Don't be a prince

[-] against [-], win!

He took out the gloves and mask from his pocket and put them on his hands, then put the white linen clothes on the outside.Li Chengqian and Sun Simiao looked at each other, then rushed to the tent at the entrance of the wounded barracks.

Here, acute injuries are bandaged and minor injuries are drained.

In the case of insufficient manpower, let's not say that the prince is not too good.

More than 2000 minor injuries, more than 3000 deaths, and [-] serious injuries are the result of this battle.

Li Chengqian arrived in Feng Mansion early in the morning, but by the time the wounded barracks finished their work, it was already midnight.

The water and rice were not exhausted for a day, which made Li Chengqian's eyes dizzy.But the result was good. Of the 200 seriously injured soldiers, except for the more than 200 who couldn't survive on the road, there were only [-] or so of the remaining [-] soldiers.

But just this, Li Chengqian and Sun Simiao have become gods in this camp, and there are also idiots who can be seen kneeling and worshiping from a distance.

"After the imperial army has a good night's sleep, it should be able to be put into use. It will be much faster if you teach them hand in hand. How come there are only more than 200 military doctors in such a war of destroying the country?"

The leg of lamb couldn't be eaten anymore. After a busy day, Li Chengqian felt sick to his stomach when he saw meat and the like, so he had to drink porridge extravagantly first.

Sun Simiao took it very seriously, took the leg of lamb that Li Chengqian refused, and devoured it hungrily.

He doesn't like to eat meat, but in Fengfu, food and vegetables are in short supply, he can only eat meat.Nowadays, the materials transported from the Central Plains, even millet, have become something that only the injured can enjoy.

Swallowing a mouthful of meat with difficulty, Sun Simiao sighed: "What else can be the reason? Although doctors are not cheap, people in the world are usually very cheap. There are more than 200 military doctors who are forcibly recruited from various state capitals. The world is ignorant. Only when the epidemic is unbearable, do you think that the doctors are good people! Even now, these military doctors have rushed to Chang'an from various places to assemble, and then went to the grasslands to toss, but they are just exempted from taxes for five years."

"Not even a reward?" Li Chengqian almost swallowed a mouthful of porridge.

Sun Simiao shook his head.

When the two of them first got the food, they were devouring it, but after learning the news, they felt like chewing wax.

At the door of the tent, Zhang Yun came in. The guy's eyes were still a little red, and he must have not recovered.

Although I'm sorry for him, but thinking about today's experience, Li Chengqian still feels that his choice is right.

"Your Highness, since you have recovered, please return to Shuofang with your servants."

Looking back at Zhang Yun, seeing that the family law he brought was lost somewhere, Li Chengqian said with confidence: "Zhang Yun, you go out and look at the wounded barracks here, do you still think we have to go back? Troops that cannot be attacked, what is the difference between being in Fengfu and being in Shuofang?"

Thinking of the miserable situation he saw all the way here, Zhang Yun couldn't say anything to continue to dissuade him.

The wounded barracks here in Feng Mansion is short of people, and the two thousand forbidden troops happen to be the most idle manpower.

Sun Simiao also said: "Stay here. The crown prince's headache is probably the aftereffect of falling off a horse. The old man will need to take medicine for a while to get rid of the root."

Seeing Sun Simiao say the same thing, Zhang Yun sighed, and went to the side of the tent to use it as a wooden pole.

Thinking that this guy hadn't eaten yet, seeing half of the porridge left in the big bowl, Li Chengqian hesitated for a moment before handing it to Zhang Yun.

Zhang Yun didn't dislike it either, and drank it right after he took it, and even thanked the prince for the reward after drinking it?

Li Chengqian was speechless.

In the wounded barracks, it was the military doctors who suffered the most.Many wounded soldiers who have stabilized temporarily do not know when they will have another accident.

After seeing the military doctor probing his breath and feeling his pulse to confirm death, Li Chengqian had no choice but to use Sun Simiao as a cover to teach them the method of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.After the two thousand forbidden troops woke up, Li Chengqian ordered Zhang Yun to hand over the command and assigned them work.For the wounded battalion, the sudden addition of 2000 men is more adrenaline than adrenaline.

At noon the next day, Chai Shao came back with his troops.

Thirty thousand herdsmen were almost wiped out, leaving only some women and children as captives.As for the old and the weak, when they don't have enough food to eat, they can only be pushed to the range of the butcher's knife.

Chapter 195 Night Battle

At this time, leading the army in battle, the general, the general manager, etc., are all treated like ordinary soldiers.Xue Wanche had chilblains on his face, and one on each side of his feet. He was ordered by Lao Sun to lie in the tent of the wounded barracks and not move around.

A tough man, if it's just pain, he can still bear it, but when he heard that his feet were going to be chopped off, he immediately became honest.

The protection is not enough. Li Chengqian still remembers that he was invited by his colleagues to travel in the grassland, but when the colleague was hospitalized because of falling from a horse and had to spend the winter in the grassland, he didn't feel how cold it was.Although splashing water into ice in winter, did they survive?

Now in the Tang Dynasty, things are completely different, not because the climate has changed so much, but mainly because there are not enough clothes and no warm houses.Even in later generations, people will not be able to stand wearing cotton-padded clothes in the same temperature environment for a long time in winter.

He still wanted to complain in his cotton clothes, not to mention those soldiers who were only wearing thin clothes.

Xue Wanche originally had three pieces of thick clothing and even a fur, but they were all given to the wounded soldiers. Even his heavy shoes were given to the soldiers with injured feet, so frostbite is normal.

A big man scratched the soles of his feet on the bed, and moaned when he scratched where he felt happy.Such a scene, even for a manager, is very wretched.

Seeing the prince walking in, Xue Wanche quickly let go of his feet, struggling to get up and salute.

Li Chengqian stretched out his hand to hold him down, and asked the other wounded soldiers in the tent to sit obediently as well.

Grabbing Xue Wanche's stinky feet and looking at them, Li Chengqian heaved a sigh of relief and said, "It's not bad. Hold back the itching for a few days. As long as you don't scratch your feet, you shouldn't be infected. When the wound heals, you can return to the army." It's on."

After finishing speaking, Li Chengqian saw a drop of water dripping from his glove.Looking up, Xue Wanche was already crying like a man in tears.

It's not good to be a military doctor as a prince. No matter who he sees a doctor, he looks flattered, even the general manager is not exempt.

"Your Highness treats the last general like this, and the last general can't wait to repay him with death!"

"It doesn't matter if you report it or not. As long as you don't scratch the wound and infect it, and add work to Gu, Gu will burn incense."

Patting Xue Wanche on the shoulder, Li Chengqian did not doubt the authenticity of his words.

You must know that Xue Wanche was originally from the Prince Xi's side. During the Xuanwumen incident, he was inseparable from the people from the Qin Palace. He had nothing to do and did not surrender directly. Instead, he took a few people and fled to Zhongnan Mountain to hide. .

After being caught, Li Shimin did not kill him, but kept him.He also said that what he did before was loyal to the Lord and should not be questioned.

The emperor likes this kind of stupid generals the most, Yu Chigong is like this, so is Xue Wanche, the more stubborn they are, the more they show their loyalty.Last year, when Liang Shidu was going to be attacked, the Xue brothers were all sent to the grassland.He fought bravely, and soon he was appointed as the governor of Lingzhou from the position of deputy general, and now he has become the appointment of the chief of the road. It can be said that he took off in a straight line.

After checking all the frostbitten soldiers in the room, Li Chengqian sighed.

There were so many frostbitten people that those with minor injuries could not enter the wounded barracks.We all know that as long as we keep warm, frostbite can heal quickly, but in the grassland, where can we find fuel?

Under the heavy snow cover, all the hay must be dried before it can be used.The full reserve of a thousand forbidden troops is barely enough for the wounded barracks.

The battle has been going on, and Chai Shao, who has no frostbite, will lead the team to fight as long as he receives news from the scouts.

Although they were backed by the Tang Dynasty, some herdsmen still chose to go south to try their luck when they were driven to nowhere by the army of Li Ji and others.And what greeted them was the iron fist attack of the Fengfu army.

And every time he attacks, the wounded battalion will have many more wounded.Among them, not only the Fengfu battlefield, but also other nearby war zones will send the wounded to Fengfu, regardless of the load here.

When the wounded barracks expanded again and again, Li Chengqian finally couldn't bear it anymore, and got Chai Shao's command.

Li Chengqian is probably the only one who can attack the chief manager's account without dying in the entire Fengfu, and Sun Simiao doesn't have this kind of treatment.

The two rows of sergeants on duty in front of the gate immediately turned their heads to one side when they saw the prince's angry appearance, pretending not to see him.

Kicking open the curtain of the tent, he yelled before his face went in: "Director Chai, I just want to ask, you bastards only know how to fight, have you ever considered the load capacity of the wounded barracks? The military doctors of the Bielu Army are all Decoration? Why do you always send it here?"

Facing the prince who came to his door, Chai Shao was also helpless.

Putting down his pen and standing up, Chai Shaowei wondered: "Although there are military doctors in the Bielu army, they have to leave at any time to participate in the battle. How can the wounded soldiers be taken to fight with them? So those military doctors will do some treatment, and then treat the wounded Soldiers have been sent to Feng Mansion. In comparison, our Feng Mansion has far fewer wars, and after learning that we have organized a wounded barracks, the Chief Commander ordered that Feng Mansion's army does not need to wander the border, but only needs to fight Just fine."

After getting angry, I found out that it was a mistake, but Li Chengqian didn't mean to stop: "Even so, you shouldn't send a single soldier to the wounded barracks. The two thousand forbidden soldiers are all risking their heads. The risk of joining the wounded barracks is still not enough. And you always lead troops into battle and add more wounded. If you don’t transfer troops to the wounded barracks, the wounded soldiers will be too much to take care of!”

Chai Shao sighed, he never thought that his side would become a receiving place for the wounded.With the crown prince and Sun Simiao around, the miraculous survival rate of the wounded barracks was very attractive to the surrounding generals.People's hearts are fleshy, since the wounded soldiers under their command have a great possibility of survival, they will be sent here no matter how far away.

It's just that if he allocates manpower to take care of the wounded soldiers, he will not have enough soldiers to fight. The whole army needs the heads of the Turkic people for their contribution.If you don't fight, what will you use to make military exploits?

Seeing Chai Shao's confusion, Li Chengqian didn't add to his anger.It would be nonsense to say that Chai Shaoqian did not care about the soldiers because of his military exploits. Every time he came back from battle, even if he was tired, he would fall to the ground at any time, and this guy would visit the wounded barracks before going to bed.

"Uncle, what do you think of this? I wrote a letter to my father. From now on, the troops of our Jinhe Road and Chang Wu Road will be used to receive the wounded, and use the results of the treatment to exchange for military merits, save the lives of our own people, and kill the enemy." , generally the same!"

Chai Shao gave the prince a strange look. The title of "uncle" shows that he made this suggestion as a nephew.It's nothing more than an achievement, and you can directly refuse if you fail.

But thinking about it, it seems that it is really tempting.

In the past, this was not used as military merit, but the wounded barracks in the past were not as good as this time!

Li Chengqian's proposal made Chai Shao's heart itch.

Come over, walk over.

After pacing back and forth in the big tent for a few times, Chai Shao nodded: "Yes! You can try writing a letter. If you don't leave the official document, you can ask His Majesty in the form of a letter from home. If it is correct, the old man is in Fengfu. Hunk, as long as you can save so many lives, why waste your reputation!"

Faced with this answer, Li Chengqian couldn't help but bow to salute Chai Shao.

This kind of thinking is really unconstrained. If he didn't really pity the soldiers' lives, Chai Shao could drive him out.He has this right!The head of the army is a glorious official position in the Tang Dynasty. Even if the emperor personally recruits and makes mistakes, he is still qualified to reprimand him.

Back in his tent, Li Chengqian wrote a letter home without hesitation.The most important thing is to emphasize that I am safe in Fengfu, and explain the reason for coming here.Otherwise, Zhang Yun and the others would be implicated.

The letter was written in three copies and sent to three couriers.

Sending letters in the middle of winter is still urgent, and the safety of the courier cannot be guaranteed. Even if none of the three letters are sent back, it is still possible.

Before Chang'an's reply came, Chai Shao would still lead his troops to the expedition.

But fortunately, Li Jing also achieved his set goal, all the armies have settled down, and the wounded are no longer sent to Fengfu in an endless stream.

Nowadays, most of the herdsmen around Jieli, especially the side near Datang, have been cleared. In winter, they can only migrate to report groups near Xiangcheng against the wind and snow, in order to intimidate the Tang army.

Now it seems that the effect is good, at least Li Jing ordered a temporary stop, and the army must be rectified from all walks of life, and the scattered herdsmen will be cleaned up by the way.

If it was summer, maybe prisoners would be kept, but now it is winter, except for children and women who can be kept because they don’t eat enough, and transported back to the Central Plains as slaves, the young, the strong, the old and the weak are all beheaded.

Prairie wolves are the most vicious in winter. In the past, they might retreat when they saw people, but they would directly pounce on them in winter.They are very lack of nutrition in winter.It's just that they don't have to worry about it now. The corpses of herdsmen can be seen everywhere on the grassland. Although the left ear was cut off as a proof of military achievements, the leftovers are still enough for them to eat.

Only wolves have such good teeth that they can bite a person who has been frozen into a stone by the cold wind.

On the way to Mayi, Li Chengqian almost couldn't help vomiting several times, so he could only retreat into the carriage, out of sight and out of mind.

There is a big difference between watching the movie and actually seeing it.

He came back again, and this time he vomited it out.

In the carriage, the old grandson was chanting sutras with his eyes closed, but the old Taoist priest didn't know that his actions could not bring comfort, but could only bring fear to those around him.

Zhang Yun frowned and helped Li Chengqian wipe his mouth, and said as he wiped, "Your Majesty told your servants that you must see such a scene when you have the opportunity. Your Majesty just said that it is too early. Your Highness, are you going to inherit the throne in the future?" Those of the Tang Empire can't be too weak!"

Sun Simiao opened his eyes and glared at Zhang Yun, but couldn't say anything.

"Gu knows, but Gu is only ten years old this year, so it's too early!"

After taking a breath, Li Chengqian couldn't help cursing Li Jing.

I praised this guy as a good commander before, but a good commander will take pity on the soldiers, and will be as firm as a stone when necessary.

Two days and two nights of fighting caused countless casualties under his command. Although he killed another 6000 Turkic people, he also injured more than [-] people, and countless frostbite.

There is no way to send all the wounded to Feng Mansion, not to mention that the wounded barracks in Feng Mansion are already overcrowded, so there is no other choice but to go there.

Fortunately, Li Jing still knew the benefits, so he sent the crown prince and two thousand soldiers to escort him.The excuse he used was also to teach the prince how to fight, so Zhang Yun didn't know how to refuse.Because Li Jing's knowledge is really a good thing!

The military doctor brought half of them, the imperial army who learned some emergency measures also brought five hundred, the labor imperial army also brought five hundred, and the supplies dragged more than a dozen trucks. This is already the maximum support that Fengfu can provide.

Nearly 6000 people walked on the grassland, and the corpses of herdsmen were the best guides.As long as you step on the corpses of herdsmen and war horses, you can always reach Mayi in the end.

"Your Highness, we won't be able to reach Mayi today, why not set up camp and rest!"

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Zhang Yun finally couldn't help dissuading him.

At this time, Li Chengqian was looking at the death list personally led by the prince, and he was very sad.

More than 200 people died!

Li Jing, you bastard, you actually used Lao Tzu's soldiers as sharp knives to stab stones!

"Stop it, select 200 people with thick clothes, and let them scout out the surrounding area. Although this area has been cleaned up, it is hard to guarantee that there will be fish that slip through the net. Nowadays, the entire Turkic tribe migrates together. A small tribe may have 2 or [-] people, so we must guard against it!"

Although Zhang Yun felt that it was impossible to meet the Turks, he still followed the prince's order.He naturally knew that the Prince's art of war was learned from Li Jing, even though he is a fledgling, he should not be underestimated.

Only then did Sun Simiao stop chanting sutras, lifted the heavy curtain of the car, glanced at the corpse outside, and sighed.

"It wasn't until today that this old man realized what a stupid decision it was to go to the battlefield. The world is inhumane, and all things are regarded as dogs. In this war, I am afraid that it is impossible to tell who is right and who is wrong!"

Knowing that the Taoist cultivator would feel such emotions on the battlefield, Li Chengqian had already prepared his speech.Of course, this is also the reason he persuaded himself.

"You must have heard the phrase 'If you are not of our race, their hearts must be different'. Since we are the people of the Central Plains, we cannot show kindness to the people of the grassland. You can only see the grassland full of frozen corpses , but I have never seen the appearance of my Zhongyuan people when they were slaughtered. We both played chess in the carriage along the way, so we couldn’t see the situation on both sides of the road. You don’t know, you can see it not far away There are a series of tombs. There are no monuments, because the people who buried people don't know who they are burying.

You know General Cheng, he's used to it carelessly.But when Wude was ordered to return to Beijing in the ninth year of Wude, he cut his face and vowed to take revenge. When he returned to Chang'an, he cried directly in the hall and asked why he didn't pursue Xieli.If we really want to talk about it, the grassland people kill us more people.After all, almost every year they will attack the border, but there are very few records in the history books when we beat them in the Central Plains! "

After listening to Li Chengqian's words, Sun Simiao thought for a while, and finally felt relieved.

At the beginning of human beings, nature is good.No matter who you see being killed, you can't help but feel sad, even Turkic people are the same.But sorrow is sorrow, and when you really want to strike, you can't be kind.Because, the kindness to the enemy is the greatest cruelty to oneself!

The convoy cannot set up camp as formally as the army, because it has to leave early the next morning.Therefore, the tents were only fixed with sharp wood, and no soil was built.

Because he was the official leader of the army, Li Chengqian did not eat the small stove, but insisted on eating the big stove under the persuasion of Zhang Yun and others.

This is what I learned from the generals. Chai Shao, Xue Wanche and others, as the chief managers, will also eat with the soldiers when they have meals, and there is no preferential treatment.Xue Wanjun's bleeding gums caught up with vomiting blood, but facing the bag of dried fruit that Li Chengqian gave him, he still gritted his teeth and ate it, and gave the rest to the wounded soldiers in the wounded barracks.

This is an era when those in power really lead by example.

Surrounded by the bonfire, Li Chengqian went back to the carriage, resisted the desire to vomit, and began to sleep after eating a few pieces of meat.