"Yes, Sixth Brother. This time, the city where the green battalion soldiers who were transferred by Li Shiyao's dog Tartar almost had no soldiers and horses to guard. So we can all knock them down one by one. Du Mu hurriedly replied

Hearing Zhang Rui ask like this, Du Mu's already active mind became even more excited.

There was no need to even guess, Du Mu also understood that Zhang Rui was preparing to attack the city.

"As long as the Wuzhou Prefecture is defeated, and then the financial resources of the Wuzhou Prefecture are used to recruit troops and horses to build Qingyuan City, Zhaoqing City, Guangzhou City... Next is the whole of Guangdong... And then on..."

Du Mu found that he didn't dare to think about it anymore, he was afraid that he would not be able to control the beauty of thinking about it, so he smiled.

"Okay, got it. Let's wait until the war is over! Zhang Rui said with a calculation in his heart

"Yes, Sixth Brother." Du Mu replied

Due to the charge of the green battalion soldiers of the Qing army earlier, which consumed a lot of physical strength, and the cavalry pursuit of the bandit army, a large number of green battalion soldiers surrendered on their knees.

In this battle, Zhang Rui once again captured more than 5,000 green battalion soldiers.

With several experiences in cleaning the battlefield, today's bandit army can be said to be familiar with cleaning the battlefield.

Every time the battlefield comes down, the medical soldiers who belong to the medical team grow the fastest. Because of the large number of casualties of prisoners on the battlefield, they were simply not busy.

Even if Zhang Rui expanded the recruitment of medical personnel from 300 to 600 people, the medical staff was not limited to female soldiers. But even then, there are no enough medics.

The large number of prisoners and wounded gave the medical staff a good practical practice, and they quickly grew from internship to doctor. That's it, the medics also need the help of the green battalion soldiers who surrendered on the battlefield to barely be able to deal with it.

In order to train these medical soldiers, Zhang Rui spent a lot of effort. Especially in the area of anesthesia for the wounded, Zhang Ruike invested a lot of silver to buy herbs to refine.

Fortunately, all Zhang Rui's efforts are rewarded.

Due to the continuous training of the wounded soldiers captured on the battlefield, the basic medical system has also allowed Zhang Rui to find out a rough idea, and the rest will be left to the medical soldiers to improve slowly.

In the eyes of the Manchu court, the expendable green battalion soldiers were not even worthy of a piece of armor. However, in Zhang Rui's eyes, his soldier's life is important.

In the modern consciousness, doctors are available everywhere. Especially in film and television works, as long as the soldier is injured, the comrade-in-arms shouts a hygienist and he will be treated.

However, in the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Rui found that there was no doctor in several villages in many places. If you are sick, you will survive, and if you can't survive, you will die. Even if a doctor prescribes a prescription, he may not have the money to buy herbs.

If you have a knife wound, you usually find something similar to a spider's web in the corner of the wall or in the door seal and put it on, or you find herbs and smash it yourself. If it still doesn't get better, you can only complain.

It's normal and so, if it's on the battlefield, you don't have to think about someone treating an ordinary soldier, and it's good that the army can issue some gold sore medicine. As for the military doctor, it's not that he doesn't have it, it's just that he is not an ordinary soldier who can get their treatment.

In order to make the bandit army worry-free, but also for the future development. Zhang Rui did his best to train medical soldiers.

Looking at the female medical soldiers who were constantly shuttling through the battlefield to treat the wounded Green Battalion soldiers, and the captive Green Battalion soldiers who kept carrying stretchers. The Qing troops who knelt down on the battlefield were a little dumbfounded, they never thought that the thieves would heal these enemies in turn.

It was precisely because of this scene that these kneeling Qing soldiers stayed in place with peace of mind, and no one was ready to take the risk of escaping.

The cleaning of the battlefield lasted nearly three hours.

Li Shiyao and the others left in a hurry, and they didn't have time to deal with the grain and grass in a hurry. Therefore, in addition to capturing a large number of green battalion soldiers, the bandit army also seized a lot of grain and grass.

late autumn

The days are short and the nights are long, and the sky is early and dark

There is a ready-made camp of the Qing army, and the bandit army also saves no effort, just renovate it and take it for its own use.

A large amount of grain and grass was seized, and the bandit army also let the captives have a hearty meal. This made these captives have a lot of good feelings about the bandit army.

At the same time, the soldiers of the anti-bandit army also organized a bonfire to complain about their grievances that night. As a result, many green battalion soldiers have decided to join this glorious anti-Qing cause.

Following

The anti-bandit army, which had won an unprecedented victory, officially set off for the village of Zhilian Mountain, and a large number of Qing soldiers were captured, and the capture of grain, grass, carts and horses made the soldiers of the anti-bandit army cheer.

At the same time that Zhang Rui set off to return to Zhilian Mountain, Yang Yingju and Sitku and his group were also unknowingly put back by Zhang Rui to raise money to redeem themselves.

In this regard, Zhang Rui is really helpless. It takes a lot of money to raise so many soldiers. Before Zhang Rui didn't have the ability to make blood, he had to earn as much silver as he could.

The Qing soldiers who were originally going to ambush the bandit army Yulin on the road saw such a big victory for the bandit army. Where did he dare to come out to fight, and hurriedly ran back.

The bandit army has become a general trend, where are they the opponents of the bandit army? Therefore, the commander-in-chief of the green battalion of Yulin Mansion did not hesitate to order to withdraw to Yulin Mansion to prevent the thieves from coming to attack the city.

Zhang Rui, who returned to Zhilian Mountain, convened a meeting of generals non-stop, and the change of thinking made him decide not to be silent anymore.

When Zhang Rui threw out the topic of preparing to attack Wuzhou Mansion, the generals made statements one after another, which should have been done a long time ago.

But how should the siege be fought?

None of the people present at the meeting had experienced it. However, there is a bit of an advantage to choosing Wuzhou City, that is, they are the home field here, and the bandit army has most of the troops of Wuzhou Mansion, so it should not be difficult to defeat Wuzhou Mansion.

Everyone unanimously decided to use Wuzhou Mansion to practice siege warfare, even if a lot of men and horses would die.

As for the weapons and equipment that may be used in the siege, Zhang Rui thought of everything that could be thought of in his mind. Of course, this is all limited to the awareness that games have been brought to him by film and television.

The eight guns that had already been drilled must be indispensable. In addition, Zhang Rui prepared more than a dozen siege vehicles, arrow blocking vehicles, ladders, and even such dangerous things as conscience cannons.

Moreover, Zhang Rui also prepared dozens of barrels of granular gunpowder, and if the above methods did not work, he used the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom method of digging tunnels to bury gunpowder and blew up the city wall.

All the preparations, there is only one purpose. That is, it is necessary to take the besieged city in the fastest way, and it must not be dragged there. Otherwise, once the Qing army counterattacked, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Zhang Rui spent five days preparing everything to prepare. At the same time, he also gave all the bandit soldiers a three-day holiday in turn, so that they could go back and get along with their families.

Zhang Rui didn't know how many bandit troops would die after a siege battle, but that's all he could do.