The people who can become scouts are veterans who have fought for many years, not only experienced, but also bold and careful, these people are all masters who have rolled on the tip of a knife a few times, and slept in the pile of dead people, and it is definitely terrifying to be scared like this

Brother Cha made an exception and gave wine to a few scouts to drink the shock first, and after a while, they finally relieved themselves, and the leader told them what they had just experienced, and in the morning they were ordered to look for the missing soldiers, and asked the direction in which the thousand-man squad left, and this group of scouts searched all the way south, because the two armies were fighting, so they walked forty or fifty miles and did not find a single figure, nothing unusual

When these people saw that it was past noon and were about to return to the camp to hand over the order, one of the scouts remembered that this place was not far from the city set up by the state, and everyone immediately thought that it must be those missing guys who had gone to Liancheng. The war came suddenly, these guys concluded that the goods that came to Liancheng to trade have not yet been sold, if they returned, they ran in vain, not to mention, they had to discount the capital, but if they stayed here, the war ended early, although they took some risks, but they could make a lot of money

The scouts figured this out, and immediately searched in the direction of Liancheng, and sure enough, they soon found the traces of a large group of people and horses, they were all old soldiers, according to the remaining horseshoe marks and left items on the road, this team of people and horses was their own troops, so they followed the traces all the way down, and what made them wonder was that these people left the road halfway and turned into a river valley, and the scouts immediately realized that the situation was not good, although the ravine was wide, green grass, and dense vegetation, it was shrouded in a strange atmosphere, which was oppressive and breathless

When the scouts carefully walked into the valley and turned a few corners, they were astonished by the scene in front of them, the valley was full of corpses of men and horses, and the two scouts were bold enough to approach and observe that the corpses of men and horses had fallen along a small river in the valley, and there were still traces of piles of bonfires burning on the riverbank, and the fire was still driven to peel and wash, but the roasted half-cooked whole sheep had all fallen to the side, all bleeding, their eyes wide open, and their faces were hideous except for the traces of being bitten by wild beasts, And there were no scars on the body that were injured by weapons, as if they were about to eat, something strange suddenly happened, these people were scared to death, and then they checked the carcasses of the horses, and as a result, they almost went crazy, these horses were also not injured, but their right eye was gouged out...

"Evil gods, they have met evil gods" The scout just finished telling what happened, and one of the generals in the tent exclaimed with a great change in his expression, and the tent became silent for a while, most of the Xia people believe in Buddhism, but they also believe in ghosts, curses, and pre-fortune every time they meet', and they also worship all kinds of immortals, and now thousands of people die mysteriously, how can they not be frightened

"You go down and have a good rest first, don't tell anyone else about this" Brother Cha was quite calm, knowing that this matter must not be spread outside, otherwise the whole army would be terrified, and he was afraid that the slightest disturbance would cause the camp to be bombed, so he glanced at his guards and asked him to take care of the scouts

"This is not allowed to be spread outside, but there is a leak, it will be dealt with as a disaster to the army, and the king of Ming Japan will personally find out the truth, and then make a decision" Brother Cha saw that the generals were all frightened, and they were angry in their hearts, and scolded, but if they make such a fuss, they will definitely not be able to send troops tomorrow

Early the next morning, Chago led the guard battalion and the wizards accompanying the army to the valley where the accident occurred, but the scene he saw was the same as what the scouts reported, but he still saw that something was wrong, the death of these people was the same as the death of the poisoned, and so many people could be poisoned at the same time only poisoned in the river water, but it was impossible for everyone to be poisoned at the same time, and the river water was flowing, the poison would be constantly diluted, and it would fail quickly, and the ordinary people would only vomit and vomit and diarrhea, and would not poison all the people and horses...,

Everyone pondered for a long time, even if they agreed with the analysis that the prince was poisoned and died, but how to explain that so many horses' eyes were gouged out? Everyone's eyes were focused on the wizard, and the wizard followed and watched for a long time, and pondered for a long time, but he didn't come up with any beast that ate the horse's eye, and also ate the right eye, but if he couldn't say anything, so many people looked at it, and he couldn't get off the stage, and the prince would definitely not let him go

Nonsense is the ability of this kind of people, burned a few pieces of bamboo, and killed a sheep, the wizard came to a conclusion, it is these people who do not respect the land of the mountain gods, annoy the gods, and send the condor to punish them, so that both sides of the circle are rounded, the centaur is scared to death, the horse's eyes are eaten by the condor, and everyone knows that when the eagle hunts prey, it has the habit of pecking at the eyes of the prey, as for why it only eats the right eye, it is a matter of personal hobby

The root of the problem was found, although Brother Cha was skeptical, but this is also the most reasonable explanation, now because of the continuous disappearance of the team has made people panic, he can only admit it, then the auspicious day set up an altar sacrifice, Brother Cha personally went into battle to worship, tossed for a day and finally barely covered the matter, but also let the army fall into trouble, dare not go out to eat casually, which led to a great increase in the consumption of grain and grass, the war horses are rarely full, and the various departments do not hesitate to fight because of the limited land of grazing horses nearby, which makes people's hearts chaotic, food and grass are tight

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The chickens and dogs of the Xia army tossed here, Zhao Ta led the eight hussar battalions of the loyal and brave army and the battalions directly under the army to the Quye River in the starry night, secretly stationed in a valley, blocked the surrounding roads, and the people who went out all wore the traditional clothing of the Song army, and the banner was also with the state army, to prevent the news from being revealed, he first met with the commanders of the battalions of Zhizhou Yeli and the Fan soldiers, and appeased Ye Li with kind words. Then the task was assigned, that is, Chibi Qingye dragged the footsteps of the Xia army and bought time for Zhao Ren, who was interspersed in the enemy's rear

Zhao Ta faced the menacing Xia army, using 'guerrilla warfare' to deal with them, he sent dozens of small troops of 100 people to attack separately against the Xia army's lack of logistical supplies, the need to rely on looting for a living weak points, and his special combat team and the scout team of the generals are the main force, in order to prevent the Xia army from judging the identity of the loyal warriors from the weapons, the weapons he assigned to them are all special weapons, which are called the 'chemical weapons' of the invisible soldiers by later generations

Speaking of chemical weapons, everyone will think of a battle in Ypres, Belgium in 1915, on which day the Allied troops found a lot of large iron cans coming out of the German positions, they thought they were filled with beer, and made fun of it, however, when the pungent yellow-green smoke was released from the iron cans, they realized that the tunnel was filled with a terrible devil - chlorine gas, and the price of understanding this truth was more than 5,000 lives. It is the first time that chemical weapons have been used on a large scale, but in fact, chemical weapons appeared on ancient Chinese battlefields as early as 2,000 years ago, and their lethal effects have reached an astonishing level

As for the source of chemical weapons, confined to the level at that time, the raw materials of chemical weapons are mainly from this animal and fauna, when it comes to seeing blood and sealing the throat, everyone immediately knows that this is a common poison in martial arts novels, and its source is 'poisonous arrow wood' its poison is blind when it encounters eyes, and it dies when it encounters blood, which makes people shudder In addition, some common plants can also be used as military poisons, such as the common oleander and evergreen leaves on the roadside contain cardiac glycosides, as long as three or four grams of dried leaves are eaten by mistake, people can be poisoned and killed Shennong's broken intestine grass, also known as hook kiss, Just eat a little of its young leaves, and it will die...,

There are also some poisons that are common, croton is famous for laxatives, but after refining into oil, it has a strong irritating effect on the skin and mucous membranes, such as taking it internally, a few grams of dose can be life-threatening; As a token of love, the red bean contains highly toxic biological protein, as long as 0.5 grams is enough to kill, in addition to castor beans after refining is more toxic than arsenic, and tung oil and tung seeds can also produce toxins that damage the liver, kidneys and nervous system after burning; Once a large amount of camphor is inhaled after burning, it will have convulsions or convulsions for several hours, but although these natural plant toxins are powerful, they are limited to the backward means of ancient throwing techniques, and they cannot be applied on a large scale for a long time, and they will shine after the invention of gunpowder

From the beginning of the Song Dynasty, China has entered the era of mixed use of hot and cold weapons, and the traditional poison has also been rejuvenated by this 'east wind' in the first millennium AD, the Song Dynasty Tang Fu made the 'poison smoke ball' to the imperial court, creating the history of chemical weapons manufacturing and use, this poison bomb is divided into two layers, the inner layer is filled with poison and gunpowder for combustion, the ingredients of the poison are saltpeter, sulfur, and tung oil with high explosiveness and will damage the kidneys, liver and nervous system after combustion

The packaging of this kind of poison gas bomb is also very unique, the outer layer is wrapped with old paper, linen, asphalt, etc., and the ignition does not use a lead, but pierces the medicine ball with a red-hot iron cone, because the outer layer is closed, the oxygen supply inside the poison gas bomb is insufficient, and it can only be burned inside, which produces a large amount of toxic smoke, and its killing ability has changed from the past point killing to face killing

On this basis, Zhao Ta improved the weight of this poison gas bomb, added the exclusive configuration of poison to increase the toxicity, the burning gunpowder burned for a long time, the smoke was large, the peculiar smell was reduced, and the spread was fast, so that the power of the poison gas bomb was qualitatively improved, and the troops attacked by this poison gas were bleeding from the mouth and nose, and the heavy was killed, and the unlucky Xia army chose to hold a barbecue meeting in the ditch, the smoke and smell produced by the burning bonfire covered the poisonous smoke produced by the poison gas, and the semi-closed ravine made the air circulation slow. The effect of the poison gas was brought to the extreme, and by the time they realized that they were poisoned, they were powerless to escape, and as for the gouged out horse eyes, it was just a prank made by those boring special forces... (To be continued)