Chongde.

"Brother, the 60,000 troops of the Mingjiao are coming from Hangzhou! The vanguard army was twenty miles away. ”

Jiao Ting looked at Sun Leiyu and reported.

"Sixty thousand troops? Summons the order to go down and withdraw! To the west, in the direction of Huzhou! ”

Sun Lei nodded.

The officers and troops withdrew, and the Mingjiao vanguard soon found out the news.

"Dashuai, the enemy is only 2,000 people, why don't we catch up with them and do them!"

Li Tianyou said excitedly.

"The enemy is going to Huzhou, that's Zheng Biao's business, it has nothing to do with us, hurry to Xiuzhou!"

Fang Qifo shook his head and said, his task is to take Xiuzhou and relieve the siege of Suzhou.

The two armies just missed each other without incident.

Sun Lei led the army to turn south after entering the boundary of Huzhou, entering Yuhang and Lin'an.

Xiuzhou.

"One hundred thousand troops!"

Wang Yuan's face was worried, and soon after they defeated Xiuzhou, news came that Fang Qifo, one of Fang La's right-hand men, led 100,000 troops to kill.

"It's 60,000, it's called 100,000!"

Han Shizhong corrected.

"Even an army of 60,000 is not easy to fight!"

Wang Yuan's face was full of sadness, he only had an army of 10,000 here, and it was difficult to fight with the enemy six.

"Sixty thousand thieves, look at me then!"

Han Shizhong said indifferently, even if the two armies were hedged, his 10,000 army was not afraid of 60,000 thieves, not to mention that there was still a city now, and he was even more confident.

"Herald, crossbowmen ascend the city!"

Han Shizhong looked at the group of soldiers and ordered, this time he wanted to let the thieves know the power of the official army's standard bow and crossbow.

As soon as Fang Qifo's army arrived in Xiuzhou, he began to attack wildly, he had already explored, and Xiuzhou only had 10,000 officers and soldiers.

"Kill!"

Li Tianyou commanded the army to attack the city and rush to kill.

"Stupid thief!"

Han Shizhong saw that as soon as the thieves arrived, they carried the ladder to attack the city, and said with a sneer, he had already traveled hundreds of miles, and he didn't even rest and recuperate, and attacked the city with rudimentary equipment, what is the difference between this and sending him to death?

Bows, crossbows, stones, and logs greeted together, and although the Mingjiao army was not afraid of death, it was finally killed and retreated, leaving behind the corpses in one place.

"These thieves are stupid!"

Han Shizhong shook his head and said.

"I didn't expect it, this thief doesn't know the art of war at all, it's far worse than those in Runzhou and Changzhou! Could it be that Hangzhou is all this kind of Mingjiao thieves? ”

Wang Yuan's face was happy, if the next Ming Sect thieves were like this, then they would be easy to fight.

"Mingjiao these people were mostly civilians before, and they joined Mingjiao after being bewitched, they didn't know what to do on the march at all, the more they were in the rear, the more they had no combat experience, maybe the rear of the thieves would be better to fight!"

Han Shizhong listened to Wang Yuan's speculation, his face was happy, and he also had a guess.

"Report, General, there is an urgent military report!"

A soldier ran up the city wall and shouted at Wang Yuan and Han Shizhong.

Wang Yuan immediately took the military newspaper and read it, and the more he looked at it, the more information he became.

"Great, Tong Shumi's is here!"

Wang Yuan said with a laugh.

"Tong Shumi? Isn't he in Hebei? ”

Han Shizhong's face changed, Tong Guan was the first person in the Great Song Army.

"Your Majesty felt that Jiangnan was important, and Sun Lei appeared in Jiangbei again, worried that the extermination of Fang La would be blocked, so he quickly recalled Tong Xiang from the north."

Wang Yuan said with a smile.

"Is that childlike going to deal with Sun Lei?"

Han Shizhong asked.

"No, Tong Xiang also felt that it was very important to exterminate Fang La, so he came to Jiangnan directly by boat! And someone has already been sent to support us! ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile.

"What about General Wang Yu?"

Han Shizhong pointed to the north and said.

"Maybe it's for General Wang Yu to continue to drag Sun Lei, Yangzhou City is tall, and the moat leads directly to the Yangtze River, and the thieves can't help it!"

Wang Yuan said.

"Regardless of Sun Lei!"

Han Shizhong didn't understand a little, isn't this a little too arrogant.

The same news, Sun Lei, who was hiding outside Lin'an City, also learned about it, and also knew that Tong Guan brought Xin Keshi, Yang Weizhong, Li Ming, Yijing, Zhe Kecun and others this time.

"Only 30,000 soldiers and horses! It seems that Tong Guan is still thinking about recovering Yanyun, and the main army has stayed in Hebei. ”

Sun Lei looked at the letter in his hand and said.

"The soldiers and horses of Hebei have been sparse for a long time, Tong Guan is afraid that he is not buying time to train his troops, right?"

Lin Chong said.

"The training is certain, Tong Guan is probably scolding the generals of the border army in his heart."

Sun Lei nodded and said, the reason why he is not worried about Cangzhou is because the Hebei army is too stretched, and it is just a little better than the people of Mingjiao in front of him.

"But Tong Guan may have other purposes for coming to Jiangnan, especially money, Tong Guan is very ambitious, and now he has no shortage of soldiers and horses, but money and food are a big problem, even if he gets part of Lu Junyi's family property, it is a drop in the bucket, this Jiangnan is rich, Tong Guan also knows."

Sun Lei opened his mouth and said, Tong Guan is now above 10,000 people under one person, the real No. 2 person in the Great Song Dynasty, Tong Guan doesn't care about the merit of exterminating Fang La, now Tong Guan only has the sixteen states of Yanyun in his eyes, and he can be crowned king after recovering Yanyun! Become the first eunuch to be crowned king.

"Brother, Tong Guan is here, should we withdraw first?"

Fei Bao looked at Sun Lei and said, Tong Guan arrived, and the situation became more complicated.

"Fang La hasn't been killed yet, so I'm not in a hurry to leave! The drier the water, the better it is to fish! I believe that now Fang La has also learned the news, see what he does! ”

Sun Lei said with a smile, Tong Guan's arrival actually has little impact, Fang La's defeat has been decided, he just wants to speed up the process and let the chaos in Jiangnan end as soon as possible.

Xiuzhou.

The siege continued, Fang Qifo attacked for several days, and the fastest army had already attacked the city wall.

But the officers and soldiers defended very resolutely, relying on the advantage of armor, and fought bloodily on the city wall for half a day, and finally held the city.

"Damn, just a little bit!"

Fang Qifo roared angrily, his army had suffered nearly 20,000 casualties in the past few days, but he still couldn't take Xiuzhou.

"General, enemy reinforcements are coming! There were 10,000 people. ”

Li Tianyou hurriedly ran to say.

"Withdraw first!"

Fang Qifo said hatefully.

On Xiuzhou City, looking at the retreating enemy, Wang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, although the enemy's combat strength was low, but he couldn't stand the large number of people, and he was not afraid of death, and the attack in a few days actually exhausted their arrows.

Han Shizhong ignored these and commanded his soldiers to clean up the battlefield, destroy the ordnance left by the enemy, and strengthen the city walls destroyed by the enemy.

North of Xiuzhou.

Xin Xingzong and Liu Guangshi were marching with a large army.

"If I had known that these people in the Ming Sect were so easy to fight, I would have come back a long time ago!"

Xin Xingzong laughed and said, along the way, he had killed several waves of Ming Sect defeated soldiers.

"Sun Lei is really that difficult to beat?"

Liu Guangshi looked at Xin Xingzong and asked suspiciously, Sun Lei is very famous now, but he has never really seen it.

"That's not an ordinary hard fight, I'd rather fight with the Tanguts!"

Xin Xingzong said with a wry smile, he didn't want to say that, but the news that they were defeated by Sun Lei had already spread, and denying it at this time was sophistry.

"Is it more difficult than the Xixia people?"

Liu Guangshi asked with interest, the more he was like this, the more interested he was in Sun Lei.

"When Fang La is exterminated, I will lead the troops to Jiangbei to meet Sun Lei!"

Liu Guangshi calculated in his heart that this time he was going out with his father Liu Yanqing, and he was just a general in the army.