Yu Shengwei rushed to the granary with Zhang Shiwu and saw that the fire was still very big. Yu Shengwei wanted to step forward to splash water to put out the fire, but Zhang Shiwu stopped him.

"Shiwu, don't stop me, if the grain and grass are burned out, Ruizhou City will be finished!" Yu Shengwei roared.

Zhang Shiwu knelt down and said, "Envoy, you have to calm down!" There are enough people fighting fires, and not only will you not be able to help them now, but you will distract them. ”

Yu Shengwei stood in place, looking at the raging fire, anxious. Half an hour later, the fire was finally extinguished.

The grain officer stumbled over, saw Yu Shengwei, and knelt down.

"Why did the granary catch fire?" Yu Shengwei asked sharply.

"The villain is not clear at this time." The grain officer whispered back.

"It's not clear!" Yu Shengwei kicked the grain officer to the ground, "As a grain official, you can't even protect the granary, what use do I want you!" ”

The grain officer kowtowed again and again and said, "The villain will go and find out." ”

"Hurry up and find out! In addition, calculate how much grain and grass is left. Yu Shengwei roared.

The grain officer ran over, and Yu Shengwei and Zhang Shiwu walked into the granary.

Zhang Shiwu found that there was fire oil on the ground, so he said to Yu Shengwei: "Envoy, there is fire oil on the ground, someone must have deliberately set fire to burn down the granary." ”

"It must have been set on fire by Ling Ju, there are spies sent by Ling Ju in this city! Shiwu, you immediately take someone to search, don't let go of inns and wine shops, you must catch those spies! ”

"No!" Zhang Shiwu took the order and left.

Yu Shengwei found the grain officer and asked, "Is it settled?" How much grain and grass is left? ”

The grain officer said, "Less than 20,000 stones." ”

Yu Shengwei listened, didn't say a word, and left the granary.

Ling Ju set up a large camp outside the east gate of Ruizhou City, he stood outside the big tent of the Chinese army, looked at Ruizhou City in front of him, and fell into deep thought, he was thinking about how to attack the city. At this time, a white carrier pigeon flew over, Ling Yi stretched out his right hand, and the carrier pigeon landed on his hand. He took the secret letter from the pigeon's leg, opened it, and laughed.

Situ Zhan walked over and asked, "Why is the general laughing?" ”

"The people I sent to the city succeeded, they burned Yu Shengwei's granary, and now Yu Shengwei has less than 20,000 stone of grain and grass." Ling Ju said with a smile.

"Great, the Ruizhou army is short of food, and the army will be unstable, it seems that we will be able to capture Ruizhou City soon."

Situ Zhan said.

Yu Shengwei couldn't sleep all night, he clearly knew that the 50,000 defenders only had 20,000 stone grain and grass, and they couldn't even last half a month.

At sunrise, Zhang Shiwu came in and said, "Envoy, I have caught a spy, there are a total of ten people, all of whom were sent by Ling. Nine men died in the fighting, and only one was captured alive. ”

"Where are the people?" Yu Shengwei asked.

"It's right outside the house."

Yu Shengwei walked quickly to the gate of the mansion and saw the soldiers escorting a young man who looked like a merchant.

"You spy! When did you enter the city? Yu Shengwei asked.

The young man stared at Yu Shengwei with his eyes and didn't say a word. Yu Shengwei was furious, drew his sword, and stabbed the young man to death.

Zhang Shiwu was very surprised, because he had never seen Yu Shengwei kill people with his own hands.

At this time, Ling Ju was arranging troops outside the east gate, preparing to attack the city. He asked Lu Shangchuan to be brought to the front of the battle, and Lu Shangchuan's hands were tied.

"General Lu, you only need to shout a few words under the city wall in a while, and I will spare your life, how about it?" Ling asked.

Lu Shangchuan spat at Ling Ju and scolded sharply: "Ling thief, you want me to persuade me to surrender, grandpa, I can't go, if you have the ability, you can kill me now!" ”

Ling Ju was furious and said to the soldiers around him: "Escort Lu Shangchuan to the front of the city wall and cut off his head." ”

The two pro-soldiers escorted Lu Shangchuan forward, stopping when they were one hundred and twenty steps away from the city wall.

Yu Moyuan saw Lu Shangchuan at the head of the city, and said to everyone: "Ling Ji asked people to kill Lu Shangchuan in front of our Ruizhou soldiers, this is to make us afraid of him!" ”

Luan Yimian picked up the iron-tired bow and mounted the feather arrow. He saw one of Ling Jun's personal soldiers raise his knife with his right hand to cut Lu Shangchuan, so he drew his bow and shot at the personal soldier, and an arrow hit the throat of the personal soldier, and the personal soldier fell to the ground and died. Another soldier hurriedly drew his knife, and as soon as the knife came out of its sheath, Luan Yimian fired another arrow and shot him to death.

"The third brother is good at archery!" Yu Moyuan said.

The Ruizhou army at the head of the city was stunned, they had never seen such an archer before.

Lu Shangchuan ran to the bottom of the city wall, and shot Lu Shangchuan with an arrow.

Ling Jiren pushed more than 100 catapults to the front of the formation and ordered the stone-throwing.

Dense stones fell on the city, and in only half an hour, hundreds of soldiers defending the city were stoned to death.

The Ling army rushed to the city wall under the cover of the catapult, and Yu Moyuan hurriedly ordered the crossbowmen to release their arrows, and the Ling soldiers who rushed in front were still shot down in large pieces, although they were holding shields.

More and more soldiers of the Ling army rushed across the moat, came to the bottom of the city wall, and set up ladders. The defenders at the head of the city lifted up logs and stones and threw them down, and many of the soldiers of the Ling army lost their lives under the walls.

Yu Moyuan ordered the soldiers defending the city to smash down more than 700 jars of fire oil, and dropped the torches, and for a time a raging fire broke out at the foot of the city wall, hundreds of Ling soldiers died in the sea of fire, and dozens of ladders were also burned.

Ling saw that the siege had been frustrated, so he could only withdraw his troops.

In the next ten days, Yu Moyuan led the defenders to repel dozens of attacks by Ling's army. Seeing that the soldiers under his command were exhausted, Ling ordered a few days of rest before attempting to attack the city.

In the front hall of the Thorn History Mansion, Yu Shengwei was discussing the matter of grain and grass with everyone.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there is only enough food and grass for another two days, and after eating the military rations, we can only slaughter horses for food." Yu Shengwei said.

When Yu Moyuan heard this, he said: "Father, war horses can't be killed, and our Ruizhou army can't do without cavalry." ”

"I don't want to kill war horses, but what are we going to eat without military rations?" Yu Shengwei said.

Chang Zhangye stood up and said, "Envoy, we can borrow grain from the big families in the city and return it to them later." ”

Yu Shengwei smiled bitterly and said: "Don't drive, those big families have a lot of money, but they don't have much food in their homes, so they can't solve our urgent needs at all." ”

"Not necessarily, some large families have a lot of food in stock." Chang Zhangye said.

At this time, the doorman came in and said, "Envoy, Zhongsun Yunxu, the son of Zhongsun Mansion, is here to see Gongzi." ”

"Zhongsun Yunxu? I don't know him, what's the matter with him looking for me? Yu Mo said from afar.

Yu Shengwei said: "Mo Yuan, since people are looking for you, there must be something, you go out to meet him." ”

Yu Moyuan followed the doorman out of the mansion and saw a young man with sword eyebrows standing at the door, the young man was dressed in a white robe with a sword hanging from his waist.

"Young Master Yu, in the middle of the middle of the Sun Yunxu." The young man said.

Yu Moyuan asked, "Gongzi Zhongsun, what is the matter with you coming to me?" ”

Zhongsun Yunxu smiled and said, "I see that Yu Gongzi, you don't look good, are you worried about the matter of grain and grass?" ”

"Don't hide it, the Ruizhou Army's grain and grass are about to run out."

"Young Master Yu, we have food in Zhongsun Mansion."

"How many?" Yu Moyuan asked.

"At least 40,000 stones!"

"How come your mansion has so much grain in stock?"

"Our Zhongsun family is one of the largest families in Ruizhou City, there are 300 servants and maids alone, so many people eat, naturally they have to save more food, but as a result, the food is more and more, and the houses in the side courtyard are full."

When Yu Moyuan heard this, he smiled happily and said, "Gongzi Zhongsun, lend me the grain, and pay you back some more in the future." ”

Zhongsun Yunxu paused for a moment and said, "I can lend you grain, but you have to promise me two things." ”

"What two things? As long as I can do it, I will promise you. ”

"First, from now on, you will take me with you when you lead the troops to fight, so that I don't have to be forced by my father to read and write; Second, you want to marry my sister Zhongsun Xuewei. ”

Yu Moyuan was stunned for a moment, and said: "I can promise you the first thing, as for the second thing, I haven't even seen Sister Ling's face..."

Before Yu Moyuan finished speaking, Zhongsun Yun said: "There are only two things, if the prince agrees, I will send the grain tomorrow." If I don't agree, I'll leave now, and I won't borrow a grain of grain! ”

"I promise you." Yu Mo said from afar.

"Well, the gentleman said, the horse is difficult to chase. I'll go back and prepare now, and I'll have the food brought in early tomorrow morning." After speaking, Zhongsun Yunxu left.

Yu Moyuan hurriedly returned to the mansion and said to Yu Shengwei: "Father, there is grain in Zhongsun Mansion, and Zhongsun Yunxu promised to lend us 40,000 stone of grain. ”

"Great, he really saved the lives of our Ruizhou soldiers!" Yu Shengwei said happily.

In Ling Jun's big tent of the Chinese army, Ling Ju frowned and paced back and forth. He said to Situ Zhan: "Mr. Situ, the Ruizhou army should have run out of food in the past two days, but the defenders at the head of their city are all in good spirits, and they don't look like they haven't eaten enough, do they still have food in stock?" ”

Situ Zhan thought for a while and replied, "General, I expected that Yu Shengwei borrowed grain from a big family in the city. ”

"It's also possible." Ling said.

At this time, Huwei General You Zhisheng walked into the big tent, hugged his fists and said: "General, the tunnel leading to the city has been dug, and the exit of the tunnel is in an inn, and the people in the inn have been killed, which is very close to the Thorn Shi Mansion and not far from the East City Gate. ”

"Good! General You, tonight, you will take 5,000 elite soldiers into the city from the tunnel, and after entering the city, your soldiers will divide into two routes, all the way to attack the Assassin's Mansion, all the way to the east city gate, kill the defenders there, and open the city gate. And I will lead a large army outside the city to attack the city, and we should cooperate with the outside to take Ruizhou City in one fell swoop. ”

"The last general obeys!" You Zhisheng took the order and left.

Ling Ju walked outside the big tent, and saw that there was heavy snow in the sky, he drew his sword and pointed in the direction of the city and said: "Yu Shengwei, you let me lose tens of thousands of soldiers, tonight, is your death!" ”