incense as a medium

Chapter 76 Artillery
Zhang Ting already understood what Qi Peiyun wanted to say, and he went on to say: "Such an obvious scheme of framing and sowing dissension is too simple. I'm afraid those Han people were bought by others to send them to death. Put the blame on us Han people, don’t say what will happen in the future, just now, we can’t get out of the Altai region.”

"Who the hell is so vicious!" The princess hugged her son Araya tightly with an angry face.

Qi Peiyun pointed to the corpses on the ground, and said: "It's very simple, just start with them."

Tatars will tattoo their tribal totems on their bodies since they were young. The totems of each tribe are different. Since these people are Tatars, it is easy to distinguish them.

Hearing this, Huck strode over to the corpse, and quickly opened the skirt of the corpse. There were no tattoos on his chest, nor were his arms cut off. Huck and the princess looked at each other, turned over the corpse, and pulled the clothes down. , On the shoulders of the corpse, there is the totem of the prisoner bull, one of the nine sons of the dragon!
Qi Peiyun's eyes flashed, and a plan had already formed in his mind. He pointed to the captive cow totem and said, "Who did this, don't I need to say more?"

The concubine recovered from the shock, nodded, and said, "But, why is he..."

Qi Peiyun drew a simple topographical map on the table with his finger dipped in water, smiled wretchedly, and said: "Now the soldiers and horses of all tribes have been taken to Yongkang Pass by Damo Khan of the Dayan tribe to besiege the city. To break the siege of Yongkang Pass, I will definitely send troops to attack. If I were Damo, I would definitely let other tribes go up first. First, I won’t consume my own strength. Second, waiting for the victory to return, is a tribe without the protection of men? Let others bully?"

The princess trembled all over, frightened and frightened.

After all, Huck understood a little bit, and asked, "Why did you still kill the princess?"

Qi Peiyun stopped explaining and turned to Zhang Ting.

Zhang Ting said with a smile: "This is to divert hatred. Damo had a very good idea. On the one hand, he weakened the power of the tribes, and on the other hand, he sent people to assassinate the heirs of the tribes and plant them on the Han people. Who would hold him accountable for using the tribal warriors as a shield? It would be more logical for him to accept the tribes, and you will even be more grateful to him, work for him, hate the Han people even more, and regard the Han people as your lifelong enemies."

Zhang Ting's explanation shocked everyone.

"I'll wipe it!" Shi Ce cursed, and said nothing more after that.

Wu Zeng said angrily: "Kill back!"

Although the princess was terrified, she was different from ordinary women. After the initial shock, she had already thought of some of these questions. She asked, "Then besides our Altai tribe, will other tribes be attacked?"

Qi Peiyun nodded and said, "It's possible that the nearby tribe is the Khakass tribe. It's best for the princess to send someone over to take a look."

"Okay, I'll send someone there right now!" The princess nodded, and then gave Huck a series of orders in Tatar.

Qi Peiyun has been walking here for a long time, and he can understand the Tatar language. He listened to the order of the princess, and he nodded secretly, but he didn't lose his head in a hurry.

Huck went out to order soldiers, and Qi Peiyun couldn't sit here for a long time, so he left with Zhang Ting and others.

A few people had just lifted the curtain, and a group of people came galloping not far away with knives in hand.

Huck was startled, and said, "Hakas's people!"

***
It's been a month.

Liu Bailu pinched the needle and thread and glanced out the window.The food reserves in the city were already running out half a month ago. Lord Du "borrowed" food from the wealthy households of the grain merchants by means of a thunderbolt. Every day, at Si and Xu, the eight porridge sheds set up in the city put out food.

Now even the magistrate's government has to bring food from there.Five days ago, the sticky porridge turned into thin porridge. I believe that I will be drinking clear soup with few grains of rice in a short time.

The soldiers in the city have suffered heavy casualties these days. Now not only the outside, but even the magistrate's mansion has been requisitioned as a place for the wounded to recuperate. The courtyard where they lived was reserved for the wounded.

Du Shuang got up, added a bowl of tea, and said, "Probably in a few days, we are going to take care of the wounded."

The servants in the magistrate's mansion were all taking care of the wounded, helping to bandage the wounds and feeding medicine, even Qi Pei'an was called to help.

Liu Bailu took a look at Du Shuang and asked, "I'm afraid it's not good for you to go out to take care of the wounded before you get engaged?"

Du Shuang said indifferently: "I grew up in Yongkangguan, and I have already adapted to the life here. If I were to go to the capital or go south to various parts of Zhongzhou, I'm afraid I would not get used to it. My mother didn't even think about giving it to me." I'll pick a scholarly family to marry, so I don't care if I don't keep the etiquette."

Liu Bailu opened his mouth in surprise, and then closed it after a while, but, if the man and woman can't kiss each other, they really have to go by themselves when the time comes, what should they do?

While thinking about it, there was the sound of gongs and drums outside. Liu Bailu and Du Shuang were stunned and listened carefully: "The Tartars are attacking the city! The Tartars are attacking the city! Brothers, take up your swords and guns to defend your homeland! Your wives and children!"

These days, whenever the Tatars attack the city, there will be such sounds of gongs, drums and mobilization, but this time it is very different.

Du Shuang frowned and said to Liu Bailu, "I'm afraid it's a general attack this time."

"How to say?" Liu Bailu put down her needle and thread, and asked while supporting the table with trembling hands.

"Didn't you listen to the outside? It was just a reminder to siege the city before, but now it's asking people to pick up knives and guns. This is..." Du Shuang didn't continue, but looked out the window.

Liu Bailu also looked out, the glazed windows were extraordinarily bright, gunpowder smoke was rising from the direction of the city gate in the distance, and the hum of siege equipment could be heard very clearly.

"boom!"

The ground under his feet trembled three times, Liu Bailu looked at Du Shuang, and seeing her pale face, he couldn't help asking: "What is this?"

"Cannon." Du Shuang licked her lips, and said, "It's the cannons for defending the city. Each cannon only has one hundred shells. Once it's fired, it's gone."

Just as I was talking, there were several "bang, bang, bang" sounds outside, and the windows of the colored glaze rattled. I don't know how many times the colored glaze was shattered with a "bang", and the crystal clear colored glaze was scattered. A kang, but no one thought about it.

Du Shuang was completely stunned: "Listen to this movement, probably not only our artillery, where did the Tatars get the artillery from!"

"Quick! Rescue the wounded!" Madam Du's voice came from afar. Not long after, Madam Du broke in, took a look at Liu Bailu, and pulled Du Shuang up: "Come help me!"

"Alas!" Du Shuang responded, followed Mrs. Du and went out.

Liu Bailu hesitated for a moment, left the embroidery and followed quickly.

Gunpowder smoke filled the distance, and the lingering smell of blood floated in the air.

Liu Bailu followed Du Shuang to the next yard, and the wounded were brought in continuously. She only took one look, then covered her mouth and turned her head away, retching several times.

Seeing this, Du Shuang turned her head and patted her on the back, and said softly, "These are all wounded by artillery, you have to persevere, there will be more wounded like this in a while."

"Come and help!" Madam Du shouted from inside the room.

Liu Bailu turned his eyes and saw that Mrs. Du, who was usually gentle and gentle, was acting vigorously and resolutely at this time, and she was not inferior to Sister Lin's sharp and sharp vigor.

Taking a look at the wounded man who just brought in with a broken leg, Liu Bailu gave Du Shuang a hand and said, "I'm fine, let's go in."

The original wounded in this yard were moved to the reverse room, all the tables, chairs and benches in the main room were put away, thick mattresses were spread on the floor, and when the wounded were brought in, they were carried into the inner room under Madam Du's command. In just a quarter of an hour, the inner room had already slowed down the wounded, and then the nave was also full.

Mrs. Du glanced at the wounded, and said to Du Shuang, "I'll leave this place to you. I'll go to another place to have a look. Your yard will have to be vacated soon."

"Yes, my daughter understands, don't worry." Du Shuang nodded.

Liu Bailu looked at Du Shuang and said in surprise, "That's your boudoir!"

Du Shuang's pretty eyes turned cold, and said: "The city is about to collapse, so what's the use of the boudoir?"

Liu Bailu closed his mouth and followed Du Shuang into the inner room.

The flashy canopy beds had already been moved out and replaced with single bed boards. Five beds were lined up neatly, and six wounded people lay side by side on the kang next to it, squeezing one kang to the brim.

Du Shuang glanced at the wall, and saw that the wounded on the beds over there had been taken care of. She lifted her skirt, jumped onto the kang, walked along the edge of the kang to the middle, and turned her head to see Liu Bailu still standing on the edge of the kang , frowned and said: "What are you still doing? Come up and help!"

"Oh." Liu Bailu responded, but didn't know how to get up. Standing on the edge of the kang, he watched Du Shuang's foot lightly lifted and placed it under the wounded man's leg.

Du Shuang glanced at Liu Bailu who was not moving, then lowered her head to pat the wounded man's face: "Wake up, wake up, do you know where you are?"

"Master Du's home." The wounded man opened his slack eyes and murmured.

Du Shuang nodded, took out a pair of scissors out of nowhere, and said, "Your leg is injured, I'm going to cut your clothes and bandage you up now, please bear with it."

"En." The wounded replied in a low voice, and closed his eyes again.

Liu Bailu stared wide-eyed as Du Shuang swiftly cut off the trouser legs of the wounded and pulled them to the sides, exposing the bloody thighs blasted by shell fragments.

The blood was gushing out, and the flesh of the wound was rolled up, revealing the criss-crossing meridians inside. What was frightening was that the wound was not just one, but more than a dozen in that palm-sized place!And the wounded man didn't say a word.

Not to mention him, even the room full of wounded people, there were not many people crying for their parents and mothers in pain, but occasionally there was a muffled groaning sound, which was a sound that was just uttered just now because it was really unbearable.

"Water!" Du Shuang said without raising her head.

Liu Bailu turned her eyes and saw that there were all the medicine and water for wounds on the bedside table. She quickly put a cotton cloth on a basin of water and carried it to the bedside.

(End of this chapter)