Half past midnight, it is the best time to sleep in a day. The soldiers on the walls of Taizhou Prefecture have been sleepy for a long time, and their eyes are all congested with sleep, so if it were not for the Japanese siege underneath the city, they would not have been able to hold on anymore. Of course, now also almost can not hold on.
“Sergeant, I’m so sleepy that I can’t do it anymore, my arm is swollen by my own pinch, but this drowsiness is even stronger.”
Soldier A’s red, swollen eyes, sleepy, said to the Shishang at the side, saying that he lifted his red, swollen arm up.
“You are sleepy? I’m still sleepy? You’ve only pinched and swollen one arm; both my thighs have been pinched and swollen. No one can sleep without an order from the top, so cheer up. The Japanese are down there, no one wants to have their head cut off by the Japanese in their sleep!”The shikai scolded in a good-natured manner.
“Sergeant, I don’t think the Japanese have any intention of attacking the city, why don’t we split into two groups, with one group sleeping and the other on guard duty? We’ll rotate once an hour, so that we don’t delay the guarding, and we don’t delay the brothers from refreshing themselves.”Soldier A was not discouraged after being scolded, and once again proposed.
“This …… way,” the shikai heard and mused.
It must be said that Soldier A’s proposal is very attractive, the Japanese below the city really have no intention of attacking the city, in this case splitting us into two groups, with one group resting and the other on guard, can really not delay both, but ……
“This won’t work either! Without orders from above, no one can rest. All of you give me wide eyes and stare carefully at the Japanese under the city. This is a bunch of murderous beasts, if one slacks off and the Japanese invaders break through the Prefecture, no one’s family will be able to escape!”
Although the Shichang’s heart was moved, he was a rigid person, he would carry out whatever orders were given from above, and he would never do anything that was not ordered from above.
Upon hearing this, Soldier A sighed and resignedly rubbed his eyes, forcing himself to get up.
“The Prefectural Governor has ordered that all people are to be divided into two sections in shi, one to rest and sleep, and one to be on guard duty, rotating every hour.”
Right at this moment, a messenger soldier was running fast on the city wall while shouting loudly, conveying Governor Tan Lun’s order.
Hearing the order conveyed by the messenger, Soldier A’s eyes bristled with light, and he hurriedly said to the Shichang, “Shichang, listen, listen, the Prefect has sent an order for us Shich to be divided into two sections, one to keep watch, and the other to sleep, and to rotate once every hour.”
In fact, there was no need for Soldier A to say it, the Shishu also heard it.
“Count yourself lucky that you guessed Lord Fu Zun’s order.”The shichang scolded Soldier A without a good mood, then looked towards one of his subordinates whose eyes were glowing, and said with his hand while pointing out the names of the people, “Li Laowu, Zhang Laosan, Dogwa, TieDan ……”
Saying this, the shikai paused for a moment and pointed his finger to soldier A, “And you, you five quickly roll aside and go to sleep. The others will be on guard with me, and after an hour, they will be replaced on guard while we sleep.”
“Thank you Shishou.”Soldier A didn’t expect that he would be pointed to the sleeping section by the Shishang, after seeing the Shishang pointing to himself, his face instantly bloomed with joy, however, soon he shook his head again and said to the Shishang, “Shishang, it’s better for you to go to sleep with Old Fifth Brother and the others, I’ll be on guard.”
“Let you sleep, you sleep, what’s the point of wasting words, quickly get lost.”The Shishang cursed in a bad mood and pushed Soldier A away.
“Thank you Shishang.”Soldier A was pushed off to sleep and couldn’t help but even say.
“Get lost! All of you roll as well! After an hour, I’ll go and call you all to change shifts.”The Shishang glared at Soldier A and the others, waved his hand, and rushed them off to sleep.
After the messenger conveyed Tan Lun’s order, soon, the soldiers on the city wall were divided into two sections by shi, rotating to rest and guard.
Tan Lun also saw that the Japanese had no intention of attacking the city, and because the soldiers were sleepy, he ordered the soldiers to take a rest and vigilance rotation, so as to recuperate their strength.
After Tan Lun’s order, less than half an hour, each of the first part of the soldiers to sleep, just one after another into the dreamland.
Highly nervous, as soon as they entered dreamland, they snored loudly, and the entire city wall suddenly resounded with snore after snore, like thunder.
“Kill!”
“Break through Taizhou Mansion!”
“Dong dong dong dong …… bam bam bam …… oooh oooh ……”
Underneath the city, dense torches appeared at first sight, and the Japanese invaders were holding torches, shouting and killing in the direction of the city gate.
Such a scene appeared in front of the four city gates at the same time.
“The Japanese invaders have attacked the city?!”
“The Japanese have attacked the city!”
“Get up, get up, the Japanese are attacking the city!”
When the soldiers on the city wall who were assigned to guard duty saw this, cold sweat instantly broke out on their backs, and they couldn’t help but open their eyes wide and shouted in shock.
“What? The Japanese have attacked the city?!”
“The Japanese have attacked the city!”
The soldiers in the first section who had only just fallen asleep, were violently awakened from their sleep by the sound of the Japanese shouting and killing and their companions shouting in shock, hearing that the Japanese were attacking the city, where could they still have any sleep left, they sat up in shock at once, grabbing the blades beside them, and swooping down to the battlements, entering a state of defence.
The city walls were in chaos, and the shouting and killing below the city continued.
One minute.
Two minutes.
Five minutes passed.
The shouts of the Japanese below the city remained the same, the gongs and horns remained the same, but there was not a single Japanese attacking the city.
The shouting and killing and the sound of gongs and horns lasted for about ten minutes, and then they calmed down, and the Japanese invaders who were attacking the city also gave up and retreated.
“Cao, these damn Japanese invaders retreated after barking for a while?!”
“What the hell, they retreated?!”
It took a while for the shocked soldiers on the city wall to react to the fact that the Japanese who were clamouring and shouting below the city had retreated without attacking the city.
“Cao, disturbing grandpa’s sleep!”
After being convinced that the Japanese had retreated with a false alarm, the soldiers did not curse, especially the soldiers of the first section who took turns to take a rest, they had just slept and were woken up by the Japanese, it was strange that they didn’t curse the Japanese.
“It’s only been less than two moments, let’s go back to sleep.”
The first part of the soldiers whose turn it was to rest, cursed and went to rest again.
Highly tense and exhausted from the day, they sat on the ground of the city wall, baked the wall, covered their clothes, closed their eyes, and in no time, they went back to sleep.
About half an hour later, the city once again sounded a Japanese shouts and killings, gongs and horns shocked the sky and the earth.
The soldiers, who had only just fallen asleep, were awakened again.
Just like last time, the Japanese again made a false move and did not attack the city, but just shouted and killed for a few minutes and then ceased.
After making sure that the Japanese had not attacked the city, the soldiers went back to sleep.
After another half an hour or so, the shouts and killings of the Japanese soldiers under the city and the sound of gongs and drums and horns sounded again …… The soldiers were woken up again …… The Japanese soldiers did not attack the city again, as if the Japanese soldiers were just specially called to wake up the soldiers.
