Chapter 2689 Morale
General Ashina walked over and invited Zhou Man to come back to the tent to cook together.
Manbao thought about it, gave the remaining uneaten piece in his hand to Zhou Liru, and got up to go with him.
She sat opposite him and said to him, "I'm dirty, please don't mind, General."
General Ashina glanced at the blood splatter on her sleeves and smiled nonchalantly, "Master Zhou, you're too polite. Speaking of dirtiness, you're no match for those of us fighting on the battlefield. Master Zhou doesn't despise us, so how dare we despise you?"
General Ashina personally served Zhou Man a bowl of meat soup and asked, "Master Zhou, why don't you come into the tent to eat?"
Given Zhou Man's status, she certainly has her own special treatment.
Manbao shook his head and said, "I'm so tired and my appetite is not very good."
After seeing so much blood and flesh, I don’t feel like eating anymore.
Zhou Man, who had a poor appetite, drank a bowl of meat soup, ate three steamed buns of General Ashina, and gave him half a plate of meat and two halves of a plate of vegetables.
General Ashina: ...
After Manbao finished eating, he put down his bowl and chopsticks, lowered his hands, and gently did finger exercises under the table. Digging out arrowheads is also a delicate job.
"General, how long will this battle last?"
General Ashina shook his head and said, "Not necessarily. The walls of Liaodong are high up, making them difficult to attack. Furthermore, there are other cities surrounding them that support them. It would probably take at least half a month, or at most a month."
Manbao glared, "Then winter is coming."
General Ashina said nonchalantly, "Don't worry, the Ministry of Revenue is already preparing winter clothing. In terms of supplies, they can't compare to us in the Great Jin."
Manbao frowned, "But we are an attacking force from afar, after all, we can't compare to their advantage of terrain."
General Ashina raised his lips slightly and said, "There are many enemies who share the same ideas as Lord Zhou."
Manbao: ...
She always felt that General Ashina was mocking her because she could hear that he was mocking the enemy.
Manbao reached out and poured himself a bowl of tea.
General Ashina said, "Don't worry, Lord Zhou. We will protect the medical tent well. Please take good care of it in the future."
Manbao raised his bowl and said, "You're welcome, General."
General Ashina and Zhou Man clinked their bowls.
General Ashina and Zhou Man discussed the matter and began to attack the city with all their might.
He had a good grasp of the rhythm. Every day he would go to the foot of the city and shout and curse, waiting for people to come out and charge. Most of the time, it was fruitless. He would come back after suffering dozens of casualties, and the casualties on the other side would be greater than theirs.
Three days later, General Ashina brought fewer people to the city to shout and curse, but they asked the medical tent to prepare more hot water and medicine bags.
Manbao knew that a big battle was going to happen, so they went out to the medical tent in the morning and started preparing.
In less than two hours, they vaguely heard the sound of drums and fighting.
Manbao jumped up from where she was, ran to the nearby high ground, stood on tiptoe and looked into the distance, and heard shouts and screams from the high ground where she had stood a few days ago.
Manbao turned around and went downstairs, saying happily to Wen Tiandong, "Hurry up and get ready to welcome the wounded."
The garrison in Liaodong City was ambushed.
What Zhou Man didn't know was that not only the garrison in Liaodong City was ambushed, but the reinforcements coming out of Gaimu City were also ambushed. Duke Zhao personally led his men to set up an ambush on the road, captured everyone coming out of the city in one fell swoop, and then led his troops directly to attack Gaimu City.
When the matter was reported to Manbao, he thought about it and appointed Zhou Liru and Wen Tiandong to take some students with them to do the medical accounting. He also transferred the old military doctor back to manage the remaining students.
Who knows when the emperor will send troops to attack where, so we have to keep some people.
Manbao transferred some other students over. This time, there were many more wounded soldiers sent over. Of course, they also gained a lot.
All the Goguryeo troops who went out of the city to pursue General Ashina were basically captured and killed.
The military camp was noisy.
It was not until late at night that Man Bao and his men took care of all the wounded soldiers. Then General Ashina's deputy general came to ask Zhou Man and others to go and see the Goguryeo captives.
Manbao raised his eyebrows, took his men over, and treated them the same way he treated the soldiers of Dajin.
She was busy until the early morning, and only let the students go back to rest when it was almost dawn. She planned to take a nap and check on the wounded.
After this night, the captives in the prisoner camp felt less resentful of the Jin Dynasty. General Ashina stood there watching. Manbao came out, looked back, and asked General Ashina, "Are you going to subjugate them?"
General Ashina said coldly, "This is His Majesty's will. There is no need to subjugate them deliberately, but they are also citizens of the Great Jin."
Manbao twitched his lips but said nothing. To the emperor, all the places that were once part of the Central Plains were the people of the Great Jin.
What's more, Goguryeo was originally a vassal state of the Jin Dynasty.
General Ashina said coldly, "For ordinary soldiers, all they need is to survive. As long as they can survive and live like human beings, that's enough. Once they live like human beings, all they want is a better life. Your Majesty can give them all that, so there's no rush."
"As for those generals who are disobedient, just kill them. There's no need to subdue them specifically."
Manbao understood and knew there was no need to worry too much about the captured generals.
Manbao asked, "Don't you want their confessions? Maybe you can lure the enemy into attacking a city or something like that."
General Ashina shook his head. "The Goguryeo people are cunning. There's no need to play along with them. Your Majesty, do you have any good ideas?"
Manbao stopped asking.
Isn’t the emperor’s good advice something he asks you for?
She turned and left, drank a bowl of soup, ate two steamed buns, washed her face with cold water, and went to see the wounded. After changing a few prescriptions and asking someone to keep an eye on their conditions, she turned around and went to sleep.
But she was exhausted.
It seems that we have to leave two students behind to take turns on duty in the future. We can't all go in at once. We don't know how long this Eastern Expedition will last, so we hope they don't get exhausted to death.
When Manbao woke up, he heard shouting and laughter outside.
She washed her face, applied some whitening cream and went out, only to see everyone gathered in a group. Two Hu Bing were wrestling in the middle, and the people around them were shouting and cheering. Even she and the other female students were watching with great interest.
When they saw the teacher coming, they immediately came over to greet him.
Manbao stood with his hands clasped together and asked, "Why did you fall?"
"There's also a weapons competition," Su Ye said with a smile, "General Ashina has arranged it, and he said the winner will receive a reward of ten taels of silver."
Manbao exclaimed, "Wow!" "So generous?"
Manbao looked around and slowly figured it out. Although they had just experienced a great battle, the morale seemed to be very high.
Morale was indeed high. First, they had not suffered any defeat since they came out. Second, they had already captured two cities and the casualties were not heavy this time. Third, with the medical tent, the survival rate of the wounded was higher than ever before. Fourth, there were the female students from the Imperial Medical Bureau.
During this period, many people covered their stomachs, arms and legs and cried out in pain, running to the doctor's tent to get medicine.
General Ashina also had ill intentions, so he made the unmarried soldiers wrestle and compete in martial arts, showing off their strength in front of the girls, hoping to marry them back to the land of the Hu people...
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(End of this chapter)
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