The battle was still fierce the next day, and Zhang Hai and a part of the Yulin Army and the fast gun team held on to the Desheng Gate and Anding Gate in the north. Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry held the west, the Shenji Battalion and another part of the fast gun team held the east under the leadership of Zhang Shujie, and the rest of the Ming army was stationed at Yongdingmen in the south, which had not yet been attacked.

Zhang Hai found two soldiers from the guard company to accompany Xiao Junzhe, these two soldiers were about the same age as Xiao Junzhe, they were two brothers, one was named Chen Dong and the other was Chen Nan, and they both had the rank of corporal. Zhang Hai gave death orders to the two people to protect the safety of the company commander at any cost.

"Everyone stops shooting, reloads ammunition." Jang Hai ordered loudly, and another attack by the Korean New Army was repulsed. The medics took the time to rush up and carry the wounded soldier down.

Xiao Junzhe tiptoed to the side of the city wall and stretched out his head to look down: "Good guy, Tartar is dying, so many people dare to rush up." ”

"Xiao Junzhe, go back." Zhang Hai came over from the side and slapped Xiao Junzhe on the head, "Who asked you to come over." I didn't say stay away from the walls, that's where you stay. ”

Xiao Junzhe's eyes were filled with tears, let alone Zhang Hai, no uncle, aunt, brother or sister in Yulin Bay had ever said themselves so harshly, let alone beaten themselves. From the day Xiao Junzhe met Zhang Hai, this Brother Zhang has always smiled at himself, especially after coming to Beijing, Zhang Hai and Pan Xuezhong are really taking care of themselves like an elder brother. But now, Brother Zhang in his mind actually slapped himself, and he hit him so hard. Xiao Junzhe looked at Zhang Hai, who seemed to be unknown to him, and tears flowed down his eyes.

"What are you crying about, you still have a face to cry, don't you know that the military order is like a mountain." Zhang Hai raised his foot and wanted to kick it again, but after thinking about it, he put his foot down again, and pointed at Chen Dong and Chen Nan, "Take your company commander back, I will ask you if he has a little problem." ”

"I don't have to worry about you." Xiao Junzhe wiped a handful of tears, turned his head and said to Brother Chen Dong, "Let's go, let's ignore him." ”

Zhang Hai looked at Xiao Junzhe's back and didn't say anything, and the person next to him shouted again: "Sir, Tartar is here again." ”

"Everybody ready." Zhang Hai didn't have time to take care of Xiao Junzhe again, "Check the ammunition, prepare the thunder and fire oil canisters, and everything is subject to my orders." ”

Xiao Junzhe and Chen Dong Chen Nan stayed away from the city wall, and the three of them sat down behind a big pillar in the city gate building, Xiao Junzhe's mouth kept saying: "Zhang Hai, I have called you brother for so many years, and you are actually beating me now, I will never call you brother again." ”

Chen Dong opened his mouth to persuade: "Sir, Chief Zhang is also for your own good, the city wall is too unsafe, and the Tartars may fire at any time." ”

"What's unsafe, haven't they all retreated?" Xiao Junzhe was very unconvinced, "I have also been a soldier for several years, and I have also spent time in military schools, don't think that I don't know anything, I made the plan to fight against the Tartars this time." Hmph, look down on me, I'll make you look down on me. ”

"Sir, it's really hard to say anything on the battlefield, and no one knows when they will die." Chen Dong and Chen Nan both participated in the last Battle of Beijing, but they were still young at that time, "Sir, you don't know, the last time we fought fiercely with the Tartars in Beijing, our brothers were only teenagers. ”

Chen Dong said this and glanced at his younger brother: "It is already the favor of God to be able to live until now." Our family is just our brothers, and after a while, when this battle is over, our brothers will apply for discharge from the army and go home to honor our parents. ”

Xiao Junzhe calmed down his emotions: "Your home is also in Yulin Bay, when the battle is over, let's go back together." When the time comes, you will also introduce me to your parents, and I will also go to see the two old people. ”

"Thank you, sir." Chen Dong replied, "The chief will be very happy to be able to go to my father's mother." ”

The three of them talked and laughed, and Xiao Junzhe soon forgot about Zhang Hai's beating him.

The rumbling of artillery was heard again from under the city, and the offensive of the new Korean army began again.

Xiao Junzhe secretly stretched his head out of the pillar again, and a row of soldiers of the Yulin Army was lying on the city wall, shooting out continuously. The more Xiao Junzhe looked, the more interesting he became, he looked left and right, but he didn't see Zhang Hai.

Xiao Junzhe pulled Chen Dong and Chen Nan: "Let's go, let's go over and see how they fight." ”

"Sir, by all means." Chen Nan grabbed Xiao Junzhe, "Chief Zhang ordered, we must not go to the city wall." ”

"What are you afraid of, I also fought when I was in Annam." Xiao Junzhe patted his chest, "Who hasn't seen a dead person." I am your company commander, and now I give the order to pass. If you're afraid, stay here and wait for me, and I'll see for myself. ”

Chen Dong and Chen Nan had no choice but to accompany Xiao Junzhe to the city wall again. There was a fierce battle in the city, and no one paid attention to the arrival of the three men.

Xiao Junzhe found a place where no one was paying attention, and secretly poked his head out of the city wall. Thousands of new Korean troops under the city wall kept charging forward with flintlock pistols and shields, and the guns on and under the walls rang out.

Xiao Junzhe was quite interested, and Chen Dong pulled him: "Sir, let's go back, let Chief Zhang see our brothers." ”

"Don't worry, don't worry." Xiao Junzhe pointed to the front of the battlefield and shouted, "Look, what is that? ”

About 150 meters away from the city wall, the North Korean New Army pushed more than 20 stone throwers, and Tao Min returned to the Yulin Army what the Yulin Army had used on him in Yulin Fort. The difference is that Tao Min's stone thrower is bigger than Jiang Beiming's original one, and one stone thrower has to be operated by more than 100 people.

Chen Dong and Chen Nan don't know this thing very well, Xiao Junzhe learned it when he was in the military academy: "You don't know, this is called a stone thrower, also called a return cannon, which was made by the Mongols back then." ”

Chen Dong and Chen Nan had never seen this thing, and the two of them were not very old, and when they heard Xiao Junzhe say this, they were all interested, and the three of them lay on the city wall and kept looking down, forgetting all of Zhang Hai's orders.

The Koreans' stone throwers began to eject, and large and small stones continued to hit the city wall, some flew over the city wall, and only a few stones fell behind the city wall, but they also knocked down a few soldiers.

"I thought it was amazing." Xiao Junzhe gestured to the Chen brothers and said, "We learned this when we were in the military academy. It's true that this thing can hit a parabola, but it has to be calculated accurately. Like the Tartars now, it is useless to either hit high or low. You see, how many of them have come in. ”

"Sir, wise." Chen Dong said, "The chief has learned a lot in our military academy. It's a pity that our brothers know too little to enter the military school. ”

"It's okay." The more Xiao Junzhe spoke, the more excited he became, forgetting that he was standing on the edge of the city wall, straightened up and said, "If you two want to be admitted to the military academy, I will teach you to read and write when you go back, and I guarantee that you will be admitted to the military academy in two months." ”

"Sir, squatting down." Chen Dong and Chen Nan didn't forget their experience on the battlefield, and pulled Xiao Junzhe down, "Don't stand up, it's dangerous." ”

"I know, I forgot." Xiao Junzhe smiled awkwardly in front of the two subordinates.

Chen Dong glanced under the city wall and said, "Sir, let's go back, the Tartars are attacking again." ”

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, they can't get in, let's see again." Xiao Junzhe got rid of the hands of the brothers who dragged him, and stuck his head out of the city wall.

Thousands of North Korean new troops rushed to the edge of the city with flintlock pistols and ladders, and Xiao Junzhe did not notice that more than 20 stone throwers began to operate again.

Suddenly, the sky seemed to have crossed an arc, and more than 200 canisters of fire and oil smoked from the back of the city walls. Smoke and dust rose from the top of the wall, and the raging fire engulfed everything, and the wails of soldiers could be heard from the smoke.

Xiao Junzhe was dumbfounded, he suddenly understood that the stone just now was a test launch of the North Korean New Army, and this time it was a real blow, and it used the same oil tank as Yulin Bay.

"Sir, let's go back, it's dangerous here." Chen Dong and Chen Nan picked up Xiao Junzhe and ran back, but just after running a few steps, the second round of oil tanks arrived again.

A canister of oil smashed into Chen Dong's left side, and the fire quickly ignited Chen Dong's clothes and pants.

"Sir, be careful." Chen Dong violently pushed Xiao Junzhe and his younger brother out, "Run." ”

"Chen Dong. Elder brother. ”

Xiao Junzhe and Chen Nan hurriedly took off their clothes and slapped Chen Dong, but the fire oil splashed everywhere had already stained Chen Dong's whole body, and Chen Dong rolled on the ground in pain: "Sir, run, leave me alone." ”

Xiao Junzhe shouted loudly while whipping the fire on Chen Dong's body: "Come on, come on, someone is injured here." Medic, Medic! ”

No one responded, Chen Dong slowly stopped rolling, looked at Xiao Junzhe and said the last sentence: "Sir, remember to go see my father, they will be happy." ”

Xiao Junzhe stood in place, his mind was blank, and he couldn't say a word.

"Junzhe, Xiao Junzhe, where are you?" Zhang Hai's voice came from the smoke.

"Chief Zhang, we are here, Chief Xiao is here." Chen Nan responded loudly.

"What's the matter with you guys?" Zhang Hai led a few people to follow the sound and came over, kicked Chen Nan, and then slapped Xiao Junzhe in the face, "You bastards, quickly remove the city wall." ”

Xiao Junzhe's face immediately swollen, but Xiao Junzhe didn't seem to notice anything, just said blankly: "Sir, Chen Dong is dead, he died to save me." ”

"If you fight a war, you will die, and if you hurry down, you can die a few less." Zhang Hai reached out and grabbed Xiao Junzhe's arm.

As soon as Zhang Hai's words fell, a crossbow arrow shot in from outside the city wall, and it shot directly at Zhang Hai's arm without bias or obliqueness.

"Brother Zhang, you're injured." Xiao Junzhe reacted, Zhang Hai pushed Xiao Junzhe away, ignoring the pain, and shook his hand and shot down a North Korean who was peeking out of the city wall.

But the second North Korean flew over the city walls, and instead of a bow and arrow, he carried a flintlock pistol with a bayonet on it.

"Jun-cheol be careful." Zhang Hai dragged Xiao Junzhe to the ground, and with a gunshot, a bullet shot shot into the sky from where Xiao Junzhe was standing just now.

"Bastards, you're all assholes!" No one expected that Xiao Junzhe broke free of Zhang Hai, got up and rushed at the North Koreans who jumped down with his bare hands, and even forgot to pull out the handcuffs on his armed belt.

When the North Korean saw Xiao Junzhe coming towards him, he didn't panic, and met the previous stride and stab, and the bayonet hit Xiao Junzhe's chest and pierced it.

"Sir, be careful." Chen Nan slammed into the front of Xiao Junzhe, and the three-edged thorn pierced Chen Nan's left shoulder at once. The North Korean pulled out his bayonet, but it didn't pull it out.

"You guys are going to die." Xiao Junzhe stepped forward, stretched out his hands and tightly pinched the North Korean's neck, "Die, die, die." ”

Zhang Hai didn't care about the arrow in his left arm, picked up Chen Dong's flintlock pistol from the ground, and knocked down an outcropping North Korean with one shot in one hand, and then shouted out, "Come on, guard this gap and overturn their ladder." ”

The few Yulin troops who followed Zhang Hai to guard this gap, Zhang Hai walked to Xiao Junzhe's side: "Let go, he's dead." ”

Xiao Junzhe didn't react, his hands still choked the neck of the North Korean opposite, and Xu Lang's words came out of his mind: "When you arrive on the battlefield, when you see blood, you see dead people, and when you see the brother who was talking and laughing with you just now turned into a hard corpse in a blink of an eye, you dare to kill." When you have experienced the baptism of war, and when you dare to kill, you will really grow up. ”

"Jun-cheol, he's dead, you let go." Zhang Hai shouted again.

Xiao Junzhe still didn't let go: "I killed you, I killed you, I killed you." ”

Zhang Hai desperately broke Xiao Junzhe's hand away, just like he gave Gu Yunkun two big mouths for the first time ten years ago: "Junzhe, calm down, he's dead." ”

Xiao Junzhe did not sit on the ground and cry like Gu Yunkun ten years ago, but slowly lowered his hands and saluted Zhang Hai: "Sir, I finally dare to kill, I have grown up, and I am now a real soldier of the Yulin Army." ”

Zhang Hai ignored Xiao Junzhe, waved his hand and called over the two soldiers: "Send Company Commander Xiao and this corporal down, and immediately find a medical soldier for treatment." Remember, personally send it to Chief Chiang. ”

"Yes, sir." The two soldiers replied in unison, and one of them asked, "Sir, what about your arm?" ”

Zhang Hai then remembered that there was still a crossbow arrow inserted in his left arm, and tilted his head to look at it, this crossbow arrow was inserted quite deeply, and it could not be pulled out directly.

Zhang Hai held back the pain and grinned: "It's really hard to deal with, call a medical soldier to come and get it out for me." ”