Chapter 2294: Unfavorable Beginning
Qin Wuyou, Yang Mu and others had already arrived in the area near Hangzhou City, waiting for Su Huai with great enthusiasm.
There was even a team of a thousand people who risked their lives to set out by boat from Hangzhou Bay, preparing to take a detour by sea and land in Chongming area. They planned to cut off Su Huai's escape route when the time was right, and completely cut off his life with a two-pronged attack.
...This battle was much easier to fight than what Huaixi, Zheng Sangge and Qin Wuyou had expected. At first they really didn't expect that the war would be over in less than a month.
Su Huai was too confident in himself. He never thought that Zheng Sangge would take the initiative to attack. In his opinion, Zheng Sangge was a cowardly and despicable man who only knew how to plot and scheme secretly. If he hadn't been careless, he would have killed him long ago!
So this time, he came with murderous intent, and took it for granted that Zheng Sangge would only passively defend and be forced to fight.
He never expected that he would be ambushed by Zheng Sangge's men halfway and beaten badly.
Su Huai had never thought that such a thing would happen, so naturally he did not take any precautions. He was defeated tragically in this passive head-on attack. After cleaning up the battlefield and counting the number of people, he found that more than 10,000 of the 80,000 troops were lost.
A bad start!
Many generals were frightened and even wavered in their determination to continue fighting, but seeing Su Huai cursed viciously with all his might, no one dared to say anything.
Su Huai was obsessed with revenge and wanted to kill Zheng Sangge. Anyone who dared to say "retreat" at this time might become Su Huai's punching bag and be beheaded.
However, how can a team whose generals have many thoughts of retreat expect to win a battle?
Su Huai led his troops to station in Huzhou, and sent another team to station between Huzhou and Tongxiang, forming a pincer attack so that they could help each other.
Zheng Sangge targeted this team and launched a surprise attack on them the night they arrived, without waiting for them to set up camp. The soldiers carrying a large amount of kerosene first used bows and arrows to disrupt the enemy's formation, then poured oil on them and set them on fire. The Jiangning side was in panic, and there were countless casualties due to collisions and trampling.
The 20,000 troops sent to garrison there lost five to six thousand men overnight, and the rest were in a state of panic like frightened birds.
Sixty to seventy percent of the various supplies were burned, and no one was willing to camp here, so they had to return to report to Su Huai.
Su Huai was the type who would chop anyone he didn't like with a knife. Now he didn't like Zheng Sangge a million times, but he couldn't chop Zheng Sangge. Instead, Zheng Sangge was chopping him. He was so furious that he almost vomited blood!
The defeated soldiers who retreated were scolded by Su Huai, and the generals who led the troops were all tied up and locked up. The other generals tried to persuade them but to no avail.
The successive losses were too great, and there were less than 60,000 soldiers left. Su Huai was reluctant to disperse the troops any further, so he left everyone in Huzhou.
He hated Zheng Sangge so much that he angrily issued a declaration of war and cursed Zheng Sangge for daring to fight him in a fair fight.
Zheng Sangge laughed when he saw the letter.
What is he afraid of?
Besides, what qualifications does Su Huai, a rat who has always lived in the gutter, have to talk about "openness and honesty"?
It was obviously he who had been not upright all along!
Since he is so confident in himself, he might as well help him and fight him.
Zheng Sangge readily agreed to the challenge. Three days later, a fierce battle broke out in Qingxiang area. Zheng Sangge personally took action and commanded the soldiers to charge.
(End of this chapter)
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