"Colonel Lieutenant, what's wrong with you? Why are you injured when you keep covering your back?" Sun Tian said worriedly when he saw Xie Yuan's hand reaching behind his back.

Xie Yuan shook his head quickly and said: "No, it's just that the leather armor was torn with a big hole, 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 this on, it might help...I'll go find some clothes for you." After that, he left.

Xie Yuan took the white cloth cloak over, swung it open and covered her body, and tied the straps tightly, just enough to cover her upper body tightly, and she felt a little calmer.

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 surface of the city wall in preparation for the next battle.

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

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

And more living people were sitting against the city wall, resting with their heads dry.

After walking such a long way in the wind and snow one night, and fighting all night, the fighting stopped at this time, and everyone had exhausted their strength. No matter how cold the weather was, everyone had a dull look on their face, as if their souls had left.

It's like my body is just breathing naturally.

Xie Yuan walked by the soldiers' feet. Seeing that there was a fallen arrow on the ground that had not been picked up, she bent down to pick it up. When she turned her head, she saw a soldier who had fallen asleep with his head hanging down.

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

But there was no response after I poked him, so I straightened up and kicked his calf hard.

The soldier was in pain and immediately woke up from his sleep. Before opening his eyes, he raised the knife in his hand and slashed, shouting: "Kill!"

His movement immediately shocked the soldiers who were originally relaxed. All of them became tense and looked around.

Some people got up from the ground in a daze, took their knives and began to look for traces of the enemy.

Xie Yuan quickly stumbled and dodged his knife. He raised his hand and pinched his wrist. The knife fell to the ground and reminded him: "Wake up!"

The soldier looked at Xie Yuan blankly, sobered up a lot, stood up straight, and said in horror:

"Captain, I fell asleep, I didn't mean to do it!"

He spoke with a southwestern accent and was trembling with fear, as if Xie Yuan would summon him to court-martial and kill him in the next second.

Xie Yuan comforted him with a slightly lower voice and said: "I know, don't sleep. It's not as cold as the southwest here. It's so cold that it's easy to freeze to death if you fall asleep. I've asked my soldiers to help carry food. After a while,

Waiting for dinner.”

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

"It's okay Captain, I don't feel cold. When I went to bed just now, I felt like I was back in my hometown. Give me something warm."

Xie Yuan heard that he frowned, took two steps toward him, and said with some worry: "I heard from veterans before that people feel hot before they freeze to death... Are you okay?"

When the southwestern soldier heard this, he started to tremble with fright and stammered: "I...I didn't...I don't know..."

Xie Yuan then remembered that so many people in the Southwest had never seen snow before, let alone how to deal with the various dangers of cold winter.

So Xie Yuan shouted: "The messenger!"

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

Xie Yuan said loudly: "Go and tell the corps commanders not to sleep on those who are watching you. Do not put the frostbitten area directly on the fire or touch it with hot water. You must rub it with your hands. If you use hot water or grill the meat directly, it will rot."

"Got the order!" The messenger called a few more people and ran along the city wall.

Xie Yuan looked at the dumbfounded soldiers from the Southwest and said, "What are you doing standing still? Tell them what I said...get up and move around!"

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

…

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

Xiao Erdan came back from helping everyone arrange meals, and together with Sun Tian, ​​they kept following Xie Yuan.

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

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

Xie Yuan turned his head and glanced at him, his face solemn and thoughtful, and then continued walking.

After a while, Xiao Erdan asked with concern: "Captain, find a place to rest. We are tired after a night and want to eat something. When we searched, we found a warehouse in the city with grain and

We already have meat, so there’s no need to skimp on it.”

As Xie Yuan walked away, he snorted coldly and said: "Humph, it wasn't the Wei army who raided it. It's such a cold day. I don't know how many people in the city will freeze to death because they have no food to eat. We can't waste it. How many people will be sent at once?"

Personally, go to the center of the city to set up two big pots and serve porridge."

"Yes... I will go find someone to take care of it after everyone has finished eating." Xiao Erdan responded quickly.

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 arrive."

Sun Tian said: "The snow is too deep and the road is not easy to walk. It will probably take a while."

When Xie Yuan heard this, he slowed down a little, stopped, put his hand on the wall of the city wall, lowered his head, and didn't know what he was thinking.

Sun Tian quickly asked: "The captain is afraid that the Wei army will have reinforcements first and we can't defend it? Should we go to the city and 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."

Yeah."

Xie Yuan shook his head and said: "If they could count on it, they wouldn't have surrendered so easily...Besides, untrained people are just people and cannot be of much use. What we have to do is to make them

The Wei army feels that this city has enough soldiers and is impregnable. Don't let me fight and treat others like a weakling... We can't withstand it, and if we don't do it, it will be in vain."

"Then what should we do? Should we send a few more messengers to ask the general for more people and urge him?" Sun Tian asked.

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

"If there's a fight, I'm afraid the general will be most short of men. We can't ask for more."

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

In any case, the lack of manpower is a flaw, and there is no way we can produce that many people.

Compared with the Wei army's sufficient number of soldiers... they seem to be doomed to lose...
Chapter completed!