Lodo East Wall,

The sound of artillery bombardment was accompanied by cheers from the camps below.

Such a scene has become one of the most important daily pastimes for the soldiers of the Henan Special Army besieging the city.

However, the defenders of the Northern Dynasty at the head of the city were a little helpless, watching as the huge gun emplacements on their walls became tattered or buried in the masonry and rubble under the continuous movement and advancement of the artillery groups under the city, and under the wave after wave of salvo strikes.

During this time, they only had time to fire a single shot, with poor accuracy and range, and the greatest result was to smash a large platoon and several mounds of earth baskets behind it.

The gunners of the Southern Army, who were hiding behind and being splashed all over their faces with debris and debris, quickly used a relatively dense and accurate counterattack to tear this artillery position apart and shatter together with the operators who could not dodge behind.

These gun emplacements were so badly damaged that it was impossible to repair them in the short term, and the barrels of some large-mouth heavy guns also showed dents and deformations that were invisible to the naked eye.

Although, the city wall east of Luodu has not been able to be broken down for the time being, and the sneak attack and counterattack from the upper east gate have also been beaten back by the vigilant special army.

But the battlefield friendship between the pioneer officer Suo Chao and the reserve general Li Qiong continues.

It's just that in the daily process of uprooting the artillery positions at the head of the city one by one, Suo Chao, who was responsible for leading the team to make a feint posture to lure the enemy, was still inevitably injured again, and was still injured again by the fire guns at the head of the city.

Although it is only an old-fashioned arquebus, the lead that is beaten out is really embedded in the body, so the corresponding wounds are treated, and you still have to find the Huaidong Army who is good at dealing with wounds and lead poison.

Because of the convergence of Zhang Xian's advance team and the escort troops of the Wind Rolling Banner, Li Qiong also returned to the banner of the Huaidong Army from the former army temporarily posted.

Therefore, the place where Suo Chao saw the doctor was also changed to a different place, but it was on the old site of the White Horse Temple.

Under the banner of Wind and Thunder, in the ambulance camp, which has expanded several times, sergeants of various colors and accents honestly lined up in several lines in front of different signs and exits.

Since the Huaidong Army's reputation for its excellent field medical care methods, good at treating firearm wounds, relatively sufficient personnel and medicines, and a high probability of survival, it has been transformed by friendly forces from all directions.

There are even seriously wounded people who are secretly sent over from the middle route army in the south of the city, but the rules and order for corresponding admission are also very strict, and they are not gratuitous.

Of course, these costs are not so unbearable, and most of them can be paid with personal belongings or loot, or even accept some strange demands and questions from the other side.

However, as a close friendly seriously wounded and officer, there are still corresponding conveniences and privileges, so Suo Chao easily found the medical officer who dealt with his injuries before.

An Daoquan, a medical officer with a faint fishy smell and a slight exhaustion in the corners of his eyes, explained while changing his dressing for him with ease.

"This is ammonia powder, a new drug that has been tried in a small amount in the army"

"It has a good effect on the rust poison and wind evil that Jin Chuang's body has a good effect on uprooting."

"No matter how bad the pus and blood are,"

"As long as it is cleaned up and stuffed in with the white medicine, the guarantee will be dried up immediately."

"However, it is only distributed to medical officers above the battalion level."

So the next topic became more buying, buying, buying......

"The number of non-commissioned officers in the army who have been injured by lead one after another and suffered from the bruise and poison has reached nearly 6,000,"

"There is no proper cure,"

"In the past two days, the septic festering due to the heat has caused hundreds of deaths."

"Shi Youxin, the general of Fenwei, was hit by a stray bullet while watching the enemy at the head of the city...... I can't save it."

"This is already the first ......"

"But I don't know who should replace this gentleman......?"

Distracting voices and rumors permeate the surrounding area.

The prince and the young security of the military department of the senior secretary of the palace sentenced Wei Wei Shaoqing, the assassin of Weizhou and the ambassador of Hebei to interview and dispose of it, and Zhang Dekun was deployed in the east of the capital of Quandu, and he also looked at the fire on the city wall in the distance worriedly. /p>

It was the city wall that was being fought over section by section, and under the attack from inside and outside the wall, the defenders who fought valiantly could hardly change the fate of losing and retreating.

"Why can't we give up the already broken Jinai, retreat from the Yellow River, temporarily avoid the front and reorganize the situation......"

"And in this land of death, in the city of Luodu, what about hard struggle and perseverance......"

Questions like these appeared in his mind more than once, but after retreating to Luodu due to the time, he was able to realize that he had fallen into an insoluble deadlock.

The Son of Heaven can move, the civil and military officials can retreat, the military and the people can also retreat, and others may be able to retreat across Hebei and set up another court to gather strength, but the Zhang family, which has held the authority of the court for three generations, cannot retreat.

Once Luodu, the real righteous name that binds the northern half together, and the last symbol of the glory of the authority of the Tang Dynasty, the Zhang family, who are afraid of the emperor and the chief regent, will no longer be able to continue to maintain the regent authority as scheduled.

Having lost the familiar territory and the power of most of the control, it is easy to put yourself in an extremely dangerous situation due to the intensification of various internal and external troubles and contradictions.

After all, the Zhang clan is no better than the Liang Shogunate of the Southern Dynasty, and has not only a blood and name bond with the imperial family, but also the hearts and heritage of the people who have been running the various regions of the South China Sea for generations.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that the contemporary regent would rather use the most conservative strategy and attitude, at all costs and means, to tie up the last remaining strength and resources of the Northern Dynasty here in disguise to fight a decisive offensive and defensive battle.

Because, at this moment, Zhang Dekun is not only fighting for the fate of the dynasty and the regent, but also has to fight to the end for himself from the Zhang family, otherwise there will be no eggs under the nest.

But the bad news that followed one after another filled him with a certain pessimism and worry about being able to continue to hold on until the winter.

Especially in the case of the defection of the Li Chuwen Department, which has already occupied the Heyang Bridge Pass. He had made plans and arrangements, and as soon as things were not good, he fled back to Hebei......

And in Huaidong,

With a little brain supplement and conjecture about the distribution of minerals in later generations, after going around in the ravines and ravines of the Laizhou generation for more than half a year, there was finally news again

After the Furong Gully in Ye County, Laizhou and the Sanshan Island Gold Mine at sea, a shallow gold vein was newly discovered in the Luoshan Mountains on the border between the southwest of Ye County and Jiaoshui County, and the conditions for drilling and mining have been met.

At present, these two large-scale mining clandestine mines occupy thousands of manpower, and can provide about 3,400 taels of gold and gold shavings per month.

After smelting and binding in a local secret workshop, you can get two gold treasures in slightly better condition, about 4,200 pieces. The face value of a large treasure coin minted in gold is ten yuan, and as a large amount of precious metal currency that is easy to maintain value, the actual value will be overflowing by two or three percent.

Excluding the labor and fire consumption of mining and casting, this month is a net income worth 50,000 yuan. Not counting other associated minerals.

Then, through the circulation channels of Huiyuan, after being exchanged for a variety of better large and small silver treasures, white copper and bronze coins in the south, some of them can be purchased in the form of internal production materials in Huaidong in addition to the needs of local purchase, and can be re-turned into the margin of various token bills circulated in Huaidong.

In this way, the reversal of one in and one out can generate millions of dollars of economic circulation with currency as leverage.

Of course, there is also a tenth of the gold share, which is directly allocated to the special fund in my name, as some special projects that are not accounted for, and the start-up capital under my sudden brainstorm.

The discrepancies in the accounts of this money, usually squatting with my head in charge of auditing and filing, can be regarded as a small treasury under my private name, and there is no need to interfere with and affect the normal financial access system of Huaidong due to some unexpected situations and needs, or the project operation of the rear Guangfu family.

According to the results of the local exploration by the direct mapping team, with the discovery and mining of this vein, it is expected that the monthly quota will be increased by more than 1,000 taels.

In this way, I can get an extra hundred taels of gold at my disposal.

If converted into materials, as the fulcrum of the early investment, it is enough to build three new ships with 1,000 materials according to civilian standards, or a 1,000-5 Flying Fish warship with full capacity and standard configuration;

or as the input of the armed reclamation regiment, two or three hundred new barren fields were opened; or to prepare materials and personnel salaries, and build a new supporting workshop related to musket parts; Or directly from the southern continent, five ships of rice, dried coconut, palm oil, and so on.

Although the hinterland of the Kingdom outside the Lingnan Dynasty was generally sluggish and all industries were depressed, the monetary value of gold was still relatively strong.

PS's father-in-law was hit by a car and accompanied him for a day, so he was late for the press release, and there may be some impact in the future