Allure of a Country Maiden-Chapter 1197 - 1194_1

"The soldiers need this month to recover from their injuries. The casualties on Nangong Country’s side are even greater than ours. I estimate they won’t launch any offensives within the upcoming month, so you should deal with the Li Clan before we plan our attack!"

As long as the Li Clan stops providing poison to the army of Nangong Country, disrupting their usual mode of operation, Di Shaowei believes he can take Jiangdong County in three months.

"No, since Nangong Country has suffered greater casualties, we naturally should take the opportunity to strike further. There’s a saying, ’Take advantage of someone’s illness, to take their life!’ Waiting one month before launching an attack will surely mean that the takeover of Nangong Country won’t happen anytime soon."

"Girl, do you have a better plan? Currently, nearly ten thousand of our soldiers are seriously injured, unable to fight. The rest of the soldiers are all more or less lightly wounded. If we go to war again and the enemy uses poison, even if we can win, it would be at the cost of sacrificing even more soldiers! The tallies just don’t add up!," Di Shaowei did not advise to launch an attack at this moment.

The lives of our soldiers are important. We can’t gamble with their lives or use them as means to seize a city. The city will always be there, but soldiers can only die once.

If Xiao’er has no solution to the enemy’s poison, Di Shaowei will under no circumstances agree to attack!

That wouldn’t be a siege, it would be a suicide mission!

As their general, he must prioritize the soldiers’ lives!

"Usually, for a poison to be fatal instantly, it must be ingested. Known blood clotting poisons are difficult to refine, and such toxic substances are not commonly seen, they are as rare as ginseng that’s been aged for a thousand years!

Even the Li Clan wouldn’t be able to amass such amount of these sorts of poisons!

So, the poison that can be mass-produced could only cause symptoms like skin itching, and even if they do cause itching, the itch will be cured in just a couple of days without medication! It wouldn’t be difficult for us to prepare an antidote for such a poison.

As long as the soldiers take the antidote before going to the battlefield, even if the enemy uses poison, it won’t have a big impact on us.

Moreover, with my injury medicine, are you still worried about having ten thousand soldiers seriously injured again in a few days?" Xiao’er explained.

Sister is right, as long as I get enough medicinal ingredients, I can quickly prepare an antidote. However, I need to figure out what poison was used to refine that poison powder." This kind of poison is just an ordinary one.

"The military doctors collected a bit from the soldiers’ clothes at the time, take a look." Di Shaowei took out a paper package from his embrace and handed it to Xi’er.

Xi’er received it, opened it, and there was a small amount of white powder inside.

She leaned in to smell it, there was no odor. Then she dabbed a bit with her finger and rubbed it between her fingertips, then smeared a bit on the back of her hand, then stated confidently:

"This is toxic matter extracted from green moths and caterpillars, mixed with juice from wild taro. Once it comes into contact with human skin, it causes unbearable itching which gets worse if you scratch it.

However, if you resist scratching, the symptoms will disappear after a few days even without an antidote.

But when it first comes into contact, it seriously is unbearably itchy."

Xi’er repackaged the medicine powder and took out a box of ointment, wiping a bit on the back of her hand.

Green moths and caterpillars are everywhere in Nangong Country during summer, especially on banana trees and banyan trees; wild taros are also easy to find and are a very common source of poison.

"Is the antidote hard to find?" Di Shaowei asked.

"No, .....", Xi’er listed several kinds of medicinal ingredients.

"Fortunately, in order to prevent the Li Clan from aiding the soldiers of Nangong Country, we brought along a lot of antidotal medicinal ingredients this time. The types that Xi’er mentioned, we have also brought. The things are on the military ships at Wanli Shitang, and we will arrange for people to deliver them as soon as possible."

For the twenty military ships that Xiao’er and Shangguan Xuanyi brought, each ship has a cabin that is always locked and forbidden to anyone. That cabin was used to divert attention. It was empty when they set off and when they arrived, Xiao’er found an opportunity to stuff all twenty ships with things, all being medicinal materials and grain!

Of course, those cabins are still off-limits to anyone, only people with the token and key can open the cabins and move things.

Only in this way, can Xiao’er have an excuse to take things out of the spatial ring when something is missing in the army.

Those dozens of military ships, since leaving the factory, had their cabins locked by Shangguan Xuanyi himself and have always been a forbidden area!

The people who built the ships were one group, after the ships were built, another group took over.

At the time of departure, another batch of soldiers replaced the previous ones, so the soldiers did not know what was in that cabin and why it was a forbidden area.

"Good, then once the antidote is prepared, we’ll launch an attack, catching Nangong Country off guard! Once Jiangdong County is taken, we can rest easy!" Di Shaowei said happily.

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After visiting the wounded soldiers, Shangguan Xuanyi and Xiao’er went to live in a courtyard that Di Shaowei had previously ordered to be repaired.

This courtyard was originally the mansion of the richest man in Jiangyang County. The garden inside is very delicate, with small bridges and flowing water, rockery, and stone by the lake. Apart from some valuable plants that were taken away by the rich merchant, everything else was not damaged.

The rich merchant probably didn’t want to ruin the furniture in his house, so he locked all of it in a warehouse. Only part of the roof of the house was removed, giving the illusion of damage at first glance.

So Di Shaowei spent little effort getting it repaired and, from inside the warehouse, he found the furniture left by the rich merchant and arranged the entire room!

During this period, Di Shaowei, Jinghao, Xi’er, and Gu Qiling were all living here, with a room each.

The main house was left vacant specifically for Shangguan Xuanyi and Xiao’er.

"Never thought that in this newly conquered city, we could find such a decent place to stay." Xiao’er looked around at the well-equipped and lavish room.

"The rich merchant probably plans to come back, that’s why he couldn’t bear to destroy his things." Di Shaowei replied.

Xiao’er nodded in agreement.

"You guys get busy! Don’t worry about me, I’ll settle myself in!" Xiao’er knew Di Shaowei and Shangguan Xuanyi must have a lot of matters to discuss, so she ushered them out of the room.

Indeed, Di Shaowei had matters he needed to discuss with Shangguan Xuanyi: arrangements for future battles, which absolutely required some discussion.

"You rest a bit, we’ll eat when I come back," Shangguan Xuanyi said to Xiao’er.

"Okay!"

Xiao’er answered, then the two left.

Xiao’er looked around the room, then started cleaning and arranging the room together with Yang Mei and Yang Liu.

Very quickly, the entire room was bright and clean, simple and cozy.