Xue Ju consulted with the strategists late at night to find a good way to break the city, but throughout the ages, the defenders of the city had a geographical advantage, and there was no good strategy for sneak attacks except for digging holes, flooding, and joining forces with outsiders. Fastest updates

"Your Majesty, the minister has a plan, I don't know if to talk about it?" The person who spoke was one of Xue Ju's henchmen, his official position was not big, but he was one of the palace staff, and he was vicious and spicy, not suitable for being a prime minister or a scholar, but he was a talented person who used tricks and poisonous tricks, named Ke.

"What's the plan, just talk about it."

Ke has slender long eyes, a high nose bridge, and three-dimensional facial features, but those eyes are like rat eyes, and at first glance he is a scheming character, his eyes slanted, and then said: "After we attacked for a few days, we pretended that the casualties were huge and we couldn't break the city, and deliberately withdrew the army, so that the Tang army could relax its vigilance, and then ...... Invested in the flow of Jing Shui, due to the high water level of Longyou, ordinary well water can not meet the needs of the Tang Army, must use the flow of Jing water into the city to drink, as long as poisoned in it, the Tang Army is weak, naturally can easily take the high city. ”

As soon as this plan came out, Hao Zhan, Chu Liang and other literati and strategists were surprised, their eyes showed different colors, and they looked at Ke with some jealousy and disgust. Although this kind of person is powerful, he is unscrupulous, his character is too poor, and he belongs to the unprincipled people among the strategists, and it is not a trivial means, as long as the goal is achieved.

Xue Ju hesitated for a moment and sighed: "If poison is used, I am afraid that if the Tang army has not yet drunk water, there will be a large number of dead fish in Hanoi, and the Tang army will know it. ”

Ke smiled and said: "It is not to use murderous poison, but to mainly infectious diseases, such as dysentery, plague, cholera, etc., we put some stinky and corrosive rats, livestock internal organs, etc., secretly into the upper reaches of the river at night, and then put other curable juice and powder, the early amount is small, and the amount is constantly increased, so that the soldiers and civilians in the city, unconsciously, will be infected with this disease, more than a month, less than ten days, the defenders in the city, will be infected with epidemic virus, dysentery and blood in the stool, high fever and faintness, then infected with epidemic poison dysentery, when the time comes, The combat effectiveness of the defenders is only afraid of three layers left, how can they resist the onslaught of our Western Qin army! ”

After Xue Ju heard this, he was a little stunned, and it took a while to come back to his senses, and he nodded slowly: "Although this plan is poisonous, it works, and this matter will be handed over to you to be fully responsible for how to, if you need manpower and material resources, just put it forward." Once the city is broken, you will be credited."

Ke arched his hand and said: "The minister must do it and live up to His Majesty's trust." ”

In the next few days, the Western Qin army continued to attack the city, but the scale was reduced, only half a day a day, and the afternoon rested, to see that the momentum was declining, far less majestic than the previous days, and the edge was exposed.

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were all excited, and felt that this kind of waiting for work, taking advantage of the city, not leaving the strong walls, and focusing on defense was the main means to restrain the Western Qin army, which was quite effective.

After a few days, the offensive of the Western Qin army became once every two days, and people were sent outside the city to shout and scold, to fight with the Tang army in front of the formation, and not to fight siege battles.

"Haha, you see, the Western Qin army is no longer attacking the city, these days there are heavy injuries, if you want to provoke the law and lead our army out of the city for a decisive battle, you can't be angry, don't be fooled!" The great general Murong Luo stood at the head of the city and couldn't help laughing.

Liu Hongji also put his mind at ease and said: "The siege of the city is a battle of attrition, without sophisticated weapons and elite soldiers, it is difficult to fight in one go." Our army has sufficient food and grass, many soldiers and generals, and it is not a problem to support it for three months, but if the Western Qin army attacks for three months, it is estimated that the 200,000 army will be able to lose two-thirds. ”

Li Anyuan said: "If it goes on like this, it won't be long before the Western Qin army will retreat." ”

Five days later, the Western Qin army really began to retreat, and some of the soldiers and horses went first, withdrawing dozens of miles to the west.

This was Xue Ju's attempt to paralyze the Tang army and withdraw some non-combatants, wounded, and heavy soldiers, creating a false impression for the Tang army and making it relax its vigilance.

Gradually, there are more and more soldiers in the city who have diarrhea, many people have acute intestinal infectious diseases, the most direct manifestation is dysentery, body fever, daily abdominal pain, tenesmus, and even blood in the stool, there are very few military doctors in the city, and there are no anti-inflammatory drugs, special drugs, many soldiers because of such problems, and even some of the wounded who are very poor in physical condition, began to die.

Not to mention these ordinary soldiers, even the generals and strategists also had symptoms, among which Li Shimin suffered from dysentery.

Originally, he loved to dance with knives and guns, had a strong physique, and was not easy to get sick, but since he led the army, he had consumed a lot of energy, reviewed military affairs every day, lacked sleep, and tried his best to think about strategies to break the enemy, did not pay attention to his diet, and drank a lot of raw water with infectious toxins, resulting in bed sickness.

On this day, Liu Hongji, Fang Xuanling, Liu Wenjing and other strategists gathered together to discuss whether they should withdraw their troops and abandon Gaocheng.

Fang Xuanling analyzed: "The soldiers and civilians in the city have this disease, now there are more and more infections, the military strength is not three, many people have poor physical fitness among the elderly, women and children, they can't afford medicine, there have been a large number of deaths, and even plague and cholera have occurred, this city, in less than a month, will become a dead city, can't wait, need to retreat." ”

Liu Hongji asked, "How is the second son?" ”

Liu Wenjing said worriedly: "His illness is also very serious, he has a fever all over his body, and he has blood in his stool several times a day, so he must be sent back to the capital immediately and find a royal doctor for treatment, otherwise, the time will drag on for a long time, and I am afraid that he will not be able to save his life." ”

Liu Hongji snorted: "It must be the people of Western Qin who did it, this overlord of Western Qin is too ruthless, this kind of poisonous trick is used, and he is not afraid of being scolded by the people of the world." Now it is not only the soldiers of the Tang Army who are dying, but also the people who have been multiplied, the disease is no longer under control, and this city will become a cage and will be buried here. ”

Fang Xuanling said: "Without further ado, you should send the second son away immediately and break out as soon as possible." ”

Liu Hongji pondered and said: "In this way, I and Murong Luo, Li Anyuan and other generals are stationed here to resist the attack of the Western Qin army, drag them to the main pursuit, you lead people to break through, return to Jingzhao County first, and then send people to step up to send the second son back to Daxing City for treatment." ”

Fang Xuanling and Liu Wenjing nodded, feeling that it was safer to do this. It was impossible to withdraw all, because the local Western Qin army was covered up and killed, and it was able to completely encircle and annihilate the Tang army.

Now the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army is limited, and most of the people can't walk at all, so they can only stay here.

Liu Wenjing contacted Li Shimin's cronies and military attachés, Yin Kaishan, Duan Zhixuan, Zhao Wenke, Lei Yongji, Zhang Gongjin and others, selected 8,000 warriors who were still physically strong and did not get sick, and left the city in the middle of the night, fled away, and withdrew to Jingzhao County in the rear.

The scouts of the Western Qin army found that a Tang army had withdrawn, and captured the Tang soldiers who had fallen behind, and immediately reported to them after learning of the situation in the city.

When Xue Ju learned about it, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he ordered the army to turn around and go back.

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