For such a realistic situation, Yuan Yao was completely unprepared.

"How so? What did Lu Mian do before? ”

"Demolishing houses, demolishing houses in the city where large households don't need to live in them, so as to get wood and stone."

Yuan Yao was stunned on the spot, and was shocked to realize that what Lu Mian did seemed to be a last resort.

The city is surrounded on all sides, and it is impossible to go out of the city to pick, and there is not enough wood in the city, so what should be used for fuel?

Yuan Yao couldn't think of it.

He didn't understand the distribution of food, the distribution of warm clothes, and the rotation of the troops defending the city, and the feeling of fear and panic immediately crushed Yuan Yao.

If Yang Hong hadn't arrived in time and called Ji Ling and Qiao Rui to assign tasks, it is estimated that there would be a big mess today.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has not done these things, and it is inevitable that there will be omissions, but since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to share his worries for His Majesty, then these things have to be learned to do, and His Majesty has handed over such responsibilities to His Royal Highness the Prince, which is absolute trust in His Royal Highness the Prince."

Yang Hong comforted Yuan Yao with kind words, and finally rescued Yuan Yao from the feeling of collapse.

In this way, Yuan Yao is nominally responsible for the city defense, but in fact it has become Yang Hong in charge, and Yuan Yao is just a rubber stamp.

The news that Lu Mian was dismissed from his position and put on death row for treason was not kept secret at all, so the people in Shouchun City soon knew about it, and Guo Peng also quickly learned about it.

He was surprised by Yuan Shu's quick move, and also surprised by Lu Mianzhi's bad luck.

Self-destruction of the Great Wall and self-destruction of martial arts, this wave of Yuan Shu's operations is comparable to Zhao Gou's twelve gold medals to recall Yue Fei.

However, Zhao Gou still has his own careful thoughts, and the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty is not only Yue Fei who can fight, but Yuan Shu only has one Shouchun City left, and only one Lu Mian is handsome, and he has to kill Lu Mian......

How so?

It's really worthy of Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu obviously didn't take into account the problem of city defense at all, he was just more worried that he would be sold by Lu Mian, so Lu Mian was destroyed under the cooperation of the inside and outside, and I heard that it was Yuan Shu's son Yuan Yao, a son who had never fought a war.

Under the name of the crown prince of the Chen Empire, he commanded the army to defend the city, and he looked menacing, but in fact he was a straw bag, which was worse than his father.

Yuan Shu has led his troops to win battles, although it is the level of rookies pecking each other, but at least he will not make mistakes on basic issues, and it is difficult to say about this son.

According to the intelligence, the person in charge at the moment is Yuan Shu's Huainan Yin Yanghong, this person has some organizational skills, but he is not very familiar with military affairs, and basically discusses with Ji Ling and Qiao Rui.

Ji Ling and Qiao Ruiyong are brave and have a certain prestige, but they are much worse in overall planning.

Yang Hong and these two people together couldn't find the feeling of Lu Mian before, and Guo Peng quickly felt this in the siege.

On the sixth day of the first month, Guo Peng used 40,000 troops to attack the city, breaking through the situation that he could not climb the city wall to fight before, some soldiers rushed to the city wall to kill the defenders of the city, and actually played a little situation, if it were not for the one-eyed dragon Ji Ling with his own soldiers to rush over and fight back desperately, it is estimated that the city wall will really be taken.

As the sun set, Guo Peng ordered the army to stop the siege of the city, return to the barracks to treat the wounded, clean up the bodies of the soldiers killed in the battle, and then sum up the lessons learned.

"Lu Mian was taken down by Yuan Shu for the crime of treason, and now without Lu Mian's coordination, the strength of the entire Shouchun city defense has obviously decreased a lot, and there are problems in many connecting links, these problems did not exist when Lu Mian was still there, so we are struggling."

Guo Jia followed Guo Peng's side to observe the battlefield situation up close, came to a conclusion, and said: "If Lu Mian is taken, the Shouchun city defense can no longer easily stop us, so we need to increase the siege next." ”

Xi Zhong understands this matter from another angle.

"Lu Mian has made great contributions to Yuan Highway, and he has been in charge of city defense before, but he was suddenly taken down, and rumors about Lu Mian's rebellion also came out suddenly, which is enough to prove that there are some people in Shouchun City who no longer want to accompany Yuan Highway to death."

What Xi Zhong observed is important.

"That's right, there are a lot of dissidents in the city, as long as we are strong enough and show enough strength to make the dissidents in the city act and help us disrupt the city's defenses, then it will be easier for us to conquer the city, isn't it?"

Guo Jia said excitedly.

Guo Peng nodded.

"Just like that, we can't attack Shouchun, which is tall and deep on the city wall, but someone will take the initiative to open the gate of Shouchun for us, and Shouchun City is at your fingertips!"

Guo Peng ordered that from the next day, that is, the seventh day of the first lunar month, the onslaught was fierce for several days, and the generals of all armies took turns to go into battle, day and night.

The trebuchets continued to bombard, and the soldiers continued to storm the city wall, spilling blood on the city, and the Shouchun City was crumbling.

Yuan Yao was even more at a loss, staying in a safe place to advance or retreat, Yang Hong had no time to take care of Yuan Yao, running around to make overall planning and arrangements, and trying his best to support Ji Ling and Qiao Rui, so that they could hold the city.

However, the serious problem is in front of them, the raw materials of the city defense equipment are about to be exhausted, and if they don't make new ones, they will soon be unable to stop Guo Peng's march, so they can only let the soldiers fight Guo Peng's soldiers at the head of the city to defend the city.

Everyone saw the combat effectiveness of Guo Peng's army, and one person rushed up to fight without dying, almost able to take away three or five Chen soldiers, and the ring head knife was wielded in a good way, and the lethality of several people together increased exponentially, so they had to be killed with a bow and crossbow.

Only a small number of people rushed to the head of the city was so unstoppable, let alone a large number of people rushing up together, if there were no long-range defense weapons, Shouchun City would be in danger.

So Yang Hong had no choice but to discuss with Yuan Yao, and asked Yuan Yao to send troops to do things according to Lu Mian's old routine, demolishing the house to obtain wood and stone for emergency, Yuan Yao was shocked, thinking that this would be a problem.

"If we continue to do this, and the people's resentment boils, how can this battle continue? Lu Mian offended so many people by doing this, so that no one spoke for him this time, if I did this, wouldn't my father be very angry and punish me? ”

Facing Yuan Yao's question, Yang Hong sighed deeply.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, if there is no Shouchun City, we will all die and have no place to be buried, even if someone wants to slander His Royal Highness the Prince, it must be under the condition that Shouchun City can be saved, right? Now Shouchun City is in danger, if there is no stone and wood, once the city is broken, what should it do? ”

Yuan Yao was speechless, fell into a deep entanglement, and finally under Yang Hong's urging, he could only agree.

Yuan Yao, as the crown prince, issued an order to requisition the surplus houses that did not live in the city as an emergency, and agreed to compensate them for their losses after the war.

When the big families in the city saw that although Lu Mian had fallen, the person who replaced him would still do this, they were immediately very annoyed, and realized that as long as they were willing to help the Chen Empire, no matter who was replaced, they would continue to do so, and they would continue to exploit them and live a long life.

As long as the Chen Empire continues to exist, their interests will not be protected, and it will naturally be difficult to get a good death, and they may end up one day.

Under the threat of their lives, the hearts of this group of people became more and more impatient and irritable, and some people even proposed to call the private soldiers in the army to rebel and open the gate of Shouchun City to welcome Guo Peng's army inside.

Several old men rejected the ill-conceived idea.

"Yang Hong is still there, Qiao Rui and Ji Ling are still there, and the combat effectiveness of the defenders at the head of the city is still there, just rely on me and other private soldiers, unless we can kill these three people in one fell swoop, we can't succeed."