Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 340: Donor

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Wang Pu is really sick. At first, Guo Shao thought that Zhang Yongde was pretending to be sick, but Wang Pu didn’t need to pretend.

"Cough, cough, cough." Wang Pu asked a maid to lift up and coughed for a while, put a cloth pillow behind his back and sat up, with a sick look, "It's really... impolite to meet like this..."

Guo Shao just arrived at his house and met Wang Pu in the bedroom. The room was very warm, but there was a strong smell of Chinese medicine coming from somewhere, very pungent. When people in high positions are ill, there is someone to serve them, and there are often people who want to visit the sick, so the situation is not bad. Wang Pu seems to be in his early fifties, and he is in the prime of life, but his body is indeed weaker, and he looks thinner after being sick.

Guo Shao hurriedly stepped forward to support him and said, "Wang Shijun is sick, and still cares about the customary etiquette? I ask the Queen Mother, from Taichang Temple (Taichang Temple Shaoqing is Zuo You) A few imperial doctors came over to show you."

Although Wang Pu was in bed, there was no blood on his face and his illness was obvious, but he was not serious enough to be delirious. He said, "Thank you, General Guo, for your kindness."

Guo Shao said: "I will lead my troops out of Beijing soon, so I won't be able to visit the emperor for a while."

At this time, Wang Pu suddenly sighed, and slowly said: "The old man has been a clerk from a young official, Guangzong Yaozu has no regrets. But when the sky is not vacation, you cannot see the reunification of the world and the return of Youzhou. Seeing the big situation that has affected hundreds of years... I really feel a little regretful. If General Guo accidentally thinks of the old man in the future, he will pour a bottle of wine on the ground and call the old man to tell him."

When Guo Shao heard this, he suddenly remembered a poem: Wang Shibei set the Central Plains Day, and the family sacrifice never forgot to tell Nai Weng.

He hurriedly said: "I heard that Wang Shijun was only infected with the wind and cold, so you can recover from the illness with peace of mind and you will be healed soon."

Wang Pu Weiyu.

Guo Shao then said: "The most recent strategic level is to follow the deployment of Wang Shijun, Xiang Gong Zai Guzhen for rest, after the warm weather, the Great Zhou Army attacked Shu from both sides of the North Road and the East Road."

Wang Pu nodded: "In this way, the odds of winning are higher than just staring at Hanzhong."

Guo Shao only felt that his heart was shrouded in inexplicable sadness... a very light and lingering emotion. It's not sadness. Although he appreciates Wang Pu's talents, his friendship is not deep. To say that he is worried about his illness and can only be a play; of course, it is impossible to gloat. Wang Pu and others count him as him. Ally, a very capable ally. So my heart was a little sour, it seemed that this kind of feeling was called sadness.

Guo Shao said a few more words to him, and then asked him to rest and recover from his illness, and to leave the ginseng he brought along with a bunch of good medicinal materials, not much.

...When returning to the mansion, Guo Shao passed by a relatively large restaurant and ordered a few good dishes to be delivered to the mansion.

He rarely took the initiative to get close to the little Taoist priest, until she felt that today's food was not bad. Guo Shao asked: "Your master Chen Tuandao can cure wind-cold? It is not a normal wind-cold, it may also cause other diseases, and many doctors have not cured..."

Qingxu frowned: "I was wondering just now, but as expected, this is called "nothing to do, but to steal!"

Guo Shao said in amazement: "You can't say it so badly. I know it if you say that you want to hold the Buddha's feet. But it's not wrong. I want to ask you. Don't I be nice to you, but yell at you Scream?"

Qing Xu said earnestly: "Donor Guo, you have to figure it out. Master and I are both Taoist priests, not doctors. If we can cure diseases, why do we become Taoists and change our profession?"

She has a delicate single eyelid with a tender face, but her tone is like this. Guo Shao finds it inexplicably funny. But he was not in the mood to joke with her, and immediately said: "The empress dowager's former serious illness is not cured by Chen Tuan's elixir and your practice method?"

Qingxu said: "It was the blind cat and the dead mouse. It happened to be symptomatic. It is not that we have medical skills. The pill and inner alchemy were originally used by Taoists to drive fire. The queen mother happened to be because of fire. Toxins invaded the body, I used it unexpectedly. Now what intractable diseases are called for us to treat, how do I know how to treat it?"

"Wind cold is cold toxin, there is no pill to drive cold toxin?" Guo Shao asked.

Qing Xu said with an unhappy expression: "I can't tell the outsider clearly! My master is now in Huashan. If you don't believe what I said, send someone to ask him yourself."

Guo Shao is helpless... In this world, it is really possible to die from a cold or a fever. Maybe Wang Pu is a cold that caused pneumonia and other symptoms, but he doesn't understand it. After all, he is not a doctor. He still didn't want to see Wang Pu die so sick. After thinking about it, he wrote a letter according to what Qing Xu said and planned to send someone to Huashan to find Chen Tuan.

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As soon as the first month is over, the festive atmosphere is gone, and there are busy scenes everywhere. In the countryside, people driving oxen to plow the fields, carrying fat water, and bending over to work with straw hats can be seen everywhere. The main concern of all government officials this season is farming, but Tokyo's military institutions are still stepping up preparations for war, regardless of their busyness in farming.

The guards of the North Route Army reinforcements, Si Ren Ma, have already begun to mobilize out of Beijing; the East Route Army, which is mainly in charge of the Dianqian Division, will not move for more than a month...Because the State of Shu has already been on the North Road, There is no need to conceal it anymore, but the truth of the use of troops in the East Road should be inferred by Shu.

Tokyo’s outer city has requisitioned ten spacious and suitable houses to transform armor workshops. There are two or three workshops in one house; including forging iron plates, stamping-shaped forging hammers, and hand-forging corners and corners. A craftsman who assembles armor by hand with rivets. Each armour-making process is divided into labor and cooperation. On average, a set of forging hammers can produce about four pieces of armour in a day. The efficiency is 20 or 30 times faster than that of chain armour and iron cloth shirt. Of course, the armor protection with only four pieces of armor is not comprehensive, and it cannot be compared with changing the lock.

Guo Shao expects to be able to make 800 to 900 sets of simplified armor by the end of February.

He is not satisfied with this degree, but limited by the scale, he has nothing to do. First, the supply of raw materials is slow, and then funding and manpower are lacking, and the space is not large; the houses in Tokyo City are private industries, and forced expropriation can easily cause conflicts, and even the workshops have to spend money on land.

...... The local town soldiers and guards under the command of Xiang Gong have a lower level of armor, compared with the more sophisticated equipment in the front of the palace. Guo Shao transferred the first batch of three hundred armors to the guards and horses who reinforced Xiang Gong.

By the end of February, more than 500 plate armors were completed.

Guo Shao is directly equipped with the first command of the First Army of the Left Wing of the Tiger and Cardiac Army, and this command itself is a heavy infantry man and horse deployed in the front of the battlefield, and was previously fully equipped with ring armor. Now it has been supplemented by 500 pairs of plate armor, and it has truly become a well-equipped defensive heavy infantry commander; soldiers wear chain mail and skirt armor at the moving parts, and wear head, shoulders, chest and arm plate armor outside. ... Guo Shao tried it, and he was basically immune to long-range bows and crossbows. In addition to blunt hammers, melee weapons could hardly cause effective damage.

Before the expedition, the soldiers of the Huben Army built some iron masks to perfect their facial defenses, so that the commanders insisted on pursuing defense.

When Guo Shao inspected the army, even himself was shocked by the first command lineup.

In the barracks, I saw more than 500 people covered in iron. The brand-new plate armor was glowing with the cold light of metal, and it looked like a group of mecha from a distance. Except for the fingers protruding from the linen gloves, there was almost no place in the soldier's body exposed. There is an iron helmet on top, and even the face is iron. Only the eye sockets are exposed. At first glance, you can’t distinguish people. The mouth and nose have many erected gaps for breathing out, which looks like the exposed teeth of a skeleton. Generally extra scary.

This is probably the ultimate infantry equipment of the cold weapon era. Unlike the world's focus on mobility and lightness, Guo Shao feels that his path seems to be starting to deviate from the mainstream.

...... Guo Shao still sent Ermei Fu to the palace, and Li Yuaner to Li Chuyun's house. Prepared properly, led more than 16,000 people from the left arm of the Tiger and Ben Army, more than 21,000 people who controlled the crane and horses, and the crane and bow and arrow. They left Tokyo at the end of February and headed south. At this time, the weather has completely warmed up, there is greenery everywhere, and all the flowers are blooming, which is a good time for life.

After the new formation of the Tiger Ben Army, the right side fought a big battle. However, Guo Shao was not for training this time, he wanted to do his best to fight the war against Shu, so he still chose the left side of the Huben Army, which has been proven in actual combat, as the main force of the East Route Army.

Guo Shao led his army to Xiangzhou (now Xiangfan City). Tokyo used to have no dangers and roads were very smooth. At this time, the movement of the Zhou dynasty army has no secrets...On the endless plain, the several roads running parallel between the fields are full of troops. There are many people from far and near looking across the fields, watching this magnificent scene; the marching scene is very conspicuous in this kind of place with good sight.

Except for the guarding army gathered on the road, most of the troops are not so punitive and coercive, because everyone goes out and camps with a lot of things. People led mules and horses with things on their backs, and behind the army there were many civilians pushing wheelbarrows and donkey carts; if it weren't for the orderly line and flags everywhere, it looked more like a large group of people fleeing from famine.

Guo Shao’s army also has a passenger carriage... Everyone would rather ride a horse than ride a carriage. The terrain on the plain is one thing, but the roads in the wild are not level at all. It is torture to ride a carriage. But in the carriage was a woman.

Sun Auntie, a half-year-old mistress in her forties, has no beauty. With such a woman in the army, the soldiers obviously wouldn't think that the master would take the woman to relieve boredom on the journey; otherwise, at least he should bring a younger one.

Jing Niang riding a horse in leather armor is more suitable to relieve boredom. Guo Shao specially customized a breastplate for him, with two semi-circular outlines stamped on the breastplate. She thought that she would be more comfortable to wear this way; unexpectedly, she was not thanked for her kindness, and Guo Shao was scolded. Of course Jingniang didn't wear that plate armor either.