to have a city to rely on.

At this time, seeing that the Wu army was retreating, he immediately went down to the city, and summoned Su Mao and some famous old men in the city, and asked: "How many people have you asked you to look for?" ”

"Back to General Sun's words, I don't have too many young people in Suzhou who have been pulled by the rebels, and so far I have found two or three hundred families, I don't know if it's enough......" Su Mao was a little unconvinced. They did put a lot of thought into it, but it didn't work out well.

Sun Tu smiled: "It's enough, as long as they do what I tell them, even a hundred people are enough to succeed." You will let them go to the city later, rest assured, this official will keep them safe, and I also believe that they don't want their children to die in vain under the city of Suzhou. ”

Su Mao hurriedly agreed, and immediately brought people over there, and called all the people with worried faces. Most of these people are old and weak women and children, and their clothes are quite shabby, obviously from poor families in Suzhou City.

Seeing this, Sun Tu comforted them again, and promised that as long as the matter was successful, it would not harm them and their families, and he would also take out some money and food to subsidize it, which immediately made these people grateful for a while, and even that timidity was much lighter.

After noon, with the sound of drums and trumpets again, Wu's army once again sent troops to attack Suzhou. Although he suffered a lot of losses under the city before, the Wu army was not really discouraged, and this offensive was actually a little fiercer than before.

As they surged to the city like a wave, this time there were no arrows and stones falling from the city, which made the Wu army a little unaccustomed to it, and many people slowed down their pace because of it, and at the same time they were careful to be on guard, for fear that there would suddenly be some big killing weapons from above.

In the distance, Pang Wanchun stared at the city of Suzhou even more nervously: "What kind of medicine is the Song army selling in the gourd, is there something wrong in the city, so they don't guard the city gate?" ”

The answer was soon revealed, and more than 100 people suddenly rose to the head of the city, and a loud voice shouted downward: "Brothers Wu Jun, you attack slowly, see who the people are in this city!" They are the people of Suzhou, your parents and relatives, do you plan to do something to your relatives? ”

As soon as these words came out, the movements of the soldiers who were about to launch arrows stopped, and many soldiers even looked up and carefully looked at the old or immature faces above.

At this time, an old man shouted excitedly: "San'er, San'er, are you down there?" I'm your father, don't take such a risk and go against the court, now General Sun has promised to give my family twenty yuan, and the previous things have also been written off, come back......"

Then, everyone else also found their relatives and shouted: "Huzi, it turns out that you voted for Wu Jun, and I thought you had ...... before I became my mother Come back quickly, the government no longer cares about the previous things, and my family's land and property have also been taken back, don't do anything wrong again. ”

"Lang Jun, our children are thinking about you, don't risk there anymore, come back soon......"

The call of relatives immediately stopped the Wu army that rushed to the city, and many of them trembled with excitement, some people were full of tears, and some people shouted yes, all of which confirmed that it was their father, wife and children in the city who were calling themselves, and they had lost their fighting spirit in an instant.

For the people of the Great Song Dynasty at this time, it was forced to even become a soldier, let alone join the rebel team. Before, there was really no way to live, so they rose up and took their lives to find a way out. But now, with the pleading voices of their relatives, the hearts of these people are immediately shaken, and they are about to give up.

As for the other more Wu soldiers, they were also affected by this call from their relatives, and the weapons in their hands slowly lowered their hands, and their eyes were full of confusion. It would be great if their relatives could also be compensated with money and land like the people of Suzhou, and they would also summon themselves to lay down their weapons and submit to obedience.

But those generals of the Wu army were anxious and angry at this time, and some people shouted orders, so that their soldiers and horses would immediately launch an attack on the city. But this time, the military order was useless, almost no one dared to put an arrow on the city, and even if there were a few who wanted to do it, they were stopped by the robes around him who took the first step. The city is full of relatives of their own brothers, and once these people are really injured, the entire Wu army is bound to be divided and chaotic, and the consequences will only be more serious than now.

Pang Wanchun also immediately understood the severity, the expression on his face changed several times, and then quickly ordered: "Mingjin collects the troops......" He can see that now the morale of the whole army has fallen to the lowest point, even if it is really strictly ordered to attack the city, it is just to send some lives.

"Is it really Sun Tu who is guarding the city now? He is really powerful, and he actually knows the strategy of attacking the enemy's heart, and he actually came up with such a means to target the soldiers of our Wu State......" Pang Wanchun sighed softly, and by now, he was sure that this Suzhou would not be able to be taken back, even if the soldiers and horses behind arrived and attacked the city with an army of 100,000, the current Suzhou could not be taken in just a few days. And it won't be long before the Song army reinforcements in Changshu and even Jinling will be killed.

Now, there is only one best choice in front of him, give up Suzhou and lead the army back south!