Villager of Daming

Chapter 335 Maybe Burning the City and Going to the North (Fifth Change)
"There is a river ahead, so it's good to camp there." Another day later, the team moved forward in the afternoon, and the young general with a leg injury provided information.

The wounded were carried on stretchers, the captives were responsible for carrying part of the baggage, and their armor was placed on the horses.

Tie ten captives to one rope, adopt the most common rule...sit together.

If one of the ten people is missing, the other nine people will be killed. One hundred people form a team, and if ten people are missing, the whole team will be killed.

The captives were quite honest, they knew that without horses and weapons, it was impossible to run alone here, and they would be eaten by wild animals.

The camp was set up, some people cooked, some people brought water from the river and boiled it in a pot, and threw gauze and bandages for the wounded into it.

The wounded and the Ming army ate normally, while the slightly injured and uninjured prisoners only ate half the amount of barley noodles mixed with salt.

However, the supply of water will not shorten their lives, and even give them soup. For this, the captives expressed their understanding and thanks.

Otherwise, only a little food a day, no salt, and water restrictions are the normal way to treat captives.

The best captives are those who have no strength to resist and escape. If you feed the captives enough, you are causing yourself trouble.

The Ming army explained the policy to the prisoners and told them that after the battle, if they had family members, they could take them to the south.

"Have you ever been to the south of the Yangtze River? Have you ever been? The water there doesn't freeze in winter, and occasionally it snows. Only on high mountains can snow stay..."

A soldier of the Ming army told ten captives about Jiangnan, trying his best to describe the appearance of a paradise on earth.

After the captives have passed, they can mine, and they don't need to be abused. They are given food, drink and wages normally.

It is better to prevent them from rebelling suddenly here than to kill them.

The captives listened, thought, and prepared to pass, but in fact they had no choice but to die.

Those who were seriously injured hummed softly after eating, and the pain didn't feel so bad after humming.

There are still people who can't survive and die, and everyone has become numb to this.

"The other two armies don't know the situation, this time we will be able to fight He Lin and drive Bei Yuan out completely."

Sapphire was eating horse meat, marinated with the seasoning brought by the team, but the marinade was drained, it felt like sauce, and the marinade could not be carried all the time.

The seasoning package is provided by Jubiqi. When fighting outside, if you catch game or a dead war horse, if you think it tastes bad to eat directly, you can marinate it.

Add more salt when marinating, and it can be stored for a few days. It is best to cut into slices and dry after marinating.

Many horses were killed in this battle, and those who were seriously injured were happy. The skins were peeled, rubbed with cooking ash, and the meat was eaten.

Xu Da picked up a piece of horse meat: "The food bag is packed? That can be reused."

Sapphire: "..."

He turned his head and asked, "Have you received the ingredients for the braised pork?"

"Give it up, let's hang it up to dry! Pack it up when it's dry." The place in charge of making the braised pork shouted.

Xu Da smiled: "Helin is a strategic location, Beiyuan built the city from there because the land is fertile and there are many rivers, it is suitable for both animal husbandry and agriculture.

However, it is estimated that they will not be able to catch their important figures. Now that the vegetation on the grassland is lush, they can continue to flee north as long as they bring their livestock.

After continuous fighting on the road, our army could only stop at Helin, where we fortified the city and repaired the destroyed houses. "

When Xu Da talked about the future, he had a premonition that he would almost face an empty city in the past.

Unless you don't rush to fight now, and wait for winter to come, and then go to fight Helin after heavy snowfall, the people of Beiyuan can't run north with a large number of people and livestock.

But in that case, my own army couldn't hold on even more. I chose this season to fight precisely because I didn't need to bring fodder to the horses, but just brought salt.

"Oh!" Lan Yu was very annoyed: "If we don't use good weapons, we may lose, and even if we win, the casualties will be heavy.

They used good weapons, and when they knew about it, they wouldn't fight us any more. If they withdrew, they would demolish and burn the house and other things that couldn't be taken away.

According to them, the houses and palaces in Helin are all good.How great would it be if they could fight to the death with us? "

"Impossible, they won't be unable to survive just because a certain place is lost. During the Yuan Dynasty, foreign wars never stopped.

Seeing that they couldn't beat them, of course they would make arrangements in advance to take advantage of the luxuriant water and grass to go to the north to gather other tribes. "

Xu Da shook his head, he knew the people in Beiyuan too well, they would leave as soon as they said, and no matter what hardships they experienced, as long as they were alive, they would grow stronger again.

"They continued to run north, but we couldn't run to fight again in a short time." Sapphire shook her head.

"Run! It's better to have them eating other people in the north than us to meet them directly. When we come into contact with those people, we don't know whether they are friends or foes.

Switching to Bei Yuan, we know that it is an enemy, and we can deal with it the way we treat enemies.

Occupying Helin, we raise more cattle, sheep, horses, and camels to prepare for future events. "

Xu Da analyzed it from another angle. In the past, Beiyuan promised to annex other tribes, and Daming was hostile to them.

……

Wang Baobao ran away with his people, and went back to his place to recruit people. He had already planned that his people would go to Helin immediately.

Zai Helin explained the situation, and then he was ready to go north at any time. Not a single sheep would be left for the Ming army.

Next, try to find skilled craftsmen, so that they can make firecrackers that are not afraid of rain and do not need to be lit with open flames.

When the strength is enough and the weapons have kept up, and then fights back, then Xu Da only won by relying on the strength of the firearms.

It is necessary to send agents to inquire about the news and see what is going on with the firearms of the Ming army. It is best to get a way to make them.

Before that, you must not encounter the Ming army, especially in rainy days, and you must not fight.

"Stop, let's eat." Wang Baobao also came to the side of a river, and glanced at his men. It was okay, and there were a lot of horses brought up.

More than 7000 people dismounted one after another and let the horses drink water and eat grass by themselves.

And they themselves took out fried noodles with salt grains from their pockets and stuffed them into their mouths, chewing them slowly, waiting for them to swallow, and then drinking their saliva.

Everyone in this group was silent, and they seemed to have no interest in speaking. After eating a few mouthfuls of food, the injured looked at their wounds.

They dug out the lead bullets that are easy to dig out yesterday, and then found a bag of horse manure in the grass, and used the ash inside to seal the wound to stop the bleeding.

Now look at the situation, if there is pus and blood, it is inconvenient to squeeze and ask others to help, and then apply the powder wrapped in horse manure.

At the same time, there are other grasses that they will chew in their mouths, such as red peony and astragalus.

These are what they have learned since childhood. Once they are injured, they must be able to find the corresponding medicine on the grassland.

(End of this chapter)