Chapter 139: Poisoning the Well
Li Wantong, the national teacher of the Great Xia Kingdom, came up with a plan to poison the well, and said that he could fly over the Dingbian city wall in the clouds, but the soldiers did not doubt it, because they had seen Li Wantong cast a spell in public and fished out copper coins from the hot oil pot with his bare hands. They believe that this national teacher has the ability to reach the sky.
That night, in the middle of the night, Li Wantong carried a big burden and left the Hu camp alone, and went straight to Dingbian City.
Before he could reach the city wall, he saw a group of patrolling soldiers carrying torches passing by on the wall. He secretly said in his heart, this Dingbian City is really very well guarded!
When Li Xu was still far from the city wall, Li Wantong stopped, he took off the burden on his back, and when he opened it, there were some wooden parts inside, which he assembled in a hurry, and finally formed a large wooden bird in the shape of spreading wings.
The big wooden bird has a seat on its back, and in front of the seat there is a wooden wheel with a handle on it. Li Wantong strode to the seat on the back of the wooden bird, and shook the handle of the wooden wheel in front of him with his hand. At the bottom of the woodbird are four small wheels. As the hand-cranked handle picks up, the propeller begins to push the wooden bird forward to glide forward.
After gliding forward for some distance, the wooden bird actually took off from the ground and flew straight above the city wall.
At this time, the soldiers patrolling the city wall had just passed one team, and the next team had not yet come.
Li Wantong took this opportunity to drive this big wooden bird and really flew over the city wall.
It turns out that the name of this wooden bird is Luban bird, and legend has it that the Luban bird made by Luban back then can fly in the sky for days and nights without coming down.
Li Wantong's Luban bird was obtained by him in an ancient tomb not long ago. In order to find the art of elixir, he often went out to look for monuments and ruins, and also drilled into the graves of many ancients. Not long ago, in an ancient tomb, he found this Luban bird, at that time he saw the introduction that this bird can fly to the sky, he didn't believe it at first, but he assembled the Luban bird according to the introduction, and then shook the wooden handle, and when it flew up, he was stunned all of a sudden, knowing that this time it was a treasure.
In the big camp, he boasted that he could ride the clouds, and it was this Luban bird that he relied on.
In an open space inside the city wall, he lowered the Luban bird, dismantled it, and still put the Luban bird into a burden and carried it on his back.
Dingbian City was quiet at night, and there was no one else on the street except for the husband who came out on the hour to knock on the bang. Li Wantong performed light skills, climbed over the wall and crossed the ridge, and came towards the Xiangjun barracks.
Almost all the troops in the city were stationed in the barracks of Dingbian County. Although the barracks of the county military camp could not accommodate so many soldiers, these soldiers still set up tents in the courtyard of the barracks and in the open space in the school yards.
The location of the county military camp is actually very easy to find, not far from the county office. For Li Wantong, who is familiar with the urban pattern of this era, it is not difficult to find a barracks.
There were also two soldiers standing guard at the entrance of the barracks, and the two soldiers standing guard were already a little drowsy, and they couldn't open their eyelids when they stood at the door.
Li Wantong saw that there were people at the gate of the barracks, so he walked around to a wall. The walls of the barracks were not as tall as the walls. Li Wantong performed light skills, jumped on the wall lightly, and then flipped into the courtyard.
The lights in the barracks were almost all out. Most of the soldiers were asleep by the moment.
Li Wantong ran directly to the kitchen in the backyard of the barracks. When he got to the kitchen in the backyard, he saw a well in the courtyard. There was no one in the kitchen room at the moment.
Li Wantong came to the well, took out the porcelain bottle containing the poison from his arms, opened the stopper, and sprinkled the poison into the well. At this moment, the door of a side room suddenly opened, and a short and fat soldier came out, and the soldier happened to see Li Wantong throwing poison into the well, and he shouted: "Who are you?" What are you doing? Then he opened his throat and shouted, "Come on! There are spies! ”
Li Wantong was so frightened that he almost threw the bottle in his hand into the well. He quickly turned around and tried to escape, but was stopped by the stocky creep.
Li Wantong hurriedly pulled out his sword and stabbed at the short and fat soldier, but he didn't expect that this soldier was also a martial artist. He deftly leaped to the side, easily dodging Li Wantong's sword, and then raised his fist and struck at Li Wantong's chest.
The short and fat soldier who fought against Li Wantong was Fan Sanpang. As the cook of the gang leader, he was responsible for cooking for the soldiers in the barracks every day, but he did not need to go to the front line to take risks. He, like the rest of the men, lived in the wings next to the kitchen in the backyard.
Tonight, it happened that he got up in the middle of the night to go to the room to pee, and as soon as he went out, he saw Li Wantong sprinkling things into the well. He knew that this well-dressed guy wasn't doing anything good, so he shouted.
After a while, more than a dozen soldiers came to the backyard, they surrounded Li Wantong with torches, and some soldiers with good skills also came forward to help Fan Sanpang attack Li Wantong together.
Li Wantong saw that the situation was not good, so he wanted to get out quickly, but the dead fat man in front of him was haunting him. At this time, he didn't know who he took a waist knife from, and the knife slashed at his vital point, and if he dodged slowly, he might even be injured by him.
At this moment, Li Wantong was very anxious. He knew that this was the camp of the Xiang army, and there would be more and more people after a while, and if he wanted to leave, it would be too late.
So he threw the porcelain vase in his hand into the faces of the soldiers who surrounded him. Suddenly, the powder formed a cloud of smoke and wrapped it in the soldiers' faces. Fan Sanpang retreated again and again, and hurriedly shouted: "Hold your breath!" He knew that the powder that had come out of the old way was definitely not a good thing.
Li Wantong took advantage of this opportunity to quickly jump out of the encirclement, flew to the upper room, and fled outside the barracks.
"Go and tell the prefectural commander!" Fan Sanpang shouted, and then also bowed and jumped onto the eaves, chasing in the direction of Li Wantong's escape. It's a pity that Fan Sanpang's light skills are too far behind Li Wantong, and he didn't chase him far, and Li Wantong disappeared.
The people in the barracks immediately went to the county government to report the matter to the Yang County Order. Yang County immediately ordered: blockade the city, and send troops to search for spies overnight.
After Li Wantong got rid of Fan Sanfat, he ran towards the city wall. As he ran, he noticed that something was wrong, the street that had been empty before was now full of soldiers, and these soldiers seemed to be looking for something.
Li Wan informed that the soldiers must be looking for themselves. It seems that he can't get out of the city for the time being. Although his woodbird can fly, it needs to glide some distance in the open before it can fly. Now the city is full of soldiers, where is there a place for him to glide out of the city!
For the time being, I can only find a place to hide and not be discovered.
Thinking of this, Li Wantong lowered his body and shuttled on the rooftops of the city, looking for a place to hide.
Huang Wenlong, Fei Wen, and Xiao Ding also got the news at this time. They got up from their beds and came to the barracks to check on the situation.
When Xiao Ding came to the barracks, he happened to see Youlangzhong taking the pulse of several soldiers who were sprinkled on the face by Li Wantong's poison, and his brows were furrowed.
At this time, the soldiers were unconscious, their faces were black, and their lips were purple.
"They are highly poisoned, and the old man can't do anything!" Lang Zhong finished taking the pulse and sighed helplessly.
Xiao Ding saw Fan Sanpang also standing aside, so he asked, "What's going on?" ”
Fan Sanpang told him what he had just done.
"So, poison has been injected into that well?" Xiao Ding said.
"I guess it was, when I came out, I saw the old man pouring medicine powder into the well." Fan Sanpang said.
"Tell everyone not to use this well water for now." Xiao Ding commanded.
After instructing Fan Sanpang and the other soldiers, Xiao Ding secretly thought in his heart, who is this poisoned veteran? It seems that only by catching this old way can we know the answer.