Luodu East Wall,

Amidst the sound of shelling, there were cheers from the camps under the city.

Such a scene has become one of the main daily entertainment programs for the soldiers of Henan Expeditionary Army who are besieging the city.

The Northern Dynasty defenders at the top of the city were a little helpless, watching the huge cannon positions on the wall, and the artillery groups that were constantly moving and advancing under the city, and waves of volleys, they became ragged or buried in bricks and stone rubble.

During this period, they even had time to shoot one shot, with no accuracy and range. The biggest result was to smash a large row and several piles of earth baskets behind them.

The Southern Army gunners, who were hiding behind the scenes, were splashed with shattered heads and shattered with relatively dense and precise counterattacks, quickly used a relatively dense and precise counterattack to smash the cannon position and shatter the cannon behind them.

These gun positions were destroyed so much that it would not be possible to repair them in the short term. Moreover, the barrel bodies of some heavy guns also had dents and deformations that were invisible to the naked eye.

Although the city wall on the east side of Luodu has not yet been defeated, the sneak attacks and counterattacks from the upper east gate were also attacked by the vigilant expedition troops.

But the battlefield friendship between pioneer officer Suo Chao and general Li Qiong continues.

However, in the daily process of removing the cannon positions at the city gate one by one, Suo Chao, who was responsible for leading the team to make a feint attack posture, was still injured again, and was injured again by the muskets at the city gate.

Although it is just an old-fashioned mesh gun, the lead shots are actually embedded in the body. Therefore, when dealing with the corresponding wounds, you still have to find the Huaidong Army, who is good at dealing with gun wounds and lead poisons, to go back.

Because Zhang Xian's advance team and Fengjuanqiu's escort troops merged, Li Qiong also returned to the Huaidong Army from the temporary front army.

Therefore, the location of Suo Chao's clinic was changed to another place, but it was on the former site of Baima Temple.

Under Fenglei, in the rescue camp that had been expanded several times, sergeants with various uniforms and accents were honestly lined up in front of different signs and exits.

Since the Huaidong Army had excellent battlefield medical methods and good at treating firearm trauma, relatively sufficient personnel and medicine, and a high chance of survival, it has become popular here by friendly troops from all directions.

There were even serious wounded soldiers secretly sent from the middle army in the south of the city, but the corresponding rules and order for treatment were very strict, and it was not free of charge.

Of course, these costs are not so unbearable. Most of them can be paid with personal belongings or spoils, and even accept the other party's various requests and questions.

However, as a close friendly army seriously injured and officer, there are still corresponding conveniences and privileges. Therefore, Suo Chao easily found the medical officer who dealt with his injuries the previous time.

An Daoquan, a medical officer with a faint smell of fishy smell and a little tired from the corners of his eyes, explained in an expert manner while changing the medicine for him.

"This is amosulfur powder, a small number of new drugs tried in the army."

"It has a good removal effect on the rust poison and wind evil that Jinchuang enters the body."

"No matter how severe the pus and blood ulcers are,"

"Just clean it up and stuff it with the white medicine, and then stop it immediately."

"However, only medical officers above the battalion have allocated ones."

So the next topic became more buying...

"The soldiers in the army who were injured by lead and injured by poisoning have reached nearly 6,000,"

“There is no proper treatment method yet,”

"There are septic ulcers in the past two days because of the heat, and hundreds of people have died."

"General Fenwei, Shi Youxin, was attacked by stray bullets while watching the enemy at the top of the city... he saw that he could not be saved."

"This is the first one..."

"But I don't know who should Jane Ba replace this guy..."

Disturbing voices and rumors filled the surroundings.

The Prince's Young Master, the Minister of War, Zizheng Hall, the Scholar Weiwei Shaoqing, the governor of Weizhou and the Ambassador of Hebei, Quan Du urgently deployed Zhang Dekun to the east, and also looked at the fire on the city wall in the distance with concern./p>

It was the city wall that was being fought for one by one. Under the attack from inside and outside the city wall, the defenders who fought bravely could hardly change their fate of retreating and gradually losing.

"Why can't we give up the broken Kinai and retreat to the natural danger of the Yellow River to temporarily avoid the front and reorganize the situation..."

"And you have to fight and persevere in Luodu City, a place where the death is fighting..."

Such questions appeared in his mind more than once, but after retreating into Luodu due to time, he realized that he had fallen into a dead end without any solution.

The emperor can move, civil and military officials can retreat, military and civilians can retreat, and military and civilians can retreat. Others can retreat through Hebei and establish a new court to gather strength. However, the Zhang family, who controlled the power of the court for three generations, must not retreat.

Once the Luodu, the real and powerful name that combines the northern half of the wall together, and the last symbol of the authority and glory of the Tang Dynasty, the Zhang family, who were afraid that the emperor would be defeated and the general rule would be unable to continue to maintain the regent's authority as scheduled.

Losing the familiar territory and most of the power of control, the intensification of various internal and external troubles and contradictions can easily put you in an extremely dangerous situation.

After all, the Zhang family is no better than the Liang shogunate of the Southern Dynasty. It has both blood ties and status ties with the imperial family, as well as the people's hearts and backgrounds that have been operating various regions of the South China Sea for generations.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that the contemporary regent would rather use the most conservative strategy and attitude, and at all costs and means to tie the last remaining energy and resources of the Northern Dynasties here in disguise to fight a decisive offensive and defensive battle.

Because at this moment, Zhang Dekun is not only fighting for the fate of the state and the regent, but also has to fight to the end for himself, who is born in the Zhang family. Otherwise, there would be no complete eggs under the collapse of the nest.

However, the bad news that followed closely made him feel pessimistic and disappointed and worried about being able to continue to persevere until winter.

Especially when the defector Li Chuwen's troops had occupied Heyang Bridge Pass, he had made plans and arrangements, and even if things were not good, he fled back to Hebei...

And in Huaidong,

Taking my imagination and guess about the distribution of minerals in later generations, after wandering around the mountains of Laizhou for more than half a year, I finally got something new.

After Furonggou in Ye County, Laizhou and Sanshan Island Gold Mine on the sea, shallow gold veins were newly discovered in Luoshan Mountains at the border with Jiaoshui County in the southwest of Ye County, and the conditions for hole mining have been met.

Today, these two secret minerals mined on a large scale occupy thousands of manpower, and can provide about 3,400 taels of raw gold and shavings per month.

After smelting and crafting by the local secret workshop, you can get two gold treasures with a slightly better quality of nine-point amount, about 4,200 gold coins. The face value of a gold-cast treasure coin is ten pieces, and as a large precious metal currency that is easy to maintain, the actual value will be overflowed by 20% or 30%.

Apart from the artificial and fire consumption of mining and casting, this month it will be a net worth of 50,000 yuan. It is not counted as other accompanying minerals.

Then, through the circulation channel of Huiyuan No., it is exchanged into various better silver treasures and white copper coins in the south. In addition to the need to purchase on-site, some of them can also be purchased on the books in the form of purchasing materials within Huaidong, and become the deposit of various token notes circulating in Huaidong again.

Such inversions can generate millions of economic circulation using currency as leverage.

Of course, there is one-tenth of the gold share, which is directly allocated to the special funds under my name, as some special projects that are not inconsistent, and the start-up funds that I suddenly had a big idea.

The accounts of this money usually squatted in and out of audit and archive. It is also a small treasury under my private name. There is no need to interfere with and affect the normal financial access and out of Huaidong due to some sudden situations and needs, or the project operation of the Guangzhou home in the rear.

According to the results of the direct surveying team's local exploration, with the discovery and mining of this ore vein, it is expected that a single-month quota of more than 1,000 taels can be increased.

In this way, I can get an additional quota of 100 taels of gold.

If converted into materials, it is enough to build three new ships with thousands of materials according to civilian standards, or a flying fish warship with a full capacity of 1,500 materials as standard;

Or it is used as the investment of the armed reclamation group to open a new desert land of two or three hundred yuan; or it is used as preparation materials and personnel salary to build a new supporting workshop related to musket parts; or it is directly transported back rice, coconut, palm oil and other ships from the Southern Seashore with great wealth.

Although the national dynasty outside the country is generally in a sluggish economy and has a depression in all industries, the value of the currency as gold is still relatively strong.
Chapter completed!