When Leng Qingtang entered the main tent, he was talking to the soldiers in Chinese with non-standard pronunciation.

When she saw the overseer, the woman immediately knelt down on one knee and treated him with the most noble courtesy.

Leng Qingtang helped her up, and smiled:

"Madam, get up quickly, the journey to Yunnan is hard, and there is no need to be polite in the barracks."

The Tujia people are very simple-minded, and whoever is willing to treat them well, they will think that this person is good.

Leng Qingtang's respect moved the woman, and her eyes shone brightly:

"Please also ask the Overseer to forgive him for being one step late. Because before departure, the sea fleet sent supplies from the Celestial Empire, and Prince Min asked me to escort them over for everyone when I entered Yunnan.

Unexpectedly, on the road, two groups of Boku light cavalry surrounded and intercepted the grain, and were fiercely repelled by the children, which is really happy to think about. ”

Leng Qingtang echoed and smiled:

"The Boku people will only do some things like stealing chickens and touching dogs, and Bendu has also been attacked by them at night on the way to Yunnan, and they want to defeat the Celestial Empire army by conspiracy and trickery, which is a fool's dream!"

said and motioned for Mrs. Yi to take a seat, but she shook her head decisively, and her expression fell into solemnity:

"When I was waiting for the Overseer, I heard the generals say that the army was about to take the city of Xuede, but it encountered unknown smoke on the way, and now there is no cure for the wounds?"

Leng Qingtang frowned and nodded slowly:

"It's also to blame Bendu for being a little impatient, and the soldiers have suffered."

He patted his chest with his hands and smiled:

"The overseer doesn't have to blame himself, our family is a native of southern Xinjiang, and we know this poison best. Let me go and see the wounded, and I will see how poisonous the smoke is. ”

Of course, it couldn't be better.

Leng Qingtang was secretly glad that the imperial court had successfully recruited the army, and most of the Central Plains army did not know the barbarian terroir of southern Xinjiang, and now with the help of the emperor, he undoubtedly had the most reliable guide.

He personally went into the camp to check the symptoms of the wounded, and inquired about the characteristics of the poison, and after thinking about it, he said:

"It's a unicorn smoke!"

Leng Qingtang pursed his lips, his expression confused:

"What is a unicorn smoke?"

"Smoke concocted with mandala, intoxicating locust, hairy whirlflower, toad frog, and slender-legged spider.

When it spreads out, the five-color mixture is very similar to the mane of the legendary unicorn beast, so it is called 'unicorn smoke'. The constitution of the poisoned person is different, and the reaction is also different. ”

Leng Qingtang listened carefully, and said while thinking:

"There are three kinds of five-flavor quenching raw materials mentioned by Madame, which have never been heard of by this governor, and it is no wonder that it is useless to prepare antidote for self-defense when Dongchang set off, and there are still many subordinates who have been tricked."

Sympathetic sigh from Tsumucha:

"If you want to cure the poison of unicorn smoke, it must be the unique herbs of the hot land in southern Xinjiang."

Back at the main camp, he said a few detoxifying herbs and asked the military doctor to write them down.

Leng Qingtang heard from the side, and the indispensable herbs in it turned out to be Wutou grass.

"Five Thorough Grass?"

This name is not unfamiliar to Leng Qingtang.

He immediately recalled that Concubine Yu had been poisoned in the thirty-eight main wells in the capital soon after she was pregnant, and the poison used by Wanli at that time was not exactly Wutou grass?

"Wutou grass, isn't it a poisonous weed?"

Leng Qingtang looked at Yi Mucha and frowned in confusion.

Yi Mucha's expression was calm:

"The so-called one thing descends one thing, and this is the truth of fighting poison with poison. For now, Governor, let the army move, they know best where herbs grow nearby. ”

There are many people, and there is great power.

After being approved, the army sent thousands of people to act, all of them acted quickly, and within half a day, all the herbs for restraining the Qilin smoke were complete, but the five herbs were pitiful.

Mrs. Yi looked at the herbs repeatedly, and was so angry that she kicked over the bamboo basket, pointed at the soldiers and scolded:

"Lazy things, five through grass is very important, why only these?"

The soldiers knelt on the ground and replied tremblingly:

"Mrs. Bing, the five penetrating grasses on the hundred miles plain... There really is only so much to it. ”

Mrs. Yi suddenly became even more angry, and slapped her palm on Erlang's back:

"Bastard, Wutou grass likes moisture and heat, and Bailiyuan is not suitable for its growth at all. Why don't you go to Qingjian Slope and Chaoyundu? ”

The soldiers were not aggrieved, and they all looked at each other and hung their heads:

"Madame, forgive me, the two places where the brothers went first did not see the grass at all. The surrounding boundaries are full of traces of people stepping on horses, and they should have been stepped on first. As a last resort, we had to go to Bailiyuan, and it took half a day to find these back. ”

“……”

Qi Mucha's eyes widened at the moment, he lost his mind in panic, and muttered in a low voice:

"Well, how can this, how can this ......?"

Leng Qingtang slowly turned the jade wrench in his hand, and the phoenix eyes urged resentfully:

"The enemy army is really cunning, knowing that our army is in urgent need of Wutou grass, he deliberately grabbed ahead of us and picked up the nearest Wutou grass."

Mudcha gritted his teeth eagerly and smashed his fist hard:

"Overseer, let me lead my sons into Snowd City, and ensure that the city will be taken for you in two hours!"

A person with a straightforward temperament speaks without scruples, and he does not think that this sentence offends people.

There were sighs in the camp tent one after another, and several generals of the Northwest and Central armies shook their heads with sneers.

They are all people who have fought in the south and the north, and have made great contributions to the Dayi Jiangshan Society, and they have never looked down on the Tujia tribe.

Seeing that Yi Mucha was so boastful, Xue Feng, the hussar general of the Yanyi Army, stepped forward with his thick arms around his chest, squinted at the woman with a determined face, and provoked a trace of contempt at the end of his eyes:

"Hehe, Mrs. Yi is really a noble person of the Celestial Empire. The city of Xuede, which we have been unable to attack repeatedly, is easy for Madame to capture, as easy as a bag to pick up something. In this case, let's sit and wait in the army, looking forward to the good news from Madame. ”

Mudcha winked at him suspiciously, puzzled by what he said.

Leng Qingtang grimaced his face, waved his hand to the general, and said pertinently:

"Don't talk about this yet, the morale of the army is damaged at the moment, and it is not appropriate to fight again. If you think about it, where can you find more Wutou grass. ”

His eyes lit up, and he strode over to the table, his fingertips tracing back and forth on the map:

"Everyone, please look here, this place is called 'Huangquanling', and the downstream is connected to the 'Weak River River', and the location is just west of the Yunnan-Guangzhou border.

If you leave now, you can get there at night if you hurry up. Cross the weak river and go east to the Huangquan Ridge, which is overgrown with Wutou grass in this season. ”

Leng Qingtang was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately set off according to the two thousand troops of the quasi-Qi army as said by Qimucha, and two hundred people from Dongchang and a military doctor followed.

……

In the middle of the night, a full moon rises from behind the towering mountains, and the light is red and bright. The water vapor around Huangquanling is hazy and ups and downs, hitting people, and it is always uncomfortable to be greasy.

Shi Lei, the head of the seventh block, led the team to stop on the bank of the weak river, and in order to facilitate their actions, they lit torches on the shore.

Borrowing the light of the flame, Shi Lei looked into the distance.

The water flow of the weak river is gentle, and on both sides of the river are some rocky beaches with no grass.

The source of the river meanders into the Huangquan Col, and the view is not yet reachable.

Before leaving, Mrs. Yi had explained that although the weak river is called "weak river", the water rises rapidly in the rainy season, and the momentum is not underestimated.

It is now July, and there is a lot of rain in Guidi in southern Xinjiang, so the brigade must be cautious and cautious when traveling here at night.

Shi Lei repeatedly observed the surrounding environment and saw that the water potential of the weak river was significantly lower than the critical line of the rocky beach, and the height difference between the two phases was very large, so it was inferred that the river was not deep at this time.

Out of caution, Shi Lei still asked the general on the side:

"After crossing the weak water river, you can find Wutou grass when you go to Lingdong, right?"

The torch was held high, and the tooth general looked cautiously at the probe, and nodded in affirmation:

"Exactly."

Shi Lei shook the reins with one hand and shouted:

"Follow in the rear, cross the river with me—"

The army drove their horses down the rocky beach, and the rolling of the horses' hooves trampling the gravel and the "crackling" sound of burning torches broke the silence of the night.

The river is wide, but the depth of the river is not very significant. When the horse reaches the middle of the river, the river will be half of the horse's legs.

The wind continued to sweep down from the Huangquan Mountains, and the faint peculiar smell made Shi Lei's slightly relaxed nerves suddenly tighten.

The smell is ......

A terrifying thought suddenly flashed in his mind, and a loud "boom" sound came out from the mountains, and the ground shook the mountains.

Immediately afterwards, the flood rushed downstream, like a hideous beast rushing into the weak river with a roar, carrying mountain rocks and broken trees and slamming down on the Dayi army.

"No, get back to shore ......"

Shi Lei's shouting was swallowed up by the water in an instant.

The people of Dayi would never have thought that after Boku defeated Dayi's army with poisonous smoke, they expected that the other party would find a way to crack the Qilin smoke sooner or later.

Therefore, they moved ahead of time, destroying the two places north of the Boku where Wutou grass grows, and sent people to dive to Huangquanling first, quietly rushing to build water storage fortifications in the upper reaches of the weak river, and planting ground artillery on both banks of the middle and lower reaches.

Seeing that the time was ripe, the Dayi people rushed to Huangquanling as they thought, and as soon as the Boku army of the weak river ignited explosives and destroyed the water storage fortifications upstream.

Suddenly, the river that had been backlogged for a long time was tumbling and surging, washing the Dayi people to pieces.

When the water passed, there were countless corpses floating in the river, most of whom fainted and choked on the river after being injured by heavy stones.

The living struggled ashore, dizzy.

The Boku people lay in ambush in the mountains, waiting for an opportunity to pull the ropes of the ground cannons.

The copper cannons exploded one after another, and blood mist flew in all directions. At the same time, the bowstring clanged like heavy rain breaking through the air, and the onslaught towards Dayi's side refused to stop.

The army was brave and brute, seeing that their companions suffered too many casualties in a sneak attack, and they raised their swords in grief one by one, but still faced the rain of artillery fire and arrows.

The rows of people fell, and the arrows were densely inserted, as if the hedgehog could not see the whole picture of the body at all.

At this moment, across the riverbank, the eastern sky was lit red by a burst of firelight.

The Boku people actually set fire to the east of Huangquan Lingdong, and they refused to let the Dayi people take away a single Wutou grass.

……

The sky was bright, and Leng Qingtang was wandering in the camp with his hands in his hands, and his jade face was cold and warm.

Outside, kneeling to describe the embarrassed seven heads, bowed his head without saying a word.

The Boku people became more and more arrogant, knowing that the Dayi people had lost the battle of Huangquanling and failed to get the Wutou grass, so they sent people to the periphery of the Dayi camp to scold the formation, and the words were vicious, and they had the intention of forcing the Celestial Empire army to fight with them again, and they did not retreat in a hurry for unknown reasons until noon.

Leng Qingtang's face was like black iron, but he refused to fight.

It's not that he is afraid, it's just that he has no cure for the poisonous smoke of the unicorn, and rushing into battle will only cause more sacrifices.

A soldier walked into the tent quickly, and after saluting Leng Qingtang and the soldiers, Tong Bing's voice was full of excitement:

"Enlighten the Overseer, there's a caravan outside, and the leader wants to nominate you to see the Overseer."

"Caravans?"

Leng Qingtang stopped, and a chill hit people in his eyes.

"Where did the caravan come from during the war, is there really anyone who is not afraid of death? Have you ever asked them what they had to do with the Doge? ”

Soldier's Jaw:

"They said they had brought the much-needed Wutou grass for the army."

Shiller