The weather was gloomy and it seemed that a heavy snowfall was about to come, and the whole street was empty with no figure in sight, and the cold wind was blowing in the face like a knife.

He carried a briefcase and walked slowly in the alley of the community, the world was gray, the houses facing the street were hidden in a piece of blue gray and could not see the whole picture, in the past, a few bustling small supermarkets in the alley were nowhere to be seen, quiet as if it was a quiet night, but he remembered that he had just gotten off work, in a puzzle he saw the unit dormitory where he lived with his colleagues, his mother was standing at the door of the dormitory and looking at himself with a smile, strange, didn't his parents live with his sister in the small county town of his hometown, when did he come, He excitedly called for his mother to run forward, but his legs seemed to be unable to exert any strength, and his mouth was hoarse as if he had not made a ......sound at all.

In a trance, I heard someone grabbing my arm and shaking it vigorously, and an anxious call came from my ears: "Brother, you have a nightmare again, wake up quickly......"

He opened his eyes and saw Dong Zizheng looking at him with a worried expression.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and then said slowly: "I'm fine, I've been dreaming about going home for the past two days......"

As he spoke, he slowly sat up with Dong Zi's support, but he still couldn't help a pain in his chest and abdomen.

Dong Zi lowered his head rarely, and said after a while: "Brother, I also miss my father and mother a little, when your injuries are healed, tell the camp that we will go home with Uncle Su!" ”

Liu Fan didn't answer immediately, and thought quietly for a while before saying, "What time is it?" ”

"It's past the time of Shen Zheng."

Liu Fan sighed lightly and slept for nearly four hours from the morning.

"At noon, General Zhang Zhen came to see you again, and when he saw that you were asleep, he didn't wake you up, saying that he would invite you to his house when you were healed, and said that he promised you when he was in Ganzhou." Dong Zi continued.

Liu Fan could only shake his head amusedly, it was just a joke that General Zhang Zhen himself said in Ganzhou, could it be that General Zhang Zhen really had this intention, it was really troublesome.

At the mention of Zhang Zhen, Liu Fan seemed to have returned to the front and back battle in Xining Prefecture on the night of August 23......

On the evening of 17 August, after returning to the camp, Uncle Chen reported the plan proposed by Liu Fan to the General Headquarters of the Right Route Army, which immediately aroused the great attention of Commander-in-Chief Guo, and in the afternoon of the same day, a military meeting was urgently convened to determine the plan for a surprise attack on Xining Prefecture, and the task was handed over to the five brigades of the Shenwu Army, with Sima Duwei Zhang Zhen as the commander, and Liu Fan was assigned to lead the Yinying Battalion of the Jincheng Army as a guide to assist in the implementation of the plan.

The five brigades set out in the early morning of 18 August under the leadership of Zhang Zhen, and after a rapid march of 6 days, they crossed the vast Qilian summer Tara prairie and crossed the snowy ice ditch Osaka, and arrived near Xihai County on the evening of 23 August.

Due to the deviation in the communication of the Daqi troops, the surprise attack force and the Shenxiang army failed to move to the Khitan army at the same time, and it was because of this small time interval that the surprise attack force first endured the crazy counterattack of the Khitan army, resulting in serious casualties among the troops at the beginning, Liu Fan and Dong Zi were injured successively, Dong Zi was shot in the thigh by an arrow, and Liu Fan was stabbed in the chest and abdomen, but fortunately was rescued by his comrades.

After the battle, Zhang Zhen saw that Liu Fan had a high fever and had fallen into a serious coma, and his injuries were serious, in view of the difficulty of finding good doctors in Xining Prefecture, he immediately ordered Su Shu to lead the Jincheng Army Brigade Yin Battalion to escort Liu Fan and Dong Zi to Liangzhou to find the famous doctor Ye Guangbu for treatment......

According to the military reports sent back after the war, due to errors in the connection, the two forces of the Great Qi finally failed to fully encompass the Khitan 40,000 army.

Shizhi defeated the Khitan South Route Army, beheaded more than 11,300 Khitan troops and captured more than 1,500 people, and the remaining main force of the Khitan South Route Army of more than 20,000 people broke through to the south and penetrated deep into the hinterland of Tibet.

On the 24th, the surprise attack force of the Shenxiang Army and the Shenwu Army marched westward to Shazhou under the leadership of General Sima Liao Yongxian of the Shenxiang Army, and at this time, 100,000 horses and horses of the Right Route Army of Ganzhou had also arrived in Suzhou and began to attack the city.

On the 25th, Yelu Dezong only held on for one day and gave up Suzhou and slowly retreated to the direction of Shazhou, and on August 30, Yelu Dezong arrived in Shazhou and stopped for a while, and then gave up the whole army of Shazhou on the second day of the ninth month and returned to the Khitan, and the war between the Great Qi and the Khitan in the fifth year also ended on the second day of the first month of September.

A slight sound of opening the door suddenly woke Liu Fan from a brief distraction.

I saw Dr. Ye Guangbu and a little servant carrying a medicine box walking in together, as soon as he saw Dr. Ye, Liu Fan immediately asked Dong Zi to help him get out of bed to greet him, only to hear Doctor Ye's sharp and piercing voice has sounded: "General Liu, don't move, the injury is not yet healed!" ”

Liu Fan had already walked over with Dong Zi's support, and he saluted Doctor Ye with his hand, and said, "If it wasn't for your move, I would have already gone to see Lord Yan, so what kind of general's shelf can I put in front of you." ”

Dr. Ye looks to be in his sixties, short in stature, with two locks of mustache on his mouth, Liu Fan looks a little similar to Chaplin in the film.

After the two of them sat down, Dong Zi offered tea and soup to Doctor Ye, and asked Doctor Ye anxiously: "Doctor Ye, my brother's illness is not in the way, am I most afraid of hurting my inside?" ”

Doctor Ye glared at Dong Zi and said, "Why are you talking, can you still stand here and pant for breath if you hurt your internal organs, besides, as long as my old man makes a move, he will have to give face, right?" Alas, I have been fighting against Lord Yama for decades, and I don't know if it is detrimental to Yin Virtue! ”

"Why did Doctor Ye say this, you are engaged in the business of ten thousand Buddhas, I don't know how many blessings you have accumulated, and you will definitely go to heaven to enjoy happiness when the immortal dies in the future, maybe the Jade Emperor will invite you to taste the immortal peach in the peach orchard, and the fairy days are still to come."

"Alas, you kid's mouth, I can bring the dead to life, you can bring the dead alive, stop, stop, I'm serving you, it's not the body hanging in your room, I really don't believe you're from the army!"

Liu Fan smiled and whispered to Dong Zi: "Why don't you quickly remove this clear soup and tasteless tea soup, and take out the incense sent by General Wang Kai yesterday and pour it for Doctor Ye." ”

After listening to Liu Fan's words, Doctor Ye's originally indifferent expression immediately changed to a smile on his face.

After Doctor Ye changed the medicine for Liu Fan and Dong Zi and left, Tianguang was already around Youzheng, and Liu Fan asked Dong Zi to slowly help himself to the bench in the hospital and sit down.

This is a separate courtyard with a total of four rooms, it is a place for Liu Fan to arrange for him in the army post house after the camp in Liangzhou, clean and tidy and clean, Liu Fan and Dong Zi and the only two remaining personal soldiers live, the other personal soldiers have been killed in several battles, and now they have not been replenished, the food is sent from the post house in the morning and evening, and Uncle Su sometimes occasionally rushes back from the military camp outside the city to live here.

Liu Fan and his colleagues have been living here for nearly ten days since they arrived in Liangzhou in early September, and they have been in a semi-coma for the first few days, and they can only get out of bed slowly in the past few days, and occasionally go to the yard to bask in the sun.

The late autumn sun is like a coat covered with orange, gently sprinkling the soft light, although the sun shines on the face is still warm, but the autumn scene has been unobstructed, a west wind blows, the yellowed leaves of the poplar trees swirl in the wind, drifting to the ground leisurely, a few jackdaws fly around on the branches, with a noisy voice to declare their existence.

Although Liu Fan has been in a coma for the past ten days, the entertainment of this era is too poor, there is no TV to watch, no mobile phone to play, no network to access, Liu Fan has nothing to talk to Dong Zi when he is free, bask in the sun, and then just think nonsense in his head, when Wang Kai came to see him yesterday, he also begged Wang Kai to find a way to search for some books for him, preferably historical, first, to pass the time, and secondly, he also wanted to understand that this mysterious Daqi belongs to that stage in history.

Speaking of Wang Kai, Liu Fan suddenly remembered what Wang Kai said yesterday when he chatted with himself, after the Khitans withdrew from Shazhou, the camp ordered General Liao Yongxian to lead seven brigades of the Shenxiang Army to defend Shazhou and Yumen Pass, and ordered three brigades of the Jincheng Army to guard Suzhou.

Because this victory is a rare victory ushered in by Daqi since the third year of Zhizheng, the document sent to the northwest urgently by the imperial court said: "The saint learned of the great victory in the northwest, and the court has made it clear that all armies and brigades should be given heavy and lenient contributions. ”

In addition, I heard Wang Kai say that he and a battalion of Jincheng Army soldiers may not be able to go back, and Xingying intends to keep himself in the forbidden army, but the specific arrangement has not yet been determined.