Rewind to three days ago

The thirtieth day of the lunar month, Chinese New Year's Eve

After a whole day of onslaught, the Zhou army finally retreated unwillingly.

The two sides fought very badly, the Zhou army rushed to the general's gate tower like crazy, the corpses almost filled the entire moat, and the blood also stained half of the city wall, under the residual sun, indescribable desolation and sourness.

Of course, the corpses killed by the Zhou army were all over the field, and the Jin army defending the city was not comfortable, in order to win the general pass within ten days and win this gamble, Ji Linbing exposed his family background.

Catapults, siege hammers, bows, ladders, crashes and other countless siege equipment, endlessly, inexhaustible, let the Jin army of the general pass suffer a lot.

Not to mention the corpse, just the stumps and severed arms of the Jin army can cover a street.

Peng Kuohai joined the army at a young age and experienced hundreds of battles, large and small, but in terms of tragedy, this battle can be ranked in the top three, which shows the fierceness of the Zhou army's offensive and the difficulty of the Jin army in defending the city.

However, although the Jin army fought very hard, Peng Kuohai was very happy in his heart, today is already the thirtieth day of the lunar month, and the Zhou army will have no food when they see it, and they will soon be bitter.

Lao Shuai is not a loss, not to mention the previous intelligence analysis, just because he personally supervises the battle in the city tower every day, you can see some of the situation of the Zhou army.

Since the day before yesterday, the Zhou army's siege of the city has become more and more fierce and impatient, which just proves that the Zhou army has been slowly forced to a desperate situation of lack of food, so it will rush to attack the city at the cost of casualties.

The old marshal privately deduced with the generals that if it lasted for three more days at most, the Zhou army would have to be forced to withdraw.

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Thinking of this, the old marshal suddenly felt a lot more excited because of the haze of heavy casualties among the soldiers under his command.

Call the head of the Huotou Army, explain that he is Chinese New Year's Eve today, let the Huotou Battalion make a few more meat dishes, and then wrap some dumplings to share, which can be regarded as a New Year for the soldiers.

The chief took the order and left, Peng Kuohai inspected the city defense again, and instructed the generals on duty to be careful of the night attack of the Zhou army, and then the old marshal took his personal guards to prepare to return to the marshal's mansion.

When the group had just arrived at a street, there was a sharp whistle, and the doors and windows of the shops and houses on both sides of the street opened instantly, killing a group of assassins with weapons in their hands, and silently rushed in the direction of Peng Kuohai.

Obviously, this group of assassins came for the old handsome.

Peng Kuohai rode on his horse, smiling his beard, his own guards stepped forward to meet the enemy, the two sides were fighting fiercely, suddenly, a bow and crossbow sounded, and the assassins fell to the ground with arrows.

Immediately afterwards, a group of Long Xiaoxiao, wearing Yuankui and dragon pattern robes, appeared at both ends of the street with bows and crossbows.

Seeing that the assassins were hit by arrows, this group of Long Xiaoxiao put down their bows and crossbows, drew their waist knives, and divided half of them to protect the old handsome, and the other half quickly surrounded those assassins with the old handsome's personal guards.

Seeing that the assassin took it, a middle-aged man who was also dressed as a dragon Xiaoxiao, but whose appearance was much more delicate and gorgeous, walked quickly to the old handsome and bowed.

"Linghu won one step late, which frightened Peng Shuai."

Peng Kuohai waved his hand, indicating that he was fine, but his face was a little ridiculous: "It is said that your Long Xiao plan is not missing, why didn't you find out the assassin's ambush point, didn't you say that you started in the Shuai Mansion, why did you start halfway in advance?" ”

Long Xiaoxiao's commander made Ling Huying feel ashamed: "It was our carelessness, this group of puppies actually buried a secret line in our hands, fortunately we found it in time, otherwise we would have really let this group of people be confused." ”

Peng Kuohai nodded, only then did he understand what was going on, and patted Ling Huying on the shoulder: "This time the old man is fine, I won't say anything more, you still have to be careful in this situation in the future, the prosecutor's office is not easy to deal with." ”

Ling Hu Ying nodded a little shyly, this time they made a mistake in intelligence, so that the old opponent did not say a lesson, and almost folded Peng Kuohai into it.

Now at this critical juncture, if Peng Kuohai has any accidents, then General Guan will be in trouble............

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Ling Huying, who was still afraid, returned with the assassins he had captured alive, and he planned to torture them carefully to see if he could get any information.

And after Linghu won away, Peng Kuohai also returned home with people, the old man didn't take this matter to heart, he sat on the border for nearly ten years, and he didn't encounter this kind of assassination sent by the enemy country, which was easily resolved by him.

Even if Ling Hu Ying didn't arrive in time today, the guards around Lao Shuai could take down this group of assassins, at most the process was troublesome, but the danger was not to mention.

After all, he is the commander of hundreds of thousands of troops, and the fierceness of his personal guards is counted in the army, and he is not inferior to the masters of the palace.

Although there are many good intelligence agencies like the Prosecutor's Office, there is still a certain gap between them and the warriors in the army and the masters of Ouchi.

Back at Shuai's mansion, the old marshal removed his armor with the help of his guards, changed his clothes, and brought dinner, which was a plate of dumplings.

Although the old marshal witnessed the tragic death of too many soldiers on the city tower today and did not have much appetite, he thought of today's Chinese New Year's Eve, so he picked up two dumplings and ate them on the New Year's Day.

Who would have thought that it didn't matter if he ate it, but after a cup of tea, the old man felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, screamed, and vomited a mouthful of blood.

Seeing this, the guards were frightened, and hurriedly went to invite Langzhong, but were stopped by Peng Kuohai.

The old marshal endured his physical discomfort, ordered the guards to block the Shuai Mansion, take down all the subordinates to take custody, and then secretly invited Lang Zhong, and asked Duan Wang, King Jing, and Ling Hu Ying to come to the Shuai Mansion quietly.

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It didn't take long for Lang Zhong and Duanwang to arrive, and they were surprised to see Peng Kuohai's appearance, Lang Zhong took his pulse, and checked the dumplings that Peng Kuohai had just eaten, and finally diagnosed that Lao Shuai was poisoned by Luo Yan.

Luo Yan, a poisonous weed that is a specialty of the grassland, can be turned into a colorless and odorless strong poison after being concocted by a special method, but because of its scarcity, it is very rare.

"It must be the Prosecutor's Office, I've seen them use Luo Yan's poison a few times, damn, I actually let them sneak into the Shuai Mansion."

Linghu Ying's eyes were red, and the old opponent poisoned the Jin army coach under Long Xiaoxiao's nose, which was like stepping on his face to the ground.

And more importantly, if Peng Kuohai really had an accident, then he and Long Xiaoxiao, as intelligence agencies, did not destroy the conspiracy of the Prosecutor's Office in time, and Emperor Liyang traced it, and they were all to blame.

"Mei Qianqiu, are you waiting for Lao Tzu?"

Ling Huying muttered the name of the commander of the Prosecutor's Office in his heart, full of hatred.

Because of the different positions, Ling Huying immediately cared about who was poisoning, but Peng Kuohai and Duanwang were concerned about whether the poison on Lao Shuai's body could be lifted.

Now, Ji Linbing is eyeing General Guan, and the Jin army can't do without Peng Kuohai.

Lang Zhong's face was embarrassed: "Luo Yan is highly poisonous, and the villain is also the first time to see it, and there is no good way to detoxify."

Fortunately, because Lao Shuai didn't eat many poisonous dumplings, the poisoning was not deep, and after taking the detoxification pill with villain characteristics for a while, he should have no worries about his life in a short time, but he was ........."

"Just what?" The old man lay on the bed, frowning and asking.

Lang Zhong gritted his teeth: "Luo Yan is very toxic, although the villain can suppress the toxicity with medicine, but if this poison is not solved, Peng Shuai will have to suffer from poison, his whole body is weak, and his abdominal pain is unbearable."

Therefore, now Peng Shuai can only rest in bed, and if he wants to go into battle to command......"

Lang Zhong didn't say anything further, but everyone understood what he meant, and his face was very ugly.

During this time, the old marshal has been sitting in the city tower to supervise the battle, inspiring morale, only to resist the siege of the Zhou army, now if the old marshal is sick in bed, no one dares to guarantee that the army's heart will not be affected, in case there is a bad pool, if the general pass is not good, it will not be able to hold.

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"No, the old man can't stay in the Shuai Mansion, it's just painful to death, and the old man has to supervise the battle in the city tower." The old man gritted his teeth and shouted categorically.

"This ........." Lang Zhong hesitated, but he didn't dare to persuade again.

Peng Kuohai ignored him, endured the pain, turned to look at Ling Huying, his eyes flashed.

"The old man's mansion is the most heavily guarded, and he can have spies, and in other places in the Guannai, it is estimated that there are still a lot of detailed works of the prosecutor's office, Zisheng (the word of Linghu Win), the old man handed over this matter to you.

No matter what method you use, the old man has only one request, before the Zhou army withdraws, there can be no more mistakes in the general pass. ”

Ling Hu Ying arched his hand with a murderous face: "Peng Shuai rest assured, if something happens again, Ling Hu Ying will apologize for his guilt." ”

The old man nodded, and said: "The old man of the Shuai Mansion has been arrested, you are professional in interrogating this matter, six words, I would rather kill by mistake than let go, I must find out the person for me." ”

"Yes."

Ling Hu Ying shouted, turned to everyone, and turned out of the room with a murderous look.

Lao Shuai looked at King Duan and King Jing again, and said after a moment: "Now that the matter is now, the situation is urgent, and the old minister is helpless, please ask the two princes to help me." ”

The two princes glanced at each other, put aside their prejudices for the time being, and replied in unison: "Peng Shuai, please command, Le Zhi (Le Yan) will definitely do it." ”

The old marshal smiled with satisfaction, and called two more trustworthy generals to get rid of his plan.

First of all, the news of Lao Shuai's poisoning must be kept secret, Lao Shuai will continue to sit in the city tower tomorrow like no one, of course, because of physical damage, the command of the city will be handed over to the two generals, at the same time, King Jing also follows Lao Shuai, responsible for motivating his own morale.

After all, in terms of identity and status, in the general pass, only two princes can be compared to the old marshal, and only they can perfectly replace the morale-boosting effect of the old marshal.

And King Jing guarded the city with the old marshal, and the rest of the Duan kings took the old marshal's secret order to invite Di Yi back to the city to sit in the town.

After all, the old marshal's body can't support a long command, and the defenders of the city can be replaced by generals, but the large-scale mobilization of troops and horses requires Di Yi, the deputy marshal, to come forward.

And the reason why Duan Wang was sent to invite Di Yi was completely because he was afraid that others would not invite Di Yi, after all, the war in Nanling was in full swing, and the news of Lao Shuai's poisoning could not be leaked, so he could only let Duan Wang go out in person.

In this way, King Duan disguised himself and went out of the city to invite Di Yi, but the old man endured the pain of poisoning and stayed up on the city tower for two days.

On the second day of the first lunar month, Ji Linbing led the Zhou army to withdraw his troops, and after the old man breathed a sigh of relief, he could no longer hold the ravages of Luo Yan's poison in his body, and fell to the ground in a coma, lying in bed.

King Jing, together with several generals, desperately controlled the situation in the pass, and finally waited for Di Yi who arrived on the fourth day of the first lunar month.

Di Yi carried the power of a great victory, and then as a deputy marshal, he barely suppressed the floating military heart, and then according to the original plan, sent 100,000 troops to support Guangqing's Dianshouyu.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Dianshou Yu, who received 100,000 reinforcements, defeated Song Han, who had no food, and recaptured Beiling County.