"Cai Wei," Qin Fei said softly: "If something happens to Zheng Yihu's fleet and can't rush back, and Zhang Jinzhong in Sichuan can't spare troops to help us, then without foreign aid, Quanzhou can hold for another two months at most." By September, it was no longer possible. ”

"If it really comes to the day when the city is broken, will you think that I am useless, not only can I not defend Quanzhou City, but I may not even be able to protect my wife at that time, I once said that I will protect you for a lifetime."

"I ...... Am I really-"

The rest of his words were choked back into his stomach by Cai Wei with her lips and tongue.

Cai Wei kissed him for a long time, and then held his face and said: "In my heart, whether you are an invincible victorious general, or a defeated hero at the end of the road, you are all you." In my heart, you are both a god and a mortal, a great man I can rely on, and a child I can protect you in my arms. ”

"Even if we can't defend Quanzhou City in the end, I will never think that you are useless, but Mr. Wolong, who is in the world, is difficult to make up for the sky with one hand, and finally dies with regrets, how can you judge heroes by success or failure? As long as we do our best and have a clear conscience, we will lose in the end, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. ”

"What's more, even if that Haoduo captures Quanzhou City, he may not be able to capture the two of us as he wishes. If we can escape to the sea, we will go out to sea by boat, and if we can't even go to the sea, then we will set a fire, and I would rather * than fall into the hands of the Tartars. ”

This time, Qin Fei came to gag her, and he kissed her frantically. When he finally stopped, he said in a low voice, "Don't say any more stupid things, don't even think about it!" ”

Because he will never allow this qiē to happen, he can die on the battlefield, but his Caiwei must live well.

Cai Wei leaned on his arms and responded very obediently: "Okay, I'll listen to you!" "But in my heart, I wondered that since Ah Fei was not happy with her, then she would have switched to gunpowder, and it would be destroyed at once, and she would be able to go faster and suffer less sins than if she was burned to death by fire, and she would be able to kill a few more Tartars. Anyway, if the city of Quanzhou is broken and Qin Fei dies in battle, she will never live alone.

Since he and his wife know that the future is bleak, they are becoming more and more motivated, anyway, the worst result is just a dead word, as long as it is not until the last moment, who knows what will happen.

However, July has passed, and half of August has passed, and the food, gunpowder, bows and arrows and other armaments in Quanzhou City have been gone, and there is not much left. Only the number of soldiers defending the city was still 50,000, because for every group of soldiers killed in battle, the military advisor Li Yan would select another group of men from the people of Quanzhou City. The Red Lady even organized an army of 5,000 women to help defend the city.

However, Zheng Yihu's fleet still did not hear from him.

What they heard was one bad news after another, the three massacres in Jiading, and 500,000 people were slaughtered; On the eighty-first day of Jiangyin, the city was killed, there were few in the city, only 53 people of all sizes hid in the secluded place on the temple tower, and only then did they live.

Quanzhou, will it be the next Shura field to be slaughtered by the Tartars?

On this day, Li Yanzheng and Qin Fei were standing on the edge of the city defense map to discuss the next defensive strategy, Cai Wei and Ma Li suddenly rushed in, with a happy face, and said excitedly: "We have finally studied it, we have made it!" ”

"yes, we've finally made a three-eyed □□ that can make eighteen rings in a row!" Chen Youjie, who followed closely behind them, was also excited.

"Really?" Qin Fei grabbed Cai Wei's hand and began to shamelessly praise his daughter-in-law, "You guys are really capable!" Eighteen rings in a row, that is, the foreigners who made the three-eyed □□ have not figured it out for so many years, but let you get it out first, which is really amazing! He gave a thumbs up.

When the three people who studied the □□ heard this, they all felt that His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan had said something to their hearts. How difficult it is to improve the □□ that can only shoot three times at a time to one that can make eighteen hits at a time, and to improve the range and accuracy!

What's more, in addition to Chen Youjie who has been pondering these □□ artillery, Cai Wei and Ma Li are both halfway monks, while making up for all kinds of guns and gunpowder knowledge, while pondering how to improve, it is not easy to figure it out in less than a year!

The red lady happened to be on the side, and immediately her eyes lit up and said: "So, when you have built a lot of new improved guns, I will be able to build a women's □□ team?" ”

They were all smiling and excited here, and suddenly Li Yan poured cold water on them.

"What's the use of you making new □□? Now there is not much gunpowder left in stockpile, and only a few catties of copper and iron remain, which is simply not enough to make anything new □□ out. Even if this □□ that can make eighteen rings in a row, no matter how powerful it is, what is the use? ”

Cai Wei and the others have been thinking about how to improve the □□ these days, but they didn't think about the raw materials for making guns, and when they heard Li Yan say this, they were all like frost and eggplant, and they all wilted.

Qin Fei was so angry that he glared at Li Yan, it was easy for his daughter-in-law to be so happy for the first time in these days, couldn't he let her have more fun? I have to jump out in a hurry to spoil the scenery.

Li Yan only looked at the city defense map hanging on the wall, and did not receive the eyes of His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan at all, and continued to spoil the scenery with a sad face.

"Not only is the food, grass, and weapons almost running out, but even there are not many men left in the city who can replenish the troops, and in the end, men, women, and children go into battle to defend the city together, but I am afraid that they can only defend it for about twenty more days. When the time comes, alas......"

"And what if we rush out? Like some of your scripts, fight your way out! Mary asked.

Li Yan continued to shake his head, "The Tartars have a total of 70,000 Jurchen cavalry, 30,000 surrendered Han troops, a total of 100,000 horses, and we only have 50,000 recruits, most of them are wounded, we can't fight at all!" ”

"Unless Zheng Yihu comes back with the fleet now, defeats the Tartars' blockade of Quanzhou at sea, and relieves the siege of Yingzhou Island. In that case, we can retreat to Yingzhou Island first and then make plans. ”

"If you want to fight to the death with the Tartars in Quanzhou City, unless we suddenly descend from the sky, or the Tartars suddenly lose half of the people, there is absolutely no possibility of victory."

Everyone couldn't help but wonder how they could make half of the Tartars disappear in just ten days, and they didn't notice for a moment that someone was listening silently at the door for a long time, and finally did not come in, but left quietly thoughtfully.

Two days later, in the morning, Cai Wei had just had breakfast and a bowl of thin porridge when she heard a piece of news that she didn't expect.

"What did you say?" Cai Wei looked at Ma Li in disbelief, "Mrs. Miao healed him, he had already secretly gone out of the city last night to surrender the Tartars?" I don't believe it, how could he have lowered the tartars? ”

"He came to check my pulse yesterday and told me to watch my body, and then think of a powerful firearm, so that I can turn around and drive the Tartar out completely. He hated the Tartars so much, and the whole family in his hometown in Jiangyin had all died under the Tartars' knife, how could he surrender to his enemies? No, I'm going to ask Ah Fei. ”

Without waiting for her to rush out and ask Qin Fei, Qin Fei had already walked in, "It's true, Ah Wei." Imperial Physician Miao had indeed gone out of the city last night and threw himself under the tent of the Tartars. ”

Afraid that Cai Wei would be sad, he hurriedly said again: "But he didn't really drop the tartar, but ......"

He let out a long sigh and handed the letter in his hand to Cai Wei, "You will understand when you read it." ”

Cai Wei opened it to take a look, and by the time she finished reading it, tears had wet the letter a lot.

It turned out that Imperial Physician Miao was pretending to surrender to the Jinren, planning to take the opportunity to treat their injuries and see a doctor, and secretly spread the disease of acne throughout the Tartar military camp.

Because of its ferocity and susceptibility, this pox disease is extremely difficult to treat, and most of them die after less than a month.

Therefore, it is difficult to cure the disease, so the doctors of the past generations can only think of ways to deal with it from the idea of "curing the disease before it happens". During the Yan Qin period, some doctors came up with a method of blowing the nose and planting pox, removing the pox scab of smallpox patients and grinding it into fine powder, adding borneol and camphor to blow into the nose of the pox planter, or diluting the patient's pox scab with human milk or water and implanting it into the nose of the pox. As long as the doctor takes good care of them and allows them to pass the acne period safely, the pox sufferer will never suffer from acne again throughout his life.

Since the doctors of Yan and Qin developed this pox method, the Han people in the south are no longer afraid of this pox disease, but the Tartars have always lived outside the pass, and they are more susceptible to acne than the Han people in the pass. It is said that many Tartar generals did not dare to lead troops to fight in the customs because they had never had acne sores and were afraid of contracting acne after entering the customs.

Thinking that Imperial Physician Miao had already collected the scabs of some pox patients, he only needed to sprinkle a little powder on the wounds of the wounded Tartar soldiers, and as long as one person got sick, he would spread it to ten, ten to hundred......

Cai Wei suddenly remembered that two days ago, they had discussed how to reduce the Tartars' 100,000 army by half at once, and none of them could come up with a way at that time.

But Imperial Physician Miao thought of it, just as he said in his letter: "The so-called healer can both live and kill." Miao is a doctor, although he knows the benevolence of medical skills and the virtue of a good life, but the barbarians invade our land and kill our people, and the only way to save the lives of our people is to harm the lives of the barbarians. Although I am killing people with the way of medicine, I am actually saving people! However, Yu finally violated the training of Zhongjing and the King of Medicine, violated medical ethics, and deserved to die to apologize! ”

"The rest of the relatives and relatives have all been harmed by the barbarians, and they have nothing to think about, only the land is lost, and the compatriots are slaves, and I only hope that His Royal Highness will be strong, step on the thieves, restore my rivers and mountains, and return my people to a peaceful world!"