"It is with Gema's help that we are becoming more and more developed!" Mamu said with a hearty smile: "Especially in the past two months, I don't know how many refugees from all over Western Xinjiang have flocked to Metasequoia City. With that, As the population increases, our strength and reputation continue to increase, and it has the potential to affect the entire Western Xinjiang."
Xie Tanzhi nodded slightly and said to Li Jiangyao: "Ma Mu is right. Not only ordinary people, but recently, royal families from various countries have also contacted us, hoping to get some degree of secret help and protection. The terms of exchange , that is, they support the Xinjiang Suppression Army and support us in regaining the rule of Western Xinjiang."
"Oh? How do you support it?" Li Jiangyao asked with great interest: "Is it just a verbal support?"
Xu Youchang explained: "It's not words, but actual actions. As long as we open our mouths, their country's troops in the new Western Xinjiang Army can be pulled over immediately and obey the dispatch of the Xinjiang Army."
Li Jiangyao was overjoyed: "Okay, let's just give Gema a blow!"
Yuduoluo, who was in charge of the intelligence, sighed: "Oh, it's a pity that that guy Gema didn't know what luck he had. At this time, he was so blessed that he ordered to speed up the reorganization of the Western Xinjiang Army. In the past, the troops of those countries, no matter how big or small, They are all independently organized and can be operated secretly very conveniently. But now, the Turks suddenly disrupted the original organization system and dispersed all the troops into four new divisions, which suddenly made it more difficult for us to instigate rebellion."
Li Jiangyao smiled slightly and said confidently: "I think it will be okay. There is a holistic way of playing the whole, and there is a scattered way of playing. Once people's hearts are lost, no matter how much they play with the arrangement of flowers, they can't escape from my grasp. Heart!"
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Beizhao Temple has a long history. Long before the founding of the Holy Tang Dynasty, it was one of the three main altars of the Maitreya Sect. As an important gate of the sect in the north, it has a far-reaching reputation and is extremely popular.
More and more disciples came here from all over for pilgrimage and practice, and the temple could not accommodate them all, so they built houses around Beizhao Temple as a place to stay. Later, after several wars and dynasty changes, the Maitreya religion was gradually lost in the long river of history, and Beizhao Temple was naturally unable to avoid the fate of withering and dilapidation. However, as the believers lived here for a long time, they gradually became local villagers and passed it down from generation to generation, eventually forming a large town.
Because there was no place name here before, the local people in this town are accustomed to using the older generation's name and call this town "Beizhao Temple".
The headquarters of the Turkic Eastern Expedition Army was established in the small Beizhao Temple.
The offensive and defensive battle surrounding the imperial capital has lasted for nearly two months. At this time, the two warring parties had long lost the fierceness and bravery they had at the beginning, and had fallen into a sluggish fight together.
Especially the Turks, who were the attackers. Under Prince Chili's new tactics, they did not engage in big battles but continued small battles. They consumed the Shengtang Army piecemeal and inch by inch, keeping them in a state of high tension and alert at all times.
Blood Guard General Yun Qianxue stayed behind and was responsible for defending Beizhao Temple. He knew that Chili was planning to use the "wild wolf against the sheep" method. He would first harass the exhausted opponent on the periphery, and then wait until the Shengtang army was almost collapsed. He suddenly pounced on it and bit it to death in one fell swoop.
Although this style of play is destructive, it is very effective, but it is not good at all. While consuming the opponent, you will also suffer many casualties.
In recent days, the number of seriously injured people sent back from the front lines of the imperial capital has increased significantly compared with before. Yun Qianxue judged that Prince Chili must be increasing the frequency and intensity of harassment. This also shows that the day of general attack is not far away.
The weather was nice today. He took advantage of Khan's lunch break and strolled to the wounded soldiers camp in the south of the town to visit an old friend of his.
As soon as she walked into the camp, Yun Qianxue was immediately shocked by the sight in front of her.
Within a radius of 100 feet, Turkic warriors were lying everywhere. They were either missing arms or legs, or were in critical condition.
Amid the wails of pain, dozens of doctors-looking people were running around, their hands and chests covered in blood, and the expressions on their faces were no better than those of the wounded.
Yun Qianxue couldn't help but shook her head. As she walked, she asked people where the person he was looking for was.
After several twists and turns, under the guidance of the doctors, Yun Qianxue arrived outside a tent. Before she could walk in, a strong bloody stench hit her nostrils.
I heard someone in the tent sigh: "Oh, I'm afraid it won't work. The wound is very suppurated, and ordinary wound medicine will have no effect at all."
Another voice said: "Unless the pus and blood deep in the wound can be cleaned up as soon as possible, in that case, if the ointment is applied, the possibility of saving the leg will be much higher."
As soon as he finished speaking, several different voices exclaimed at the same time: "Teacher, what are you doing?! You can't do it, you can't do it!"
Yun Qianxue noticed something was wrong and quickly walked into the tent.
In the spacious and bright tent, a seriously injured Turkic soldier was lying unconscious on a stretcher. Four or five doctors surrounded him, but their eyes fell on the person next to him.
The man was kneeling next to the stretcher, leaning down and sucking the pus and blood from the soldier's thigh wound with his mouth. Every time he took a breath, he spat out a pool of dirty, sticky blood on the ground. He repeated this many times without any hesitation or pause.
The two young doctors next to him were so disgusted that they couldn't help but cover their mouths tightly to prevent themselves from vomiting.
After a while, what was spit out from the man's mouth gradually lost the sticky foreign matter before, and instead turned into bright red blood. He finally stopped and muttered vaguely: "Hurry up and apply the medicine, hurry up!" Then he hurriedly took a bowl of cold water from the person next to him and gargled his mouth.
Yun Qianxue saw this and couldn't help but sigh: "Brother Shuxuan, you are still the same as before, desperate to save people."
Hearing his voice, brother Shu Xuan, who was rinsing his mouth, turned around and said happily: "Oh, it turns out that senior brother is here! Please take a seat...oh, there is no place to sit here, sorry."
"How many days have you not slept?" Yun Qianxue said calmly: "The circles under your eyes are so dark."
Before Brother Shuxuan could reply, an older doctor next to him said, "General Yun, the teacher hasn't slept for three days in a row. We all urged him to rest, but he just wouldn't listen."
Ge Shuxuan smiled and shrugged: "Hey, it doesn't matter if you miss two nights of sleep. The fighting on the front lines has been tense these days, and the number of wounded has increased sharply. If we hold on for a moment and a half longer, we can save the life of one more tribesman."
Yun Qianxue knew that she couldn't convince him, so she shook her head helplessly: "Okay, the doctor is kind-hearted, just take it easy. Let's go out and chat."
Brother Shuxuan made a waiting expression, turned around and carefully inspected the soldier's wounds that had been treated, and took the trouble to explain to his subordinates. Then he washed his hands with water and followed Yun Qianxue outside.
The two of them walked through the rows of wounded lying on the ground and headed towards the camp gate. Along the way, Ge Shuxuan stopped from time to time to inquire or deal with some serious injuries. He did not show any sloppiness. Yun Qianxue was also very patient and stood aside quietly waiting.
They walked from the tent to the camp gate, only to find that it took them half an hour.
Yun Qianxue stopped and said apologetically: "Junior brother, I'm so sorry. You are so busy and I come to disturb you."
"Senior brother, you are too outspoken." Brother Shuxuan's face was filled with a warm smile: "We are brothers, and we are all Thirteen Iron-Blooded Eagles. We are brothers and sisters. You come to me, which means you have me in your heart. Tell me, what do you want? Can I ask my little brother to help?"
Yun Qianxue shook her head, pondered for a moment, and said with a serious expression: "I have nothing to trouble you. I came... just to ask one thing. Are you still refining Poison Man now?"
Ge Shuxuan smiled and nodded: "Yes, yes. Senior brother, as you know, our Ghost Dou clan has been studying the sacred scriptures of Zoroastrianism for hundreds of years. There are a lot of poison refining secrets in it, which are very useful for the empire's war..."
Yun Qianxue interrupted him directly: "How do you refine Poison Man? I heard many people say that you are refining it with living people, is that true?"
Seeing the serious expression on Yun Qianxue's face, Brother Shuxuan also slowly put away his smile. He stared at the other person for a moment and said calmly: "Senior brother, I will take you to a place."
Brother Shuxuan led Yun Qianxue away from the wounded barracks and walked less than two miles away to a courtyard.
This small courtyard is no different from other houses in Beizhaosi Town. The only difference is that there are Turkic military sentries everywhere, both inside and outside the courtyard.
Under the guidance of brother Shuxuan, the two of them walked through the door unobstructed and went straight to the back house. After passing four guard checkpoints in succession, they entered the innermost room.
As soon as she entered the room, Yun Qianxue couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
In this dark room, there are more than a dozen huge wooden cages on the left side. The wooden cages are covered with black cloth, and some weird noises are constantly coming from inside the cages.
Opposite the large wooden cage are five sturdy wooden shelves, with something that looks like a human hanging on each wooden shelf.
We say "resembling humans" because those monsters that resemble humans but are not human, except for the heads, trunks and limbs that are similar to ordinary people, nothing else is normal.
One of them had ulcers all over his body, and his limbs were exposed with white bones; one's skin was purple and covered with dense blisters; one's body was pale white, and the blood vessels could be clearly seen, but a pair of eyes were terrifying blood red.
The remaining two are complete opposites of each other. One was extremely swollen, like a ball of flesh, and even his eyes were swollen to the point of protruding; while the other was as skinny as a skeleton.
The most terrifying thing is that these five monsters are still alive. When they saw brother Shuxuan come in, they kept whining and screaming.
Yun Qianxue's scalp was numb and she exclaimed: "What are these?!"
