Jia Biao led the army to evacuate Lingqiu, and the soldiers of the Han army were quite surprised, and Feng Yi was also surprised.

Listening to the doubts and discussions of the generals around him, Feng Yi pondered for a moment and said, "Continue to march!" ”

Regardless of whether Jia Biao really wants to withdraw or not, no matter what the enemy is fighting, the battle of Lingqiu must be fought by his own side.

The army arrived near Lingqiu, raised its eyes, and the top of the city was indeed empty, without a single flag, and also saw the figure of a defender, and looked carefully, even the city gate under the city gate tower was wide open.

Feng Yi narrowed his eyes and stared at the city for a long time before he collected his gaze and fell into deep thought.

It seems that Lu Fangjun did evacuate Lingqiu, but this makes no sense, such an important Lingqiu City, Lu Fangjun has no reason not to even defend it, so he was scared away by his own side.

He pondered for a while, looked left and right, and said, "Zhao Kuang! ”

"The last general!"

Zhao Kuang urged the horse to come out of the queue and intervene to Feng Yi to give a salute.

"You lead a cavalry, enter the city first, and see if there is an ambush in the city!"

"The last general obeys!"

Zhao Kuang agreed, and was just about to turn his horse away, Geng Shu urged him to step forward and intervened: "General, please go with General Zhao." ”

"This ......" "General, the enemy army is acting strangely, if there is really an ambush in the city, the last general can help General Zhao to fight his way out of the siege!"

Feng Yi thought about it carefully, nodded, and reminded Zhengse: "You two need to be more careful!" If something goes wrong, you need to exit the city immediately! ”

"Whoa!"

Geng Shu and Zhao Kuang responded in unison.

There were also cavalry in the Western Expeditionary Army, but there were not many of them.

Zhao Kuang led five hundred horsemen, Geng Shu led two hundred horsemen, a total of less than a thousand horsemen, and slowly approached the Lingqiu City in front.

It's not dark now, it's not the middle of the night, the sun is scorching, and the weather is hot, but when they approached Lingqiu City, Geng Shu, Zhao Kuang and the others had a chilling feeling.

Through the open city gate, you can vaguely see the streets of the city, but in broad daylight, there is not even a shadow of a person on the street, it is empty, there is nothing, this is too abnormal.

Zhao Kuang turned his head to look at Geng Shu, Geng Shu also subconsciously looked at Zhao Kuang, and the two patted the neck of the war horse in unison, letting the horse go more slowly.

Seven hundred cavalry, led by Geng Shu and Zhao Kuang, walked almost step by step to the gate of the southern city of Lingqiu City.

The two of them raised their eyes to the city, and there was no one, and there was no sound, or rather, no one was seen in the city, and no sound was heard, not even the sound of chickens and dogs barking.

Zhao Kuang swallowed his saliva and muttered in a low voice: "It's really evil!" ”

As he spoke, he asked in a low voice, "General Geng, what now?" ”

"Enter!"

Geng Shu said a word, and then, with a rein, he rode a war horse and walked into the city gate step by step.

Zhao Kuang took a deep breath, strengthened his courage, and followed Geng Shu into the city.

Walk through the hole in the city gate, look around, empty, nothing.

Geng Shu glanced left and right, and found nothing, he raised his hand and pointed to the steps on the side.

Two Youzhou horsemen turned over and dismounted, ran down the steps, and ran to the city.

When I came to the top of the city wall, I looked up, and I could see clearly that there were a lot of rolling logs and stones piled up on the city, but there was no one.

The two looked forward and backward for a while, glanced at each other, and then leaned on the head of the city and shook their arms at Geng Shu below, indicating that there was indeed no one on the city.

Zhao Kuang frowned and said, "General Geng, even if Jia Biao and his subordinates evacuate Lingqiu City, ...... But what about the people of the city?

The spies didn't say that the people of the city had also withdrawn with them! ”

Geng Shu is also a second monk now, and he is confused.

He shook his head slowly, indicating that he couldn't figure it out either.

He waved his hand forward and said, "Keep going!" ”

He took the lead and continued to move forward.

After a short time, he entered the main street of the city, and looked at both sides of the street, where all the shops were closed.

Geng Shu urged the horse to come to the door of a shop, raised the tiger's head halberd in his hand, and tapped it to the door of the store.

He didn't exert any force, but the door slowly opened.

Almost at the same time, a hula was heard, and the cavalry present raised their crossbow machines one after another, and the sharp edge of the crossbow machine was aimed at the slowly opening door.

Geng Shu glanced at the people around him, and then, he jumped off the war horse, held the war halberd, and walked into the store step by step.

The inside of the shop seemed to have been swept away by a hurricane, and there were all kinds of objects scattered all over the ground, and there were a lot of weeds on the ground.

He lifted his nose and took two strong breaths, feeling that the smell in the store was strange, and there was a faint smell of stinking.

Zhao Kuang and the others, who followed Geng Shu in, invariably covered their mouths and noses with sweat towels.

Geng Shu walked to the inside of the shop, and when he reached the door of an inner room, he opened the door with his halberd.

As the door opened, he looked inside, and couldn't help but take two steps back.

It turned out that there were as many as seven or eight corpses lying in the inner room, looking at the size and hair, there were men and women, old and young, the blood stains on the man's clothes had turned black and brown, and the woman had no clothes on her, apparently she had been humiliated and killed.

Because the corpse had been held in the inner room for a long time, it had already rotted and was full of maggots and flies, and as soon as the door opened, the stench rushing to the sky rushed to the face, almost fainting Geng Shu on the spot.

He took two steps back, and at the same time, the halberd in his hand swung forward, closing the door again.

He saw the situation in the inner room clearly, Zhao Kuang and the others didn't see it, and people stepped forward one after another and asked, "What's wrong?"

What's in the house? ”

A soldier was about to step forward to open the door, Geng Shu raised one arm to cover his mouth and nose, stretched out the other arm to the side, blocked the soldier's way with a halberd, shook his head and said, "Don't open!" ”

The soldiers looked at him with a puzzled expression, and Geng Shu said with a solemn face: "There are corpses inside, and the time of death may be seven or eight days, or ten days, rotting maggots, and there may be epidemics!" ”

Hearing this, everyone present changed color and ran out.

The so-called plague is the plague, at that time, the plague was very terrible, one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, hundreds of thousands, once infected with the plague, eight or nine times out of ten will die.

Therefore, as long as the epidemic is mentioned, people will not hear it.

Geng Shu, Zhao Kuang and others hurriedly exited the store, Zhao Kuang tied the sweat towel on his face again, and said to Geng Shu: "No wonder the smell in the city is weird, there is always a stinky and musty smell, is it ...... The people in the city ...... "Speaking of this, he can't go on, could it be that this big Lingqiu City has now become a dead city?"

If this is the case, Jia Biao's escape without a fight makes sense, and they are also afraid of staying in the city and contracting the epidemic.

Geng Shu's face was solemn, he ripped off the face towel around his neck, tied it vigorously on his face, and then strode to the next store, pushed the door open, and walked in.

The situation of this shop is almost exactly the same as the previous one, it has been turned into a mess, almost all valuable objects have been scavenged, and the rest are some wooden furniture, which is too large to be moved.

He pushed open the door to the inner chamber, and there were several corpses inside, equally rotten and stinking, infested with maggots.

He checked five shops in a row, and every house was like this, and it was only at this time that Geng Shu confirmed that Lingqiu City had indeed been slaughtered, and the people in the city had been slaughtered.

He didn't know who did it, it could be Lu Fangjun, or it could be the Hun cavalry and Wuhuan cavalry who rushed to Lingqiu City one step ahead of Lu Fangjun.

No matter who did it, whether it was Lu Fangjun, or the Hun cavalry, or the Wuhuan cavalry, one counts as one, none of them are innocent, and they are all the culprits of the massacre.

Geng Shu's chest and lungs were about to explode, he came out of the fifth shop, suddenly broke off, and slashed the halberd in his hand to the ground.

The two green bricks on the ground burst out of the sparks, and they were torn apart by his halberd.

Zhao Kuang stepped forward, and when he saw the tragic situation in Lingqiu City, he was also full of indignation and grief.

He patted Geng Shu on the shoulder, and said in a hoarse voice: "General Geng, let's go back and report to the general!" ”

The enemy army in Lingqiu City has indeed withdrawn, but this huge city has also become a dead city! It's so miserable, every house is full of corpses, it's just miserable! Geng Shu couldn't help but look up to the sky and roar, pulled the reins of the war horse, jumped on the horse's back, waved his hand to the soldiers under his command, and withdrew from Lingqiu City the same way.

When they arrived outside the city, everyone quickly ran back to their own camp and replied to Feng Yi.

Seeing Geng Shu, Zhao Kuang and others coming back safe and sound, the soldiers of the Han army all breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing Feng Yi, everyone dismounted one after another, Geng Shu was depressed, lowered his head, and said nothing.

Feng Yi poked his head and looked at Geng Shu curiously for a moment, his face dazed.

When he entered the city, Geng Shu's mood was quite high, how could he become like this after leaving the city.

He turned his head to look at Zhao Kuang and asked, "General Zhao, what's wrong?" ”

Zhao Kuang's face was also extremely ugly, he looked up at Feng Yi, then lowered his head again, and whispered: "General Hui, Lingqiu...... Lingqiu has become a dead city. ”

"What?"

Feng Yi's brows tightened.

Zhao Kuang whispered: "The people in the city have long been ...... It has long been slaughtered by the enemy, and the corpses of the people have been thrown into their homes, no one to clean them up, they are all decomposed, and the city is ...... I'm afraid, I'm afraid there will be an epidemic in the city. ”

After Feng Yi heard this, he understood why everyone was so abnormal.

He subconsciously shook the reins in his hand and said quietly: "Is it Lu Fangjun who slaughtered the people in the city?" ”

Geng Shu raised his head and said fiercely: "It may also be done by the Huns and the Wuhuan people!" The people who were slain have been dead for less than ten days.

At the beginning, the Xiongnu and Wuhuan were the Lingqiu occupied by Lu Fang's army one step ahead! ”

Feng Yi took a deep breath, turned his head and said, "Pass the order, there may be an epidemic in the city, let the brothers go and collect mugwort leaves and realgar." ”

Artemisia mugwort leaf and realgar are both special drugs for pre-epidemic diseases.

Boiling water with mugwort leaves, people can enhance immunity to epidemics when they drink it, burn realgar, and the smoke produced can also dispel epidemics.

Of course, burning realgar is not child's play, how much it needs to be used and how long it is burned, it is all particular, otherwise, realgar has not yet dispersed the epidemic, but can smoke people to death first.

Realgar is explained by modern chemistry that it is tetraarsenic tetrasulfide, and combustion will produce a chemical reaction to produce arsenic trioxide, and arsenic trioxide is arsenic.

Although realgar is a traditional Chinese medicine, it can also produce highly toxic itself.

Due to the large number of corpses hidden in the city, and the corpses had been placed for a long time, Feng Yi did not dare to lead the army to enter rashly, so he could only ask the soldiers to collect mugwort leaves and realgar for the purpose of preventing the epidemic.

Artemisia leaves are easy to collect, the specialty of the north, everywhere, realgar is an ore, it is too difficult to collect, you need to go to the people in nearby villages to collect.

The villages in this area of Kelingqiu have long been empty, and there are no living people to be found.

There was no realgar, as long as the Han army used a large number of mugwort leaves, the Han soldiers set up pots outside the city and began to boil mugwort leaf water.

The soldiers' water bladders, the water in them are all poured out, all replaced with mugwort leaf water, regardless of whether the soldiers are thirsty or not, in short, each person first drink three bowls.

After a busy time, it was already afternoon.

Everything that should be prepared has been prepared, and everything that should be prevented has been prevented, Feng Yi ordered the whole army to enter the city.

Just when the soldiers of the Han army had already walked to the front of the city gate and were about to enter the city in batches, Geng Shu suddenly urged the horse to run to Feng Yi's approach, and said urgently: "General, slow down!" There may be fraud in the city! ”