For most people, the number of people killed in this night is just a number, a number that doesn't mean anything, but if you look closely, you will find that the scouts who are missing or sacrificed are basically responsible for spying on the same area, where it is the wilderness of the right flank of the Invading Empire, a wasteland covered with grass. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Early in the morning, the atmosphere in the general's mansion was very irritable, but Chen Xin, the mild-tempered general, didn't know why he had a big quarrel with the main general Shi Ping, and the reason was unknown.

According to the gossip, Chen Xin and Shi Ping seem to have not been unified because of the matter of those female soldiers, Chen Xin is extremely dissatisfied with Shi Ping's approach, Shi Ping has been forbearance before, this time, I don't know what's wrong, it may be that the pressure in the face of a strong enemy is too much, and the emotions are uncontrollable.

Early in the morning, simple physical training, that is, casual exercise to open the sleeping body, the firehead soldier prepared breakfast, and everyone gathered around the stove to eat and chat.

Cao Ping, although he is young, can speak well, is very well-informed, at breakfast, with a little show off to his comrades in the team, said: "Have you heard, just now our General Chen and General Shiping from Xizhou had a big quarrel. ”

Qiao Dazhuang glared at Cao Ping: "You kid just went out for a spin and heard about this?" ”

Cao Ping smiled: "Captain, this matter has spread, you don't know, now many people are speculating about why they quarreled." ”

Yuan Fang said disapprerovingly: "They quarrel with them, what's the matter with us?" ”

Cao Ping took the bowl and squatted down beside Yuan Fang, took a bite of the nest, took a bite of pickles, and said while chewing: "Brother Yuan, don't you know, I heard that they seem to be arguing over the matter of female soldiers." ”

Yuan Fang was stunned: "Female soldiers? What's wrong with the female soldiers? ”

Cao Ping shrugged: "Who knows, that's how I heard about it anyway." ”

Yang Xing was stunned and said, "Those two don't want to fight those female soldiers, right?" ”

Fang Mazi lowered his voice and said: "I think it's very possible, you have all seen it, just arrived here, those female soldiers were brought together, isn't it obvious." ”

Qiao Dazhuang also came over and said: "Also, a few days ago, I said that I would send cavalry to harass the enemy's logistics supply line, and I thought that I would send elite cavalry from various units, but I didn't expect to send a thousand female cavalry." ”

Yang Xing stiffened his neck and said, "What's wrong with the female rider?" You don't know, their combat effectiveness is not bad at all, and they are definitely elite. ”

Qiao Dazhuang said disdainfully: "I said that you kid don't know how to learn, you don't know how to pretend to understand, have you ever seen an elite long-distance run with only one horse?" ”

Yuan Fang was stunned: "What do you mean?" ”

Qiao Dazhuang threw the last piece of pickled vegetables into his mouth: "I inquired from the cavalry, for a task like this, under normal circumstances, the cavalry will bring an extra horse to spare, as if it is something to save horsepower, charge and retreat or something, I don't understand it very well, you look at us female soldiers." Yuan Fang's brows furrowed when he heard this.

Captain Tian Dashun Tian came over after eating and drinking: "It seems that the brothers are sleeping well, we started chatting early in the morning, do you want me to give you a day off so that you can have a good chat?" ”

Qiao Dazhuang hurriedly stood up and said with a smile: "Captain Tian is early, isn't it idle and okay." ”

Tian Dashun asked curiously: "What are you talking about, so speculative?" ”

Qiao Dazhuang hesitated for a moment and said, "It's nothing, I just heard that our General Chen and General Shi had a quarrel." After speaking, he looked at Tian Dashun with anticipation, hoping to get more detailed information from his mouth.

Tian Dashun is a person, how to say it, in Yuan Fang's words, it is a bit of a split personality, when he is serious, that guy, he is stern, he can't do it, whoever dares to disobey his will and cover his face is a scolding, on the contrary, when he is mild, this thing will turn into a chatter neighbor's second brother, spitting and talking endlessly, even if he jokes with him, he won't mind.

Qiao Dazhuang observed the words and felt that Tian Dashun seemed to be in a good mood today, so he threw out the topic and waited for the other party to respond, but he didn't expect that Tian Dashun's face suddenly changed when he heard the words, and he scolded him very harshly and said: "Qiao Dazhuang, it's been so long, you should understand the rules, the chief's affairs are not something we can discuss casually, you kid remember it for me." Qiao Dazhuang was taken aback, and hurriedly stood upright, crying and waiting for punishment, this is the usual practice.

Unexpectedly, Tian Dashun did not punish Qiao Dazhuang, who was chewing his tongue indiscriminately, sighed, and said in a gentle tone: "Alas, the generals disagree, and I don't know if it will affect the next battle." Okay, what should you do, don't be like a who knows nonsense. ”

Qiao Dazhuang saluted again: "Yes." ”

Tian Dashun left, Qiao Dazhuang hurriedly beckoned his subordinates to get busy, in fact, there was nothing to do, just do something casually and don't be idle, otherwise if the officers see it, the consequences will be very serious.

The war is imminent, the materials for defending the city have long been ready, piled up at the head of the city and the convenient place for transportation under the city, at this time the soldiers are under the city, the materials in the city are extremely abundant, the logistics and transportation have stopped, there is nothing to do, physical training? Obviously out of place, queue formation training is even more nonsense, what can be done is to get together, while polishing and wiping the weapons that have just been distributed, while studying and discussing the so-called small-scale tactical cooperation.

Qiao Dazhuang's theoretical knowledge is quite solid, first he talked about the old words, and then talked about how to cooperate and cooperate on the battlefield, but the taste changed when he talked about it, and he didn't know how far the topic would go out.

Looking at the time, it was almost noon, Yuan Fang kicked Yang Xing, who had been sharpening the machete, and said angrily: "Don't grind, if you grind it again, you will grind it into a dagger." ”

Yang Xing said depressedly: "Boss, this thing can't be grinded, it's not fast at all." ”

Yuan Fang glanced at the broken knife in Yang Xing's hand, and pointed to a dozen bean-sized gaps on the blade: "This thing can be used as a saw, where can it go fast?" You still want to sharpen it to be as sharp as a scalpel? ”

Yang Xing smiled, scratched his head and said, "I really think so." ”

Yang Xing turned his head, looked at Qiao Dazhuang and complained: "I said captain, the top gives us this kind of rag, how can we fight?" As he spoke, he shook the machete in his hand, which was not much stronger than an iron piece.

Qiao Dazhuang rolled his eyes and said: "It's already very good, I heard that we used to bring our own weapons and equipment, and this time we were also issued so many machetes, you kid will be satisfied." ”

Qiao Dazhuang looked at the piece of wood in Fang Mazi's hand with interest, and said enviously: "Mazi, you have done a good job, and you will make one for me when you have time." ”

Fang Mazi proudly put the tied wood chip bulletproof vest on his body, and grinned: "Cheng, but captain, wood is not easy to find now, you have to figure it out yourself." ”

Yuan Fang walked over and knocked on Fang Mazi's wood breastplate, nodded and praised, "Yes, with this thing, at least you can take a few more knives." Mazi, let's go find wood later, and you can help everyone get one to wear. ”

Fang Mazi pouted and said, "Don't you and Yang Boy have better leather armor?" Can you use my? ”

Yuan Fang smiled: "It's safer to wear an extra layer." ”

Suddenly, the alarm bell sounded, and everyone was frightened, picked up their weapons and hurried to the meeting place, with apprehension and horror, waiting for the impending battle.

Outside the city, the Ningyuan invading army, which had rested all night, came out of the camp, set up a formation, and came towards Dingbian City.

At the head of the city, Chen Xin propped his hands on the battlements, looking at the approaching enemy and frowning.

Lei Hua leaned over to Chen Xin and asked in a low voice, "General, what are they going to do?" It's not going to be a siege, is it? ”

Chen Xin was silent for a long time, shook his head and said: "It shouldn't be a siege, their number is not about 30,000, and they don't have an advantage, although we only have 20,000 people, but relying on the city wall to defend and occupy a sufficient advantage, they don't have enough siege equipment, and if they want to use 30,000 people to capture the county seat, it is obviously impossible, and they should also know this." The order went down, everyone was prepared for defense, and the archers came to the city. The herald repeated the order, and after confirming that it was correct, he hurried away, conveying Chen Xin's order, and after a while, the soldiers defending the city put up their large shields, and a group of archers climbed the city wall.

Chen Xin's analysis was right, the Ningyuan invading army did not come to attack the city, after a burst of shouting and scolding outside the east and south walls, the two sides fired several rounds of feather arrows, and returned to the camp inexplicably.

It is inevitable that the Ningyuan invading army, which is strong and strong, has the advantage of numbers, will fight the enemy and scold the enemy, they hope to fight with the enemy in the open field, but as the defender, as long as the head is fine, they will not give up the support of the city wall to go out of the city and fight with the enemy, but they know that it is impossible but still do it, which can be understood as a war practice, uh, or a routine.

The first contact between the two sides ended hastily, and the invading army of the Ningyuan Empire took away more than a dozen corpses and wounded soldiers, leaving in an orderly manner, but there was chaos on the side of Dingbian City.

Just a few rounds of shooting, although the archers on the city wall occupy a geographical advantage, condescending, but the power of the opponent's longbow should not be underestimated, a few rounds of shooting, inevitably lost more than a dozen archers, injured as many as 20 people, from this point it is not difficult to see the gap between the two sides, the gap in psychological quality and the gap in technical level.

At the end of the battle, when the military doctors began to get busy, the wounded were sent to the military medical center under the city for treatment, and the fallen soldiers were gathered in the designated area to be burned and revitalized to prevent the corpses from decomposing and causing the plague.

Yuan Fang inside the city wall could see clearly, the archers who came down from the road to the city were all pale, and some of them were even trembling with their hands and feet, obviously, they were all under a lot of pressure and fear when they participated in the battle for the first time.

When the corpse was taken down the city wall, looking at the comrades-in-arms who were still alive just now but now became corpses, everyone was silent.

Yang Xing pulled Yuan Fang and pointed to one of the corpses: "Boss, that seems to be Liu Fu." ”