Chapter 2271 Domineering
The Su brothers quickly returned to the battlefield with siege ladders and catapults. Su Huai and the others were greatly encouraged!
Everyone is full of confidence and believes that victory is just around the corner.
Su Huai ordered his men to quickly teach the conscripted civilians how to use siege ladders and catapults, and then let them charge in front. He would not feel any pain at all to use their lives to clear the way.
However, there are less than 30,000 soldiers left in his Su family army, and every one of them is his dearest one, and they absolutely cannot be wasted easily.
The third prince sent people to assist him, Lord Han, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of War, and Liao Mingzhong, who had previously been to Huaixi to try to persuade Shao Yunduan to surrender.
As soon as the two men arrived in Hangzhou City, they immediately conveyed the Third Prince's oral order, ordering Su Huai to release all the forced conscription people and return all the looted property.
The two told Su Huai that Jiangning was already making preparations and that food, fodder, medicine and other supplies would soon be delivered.
Su Huai doesn't even take the Third Prince seriously, so how could he care about Minister Han and Liao Mingzhong?
The two men said they were messengers sent by the emperor, but when they arrived at the military camp, Su Huai refused to buy their story and they had no way to stop him.
They could neither force Su Huai to carry out his orders nor stop Su Huai from doing what he wanted.
Su Huai thought that it was nonsense to ask for their consent before sending troops. How could it be possible?
Minister Han and Liao Mingzhong were almost mad with anger, but they couldn't confront Su Huai forcefully at this time.
Creating discord on the battlefield is a big taboo in military strategy and is also unlucky.
No matter how much they disagree with Su Huai, who can tell them what "considering the overall situation" means?
It was right that the stubborn and self-centered Su Huai got the upper hand.
Even so, Su Huai still found these two annoying, so he simply went all out and put them under house arrest, saying that they were tired from the journey and wanted them to have a good rest...
Minister Han and Liao Mingzhong were extremely angry at first. They protested severely and wanted to go to Su Huai to argue.
However, the people who were under house arrest and guarding them were Su Huai's confidants. Without Su Huai's order, they could not even leave the yard. Even if they revealed their identity as imperial envoys, it was useless.
The people around Su Huai, influenced by what they saw and heard, all believed that the reason why the emperor could occupy such a large base safely and securely was all thanks to his own General Su. The emperor would definitely listen to General Su's words! General Su's orders were like imperial decrees to them, and they didn't care about anything else.
Moreover, they were envious and contemptuous of the high-ranking officials in the court. They were secretly happy that they could be so angry that they were jumping up and down without any way to deal with them, so they would not pay any attention to Minister Han and Liao Mingzhong.
Minister Han and Liao Mingzhong had never been humiliated like this before. In anger, Minister Han could not help but blurt out to Liao Mingzhong: "This Su Huai does not take the emperor's orders seriously. If the emperor does not punish him severely, who will be the emperor in the end? Who knows what he will do in the future!"
Liao Mingzhong's face changed and his heart beat violently. He sighed softly. Apart from advising Minister Han to stay calm, there was nothing he could do.
Not to mention Minister Han, even he, as the emperor's confidant, is not that confident.
Su Huai triumphantly launched the attack, driving innocent people to the front, feeling proud instead of ashamed.
Zheng Sangge, Qin Wuyou and others all cursed him for being shameless! They only put up a symbolic resistance and soon abandoned the city and fled.
It should be finished next month.
(End of this chapter)
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