The hot air balloon began to slowly descend.
Ado screamed in the basket, reminding everyone to be careful and to take the drop point outside the camp.
After the enemy retreated, the medical officer started a fire and boiled water in the camp to prepare for the diagnosis and treatment of the wounded. The surface of the hot air balloon is made of raw paint, which is most likely to catch fire. If it gets a little spark, it takes a lot of effort to slowly make the balloon, which is regarded as a treasure by countless teenagers, but it will be scrapped.
At that moment, everyone gathered together laughing and pulling the rope out.
This big thing seems easy to take off, but difficult to control when it falls. Dozens of people were holding on to the thick ropes, but they were dragged so hard that they could no longer stand. From a distance, they looked like a giant centipede writhing on the ground.
When the balloon slowly fell to the ground, Ado climbed out of the box, wiping his sweat. Everyone stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, chest or back. Zheng Rui's strike was particularly heavy, making a squeaking sound on A Duo's body, making him stagger and scream in pain, but he couldn't help but grin.
Everyone understands that in this scene just now, this boy from Bohai actually saved everyone's lives. And the risk he took was no less than anyone else.
Because the savages were attacking from the outside, the preparations for taking off the hot air balloon were not proper. The rope that was supposed to be tied to the rock was held in the hands of several scribes and wrapped around their waists, and the fuel Ado brought to the balloon was only a bag of coal... which wouldn't last long.
If strong winds blow while the balloon is in the air, the balloon will be in danger whether it floats into the forest or the sea, and the only passenger will be in danger. And if the balloon starts to fall but the savage does not retreat, Ado is likely to fall directly into the surroundings of hundreds or thousands of enemies, and may be chopped into pieces in an instant.
Only this time he decided that after returning to Laizhou, he would at least show his merits.
Until dusk, the old man Hu who had retreated with the savages did not come back. Zheng Rui was a little worried and suggested that he return to the Hue Camp in the north before it gets dark and make plans.
But Li Yun decided to continue setting up camp here and keep it brightly lit.
Late at night, he inspected the battlefield holding a torch made of herbs. Everywhere in the beach was filled with the smell of blood, and tens of millions of mosquitoes that were as big as Hu Feng flew in from nowhere, making a terrifying flapping sound like dark clouds flying among the grass.
Most of the wounded wild Jurchens who were left behind were already dead at this time, and only seven or eight of them with extremely strong vitality were still moaning vaguely.
Li Yun went around twice more and picked out a few savages whose limbs were injured but seemed to be salvageable. He dragged them to the ground and pulled them to a depression outside the camp.
When he first started, the savages struggled fiercely and looked very frightened.
But there are also calm ones.
There was a man whose wrist was cut off. He might have fainted before, but he just woke up now. He was talking loudly, trying his best to comfort his companions, and even managed to get up and follow Li Yun staggeringly, trying to Let Li Yun see the smile on his face.
Li Yun turned around and returned to the camp, and then asked the medical officer who had been busy for a long time to give them simple treatment.
Although this fighting was due to a misunderstanding, after all, several people on our own side also died, and the murderous nature of the soldiers was still there. The medical officer was not very happy with this order. He gave them medicine with a tigerish face, bandaged them roughly, turned around and left.
The soldiers in the camp took out iron pots and baked multigrain pancakes. Several soldiers jumped shirtless into the stream to catch fish and were discussing how to eat them.
Li Yun came back with two pancakes, broke each one in half, and placed them next to the savages.
It’s not that he’s stingy. When the Mongolian army threatened Zhongdu, a multi-grain pancake like this could be sold for a hundred yuan, and a pancake represented the life of a person or even several members of a family.
The savages in front of me probably had a similar life.
Although the land around Hesihan Pass is fertile and productive, the winters in the northeastern hinterland are really terrible. The annual snowstorms and cold waves are enough to kill many people. Li Yun could see that the bodies of these savages were very strong, but they were obviously the result of overdrafting their vitality under the hard life. They were completely different from the soldiers under Ding Haijun who were well fed, clothed, and trained hard.
When Li Yun was serving in Northern Xinjiang, he saw with his own eyes that many soldiers who were originally strong and fierce quickly became weak as soon as they reached the age of thirty, and then various diseases suddenly broke out. Within three to five years, they turned from living people into walking corpses. Then die.
These wild Jurchens in front of them are ten times a hundred times more ignorant than the warriors in Northern Xinjiang, and their living environment is even worse than that in Northern Xinjiang. They struggled like wild beasts in the deep mountains. If they wanted to live to be thirty, they would probably have to be very lucky.
The savage with a broken arm held a pancake and leaned over to express his thanks.
In the night, his wild hair and beard half-hidden his pale face, making him look like a ghost.
Li Yun waved to him and returned to camp to rest.
Everyone worked very hard on this day. Except for the soldiers who were on guard duty, the camp soon fell into silence.
Early the next morning, the sentry reported that two of the wounded savages placed outside were dead, and several others were missing.
At noon, the big dog in the camp started barking. The child took the big dog with him, got up and ran wildly out, without even a few sentries stopping him.
It was that old man Hu who came back with dozens of people.
The child ran over and hugged him, laughing loudly.
Old Man Hu washed his face and tied his hair again. He looked very energetic. He also put on a very shabby but clean robe.
Most of the dozens of people following him were old. Just by looking at their age, you knew they must be the leaders of the savages. There was a young man with a thick bandage on his arm. He was the man with a broken arm who was rescued by the medical officer.
Li Yun greeted them seriously and stood in front of the savage leaders.
There was no guard around him, but no one among the savages dared offend him. The people in the front row pushed each other twice, and then someone from behind dragged out a simple frame made of branches. Placed on the frame were the subordinates of Li Yun who died in the forest yesterday.
The appearance of the corpses was naturally very tragic, but it could be seen that someone had tried to clean the corpses. The clothes had been stripped off and then put on again, and the weapons and belongings that were carried with them were placed on the frame.
Li Yun nodded and waved for the soldiers to come up and collect the bodies.
Ado also came up. Several sharp-sighted savages recognized Ado and shouted a few words. Dozens of them lay on the ground in fear and stopped motionless.
A Duo was a little stunned.
His brain is really not working very well. At the moment, he only remembers that he raised the hot air balloon yesterday and sang a drama in Bohai dialect on the hot air balloon.
It's too late to take out the balloons now, but you can sing a few lines.
So he cleared his throat and inhaled heavily.
"No, no need." Li Yun advised: "Aduo, just bring the body of your comrade back with everyone."
Ado walked back angrily.
Li Yun said loudly: "From today on, we will set up camps and ranches here. If you are a friend, you can come to work in the ranch. We will give him food and other good things. If you are an enemy, then Keep fighting! The gods will watch us, and if one of us dies, we will take a hundred of your lives to compensate!"
The savages didn't seem to care about Li Yun's threat. On the contrary, they looked forward to the good things Li Yun said. So Li Yun asked the soldiers to carry some clothes and food out.
Compared with these savage tribes, the Ding Navy has much richer supplies, and Li Yun is fully confident that he can quickly close the distance between the two sides. Then, starting with these savages, we can close the distance with many tribes in the northeastern hinterland.
When the savage leaders raised their hands and cheered around these supplies, Li Yun asked Old Man Hu: "Where are you, old man? What do you want?"
The old man sat comfortably on the ground and pushed the child in front of Li Yun: "I can stay here, but my grandson has to go to Shandong. He has to live a good life and preferably still study."
"no problem."
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