Outside Deng County, inside the Han army camp.
Kou Feng led 20,000 mediocre soldiers to the Nanyang battlefield, and joined forces with Guan Ping's troops and stationed them outside Deng County.
The arrival of Kou Feng was not what Guan Ping and Xu Shu thought. It was reasonable for Kou Feng to really want to take over the command right from the beginning.
In terms of official positions, Kou Feng is the highest one in the army today, except for Guan Yu and Xu Shu.
In terms of qualifications, Kou Feng has been guarding one side all year round and has experience in commanding large armies.
Now that Guan Yu is seriously injured and unable to go into battle, it makes perfect sense for Kou Feng, as a high-ranking and senior general, to replace Guan Ping in commanding the entire army.
But Kou Feng didn't do this.
This was beyond the expectations of Xu Shu and Guan Ping. Kou Feng did not realize that he was actually qualified to become the commander-in-chief of an army.
Kou Feng, I guess, sometimes has a mixed personality and is quite soft-spoken, but he has one good thing, that is, he is very affectionate.
When he was in Xinye, Kou Feng recognized two people as his eldest brothers, one was Zhang Xi and the other was Guan Ping. Now that he met Guan Ping, Kou Feng never thought that his official position was much higher than Guan Ping. A word of "big brother" settled the matter.
This time, Xu Shu and Guan Ping felt a bit embarrassed. Seeing Kou Erha's "I'll do whatever you tell me" attitude on his face, the two of them felt that they were the villains.
Now that the issue of command authority was no longer controversial, Guan Ping was not polite and directly led the army to attack Deng County.
As for Guan Yu, Kou Feng also paid homage to Guan Yu.
After all, he was considered a senior general, and it was not appropriate to hide Guan Yu's injury from Kou Feng, so Kou Feng still saw Guan Yu resting on the bed with Guan Yinping staring at him.
Without saying a few words, Kou Feng said goodbye and left. After all, in Kou Feng's opinion, Guan Yu could still talk to him seriously, which meant that Guan Yu's injury was not serious.
In other words, Kou Feng grew up hearing rumors about Guan Yu's invincibility. He really had no idea that Guan Yu would be defeated by this injury.
Deng Ai was also filled with emotion when he saw this. This uncle of his, really, has the advantage of being big-hearted.
As Kou Feng paid his respects to Guan Yu and left with a relaxed expression, he gave the lieutenants the illusion that "the general's injuries were unharmed."
After all, everyone knows that Kou Feng is not a person who can hide things. He left so easily, which only shows that Guan Yu's injury is not serious.
Maybe, after a few days, after Deng County is captured, Guan Junhou can lead everyone to continue attacking Wancheng.
But in fact, Guan Yu's injury began to become more serious.
In the middle of the night, Guan Yu would often fall into a dazed state, and would not wake up until early in the morning. After breakfast, he would often experience symptoms of physical weakness and fever.
The most terrible thing is that although the military doctor performed simple hemostasis and sutures on Guan Yu's gunshot wound, there were signs of redness, swelling and swelling at the wound. This was a precursor to wound infection.
Guan Yu could still chat with Kou Feng for a few words, all because Guan Yu knew Kou Feng's temperament well, and he had to hide his injury from Kou Feng before he could hide it from the generals in the army and stabilize the morale of the army.
Nowadays, the military doctors in the army are helpless to deal with Guan Yu's injury. They can only wait for the return of Zhang Ji's disciples in Jiangling City and the people sent to Jiangdong to look for Fan A before things can turn around.
Now the military doctors can only give Guan Yu some heat-clearing drugs to eliminate the poison of Jinchuang.
Deng Ai, on the other hand, almost did something bad because of his partial knowledge, but judging from the results, he was somewhat helpful.
After all, Deng Ai's master was Zhang Xi. Zhang Xi, in the past, used to show off his "common sense" in order to show that he had a master in front of Deng Ai.
Therefore, Deng Ai knew that there was something called "alcohol" that had a miraculous effect on disinfecting wounds.
But the problem is that Deng Ai doesn't know what "alcohol" is. Zhang Xi just mentioned it casually and didn't go into details. In addition, this matter does not belong to Confucian classics, and Deng Ai has no interest in the art of war. , so there was no further questioning.
Now that Deng Ai can remember such a thing, it is already a sign of outstanding memory.
Although Deng Ai didn't know what "alcohol" was, but by the literal meaning, Deng Ai thought that it was probably some kind of special alcoholic beverage. If it was wine, were the jars of imperial wine used in the army to reward soldiers? Can it be used too? !
Deng Ai asked the military doctor about this kind of thing. The military doctor thought that this was unheard of, but now he had no choice but to resort to folk remedies. Some folk remedies might also be able to cure serious illnesses.
The military doctor thought that he could try it in a small amount.
Then Deng Ai gave it a try.
Fortunately, Deng Ai used the imperial wine that Liu Bei brought specially from Chengdu and gave to Guan Yu to reward his troops. In terms of the state of storage and the alcohol content, it was considered to be relatively good, otherwise something serious would have happened.
Deng Ai, together with Guan Yinping and three military doctors, tried to clean Guan Yu's wound with royal wine, cleaning it every time the dressing was changed. As a result, after only three cleanings, Guan Yu's wound began to become red, swollen and swollen, and he began to feel sleepy. Low grade fever.
It was such a commotion that Deng Ai and the other three never dared to try again.
However, Guan Yinping found in actual use that although the royal wine sent by his uncle was not suitable for use on wounds, when his father started to have a fever and became confused at night, he would feel much better if he applied some on his forehead.
The wine of this era, even Liu Bei's imperial wine, was only low-alcohol wine, lasting no more than 20 to 30 degrees. It was fine for physical cooling, but it would cause serious problems if used for disinfection.
Fortunately, Guan Yinping figured out the correct usage of it, and this was also an important reason why Guan Yu was still able to cheer up to meet Kou Feng even though he had a low fever due to wound infection.
After a period of blunders and mistakes, the morale of the Han army was not greatly affected by Guan Yu's injury.
Although Guan Yu is not able to lead the army in battle for the time being, everyone in the Han army believes that the general will recover soon and will be able to lead everyone to continue to attack cities and forts.
On the opposite side, in Deng County City, the morale of the Wei army had recovered a little, but it was still not too high.
Although, last night, Zhang Liao went up to discuss matters and arranged all the city defense matters, which made the generals feel at ease.
But for the lower-level soldiers, they did not see General Zhang Liao's recovery with their own eyes, but only heard about it from the generals' mouths, so they were still somewhat dubious.
After all, General Zhang Liao did not show up to direct everyone during the critical moments of the battle in the first two days. Now he suddenly resumed the discussion, which seemed a bit abrupt.
The soldiers at the bottom don't have much wisdom, but they are not fools either. In this case, you have to make them believe that General Zhang Liao has really recovered. It is really unrealistic to hope that Deng County can be defended.
In fact, Zhang Liao did take this into consideration. After the meeting on raising the account last night, Zhang Liao originally planned to patrol the camp with Zhang Hu's help to stabilize the morale of the soldiers.
However, this is really not possible.
One is that Zhang Liao's physical strength did not allow him to hold on until he finished the military meeting. He had already reached his limit. After he fell, he saw his son yelling blindly. He didn't even have the strength to speak. How could he patrol the camp?
Another reason is that Zhang Liao underestimated the severity of his injuries, especially the dislocation of his spine, which is Zhang Liao's biggest enemy now.
The stab wound on the back was wrapped with a few more layers of linen, and the wound was tied tightly. The binding made it numb, so it was not a problem to survive for a while.
But the most terrible thing is that Zhang Liao still has some involuntary control over his lower body.
Zhang Liao didn't understand that this was due to spinal misalignment, which caused damage to the central nervous system. He only knew that he needed Zhang Hu's support to walk now, so that he could barely move. How could he go to patrol the camp in this state? !
Let all the soldiers in the battalion see that their coach can't even ride a horse now? !
Therefore, Zhang Liao was helpless and had to give up patrolling the camp to stabilize the morale of the army.
But the soldiers cannot but be reassured. After all, the soldiers are the backbone of the defense of the city. If these soldiers are not at ease, Deng County will not be able to defend it for long.
Therefore, Zhang Liao had to find another way.
And Zhang Liao's method was to take advantage of the early morning, when it was still not bright, the soldiers were still resting in the city, and before the enemy launched an attack, he was fully clothed, let Zhang Hu support him, and climbed up step by step. Tower.
In order to prevent himself from not standing for a long time and exposing his flaws, Zhang Liao was cruel and asked Zhang Hu to find hemp rope and tie his lower body firmly to the pillars of the tower.
In this way, let the personal guards protect themselves with shields and prevent the soldiers from approaching. As long as you don't look carefully, you can't really see any flaws for a while.
For the soldiers of Wei, they went up to the city wall early in the morning with uneasiness to garrison, preparing to deal with the next fierce attack by the Shu army. However, at a glance, they saw their commander standing majestically on the city tower, fighting side by side with everyone.
This kind of encouragement is much more effective than any patrol camp.
As for the Han army, Guan Ping saw Zhang Liao's handsome flag standing high on the city tower at a glance, as well as the motionless figure standing on the city tower.
If you are not familiar with the person, Guan Ping may still admit his mistake, but Zhang Liao and Guan Ping will not admit his mistake.
After all, a month ago, this man had a drink with his father, and three days ago, the two parties had just separated life and death in front of the battle.
So, Zhang Liao’s injury is fine? !
This would be troublesome.
(End of chapter)
