For a whole day and night, the offensive of the Xia army continued one after another, the soldiers did not seem to be tired, wave after wave, on the other hand, the Qin army, they were limited in number, and they had to hold the three closely connected cities at the same time, plus the mental pressure brought to them by the endless harassment of the Xia army some time ago, after a night of hard fighting, the next day the Qin army was obviously a little unable to bear it.

"Yang Shuai, it's not a way to go on like this, they have a lot of people, obviously they are replacing the siege with a fixed rhythm, but we don't have people to replace, and the tung oil is almost consumed, and if it goes on like this, it will drag us to death."

Seeing that the morale of the army sergeant was getting lower and lower, Liao Pengcheng, who was responsible for guarding Hanyuan City, found Yang Tiancheng, not to mention the soldiers who fought day and night, even the two commanders were also full of fatigue.

"They just want to drag us to death, the problem is that we have no reinforcements, and the people do not support it, just now I received news that the merchants who used to provide our tung oil refused to supply tung oil anymore, according to my people's repeated knocking and questioning, it seems that the Murong family has mixed a foot in it."

Yang Tiancheng held his head and said uncomfortably, if they can't continue to purchase tung oil, they will definitely not be able to hold these cities, if they retreat, other cities will not have such a natural defensive advantage, and the people, they are dedicated to Shen Liang, hoping that he will return to Daqin, he will definitely work with them, and then their situation will undoubtedly be more difficult.

"Murong family? Didn't they fully withdraw to the Xia Kingdom more than a year ago?

Liao Pengcheng's face was even more ugly, the situation was already unfavorable to them, but he didn't expect that a Murong family suddenly appeared, he didn't know anything else, the financial strength of the Murong family was definitely quite terrible, and it was no wonder that Xia Guo could support so many armies to fight on all fronts at the same time.

"That's just the surface, the Murong family has stood in Daqin for more than a hundred years, and the foundation is rich, how can it be as simple as what we see on the surface? Besides, businessmen pursue profits, as long as the Murong family promises our tung oil suppliers, and opens the Xia Kingdom and even the Wei Kingdom market for them in the future, do you think any fool will refuse? "

The victory of a war, in addition to the bravery of the soldiers and the strength of the commander, must also pay attention to the right time and place, the Xia country has many powerful people, elites, and the financial support of the Murong family, even the people of their own country are towards them, and they, the grain and grass do not know if there will be a day when it will be broken, and blame the emperor and the emperor for doing too ruthlessly and offending the Murong family to death, otherwise they are Qin people, And how can it be possible to stand against them?

"It's useless to say that now, in terms of tung oil, we may be able to play His Majesty and ask him to let the military department raise it on our behalf, the question is, how do we support the military department to send tung oil for us, and we can't blindly rely on tung oil."

Liao Pengcheng sighed deeply, it was useless for them to entangle what they had lost, now they could only focus on the current situation, Xia Guo was clearly going to violently seize the three cities, and how to break the death in front of them was the most important.

"Ben Shuai has already asked people to send back the army report in an urgent manner of eight hundred li, but Liao Shuai, let's not get up with too much hope, now we only have two choices, either to fight to defend the city after the tung oil is exhausted, and we can hold it day by day, or abandon the city and retreat, retreat to the next city to replenish the source of troops, and let the soldiers rest for a while before fighting."

"As a military general, how can you abandon the city and flee?"

Almost immediately, Liao Pengcheng vetoed the proposal to abandon the city and retreat without thinking, in the northeast battlefield, he had withdrawn enough, and the wisdom of his life was destroyed in that defeat, especially the sudden retreat of the Ling family army, resulting in the rout of the Liao family army on the whole line, all the way relying on the garrisons of the cities of Jiedu barely supported, that was the biggest insult in his life, he hated the Ling family army, and also hated the Xia Kingdom with the Ling family army, and even hated the unscrupulous emperor.

"Leave Qingshan without worrying about firewood, retreating is also a helpless move, Liao Shuai, your reaction is too fierce, don't forget, this commander is the commander."

Seeing this, Yang Tiancheng stood up with a snort, he knew why Liao Pengcheng was so stubborn, wasn't it the defeat in the Northeast Battlefield and the hatred of Qin Yunxian and the others? But is it time to dwell on those? Is his personal honor or disgrace important or the lives of thousands of soldiers?

"In short, my Liao family army will not retreat."

After the two glared at each other for a long time, Liao Pengcheng flicked his sleeves away, and a moment later Yang Tiancheng sat down and sighed deeply: "Liao Shuai, do you know that if we are defeated, Qin Yunxian will not harm the captured soldiers, but none of us leading generals will survive?"

As soon as they die, the families far away in the Imperial City will inevitably suffer with them, and the consequences will definitely be serious that

they cannot bear.

"Pass the order down, and defend the city with all your might."

I don't know how long it took, Yang Tiancheng left the Chinese army tent, even if he had to retreat in the end, he would first break off the two front teeth of the Xia army, at least now it was not time to make a decision.

At the same time, the border city of Chen Guo also encountered a fierce attack by the Wei army, but both countries have since pressed their serious illnesses to the border city, and they are still in a state of equal strength for the time being, and no one knows that Chen Zhiyuan, like Pei Yuan's husband, personally came to the border city to take command.

"How?"

A series of tasks were arranged, Chen Zhiyuan waved back left and right, two slender figures appeared out of thin air, Chen Zhiyuan leaned on the chair with a lazy expression, his eyes were slightly narrowed, and he didn't seem to be accidentally facing the attack of the Wei army.

"It's already laid out, I'll be able to start later."

The two knelt down on one knee in unison, Chen Zhiyuan nodded thoughtlessly, and the fingers resting on the arm of the chair tapped rhythmically: "Yang Tiancheng and Liao Pengcheng can't carry it for long, start as soon as possible, this operation will undoubtedly expose all the treacherous people we have planted in the Xia army, only success is allowed and failure is allowed."

"Yes."

One of them hugged his fist and got up to leave, and Chen Zhiyuan said to the other: "Inform Beichen, you can start."

"Yes."

The remaining person also took the order and left, Chen Zhiyuan opened his eyes, his deep eyes carried a suffocating cruelty and killing intent, Xia Guo can join forces with Wei Guo, can't he join forces with Beichen? Qin Yunxian wanted to eat them step by step, it was not so easy, he wanted to see who would eat whom in the end.

Ding'an City Military Medical Tent.

After another day of fighting, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Qin State decreased significantly, and the soldiers of the Xia Kingdom had very few arrows, basically burned by the fire, this kind of injury will not kill people, but can make people feel painful, Shen Liang did not participate in the rescue of soldiers today, but let people build a small tent for him next to the military doctor's tent, with willow leaves and other several Nether Dark Guards to prepare burn ointment, so that the soldiers can suffer as little pain as possible.

For Shen Liang, concocting this type of ointment is simply hand-to-hand, not much challenge, but the conditions on the battlefield are difficult, not that he can have what he wants, it took him most of the day to bring two large barrels of prepared ointment to the military doctor's tent.

"Are there any burned soldiers who have just been sent, and the injuries are more serious."

After summoning a military doctor, Shen Liang asked in a deep voice, and the military doctor's tent was still filled with the wailing and crying of soldiers, as well as the disgusting smell of medicinal herbs.

"Yes, Lord Monarch, please come with the little one."

Although he didn't know what he was going to do, the military doctor still respectfully led him to a soldier who was wailing in pain, his body was extensively burned, his face could no longer be seen, his chest, stomach and thighs were simply hard-hit areas, the burnt flesh could even smell the scorched fragrance, the military doctor and the medical team were cleaning his wounds, even if he drank hemp boiling soup for him, when he cleaned the wounds with alcohol-stained cotton, he still let out sharp cries.

"Be careful to avoid silver needles, and the speed of cleaning is accelerated."

Shen Liang didn't say a word, squatted down and took out silver needles to seal several large holes of the soldier, and the soldier's cry of pain eased a lot,Taking the cotton yarn handed over by Liu Ye, Shen Liang personally carefully cleaned his burned face: "Don't be afraid, this palace won't let you die."

"Hmm... Emperor, Empress..."

The soldier was actually so painful that his eyes were blurry, and he couldn't see clearly, but when he heard the word Hongong, he still knew that the person who was helping him deal with his injuries at this time was the Empress, and his heart was not untouched, looking at the whole world, how many soldiers could be found who could be treated by the Empress herself?

"Don't talk, your throat is burned."

Shen Liang smiled gently, and when the wound was all cleaned, he asked people to take the ointment he had prepared: "Xiao Zhuozi, help apply the ointment evenly to the wound, remember, don't apply too thick, just a thin layer." 

"Good."

Xiang Zhuo gave a password and an action, due to the limited time, the ointment was directly packed in a large wooden barrel, which was inconvenient to access, and the little military doctor on the side shook a little wit, went to the camp tent next door to eat and touched a wooden spoon for scooping soup, and put the ointment in a clean medicine bowl and handed it to them.

"Thank you."

Taking the medicine bowl, Xiang Zhuo Shenliang and the two started from scratch, one from the feet, and at the same time evenly applied the wound with a cotton cloth dipped in ointment.

"Hmm... So comfortable..."

The unexpected situation happened, the soldier who had been crying out for pain before actually let out a comfortable moan, meeting everyone's doubtful gaze, Shen Liang's hand movements did not stop, but his mouth smiled: "I added a large number of herbs with cooling effects to the ointment, and also added some analgesic herbs, the ointment used before was all abandoned, and the specific configuration method was used to let Willow Leaf tell you."

"Yes."

Whether it is a military doctor or a medical team, everyone responds in unison, which can heal injuries and relieve pain, so that soldiers suffer less sin, this kind of good thing, they naturally cannot refuse.

"It seems that this ointment really works."

Shen Liang withdrew the silver needle for pain relief, until the soldiers were bandaged, he did not cry out loudly, proving that his special ointment was indeed more effective than the ointment prepared by the military doctors, Shen Liang wiped his hands and stood up: "Yang Peng, send someone to send Fang Zi to the military doctor's tents in Shenyang City and Hanyuan City, and let them all change to this ointment."

"Yes."

Yang Peng appeared and took the prescription from Liu Ye's hand, and disappeared again in the blink of an eye.

"You are really cool, do the rest of the soldiers' ointment need to be replaced?"

Xiang Zhuo gave him a thumbs up, and the soldier with such a serious burn was so comfortable that he fell asleep, which showed how effective his ointment was, compared to the other soldiers in the camp.

"The soldiers who have already applied medicine today will forget about it for the time being, and they will change it tomorrow when they change the medicine, don't talk about those, go and help medicate other soldiers."

Looking at the camp tent that contained hundreds of wounded, Shen Liang shook his head, most of the hundreds of people here are treating their wounds, as for those who have been treated without blood transfusions, they have all been transferred to the camp tent behind, just to treat these people will take a lot of effort, there is really no need to start all over again.

"Hmm."

The two looked at each other, turned around and took the military doctor and expectedly into the treatment of the wounded.