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Soon after the siege of the city by the Tiger Army, Song Zhaonian handed over the burden of guarding Xiuzhou City to Chen Yu.

After Chen Yu officially took over this important task, he immediately took full responsibility for the deployment of Xiuzhou City's defense.

Chen Yu knew how heavy the responsibility he shouldered, and he didn't dare to slack off in the slightest.

After careful weighing, Chen Yu adopted the hundred-step method of dividing the troops, that is, dividing the outer city wall into four defense areas, east, west, south and north, each defense area sent more than 1,000 people as frontal combat troops, and was also equipped with auxiliary teams such as armor, militia, and box army.

For each of the four defense regions, Chen Yu arranged for a Xiuzhou official and a military general to serve as the supreme commander of the defense area, and each arranged for an official from the Huainan Shipping Department under him to supervise them.

The various gates were the focus of the defense.

Chen Yu all sent officials from the Ministry of Dispatch to serve as the person in charge, and "divided the land and guarded" according to the size of his position.

At the same time, Chen Yu ordered the military and civilians of the whole city to take active action and make full preparations for war in an all-round way, repairing the building and turrets, hanging felt curtains, installing artillery mounts, setting up crossbow beds, transporting bricks and stones, applying torches, weeping wood, preparing fire oil, and all the equipment needed for defense.

In addition, Chen Yu also quickly recruited a group of brave soldiers, divided them into five battalions, each with 2,500 people, and established an organizational system of commanders, generals, and team generals, and conducted military training every day to improve military quality and combat effectiveness.

Chen Yu also specially arranged for the front camp to be stationed around the granary to ensure that there would be no accidents with the three million stone grain.

The rear camp was stationed at the West City Gate to control the shallower Hao River here, so that the ant thief cavalry did not dare to approach the city wall.

The left, right, and center armies were all stationed in the city as strategic reserves, in case of emergency.

Xiuzhou City is not a particularly large city, but as the main city of Xiuzhou, it is also a military powerhouse.

The city is composed of two parts, the outer city and the inner city, and the fortifications are mainly distributed in the outer city.

The outer city wall is equipped with a horse face every sixty or seventy steps, and the horse face protrudes beyond the city wall, which can be cross-fired to protect the wall from enemy damage.

There are warehouses about every 200 meters, which contain a variety of weapons and munitions.

A round or square urn city was set up at each city gate to strengthen the protection of the city gate entrance.

There was a war tent on top of the urn city for the defenders to defend and rest.

In order to strengthen the city's defenses, a moat was dug around the outer city, and elm and willow trees were planted on both sides of the river, which also constituted a certain obstacle for the siege ant thieves.

All in all, Xiuzhou City is a city with particularly complete defense facilities, and the defense system arranged by Chen Yu has no loopholes, plus there is enough food and grass in the city, so that Sun He and Qi Fang tried their best to break the defense of Xiuzhou City.

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After confirming that there was no problem, Yao Xing sent a capital of Ma Jun to return the same way and report to Li Cun.

At noon, the former army led the front army to Xiuzhou City, and then went to his camp under the guidance of the people sent by Sun He.

Immediately afterwards, another large army marched to the city of Xiuzhou, and then entered their respective camps and stationed......

Xiuzhou officials, soldiers and civilians, who had always been confident that Xiuzhou City could hold on to the ground, couldn't help but be worried when they saw one army after another marching here!

Song Zhaonian looked at Chen Yu: "Humber, the ant thieves have gathered hundreds of thousands of people to besiege the city, I am afraid that our city will be won."

This is a matter of the lice on the bald man's head, and Song Zhaonian even asked, it must be because he hoped that Chen Yu could say something different, so that he could feel at ease.

Chen Yu understood Song Zhaonian's psychology and said confidently: "My city is not a big city like Bianliang City, Hangzhou City, and Jinling City, even if there are millions of ant thieves, they will only send 120,000 people to attack the city at most, how is it different from when Sun thieves and Qi thieves attack the city?"

Really!

As soon as Chen Yu spoke, the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City immediately regained a lot of confidence.

Chen Yu also said: "The day before yesterday, General Wang sent people out of the city to catch those ant thieves to confess, and now the old species and the small species have defeated the ant thieves and gathered a large army in western Zhejiang, and Liu Dutong has led a large army across the river to capture Jinling City, and the general trend is in my Great Song Dynasty."

After a pause, Chen Yu continued: "The ant thieves poured out of their nests, and those who are afraid of it have three million stone grains in our city, so if we keep this grain, we will make great achievements, and we will be promoted to become rich in the near future."

Chen Yu's words made the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City even more uplifted.

Chen Yu continued to boost morale: "If the whole of my city works together to defend it again, it will take as little as three or five days, or as many as ten days, and the imperial court reinforcements will come!"

This time, everyone couldn't help but think that after holding on for so long, they were finally about to see the light of day, and then they were full of morale!

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On the evening of July 22.

Li Cun personally led the Chinese army composed of pro-guard troops to Xiuzhou City, and then went to the camp in Bailingang to station.

July 23, July 24.

The rest of the army arrived at Xiuzhou City one after another, including grain and grass.

July 25th.

Li Cun sent Sun He to take people to Xiuzhou City to shout:

"Chen Fayun, most of my family governors have something to say to you."

When Chen Yu heard this, he said in his heart: "It turned out to be Li Thief's own person, no wonder there are many ant thieves in the land." ….

And Chen Yu said, "Say it."

Sun He said: "Most of my family overseers, when heaven and earth are together, heroes are not free, the tide of history is never irreversible, but loyalty is always a choice, I Li Cun admires you Chen Hengbo as a person, so I am willing to make a gentleman's covenant with your city."

Chen Yu really didn't expect that Li Cun could say such words, with literary brilliance, connotation, wisdom, and a thorough understanding of the world and the general trend.

Chen Yu couldn't help but think, "If it weren't for creation to make people, this person would be the pillar of the country."

Because of these words, Li Cun won Chen Yu's respect.

So Chen Yu was a little polite: "I want to hear it in detail."

Sun He said: "Most of my family governors said, today the two Zhejiang first encountered the harsh government, the disaster of flowers and stones, and the disaster of war, millions of people were displaced, there was hunger on the road, hunger and cold, easy to eat, cooked right and wrong and let go, their own descendants commented, but the three million stone grain in your city, not food, is actually the lives of millions of disaster victims, Mencius said, the people are precious, the community is secondary, the king is light, for the millions of disaster victims in the two Zhejiang, I Li Cun is willing to give you Xiuzhou a glimmer of life."

Chen Yu didn't answer, he wanted to see what kind of conspiracy Li Cun could come up with.

Seeing that Chen Yu didn't mean to speak, Sun He continued: "From now on, within three days, if I, Li Cun, can't capture Xiuzhou City, I will withdraw my troops immediately, and I will never come to attack Xiuzhou City......

After listening to Sun He's relay of Li Cun's words, from Song Zhaonian onwards, the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City were all happy.

Except for Chen Yu.

Chen Yu didn't believe that Li Cun would easily give up Xiuzhou City, no, to be precise, it should be that he would easily give up the three million stone grains in Xiuzhou City.

You must know that this is no longer food, but the key to the victory or defeat of Zhao Song and the Tiger Ben army.

Just imagine, once the three million stone grain is obtained by the Song army on the western front or the Song army on the northern front, it will definitely be a tiger for the Song army who came to quell the rebellion.

First of all, not to mention its important practical significance, it can only greatly improve the morale of the Song army, which is enough for Li Cun not to give up the three million stone grain easily.

Of course, the most important thing is that as long as they get these three million stone of food, the Song army of the counterinsurgency will not have to fight those unnecessary battles to consume their strength because of the lack of food, and then the counterinsurgency war will be much easier to fight.

But in this case, Li Cun even proposed such a bet, so there is only one reasonable explanation - Li Cun is sure of winning!

Chen Yu absolutely didn't believe that Li Cun, who had made such a big move in a few months and could say that "loyalty is always a choice", would be an arrogant person.

I only heard Sun He continue: "If I Li Li conquers Xiuzhou City within three days, from Chen Yu and Song Zhaonian down, I will not be responsible for the past, but there is one rule, no one is allowed to touch the three million grains of my victims, if anyone dares to move......

Speaking of this, Sun He recalled Li Cun's domineering attitude when he said the following sentence, and then tried his best to imitate: "I slaughtered the city! Xiuzhou up and down the chickens and dogs are not left!"

Although Sun He didn't learn anything like that, the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou still saw a domineering figure through Sun He, and they were so overwhelmed by what the domineering figure said that they didn't even dare to breathe. ….

Only Chen Yu is more and more sure, Li Cun must have the certainty of conquering Xiuzhou City within three days.

So the question is, knowing that Li Cun will win, do you still want to accept Li Cun's gambling contract?

In other words, knowing that Li Cun would win, should he still give Li Cun the three million stone grain to relieve the lives of those disaster victims?

From Zhao Song's point of view.

The best place to go for these three million stone grain is definitely to hand it over to the Song army, followed by burning, and the worst thing is to ask Li Cun to get these three million stone grain.

But Li Cun said very clearly, the people are the most important, Sheji and the emperor must be at the back, and he took the three million stone grain for disaster relief.

This is the great righteousness.

According to the teachings of the sages, this should be above the Sheji and the Emperor.

Chen Yu secretly exclaimed, "This person is so powerful, he actually caught my weakness!"

At this time, Song Zhaonian said excitedly: "I gambled with him, my city is united, and I can't hold it for three days?"

Wang Ziwu immediately chimed in, "Yes! Bet with him, and we will fight to the death, and the ant thief will never return!"

With Song Zhaonian and Wang Ziwu taking the lead, the others were all shouting passionately to gamble with Li Cun, speaking more and more upright than the other, and behaving more than one in the same way as if they were at home.

When Chen Yu saw it, he wanted to laugh!

Chen Yu didn't want to laugh at Song Zhaonian, Wang Ziwu and their hypocrisy, obviously because after gambling, if they win, they are the heroes of Zhao Song, and if they lose, they will not be punished by the Tiger Ben Army, and Li Cun also thoughtfully helped them think of the reasons, they did not do this for themselves but for the victims of the two Zhejiang regions, Mencius said, the people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light, and even when they lose, they can also use the gambling to save the food, so as not to slaughter the city by Li Cun.

Chen Yu was actually laughing at himself, and he was still thinking about whether to fall for the impeccable conspiracy of others.

Chen Yu dared to vouch for his own head, even if he had the heart to burn the food in the city when the city was broken, he would definitely be stopped by everyone in the city.

Because it's not food anymore, it's the lives of all the people in the city!

Can he, Chen Yu, still be able to fight against the lives of the people in the city on his own?

Even, Li Cun also found an excuse for him to convince him very intimately, so that he could not get a lake.

Terrible!

Terrible!

It's amazing!

Chen Yu put away the smile in his heart, and then looked in the direction of Bai Lingang: "Then let me see, how do you defeat me?!"

"Good! I bet!"

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I'm working overtime, begging for a monthly pass to cheer me on, let me continue to liver!

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Let the birds fly