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Chapter 321: Bone scraping to cure poison
"Xiangzhou has been recovered, those who surrender will not be killed!"

"Xiangzhou has been recovered!"

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Those sounds could be heard everywhere in the Zhou army camp that was filled with flames of war.

Many Liao army soldiers couldn't help but look towards Xiangzhou's location, where fireworks were being released for a long time.

It was not until this moment that Yelu Renxian realized that the situation was hopeless.

Although, he had already prepared for the fall of Xiangzhou.

But this does not mean that all the soldiers of the Liao army could be relieved about the loss of Xiangzhou.

As a result, under the comprehensive counterattack of the Zhou army, the Liao army was already retreating step by step.

If Xiangzhou were lost, it would be like they had lost their "home", so how could they fight?
After a long sigh, Yelu Renxian had no choice but to order the entire army to retreat northward.

Wei Yuan, holding Guandao in his hand, rushed in front of the soldiers, frightening some Liao soldiers who were only concerned with fleeing.

Unexpectedly, an arrow shot into his left arm from the chaos.

Fortunately, the armor protected him and the arrow did not penetrate too deep.

Wei Yuan used his skillful force to break the arrow shaft, and without affecting his injury, he continued to lead the army to fight bravely.

About half an hour later, under the command of Yelu Renxian, the Liao army had stabilized its formation and slowly moved northward.

Seeing this scene, Wei Yuan couldn't help but sigh.

"If I saw that the situation was hopeless and led the army to retreat, I would never be so meticulous."

The wounded Shen Qing and Xiao Yuming walked up to Wei Yuan and said one after another:

"General Wei, this is a golden opportunity sent by heaven. I am willing to lead the elite troops to pursue the victory."

"General Wei, you must not let old Yelu escape!"

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Wei Yuan shook his head and said, "Where are the elite soldiers in our army?"

If the fighting continues, the desperate Liao army will probably fight to the death.

By then, it will be hard to say who will win and who will lose.

Besides
Wei Yuan looked down at the scar on his abdomen. A burning pain continued to come, making him feel powerless.

Shen Qing and others looked at the Liao army going further and further away, and suddenly felt regretful.
"If I miss this opportunity, I don't know when I'll have it again."

"As the commander said, our army is no longer able to catch up with the enemy."

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Wei Yuan ordered his soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

Tents, food, and arrows are all supplies that must be collected and checked after every battle.

And then there were those dead bodies.

The bodies of the Liao army were collectively burned.

As for the soldiers of the Great Zhou who died in the battle, they were transported in advance to the tombs that had been prepared for them.

After arranging everything, Wei Yuan finally couldn't bear it anymore, probably due to excessive bleeding, and almost fainted. Fortunately, he was supported by Xiao Yuming.

At this time, Chen Daniu came over and hurriedly asked, "General Wei, are you injured?"

Wei Yuan waved his hand and said, "Don't make it public."

Afterwards, he gave another order: "Daniu, gather the enemy troops and follow me to Linzhang immediately."

Xiao Yuming said: "No, General Wei, you are seriously injured and need to rest well!"

Wei Yuan looked at the wound on his abdomen, frowned slightly and said, "It's OK. Calculating the time, the battle of Linzhang should have already started."

"I must personally supervise the battle and see that our army completely wipes out all the troops under Yelu Xinxian's command!"

"Shen Qing, send someone to inform His Majesty that Xiangzhou has been recovered. Our army fought a field battle with the enemy and won a great victory with fewer troops!"

For the Liao army, the night attack on the Zhou camp was an epoch-making feat.

Because, factors such as early preparedness are not taken into consideration.

This was the only victory in a field battle between the Zhou army and the Liao army where the outnumbered army defeated the larger one.

This must be reported to the imperial court so that everyone can celebrate.

It can also give the people peace of mind.

Shen Qing immediately wrote a victory report and sent it to the capital.

Chen Daniu persuaded Wei Yuan,
"General Wei, I will lead the Slaying Army to Linzhang. Please rest assured, General Wei, as long as Liang Da fights the enemy, I will personally lead the Slaying Army and strike straight into the heart of the enemy!"

Wei Yuan looked at him deeply and said, "The battlefield is changing rapidly. You can take the head of a general in the midst of thousands of troops, but can you command an army?"

Chen Daniu asked back: "General Wei, do you not believe me? I am willing to issue a military order!"

Wei Yuan shook his head. "You just need to answer whether it is possible or not."

Hearing this, Chen Daniu nodded firmly and said, "I can do it!"

Wei Yuan smiled, and seeing a protruding stone beside him, he sat down. After exhaling a breath of foul air, his face became even paler.
"Daniu, go ahead. I'm waiting for your good news."

Chen Daniu was about to clasp his hands and leave.

Wei Yuan couldn't help but remind him again: "Be careful."

Chen Daniu chuckled, "Don't worry, big brother!"

Wei Yuan shook his head helplessly.

Later, he called Xiao Yuming and asked, "How many soldiers do we have left who can fight?"

The latter responded, "There are only 30,000 to 50,000 people who were not injured in this battle. The war has just ended. If we want to take a careful inventory, it will still take an hour or two to figure it out."

Wei Yuan said weakly: "We can't wait that long. You take 50,000 people and march from Fuyang and Cheng'an, and take a detour to Linzhang."

"If we encounter Yelu Renxian's army on the way, we must stop them at all costs. Before the battle of Lin'an is concluded, not a single Liao army can be allowed to enter Linzhang."

Simply put, he wanted to connect Linzhang, Neihuang and other areas into a line, turning this area into a complete death zone.

Yelu Xinxian's army could not get out of here.

No other Liao army could advance further here.

He was going to fight a war of annihilation behind closed doors, the like of which had never been fought since the founding of the Great Zhou.

Xiao Yuming did not dare to hesitate at all and set off immediately.

Wei Yuan was still sitting on the huge rock, watching the soldiers coming and going with a faint smile on his face.

When the soldiers saw him, they bowed their heads respectfully and called him "General Wei".

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was disturbing him, Wei Yuan carefully pulled out the arrow from his left arm, and then simply bandaged it. As the power of the arrow was mostly blocked by the shoulder armor, the tip of the arrow only penetrated the skin, and Wei Yuan thought there was nothing wrong with it.

After a while, perhaps because of Wei Yuan's amazing blood and energy, the wound on his left arm stopped bleeding and seemed to be healing.

At this time, Shen Qing came hurriedly and said, "General Wei, according to your instructions, I have sent someone to deliver the victory report to the court."

Wei Yuan nodded slightly and watched the soldiers coming and going.

Shen Qing looked at Wei Yuan's wound and said worriedly, "General Wei, why don't you go back to the city and recuperate first?"

Wei Yuan shook his head, "No, just sit here for a while, it's fine."

Shen Qing said again: "Then I will go find a doctor."

Wei Yuan shook his head again, "No, those soldiers dare not look at me closely and cannot find my injuries. I am worried that the Liao army will counterattack. Our soldiers do not know that I am injured and their fighting spirit will be high. Even if Yelu Ren counterattacks first, our army will still be able to fight."

Counterattack?

Shen Qing was puzzled and asked, "How is that possible? They retreated and came back again, where is their ambition? Our army."

Before he could finish his words, Wei Yuan interrupted him and said, "Just now I asked Xiao Yuming to lead 50,000 soldiers to Fuyang."

The Fuyang area was the direction in which the Liao army retreated.

Wei Yuan asked Xiao Yuming to lead his army to Fuyang, not to engage in a head-on battle with the Liao army, but to take a detour through Fuyang under the cover of night to prevent Yelu Renxian from supporting the Liao army outside Linzhang city.

"Once we have cleaned up the battlefield and our army returns to Xiangzhou, everything will be fine."

Wei Yuan said.

Shen Qing had no choice but to nod and stand by him.

Wait until you enter Xiangzhou City.

Wei Yuan finally couldn't hold on any longer.

As soon as he walked into the gate of the former Xiangzhou Governor's Mansion, he fainted on the ground.

Seeing this, all the generals of Daizhou were immediately stunned.

"General Wei! General Wei!"

"Doctor, call a doctor!"

"General Wei, wake up——" "."

The entire Zhou army's high-level leadership was suddenly in chaos.

It was not until the doctor stopped Wei Yuan's injuries and gave him some blood-replenishing medicine that his complexion began to improve slightly.

But the high fever persisted.

When the doctor walked out of the room where Wei Yuan was lying, he saw several rough men covered in blood surrounding him.
"How is the commander?"

"Is the commander-in-chief alright?"

"If the commander-in-chief makes any mistake, I will hold you accountable."

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The doctor has been in the army for a long time. What kind of scenes has he not seen?

But these soldiers in front of him were indeed a bit scary.

For a moment, he broke out in a cold sweat and stammered, not knowing how to start.

He was afraid that if he said something wrong, the sabers in the soldiers' hands would fall on his head.

Shen Qing couldn't help but yelled, "Get out of the way, stand aside!"

As soon as the words fell, the soldiers were struck by lightning and hurriedly stood elsewhere.

Shen Qing glared at them fiercely and said:
"Many of you are veterans who have followed General Wei to guard Yanmen Pass. Why are you so impatient?"

After that, he looked at the doctor and bowed, "Sir, Commander Wei, what's going on?"

The doctor exhaled, stroked his beard and frowned, saying: "Marshal Wei is fine for now, but he has a high fever and I don't know when he will wake up."

All right for now?

Shen Qing frowned immediately, and in a hurry, he grabbed the doctor's collar and shouted angrily: "What do you mean by temporarily safe?!"

The doctor seemed to sense pure murderous intent in Shen Qing's eyes, and was immediately frightened.

Seeing this, the surrounding generals surrounded them again and pulled Shen Qing and the doctor apart.

"General Shen, please keep calm."

"General Shen, from what the doctor said, General Wei should be fine."

"General Shen, don't worry, stay calm."

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The doctor broke out in a cold sweat.

Why are all the soldiers under General Wei so reckless?

Shen Qing also realized that he had lost his composure, so he took a deep breath and bowed to the doctor:

"I am in a hurry, I hope the doctor won't blame me."

The doctor quickly responded, "You're welcome, General."

At this moment, Wei Yuan's weak voice rang out from inside the room, "All of you, come in."

The doctor was surprised. "You woke up so soon?"

With that, he rushed into the room for the first time.

Shen Qing and others followed closely behind.

Wei Yuan sat on the bed, looking at everyone with a pale face.
"What are you arguing about? You can't even take a nap."

When Shen Qing and the others saw Wei Yuan wake up, they immediately smiled with joy and bowed together, saying:

"I admit my guilt."

At this time, the doctor came to Wei Yuan and took his pulse.

Wei Yuan still had a high fever.

The doctor frowned and said, "It shouldn't be."

There was a soldier standing behind him, "What shouldn't be done?"

Wei Yuan looked at the doctor.

After a while, the doctor stood up and said,
"General Wei, I have examined your injuries. The bleeding has stopped. I also gave you some blood-replenishing and fever-reducing medicines. However, you still have a high fever. General Wei, are you feeling unwell?"

As a doctor, I shouldn't say these things to my patients.

But the doctor really didn't know the reason. If the high fever was caused by deficiency of qi and blood, the patient should feel better after drinking the medicine.

But now, nothing has improved.

The doctor couldn't help but worry, and wanted Wei Yuan to feel where he felt the most uncomfortable, and then prescribe the right medicine.

The so-called "looking, listening, asking and palpating" means "asking".

Wei Yuan felt some pain in his body, especially the pain in his left arm, which was particularly strange. It felt like there were millions of ants crawling on him, making him itchy and painful.

At first, he just thought that the wound was scarring.

Now that I heard the doctor's question, I told him this.

The doctor asked Wei Yuan to take off his shirt.

Then, he carefully observed the injury on his left arm.

"While General Wei was unconscious, I changed the gauze wrapped around the wound on his left arm and applied some medicinal herbs. I thought he was fine, but as for the itching and pain, let me take a look at it again."

As he was talking, the doctor's pupils suddenly shrank and he exclaimed in shock: "It's poisonous!"

poison?
Shen Qing quickly stepped forward and asked, "What kind of poison?"

The expressions of the soldiers also became tense.

The doctor said, "When I first looked at the wound of the general, I thought the bleeding had stopped and it was no different from an ordinary arrow wound. I didn't expect it to be poisonous!"

A hot-tempered general suddenly asked, "Can you treat illnesses?"

The doctor was startled and said quickly, "Of course it would, but at that time, I saw that there was no poison on the left arm injury, and the blood was stagnant normally. How could I have expected it to be poisonous? This poison...seems to only show up at a certain time!"

Shen Qing frowned, "It's poison!"

bane?!
A Zhou army soldier asked, "The chronic poison water that Empress Xiao of Liao used to poison her lover's wife, Li? Is there really such a miraculous poison in the world?"

"How to solve it?" Wei Yuan asked.

The doctor shook his head and said, "Once the poison takes effect, it will definitely enter the bone marrow. Unless, unless..."

Shen Qing asked anxiously: "Unless what?"

The doctor looked at Wei Yuan and said seriously, "I wonder if Commander Wei has heard about the bone scraping to treat poison?"

Scraping the bone to cure the poison?

hiss!
All the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty gasped.

Among them, a famous Zhou army soldier directly pulled the doctor up.
"Damn it, scraping the bones to cure the poison? How dare you say that? Hurry up and think of a solution, or I'll skin you alive!"

The doctor was trembling, not knowing what to do.

鸠毒
A kind of poison that the Liao army and even the Liao Dynasty were good at using.

People often died in the Liao palace, and this poison was used to poison them.

If it weren't for the armor on Wei Yuan's left arm that blocked most of the power of the arrow, and only a small part of the arrowhead penetrated his skin, Wei Yuan would have died of the poison.

"Those bastards! Damn bastards! I'm going to fight them to the death!"

"What should I do?"

"General Wei."

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All the soldiers were worried about Wei Yuan's safety.

Including Shen Qing.

He has been trying hard to keep his mental state from collapsing.

There were already tears welling up in her eye sockets.

Wei Yuan looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "Be quiet."

Then, everyone looked at Wei Yuan.

Some people's lips were trembling and they were almost crying.

Wei Yuan took a deep breath, looked at the doctor, and said seriously:

"Are you proficient in the method of scraping bones to cure poison?"

The doctor was startled and said, "In previous years, when I followed Marshal Zhang to the battlefield, many soldiers in the camp were injured by poisoned arrows. I did treat them, but only four or five out of ten could survive."

Less than half?
However, for Wei Yuan, there is no way out.
"bring it on."

(End of this chapter)