The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 419 Broken Leg Compensation
Chen Shen stayed at Yumen Pass for three days and repaired the limbs of more than one hundred wounded soldiers.

There are also twenty-three lucky people whose limbs are preserved in the [Spring and Autumn Cicada]. The injuries of these people are easier to repair, and Chen Shen only needs to reconnect their broken limbs.

Soldiers who had their severed limbs reattached only needed a month of recuperation to return to the battlefield, while the other one hundred or so injured people needed about half a year of recuperation and rehabilitation.

This means that in more than half a year, there will be more than a hundred experienced and courageous warriors at Yumen Pass.

This is undoubtedly great news for the guards of Yumen Pass.

You must know that although the Xixia people have been supporting Yumen Pass, their support is limited, and they even deliberately stick to a certain limit, especially in terms of personnel support.

Theoretically, when a group of new recruits step onto the battlefield, basically one out of every three will die, one will be disabled (both mentally and physically), and the last one will successfully grow into a qualified veteran. This is the so-called one-out-of-three rule in the elite army of the classical era.

Of course, if the battlefield environment is relatively harsh, this ratio may reach one in four or even one in five (battlefield meat grinder). The army thus refined will be even more brutal and fierce, and it is no exaggeration to say that they are indifferent to life and death.

During the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, an elite and powerful army was forged in this way; it was called the Xianzhen Camp.

At its peak, the Xianzhen Camp had no more than a thousand people, and under normal circumstances there were only about eight hundred people. Their armor and fighting equipment were all refined and well-equipped, and every attack they made was invincible.

The commander and trainer of the Xianzhen Camp was Gao Shun, a general under the command of Flying General Lu Bu. He was a clean and dignified man. Later generations said that "Lu Bu knew he was loyal, but he could not use him."

In fact, it was not that Lu Bu did not want to use Gao Shun, but that he could not.

The reason is simple, Gao Shun was too cruel.

If you give Gao Shun 5,000 troops, within half a year, this army will be transformed into a top-notch elite force in the world, but the number of people may be less than 1,000. As for the more than 4,000 people, they were all consumed by Gao Shun in the process of training.

That's right! Gao Shun implemented the refined method of choosing one from five on the battlefield, which was inherited from the concept of Wu Qi, the second sage of military strategists in the Warring States Period, who trained the Wei Wuzu.

It was only because Wu Qi had the support of the entire country of Wei, one of the seven major powers in the Warring States Period, that he was able to train the Wei Wuzu, who were almost invincible at the time.

And what does Gao Shun’s lord Lu Bu have?
Nothing at all.

How could Lu Bu dare to let Gao Shun, a small separatist force with only tens of thousands of people, do whatever he wants? !

This is the most fundamental reason why Lu Bu knew Gao Shun’s loyalty and ability but was unable to make use of him.

On the other hand, the ordinary soldiers at Yumen Pass have to follow the demon-suppressing people to face the evil demons and evildoers. The cruelty and danger are even greater than the training of soldiers in the Xianzhen Camp in the past. Those who do not fall or die for three years will become elite soldiers, and the level has even reached one in ten.

In other words, for every ten new recruits the Xixia people sent to Yumen Pass, only one might survive and become a truly elite veteran.

Although these elite soldiers are capable of doing their job, they are not immune to casualties. Or rather, it should be said that they are high-level cannon fodder specially prepared to make up for the insufficient number of demon-suppressing troops.

At that time, Li Jiqian, the defense commander of Yinzhou, took advantage of the urgent need for manpower by the demon-suppressors at Yumen Pass and came up with a method of exchanging manpower for elite soldiers - daring warriors trained by the demon-suppressors but who had never faced evil demons - and gradually accumulated the foundation of the Li family. It was not until Li Jiqian's son Li Yuanhao could no longer suppress his ambitions that he finally rebelled against the Song Dynasty and established the Western Xia Kingdom.

The Western Xia Kingdom has existed until today, but there was a war between Song and Xia. The Western Xia people suffered heavy losses, so they sent envoys to Yumen Pass to beg for money, using captured Song soldiers to exchange for Yumen Pass elite soldiers.

As time went by, the number of elite soldiers at Yumen Pass had not increased. Even though there were about a dozen qualified elite soldiers added every year, the number was roughly equal to the number of elite soldiers lost. And the addition of a hundred elite warriors at once was almost equivalent to doubling the number.

To paraphrase a certain Captain Li from later generations, the demon-suppressing people at Yumen Pass had never fought such a prosperous battle in their entire lives.

Of course, although the future prospects of Yumen Pass are good, Guan Zhong has a big problem that cannot be solved for the time being.

Previously, Guan Zhong used the disability of Zhou Yunqing, the grandson of his old friend Zhou Tong, as an excuse to ask Chen Shen to treat the wounded, and also to treat other injured and disabled people. Both Chen Shen and Guan Zhong were happy to see this method of killing rabbits by catching straw.

The key to the problem is that Chen Shen caught a large number of rabbits but did not catch any grass.

Zhou Yunqing is a real person, and he was indeed injured in the previous fight with the evildoers, but his injury was not serious, let alone to the point of being disabled.

In a sense, Guan Zhong deceived Chen Shen.

As for why Guan Zhong had to use Zhou Yunqing as an excuse to make money from Chen Shen?
The reason is very simple. Among all the defenders of Yumen Pass, only Zhou Yunqing's identity can be used to explain himself. As for the others, they are basically captives (referring to slaves of humble origins who have not yet been tamed) looted by the Xixia people from the Song Dynasty.

Although Chen Shen did not make an open agreement with Guan Zhong, both of them knew very well that when Zhou Yunqing appeared in front of Chen Shen to receive treatment, it would mark the end of Chen Shen's free medical treatment of the wounded and disabled soldiers at Yumen Pass.

Although the number of disabled people in Yumen Pass was several times greater than the number of people cured by Chen Shen, Guan Zhong knew very well that it was already too much to keep Chen Shen here for three days, and he could not ask for more.

As the saying goes, there is a long way to go, and Guan Zhong doesn't want to hurt his relationship with Chen Shen because of this.

But Guan Zhong was a little confused about how he should explain Zhou Yunqing's matter to Chen Shen. Should he just tell Chen Shen that Zhou Yunqing was not disabled?

Isn't this just making fun of the Lord of Destiny?

Just when Guan Zhong was troubled by this, he told Zhou Yunqing about it.

Zhou Yunqing heard this and smiled, "Grandpa, there's no need to worry. In my opinion, this matter is very easy to handle!"

Guan Zhong sighed and said, "How can I not be embarrassed! Young Master Chen has done us a great favor by repairing our soldiers' injuries, but I lied to him. Not to mention that it is a great violation of morality! I can't even face Siming... Young Master Chen's elders!"

Zhou Yunqing patted his thigh lightly and said with a smile: "Grandpa is so confused! You told that brother Chen that I was disabled, but you didn't tell me when I was disabled! Hehe! At most, I can pay with one leg and give an explanation to that little brother Chen directly."

Guan Zhong shook his head and said, "Why is it so? I just want to lose some face and apologize to the young man from the Chen family. How can I let you suffer? It's not worth it! It's not worth it!"

Zhou Yunqing laughed and said, "Grandpa, you are wrong! Even if I cut off my leg, the brother from the Chen family can fix it for me immediately! Besides some pain, it won't hurt anything!"

After Zhou Yunqing finished speaking, he immediately found a leather rope, tied it tightly around his injured thigh, then drew his knife and chopped it down suddenly, actually cutting off the leg at the knee. Because the leather rope was tied tightly around his thigh, Zhou Yunqing only lost a little blood.

After being cut in the leg with a knife, Zhou Yunqing's face turned pale with pain and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. However, he tried to smile at the dazed Guan Zhong, but only a distorted face was revealed.

Guan Zhong felt heartbroken and admired him, and he shouted, "You are such a reckless kid! Hurry! Go find Chen's brother! Ask him to heal your wound and reattach your broken leg!"

(End of this chapter)