"General Sun, since we are all near Huzhou, why don't you fight Huzhou with us!"

Zhang Zhi looked at Sun Lei and invited.

"Thank you General Zhang for your kindness, but the military order is here!"

Sun Lei still refused, although he made a disguise, it was best not to have too much contact with the official army.

"Yes, then I'll leave first."

Zhang Zhi smiled and hugged his fists and led people away.

"Brother, this is too simple, isn't this person checking the documents and letters?"

Fei Bao saw that Sun Lei sent the official army away with a few words, and his face was full of disbelief.

"How hard can it be? Who would have thought that someone would dare to pretend to be an official soldier? And there are also the corpses of thieves in this place, how can you not believe it? ”

Sun Lei said with a smile.

"Let's continue south to Chongde!"

Sun Lei looked at everyone and said, it should be Han Shizhong and Wang Yuan who attacked Xiuzhou, and it was best not to go over to meet.

Since he is pretending to be an official army, there is no need to hide it, and the army marches directly on the official road.

It may be because he killed a lot of Mingjiao disciples in the battle just now, and the people around Mingjiao are hiding.

The road went smoothly to Chongde, which is located between Hangzhou and Xiuzhou, and there is a canal connecting Hangzhou and Xiuzhou, which happens to pass through Chongde.

Chongde is a small city, the city wall is only one zhang, and it is only guarded by more than 1,000 Ming sect followers.

"The officers and soldiers are coming!"

When the Mingjiao disciples in the city saw the officials and soldiers coming, they shouted in horror, and after a while, there were hundreds of Mingjiao disciples on the city wall, holding various weapons and preparing to defend the city.

"Take them down!"

When Sun Lei saw this small city, he waved his hand and ordered.

Pang Wanchun immediately stepped forward with two hundred crossbowmen, and the arrows flew one after another, and the Ming Sect disciples on the city wall were immediately killed and wounded.

"Kill!"

Lu Zhishen and Wu Song rushed directly under the city wall with a large army, and the one-zhang high city wall just jumped up to the city wall.

"I'll go too!"

Yue Fei also wanted to go up when he saw it.

"Don't go, what's the point of a rabble?"

Sun Lei shook his head.

The battle ended in just a moment, and the rabble was the opponent of the Liangshan army.

Entering Chongde City, it was already a miasma of smoke inside, and the streets were dilapidated, if it weren't for some people, they really thought it was a deserted city.

"Stick our flag! It's gone! ”

Sun Lei pointed to the city wall and said that it should take more than a month for the official army to fight here, and they are safe in Chongde during this time.

"Erlang, where is Master Lu?"

Sun Lei looked at Wu Song, who came back, and asked.

"The people in the city are in trouble, and Master Lu is appeasing the people."

Wu Song sighed and said, thieves are like combs, soldiers are like grates, these people in Mingjiao are more cruel than thieves and soldiers, forcibly pull people into the religion, and those who do not follow are directly buttoned up to the hats of infidels, and the means are all used to the extreme, burning, killing and looting are all light.

"Alas!"

Sun Lei sighed and didn't say much, it's not strange what evil these people do.

The Liangshan army began to strengthen the city wall as soon as it arrived in Chongde, preparing the city defense equipment, Mingjiao will never give up Chongde and Xiuzhou, this is the acropolis of Hangzhou, without these cities, Hangzhou will have to face the enemy.

It took a long time for Lu Zhishen to come back, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot, looking at the Ming Sect disciples who had been arrested, and the murderous aura on his body instantly emanated.

"Stop staring at them, let's go and kill them! Calm the anger of the people! ”

Sun Lei didn't ask what kind of human purgatory it was in the city, and waved his hand directly, he didn't have extra food to feed these Mingjiao thieves.

Lu Zhishen looked at those Mingjiao disciples, and with a wave of his hand, he asked the soldiers to pull those people away, he was really moved to kill, these thieves raped and plundered in the city, and mutilated the people, and the crime was unforgivable.

After Chongde's affairs were dealt with, the army also had a foothold, Sun Lei did not hesitate, and led a small group of people towards Xiuzhou.

"The guard of Xiuzhou was Duan Kai, and later Qian Zhenpeng, Jin Jie, and Xu Ding of Changzhou. Combined with the dense waterways around Shangxiuzhou, it can be regarded as a self-protection. ”

Sun Lei walked and looked at the information in his hand.

"Qian Zhenpeng?"

Wu Song is interested, the last time he came to Jiangnan with Sun Lei, this Qian Zhenpeng appeared, and he is a character.

"It's a pity, he ran into Han Shizhong!"

Sun Lei shook his head, Qian Zhenpeng has some ability, but when he meets Han Shizhong, it is not enough.

"Brother, fight ahead!"

Ou Peng got up and ran back to report.

"Let's go, let's see!"

Sun Lei nodded.

Not long after walking forward, Sun Lei led people to stop on a high slope, where there happened to be a forest hidden, only to see Xiuzhou City, shouting and killing to the sky, the official army was constantly attacking the city.

"This city in Jiangnan is really ...... Alas! ”

Everyone looked at the city of Xiuzhou, which was more than one zhang high, and shook their heads, the northern city wall should be at least two zhang high, and the city wall in front of them, which was only half as high as the north, was really awkward, it felt like a courtyard wall, and you could jump over it if you climbed it and turned over.

Han Shizhong was commanding the army to attack the city at this time, and the cooperation of the imperial army was far better than that of Mingjiao, although it was a siege, but it suppressed the defenders.

"No, if you fight like this, you can't break the city!"

Yue Fei looked at the battle formation in the distance and shook his head, Han Shizhong seemed to be fighting fiercely, but in fact, the army still couldn't get up to the city wall, so no matter how fierce the fight was, it would be exhausting, and the city would not be able to break for a while.

"Then how do you say you should fight?"

Sun Lei looked at Yue Fei and asked.

"It should be attacked at one point, this city wall is so low, as long as it is attacked, it can always be broken, besieging it from all sides like this, it is a waste of strength, Mingjiao Those people are waiting for work, in fact, they still take advantage."

Yue Fei said.

"If you attack it, those people in Mingjiao will definitely flee before the city is broken, after the battle of Runzhou and Changzhou, the officials and soldiers know very well that they will be killed when they deal with these people in Mingjiao, and let them escape will be troubled in the future."

Sun Lei shook his head and said, the imperial court is now sending troops everywhere, but it is to besiege and kill the people of the Ming Sect, which is obviously to weaken the power of the Ming Sect and fight by ants.

"Withdrawn!"

Ou Peng spoke, and the officers and troops under Xiuzhou City in the distance slowly withdrew.

"If you continue to fight like this, I'm afraid it will take more than half a month to break the city!"

Lin Chong said.

"Let's take a look again, just hide in this wood!"

Sun Lei opened his mouth, and the soldiers quickly set up some covert tents in the woods, and as long as no one entered the woods, they couldn't find it.

"General Han, it's hard work, today's battle is so hard that the thieves are running away! If this continues, the city will be broken just around the corner. ”

Wang Yuan looked at Han Shizhong with a smile and said.

"What's the progress, it's too slow to fight like this!"

Han Shizhong was not very satisfied, in his opinion, this kind of small city should be conquered in three or five days, and then go to besiege Suzhou, which is the key to this battle.

"We only have 10,000 troops, so we can't attack it! That's not bad, steady! ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile.

Han Shizhong didn't respond, he was a little impatient, now the situation in Yangzhou is unclear, their side is advancing too slowly, they should end the battle quickly and return to Yangzhou.