Chapter 3 Perseverance

There were also people on the city wall who heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves in the distance, Liu Wuchang suddenly leaned on the city wall and looked into the distance, although he could only see the flying dust, and a figure could not see clearly, but he was an old soldier, and knew that this was the dust raised by the cavalry. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info "Quick, Zhao Si, you go to the camp right away, beat the drums!" Wake everyone up. Liu Wu gave an order in a loud voice. It was "Zhao Si received the order, ran down the city wall quickly, and went to the camp in the city to give the order, and after a while, ......a rapid war drum sounded from the camp.

"What's the matter, who ordered the drum to be beaten?" Mr. Li, who had just walked a short distance, hurried back and asked. "Mr. Li, look." Liu Wuchang pointed his hand at the dust raised in the distance. Mr. Li glanced at him, and couldn't help but gasp, his face was furrowed, and he secretly thought, "It's here so soon!" It seems that the North Gate Pass is difficult to protect. He turned his head to one of his own soldiers and ordered, "You know where Mr. Cao Qian went last night." Go and wake him up, let him hurry up, and say that the Tuliao people are going to attack the city. "Yes," the soldier turned and took the order.

Li walked up to Li Deyi, who had just been hoisted, and asked, "Where are you from?" "Mr. Li, he is the kid who came to report the news, saying that he knows that there are Tuliao cavalry under Shuanggu over there." There was a soldier next to him who helped to talk, "Back to Mr. Li, I am from Li Quanzhuang on the mountain valley in the north, and the people on our Zhuangzi have been killed by the Tuliao people, so I have survived." I took advantage of the night to flee into Shuanggu, and at dawn I saw the Yiren cavalry under Shuanggu cooking on a fire, so I rushed to the county seat to report the news. Li Deyi hurriedly stepped forward to answer, because he didn't know the etiquette, so he replied in a stunned manner.

"Li Quanzhuang, Li Quanzhuang," the general Li said twice, and then hurriedly asked, "Have you ever seen how many men and horses there are in the Tuliao cavalry?" "I didn't see it clearly, but I saw them make a fire and kill sheep, let alone kill two or three hundred sheep." When Li Jiang heard this, he thought carefully for a while, and instructed a soldier beside him, you should go to the county government and inform the county magistrate of Dingbei as soon as possible, and let him quickly levy 500 people, transport more rolling wood, prepare more cauldrons, and boil water. Let's just say that the vanguard of the Tuliao people is coming, go quickly. Then he asked Li Deyi: "Have you ever seen whether those Tuliao cavalry have armor?" Can you have a vest? "A few of them are wearing armor, and I don't look like iron armor, and most of them have never been approved for armor. What is a vest? I don't know," Li Deyi thought about it carefully and said. When General Li heard this, he let out a sigh of relief, "It seems that it is not the vanguard cavalry of the Tuliao army, but just a ranger who fights the grass valley." Come! Take this boy down and get him something to eat. "Yes," a sergeant took Li De down the city wall and walked towards the camp.

When the first rays of sunlight hit the city wall of Dingbei County, the Tuliao cavalry under Shuanggu also showed their figures, and groups of cavalry walked out of the flying dust. At this time, the soldiers in the city were also ready, and they walked up to the city wall in an orderly manner, and divided their troops to guard a section of the city wall.

At this time, Li Jiang was discussing with the other two generals, and Li Jiang first said: "Everyone, I have observed the cavalry under the city, there are no major siege equipment, and there are only two or three out of ten people wearing armor, so it should not be difficult to hold this battle." The other two nodded yes. Mr. Li turned his head again and asked the soldiers beside him: "Have you ever seen Mr. Cao Qian?" "Not yet." The pro-soldier replied. "Call again." Mr. Li held back the unhappiness on his face, and ordered his own soldiers.

"Report to a few generals, the Tuliao cavalry has reached within one hundred and fifty steps." "Probe and report again, report within a hundred steps." Li ordered loudly. He turned his head and discussed with the other two generals, "Now that Mr. Cao Qian has not arrived, you and I will follow the previous Japanese military agreement, and each of us will guard a city gate, and the north gate and the urn city will be guarded by me, do you have any objections?" "The three generals are the chief of the generals, and they are old in the army, and their prestige among the soldiers has always been very high.

Li Deyi was walking in the city with the sergeant leading the way, when he suddenly saw a man in the middle of the road in front of him who was disheveled, wearing a crooked helmet, and the armor on his body was not neatly draped. Seeing that the horse was fat and strong, with high shoulders and a big head, but although the horse was frantically whipped, Li Deyi just felt that the horse was not running fast. Looking up at this person again, with a fat head and big ears, a face full of oil, the two black bags under his face were almost drooping to his mouth, frowning, his facial features were twisted together, with an anxious expression, and he shouted in his mouth: "Get out of the way, get out of the way, the Tuliao people are coming, let me get out of the way of the military master." The surrounding people took refuge on the side of the road, and there was a burst of chickens and dogs. After the horse ran over, the street that had been busy suddenly became chaotic, and the small vendors who sold breakfast began to close their stalls and run to their homes. The people who went out to eat breakfast were even more panicked and ran home, and with a bag of cigarettes, the lively streets became clean.

Li De stared at the chaotic scene as he walked, and the sergeant who led the way turned around and pouted and said, "He's m, Xiong Heng." Don't look at him, this is our Dingbei County garrison Cao Qian, and I don't know which mother-in-law fooled around last night. "Oh, what do you mean by fooling around?" "What are you doing this kid asking, it's just going to the kiln, do you understand?" Li Deyi nodded confusedly, not daring to ask again.

After walking for a while, Li Deyi couldn't help it anymore, and opened his mouth at the gate of the barracks: "This soldier brother, what does 'his m' mean?" "What are you talking about?" The soldier immediately turned his face, looked at Li Deyi's puzzled expression again, opened his mouth, but didn't scold, "Hmph, the leopards in the countryside don't know this, this is a victory curse." "Huh?" "At the beginning of the rebellion of Taizu in this dynasty...... this soldier didn't see that it was also a chatterbox, so Li Deyi pulled it away, and it couldn't be closed before he finished speaking, "At that time, Taizu's soldiers were less than a thousand, and there were only a few people such as Cao Shuangmu and Zhao Shichu. Whenever there is a war, Taizu must personally speak and mobilize, and in the end, it often ends with the words 'he is m, fight with them', and then always have the ability to defeat the enemy. Especially against the Dingguo battle of the southern invasion of the Hun Bear Khanate at that time, Taizu personally commanded 800 cavalry of the headquarters, rushed straight to the Hun Bear 100,000 iron cavalry, broke the 10,000 Golden Horde Iron Floating Slaughter of the Chinese Army, and beheaded the Hungarian general Jin Wuzhu. On the occasion of victory, Taizu looked up to the sky and laughed, and then shouted loudly, 'He M's, cool', and from then on, the phrase 'He M's 's' became the victory mantra of this dynasty. Later generations say that Taizu has won all battles in his life, and he has never been defeated thanks to this curse. The sergeant said this, his mouth full of spittle and stars flying around, and his face was proud.

Li Deyi, who left Liquan Village for the first time in his life, was also the first time he heard someone talk about the great achievements of the founding Taizu of this dynasty. A half-grown ten-year-old child, the first time he heard the victory mantra of 'his m', he always felt that he seemed very familiar, but it was the first time he heard it, and Li Deyi's little mind was full of doubts.

"Oh, here, you wait here, I'll go get you some food. Don't run around, you'll be beheaded if you run around in the camp. When the soldier had given his order, he turned and went out.

Li Deyi waited in the tent obediently, and waited for most of the hour without waiting to eat, but he heard the noise of people and horses outside the tent, and the louder the voice, Li Deyi couldn't help but open the military tent and walked out.

Stretched out his hand to stop a soldier who was passing by in a hurry, and asked, "This big brother, what's the matter, why are you so flustered?" When the soldier saw that it was a half-grown child who stopped him, his eyes rolled and he said: "The battle on the city wall is tight, and the Tuliao cavalry has used a new type of rocket this time, which will explode and injure many of our brothers." The wounded barracks is running out of manpower right now, so you're going to serve the wounded, right? You've been conscripted in wartime! I'll go to the wounded barracks and take care of the wounded soldiers, and come with me. "Don't let Li Deyi distinguish it, drag Li Deyi to the wounded barracks.

Entering the wounded barracks, the soldier pulled Li Deyi and came to an old medical officer, "Old medical officer Sun, I have found someone for you again, don't look at it as a child, he is used to farm work, and he has strength, don't worry." He turned his head and asked, "Boy, what's your name?" My name is Li Deyi. Li Deyi timidly replied, and the Sun medical officer glanced at Li Deyi and asked, "Will you serve patients?" "Yes, my mother died of cold, and she was sick in bed for three months, and I was waiting for her." "Oh, a filial child. You go and wash these bandages, and when you're done, put them in a big pot of boiling water over there and cook them for a quarter of an hour, and then you take them out and dry them, you know? "This old doctor Sun ordered a series of tasks in one breath." How can this Doctor Sun see a quarter of an hour? I won't. Doctor Sun looked at Li Deyi with a serious face, stretched out his hand and pointed to the side, "Do you see the glass leaky pot over there, that scale leaks out of one grid, it is half an hour, and a quarter of an hour is a small half grid." ”

Li Deyi has never seen the glass when he is so old, and he is staring at the glass leaky pot at this time, and from time to time he stretches out his hand to touch it, but he retracts it when he doesn't touch it, for fear of breaking it. Doctor Sun put a wooden basin of bandages into Li Deyi's arms, "Go wash it quickly, and look back later." This thing doesn't have long legs, so it can't run. Li Deyi took the large wooden basin with great difficulty, came to the edge of the pool, lowered his head and began to wash the bandages, and the blood washed off the bandages stained the whole pool red, and then the blood water flowed down the dug ditch into the sewer.

The basin for washing bandages was not far from the entrance of the wounded barracks, and as soon as Li De was washing, he heard someone shouting in a hoarse voice at the camp gate, "Is the old medical officer there?" Mr. Li was seriously injured, so hurry up. As soon as Li De heard that it was Mr. Li who was injured, he raised his head, just in time to be seen by the soldier, "That kid, come and help, Mr. Li is going to die." Li Deyi shook his hand twice, touched the blood on his hand indiscriminately on his body, and hurriedly ran over to help. That kid, you press down on Lee's wound and press it hard to keep the blood from coming out. Li Deyi glanced at Mr. Li on the stretcher, and he was dizzy from the blood all over his body. On the stretcher, Li kept his eyes closed, unconscious, and half of his chest was full of horrific blood, not big, but very deep, a lot, and kept bleeding out. Li De gritted his teeth, and just as he was about to press his hand to hold down the wound, he was held by a pair of big hands, "Don't move, the wound can't be wet, this is the rule, use this white cloth to dry your hand and press it again." "It turned out that Doctor Sun rushed over, with a young apprentice with him.

Doctor Sun carefully observed General Li's wounds, looked up and asked the soldiers who sent him over, "What's the matter, how did you get injured?" Tell me about it. The soldier replied, "The Tuliao rangers who came down from the city and released a wave of arrows into the city, which is the usual method of the Tuliao people, and we didn't care, so we just hid behind the shield bearers." Who knew that the Tuliao people didn't know what crooked tricks they made on the arrow this time, and the arrow would explode when it was inserted into the shield, injuring many people at once. "What's the matter with these tiny wounds?" Doctor Sun then asked. "It should have been a fragment of an arrow." The soldier pondered and replied. Medical Officer Sun turned his head and instructed the apprentices beside him: "Prepare the Taizu treatment technique immediately, and bring my instrument box." After that, he pointed his index finger at Li Jiangzong's temple, and after a while, he saw that Li Jiangzong was completely unconscious. He also instructed Li Deyi: "You come and pull out Li General's armor, and the blood sticks and can't be pulled out, so use this knife to pull it away." After speaking, he handed Li De a small knife, and the blade flashed with a faint blue light.

Li Deyi has seen a lot of dead people in the past two days, and he has also buried a lot of dead people, so he picked up a knife at this time and pointed it at Li Jiang's body with a total blood, only when he was dead, he didn't tremble much. Calmly used the blade to carefully pull open the clothes against the skin, and then pulled the sleeves and shoulders of the clothes apart, and took off the cotton armor on Lee's upper body, and then put the bloody cotton armor into the wooden basin. Li Deyi raised his head and said to Doctor Sun, "Doctor Sun, I've got it done." ”

Doctor Sun didn't expect it to be so soon, and his eyes showed appreciation, "Apprentice, you go and carry Mr. Li to this platform with this kid." When he had finished speaking, he turned his head and continued to roast his utensils over the fire.

A small child, no matter how strong he is, it takes a lot of effort to carry an adult man. As soon as Li put him on the platform, Li Deyi immediately began to stand there panting, his little face was red, and his forehead was sweaty. Doctor Sun's apprentice handed over a white cloth, "Use this to wipe it, and we'll be busy later." "Well," Li Deyi knew that this was not the time to rest, so he put down the white cloth after wiping it a few times, rolled up his sleeves, and went about his work.

At this time, Doctor Sun's equipment was also ready, and a white mask was also worn on his face to cover his mouth and nose. Li Deyi was stunned, and the little apprentice next to him also handed him a cover, "Wear it, this is called a mask, and it is also mandatory to wear according to the regulations." "Hmm" Li Deyi agreed, and hurriedly began to wear a mask, wearing it wrong several times, and finally put it on.

At this time, Doctor Sun first took out a bottle of water-like things, dipped it in a white cotton ball, and wiped it near Li Jiang's wound, and Li Deyi smelled a smell of wine wafting out. Immediately afterwards, the old doctor Sun used a knife to open the wound on Li Jiang's chest, and began to take the apprentice's handover, all kinds of tools that Li Deyi couldn't name were pulled in Li Jiang's chest, and from time to time he took out a small piece of iron and handed it to the little apprentice next to him. At this time, Li Deyi was responsible for taking the used utensils from the hands of Doctor Sun's apprentices, putting them in an iron pot filled with boiling water, and throwing the small pieces of iron taken out into an iron box alone.

Li De, who had never seen this kind of scene, was attentive at first glance, and the villain was very clever, but he did not delay the work in his hand. It wasn't until Li De's legs were numb that Dr. Sun took off the mask on his face, exhaled a long breath, tiredly found a chair to sit down and rest, and turned his head to look at the glass leaky pot, "It took an hour and a half." Apprentice, write it down. Looking up again, there were already more than a dozen soldiers carried in by Minzhuang, and Medical Officer Sun couldn't help frowning, "Why is the battle so tragic, it's only been more than an hour, there are so many seriously wounded, and the Tuliao people are not good at coming this time." ”

Li Deyi took a look at the dozen or so soldiers, all of them were the same as Mr. Li, they all had heads, chest wounds, all small wounds, many wounds, very deep, and a lot of blood. There are a few people who have suffered a lot of head injuries and have no breath.

Doctor Sun walked around the dozen or so soldiers, pointed with his hand, and pointed seven people to Li Deyi and instructed: "You take off the armor of these seven people first, these seven people are slightly injured, and they still have time to be saved." "It's said that it's armor, but in fact, only one of these seven people wears armor, and it's just cotton armor, and the other seven people are only wearing military uniforms." Yes", Li De agreed in his mouth, and began to unload the armor of these seven people neatly.

Old Medical Officer Sun arranged for the little apprentice to treat the less injured people, and he dragged his tired body to take out the arrow fragments in the body of several seriously injured people.

After a while, five more people were brought in, and at this time, even Li Deyi began to feel that something was wrong.