Liu Fan and his entourage, with the assistance of the Shenwu Army, moved the bodies of the seven guards to the south end of the west city wall, handed them over to the baggage team for centralized management, and asked Dong Zi to find the army Zhonglang Zhong to bandage the wound on his left arm simply.

When everything was done, the hour had reached about three o'clock in the unitary hour, and although the Khitan army almost attacked the city of Ganzhou at the beginning of the unitary time, it still fell short in the end, and finally receded like a tide.

Liu Fan sat on the edge of the inner city wall all of a sudden, feeling that time had passed quickly, from morning to now, his heart had been hanging in his throat, and he had almost no time to slow down and breathe a sigh of relief, but when he thought of what happened today, he felt that time seemed to be extremely long, because in this day, he experienced things that could not be experienced in another world in his life.

The fragments came to mind like a movie picture, 'The life that was shot with a bow and arrow and carried down the wall; the raging fires beneath the city; The first enemy to be killed by his own hands—the desperate look at the sky; The headless corpse that was cut off by himself and spewed out a rain of blood slowly fell; The corpses of seven guards neatly placed on the city walls .......

This scene after scene finally made him wake up to the fact that another world in which the country is prosperous and strong, and the people are happy and healthy has left him, and the outlook on life and values that have been formed in that world must be reconstructed according to the reality of this world.

Yes, he has to think slowly about how he will face this world in the future.

Liu Fan did not go down to the barracks under the city wall at the request of the guards, and Uncle Su, Dong Zi, Qu Yongping, and Geng Dawei accompanied the soldiers guarding the city to have dinner at the head of the city, and the group inspected the city again, although it seemed that all the soldiers were a little tired, but the mood was still high, it seemed that after a day of battle, everyone had confidence in holding Ganzhou City.

Because he hadn't paid attention to today's other aspects of the war, Liu Fan only learned about the specific situation from Qu Yongping's mouth at this time.

Although the enemy and us fought very fiercely in today's battle on the western city wall, the north and south city walls never received the enemy, and the Khitan army did not even send a small force to harass the north and south city walls as it did in the second and fourth years of Zhihe, and the troops on the north and south flanks of the Khitan army were not at all active in the attack of the Jincheng army and the Ganzhou army on the flank.

Liu Fan slowly combed through the information in his head, knowing that this was Nu Erge Dan wanted to concentrate his firepower on one point, as long as he could break through Ganzhou City from the west city wall, the northern and southern flank troops of Daqi and the defensive troops of the north and south city walls would retreat without a fight.

He was thinking about how to fight tomorrow's defensive battle, and suddenly felt that the sky was a lot darker at this time, and when he looked up, he found that he didn't know when the cloudless sky was covered with a thin layer of clouds, and Geng Dawei next to him glanced at Liu Fan and said, "The weather has changed."

Liu Fan didn't have an interface, and thought to himself while slowly walking back.

At this time, Qu Yongping added: "Just now the baggage team came to report that the Jincheng Army had lost a total of 416 people and seriously wounded 279 people in today's battle. ”

"The main reason is that the Shenwu Army adopted the tactics of adding fuel to the deployment of personnel, and only mobilized troops from the reserve battalion to the city as soon as the battle was tight, resulting in the city wall being breached many times in the afternoon, although the first few times were timely and at any cost to block the battlements, but the last time was almost the Khitan army seized the opportunity to capture Ganzhou City."

"On the Khitan army's side, in today's battle, Lao Su and I made a rough estimate based on the corpses left behind after the Khitan army retreated, and the number of soldiers killed in battle alone will not be less than three thousand, not including the seriously injured."

Uncle Su also said at this time: "Fanzi, judging from the casualties of both the enemy and us, our defense this time is at least much stronger than that of Zhihe Ernian, and you can also see that the soldiers just now have confidence in holding Ganzhou City this time, so if you continue to fight, as long as the troops are sufficient, it will be difficult for the Khitan army to break through Ganzhou City."

Liu Fan didn't say anything more, and secretly sighed: "In just one day, the casualties of the two battalions of the Jincheng Army reached nearly 700 people, and the A Brigade will be wiped out in a few days if it goes on like this. ”

As we approached the battlement, an idea slowly took shape in my head.

At this time, a guard happened to run over and report: "Brigade commander, the deputy commander-in-chief is here." ”

Liu Fan and his entourage hurriedly ran over to greet them, only to see Qi Boyuan, Sun Wannian, and Wang Kai walking slowly towards this side accompanied by a group of guards, and the wound on Wang Kai's face seemed to have been simply treated.

Just hearing Qi Boyuan laugh loudly, "Little Brigade Commander Liu, you did a good job!" ”

Several people hurriedly bowed to the three of them, and when the three of them returned the salute, they sat down on the stool brought by the guards, and Liu Fan sat down on a stool next to Sun Wannian, and whispered to Qi Boyuan: "There are nearly 700 casualties in one day, and the A Brigade will be destroyed in a few days, which can be considered good." ”

Qi Boyuan smiled and said: "You can't be presumptuous, how can there be immortals in the war, your casualties today are already very low compared to the past, and you led the team to Wang Lushuai's side in time to relieve the friendly army from danger and save Ganzhou in an instant, your contribution is indelible." ”

"Today's sacrifice of our soldiers is to let Daqi be safe and prosperous, so that tens of millions of people in the northwest and even Daqi can live a stable life, and no longer be ravaged and ravaged by the northern bandits, Xiao Liu, I think you still can't think about some aspects, you have to remember what I said."

Liu Fan thought about it and immediately stood up and said, "Deputy commander-in-chief, remember it." After that, I saluted Qi Boyuan solemnly.

Sun Wannian next to him also smiled and nodded to Liu Fan, motioning for him to sit down.

Listening to Uncle Su, Sun Wannian is also one of the few old men in the Jincheng Army A Brigade, the only colonel who survived the Ganzhou defensive battle in the second year of Zhihe, and was promoted from the deputy lieutenant of the sub-battalion to the lieutenant of the sub-battalion after the end of the second-year battle.

I only heard Qi Boyuan continue: "Today's defensive battle of Ganzhou, let us all shine brightly, originally Xiao Liu Brigade Commander submitted the plan to defend the city in the temporary military meeting most of Sima and Sima Duwei are opposed, trapped because from the traditional defense concept in the past, the shortcomings of this plan are obvious, all the soldiers are pressed to the city at one time, one is in the Khitan soldiers under the dense rain of arrows, the casualties are invisibly increased, and the other is that there is no reserve team, once there is an emergency, it is difficult to deal with it. ”

"At that time, I was not optimistic about the military discussion, but in the end, General Guo's command decided on the plan. Judging from the results of today's execution, not only did we not have the unfavorable situation we expected, but the defensive effect was better than that of the two and four years of peace, which cannot but show that we need to have the courage to innovate in the rapidly changing war. ”

Liu Fan said with a smile: "I don't dare to bear the deputy commander's comments, in fact, my initial idea was that there are almost two hundred battlements in the south of the west city wall, and they should be equipped with shield soldiers, spearmen, sword soldiers, and archers. The result that appeared after that was that our side was safe, but it inadvertently pushed more pressure to the side of the Shenwu Army in the north, and then hugged his fist towards Wang Kai, 'Guilt, sin'. ”

"Huh? How do you say that? Qi Boyuan, Sun Wannian, and Wang Kai wondered together.

Liu Fan said: "A section of the city wall is defended by two armies, if one side has strong troops and strong firepower, then the enemy behind will see that the firepower on both sides is strong and weak, and most of them must have run to the side of Wang Lvshuai, who has weak firepower." ”

"And the enemy built a wooden plank bridge, just on the north and south sides of the west gate to build three pieces of each, I asked Deputy Lieutenant Geng to divide the crossbowmen into three groups of three planks on the south side, each package of three planks on the south side, and asked the crossbow arrows to only greet three plank bridges, so that only the plank bridge almost put down two or three percent of the enemy soldiers, the Khitan soldiers found that the three plank bridges in the south were not easy to pass, and some of the people who were supposed to choose the three plank bridges in the south ended up choosing the three plank bridges in the north."

"Of course, my original intention was to strengthen the defense, and this result was also something I had just figured out, and whether this is the case or not depends on the number of enemies killed at the north and south ends of the western wall."

Wang Kaileng stood up with a hula and said, pointing at Liu Fan with one hand and saying, "Liu Fan, you are really dark, but... But... But..., it's straightforward enough! It's really rare to dare to say something so insidious, I really admire you. Originally, you rescued the Shenwu Army in the afternoon regardless of life and death, and I thought that my life would be given to you in the future, but after listening to what you said just now, I regretted it, and I could only give you half a life. ”

Next to him, Sun Wannianqi said: "Then who is left with the other half of his life?" ”

Wang Kai said: "It must be left to the Yihong Courtyard in Liangzhou City." Originally, I divided my life into two halves, half for Yihong Courtyard, and half for my lady who had not yet passed the door, but today if it wasn't for Xiao Liu Lvshuai to come to help in time, my life would have been explained here, and I had no choice but to give half of the life left to me to the lady who had not yet passed the door to Brother Liu Fan. ”

When everyone in the audience heard what he said, they burst out laughing.

Liu Fan muttered to himself, "Who cares about your half of your rotten life." ”