Since he had received Zhu Xie's promise, Sun Tu naturally would not delay. He sent his personal guard captain Tang Feng to the Guanjian in the southeast corner of Jinling to ask for grain early the next morning. As for him, he and Tong Mu went up to the city under the protection of several personal guards to check the city's defense system.

In Sun Tu's view, although the court has been continuously dispatching officials from all over the country to arrive, it seems that the court has an absolute advantage, but in fact, these mobs who only know how to bully the good and fear evil, it is difficult to block the Fang La anti-army, who is in a strong position, and may soon fight a tough battle around Jinling. Therefore, before this, it is necessary to have a basic understanding of the entire city so that it will not cause any blind spots before the matter comes.

Because Tong Mu, the Suzhou Promoter, came forward, they could easily get on the front of the city that should have been regarded as a military restricted area. It is also sad to say that the power of local officials in Jinling is far less than that of officials who retreated from Suzhou with Zhu Xie. Especially yesterday, when the Jinling Promoter Yang Du was killed, the others were even more trembling and dared not prosecute Suzhou officials.

The few people first climbed the inner city wall, and then walked along the aisle. Below was the Qinhuai River that was flowing slowly. On both sides of the river were the most lively streets, but at this time, there were only tigers and wolves on the road and few people were not seen. After a few careful glances, Sun Tu's eyes opened along the river and said softly: "Which portal is the exit of the Qinhuai River?"

Tong Mu already had a good understanding of the city and immediately replied: "It's Dongshui Pass, there should be a long line of naval troops there, and the troops should be seven or eight hundred."

"Let's go and take a look." Sun Tu immediately took the lead to go east. Before he could reach the place, his brows frowned deeply. The situation here was very different. Not only were there few soldiers guarding the city, but the city wall was also weathered and peeled off. At a glance, you can tell that it had not been well built for many years.

This is true. Because Nanjing is located in the south of the Yangtze River and is far less likely to be wary of the danger of foreign invasion in the north at all times, local officials are neglected to prevent this. If there is that little money, it has been divided privately by relevant officials. As long as the city wall does not collapse, everything will be fine.

Seeing Sun Tu frowned, Tong Mu quickly guessed his thoughts and said with a smile: "Do you know how Hangzhou was captured? According to the soldiers who escaped later, the anti-army army set up a ladder to attack the city, but in a fierce attack, a section of the city wall collapsed, which led to the instant breakthrough of the outer city. Then, in addition, there were people in the city who suddenly started to cause trouble, so they took down this important town in Jiangnan in just half a month. The city wall here in Jinling is said to have been built decades ago."

Sun Tu could only smile bitterly and shook his head: "So it is not a lucky thing that Fang La and his gang could suddenly sweep Jiangnan in just a short time, but the cooperation between the enemy and us was formed. No wonder..." The latter sentence is no wonder that Zhao Gou fled to Jiangnan and was chased by the Jin people and escaped to the sea to save it. He stopped it in time and did not say it. He was quite surprised when he saw the relevant statements before, but now he finally understood that with the defense of Zhucheng in Jiangnan at this time, the fierce Jin soldiers and cavalry that were coming and going like the wind.

Tong Mu sighed with her: "The problem now is that this flaw cannot be remedied. Zhu Xie cannot use money and grain to repair the Jinling city wall. As for the local treasury in Jinling, it has long been all over the private pockets of Zhu Xie and his subordinates."

"It seems that it is difficult for us to defeat the enemy by perseverance." After only looking at the city wall, Sun Tu lost interest in continuing to read. With such a serious problem, even if he had no defense strategy for a while: "The only way is to put aside the city and fight the anti-army in the field."

"Yes, but those soldiers and horses who came to aid obviously had no such plan. Didn't you notice it? They have been staying around Jinling and have no intention of taking the initiative to move south at all."

"After all, this place is not their jurisdiction, and there is no reward and encouragement for heavy food, so no one is willing to work hard." Sun Tu said quite understandingly. Even if it was him, he would not be able to let his soldiers fight against the enemy until the food, grass, and money and salary are allocated.

Although Sun Tu had no interest in checking the city wall, everyone still walked to Dongshui Pass, which was not far from the East Gate. After looking down, Sun Tu sighed again: "The levels here are easy to attack and difficult to defend. The so-called naval army is just a few more broken ships. If the enemy really attacks along the current, it is probably not long. In addition, there are flaws everywhere on the East Gate. If I lead my army to attack Jinling, as long as I choose the east to advance together, it will take less than ten days to capture this city."

After seeing this, there was no need to go elsewhere. In addition, it was almost noon, Sun Tu planned to return to the military camp. But before he could walk many roads, a group of people rushed up to him in a hurry. After seeing them from afar, a scholar in the lead shouted: "Sun Qian, you can make it easy to find a young man. You are so interested that you ran up to the city early in the morning to see the scenery..." Well, in other people's eyes, Sun Tu went to the city today to see the scenery.

But Sun Tu had no intention of explaining, just looked at the visitor and waited for Tong Mu to introduce him. The latter did not react slowly, and immediately smiled and said, "Qianli, this is Mr. Lu Bofei, the leader of Zhu Shuai, who is the plotter next to Zhu Shuai."

"It turned out to be Mr. Lu, but I was disrespectful." Sun Tu had a banquet with him yesterday, but there were many people at that time, but they didn't spend much time remembering, so they really forgot about this person.

Lu Bofei was a little uncomfortable at first, but when Tong Mu said this, he felt a little happy, because the planner was referring to the first military advisor and aide, which was exactly what he thought. He immediately said modestly: "Tong Promoter is too good, so he is just around Zhu Shuai to take the initiative to run errands, it is not worth mentioning."

After a little greeting, Sun Tu looked at him and said, "Mr. Lu is in a hurry to look for me, but why is it?"

"Oh, it's Zhu Shuai that Zhuang had a small matter, I want to ask Sun Qian for help. Tong Tutor should also know that just half a month ago, a messy man in the city suddenly made trouble, killed more than a dozen officials in the government, robbed a batch of food and fodder, and then rushed into Qixia Mountain to hide. Although Zhu Shuai sent people to search and get several times afterwards, they all escaped because of their familiarity with the terrain. This incident had a great impact on the public security of Jinling. So Zhu Shuai wanted to ask Sun Qian to take people up the mountain to catch them all in one go, as a warning to others."

Sun Tu looked at him thoughtfully, then looked at the famous scenic spot in the distance, and couldn't help but sneer in his heart. Zhu Xie was really capable of causing trouble. He had forced the people of Jinling to rebel. Now he threw such a hot potato in front of him, which was difficult to deal with.

This is not to say that he has no confidence in leading his troops up the mountain to capture the rioters. The mountain situation of Qixia Mountain itself is not too dangerous. In addition, the other party has just climbed the mountain, so it is impossible to stick to the terrain like those past cliques. With his ability to repeatedly pacify Shandong mountain bandits, it should be less than effort to pacify them.

The real problem is that they are actually victims of the identities of these rioters. If they really attacked according to Zhu Jie's will, not only would they not be able to get over the conscience, but their reputation among the people would be much corrupted afterwards. Maybe they would be detained as a butcher or something and become a public enemy of the people of Jiangnan. This is not what Sun Tu wanted to see.

Seeing Sun Tu frowned slightly, Lu Bofei smiled and said, "By the way, Mr. Sun, Zhu Shuai once mentioned that our military rations are limited, and we must first satisfy those teams that can really fight. If you can help us solve this chaotic crowd, I will definitely be able to say a few good things to you in front of Zhu Shuai."

"Okay." After thinking for a while, Sun Tu finally lowered his head to reality and nodded in response: "I will arrange for people to go up the mountain to quell the chaos, but at that time I hope Zhu Shuai can trust and allocate our army's food and supplies as soon as possible to complete it."

"Of course, with Sun Qiang's actions, I believe that those rioters will be rectified." Seeing that Sun Tu responded to this matter, Lu Bofei was very happy. After praising him a few more words, he happily said goodbye and left.

As a personal guard, Yue Fei, who had never spoken after Sun Tu, finally couldn't bear it at this time: "Master, these people are also forced to climb the mountain because of helplessness. What is the difference between us doing this and other official troops?" The young and passionate boy was still very different from Yue Wumu many years later.

However, Tong Mu looked at Sun Tu and smiled, "Qianli should have his own tricks. Only by being able to do the best of both worlds can this be done, right?"

"I know me, the second brother." Sun Tu smiled and looked at Yue Fei, and mentioned: "There are many solutions to the problem in this world, and not only one way to choose. Did they just want us to calm down the rioters who escaped to Qixia Mountain? They didn't say that they must kill them all, so we can plead with them."

"This...can this work?" Yue Fei said vaguely.

"It's because of the people. Yue Fei obeyed the order..." Sun Tu suddenly turned his face and said just after the other party suddenly stood at attention: "You will go to Qixia Mountain with Lu Dawusong in the afternoon to find the people and tell them what I mean. As long as they are willing to go down the mountain, I, Sun Tu, can keep them safe."

Although he still had doubts in his heart, Yue Fei immediately crossed his hands and answered the order: "As for the order!" There was still a little excitement on his face, because this was the first military order he had accepted since he joined Sun Tu's command, which made him make up his mind to do something beautiful.

But at this time, Sun Tu had already put this matter behind his head and frowned slightly: "It seems that Zhu Xie will not let me go easily. He just came to Jinling for trouble the second day."

He didn't know that another trouble had come to him at this time.
Chapter completed!