"What Your Majesty said is very true, and the ministers keep it in mind!" Yang Lie replied with his fists clenched.

In fact, Chen Xian, the defender in the city, really took advantage of the heavy rain to lead his troops out of the city to raid the cadres and agreed, but he finally gave up this idea.

He carefully considered this matter, and there were several reasons why he gave up this idea, first of all, the cadres had been guarding the city of Chengdu, and the guard posts and ranger posts on the periphery of the camp of the cadres were not lazy even if it rained heavily, and he also sent people out of the city to reconnoiter last night, but the people sent out did not come back, and there is no doubt that the people sent were caught or had met with accidents.

Secondly, the cadres promised that there was still a distance of more than ten miles from the city wall, and at this time the heavy rain did not stop, if the army went out of the city to sneak attack, it would lose its combat effectiveness because of the rain just by passing through these ten miles of road, because the rain would take away the heat of the human body, and if it was drenched for more than ten miles, the soldiers would have been shivering from the cold, where would they still have the strength to fight?

Thirdly, the siege of the co-consort army in the past few days is very fierce, and the defending soldiers are very tired from frequent battles because of the small number of rotations.

Therefore, because of the above reasons, Chen Xian gave up his plan to go out of the city and attack the camp in the rain.

The tower of the east gate had already been smashed to pieces by the dry army trebuchet on the first day, and the female wall of the city wall was also smashed to pieces, and the city wall was full of potholes and ruins.

Later, the Qianjun army fired fire oil bombs with trebuchets, and all the enemy towers on the city gate tower and the city wall were burned to the ground, leaving only the bare and broken walls, and there was no place on the entire east city wall that could shelter from the wind and rain.

But there could be no one left on the city wall, so Chen Xian had to order people to set up some tents on the city wall, use bamboo poles as supports, and press them with stones, so that the observation post could barely stay on the city wall.

Some of the defenders hid in the caves under the inner side of the city wall, these soldiers were elite soldiers, if the enemy attacked, they had to run up the city wall to defend the enemy at the first time, while most of the other defenders would rest in the barracks and houses near the city wall to take shelter from the rain.

This heavy rain gave the defenders a chance to breathe, so that they could recover their physical strength and spirit well, but it brought many inconveniences to the cadres, which made the morale of the co-contenders who had finally gathered fall back, of course, this is only one of the aspects.

In addition, the heavy rain delayed the time for the cadres to obtain news, making it impossible for some important information to be delivered to Zhao Junsheng in time.

Last but not least, the heavy rain has made the logistics and transportation teams of the cadres face even more difficult problems, and for at least two days, the logistics and baggage teams of the cadres and troops who are transporting their baggage to this place will not be able to set off.

The rain rained for a day and night and did not stop until the early hours of the next morning.

On this morning, Zhao Junsheng went up and saw the sun rising, but the camp was still a thin mud, and many low-lying places outside the camp were puddles, and this situation still made it impossible to attack the city.

Not to mention the rest, the siege equipment could not be moved, the soldiers stepped on it with one foot and it was a foot of mud, and after a few steps, their shoes were covered with mud, and it was difficult to walk, how to attack the city?

As a result, the cadres and the army, including the assistant army, could only stay in the camp for the day, and when it was time to finish eating in the evening, the road surface was dried out with some water.

That night, Zhao Junsheng found Su Ji after dinner and said: "According to the current humidity of the ground, you should be able to go out and walk around tomorrow morning, and there should be no problem with moving siege equipment, and the soldiers have also rested for two days, and their spirit has recovered a lot, is there any problem on your side?" ”

Su Ji clenched his fists and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, there is no problem on the minister's side, the minister has planned and deployed the next siege plan in the past two days, and strives to go down to Chengdu in a battle!" ”

"Okay, I'll go watch the battle!"

On the morning of the next day, the cadres were not in a hurry to attack the city, the ground was still wet at dawn, and it was difficult for the siege equipment to move, and the soldiers had some difficulty pushing it.

After the morning exercise and breakfast, the sun rose, the temperature rose rapidly, and the ground was completely dried up after being baked by the sun for an hour or so.

Su Ji gave an order, and the soldiers and generals who had already been ready to go set off from the camp to Chengdu City, and the more than ten miles of road were completed in most of the hour, and the soldiers still seemed relatively relaxed, these two days were not in vain, and their physical strength had recovered to their peak state, and they were full of energy.

On the wall of the East City Gate, the lookout observation post saw a black spot in the distance, which was crowded, and immediately shouted: "The enemy is coming!" ”

A companion next to him quickly picked up a mallet and struck it on the gong: "Dangdangdang······"

The sirens sounded, and all the defenders were nervous, and rushed to their defensive posts with knives and guns.

Chen Xian ran up from under the city wall to observe, and shouted, "Everyone is in place, ready to meet the enemy!" Auxiliaries boil water, carry arrows, stones, wood, and oil cans, hurry up! ”

"Add up the trebuchets for Lao Tzu, wind all the bed crossbows, and distribute the arrows to every archer!"

As Chen Xian's orders were issued, the defenders began to get busy nervously.

The cadres outside the city are slowly coming, Zhao Junsheng is still sitting on the imperial chariot with a large group of men and horses to the east gate this time, just like a few days ago, his dragoon is flying high in the sky, which makes the defenders and generals see it at a glance.

Lin Jinghui rode a fast horse to chase after him, slowed down and hugged his fists next to Zhao Junsheng's imperial chariot and reported: "Your Majesty, I just received the news that the reinforcements of the Southern Dynasties arrived in Baling and joined the fleet of the naval division and went to Yiling by boat.

Zhao Junsheng frowned when he heard this, although Yiling is a county, but the Southern Song Dynasty should not have a lot of troops deployed in Yiling, Lu Shuang has 10,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry, these infantry are all elite, why hasn't the news of Yiling been captured yet?

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, and said to Lin Jinghui: "Send someone to remind Lu Shuang that you must pay attention to the ships of the Song Army's sailors, and don't let the ships of the Song Army's Sailors run behind and drop troops to copy his back road!" ”

"No!"

Dongfang Chen, who was riding a horse next to him, arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the minister suggested that an order be issued to Sima Chuzhi and Liang Yi, ordering them to gather troops to march to Xiangyang and Huainan, cause military pressure on the eastern border defense line, and then look at the reaction of the Song court!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, agreed to Dongfang Chen's suggestion, and sent someone to convey his will to Sima Chuzhi and Liang Yi.

However, if Sima Chuzhi and Liang Yi both move, if the Song State cannot be restrained, or if the Song State monarchs and ministers are hot, the Qianguo and the Song State will have the possibility of a full-scale war, but this is not something that Zhao Junsheng should be concerned about.

Su Ji had already gone to the north gate to command the battle, and the command on the east gate side was personally commanded by Zhao Junsheng.

The army was arrayed outside the East City Gate, and Zhao Junsheng ordered the siege camp to set up trebuchets, prepare bed crossbows and well railings, and ordered the siege troops to prepare for the attack.

The side outside the East City Gate has been prepared, but there is no news from the North Gate, and Zhao Junsheng's side can only start the siege when Su Ji, who is commanding the battle outside the North City Gate, is ready.

Zhao Junsheng looked at the opposite city wall, although the city wall had been smashed by trebuchets, the banner of the defenders was still standing.

"National teacher, do you think the guard general Chen Xian will be fooled?"

Dongfang Chen said: "This minister can't say it well, it depends on whether we can do enough tricks, but even if we do well, it will inevitably leave flaws, if Chen Xian is shrewd enough, he will definitely find clues!" ”

"Yes, this Chen Xian is not an ordinary general!"

The two of them talked for a while, and a knight galloped over on horseback and reported: "Your Majesty, General Su's side is ready!" ”

Hearing this, Zhao Junsheng got up and walked to the front of the Imperial Rim Platform and waved his hand: "Let the siege camp and the siege soldiers get ready, and launch an attack on time in a moment!" ”

"No!"

Stone bullets were placed in the net pockets of the trebuchets, and crossbow arrows were placed in the launch slots on the bed crossbows, and the soldiers of the cloud echelon were ready, and the soldiers were ready and morale.

When the time came, Kang Yide next to him came over and reminded Zhao Junsheng, "Your Majesty, the time has come!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded to the herald, "Begin!" ”

The herald shouted: "Your Majesty has a decree, start the siege!" ”

The herald stood on a high place and waved the flag, and the siege camp immediately received the order.

As the commander drew his sword and pointed forward, a trebuchet fired the stone projectiles from the net pocket.

The stone bullet made a terrifying sound whirring in the sky, and a frightened scream came from the city tower, under Chen Xian's order, the defenders ran down the city wall to avoid the stone bullets, which was also no way, the stone bullets of the cadres exploded as soon as they landed, the gravel flew wildly, the lethality was too great, the defenders could only go down the city wall to dodge, and wait for the trebuchet of the cadres to finish smashing and then go up the city wall.

Chen Xian did not go down the city wall, he still stood on the city tower.

A large number of stone bullets fell on the city wall and its surroundings, and a loud shaking sound was constantly heard in my ears.

"Something is wrong, the number of stone bullets fired by the cadres today is much less!"

Chen Xian's words made Ye Tongzhang stunned, and he observed, "Indeed, you see that the other party has a lot fewer trebuchets, but it has rained in the past two days, and it is normal for the cadres to not make enough stone bullets!" ”

Chen Xian nodded, although this point was a little suspicious, it didn't mean anything, but he suddenly found an abnormal place, "Look, is the number of infantry in the cadre army less than half?" To be precise, the number of their co-followers is more than half! ”

Ye Tongzhang's eyes swept away, "Hey, that's really the case!" The uniforms and armor of the co-consignees are the same as ours, but in order to distinguish them from the enemy, they wear red scarves on their arms, and the uniforms and armor of those cadres and infantry are different from those of the co-contenders! ”

Chen Xian said in a deep voice: "There is a problem, there is definitely a problem!" ”

Ye Tongzhang suddenly thought of something, and he said with a shocked face: "They can't have already changed the direction of the initiative, right?" Is this just a feint to attract our main forces? ”

Chen Xian quickly thought about it, and immediately decided: "I guess their lord's direction should be at the north gate, General Ye, leave it to you here, and I will take someone to reinforce the north gate!" ”

"Okay, be careful!"