Chapter 270: Desperate Breakthrough (II)
Qi Haoxuan personally gave several demonstrations, and all the soldiers learned to make such life jackets.
Qi Haoxuan saw that all the brothers could make life jackets, so he immediately ran to the wounded barracks and ordered all the soldiers transporting the wounded soldiers to collect the wounded soldiers' pants and tie them to the carriage after they were done. (The carriage of the Ming Dynasty was made of wood)
In two quarters of an hour, what Qi Haoxuan ordered was completed by everyone, and when Qi Haoxuan felt that there was no problem, he ordered all the brothers to go into the water, and at this moment, a herald shouted;
"The general is awake, General Qi is awake."
All the soldiers gathered in that direction, and Qi Haoxuan ordered each thousand to lead his subordinates down the river, and he personally ran to visit Qi Jin.
"Father, I rushed out with my brothers, you can rest assured that you are injured, now the situation is urgent, and when you get to a safe place, the child is reporting to you."
Qi Jin looked at Qi Haoxuan and nodded with difficulty. There was no time to explain, Qi Haoxuan personally escorted the carriage where Qi Jin was lying, and quickly pushed the carriage towards the Daling River with a few soldiers.
More than 1,000 Qi family soldiers held hands, heart to heart, drifting on the raging Daling River, like a wounded dragon winding and serpentine on the Daling River. I took the hardest first step on the way home.
Huang Taiji woke up the next day, when he heard his subordinates report that last night's sneak attack by the Ming army caused more than 8,000 casualties among soldiers, and nearly 10,000 horses were burned to death.
Huang Taiji, who came to his senses, pondered for a moment and bowed to Ao;
"General Aobai, you quickly lead 10,000 elite cavalry to chase down this escaped Ming army. They must not be allowed to escape, they have no horses to run far. ”
"Tsk. The minions must kill this Ming army cleanly, in order to extinguish the hatred in my heart, please rest assured that the master is sick. ”
Bid farewell to the emperor Taiji and chased along the river.
After a night of wandering, Qi Haoxuan and they floated to the mouth of the sea, Qi Haoxuan found a beach and climbed ashore first, and the skin on his body was blistered white by the river. The bones of the body are like they are about to fall apart.
All the Qi family soldiers went ashore one after another and lay down on the beach, Qi Haoxuan knew that his brother's body was close to the limit. It is necessary to take a break, and now that it is getting light, the reflexes of the Tartars will soon be chasing after them.
An hour later, Qi Haoxuan summoned all the thousand and hundred presidents and began to assign tasks;
"Brothers, although we have escaped from the encirclement of the Tartars for the time being, when the Tartars react, we will not have a chance to escape in this plain area. In order for everyone to go home, I will now explain to you a few things, which must be completed within two hours:
First, everyone has now taken off their clothes and found a place to dry them, so that they don't catch a cold. Second, I led 800 soldiers to cut down wood and build rafts, and third, the remaining brothers, sent 100 men to hunt and gather the moldy fruit of the land, remembering that there must be moldy and edible wild fruits. ”
This is the good thing about being a soldier, and there are not so many crooked conditions and problems. As soon as Shangguan's order was issued, he went to complete it with vigor and determination. This also caused some character traits of Qi Haoxuan to do things in the future, in the eyes of others, Qi Haoxuan is a stunned young man who is not afraid of death, which is all a later story.
Now all the people in the Qi family army are naked, including Qi Haoxuan, Qi Haoxuan took this group of people carrying big knives and axes to cut trees in the forest not far from the shore, and everyone else was busy with their own affairs, although everyone was very tired. But under the temptation of going home, everyone is full of confidence, so they work extra hard.
Qi Haoxuan was only responsible for logging, and then dragged it to the river, and a special person was responsible for setting up the raft. After an hour, more than 100 rafts were successfully set up, and it was not a problem for each raft to carry 10 people.
The people who hunted and collected the moldy fruits also returned to the riverside, and the cooking was arranged by others, and Qi Haoxuan's task now was to use these moldy fruits.
Found a cauldron, Qi Haoxuan poured three or four catties of moldy fruit into the pot, and then boiled it over high heat. (The moldy fruit is the penicillin of later generations, and boiling the bacteria over high heat is a very primitive antibiotic.) )
In fact, many wounded people began to have a fever, although there are a lot of gold sore medicines in the army, but if they are infected, they will definitely not be able to save them, but with antibiotics, it is different, and the chance of death is much less.
After waiting for the fire to boil for half an hour, Qi Haoxuan personally scooped a bowl of cold, drank a big sip of bitter and astringent, and after waiting for more than ten minutes, Qi Haoxuan felt that he was beginning to sweat finely, and knew that the antibiotic was working, and it could be used completely without a problem, Qi Haoxuan ordered all the wounded to drink a big bowl, and others who had a little trauma and a little fever must also drink a bowl.
Qi Jin's big bowl was personally scooped by Qi Haoxuan, fed by himself, and drunk The big man who fought on the battlefield shouted for help, Qi Jin has now begun to have a high fever, if it can't be sterilized and cooled down, it will definitely not be saved, so Qi Haoxuan doesn't care where Qi Jin is yelling, or feed Qi Jin a big bowl before stopping.
Suddenly, everyone felt the ground tremble slightly, and Qi Haoxuan quickly lay on the ground, one ear close to the ground;
"It's the Tartar cavalry, all the brothers on the platform of the wounded on board, quick, quick,,,"
The remnants of the Qi family's army, who were still giggling just now, quickly lifted the wounded and ran onto the raft, and rowed to the center of the Daling River with their hands. (Tartars now have no water masters)
Fortunately, everyone found it early, and everyone was by the river again, and when Ao Bai led the cavalry to rush to the river, he saw countless rafts going down the river, leaving a beautiful back of Baturu of the Manchu Dynasty. If the gaze can kill, then the gaze of Ao Bai at this time is enough to kill.
The raft team led by Qi Haoxuan is basically close to the coast, if you want to eat fish, it is easy to use a rope to tie a quick meat, and you can catch dozens of catties of big fish without a fishing hook.
After half a month of arduous trekking, Qi Haoxuan and Qi Jin led the rest of the Qi family army back to Shanhaiguan, and the moment they saw Shanhaiguan, all the men cried, including Qi Haoxuan, who also had tears in their eyes. When the Qi family army came out of the customs, it was more than 5,000 elites, and when they came back, there were 500 people, which can be said to be one out of ten.
Qi Jin not only sent his father's bones home, but more importantly, took the Qi family army to defect to Yang Ting...... (To be continued......)