Before dawn, Yang Wanchun had already gotten up from the bed, and then put on his clothes and came to the study to deal with official business, it had been ten days since the last time he repelled the attack of the Tang army, but there had been no movement in the Tang army's camp, although this gave him plenty of time to rest, but he was also worried about whether the Tang army was brewing some conspiracy, after all, the Tang army would not give up after just one setback.

Ten days ago, in the tragic siege battle, although Yang Wanchun led the army to repel the attack of the Tang army, but the city of Anshi also suffered huge casualties, especially the moment when the city gate was blown up, the morale in the city almost collapsed, fortunately Yang Wanchun was very prestigious in the city, and he personally went into battle at the critical moment, which encouraged the morale of the soldiers, otherwise maybe now they have become prisoners of the Tang army.

"Although the attack of the Tang army was repulsed, the losses in the city were too great, the number of dead in the battle alone reached more than 3,000, and the wounded were more than 5,000, and now the weather is hot, many of the wounded are inflamed and swollen, and I am afraid that only two or three out of ten will survive in the end!" Yang Wanchun whispered to himself again at this time, and his face was also full of sorrow when he spoke.

There were originally only 30,000 defenders in the city of Anshi, and later received some of the defeated soldiers who fled back when Gao Yanshou was defeated, barely reaching 40,000 defenders, but this battle reduced the defenders in the city to 30,000 again, and most of the casualties were the most elite soldiers in the city, which made Yang Wanchun feel distressed and a little afraid, if the Tang army really didn't count the casualties and came back a few more times like this, I am afraid that in the end he would not even be able to find a defender of the city.

However, compared to the casualties, the most headache for Yang Wanchun is the consumption of materials in the city, last time he deliberately used a trick, so that the Tang army thought that the fire oil in the city was exhausted, and as a result, at the last moment, the Tang army's siege vehicle was burned with fire oil, and almost trapped thousands of Tang troops who attacked the city, but unfortunately the Tang army later blew up the city gate, making the Tang army on the city wall rush to the gap and escape.

Although he cheated on the fire oil last time, but in fact, when he finally burned the siege car of the Tang army, it was already the last bit of fire oil in the city, and now there is no fire oil in the city, not even lamp oil and edible oil, and there are not many rolling wood stones used to defend the city, he has begun to demolish the houses in the city and transport the bricks and stones to the city, but before the Tang army blew up the city gate, he also had to use a large number of masonry to plug the gap, so that there are fewer bricks and stones that can be used at the head of the city.

"Father, breakfast is ready, you can eat something first!" At this moment, I suddenly saw Yang Wanchun's son Yang Pet push open the door of the study, and then put the breakfast on the tray on the table and said, breakfast is very simple, nothing more than a bowl of porridge plus one meat and one vegetarian two dishes.

"Darling, how about the loss of grain and grass in the city?" Yang Wanchun just picked up the bowl, but suddenly remembered something, so he opened his mouth and asked Yang Pet, when the Tang army attacked the city before, it used a lot of fire oil bombs and gunpowder bombs, which caused a fire in the city, not only burned some houses, but also burned some granaries, and he didn't care about statistics before, so he handed it over to Yang Pet to be responsible for this matter.

"Father, rest assured, the grain and grass were scattered and stored all over the city before, even if one was destroyed, the loss was not big, according to my previous statistics, the food in the city is still very sufficient, at least for us to eat for two or three months." Yang Pet immediately replied again that he was Yang Wanchun's eldest son and the son-in-law who would take over the position of city lord in the future, so now he also began to help his father deal with some affairs in the city.

"The Tang army will not retreat so easily, so we must also be prepared to be stationed for a long time, and as for the assistance from Pyongyang, we can't have too much hope, so it's better to save a little food." When he said this, he saw Yang Wanchun pause for a moment and then said, "From today onwards, except for the soldiers guarding the city, the food of the others will be reduced to eighty percent, and my food quota will be directly reduced by half, and one vegetarian dish for breakfast will be enough in the future!" ”

"Father, you don't have to!" Yang Pet heard that his father had reduced his food quota first, and he couldn't help but be very concerned at the moment, Yang Wanchun, as the city lord, handled extremely complicated affairs every day, and if he didn't eat well, he was really worried that his father's body would not be able to support it.

"Since I am the lord of the city, I naturally have to lead by example, otherwise why should I serve the people?" Yang Wanchun said with a serious face at this time, he didn't ask his son to do the same as himself, but at least he had to understand this truth.

Hearing his father say this, Yang Pet didn't dare to say anything, nodded at the moment, and then waited for his father to finish eating, and then served it himself, but Yang Wanchun put down the official business in his hand at this time, and then walked out of the city lord's mansion and walked in the direction of the city wall, which is also his habit, no matter whether the Tang army moves or not, he has to go to the city wall every morning to observe the situation outside the city.

Anshi City has been fully managed, the people in the city have handed over their food, and they go to a fixed place to receive food every day, when Yang Wanchun walks on the street, you can also see the people who receive food everywhere, but these people not only did not complain, but when they met him, the city lord, they all showed respectful expressions, and saluted him one after another, and he also nodded slightly.

Speaking of Yang Wanchun's family has been serving as the city lord in Anshi for generations, and when it was passed to his generation, it was already the third generation, and their Yang family has always been known for loving the people like sons.

In addition, the Yang family is fair and will never oppress the people, so the prestige of Yang Wanchun's family in Anshi City is also extremely high, even if the army outside the city is pressing, most of the people believe that their city lord can lead them to defeat the Tang army.

The city lord's mansion is located in the center of the city, and the surrounding area is very normal at first, but as Yang Wanchun gets closer and closer to the city wall, the houses on both sides of the road begin to be a little abnormal, and there are even burn marks in some places, which are left by the Tang army when they attacked before, especially the fire oil bombs and gunpowder bombs thrown in by trebuchets, which blew up a lot of houses near the city wall, so Yang Wanchun had to move the people to the city center as much as possible, and after the remaining houses were demolished, the bricks and stones were moved to the city head.

After crossing the blank belt of the demolished houses, Yang Wanchun finally came to the city wall, and then climbed to the top of the city to look into the distance, today's weather is very hot, the sun above the head is like fire, and the people in the sun are panicked, but the more severe the weather, the more happy Yang Wanchun is, because this kind of weather is really not suitable for attacking the city, after all, the Tang army is wearing such heavy armor, I am afraid that it may suffer from heat stroke without running a few steps.

The Tang army camp was too far away, I saw Yang Wanchun take out a silk bag from his arms at this time, and then carefully pulled out a pair of binoculars from it, every day when he saw this pair of telescopes, he couldn't help but sigh at the strength of the Tang Dynasty, like this kind of telescope can only be made by the Tang people, and it is said that everyone in the opposing army has it, and in his Anshi City, only he, the city lord, has one, and this one was given to him when King Rongliu was alive.

At that moment, Yang Wanchun put the telescope in front of his eyes, and carefully looked in the direction of the Tang Army, and found that the Tang Army did not seem to have changed much, although it was not very real with the telescope, but he could vaguely see that everything was normal in the Tang Army camp, and it seemed that he had not recovered from the last defeat.

"Huh?" However, at this moment, Yang Wanchun suddenly found that there was something abnormal, not in the Tang army camp, but in the east side of the Tang army camp, where there was a Tang army doing something, but it was too far away to see clearly, but the number of people on the other side was very large, it seemed that there were tens of thousands of people, and so many people gathered in the east of the camp were very busy, which made Yang Wanchun feel a sinking in his heart.

"Has there been any abnormality in the Tang Army in the past two days?" Yang Wanchun observed for a while, and finally put down the binoculars and asked the guard next to him, as the city lord, although he came to the city every day, it was impossible to stay here for twelve hours after all, so he usually told the guard general to always pay attention to the movements of the Tang army on the opposite side, so as not to miss anything.

"There is no abnormality, it's just that the Tang Army came to collect the corpse under the banner a few days ago, because the number of people is very small, so we didn't care." The guard immediately replied that after each battle, if the two sides were evenly matched, they would send a team to collect the corpses and bring back the corpses of their own side, mainly for fear that the corpses would decompose and cause a plague, and the teams that collected the corpses were generally not large in number, and there would be no conflict with each other, which was also a common rule on the battlefield.

"Other than that, is there any other movement in the Tang Army?" Yang Wanchun frowned when he heard this, and then asked again, the Tang army sent an army of tens of thousands of people out of the camp, and what was it doing on the east side of the camp, there must be something strange about it, and ten days have passed, the Tang army should also recover, according to his estimate, soon the Tang army will attack Anshi City for the second time.

"This ......" the guard general couldn't help but show a thoughtful expression when he heard Yang Wanchun's question, and after a while, he suddenly said, "I remember, two days ago, in the afternoon, there were a few people dressed as generals of the Tang Army, who circled the city wall twice in the distance, and finally stayed in the southeast corner of the city for a while, and then returned to the camp. ”

Yang Wanchun was also stunned when he heard the report of the guard, as the city lord of Anshi, he naturally knew the situation of the entire city, and when he heard the words "southeast corner", he was also like being struck by lightning, and immediately guessed what the Tang army was going to do!