Zhao Xin did not have any plasters. He brought two individual first-aid kits with him when he set out from the camp. He and Liu Sheng each took one and hung it on the lower right side of the chest of the body armor.
At this time, Li Ji knelt on the ground and screamed in pain. Zhao Xin looked at the wound and saw that there was not much blood flowing out of his cotton pants. So he asked Li Ji to take off half of his pants to expose the wound.
The arrow injury was not serious because the arrow Zhao Xin pulled out had no barbs on the arrowhead, so not much flesh was taken out. Zhao Xin visually measured the depth of the wound at about five or six centimeters (a little over an inch).
So Zhao Xin ordered Lu Shoushan to hold Li Ji's back and stop him from moving. Then he took out the iodophor solution from the first aid kit, poured it on Liji's wound and rinsed it. Then he took out the medical adhesive, squeezed it on the opened skin, and pressed it a few times with his thumb. Finally, he opened the trauma first aid kit. Wrap gauze with hemostatic and anti-inflammatory drugs on the injured area, and then stick it with adhesive tape.
You're done!
"Wait a minute, why do I have the tendency to develop into a medical soldier?" Zhao Xin suddenly thought of this. "That's not possible. Then wouldn't the pair of doctors, nurses and a veterinarian I recruited be in vain? No, no, no. I have to pick them up quickly after this battle."
When Li Ji stood up, Zhao Xin heard the rustling sound in his clothes, so he curiously asked Li Ji what was in his pocket.
Li Ji was afraid that Zhao Xin would blame him, so he was worried and hesitant and slowly took out a handful of bullet casings from his pocket.
"Master, these are all made of copper. It would be a pity to lose them."
Zhao Xin laughed: "Okay, you have a set. It's all installed. I can still use it when I take it back."
Who can sell new bullets if they can be reloaded?
"Oh no, Liji is injured?" Liu Sheng walked over and asked in surprise.
"It's just a minor injury. An arrow hit my butt. Fortunately, the cotton pants are thick enough." Zhao Xin turned around and replied.
"Is there any water? I'm so thirsty." Liu Sheng sat down on the ground, breathing heavily.
The water was in his backpack. Zhao Xin originally wanted to ask Lu Shoushan to get it, but after thinking about it, he decided to go alone. He was afraid that Lu Shoushan would drop the monocular telescope, which he bought on the other side of the ocean for more than 10,000 yuan.
Twenty minutes later, Zhao Xin came back with his backpack, took out a water bottle from the bag and handed it to Liu Sheng.
Lu Shoushan came over and asked, "Master, what should I do with these corpses?"
"Go back and call someone later to bury them all." Zhao Xin sighed.
"Lord!" Sheng Haizhou ran over from behind. Zhao Xin stopped and turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"
"A rough inspection of the bodies of the Qing soldiers showed that there were only eighty of them." Sheng Haizhou said.
"Lu Shoushan, have you counted how many of them there are this morning?" Zhao Xin was stunned and then asked.
"One hundred and one. Elu and I counted it several times and it's not wrong." Lu Shoushan looked into Zhao Xin's eyes and replied affirmatively.
After hearing this, Zhao Xin turned to Liu Sheng beside him and said, "It seems that the Qing soldiers did not come with them."
Liu Sheng nodded, thought for a moment and said, "You can't go directly across the ice. Although it's close, it's easy to be discovered."
After he finished speaking, he immediately raised his head and asked Elu: "You, what is your name?"
"Elu. Mr. Liu." Lu Shoushan quickly answered.
"Oh. Shoushan, you and this Elu have to work hard again. You two go east, north along the seaside, and circle back to our observation point. After finding out the location of the Qing troops..."
Before Liu Sheng finished speaking, Zhao Xin interrupted him: "Are you still waiting for them to come back to report the news? The day lilies are already cold!"
"What do you mean?"
"Aren't the dozen armored soldiers tied up? Leave two of them to guard the prisoners. Anyone who disturbs will be beaten to death. The rest of them will come together! More than eighty armored soldiers have been beaten, and the remaining twenty are quickly eliminated. Drop it." Zhao Xin said without question.
He immediately gave an order to Sheng Haizhou: "Please ask Wan Zao to come over. I have something to tell him. Liji and he will stay behind to guard the prisoners, and the rest of the people will follow."
After a while, Wan Zao, who was called over by Sheng Haizhou, walked over with a gun in one hand and a knife in the other with a happy face.
Zhao Xin told Wan Zao that he and Li Ji would stay and guard the Jia soldiers prisoners together, and the specific disposition would be discussed after he returns. If the prisoner makes any move, shoot him directly.
After hearing this, Wan Zao agreed with a sad face. As this guy walked, his pockets made a rustling sound.
Zhao Xin then ordered everyone to check the magazines and replenish bullets immediately.
As soon as Elu heard from Lu Shoushan that Zhao Xin decided to continue chasing the other armored soldiers, he raised his head and looked around. He walked to the slope of the river bank, picked out four or five majestic horses from the horses that had escaped to the river bank, and brought them back.
After returning, Elu began to unload the bag containing the bow and arrow from the saddle, and then took it off a dead leader and put it on his body, and then hung a saber on his waist.
Zhao Xin looked at Elu's movements, and then his eyes lit up. He immediately asked Lu Shoushan and Pan Xiucheng to fetch some more horses.
"It's good to have horses! Otherwise, we would have to travel more than ten miles from here in the valley to the armored landing point in the north."
Zhao Xin thought so while swinging on his horse.
More than forty minutes later.
Zhao Xin and others came to the back of a small hill, and Elu was sent to investigate. This is only one kilometer away from the observation post he set up.
"This piece of shit is so uncomfortable." Liu Sheng, who wanted to experience what it felt like to wear cotton armor, finally couldn't bear it and tore it off from his body and threw it on the horse's back.
"Take it back and change it so that it can be worn by Sheng Haizhou and the others. This cotton armor is quite thick, but it is too heavy." Zhao Xin took off his helmet and moved his neck.
There was nothing to do, so Zhao Xin asked Liu Sheng, "That set of general armor is pretty good, why don't you keep it?"
"No, that thing is too ostentatious to wear. It's like a light bulb in the crowd." Liu Sheng shook his head.
Zhao Xin rolled his eyes and had another crooked idea. Then he said: "After cleaning the battlefield, take them away. We will sell these things to the islanders in the spring."
Liu Sheng squinted at the cotton armor on Zhao Xin's body and said disdainfully: "Can an island country want this?"
Zhao Xin said proudly: "If you don't believe me, make a bet. I will definitely grab it."
The two continued to joke quietly for a while, then heard the sound of running from dozens of meters away, and then stopped talking.
Erlu is back. He walked up to Zhao Xin, knelt down on one knee and talked to Zhao Xin for a long time. Zhao Xin rolled his eyes. I think Chinese classes will continue to be held, and the dream of having everyone memorize tongue twisters has not yet been realized.
Elu finished speaking in one breath, took off the water bag from his waist and took a sip.
Lu Shoushan saw that he had finished speaking, and then said to Zhao Xin: "Sir, he said that he just went to see there. There were two soldiers on guard, and the rest were resting in the woods. Oh, there are two leaders leading the team. Elu He said that he alone could bring down the two armored soldiers on sentry duty."
After Zhao Xin heard this, he turned to Liu Sheng and asked, "What's your opinion?"
Liu Sheng shook his head and said, "This won't work. Shoushan, ask him to draw the positions of the Qing soldiers on the ground."
After Elu listened, he thought carefully for a while, and then drew the positions of all the armored soldiers on the snow.
Liu Sheng watched Elu finish the painting, raised his head and asked him: "Are you sure what you painted is accurate?"
Elu just nodded and said nothing.
"That's it..." Liu Sheng lowered his head and looked at it carefully for a while, and then expressed his thoughts.
Liu Sheng asked Elu, Lu Shoushan and Pan Xiucheng to serve as bait and take on the task of luring the enemy. He asked Erlu not to shoot the two sentries to death, but to wound them, which would attract the armored soldiers in the forest to come out to rescue them.
After attracting the attention of the armored soldier, Sheng Haizhou and the five men moved west and covered the armored soldier from the south, shooting the armored soldier twenty meters away.
As for Zhao Xin and himself, they went around to the north side of the sentry position, shot and rescued the armored soldiers from a distance, and gradually moved westward to cut off the northward escape route of the Qing soldiers.
After Zhao Xin listened, he immediately issued orders to everyone according to Liu Sheng's ideas, and asked everyone to repeat their respective tasks under Liu Sheng's reminder.
Immediately, Elu and the other three people began to move forward to lure the enemy.
Thirty minutes later, Elu and three others, who were very careful with every step they took on the snow, quietly hid behind a dead and fallen tree.
After waiting for a while, Elu stood up and looked around to confirm where the sentinel was standing. Then he bent down, slowly took out a plum blossom needle arrow from the bag at his waist and set it up.
Then, he stood up suddenly, and when the armored soldier turned around with the spear in hand and the back of his right hand facing him, he raised his hand and shot towards him, and then immediately lay down.
"Bang~" a bowstring sounded, and the palm of the armored soldier's right hand had been pierced by an arrow. He screamed and then stopped, turned around and hid behind a tree.
"Thieves are attacking!" Another sentry immediately dodged and hid behind a big tree, shouting into the woods to the west.
Just a moment after he finished speaking, more than ten long arrows flew out from the forest and flew over the heads of Elu and the other three.
The sound of armor clothes shaking came and went, and more than a dozen armored soldiers rushed over. They did not charge directly, but hid behind the trees and continued to fire arrows in the direction pointed by the sentry.
Although the Qing soldiers only shot one or two arrows at a time, as soon as the three of Elu and the others showed their heads, several arrows were shot at them immediately. The whizzing sound of arrows in the forest didn't stop for a moment.
After Elu and the three of them probed several times to attract the attention of the Qing soldiers, they found that there were already more than a dozen long arrows stuck in the big tree lying down, and they were all deeply pierced into the wood.
Lu Shoushan and Pan Xiu became the soldiers' attention, lying behind a tree and shouting curses in Manchu to annoy each other.
At this time, Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng were hiding behind two big trees. Zhao Xin was no better than Liu Sheng. He lay on the ground and held the gun with his backpack. Seeing that the firepower of the Qing soldiers was shooting at Elu and the three of them, he found the Jia soldiers at the back and started firing at them.
Several bullets whizzed through the woods. After hearing this, the armored soldiers looked up to the sky in surprise.
"What's the sound? Is it a bird?" a soldier asked quietly.
"I've never heard this kind of bird call." Another armored soldier said.
"What is that?" The armored soldier who asked asked carefully recalled in his mind which beasts could make such a sound.
"Pfft." An armored soldier ten steps away behind him suddenly fell to the ground.
"Narbu." The armored soldier suddenly turned around, looked at him strangely for a while, and then called out the other person's name softly.
"Narb?" The armored soldier who fell on the ground still didn't respond after being called a second time.
The soldier who called him felt bad when he saw that the other party still didn't respond, so he turned around and ran over.
He found a large stream of blood slowly flowing out from under his companion, and then probed the other person's mouth and nose.
"Narb is dead!" he shouted, turning his companion's body over with force. I saw a bloody hole the size of a finger on the opponent's back heart, and the blood flowed out from here.
The armored soldier suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhao Xin's position as if aware of it. Just as he was about to speak, he felt a chill in his throat, and he couldn't help but raise his hand to touch his neck. The whistling sounded again, and streams of blood began to pour out of the armored soldier's mouth. Then he bowed his head weakly and fell to the ground, unable to stand up again.
Immediately afterwards, there was a "tacking" sound from the south of the group of armored soldiers. Several armored soldiers were horrified to see a burst of debris exploding from the big tree next to them, and then they saw an explosion appearing on the big tree. A small pit.
Just when a soldier was about to shout "witchcraft", he found that there were not many companions still standing around him.
The armored soldier, whose legs were trembling with fear brought by the whistling and silence, was about to turn around and run to find his horse, when a long arrow was shot from behind him, hitting his back center.
The fallen armored soldier got up dizzy, and when he was about to continue running forward, a small man in a dark cotton robe turned out from behind a big tree more than ten steps away, with the helmet hanging on his head. He was shaking, holding a strange iron object in his hands and pointing it at himself.
Two gunshots rang out, and the armored soldier immediately lay on the ground motionless, and blood quickly flowed out from under his body.
(According to the "Hunchun Deputy Commander's Yamen Manchu Archives", the Eight Banners Manchu garrison officers and soldiers had very strict training requirements for bow and arrow skills. Because the old Manchu customs were mainly based on bows and horses, in the early and mid-Qing Dynasty, the garrison officers and soldiers were required to have these two skills. Skill level is particularly important.
Hunchun City has special martial arts performance halls and archery halls for regular drills, and large-scale reviews are held every spring and autumn.
The requirements for the assessment of bows and arrows are that during the assessment, each soldier shoots five arrows at a target a hundred paces away. Those who can hit three or more arrows on the target are considered first-class, and those who hit two arrows are qualified. Ten soldiers form a team, and if the number of qualified people in each team reaches seven, merit will be recorded; if there are only five qualified people but three of them are first-class, the merits and demerits will be offset; if the number of qualified people reaches five and no first-class or less than five people are qualified, the merit will be recorded. Then the officers of the squad will report to the Ministry of War for dismissal, and the soldiers will be severely punished; if there is no improvement after one year, all officers and soldiers of the squad will be dismissed and punished. )
