When Zhao Hongrun appeared in the tent of wounded soldiers, the wounded soldiers were quite excited. ┡. .
Especially those former Chu soldiers who had recently defected to the Wei army, they could not understand that a noble Wei prince like Zhao Hongrun would actually lower his status and come to the wounded soldiers' tent to visit the injuries of ordinary soldiers like them.
But the scene before them was so real.
I saw His Royal Highness King Su, while feeding a soldier who was wounded by an arrow, he told the soldiers nearby: "You must remember that drinking water must be boiled, do not drink raw water directly, pickle vegetables, and less bacon."
Eat, I have sent some soldiers to hunt in Beishan, and asked them to bring the game here. You can ask people to make broth to supplement the food for everyone."
After listening to His Highness King Su's instructions, the village chief responsible for managing this tent nodded his head and said yes again and again.
The soldier who was personally fed with water was even more moved.
At this moment, there was a tight crowd inside and outside the tent. Whether they were old soldiers of the Shang Navy or those soldiers who had recently been incorporated into the Chu Kingdom, they all gathered around and looked around. They watched with their own eyes as Zhao Hongrun visited the wounded soldiers one by one in the tent.
They divided them into new and old soldiers, shook hands with them, and told them to take good care of themselves.
At this moment, outside the wounded soldiers' tent, Shangshui Sergeant Yang Wuzheng looked at the crowd surrounded by people with regret on his face, scratched his head and said angrily: "Those hateful guys, I was also injured, what are you doing?
Don’t let me lie down in it”
Next to him, Li Hui, Le Bao, and Gan Mao, three soldiers with him, all made expressions of disagreement.
To be honest, Yang Wu's injury was not a lie, because two days ago, during the next day's battle, he was indeed shot by a sharp arrow during the charge. However, this guy's body is really strong, and after the war, he was wiped out.
After applying the herbal ointment produced by the Sanchuan tribe, the scars had already formed, and today it is no longer a serious problem, so much so that the soldiers responsible for taking care of the wounded soldiers simply regarded him as a troublemaker and expelled him.
Whenever he thought of this matter, Yang Wu felt indignant.
If you are strong, if you are injured, you cannot lie down in the wounded soldiers' tent, and you cannot let His Highness King Su personally greet you. Is this justified?
Seeing Yang Wu's indignant look, Le Bao said angrily: "Didn't you talk to His Highness Prince Su?"
"I can't say it anymore." Yang Wu rolled his eyelids and hummed: "Last time, His Highness King Su promised our Merchant Navy to reward us with Sanchuan sheep. We did receive them, but the woman has not yet fulfilled her promise.
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"Don't talk nonsense." Le Bao looked around nervously and cursed in a low voice: "Why are you so stupid? His Highness Prince Su has never promised anything to a woman."
"No?" Yang Wu opened his eyes and looked at the most honest Li Hui, only to see the latter blushing and shaking his head.
"Why do I remember His Highness Prince Su agreed at that time?" Yang Wu looked confused.
Seeing this, Le Bao became angry and scolded with a smile: "Because you are full of these dirty things, don't teach Ah Hui a bad lesson. Ah Hui and his widowed sister-in-law have been getting along pretty well recently."
"Why are you talking about me?" Li Hui had an innocent look on her face, her face turned red as she suppressed the evil laughter of Le Bao and Yang Wu, and he changed the topic in a panic: "Speaking of which, His Highness Prince Su is really amazing."
Le Bao and Yang Wu looked at each other and thought that your way of changing the topic was too abrupt.
However, they also knew that Li Hui was thin-skinned, so they did not continue to tease him. They followed the latter's intention and changed the topic to His Highness Prince Su's visit to the wounded soldiers.
In this regard, Gan Mao's comment seemed a little dismissive: "Huh, this is just an invitation to buy people's hearts. He also expects us soldiers to die for him."
For some reason, he intentionally emphasized the word "soldier", and he may still be struggling with the fact that Zhao Hongrun knocked him out of the position of a dignified general.
After all, from a dignified general of the Donglai Army of Qi State to an ordinary soldier in Wei State's Merchant Navy, if he had not been a man of great perseverance, he would have collapsed long ago.
After hearing this, Le Bao asked unhappily: "What's wrong with inviting people to buy people's hearts? How many of you, Mr. Qi, would be willing to do this?"
Gan Mao was speechless. After all, even if they were invited to buy people's hearts, those young masters from the Qi Kingdom would probably not be willing to stoop to the wounded soldiers' camp, lower themselves to appease the lower-ranking soldiers in the army.
After thinking about it, he stiffened his neck and said: "Our king will meet"
"His Majesty the King of Qi" Li Hui, Yang Wu, Le Bao and the other three looked at Gan Mao with wide eyes, probably because they couldn't believe that King Lu Xi of Qi would stoop down to express condolences to the wounded soldiers.
The surprised looks of the three of them made Gan Mao feel proud: "Why did I lie to you? I, Gan Mao, have followed the king to conquer Chu many times in the past, and I have seen him many times."
"That's just an invitation to buy people's hearts." Le Bao said coldly, swallowing the rest of his words with a sigh of relief.
Just when they were idle and talking, there was a commotion in the wounded soldiers' tent in the distance. The four of them looked up and realized that it was His Royal Highness Prince Su who walked out of the wounded soldiers' tent and continued to the next military tent.
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Seeing this, Gan Mao had no intention of arguing with a junior like Le Bao. He touched the stubble on his chin and murmured: "It looks quite leisurely."
"Do you mean His Royal Highness Prince Su?" Soldier Li Hui asked.
"Ah." Gan Mao nodded, with a bit of confusion on his face and said, "I'm not telling you, but the morale of our merchant navy is not optimistic to be honest."
After listening to Gan Mao's words about our merchant navy, Le Bao's expression softened for a long time. He looked into the distance and agreed in a rare low voice: "It must be the fifth day."
"Hmm." Gan Mao nodded.
The so-called fifth day refers to the fact that the Shang Shui army was attacked by the Chu army at night on the night of the fourth day, and went to attack the Chu army aggressively the next day, but was still repelled by the Chu army.
It has to be said that although the battle ended in a draw, it had an immeasurable negative impact on the morale of the merchant navy.
Any discerning soldier could see that the Five-Day War was a major turning point for the Chu and Wei armies on the battlefield in the western suburbs of Shoying.
Before that, although the strength of the Shang Shui Army was only one-sixth of the Chu army on the opposite side, it was able to force the Chu army to passively defend.
But after the five-day battle, the Chu soldiers in the western suburbs of Shoying seemed to want to stand up, and came to the Shangshui military camp for several days to fight.
I don’t know what His Highness King Su was thinking, but he closed the camp tightly and allowed the Chu soldiers to insult him outside the tent. As a result, the morale of the Shang Shui Army was unstable at this moment: some old soldiers were filled with anger and eager to fight.
They fought their way out of the camp; while the other group had newly recruited the original Chu army, but they were worried and uneasy, fearing that the Shang Shui army would be defeated.
After all, the Shang Shui Army was defeated, and those former soldiers who defected to the Wei Army would not end up much better.
Logically speaking, Zhao Hongrun, the commander-in-chief of the Wei army, should organize a proactive dispatch of troops at this time. After all, the Wei army's morale was just frustrated, and it was not that they could not defeat the Chu army who came to fight. However, unexpectedly, His Highness Prince Su refused to join the army many times.
Lu Zhan, Xu Jiong and other generals asked for battle.
"I really can't guess what His Highness is thinking." Gan Mao shook his head slightly.
As the former general of the Donglai Army of Qi State, he could not understand how Zhao Hongrun should handle the Chu army's initiative to challenge him.
"Perhaps His Royal Highness Prince Su has other considerations."
"I hope so." Gan Mao sighed slightly.
Perhaps because he had stayed in the Shangshui Army for a long time, he had gradually developed feelings for this Wei army and did not want this army to be buried here.
At this time, Zhao Hongrun was walking out of another tent for wounded soldiers.
After coming out, Zhao Hongrun and his party bumped into Gao Kuo, the original Zongwei, who was temporarily serving as a two-thousand-man general in the Shang Shui Army, and recruited two people.
"Your Highness."
"Hmm."
The two parties greeted each other and Zhao Hongrun smiled and asked: "Gao Kuo, are you still used to this kind of move?"
The two Zongwei looked at each other and said with a smile: "Thanks to Your Highness, we two brothers now have two thousand generals. If we gain a few more military exploits, we might even be able to gain some honors when we return to the Wei Dynasty."
"Haha." Zhao Hongrun laughed. After laughing three times, the smile on his face faded a bit, because he knew very well that if there was nothing important, Gao Kuo and Zhongzhao would not take the initiative to see him. After all, they
Now he is the general of Shang Shui Army, how can he leave his post without permission?
As expected, seeing that His Highness's expression became a little more serious, Gao Kuozhong asked the two of them to understand. The former took a step forward and whispered: "Your Highness, the morale of the army sergeants is not very stable."
"Talking as we walk." Zhao Hongrun signaled.
So, Gao Kuo and Zhongzhao followed Zhao Hongrun to the next tent of wounded soldiers and whispered: "In the past two days, many military generals have asked to see Beizhi and Zhongzhao. Please ask me and you to come to your highness."
You ask for a fight"
Hearing this, Zongwei Chief Wei Jiao frowned and interrupted: "Gao Kuo, Zhongzhao, you two should understand His Highness's considerations, why are you following this nonsense?"
"There's nothing we can do about it. Those people came over to ask us to come forward. We can't refuse, right? This hurts our friendship. After all, our relationship is pretty good on weekdays." At this point, Gao Kuo lowered his voice and said to Zhao Hongrun: "Your Highness, otherwise, a little
Tell me about the cavalry."
Zhao Hongrun frowned and glanced at Gao Kuo, shook his head and said, "No, what if the news leaks out?"
"But"
Gao Kuo seemed to want to say something more, but was interrupted by Zhao Hongrun raising his hand.
I saw Zhao Hongrun looking at Gao Kuo, and said in a low voice with a solemn and irrefutable vow: "I will support you no matter what for two or three days at most before this happens."
Gao Kuo and Gao Kuo looked at each other, cupped their hands and clasped their fists.
"Yes, Your Highness."
Looking at the backs of Gao Kuo and Zhong Zhao as they left, Zhao Hongrun let out a slight breath.
In fact, counting the days, Bosile led at least 30,000 Sichuan Northern Archers, and they had almost reached this area.
The problem is that Zhao Hongrun did not simply call this cavalry to support the merchant navy to boost the morale of the merchant navy. He was more inclined to design a Chu army in the western suburbs of Shouting.
What are you waiting for? It’s almost time to lure the enemy, right? The general in command of the Chu army, Gongsun Po.
Glancing in the direction of the western suburbs of Shouying, Zhao Hongrun said secretly. To be continued.,