Chapter 615: Kill the White-Eyed Wolf

Thanks to the full support of Shi Bin's firearms soldiers, only 40,000 horses were injured all the way to the Great Wall, and the situation was very good. However, the passes along the Great Wall must not be lost, and this is Kublai Khan's bottom line, so he deployed nearly 100,000 heavy troops on this line to defend, and ordered that no active attacks should be carried out.

As a result, the Yuan people have become shrunken turtles. The situation took a turn for the worse, and the Song army had to pay a lot of casualties every step forward, but the Song army lost nearly 20,000 horses in just ten days. Li Zong didn't feel much about this, but Shi Bin and other generals couldn't turn a blind eye.

It didn't take long for the barracks to be filled with resentment, but anyone who heard these complaints was so distraught that they could not do anything or rest in peace.

Shi Bin, who stayed in the tent, was full of sadness, he had a way to reduce casualties but didn't want to use this method, because once he used his own method, he was afraid that he would have to fight with Li Zong again. In the end, even if you win, you still have to bear the infamy of a rebellious minister and thief.

"Xu Feng, you should know why I'm sad." Shi Bin said weakly.

"Commander, I can't guess all of them if I am humble and stupid, but I can vaguely guess that most of the unhappiness of adults is related to the poor casualties of the soldiers." Xu Feng said softly, "Dashuai, if this is the case, please relax your heart, life and death are rich and noble, and people cannot violate it." ”

Come with me to this set of superstitions, only fools believe it! Shi Bin sneered. But on the surface, Shi Bin didn't show any dissatisfaction, but just said: "Saving people's lives is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, how about you say I save their lives?" ”

As soon as he heard that Shi Bin was going to save the lives of those siege soldiers, Xu Feng was immediately so nervous that sweat broke out on his forehead, and he stopped stopping again and again, and kept saying, "Ci is not in charge of the soldiers, righteousness is not in charge of wealth, those soldiers are ready to die when they come, there is no need to deliberately save them."

The more he listened to these cold-blooded and ruthless words, the more gloomy Shi Bin's face became, and the more unhappy he was in his heart, and finally he couldn't bear it anymore and smashed the teacup in his hand on Xu Feng's head, giving Xu Feng a forehead flower.

After smashing, Shi Bin was much more sober and realized that Xu Feng was thinking about himself when he said that, but Shi Bin never intended to apologize for this, but just said coldly: "Go and ask the military doctor to bandage the wound so that nothing happens, and call Jia Ling and Sai Xishi." ”

Xu Feng, who was smashed, was not angry, the pain was warm in his forehead, after all, it was really rare to have such a benevolent lord. So he immediately went to invite Jia Ling and Sai Xishi into Shi Bin's tent.

As soon as they saw Shi Bin in the tent, Jia Ling and Sai Xishi looked bad, and Jia Ling asked angrily: "Why do you want to beat Xu Feng, why are you so good or bad?" When you become the Duke of Qi Guo, your temper is big? ”

There was some pain in his heart, coupled with some regrets just now, and now when asked by Jia Ling, Shi Bin actually felt that he had nothing to say, just swallowing his saliva.

How can the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces be so embarrassed? Sai Xishi immediately came out to be a peacemaker and resolve the conflict. Xu Feng couldn't help but say that he didn't have any unhappiness, and Shi Bin hit right. In this way, Jia Ling, the eldest lady, also realized her mistake and immediately closed her mouth and apologized. Shi Bin simply ignored it and didn't bother to pay attention to it.

"Tell me, what are you going to do? There are still three states of Dizhou, Dezhou and Binzhou on Hebei East Road that have not been recovered. According to this way of playing, if you want to recover the entire Hebei East Road, you will have to suffer at least another 50,000 or 60,000 casualties, the number of people is too many, and I am afraid that the Great Song Dynasty will not be able to afford it. Moreover, it is not good for us. ”

"So, husband, you just said to Xu Feng, 'Saving someone's life is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter'?" Sai Si Shi asked.

"That's true, I can't bear to be killed and injured like this, and I feel uneasy when the killing is too heavy. Xu Feng always asked me not to care about it before, I felt that his words were too cold-blooded and ruthless, so I smashed him. And I called you here in the hope that you could help me come up with a way to reduce casualties and not make the Emperor suspicious or jealous of me. Shi Bin smiled bitterly.

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Naturally, the solution can only be done in secret, and only by a few loyal people know, and it is better not to provoke the envy of everyone.

"Husband, you said that you feel that these soldiers have suffered too many casualties and you can't bear it, right?"

"Yes, Xiaoling, although the officers and soldiers in my battalion also suffered a lot of casualties, they are not as pitiful as them, and they are missing arms and legs at every turn, so it is better to die than to live."

"There is a way for the slave family to solve the worries in your heart and not make people jealous." Jia Ling said with a smile.

Such a confident smile made Shi Bin and the others believe that Jia Ling's method is absolutely secure, so they didn't say anything and just waited for Jia Ling to say it.

"The reason why the soldiers are so miserable is not entirely due to injuries sustained in battle, but many of them have had to have their injured hands and feet sawed off to save their lives." Jia Ling spoke with a bitter face at this time, "The husband can discuss with a few generals who have a good relationship, and if they agree, send some military doctors to help their soldiers treat their injuries, so that they can not only save many soldiers, but also win over the generals, and it is difficult for Li Zong to know." ”

Jia Ling's method is indeed very good, as long as no one deliberately mentions it, Li Zong is afraid that he will never know about Shi Bin's treatment of the soldiers' injuries for the rest of his life. However, as long as this problem is solved, it will indeed be able to gain a lot of military hearts and win over many generals.

After thinking about it carefully, Shi Bin immediately instructed Xu Feng to do what Jia Ling said, and happily looked forward to a good result. No general is willing to become a bare-bones commander, so naturally they are very happy to receive such assistance. The effect was also immediate, although there were still many wounded, but the death and disability rate was greatly reduced, and the number of soldiers who could return to battle was greatly increased.

It's just that in this way, Shi Bin's reputation as a military doctor in the army is getting bigger and bigger, causing many wounded people to rather wait than be treated by their own military doctors, at most, as long as they stop the bleeding. In this way, there was a ridiculous contradiction, which embarrassed all the generals. In order to prevent unnecessary trouble, Shi Bin had to order his military doctors to take their apprentices, and the military doctors under those generals were also qualified.

Such a good situation did make many generals and soldiers begin to obey Shi Bin's orders, but the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it; Heaps out of the shore, and the flow will be turbulent; Walk above men, and the crowd will not. has a great reputation, and there are more people who are jealous and hate Shi Bin, and there are more people who run the emperor to slander.

For example, some soldiers often thanked the newspaper, and also asked for a good result, so they secretly ran to Shi Bin's men as the lowest-level baggage soldiers. And those villains who were hostile to Shi Bin said that this was a corner that Shi Bin dug in order to expand his strength.

It's just that there are more people who support Shi Bin, so as soon as someone slanders him, he immediately knows. It's just that Shi Bin couldn't let these people splash dirty water on him at will, so he had to discuss countermeasures with Jia Ling and Sai Xishi.

"A bunch of bastards have started pouring dirty water on your husband and me!" Shi Bin said in a low voice.

"Why?" This time, it was Sai Xishi, the female bandit, who asked first. I guess it's because I've been a bandit and I'm very sensitive to being splashed with dirty water.

"Because I helped them heal the soldiers, their eyes were red. Some of them envied the treatment of my soldiers, so they simply secretly came over to me as soldiers, and they naturally hated me. Shi Bin said helplessly, "Some white-eyed wolves even came to the emperor to slander me, saying that I deliberately dug into the corner of the wall to expand my strength. Fortunately, the emperor is now full of self-confidence and does not care much about this. ”

"A bunch of white-eyed wolves!" After hearing this, Jia Ling complained loudly, "Shi Bin, I have long asked you not to help those guys, but you just don't listen, and you can't bear to say anything, but now it's okay, but it's going to help you get into trouble." It seems that you came to me and Sister Shih Tzu for this, right? ”

"Yes." Shi Bin replied in a low voice, obviously regretting it in his heart.

"In my opinion, find out the generals who have slandered and are dissatisfied with you." Jia Ling said.

Have a good bang? Shi Bin disagrees with this approach. If it was in peacetime, Shi Bin would definitely do this, but now that there is an emperor in the army, how to beat it? If it is not beaten well, what if a general runs to tell the emperor? Wouldn't that give the emperor a pretext to punish him? So it will

The idea was spoken, and Jia Ling's suggestion was rejected.

Although Jia Ling was rude and willful, she also understood the reason, so she did not get angry because the proposal was rejected, but thought about it again, in order to earn back face.

"Why don't we send those generals who speak ill of you to attack and make them bare-bones commanders? If the soldiers are gone, they are the generals of the defeated army, where can they see the emperor again, where can they still slander? Sai Xi Shi smiled slyly.

"The general of the defeated army?" Shi Bin muttered the word silently. Sai Xishi's words Shi Bin felt quite reasonable, if he became a bare-bones commander, even if he made a great battle exploit, no one would appreciate it, because it was a pile of corpses.

"Xi Shi, what you said is very reasonable, but you don't have to be a bare-bones commander, so the casualties are too big and it is not good for my Great Song." Shi Bin smiled slightly, "As long as they have a lot of casualties but no results." ”

Knowing that Shi Bin didn't want to harm the pond fish, Sai Xishi didn't speak and just smiled and nodded in agreement. "Husband, don't suffer from poverty but from inequality. If you want to deal with those white-eyed wolves, you can just ask them to attack more, but we can't use our firearms to help other forbidden forces. ”

"What if the generals have doubts?"

"My commander, you are a commander, whether you use firearms or not is your business, not to mention those firearms soldiers are your subordinates, what qualifications do they have?" Jia Ling said with some hatred, "Of course, those hardcore supporters can still reveal some news, don't let them misunderstand, and forget the rest." ”

It didn't take long for Shi Bin to do what Sai Xishi said, and transferred those white-eyed wolf troops to be cannon fodder, but did not give them the support of a single shot or artillery, so that although those troops suffered huge casualties, the results were almost zero.

The attack was so unfavorable that Shi Bin was naturally 'furious', and immediately summoned a few white-eyed wolves who had spoken ill of him into the tent and gave them a 'Seven Wounds Punch', and ordered that if Cangzhou and Jizhou could not be conquered within seven days, several people would come to see them.

At this time, if they still don't know why Shi Bin is like this, they don't deserve to be called 'white-eyed wolves', but should be called 'white-eyed pigs'. Therefore, several people kowtowed and begged for mercy, saying that they would never dare to speak ill of Shi Bin again.

It's just that Shi Bin no longer believes in these, and just silently watches those people kowtow, which is a pastime. If Shi Bin had said it, a few people would have felt better, but Shi Bin just calmly tasted tea like this, which made them feel frightened, and they had nothing else to do but kowtow vigorously.

It didn't take long for several people to have their faces covered in blood. At this time, Xu Feng leaned into Shi Bin's ear and said, "Dashuai, it's good to knock and knock, I'm afraid it's not good if it's too much." There must be some of these people who have been bewitched, and they were just red-eyed before. ”

"You want me to be more lenient?"

"Yes, please be lenient, as long as you punish those who do their best to slander you. Just echo a few words, just knock and knock and forget it. ”

Although he didn't want to do this, as a commander and prime minister, he naturally had to be more tolerant, so Shi Bin finally accepted Xu Feng's opinion. He demoted a few generals who took the lead in denigrating him with all their might to be the head of the capital or the head of the army, and ordered them to personally lead the army to attack the city, which greatly deterred the malicious guys. And those generals who just echoed were not demoted, Shi Bin just asked them to continue to lead their troops as cannon fodder.

"Dashuai, I think you have to do one more thing." Xu Feng said again.

Looking at Xu Feng's appearance, Shi Bin knew that he must have thought of a 'good idea' again, and Shi Bin immediately urged him excitedly to say it.

"Marshal, those generals have been demoted, but the soldiers are still there, they are now under the command of the deputies of those officials, why don't the marshals simply take over this command?"

can be regarded as understanding what Xu Feng meant, this is to take this opportunity to expand his strength, and it is foolproof. Just write a few more names on the death register. After all, those deputies would never dare to confront Shi Bin, let alone see the emperor sue for any royal complaint.

"Okay, you go and investigate the situation first, and then come back to discuss it after figuring it out." Shi Bin said.