After the Chu army occupied Huanggang, the second wave of Qing reinforcements in Wuchang Mansion was frightened and shrunk back, and they did not rush to attack, the Chu army had already established a foothold in Huangzhou Mansion, and sent more than 10,000 horses to come, and it was likely to be another defeat, Kong Youde and Luck Dehun had to make another plan.

But for the Qing army, the Yangtze River supply line is the lifeline, it is impossible for the Chu army to stay in Huangzhou Mansion all the time, Wang Kefan estimates that Kong Youde and Le Kedehun are concentrating their forces, adjusting their deployment, and preparing to wipe out the Chu army on the bank of the Yangtze River first, but it is not easy to move the army, and there should be a few precious buffer days.

Wang Kefan intended to force Kong Youde to divide his troops, so he tried his best to sabotage in Huangzhou Mansion. Through a multi-pronged approach, he has temporarily solved the problem of food shortage, and some of the grain has been used to help the victims, but it needs to be exchanged for labor by the victims.

If you work, you will have food!

Thousands of young people in Huanggang City were gathered, and the city walls were demolished day and night, and all the wall bricks, earth and stones were transported to the wharf, plus the wall bricks sent by Xishui County, and thrown into the Yangtze River to block the waterway. Although the Yangtze River is very wide, after throwing sacks and bricks at the key position of the channel, it can still effectively interfere with the ships, especially the kind of giant boats of two or three thousand materials are the most affected, Wang Kefan did not want to block the Yangtze River, but at least it can reduce the transportation capacity of the Qing army.

In addition, the wharves around Huangzhou Mansion were completely closed, so that the Qing army's transport ships could not dock, from Jiujiang Mansion to Wuchang Mansion all the way upstream, the Qing army's transport ships could not dock for supplies, so they had to greatly reduce the goods transported.

After demolishing the Huanggang city wall, Wang Kefan sent another 2,000 cavalry to capture Xishui County, where the army was disorganized, to raise food and ships for the army.

Wang Kefan prepared to continue the attack on Luotian County.

The more he made a fuss in Huangzhou Mansion. The greater the pressure on Kong Youde, if Kong Youde doesn't come to Huangzhou Mansion for a day, he won't leave for a day. Wang Kefan's ultimate goal is to let Kong Youde divide his troops, and hundreds of thousands of Qing troops will gather into a lump, which is really difficult to deal with.

If he catches another prisoner, Wang Kefan is ready to continue to do business with them, regardless of food or wall tiles, as long as he can cause chaos to the Qing army. can be changed.

In addition, Wang Kefan has always been thinking about the flintlock pistol, so he specially went to the field hospital to visit the wounded Portuguese soldiers.

"This is Chinese medicine, and boiling medicine is just to use the ingredients in it, not witchcraft."

Explain carefully to Father Qu Shawei. Wang Kefan even reluctantly talked about the concept of bacteria, and finally reluctantly convinced the stubborn German. In this decade. Modern Western medicine has not yet been born. The medical skills of European countries are more like a kind of witchcraft, and Father Qu Shawei was only worried that those "pure" believers would be controlled by evil witchcraft, and under Wang Kefan's repeated assurances, he finally agreed to let Hua Xiaoyue treat their injuries.

The wound is cleaned, the carrion is removed, and the foreign body remaining in the body is removed. Disinfect with high-purity liquor, stop bleeding with fiery pressing and binding, apply external dressing with medicinal powder, and finally pour a bowl of thick Chinese medicine soup. Hua Xiaoyue treated more than a dozen Portuguese wounded soldiers one after another, and her skillful techniques and accurate judgment made Father Qu Shawei amazed, and the last trace of doubt also disappeared.

In this era, priests often also made cameo appearances as doctors, and the Portuguese wounded soldiers were treated preferentially by the Chu army, and they were treated and cared for by Father Qu Shawei alone, which had been turning for several days, but the injuries of the Portuguese wounded soldiers were getting more and more serious, and after seeing Hua Xiaoyue's superb medical treatment, he knew what a big mistake he had made.

"Master Huatian, you are an excellent doctor, if you had been allowed to treat it earlier, my soldier would not have died."

"You'd better remember that bloodletting is useless!" Hua Xiaoyue said coldly: "If the patient has a fever, you can wipe your body with wet wipes, but you must not bleed." ”

"Okay, okay, please accept my sincere thanks, Master Huatian." Father Qu Shawei bowed.

"Don't thank me, if you want to thank Wang Junmen, if it weren't for the order of the military gate, I wouldn't have used so many precious medicines on the wounded soldiers of Francis." Hua Xiaoyue pursed her lips, looking very unhappy.

The drugs with significant curative effects are expensive, for example, Panax notoginseng powder is a specialty of Yunnan, and the Chu army spared no expense to buy some, and they are careful when they are used in ordinary times, but under Wang Kefan's order, they did not hesitate to treat the Portuguese soldiers.

"Wang Junmen is our most sincere friend, of course I want to express my gratitude!" Father Qu Shawei turned around and saluted Wang Kefan again, the pain of the Portuguese soldiers was significantly reduced after they were treated, and although Father Qu Shawei was a half-hung doctor, he could also see that they were getting better.

Wang Kefan exchanged a few polite words with him, and said: "Although we occupy Huanggang, but the battle will be more fierce in the future, and we must use the Fran machine soldiers, please ask the priest to arrange for the soldiers to rest well, if there is any suffering, please be sure to tell me." ”

"Do you still want to fight? My soldiers were tired, suffered heavy casualties, and their guns were heavily damaged, and they could not fight for the time being. Father Qu Shawei shook his head.

"No way, I also want to rest, but first I have to defeat the Manchus, please understand the priest." Wang Kefan said: "If the Fran machine soldiers don't have enough guns, we can provide spare arquebuses and send those flintlock guns back to the rear for repair." ”

"Can you fix a flintlock pistol?"

"Of course, we have the ability to make new arquebuses, can't we fix flintlock guns? If there is a sample, it is not difficult, and the priest should understand this. ”

"This ......," Father Qu Shawei hesitated.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Kefan sent a small elite force to protect the seriously wounded of the nameless Fran mechanics, twenty-six damaged flintlock guns, and an intact flintlock pistol sample, crossed the Yangtze River, and went to the Chu Army Repair Institute in Jinggangshan.

In order to gain the trust of Father Qu Shawei, Wang Kefan even paid a deposit for the Portuguese soldiers who lost their guns, if these Chu soldiers could not repair their flintlock pistols, they would have to compensate at a price of two hundred taels of silver each, compared to ten taels of silver for a bird's gun, this compensation is undoubtedly sky-high.

Father Qu Shawei is not a businessman, he thinks that more than 5,000 taels of silver is an astronomical amount of money, and Wang Kefan will definitely not break the contract, but what he didn't expect is that Wang Kefan never planned to return these flintlock pistols from the beginning.

But two years later, with the mass production of flintlock pistols in the Chu army, the Portuguese fan soldiers got the latest flintlock pistols, and these mercenaries made a fortune in vain.

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In Luotian County, fierce siege battles are underway.

The Chu army also used all its strength to mobilize more than 10,000 people to fight Luotian, and Xu Yong retreated again, leaving only Sun Baian to block the Ming army. In the face of this small county town, the Chu army still adopted a quick battle and a quick decision, sending prisoner cannon fodder to clear the roadblocks, and the Qing army at the head of the city stubbornly resisted, and the prisoner cannon fodder continued to fall to the ground with arrows.

Da Gu Niu stood in the queue of firecrackers, watching the battle in front of him intently, his face was extremely stern.

Although just a few days ago, Da Guniu was still one of the captives, but he did not feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox, because he was no longer those rabbits and foxes that were slaughtered by others, but a soldier of the Chu army.

"Attack!"

With the order of the commander Wang Yi, the musket team pushed forward to the moat, and opened the gun to cover the prisoners and cannon fodder who filled the trench and opened the way.

"Dead fatty, squat down, don't be afraid of being hit by lead!" An auxiliary commander called out to him in a low voice.

"I'm fat, I can't get up when I squat." The big bull stood stubbornly.

The auxiliary commander was about to speak, and a musketeer in front of him suddenly fell to the ground with an arrow, and the big bull rushed over like a high-speed train, put the wounded soldier on his back and turned around and ran, and handed it to the ambulance soldier behind, and the other auxiliaries were looking in a daze, and the big bull rushed out and carried back a wounded soldier.

"What are you doing, just let a recruit do the work, give me all the work, and whoever is afraid of death will get out of the musket team!" Wang Yi turned around and scolded these auxiliaries with a cold face, and the auxiliaries hurriedly stood up and moved forward, only to see Da Gu Niu rushing up again and handing a spare pass to a musketeer who had knocked out the pass.

The musketeer was very nervous, and accidentally ignited the medicine pot, Wang Yi stepped forward quickly and kicked him out of the team, so as to avoid harming the firecracker next to him, and after the firecracker extinguished the flames on his body, Wang Yi drove him directly out of the back of the team.

He turned around again and asked the big bull, "Where did you get your pass?" ”

"I picked it up just now, and two big brothers were injured." The big bull pointed behind him, and there were two birds, one of which was missing.

Wang Yi nodded: "Do you know how to use firearms?" ”

"Used it once." When Da Guniu joined the musket team, he fired a shot in basic training.

"Go up and fill in the seats." Wang Yi ordered.

Da Guniu's body was shocked, his eyes were full of excitement, he ran over and picked up a musket, stood in the middle of the line, first checked the bird gun, then charged the charge and ignited the fire rope, and with the order of the officer who commanded the shooting, he raised the bird gun and aimed at the Qing army at the head of the city......

In front of the Chu army, the assault team that was preparing to charge the city was ready, Hu Dashara was holding a short knife, his eyes were shining, and he was waiting for the order to charge. Although he is a ruffian, he has always dared to fight and kill, so he mixed into the position of a sentry in the green camp, and after he mixed into the Chu army with his tail between his legs, he also wanted to win trust with his military exploits.

Chu Jun's rules are too strict, he doesn't like it very much, first try to gain the trust of the officers, and then find an opportunity to desert, this is Hu Da Scarla's plan......

It was nearly evening, the city gate of Wuchang Mansion was about to close, and a group of green battalion soldiers were about to go out of the city, their military camp was outside the city, and after entering the city to do business and have fun, they had to return to the military camp before closing the city gate.

Gan Yu followed behind this group of green battalion soldiers, and took out his waist card from his arms, he had just received an important piece of information, and he was in a hurry to rush back to Huangzhou Mansion and report to the Chu army. (To be continued......)