Chapter 2296 Su Huai is furious
Su Huai was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat, but Zheng Sangge shouted loudly, urging him to pursue the victory and not give him a chance to breathe, and his attack became more and more fierce!
The Huaixi army was in high spirits, and the more they fought, the braver they became. Su Huai was distracted for a moment, and his army was defeated and retreated.
He was so angry that he tried to stop them by shouting, but what was the use? Not to mention how far his voice could be heard, even if it could, wasn't it more important to save his own life at this time? Who would listen to him?
Su Huai cursed, his eyes spitting fire, and he chopped at Zheng Sangge like crazy while howling. Zheng Sangge sneered and responded calmly, with ease.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, Su Huai's trusted subordinates shouted and tried to dissuade him, but Su Huai valued his life and did not dare to fight anymore, and retreated angrily.
As soon as he fled, his troops were defeated rapidly like a broken dam, and were chased and killed by the Huaixi Army, who crushed them to pieces.
In this face-to-face and "open and aboveboard" battle, Su Huai led 20,000 troops and suffered the loss of more than half of them, with countless casualties.
Back in Huzhou City, Su Huai was furious.
Ever since he led his troops to confront Huaixi, it seemed that he had never had a smooth day and never a day without losing his temper.
Su Huai, who was so frustrated by the loss, lost his mind and wanted to repeat his old tricks, so he ordered people to forcibly conscript civilians into the army.
The generals under his command now are no longer the brothers who used to be pirates with him. More than 80% of those people have died, and there are only a few left.
Today's generals are all court military officers transferred from Jiangning.
All the generals were stunned and opposed it unanimously, some of them were very fierce.
Speaking bluntly and scolding nonsense!
Su Huai was furious. Zheng Sangge had ridiculed him about this issue before, and now his own people were saying the same thing. How could he tolerate it?
If he felt a little guilty when he did it for the first time, now he is completely justified!
He is not wrong!
What's wrong with the people? Aren't they the emperor's subjects? These soldiers shed blood and fought bravely without complaint, so why can't the people help?
Don’t you understand such a simple truth that if the king wants his subjects to die, the subjects have to die?
Su Huai ignored the generals' persuasion and ordered the arrest of civilians, at least 5,000 people. This was just the early stage. Whether to arrest more people later would depend on the situation.
The generals could not accept this at all. The two generals assigned by him to do this refused to obey orders. Su Huai directly had them taken away and beaten with thirty military sticks for violating military orders, and locked them up, and then sent other people to do it.
The generals looked at each other in anger!
As a result, the area around Huzhou witnessed the same scene that had once taken place in Hangzhou City. Countless people were forcibly taken away by officers and soldiers, and their parents, wives, children and their entire families cried loudly, it was so miserable.
As if they had sensed something, the wealthy families were all panicking. They began to close their shops, dismiss their servants, hide their property, and secretly leave Huzhou City with their families, running far away to hide somewhere else, planning to wait a few months before returning to see what was going on...
When the wealthy families made a move, the common people thought that they might know some "inside information" and were afraid that the situation in Huzhou would get even worse. As a result, people became even more confused and many families fled, planning to come back after a while.
Especially those who were lucky enough not to have their family members forcibly conscripted into the army, they wanted to run away overnight.
Otherwise, what if I run too slowly and get caught? What should I do then?
(End of this chapter)
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