The aftermath work on the top of the city continued. Wu Anxiang and Jiang Liangping were sitting together, looking at the disappearing orange sunset. The two did not speak for a while.
Wu Anxiang should have started the conversation. Anyway, when Jiang Liangping reacted, it was Wu Anxiang who was speaking.
"Today, we lost 231 soldiers. Of course, there are many injured, but the injured have been properly arranged. Many people can survive, but those who died in the battle will not survive.
Among the 220 soldiers who died in the battle, I know exactly who they are. Their bodies can be identified and they have been cremated. Their ashes will be placed in jars and handed over to them after the war. Their families will receive generous pensions.
However, what makes me a little sad is that the remaining eleven people know who they are and have found most of the bodies, but they don’t know which body belongs to which person..."
When Wu Anxiang said this, he couldn't hold it back. He laughed a few times and turned to look at Jiang Liangping.
"Lianghei, tell me, if we burn their bodies by mistake and the jar contains someone else's ashes, then they will be unhappy when the family burns paper money to them during festivals, right?"
Jiang Liangping pursed his lips and revealed a smile.
"No, they are all good soldiers of the Liberation Army. They will not be unhappy. Even if they get there, they will stick together. If they have money, they will spend it together. If they have food, they will eat together.
If we still have to fight when we get there, and we still have to fight with those ghostly superior people, then those who have done the most good deeds will be given extra meals. They will not forget our rules. "
When Wu Anxiang heard what Jiang Liangping said, he felt inexplicably relieved.
"Yes, our soldiers, even when they get there, they will stick together and not be bullied. If one person has money to spend, he will never let the other person starve and freeze... Besides, ashes Mixed with ashes, they are as close as one family, inseparable..."
Wu Anxiang sniffed and was silent for a while before speaking again: "This battle has been going on for more than ten days, right?"
"Well, today is the eleventh day."
"How long do you think we can hold on?"
"This... I have to ask them."
Jiang Liangping looked in a certain direction. Wu Anxiang turned his head and followed Jiang Liangping's line of sight.
It was a fighting team that gathered at the top of the city to share a large piece of meat. The leader of the team was using his dagger to cut off a thick piece of meat from a large piece of barbecue, and then handed the piece of meat to a A young looking warrior.
The young soldier took the piece of meat and couldn't wait to bite it. As a result, he was lightly patted on the head by the squad leader.
"Stupid! You can't eat it like this! There is no soul in eating meat like this! Look at me!"
The squad leader, who didn't look much older than the young soldier, cut the pancake in his hand in half from the middle, then cut off a piece of meat and stuffed it between the two pieces of pancake, pinched it, and took a bite. The look of satisfaction on his face.
"Do you understand? This is called eating with a soul! Meat is a good thing, so when you eat meat, you must know how to eat it! You can't eat it randomly! Learn how to eat it, and don't ruin this piece of meat!"
The team members suddenly understood one by one, and followed the example of the team leader, cutting the dough in their hands, and then putting the meat in. They opened their big mouths and bit off a large piece in one bite, their cheeks bulging. Like a stupid hamster collecting food for the winter.
The young soldier asked the squad leader while chewing heavily.
"Boss, what do you mean by what you just said? What has a soul but not a soul? Why don't I understand?"
The soldiers looked at the squad leader together.
The class leader chewed the food in his mouth and swallowed it, then spoke slowly.
"Don't you understand? This is what Su Shuai told me. I was still a recruit at the time. Once when we were eating meat in a group, Su Shuai sat next to me. When he saw the way I was eating meat, Su Shuai said that this was not the case. The way to eat the soul is to say that I don’t know how to eat meat.
Not to mention, before I joined the army, I had never eaten meat many times, and I couldn’t even remember the taste of meat. So I asked Su Shuai what was the soulful way to eat meat, and Su Shuai cut one with his own hands. Put a piece of meat into the pancake, hand it to me, let me eat, that's it. "
The squad leader took another bite of the dough sandwiched with meat in his hand, and said with a smile: "Actually, I don't understand what it means to have a soul but not to have a soul, but since Su Shuai eats meat like this, then I will eat like this too. , that’s right.”
The soldiers nodded one after another, feeling that the squad leader was right.
Then one of the soldiers discovered a flower spot.
"Boss, let's put it this way, have you ever eaten the noodles with meat made by Su Shuai himself?"
"Hey hey hey, did you just notice it?"
The squad leader suddenly laughed and said with a stern face: "It's the flour cakes and meat stuffed with meat that Su Shuai personally made for me. Let me tell you, there are only a few hundred or two hundred thousand people in the army who are treated like this." !I am one of them!”
A group of young soldiers surrounded the squad leader, all of whom could not help but look envious.
The fatigue left after this battle could not be seen on their faces. What could be seen was their high spirits.
Seeing this, Wu Anxiang was thoughtful, and then looked at Jiang Liangping, who was looking at them with a smile on his lips.
"you mean?"
"They are looking for more interesting ways to eat meat. Thinking like this means that they are much tougher than we think. Instead of worrying about whether they can persist, it is better to worry about whether we can persist. If we I can’t hold on anymore, and I can’t hold on if I rely on them alone.”
Jiang Liangping patted his cheeks with both hands: "Okay, let's go eat something. There will be a fierce battle tomorrow. We must persist until we can completely defeat those bastards."
Wu Anxiang took a deep breath.
"Yes, there will be more fierce battles. No matter what, we have to survive until Alang leads his troops to counterattack!"
Wu Anxiang clenched his fists and followed Jiang Liangping down the city wall.
In the next three days, Wan Yanliang mobilized 100,000 soldiers to launch five sieges. Each time, they were so powerful and menacing that they seemed to swallow up the entire Hejian City.
However, under the resolute resistance of the Liberation Army, the Jin Army did not take advantage of it. They were either blown into pieces by the Thor Cannon, or were boiled with gold sauce and howled like ghosts.
The flying guns kept spitting fire, the bows and crossbows kept firing arrows, and the boulders and big arrows kept firing. Everyone inside and outside the city was furious.
After all, Hejian City was not captured by the Jin army in one go. Instead, it became more tenacious and tenacious, keeping the Jin army at bay.
The golden soldiers could not advance even an inch.
Wanyan Ben was helpless, so he used more classic and effective traditional tactics, such as digging tunnels and building earthen walls outside the city.
However, the tunnel tactics were ineffective and were soon exposed by the Liberation Army who used listening urns. The soldiers in the entire tunnel were choked to death by the thick smoke, and the tunnel tactics failed.
The earth wall tactic is similar.
The Jin army tried to build an earthen wall outside the city, using the same height and a greater number of crossbowmen than the Liberation Army to suppress the Liberation Army's crossbowmen at the top of the city and coordinate the siege troops below the city, but the Liberation Army used rockets to blow up the earthen wall. It was full of potholes and pits, and the earthen walls could not be raised at all.
The increased power of the firearm was very lethal to the earth wall, which Jin Jun did not expect.
Wanyan Ben saw that he had exhausted all means and failed to gain the upper hand in the offensive and defensive battle. Facing the desperate resistance of the Liberation Army, the Jin Army could not advance even an inch.
At the same time, the Jin Army's Wanyan Yiying's troops were also blocked by the tightly defended Zhending City, and Heshi Lieliangbi's troops were also blocked by Boye City. The fierce battle between the two armies and the two cities was equally fierce.
