Chapter 121 A bit ambiguous
Ling Chan had been holding Liu Hong's arm. When he heard that Xiao Jin was coming, Liu Hong stood up suddenly, almost causing Ling Chan to fall due to the reaction force.
"Prince Rui is here?" Liu Hong was shocked.
Xiao Jin used to be a deputy general under Ling Rui, and he was seriously injured.
Logically, he should stay in the capital. The emperor cannot let him come to the border again.
Even if the emperor asked him to come, Concubine Xi should have stopped him.
"Hurry, go and meet them." Liu Hong pushed Ling Chan and Liu Huaiyu.
Combining the above ideas, Liu Hong was certain that Prince Rui was here to convey an imperial decree.
"Maybe the emperor has some order." He told Ling Chan and Liu Huaiyu as he walked quickly.
Liu Huaiyu was puzzled. "What kind of decree would require Prince Rui to make such a special trip?"
She looked at Ling Chan and said, "Why not just ask Ling Chan to bring it here?"
Why did they come to the border so quickly? This border isn't a good place.
But...if there was no order from the capital, she didn't know what King Rui was doing at the border.
"Do you still want to be a general in the border area?" She held Ling Chan's arm. "That shouldn't be the case. He's already of marriageable age. Concubine Xi should keep him in the capital."
As they were talking, they had already arrived at the gate of the military camp and saw Xiao Jin at the door.
He was leading a horse, and a man followed behind him.
Ling Chan recognized the man as Jiu Zhen.
The barracks guards opened the door at Liu Hong's instruction, and Liu Hong and others walked a few steps outside.
"Jiuzhen, you are here too?" Ling Chan asked subconsciously.
Xiao Jin looked at her helplessly. He was such a grown man and was standing in front of her leading a horse, but she was only concerned with asking about Jiu Zhen?
"I am here to see King Rui." Liu Hong, Liu Huaiyu and the people behind him knelt down.
Xiao Jin supported Liu Hong and pulled him up, "General Liu, no need to be polite."
After Liu Hong stood up, he looked back uncertainly, "Prince Rui... came alone?"
Xiao Jin glanced at Ling Chan before answering Liu Hong's question, "I heard that Princess Wanyue had come to the border, so I specifically asked the emperor for permission to come to the border to help."
"Sister Wanyue," he called to Ling Chan, "I have shared hardships with you in Qingzhou. This time, we are fighting together against the Da He army. This is a friendship that will last a lifetime."
Ling Chan glanced at the mask on his face. His facial injuries should have healed, right? Why was he still wearing a mask?
"Isn't Prince Rui here to convey the emperor's order?" Liu Hong still felt strange and simply asked directly.
"General Liu, now that I've arrived at the border, I'm your deputy general. Please address me as Deputy General Xiao."
Liu Hong nodded and said, "Deputy General Xiao, does the emperor have any message for you to convey?"
Xiao Jin shook his head again, "No."
Liu Hong then invited him in, "Deputy General Xiao, please."
"Did you come from the medical tent just now?" Xiao Jin had been here for several years and was very familiar with the situation here.
The direction Liu Hong and his companions had just come from was exactly the direction of the medical tent.
"Yes, the soldiers have suffered heavy casualties recently, and the medical tent is overwhelmed. The princess and her people went to help."
"The princess also provided us with a magical medicine that is very effective in healing wounds."
"Oh, that's great! Finally, I don't have to worry about the wounded and the medicine."
He's been so worried these days that he can't sleep at night. Actually, it's not just these days...
He has been very worried during the past few months since he came to the border.
More than ten years ago, when he was at the border, there were not so many troops stationed here, and the late emperor was willing to spend money at the border, so he rarely worried about military supplies.
Later he stepped down and Ling Rui took over the leadership of the troops.
He had Gong Lele's dowry to support him, so he had not had to worry about military supplies over the years.
After Liu Hong took over, without the support of Gong Lele's dowry, the soldiers on the border began to suffer relying only on the military supplies allocated by the emperor.
Especially the medicinal materials, the supply has never kept up.
The doctors wanted to divide the medicine into several parts, but that would only delay everyone's recovery.
Now it's okay, there's no need to worry. He has seen that kind of elixir himself, so he is not worried at all.
Xiao Jin lagged behind by two steps, walking in the same row as Ling Chan. "Sister Wanyue, I want to thank you on behalf of the soldiers, too."
"Brother Prince Rui, you're welcome." Ling Chan forced out a hypocritical smile.
Liu Huaiyu, who was walking beside Ling Chan, looked at the two of them curiously, wondering what they were doing? One was calling Wan Yue "sister," and the other was calling Prince Rui "brother"?
She frowned and thought, looking at the two of them from time to time, and suddenly a guess popped up in her mind...
While Liu Hong and Xiao Jin were talking, Liu Huaiyu pulled Ling Chan back to her tent.
"Ling Chan." As soon as she entered the tent, she looked at Ling Chan mysteriously.
Ling Chan sat down and poured herself a cup of tea. "What? You're so mysterious?"
She poured another cup for Liu Huaiyu and handed him the tea when he came closer.
Liu Huaiyu took the cup and casually put it aside, "Ling Chan, you and Prince Rui... have a very good relationship."
Ling Chan ignored her and drank some tea, which relieved the dryness in her throat.
"What do you mean?" Ling Chan filled the teacup. She had just arrived at the border and was not used to it. It was windy and dusty here and it was cold and dry.
"He calls you Sister Wanyue, and you call him Brother Ruiwang..." Liu Huaiyu's voice was very smug, imitating the green tea style, and his hands were pinching the orchid finger...
She even extended her orchid finger in front of Ling Chan in a disgusting manner, "Sister...brother?"
Seeing that Ling Chan didn't understand what she meant at all, she suddenly withdrew her finger, "Oh, what I mean is, you and Prince Rui are not... in love with each other, right?"
Ling Chan finally understood why she was so pretentious just now. Without thinking, she glared at her and asked, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"He's the Prince of Rui, and I'm the Princess. Isn't it normal for us to call each other brother and sister?"
"Is it normal?" Liu Huaiyu sat next to Ling Chan.
Ling Chan nodded, "It's normal."
Liu Huaiyu rolled his eyes helplessly, "What's normal about that?"
She gave an example, “I wouldn’t dare call my cousin that.”
"He'll definitely think I'm interested in him."
Ling Chan then put down her teacup and asked uncertainly, "Really?"
"My cousin's name is Ao Weiran. What do you think if I call him...Brother Weiran?"
Listening to Liu Huaiyu's coquettish voice, Ling Chan shuddered. It was indeed a bit ambiguous.
She thought about it carefully and realized that it was not her initiative to call her that. It was Xiao Jin who called her Sister Wanyue first, and then she took the opportunity to call him Brother Prince Rui.
Even if it is ambiguous, it is his ambiguity.
Is he ambiguous?
Ling Chan's eyes rolled around...
"Looking at you like this..." Liu Huaiyu held up his chin and stared at Ling Chan, "I understand now. You definitely have no interest in Prince Rui."
"However, as for Prince Rui, that's not necessarily the case."
She was very satisfied with her guess and clapped her hands excitedly, "Yes, this must be the case."
"Hahaha." She threw her head back and laughed, "I didn't expect that Prince Rui would be interested in you."
Ling Chan looked up dissatisfiedly, "What's wrong? Is it not possible?"
Liu Huaiyu waved his hands repeatedly, "It's not that I can't, it's... it's... it's because I think of those women in the capital who coveted Prince Rui... I feel sorry for them."
"Should I feel sorry for them, or should I gloat over their misfortune?"
Because Liu Huaiyu was the daughter of a military general, she did not fit in with those ladies from prominent families, and because she had once admired King Huai, she was ridiculed by them.
Liu Huaiyu stuck out his tongue.
"But you might have guessed wrong." Ling Chan didn't think Xiao Jin would like her.
Liu Huaiyu did not agree with her words.
Ling Chan stood up and said, "Okay, we haven't finished what we just did."
Although she added a bucket of pool water, it was definitely not enough with so many wounded people in the medical account.
"Yes." Liu Huaiyu also remembered the important matter, "There will be new wounded soon..."
Ling Chan used the excuse of changing into comfortable clothes and asked Liu Huaiyu to go out and wait for her.
After changing her clothes, she carried out another bucket of pool water, this time it was full.
"Are these...all elixirs?" Liu Huaiyu pointed at the bucket of water.
Ling Chan said, "Well, I mixed it with medicinal powder."
Liu Huaiyu took it and said, "Then why don't you just take the powder to the medical tent? There's water there too."
Ling Chan coughed awkwardly a few times, "Well... I'm worried I won't be able to grasp the dosage, so it's better to mix it and bring it over."
Liu Huaiyu pouted and said nothing more.
"Where are Hongdou, Gonglan, and Gongyu?" Weren't these three people following them just now? Why can't they be seen now that they came out?
"Go to the medical tent." Ling Chan told her.
As soon as Hongdou's eyes turned, she knew what was going on, so she agreed with her eyes for them to go over and help. Liu Huaiyu must have been thinking about those men and women just now, so she didn't notice the glances she exchanged with Hongdou.
"They've already gone? Then we should hurry."
Liu Huaiyu and Ling Chan quickened their pace, but when they reached the door of the medical tent, a commotion broke out at the gate of the military camp.
"The soldiers who went out to fight are back." Liu Huaiyu understood the situation.
She pulled open the curtain of the medical tent and said, "Ling Chan, let's help quickly. New wounded people will come in soon and the doctors will be overwhelmed."
But the medical tent was already full of wounded people, some lying, some sitting, some standing, and there was really no room for new wounded.
Ling Chan glanced at the sky. The sun was shining brightly and there was no sign of rain.
"Let the lightly injured ones go out, and leave the medical tent for the seriously injured ones." Ling Chan instructed.
Liu Huaiyu immediately began to make arrangements to have all the lightly injured patients in the medical tent come out to make room.
As for the lightly injured... Ling Chan asked a few soldiers to find two pieces of wood and build a simple shed next to the medical tent.
The area under the shed was cleaned up, and the lightly injured soldiers sat down in rows.
"Hongdou, bring the bucket inside."
There were a few buckets of clean water in the medical tent, and Hongdou brought the water to Ling Chan.
Ling Chan added water from the space pool in different proportions.
"Gong Lan, Gong Yu, you will be in charge of checking the injuries of the wounded here and classifying them into minor, moderate, severe, or extremely severe injuries according to their severity."
"Minor injuries are those caused by swords and knives, where no bones are exposed."
"Medium injuries are more serious sword and knife wounds, where the bones are exposed."
"A serious injury is one where a large area of bone is exposed."
"Extremely serious injuries involve injuries to not only the skin but also the internal organs."
In fact, war injuries are now divided into only three categories: minor injuries, moderate injuries and serious injuries.
A minor injury means that no important organs are damaged and the patient can recover and return to the team within a month.
Moderate injuries are organ injuries that are not life-threatening but require a longer treatment time, such as one to two months, and may still cause functional impairments after recovery, affecting service.
Severe injuries involve organ damage and failure, which are life-threatening and may result in severe disability after treatment.
On the battlefield, Daqi and Dahe still used cold weapons, which mostly injured the skin and flesh. If the internal organs were injured and they did not receive timely treatment, they would die directly on the battlefield.
"Those with minor injuries will be kept outside. Those with moderate, severe, and extremely severe injuries will be taken to the medical tent. Once there, they will also be treated separately."
After everything was explained, the wounded were also outside the medical tent.
Gong Lan and Gong Yu began to check the injuries, but the wounded were very confused. They were injured, but they still refused to let them into the medical tent.
"Let us in. He's already injured like this, let the doctors see him right away. Don't make things worse."
Those with minor injuries were also filled with emotion when they heard that they couldn't even enter the medical tent. "You can't just ignore treatment because we're only slightly injured, right?"
"Yeah, what is this for?"
"What's all this chaos? People who have never been to the battlefield are making trouble here."
Gong Lan and Gong Yu looked at Ling Chan behind them in embarrassment. The wounded were not cooperating... They were in a difficult situation.
Liu Huaiyu was inside, responsible for settling the wounded who came in, but after waiting for a long time, no wounded came in.
She walked out to see what was going on and heard everyone complaining.
"My fellow soldiers, Princess Wanyue, also known as Lingchan, the Marquis of Zhenbei, is the daughter of the former Marquis of Zhenbei, Gong Lele. This time, she is following the Emperor's orders to lead the martial arts warriors to assist us in fighting the enemy."
She spoke loudly, her voice no longer cute and playful as when she was joking with Ling Chan, but majestic, solemn and imposing.
"Zhenbei Hou has some magical medicine that can heal your injuries."
"We've divided you into several groups based on your injuries so we can better administer the medicine and help you recover as quickly as possible."
"Please cooperate with the two palace ladies in their inspection."
After Liu Huaiyu finished speaking, the soldiers began to cooperate.
The wounded also began to be grouped according to the severity of their injuries.
The lightly injured soldiers were left outside. Hongdou was outside, holding a handkerchief soaked in elixir and wiping their wounds one by one.
The other wounded entered the medical tent and were divided into three groups according to Liu Huaiyu's guidance.
The seriously injured were treated by doctors first, while the others were treated with magical medicine by apprentices.
After the wound of the lightly injured soldier was wiped, the bleeding stopped and the pain was gone. Ling Chan asked her to help bandage it, actually to cover up the secret of the wound's rapid healing.
"You can only remove the cloth strips tomorrow morning." Hongdou instructed everyone according to Ling Chan's instructions.
The wounded in the medical tent felt relieved of pain and their flesh and blood were nourished after being treated with elixirs. However, it took a long time and the wounds needed to be treated three times a day.
After dinner, Liu Hong called all the generals and deputy generals, as well as Xiao Jinlingchan and Liu Huaiyu.
They were afraid that the Hittites would launch a surprise attack at night, so they simply gathered together at this time to discuss and summarize the experience of the attack.
"We can't always be so passive. We have to find a way to take the initiative," Xiao Jin suggested.
"What good ideas does Lieutenant General Xiao have?" Liu Hong asked.
Xiao Jin didn't answer, but looked at Ling Chan, "What do you think, Sister Wanyue?"
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