Chapter 275: Scamming into Suzhou to scare the governor
Wu Shengzhao was also a veteran in the army, so he made a decisive decision and immediately sent his servants to call all the officials from Changshu County dozens of miles away, and also invited the coastal defense troops.
When the seven or eight officials arrived to attend the military meeting on the suppression of bandits, they had just sat down to sit down for tea without even taking a sip of tea.
Wu Shengzhao broke the cup as a signal. As soon as the servants rushed in, he chopped them all down with his knife and treated them to a decapitation meal.
After beheading these people, Wu Shengzhao remained calm and did not make any announcement to the outside world. Then he asked for a reward of silver and wine and meat, and the money was spent. The brothers were very happy and thanked Wu Shengzhao endlessly.
Killing pigs and ducks, Wu Shengzhao also knew that he had to spend a lot of money at this time.
After drinking and eating, Wu Shengzhao announced that he had just received an emergency military order from Jiangning Hong, saying that Suzhou was besieged by the Ming army, and asked them to rush for reinforcements.
So the whole army marched out.
We marched to Changshu in a hurry, but the heads of the officials in the city were still in the Fushan Port Military Fortress. Wu Shengzhao led his troops to enter the city, but the officials in the city did not dare to let them in.
Deputy Commander-in-Chief Li Kui deliberately encouraged the soldiers and then launched arrows to attack the city. Wu Shengzhao was stationed in the central plains of Changshu City, but he had previously brought his troops to Fushan to gather to attack Chongming. Now there are only some strong men guarding the city. What about them?
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As soon as the arrow was fired, the city dispersed.
So Wu Shengzhao, Li Kui and others deliberately sent troops into the city to plunder. The soldiers looted violently and were all excited. After the robbery, Wu Shengzhao did not forget to set a few fires in the city, and then led the troops to continue running towards Suzhou.
Under Wu Shengzhao's deliberate indulgence, these four thousand troops looted all the way. When they almost arrived in Suzhou, they were completely crazy about looting.
Those soldiers are now red-eyed. They just want to rush into Suzhou City and rob the city. As for the others, the admirals, commanders, soldiers, and lieutenants have all taken the lead in rebelling, so why not rebel?
The journey from Fushan Port to Suzhou was only over a hundred miles, and it was a boat ride along the river. Wu Shengzhao and his party arrived at the Suzhou city in only two days, so much so that Tu Guobao was unable to react in time.
When Wu Shengzhao arrived, Tu Guobao had already assembled his Fubiao and Suzhou Green Camps to Kunshan, seventy miles away. They were rushing along the Liu River to Qiya Port to gather and prepare to capture Chongming within the time limit.
Mele Zhangjing and the Qing army newly sent by the Qing court to station in Suzhou are still on the way and have not arrived.
At this time, there were very few troops left in the city.
Wu Shengzhao came from the north, and Tu Guobao came from the south. They didn't meet each other on the way.
Standing at the foot of Suzhou City, Wu Shengzhao was so excited that he fired his bow without turning back.
Wu Zhiyi, a co-president of Suzhou Prefecture, was very surprised to see that Admiral Wu had returned with his troops, and hurried out of the city to see him.
"The governor has just left, why is the admiral here?"
"I received an urgent order from Jiangning in Fushan, saying that Suzhou was besieged by Taihu Ming army led by Hao Yi, and asked me to rush back for reinforcements. Why don't I immediately summon my subordinates to hurry up? Where is the Ming army? Why didn't I see the Ming army?
?" Wu Shengzhao said seriously and told lies.
Wu Zhiyi, who also knew Wu Zhiyi, did not know it was a fake. He was surprised and explained that he had not seen Wu Risheng, the man who killed a thousand swords, coming to attack. Not long ago, Wu Risheng captured Wujiang County in a sneak attack. The local governor immediately led his troops to attack, and there was a big battle.
Killed Wu Risheng and recovered Wujiang City.
Wu Risheng has not been seen attacking in the past few days. He probably suffered a lot of damage and does not dare to attack easily.
"Damn it, aren't you kidding us?"
"I was preparing to cross the river to attack Chongming, but I was told to rush back to Suzhou. What a false alarm."
Lieutenant General Li Kui pretended to remind Wu Shengzhao, "Jiangning Yan Jinglue's military orders cannot be false. Could it be that Yan Jinglue received intelligence in Jiangning and knew in advance that Wu Yi was coming to attack Suzhou, and wanted to take advantage of the governor's absence.
A sneak attack? Then let us come back for reinforcements, but our speed was too fast, so Wu Yi hasn't arrived yet?"
"It's unlikely. Forget it. Damn it, you came here for nothing. I sent someone to report back to Yan Jinglue and said it was a false alarm. Let's retreat and go back to fight against Chongming. Don't miss the real thing."
He said and pretended to leave.
When Wu Zhiyi, who knew this, saw this formation, he quickly stopped Wu Shengzhao.
"Admiral, maybe it's as Vice General Li said. Maybe the Wu thief will arrive at any time. Admiral, please don't leave yet. At least you have to wait until the local governor is invited back by his humble position. Now that you leave, Suzhou City
But it’s dangerous.”
"Please stay here for a few days."
"I still have serious military affairs."
"Admiral, calm down. Didn't Yan Jinglue give you a military order to bring you here? This is also a military order. It is better to garrison in Suzhou than to attack Chongming, right?"
"That's what I said. Okay, let's go to the city and garrison it. We'll talk about it after the local governor comes back."
Wu Zhiyi was a little embarrassed, "Admiral, do you think we should garrison outside the city first?"
"What the hell are you talking about? I took all the trouble to come here. I drove two hundred miles a day and a night, and my shoes were worn out. Now you are letting your brothers station outside the city? Believe it or not, I will chop you off with a knife!"
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Li Kui and other generals were even more agitated, and some of them immediately drew their swords. The frightened colleagues were so frightened that they didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, so they had to agree to let them enter the city.
After all, Wu Shengzhao is also Admiral Su Song. He was stationed in Suzhou City before. Now he has gone to Changshu, but he is still not an Admiral. He is a high-ranking official of the first rank. In terms of rank, he is higher than the governor.
He is an acquaintance, and there is no point in confronting these Qiu Ba people head-on.
Furthermore, he was really afraid that Wu Yi would come back and kill him again. Wu Yi, the governor of water transportation in the Ming Dynasty, was stationed in the west mountain of Taihu Lake. He often went in and out of lakes and canals. The Qing troops were stationed near Taihu Lake, but they did not dare to go to the lake.
If you want to encircle and suppress them, there are many warships, soldiers and horses in the lake. They are short of ships and soldiers, so they don't dare to go there at all.
Just like when Wujiang County was captured before, the city of Wujiang County was captured without warning, and all the 500 green battalions stationed in the city were wiped out.
Those officials who died were even more miserable. When Tu Guobao led his troops to recover, his head was still hanging on the top of the city to attract flies.
Now the governor, magistrate, administrative envoy, and inspector-general have all followed Tu Guobao, but he, the same magistrate, has to bear the responsibility of defending the city, and he is also very frightened and nervous.
"Enter the city!"
Wu Shengzhao first sent Li Kui to lead a battalion into the city. When they actually entered the city and sent back the signal, they felt relieved. I thought it would be a fierce battle to get to Songjiang City. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be so easy.
He led his troops into the city on horseback, but the city of Suzhou didn't react much to the sudden return of the soldiers.
Li Kui and others led troops to take over the gates and city defenses, and those people were happy to take over.
After the city defense took over and Wu Shengzhao sent troops to occupy various government offices, only then did some people feel that something was not right, and then nothing happened.
In front of the officials left behind in Suzhou, Wu Shengzhao took out the righteous banner of restoring ZTE.
Shocked everyone.
"Push these dog officers out and chop them down!"
Wu Zhiyi collapsed on the ground and begged for mercy.
Many people shouted even louder that they would like to work together anyway.
Officials were hunted down and the treasury was seized, followed by soldiers looting the whole city, making the city full of chickens and dogs.
Kunshan.
After Tu Guobao inspected the military camp, he was ready to rest so that he could continue his journey tomorrow.
A horse came galloping up.
"Report that Wu Shengzhao rebelled and Suzhou was captured!"
Tu Guobao was stunned for a long time when he heard the news, then his face flushed red, and the last mouthful of blood spurted out. He swayed a few times and fell to the ground with a plop.
