Chapter 625 Suzhou Crisis, Seven Inches of Snakes

"Brother-in-law, you slapped me too hard, how can I talk about the ransom with others like this" Sima Yuan didn't look at his sister bullying his brother-in-law, but looked at the pig's head three who was dragged back, Meng Lao Wu.

Zhang Fei's hands are black, it is a fist to the flesh, the palm is red, Meng Lao Wu was like a sandbag was grinded by Zhang Fei for a long time, and then Meng Lao Wu served, but his face was swollen but he couldn't speak, and in the end, Zhang Fei was also tired of fighting, so he stopped.

"Forget it, Cuiliu, call someone to invite a doctor, first help reduce the swelling and then talk about the rest of the matter"

Zhang Fei broke free of his wife's hand, and said angrily: "I have captured you back, but this guy is very tough, and he can't accept it, but when he is optimistic, well, and, taking down this guy can really pull up the people and gather the armor." ”

Zhang Fei, the county lieutenant, also has hundreds of soldiers under him, unless the local young and strong, it is the Taishan thief who entered the county last time, but the equipment is too shabby, and it doesn't look like a soldier, Zhang Fei is also very entangled.

"Brother-in-law, don't worry, this Meng Lao Wu is the biggest salt lord on the Huaishui, his subordinates have boats, and there are no less than thousands of men who take salt, this is the leader on the green forest road, controlling the private salt trade in Huaishui for many years, how can there be a lot of money, as long as the brother-in-law you convince him to follow his brother-in-law, we are not a few thousand more soldiers for nothing, and with money, I am afraid that we will not be able to buy good soldiers."

Zhang Fei sighed, but he was thinking in his heart, when the other party got better, would he have to fight

"Brother-in-law, this matter should be hurried, two days ago my cousins sent back the news, now the situation in Qingzhou is becoming more and more chaotic, the new emperor's army in the north has been assembled in Taiyang Mansion, and may go south at any time, and there have been some rumors on Mount Tai recently, I am afraid that it will disrupt the situation, and the big salt merchants in the west are self-righteous and waiting for the price to sell, and the army of Prince Qing in the south is approaching Jinan City."

"This Jinan City is the middle section of Huaishui, the north and south canals converge, it has always been the heart of Huaishui, whether it is the north, salt merchants, the prince can be staring here, we can't mix the affairs of Jinan City, but we also have to seize the time to train and protect themselves, otherwise Jinan belongs to a certain extent, but it will spread along the Huaishui"

Zhang Fei sighed, but Zhang Fei didn't pay too much attention to these things, and he didn't bother to think about this brain-wrenching thing, he just had to stand up when he was fighting, not to mention the task assigned by the young master was just to increase his strength as much as possible and expand his armament, as for the rest, there was no conflict.

Just when the fuse of the situation in Qingzhou was ignited and burned rapidly, Zhenjiang City, an important town in the south of Qingzhou and an important ferry in the lower reaches of the Tianhe River, ushered in the entry of tens of thousands of cavalry, and the characters of these tens of thousands of cavalry guards were naturally self-respecting, and now Prince Situ Hao, who has ruled the two provinces and three counties in the south of Qingzhou.

Zhenjiang Mansion, above the Tang Dynasty, the important ministers and generals under Situ Hao sat left and right, Situ Hao swept around, but said: "Why didn't you see General Zhang Cai Zhang?"

Zhang Cai, the deputy commander of the Penglai Naval Army, was previously ordered to lead two battalions of sailors to aid the Qingzhou battlefield, and then chose to take refuge in Situ Hao when Situ Hao cleared the generals who were unwilling to support him, and thus became the number one sailor under Situ Hao.

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, Commander Zhang is supervising the construction of new ships at the Zhenjiang Shipyard, so the journey is a little farther, and it may be later."

"Then don't wait, I'll summon him alone when I go back" Situ Hao came from the west line of Texas, and this is Zhenjiang City in Yangzhou on the other side of the river, so naturally he didn't come for a vacation.

"My Tianlong Empire has been peaceful for hundreds of years, except for some chaos at the end of Emperor Huizheng, but it was cleared of cholera by Emperor Shenwu by thunder, and now a hundred years have passed, and the empire is in turmoil again, I didn't expect that this time even Dongfang Xiaoyi would dare to offend my Heavenly Dynasty Tiger Whisker"

"Although I Situ Hao does not agree with my ninth brother as the emperor, but this country is still Situ's family, how cheap outsiders, although I have appointed someone to go south, but I didn't expect that the soldiers of Yangzhou were actually useless, and they were actually beaten by the Fusang people under the city of Suzhou, this is a shame, the biggest shame of my Tianlong Dynasty, so I decided to personally lead an army into Yangzhou, cut off the wolf ambition of the barbarian small country, and return me to the prestige of the country"

"We will obey the prince's dispatch and kill the Japanese people out of the emperor realm" The generals hurriedly got up, clenched their fists and bowed, and expressed the central way.

Situ Hao raised his hand and said: "Today's 9th, 11th, and the day after tomorrow, the second division of the Cangyun Army set off first, occupied a ferry port on the south bank first, and held on for a day or two to spy on the enemy, and on the third day, the army started broadcasting one after another, going straight to Changzhou, cutting off the back road of the Japanese people, and it was necessary to make them pay a heavy price."

"Young master, it's not good, it's not good" Suzhou City, the pouring rain fell for two days, and the clouds turned clear, and these two days may be because of the sneak attack in Sangzhen, the Japanese did not choose to attack on a rainy night, but waited until the weather was clear, and then they set out again and gathered under the city of Suzhou.

"What's the matter?" Leng Zhuo has been a headache in the past two days, since the Japanese army came to the city, Li Yuanba and others have gone out of the city, and played with people to challenge the generals, what an ancient way of fighting, the generals fight, after the Three Kingdoms Wei and Jin, it seems that this kind of heroism is very rare, but I didn't expect that the samurai who met Dongyi, a samurai who is infused with the spirit of the samurai sword, opened a vigorous battle between the generals and the samurai.

Originally, Leng Zhuo planned to use this method to delay the time, but he didn't think that for two days in a row, the Japanese people actually compared all the way like this, and they had no intention of attacking the city at all, even if the bushido of Fusang Island was prevalent, it would not be like this

There is a greasy, absolutely greasy, but the other party's soldiers and horses don't seem to have increased or decreased much, even Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu don't know what the other party's idea is, after all, it is really difficult for the two of them to judge this group of outsiders.

Li Yuanba, Dian Wei, Pei Yuanqing and Xu Zhu took turns guarding Leng Zhuo's side, this time it was Pei Yuanqing's turn, Pei Yuanqing rushed in in a hurry, and shouted loudly, and when he heard Leng Zhuo's question, he said: "Young master, the news just sent back, the forward 10,000 people of the Yangzhou army were ambushed by the Japanese ninjas in the Jinxiang River, killed a big defeat, and also captured Jinxiang City."

Leng Zhuo frowned slightly, but he didn't feel how bad it was, but at this time, Zhuge Liang walked in quickly, obviously hearing the news: "Military advisor, you also came for the news of the Japanese people."

Zhuge Liang nodded, shook the feather fan and said: "Well, Jinxiang is not a major city, but it is between Taicang and Suzhou, the origin of this Taicang, at first because of the abundance of grain here, and now it is the same, the grain from this Taicang can account for more than sixty percent of Yangzhou."

"Taicang and Suzhou, there has always been a gold and a silver saying, this gold said golden rice, this silver is said to be the wealth of Suzhou, the Japanese sent a large number of ninjas to take the initiative, once into Taicang, to the granary as the goal, then Yangzhou all the way to save Taicang first, and then Suzhou"

Leng Zhuo heard this, only then did he realize that things were not good, Jinxiang was not important, the important thing was that this represented a signal, and there were also talents who saw the overall situation in the group of Japanese people outside the city, they knew that they could not get the details of Suzhou City, but they knew that all the soldiers and horses in Yangzhou were rushing towards this side, and once the army came, no matter what the combat power was, there was always a pressure, and they came to loot, so naturally they would not fight to the death with the Yangzhou army.

So the other party aimed at another sore spot of their own, and it was the army that had to be saved, even if it was abandoned Suzhou, it had to be saved, that is, Taicang, the summer harvest in June, the rice was dried in July, but the rice was already in the warehouse at the end of July and the beginning of August, and at this moment it was rushing to enter the warehouse with summer grain, and when the grain tax was recorded everywhere, this was seven inches

Don't look at Yangzhou's fertile soil and water, but the land in Yangzhou is actually far less than Chuzhou, and most of Yangzhou's land is converted to cotton and mulberry trees, the output of grain is getting smaller and smaller, and the population is increasingly prosperous, but Yangzhou is twice a year, plus the business is developed, the granary is full, and there is no shortage of rice, so no one will take it seriously.

But the problem is that Leng Zhuo bought Yangzhou's old grain on a large scale before, it can be said that Yangzhou's grain is at a delicate point at the moment, Taicang has grain, then naturally everything is fine, but once something happens in Taicang, Yangzhou will definitely have a food shortage, speaking of which, this is also an irony, prosperous Jiangnan, there will be a shortage of grain.

"How can this Japanese man see the key points of Yangzhou so accurately" Leng Zhuo said, but his mouth was full of bitterness, speaking of which, it still has a little relationship with himself, and once the Yangzhou army is dragged down, it is estimated that this short period of peace in Suzhou City will be over.

Maybe tomorrow, there will be no military generals alone outside the door, but a group fight, with less than 10,000 people in the city, most of them are still young and strong, and the family guards can hold the city of Suzhou? Even if there is Leng Zhuo, a strong person, it will be difficult to move back to the situation.

Zhuge Liang also shook his head, this Yangzhou is not Chuzhou after all, although they have some eyes and ears here, but after all, the establishment is short, and the role is not great, they are like blind and deaf, even if Zhuge Liang does not dare to speak in this environment where he does not know the other.

"I used to laugh at those Japanese people who didn't hurry up to attack the city, and when the army came, they would definitely not be able to run away from any of these miscellaneous pieces, but I didn't expect that the other party was already confident, and in the past two days, the other party should have explored most of our details, I'm afraid that the next thing will be a bitter battle."

Leng Zhuo never thought of giving up Suzhou, but how to defend this Suzhou city made Leng Zhuo lose his thoughts: "Military division, how to defend this city"

Zhuge Liang shook his head and said: "It is almost impossible to defend the whole city, Suzhou City is too big, our people are too few, scattered, loopholes everywhere, if the young master has to defend it, then guard the southwest of the city, there is a Bai family compound, the houses are dense, the alleys are narrow, we are shrinking here, protecting the West Gate Corner Gate, and the Suzhou River"

"If we only defend a corner, our troops can be unleashed, and there are young masters and other generals, each defending one side, and we can also quickly support, even if we don't defend it in the end, we can evacuate from the waterway, and the rest is to wait for the source of the army."

When Leng Zhuo heard this, he said in his heart, it can only be like this, as long as he keeps the essence of Suzhou, as for the rest, he can earn it back sooner or later.