"Didn't go to Jinling for help?"

Huo Bao was surprised.

The whiteshirts everywhere say that they are one family, but they are all working in their own way.

Let's talk about Taizhou white shirts, where is the friendship with Bozhou white shirts and Huangzhou white shirts?

It's just because of geography, they are neighbors to each other.

However, Taizhou White Shirts should understand that Bozhou White Shirts and Huangzhou White Shirts combined are not as strong as Chuzhou White Shirts.

Deng Jian raised his eyebrows and said, "Zhang Cheng didn't dare to go to Jinling for help!" ”

This is the fear of "the big bully", and the fear that the Chuzhou army will send troops to take advantage of the fire to rob and retaliate against Yangzhou.

When the Chuzhou army attacked Yangzhou last year, the Taizhou army joined forces and abducted 20,000 Yangzhou troops.

The fact that the Chuzhou army did not pursue it does not mean that the Taizhou army is not weak-minded.

Later, Zhang Cheng sent an envoy to Jinling, wanting to marry the Chuzhou army to resolve the matter.

In the end, the marriage was over, and the old grievances were not resolved.

Huo Bao was speechless.

This Zhang Cheng's skin is still not thick enough.

Be bold when you should be scrupulous, and be blind when you shouldn't.

Now that the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court is heading south, no matter whether the Chuzhou army should be rescued or not, the Taizhou white shirts should ask for help.

When the time comes, the Chuzhou army will send troops, which can relieve the pressure of Taizhou's white shirts; If you don't send troops, you will inevitably end up talking, and people will have a place to talk.

If you don't ask for help in this way, won't the Chuzhou army "take advantage of the fire to rob"?

"What's going on over there in Bozhou?"

Huo Bao asked.

Before the Bozhou Army, it was the land of two states, Bozhou and Chuzhou.

"The main force is fighting Xuzhou, even if you want to go back to Taizhou, I'm afraid you have no heart."

Deng Jiandao.

Huo Bao knew in his heart that this meant that there were no reinforcements.

As for the white shirts in Huangzhou, most of them are similar.

Everyone is working on their own, and Ping Suri is eager to annex each other, how can he really help each other join forces to defend against the enemy.

Even if this enemy is everyone's common enemy, everyone has the idea of dragging it out if they can.

Like Huo Wu and Apprentice San, they are really in-laws, and the relationship between each other is rare.

Since Taizhou is white and does not ask for help, the Chuzhou army only does not know.

Now just pay attention to the situation in Jiangbei.

If Taizhou Baishan wins, then needless to say, there is no matter of the Chuzhou army; If Taizhou is defeated, Yangzhou is in danger.

However, the main force of the Chuzhou army is in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River is a natural danger.

If Yangzhou is in danger, the Chuzhou army can immediately dispatch troops and horses to the north.

On the contrary, if the soldiers and horses of the imperial court really plan to "pursue by victory", they will easily fall into the encirclement of Bozhou white shirts and Chuzhou white shirts.

The Chuzhou army sat firmly in Diaoyutai, so it didn't want to waste too much troops in the Battle of Suzhou.

The city of Suzhou is an old city, and the city is more difficult to conquer than the ordinary state capital.

"Three more days!"

Deng Jian spoke.

All members of the Chuzhou Army rested.

However, before that, several groups of people were also sent out to intercept several official roads, and they gained a lot.

The old lady and young son of the Suzhou prefect, the wife and children of the same governor of Suzhou, the wife of Suzhou Dutong, and the brother of Suzhou Dutong......

A number of officials in Suzhou have their families fleeing south.

Along with the people who were intercepted, there were also cartloads of belongings.

These were the officials, and then the well-informed gentry families, and none of them were spared.

The Chuzhou army has captured several state capitals and has long been experienced.

Before the army was drawn from the Changzhou Mansion, it sent people out, but it was blocked.

Whether it is running to Hangzhou Mansion or Songjiang Mansion, there are Chuzhou troops waiting on the official road.

Even the small roads outside the official roads are guarded.

In a few days, the Chuzhou army seized hundreds of vehicles, comparable to the siege of the city.

"Bao Ye, a carload of gold ingots, and such a big bead, such a tall coral ......" Zhu Qiang went to see it, and his eyes lit up when he came back to mention it.

If these officials and gentry were to stay in Suzhou City honestly, without a suitable reason, it would be difficult for the Chuzhou army to really seek money.

But what was intercepted halfway like this was unceremoniously accepted.

Although Huo Bao was a partial army along the way, the number of people accounted for one-sixth of the "Eastern Expeditionary Army", and one-sixth of the captured in the public could be divided.

Many of these hundreds of truckloads of property belong to the Huo Bao Ministry.

Huo Bao blinked.

Deng Jian's siege of Suzhou Mansion without attacking, in addition to wanting to reduce unnecessary casualties, could it also be for this?

After all, the military regulations of the Chuzhou army are strict, and it is strictly forbidden to embezzle people's property without reason.

But when a soldier goes out to fight, how can he not ask for money?

Outside Suzhou, the Chuzhou army rejoiced in the "capture"; In the city of Suzhou, the situation is becoming more and more tense.

All the shops in the market are closed.

The wealthy families are fine, more or less stocked with grain; Ordinary people, after several days of siege, have also run out of food.

In the battle at the city gate a few days ago, there were casualties, officers were killed, and many civilians involved were arrested, which made everyone fearful.

Officers and soldiers, with swords and guns in their hands, are numerous.

Everyone knows where the military granary is, but tens of thousands of defenders also know that there is a shortage of food in the city of Suzhou, and there was a fire to the official warehouse before, so it was heavily guarded.

Can't grab military rations?

What about the people's food?

Faced with the situation of life and death, the people who were originally weak as sheep were as fierce as wolves.

They were afraid of swords and guns, so they set their sights on the gentry and wealthy families in their neighborhood.

With the first robbery, there is a second, and there is a third......

The order in the city of Suzhou fell into chaos.

"Crazy, all crazy!"

The prefect of Suzhou had despair on his face.

In a few days, the Suzhou Prison was full.

More and more people have become thugs.

The defenders of Jiangnan Dongdao were all handsome, and Gao Dushuai's face was getting ugly day by day.

Before the Chuzhou army fought Yangzhou, the commander of Huainan Province stationed in Yangzhou was directly beheaded.

People are afraid of death.

Gao Dushuai was in the army, and he was more well-informed than the locality, and he knew that the imperial court sent Shanxi soldiers to the south to quell the rebellion.

If the soldiers and civilians of Suzhou were united and held the city, they might be able to wait for the rebels to move south.

This time, the imperial court dispatched troops and horses, definitely not just to recover Huanghuai.

Jiangnan is a tax-paying farmland, how can it always be left behind?

But at present, the law and order in Suzhou is corrupt, and there is great chaos.

Standing on the city wall, looking at the orderly Chuzhou army below, Gao Dushuai's heart was very heavy. He couldn't help but look to the north, can Suzhou really wait for the rebels?

……

On February 20, the city of Suzhou had been besieged for eight days.

The defenders waited restlessly, and the people became more and more confused.

"Damn, what are the Chuzhou Army waiting for?" Gao Dushuai stood on the city wall, his face irritated.

Could it be that the imperial court counterinsurgency army has been driving straight in, and the main force of the white-shirted thieves in Chuzhou has gone north?

Looking at the boundless military tent, Gao Dushuai's heart beat a little faster.

Is this a bluff?

"Bang! Boom! Boom! ”

With a few earth-shattering bangs, the city walls shook as well.

"Ah, what's going on?"

"Run?"

There was chaos on the walls, and there was smoke under the walls.

Gao Dushuai's eyes widened and he looked out of the city.

In the direction of the military tent of the Chuzhou army, there was still no movement.

"Du Shuai, there is a traitor who buried Lei Zhenzi under the city wall......"

The adjutant general came up with a disgraced face and said: "There are fires in several places, and the boys have gone to extinguish the fire...... before the words fell, and several bombardments sounded.

The walls began to shake more and more.

At the head of the city, everyone surrounded Gao Dushuai and hurried down the city wall.

The wall on one side of the gate collapsed, sending up smoke and dust.

When the smoke and dust fell, there was a row of artillery wagons facing the soldiers defending the city......

From the sound of artillery to the entry of the Chuzhou army into the city, it was less than an hour.

The city of Suzhou changed hands.

Of the four city gates, the officers and soldiers of only one gate resisted, killing and wounding hundreds of people, and the officers and soldiers of the remaining three gates were forced to surrender by artillery carriages.

On the battlefield, the casualties of the Suzhou Army and the Chuzhou Army were not large, but the city of Suzhou was besieged for eight days, and more than 1,000 people were killed and injured in various smashing and looting in the city.

On the first day that the Chuzhou army took over Suzhou, it was to rectify local public order, arrest thousands of mobs, and directly execute hundreds of thugs who killed people and raped ** women, and local law and order gradually returned to normal.

The people who had heard that the white-shirted army had changed color before, saw that the white-shirted army had become a "savior" and went into the city to release food.

Everyone was confused.

Who should I hate in this damn world?