I rode and slashed unparalleled in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 897: Sword Pointing to Shouchun
"Fuck!"

"Why is the general here?!"

"Wasn't he just over there with Minato?!"

Seeing Su Yao's chasing figure, the remaining Liang Gang troops on the shore suddenly let out panicked cries.

It turned out that Su Yao burned the warships that were blocking the door, and immediately moved his position after seeing that the enemy's morale was completely low.

He whistled, and the White Dragon Stallion he bought from the system mall, the Night-Shining Jade Lion, suddenly neighed and ran towards him from behind him.

In this way, Su Yao rode his horse directly on the wall of the village, hacking and killing the fleeing enemies on the wall along the way, and won the honor of being the first to land.

Knowing the principle of capturing the leader first, Su Yao did not get entangled with the miscellaneous soldiers after landing. He raised his head to glance in the direction of Liang Gang's flag, and then rode his horse to chase after him.

Su Yao rode his horse and killed people all the way, setting fires as he killed them. Soon the beach was a sea of ​​fire.

Upon seeing this, Liang Gang's face turned pale as paper, his legs became weak and he could barely stand. The soldiers around him were so frightened that they dropped their weapons and fled in all directions.

"Stop him! Stop him quickly!" Liang Gang shouted hysterically, even his voice changed tone.

However, his shouting did not bring much help. The army was defeated and collapsed. The fleeing soldiers did not believe that Su Yao was the only one behind them. They were afraid that if they delayed, they would be crushed by the army, so they scattered like birds and beasts.

Seeing that he was powerless to save the situation, Liang Gang hurriedly abandoned his army and fled on horseback.

However, how could his mount compare to Su Yao’s Night-Shining Jade Lion?
I saw a horse galloping over, advancing rapidly in the formation. In just over a quarter of an hour, it had arrived behind Liang Gang and was about to catch up with him.

"Captain Liang, be careful!"

The loyal captain of the personal guards shouted and immediately turned his horses around with more than ten personal guards, trying to stop Su Yao.

"Go away!"

With a loud shout, Su Yao swung his sword, first chopping down two people, then threw the weapon to kill one, then he pulled and yanked, and got a spear in his hand.

Immediately afterwards, the gun in Su Yao's hand shot out like a dragon, piercing three more people in an instant.

This set of operations was dazzling. The remaining soldiers had no time to react. They only saw a flash of cold light and fell off their horses one after another.

Liang Gang heard a scream behind him and looked back. He saw Su Yao riding his horse at full speed. He stabbed the captain of the personal guards to death and rushed over on the corpse.

Liang Gang was so frightened that he shouted, "Spare my life! General, spare my life!"

Before he finished his words, a cold light flashed, and Liang Gang was pierced through the body by a huge force. He was thrown high into the air like a kite with a broken string and fell to the ground.

"The enemy general is dead, who else dares to fight?!"

Su Yao lifted up Liang Gang's corpse with his spear, the sound shook the whole area, and in the light of the fire, it was like the god of war descending to the earth.

The fleeing soldiers of Yuan Shu's army were terrified when they saw this scene, and they all knelt down and begged for mercy:

"General, please spare our lives. We are willing to surrender. We are willing to surrender!"

As Liang Gang surrendered, the defenders of the water fort completely collapsed and could no longer put up any resistance. They either knelt on the ground begging for mercy and waiting to be recruited, or dropped their weapons and fled into the night, never to be seen again. In the end, only one in ten of them escaped to Shouchun.

Compared with the army's rout, their navy's losses were even more severe.

Of Yuan Shu's nearly 800 main warships in Shouchun, almost all were burned down by fire, except for a few that surrendered to Guan Yu with white flags.

The fierce fire burned for a whole night, reducing Yuan Shu's carefully built water fort to ashes and destroying all his naval forces.

The next morning, when the first rays of sunlight shone on the Huai River, Su Yao was already standing on the ruins of the water fort. Generals such as Taishi Ci and Guan Yu came to report.

"Reporting to the General, our army has won a great victory!"

Guan Yu clasped his fists and said:
"According to preliminary statistics from this battle, we captured more than 100 enemy ships, killed more than 4,000 enemy soldiers, and captured more than 6,000. Our casualties were less than 1,000."

Su Yao nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, order the entire army to cross the river as soon as possible, and set out immediately after half a day's rest, and follow me to Shouchun!" "Yes!"

All the generals responded in unison and immediately commanded the troops on the shore to clean up the battlefield.

Although they have won a great victory, the army needs a suitable venue to cross the river, especially for supply and equipment loading and unloading. It does not mean that they can immediately teleport down to the other side after fighting here.

Therefore, the primary task of these vanguard troops at the moment is to clean up a piece of land next to the ruins of the water fort that is suitable for quickly clearing a large area for the army to cross the river and load and unload supplies.

Under the command of the generals, the soldiers took action. Some were responsible for dragging the wreckage of the burned warships and piling them up on the shore to make room for subsequent cleanup work. Others leveled the land on the river beach and filled the potholes with hoes, shovels and other tools to ensure that vehicles and supplies could pass smoothly.

At the same time, military doctors were busy treating the injured soldiers.

This is also a point that makes Su Yao's army very different from the armies of other princes, that is, Su Yao's army is equipped with more and more professional military doctors of the same era.

For example, although it cannot be said that there were no medical officers in the armies of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, most of them only had some knowledge of medicine, and their numbers were extremely limited. There could not even be one medical officer among thousands of people.

This is not only due to the technical characteristics of the doctor's profession, but also because of the relatively low status of doctors in the Han Dynasty.

Among those who can read and write, few are willing to become doctors.

As a result, during the Han Dynasty, the status of doctors was not as good as that of alchemists. They were directly classified as "workers" in the class of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans. Their existence mostly relied on hereditary inheritance and a small amount of master-apprentice teaching, and the development of medicine was extremely slow.

This was also the social basis for the great and virtuous teacher Zhang Jue to mobilize a large number of refugees to rebel simply by adding some herbal talismans to the water.

In the Han Dynasty, ordinary people had to rely on their immune systems to survive when they got sick. Even wealthy families and high-ranking officials often had difficulties in seeking medical treatment.

The late Eastern Han Dynasty was an era when wars and diseases broke out frequently.

Su Yao was also very clear about this. Epidemics often killed more people than direct wars.

If he wanted peace in the world, in addition to suppressing it with force, he also had to solve the problem of frequent outbreaks of plague among the people.

Therefore, after he came to power, developing the medical profession became his top priority after war and the economy.

In addition to adding medical subjects to the imperial examinations, selecting famous doctors, and improving the treatment and status of doctors, Su Yao also opened a large clinic and a medical school in Luoyang city.

Not only did imperial physicians sit in the clinic every day to diagnose the common people, they also recruited many disciples to teach them medical knowledge.

Thanks to the various deaths caused by the plague in recent years, many scholars like Zhang Zhongjing have developed the ambition to become doctors. When they saw that the general attached so much importance to medicine, they immediately realized that this was a powerful way to advance their careers, different from reading the books of sages.

As a result, it didn't take long before the Imperial Medical College was full.

In response to this encouraging situation, Su Yao specially transferred Zhang Zhongjing to work with the Imperial Hospital to compile a simple and easy-to-understand "barefoot doctor" medical skills.

The above does not delve into the principles, but only provides clear and easy-to-use treatment methods for epidemics, common headaches, fevers, surgical trauma, sword injuries, etc., quickly trains a group of medical talents who can be used in practice, and then directly puts them into the army participating in the war, allowing them to grow in actual combat.

At this moment, these military doctors immediately ordered the soldiers to set up temporary tents, carry the wounded on stretchers, and begin emergency treatment.

Even Su Yao himself joined in while waiting for the army to land, using his medical skills to save lives and heal the wounded.

"Hey, General, why are you here?"

"This is not a place for a noble like you to stay!"

When the military doctors saw Su Yao in person, they saluted in fear.

"Don't stop, just pretend I'm not here."

Su Yao waved his hand and said:
"Human lives are at stake, and veterans are an army's most valuable asset. We must heal them at all costs."

After saying that, Su Yao found a person who was lying nearby and twitching from time to time, and who the military doctor could not take care of for the time being, and started to diagnose and treat him directly.

Thanks to the efforts of Su Yao and the doctors, a large number of soldiers who might have died of infection after previous battles survived and became a help in the future, and the morale of the entire army was greatly boosted.

In contrast, Shouchun City had just received news from the front and was instantly plunged into a cloud of misery.
(End of this chapter)