In the big camp outside the county.

In the handsome tent, Yuan Feng's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he looked gloomily at the more than ten colleagues sitting around without speaking, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.

Since the general set out on the expedition, he has been invincible and invincible, and has wiped out several rebels in a row. He also forced Zhao Yuanjin's troops to the point of near the end of the road, seeing that victory was in sight, and I don't know what kind of means this group of traitors used, they actually attacked and killed the general and many generals and captains, reversing the tide of the battle, causing the morale of the imperial army to almost collapse.

Such a situation is so bad that I can't figure out the reason for it, and I don't even know how to write it in the war report, and I'm afraid that the high-ranking adults in the DPRK and China will not believe their words at all. They will only think that they are ineffective in combat, stealing and slippery.

"Ladies and gentlemen......"

Strategist Zhu Yuntai's hoarse voice sounded: "Right now, our army has suddenly undergone a big change, and we have to quickly negotiate a charter, but we can't mess up and give that group of traitors an opportunity to take advantage of." ”

A group of generals were silent, Yuan Feng exhaled, and said sullenly: "Now that the army's morale has been lost, if you continue to fight, it will only increase casualties, what else can you do?" ”

It's not that he's greedy for life and afraid of death, it's just that the general died in battle in vain, and he couldn't even get his body back.

Now there have been ominous signs of panic and rumors in the army, if this kind of defeat with a strange atmosphere comes again, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses will have to be dispersed on the spot, even if they are lucky enough not to die, they will inevitably be dismissed by the imperial court afterwards.

One of the guards hesitated and said, "Maybe we can make a case to the military department and ask for more reinforcements......

Zhu Yuntai smiled bitterly and shook his head, now that the imperial court is in turmoil and the country is in a hurry, how can there be many troops available for deployment and support? What's more, the situation here cannot be solved by sending tens of thousands of reinforcements.

The top priority at the moment is to try to find out the hidden means possessed by Zhao Yuanjin's subordinates and come up with a way to deal with restraint, so that the rebels can be eliminated as soon as possible.

Out of the careful mind of the strategist, he had a palpitating premonition that if this matter was not handled as soon as possible, Zhao Yuanjin's group of rebels would be like tigers breaking out of the cage, and they would definitely become a big trouble for the imperial court in the future.

The rest of the generals deliberated for a long time, but they could not come to a conclusion. As soon as Meng Luo died, there was no second general in the army who had enough prestige, qualifications, and means to control the situation, so no one could convince anyone.

In the end, Zhu Yuntai could only propose that the army should retreat to the nearby county town first, and then report the battle situation to the imperial court, and wait for the orders of the military department and the cabinet to arrange.

……

In the city gate tower.

"Sir is back?!"

Seeing Qin Feng's figure appear, Zhao Yuanjin, who had been waiting here for a short time, was overjoyed. No matter how strange the origin of this mysterious young man is, it is an indisputable fact that he has the magical means to help him solve the siege.

The surrounding Sun Xiangqing, Su Mu, Song Wu and several other henchmen and important ministers stepped forward to salute together, and their expressions were not only extremely respectful, but also vaguely in awe.

With a gesture, you can easily kill the generals of the imperial court, scare off tens of thousands of imperial army troops, and turn the great cause of the lord into safety.

"What's the situation outside, where is the imperial army now?" Qin Feng asked.

"The imperial army has abandoned the camp outside the city and temporarily retreated to the neighboring Yangcheng County to station, it is said that they plan to ask the imperial court for additional reinforcements, and ask the imperial soldiers and horses from the surrounding states and counties to come over to assist in support." Zhao Yuanjin said with a relaxed expression.

Qin Feng smiled, this Jiedu made the Lord naturally see that no matter what the reaction of the imperial court was, it would not be able to pose much of a threat to him in a short period of time. Therefore, he can calmly reorganize his troops and horses to recover his strength, and if he is lucky, he can also find opportunities to continue to attack the surrounding counties.

"It seems that the adults already have an idea, but there is no need to worry too much about it." Qin Feng said.

"Having said that, there are still a lot of places where Zhao needs to rely on Mr. for help."

Zhao Yuanjin hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Although the soldiers and horses of the imperial court have temporarily retreated, once they get follow-up reinforcements, they may come back at any time. We must step up the repair of the city defenses, recruit troops, and hoard ordnance, food and grass in order to do another great thing, and hope that the gentleman will not hesitate to help. ”

"I have the same intention." Qin Feng nodded.

At that moment, the two discussed, now that the siege of the county has been lifted, Zhao Yuanjin's men and horses can go out of the city freely, but it is still a little difficult to raise ordnance and materials and expand the soldiers and horses, after all, the surrounding counties are no longer his territory.

A group of people can be recruited to supplement the army in the county, and some people can also be recruited in the surrounding villages and towns adjacent to the county town. However, when it is full, there are only a few thousand people in total, and it takes time to train.

If you want to expand the army quickly, you can only have such conditions after grabbing more territory.

"I plan to take back Qinghe County and Yuanxiang County near the county seat first,"

Zhao Yuanjin said: "These two counties are not too big, but the population of the people is still some. And according to the information collected by the spies, there are only hundreds of imperial soldiers stationed in the two counties, and it will not be too difficult to take it. Of course, this has to rely on the help of Mr. to ensure that nothing goes wrong. ”

Qin Feng naturally had no objections, the imperial army suffered a sudden defeat, and he couldn't breathe for a while, taking advantage of this rare opportunity period, while recuperating and recuperating, it was the right way to find ways to seize territory and expand strength.

There is indeed not much oil and water in the two ordinary counties, but no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are still meat, and the family background of the vast majority of warlords and princes is accumulated little by little like this.

Not to mention anything else, after taking a county seat, it is not a problem to recruit more than 1,000 young people to enrich the new army, anyway, with Qin Feng as the backing, Zhao Yuanjin is now not short of food and salary, and it is not a problem to raise tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

“…… By the way, how many wounded soldiers are there in the city? Qin Feng suddenly asked.

Zhao Yuanjin replied: "There are more than 3,000 people, of course, due to the lack of medical officers and medicines in the city, these soldiers basically can't survive much. ”

Qin Feng frowned and was silent, this was actually a normal phenomenon. Due to the limitations of ancient conditions, the number of medical officers accompanying the army was very scarce, and they usually only served people with status, and ordinary soldiers rarely received timely treatment. Seriously injured people will be abandoned on the spot, and those who are lightly injured can only resist with their own physique, and if they are lucky, they may be able to apply some medicine simply.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty in his own time and space, there was only one medical officer in the three elite battalions of the three major battalions (the Fifth Army, the Shenji and the Shenshu Battalion) in the Gongwei Heavy Land (the Fifth Army, the Shenji and the Shenshu Battalion) in the Gongwei Army, and even fewer in the garrison of the local guard.

And this is still the treatment that only the regular imperial army has, in the last years of the dynasty, when the world was turbulent, those rebels who did not have a stable territory, all kinds of resources were not abundant, which superior would spend too much thought on medical logistics? It would be nice to be able to let his soldiers have food and clothing.

The most important thing is that there were no anti-inflammatory drugs such as antibiotics in ancient times, and the wound infection rate of wounded soldiers was extremely high.

So under normal circumstances, it would be good if one or two of the thousands of wounded soldiers under Zhao Yuanjin could survive by themselves in the end. If the city is finally broken, they may even be ordered to be executed by the imperial army, saving them a burden.

"Since this is the case, I can provide the adults with enough healing medicine to help these wounded soldiers recover as soon as possible." Qin Feng said.

"If Mr. has a way to save them, Zhao is grateful." Zhao Yuanjin was overjoyed.

The only way for recruits to grow quickly is through actual combat, and as long as they can fight and survive in this bloody battlefield, they are naturally valuable elites. If these wounded soldiers can really recover smoothly and return to the army, they can become rare elite soldiers in the future.

And as long as Qin Feng can continue to provide him with such life-saving medicine in the future, it means that the mortality rate of the wounded soldiers under his command will be greatly reduced, and the advantage over other feudal rebels is self-evident.

After this problem was discussed, the next issue was the ordnance grain and grass, because it was difficult to raise a sufficient amount of grain and meat inside and outside the county for a while, so it had to be purchased from Qin Feng in large quantities.

Of course, now it is not as good as when the city was besieged a few days ago, and in line with the principle of helping allies, the price given by Qin Feng is much cheaper, two taels of silver for one stone of grain, converted into gold to trade. You can still get several times the profit.

In the end, Song Wu tentatively asked about the divine weapon Qin Feng used to kill Meng Luo, but he politely refused. Firearms are too dangerous, he doesn't dare to let others get their hands on them, and it is safest to keep them in his own hands.