The arrival of the military doctor also attracted Ma Sanniang's attention, and when she turned her head, she saw that the people who came down from several carriages were women, and after getting off the carriage, she brought a mask, a white hat on her head, white clothes and pants on her body, and even her shoes were white. Ma Sanniang is the first time I have seen it.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was not uncommon for women to wear white clothes, but it was unusual that they also wore a white hat on their heads, and that women basically did not wear pants, and their lower bodies were skirts. Such an image can be said to be unceremonious, shocking, and scolding.

Soon, these military doctors went to the wounded soldiers, began to disinfect and bandage, and as for some serious injuries, they were treated on the spot, and those who could not be carried into carriages were carried to the carriage and prepared to be sent to the city for treatment.

In Ma Sanniang's observation, it was found that the status of these women in the army was not low, because these soldiers respected them very much. Ma Sanniang lowered her head slightly and looked at Zhu Houwei beside her, "What kind of officer is the female military doctor of your water and land battalion equivalent to?" Zhu Houwei didn't look back, but looked at the busy military doctor and said with a smile, "It's not because of the official position, but that no matter who you are, you may be injured, and it is natural to respect someone who may save your life at any time." ”

"These young women are in the barracks, aren't you afraid that something will go wrong?" Ma Sanniang was a little puzzled.

"What's the problem, they are exhausted from training every day. Even if they still have physical strength, there are organized football games in the army for them to vent their energy. Taking a step back, even if someone takes a fancy to the woman inside, as long as there is no coercion, the woman is willing, and we are happy to see it. Zhu Houwei said with a smile.

Ma Sanniang still has many questions to ask, but a military doctor has come over to prepare to re-bandage her wounds, slowly remove the cloth that has been infiltrated by blood in Ma Sanniang's hands, take out a glass alcohol jar to disinfect, and then take out a clean cotton cloth to re-bandage, which is more professional than the original Ma Sanniang's bandaging.

Zhu Houwei saw the wound, almost across the entire palm, the wound was a little deep, but not big. When disinfection, Ma Sanniang just frowned and didn't make a sound, but Zhu Houwei knew how much pain alcohol would cause, and he admired this woman with a persevering personality. After the female military doctor bandaged it, she was still telling Ma Sanniang some things to pay attention to, Ma Sanniang nodded while smiling.

At this time, the battle on Zhu Houzhao's side was also coming to an end, and the military doctors finished dealing with the wounded here and rushed to the battlefield that belonged to them. Zhu Houwei looked at their distant carriage and muttered, "It's still too slow." ”

Ma Sanniang said, "What's too slow." Zhu Houwei smiled and shook his head, "It's nothing." Ma Sanniang just stared at him, looking like I was very patient. Zhu Houwei sighed, "It's really nothing, it's just that the speed of cultivating doctors is too slow." The military doctor said that he could treat the more common trauma on the battlefield in three years. But doctors who treat ordinary people are not so easy to train. It is necessary to be literate first, and then systematically study and accumulate experience. It will take at least seven or eight years to be able to take charge on his own. ”

"What do you do with so many doctors? Can the hospital still lack a royal doctor? Ma Sanniang asked with a smile

Zhu Houwei said with a little confidence and a little longing, "In the future, in addition to paying for medicine, as long as the consultation fee is a penny, then most people will be able to afford to see a doctor." The elderly live longer, the young and middle-aged work better, and the children can grow up healthily. ”

Ma Sanniang was also a little excited when she heard this, she had heard that this was the case in the road construction team, and the same was true of the Huangzhuang in the capital, so she asked, "Is there any difficulty now?" ”

Zhu Houwei smiled bitterly: "How can it be so easy?" Most of the doctors were men, and none of them wanted to work with women on an equal footing. And it takes too long to cultivate on your own. Moreover, there are many doctors, and the monthly expenditure is not a small amount. The most important thing is that once it is fully implemented in Daming, it will surely shake the interests of many people and affect the whole body. ”

Ma Sanniang shook her head helplessly, "It's too troublesome, thinking about this and that, I'd better be my smuggler of salt." At least I know that, and I'm not afraid of others. King Fu won't report us Baidong Mountain to the imperial court, right? Glancing at Zhu Houwei playfully, the atmosphere between the two seemed to be back to before.

Zhu Houwei shrugged his shoulders: "I'm full, I'm panicking, will I clean up the smugglers in the world and come over?" Besides, it's okay to make a small fuss, but if it makes a big fuss, someone else will clean me up first. Don't look at me as a prince, it seems to be very powerful, but in fact, it is nothing great in this Daming. At most, it is to do not let others bully, and if you want to bully others, it is better to save it. ”

The results of the battle were counted an hour later, with twenty-three men killed, sixty-seven wounded, and eleven unable to return. There was no way, the position where the enemy launched the surprise attack was too close, and the hand-to-hand muskets did not have an advantage.

Zhu Houzhao's brothers went to the wounded soldiers' camp in the city to visit the wounded and calmed the wounded soldiers' emotions. Although the wounded who could not return to the team were sad, they had no worries about the future, because they believed that the Zhu Houzhao brothers would not abandon them.

Linqing is basically safe here, and there should be no problem here with more than 400 soldiers from the land and water battalion. The people who had fled had slowly returned to the vicinity of the docks. On the battlefield more than an hour ago, corpses, prisoners were transferred. There are also some civilians hired by the land and water battalions who are taking clean water on the battlefield to wash away pools of blood one after another.

And Zhu Houwei was talking to Zhu Houzhao on the side, "Can you not be so heroic, you really think that the world is invincible?" Sanniang can beat you with one hand. I'm begging you, just take a gun and shoot in the back in the future, don't rush up with a knife. You've only been married for a long time, and you have to think about your sister-in-law, okay? ”

Zhu Houzhao just took a shower, changed his clothes, listened to his younger brother's nagging, waved his hand and said impatiently, "Okay, okay, next time I won't go to the front." How old are you, how can you nag like a woman? There were only two brothers in the room, and Zhu Houzhao also took off his mature mask and revealed his true temperament.

Zhu Houwei knew that he didn't listen, and suddenly his eyes rolled, "By the way, the cannon of the artillery factory has been made, and it is very energetic." With one shot, God blocks and kills God, and Buddha blocks and kills Buddha. ”

"Really?" "Did I fool you with your ingenuity?" "That's right. Well, it's decided, I'll take a look when I get back to the capital. ”

Although it was already six o'clock in the evening, two kerosene lamps were installed in the bow and stern of the ship, and Zhu Houzhao and his party sailed towards Texas at night. The gurgling water, the bright moon with white water, the insects on both sides of the river, and the rustling sound of the trees shaking form a picture scroll that combines movement and stillness in the autumn night.

It's almost the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, and I don't know if a few people will have time to reunite with their loved ones. However, in the hearts of the Zhu Houzhao brothers, what they did was more important than reuniting with their relatives, although they could not let that trace of longing disappear.

At noon the next day, the boat docked at the dock in Texas. There are about 10,000 people gathered here, which is very small compared to Linqing and Jining, but the people were not transported away, but disappeared in the war.

There were 500 soldiers from the land and water battalion by the dock, and when they saw Zhu Houzhao and them get off the boat, they immediately came over to greet them, but it was not Dong Qinghai. Dong Qinghai led more than 500 people to pursue the rebels, Zhu Houzhao is now listening to what happened in Texas a few days ago, as for the official documents of the imperial court, except for the names of the people, the other credibility is not high.

After the intelligence collection of the water and land battalions and the information provided by the ubiquitous Jinyiwei, a more reliable situation was finally obtained.

Lingshanwei and Anton Wei arrived in Pingyuan County on July 22, but did not enter the city. There was no way, what they had done along the way had traveled to other places faster than their footsteps. Along the way, he stole chickens and dogs, and did many things that disturbed the peace. The two commanders, that is, the commanders of the two guards, know that they have no less black pots, and they are also bitter in their hearts and can't say it. Because they don't usually train, and they are not familiar with the soldiers, except for the twenty or thirty family members they brought, there are no other descendant troops.

So why do they want to lead the team, because their official position is hereditary, and others have patted their farts enough, given enough gifts, and built a bad reputation before they climbed up, and the two of them have only enjoyed it from generation to generation because of their ancestors' military exploits. Now that they have crossed thousands of miles, their subordinates are not aligned, and the drudgery of not knowing victory or defeat has been handed over to these two people. He had to endure the impeachment of the civilian officials, and he couldn't tell his superiors, "As a commander, I can't command them, the people's hearts are scattered, and the team can't be led." "Looking at the jokes behind me, there are many people waiting to fall into the well, and I can't push myself to a dead end.

When I arrived in Pingyuan County, the team's tour of the mountains and rivers also came to an end, and I was ready to let Pingyuan County send some food, and the fish and meat came out to reward the army, and the answer of the Pingyuan County Order was only one word: "Get out." ”

Fortunately, there is still some food left in the team, as long as it lasts for two days. There are unforeseen circumstances, and on the 23rd, I was going to Texas to calm the rebellion during the day, but I didn't expect the soldiers to make trouble, saying that they would not give money, and we would not serve them without good wine and meat. The military households, who have been oppressed for a long time, also came to the boldness. I thought to myself, "Let's work hard to earn war merit for your eldest master, okay." But you'll have to settle the arrears of wages. We are all starving to death, you lords, and we are all starving. Ask you not to take the arrears of wages too much. The commander was in a hurry, "Where is this, I took a little of your money, why do I have to spit it all out." "The atmosphere is tense, and there is almost a mutiny, there is no way, at this juncture, there can be no moths, otherwise no one will be better. The commander Tongzhi took out his "savings" and went to Pingyuan City to change the change, which can be regarded as giving everyone a little motivation. After all, except for the end of the Ming Dynasty, other periods will be severely cracked down, and military households do not dare to make a big deal about it.

But after such a delay, the day will pass, and it will only be opened again tomorrow. wanted to start a war tomorrow, but the rebels didn't agree, and the official army hadn't reached the plain yet, and Luo Xing, the leader of the rebels, had already gotten the news. So he took men and horses, and set out from Texas on the 20th, ready to attack the tired division from afar. It's a pity that he overestimated the combat effectiveness of his subordinates, and his religious followers were okay, but those who took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the team dragged down, and the road that could be reached in more than a day was stunned for three days.

The only good thing is that you don't get tired too much. In the evening, it was finally here. Originally, Luo Xing had already given up, but he didn't expect the officials and soldiers to give face so much, they didn't send scouts, and the camp was at the level of refugees, and a few refusals were over.

Luo Xing saw the opportunity, waited until the dead of night, broke into the official camp, and there was no ambiguity in killing people and setting fires. The officers and soldiers only thought about disrupting the people, but they did not expect that the rebellious people would attack them in turn, and they were in chaos for a while. In addition, I have not practiced battle formations for many years, and my combat effectiveness and command can be imagined. Protected by the family, it can be regarded as out of the battlefield, and he can run as far as he can.

The officers and soldiers ran away, but the armor and weapons were not taken away, and the disadvantages of the shareholders' business came out at once.

Luo Xing is indeed the major shareholder, and he also has the largest number of people in the Luo Sect, but there are also many other White Elephant Sects, Dragon and Tiger Sects, and Maitreya Sects. More than a dozen churches, large and small, were also in disarray after the victory. In order to snatch weapons and armor, there were even big fights between sects, and the most peculiar thing was that two or three small sects gathered, took weapons, put on armor, and gathered three to five hundred people to attack Pingyuan County, which was less than two miles away.

The sky was already dark, and the city walls did not cut corners, and three or five hundred people failed under the counterattack of Pingyuan County. Only two-thirds of them returned. Luo Xing was angry, he understood a truth, that is, if you want to go outside, you must first settle inside, and you must first unify everyone's thoughts before you can take action. So he first used the spoils obtained in the evening to open a spoils sharing meeting. Then everyone returned to Texas and prepared to besiege or attack Texas. Don't look at the small plain county, but the city walls are high and thick, and they are easy to defend. When you return to Texas, you can still recruit fresh blood with a big victory, and there are many people at the dock.

What Luo Xing didn't expect was that on the way back, the scouts intercepted a few carriages. At first glance, I was lucky, it was the magistrate of Texas who still had concubines and "some" savings. The scout was Roshing's man, so the savings were hidden. dragged the magistrate and others back to Texas, first publicized the victory over the official army, and grabbed a lot of food and weapons. The contingent of two or three thousand quickly expanded to nearly ten thousand.

took the magistrate to the gate of the city to persuade him to surrender, but he didn't expect that the warden who was in charge of the county seat would not agree to the strong local power in Texas. Boom, just like sprinkling beans into soldiers, many heads popped up on the city wall, these are the family members and thugs of big Texas families. Not to mention how good the combat effectiveness is, it's no problem to fill the façade. Coupled with the original Texas defense of more than 800 officers and soldiers, there were 4,000 defenders on the city wall at this time.

Luo Xing was annoyed and angry, and put down a cruel sentence: "Give you three days, if you don't surrender, you will kill the county order sacrifice flag." After the city is broken, the chickens and dogs will not be left. ”

The warden used this cruel sentence to make the 600,000 people in the city work together, and they have the money to contribute and make a powerful contribution. Of course, there is not much money, and the power is also from poor households.

Three days later, Luo Xing kept his promise and killed the county order sacrifice flag. During these three days, he was not idle, using the carpenters in the team to build dozens of ladders. Siege battles broke out.

The siegers have little experience, so they just set up a ladder and climb up. Although the defenders of the city have little experience, they have heard of a lot of defenders who have never seen them, stones, logs, bows and arrows, and bed crossbows are desperately smashing down. Texas is a big city, rich in materials and affordable.

At the end of the day, the besiegers lost more than 1,000 people, and the loss of the defenders was less than 100 people. There were no doctors on the besieging side, and more than 1,000 people who did not die were wailing, and then there was no more, and one by one they lost too much blood and went to see Maitreya Buddha, the lifeless old mother or other gods and Buddhas of all kinds.

The congregation did not lose faith and did not waver in their hearts to build or go to the brave new world. But a large number of others fished in troubled waters, and the number of people dropped again to more than 3,000. Then it's time to rest, to besiege.

On August 2nd, Dong Qinghai brought people here. Luo Xing thought that the officers and soldiers were all like goods, but he was sad, and he went up to send experience in waves, and the recruits under Dong Qinghai quickly upgraded and became a qualified soldier.

At this time, no matter how hot the religious fervor is, it does not help, after all, they only think that they are invulnerable, but they are also shot and fall to the ground in battle. Soon, Luo Xing's team was scattered, and the small leaders of various sects fled with their men, while Dong Qinghai led people to pursue Luo Xing, a big fish.