Chapter 2315 Discussion
General Meng brought back a large number of wounded soldiers, and the entire camp became busy. The eight assistants in the medical tent were not enough, so Bai Shan picked some people from his own guards and General Nie's men to help.
Bai Shan was busy diverting patients and only had time to point out to General Meng where General Guo was going before continuing to work.
When General Meng went in and saw General Guo and his son, he couldn't help wiping away his tears.
General Meng turned and walked out of Tent No. 1, only to see Zhou Man squatting on the ground with a pair of scissors, treating someone's wound. He wanted to go up and ask about General Guo's condition, but Bai Erlang pushed him aside from behind, "Move aside! Don't stand in the middle of the road, blocking the way..."
Bai Erlang brought hot water and placed it next to Zhou Liru. He took a look at her stitches and saw that she had finished sewing them. He found the hemostatic medicine in the basket beside him, applied the medicine directly to her wound, and then bandaged her.
Liu Huan was standing by, using a pair of scissors to cut open the clothes that were stuck to the wound, then cleaned it. After looking at the wound, he felt that it did not need to be sutured, so he provided a one-stop service of stopping the bleeding and bandaging it.
Manbao was even faster than Zhou Liru, and the two assistants he brought with him were unable to cope with the situation, so he had to find another person to help.
General Meng looked at him and suddenly clutched his stomach. Bai Shan, who had diverted the wounded, walked past him and then stepped back. He bent down to look at his waist and abdomen. The color of the armor was too dark to see anything. He reached out and pried his hands away. When he saw the knife marks on them, he pulled open the piece of clothing to take a look, and then said, "It's a minor injury. Wait outside for a while."
When he looked up and saw that it was General Meng, he felt that he would be needed to lead the charge and serve as a bridge to communicate with General Li, so he pulled him aside and pressed him down. "Take off your armor. Let me take a look. If it needs stitching, I'll have Manbao sew it for you."
General Meng: ...
General Meng was cut on the waist and abdomen by a knife, but fortunately the armor blocked it, so the wound was not very deep and was still bleeding.
Bai Shan cleaned his wound, and Man Bao brought him a needle and thread. He asked him to lean back and stitched him up while asking, "So the royal city has been lost now?"
General Meng responded, "General Guo...we'll retake the royal city when the general is better."
Now that they are leaderless, they cannot command the entire army even if they want to. Moreover, their morale is a little low after being ambushed this time.
Manbao frowned and asked, "How many casualties did the soldiers suffer?"
She herself saw so many wounded people, but she didn't know how many died on the battlefield.
General Meng said, "Four hundred and ninety-eight men were killed, and the wounded... you saw it too."
Manbao sutured the wound silently and turned to look at other injured people.
Manbao and the military doctors were busy until the evening before they had treated all the wounded. Bai Shan and General Meng had already discussed with General Li about rearranging the camp. There would be a checkpoint every three miles on the official road leading out of the camp all the way to the city gate.
There were no enemy troops invading today. Bai Shan said, "There are rebels in the city, so naturally there are also people who don't want to go along with them. Moreover, the King of Kucha has the help of the Turks. I'm afraid they will be unable to resolve the situation themselves, which will give us a chance to catch our breath."
General Meng was eager to try, "If we take this opportunity to attack the city..."
"No," General Li objected. "We suffered heavy casualties last night, and General Guo can't come forward. Morale is low. Going would be a death sentence."
General Meng lamented, "How long do we have to wait? In a few days, once they've sorted out their internal affairs, they might launch an attack. By then, we'll be on the defensive, and the situation will be even more disadvantageous to us."
General Li also knew this, but he insisted: "It is not appropriate for us to go to war at this time."
Bai Shan said: "It's because the morale is too low. If the morale recovers, we can attack."
They currently have around 2,000 men available, enough to launch a counterattack.
General Li said, "Unless General Guo comes back to life."
Bai Shan and General Meng: ...This is too difficult for General Guo. How can a dead person come back to life?
There is no solution to the problem for the time being, so they can only prepare for defense and send people to inquire about the situation in the royal city.
In the evening, the six people sat exhausted by the fire and didn't even have the energy to eat.
Manbao couldn't help but sigh, "So what the book says is right. When you're extremely tired, not only can you not eat, you don't even want to sleep."
She felt hungry now, but didn't really want to eat; she felt tired, but her brain refused to stop for a moment, and she couldn't even close her eyes and rest.
Bai Erlang and Liu Huan were in a better situation. They hardly used their brains today, and most of the work was physical labor. So they were tired and hungry at this time, and they buried their heads in the food bowls without raising them.
Bai Shan was also tired, and he had been using his brain all the time, so he didn't have much of an appetite.
He was currently digging through all the military manuals he had read and asked them, "What strategy do you suggest we use? It would be best if we could create internal unrest in them so they don't attack us for at least five days. Or, if we could boost their morale and strike back before they can attack."
Manbao's mind was still full of things like stopping bleeding, amputation, and suturing, so he had no time to think about these things. He said casually, "Shout out your loyalty to His Majesty and then charge forward."
Bai Shan glanced at her and asked, "Will you rush forward if I shout like that?"
Manbao shook his head.
Bai Shan said: "Similarly, other people won't do it either."
He glanced at the soldiers patrolling in an orderly manner and sighed, "If we want them to fight to the death, either General Guo should be brought back to life to give them confidence in victory, or they should be promised huge rewards so that they have no choice but to fight to the death."
Manbao worked hard to eat the rice, and after taking a bite, he said, "But you are not a general, I am afraid you can't give them such a huge reward."
Bai Shan nodded. "Yes, I'm afraid they won't believe the promise I made, and even if they do, they might not be able to keep it. So the only thing left is a desperate strategy."
Man Bao, with his mind full of blood, finally squeezed out a little space in his brain for him. After thinking for a while, he said, "This won't work. What if it backfires?"
If the desperate soldiers still have faith, they can indeed fight to the death. However, if they cannot be controlled well and their hearts are dead, then they will be completely defeated.
Bai Shan also knew that this method was dangerous. "So we can lay the groundwork first. We have time in the next two days, and we are not completely helpless in the royal city."
"What method?"
Bai Shan said, "I asked General Meng to dismantle General Guo's equipment and tents, and to tell the soldiers that the general felt deeply ashamed of his actions and decided to eat and sleep with them until we could retake the royal city."
Of course, it was impossible to ask General Guo to eat and sleep with them, after all, he was gone, but his attitude could be shown.
The soldiers lived in ordinary tents, and he lived in the medical tent; the soldiers ate with ordinary pottery bowls, so he put away his porcelain bowl and used a pottery bowl like them...
That's the same thing.
The soldiers will also see this attitude.
See you at 6pm
(End of this chapter)
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