My years as a soldier

It was early spring, Chen Fan and Yan Zhaozhong went straight to Captain Wang Du's residence with a dozen or so soldiers with their own thoughts.Chen Fan reported the situation under Shaji Ridge truthfully, but what he didn't expect was that Captain Wang, who was always tactful and good at flattering, rejected Chen Fan's proposal without hesitation.

"No. Withdrawing troops is definitely not an option. Once this matter is revealed, our entire regiment can't afford to go around!"

Wang Du's face was solemn, and there was obviously a trace of panic in his heart, but Chen Fan didn't understand why he was obviously afraid, but refused to find a way out for himself?If he really wants to be questioned by the superiors and spend some money to clear up the relationship, he doesn't believe that it can't be done.

"But if you stay here, it will only last for a few days at most. In the end, it will be all the officers and soldiers of our second regiment who are injured."

"Chen Fan, don't think about it. In short, it can't be done, absolutely not! Tang Jun has no tradition of retreating without a fight. If I retreat from this battle, I'll tell you—it's worse than death! Look at it. For the sake of our past relationship, I can pretend that you never mentioned this matter, but if anyone else dares to say such things in front of me, I will kill him directly, believe it or not!"

When it came to Wang Du's words, Chen Fan couldn't say anything more.And when he left, he saw Wang Du's gaze was chilling.He really wanted to kill someone...

Even though Wang Du was tactful, he was undoubtedly a qualified officer when it came to such important matters as defending his family and the country, and he would rather die in battle than take a step back.

Chen Fan admired Wang Du's integrity, but when he withdrew from Wang Du's room, he couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

Yan Zhaozhong was waiting outside, and when he saw Chen Fan coming out, he went up to meet Chen Fan in three steps at a time.

"How about it?"

"No... Captain Wang refuses."

Chen Fan's face was pale, and even his voice was false.

At this time, more than a dozen soldiers waiting on the side also surrounded them.They were not surprised by this, and only glanced at Chen Fan contemptuously.

"Why do you want to be a soldier if you're afraid of death..."

"What a shame, why did I trust him..."

I don't know which soldiers said it casually, Chen Fan's heart trembled, and his face flushed red.

At this moment, not only did he feel that he had no hope of surviving, but at the same time, compared with Wang Du and the tens of thousands of Beiting Army soldiers, he was even more ashamed, as if he was the only one in the entire Beiting Army, a weak man who was greedy for life and afraid of death, It seems that he is just stepping on the stone path of the garrison, and he is tarnishing the reputation of Tang Jun.

Chen Fan still remembers Wang Du's roar at the beginning of the battle.

That day, on the wilderness in the northwest, the sky was full of yellow sand, and the man with exquisite beard and hair put away his usual sleek smile and went into battle in armor.He stood in the very center of the fortress, the most obvious place, with two old Tang Army banners behind him, fluttering in the wind.

The palm of Chen Fan's hand holding the bow and arrow was soaked with sweat.Following Wang Du's roaring order, all arrows were fired.The dense rain of arrows fell to the ground at the moment when the enemy army was about to enter the range.The Uighurs held up their shields to resist, but many arrows were still embedded in human flesh.

Blood spattered, and Chen Fan watched the Uighurs walking in the front staggered and fell to the ground under the rain of arrows, but he still trembled uncontrollably. There were too many enemy troops. It was also completely cut off by the cavalry sent by the Uighurs.

He had never felt that death was so close to him at a moment, and that sense of fear seemed to swallow him alive.Chen Fan's hand holding the bow couldn't help shaking, and at a certain moment he felt that he would lose control of his hand holding the bowstring.The muscles on his arms began to convulse due to tension, until Wang Du stood on a high place, under the banner of the Tang army, and shouted "shooting arrows" for the second time——

Chen Fan took a deep breath, followed the rhythm of the whole regiment, and let go of his hand suddenly, causing the long arrow to shoot out through the air, making a loud arrow sound.

However, the Tang army's resistance was in the Uighur army who could not see the edge of the city at a glance, but it could only play a short-term delay.The Uighur officers are not fools. Knowing that the Tang army is condescending and defended with bows and arrows, they will not charge directly.

Under the command of the cavalry general in the rear, they had just entered the range of the Tang bow, and they retreated in a serious manner, retreating more than ten meters, and waited for the Tang army to set up the bow and arrow again, and then ordered the soldiers in the front army to hold the shield. The dense posture marched forward.

"This is clearly to lure us to shoot arrows..." The comrade beside him sighed in a low voice.But if the Tang army didn't shoot arrows at the shield group of nearly a thousand people, the Uighur army would attack the city.Wang Du, who was standing in the center of the fortress, ordered the arrows to be released over and over again, and the two sides were in a stalemate.Chen Fan's arm was sore, even though he was not afraid, his fingers and arms were still trembling due to lack of strength.But Wang Du didn't give the order to suspend. Everyone in the city knew that once they stopped drawing their bows, they would be the ones who would suffer the next.

Chen Fan couldn't figure it out.He didn't understand why Wang Du dared to stand in such an obvious place to help the army. Even if he wanted to command, he could still hide among the soldiers.The Uighurs don't know which is an officer and which is a soldier.But Wang Dufei had to choose a position that couldn't be more obvious, and he still wore his solid armor that was exclusive to the captain.Isn't he afraid of being shot through the head by an arrow from the Uighur soldiers under the city?

Although Chen Fan was puzzled, he had no intention of paying attention to Wang Du at this moment.After about half an hour of arrow formation defense, all the arrows allocated in their hands have been shot, and then...

The Uighur soldiers had already noticed the current situation on the side of the Tang army, and their marching speed suddenly accelerated.Standing on a high place, Wang Du suddenly pulled out his horizontal knife, and the four drummers at the head of the city beat the drumbeat before the charge, while Chen Fan's clothes were already soaked in sweat, half from cold sweat and half from fatigue.

"Follow! Fold!"

Wang Du suddenly roared together.

Like the four drummers, he stood tallest and had the widest view.Before Chen Fan could see clearly what the Uighurs were doing, he was pushed down by Yan Zhaozhong beside him.Under the city, a rain of arrows suddenly struck.Now, all the more than [-] Tang troops on the garrison had come within range of the Uighur archers.

The dense sound of arrows above his head made Chen Fan's scalp numb. There were not many places to hide on the walls of the fortress, just enough for the more than two hundred of them to lean against the wall and lower their bodies.But even if some people shrink in the corner, they will still be pierced by the arrows falling from the sky.The distance from east to west of Langya Fort is only 200 meters. In the case of being surrounded, there is actually nowhere to hide on this small fort.

The fear deepened with the density of the arrow rain.Chen Fan could clearly hear his own breathing, and he flinched on the ground. The outside sounds seemed to become false as he covered his head with his arms, and the only real thing was his own breathing and heartbeat.

Finally, the sound of arrows above his head dissipated, and Chen Fan had no time to think, and he didn't even have time to control his trembling hands to stop trembling. He only heard Wang Xiaowei's roar of "meet the enemy", and he could only passively follow everyone around him. They raised their bodies from behind the wall, and as they had done countless times, two groups of two lifted the huge stones prepared in advance, and threw them at the enemy troops rushing madly below the city.

A few were smashed by the stones they threw, but not enough, there were too many...they were too many! !

Chen Fan's palms were covered with sweat. The muscles on his arms trembled uncontrollably due to the exhaustion of his strength. Even his breathing rate was chaotic. He only opened his mouth wide and subconsciously inhaled the maximum amount of air, causing the congested lungs to continue to breathe. Send energy to the body.

"Fuck down!"

Lieutenant Wang's voice seemed to come from the sky, Chen Fan mechanically shrank into a ball behind the wall, the screams of his companions being shot by random arrows, and the roar of several other brigade commanders in the regiment to cooperate with the command.Among all the officers, only Chen Fan never issued a single order. He trembled like a recruit, and the disappointment and shame after being rejected by Wang Du pulled each other, which made him almost feel ashamed.

But I still don't want to die...

Tears welled up in Chen Fan's eyes, and when he turned his attention to Wang Du who had always been in the center of the fortress, he was a little dazed.

It was only natural that Wang Du had several arrow wounds stained red with blood. Standing in such an obvious place, it would be strange if he didn’t get shot. The arrow was lost in the body, and he swung the horizontal knife, encouraging the whole regiment to continue fighting on the high platform in the center.

"Throw stones! Throw stones before they climb up!"

Amidst Wang Du's indistinct roar, Chen Fan mechanically lifted the boulder at his feet, and threw it towards the black crowd under his eyes.

After a while, piles of corpses formed under the walls of Langya Fort, and above the walls, Chen Fan only felt that these arms were no longer his own.The Uyghur soldiers started to climb towards the top of the fort by stepping on the stairs made of the corpses of their companions.Chen Fan subconsciously drew out the horizontal knife, leaped over the battlements, and slashed at the struggling man below.

"Kill! Kill them!"

Finally, half an hour after the war started, Chen Fan himself, as the commander of the brigade, shouted the first order.His eyes were bloodshot, the veins on his forehead were bulging, and the skin all over his body was flushed with emotion.

"kill!!"

Soon, this offensive and defensive battle entered the final stage of hand-to-hand combat. Both sides were red-eyed, rationality could no longer dominate consciousness, and everything was attributed to the biological instinct to survive.The men on the city wall turned into wild beasts, and stayed on the Langya Fort where the sound of killing was loud, until the afterglow of the setting sun cast across the city.

Chen Fan no longer remembered how many people he had killed, he only knew that in the end, he couldn't even stand up.His two arms were shaking badly, the hand holding the knife was completely numb, and the tearing sensation in his lungs made every breath he took had burning pain.

"The Uighurs have retreated!"

Someone yelled, and Chen Fan stepped over the corpse of his comrade on the ground. He felt that his body was extremely heavy, his legs seemed to be filled with hundreds of catties of shot, and every step he took was extremely painful.

Across the blood-stained walls, Chen Fan saw the main force of the Uyghurs retreating slowly. The Uyghurs had only retreated a distance of no more than three miles, and they set up camp on the spot. The encirclement circle surrounding the entire Langya Fortress was still the same encirclement circle. The whole war, It's only just started.

"Captain Wang...Captain Wang!"

Shouts came from nowhere, and Chen Fan looked at a group of people in a daze, talking about something.

He took heavy steps, as if he had walked for a long time, before reaching the periphery of the group of people.Chen Fan pushed aside the body crowded in front, poked his head and looked in.

He saw Wang Du's face was pale, lying on the ground of the fortress. He had five or six arrow wounds on his body, and there were also fine knife wounds on his waist and abdomen.Wang Du's breathing was heavy, and the adjutant kneeling beside him cried, but more people just kept their faces stern, and their eyes were on the dying officer's face, with solemn expressions.

Chen Fan didn't hear what Wang Du said before. When he arrived, Wang Du was almost speechless. He suddenly raised a hand, as if to grab something, but soon the hand dropped down. , the adjutant who had followed Wang Du for more than ten years looked in the direction the finger was pointing at, and saw Chen Fan's face.

"Captain Wang! Are you going to be called Chen Lushuai? Chen Lushuai! Come here quickly!"

But Chen Fan didn't want to go there at all.He stared at Wang Du's pale face from afar, and the shame that surged in his heart made him frown for a moment. He didn't want to face Wang Du, especially at this time.

"Chen Lvshuai! Come here!"

Under the urging of the adjutant, Chen Fan walked slowly. He was dragged to Wang Du from left to right.The adjutant cried and pinned his back, making him bend down to listen to Wang Du.Chen Fan frowned tightly, but there was no trace of grief on his face, as if the muscles on his face were numb along with it, he bent down and put his ear to Wang Du's mouth.

"The second group... Live..."

Just a few words.Chen Fan only felt that his heart was completely pierced by that breathless voice.His heart was beating wildly, he wanted to live, of course he wanted to live!

"What did Captain Wang say?"

"Hey... Captain Wang is dead..."

Chen Fan was suddenly pulled away from Wang Du by a strong hand.The military doctor stretched out his hand to the bottom of Wang Du's nose.

"Captain Wang is dead."

The military doctor's voice was very low, and the adjutant closest to Wang Du was already crying.

"Everyone... Early this morning, Colonel Wang gave me a secret letter. He said that if he had any troubles, he would ask me to open the secret letter and announce it to everyone."

The adjutant wept, and took out a wooden card with a lacquer seal from his lapel.He shook the seal, and a thin silk cloth fell out of the wood chip.

"This..." The adjutant took the silk cloth with writing in his hand, and showed it to everyone in front of him.

"This is Chen Lushuai's provisional letter of appointment. After Wang Xiaowei passed away, the second regiment was temporarily commanded by Chen Fan's brigade commander. There is also Wang Xiaowei's military seal on it..."

Facing the letter of appointment in his hand, the adjutant was obviously a little puzzled, everyone was discussing, and Chen Fan stood in the crowd with his head down, his fists clenched, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.

The second group, live...

He repeated these words back and forth in his mind, tears already wet his eyes.

The author says:

I have been busy preparing for interviews for the last three times, plus various activities during the Chinese New Year, I am really sorry for last week and last week, I will try to find time to update (T▽T)