In the dark night, the soldiers on the city wall did not dare to light a fire to keep warm in order to ensure that the vision was not obstructed at night.

Holding a pot of hot water and drinking it, Chen Min felt that he seemed to have some temperature in his body.

You can't make a fire to keep warm, you can only boil water in the courtyard under the city, so that the soldiers on duty at night keep drinking hot water to keep warm, and they are wrapped in thick bedding, like a mummy standing guard.

The cold and silent night makes people's eyelids tremble, lonely, boring, but helpless.

"General, what is that thing we use during the day? I don't think it was so powerful, huh? Sun Ertu stomped his feet vigorously, and couldn't help but ask in a low voice, he was afraid that if he didn't speak again, he would fall asleep directly.

"Enhanced grenade!" After just a short period of effort, the heat that had just risen on his body dissipated instantly, and Chen Min trembled with two rows of big teeth.

"An enhanced version of a grenade?" Sun Ertu followed and chattered, he didn't care what it was, as long as he could talk and distract himself.

His feet were frozen as if they weren't his own, and if he could, he would have laid down on the city wall, and then wrapped himself tightly in the futon to keep warm, although the thickness of the futon could not stop the cold from attacking.

"Yes, it's an enhanced version!" Chen Min nodded heavily.

He only knew that this thing was called a cannonball, but he didn't quite understand what it meant, anyway, as long as he knew that this thing was no different from a grenade, but it was bigger and more powerful, so Chen Min gave it a nickname, an enhanced version of the grenade.

This kind of artillery shell is not something that anyone can have, unlike the grenade assigned to an individual, the artillery shell is assigned to a separate unit, that is, a unit with a bomb truck, generally a bomb truck is equipped with four bombardiers, who are responsible for the transportation, assembly, launch and other tasks of the bomb truck, and a five-person logistics transport support team, five people with two carriages, on which about a hundred shells are transported.

In addition, every ten bomb throwers were protected by a regiment of 200 cavalry, all of whom belonged to the newly formed artillery unit, which Chen Min was very strange about, but Li Yuanji called it that.

Under the pitch-black city, a faint firelight suddenly appeared, only lit for a few seconds, and then disappeared immediately, and a figure could be vaguely seen passing under the city.

"General, look!" Sun Ertu was staring at it with a pair of eyes, and happened to see the light of the fire, and hurriedly called out to Chen Min.

Chen Min looked at it quickly, a flash of fire only remained in his memory, and the whole person couldn't help but shake up, and his originally sleepy head instantly woke up.

"General, it's firelight!" Sun Ertu was not the only one who saw the fire, but the other soldiers in charge of guarding also saw the faint firelight.

"Quick, enemy attack!" Chen Min roared fiercely towards the rear city.

At this time, under the city, there was a fire, fleeting, it may be that the enemy has touched somewhere, accidentally touched the fire fold, but there is also a possibility, the fire just now is the old gun's subordinates are reminding them.

No matter which side of the fire came from, as a guard, he must not be careless, although Zhenbei City is tall, but it is not without weaknesses, when a giant becomes blind, a thin woman can also knock him down.

Zhenbei City is now the giant who has become blind, and he can't be careless.

'Knock knock knock ......'

The sound of war drums sounded on the top of the city, occupying the whole night in an instant, and the sleeping people in the city were also awakened by this, but they had no choice but to hug each other tightly as a family, silently praying that the war would end soon.

Whether they become prisoners or defeat them, as long as the war ends soon, they will no longer have to be afraid.

……

"What are you doing?"

"Daddy......"

Zhang Li held a bow and arrow, which was an ordinary bow and arrow, and the recurve bow, the standard equipment of the Qi army, was also handed in when he retired, and now I don't know which soldier it fell into.

looked back at his wife and children, and felt a little reluctant in his heart.

"If you are in charge, you can't go, the government has already said that if you move around at will, you will be punished as a collaborator." The wife advised helplessly, and two lines of tears slipped straight down.

"Mother-in-law, I'm sorry, if I don't go, our whole family will die, and Zhenbei can't be lost!" Zhang Zhang also silently shed tears, thinking that he would never have the opportunity to go to the battlefield again in this life, and he thought that the days would be so stable, and the world was unpredictable.

Although he dragged away the military uniform, he still stood with Qi Jun in his heart, the suffering he had suffered in the past, and now he enjoys endless blessings, he knows how these came about, at this time, if he doesn't go up, who else can he let go?

"But ......" Before the mother-in-law finished speaking, Zhang Li's whole person disappeared without a trace, leaving only the door that had not yet fallen.

There are already quite a few old soldiers in the compound, and in the words of later generations, these are old comrades with high ideological consciousness and old comrades who are worthy of trust.

Many people are the same as Zhang Li, forcibly broke free from his wife's drag, and then came here hard.

"How many are there?" I don't know who asked among the officers and soldiers.

"More than 200 people!" Zhang Zhang glanced at the crowd and said about a number.

Although the soldiers retired due to injury, as long as they did not lack arms and legs, they were deliberately arranged on the four sides of the city when they moved into the city, with 300 people on each side.

"Leave a few people waiting, and all the rest follow me to the city!"

'......Boom'

A violent explosion continued to sound, and the outside of the city was instantly lit up, bursts of light, illuminating the entire sky, and the originally somewhat dark city no longer needed torches to illuminate, just relying on the bright light brought by the explosion of the cannonballs, it was enough to provide them with enough light.

Under the leadership of the officers and soldiers, Zhang Zhang and the others continued to speed up their pace, but the speed of this group of wounded soldiers could not be compared with the speed of the peak, so the speed was still a little slow.

By the time they walked under the city walls, they could already feel the breath of the battlefield, the familiar and unfamiliar taste.

A regiment of 200 men had already retreated from the city walls, and then divided into several columns to guard under the city gates, preventing the enemy from breaking through the city gates and pouring directly into the city.

"Up! Above! Some officers and soldiers stood at the top of the stairs and kept urging these reservists to climb the city wall, and about half of them climbed up, and the officers and soldiers immediately stretched out their hands to stop them, pointing to the 200 officers and soldiers who had already finished the formation and said: "Stop, all the rest will be lined up behind them!" ”

The troops were too small and had to be dispersed, so they could only make such a helpless order.

Even so, with the 800 reservists who could wield bows and arrows, the number of troops available for defense in the city was less than 5,000.

These troops are enough to defend a small county town, but for such a large city in the north of the town, and it is a three-dimensional two-layer fortification, this number of troops is far from enough.

Zhang Li followed the team up to the city wall, where there were arrows that had been prepared long ago, each of them issued two clusters of arrows, twenty bows and arrows, and then about a hundred men were scattered in a defensive line about two miles long, filling the void in the defense.

"Brother Zhang?" Entering the battle position, the tension instantly entered the state, and the bow and arrow in his hand were shot out one by one, and then the same action was repeated over and over again.

The little soldier beside him took advantage of the gap in the arrow to see the face of tension, and the familiar face made him so excited that he almost jumped up.

"Xiaoshanzi?" Hearing the familiar voice, Zhang Li glanced and saw that Xiao Shanzi was beside him, continuing to shoot his bow and arrows while talking.

"Brother Zhang, I didn't expect to see you here!" Xiao Shanzi seemed to be very excited: "Hehe, I can fight with Brother Zhang again!" ”

"Alright, you kid don't talk so much nonsense, let's knock the enemy back first." Zhang Zhang reprimanded with a straight face.

"Here, Brother Zhang, you use this, I'll use yours." Xiao Shanzi didn't mind, and directly handed over the recurve bow in his hand, and then snatched the ordinary bow in Zhang Li's hand.

Zhang Li's archery skills are very good, once shot a moving hare with an arrow from a hundred paces away, and the hit rate at this distance is more than fifty, and the hit rate at a distance of fifty paces is even more terrifying.

Zhang Zhang did not refuse, let alone reprimand, this bow in his own hands can indeed play a greater role, and this is not the time for hypocrisy.

'......Boom'

A huge cannonball exploded five hundred paces outside the city, and an orange flame rose into the air, and the raging fire burned for less than a moment before it was completely extinguished, and it was dark and silent again.

But it left a huge shock in Zhang Li's heart, he had never seen such a big grenade, and he could throw it so far!

"Hehe, the general said that it was a strengthened version of the grenade, it was very powerful, one could kill all the enemies within dozens of steps, and you didn't see the grand occasion during the day, Brother Zhang, ......"

'Boom~~~'

Before Xiao Shanzi's words fell, there was another violent explosion, which was different from the previous explosion, the sound of this explosion seemed to be composed of many grenades exploded together, and the distance was closer, the tension was that you could feel a slight vibration when standing on the city wall, and it felt a little bad, and the north of the town seemed to have entered a dangerous time period.

As if to confirm the speculation in Zhang Li's heart, a hurried shout came from the city gate.

"The city gate was blown open, the artillery adjusted the orientation and supported the city gate, and the defenders near the city gate alternately used bows and arrows and grenades, fast, be sure to withstand the ......"