Water Margin people

Hongze Lake.

For two days in a row, Yue Fei challenged Han Shizhong before the battle, but the sneak attack that worried Han Shizhong the most did not appear for a long time.

"What does it mean?"

Han Shizhong looked at Hongze Lake in the distance in puzzlement. He couldn't understand Sun Lei's purpose. With Sun Lei's strength, there was no need to keep probing like this.

The horn sounded again, Monkey King's banner was hoisted, and Sun Lei led the army to the outside of Han Shizhong's camp.

Han Shizhong ordered Qi soldiers and horses to leave the camp immediately. He could not show weakness. Although he had fought hard these few days, he finally carried it down without avoiding it. Now the morale of the army is at its peak.

"General Han, after how many days of fighting, do you still dare to fight?"

Sun Lei looked at Han Shizhong with a smile, he was really a man, he had been fighting for several days, and he still had the guts to fight.

"Hmph, why don't you dare!"

Han Shizhong waved the pen knife in his hand and looked at Sun Lei coldly and said.

"Sure enough, he is a hero!"

Sun Lei sighed and smiled.

"How to fight today!"

Han Shizhong looked at Sun Lei and asked, Wang Jin, Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, Yue Fei, Qin Ming and others have taken turns to fight in the past few days, but today there are not those people around Sun Lei.

"Today? No more fighting. General Han is leaving. I'm here to see him off!"

Sun Lei shook his head slightly.

"See you off! What nonsense are you talking about, do you think you can beat me?"

Han Shizhong frowned and looked at Sun Lei, but his heart was full of vigilance.

"Could it be that Sun Lei is not going to spend it? What kind of conspiracy is there?"

Han Shizhong thought quickly.

"General Han will know later! The military order will arrive in an hour!"

Sun Lei said.

"You forged military orders!"

Han Shizhong's face was gloomy, the military order was a secret, and he didn't know it, how could the enemy know, either the enemy forged the military order, or there was an enemy's eyeliner in the army, and the enemy had already discovered important military secrets.

Thinking of this, Han Shizhong clenched the pen and knife tightly in his hand, no matter what tricks Sun Lei had, he would not be fooled, and he would not accept orders from foreign troops.

"Look at what you said, how can I do such a trivial thing as forging military orders? Besides, what's the point of transferring you back? Wouldn't it be better if I wiped out your army here?"

Sun Lei shook his head and looked at Han Shizhong, saying that forging military orders can't make Han Shizhong abandon his weapons and surrender, so it doesn't make any sense.

"It was your army who crossed the river and wiped out Fang La, and your lone army will naturally be transferred back!"

Sun Lei pointed to the south and said.

"Crossing the river?"

Han Shizhong's face was gloomy, obviously he didn't believe it, Sun Lei's army was behind, how dare the army cross the river to fight at this time?

Seeing that Han Shizhong didn't believe it, Sun Lei didn't explain much.

"I've said my farewell, so let's say goodbye. I hope General Han has a bright future!"

Sun Lei smiled and cupped his fists at Han Shizhong.

Han Shizhong just looked at Sun Lei coldly, didn't say anything, and didn't know whether to believe it or not.

"Back to camp!"

Seeing that Sun Lei's army really retreated, Han Shizhong ordered in a deep voice.

As soon as the hour arrived, Wang Yuan brought people there.

"Wang Xianfeng, why are you back?"

Seeing that the person who came back was Wang Yuan, Han Shizhong felt suspicious. Wang Yuan cherished his life very much, and he was at a loss when encountering some troubles.

"The commander-in-chief has ordered the army to withdraw to Suzhou!"

Wang Yuan looked at Han Shizhong and said.

"Withdraw to Suzhou? Doesn't Sun Lei want to come to the city?"

Han Shizhong didn't doubt it now, because the person who came was Wang Yuan, and he could still see Tan Zhen. He got a military order and a password, so it was impossible to fake it.

"The commander-in-chief has already made a decision. The whole army crossed the river and quickly wiped out Fang La. General Wang defended Yangzhou City to buy time for the army!"

Wang Yuan opened his mouth and said.

"General Wang is defending Yangzhou?"

Han Shizhong had a strange look on his face, what kind of desperate play is this?The risk is too great, if Yangzhou is not protected, the army will be in danger, there will be no peace in the south of the Yangtze River, and Fang La will be wiped out in no time.

"The imperial court has an order to destroy Fang La with all its strength!"

Wang Yuan opened his mouth and said.

"But Sun Lei over here!"

Han Shizhong pointed in the direction of Hongze Lake.

"Hey, Deputy Captain Han, we can only follow orders!"

Wang Yuan said helplessly, this is Tokyo's order and they cannot disobey.

"Order the whole army to withdraw!"

Han Shizhong had no choice but to shout an order.

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Hongze Lake.

"Brother, Han Shizhong has withdrawn!"

Wen Huanzhang said.

"As expected, Jiangnan is rich and is also a major tax area. It is different from our Shandong. Where we are poor, money, food and taxes are not appreciated by Tokyo."

Sun Lei smiled and said, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou, and Huzhou in the south of the Yangtze River are all in the forefront of taxation every year.

Now that Fang La is making such a fuss, the court's taxes have dropped sharply, and money is the lifeblood of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty can be defeated, lose ground, lose face, and accept anything, but the only thing that cannot be short of money.

"Brother, Haizhou has been won now, shall we continue going south?"

Du Po looked at Sun Lei and asked.

"No, we won't expand south, and we can't provoke Tokyo anymore, otherwise there must be some movement from the Puzhou army."

Sun Lei shook his head and said, if they go too far south, then the direction of Tokyo will definitely attack Liang Shanbo.

"Actually, the relationship between us and the imperial court is very delicate now. The imperial court wants to destroy us, and we want to replace it. They are worried that we will threaten Tokyo from the west. We don't dare to move the army too far away from Liangshanbo."

Sun Lei said, he actually didn't want to do this, but the actual situation is that Liangshanbo and Tokyo restrain each other, which is caused by the geographical location.

In Hongze Lake, the Liangshan fleet stayed for two days, and then set off all the way south along the canal.

"We're going to go to Yangzhou with fireworks in March, right?"

Sun Lei looked at the grand scene on both sides of the strait and said with a smile, the two sides of the strait are like smoke of catkins and blooming like brocade.

"Brother, this season is the best in Jiangnan!"

Wang Dingliu said with a smile that spring in the south of the Yangtze River in March is a good time to play.

At this time, there were many merchant ships on the canal. When they saw the fleet of Liangshanbo, they pulled over to avoid it.

"Pay attention to this canal recently, don't let merchant ships block our way!"

Sun Lei looked at Wen Huanzhang and said, the canal is so wide, if the government forcibly recruits merchant ships to block the canal, it will be a little troublesome.

"Brother, don't worry! I will find several big chambers of commerce to explain this matter!"

Wen Huanzhang nodded and said, this matter is also simple, directly tell those chambers of commerce, don't rush to stand aside, otherwise the Liangshan army will raid the family and exterminate the family if they come to the door, for those people, the family is far more important than the court.

It only took more than a day along the canal for the Liangshan army to reach Yangzhou City. At this moment, in Yangzhou City, the army had already crossed the river.

On the city of Yangzhou, there is only one flag with the character of king fluttering in the wind.

"Wang Ren!"

Sun Lei frowned as he looked at the military flag on the city. This man was the strongest city defender in the Northern Song Dynasty. Facing the Jin army going south, he could defend the isolated city of Taiyuan Mansion for nine months.

You must know that Wang Bing was facing the Jin army who was attacking the city and pulling out the stronghold. None of the five capitals of the Liao Kingdom could resist the attack of the Jin army. (end of this chapter)