"General, how long will we have to fight, and how long will we fight......" Just repelled an attack by a Roman legion, a wounded Arab soldier sat on the city wall, leaning against the battlements, moaning weakly, seeing the respected old general Senassi walking by, he couldn't help but have such a question.

For Senasi, this is the question he has heard the most in more than a month, the wounded soldiers will ask, the dying soldiers will ask, the fighting soldiers will ask, everyone seems to have such an inquiry, the endless battle, the enemy army that cannot be killed, the shortage of weapons and food, so that they can't help but worry about their future, their own safety, and the safety of their families behind them.

Sennasi didn't know their worries, even himself, he didn't have such worries, for ordinary soldiers, they were better than their own high-ranking generals, such as being defeated, the country was lost, ordinary soldiers disarmed and returned to the field, accepting the rule of the new dynasty, no one would embarrass them, but these great generals themselves, either martyred, or surrendered to be a shameful traitor, and the safety of their families could not be guaranteed.

Under such a shape, Senasi couldn't help but worry that if he couldn't hold this fortress, would the crazy Triple Alliance army lose its reason and ravage the rest of the country, ravaging those miserable civilians, and the top would die, but what about the people and soldiers at the bottom? As their general, should he protect his own life with their lives? If the fortress is breached, he has no chance to live, and the caliph has already said that he is the last hope. If the fortress is gone, you don't have to go back.

Indeed, Senassi himself understood. If the fortress is breached, there is no way for you to go back, then whether to die or surrender, this is a question, a very strict question, if the fortress is breached, you can live. Or die?

Now he didn't have time to think about such a question, he looked at the weak soldier in front of him and crouched down. Looking at his wound wrapped in white gauze, which was already very dirty and hadn't been replaced for a long time, he frowned: "When did you suffer this injury?" ”

The soldier smiled and said, "It was fifteen days ago. ”

Senassi continued to ask, "Didn't you change the gauze after the injury?" ”

The soldier nodded. Senasi said angrily: "Doctor! Military! Call me the medic! ”

Everyone doesn't know why the general is angry. So someone went to call the military doctor, and the military doctor hurriedly ran over, not knowing what had happened, whether he had done something wrong, so he trembled and said: "General, I am the military doctor, have I made any mistakes?" ”

Senasi pointed to the soldier's bandage and said, "This soldier has been wounded for fifteen days, but his gauze has not been changed once. If it's dirty, there's a good chance you'll get infected. Don't you know! ”

The military doctor was stunned for a moment, looked at the soldier's gauze, closed his eyes, sighed, and then opened his eyes and said to Senasi: "General, it's not that we don't want to change the gauze for the soldiers, it's true, there is really no extra gauze, people are injured every day, many people are injured and bleeding every day, we really have no way, there is no more gauze for the soldiers to change, it is already our greatest ability to wrap the wound, really, general, please believe me, I will not deceive the general on this kind of issue, general." Can we get more gauze? The current gauze will run out in three days at most! ”

Senasi was stunned, looked at the wounded soldiers all over the ground, and their dirty gauze, he understood, he closed his eyes painfully, then opened them, waved his hand, and said to the military doctor: "Go and do your own thing, I don't blame you for this matter, I will do my best to contact the rear and ask them to send more medicine and gauze, don't worry, go, go!" ”

The military doctor listened to the order and left, Sennacy squatted down again, looked at the gauze of the wounded soldier, shook his head, untied the gauze, and then saw the wound that was gradually festering inside, Senasi's heart was very painful, he held back his tears, took his sheepskin bag, there was wine in it, the prophet had told him that wine could clean the wound, and he remembered, so he took the sheepskin bag and said to the wounded soldier: "It will hurt for a while, hold it up for me!" ”

The wounded soldier bit his lip and nodded, "Obey!" ”

Senassi quickly poured wine on the soldier's wound, and the soldier immediately widened his eyes and roared loudly, his muscles were bruised, and he seemed to be in great pain, and his body writhed unconsciously, and everyone was startled, and Senassi shouted: "Hold it back for me!" Don't move! This is a military order! Violators will be killed! ”

The wounded soldier's eyes widened, he gasped for breath, and his whole body trembled, but he really didn't writhe anymore, Senassi washed the wound with wine and water crossed each other, then pulled out the dagger at his waist to cut off the rotten flesh, and then took out his own hand towel that had been washed cleanly from his arms, bandaged the wound of the wounded soldier, and then tore off a piece of his battle robe and strengthened the hand towel: "Now it can only be like this, when the medicine arrives, go to the military doctor to change it, you know?" ”

There are tears in the eyes of the wounded soldiers, they all know that they have been together for so long, everyone knows that the sheepskin bag of wine is brewed by the old general's daughter who died of illness, the old general does not drink much, but only this bag of wine is he has always carried with him, and he is reluctant to drink, there can be no wine on the march and fighting, this is a special allowed wine, the old general is a small glass of a small cup of a small sip of a small sip, but now in order to treat the wounds of the soldiers, he actually used up more than half of it at once.

As for the hand towel, it was also woven by the old general's daughter for the old general before he died, the old general has always been with him and doesn't know how much treasure, before wiping the body of a soldier who died in battle, and now wrapping the wound for the wounded, all the soldiers were moved by the old general's tears, and the wounded soldier was even more choked and speechless.

"I know you're all tired, you're homesick, you're all hard, I'm tired, I'm sad, I'm feeling hard, but. This is what we have to do, what we have to do, and the evil heretics are driving us to the last moment. Take a step back, and there will be an endless abyss, the end of us, where we will all die, our families will be ravaged, and our parents, wives and children will be killed and humiliated. We will have no peace! Would you like to see such an outcome? Senassi stood up and shouted loudly.

"I don't want to! Unwillingly! Unwillingly! The soldiers roared in unison.

Senassi waved his arm: "Yes! None of us want to, none of us want to. We have to protect our wives, we have to protect our parents, we have our property, we have our own qiē! This is the truest of all. The most correct. If we take a step back, every qiē will leave us, and every qiē will stay away from us, which is something we can't accept!

On our opposite side is the most powerful and evil enemy, and for more than three years, we have been defeated by these evil and powerful infidels, and countless comrades have been killed in battle. Countless generals have died fighting for the conviction in our hearts, and we have lost countless lands and riches. It was all the victories we had achieved with all our might, the riches we had with all our might, under the leadership of the Prophets, but the wicked infidels had robbed them of them!

They are ignorant! Evil! Vile! Shameless! They are our eternal enemies, our most terrible enemies and the ones we must defeat! If we defeat them, we can have a good life, and if we defeat them, we will have no tomorrow! Soldiers! Sue me! Are you willing to keep fighting until you achieve victory!? ”

"Yes! Willing! Willing! Willing! Willing! Willing! Willing to ......"

In the midst of the cries, Senassi left the city wall, step by step, and he had to go to other places to make rounds, and on the way, his personal guard asked in a low voice: "General, can we say so?" Aren't we fighting to protect Allah and the Prophet? Will not Allah and the Prophet be angry when they hear us say this? ”

Senassi suddenly sneered, then raised his head to look at the gray sky, and said to the guards: "If Allah and the Prophet can see what we are suffering now, why, why didn't he come to save us, for three years, how many soldiers, how many generals fought to protect them, but they did not appear once, at this juncture, how many people do you think there will be people who believe that Allah and the Prophet will protect them?" Will you see them? ”

The guards couldn't say a word, and their faces turned pale.

Sennasi said disdainfully: "Do you think it is still useful to mention the prophet and Allah at this time?" The kingdom will die, the people will die, and who will pay attention to Allah and the Prophet? They will only care about themselves, about their families, about land, about wealth, these most tangible things, for so many years, to be honest, have you seen Allah? I have seen the Prophet, but after the Prophet died, we never saw him again, and we believe that they are still looking at us, but if they are really looking at us, why not send some medicine and gauze from heaven, and ask the Caliph to buy it with wealth and land?

They have fought for the prophet for Allah for too long, for too long, shed too much blood, lost too many things, and let them continue to fight for the prophet and Allah, will only make them consume the last bit of faith, and when we completely fail, the last bit of faith will no longer exist, at that time, we will be completely disintegrated because of faith, at that time, it is our real end, at that time, there will be no way to recover.

You have to remember that no one will fight for something illusory when they are dying, they are always most concerned about their own vital interests, everyone is the same, there is nothing noble and despicable, what can not be abandoned for the sake of victory in battle? Like this bag of wine, this is the last wine my daughter brewed to me before she died, but for the sake of the fortress, why can't it be given up? ”

Senasi took the sheepskin bag, raised his head and drank heavily, then wiped his mouth, and handed the remaining small half bag to the guard: "But that's it, seeing this qiē, do you still think that what I did before would be any real feelings?" All things in the world, if they happen on such occasions, without exception, have the same purpose as me, even if they sacrifice their most precious things for it! ”

The guard looked at the sheepskin bag in his hand, and suddenly felt as if something was broken in his heart, he looked up at the gray sky, raised the sheepskin bag and drank all the wine inside, and then threw away the sheepskin bag, and followed the footsteps of the old general Senasi, he knew that he had embarked on a road of no return, and from the beginning of drinking those wines, every qiē would be different.

From now on, you will not fight for the Prophet and Allah, but for yourself, the words of the old general are true and true, the Prophet and Allah are already in heaven, we don't need to fight for them, what really needs us to fight is the relatives behind us, and not anyone else. (To be continued......)