Chapter 50: Offense and Defense
Xu suddenly changed places, Ye Jinqing didn't sleep well this night, and woke up very early.
After tossing and turning in bed for a long time and not falling asleep, Ye Jinqing simply put on her coat and got up, wanting to go to the courtyard to see the medicinal herbs she and Dai Lao had sorted out together last night.
As soon as I walked into the courtyard, I saw that Zhou Qingwan and Dai Lao were already tending to those medicinal materials again.
"An An, you woke up early." Zhou Qingwan saw Ye Jinqing who was gone.
"Sister Zhou and Dai Lao also got up early." It seems that everyone is hiding something in their hearts, and no one has slept well this night.
Dai Lao knocked on the waist that had been bent just now and said, "If we have more people here and more medicinal materials, we may be able to save a few more lives." ”
When Zhou Qingwan heard this, her expression also darkened.
Ye Jinqing circled around the medicinal herbs that were placed in different categories and asked.
"Dai Lao, if we grind these notoginseng, white and yellow and white grass roots into powder, and then sew a gauze bag, stuff cotton on one side, and sprinkle medicinal powder on the other. Then as soon as this war is over, we will go to the north of the city, and first distribute these things to the soldiers in our hands, and those serious ones will be carried to the south of the city. ”
Usually the doctors stayed in the rear, waiting for the wounded to be carried and then they would treat them, but they never thought of letting the doctors rush to the battlefield to treat the wounded.
Su Xuan's strategy this time, Dai Lao also knows a little bit about it, if he wins this time, the wounded soldiers will be distributed in the north of the city.
As soon as the war ended, the Di people were turned away from the city again, but they didn't have to worry about them killing again, although it was not excluded that a few stray fish were caught in the net, but the battlefield was quite safe.
"It seems that this method is feasible, and then we will go to the north of the city to treat the soldiers." Dai Lao nodded and said.
"An An, I didn't expect you to think of this method, I am most familiar with the road north of the city, you can follow me then." Zhou Qingwan's eyes lit up after listening to Ye Jinqing's words, and she should also say kindly.
Ye Jinqing shook his head and said seriously: "It's not us, it's me, I can only go alone in the north of the city." ”
Looking at Zhou Qingwan with a look of wanting to distinguish, Ye Jinqing said again.
"This thing can only stop the bleeding temporarily, not for a long time, so I still rely on Dai Lao and Sister Zhou to sit here, those seriously injured soldiers will continue to be sent when they arrive, but you are still in the north of the city, so you can't be delayed."
"Haha, girl Zhou, it seems that we all have to listen to An An this time."
This cotton wool was difficult to find for a while, so several people found a few cotton clothes, took out all the cotton inside, and sewed medicine bags.
Although this small courtyard is simple, the kang in the house is very large, and it is not a problem to sleep five or six people. On the kang was a low square table with four corners, and the table was piled with cotton.
Zhou Qingwan and Dong Zhu gathered around the table, holding needles and threads in their hands and sewing medicine bags. Beside the two of them, there were already several sewn medicine bags. The packets were the size of a palm, and the cotton wool inside was sufficient.
Ye Jinqing originally wanted to help sew the medicine bag, although her own needlework was not very on the table, but her mother's stitches were dense enough to step over her, which was more than enough to sew a few medicine bags.
But just when she wanted to take the needle and thread, she was snatched away by Zhou Qingwan, saying that he was a man, how could he do these things for women. was woken up by such a point, Ye Jinqing remembered his current identity, and had to put down the needle and thread.
At this time, Ye Jinqing was sitting opposite Zhou Qingwan's master and servant, and at her feet was a few Wan ground medicinal powder. Ye Jinqing took the medicine bag that Zhou Qingwan had sewn, took a small wooden spoon, scooped some medicine powder in each bowl and stuffed it into the side of the medicine bag, and then folded the medicine bags neatly aside.
Ye Jinqing's hands and feet were nimble, and she stuffed several sewn medicine bags with medicine powder, and she looked out through the window supported by the side.
In the courtyard, Dai Lao rolled back and forth with his feet on a medicine mill, and also held a medicine jar in his hand, pounding the medicine up and down.
Looking out further, there is a circle of earthy yellow courtyard walls, and the gloomy sky in the distance. It won't rain, Ye Jinqing thought as he looked at the heavy clouds accumulated in the sky.
"Boom."
Suddenly, there was a loud bang in the distance. Then Ye Jinqing and the others felt that the kang they were sitting on was shaking, and the mud crumbs on the corners of the walls and the roof were sprinkled one after another.
"Miss."
Dongzhu exclaimed from the side. Zhou Qingwan felt a tingling pain from the injury, and hurriedly took her index finger into her mouth.
A few drops of blood had fallen on a mass of cotton, and the crimson was conspicuous in the white.
"Dai Lao, is it thundering, do you want to collect medicine?" Ye Jinqing didn't even bother to put on his shoes, so he rushed to the courtyard.
Seeing Dai Lao looking at the north with a solemn expression, Ye Jinqing stretched out his hand and raised his head again, there was not a single raindrop in the sky.
Ye Jinqing followed Dai Lao's gaze, and saw a few beams of black smoke rising into the sky at the end of his sight, which was particularly dazzling.
Ye Jinqing felt that her throat was tight, "Dai Lao, what is this?" ”
"The Di people are attacking the city."
Outside the city gate, Zhou Kairen looked at the behemoth that was slowly driving in the distance, and the green tendons on his forehead couldn't help jumping. "Rushing the car, it's actually rushing the car, damn it, this Chi tribe actually brought the rushing car."
When the Di people moved out the catapult before, Zhou Kairen was not surprised. They had expected that Chidi would bring this thing, so they opened a few large nets made of cow tendons outside the city wall in advance to protect the wall, and the people in the north of the city had already moved away, so they didn't have to worry about stones falling into the city.
However, this Di tribe actually brought a rushing car.
Su Xuan also looked at the rushing car with a solemn expression. He had seen it in the war book a few times before, but when he saw it with his own eyes, he had to sigh at the threat of this thing to the defenders of the city.
There are four floors in total, and it is three zhang high, so I am afraid that it is not much shorter than the city wall. The lowest Di soldiers were all shirtless, pushing the cart hard.
The upper three floors were full of dense soldiers of the Di clan, and Su Xuan also saw that the rushing car was loaded with several strong crossbows.
The rush ran over the ground, leaving deep ruts and a teeth-numbing creak.
The rushing car was still dozens of feet away, and the lighter ladder had already arrived at the bottom of the city tower.
"Bang, bang, bang."
After a few sounds, the iron hook at the top of the ladder was already hanging on the city gate, and the soldiers of the Shangdi tribe rushed up under the ladder.
Su Xuan was condescending, looking indifferently at the Di soldiers who rushed up, "Fall down." ”
The soldiers in the city quickly lifted the boiling hot oil that had been prepared on the side, and poured it down.
"Ahh Heart-rending screams resounded through the city.
The Di soldiers who rushed to the front were doused with hot oil, and their necks and faces, which were exposed outside their armor, were burned pink in an instant.
The few Di soldiers wanted to wipe the hot oil off their faces, but this time, the skin and flesh on their faces were instantly separated, and they were extremely terrifying, and finally fell down the ladder with a scream.
The Di soldiers who followed closely behind did not stop because of the death of their companions, but rushed to the city tower even more frantically.
There are also many Di soldiers who seized the gap and threw the hook attached to the rope to the city, and climbed up the city with the rope.
Zhou Kairen held his sword upside down and stabbed hard at a Di soldier who was trying to climb the city wall, and the blood sprayed his face, and his whole body seemed to be fished out of the bloody water.
"General, there are too many Di people, we are about to lose sight of it."