The three armies advanced south separately. In less than a month, they had won consecutive battles, captured cities and villages, and captured more than ten large and small cities. The relevant news also came to Huzhou one by one, which made Sun Tu and his generals dazzled, and many of them were already anxious.

Until today, another good news came. As soon as the soldiers who reported the news entered the city gate, they shouted loudly: "The great victory ahead, my Huaibei soldiers will break through Lin'an County in one day. Soon, they will launch an attack on the main city of thieves Hangzhou. It is just around the corner to pacify Jiangnan..." Running along and shouting along the way, quickly attracting the attention of the military and civilians in the city. When he sent the good news to Sun Tu, many generals rushed over hurriedly, and their expressions were faster than their steps.

However, Sun Tu still looked calm. After sweeping the military newspaper in his hand, he nodded slightly: "General Zhang really lives up to the heavy trust of the court. Even if he breaks several cities in just a short time, he will be in charge of troops under the city of Hangzhou. It is indeed worth celebrating the hard work and contributions. However, I still want to advise him not to be too eager to win. The more critical the moment, the more you should calm down, and it is better to temporarily delay the march to Hangzhou." This was not only to the messenger in front of him, but also to the generals in front of him. After saying that, he also took paper and pen, wrote a military order, and handed over it with his seal: "Send it back to the front as soon as possible, so that General Zhang Gun must be careful."

It was not until this man carefully took over and agreed to withdraw with some hesitation that the other generals took a step forward and said uneasy: "General, what should we do? I really didn't expect that the rebels would be so vulnerable. In the past few days, the cities north of Hangzhou had been captured by three armies and horses. Soon they could form a siege against Hangzhou. Once they really took advantage of the situation to break through the city of Hangzhou, the credit would be... "

"General, we can't wait any longer. We must arrive there before the city of Hangzhou is broken, so that we can get some credit!"

"Yes, General, you can't delay any more. After this period of rest, all the soldiers have recovered, and it's time to make another contribution!"

These generals spoke loudly, obviously all of them were anxious, and they didn't even care about the distinction between superiors and inferiors. They just wanted Sun Tu to send troops as soon as possible. Although they were also generals in the Shandong Army, they were not Sun Tu's confidants after all, and were mostly generals from other prefectures, so they didn't know what he had previously speculated and said. Once they knew that the situation ahead was unstoppable, they would naturally be impatient.

Sun Tu just listened quietly to their shouting, but his eyes slowly became cold. After a while, everyone realized and stopped talking awkwardly, but the eyes that looked at him were still full of desire.

"All said it? Judging from your prospects, just a little bit of credit has made you anxious like this. It's ridiculous!" Sun Tu rebuked with a stern face: "Didn't you listen to me and warn them not to rush to use troops in Hangzhou? If Hangzhou City cannot escape, it will always be taken down by our Shandong soldiers!"

"But...they are now in a high morale, so how could they stop? Although they were all sent troops under the orders of the general, they were not soldiers of our Shandong Army after all..."

"Yes, even big cities like Xiuzhou and important cities like Lin'an have been taken down one after another, and Hangzhou may not be able to really stop them." Several subordinates plucked up their courage and explained in a low voice. To be honest, if the situation was not for the urgent situation, they would not dare to come so arrogantly to ask Sun Tu for battle.

Sun Tu looked at these people with some anger and amused look, and shook his head, "It seems that you have been shocked by the successive successive news in recent days, and even the judgment they should have had was lost. Let me ask you, why did Fang La still not be able to wipe him out for so long after he raised his army and became emperor? Even, it was not until our Shandong army headed south that we finally regained the cities?"

"This... is naturally because of the strong rebels and strong soldiers."

"That's it, then I'll ask you again, how many anti-army have we wiped out to this day? How many troops should they have?"

Everyone looked at each other for a while, but they couldn't get an accurate number, and they just said vaguely: "There should be 40,000 to 50,000 to destroy the enemy. As for how many troops there are in the anti-army, they claimed to have hundreds of thousands of people, so there should be 100,000 or 200,000..."

"Yes, since the rebels have sufficient troops and cities to defend, how can the three armies and horses go straight to the city of Hangzhou without any obstacles? Where have the hundreds of thousands of people gone? Did they really lose the battle as if they were defeated and completely dispersed, but they didn't even have the courage to make a last fight?" Sun Tu guided everyone to raise this question that should have been very clear, and immediately made everyone think deeply.

"If something goes wrong, it will be a monster. If you really think that Hangzhou is an isolated city and there is no longer a counterattack, you may be not far from defeat." Sun Tu said with a serious expression: "The reason why I have been holding troops in Huzhou is not only to let the soldiers rest, but also to let more people see the true face of the enemy, and also to test the bottom line of the anti-army. Now it seems that Hangzhou should be their last bottom line. Once you advance easily, the consequences will inevitably be extremely serious. When hundreds of thousands of troops gather in this place and suddenly come out, what will happen if you are unprepared?"

Sun Tu's question finally made everyone feel disgusted: "If this is the case, it will probably be a crushing defeat. Even with the strength of our Shandong army, we may not be able to escape unscathed, let alone the other three armies."

"General, we can no longer let the troops from Huai, Beijing and Jingnan continue to attack Hangzhou City, otherwise the consequences will be too serious..."

In an instant, everyone's thoughts had changed by 180 degrees. They were worried and wished they could appear next to the three armies and warn them.

"I had warned several times long before they left, and now I'm going to write a warning again. I just hope that Zhang Gun and Xu Shen can wake up in time and stop the horse. Hangzhou City must be a den of a dragon and tiger. It's easy to get in, but it's difficult to get out." Sun Tu sighed softly, but in fact he didn't have much confidence in his heart that the three armies could really obey his own words.

By just from the way this army constantly conveys good news, we can see how radical they are, how much they want to prove to Sun Tu or the court that their strength is not inferior to the Shandong army, they can also quell the thieves and chaos! Otherwise, no matter how smooth the march is, they would not have advanced hundreds of miles in just over half a month and captured more than ten cities. At least they should have let the soldiers slowly.

After all, this is actually the consequence of Sun Tu's unnamed commander of the three armies. The commanders and generals of each army were not convinced, especially after discovering that the anti-army was indeed just like this, they wanted to compete with the Shandong Army for military merits. Sun Tu did not have a good countermeasure in this regard. He could not really force the 100,000 army to prevent them from going south, which would only intensify the conflict and give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Therefore, to establish their absolute prestige and status, they have to make them hit a wall, get bleeding, and then lead the Shandong army to solve everything. Although it is helpless and the price is even greater, there is no better choice other than that.

After sweeping over the generals again, Sun Tucai spoke seriously: "So we must be prepared for both ways next. If they are willing to listen to the advice and stop attacking, our army can also prepare to go south and cooperate with them to take down the city of Hangzhou. Otherwise, they will have to send troops to meet them."

After he arranged the relevant military affairs and the generals retreated one after another, Sun Tu's expression still did not relax, which made Song Jiang, who was staying at the end, feel a little concerned: "General, do you still have any concerns?"

"Yes, if it's just as I said, the situation will not be out of control, but if..." he paused and asked, "Can Li Kui's injury be healed?"

In the battle in Huzhou that day, Pang Wanchun shot Song Jiang's arrow because of Li Kui's shield, so Song Jiang was not injured. However, he was seriously injured and he was bedridden after entering Huzhou. Seeing him asking, Song Jiang hurriedly replied: "Fortunately, Tien Niu's body is strong enough. He finally recovered two days ago. Now he is waiting outside. Is the general going to see him?"

"No need..." Sun Tu waved his hand. He had no good feelings for this guy who was careless and bloodthirsty, and was only loyal to Song Jiang: "If so, I'm afraid Pang Wanchun's injuries will be almost healed. This person is the first person in the anti-army. If he takes action, the situation will only be even worse!"

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Everything here is far from the tension as imagined. Even if the news of the city falling ahead is constantly coming back, these senior officials of the Wu Kingdom are still as calm as usual, as if the enemy is still far away from him.

At this time, Pang Wanchun, whose face was still a little pale, but his movements had returned to his original state, was standing in front of a detailed map, with a deep eyes: "Has they even taken down Lin'an by them? The movements of these Song soldiers were really fast enough that we were unable to respond in time."

After pausing, he smiled contemptuously: "But this is better. The closer it is to Hangzhou City, the more beneficial it is to us, and at the same time, their logistics problems are more serious." Speaking of this, he looked at Fang Fei and Jiang Shihu beside him: "Fang Xiang, Military Advisor Jiang, I thought it was time to fight back. So choose here, here, and here are the ambushing troops, and then all the soldiers in the city will take the initiative to attack. This will definitely defeat the Song army and avenge the previous shame!"

Following his fingers, three dangerous areas outside Hangzhou City were selected, which made the other two nodded repeatedly. After a while, Jiang Shihu sighed unwillingly: "It's a pity that the Shandong army has not come south. Otherwise, this battle will completely turn the situation around!"

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Chapter completed!