Twelve hours before the sound of artillery was heard at Macheng Tower, Fushun military camp.

Except for the morning drill, the guards were ordered to enter a state of readiness at other times. All the staff rested, but the weapons and armor did not leave their hands. At noon, I had a good meal, full of meat and vegetables, and everyone was in high spirits. After all, he has never stopped since he joined the team, and he is tired every day.

It was just an hour break at lunch, and when we woke up, we realized that the atmosphere in the camp was not quite right. Several officers of the Guards were summoned for a lecture, and when they returned, they all had tense faces and looked like they were going to eat people.

Li Yanxi had just come out of the camp office of the Guards and had already received a combat mission. Due to the outstanding performance of his squad a few days ago, this operation was also used as a sharp knife squad - a frontal assault, tearing through the enemy's defenses, and opening the way for the deployment of subsequent troops.

It sounds very mysterious, but to put it bluntly, it is the first one.

Five days ago, Li Yanxi earned enough face for Zhou Qingfeng. Zhou Qingfeng cultivated him as the next tall bull and martial gate. I hope he can continue to work hard and make more achievements. But now that the pressure is on his shoulders, he is actually very worried in his heart.

After the small encounter at the dock, no one cared about the title of 'First Battle Meritorious Hero Class', but the reward of fifty taels of silver was eye-catching. Taking the silver is a pleasure, but Li Yanxi was really scared afterwards, the kind with weak legs - the Jurchen barbarian who just came ashore was really fierce, and when he saw the spear squad rushing over, he didn't mess at all, so he immediately bent his bow and shot several arrows with arrows.

Due to the suddenness of the incident and the fact that the distance was too close, before the Jurchen barbarians who showed off their might could give full play to their combat skills, Li Yanxi and the others stabbed their spears into the opposite side. It was only later that they discovered that three of the ten spearmen had been shot. The enemy shot accurately and hard, two of them were hit in the chest, and one was wounded in the arm. There is no missing arrow. If it weren't for his own good armor, he would have died this time.

If you think about the battle of the 'coal mining village', there are even more wounded. It is also fortunate that the medical conditions of the guards are good, otherwise the casualty ratio would be ugly. And this time, the guards actually wanted to take the initiative to launch a night attack on the strong enemy, and Li Yanxi, who was regarded as a sharp knife, suddenly felt his scalp tingling, his breath was disordered, his mood fluctuated violently before the war, and he even regretted that he was too reckless last time.

In ancient times, it was very unfortunate to be a soldier, and the quality of the soldiers was very poor. For example, if you commit a crime and are sent to the border, you will be given the title of 'thief with army', and in order to prevent deserters, you will have to tattoo words on the soldier's face. The Ming Dynasty even engaged in the military household system, calling soldiers as slaves. Ghosts can fight actively, and being a soldier is not as good as being a bandit.

When Zhou Qingfeng recruited soldiers, he deliberately did not accept those military households, but selected young people from the countryside and cities who did not have too many vices to be soldiers. In order to ensure combat effectiveness, a lot of money was spent on education, training, food, drink, and equipment. But the idea that 'a good man is not a soldier' is not so easy to dispel.

When defending passively, the Guards can also calm down. But now if you want to take the initiative to attack, you need to mobilize. This time, the entire Guards were dispatched, not only the three platoons of soldiers, but also all the logistics personnel, and even the cooking squad had to follow the battle. All rode and attacked, dismounted and fought. Strive to withdraw from the battle before dawn and return to Fushun.

In order to make the whole battle go smoothly, Zhou Qingfeng has been conducting intensive training for night running for three consecutive days. The first night was 50 miles on foot, and the next two days were 80 miles on horseback.

Today's meeting was held to assign specific combat tasks and emphasize battlefield discipline. Let all squad and platoon leaders remember the topography and architecture of the Gule Cottage. Because the maximum distance of Zhou Qingfeng's military formation link is only one hundred meters, and the distance between several platoons in the battle will definitely exceed one hundred meters. Therefore, grassroots commanders must be familiar with the battlefield environment, and they must be able to recover if they can disperse.

"Li Yanxi." A shout came, and Zhou Qingfeng strode into the door of the dormitory in the second row and one class. This is an old-fashioned barracks converted house, and it is full of Chase shops. He thought that he would have to enter the house to find Li Yanxi, but this person was sitting at the door with a sad face, "How is the combat readiness?" ”

Combat readiness?

Li Yanxi stood up one by one, only then did he remember that he had to prepare for war when he came back from the meeting, and organized all the team members to mobilize before the war. But I don't know what kind of mobilization method is. He had only been in the Guards for two months, had not yet graduated from the elementary literacy class, and was sometimes unable to speak.

Seeing Li Yanxi in a daze at the door, Zhou Qingfeng knew that he couldn't expect too much from these soldiers whose mud legs were still clean. He came down to inspect the work because he knew that it would be good if the people under him could go into battle to kill the enemy, and don't think about propaganda and agitation.

"A little nervous and scared, right?" Zhou Qingfeng patted Li Yanxi on the shoulder and said: "Don't be afraid of fighting, just like you made a contribution in the first battle a few days ago, there is only a blood in your heart, don't think about anything else." If you think too much, you will die quickly. Find something to do for yourself and tell your soldiers that it's time for war. In another hour, we will set off. ”

"Yes, sir." Li Yanxi straightened up and responded, and found that Zhou Qingfeng did not mean to leave immediately. He looked at the soldiers in the dormitory again, trying to calm himself, "Brothers, we are going to fight the Jurchen barbarians tonight and ride horses,......。 ”

Li Yanxi said a few words in his stomach, he turned his head and looked forward to Zhou Qingfeng leaving, and he also saved trouble. But Zhou Qingfeng stood at the door and smiled at him as a sign of encouragement. He could only search his intestines and continue to say: "Don't be afraid, the Jurchens are also human beings, and we stabbed one to death a few days ago. This time it's nothing more than a few more stabs. If you stab you to death, you will get a reward. ”

There were no words again, Li Yanxi turned around again, but Zhou Qingfeng still didn't leave. He took a deep breath, hesitated for a long time and shouted: "This ghost world is that you kill me, I kill you, I'm afraid it's useless." We are not precious lives, it is better to fight a future with knives and guns in hand.

I have always heard how powerful the Jurchen barbarians are, and this time I have to let them see that the men of the Han family are also good men. Many people said that we were lucky enough to get the reward money last time, but I was not convinced. The money is taken by our ability, this time we will kill a few more barbarians and shut up those gossiping. We are the heroes of the first battle, and we can't be bears today, we must kill him. ”

The more Li Yanxi spoke, the smoother he became, and in the end, he was murderous. The soldiers in the squad began to hear that they were going to the battlefield and took the initiative to trouble the Jurchens, and their faces were as pale as dirt one by one. But as they listened, their expressions changed. By the time Li Yanxi finished speaking, their morale was already bursting.

After Li Yanxi finished agitating, Wu Damen, as the platoon commander, gathered the whole platoon to give a lecture. This rough man was powerful, spoke loudly, and shouted fiercely: "The people in the row said that this time they will take the first credit." They are a ball, but I patted my chest with the adults to pack the ticket, and the first credit is naturally ours.

Some people are weak when they hear that they want to fight, and my martial arts gate is really ashamed of this kind of person. What are the Jurchen barbarians afraid of? Is it okay for them to eat with us? Do they have our weapons? Do they have us in their armor? Are they practicing with us? Those barbarians are poor and have nothing, only one cheap life. But their cheap lives are worth a lot, so they're waiting for us to kill them in exchange for a reward. ”

Hearing this, there were a bunch of people in the platoon ...... ha.

Wu Damen is a person with good physical talent, big size, and likes to bully others. He was born in the mountains and was no taller than a cow soaked in bitter water, with few rules to do things, more than bravery, and lack of finesse. But he was more liked by the soldiers than the tall bull with a board and eyes, and his soldiers were full of morale and made many mistakes.

On the other side, Gao Da Niu is also making the final combat mobilization. He carefully inspected all the soldiers' equipment and demanded that all details be handled in accordance with the regulations planned by Zhou Qingfeng, and that nothing would go wrong.

"Tonight's battle must be carried out exactly according to the plan of the adults, and nothing can be wronged. No one is allowed to advance lightly, nor is he allowed to fear the enemy. Adults have said that fighting a war is the business of all of us, and it is useless for a single person to be brave and strong. If you can fight more and less, you can fight less with more; If you can hold the strong and the weak, you will hold the strong and the weak; As long as we work together, no matter how strong the enemy is, we will not be afraid.

This time we are attacking at night, and the enemy must not have imagined that we would run so far to kill them. We've practiced two or three times, and we know exactly what problems we're going to encounter when we fight, and we all know what to do. As long as you have the bottom of your heart, there is nothing to be afraid of. Everything came according to the rules and plans, and we won. ”

The people in the first row were silent, as silent as their platoon commanders. But they do know what to expect, and their fear is greatly reduced. Most of the people who were injured in the previous battle of the 'coal mining village' were people from the platoon, and these wounded have now returned from injury. The people who have walked through the death line once are all very calm and can be used as backbones.

Compared with the two male platoon commanders with completely different personalities, the female soldiers in the third platoon of the Guards were in tears one by one. Unless when archery, Chai Jie, the leader of the third platoon, is a person with a very low sense of existence. She was sorting out the female soldiers in the platoon one by one, hugging them and whispering encouragement. The crying of the female soldiers was not because they were afraid of death, but because they were ready to sacrifice.

"The reason why we women are bullied all the time is because we are too weak."

"The bad guys call us like cattle and horses, because we are like cows and horses and they don't say a word until we die."

"In order for more women not to be bullied, the sisters have to stand up and fight."

"We're no worse than those men, and we can kill people, even more than them."

"Let those who look down on us be terrified when they hear our banner!"

The women's platoon originally consisted of only about a dozen people, but now it has expanded to more than 30 people and has become a complete medium-distance support unit. This is a team specially formed to reflect the politically correct topic of equality between men and women, anyway, everyone in Fushun City who has seen this female soldier team is extremely surprised, and there are various reactions, mostly negative.

In the past, the women in the barracks were all prostitutes, which was really the lowest among the three religions and nine streams. Now women are actually holding knives and guns in their hands to kill, and this change is too strong.

But no matter how much social exclusion is aroused, the women's platoon is the most united in the Guards. After being bullied, they definitely rebelled together. Everything is on par with male soldiers, even if they are really physically weak, they grit their teeth and persevere. They are the ones who work hardest in training. forced Zhou Qingfeng to strengthen their nutrition and regulate their physique. It is all too rare for a group with such a high revolutionary fervor.

Hardcore of hardcore, diehards of diehards.

This team didn't need Zhou Qingfeng to mobilize at all, he only ordered that he was going to fight, and the female soldiers took the initiative to fight, rushing to do the work of the sharp knife squad. They all came from a hard background, and they really held their breath and wanted to turn over and be their own masters.

When it's five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun is about to set.

After the whole guard was assembled, Xu Bing made the last morale encouragement. She used all her spiritual power to compress her strong fighting enthusiasm into a paragraph - set off, go to fight. Use your swords and guns for glory and victory!

Each of us is a child of the Han family who does not want to be a slave.

Although weak......

but also in the darkness of the eyes of strong enemies......

Fight your way through thorns and blood!