Chapter 2274 The Dream Shattered
Some of them, who had long been angry and dissatisfied with the Su family army, simply turned around and surrendered, joining Qin Wuyou's team.
Overnight, Qin Wuyou occupied the city of Hangzhou at a very low cost, and all the genuine Su family soldiers who did not have time to escape were arrested and thrown into prison.
Qin Wuyou sent people to guard the city and maintain order, while at the same time ordering people to post notices to reassure the people in the city and capture the remnants of the Su family army.
When the day dawned, the people were shocked to find that they no longer had to pay tolls when entering and leaving the city!
All the people cheered.
Shops are open as usual, the streets are still bustling, and people's lives seem to be unaffected.
If there must be any impact or change, it is that the dark clouds hanging over my head have dispersed and the huge rock pressing on my heart has fallen.
The whole person becomes more relaxed!
That afternoon, another team entered Hangzhou City. Together with the original force and the surrendered defenders of Hangzhou City, Qin Wuyou now had a total of nearly 50,000 troops under his command.
He left 40,000 men to garrison Hangzhou City, and ordered his deputy to lead 10,000 men to leave Hangzhou City to set up an ambush, waiting for Su Huai to come back to rescue and then catch him off guard.
Naturally, there were always a few soldiers of the Su family who stayed behind in Hangzhou City and escaped during the chaos. They fled to Pujiang in a panic to report the news. They didn't believe that Su Huai would not return to rescue Hangzhou City after getting the news.
Su Huai and his group were confidently planning to repeat their old tricks and capture Jinhua City and countless cities thereafter in one fell swoop. On the morning of the day when they were preparing to march towards Jinhua City, the soldiers who had escaped from Hangzhou City arrived at Pujiang City and cried bitterly to Su Huai about the tragic fact that Hangzhou City had been lost.
Su Huai and others were all stunned!
"What did you say?"
"This is impossible!"
"How could this happen? Say it again!"
"Damn it! I knew it wouldn't be that easy for Zheng Sangge to abandon the city and escape! You bastard!"
Everyone was furious and swore angrily. The question before them was, "What should we do?"
What else can we do? Of course we have to fight back and take back Hangzhou City!
Hangzhou City is different from other places. If it is lost, it must be taken back. Losing Hangzhou City is equivalent to losing a large area of Jiangnan. Otherwise, what is the use even if Jinhua City is captured?
"If anyone dares to play dirty tricks on me, I'll kill him! Come back with me and take back Hangzhou City!"
Su Huai shouted angrily and immediately set out, leading a large army to counterattack Hangzhou City.
Unexpectedly, they were ambushed on the way and were beaten badly.
Almost at the same time, the people who were forcibly conscripted rebelled, fought with the regular Su family army soldiers who were stationed to guard them, and then fled in all directions in the chaos.
The Su family army was ambushed and confused, unable to take care of themselves, so how could they care about the fleeing civilians?
By the time they had fled twenty or thirty miles and barely gathered together, nearly one third of their forces had been lost.
Su Huai almost couldn't catch his breath. Many of his trusted brothers were injured, including his son.
Everyone's faces looked very ugly, and they cursed Zheng Sangge and Shao Yunduan viciously, wishing they could tear them into pieces!
As for the ladders and catapults used for siege, they had been discarded in the chaos.
The heavy work of carrying these things was originally assigned to the conscripted people. Once the people fled, they naturally didn't care about these things, and they couldn't take care of them at the time. Only now did they realize that there was nothing left.
Everyone felt even more depressed.
(End of this chapter)
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