Fenghou

Chapter 208
In the barracks of Ganquanbao, Yang Yuanqing was demonstrating the essentials of movements to fifty axemen.

"When we raise the axe, our body must be concealed. There are archers under the city staring at us, so use the battlements to cover our body as much as possible, and then strike quickly and powerfully. If we need an axe, we must split the crossbar, and then withdraw immediately. return!"

Fifty tall and strong soldiers stood around Yang Yuanqing, each holding a long-handled sharp axe. They were strongmen selected from [-] soldiers, and all of them had long, vigorous hands and well-developed muscles.

Yang Yuanqing also knew that there were their patrols on the outskirts, and the news of the siege of the army must have been reported to the commander. It was not too far from Baochuan County to here.

The only thing that worries Yang Yuanqing is that the two thousand soldiers are all recruits, they have not been tempered by war, they are not experienced enough, their will is not tenacious enough, they are not forged with blood and fire, and they don't look down on life and death.

The only way is to teach the soldiers their experience in defending the city.

"Next, practice on your own. The stakes are like battlements, and the sticks on the ground are like the rungs of the stairs. You have to be quick to strike, break them with an axe, and turn around even faster. Hide behind the stakes so that you won't be shot by arrows. Hit."

"Keep in mind the three words 'fast, ruthless, and accurate, this is the key!"

Fifty wooden stakes are erected on the ground, and two green bricks are placed on the ground beside them. A short piece of wood is placed on the green bricks, just like the rungs of the stairs. Soldiers need to practice the essentials of movements. , they can function.

Yang Yuanqing came to another corner of the school field, where fifty soldiers were receiving training from military doctors, mainly to stop bleeding and bandage.

The fifty soldiers all seemed to be very smart, with quick hands and feet, and each of them carried two wine gourds and medical kits on their backs.

The military doctor explained the main points to them at the table, "the wounded soldiers should give them two sips of wine first, then pull out the arrows suddenly, wash the wound with strong wine, don't let them scream, it must be very painful, paste the medicine paste on the On the wound, stick it with dog skin plaster, mainly to prevent the medicine from falling off, and then bandage it, after doing this, it will basically stop the bleeding and save your life!"

When the military doctor saw Yang Yuanqing approaching, he stopped talking. Yang Yuanqing smiled and said, "Go on, it's very good!"

The military doctor nodded, and said loudly: "Remember, unless your head is cut off with a knife, or your lungs, heart or throat are pierced by a spear and arrow, this kind of critical injury is basically over, but in fact most injuries They were all injured, but there are still a large number of soldiers who could not be rescued and died. Why?
The reason is that the treatment is late, the wound is purulent, or there is too much blood loss, especially if the blood loss is too much, the blood will drain dry, and you will definitely die. Therefore, timely hemostasis is the key, and the wound must be cleaned with wine first. Let me demonstrate it below. Everyone is optimistic. "

The military doctor found two wounded soldiers whose arms needed to be changed. They demonstrated to everyone how to clean, how to apply medicine, and how to bandage.

When the military doctor finally stopped, Yang Yuanqing asked with a smile, "Can this wine be used for cleaning?"

The military doctor nodded, "It can be cleaned with the sheep wine left by the Jin soldiers. This wine is very strong, and it burns the wound like a fire. The sake of our Song Dynasty is not good. In fact, concentrated salt water is also good, but the injured soldiers can also use wine. Take two sips to reduce the pain."

"Are there enough herbs?" Yang Yuanqing asked again.

"The medicinal materials are enough. In addition, I have a suggestion."

"you say!"

"The humble staff and a few colleagues seized the time to boil a few large pots of hemostatic ointment in the past two days, and twisted them into pills. We said, it is best to boil a few more pots, and then give each soldier a few pills, and then a few plasters. If they are injured by an arrow and the medical soldiers have no time to treat them, they can help themselves by chewing the pills into a paste, pasting them on the wound, and then sticking a plaster on it, which can stop the bleeding at a critical moment and save lives.”

Yang Yuanqing nodded again and again, "This method is good. You boil the medicine, and I will distribute it to all the heads, teach them how to use it, and then teach it to the soldiers."

"Then I will start boiling medicine in the afternoon!"

At this time, a soldier rushed to report: "General, the puppet Qi army has returned from cutting down trees!"

Yang Yuanqing was startled, this was what he was most worried about, so he immediately walked quickly towards the top of the city.

Outside the city, a camp of [-] puppet Qi troops was stationed in a crescent shape, enclosing the south and east sides. It was also because Ganquan Fort only had a south gate and an east gate. The biggest problem facing the puppet Qi army now was that they were unprepared. With siege weapons, they were helpless in the face of the tall and majestic city walls.

Zhang Zhongxiong had a good idea. After arriving at Ganquan Fort, they cut down trees nearby to make simple siege ladders. But when they arrived at Ganquan Fort, they found that there was not a single tree within a radius of tens of miles.

Without trees, all Zhang Zhongxiong's ideas came to naught, siege ladders, nest carts, arrow towers, battering rams, barracks, etc., all came to naught, and even his own safety could not be guaranteed.

When the army camps for a long time, it is generally necessary to build a board wall. This is a huge project. First, the frame is built with wood, and then filled with soil and compacted. First, a large amount of wood is required to make the frame.

If it is a short-to-medium-term camping, you need to use camp fences. This requires tens of thousands of small trees to strip their bark and tie them together. Even in places rich in trees, it is not realistic. Don't even think about making a camp fence twenty miles long.

Therefore, the barracks are generally carried with luggage, which is why wars require a large number of civilian laborers. To close a set of barracks requires thousands of carts to carry them and tens of thousands of men to carry them.

Since the barracks are inconvenient, another way is to encircle the camp with spears, and insert hundreds of thousands of spears around the camp, with the sharp spears facing outward, so that the enemy cannot rush in. Thousands of carts are needed to carry hundreds of thousands of spears, and this kind of camping is a test of national strength, and it is only such a luxury when the national strength is the strongest.

Zhang Zhongxiong couldn't do the above three methods, so he had to learn from the nomads to camp, dig a trench around the camp, put thousands of torches in front of the trench, and send thousands of patrols on the periphery.

In fact, this kind of trench torch is mainly used to prevent the invasion of wild wolves at night, and it may not be effective against the enemy. A few hundred bags of soil or dozens of long planks can make the trench that has been dug hard for several days return to zero.

But having a trench is at least a kind of psychological comfort, and it has a little soothing effect on Zhang Zhongxiong and the soldiers of the puppet Qi army.

In the past few days, Zhang Zhongxiong was frantically looking for trees. They captured dozens of local people, threatened and lured them. A mountain full of pine trees.

Zhang Zhongxiong was ecstatic, and immediately sent thousands of people to cut down the trees, and then used the Baishui River to transport the trees back. Today, the first batch of [-] pine logs were transported to Daying.

Zhang Zhongxiong immediately ordered the construction of siege ladders, and the entire puppet Qi army camp was mobilized.

Zhang Zhongxiong couldn't bear the excitement in his heart, so he rode a horse and brought hundreds of soldiers to the city to inspect Ganquan Fort, thinking about how to attack the city?

On the top of the city, the counselor Zhang Xiao looked at Zhang Zhongxiong, who was patrolling below, and said to Yang Yuanqing with a smile, "I know this man. He is Zhang Shuye's second son, Zhang Zhongxiong. It's the army he leads."

Yang Yuanqing still remembered that battle, in which [-] people were wiped out, but the enemy general fled along the ice.

"It turned out to be him. Fortunately, he is still Zhang Shuye's son. How can he be worthy of his father who is dying?"

Zhang Xiao continued: "This person is very concerned about fame and fortune. He is desperate to attack the city. Most likely, he came for the reward offered by the emperor of Jin. It has been almost five days, and the ruler has not shown up. I am worried. He will become suspicious, but if we give him a reassurance that the rule is in the city."

Yang Yuanqing has always been convinced of Zhang Xiao's strategy, he nodded and smiled and asked, "What can you do, sir?"

Zhang Xiao smiled mysteriously, "I used two small tricks to make him firmly believe that the control is in the city!"

(End of this chapter)