The snow stopped, but the wind continued, and the north wind continued to roar.
Tu Yuanshu rode his horse and ran all the way north. The cold wind blew everyone's heads, their teeth chattered, but no one said a word.
After a while, after riding for several miles, Ji Jike saw a faint light in front of him. Ji Jike asked everyone to rein in their horses and move slowly. He asked, "Could it be the Tatars?" Ji Jike shook his head and said, "One of our own."
"Then why do you have to slow down?" Su Jing looked confused, Tu Yuan couldn't help it: "There is a ditch not far ahead. If you don't rein in your horse at this time, are you going to rush over and fall to death!" Su Jing didn't know about defense matters, if he said it nicely Nothing happened, but when I heard Tu Yuan's irritable tone, I couldn't hold back my anger: "I just want you to come out to look for someone, and you are so angry. If you don't accept it, let's kill him first!
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"I'm afraid you won't succeed." Tu Yuan clicked and pulled out the knife: "I'll make it clear before I kill you. I'm not so angry because I want to go out to look for someone. Your Excellency has been as kind as a mountain to me..."
"How could there be so much nonsense?" Su Jing drew her sword.
"Shut up!" Ji Jike shouted: "If you have the ability to go into Jinzhou City to kill Dorgon, how can you show your ability by killing each other here! At this time, the whereabouts of the adults are unknown, and you still have other thoughts. This molar!"
Tu Yuan and Sujing were silent for a moment. They each snorted coldly before changing their weapons and sheathing them. Ji Jike was usually a amiable person and rarely got angry with his subordinates, let alone among his colleagues. In addition to his superb martial arts skills, he was extremely dignified in the army and among his colleagues. At this time, a scolding would make him as angry as Tu Yuanhe. Su Jing Er
People also have to give him face. The firelight near the trench actually came from the ground. To be precise, this was an underground nest built by the Ming army with local materials near the trench. It was a shelter for the Ming army patrol team. They lay on grass inside and were kept warm by oil lamps. place
The nest can accommodate three to five people, and the larger one can accommodate more than ten people. It is used for warning and patrolling the trench boundaries, and at the same time, it can also lead the way for friendly troops.
Most of these nests face south, so friendly troops coming from the south can vaguely see the light of fire, but it is difficult for enemy troops coming from the north to detect them.
Hearing the sound of horse hooves, six or seven Ming soldiers carrying knives quickly emerged from several nearby dens. Before they could ask, Tu Yuan shouted: "Lead the way." The trench is about ten feet wide. If it's a sunny day, you can jump on your horse. But on this dark night, the snow is deep. No one can stop you if you want to jump. But you can be sure that if you jump, a dog will eat shit, or even break an arm or a leg. In serious cases, the people and horses will have a banquet together
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Therefore, for the sake of safety and for the soldiers and horses to pass quickly, a mobile wooden bridge was laid over the trench. In fact, the felled wood was tied together, and the soldiers and horses were evacuated after they passed. The patrolman on duty recognized Tu Yuan and others, and quickly shouted to build the wooden bridge. Everyone quickly crossed the whip and rushed. Within a few miles, they saw fire looming in the distance. For a moment, they didn't know whether it was an enemy or a friend. Several people were strangled. When Ma was discussing,
Seeing the fire slowly approaching, Ji Jike still wanted to think carefully about what to do just in case. Tu Yuan couldn't hold himself back: "You are waiting in the dark, let's go take a look first." After saying that, he patted the horse and rushed over.
Ji Jike was worried that he was in danger, so he quickly chased after him, leaving the remaining people to wait here. However, Su Jing, Wang Fuchen and others, who were really willing to wait here, rushed over.
Ji Jike originally wanted to stop a few people, but then he thought about it, that's all, even if it is the enemy, as long as it is not a large force with the courage of a few of his own people, he can at least escape unscathed.
The fire was getting closer and closer, no more than twenty meters away. Tu Yuan opened his mouth to shout, but suddenly thought of something, and shouted: "Kang Ren, Kuang Ren..." Ji Jike understood in his mind, and shouted: "Wang Zhengnan, Wang Zhengnan …”
I don't know whether it was because of the wind or the distance, but there was no response from the other side. Tu Yuan and the others were alert, and drew their swords out of their sheaths to greet them, shouting a few words from time to time.
"Who is calling me?" Just when the two groups of men and horses were about to collide with each other more than ten meters apart, they finally heard a familiar voice, it was Kuang Ren!
Tu Yuan and others were overjoyed and asked quickly: "Is your Excellency okay?"
"Hey, Old Tu!" Kuang Ren clapped his horse and rushed over, then pointed behind him: "Behind..." Before he could finish his words, Tu Yuan rode over and shouted: "My lord, my lord..."
"I'm not dead yet, you call me a soul." Chang Yu Leng's teeth chattered, but he was still happy to see Tu Yuan and the others. "Hey, sir, it's great that you're not dead..." Tu Yuan came over and grinned. Seeing Chang Yu shivering coldly, he was about to say a few greetings when he saw Li Muchian took off his cloak and put it on Chang Yu. I can't help but roll my eyes, what a bitch
He always finds the right time to be courteous...
"Why are you here?" Chang Yu noticed Su Jing at this time. Under the firelight, he saw that her cheeks were flushed by the wind.
"Let's see if you're dead or not," Su Jing said calmly.
Chang Yu laughed: "I almost froze to death."
Tu Yuan let out a laugh: "She just saw you didn't return to the city. She thought you had an accident and almost drew her sword and chopped me down!"
Chang Yu yelled: "I came to see you with you, but she forced me to come here with my sword drawn!"
"How is it possible?" Tu Yuan shouted: "Humble job..."
"Okay, okay, go back quickly, I'm freezing to death." Chang Yu waved his hands, sighed and looked back, his eyes helpless and a little sad, because there were several wounded soldiers under his hands who had frozen to death!
On this icy and windy day, even a living person who had not moved for a long time would be frozen into an ice sculpture. The poor wounded soldiers could not ride horses, so they had to be carried on horses, and unknowingly they froze to death on the way!
Even though he was used to seeing life and death, he was still a soldier under his command, so Chang Yu still felt quite uncomfortable. When Chang Yu came back, it was the busiest time in the fort. The soldiers who had participated in the battle in Xingshan Fort were enjoying hero-like treatment. Although there was no big fish or meat, they had enough hot mutton soup. In such a cold weather, Down, no
What could be more comfortable than this. After all, in this bitterly cold place, not everyone can drink mutton soup, let alone anytime and anywhere! What's more important is that this thing keeps out the cold. You have to know that in this windy and snowy day, they rushed back and forth, and after returning to the castle, they
Everyone was freezing and shaking.
The soldiers were drinking fragrant and scalding mutton soup in the barracks while chatting enthusiastically about the fighting at Xingshan Fort. They were frothing while talking and listened attentively, but some of them looked lonely, such as the wounded soldiers.
Ordinary wounded soldiers are fine. As long as their lives are not in danger, recuperation is equivalent to a vacation. They don't have to participate in the war and there are subsidies. But the fate of the other kind of wounded soldiers is really worrying!
That's a frostbitten soldier!
Frostbite has been one of the reasons for military attrition since ancient times. Even if the cold protection conditions are perfect in later generations, soldiers still cannot avoid frostbite in actual military operations.
Especially in this era.
During the Little Ice Age, it was easily tens or tens of degrees below zero, but the cold protection conditions... all depended on bare buttocks! Once you get frostbite, it is almost equivalent to a death sentence. You must know that even in modern times, frostbite often requires amputation. However, with the medical level of that era, amputation... Even if you are lucky enough to survive, as a soldier, amputation is equivalent to being disabled. Even the livelihood is gone.
