For a whole day and night, the offensive of the black warriors did not stop, and the attack in the middle of the night can make people feel the tragedy of the war, and the enemy who emerged from the darkness suddenly appeared in front of people like wild ghosts, with green faces and fangs.

Ning Jun's rockets were shooting outside the city all the time, and every time the rocket fell, it could illuminate the hideous faces around it.

It seems that it is no longer a human being, but a group of beasts, or a beast that people don't know, a kind of monster that comes out of the ground, Shen Leng stood on the city wall all night and didn't go down, he looked at the figures of those black warriors who were distorted by the firelight, and the illusion was that it was a kind of thing running wildly on all fours, roaring with a bloody mouth, and blood was still dripping out of his mouth.

Dai Fangzhou also didn't sleep all night, so the emperor must have stayed awake all night, because every time Dai Fangzhou ran up the city wall to see if Shen Leng was okay, it must have been ordered by the emperor.

In the small courtyard, the lights and candles in the house were always on, the emperor sat on the earthen kang and looked at the starry sky outside the window, and all he heard in his ears was the shouting of killing on the side of the city wall.

In the past, when Shen Leng went on the expedition, the emperor was naturally worried, but because of the complicated affairs of the court and China, there were so many busy things every day, and the emperor was worried only occasionally, but this time it was different, Shen Leng fought with the black warriors on the city wall, and he was in this simple small courtyard not far from the city wall, he even heard Shen Leng's shouts several times, couldn't help but listen to it, and then laughed at himself for being really old.

Dai Fangzhou ran in from outside, panting: "Your Majesty, General Shen is still commanding the fight against the black army attack in the city, and the soldiers are rotated, but General Shen refuses to come down to rest. ”

"Let him be on the city wall, he will feel at ease on the city wall, but he will not be able to go down to the city."

The emperor got up, walked to the stove and sat down, and flicked the coals in the stove with iron chopsticks, and the spark flew up as if he had completed his life, from existence to destruction.

Sweet potatoes were roasted by the stove, and the whole room was filled with the aroma of roasted sweet potatoes, every trace of air was there, and the sky in the east was already slightly bright, and the night passed like this, Dai Fangzhou swallowed a mouthful of spit, and he didn't sleep all night plus running around, and he was already hungry.

The emperor glanced at him, stretched out his hand and handed him a piece of roasted sweet potato, and Dai Fangzhou hurriedly took it carefully: "Slave and maid, thank Your Majesty for your grace." ”

"Eat, let's go to the Huotou Army with me in a while, the soldiers who fought all night should have been hungry for a long time."

Dai Fangzhou said: "When the slave and maid came back just now, General Shen had already ordered someone to go to the Huotou Army to get food, it should be ready, and the slave and maid went to the Huotou Army to take a look, a large pot of white steamed buns has been steamed and is being put into a big bamboo basket, and it should have been sent to the city wall at this time, the hot white steamed buns that have just come out of the pot, hot hands, sandwiched with two or three salty and crispy pickles......"

Dai Fangzhou subconsciously wiped the corners of his mouth, he himself was a little confused, he had never felt greedy for white steamed buns and pickles, but when he said it just now, he couldn't help but drool.

The emperor also seemed to be hungry by him, and got up: "Then go over there and have breakfast." ”

He got up, Dai Fangzhou hurriedly stuffed the sweet potato into his mouth, and ran to take the emperor's big pot, the sweet potato was too hot, and the hot teeth hurt, the emperor reached out and took the big pot, and looked at Dai Fangzhou's face: "Burning and crying?" ”

Dai Fangzhou was really hot and crying, and tears flowed involuntarily.

The emperor put on his clothes and pushed the door out, just in time to see Shen Leng enter the courtyard from the outside, and after seeing the emperor, Shen Leng hurriedly bowed: "The minister guessed that His Majesty should have not slept all night, the offensive of the black warriors has stopped, and they have retreated to the bottom of the high slope, and they should not rush up again for a while, and the minister came to tell His Majesty." ”

The emperor snorted: "Are you hungry?" ”

"Hungry!"

"Rubbing rice?"

"Good!"

The emperor walked in front, Shen Leng followed, and deliberately widened the distance on behalf of the boat.

"The white steamed bun just out of the pot, sandwiched with two or three salty and crispy pickles, if there is a salted duck egg with pickled oil......"

The Emperor exhaled: "Beauty! ”

Shen Leng said: "Salted duck eggs are hard to find, but the pickles of the border army are really delicious." ”

The two of them walked and chatted all the way, and when they walked to the place where the Huotou Army was cooking, the soldiers saw the emperor and Shen Leng hurriedly stood up straight and saluted, the emperor waved his hand, and pulled over a small table by himself: "Steamed buns and pickles, are there any salted duck eggs?" ”

The people of the Huotou Army, you look at me, I look at you, and my heart says that there are really no salted duck eggs.

"Forget it."

The emperor waved his hand: "What's the matter, it's okay to make two bowls of egg soup, right?" ”

"No problem, no problem."

People hurriedly ran out to make soup, when making soup, a large plate of white fat hot steamed buns on the table, three kinds of pickles, radish mustard cucumber strips, plus a plate of cut sauce meat, the emperor did not wait for the soup, broke the steamed bun and sandwiched a few pickles into it, a big bite down, the sound of the pickles being cut by the teeth was so crisp, the emperor nodded with satisfaction, and pinched a piece of sauce meat and put it in his mouth, this feeling has not been passed for many years.

"It's been a long, long time since I've experienced what it's like to be hungry."

Shen sneered, broke the steamed bun and sandwiched pickles into it: "The minister said to His Majesty before that only by eating when you are hungry can you fully feel the deliciousness of food......

He took a big bite, his cheeks bulged, he looked back at a tree behind him, pulled the stool back and leaned against the tree, the feeling of having something to lean on his back was really cool, and people who did not experience extreme fatigue and fatigue were afraid that they would not be able to experience it.

The emperor finished eating a big steamed bun and reached out to get the second one: "Why do you eat so slowly, I eat and gobble up when I am as old as you, how can I ...... if you don't eat quickly in the barracks"

The words that followed were not finished, because he saw Shen Leng falling asleep against the big tree.

The early morning sun shone from the east and shone on the young man's face, making his originally dirty face clean, and the outline of his face was also outlined, but his mouth was still open, and his mouth was a steamed bun that had not been chewed.

The emperor got up, took off the big coat on his body and draped it on Shen Leng's body, but Shen Leng didn't wake up.

The emperor knew that a person like Shen Leng would only sleep so soundly by the side of someone he trusted...... When he was a child, he was at Boss Meng's house in Yuscale Town, Jiangnan Province, and he must not dare to sleep peacefully every night, he didn't know when Boss Meng would suddenly appear when he drank too much, and he would beat him out, and he didn't know if Boss Meng would one day change the things that beat him from a stick to a knife.

He must have curled up in the kennel like a pigsty, like an abandoned wolf, covered in bruises, but when he slept, he would bend his ears and listen to the wind and grass around him.

Thinking of these inexplicably, the emperor felt a pain in his heart.

He sat down beside Shen Leng, because Shen Leng's shoulders were already tilted to one side, and the emperor was sitting there, also leaning against the tree, blocking Shen Leng from continuing to tilt to the side, so he leaned on the big tree and looked at the sky, and the emperor actually fell asleep.

The reddish light of the early sun shone on the two people, like a thin quilt.

Dai Fangzhou was frightened, and hurriedly ordered someone to find a thick blanket for the emperor and Shen Leng to cover, the emperor opened his eyes and looked at it and fell asleep again, under an old tree with a crooked neck, the emperor and the general fell asleep with each other supporting each other, and no one would fall.

The person from the Huotou Army ran over with a pot of hot soup, and was stunned when he saw this scene, he put the pot of hot soup on the table, looked at Shen Leng with a bloodstained face, and suddenly raised his hand and gave a military salute.

All the Heads of Fire who were busy stood up straight and saluted in that direction.

They are also soldiers, many of them have been veterans who have fought with the enemy again and again on the battlefield, and when they are old, or injured, or do not want to go home, they stay in the firehead army, and the unique feelings of soldiers in their bones will not fade or disperse.

It seems that even the wind is reluctant to disturb the two people who are asleep, and the Xifengkou Tucheng, which has not been quiet for a day and a night, is so quiet now.

Outside the city wall, the soldiers of the large battalion of the North Courtyard of Heiwu sat down at the bottom of the high slope, and those who couldn't sit down lay down, they were just as tired, and they were also tense for a day and a night, and the pity was that no one brought them food in time, it was far away from the big camp, and they couldn't withdraw to the big camp without an order, so they could only wait for the order to come for the next attack.

"Brother."

A black soldier bumped his comrade next to him with his shoulder: "The general said that how much silver will be rewarded for capturing the emperor of Ningguo?" ”

The companion with a drowsy head shook his head: "Forget." ”

"It seems to say that the reward is 100,000 taels of silver, and you have to seal the marquis of 10,000 households?"

The black warrior smashed his mouth: "If you can really catch the Emperor of Ning and become the Marquis of Wanhu, you don't have to fight the battlefield like this, right?" ”

"I don't want to."

His companion couldn't lift his eyelids: "I want to eat a good meal now, and then sleep well." ”

"And dry food?"

"Where is it, I finished eating last night."

"Me too, no."

"Why don't the bunnies in the baggage camp send dry food up."

The speaker glanced back, and there was steaming outside the makeshift tent, as if he was cooking, and he swallowed a mouthful of spit: "The general is eating, right?" ”

"Whoever calls someone a general."

The big tent, the general of the North Courtyard, Du Gang, held a bowl of hot soup in his hand, and paced in the big tent while drinking, his eyes were not on the bowl but on the map hanging on one side, which was the map of Xifengkou, which he had memorized by heart, but he still couldn't help but want to see if there was any possibility to bypass Xifengkou and attack Tucheng from behind.

But no, the location of Xifengkou is too special, if there are other roads in this place, the black army will not be able to enter the territory of Ningguo from here for hundreds of years, and the two countries on the side of Hanhai City are at war with each other, but in Xifengkou, the black army has never stepped into the earth city.

It's different now, you can have no in the past and you can not have it in the future, but this time you have to step in.

"General."

His adviser looked out, lowered his voice and said, "Do you want the soldiers to retreat and rest?" It's been a day and a night, and they've run out of dry food, so they don't have much combat power if they stay up like this. ”

"If you withdraw, what if the next attack can break through Xifengkou Tucheng, and the follow-up team is not enough? It is uncertain how many Ning troops were behind the Tucheng in Xifengkou, and whether there was an ambush...... I also know that I feel sorry for the soldiers, but now is not the time to feel sorry. ”

Du Gang drank the hot soup in the bowl, tore off a chicken leg and nibbled it twice: "I haven't slept all night either, everyone is the same." ”

The strategist looked at the chicken leg and said in his heart, where is the same?

"Let the rear team go up first, ready to continue the attack on Tucheng at any time, and the team in front will withdraw to the rear and rest on the spot."

Du Gang pecked a bone, walked to the door of the big tent and looked out: "If this battle can be won, I will go down in history." ”

The strategist bowed his head: "General, it is true. ”

Du Gang finished gnawing the chicken leg and threw it out of the account: "It would be nice if I could give Xifengkou Tucheng a knife from behind...... It's a pity, the Bohai Kingdom is not in our hands, if the Bohai Kingdom is still there, at this moment, this knife may have been stabbed over. ”

His gaze returned to the map: "Stab...... How to poke? ”