In the Ganquanbao military camp, Yang Yuanqing was demonstrating the essentials of action to fifty axemen.
"When we lift the axe, our bodies must be concealed. There are archers under the city watching us, so we should try to use the battlements to cover our bodies. Then we must strike quickly and with strong strength. We must break the rungs with one blow of the ax, and then withdraw immediately.
return!"
Standing around Yang Yuanqing were fifty tall and strong soldiers, each holding a long-handled axe. They were strongmen selected from two thousand soldiers. They all had long, strong hands and well-developed muscles.
Yang Yuanqing also knew that there were their patrols outside, and the news of the army's siege must have been reported to the commander. It was not far from Baochuan County. The key was that they had to use all means to delay the opponent and buy time for the commander.
The only thing that worries Yang Yuanqing is that the two thousand soldiers are all new recruits. They have not been tempered by war. They are not experienced enough, their will is not strong enough, and they do not have the kind of indifference to life and death that is made of blood and fire.
The only way is to teach the soldiers their own experience in defending the city.
"Now you practice by yourselves. The wooden piles are like battlements, and the wooden sticks on the ground are like the rungs of the stairs. You have to start quickly, cut it with an axe, and turn around even faster. Hide behind the wooden piles immediately, so that you will not be hit by arrows.
The arrow hit."
"Keep in mind the three words 'fast, ruthless and accurate, this is the key!"
There are fifty wooden stakes erected on the ground, and two blue bricks are placed on the ground next to them. There is a short log resting on the green bricks, just like the rungs of the stairs. The soldiers need to practice the essentials of movements. Only by practicing repeatedly will they be able to defend the city.
, they can play a role.
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Yang Yuanqing went to another corner of the school grounds, where fifty soldiers were receiving military medical training, mainly in hemostatic bandaging.
The fifty soldiers all looked very smart and had nimble hands and feet. Each of them carried two wine gourds and a medical bag on his back.
The military doctor explained the key points to them at the table, "The injured soldiers should first give them two sips of wine, then pull out the arrows suddenly, wash the wounds with strong wine, ignore their screams, it must be very painful, and stick the medicine paste on them."
Apply dog skin plaster to the wound, mainly to prevent the medicine from falling off, and then bandage it. By doing this, you can basically stop the bleeding and save your life!"
When the military doctor saw Yang Yuanqing coming over, he stopped talking. Yang Yuanqing smiled and said, "Keep talking, that's very good!"
The military doctor nodded and said loudly: "Everyone, remember, unless your head is chopped off with a knife, or your lungs, heart or throat are pierced by a spear and arrow, injuries to such vital organs are basically over. But in fact, most injuries
They were all injured in the flesh, but a large number of soldiers still died without being rescued. Why is this?
The reason is that treatment is delayed, the wound becomes suppurated, or there is excessive blood loss, especially if there is too much blood loss, and the blood dries up, it will definitely lead to death, so stopping the bleeding in time is the key, and the wound must be cleaned with wine first. Let me demonstrate below.
Everyone is watching."
The military doctor found two wounded soldiers whose arms needed dressing. They demonstrated to everyone how to clean, how to apply medicine, and how to bandage. After teaching them twice, the military doctor asked the soldiers to work in pairs to practice cleaning and bandaging each other.
When the military doctor finally stopped, Yang Yuanqing asked with a smile: "Can this wine be used for cleaning?"
The military doctor nodded, "You can use the sheep wine left by the Jin soldiers to clean it. This wine is very strong, and it will burn like a fire when you pour it on the wound. Our Song Dynasty's sake is not good. In fact, concentrated salt water can also be used, but using wine can also be used on injured soldiers."
Take a few sips to reduce the pain."
"Are there enough medicinal materials?" Yang Yuanqing asked again.
"There are enough medicinal materials. In addition, I have a suggestion."
"you say!"
"Bi Zhi and several colleagues took the time to boil several large pots of hemostatic ointment in the past two days and rolled them into pills. We said that it would be best to boil a few more pots and then give each soldier a few pills and a few plasters.
, if they are injured by an arrow and the medical soldiers have no time to treat them, they can help themselves by chewing the pills into paste, applying it to the wound, and then applying a plaster, which can stop bleeding and save lives at critical moments."
Yang Yuanqing nodded repeatedly, "This is a good idea. You make the medicine, and I will distribute it to all the commanders, teach them how to use it, and then teach it to the soldiers."
"Then I'll start making medicine in the afternoon!"
At this time, a soldier rushed over and reported: "General, the puppet Qi army has returned from cutting down trees!"
Yang Yuanqing was shocked. This was also the thing he was most worried about. He immediately walked quickly towards the city.
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Outside the city, a camp of 20,000 puppet Qi troops was stationed in a crescent shape, surrounding the south and east sides. It was also because Ganquan Fort only had the south gate and the east gate. The biggest problem the puppet Qi troops faced now was that they were unprepared.
With siege weapons, they were helpless in the face of the tall and towering city walls.
Zhang Zhongxiong had a good idea. After arriving at Ganquan Fort, they cut down trees nearby to make a simple siege ladder. However, when they arrived at Ganquan Fort, they discovered that there was not a single tree within dozens of miles.
Without trees, all Zhang Zhongxiong's ideas were in vain. The siege ladder, nest cart, archery tower, battering ram, camp fence, etc. were all in vain, and even his own safety could not be guaranteed.
When armies camp for a long time, they usually need to build board walls. This is a huge project. First, use wood to build a frame, then fill it with soil and compact it. First, a large amount of wood is needed to make the frame.
If you are camping for a short to medium term, you need to use a camp fence. This requires tens of thousands of small trees to peel off their bark and tie them together. This is not practical even in areas rich in trees. The main reason is that the amount of work is too large and does not last ten days and a half.
Don't even think about making a camp fence twenty miles long.
Therefore, generally camp fences are carried with baggage. This is why war requires the requisition of a large number of civilians. To close a camp fence requires thousands of carts and tens of thousands of civilians to move it.
Since the camp fence is also inconvenient, then another method is to use spears to surround the camp. Hundreds of thousands of spears are inserted in a circle around the camp. The sharp spearheads point outward and the enemy cannot rush in. But even if
Hundreds of thousands of spears also require thousands of carts to carry, and this kind of encampment is a test of national strength. Only the strongest national strength will be such a luxury.
Zhang Zhongxiong was unable to do any of the above three methods, so he had no choice but to follow the example of the nomads in setting up camp and dig a trench around the camp. Thousands of torches were placed in front of the trench, and thousands of patrol sentries were sent outside.
In fact, this kind of trench torch is mainly used to prevent wild wolves from invading at night, and may not be effective against the enemy. A few hundred bags of soil or dozens of long wooden boards can make the trench dug after several days of hard work zero.
But having the trench is at least a kind of psychological comfort, which has a little soothing effect on Zhang Zhongxiong and the soldiers of the puppet Qi army.
In the past few days, Zhang Zhongxiong was frantically looking for trees everywhere. They captured dozens of locals and used threats and inducements. Under the guidance of the locals, the soldiers finally found several trees in the upper reaches of the Baishui River, about fifty miles away from Ganquan Fort.
Mountains covered with pine trees.
Zhang Zhongxiong was so happy that he immediately sent thousands of people to cut down the trees and then used the Baishui River to transport the trees back. Today, the first batch of two thousand pine trees arrived at the camp.
Zhang Zhongxiong immediately ordered the construction of siege ladders, and the entire puppet Qi army camp was mobilized.
Zhang Zhongxiong couldn't hold back his excitement and personally rode a horse with hundreds of soldiers to the city to inspect Ganquan Fort and consider how to attack the city.
On the top of the city, counselor Zhang Xiao looked at Zhang Zhongxiong who was patrolling below, smiled and said to Yang Yuanqing: "I know this man, he is Zhang Shuye's second son Zhang Zhongxiong, who commanded the army that ambushed by the Wei River south of Xianyang last time.
It’s the army he leads.”
Yang Yuanqing still remembered that battle, in which five thousand people were wiped out, but the enemy general fled along the ice.
"It turns out it's him, but he's still Zhang Shuye's son. How can he be worthy of his dying father?"
Zhang Xiao continued: "This man is very interested in fame and wealth. He wants to attack the city at all costs. Most likely, he came for the reward offered by the Emperor of Jin. It has been almost five days and the commander has not shown up. I am worried.
He will become suspicious if we give him a reassurance that the ruler is within the city."
Yang Yuanqing was always convinced of Zhang Xiao's strategies. He nodded and asked with a smile: "Sir, do you have any good ideas?"
Zhang Xiao smiled mysteriously, "I'll use two little tricks to make him firmly believe that the control is in the city!"