Chapter 320 Ending Harm
"Madam, Qi Hongshen was seriously injured and fled into the mountains. Xiaowu is now leading his men in pursuit. I have brought back thirty prisoners to report to you."
Yuan Si knelt on the ground, feeling deeply sorry for Jiang Tangtang's cultivation, and buried his head like an ostrich.
Jiang Tangtang didn't blame Yuan Si for his incompetence, but simply asked, "Are there any casualties among our soldiers?"
"There were no casualties, only a dozen or so soldiers were seriously injured. However, the Xirong suffered more casualties than us.
Qi Hongshen brought a total of about 300 people, some of whom mixed in with the refugees and instigated them to cause trouble.
Qi Hongshen was accompanied by over 200 soldiers, over 100 of whom died, 30 were captured, and the rest fled with him.
Jiang Tangtang said: "The dozen or so seriously injured soldiers were each given two kilograms of sea beef and five kilograms of fish meal as nutrition, and were first sent to the sanatorium to recuperate individually.
Also, have all the soldiers going out to fight this time go to the village on the outskirts of the city for a physical examination. Each will be rewarded with two pounds of sea beef. Do they want to wait until they're done with the physical examination to receive it, or have it delivered to them so we can celebrate first? Ask them what they think."
Yuan Si suddenly raised his head. He didn't expect that Jiang Tangtang did not punish them. Instead, he cared about the injured soldiers first and rewarded them.
Jiang Tangtang looked at Yuan Si, a tough man crying, and couldn't help laughing. "Alright, go down quickly! Don't run around these days. You are all people who have been out and in contact with refugees outside, so you must obey the rules."
Although they did not capture Qi Hongshen, they defeated the enemy with a smaller force and killed so many Western Rong soldiers, so they deserved a reward.
"Yes!" Yuan Si seemed to come back to life and ran away with light steps.
The soldiers had no objection to going to the village on the outskirts of the city for a physical examination first.
Everyone's attention is on manatee.
Ever since Jiang Tangtang came back from Nan'an last time and gave everyone in the staff office a piece of sea beef, the deliciousness of sea beef has spread throughout Lingnan.
I've heard that manatee beef has a lot of fat, and if you just cut a small piece and fry it in a pan, you can make a large bowl of oil.
The oil is very fragrant and has no smell of mutton.
The lean meat of manatee is also very delicious. I heard it tastes better than pork, beef and mutton.
The soldiers didn't expect that they would get a two-jin reward at once, and they were all very happy.
Most people choose to wait until they have finished their health checkup in the village before receiving the gift. Of course, they want to take such a good thing back home and share it with their family.
There are also a small number of bachelors without families who decide to enjoy the hard-earned sea beef first.
Yuan Si registered the names of the soldiers who would be rewarded first and sent them to Jiang Tangtang by carrier pigeons.
Jiang Tangtang first took Doctor Xue to the sanatorium.
After Jiang Tangtang came to power, sanatoriums were set up in every place, specifically as places for injured soldiers to recuperate.
At this time, a small courtyard was set aside for the soldiers who were going to fight against the Western Rong to live in.
The soldiers injured this time are different from ordinary soldiers. In the past, as long as the wounds were prevented from getting infected and they received good medicine, they could basically recover well.
But this time the situation was much more complicated. The place where the soldiers fought with the Xirong people was also an area where refugees were active. In addition, in order to plot against her, the Xirong people also sent soldiers into the refugee camp.
Whether it was the environment or the Western Rong people they were fighting against, it was possible that they had been infected with the plague.
These injured soldiers are more susceptible to the plague than ordinary people.
Jiang Tangtang brought Doctor Xue to examine the soldiers and left them medicine to prevent the plague. Then he took sea beef, medicinal herbs, food, etc. and went to the village on the outskirts of the city.
This village was vacated when Jiang Tangtang first came to Cangwu to deal with the plague and used some means to do so.
There are three vacant villages on the outskirts of the city, and the other two villages are already full of people.
Most of those living there were staff members from the refugee office who had frequent contact with refugees and were subsequently infected with the plague.
However, after so many days of treatment, these staff members will soon recover and leave the village.
Jiang Tangtang brought eighteen pieces of sea beef with alternating fat and lean meat and personally distributed them to the eighteen soldiers.
These sea beef are soaked in fruit wine, salt and various spices, and then air-dried.
Even before the food is cooked, you can smell a strong aroma.
The soldiers took the sea beef from Jiang Tangtang very reverently. The soldiers who had originally wanted to cook and eat it quickly felt reluctant to part with it after seeing the meat.
Jiang Tangtang didn't care whether the soldiers were reluctant or not. She came here to give rewards to motivate these soldiers, but the main purpose was to let them always pay attention to changes in their bodies and report any situation immediately.
Although these soldiers were not as seriously injured as those living in the sanatorium, swords and knives have no mercy, and many of them were injured.
Moreover, these soldiers are used to living on the edge of a knife and do not take minor injuries seriously at all.
Jiang Tangtang brought medicine over. In addition to asking them to disinfect the wounds carefully, they were also asked to drink the medicine soup to prevent the plague on time, stay in the village and not run around, and report any abnormal physical conditions in a timely manner.
After Jiang Tangtang explained everything, she quickly left the village outside the city.
Although there is medicine that can cure the epidemic now, she cannot be careless. She still has many things to deal with.
To prevent the plague from spreading further, the bodies of the Xirong soldiers killed today and the bodies of the refugees who died of disease outside the city gate must be properly handled.
In addition, it is not a solution to keep so many refugees piled up at the city gate.
Currently, due to the drought, all industries in Lingnan have been severely affected. Before the drought is alleviated, it is not a wise choice to continue to absorb refugees into Lingnan.
She had to find a way to disperse the pressure these refugees brought to Lingnan.
After Jiang Tangtang left, the soldiers relaxed, started to cheer, and surrounded the dozen or so soldiers who received their rewards, looking at the sea beef they received.
In the past, a reward of two kilograms of meat might not be a big deal.
But today, with droughts lasting two years, these two kilograms of meat may save the lives of an entire family, so these two kilograms of meat are particularly precious.
Among these soldiers, some had their parents starved to death while fleeing, and some were former soldiers of the Great Zhou who were later captured and eventually incorporated into the soldiers of Lingnan.
They truly felt the preferential treatment a soldier received in Lingnan.
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As Jiang Tangtang expected, injured soldiers were more likely to be infected with the plague than normal people.
However, the first people to be infected with the plague were not the soldiers from Lingnan.
But it was Qi Hongshen and his group.
On that day, Qi Hongshen fled into the woods, and his men tried their best to stop him, so Xiaowu and his men were unable to catch up.
However, Qi Hongshen and several Western Rong soldiers who escaped with him were injured. In order to avoid being caught up, they could only hastily treat their wounds and continue to flee.
That night, some people started to develop high fever.
At first, Qi Hongshen thought it was just a trauma and didn't panic until someone started coughing up a lot of bright red bloody phlegm.
Qi Hongshen was so frightened that he took a step back and fell to the ground.
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