Chapter 733: The Redemption of the Oxtail
A convoy of several bicycles crossed the wooden bridge. After riding for about an hour, the family soon arrived at Xuefu County in Ruyang County.
The medical school has been basically completed, and the medicinal herbs in Luo Chong's home have been transported to the plantation in advance. When they came, the herbs were almost transplanted.
Plant transplantation must be done when it is cloudy, but unfortunately the weather has been sunny in the past few days. According to the forecast of the Imperial Astronomical Observatory, it will be the same in the next few days.
There is no way. In order to transplant the herbs as soon as possible, Luo Chong can only have people do it at night to avoid being killed by the sun during transportation during the day.
In addition to the dozen kinds of herbs brought by Tang Yao, there are also many kinds of herbs collected by the Han tribe over the years, most of which were contributed by the original snake tribe.
It is similar to the external medicine of ginger. After drying and grinding into powder, it can be directly applied to the wound. It has the effect of stopping bleeding and anti-inflammatory. There are also similar trees with red juice that the big tree mentioned at the beginning. It can be used to clean external wounds and disinfect them. It also has a certain anti-inflammatory effect, but it has almost no effect on stopping bleeding.
Others include the highly poisonous thorn vine and the stinking grass that can wake people up and induce vomiting. It is said that the juice of this plant can wake people up and induce vomiting. The efficacy description is also very direct, which means literally that if an unconscious person smells this juice, he will be awakened immediately by the stench. If an awake person smells it, it can directly cause him to vomit, which
is simply terrible.
However, everything has its role. The stinking grass is definitely a rare good medicine in emergency treatment and detoxification. However, this wonderful medicine must be harvested immediately after use. It may be because its stench is too strong and evaporates too quickly. It will lose its effect in a few minutes. The juice will also evaporate quickly when directly exposed to the air, which greatly limits its scope of use.
For this situation, Luo Chong's opinion is to make it into an ointment similar to essential oils, put it in a small bottle and use it like a snuff bottle. After all, it is something to smell. Moreover, he only gives the development direction and does not directly participate in the research. That is the job of the medical school.
Therefore, not only is it necessary to grow smelly grass here, but also to conduct experiments on drug preparation, from the original grabbing a handful of grass and eating it raw, to preparing it into Chinese patent medicine, improving the shelf life and scope of use, which is also one of the research directions of the medical school.
There are many similar medicines, with all kinds of strange effects, most of which are some common sense of life passed down by the ancestors of small tribes, just like the previous generation leader took the initiative to find dandelions for Luo Chong to treat his wounds.
Although most tribes do not have a written heritage, there is a lot of knowledge about medicinal herbs in the life skills passed down from generation to generation.
Wild cats will go to the mountains to find herbs to eat when they are sick. Animals with high IQs like humans naturally cannot be dumber than cats. Over dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of years, which tribe does not have a few medicinal herbs that can cure diseases.
It's just that most of them are repeated.
After visiting the plantation, Luo Chong led everyone to the animal breeding center.
Most of the animals used by the Han tribe for medical experiments are rabbits and dogs. These two creatures are not expensive and have a large output, making them very suitable for experiments. As for the white mice that he often heard about in his previous life, he has never seen them in this world.
In addition, the animal breeding center also breeds many animal medicinal materials.
For example, venomous snakes, snake sloughs, cicada sloughs, toad skins, sheep horns, tortoise shells, deer antlers, donkey skin donkey-hide gelatin, poisonous insects, etc. are also very useful medicinal materials.
Looking at the venomous snakes in the cage, Xiao Luocheng was scared and screamed, but he couldn't help but want to get closer to find out. This kind of conflicting feeling of fear and curiosity in a child who is not even two weeks old is inexplicably cute.
After leaving the animal breeding center, the group visited the teaching building and dormitory building. This is similar to other schools, but the glass windows installed on these buildings are widely praised. These are all made by the glass workshop on the island in the center of the lake.
As for the off-campus hospital, it is still under construction. Fortunately, the medical school has not officially accepted students yet, so it doesn't matter if the off-campus hospital is temporarily closed.
After a tour, Luo Chong took his wife and children to have a picnic in the school garden, played with the two children for a while, and then went home.
Because Xuefu County is not far from Hanyang City and can be reached in an hour by bicycle, Tang Yao still lives in Luo Chong's house. When the school officially opens, she will have to go back and forth to work every day.
It was May, and the Han tribe had gradually digested the gains brought by this war, but for the losing party, Maodun and Xin tribe were the most difficult to accept.
In a small mountain tribe on the south bank of Honghu Lake in the grassland, Maodun lay drowsily in the tent. His left arm was wrapped in white linen, but it was soaked with red blood and yellow thick water. The tent exuded an unpleasant stench.
In the initial battle of Kaiyuan City, Maodun was shot in the left arm while escaping. The arrow wound had not been properly treated because of the continuous attack from the Han tribe behind.
Later, with the successive raids, the Han tribe suffered huge losses and a large number of herdsmen were captured. The development of the situation made the proud Maodun begin to fall into despair, and as the weather gradually became hotter, the arrow wound on his left arm finally began to worsen.
The only hundreds of blood relatives and guards left escorted him to a mountain valley southeast of Binhaiwei, where they found a small tribe of wild men who lived on hunting, gathering and fishing. The population was also only five or six hundred people, but they were easily defeated by Maodun's guards.
After all, no matter how weak they were, they were the best cavalry on the grassland. It was no doubt that conquering such a small tribe was not a problem at all.
The leaders and other high-ranking officials of the small tribe were soon slaughtered, and the remaining women were forcibly taken by Maodun's relatives, and the men were beaten into slaves to herd the remaining more than a thousand livestock for them.
But Maodun's injuries became more and more serious, and the wound gradually became inflamed and swollen. After several times of cutting the flesh, detoxifying, and cleaning the wound, his injuries did not improve, but became more and more serious. Without good trauma medicine, he has been suffering from fever for days.
This arm is useless. Even if the injury can be cured, he will lose the ability to hold a bow and shoot arrows forever.
However, it is impossible for him to recover. The high fever has not subsided for a long time. In fact, Maodun has been unconscious for several days. Maybe tonight, he will cool down completely.
On the other side of the strait, the high-level officials of the Xin tribe are also very depressed. They have invested too much in the battle of Kaiyuan City, a large amount of sea salt, bamboo arrows, copper spears, bamboo armor, of course, these are nothing, the most important thing is actually the relatives of the great elders of the commander faction.
That was an army formed entirely by 'their own people'. Three thousand strong and capable men was not a small number. However, since they were sent out, they never came back. This was undoubtedly a huge loss.
Even for the Han tribe, such a loss is huge. Although a county town of the Han tribe has a population of several thousand or nearly ten thousand, that also includes the elderly, the weak, women and children. If all are counted as young and strong, the largest county town of the Han tribe cannot come up with 3,000 people at once.
What's more, these people are the main forces of the Xin tribe's leadership system, and now they are all gone.
On the agreed day, the army did not return. Commander Xin eagerly came to the bridgehead of the dark bridge to wait, and then watched the tide ebb and rise. When the sea water flooded the dark bridge again, there was still no shadow of the army, and there was not even a person sent by Maodun to report the news.
Commander Xin was not a fool. He quickly realized that something was wrong, which triggered his speculation about the situation.
War is nothing more than two results: victory or defeat, but in this situation, the results are very limited.
Either Maodun's coalition forces were defeated, and his 3,000 people were all killed in the battle. The Han tribe took advantage of the situation to pursue Maodun, and Maodun had completely escaped to some corner.
However, Commander Xin did not think that this would happen. He knew how many people Maodun had. There were so many people in the coalition this time. Even if the Han tribe was super strong and one person could beat ten, how many people could Kaiyuan City have? Even if the Han tribe performed exceptionally well, at most they could tie with Maodun, and neither could do anything to the other.
However, the current situation was that not only did his own 3,000 men and horses disappear, but even Maodun did not send a messenger, which was not normal at all.
Another result was that Maodun successfully defeated the Han tribe and occupied Kaiyuan City, and then he violated the previous agreement, monopolized Kaiyuan City, and detained his own 3,000 men and horses.
According to Maodun's previous record of obstructing the carriage trade between the Han and Xin tribes and detaining a large amount of supplies, he was very likely to do this. If this was true, then their Xin tribe would suffer a huge loss.
When he thought about the possibility that his huge investment would result in such a result, he couldn't help but want to vomit three liters of blood. The impatient Commander Xin immediately made a decision and sent hundreds of people to dozens of teams to take bamboo rafts and canoes across the 20-kilometer-wide strait to the grassland to find out the situation.
The scouts set out quickly, and a small number of teams successfully landed on the grassland continent. Then they rented or bought some horses from nearby herdsmen with the white salt they brought, and then went to various parts of the grassland in twos and threes to find news about the war between Maodun and the Han tribe.
Some people first went to Maodun's former territories to see if Maodun's people had returned, but when they arrived at a territory, they saw only dilapidated tent skeletons, and the felt on them had long been burned to ashes, without even a smell, indicating that these traces had been caused a long time ago.
Several scouts from the Xin tribe dismounted to check and found traces of war everywhere. There were many rotten animal skins and livestock skeletons in the camp. When they opened a collapsed tent, several red and black foxes suddenly emerged from it. They bared their teeth and roared at the people, then ran away.
When the scouts looked carefully, they found several human skeletons under the tent. Obviously, these were eaten by wild beasts after death.
What happened? Who attacked here? Why did no one collect the bodies or occupy the camp after the attack? They finally took down this place. Wasn't it to occupy it and run it themselves?
No useful information was obtained, but it turned out that the camp behind Maodun was hit by an unknown force and has not recovered yet. This is already bad news.
After exploring two more Maodun camps in succession, they still looked the same. The successive discoveries proved that Maodun might have suffered a great defeat and even lost his own nest, which undoubtedly explained many problems.
They came to a Maodun stronghold again. They were familiar with this place. It was a relatively large stronghold under Maodun. Many important materials that the Xin tribe had delivered to Maodun were stored here.
They couldn't wait to enter the camp to find Maodun and ask him about it. So they rode forward immediately. From a distance, they found that there were many herdsmen grazing here. Several scouts felt relieved.
Fortunately, they finally saw living people. There were herdsmen and livestock, which meant that this place had not been attacked by the enemy, so they immediately ran towards the livestock and herdsmen.
However, before they could say a word to the herdsmen, a strong reflection flashed on the hillside in the distance. They put their hands on the awning and took a closer look. They found that it was a team of more than 30 cavalrymen in red robes and silver armor. The leader of them held a black and red Han tribe flag. It was the unique "general flag" officer of the Han tribe.
In an instant, countless questions came to their minds.
Isn't this Maodun's territory? Why did the Han tribe cavalry appear? Why didn't those herdsmen run away? What on earth was going on here?
There was no time to think about it. The Han cavalrymen over there were already waving whips and squeezing their horses' bellies to speed up. It was obvious that they were not coming to welcome them. Several scouts were frightened and fled on the spot, but they did not run far.
After dark, they sneaked in again, wanting to take advantage of the night to scout out some useful intelligence.
The horses were hidden in the woods not far away. The two scouts carefully crouched in the grass and moved forward quietly, finally arriving at the outskirts of the camp.
With the light of countless bonfires and calcium carbide lamps, a city wall more than one person high could be vaguely seen in the distance. There were also a large number of tents and animal pens outside the city, representing the number of people living here. On the outskirts of the camp, the military camp with the Han tribe flag was particularly eye-catching. On the lakeside in the distance, a brick and stone pier was gradually extending into the lake.
There is no doubt that Maodun's camp has been permanently occupied by the Han tribe. They also built a pier for ships to dock and a city to defend against the enemy. In this way, the defeat and fleeing of Maodun's coalition forces has almost become a foregone conclusion. Otherwise, how could his territory be occupied by the Han tribe?
The two scouts looked at each other and quietly crawled to the woods not far away. They were ready to pass the news back to Zhudao as soon as possible.
More than half a month later, when the scouts of each team returned to Zhudao, the senior leaders of the Xin tribe finally figured out the truth of the matter after summarizing the intelligence. Maodun's coalition forces were finished, and their three thousand young men were all gone.
On the night when Commander Xin and several elders discussed this matter, several Jinwuwei spies lurking beside the elders also sent this news to the ears of the imprisoned Niuwei.
Niuwei, who had been imprisoned for half a year, looked very haggard, but after hearing the news, his eyes couldn't help but shine. He knew that his chance to get out had come.
I'm a bit busy these past two days, sorry everyone, I'll try to adjust my time in the future, QAQ
(End of this chapter)
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