Xu Zixian has been having a low-grade fever for the past two days, which is not as dangerous as a high fever, but it is also quite uncomfortable.

Bones are sore, headaches are cracking, and the more adults have a fever, the more sad it is, and children with a fever can still play and play, and it seems that it has little effect, unless it is a high fever. And adults can be very uncomfortable even with a low-grade fever.

Xu Zixian has been lying on the bed in a daze for the past two days, not thinking about anything, not thinking about anything.

Everything in the world seems to have nothing to do with him, whether it is a war or something else, it can no longer arouse his interest.

In fact, he knew in his heart that it might be that his liver function was affected, or something else, but since the medical level of this era is like this, what can he do?

Thinking that he might be a traverser or a reborn person who died of the plague in the middle of his business, Xu Zixian didn't know whether to cry or laugh?

There was a rustling sound in the outhouse, and it seemed that someone had entered the back room.

Xu Zixian reluctantly raised his eyes and saw that a medical officer had come in, and it seemed that he was still holding a prescription in his hand.

Several doctors were solemn, Chen Changnian took the lead in saluting, and the rest of them followed suit.

"What's wrong?" Although he had a low-grade fever, Xu Zixian did not lose the ability to joke, and said with a smile at the moment: "Could it be that I am going to die?" ”

Chen Changnian said solemnly: "I will go out in a while, but I want to tell the second lady this......"

"Don't, I know it's wrong." The patient's joke about himself was originally a sign of courage, but Xu Zixian didn't expect to be appreciated by the little sister, he would definitely be scolded severely, and now the person on the island who was qualified to scold him was not the little sister.

Xiu Niang's identity is like a lady, and in terms of qualifications, she is at most capable of playing petty, not to mention that she has a gentle personality and has always been obedient to Xu Zixian, but she doesn't have to worry about her losing her temper.

"Nan'an Town found a famous doctor who is good at Dafangmai, and he also said that he is quite proficient in the epidemic. He prescribed a prescription, we have studied, everything else is fine, just using gypsum as a medicine, we have never tried it, we dare not be the master, this doctor is quite confident, how to do it, Li Gong, Master Kong, Master Fu, Lord Qin, they do not dare to make decisions, they can only ask the prince to decide. ”

"Is he really proficient in the Dafang Pulse?"

"Yes, not that kind of traveling doctor or liar." Chen Changnian knew what Xu Zixian meant, many so-called famous doctors are boasted, and there are some so-called famous doctors, it is better to walk the streets and alleys, and the traveling doctors who go to the countryside must have some real skills, otherwise it is easy to be beaten by the villagers.

Chen Changnian added: "This person's name is Wang Xinyuan, a native of Jianzhou, who was recommended by Yang Dafu and was unwilling to give him access to the official door, so he avoided Jianzhou. This matter, if it weren't for the cooperation of the government army and the merchant group we left in Nan'an, I am afraid that we would not be able to save people at all. ”

Xu Zixian was very interested in this matter, and after knowing the performance of the business group's group practice, he said with a smile: "Okay, I left a chess hand in Nan'an Town at the beginning, and now it can be regarded as blossoming and bearing fruit." ”

Chen Changnian didn't know much about these military and political affairs, and he was not very interested, so he just made a few promises at the moment.

"Take the medicine." Xu Zixian's spirit was not very good, and he didn't have much energy to continue after talking for a while, he said: "Since this person is a cultivator and a heirloom, or a student, it is obvious that curing diseases is just a sideline, and he has a great reputation for such a casual job, which shows that he is a person with real skills." Since you say that I may have to repeat it for a long time, and the current situation does not allow me to linger on the sickbed, you will use his prescription and go to boil medicine to eat it now. ”

"Okay, I'll do it right away."

In fact, Chen Changnian and others also tend to use Wang Xinyuan's prescription, after all, except for some doubts about the medicine introduction, the other contents of the prescription seem to be quite normal.

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After Lu Wenluo, Zhou Huaiyong, Zhang Zhongde, Lin Fengshan and others returned to the island, they immediately felt that the atmosphere was abnormal.

It is not because there is a foreign enemy, but because the morale of the army is low, and even quite frustrated, this situation, whether it is in the Nan'an regimental training, or in the later Nan'an army, it is almost unheard of and unseen.

They hurried all the way from the port area to the barracks to report, and along the way they saw many soldiers of the government army who were guarding the guard, and also saw the people who were building fortifications on both sides of the official road for more than ten miles.

There are a lot of people, and Minzhuang has evacuated a large number of people with the people, after all, the resettlement sites also need Minzhuang to protect.

The natives are not good men and women, and the current situation on the island has also made the situation lose confidence in the context, and many people have been sent to the evacuation point.

Even so, the military forts, trenches, antlers, arrow towers, long bases, horse rejections, and all kinds of defense facilities are readily available, and there are still more than 20,000 people in front of the defensive front of more than ten miles, and there are more than 2,000 guards, wearing black robes, carrying knives, carrying bows and arrows, defending in the most critical places of the north and south forts.

Whether it is the people, or the guards, or the soldiers of the government, it can be seen from their faces that they are full of nervousness.

It was only by this time that everyone sensed that a great war was coming, and that the island was not prepared at all.

It is not that the army is not well armed, the number of people is insufficient, and the defense facilities are not prepared.

But psychologically, everyone can't accept the preparation to fight with tens of thousands of pirates.

Of course, the most important reason is that people have not seen the prince for more than ten days, which is the main reason why the psychological pressure is amplified.

Lu Wenluo and the others had already seen countless silent soldiers, they were about to arrive at the beach at twilight, the sun was about to set below the horizon, the whole sea seemed to be dyed red, on the shore, on the flat ground, on the official road at high places, everywhere there were silhouettes of soldiers carrying bows and arrows, holding long guns, or walking with horizontal knives.

They were silent, and they didn't show much enthusiasm when they saw a group of government soldiers who had just disembarked, and even a few people whispered, thinking that Lu Wenluo was simply brained when he rushed back at such a moment.

Such low morale and such words, Lu Wenluo is really unheard of in the Nan'an army.

Zhang Zhongde, Zhou Huaiyong, Lin Fengshan and others also felt the same way, everyone was dumbfounded at first, and then they were all a little angry.

"Now I know how important the prince is to us." Lu Wenluo sighed with emotion, and continued: "Mr. Wang, who we brought back, should have already arrived at the Hou Mansion, and now we can only hope that he can be optimistic about the Marquis." ”

"Do you guys regret it?" Lu Wenluo turned his head and looked at everyone: "If we were on vacation at home, I'm afraid we wouldn't have seen what was in front of us and wouldn't be in such a situation." ”

"I don't regret it." Zhang Zhongde said: "I have taken dozens of dollars for my family before and after, and now that the Eastern Domain is like this, there may not be a bereavement pension when I die, but I have to be right to pay so much money...... It would be better if there was a bereavement pension for the dead. ”

Zhou Huaiyong said: "If you stay at home, you can't live and die with your comrades, and then even if you live for decades, you feel like a bad seed every day, what's the point?" Like Zhongde, my money is also all at home, before I became a government army, I can't get one or two dollars a year, and now I take dozens of dollars at home, even if there is no pension, it is worth it, if I stay in Nan'an or Gukou, Shuikou, tired and tired, being scolded and scolded, and losing three or four dollars a year, what is it worth? Now that I'm staying at home, it's enough for me to earn in the previous ten years. ”

Zhou Huaiyong's words aroused everyone's approval, and Lu Wenluo scolded: "Those dogs and mothers, one by one, are as depressed as their dead fathers, so I don't want to think about if we lose, we lose everything in front of us, what strength do we have to survive?" Lao Tzu used to be a sedan chair driver, and he had to run ten or twenty miles every day, carrying those pigs. The shoulders were worn out, the pain in the heart, the flesh and blood on the soles of the feet were blurred, and the pigs were too slow, so they stomped their feet in the sedan chair and screamed faster. Can you drop two or three dollars a month, pay taxes, buy salt, grain, oil, how many are left? Damn, if you want to buy catties of meat for your father and mother to eat, you have to think about it. At the beginning of the group training, food and clothing were all covered, and I also supported my father and mother, and I didn't have to pay taxes, and I paid as much as I wanted, and I had meat to eat every day. Since then, I have thought, the prince treats us like this, and our lives are considered to be the prince's. No matter what you think, I don't regret it. ”

Lu Wenluo did not lower his voice when he spoke, standing in front of a large group of government soldiers and shouting, he spoke louder and louder, spitting everywhere, and his appearance was indecent, but no one laughed at him, at first the government soldiers were listening, and then the team officers were all around to listen, and a few sentry officers came to listen, and the last military attache with a silver star on his shoulder was also listening attentively.

Many people showed a look of shame on their faces, and after Lu Wenluo finished speaking, these people stood aside and refused to disperse for a long time.

Lu Wenluo and the others rushed to find their Shangguan to return to the team, and halfway through, Lin Fengshan, who has always been shrewd, said: "Everyone rest assured, our government army is made by the prince and the marquis, whether the prince is in the army or not, everyone's thoughts are actually the same, look at it, we will definitely be able to overturn the pirates, so that they will not dare to come to the Eastern Domain again in this life!" ”

Everyone nodded, and Lu Wenluo felt excited at first, but the more he went north, he saw the morale of the government army soldiers who were still low, and the doubts in his heart could not be dispelled, can such a morale government army really defeat several times the enemy?

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Gradually, pirate clippers appeared in the waters off Penghu, and the news was sent from Penghu, and on the afternoon of the day the news was transmitted, Liu Yi, the commander of the military capital, sent a small boat to confirm that the pirate vanguard had arrived, and the brigade was estimated to arrive in Penghu within a day or two.

Arriving in Penghu is equivalent to arriving in the Eastern Domain, and the atmosphere is already quite tense.

The people began to stop returning to their quarters, but to set up tents on the long defensive line.

The government troops were stationed in the long base, the barracks, the embankment and other places, except for the cavalry battalion, which remained in the garrison, all the garrisons were stationed in the places prepared in advance.

The atmosphere of the entire Eastern Domain has become tense and depressing!

On the evening of July 21 in the summer of the 14th year of Chongde, the final curtain finally opened slowly.

A guard was ordered to guard a lighthouse off the coast of Huaxi, the lighthouse was quite difficult to build, whether it was high tide or low tide, it was a dangerous place with great turbulent waves of the sea, and there were reefs of different depths all around, and people at that time drove small boats to transport bricks and stones here, worked hard to lay the foundation, and then built a high lighthouse.

In fact, this thing can be found in both the East and the West, and there are quite a few lighthouses off the coast of Quanzhou, and any trading port needs to be built to guide foreign ships to the right route.

The lighthouse is more than ten feet high, and at such times, the sea is completely empty, and in the evening, the whole sea seems to be on fire, silent, empty, and the sea is fiery red.

There is no trace of human activity, there is no trace of the ships that once passed, and of course there is no Penghu in sight, although it is only a few dozen miles away.

In the evening, the guards on this lighthouse finally saw it.

First the white sails are dotted, then connected into pieces, and finally the sky is obscured.

As if someone had choked him, the guard stared at him, and his eyes seemed to fall to the ground.

After half ringing, he shook his hands and shook the hanging bell on the lighthouse, and after the bell rang, another lighthouse in the distance also began to ring the bell frantically.

The bell rang for a long time, passing far away, and finally to the beach, the shore, the wharf, to the military fort, to the fort, to the fort, to the settlement, and of course, to the barracks, to the official residence area, to the sea, to the sea, to the beach, to the flatland, to the hills, to the mountains.

The sound of the bell seemed to come from the sky, and spread everywhere, and at the first moment of hearing the bell, everyone felt as if they had been electrified.

Something, something very mysterious, was opened in the hearts of veterans of the government army.

It was like a switch, and before that, everyone could be depressed, frightened, and even angry because of the prince's serious illness. But at this point, it's as if a switch has been turned on. All the officers and men of the government, from officers to ordinary soldiers, set their sights on the beach.

Their hands clenched the long sword or horizontal sword, and the officers ordered to open the arsenal, distribute a small number of divine arm bows to the front-line soldiers, and take the armor out of the arsenal, the number of armor in the Nan'an Hou Mansion is still not much, only every soldier in the cavalry battalion has iron armor or piercing armor, most of the soldiers are wearing cotton armor, and even a considerable number of archers do not even have paper armor to fool people, they only wear ordinary military robes to go to the battlefield.

However, no one complained, and everyone knew that the matter of armor was already being resolved, and this was also the most important thing for the prince.

Unlike pure cannon fodder or forbidden troops, Nan'an Hou regards every veteran as a treasure on the battlefield.

A veteran who has been on the battlefield, seen blood, and even killed the enemy has experience that no recruit can match, and they are the most precious treasure in the army, more precious than any weapon or armor.

When all the soldiers lined up, set up formations, awarded armor, held troops, and prepared to fight the enemy under the orders of the marquis, almost everyone was looking forward to it.

The familiar big green horse, it was a tall and strong, energetic horse, like the prince on horseback, no matter where he went, he could make people feel energetic and confident, and the prince on horseback was mostly smiling, as if everything on the island made him comfortable and comfortable. It also seems to show that there is nothing in the world that can make this prince feel annoyed.

As long as they saw the prince on horseback, people's mood was settled, and when the Eastern Domain had just been developed and many conditions were still quite rudimentary, Nan'an Hou had already gone to the island. Since the marquis's mansion on the island has not yet been built, the prince has also slept in the tent for more than half a month, which is quite common for ordinary people, and it is really precious for a prince of the clan who holds heavy troops and holds great power.

On the shore of the sea, Qin Dongyang rode a yellow fat horse, his expression was calm, and his figure was as majestic as a mountain.