Yuan Yao was completely unprepared for such a reality.

"How could this happen? How did Lu Mian do it before?"

"Drop the houses and demolish the houses that the big households in the city do not need to live in, so as to obtain wood and stone."

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

The city is surrounded on all sides and cannot leave the city to pick wood. There is insufficient wood in the city, so what should we use to make fuel?

Yuan Yao couldn't think of it.

He didn't understand the distribution of food, the distribution of clothes to protect the cold, and the rotation of the defending troops. The fear and panic immediately defeated Yuan Yao.

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

"Your Highness the Crown Prince has never done these things, so it is inevitable that there will be omissions. However, since Your Highness wants to share your worries, you have to learn to do these things. Your Majesty handed over such responsibilities to Your Highness, which is the absolute trust of Your Highness."

Yang Hong comforted Yuan Yao with kind words, and at least rescued Yuan Yao from the feeling of being on the verge of collapse.

In this way, the city defense is nominally responsible, but in fact it becomes Yang Hong. Yuan Yao is just a rubber stamp.

The news that Lu Mian was dismissed from his post for committing rebellion was not kept secret at all, so the people in Shouchun City soon learned about this matter, and Guo Peng also knew about this matter very quickly.

He was surprised at how quickly Yuan Shu took action, and also at how unlucky Lu Mian was.

Destroying the Great Wall and destroying its own martial arts, Yuan Shu's operation is comparable to Zhao Gou's twelve gold medals recalling Yue Fei.

However, Zhao Gou had his own little thoughts. The Southern Song Dynasty court was not only Yue Fei who could fight, but Yuan Shu was only one Shouchun City, and only one Lu Mian had the commander of his commander, and he had to kill Lu Mian...

How to say it?

It's really worthy of being Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu obviously did not consider the issue of city defense at all. He was just more worried that he would be sold by Lu Mian, so Lu Mian was defeated by internal and external cooperation. I heard that the one who was replaced was Yuan Shu's son Yuan Yao, a young man who had never fought a war.

Under the title of Prince Chen Empire, he commanded the army to defend the city. He looked fierce, but in fact he was just a fool, worse than his father.

Yuan Shu at least led his troops to win battles. Although he was at the level of being pecking at each other, he would not make any mistakes on basic issues, so it is hard to say that this young master is.

According to the information, the person in charge is Yang Hong, the Huainan Yin of Yuan Shu. He has some organizational skills, but he is not very familiar with military affairs. He basically discussed it with Ji Ling and Qiao Rui.

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

Yang Hong and these two people combined could not find the feeling Lu Mian had before. Guo Peng quickly felt this in siege.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Guo Peng used 40,000 troops to attack the city, breaking through the situation where he could not climb the city wall to fight. Some soldiers rushed up the city wall and killed the defenders on the city, and actually made a situation. If it weren't for the one-eyed dragon Ji Ling who came over to fight back to the death later, the city wall would have been taken down.

When the sun sets, Guo Peng ordered the army to stop siegeing the city, return to the barracks to treat the wounded soldiers, clean up the bodies of the soldiers who died in battle, and then summarize the experience and lessons.

"Lu Mian was taken down by Yuan Shu for the crime of treason. Now without Lu Mian's coordination, the intensity of the entire Shouchun city defense has dropped significantly, and many connections have problems. These problems did not exist when Lu Mian was still there, so we have difficulty walking."

Guo Jia followed Guo Peng to observe the battlefield situation at close range, came to a conclusion, and said, "If Lu Mian is taken down, Shouchun City Defense can no longer easily stop us, so we need to increase the intensity of the siege next."

Xi Zhongzhe understood this matter from another perspective.

"Lu Mian has made great contributions to Yuan Gonglu and has been responsible for the city defense before, but was suddenly taken down. Rumors about Lu Mian's rebellion also suddenly spread, which is enough to prove that some people in Shouchun City no longer want to accompany Yuan Gonglu to die."

What Xi Zhong observed is very important.

"Yes, there are probably many people with strange intentions in the city. As long as we are strong enough and show strong enough power to make people with strange intentions in the city take action and help us disrupt the city's defense, it will be easier for us to conquer the city, right?"

Guo Jia said excitedly.

Guo Peng nodded.

"Just do this, we can't capture the tall and deep Shouchun walls, but someone will take the initiative to open the Shouchun gate for us, and Shouchun City is within easy reach!"

Guo Peng ordered that from the next day, that is, the seventh day of the first lunar month, attacks will take turns to fight day and night.

The catapults continued to bombard the city walls, and the blood spilled on the top of the city, causing Shouchun City to be shaky.

Yuan Yao was even more at a loss. He was either going forward or retreat in a safe place. Yang Hong had no time to take care of Yuan Yao, and ran around to coordinate the planning and arrangements, and tried his best to support Ji Ling and Qiao Rui so that they could defend the city.

However, a serious problem is right in front of you. The raw materials for defending the city equipment are almost exhausted. If you don’t make new ones, they will soon be unable to stop Guo Peng’s advance and can only let the soldiers fight Guo Peng’s soldiers on the top of the city to defend the city.

Everyone saw the combat effectiveness of Guo Peng's army. One person rushed up and fought desperately, and almost took away three or five Chen soldiers. The ring-headed sword was swung well, and the lethality of several people gathered together increased exponentially, so they had to be killed with a crossbow.

It was so difficult to stop only a small number of people rushing to the city, let alone a large number of people rushing up together. If there were no long-range defensive 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 routines, demolish the house and obtain wood and stone for emergency response. Yuan Yao was shocked and felt that this would cause problems.

"If I continue to do this, the public will be resentful. How can this battle continue? Lu Mian offended so many people, so no one will help him this time. If I do this, will my father be very angry and then punish me?"

Faced with Yuan Yao’s problem, Yang Hong sighed deeply.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, if there is no Shouchun City, we will all die without a place to bury it. Even if someone wants to slander Your Highness the Crown Prince, we must be kept in the situation where Shouchun City can be saved, right? Now Shouchun City is in danger. If there is no stone and wood, what should we do if the city is broken?"

Yuan Yao was speechless and fell into deep entanglement. Finally, under Yang Hong's urging, he had to agree.

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

When the wealthy families in the city saw that although Lu Mian had fallen, the one who succeeded him would still do this. They were immediately very annoyed and realized that as long as anyone who was willing to help Chen Empire, no matter who was replaced, they would continue to do this, and would continue to exploit them and protect Shouchun from death.

As long as the Chen Empire continues to exist, their interests will not be protected, and they will naturally be difficult to achieve a good end. They may one day be over.

Under the threat of life, these people became more and more impatient and irritable. Some even proposed to summon private soldiers from the army to rebel and open the Shouchun city gate to welcome Guo Peng's army into the interior.

Several old men rejected this lack of consideration.

"Yang Hong is still there, Qiao Rui and Ji Ling are still there, and the combat effectiveness of the defenders on the city is still there. We rely on our private soldiers. Unless we can kill these three people in one fell swoop, they will not be successful."
Chapter completed!