Huating is the ancient name of Songjiang, Tang Xuanzong Tianbao set up Huating County in ten years, and this area began to have its own independent county governance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, unlike the prosperity of Shanghai in later generations, Huating County in this era was still only a small county town, with a small population and not many garrisons, and even ten years ago it was once a gathering place for bandits, until Qian Biao completely occupied Suzhou Mansion, and the security here was a little better.

At this time, because of the arrival of thousands of Huainan troops led by Zhu Siqing, the guards of Huating County and the county order clashed.

Huating's guard general Le Zhengchen is only a battalion commander, and he is not trusted by his superiors, so he can't overpower the county commander Sun Weize in Huating County.

When they first received the news of the arrival of thousands of troops led by Zhu Siqing, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, after all, the news that Changshu and Kunshan were conquered by Yang Wu one after another a few days ago had already come, and they were worried that Yang Wu would take advantage of the situation to lead a large army to attack Huating; But now that they saw that there was only an army of 1,000 people from Zhu Siqing, they were naturally much more relieved.

Huating City is small, the city walls are not high, and the defensive equipment is even more scarce, but with 500 people guarding, there is still hope to defend the city in the face of a thousand enemy sieges.

However, after receiving Zhu Siqing's persuasion to enter the city through arrows on the same day, the two had a disagreement.

It turned out that in the letter of persuasion, Zhu Siqing claimed that he was only the vanguard of Yang Wu's army, and at this time, Yang Wuzheng led 5,000 people to the rear, so that the defenders hurried out of the city to surrender, so as not to kill and injure the soldiers.

The two generals were suspicious of such a letter of persuasion, but Le Zhengchen was not very trusted by his boss, so he naturally did not have much loyalty to Liangzhe, so at this time, he strongly advocated opening the city gate and surrendering; However, the county commander Sun Weize advocated continuing to defend the city. The two couldn't hold each other, and finally had to choose to continue to wait and see.

However, early the next morning, when Le Zhengchen and the others boarded the city gate to look at the Huainan Army camp outside the city, they happened to see a team of thousands of people, and the flag was driven into the camp under the word "Fan", and the two of them suddenly looked like earth.

On the morning of the third day, another thousand-strong army under the banner of "Chen" marched into the Huainan Army camp, and the defenders in the city could not sit still.

"Sun County Order, do you still want to continue to resist at this time?" Le Zhengchen asked in a deep voice, seeing that the other party was silent, he continued: "You also saw the Huainan reinforcements just now, there are thousands of people, plus the Huainan army that came to aid yesterday, now the Huainan army outside the city has reached 3,000 people, even if there is no further reinforcement, relying on these 3,000 troops, Huating will be difficult to hold!" ”

Sun Weize's face was also ugly, but he still reluctantly said: "Let's take a look again, the enemy army has not yet attacked the city, maybe something will happen?" And our reinforcements may arrive when! ”

Le Zhengchen suddenly sneered, "It's all like this, are you still fantasizing about reinforcements?" Huating was able to get reinforcements from Suzhou or Huzhou. Suzhou has been surrounded, as for Huzhou, Ben will hear that Huzhou Assassin Shi Gaoyan sent his son to lead an army to reinforce Hangzhou, where is there any extra troops to help? What's more, even if there is a surplus army in Huzhou, it will go to the rescue of Suzhou, a small county like ours has long been abandoned! ”

At this time, Sun Weize calmed down, and he shouted: "What? The food of the king, the matter of loyalty! Are you going to rebel? ”

"Rebellion? Ben will rebel, how are you going? Le Zhengchen sneered when he heard this.

"You ......"

"Come on, take Sun County's order down to rest!"

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On the same day, Le Zhengchen, the general of Huating, opened the city gate and let the Huainan army enter the city, and since then, Yang Wu's task of clearing the surrounding counties has basically been achieved.

Kunshan, now is the time when the tiger is in September and autumn, and the hot sun is basking the ground, making people feel like they are in a big steamer.

On this day, Yang Wu was sitting in the county office to check the battle reports in various places in the past few days, and suddenly a guard came to report that Zhu Siqing had captured Huating.

"What? Huating has already been captured? ”

Yang Wu was immediately overjoyed, five days ago he sent Zhu Siqing with a thousand men to capture Huating, the city of Huating is not big, and the defenders are not many, only 500 people, to capture Huating should be able to do. But Yang Wu still didn't expect him to come with good news so soon.

"Is there a specific battle report?"

"This is the letter brought by the messenger sent by Zhu Dutou, please check it out with Gongzi!" The guard respectfully presented a letter to Yang Wu.

Yang Wu took it and quickly opened it to read, only then did he understand Zhu Siqing's capture of Huating. "Good! I can't see that this Zhu Siqing still has this kind of resource! After reading the whole story, Yang Wu couldn't help but applaud him.

It turned out that Yang Wu had not sent a single reinforcement at all in the past two days, and the two Huainan reinforcements that Le Zhengchen and the others saw were naturally disguised by Zhu Siqing's people.

He quietly withdrew from the camp with his men in the evening, and returned the next morning in front of the defenders, giving the defenders the illusion that the enemy was coming to their aid. As a result, on the third day, the city gate was opened and surrendered. After Le Zhengchen surrendered, he naturally knew that he had been deceived, but it was too late to regret it at that time.

"Well, now that Huating has also been taken, the flanks of the entire Suzhou have been swept away, leaving Haiyan and Jiaxing in the hinterland of Zhejiang and Zhejiang, and it is not suitable to capture it now, so the next step is to besiege Suzhou."

He originally thought that Zhu Siqing would need at least ten days to capture Huating, but he didn't expect him to give himself a surprise.

However, what he didn't expect even more was that a messenger came to report that Yang Xingmi had sent Xu Wen with an army of 7,000 men to help, and he would besiege Suzhou as his subordinates.

"Xu Wen?"

If he is most afraid of anyone now, it is not Tian Yan, who is in the limelight now, nor Qian Di, who is struggling to support in Hangzhou, but Xu Wen, who is not visible at this time.

Although this low-key guy was one of the thirty-six heroes of the year, he basically had little reputation outside; After finally being reused by Yang Xingmi some time ago, he still maintained humility, and he was not half complacent about the big and small officials in Guangling.

After Yang Wu killed Ma Qin last time, the 1,000 soldiers and horses he left behind finally fell into the hands of Xu Wen, only Yang Wu was so angry that he jumped to his feet, feeling that he was both murderous and military, and in the end he cheapened Xu Wen.

However, in addition to being jealous and angry, Yang Wu never thought of a way to deal with this person, no way, too low-key. Even if he wanted to kill Xu Wen in his heart, he really couldn't find a suitable excuse.

Now that this person was actually sent to his subordinates as a deputy general, Yang Wu didn't know what to say for a while.

"Well, I can only take one step at a time." Yang Wu was a little helpless.

Two days later, Xu Wen led reinforcements to arrive, and Yang Wu ordered him to allocate some troops to defend Kunshan, Changshu, and the three counties of Huating, which he had just obtained, so as to free up his descendants.

Two days later, when everything was ready, Yang Wu led his men with a total of 12,000 men to Suzhou, and joined Zhou's headquarters that had already begun to besiege Suzhou. In this way, the Huainan army besieging Suzhou this time reached 30,000 people.

And the tragic siege of Suzhou is about to officially begin.

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