Chapter 323
The ruler and his subjects decide the plan
Dong Zunhui burned the southern city gate and led his troops into the city, but was shot back by the Northern Han army archers who had been prepared. Even Dong Zunhui's left arm was shot with an arrow! Seeing that more and more soldiers from the Northern Han army near the city gate hole, Dong Zunhui could only withstand the pain and retreat. However, Dong Zunhui's troops did not completely withdraw from the city. Dong Zunhui arranged a small team of troops in the city gate hole and was almost defended.
As soon as Dong Zunhui's troops withdrew from Jinyang City, the reinforcements sent by Zhang Yongde had already arrived in front of them. Because he was worried that Dong Zunhui would misunderstand them to rob me of the credit, Zhang Yongde led the team in person this time.
Zhang Yongde saw Dong Zunhui who was bleeding from his left arm and asked in surprise: "Daoan, why are you injured? There are the best golden sore medicines in my camp. When I go back, I send you some people to give you some."
Dong Zunhui thanked him gratefully. He also had many good golden sore medicines, but no one would think there were too many life-saving things on the battlefield.
After chatting for a few moments, Zhang Yongde said to Dong Zunhui: "The more than a thousand soldiers I brought are all elites in the imperial camp. Now they are all handed over to you. I hope you can lead them to make new contributions!"
Dong Zunhui smiled bitterly and shook his head, gently lifted his left arm that was painful, and couldn't help but grin: "Hug a brother, the arrow in his left arm is a bit strange. Now it hurts when he moves. I'll leave this commander's responsibility to you."
Zhang Yongde looked at Dong Zunhui who was sweating on his face and nodded quickly: "I was negligent. No one can take away your credit anyway, so I will also exercise on the battlefield. By the way, Your Majesty just ordered me to notify everyone that the siege battle has been going on for nearly two hours. Everyone can take turns to lead the team to rest, rest and have some food."
Dong Zunhui agreed and ordered Ma Dehai to lead the main force of the troops to assist in defense, and he took Zhang Yi and others to retreat to the camp.
Zhang Yi had long led a group of fellow Taoists from Lou Guandao to guard the camp and assisted the military doctors of Dong Zunhui to diagnose and treat the injured soldiers. The guards helped Dong Zunhui gently remove their armor and remove their coats. They saw that there was already some bruises and blood on their left arm.
Zhang Yi tsk twice and asked in surprise: "General Dong, does it hurt when you break the arrow shaft?"
Anyway, everyone is familiar with each other, Dong Zunhui said loudly: "Are you talking nonsense? Now when you move, your whole body is sweating coldly!"
Zhang Yi clamped the arrow shaft with a small plier. While looking carefully, he jokingly said: "When you break the arrow shaft, the barbs on the arrow roll in the flesh. It would be strange if you don't hurt! Remember to be a little bit next time, don't use brute force! Also, you need to find a military doctor to treat injuries, don't do it randomly!"
Seeing Dong Zunhui nodding, Zhang Yi took out a wooden stick and let Dong Zunhui bite it in his mouth. Then Liu Qingyi and Cao Quan and the others pressed him down, and then they treated the wound. Zhang Yi first applied some cool oil to Dong Zunhui's wound, and then gently cut open his wound with a knife.
Dong Zunhui's head was covered with cold sweat, and the wooden pole squeaked. Zhang Yi suddenly looked up and said to the door of the tent: "Princess Le'an, why are you here?!"
Dong Zunhui was very surprised. Isn’t Le’an guarding the tomb for Guo Wei? How could he appear on this battlefield? He was very surprised and quickly raised his head, but found that the tent door was empty, and there was no figure there?!
While Dong Zunhui was looking up, Zhang Yi suddenly pulled out the remaining arrow and pulled out the wolf-toothed barbed arrow. Blood was spurted out, but Zhang Yi, who had been prepared, quickly applied the golden sore medicine, and then quickly wrapped it with gauze and tied a knot.
Dong Zunhui gritted his teeth in pain, and the wooden stick in his mouth suddenly broke into two pieces. The cold sweat on his head kept flowing down, and his face turned sallow.
Zhang Yi washed his hands and said to Dong Zunhui: "Fortunately, you treated it urgently on the battlefield, washed the wound with strong liquor, and with armor protection, the wolf-tooth arrow finally did not hurt the bones. However, after you were shot in the arrow, you were still vigorously active, causing the barb to scratch a lot of muscles, and the time for healing may be extended. Overall, if you meet me, the direct descendant of Louguandao, you have been lucky!"
The two were joking, and then they heard a bowing sound coming from outside: "Long live Your Majesty!" Then the tent door was lifted open, and Guo Rong walked in strode.
Dong Zunhui and others knelt down and saluted, but Guo Rong strode forward and helped Dong Zunhui up. He saw him with a tense face and said, "If it weren't for Hu Yi (Zhang Yongde) sending someone to send me a letter, I wouldn't know that you were seriously injured! When the filial period was released, Le'an would marry you, but your brother-in-law was so uneasy! When the late emperor was alive, he criticized you, don't always rely on his huge force and lead by example. It seems that you still haven't listened..."
After nagging for a quarter of an hour, Guo Rong gave up his education on Dong Zunhui, picked up the slightly deformed arrow from several tables, weighed it gently, touched the terrifying barb, and sighed softly. He patted his hands gently, and someone immediately sent a tray with an exquisite porcelain bottle on it.
Guo Rong said to Dong Zunhui: "This is a secret golden sore medicine made by Da Nei. The late emperor has been fighting for many years and has improved this secret recipe. The effect is pretty good. This bottle is for you first. When you return to Kaifeng Mansion, I will order someone to make a few more bottles for you. By the way, I will hide the injury from you first. If Le'an knows it, I don't know what it is to be anxious!"
Dong Zunhui smiled and didn't say anything, but Liu Qingyi couldn't help but repeat: "Back to Kaifeng Prefecture?"
Guo Rong nodded gently, "Yes, the entire army fought for more than two hours, and at least six or seven thousand people were killed or injured, but there were no decisive results. Jinyang was still on Liu Chong. I heard that the Liao Kingdom had sent a large army, so we must be prepared early to avoid excessive losses and being taken advantage of by the Liao army!"
Dong Zunhui knew that the Later Zhou Dynasty could not capture Jinyang this time in history, and he felt that there was no difference, but he felt a little regretful. He frowned and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, after all, we have burned the South Gate and attacked the city. The last general sent someone to guard the city gate. If you can't help but give me a few more days of grace, let everyone charge forward."
Guo Rong nodded gently: "I also intend to do this. What I just said is just the worst situation. Fu Yanqing and other generals resisted us in the north, and it will definitely be delayed for a while. I hope the army can take the opportunity to capture Jinyang. You must know that such an opportunity is really rare. However, all of us here are loyal people from the Great Zhou, and I will not hide it from you. Although the merchants sent a lot of food, the conquest of Liu Chong still exhausted the reserves in the treasury. If the last month is delayed, the treasury of our Great Zhou will really become clean and cannot even find a copper plate!"
Everyone was silent. After all, the Hou Zhou had a weak family and it was really difficult to support long-term and large-scale military operations.
At this time, Dong Zunhui said to Guo Rong: "Your Majesty, I have a few small ideas. I hope I can throw a brick and attract jade. Please ask Your Majesty to correct me."
Guo Rong was very interested. The "salt transfer grain" strategy proposed by Dong Zunhui not long ago solved the problem of food shortage in the army well. I hope he can give himself some good ideas this time. So Guo Rong hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, I'll listen."
"Your Majesty, the pseudo-Han regime established by Liu Chong was entrusted with intensive taxes against the people under his rule, and was even more rude to those wealthy merchants. I have done a lot of things to kill chickens and get eggs. I believe everyone has lost their sense of belonging to the pseudo-Han regime and hopes to escape smoothly." Dong Zunhui whispered: "Your Majesty can organize the people from around Jinyang to break the foundation of the survival of the pseudo-Han! In this way, even if we are forced to retreat in the future, the ones left to Liu Chong and Liao ** team will only be a few worthless broken houses!
Moreover, Your Majesty can auction some ownerless houses in Kaifeng Prefecture and sell them to these rich people under the pseudo-Han regime, so as to win over and restrain them, and also enrich some money for the treasury. Anyway, after Liu Chong rebelled, our court sealed up many houses, which were empty and empty, so it would be better to use them!"
Guo Rong nodded gently, "This idea is good. I will arrange someone to implement it later. Are there any good ideas? You just said that you have several ideas!"
Dong Zunhui scratched his head, "Although the last general led the catapult troops for a short time, he found that the shooting accuracy of these stone cannon troops was poor. In addition to the problems of the stone cannons and the stone bomb itself, there is another important point, that is, there is no fire observer in front and cannot conduct long-range precise guidance!"
"Firepower Observer? Remote precise guidance?" Guo Rong asked in surprise: "What are these?"
Dong Zunhui scratched his head and coughed a few times before he found the right language. He quickly explained to Guo Rong and others: "The so-called firepower observers are front-line observers of the soldiers. They are at the forefront and can intuitively see the landing of the stone bullets. They can use flags and other means to propose improvement strategies to the stone cannon troops in the rear to guide the soldiers to carry out more precise shooting. Although there are no walkie-talkies now... cough cough cough cough... I feel that the front-line personnel can use colored flag relay to guide the soldiers to launch an attack. In other words, as long as our army sends personnel to guide the soldiers to attack, we can completely use the soldiers to directly use the soldiers to knock down the enemy's barricades!"
Although Guo Rong was a little confused about some of the words in Dong Zunhui's words, he also felt that Dong Zunhui's idea was very good. Anyway, our army had occupied the cave in the South City Gate, so it would be appropriate to guide the catapult troops from there. If the Jinyang Barrier Gate could be eliminated at a smaller cost, the Great Zhou army would be able to isolate the South Gate and finally eliminate it with the superior troops. At that time, Guo Rong was confident that he would take down Jinyang City before the Liao army headed south!
Guo Rong then said to Dong Zunhui: "Daoan, you should stay honestly in the camp these days and don't go to the front line to show off your strength! But while your dear is recuperating, you might as well explore the remote guidance you mentioned, hoping it will work miraculously!"
Dong Zunhui quickly agreed to the remote guidance a thousand years ago, which was interesting!
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Chapter completed!