This lone army has been stationed at Erdao Shabao Village for thirteen days.
After stealing food last time, the Yan army launched several fierce attacks in anger, but Gu Sinian and the others stubbornly blocked them all. More bodies appeared on the sand dunes outside the fort.
The No. 100 battalion soldiers plus Yan Hu's ten brothers, a total of 110 people are stationed in the fort. So far, forty-eight people have been killed, six seriously injured, and more than half of them have been killed.
Some of those who died were killed on the spot during the battle, and some were seriously injured and died of illness lying on the second floor.
Most of the remaining people were injured, with rags tied around their bodies.
Although Gu Sinian and the others stole some of the food back, even if dozens of people were frugal, their food had bottomed out by last night, and everyone was back to being hungry again.
It is impossible for them to steal food again. The guards of the Yan army have become much tighter since last time. There are people patrolling back and forth every night. The archers and crossbowmen keep an eye on the walls around the fort. It is the job of the Yan army to go out at this time. target.
The so-called reinforcements never appeared.
Of course, everyone no longer expected reinforcements, nor did they think about breaking out after holding on for fifteen days, because they couldn't break out.
They are waiting for the moment when they die in battle.
Dozens of men were sitting behind the wall, motionless, trying to conserve their strength as much as possible. There were various weapons such as spears, scimitars, and crossbows beside them. The Yan army outside was at most one mile away from them. .
However, the Yan army could not attack them. Even the siege and the palm-sized fort had already cost them an extremely heavy price.
The dazzling sunlight shone on everyone's heads, making their heads dizzy, their lips chapped, and they were reluctant to drink from the few water sources.
"GuluGulu~"
"Oh, I'm hungry~"
The blacksmith rubbed his belly and sighed:
"Damn, I'm really hungry!"
"Take a bite~"
Gu Sinian fumbled around and took out a large piece of cake and handed it to the blacksmith.
Now there is only a little food left, all of which is kept by Gu Sinian. Everyone can only eat a little at each meal, and they are all on the verge of starving to death.
Seeing the flatbread blacksmith's eyes lit up, he opened his mouth to fill his stomach, but his mouth suddenly stopped. After hesitating for a moment, he carefully broke off a small piece and handed the rest to Zeng Lingchuan beside him. .
Zeng Lingchuan followed suit and only tore off a small piece. The big cake was passed slowly on the city wall, from your hand to his, everyone only broke off a little bit in a sensible manner.
This cake looked dirty from everyone's hands, but in their eyes it was more precious than gold, and they were reluctant to waste any dough.
"Oh, it's just enough to fill the gap between your teeth."
After eating the cake, the blacksmith licked his lips. The honest man just wanted to have a full meal.
Gu Sinian suddenly said:
"Hey, everyone calls you Blacksmith. What's your name?"
"yes."
Lin Yihuai echoed:
"Seeing that our brothers are going to die here, we can't live without knowing your name, right?"
If Gu Sinian hadn't reminded everyone, they would have almost forgotten it, and the blacksmith has never said his real name.
"Haha, my surname is Meng."
The blacksmith's mouth cracked:
"My name is Meng Li. It's not that I didn't tell you and no one asked!"
"Meng Li? What a good name, it sounds domineering."
Lin Yihuai muttered:
"If you don't work in a good blacksmith shop, why go to the front line and become a soldier?"
"It's bad, I can't do it anymore. There's no business, and I can't even support myself."
The blacksmith said nonchalantly:
"Come to the front line to earn a living. It's best to save some money to go home and marry a wife in the future."
"Hahaha~"
"Did you hear that, brother blacksmith still wants to go home and get a wife, so we have to go to the wedding banquet in the future!"
"Hahaha!"
Everyone laughed when they heard that the blacksmith wanted to go home and get a wife. We are all singles, who doesn't want to get a wife?
"Don't just talk about me, what about you?"
The blacksmith turned to look at Lin Yihuai and said:
"Why did you get into the business of selling illegal salt? This is a serious crime of losing your head."
"My family is poor and can't survive anymore."
Lin Yihuai curled his lips:
"Who would be willing to do this business if they weren't desperate, hanging their heads in their belts all day long just to earn two coppers."
A few people were chatting with each other. Gu Sinian looked at Yan Hu, who was lying opposite, and pursed his lips:
"What about you, why did you go to the battlefield at such a young age?"
The entire right half of Yan Hu's body was wrapped in gauze, his face was miserable, and his breathing was weak.
In the past few days, the Yan army made two fierce attacks. Yan Hu was the most vicious in both attacks, but he was also injured the most. He was stabbed twice on the right chest and almost died.
If he doesn't get treatment, he will definitely die.
"I am an orphan."
Yan Hu's eyes were filled with sadness, and he supported his injured body and said:
"I'm just like you, a native of Langzhou. When I was eight years old, Beiyan's cavalry entered the country, and all my family members died at the hands of the Yan soldiers. From then on, I became an orphan, begging all day long for a living.
Over the years, whenever I close my eyes, I can think of the scene of my parents being killed.
Those swallow thieves deserve to die! "
Everyone was silent. No wonder Yan Hu regarded Yan Jun as his life and death enemy.
"Two years ago, I found the front line and joined the army. Fortunately, I met Captain Chu, who took me under his command after hearing about my life experience.
I haven't done anything else in the past two years. I just focused on training soldiers and killing thieves. "
Yan Hu started to giggle as he spoke:
"I'm not bragging to you. I can't count the number of Yan soldiers who died in my hands with both hands."
Everyone believed this. In the past ten days alone, Yan Hu had killed four or five people. If he had not had military exploits, he would not have been able to become the commander-in-chief under Chu Beizhan so quickly.
"well done."
Zeng Lingchuan silently gave a thumbs up:
"Unlike me and Lao Wu, who would be embarrassed to say it, we are still two deserters~"
"deserter?"
Yan Hu was stunned.
He had seen Zeng Lingchuan and Wu Xiang struggling to kill thieves in the past two days. He was not the kind of person who was afraid of death.
Zeng Lingchuan murmured:
“You are all from Langzhou, and we were formerly affiliated with the Yunzhou Guard.
The group of people from the same village who joined the army, a total of seventeen people, all wanted to join the army to earn military pay and support their families.
But after fighting for a few battles, I realized that the Yan soldiers were difficult to deal with, and whether they could go back alive was still a question. In the last fierce battle, seventeen people from the same village died cleanly, and only Lao Wuming and I survived.
At that time, the two of us thought that when the reward money for killing the thieves came down, we would help our brothers send them home. If we lost our lives, we had to have some money to give to our families, right? "
"and after?"
Everyone is curious as to why he became a deserter.
Wu Xiang took over the words with a cold face and said:
"Later, that bastard captain took the reward money and monthly payment from his brothers for killing enemies. My brothers were so angry that they beat him up late one night, robbed the money and ran away.
After giving the money to our families in the same hometown, we went out and wandered, not daring to go back to our hometown again for fear of causing trouble to them.
Slowly we arrived at Fengchuan County in Langzhou. If we hadn't met Mr. Gu, we would still be beggars and we would have died of hunger long ago. "
Everyone suddenly realized that this was where the so-called deserters came from.
"asshole!"
Yan Hu yelled:
“It’s just these bastards, these blood-sucking bastards, that make the soldiers on the border feel chilly!
Otherwise, how can a mere Yan thief bully our Daliang border troops! "
Yan Hu's eyes were red, and he hated evil as much as he hated corrupt officials.
He has been in the army for a long time and knows what the army is like. There are countless captains like Zeng Lingchuan and others on the front line, and they can be seen everywhere.
Gu Sinian suddenly asked softly:
"Since the military discipline of the frontier army is so bad, why are you still willing to serve on the front line?
Aren't you afraid that one day your credit will be taken away by others? "
"I'm not afraid, Captain Chu is not this kind of person!"
Yan Hu nodded firmly, then looked far away and said:
"Captain Chu said that we, Great Liang, built our country with force. The current silence is only temporary. One day we will completely defeat the Yan thieves!
Besides, people always need to guard the border, and I don’t want to see other people die tragically like my parents at the hands of the Yan soldiers.
Want to fight! We must let Yan Bing know that we, Liang Jun, are not easy to bully! "
Although he is not very old, every word Yan Hu speaks is sonorous, powerful and extremely firm.
"Swish swish!"
"careful!"
At this moment, there was a burst of wind outside the village wall, and everyone subconsciously lay down on the ground. Sure enough, a wave of arrows shot up against the wind.
However, everyone has long been accustomed to this kind of scene. The Yan army will fire more than a dozen waves of such cold arrows from morning to night, and the infantry will not attack. It has only one purpose, and that is to kill Gu Sinian and the others.
"Is everything okay?"
"It's okay, everything's okay!"
Although everyone was fine, the military flag with the word "Liang" on the archery tower was shot down and lay crooked against the wall.
Yan Hu staggered to his feet, walked into the archery tower alone, and stroked the military flag.
The flag was broken and stained with blood, and the word "cool" was mostly covered in blood.
I saw Yan Hu trembling with his hands, planting the military flag again, raising his head and roaring:
"Don't retreat!"
"Thief Yan, our border troops will never retreat until we die!"
The sound of shouting slowly floated across the yellow sand land and reached everyone's ears.
The lone soldiers who were half sitting on the ground raised their heads one by one and looked at the flag fluttering in the wind. Their eyes flickered as they listened to the unyielding voice in their ears.
Gu Sinian also struggled to stand up, holding in his breath and roared:
"Don't retreat!"
"The border troops will not retreat!"
"Don't retreat!"
Zeng Lingchuan and others roared one after another:
"Don't retreat!"
"Brother Dong, we will avenge you!"
"Thieves Yan! Let's fight!"
"Don't retreat!"
The sound echoed through the sky without retreating. At this moment, everyone seemed to have something different in their eyes.
…
At this moment, a sturdy middle-aged figure stood in the Yan Army camp and looked at the fort.
Just from the armor on this man's body and the respectful eyes of the surrounding Yan troops, we can tell that this man must be a big shot.
Without retreating, the sound also reached his ears.
"Have you checked it out?"
The middle-aged general asked expressionlessly:
"Who is guarding the fortress and how many people are there?"
A Yan Jun behind him tremblingly replied:
“Go back, go back to the general.
I only know that they are soldiers from Changziying. I don't know how many there are specifically and who leads the army. "
"waste!"
The general angrily said:
“After fighting for so long, I don’t even know who my opponent is!
If this general hadn't come here personally, I wouldn't have known you were so useless.
Nearly a thousand people, for more than ten days, cannot take down a fortress larger than a palm!
They are all idiots! "
Those who were scolded did not dare to raise their heads and could only keep bowing and apologizing.
After scolding him, the middle-aged general said coldly:
"Don't attack anymore in these two days. Choose fifty good players. They will be useful!"
