Chapter 38 Chapter Thirty-Six

How Gao Kangda demolished the Vendée Castle; how to cross the river mouth When Jimnast came back, he told how he met the enemy, and how he used tactics to deal with a group of them. He said that they were just thieves and thieves who didn't know anything about military affairs. Same with cattle. When Gao Kangda heard the news, he rode on his big mare and took the entourage mentioned above. On the road, he saw a tall and thick tree (we call it the St. Martin tree, because it is said that St. The walking stick of the pilgrimage came alive), Gao Kangda said: "I am short of guys, this tree happens to be a walking stick and a working weapon." Branches, shaped like a cane.

Meanwhile his mare let loose and pissed; the piss turned into a flood seven leagues long, and the whole of it flowed into the mouth of the Vendée, and the river immediately swelled, except for a few. Individuals fled from the left up the slope beyond, where a great number of the enemy drowned in panic. Gao Kangda came to the Vendée Forest and heard Edmond's report that there were still enemies left in the fortress. In order to find out the truth, Gao Kangda let go of his throat and shouted loudly: "Is there anyone else in there? If there is, get out, if not, pull it down." A timid artilleryman hiding in the opening of the city wall suddenly fired a cannon at him, hitting Gao Kangda hard on the right temple, but it was like throwing a plum at him, which did no serious harm.

Gao Kangda said: "What is this? Did you beat us with grapes? Be careful that grapes are not easy to come by!" He really thought that the cannonball was a grape. The enemies who were still looting in the fortress heard Gao Kangda's cry, and ran up to the towers and forts together, and fired 9,025 rounds of kitty cannons and muskets at him, all aimed at his head. , the bullets are so dense, Gao Kang shouted: "Bonokrates, my friend, the flies here are blinding my eyes; give me a willow branch, and I will drive them away." He mistook buckshot and stone for flies. Bonnocrates told him that they were not flies, but shells from the fortress.Gao Kangda then lifted his big tree and struck towards the fortress. With just a few blows, the enemy towers and fortresses were knocked down, and the whole fortress was turned into ruins.All the enemies in the fortress were smashed to pieces, bloody and bloody.

Gao Kangda and his party left there and came to the bridgehead of the mill. They saw that the river mouth was full of dead bodies, and even the river of the mill was blocked. It turned out that they were all enemy soldiers washed to death by horse urine.Now that the river was blocked by dead bodies, they considered how to get across.Jim Nast said: "If the ghost can get by, I can get by." Edmund said: "The ghosts have gone to pick up the souls of these dead people." "Saint-Tranian!" exclaimed Bonnocrates, "there is no other way but through here." Jimnast said, "No, no, or we'd have to stop halfway."

He kicked the horse with his spurs, and he rushed forward, and his horse was not afraid of dead bodies.This is the method he taught by Aelianus ① to train the horse so that it is not afraid of ghosts or dead bodies-of course, it is not like Diomedes ②killing the Thracian ③to show the horse to kill, nor like Homer. Ulysses Narrated. Aelianus, in Book XVI, Chapter XXV of Zoology, describes the methods of Diomedes and Ulises to tame horses. ② Diomedes: King of Thrace in Greek mythology, famous for his cruelty. ③ Thrace: The name of the ancient country in northern Greece. ① Ulises: The protagonist in Homer's Odyssey.

He also piled the dead bodies of the enemy in front of the horse—he put a dummy in the grass, and told him to jump over the dummy when he was feeding on weekdays. The other three followed without incident except Edmund, whose horse sank its right hoof in the belly of a fat, fat man, drowned there with his face up, until he When I reached the bend of my leg, I couldn't pull it out.So it was stuck there, unable to move, until Gao Kangda pressed the intestines of the dead man in the water with his stick, and the horse raised its legs. (It's a strange thing in veterinary medicine to say it.) The horse used to have a hard tumor on the hoof, which was cured by contact with the fat guy's intestines.

② It is said that ancient veterinarians used the intestines or the water in the intestines to treat tumors.