Song Jun greatly reduced orders, which made Du Wenhao begin to feel uneasy, there was a bad premonition that the rabbit was dead and the dog was cooking, and what made him even more uneasy was that he obviously felt that the people around him were getting closer and closer, and the manpower had also increased significantly, and even the Xiao cavalry battalion behind was also frequently transferred, all of which indicated that the Xixia people were likely to have determined their location and were ready to start.

Du Wenhao felt like a lamb in two groups of war horses, once these two groups of war horses galloped and collided, he would be trampled into meat at any time. When his use value is greatly reduced, whether his bait must be preserved is no longer so important, once he is held hostage by the Western Xia spies, it is entirely possible for Song Jun to kill himself in order to ensure the safety of the formula!

At this moment, the news that the Song army had lost its western expedition to Western Xia and had lost 200,000 troops spread in the streets and alleys of the capital, but the details were varied. And at this moment, General Gao came to visit. This visit finally made Du Wenhao make an important decision.

That night, General Gao made a surprise visit, saying that he had returned to the capital from the Western Xia front to coordinate military affairs, and he had visited Du Wenhao by the way.

After the two exchanged pleasantries, they talked about fighting against Western Xia. Du Wenhao asked: "I heard that our army suffered a defeat in Western Xia, right?" ”

"yes!" General Gao looked a little depressed, shook his head and said: "Our plague battle, did not fully achieve the expected results, although the beginning of the momentum, but later, the Western Xia army learned to be cunning, avoiding us, and did not fight against our army, only sent a small force to harass our army grain and grass, where our army went, the Xixia people took the initiative to give up the city, and when the city was abandoned, all the grain and grass in the city were pulled away, and the water source was poisoned. We occupied all empty cities, and our army fought until the capital, and the Western Xia army showed up, and they went all out to hold Xingqing, and they couldn't attack it for a long time. ”

"Don't we have a plague weapon? Xingqing didn't take it either? ”

"Yes, later, according to our secret report, we learned that the Xia army concentrated its forces to annihilate 2,000 of our army's vanguard in the previous battle of Mingshachuan, and transported all the captured isolation suits and gas masks to the capital Xingqing for defense, and in the defense of Xingqing, they also summed up the methods to deal with our plague weapons, so they have not been able to overcome it for a long time."

Du Wenhao thought to himself, throwing the corpses of patients who died of the plague into the city, this is not strictly speaking, it is not a bacteriological weapon, and it is still easy to think of a way to deal with this primitive bacteriological attack, so he didn't ask what method the Xixia people used.

General Gao said: "We later learned that the policy formulated by the Western Xia people was to lure the enemy deep and fight to the death in the capital Xingqing, they imposed martial law in the whole city, and equipped 2,000 soldiers with the 2,000 sets of isolation suits and gas masks, which were specially responsible for collecting and cremating the infected corpses thrown into the city, and brutally killing and burning all the people suspected of being infected in the city. Therefore, although we threw a large number of infected corpses into the city, there was no large-scale outbreak of plague in the city. ”

Du Wenhao felt sorry in his heart, although the Tangut people used this strong man's broken arm move, although it was tragic, it was quite effective, and it was also a common means to stop the spread of the plague in ancient times. The Xixia people even used this trick, and they must be ready to fight against the water, and they couldn't help but worry: "Since this is the case, it's time to retreat." ”

"Yes, but General Xu and General Chong are already estranged, and they both want to fight for merit, so they don't retreat and continue to attack Xingqing. Due to the fact that our army drove straight in, the logistics supply could not keep up, and the Xixia people concentrated their forces to harass our grain and grass, and then, the army of Qinwang from all walks of the Western Xia arrived, and attacked from all sides, and our army suffered heavy losses, especially General Xu, who was defeated all the way, and was finally besieged in Yongle City on all sides. The Western Xia army cut off the water source, because the water source in the city has been poisoned by the Xixia people, lack of water and food, mutiny in the army, soldiers surrendered to the city, the Western Xia army invaded Yongle City, General Xu died in battle, and 200,000 soldiers sacrificed their lives for the country! ”

Historically, the Battle of Yongle City became a turning point in the Song-Xia War. After this battle, the vitality of the Song Dynasty was greatly damaged, and it was no longer able to attack Western Xia on a large scale, and the country gradually weakened, laying the foundation for the later Liaojin to destroy the Northern Song Dynasty.

Du Wenhao felt sorry in his heart, the plague weapon caused the Song army to attack the Western Xia, but he didn't expect the lone army to go deeper, but it was surrounded by heavy surrounds, and finally lost most of it. It seems that it is still ** right - the factor that determines the victory of the war is not weapons, but people!

The two were silent for a long time, and then General Gao said: "At present, our army is temporarily unable to march westward, and the existing equipment and potions are enough to use, so the military department has decided to reduce the order of equipment and disinfectant potions. Once our army gathers strength to resume the war, the imperial court will increase the order again. ”

Du Wenhao had lost interest in this and asked, "This time I used the plague weapon to go west, did the plague spread in Western Xia?" ”

"In this Western Expedition, we put a large number of corpses of the sick and dead in many Western Xia cities, resulting in a large-scale epidemic of plague in Western Xia, and countless people died of disease, and the national strength of Western Xia has been greatly damaged. A few days ago, General Chong ordered a number of small units to be sent to carry the bodies of the dead of the plague and drop them into various parts of Western Xia to further increase the epidemic of the plague. ”

Du Wenhao's heart sank, and his words were a little cold: "General, the original intention of using anti-poison equipment was to avoid the harm of innocent people, why do you want to spread the plague to innocent people now?" That's inhumane, isn't it? ”

General Gao smiled faintly: "The two armies are fighting with all their might, and being merciful to the enemy is cruel to themselves!" To tell you the truth, the Xixia people are not as kind as Mr., and they are planning to kidnap him! ”

This is no longer news, Du Wenhao was mentally prepared, and said: "Didn't you send a number of guards to ambush around me, let me be bait, and just wait to hang the Xixia spies?" ”

General Gao said: "That's right, it's just that this time it's not only Western Xia, but also the spies of Daliao have joined in!" ”

Du Wenhao was taken aback: "Da Liao? They want to do it to me too? ”

"Yes! If it weren't for the estrangement between the two generals, and General Xu was not good at the art of war, he was finally defeated, otherwise, my army would have wiped out the Western Xia! Both Da Liao and Western Xia were very jealous of such achievements, and they were very afraid that our army would regain strength to attack again, so according to the in-line reports of our army lurking in Western Xia and Da Liao, both Western Xia and Da Liao had already formulated plans to kidnap Mr. I'm afraid I'm going to do something to Mr. in the near future. ”

"And how are you going to protect me?"

"Don't worry, sir, we've got everything in place. I have come this time to discuss this matter with my husband, and my husband must be vigilant when he is treated in the future, as long as he finds that his expression is not right, he will immediately hide in the back hall, and our people will protect his safety at any time. ”

Du Wenhao smiled reluctantly: "The enemy is mixed with the patients, no matter how vigilant I am, I can't be clear." Otherwise, I'd better close my business and go into hiding. Otherwise, I will go to my apprentice and not collect the money, and let him help me enter the palace to hide, so that it is safer. ”

General Gao shook his head: "This is not good, Mr. must not see Ling Gaozu now." ”

"Why?"

"Jia Wanglong should have already told Mr. that we are going to use this opportunity to crack the spy organizations of Western Xia and Da Liao in one fell swoop, and if we go into hiding, there will be no way to achieve this goal. We can't even meet with Master Qian, otherwise the news will leak out, which will have a great impact on our plans. ”

Du Wenhao was very depressed, and when it came to it, he still had to be his own bait! Moreover, they forbade themselves to meet with the money, I am afraid that the intention is not only for this purpose, could it be that if the plan fails, they will be killed, so that they can cover up the whole thing, so as not to trouble them in the future. Anyway, the public news is that he has already died in the riots in the county. They refused to admit it, and no one else could find out about it.

Since this is the case, the words are not speculative, Du Wenhao has a ride or not. General Gao knew that Du Wenhao was in a bad mood, and when he was a bait, his mood would not be much better. Then he took his leave and left.

For the next few days, Du Wenhao had been sullen, seeing that the security around him was getting tighter and tighter, and knowing that the danger was getting closer and closer, after he tossed and turned for several nights, he made an important decision and made a plan for it.

On this day, the guards deployed in the shroud shop came to report that the shopkeeper Zhao of the shroud shop left the shop and quietly sneaked into the house of the shopkeeper Ni of the Shanhai medicinal herb trading house. Du Wenhao immediately realized that this woman might attack again, and decided to start the plan immediately.

Du Wenhao asked Lin Qingdai to call Dong Zhukuai and others, and asked Xue Fei'er to call for money and not to accept it, in addition, Pang Yuqin had already told Du Wenhao about the promise of Zhan Di's mother in the Ministry of Rites Examination to help transfer Pang County Lieutenant to Beijing as an official. Therefore, Du Wenhao sent Pang Yuqin to contact Pang's mother and asked her to bring Zhan Di to Ni's shopkeeper's house.

When Du Wenhao took Dong Zhu and them to leave the pharmacy, he did not allow Hu Yanzhong and Xin Jiuniang and other guards to follow, and told Steward Jia to let him tell General Gao, saying that he was no longer willing to listen to their mercy and wanted to live with his original identity.

After the deployment, Du Wenhao, escorted by Lin Qingdai, took Dong Zhukuai and others to sneak into Ni's house, captured the old woman's murderer Zhao Shopkeeper, and appeared in time without collecting the money.

After hearing Du Wenhao say that he was unwilling to be bait anymore and wanted to control his own fate, General Gao's face was gloomy, but his identity had been exposed, and so many people in the field had heard it, and it was impossible to cover it up again.

General Gao is angry, but Du Wenhao's apprentice is the imperial doctor who saved the life of the Nine Emperor Princes, not only won the trust of the Nine Emperor Princes, but the Nine Emperor Princes are now the crown princes, the future emperor, and the emperor also trusts the emperor if he does not accept money.

Just when General Gao didn't know what to do, he heard a lot of people outside the door, and one of them said loudly: "Is Mr. Du here?" ”