Chapter 992: My Heart Was Moved when I First Heard About Li Zhuang

The soldier explained while holding a pot with a canvas cover on the outside.

He took it out and found an iron kettle. When he pulled it out, a kettle appeared, and what was left was a shell without the spout.

There is a folded metal strip on the shell. When you lift it up, there is a cover underneath the shell.

Holding the iron bar, you can lift the kettle's shell flat.

The iron bar is opened and folded, stuck on the other side, and can be hung on something.

Then this lid can also cover the opening on the shell, which can be used for cooking rice and stews.

The people and prisoners were dumbfounded. Who did it? What a clever mind.

They know how to use it, use the shell to hold soup, and everyone takes turns to drink it. The lid can also hold a little soup.

"Now our Tang army has used such good things?"

A common man took a sip of soup and felt warm all over his body, so he asked.

"We have elite troops at the border, but not others. Lijiazhuangzi can't make that many." Tang Bing next to him said while holding soup.

"Will we win this battle?" the people asked again.

"Yes, no one from the Tang Dynasty will be plundered by others in the future." The soldier said softly.

He knew what was going on with the people of the Tang Dynasty around him. The Tibetans made a sneak attack and the Tang army was unable to support them.

Now the number of troops stationed at the border has increased, and the people are behind.

The soldiers also had good food, alcohol, gauze and other supplies, and everyone learned how to treat wounds.

Usually after a battle, many people die not on the battlefield, but because of wound infection after the war. Yes, it is called infection.

If the bleeding doesn't stop, you can't stop it with your hands or cover it with mud. If it keeps flowing, the person will feel cold.

Now if it bleeds, just sew it up. Large blood vessels can be covered with sutures, and then wrapped up, and they will slowly grow back.

If the blood flow is less, eat something good, and as long as it replenishes the blood faster than the blood loss, it will eventually grow.

As for making a large incision, it can be sewn up and bandaged. When pus and blood appear, clean it up and continue bandaging.

As long as there is alcohol, there is no fear of death from infection.

Both sides had 10,000 men. After a battle, one thousand of each side died and four thousand were injured.

There is no way that the Tang Dynasty can survive with 3,500 people, but the enemy may only survive with 500.

After a few battles, the enemy was defeated.

The soldier thought so and told the people his thoughts.

The common people liked to hear this, hearing that their Tang Dynasty was powerful, and they were waiting to arrest people and go back to get their families back.

"Where does alcohol come from?" Another commoner didn't know what alcohol was. He thought it was similar to wine and became a spirit.

"Lijiazhuangzi gave me some cotton. The cotton we use is called absorbent cotton." The soldier replied.

"It's Lijiazhuangzi again." The common people who had just eaten a handful of highland barley rice they brought discovered the keyword.

So the soldiers told the people the story of Li Jia Zhuangzi.

Near midnight, another group of people came back, and they brought back alive the Tibetan baggage generals.

A living general is worth more than a dead one, and one person can be exchanged for many Tang people.

In total, there were 330 other Tibetan soldiers alive, and the rest were all dead.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty first treated the wounds of their own people, and then helped the Tibetan soldiers to treat the wounds.

These three hundred and thirty people can probably be exchanged for at least a thousand people of the Tang Dynasty, depending on how much the other party values ​​them.

Zhang Xiaosong had already finished eating and had a rest. When the prisoner caught him and asked about the quantity, he had a smile on his face.

"This time we can bring back all the people of the Tang Dynasty. Tubo will be empty. As long as Guo Zhiyun is not an idiot, he will know how to fight."

Zhang Xiaosong did not calculate the three hundred and thirty prisoners, he estimated the overall situation.

He did not attack the large Tibetan army confronting Ashina Xian and Ge Luolu in Tibet.

He used superior troops to intercept Tubo's baggage. It was impossible for Tibet to send 10,000 elite troops to escort the food and grass.

Even if he sends ten thousand, he can win at any cost.

There are also explosive packs and grenades, which are really useful when paired with a hot air balloon and a telescope.

Zhang Xiaosong likes new things. He found that the biggest function of a telescope is to prevent the enemy from finding him.

It is most commonly used to deal with enemy scouts. The number of scouts is small and they can be defeated every time.

The enemy can only judge the position and number of their own side through the traces on the ground.

The hot air balloon is unreasonably powerful. When flying in the sky, it can detect enemy troops from a distance. The densely packed dots can be seen dozens of miles away.

You can arrange it however you want, which is equivalent to a half-day trip.

Thinking about this, Zhang Xiaosong went to sleep again and waited until tomorrow to see if there was still a Tibetan baggage team. If not, he would take the initiative to greet them.

The people of the Tang Dynasty also slept after eating. They covered themselves with the clothes of the Tibetan soldiers, the clothes of the dead soldiers.

The Tibetan slaves got the skins of dead horses, which were only plastered with plant ash. The smell was very strong, but they didn't care. Two or three people covered each skin.

Tonight is a happy night for the people of Tang Dynasty and the slaves of Tubo, otherwise they would have to sleep at night, walking all the way, squeezing each other to sleep.

As the sun rose in the morning, Tang Bing began to cook, stewing horse meat, boiling hot water, and using Chinese patent medicine to reduce inflammation and cool down.

After the wounded person is injured, white blood cells increase, and there is a lot of body fluid in the injured area, forming pus and blood. It needs to be treated, re-bandaged, and given medicine.

The wounded have a lot of fever, which is not necessarily due to infection. They are tired and their body functions decline after the injury.

At this time, the horse meat is boiled into a thick soup and they drink it to supplement protein.

There were wild bird eggs and boiled water was made for them to drink.

Whether you eat eggs when you have a fever requires syndrome differentiation. Eating eggs to supplement protein will help the body recover and increase calories at the same time.

So, when eating eggs, we should consider physical cooling, and do not eat boiled eggs to avoid indigestion.

"Leave 500 people to look after the wounded and prisoners by the river, and the others will follow me to find the follow-up baggage team of Tubo."

After Zhang Xiaosong had breakfast and arranged the personnel, a hot air balloon rose here, and he led the team to set off.

The Tang soldiers who were seriously injured or had a fever began to sleep, sitting and leaning on something to prevent the food in the esophagus from flowing out.

They had to wait for a while to digest and drink more boiled water to cool down, increase the speed of metabolism, and make themselves get better quickly.

It was cold at night, and the temperature gradually rose during the day. The people of the Tang Dynasty took towels to wash in the river, and then applied face and body to the wounded and feverish on both sides to cool down.

The slaves of Tubo were only responsible for finding mushrooms and cutting grass in the distance.

They were not allowed to contact the Tubo prisoners, so as to prevent the Tubo prisoners from threatening them with the safety of their families and secretly untying them.

"Let me go now, let me run away, I will let your family go after I go back."

The Tibetan captives threatened the people of the Tang Dynasty when they could not threaten their own slaves.

The people of the Tang Dynasty were wiping his face. After hearing his words, they were stunned, then unfolded the towel, rolled it into a strip, wrapped it around his neck, crossed it, and stretched his hands to both sides.

"Woo woo woo~~" The Tibetan captive's face flushed, he opened his mouth and made a sound in his throat, his eyes widened, his body twisted, and a look of pleading appeared in his eyes.

"Help, he is strangling him to death." The Tibetan captive next to him shouted to the Tang soldier.

The Tang soldier took a look and turned his head away.

The Tibetan captive who was strangled saw his eyes rolling up, and the people let him go and watched with a smile.

The captive gasped for air, with a look of fear in his eyes.

"Say it again? You must say it, say it quickly, or I will strangle you to death." The people strangled him again.