Abicheril has been in a terrible mood lately. He carefully designed a bureau to fish Xue Boren to come out and annihilate him, everything was as he expected, Xue Boren was already in a desperate situation and was surrounded by groups. In order to achieve his goal, Abicheril can be described as a laborer, and even deliberately ignored a flaw posed by Xue Boren. said that it was a flaw, but it was not something that ordinary generals could find, let alone anyone who could tear this flaw apart. Abicilir judged that the reason why Xue Boren did this was to lure him into battle in person, because only when he was on the front line could he adjust the direction of attack in time according to the changes in the battlefield, so as to tear this key point apart. Xue Boren would be so carefully prepared to leave such a small flaw, I am afraid that there will be some powerful killing moves behind, once he attacks himself, Xue Boren may concentrate all his strength to kill him alone. If that happens, the entire country will be thrown into chaos, so Abicheril decisively gave up the idea of going into battle himself.

But it didn't take long for him to regret this decision, because Lu Qinghan's cavalry team successfully rescued Xue Boren, seeing that Xue Boren, who was injured and had reached a dead end, was rescued by force, Abicheril couldn't bear it anymore, and urged the horse to attack in person, but unfortunately he was too far away, and only had time to shoot an arrow when Lu Qinghan returned to his team. Although the arrow hit Lu Qinghan, the real target, Xue Boren, still fled.

Xue Boren chose to flee into Ulzhou City, although Ulzhou City is not big, but because it is a border defense area, it is very strong, and Xue Boren himself is good at defensive warfare, and the Tuqi army has no siege equipment at all this time, so the Tuqi army has been attacking for many days without any progress. Now that Abichilir is difficult to ride a tiger, if you want to continue to attack the city, I am afraid that the Turkic army really does not have this ability, but if you retreat, it will be a failure. There is a kinship. He also considered turning to attack Youzhou or Taiyuan Mansion, but the offensive in the Youzhou area had slowed down, and after Zhu Tianshun broke through the siege and returned to Youzhou, the defense of Youzhou began to be complete, and if he wanted to attack again, there was no suddenness and he also faced the problem of insufficient siege means; On the other hand, in Taiyuan Prefecture, because Xue Boren often mobilized troops from all over the country, the detailed work he arranged was always unclear about the specific configuration of garrison forces in Taiyuan. Even the total number of troops is difficult to grasp, so Abicheril is not sure how successful the raid on the Taiyuan area is. If it weren't for that, Abicilir would naturally attack Taiyuan directly instead of fishing Xue Boren out like now.

Just as Abichilir was hesitating what to choose, the plague broke out.

Liu Xianzhi's 700 cavalry marched under the cover of night to a distance of only five miles from the Tuqi army, and dumped 700 bags of poison on the Sanggan River. Due to its small size, there were no surprises other than encounters and battles with two Turkey rangers, and given the small size of his force and its rapid retreat, the Turks believed that it was a small force of cavalry sent by the Silk Country to test it, probably with the aim of pursuing it as a deserving of the Turks. Therefore, it was ignored and not even reported to Abicilir to know. However, the next night, a large-scale outbreak began among the Turks. Originally, it was impossible for there to be no sick people in this army of nearly 100,000 people, but the number of sick people suddenly increased geometrically, and no one could react. A large number of soldiers developed symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, fever, cough, and in severe cases, dehydration. Convulsions, and even more terrifying, are not only people. Even the horses showed varying degrees of illness. With such a large-scale collective outbreak, the medical officer could only judge that some unknown epidemic had suddenly erupted.

Abicheril, who received the report from the medical officer, did not pay attention to it at first, after all, the military camp was densely populated, the sanitary condition was extremely poor, and the possibility of infectious diseases also existed. However, in just half a day, tens of thousands of people fell ill throughout the army. Seven or eight hundred people died violently, and that would be a big deal. At this time, Abicheril could no longer sit still, and if the plague spread like this, it would not take two days for all the Turks to be infected with this disease. He immediately organized manual screening and pooled the sick to prevent more infection, but soon found that there was no need to do so. Because the onset is an entire area, almost no one is spared. Abicheril felt that something was wrong, even the most terrible plague had never seen a single battalion not be spared. He called all the medical officers everywhere to inquire about the situation one by one, and found that the sick soldiers were mainly concentrated in the troops stationed along the Sangan River, and almost all the troops who fed the river water were sick, while the troops located near the inland and using the well water in the villages were all safe and sound, and the epidemic situation of the troops stationed along the river gradually subsided from west to east.

The matter was figured out, but it was too late, the number of infected soldiers at this time had exceeded 40,000, and if the troops were told not to drink the water of the Sanggan River, it would probably cause panic, and then the morale of the army would be shaken, and it would be a big incident, but if you did not specify this point and let the troops continue to drink the river water, I was afraid that it would aggravate the disease (Abicil did not know that the poisonous water had already flowed through the area of his garrison at this time, and thought that the country of silk had polluted the entire Sanggan River from a long distance). ）。 Today's attack on Ulzhou City has been greatly weakened in one day, Xue Boren in the city must have smelled something, if he leads his troops to attack at this time, and happens to kill the troops along the Sanggan River, I am afraid that the entire army will immediately collapse.

After thinking about it, Abicheril felt that the only way to do this was to immediately withdraw his troops and take the troops to the northwest to station on the edge of the Yellow River, so as to stabilize the epidemic first.

At this time, someone came to report that Liu Xianzhi, the new deputy envoy of Taiyuan Prefecture, led an army of 150,000 troops to the east to relieve the siege of Ulzhou.

And so it was. Abicheril felt a chill in his heart: it was this Liu Xianzhi, he polluted the Sanggan River and caused the epidemic, and then attacked with all his strength when our army could not fight, otherwise the time would never be such a coincidence. It's a pity that he has already fallen into his way, and now even if he wants to fight, his combat power has been halved, not to mention that there are estimated that there are still 10,000 enemy troops in Ulzhou City, and it will be difficult to be attacked from both sides by then.

After inquiring about the speed of Liu Xianzhi's army, Abicialir quickly calculated the time, and then resolutely ordered: the whole army retreats!

The Turks have always come and gone, but this time it was not so smooth, after all, nearly half of the soldiers were sick, and it would be difficult to make them retreat at full speed on horseback, and some of the people who could not ride had to arrange for vehicles, so that a large number of horses were used to pull carts, so a large number of military supplies had to be sacrificed to empty the vehicles themselves. However, Abicheril managed to lead all the soldiers in retreat.

When the sun rose, the soldiers in Ulju suddenly found that the Turks in the distance had walked cleanly, leaving only abandoned supplies and corpses that had not had time to be buried. (To be continued......)