Although the main attacking force was the auxiliary army, the commander was a general of the Qianguo, and within an hour he not only lost a large number of siege equipment, but also lost seven or eight hundred men.

This incident also made Zhao Junsheng realize that there were still talents in the Southern Song Dynasty, some of them were still bloody, and not all of them were cowardly.

At the same time, he also realized that the officers and men of the cadres and the army had been winning battles for so many years, and that the more victories they had won, the more they had won, the more arrogant and arrogant the generals would be, and especially when they were fighting against the southern Korean army, they would be very contemptuous, and this kind of thinking was very dangerous.

Su Ji became a negative teaching material, Zhao Junsheng told his example in the army for several days, severely reprimanded and warned the generals and officers to get rid of the arrogant atmosphere, Su Ji was both ashamed and vowed in his heart to break through the city in front of him.

Just when Zhao Junsheng was rectifying the atmosphere in the army, news came from the black-clothed guard.

Lin Jinghui reported to Zhao Junsheng: "General, just received a weak battle situation, a few days ago General Lu Shuang attacked Yiling for a long time, and then the Southern Korean reinforcements arrived, the two sides fought a skirmish twice, regardless of the winner or loser, but then it rained heavily, due to problems with logistics supply, the grain and grass in the army were mostly wet with rain, and there was a moldy situation, and the officers and soldiers in the army were poisoned after eating, vomiting and diarrhea, and the combat strength of the soldiers was greatly reduced, General Lu Shuang had to lead the army to retreat, fortunately, after our army had cavalry, the number of cavalry of the Song army was small, and they did not dare to chase after it. Our army is retreating towards Zigui, but the Song army is pressing forward step by step! ”

Zhao Junsheng's brows furrowed, it rained heavily? Natural factors, non-human can resist!

"Someone, Minister Xuan and the general are here to discuss matters!"

Soon, the ministers and generals who received the edict came one after another.

Zhao Junsheng explained the situation again and asked: "This is the situation, how do you think I should deal with it?" ”

Minister Gao Yuan stood up and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, in view of the current situation, the minister suggested ordering Lu Shuang to lead his troops to retreat directly to Yong'an, where the terrain is dangerous, and there are dangerous passes, and only a small number of troops can resist the attack of the Song army!" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister does not agree, our army has always only attacked, not defended, once we retreat to Yong'an, our army's morale will be discharged!" Minister Wu Datong stood up and said loudly.

Zhao Junsheng asked Dongfang Chen: "What do you think of the national teacher?" ”

Dongfang Chen thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, although in this season, the rain will not fall for too long, but many of the soldiers have eaten moldy military rations and got sick, and it will take time for them to recover their combat strength and morale, and the Song army is obviously impossible to give them time, so it is the most feasible way to retreat to Yong'an now!" ”

Zhao Junsheng looked at Li Song: "Li Qing, what do you think?" ”

Li Song thought about it and stood up and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, what the national teacher said is not unreasonable, in the current situation, we can only retreat to Yong'an, otherwise even if our army has more troops than the Song army, I am afraid that most of the soldiers will not be able to win because they are sick, and may even be defeated!" But there is a problem with this, once the retreat to Yong'an and the Song army blocks the outside of the pass, it will not be easy for our army to go out of the east of the pass! ”

Dongfang Chen said: "Don't forget, Duke Li, Your Majesty has ordered Sima Chuzhi and Liang Yi to gather troops to coerce Xiangyang and Huainan, if the northern border of the Southern Dynasty is in crisis, will Jiankang order the reinforcements to withdraw to reinforce the north?" ”

Dongfang Chen's words still sound very reasonable, but Zhao Junsheng thought about it carefully, unless the northern defense line of the Southern Dynasty was broken by Sima Chuzhi and Liang Yi, how could the Southern Dynasty easily transfer back the 50,000 horses that reinforced Sichuan and Shu? They are willing to give up Sichuan and Shu to others, and once these 50,000 reinforcements are transferred back, what will Yiling do?

Zhao Junsheng thought about it again, if Lu Shuang did not withdraw to Yong'an at this time, with the current situation of Lu Shuang's army, he was only afraid that there would be a chance that he would be defeated, after all, most of the 50,000 army had food poisoning, this situation was not suitable for fighting at all, and the battle would be lost! If you don't retreat, you will face the danger of total annihilation.

After some weighing and consideration, Zhao Junsheng ordered: "Send an edict to Lu Shuang as quickly as possible, let him retreat to Yong'an, especially to guard the waterway, and not let a ship from the Southern Dynasty enter Sichuan and Shu!" In addition, some military doctors from us will be sent over to support Lu Shuang's army! ”

"No!"

Zhao Junsheng looked at Su Ji again and said; "Su Ji, I will give you ten more days at most, and the city must be broken within ten days!"

Su Ji stood up and clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said, "The minister obeys the order!" ”

Four days have passed since the last siege ended dismally, and two days have passed since Zhao Junsheng's deadline for Su Ji, and he only has eight days left.

In the past two days, there has been no movement on Su Ji's side, and Zhao Junsheng and the ministers are waiting for him.

That night, Zhao Junsheng was reviewing the important chapters, and a royal guard walked in to report: "Your Majesty, General Su asks to see you!" ”

"Announce him in!" After Zhao Junsheng finished speaking, he put down his pen, closed the concerto, and watched Su Ji walk in.

Su Ji stood still in front of the imperial case, clenched his fists and bowed: "Your Majesty, the minister has formulated a new siege city, and I have come to report to Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand: "Let's talk about it!" ”

"No!" Su Ji agreed, and immediately revealed his thoughts and dishes.

Zhao Junsheng listened quietly and thought about it carefully, although there are some problems with this plan, these are not big problems and can be improved.

He nodded and said, "Okay, I agree with your siege strategy, you can do it!" ”

The next day, the cadres recruited a large number of displaced people, who began to work with baskets and hoes.

The observation post on the city wall immediately reported after discovering it, just because the location of the displaced people was still far away from the city wall, they could not see it only from standing on the city wall, only the observation post on the sentry tower could see it, Chen Xian and Ye Tongzhang immediately climbed the sentry tower to observe after hearing the report.

A few miles away in the northeast, a large number of displaced people were sweating like rain, Ye Tongzhang was puzzled: "After a large number of siege equipment of the Qianjun army was burned last time, they have not attacked the city these days, why are they looking for so many people today?" ”

Chen Xian shook his head: "I can't see it clearly!" ”

But soon, these displaced people told them with practical actions that soon, a large number of displaced people came quickly in the direction of the city wall with baskets.

"What's in their basket?"

Chen Xian thought of something, "It should be soil!" ”

It was dirt indeed, and the homeless people came with a load of dirt in their hands, and they poured it out not far from the city wall, and then walked back with empty baskets, one after the other.

Seeing this, Chen Xian and Ye Tongzhang both showed solemn expressions on their faces.

The general next to him was puzzled: "What are they going to do?" ”

Chen Xian replied to him: "Heap the earth to build a high platform, the enemy can stand on the high platform of the mound and shoot arrows at our army at any time, and even set up trebuchets and bed crossbows on it!" Previously, we burned down their well fences, but now they have switched to this method, and our fire attack method will not work! ”

Huang Jian was puzzled: "Can the well fence be burned and rebuilt, why should they do more?" ”

Ye Tongzhang shook his head and said, "Reconstruction? You put it simply, although they have craftsmen, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice! The manufacture of siege equipment, especially the well fence, trebuchet and other large siege equipment can not use the fresh wood that has just been cut, it is necessary to use aged dry wood, the wood must be tough, the wood with moisture is too heavy, it is also inconvenient to move, it is not easy to operate, it contains too much water and it is not easy to build, those wood used to make siege equipment are specially prepared, if you want to use fresh wood, you can only make simple instruments such as siege ladders, but it is not easy to find suitable trees! ”

Huang Jian was a little anxious: "Then we can't let them pile up dirt like this to deal with us, right?" Two generals, the last general will take some people out of the city to disperse them all! ”

Chen Xian pointed to the southeast direction: "Look over there, if you take people out of the city, I'm afraid that there will be no return!" ”

Huang will take a look, only to see that there seem to be a lot of cavalry hidden in the southeast direction, if you really lead the troops out of the city, those cavalry will suddenly kill, and they will be scattered and crushed before they have time to enter the city.

Ye Tongzhang also said: "There is no way, we can only stare dryly!" But don't worry too much, after all, they are only using mounds of earth to raise the platform, they can't move, they can't send troops up the city wall at close range, they can only carry out long-range suppression, for this long-range suppression, we still let the soldiers carry wooden planks, which can not only resist arrows but also collect borrowed arrows! ”

At this time, Chen Xian said: "We can't let the cadres drive the people to do things under our noses unscrupulously, Lao Huang, go and ask someone to prepare a few stone carts on the city wall, collect some small stones and stones for launching, throw them a few times first, scare and scare those people, we must try to delay the time for them to build a mound of earth, the longer you hold on, the greater the chance of getting reinforcements!" ”

Huang Yuan hugged his fists and promised: "Okay! ”

Half an hour later, four stone trucks were assembled on the city wall, and under Chen Xian's order, the soldiers operated the stone trucks to shoot stones at the displaced people who were transporting earth outside the city.

Dense small stones and small stones were thrown down from the city wall, and three rounds were fired in succession, killing and injuring more than a dozen people, and the other people were so frightened that they threw away their baskets and ran, and the people who were picking up soil did not dare to come forward.

A group of cadres and cavalry rushed over and drove the people to continue to carry the soil with spears and knives, and the people knelt on the ground one by one and wept, refusing to carry the basket and continue to advance.

The soldiers below reported the situation to Su Ji, and Su Ji gritted his teeth and said: "This Chen Xian is ruthless enough, even the people under his own rule are ruthless!" Okay, you're ruthless and more ruthless than you! Come people, gather troops to forcibly drive the displaced people to continue to pick up the mound of soil and high platforms, if there is a prevarication and pretend to be sick and refuse, do not give them food, if they still refuse, they will be killed, Lao Tzu wants to see who can consume whom! ”

The general clenched his fists and agreed: "No! ”

A large number of soldiers and horses drove over, all with glittering troops and bows and arrows in their hands, and the people were very afraid.

A cadre military captain carried a spear and said viciously: "From now on, continue to pick up the mound of soil and raise the platform, if anyone does not go, there will be no food!" ”

In fact, the homeless people are not afraid of death, if they die, they will be a hundred, but if they have no food, the taste of hunger is not pleasant, they would rather die than go hungry.

Seeing this, the defenders continued to shoot stones and stones, killing and injuring many people, but the people were not afraid of death, afraid that the cadres would not give them food, and Chen Xian's idea of threatening the displaced people with a stone cart could not succeed.