At about nine o'clock in the morning, on a section of the city wall of Qiuzi City.

He gritted his teeth and blushed.

Because of too much force, the green tendons on Xu Feng's head and neck are all raised high; The sweat on the door of the head continued to gush out, and soon the dusty face was turned into an extremely ugly big flower face.

Xu Feng, that is, Liu Bo.

In such a situation, carrying a large stone of more than 100 catties on his shoulders, he walked with difficulty along an upward ramp to the city wall.

Because of the heavy burden, every step he took was so difficult.

In the position behind him, seven or eight netizens such as Cang Guan and Zhan Ge are all in the same situation.

After they were assigned to the men of Liang Daya, the commander of the gang, together with a dozen or so other Tang soldiers, each of them carried a large stone, like a big animal, and transported it with great difficulty.

Saying! Before the large-scale use of gunpowder weapons, although the ancients had many means of defending the city, under the limited conditions, there were nothing more than a few.

Among them, the wood, rolling stones, and gold juice, these condescending means of throwing out, are the most commonly used.

So Xu Feng and the others were commanded by the gang leader Liang Daya, and carried the stones pulled back from the city by carriage from outside the city on the city wall piece by piece and placed them on the edge of the battlements.

Once the enemy army rushed to the bottom of the city, it was better to throw a stone on it.

With a muffled sound of 'dong~', Xu Feng, who finally carried the stone to the position, couldn't wait to throw the stone on the ground.

At the moment when he felt his whole body light, he seemed to be able to feel the cells in his whole body, cheering in a great lightness.

It's a pity that when he pulled open the hemp of the linen cloth on his shoulders a little, he could see that the shoulder that was carrying the stone just now was already bruised and swollen.

Special! This was the third piece to carry, and as a large number of carriages continued to enter and exit the city gates, there were more and more stones under the corners, and God knows when they would be finished.

If you can, Xu Feng and other netizens who are carrying stones really want to stop and rest for a while.

The problem is to look at the gray-haired old man who has to give up his seat on the bus in the modern plane, throws down the stone and turns around and walks towards the city.

These young and middle-aged people are really embarrassed to rest.

'Phew~', after spitting a mouthful of saliva, Xu Feng took two sharp steps forward and caught up with the gang leader Liang Daya, and asked a question that had been held in his heart since the morning:

"Liang Tou, why are there some veterans in the army?"

Under such a question, the warehouse manager and others also pricked up their ears one after another, and it was obvious that the scene they saw in the morning had too much impact on them.

The main reason is that they really can't understand what kind of reason makes such an unreasonable and even sad scene.

Where are the young people, all dead?

It's just that I haven't been able to find time to inquire; Now after seeing Xu Feng's question, he immediately listened attentively.

After hearing this, Liang Daya, who was wiping the sweat on his head with a handkerchief, said lightly:

"Why else? Since the land west of the river was occupied by the Tibetans in the fifth year of the Great Calendar, we have completely cut off contact with Guanzhong, and there has not been a single soldier in Guanzhong for 38 years.

The rest of us, after surviving year after year, are naturally some old pawns; All told, we've been in the land of the Western Regions for fifty years. ”

In fifty years, such a number fell on the ears of Xu Feng and others, leaving them speechless at all.

What else can be said? They couldn't imagine that in such a long period of time, all kinds of hardships hanging alone outside the territory, they only knew that if they were replaced by themselves, they would have gone crazy a long time ago.

And Xufeng's question is like opening Liang Daya's chatterbox.

He continued: "The second cavalry team of our Xuange Battalion had more than 150 people when it had the most men and horses, but now there are only 32 people?

In addition to those who died in war and disease over the years, many people died of old age.

After getting rid of some brothers who were too old to hold the sword, unable to pull the bowstring, and unable to step on the war horse, they could only make up such a few people. ”

Xu is rich life experience has made Liang Daya and others look down on many things, and when they say the above, their tone is actually quite flat.

But after Xu Feng and the others heard it in their ears, their hearts were even more suffocated.

Because they knew that in fact, it was the three and twelve people cobbled together by the second cavalry team, and they were also very reluctant.

It turned out that when they first saw these Tang troops fighting with the Tuyuhun people, the battle scene was like an artistic feeling.

The bigger reason is simply that they don't have enough physical strength, and they can only supplement it with rich combat skills.

In the time that followed, no matter how hard and tired Xu Feng and the others were, they never stopped carrying the stones, let alone said a word to rest.

Let's ask, who can rest in a group of nearly 70-year-old people, hunched over and carrying stones......

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At the same time, when the walls were covered with a little bloodstained stones, the number of piles increased.

About three miles outside the city, Hu Biao clenched an axe with both hands and kept chopping a birch tree with a diameter of 20 centimeters in front of him.

If you think about it, you can also know that the Tubo army came so far away, so naturally it couldn't bring heavy siege equipment.

It is only after arriving at the place that they will cut down trees to make simple siege equipment such as ladders, so it is best to cut down all the trees near the outside of the city before they arrive, so as not to make it convenient for the enemy.

Besides, once the city is besieged, tens of thousands of people are added to the city to cook on fire, and even to boil the gold juice, a large amount of firewood needs to be hoarded.

This is not! Hu Biao, Feng Rui and other six people were assigned to Zhou Dashui's captain, that is, netizens under the one-eyed dragon, and they came outside the city and began to cut down trees.

When the one-eyed dragon, an old man, with a relaxed expression, had already cut down two or three trees, the birch tree in front of Hu Biao finally fell down with a bang.

Sneaking a glance at his palms, Hu Biao found that several blood blisters had been ground out on his palms.

Just as Hu Biao was scolding and walking towards the next tree, the one-eyed dragon opened his mouth and shouted: "The doll surnamed Hu came over to drink saliva and take a little rest, you can't work, but your attitude is okay." ”

Boy! In such a comment that I don't know if it's a compliment, I almost can't fix Hu Biao.

After pouring a large mouthful of water into his mouth, Hu Biao also asked the same doubts as Xu Feng.

The difference is that after hearing those shocking answers, Hu Biao asked after a moment of silence: "Head, are you homesick?" ”

"Look at what you doll said, it's all flesh and blood raised by your father, how can you miss home."

As if hearing a joke, the one-eyed dragon laughed and cursed.

But then, the tone became bitter: "I'm not afraid of the doll, you joke, I don't know if it's because I'm old and dying, I always dream of my hometown in Dingzhou (Baoding)."

But I haven't been back for too long, and now I dream that even the appearance of my father and mother, as well as the mountains and rivers near my home, are blurred, and I can't remember it clearly.

There is no way to go back, not to mention the Tubo people on the road, the distance is a little too far.

I don't know how to read, but I heard that outside the Kaiyuan Gate of Chang'an City, His Majesty Taizong erected a stone tablet, on which there was a handwritten '9,900 miles to the Western Regions' written by Lord Yu Shinan himself.

When we started from Chang'an, we walked all the way, but we walked for several months to get here.

Now this old bone is that I can't go back. ”

Hearing this, Hu Biao couldn't wait to slap himself: "Pig brains? I didn't want to think about it before I opened my mouth, isn't asking such a stupid question rubbing salt in someone's wound? ”

As if venting, he put down the kettle, took the axe, and walked to the next tree.

After walking a few steps, I found that several netizens who were assigned to the one-eyed dragon together actually had a college student Gangzi who was said to have a lot of money and power in his family, and he was still sitting on the ground.

Gritting his back molars, he threw a sentence out of his mouth:

"Get up and cut down the tree, don't tell me you're still a child, or I'll kill you; At your age, they would have been thousands of miles away from home~"

Under Hu Biao's fierce eyes, the second-generation gangzi of a college student who had never suffered this kind of hardship, although he was extremely aggrieved in his heart, even hated Hu Biao to death at this moment.

Still with his head down, he held the axe on the ground with his hands full of blood blisters, and kept up with the footsteps of Hu Biao and others.

Say it or not! This is the first time that Hu Biao has used the identity of the so-called trainee commander, and the tone of voice to these nominal subordinates, and began to issue orders.

But after seeing this scene, Feng Rui didn't dislike this trainee commander at all......