Standing at the head of the city, seeing Zhang Shuye and Xuan Cangyong being "escorted" to Lin'an by five hundred sergeants, Song Jiang, Lin Chong and several others showed a little strange look on their faces. How easily you can send people away and solve this seemingly difficult problem?

They thought they were going to use some tough or clever means in a fight. The result was just that the people made such a fuss, and as soon as they were arrested, plus Sun Tu had a conversation with them, the two nominal commanders and supervisors sent by the imperial court just admitted defeat and left.

Seeing the doubts in their hearts, Sun Tu smiled: "Things are actually very simple, after all, they also have concerns, as long as I make my words clear, with the shrewdness of these two people, they will naturally make the least bad choice." ”

"But general, aren't you afraid that you will be held accountable and blamed after this matter is reported back to the capital?" After hesitating for a while, Song Jiang still asked worriedly.

"That will have to happen in a few months, and at that time, as long as we put down the Jiangnan Rebellion and have a great deal of work in hand, who can hold such a small matter accountable?" Sun Tu said, his face was solemn: "It's spring, and it's time to make a final decision." How's it going, have you sorted out all the information over there? ”

Although Sun Tu has not continued to use troops in the past few months, this does not mean that he really does not care about the rest of Fang La's retreat to Wuzhou, on the contrary, in the past few months, the Song army has sent no less than two or three hundred scout spies, just to find out the details and defensive strategies of the other party.

Seeing Sun Tu's question, Dong Ping immediately said: "A lot of information from the front has come back, but in fact, in terms of the morale of the army, the anti-army has fallen to the bottom. Without the generals like Pang Wanchun and Fang Shifo, and after losing Hangzhou, they already had the heart of cowardice inside. However, because Fang La is still there in the end, and there is that Fang Fei mediating from it, it is quite peaceful for the time being. In addition, they have left the main elite on the Oolong Ridge, probably trying to rely on the dangerous geographical level there to stop our army's crusade. However, there are few defenders in Wuzhou, and if they can break through the Wulongling Pass, then Wuzhou can go down overnight. ”

Sun Tu nodded: "What about the specific deployment of troops?" ”

"Because of the constraints of the geographical conditions of Wulongling, there are only 30,000 soldiers, but all of them are elites in the army. In Wuzhou, although there are 100,000 people, most of them are rabble, and the city is not particularly tall and strong, so it is not difficult to break it. ”

"In other words, for us, the last pass is in this Oolong Ridge?" Sun Tu narrowed his eyes.

"But it is indeed a rare and dangerous place in the south of the Yangtze River, it is really easy to defend and difficult to attack, although there are only 30,000 people, but it is enough to block the attack of hundreds of thousands of people by relying on the terrain." Yang Zhi also said. Several of them have been studying the situation of Wulong Ridge recently, but they already know the mountain terrain there well, and the more they know, the more worried they become.

"In this way, it is indeed difficult to storm Oolong Ridge, so is there a way to make a detour?" Sun Tu asked again. But in response to him, he shook his head: "Except for the Wulongling Pass, there are some small roads that can be passed, but it is impossible to send tens of thousands of troops into it without being noticed." Also, the area around Wuzhou was originally the place where Fang La raised troops, and the local people had become his eyes and ears, and it was completely impossible to make a detour without knowing it. ”

"It is extremely difficult to storm it, the terrain there is not conducive to the deployment of the army at all, and even ordinary siege weapons are difficult to transport into it, so it is indeed much more difficult to break through this pass than it is for us to capture Hangzhou."

After saying this, it immediately covered the faces of the generals who were still a little happy, because everyone knew very well that there was indeed not much time left for them, and they must break through the Oolong Ridge as soon as possible, and it was best to do it before the summer.

This is not only because of the pressure from the imperial court, but also because once the summer comes, the situation there will be more complicated. Although it is not in the southwest and other places, there are also poisonous miasma in that area, especially in summer, when the poisonous miasma is together, there is a natural barrier there, which can prevent officials and soldiers from stealing.

Just thinking of this, everyone had a headache, and some people even muttered in a low voice: "In this way, unless we can fly over that ridge with two wings, it will be impossible to break this barrier easily." ”

Hearing this, Sun Tu's eyes lit up, and he suddenly smiled inexplicably: "It's not really desperate yet." Since we've all been waiting for all this time, we might as well wait a little longer, prepare something, and then we can beat this level with minimal cost! ”

"Ah......" This time everyone was really a little incomprehensible, and they all looked at Sun Tu with their mouths wide open, and Sun Tu only smiled as if he was selling: "What we have to do now is to find all the skilled craftsmen in the city, especially those who are good at leather making." As he spoke, his gaze fell on Tong Mu: "I'll leave this matter to you, you won't let me down, right?" ”

“…… Okay, I'll do it, give me three days. Tong Mu only hesitated slightly, then nodded and agreed to this errand. And the others, although they still have doubts in their hearts, but looking at Sun Tu's appearance of being a bamboo in his chest, and thinking about the miracles he has created in the past, they naturally all choose to believe that under the leadership of General Sun, they can once again create a miracle that can easily break through the natural danger of Wulong Ridge!

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Hundreds of miles away, Wuzhou City.

After months of panic, the rest of Fang La's people finally slowly accepted the facts and stabilized their minds. Especially when they saw that the elite of the Wu army rushed to Wulongling, and they also knew the danger there, they finally had some confidence.

And the Song army's sluggishness in the next few months made them feel that things were promising, so after entering March, Wuzhou City was finally a lot more lively than in the previous months, at least it was revitalized.

Fang La, as the backbone of everyone, as a person who has experienced ups and downs, finally came out of self-blame and regret and other emotions at this time, and began to regain his strength, discussing with the courtiers below from time to time how to reunite his strength and how to find an opportunity to fight back. Of course, at least until Sun Tu was transferred, they would never dare to fight back.

And the news brought by Fang Fei today made him even more discouraged: "You mean, the commander and the supervising army sent to Hangzhou by the Song Dynasty were actually beaten by that Sun Tu and left Hangzhou?" ”

"Exactly, judging from the information obtained by our eyeliner, they were completely controlled by Sun Tu and went to Lin'an under house arrest. It can be said that the Jiangnan Song army is still in the hands of Sun Tu, and they seem to have the intention of coming west to attack our Wuzhou. Fang Fei also said with a solemn expression.

The Song army can send a detailed investigation into Wuzhou to investigate the news, and Wu Jun is naturally the same. Although there is a serious lag in the transmission of information, the information is quite accurate and enough to be taken seriously.

"How can he really dare to do such a thing?" Fang La was really a little scared by Sun Tu. As long as he thought that figures like Pang Wanchun Fang and the Ten Buddhas were all defeated and his subordinates, he felt a void in his heart.

"Your Majesty, please not be so worried, but it is also the root of his downfall. As long as the matter is publicized, let alone us, even Song Ting will never spare him. And what we have to do is to drag on the time and not give him any chance to make meritorious contributions. ”

"Yes, as long as it drags on for a while, when Song Ting takes him under the knife, Sun Tu will not be far from death. Therefore, Wulongling is the key, we must hold there, then Wuzhou is safe, and we still have a chance to turn defeat into victory. Speaking of this, Fang La stood up suddenly, strode to the huge map that had been hanging on the side, and his fingers swiped back and forth at the location of Wulong Ridge: "Send another 20,000 elites over, you must not lose." In addition, let the people there take advantage of the Song army's arrival and quickly set traps on other remote trails on the ridge, I must not let any Song army easily cross the ridge! At this moment, he finally had some heroic momentum, and his eyes finally had a little spirit.

Fang Fei's heart was overjoyed, and he hurriedly clenched his fists and said, "The minister will order, I will send someone to arrange it." Also, just in case, the minister thought that he could bury fire oil and other things at the main road on the ridge, and once the Song army really broke through the fortress, we would burn it with jade. ”

"Okay, just do as you want. This time, there is no way back! Fang La said, slamming his fist on the map, but he had already made a desperate decision.

With the decree of the emperor, who only had one state, the Wu army moved again. The 20,000 soldiers who were left in Wuzhou set off on two days and headed straight for Wulong Ridge, so that the number of defenders there was already 50,000, which really made that Xiongguan have a solid momentum.

Of course, correspondingly, the garrison forces in Wuzhou City were emptied, and the remaining ones were all old, weak, sick and disabled, as long as Wulongling was lost again, they would no longer have a place to defend, and they would not be far from complete defeat.

On March 12, the news came that the 70,000 Song army had marched from Hangzhou and headed straight to the west.

On the 19th, in front of Wulong Ridge, the vanguard of the Song army had arrived, and the main general of the camp Wu Song challenged, but the defenders did not make any reaction, just stood quietly.

On the 23rd, the main force of the Song army officially arrived in front of the pass, although it did not really launch an attack, but the strong pressure had been overwhelming.

In the mid-spring season of the fifth year of Xuanhe in the Great Song Dynasty, a final decisive battle that determines the final direction of the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River and even the future direction of the entire Great Song Dynasty will start in front of Wulongling.

But to the surprise of the defenders, this time, the Song army did not rush to launch the fiercest attack at the beginning, but ......