The person who led the team to attack Suzhou City was an adjutant of the Marine Brigade, a young general named Feng Zhong, who was the first soldier in Dongjiang Town who came from Chu Yun. Liu Wang gave him two thousand people. Well... Two thousand people went to attack a big city with hundreds of thousands of people, which put a huge pressure on Feng Zhong.

Two thousand people carried only four smoothbore field guns, and the rest were left by Liu Wang on the Hangzhou defense line with greater pressure. Some of the main forces of the Ming army in the Jiangnan area were concentrated in Nanjing City, and some were concentrated in Hangzhou City.

"Build a stove to cook, and ask soldiers to pay attention to whether the well water is poisonous when fetching water, and try to use live water." Feng Zhong saw the city walls of Suzhou City from afar and repaired the troops in the outer suburbs.

Some of the two thousand people were on guard against the periphery, and the rest began to camp and cook. Feng Zhong looked at the brief topographic map of Suzhou Prefecture issued by the military headquarters and thought hard about how to use two thousand people to capture the big Suzhou city.

"This map was not drawn by the people from the Jiuzhou Army Map Department. It's too ugly, and it's hard to judge the actual distance." Feng Zhong looked at the topographic map of Suzhou Prefecture and found that it was 108,000 miles away from the topographic map drawn by the Jiuzhou Army.

This is also the characteristic of Chinese civilized paintings that have only relied on freehand painting but not realistic, and they have all been brought to the map. The map department established by Chu Yun in the military department is to measure the land in a standardized manner, organize manpower to draw standard and realistic maps.

"Sir, we only have four artillery pieces. Two thousand people have to leave at least a few hundred people as reserve teams, and hundreds of people can guarantee logistics and cannot be invested in the attack at one time. In this way, there may be only a thousand troops attacking Suzhou City head-on. It is unrealistic to think about it."

"Unless our cannons just collapse a section of the city wall and then our infantry rushed forward, we would not be able to capture Suzhou City without siege equipment." Several captains and battalion officials under Feng Zhong said.

"If the strong attack cannot be done, is it possible to take a clever approach? For example, to lure a snake out of the cave and surround Wei to save Zhao? There is always a strategy that can deal with the defenders in Suzhou City, right?" Feng Zhong saw that his subordinates unanimously agreed that the anus on the front would not move Suzhou City, so he thought of other methods.

"Thirty-six strategies can indeed be unexpected, but you have to choose the opportunity and use it according to the actual situation. If the Ming army in Suzhou City is huddled in Suzhou City and refused to leave the city, no strategy will be of no help." said a battalion official.

"Is the counter-espionage plan feasible? The military leader once said that the strongest fortress is often broken from the inside. If we make the officers and soldiers in Suzhou City disagree, with our general trend, there will definitely be traitors who cooperate with us inside and outside." Feng Zhong suggested.

"The people from the Army Department will soon be sent to Zhenjiang and ready to attack Nanjing City. I'm afraid we won't have time to get rid of the officers and soldiers in Suzhou City. The spies from our Army Department have not had time to infiltrate Suzhou City. Even the mysterious intelligence department may not have enough spies lurking in Suzhou City." A captain said worriedly.

Feng Zhong nodded. The Jiangnan area has never been an imaginary enemy of the Jiuzhou Army. In the past two years, the spies of the Military Affairs Department have worked hard to manage the northern battlefield and carried out various infiltrations in the northern region where the bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty is strong. In the weak and prosperous Jiangnan area, Chu Yun thought it was the easiest place to control, so he did not have the energy to infiltrate intelligence in Jiangnan.

"Can we make a move to bypass Suzhou City and attack Wuxi and Nanjing City? If Suzhou City wants to rush to help Nanjing City and see us send troops, we will definitely want to cut off our food route. Then we will kill back and attack them and annihilate their main force from the city?" Feng Zhong came up with a way to lead the snake out of the hole.

"Maybe this method is feasible." Everyone discussed for a while and found that if they gave up the strong attack, perhaps Feng Zhong's method of induced snakes out of the hole was already a feasible strategy.

When the group worked hard to study how to capture Suzhou City and complete the difficult mission given by the military headquarters, the fearful merchants in Suzhou City formed an envoy to Feng Zhong's army in accordance with the orders of the Suzhou government.

"Deputy Brigade Officer, Suzhou City has sent an envoy!" A messenger trotted over happily.

Feng Zhong and everyone looked at each other, and couldn't help but wonder what the current situation was about, Suzhou City's plan was to send an envoy to the mission.

"I heard that Suzhou magistrate Chen Hongmi is still an official who is quite loyal to the court. Maybe he wants to declare war on us." Feng Zhong said.

However, when the business group in Suzhou City explained its purpose, Feng Zhong and others wanted to curse themselves.

Just now, they racked their brains to think about how to attack Suzhou City. They didn't want to be prosperous. Suzhou City didn't want to participate in this destructive war at all, but came directly to the Jiuzhou Army to negotiate.

"We represent the meaning of the prefect of Suzhou, and the meaning of hundreds of thousands of people in Suzhou City. Our Suzhou City has been prosperous and stable over the years, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. I hope your army can give up our Suzhou City and let us go." The business representative said to Feng Zhong.

"There are 7,000 Ming troops in Suzhou City, which poses a threat to our Jiuzhou Army. If we don't capture Suzhou City, it will affect our next actions. Do you know the consequences?" Feng Zhong pretended to be dissatisfied.

The group of officers behind him also had tense faces, with a murderous look on their faces, which scared the merchants to tremble.

"Suzhou City is unwilling to be enemies with your army. We are also members of the Far East Trading Company and are taken care of by your army. It is precisely because we believe that your army will take care of the people and do not want to kill more, so we came to negotiate with your army. As long as your army gives up attacking Suzhou City, the officers and soldiers of Suzhou City will never leave the city or provide assistance to Nanjing City. Moreover, hundreds of merchants in our Suzhou City raised 500,000 taels of silver with the people of the whole city to redeem the city. We hope that the general will believe in the sincerity of our Suzhou people." The leader of the Merchant Envoy was a great merchant who had dealt with the Jiuzhou Army and had seen many worlds. Although he was forced to the murderous aura of the soldiers, he still explained his purpose.

It can not only complete the task of dragging the officers and soldiers of Suzhou City, but also harvest 500,000 taels of silver for the military headquarters! Feng Zhong and others, who heard the conditions of Suzhou Prefecture, were excited to jump! If the soldiers achieved such a battle without bloodshed, they would probably get a lot of military achievements!

"Ahem, attacking Suzhou City was the will assigned to us by the military commander. How can we easily violate it?" On the surface, Feng Zhong still pretended to be solemn.
Chapter completed!