Even though his heart was desolate, even though the situation in the Chen Empire had collapsed to the point of no return, Yuan Shu still couldn't say anything discouraged.

He has the last insistence, and he must have the last insistence.

"Although Guo Thief has an army of 100,000, the grain they need will be very huge, and the weather is cold, can Guo Thief continue to hold on? Can Guo Thief still hold on until he gets warmer? The logistics of 100,000 people will inevitably drag down the Guo thieves, and our army only needs to hold on for three months, and it will definitely win! ”

Yuan Shu raised his glass: "The current situation is critical, but there are three generals Lu, Ji, and Qiao to guard Shouchun for the lonely town, and the capital of the Son of Heaven.

Gentlemen, when the situation is critical, you can see who the people who are really useful to the world are, what they have done, Lone believes that the three generals and all the kings will be the most useful talents in my Chen Kingdom, everything Lone wants, you can do it! Come! Fill this cup! ”

When Guo Peng led the army outside the city to celebrate the New Year, Yuan Shu also raised his wine glass and expressed his expectations to the "loyal ministers and good generals" who had different thoughts.

And expect them to respond to their expectations.

Is this possible?

Perhaps......

Of course, this is bound to be a luxury.

The Chen Empire, which was founded less than half a year after the founding of the People's Republic of China, ushered in the last moment, and at the last moment, these former loyal ministers and righteous men began their own plans, although there are many people who are willing to die for Yuan Shu, but compared with those who are unwilling to die, they must be a minority.

Yuan Shu hopes that everyone can die for themselves, maybe it's just a beautiful fantasy.

Shou Chuncheng can't stop Guo Peng's pace, nor can he stop the arrival of a new era.

On the first day of the first month of the third year of Xingping, the soldiers and soldiers of Guo who had celebrated all night were allowed to rest, and many of them covered their heads and slept soundly, recuperating their spirits.

On the second day of the first month of the third year of Xingping, the soldiers of Guo, who had rested for a few days and were full of food and drink, began to attack the city again.

This time, they were more ferocious, more morale-high, and in every sense of the word, they were as fierce and decisive as they were reloaded, and their attacks were extremely sharp.

On the other hand, the weak and weak defenders of the Chen army, the soldiers of the Chen army only received the treatment of eating hot food on Chinese New Year's Eve, compared to the previous gnawing on raw and cold dry food, on Chinese New Year's Eve, at least they could eat hot and warm their bodies.

That is, for a while, the same can't eat, the same starvation, the same weakness.

But he still had to do his best to use the city's defense equipment to fight against the fierce siege troops.

Fortunately, the walls of Shouchun are tall and deep, for them, this is the only advantage, and without this advantage, they will be defeated in an instant, and the Chen Empire will be shattered in an instant.

A wall is the biggest and last reliance.

Lu Mian did his best to maintain the defense of the city wall, and for this reason, almost all the materials that could be used in the city were used to defend the city, and the private troops were confiscated, and the gates of each house were used to resist arrows.

Not only that, but the house had to be demolished.

Including the ordinary Li Shu family, even the redundant houses of the wealthy families had to be demolished, as long as they were not used for sleeping and living in the house, they had to be demolished in an emergency, and then all the stones and timbers obtained had to be transported to the city wall to be used as weapons to defend the city.

All in all, relying on the power in his hands and Yuan Shu's trust, Lu Mian used the entire Shouchun City as a weapon to defend the city.

Everything in the city, except for the Imperial Palace, is usable.

In order to set an example, he was the first to tear down his own house, leaving only three for sleeping, and the rest were all demolished, leaving nothing at all, and the stones and timber were transported to the city walls to defend the city.

After Yuan Shu learned about it, he praised Lu Mian and rewarded Lu Mian with countless gold and silver, and Lu Mian asked Yuan Shu to reward the soldiers with the money to boost morale.

Yuan Shu did not object this time and did so, so the soldiers got a little encouragement and some morale.

Lu Mian made Yuan Shu happy and boosted the morale of the soldiers, but he did not take those officials and big families whose houses were demolished and suffered great losses seriously, and treated them the same as Li Shu, desperately demanding them and showing no mercy.

Li Shu was used to it and didn't know how to resist, so he could only accept Lu Mian's behavior numbly.

But the other Haoqiang and scholars were originally exploiters, but now they have suddenly become exploited, and they hate Lu Mian so much, and they hate Yuan Shu even more.

A city raises a soil emperor, and they have to be exploited so cruelly by him, how can they, the original exploiters, stand it?

So this group of people who didn't want to support Yuan Shu had a different heart, and they hoped that Guo Peng would come in soon all day to liberate them.

However, Lu Mian's dispatch of troops was appropriate, and Guo Peng's siege progress was not fast enough to satisfy these "fathers and villagers" who were eager to eat pot pulp to welcome the king's master, and they gradually had new ideas under their anxiety.

Lu Mian is the Optimus Prime in Shouchun City, and he is the biggest and most important supporter of Yuan Shu, as long as there is no Lu Mian, can Shouchun City still hold on?

So under the secret contact call of some well-intentioned people, a group of well-intentioned people got together and began secret negotiations.

There were officials of the pseudo-Chen Empire, as well as ordinary wealthy and powerful families, and scholars, who put aside their past grievances and gathered together for a common goal.

"Why don't we do it simply, and directly send someone to assassinate Lu Mian, how about it?"

Everyone worked together and expressed their opinions, and in the end, someone made such a suggestion.

A group of well-intentioned people, you look at me, I look at you, and no one has expressed a position on this.

Then the most "respectable" white-headed old men inside looked at each other, were silent for a while, and the first one slowly shook his head.

"Not to mention anything else, Lu Mian himself is a military general, the assassination is extremely difficult, the success is good, once it fails, Lu Mian will be angry, Yuan Highway will also be angry, they will inevitably claim the whole city, right now, we have no strength to protect ourselves, once they find out, we will all die and have no place to be buried, it's not proper, it's not proper."

Everyone thought that the old man was reasonable, so the assassination plan was rejected.

"So what to do? Do you just sit back and wait? What else will Lu Mian's husband do, I don't know who is waiting, he wants our private soldiers, our money, our house, maybe it will be our lives next! ”

The middle-aged man who proposed the assassination plan looked sullen.

The old man still shook his head.

"Even so, you can't kill it all at once, unless you can guarantee success, otherwise the assassination is sending you to death, and you have to pay attention to ways and means to do things, otherwise what's the difference between us and Yuan Highway? And don't say anything else, right now, we are all Chen's obedient people, Han Zhi's rebellion, if we don't do something to clear the stigma, Guo Zifeng will not let us go. ”

This was to the point, everyone nodded again and again, feeling that the old man was right, and wanted to ask about the specific way to clear the charge, the old man pondered for a moment and looked at the surrounding officials of Yuan Shuchao.

"You should make the most of your position."

The old man narrowed his eyes: "Yuan Highway handed over the power to Lu Mian, is he really relieved?" The more dangerous the moment, the more suspicious and worried, this is human nature, Yuan Highway now relies on Lu Mian to defend the city, if Lu Mian has a different heart and wants to open the city gate, Yuan Highway is not dead and has no place to be buried? ”

The old man laughed gloomily as he spoke.

A group of officials, you look at me, I look at you, and they all seem to understand what the old man means.

So they smiled together, and they understood what the old man meant.

Lu Mian has become Yuan Shu's Optimus Prime, but does Yuan Shu really trust Lu Mian? Not suspicious at all?

That's not for sure.