After reading the letter, Qiu Wu immediately returned it to Zhao Ming with both hands, and then solemnly

Zhao Ming asked the two of them to go down and prepare.

And Zhao Hanzhang, who was separated from them by a city, returned to the barracks in a cold air, dropped his spear and turned around and went to the wounded barracks.

Wounded soldiers were constantly being brought back, mainly from stones and arrows, but also from fire oil......

At the entrance, there is a military doctor who divides the wounded soldiers, divides them into priority and carries them to various areas for treatment.

In the Zhao family army led by Zhao Hanzhang, there are only fifteen military doctors, and the current number of military guards is eighty-six, most of whom are women.

They have great strength and skillful movements, and as soon as the wounded soldier arrives, the bleeding should be stopped, the leg should be sawed, and the arrow should be dug for the arrow.

Zhao Hanzhang rolled up his sleeves as he walked, and asked the chief military doctor who rushed over, "Is the wound medicine enough?"

"It's enough, Luoyang just sent a batch of medicinal herbs over, but the manpower is not enough, envoy, if you attack the city tomorrow, I'm afraid the number of wounded soldiers will increase."

Zhao Hanzhang thought for a while and said, "I'll ask Ting Han to find you some more people."

The military doctor should always be down.

Zhao Hanzhang waved his hand to let him go down and get busy, she rolled up her sleeves and went to help, she and Fu Tinghan have both learned battlefield first aid with military doctors, and even now the military treatment can have the current scale, based on their business and training in the past few years.

It's a pity that there are still few special talents like doctors, they have been trained for three years, and there are only more than 100 military doctors at present, but there are many military doctors in training at present, and with the help of military nurses, the treatment and care of wounded soldiers are much better than before.

But in Zhao Hanzhang's view, this is far from enough.

She stayed in the wounded barracks until the night, and after the wounded soldiers were basically dealt with and everyone was comforted, she left covered in blood.

The general in the middle of the army has already made arrangements and is waiting in the big tent.

Zhao Hanzhang didn't change his clothes, just wiped his hands and asked, "Is there any news from everywhere?"

General Zhao Zedao: "Back to the envoy, we have cut off contact with Ningling in Mengxian County, but listening to the movement, the general attack has been launched, and there should be an attack from the direction of Sui County and Wuping, and in the direction of Xiayi County, there is a shadow of an army eighty miles away from us."

Fu Tinghan handed over a piece of paper and said, "I just received the news, three days ago, Shi Le quietly divided a large army and left Xiayi County, looking at the trend, he went to Jizhou."

Zhao Hanzhang's eyes lit up slightly, and he asked, "How many people are there?"

"The scouts can't find it for the time being, they bypassed the city we have recovered, entered Qingzhou from the western part of Yanzhou, and then rushed towards Jizhou, and all traces along the road were swept away."

Zhao Hanzhang said: "In this way, there are not many people left in Xiayi County, and now that Mengxian and Ningling have been attacked, and we have recovered so much lost territory, he is likely to return to Yanzhou in order to preserve his strength."

Zhao Hanzhang knocked on the table and said, "Shi Le will definitely save Zhixiong and Taobao, he should give up Xiayi County to support Mengxian and Ningling, Chen Yi."

A bearded man immediately stepped forward and bowed in response, "The last will be."

"Tomorrow, you will take two teams of men and horses to defend the road from Xiayi County, and once you find the enemy, you will report immediately!"

"Yui!"

Zhao Hanzhang said: "Zhao Ze, Wuliang."

"The end will be."

"Continue to attack tomorrow, and within three days, we will definitely take Mengxian!"

"Yui!"

When they retreated, Zhao Hanzhang asked Fu Tinghan, "How much gunpowder can be made from the existing materials?"

Fu Tinghan said, "Ten catties."

Zhao Hanzhang frowned.

Fu Tinghan looked at her brow and said, "I'll take someone out tomorrow to find saltpeter and sulfur."

He said, "There is equipment in the army, as long as I can find it, even if it is rough, I can purify it."

Zhao Hanzhang thought for a while and nodded, "You bring more people."

Fu Tinghan should be down.

Because of the war, it was difficult to find even an ordinary villager in this vicinity, and Fu Tinghan led people to run a long way to find a few abandoned old people in a village.

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The village was empty, with only five old people nestled in one house.

In fact, they were not very old, one was even thirty-nine years old, but their hair was gray, their backs were rickety, their faces were covered with wrinkles of hardship, and all five of them were barefoot and unclothed.

Seeing Fu Tinghan riding a tall horse, they immediately hid in the house, trembling and not daring to come out.

It was Fu An who shouted several times outside, saying that they were the Zhao family's army, and the old people came out tremblingly, their cloudy eyes swept over the faces of the soldiers, and finally settled on Fu Tinghan.

Seeing that he had a gentle temperament, handsome and noble, their waists were lowered, and as soon as they walked out of the threshold, they immediately knelt down and said in a trembling voice: "The young and strong people in the village have all been taken captive by the Hu people, or have fled, and there are no strong men in the village, and there is no food."

Fu Tinghan stepped forward to help them up, took the grain bag handed over by Fu An and stuffed it into their hands, and said, "We are not here to recruit troops, nor are we here to collect grain, the Zhao family army is recovering Mengxian County, if we are fortunate enough to have your help, this battle may end earlier, and those who have left their hometowns can come back early."

The old man looked at him and asked worriedly, "I wonder what I can do to help the general?"

"Are you going to be a human shield?" The old man touched the grain bag that he had just arrived, gritted his teeth and said, "It's not impossible, but this bit of food is not enough, we can't eat enough, at least we have to give two catties of food, so that we can go only when we are full."

As soon as he said this, the other old men immediately nodded, "Yes, even if we die, we will be full of ghosts!"

The human shield is to drive the people and captives in front of the siege as a shield to attract arrows from the towers, so that the army behind can have time to rush up.

Shi Le and Liu Cong liked to drive away Han Chinese and captives as human shields, and several cities were defeated in this way, and the Han people suffered heavy casualties.

Fu Tinghan had never encountered such a thing, but just by hearing it, he could think of such a tragic situation, his heart trembled, and he shook his head and said, "It's not to be a human shield, but Zhao Jiajun needs to find something, but we are not very familiar with this area, so I want to ask a few old men."

Fu Tinghan described the sulfur and saltpeter, "...... It smells bad, or is there a warm soup around here?"

Fu Tinghan paused and said, "Your village or you know where there is a dry toilet, especially for a long time, the kind that smells particularly good is fine."

I really can't find saltpeter, so I can only find a way from the toilet.

In the end, the five old men took Fu Tinghan to a thatched toilet at the end of the village, and a strong smell came to his nose, and Fu Tinghan couldn't help covering his mouth and nose.

The old people said, "This is where our village hoards manure and compost."

Fu An covered his nose and said in disbelief: "Your village still hoards gold water together?"

The noble person is trouble, and the dung water is the dung water, and it is also called gold water.

But the old people didn't say anything, and said, "This is still your Zhao Jiajun who came to let us do it, saying that Zhao Tingshi made a new recipe for making fertilizer, and the fertilizer that came out was fast and good, not to mention, it was really fast and easy to use, and the harvest in the field in those two years was one percent more."

"Alas, it's a pity that the good times didn't last long, who knew that the Hu people called again, and also knocked down our county seat, and the savings of two years were gone, we must have been guilty of a lot in our previous life, so we were reborn in troubled times in this life."