Chapter 499: Unpredictable (Plus Change, Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Lu Xun was dazed, and his eyes were black for a while. He felt like a rope had been put around his head, and the tighter and tighter he was pulling, making it impossible for him to breathe or think. During the two-day negotiation, although he was not present in person, he was not more relaxed than Lu Lan, who negotiated in person. After two days and two nights of not getting a good night's sleep, he felt that everything in front of him had changed color, and even the mountains seemed to be floating in the water, swaying.
This is an unequal negotiation, the initiative is in Wei Ba's hands, and he has no choice. When he took on this task, he knew that it would be an uphill battle, but he didn't expect it to be so hard.
He didn't know how things could have turned out like this, because of Sun Quan's anger that led to the loss of the opportunity, or because of Pan Jun's stubbornness, he lost the buffer space? He thought about it and felt that the problem was still with Wei Ba.
Wei Ba broke the cauldron and sank the boat, and would rather put himself in danger and risk being surrounded and annihilated, but also to eat Pan Jun's men and horses. It is better to destroy the Wu-Han alliance and disrupt Zhuge Liang's Jihua, internal and external pressure, but also to occupy Wuling.
This is something that only outlaws can do.
No one wants to play against the outlaws. One person will die, ten people will be difficult, ten people will die, and ten thousand people will die, rampaging the world. Wei Ba took the lead and still played with his life like this, and vowed not to give up until he reached his goal, who else could be his opponent?
This is the root cause of his loss of all initiative.
It's a fierce rival.
Lu Xun felt that there was a burst of blackness in front of him, Fei Yi and Lu Lan on the other side were arguing about something, he couldn't hear it very clearly, their voices seemed to be close to his ears for a while, and the noise made people dizzy. For a while, it seemed to be far away in the sky, ethereal and unhearable.
Promise Wei Ba for the time being, or watch Pan Jun die and let Wei Ba bury him?
Fei Yi and Lu Lan quarreled and blamed each other. Lu Lan said that Wei Ba went back on his word and had no sincerity to negotiate at all, and Fei Yi was the same, he was just trying to delay time and let Pan Jun's army all starve to death. Fei Yi said. Lu Lan was not calm enough. I don't know what he's up to. Didn't you listen to Wei Ba, he is following Bixia's will, and Bixia wants to welcome back Mrs. Sun, what does this have to do with me. Wei Ba is dissatisfied with me. Use Bixia's secret decree to press me. Can't you hear that?
Lu Xun couldn't help it. A slap on the case: "Shut up for me!" ”
Fei Yi and Lu Lan were startled, a touch of joy flashed through Fei Yi's eyes, and they were immediately covered up by even greater anger. The angry Lu Lan and the dizzy Lu Xun didn't notice it at all.
"Fei Wenwei, what's going on, didn't you say haode at the beginning, let's talk about this matter later, why did it change again?" Lu Xun looked at Fei Yi angrily, his eyes were bloodshot, like a stimulated bull.
Fei Yi sighed and said with a wry smile: "General, he doesn't understand, and you can't understand either?" Wei Ba knew that his move to ask for Wuling was harmful to the Han and Wu alliances, and he would not get the support of Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng, so he had to curry favor with Bixia for this reason. As you know, our Bixia and Mrs. Sun are like mother and son, and he learned that Mrs. Sun was living an isolated life in Wu, and he couldn't bear it, and he wanted to welcome Mrs. Sun back for a long time, but the prime minister proceeded from the overall situation and resolutely refused to allow it. Wei Ba was working as a waiter by Bixia's side, and probably knew Bixia's intentions, so he took the opportunity to show favor to Bixia......"
Fei Yi said a lot in a wordy manner, and did everything possible to interfere with Lu Xun's train of thought. Lu Xun couldn't support it in the first place, and then he was covered by such clouds and fog, and he talked about it for a long time, and he was even more dizzy. He raised his hand weakly and interrupted Fei Yi's words: "You mean to say that this is Wei Ba making excuses?" ”
"Obviously, only people like him can't hear it, and he puts the blame on me." Fei Yi glared at Lu Lan angrily, and began to accuse Lu Lan of not being calm enough when negotiating. Lu Lan couldn't help but start to refute, and a new round of quarrels began again, which made Lu Xun's eyes turn around, and he groaned sadly, and fell backwards.
There was a loud "plop" sound, and Lu Lan, who was arguing with Fei Yi with a red face and a thick neck, watched Lu Xun fall on the marching couch, screamed in fright, and rushed over and hugged Lu Xun and shouted. Fei Yi secretly wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and hurriedly came over, carefully checked Lu Xun's face, and saw that Lu Xun's face was bloodless and his breath was short, and he couldn't help but be secretly happy, but his face did not show a flaw. He cried out, "What are you waiting for, call the healer!" ”
Lu Xun fainted, and Lu Lan also panicked, no wonder he had a great quarrel with Fei Yi just now, and hurriedly summoned the doctor. After the doctor examined Lu Xun, he said that Lu Xun was angry, and he was too tired to be stimulated anymore, so he had to recuperate. When Lu Lan heard this, she breathed a sigh of relief, patted her chest, and secretly rejoiced.
"Then what are you waiting for, quickly give the general some soothing medicine and let him sleep well." Fei Yi said angrily: "It's all you, if you promised Wei Ba earlier, how could you get to this point." ”
"You ......" Lu Lan was so angry that she didn't say anything for a long time.
"What am I?" Fei Yi sneered: "If you had listened to me, Pan Jun would have been rescued a long time ago, is the matter so big?" After speaking, he brushed his sleeves away and threw Lu Lan in the big tent. Lu Lan was so angry that she stomped her feet, and was about to chase out and reason with Fei Yi, but found that someone was pulling her sleeve. He looked back and saw that it was Lu Xun.
"General, are you awake?" Lu Lan was overjoyed.
"Look...... Fei Yi. Lu Xun's lips trembled, and he said with difficulty: "He...... Today...... Abnormal. ”
Lu Lan was taken aback: "General, I'll just say, he and Wei Ba are in the same group." ”
"Listen to me." Lu Xun groaned in pain: "Monitor...... Fei Yi, guard the camp tightly to prevent Wei Ba...... Sneak attack. ”
"Okay, I got it." Lu Lan saw that Lu Xun was suspicious of Fei Yi, and his mood suddenly improved by half. He comforted Lu Xun and said: "General, you can rest in peace, I will watch Fei Yi well, guard the camp, and will not leave a chance for Wei Ba." ”
"You're going to ...... Be careful, Wei Ba...... Ruse...... Multi-end, with soldiers...... KitKat is changeable, not to be careless. ”
"I know, I know." Lu Lan saw that Lu Xun was in pain every time he said a word, and he couldn't bear it, so he hurriedly let him rest in peace. Lu Xun took care of it a few more words, and then fell asleep deeply. Lu Lan got up, summoned the generals, and ordered them to guard the camp to prevent Wei Ba from attacking the camp. These are Lu Xun's own generals, seeing that Lu Xun is sick like this, they don't dare to be careless, they take the order to go, and the camp is like an iron bucket.
Lu Lan also arranged for someone to monitor Fei Yi. Fei Yi immediately found out, and ran to the big tent of the Chinese army to complain to Lu Xunyi. Lu Xun was so tired that he couldn't even open his eyes, and he couldn't answer, so he had to let him speak. Fei Yi talked for a long time, but seeing that Lu Xun didn't reply to him, he left stupidly.
Standing beside Chenshui, Fei Yi looked up and sighed. He knew that someone arranged by Lu Lan was secretly monitoring him to see who he was in contact with, but he didn't need to contact anyone at all, the Wu army camp was so heavily guarded, presumably Wei Ba himself could smell the fighters.
Lu Lan arranged Lu Xun, but he still didn't dare to rest, he inspected the battalions, and Zuihou came to the place where the bodies of the fallen soldiers were concentrated. In the past few days, Wei Ba threw the corpses of all the Wu soldiers who died in the battle into the water, interfering with the Wu army's water intake on the one hand, and hitting the morale of the Wu army on the other. In a few days, a total of nearly 4,000 corpses were collected, most of which had not had time to be put into the coffin and could only be placed on the ground. Although it was cold in winter and not too rotten, the smell was already very unpleasant.
"Captain, come and see, something is wrong here." A healer in charge of collecting the corpses stopped Lu Lan and led him to a pile of corpses.
"What's wrong?"
"These corpses all began to appear the day before yesterday, and they are similar to General Lu's subordinates who died in battle, all of them are knife wounds. But ......" The healer cut open the abdomen of a corpse with a knife, and a foul smell gushed out, and although Lu Lan was used to the smell, he was still so sick that he wanted to vomit. Unbeknownst to him, the healer ripped open the corpse's abdomen, revealing its green entrails. "Captain, these people have been dead for at least five days, it can't be that they just died."
Lu Lan has also been very tired in the past two days, and her reaction is a little slow, and she thought about it for a long time, and then she suddenly woke up?
"You mean, Wei Ba...... Kill prisoners? ”
The healer nodded.
Lu Lan gasped. After a long time, he suddenly turned around and walked out of the tent, walked quickly to the big tent of the Chinese army, opened the tent door, and saw the groggy Lu Xun at a glance, and couldn't help but hesitate again. Lu Xun took care of him, if he found a prisoner who had been killed, he would have to inform him, but now that Lu Xun is sick like this, is he asleep, and he still has to wake him up because of such a trivial matter?
Lu Lan thought about it and retreated again. Standing outside the tent, listening to Lu Xun's irregular breathing, he sighed gloomily.
There was a rush of footsteps, Lu Lan retracted his thoughts, looked at the scout who was walking hurriedly, and whispered, "What's the matter?" ”
"Captain, the barbarian has moved."
Lu Lan was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"It's not clear yet, we only know that there may have been barbarians who came down the mountain and attacked our scouts, and now the brothers who should have returned to the camp have not returned yet."
Lu Lan held her breath. An anomalous death of a scout usually means that the relative distance between the two sides has changed, which means that the other party has signs of abnormal behavior. Judging from the current situation, this is likely to be a sign of Wei Ba's sneak attack on the camp.
"I see." Lu Lan sent the scouts away, and once again asked people to give orders to the generals of each battalion, guard their respective camps, beware of Wei Ba's sneak attack, and not act rashly.
Although Lu Lan's order would not be passed on to Fei Yi, Fei Yi also got the news quickly. Fei Yi lay on the couch, tossing and turning. What did Wei Ba want to do, sneak attack Lu Xun's camp? Lu Xun has more than 8,000 elites here, and he is very solid in defense, Wei Ba may be able to take advantage of it, but it is impossible to completely defeat them. In addition to Lu Xun's camp, the valuable target is Chenyang, but that is even more impossible. Chenyang has a strong city, and it is guarded by three or two thousand soldiers, of which two thousand are Lu Xun's subordinates, and Wei Ba's three thousand people can't attack it at all. Once it is delayed until dawn, Lu Lan can send people to support, and in the middle of the night, Wei Ba has no chance of success.
What exactly does he want to do? (To be continued......)
PS: Three watches every day, Lao Zhuang is desperate, give two monthly passes, comfort and comfort.