Chapter 65: Gu Poison Works
Qu Xiangtian's frowning eyebrows stretched: "Second brother, you can, in such a short period of time, you can actually wander between many shops, and arrange ghosts for them to stay by the gunpowder, this is not a simple job, it can't be completed for a while, it seems that the eldest brother is going to be ashamed." ”
"That's not it, there is someone in the city who answers, it is the person who operates the ghost fire, I just told him where the shop is and where the gunpowder is hidden, and he will definitely help me do it in the future, and I have paid a little price." Fang Qingze's expression suddenly became a little sad and said, Qu Xiangtian looked at Fang Qingze suspiciously, he wanted to ask who that person was, but seeing Fang Qingze's appearance, he wanted to talk and stopped raising before saying: "Let's go back and rest, everything will be talked about tomorrow, I heard that you told the Qinwang army not to relax their vigilance, the night patrol and espionage can not be relaxed, our department is doing peripheral defense, you Qinwang army is patrolling the camp, Yu Qian may counterattack at any time." Zhu Jianwen agreed, and everyone turned around and left.
Tan Qing was still sitting on the edge of the couch and refused to leave, tears welled up in his eyes, looking at Bai Yong affectionately, Lu Yunzhi walked a few steps and turned around and asked, "Tan Qing, you should rest earlier." Tan Qing promised: "I know, I'll accompany him again." Lu Yunzhi's heart suddenly felt a trace of sourness, the figures of Yingzi and Shi Yuting flashed in his mind, and then looked at Bai Yong and Tan Qing, who were still unconscious, sighed, opened the curtain, and walked out,
In the city of Beijing, Yu Qian and the middle-aged man sat there slowly recuperating, although the battle just now was very short, but they were also exhausted, Yu Qian was even more affected by the soul tower, and kept using ghosts around the body to heal, although this is damaging to the body, the recovery is really much faster than medicine, compared to the injury on Lu Yunzhi's shoulder, Yu Qian's internal injuries are more serious,
Shang Yu walked in with a package in his hand at this time, Yu Qian stopped the ghost entanglement, and asked a little suspiciously: "Shang Yu, what did you do in the battle in the city just now, and you didn't come to support." Shang Yu threw the package in his hand to the ground, and the package rolled towards Yu Qian, Yu Qian stepped on it with his foot, opened the cloth buckle on the package, and there was a human head in the package.
Yu Qian looked at it for a while and said: "I know this person, isn't he the big shopkeeper of Honglu Tower, why did you cut him off." Shang Yu smiled coldly and said, "It turns out that adults know." The middle-aged man said at this moment: "The delicacies of the mountains and seas made by Honglu Tower are famous far and wide, and no one around Shuntianfu knows them. ”
"This is." Shang Yu looked at the middle-aged man and asked, obviously he didn't know the origin of this person, but Yu Qian didn't answer and just said, "You go on, Shang Yu." Shang Yu arched his hand at the middle-aged man, turned his head and continued to speak to Qian: "Just now I heard the sound of Fuchengmen killing, and I knew that it must be a thief who came to sneak attack, so I wanted to rush to support, but I saw dozens of people sneaking around, holding things and approaching the palace, so I followed, grabbed a person's package and found that it was gunpowder, and those people still wanted to resist, so I killed them cleanly, and after killing me, I found that the leader was the shopkeeper of Honglu Tower. ”
Yu Qian nodded and praised: "Well done, but it's time to leave a living, I don't blame you for the critical situation, if they detonate the gunpowder, it will be troublesome, Honglu Lou not only does the dishes in the restaurant do well, but also has a good name, similar to the Honglu Temple of the imperial court, but it is closer to Honglu's original intention, undertaking all red and white ceremonies, I have been to eat a few times, but I really didn't expect that they turned out to be spies, and they must have been sent by Fang Qingze." As he spoke, Yu Qian suddenly changed his voice and asked: "Honglu Tower is in the south of the city, you live in the north of the city, and there is a war outside the south of the city so late, what are you doing in the south of the city." ”
Shang Delirium was full of shame, and he was speechless for a while, only to hear the middle-aged man say: "Brother Yu is upright and doesn't know, the restaurant in the south of the city is closed at night, but there is a kind of shop that is indeed not closed, I am talking about yes or no, Brother Shang Delirium." Shang Yu nodded gratefully, and Yu Qian asked even more suspiciously: "What kind of store?" "Brothel." The middle-aged man laughed out loud after speaking, Yu Qian looked at Shang Yu, who was still twisting and pinching and inconvenient to speak, and laughed a few times when he believed it, and then continued to cross his knees and close his eyes to concentrate on recuperation.
On the second day, outside the city, both sides were very calm, no one released a cannon, let alone sent a soldier, yesterday's battle, both sides exhausted their strategies, in the end or outside the city in a short hand, both sides suffered extremely heavy damage, Qinwang army is even more lost, in comparison to the Ming army is much better, after all, last night's battle Ming army is more numerous, and there are rebels to fight with the leopard and others, in contrast, a slight advantage, casualties and losses are much smaller,
The leaders of both sides, all suffered serious or minor injuries, naturally need to recuperate, but also give up an important reason to continue the war, the Ming army gave up the surrounding defense battalion to stick to the capital, soldiers along the street camp, ready to attack at any time, but strange things happened in the morning, the Ming soldiers in the capital fell to the ground one after another, foaming at the mouth and convulsions, I thought that a small number of soldiers had malaria or other diseases, never thought that a battalion to a battalion, the infection was extremely rapid, even if the enclosure isolation outside the lime and other things, Unable to isolate this rapid contagion, the whole city of Beijing fell into panic.
Yu Qian and the Lord of the Living Soul Vein and others hurriedly went to the camp to check, and found that it was Gu poison and Gu worms that were causing chaos, and then released the ghost spirit to break the Gu, and worked hard to save the soldiers who were still breathing, burned the dead soldiers, and waited to prevent the enemy from attacking the city with all their might, Yu Qian ordered to block the news, and could not let Lu Yunzhi and others know that the Gu poison strategy had been successful, in short, this day was busy, compared to the Ming army, Qu Xiangtian's camp was much easier, and a group of people waited for rest and recuperation until the three poles of the sun before they got together, Everyone is refreshed and has recovered, but Lu Yunzhi's face is still a little pale because of excessive blood loss last night, and Zhu Jianwen's hair was cut and embarrassed, and he could only wear a hat to cover his shame.
Everyone gathered together and decided to go to see Bai Yong first, everyone was a vigorous person, the pace was extremely fast and the sound of landing was also very subtle, everyone guessed that Bai Yong should be awake, but he might still be sleeping, and he was worried that he was more deliberately lightened his steps, Qu Xiangtian walked in front, stretched out his hand to open the curtain, and everyone rushed in, only to see Bai Yong's upper body leaning on the couch, and there was a woman on the bed under him, it was Tan Qing, Bai Yong's hand was holding the blanket, and he wanted to cover Tan Qing's body, Suddenly heard the sound of footsteps behind him, followed by the sound of the curtain being opened, and suddenly Bai Yong was at a loss, as if he had done something wrong.