The sun was half-hanging, and the two young men who waved goodbye to the blacksmith with tears were shed, and came to the school field of military training after being dressed neatly.

At this time, there was already a group of thinly dressed teenagers standing in the corner of the wide school field, about a hundred or dozens of people, all of them were thin and low, and their faces were full of vegetables. Wearing uniform gray and black coarse cloth clothes and pants, full of patches, many babies are still barefoot, black and black feet are full of thick calluses, a group of people gathered together, they looked at the blades and equipment piled up on both sides of the school field, although they were very curious, but they did not dare to speak loudly, let alone come forward to touch, more than 100 people were like more than 100 little chickens, leaving the shelter of the chicken coop, full of curiosity and uneasiness about this strange environment.

They are a group of hungry babies who can't survive at home, and they haven't eaten for a few days at home, and their parents just cry and tell them that they won't be hungry when they come to this place, and the brothers next door came a few days ago, and now those brothers can get two buckets of rice every seven days, and the little dolls who call them brother will no longer be hungry and cry, but they have never seen those brothers come back. As for what to do here, the adults didn't say, but just instructed them, when they got here, they should listen to the officials, do whatever others tell them to do, don't be stubborn, don't run around, don't be afraid of hardship, if they are not wanted to come back, the mothers and siblings will be hungry again.

The young men know best what it is like to be hungry, and naturally they can't ask people to go back, they all secretly swear in their hearts, no matter how hard and tired they are, even if they are whipped by others, they can't be sent back, even if it's really like what others say, if you come here, you can't go back. Although in their ignorant hearts, they don't quite understand what life is, but they are also ignorant and know that it will never be an ordinary thing, because every time they say the word "life", A-Niang's tears are like rain in the sky, and they can't stop. Grandpa is long gone, in order for Grandma and his younger brothers and sisters not to starve, it doesn't matter if he is the eldest brother who loses his life.

The two of the young Dongjia came to the school field and met the leader Captain Wang, they replied to the military order, and together with a few other people, they stood behind the captain, a column of more than a dozen young sergeants, looking coldly at the group of little chickens in front of them, with mixed feelings in their hearts.

Dozens of children came to the school one after another, and when Captain Wang saw that the number of children was about the same, he ordered that it be arranged, first divided into four columns according to their age, and then registered their names and places of origin, and assigned different drill contents according to their personal conditions. More than a dozen people in the Shaodong family are also familiar with the task of training recruits, and soon divided the more than 200 dolls, which were divided into four columns according to their size, the lowest row of dolls can be shorter than the highest column by a whole head, and the short dolls were even more anxious by this obvious contrast between the high and low, and they were afraid that they would be driven home because of their thin body, which would be too bad. Fortunately, the commanders in armor only registered their names and places of origin one by one, and they didn't inquire about the age that the dolls were most worried about.

If there is a ghost in my heart, I am afraid to walk at night.

Worried about the age of the questioned, these children naturally have ghosts in their hearts, listening to the adults, the officials above said that the age of the solicitation must not be less than thirteen years old, and there are two or three out of ten of them who are less than thirteen, and those who grow tall and strong every day, although they know that they are not old enough, but they rely on the height advantage to raise their heads and chests, and they can barely mix up, but those who are low and short, can be estimated at a glance, this must be a Xibei goods, they tremble, only afraid of being found out transparently. Fortunately, those officers didn't seem to plan to take the tape measure one by one, and they didn't know if they could fool through this level, and the babies couldn't help but feel uneasy in their hearts, and they only hated their parents for giving birth so late.

Worried that these children are not the most worried in the whole group, and the most drumming in their hearts are the twenty or so children, who think that this level is really difficult to get through. Before coming, although Ah Niang and grandmother specially dressed up for them, at the moment of standing in the school field to be examined, they themselves seemed to be the little monsters under the demon mirror, and they were afraid that they would be exposed at a glance, so that people could see through it.

Not anything else, because they are girls.

Since ancient times, whoever is an emperor and a general will not use women to fight, who knows whether the women and Mulan are true or false, at least in their cognition, they have never heard of a precedent for girls to go into battle to kill the enemy, because not to mention fighting now, that is, if they don't fight, girls are not allowed to run around outside often. But in the current situation, I can't take care of so much, God doesn't pick men and women when he starves to death. The adults of these female dolls' families were also forced to have no tricks, holding the luck of a dead horse as a live horse, cutting their braids, smearing their hands and faces black, and letting them wear Daddy and Brother's clothes, mixed in a group of male dolls, hoping to get into the army so that they could change some rations for the family. Grandpa and Daddy have long since died, and the brothers are also dead, and there are only grandma and aunts and younger brothers left in the family, and these girls are the only hope of survival. Although I know that it is unlikely to succeed, these more than 20 female dolls were still sent over to try, and I heard that some people used this method to dress up female dolls as male dolls and mix them into the barracks, and they have not been found until now. The family also got some rations because of these female dolls, and the rest of the people have survived until now. Maybe those people in the army are blind and can't see their own details, maybe if they are lucky, they can also blend in, so that the family will not have to go hungry and have nothing to eat.

The instructors of the swarthy boy and the young owner are naturally not blind, their eyes are the powerful and discerning demon mirror, those who are not old enough and women disguised as men, they don't need to open their mouths to ask, just from their dodging expressions and deliberate outfits, they can see the details of these babies clearly. However, Wang Erxiao, the soldiers who inspected and interrogated, all chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb, turned a blind eye to these clumsy disguises, and acted like an official who handled the case and fooled things, but when recording those girls, he used a pen to make a circle in front of their names to distinguish them.

More than half an hour has passed, and more than 200 chicks who came to apply for the recruitment have been registered, and the roster has been reported, which is twenty or thirty more than yesterday's preliminary statistics. This is also usual, the number of people recruited each time is either more or less, less because the family is reluctant to send the baby to death, and would rather stay hungry than the baby, looking forward to the blessing of the gods and Buddhas, there will be a turnaround, and more because many family members can't make up their minds when they are recruited for the first time, and they can't bear to put their own flesh and blood there to die. But after crying all night and fighting all night, I really couldn't stay up at home, and when I got there, I might be able to live for a while, so I could only grit my teeth and send the baby with all my heart.

It's better to live a little longer than a little less.

More than 200 chicks were divided into four groups, led by more than 20 young sergeants, and went to their respective barracks. According to the number of people on the roster, one person and two nest heads, and the four people in the room under the gaze of the small knife in the gang, each with two big burdens and black bumps, returned to their barracks, and distributed them to the dozens of chicks they had newly recruited according to their heads.

Looking at the black nest head distributed to his hand, these dolls who have been hungry for several meals are still timid, only knowing one hand and one hand, holding it tightly, looking at the black nest head in his hand, he is not sure if it is really for them, and none of them dare to bite it.

The young owner sighed and said in a somewhat majestic voice:

"Everyone obeys the order, eat the rations in their hands immediately, and gather at the gate of the barracks after eating, there must be no mistake!"

These frightened chicks listened to this vicious order, only then did they pick up the nest in their hands, tentatively bite, and did not dare to chew, until they saw that the cold officers were gone, a group of children only ruthlessly filled the nest in their hands into their mouths, hungry for so long, and finally had something to eat, one by one the little chicks instantly turned into vicious little wolf cubs, and the nest was finished in three or two clicks, and after eating, they licked the residue in the gap between the palms with their tongues, and they were all satisfied, smiling, and happy in their hearts, This place seems to be pretty good, it seems that it is really the right place, and some even resent Grandma for not sending them over for a long time, and she has been hungry for so many days in vain!

The swarthy boy was not in the barracks, he was walking to a camping house in the inner city with the twenty or so disguised female dolls. Before they even got there, the air was already filled with the scent of herbs and a faint smell of blood. The place where the twenty or so of them were going at this moment was the wounded barracks, where all the soldiers were recuperating from the wounded, and when they were far away, they saw many strips of white cloth hanging on the branches, all of them washed and white, and they were drying in the sun.

In fact, every time the military department recruits recruits, the details are clear, and Zhang Zhongcheng and Xu Taishou are well aware of the situation. In the first three months of the war, the war was tense, and most of the people mobilized and recruited from the people in the city were young and vigorous adult men, although these people had no real combat experience, but after all, most of them were poor farmers, of course, who was willing to work for their lives. Although these people can't dance knives and guns, but perennial field farming, the strength is still very sufficient, may stand at the head of the city with a bow and shoot arrows may not be good, but raise a shield to protect the archers, push and pull the defensive equipment, carry arrows and crossbow machines, repair the city wall fortifications is indeed very effective, to those who really defend the city thousands of veterans, the perfect solution to the worries, so that thousands of veterans defending the city, can free up their hands to attack at will, plus the city wall is thick, the moat is wide and deep, many attacks of thieves can not succeed.

Although the thieves are menacing, claiming to have an army of 140,000, there are only tens of thousands of people who can really be used to siege the city. Suiyang City has a long history, since ancient times it is the throat of the soldiers, so the city walls of Suiyang City are built in accordance with the standards of the military department, up to more than three zhang, two zhang five wide, the four city gates of the east, west, north and south are equipped with urn cities, there are six zhang wide and five deep moats on the four sides of the city, although Yin Ziqi's army is dense with many arrows, but because of the limited place, it is really distributed, and the maximum number of people directly involved in the attack of each city gate is only more than 10,000 people. Coupled with the span of the moat, the range of Hu Bing's bows and crossbows was only fifteen zhang, and when they reached the city and entered the effective range, before they pulled the bowstring from the bottom to the top, the arrows on the wall from top to bottom had already shot them into hedgehogs.

Although the soldiers defending the city took advantage of the time and place, there were many thieves who could not withstand the siege. On the defender's side, one side of the city gate can directly participate in the defense of the city with only a few hundred bows and crossbows, but there are thousands of crossbows on the opposite side, plus it is a dense shooting, one out of a hundred arrows can always shoot to the city wall, and one of the hundred shots can always shoot at the defenders, although the number of hits is not good, but the defenders can't afford to lose one. Fortunately, the peasant men who helped were also sharp, and as soon as they saw that someone was hit by an arrow, they immediately carried the person to the city for treatment, although they did not directly attack the enemy, but they also played a decisive role.

However, as the war dragged on for a few months, more and more people fell, and some of the peasant men who helped these helpers also transformed into good hands who could hold bows and crossbows, and the people who were responsible for the cover of the helpers at the bottom had become their sons and nephews. When the father dies and the son dies, the brother dies and the brother makes up, and life and death alternate. Slowly, the enemy's offensive was not so intensive, after all, thousands of people were killed and wounded in each battle, and no one could bear it.

In this way, the attacking and defending sides arranged their troops and arranged their own plans, and the battle turned from a storm at the beginning to a saw-like shape, and the main generals of both sides also racked their brains, and various tactics emerged one after another. It's just that in such a state of see-sawing, it is very difficult to defend the city, because of its own limited resources, whether it is manpower or grain and grass, it is in the sun and snow, and it is overstretched. On the besieging side, there are constant reinforcements and abundant men and horses, and under the advantages of one or the other, the life of every defender of the city is precious.

The defenders were protected by walls, deep rivers, tactical armor, and life-saving physician herbs. Fortunately, before defending the city, Zhang Zhongcheng and Xu Taishou had already calculated the huge loss of medicinal herbs, and they spent a huge amount of money to hoard a large number of medicinal materials and a lot of doctors, so the wounded battalion was able to treat and save a lot of wounded soldiers in this protracted war, and played an immeasurable role in the entire battle of defending the city.

The war is getting longer and longer, there are more and more wounded soldiers, and there are naturally more people needed, and many people who are not capable of the battlefield are recruited, Zhang Zhongcheng Xu Taishou also made the best use of his talents, and arranged them to the rear camps of the ordnance department of the wounded barracks, so that they can play a role there and provide assistance for the entire war.

When the first woman was recruited, Zhang Zhongcheng and they knew, and everyone discussed it for a long time, and finally chose to acquiesce. Although few women have participated in the war since ancient times, but the current situation is special, those who risk death to disguise themselves as men must be exhausted, otherwise they will not let the women come to see the blood and fight, not to mention that although these women can not directly participate in the defense of the city wall, but in the wounded barracks to help serve the wounded soldiers, in the ordnance to make crossbow arrows to repair the armor, it is still okay, weighing the pros and cons, the adults still gritted their teeth and accepted these women.

The swarthy boy also understood the orders from above, although he did not encourage it, but he really recruited it, and according to the usual practice, he was assigned to their respective suitable places.

A group of people entered the courtyard of the wounded barracks, and their eyes were full of busy figures. Many young soldiers were either taking care of the wounded or decocting medicine around the stove, there was a group of people washing bloody strips of cloth by the well, and those specially dressed field doctors were also going back and forth, silver needles flying in their hands, treating different wounded soldiers.

The wounded soldiers are also in different conditions, some are mild, maybe they are only minor injuries, or they have been recuperating for a long time, and their arms are only covered with some strips of cloth, some of them are recuperating, and some of them are walking back and forth, helping some people who can do their best; Some of the injuries were more serious, and there were faint blood stains oozing out on the cloth, so they lay helplessly, and many of them were covered with cold sweat because of the pain, so they could only grit their teeth and endure it, and only when they couldn't help but let out a painful moan, the doctors put a pulse on their bodies to analyze the injuries, and discussed how to use medicine to save them. As for the critically ill patients who had broken their hands and feet, they were all in the rooms at the back of the hospital, closely cared for, and those more tragic scenes were not easy to see from the outside.

The swarthy young man talked to the sergeant guarding here in a low voice, pointed to the twenty or so female dolls, explained the general situation, and instructed the twenty or so female dolls a few words, and then left the wounded barracks quickly.

The last place that the swarthy boy wants to go to in this city is not the southern city full of rich families, but the miserable wounded barracks. There are too many familiar faces here, all of them are suffering a lot at the moment, and he looks at these faces, but he can't do anything, every time he goes, his heart hurts even more, this is purgatory, it is his inner demon. So he quickly arranged for the recruits, and fled the place without looking back, and if he stayed for a quarter of an hour, there would be an extra scar in his heart.

In fact, everyone is the same, the wounded barracks is not only the demon of the swarthy boy, but also the demon of the young owner, and the demon of every city defender. They can face life and death, but they just can't face life and death. Therefore, many veterans, after being seriously injured, would rather choose to cut themselves off than go to the wounded barracks for treatment, on the one hand, they are unwilling to increase the burden on their comrades-in-arms, and even more importantly, they are unwilling to bear the process of passing their lives little by little.

They are afraid of death, but when that time comes, they want to die sooner, less painfully, less long, and with dignity.

After all, doctors are not immortals, although they have done their best, but the injury is hopeless, no matter how hard they try, it is in vain, but it is better to die quickly, die early and be born early, eighteen years later, Lao Tzu is a good man again!

Life is a lifetime of grass and trees,

The appearance of people and the admiration of a lifetime,

Unknown life, unknown death?

It was far away from the wounded barracks that the swarthy boy slowed down, looked up at the gray sky, and thought to himself that it might be raining.

He didn't know how many more times he would see it rain.

The sky continued to be so gloomy, just like the thoughts of a young man.