Chapter 186: The Lethality of the Arquebus

"Mrs. Fengsheng said that Wei Zhongxian said in front of His Majesty that the bank I set up was competing with the people for profit, which caused the nobles of Nanjing and many civil and military grievances."

Chen Cao was riding on a war horse, and at this moment, Zhang Fengnian's family team, who had rushed to the capital because of the previous tension, was disguised as a guard on his left flank.

Zhao Xin frowned: "The old gelding dog wants to frame Master Hou." ”

"Not really," Chen Cao shook his head: "I voted for his concubine, and now the two of them are competitors, and besides, my position is to earn money for the emperor, and the purpose of this is to let the emperor know how rich I am, so that the emperor can always remember that I can blackmail when he has no money." ”

"A woman who has no power and no power to rely on her posture to slap the emperor," Chen Cao turned his head to look at Zhao Xin: "How much youth do you think she can dedicate?"

The Hakka family is now thirty-six, and although the emperor is only twenty years old, there will always be a day of disgust, and that time will be her end. ”

"No wonder she is willing to let Master Hou..."

"Huh?" Chen Cao stared at Zhao Xin and didn't let him say the nonsense behind him: "That's why she tried to get her own people into the army, and then accepted my surrender, in short, she still wants to save her life..."

"Master Hou, I heard from the brothers in Jingzhong that the Hakka family was rampant and domineering in the inner palace, and even the queen didn't pay attention to it."

Zhao Xin mentioned this, Chen Cao was thinking of running into the queen Zhang Yan's sedan chair on the way when he left Xiyuan, this great beauty in the late Ming Dynasty had a frosty face, even if he didn't look at Chen Cao squarely, it fascinated Chen Cao as if he lost his soul.

"Well, after giving birth to a stillborn baby, the emperor naturally didn't like it, he was too young..."

Zhang Yan is only sixteen years old, and it is a blessing to be born, although it is normal to marry at the age of fifteen this year, but because of the countless deaths due to dystocia, the emperor's joy is naturally one of the reasons.

Of course, the important inside story of the Hakka family's favor is because Zhang Yan, who is the queen, is a scholarly family, and she can't make the emperor happy, so she naturally doesn't share a room with her.

"If you're older, isn't that a peerless beauty?"

Chen Cao thought to himself.

"Master Hou, there are thirty miles to Tianjin Port."

Chen Cao thought about some bad things, and was lustful alone, where could he hear what Zhao Xin said.

The construction of the acropolis of Tianjin Sanwei is not large, and the largest town around it is Caojia Town, where there was a great eunuch Cao Huachun of the Chongzhen Dynasty and his brother Cao Huayu, the governor of the five armies.

Of course, the current Caojia Town is not as majestic as it was at that time, Cao Huayu is just a small guerrilla general in Jizhou Town, and Cao Huachun is just a little eunuch of the Imperial Horse Prison.

Caojia Town is the only way to go, there is a small dirt slope on the left front side, if Chen Cao is clear and not thinking about it at the moment, he will think of the dirt slope that ambushed Murhaqi in Liaodong when he sees it.

"Master Hou be careful..."

Chen Cao was caring about Zhang Yan, where could he hear Zhao Xin's shout, and when he came back to his senses, he had been rushed directly to the ground from the war horse by an inertial impact.

Suddenly, a sharp pain came from his left side of his chest...

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang...'

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang...'

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang...'

"Protect Lord Hou..."

Zhang Fengnian was too familiar with this, this was the sound of muskets, and he brought one hundred and fifty Ding teams to Beijing this time, dressed as a team transporting silver carts, mainly because Chen Cao's worries were made in advance.

And Chen Cao, who took refuge in the Hakka family, turned the crisis into safety, so he didn't put safety in his heart, after all, in the place of Beizhili, he really couldn't imagine that the opponent would ambush him on the road from Tongzhou to Tianjin.

And the opponent is not using a bow and arrow, a musket of water.

After Chen Cao was shot and fell to the ground, Zhao Xin and a group of brocade guards were in front of him, they had no shields, and after the arquebus fired a round, at least a dozen people fell to the ground, if it weren't for Zhang Fengnian and the family team to surround him, Chen Cao at this moment would have been beaten into a sieve like Zhao Xin.

After a volley, the gunfire stopped, and Zhang Fengnian suddenly judged that the opponent was not using a flintlock pistol, but an arquebus in the guard's army, so he shouted violently, drew a flintlock pistol from the accompanying car, and preemptively loaded it in a minute.

"Catch alive..."

After Chen Cao finished speaking, he fainted from the blow of the lead bullet.

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When Chen Cao woke up again, he was already on the warship, and he did not take the canal at this moment, but floated directly down to the sea, and was ambushed in front of Tianjin Wei, and he might encounter horse bandits from Shandong on the canal.

"Ahh

Chen Cao couldn't help but wake up from the severe pain, and the accompanying military doctor was anxious to get out the lead bullet between Chen Cao's shoulder blades and his heart.

Chen Cao's life is big, the lead bullet avoided the heart position, stuck in the middle of the shoulder blade, although the gunshot wound is not fatal, but the lead bullet is poisonous, many people died from gunshot wounds in this era in fact, they did not die at that time, but died because of wound infection.

Zhao Xin was next to him, he was not injured, and he was angrily scolding the military doctor who was treating him at the moment.

The military doctor who accompanied the ship had no experience in treating gunshot wounds, and although he had studied at the academy, he would certainly not care about this when the opponent's main weapon was arrows.

"The first time I dealt with a gunshot wound, but I still had to take out the lead bullet first, and then apply gold sore medicine, Hou Ye had signs of fever, indicating that the wound was infected, Lord Zhao... I.... Small..."

The military doctor was already incoherent, and he was also scared, Zhao Xin was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

Chen Cao heard it clearly, so he asked Zhao Xin to help him up and sit upright, looking down at the blood hole in his chest: "The resources on the ship are limited, let the lead bullet go in it first, and then get it back to Nanjing, Tang Ruowang They know how to deal with it." ”

"Master Hou, the military doctor said that your wound is infected, and the lead bullet is fatal..."

Zhang Fengnian was also in a hurry, if something happened to Chen Cao, they would not have a good result.

Chen Cao didn't want to die, if he died, Nanjing's family would be the worst end: "Zhao Xin, take a dagger." ”

Chen Cao took the dagger from Zhao Xin's hand, first asked Zhao Xin to roast the dagger in the fire, and then asked Zhao Xin to rinse the dagger after the dagger turned red until the temperature of the dagger was lowered.

"Master Hou, what's the use of this?"

"In ancient times, Yun Chang played chess, scraped bones and cured poison... Today, I have Ling Lingqi... Oh no..."Chen Cao was already delirious in pain, and Guan Yu didn't have chess at that time: "Today, I have Chen Cao to open his chest and take lead bullets..."

"Open chest?"

Zhao Xin and Zhang Fengnian said in unison, because opening their chests is not a trivial matter.

"Hou Ye must not be messed with, let's let the military doctor deal with it first, and wait until Nanjing to open his chest..."Zhang Fengnian was also confused, and immediately slapped his mouth: "You can't open your chest, you won't have a way to live if you open your chest..."

"Bring a clean cloth..."

Chen Cao took the clean white cloth from the military doctor: "Zhao Xin, you hold down my legs, Feng Nian, you press my left shoulder, military doctor, prepare the cloth for bandaging." ”

After saying that, he stuffed the white cloth into his mouth.

Chen Cao is not a professional doctor, but he still knows battlefield first aid, but he also knows that he is very lucky, if it is replaced with a copper-wrapped bullet, he now knows how to deal with it.

The lead bullet was not large, weighing seven coins, stuck between the flesh and bones, and the military camp had tried to take it with a knife before, but it was too deep, and he was worried about hurting Chen Cao.

At this moment, Chen Cao can clearly see the bright silver like silver at the tail of the lead bullet in the blood hole, but it is wrapped in skin and flesh, and the real calculation is only four or five centimeters.

"Ahh

Chen Cao's mouth was stuffed with a cloth, and he was still trembling with pain when he went under the knife himself, if he hadn't let Zhao Xin and Zhang Fengnian hold him down in advance, he would have been in pain at this moment.

"Ahh

At one of his muffled screams, he could clearly see and feel that the tip of the knife had touched the lead bullet, and the rotation of the lead bullet in the flesh made his face pale with pain and covered with cold sweat.

Chen Cao turned more than a dozen times in a row, until he was numb from pain, and finally removed the lead bullet from the meat little by little...

"Ahh uh...."

There are only two kinds of sounds that Chen Cao can make at this moment, but these two sounds are enough to prove how much pain he has endured.

"Take it out, Master Hou..."

The medic exclaimed excitedly.

Chen Cao pointed to the gunpowder that had been prepared, and the military doctor sprinkled all the gunpowder directly on Chen Cao's blood hole.

'Whoa...'

With the dazzling white light and Chen Cao's loud muffled snort, the previous noise in the cabin stopped.

Zhao Xin grabbed the military doctor and his eyes were red: "You want to hurt Master Hou?" ”

The military doctor trembled with fright, and hurriedly explained: "Lord Zhao misunderstood, this is the battlefield wound first aid taught by Hou Ye in the academy, Hou Ye said that when the wound is too big, in order to effectively stop the bleeding of the wounded, you can use fire and medicine to sprinkle on the wound, and the temperature of the fire and medicine burning after ignition can effectively kill the poison of the wound, which can not only stop bleeding, but also disinfect. ”

"Lao Zhao... Quickly put him down, Hou Ye's blood stopped. ”

Zhang Fengnian stopped Zhao Xin, because he saw that Chen Cao, who had been unconscious, had stopped bleeding from his shoulder, and a black blood blister scab appeared in the blood hole.

"What now?"

The military camp heard Zhang Fengnian's inquiry, and then hurriedly replied: "Back to Lord Zhang, now you can only apply gold sore medicine to the wound of Hou Ye to bandage the wound, Hou Ye Ji people have their own natural appearance, and they will definitely get better, but what we need to worry about is whether Hou Ye will have a high fever that will not go away, let's go back to Nanjing as soon as possible, and let Mr. Tang and those professors from Taixi come to treat Hou Ye, and they should be able to improve Hou Ye's condition." ”

"Lao Zhang, let's go down the sea, the speed is fast, you look at Master Hou, I'll go to the bilge to let those people row faster."

"Good..."