Hengdao Sixteen Kingdoms

Chapter 22 Battle Damage
Back at the cottage, Li Yue felt chills all over his body and his mind was dizzy.

After a series of battles, he was drenched in torrential rain for nearly two hours. The torrential rain in May still carried a chill. If he hadn't been physically strong, he would have been sick a long time ago.

In a daze, I felt a pair of soft little hands wiping my body.

He fed hot soup again.

After taking care of him all night, Li Yue broke out in a profuse sweat at noon the next day, and he got better.

When she opened her eyes, she saw Yue Ji laying tired on the edge of the bed, falling asleep.

You don't need to think about it to know that she took care of herself last night.

Scanning the room, Li Yue was taken aback, feeling like he was dreaming.

There are clear windows, carpets on the spotless bamboo floor, two screens with paintings of ladies standing on the left and right, green smoke rising from a copper stove with chi pattern in the middle of the room, and the fragrance is pleasing to the nostrils.

Several wooden tables were neatly piled with bamboo slips, covering half the room, and there was actually a yellowed paper book on one of the wooden tables.

There is also a pair of calligraphy on the wall, and there are all kinds of luxurious things...

The house is not only luxurious, but also a bit too spacious, and it is no problem to accommodate four or fifty people.

This house is naturally owned by Zhao Guang. Although he is a bandit leader, he loves to be arty. He usually likes to dress up as a Confucian scholar. He wears a Confucian robe and often wears a nondescript virtuous crown to show his status.

They also didn't know that Zhao Guang, who had become a dead ghost, could not read or write.

A person's character can often be seen in the style of life. So many people on the mountain are hungry and cold, but Zhao Guang seizes every opportunity to enjoy it. No wonder he has to surrender to the Jie people in exchange for glory and wealth.

Li Yue glanced at it briefly, not interested in spending time on these things.

Walking lightly to the outside of the house, two tall and burly members guarded the door with swords in hand. When they saw Li Yue, their eyes were reverent.

The torrential rain has stopped, but the sky is still dull, and there is damp water vapor everywhere.

"Have you found Chief Meng?" Without any news of Meng Kai, Li Yue's heart always felt suspended.

The two guards looked at each other, obviously these things are beyond their knowledge, "No, I don't know."

At this moment, Zhou Qian rushed over, "Congratulations, Chief Li is safe and sound."

"Did you find my brother?"

Zhou Qian cupped his hands and said, "Leader Cui led people to search in Nanshan last night, and he hasn't returned yet!"

It's been a night and a morning, but I haven't found it yet, so I don't have much hope.

Li Yue felt uncomfortable for a while.

Zhou Qian comforted: "Meng Touji Jiren has his own aura, and if he didn't find the body, it means that he is still alive."

I can only think so.

The chances of the Jie people capturing him are very small. Given the battlefield environment at that time, if the Jie people caught him, they would definitely retaliate directly.

Meng Kai wasn't a big shot, so he wasn't worth bringing back.

Since he was not captured by the Jie people and the body was not found, there is only one possibility, Meng Kai left by himself...

Staying on the mountain, the conflict with himself will only intensify, because he is also an ambitious person.

The relationship with the begging army is not good, but he saved Bo Wu and repelled the Jie people, and his reputation soared. He was caught in the middle, so he naturally felt uncomfortable.

Li Yue sighed in his heart, recalling Meng Kai's lonely back before the war, maybe at that time, he had the intention of leaving.

"How many casualties on the mountain?"

As long as Meng Kai is still alive, everything will be fine, and there will always be a time to see each other again.

Zhou Qian came here just to report this matter, "770 and three people were killed in battle, 600 people were slightly injured, 610 and 57 people were killed, 530 people were captured, and more than [-] pieces of armor, knives, spears, bows, arrows and shields were seized. Iron Armor [-] set!"

The entire Heiyun Mountain has less than [-] troops, nearly [-] were killed, and nearly [-] were injured, basically everyone was injured...

This is still at the right time and place...

Li Yue's heart ached for a while, the price was a bit heavy, and the seriously injured people didn't know if they could be rescued, "Let's take charge of the Shanzhai affairs, and I will rush to treat the wounded."

Zhou Qian bowed his hands like a subordinate, "Don't worry, leader."

In such a short period of time, being able to count the data to single digits and memorize it by heart already shows his ability.

These days there is no shortage of reckless men who carry knives, but there is a great lack of talents like Zhou Qian.

Later generations often say that to govern the world, talents from one county are enough, and there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers on Heiyun Mountain.

Li Yue rushed to the house of the wounded soldiers with his men.

The house was still dirty and messy, and as soon as I entered it, I smelled a musty and rancid smell.

Many people didn't even have a straw mat, just lying on the wet ground with numb eyes, as if they had given up on themselves.

It wasn't until Li Yue came that everyone's eyes had a hint of warmth and brilliance.

"Leader!"

"Zhaizhu!"

The wounded soldiers shouted in surprise, and some had tears in their eyes.

These people did not frown when facing the well-equipped and brutal Jie Nu on the battlefield, but shed tears at this moment.

Li Yue was greatly touched for a moment, "With me, Li Yue, I won't ignore you!"

The wounded soldiers were overjoyed and thankful one after another.

"Clear out Zhao Guang's house and use it as a sick house, and cook some meat porridge and boil some hot water."

Zhao Guang's house is really uncomfortable for Li Yue to live in.

One is that the things of the dead are too unlucky, and the other is that being too luxurious can easily corrode fighting spirit.

When people enjoy more, they don't want to risk their lives...

Now Li Yue says what he says, and some people work for him.

The house was cleared out quickly, and the sick and injured were moved to Zhao Guang's house with the support of their family members.

The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. The few houses around Zhao Guang's house are good, and they are all used as wards.

Everything inside has been cleaned out, straw mats have been spread on the bamboo floor, and the carpet has been used as a bedding. Zhao Guang's big bed, at Li Yue's suggestion, was distributed to Bo Wu, who was the most injured.

A lot of things were found from Zhao Guang's house and cellar.

Money and silk, gold and silver, salt, wine, etc., the most excessive ones are more than 1000 millet and beans. No wonder all of his subordinates have ruddy complexions. It turns out that they have hidden private goods.

For some of these things, half of the urgent need for food shortage on the mountain was solved.

He used everything that could be used, and Li Yue kept the books for himself. In troubled times, these things are precious, so he still has to look through them when he has time.

"It's a pity..." Yue Ji muttered behind her back, her eyes were filled with reluctance.

She can read and write, and also has medical skills. Naturally, she is not the child of an ordinary family.

"Born in sorrow, died in peace, there is no time to enjoy it." Li Yue didn't want to follow in the footsteps of the dead ghost Zhao Guang.

Wouldn't it be better to use his things to buy people's hearts?

Yue Ji said softly: "What the leader said is true."

There are more than 1000 wounded, and those who can stand up have already stood up.

However, there are still 800 people, and Li Yue and Yue Ji are obviously too busy with so many people.

So I simply selected the young women with quick hands and feet from the family members and divided them into two groups, Li Yue and Yue Ji, and learned while watching.

Slightly injured, directly soldered with a soldering iron after cleaning.

The wounds were sewn only for serious injuries.

Some of them hurt the internal organs, without Mabosan, the pain can kill people.

Moreover, people struggle and tremble when they are in severe pain, so surgery is impossible.

Li Yue sighed in his heart, and could only simply bandage up and resign himself to fate.

However, these wounded people all knew what they were doing, and they had already looked down on life and death, and only hoped that Li Yue could take good care of their parents and children.

"Don't worry, from now on, your parents and children will no longer go hungry or cold."

When I said these words, I didn't have much confidence in my heart.

Who can tell clearly about the things in this world?
It's nothing more than taking one step at a time.

However, when Li Yue said these words, the eyelids of Bo Wu who had been sleeping on the bed moved...

(End of this chapter)