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Chapter 240 The Sleeping Soldier

"Captain, what's wrong with you? Why have you been covering your back, but you were injured?" Seeing that Xie Yuan's hand had been reaching for his back, Sun Tian said worriedly.

Xie Yuan shook his head quickly and said, "No, it's just that the leather armor has been torn for a long time, and it's a little... cold...".

When Sun Tian heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and quickly took off the white cloak on his back, handed it to Xie Yuan, and said:

"Put on this, maybe it will help... I'll go find you some clothes." After saying that, he left.

Xie Yuan took the white cloth cloak over, flung it off to cover her body, and tied the straps tightly, just enough to cover her upper body tightly, and she felt more at ease.

Because it was a night attack, there were not many dead bodies on the city wall.The soldiers cleaning the battlefield first dragged the corpses inside and arranged them in a row, leaving the defensive side of the city wall to prepare for the next battle.

The corpses of Wei Jun were placed in a row, and the corpses of his own people were placed in a row again. The difference was that the corpses of his own people were covered with white cloaks to cover their eyes.

They lay side by side on the wide city wall one by one, as if they were asleep.

And more living people sat leaning against the city wall, resting listlessly.

After walking such a long distance in the wind and snow all night, and fighting all night, at this time, the fighting is over, and all of them have exhausted their energy. No matter how cold the weather is, everyone is dumb-faced, as if their souls have left. Like the body, it's just a natural panting.

Xie Yuan walked past the soldier's feet.Seeing that there was an arrow that had fallen on the ground and she hadn't picked it up, she bent down to pick it up, and when she turned her head, she saw a soldier with his head hanging down, already asleep.

She poked the sole of the soldier's shoe with the arrow in her hand, trying to wake him up.

But there was no response after poking him, so he straightened up and kicked his calf violently.

The soldier suffered from the pain, and immediately woke up from his sleep. Before he opened his eyes, he raised the knife in his hand and slashed, hissing, "Kill!"

His movement directly shocked the soldiers who had been relaxed, and each of them tensed up immediately, looking around.

Some people got up from the ground in a daze, and started looking for the enemy with a knife.

Xie Yuan hurriedly dodged his knife by taking a wrong step, and when he raised his hand to pinch his wrist, the knife fell to the ground and reminded: "Wake up!"

The soldier stared at Xie Yuan in a daze, and became much more awake. He quickly stood up straight and said in horror:

"Captain, I fell asleep, I didn't do it on purpose!"

He spoke with a southwestern accent, trembling with fright, as if Xie Yuan would pull him to military law and kill him in the next second.

Xie Yuan comforted him with a slightly deep voice, and said: "I know, don't sleep. It's not like the southwest here. It's so cold, it's easy to freeze to death when you fall asleep. I've already asked the soldiers to help carry the food. Waiting to eat."

The soldier breathed a sigh of relief, curled his lips a little moved, and said with a shy smile:

"It's okay, Captain, I don't feel cold. When I just went to sleep, I felt like I had returned to my hometown. That would keep me warm."

Xie Yuan frowned when he heard that, took two steps towards him, and said with some concern: "I heard from veterans before that people would feel hot before freezing to death... Are you okay?"

When the Southwest soldier heard this, he trembled again in fright, and stammered, "I...I didn't...I don't know..."

Only then did Xie Yuan remember that there are so many people from the southwest, they have never seen snow before, and they don't know how to deal with the various dangers of the cold winter.

So Xie Yuan shouted: "Soldier!"

"Here!" The orderly who was helping to clean the battlefield nearby immediately ran over to listen to the order.

Xie Yuan said in a loud voice: "Go and tell the corporals, the people who watch you don't fall asleep, don't warm the frostbite directly, don't soak it in hot water, rub it with your hands, directly use hot water or roast the meat, it will rot."

"Decree!" The messenger greeted several people and ran along the city wall.

Xie Yuan looked at the Southwestern soldiers who were dumbfounded, and said, "What are you doing in a daze, tell them what I said...all get up and move around!"

"Yes!" He finally woke up from his daze, and trotted to tell his companion.

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Sun Tian found a suitable Wei army armor and put it on for her, and she kept walking along the city wall, watching the movement in the distance, and she could also pretend to be a Beiyi soldier.

Xiao Erdan came back after helping the big guy arrange the meals, and he and Sun Tian walked around behind Xie Yuan.

"Have you counted the casualties? How many people have been lost?" Xie Yuan asked.

"There are many missing people who have not been found. Preliminary estimates... more than half of the casualties." Sun Tian said.

Xie Yuan turned his head and took a look at him, with a serious expression on his face, looking like he was in deep thought, before continuing to walk.

After a while, Xiao Erdan asked with concern: "Lieutenant, find a place to rest. I'm tired all night, and I want to eat something. When we searched, we found a warehouse in the city. Food and There’s all the meat, so don’t save it.”

Xie Yuan snorted coldly as he walked, and said, "Hmph, it's not that Wei Jun searched it out. In such a cold day, I don't know how many people in the city will freeze to death because they have no food. Don't waste money. Send a few Personally, go to the center of the city to set up two big pots and serve porridge."

"Yes... After everyone finishes eating, I'll find someone to do it." Erdan Xiao quickly agreed.

Xie Yuan asked again: "The messenger sent to deliver the good news to the general should have arrived. I don't know when reinforcements will come."

Sun Tian said: "The snow is too deep, the road is not easy to walk, it may take a while."

Hearing this, Xie Yuan slowed down a bit, stopped, put his hand on the wall of the city wall, lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

Sun Tian quickly asked: "The lieutenant is afraid that the Wei army will have reinforcements coming first, and we people won't be able to defend it? Should we go to the city to recruit some people to help defend the city? After all, this city is full of Han people, and we don't want the Beiyi people to win." Understand."

Xie Yuan shook his head and said: "If they can count on it, they won't surrender so easily... Besides, untrained people are people, and they won't be of much use. What we have to do is to make people Wei Jun feels that this city has enough soldiers and is solid. Don't fight in a melee and let people treat it like a soft persimmon... We can't stand it, otherwise it will be useless."

"Then what should we do? Shall we send a few more messengers to ask the general for more people to remind us?" Sun Tian asked.

Xie Yuan sighed, stood up straight, folded his hands behind his back, looked into the distance and said:

"If there is a fight, the general will probably be the most short of people, and we can't ask for more."

The two soldiers behind her looked at each other, silent, and there was nothing they could do.

In any case, the lack of manpower is a flaw, and there are so many people that can't be changed.

Compared with the sufficient number of soldiers in the Wei army... they seem to be doomed to lose...

(End of this chapter)