Chapter 212: Home and Country (1)

After a fierce offensive on the second day of the first month of March, the Qing army retreated. The siege was self-relieved, but the cavalry of the Qing army was still rampant on the island, and during this period, Lan Deng sent out to investigate the night of the town after reinforcing the town, and there were many injuries. There was no choice but to continue to hold on to the city and give up the plan to monitor the movements of the Qing army.

Chen Kai gave up contact, but soon the people who flocked to him kept sending news of the Qing army to his case. According to the description of the people, the Qing army wantonly plundered all the villages and towns on the island, and they were basically reluctant to leave home, but in the face of the Qing army's butcher's knife, they had to rush to take refuge, regretting that they should not have listened to Chen Kai's order to take refuge in advance.

What was the behavior of the Qing army, Chen Kai did not feel any surprise when he heard this description. The armies of this era, whether they were in the East or the West, were almost equal to sending troops and plundering. This time the Qing army raided Zhongzuo, Ma Degong and Feng Junrui heard that he had killed Zheng Zhiguan and insisted on holding the city, so they hurried over, but they ran into a head and broke the bloodstream. Instead of satisfying the desire to plunder, the army was disgruntled, and the morale was low, so they did not dare to attack again, so they had to retreat to the next best thing, relying on the plundering of those unarmed people to satisfy the desire of the soldiers under their command.

This is not a good thing, but Chen Kai can't do anything for a while. Not only Lan Deng, but even Zeng Ying, Lu Ruoteng, Shen Yanqi and others did not put forward a proposal to go out of the city to attack the Qing army, because they knew very well that the defenders only did not collect some war horses at night, and they were almost lost, and now they were not even ten horses, while the Qing army had no less than five hundred horsemen, and without the protection of the city wall, they basically went out to die with the strength of the damaged reinforcements to suppress the Houzhen and the patrol standard battalion.

Since there was nothing to do, Chen Kai simply put more energy into the city. After the Qing army retreated, Chen Kai began to send people out of the city to clean up the battlefield, and re-collect the guards that could be used and the weapons dropped by the Qing army.

The reward for defending the city promised by Chen Kai was distributed in public after the Qing army was determined, and even if it caused the Ming army to cheer, even the morale of the Ming army was quickly recovered from the low ebb after the hard battle.

However, for several days, Chen Kai threw himself in the injury center. The people he asked for from Lu Ruoteng went through a simple training and began to work officially, their work was not hard, cleaning up the garbage, cleaning up the environment and taking care of the wounded, and even without them having to do much at all, as long as they could comfort them, say a few auspicious words, and always pay attention to the injuries of the wounded, and be able to remind those who have experience and ability to treat.

This kind of work is not difficult, it is much easier than carrying guards, repairing the city wall, etc., it is dirty, but Chen Kai's order was given, and they had to obey the order.

A few days later, when I went to the sick and wounded house, the weather was very different. The people were divided into shifts, and each ward in the sick and wounded unit was guarded around the clock for twelve hours. The garbage is quickly cleaned up, and the bandages that have been replaced are also soaked and washed in boiling water before being used. The overall environment changed, the disease received greater attention, and the mortality rate began to decrease. It's a pity that these people have only undergone emergency training, and the emergency treatment of injuries still depends on those who have experience.

"Lantern Angel, it's not so easy to do, it still needs more professional training."

Anything that wants to make a difference requires a lot more preparation and foundation, even if it seems simple. In a hurry, that's all you can do. Chen Kai understands this truth, and he will not be too demanding, whether it is forcing others or himself.

However, Chen Kai's efforts made Shen Yanqi quite interested. In this regard, Chen Kai only talked about how people will be more fragile when they are injured and sick, and they need to be cared for by others, and care around the clock can better monitor the development of the disease, and clean environment and medical equipment can avoid injuries and infections. Chen Kai didn't think about these too systematically, but Shen Yanqi sounded extremely serious, and he also specially found a paper note to write it down, and these days when he has time, he is also observing and pondering the details of nursing, as if he is obsessed.

He is happy to see such a situation happen. It's not realistic to do the whole world alone, and if you can inspire such a professional, many things will go in a better direction.

The amount of grain stored in the city is staggering, and most of it was accumulated when Zheng Cai occupied the center and left. God knows how that guy did it in the case of a food shortage in Fujian, but now that Chen Kai is cheaper, the city is not afraid of the problem of food shortage. However, a few days later, Chen Kai, who thought that the Qing army would evacuate on its own after a few days of looting, received a message sent by Lang Deng, saying that a small force of the Qing army was coming to the city again.

After a few days, the Qing army came to the city again, but the number of troops was very small. Chen Kai hurried to the city, outside the range of the Ming army's artillery, there was only a team of cavalry of the Qing army, about a dozen horsemen, which was not much more than the night of the reinforcement and suppression of the town. At this moment, they were whistling outside the city, whistling away, and when they looked closely, one of them was still holding the reins, and each of them was tied with a rope behind the horse, like a dog.

The Qing army specially came to show off his might, Chen Kai frowned, then picked up the binoculars, looked into the distance, and saw the general appearance of the man who was being led, but he was suddenly shocked in his heart.

This man Chen Kai has some impressions that he is a distant brother of the Zheng family, and he is the same generation as Zheng Chenggong. There was a visit earlier, and Chen Kai also paid a visit, and his family seems to live near Jiangtou in the middle of Xiamen Island. Chen Kai had called on the people to enter the mountains and seas to avoid the Qing army earlier, but at that time, he had already estimated that there would definitely be a large number of people who would be unable to leave their homeland, but the Qing army appeared here so suddenly, and brought such a figure over, he almost didn't have to think about it, and he could guess what its intentions were.

"Help, it's actually to save me, I'm Zheng ......"

As if to confirm Chen Kai's guess, the Qing army deliberately led the man to a hundred meters outside the city, laughed loudly at Chen Kai and the Ming army defending the city, and compared them to turtles with shrunken heads, even ignoring the children of the Zheng family, and when Zheng Chenggong came back, they would definitely take their lives.

The sarcasm of the Qing army had no effect on Chen Kai, but Lan Deng and Zhou Quanbin seemed to be a little embarrassed, I don't know if it was really the case, or if it was deliberately pretended. But no matter what, he didn't plan to fall into this trap, and strictly ordered everyone not to go out of the city to fight with the Qing army without his permission.

It seemed that he had expected that the Ming army would not be easily dispatched, and the Qing army led the Zheng family disciple back to the group of Qing cavalry. Next, the Qing cavalry let the horses run wildly, and the Zheng family's disciple Rao was struggling to catch up with the speed of the war horse, even if he fell to the ground, let the Qing cavalry drag on the uneven ground.

"Donkey skills are poor." 8)