It's not the fire that kills, it's the smoke. The northwest wind and sand are strong, and the southwest wind blows these days, and the Xia people followed the Qin and Mongolian armies, and lit fires in the southwest when the two countries were fighting. At first, the Qin people made a plan to use the Zongwu Glacier to block the Mongols, but at this time, they actually blocked themselves, and they couldn't advance or retreat.

"What to do, what to do!" Many generals are already restless: "Now we are hiding in this place, but the water of the white lake can dissolve some miasma, and there are hills blocking it." But the miasma is pervasive, we can inhale a little in a short period of time, if we stay for another three or five days, the poisonous gas slowly seeps into the body, but we must not all be poisoned! ”

The Somu Glacier is full of snow and water, and it is impossible to climb over. If you go around to the north, the road is long and long, and you don't know if you can escape it. And even if you run fast enough, the Xia people ......

Tuoba Hong's intuition is ominous, since the two years of conquest, there has never been a time when he has had such a thrilling feeling. The other party is not hundreds of thousands of heavy soldiers, not surrounded by three kingdoms, and not soldiers coming to the city...... They were nothing more than a few thousand stragglers of the Xia Kingdom.

Since the fall of the Xia State, it has been plundered by the Qin State and the Mongol State, and many righteous people have resisted with the banner of Fuguo, but they were quickly slaughtered and suppressed because of their weak strength. The Xia State was not a strong country in the first place, the imperial family Li was almost wiped out, and the Qin people were in a fiery relationship with Mongolia but never put the old Xia in their eyes.

I just didn't think that there would be today's catastrophe.

***

Lin Yuan sat on a stone wall full of sunset flowers with a water bag in her hand.

She looked numbly at the restless sergeants in front of her. The situation is critical, and no one cares about her anymore.

The place was full of miasma, and the army found a sheltered place to hide, and if she tried to run, it would be a dead end.

She had already regretted coming with her - the emperor did not want to bring her over when she was in Yunzhou. The emperor no longer trusted her, and Concubine Zhen took the opportunity to persuade her to stay in Yunzhou and send her back to the capital later.

Lin Yuan naturally refused to die, Yunzhou was the territory of Xiliang, and Fan Yu would definitely get rid of her as a political enemy immediately. And even if there is no fan jade, she is away from the emperor's side, and the forces around her have long been disintegrated by the emperor, and there is no power to protect herself. She is the biological mother of Donggong, and Ye Xiuxin is her experience.

She knelt down in front of the emperor's study and begged for half a night, and finally Tuoba Hong remembered her old love and took her away.

This is called self-inflicted iniquity, and not living.

After resting for a while, she heard the drums again, and she stood up with her body propped up, only to feel exhausted. It turned out that the general in front had ordered a detour to the north.

Lin Yuan was so frightened that her hands and feet trembled, the sergeants next to her were not much better than her, and she didn't know what happened to Tuoba Hong, who was surrounded by the army in the center at this time. There was a lot of smoke just now, and the army picked up a hill and a puddle to shelter from the wind, and it was not a long-term solution to hide here, but if you detoured to the north, you would have to get out of this hill, but there would be no wind.

I didn't have time to think about it, and the people around me had already listened to the order and acted. She was still lucky, she had horses to ride, and ordinary soldiers had to run behind.

Sure enough, Fang turned over from behind the hill, and the smell in the air became stronger and stronger, I can't tell what it was, it was more choking than sulfur, and it smelled like rotten eggs. The army fled for their lives, and everyone soaked their clothes in the water of the white lake and covered their mouths and noses, even so, Lin Yuan ran with him for a long time, but he still felt dizzy.

The sergeants around are okay, and the men's physique is always stronger than the women's.

Who knew that after escaping ten miles, the miasma was actually thicker than before, and when she raised her eyes, she almost scared her soul, and a cloud of black smoke came out of her front and soared into the sky.

Sure enough! The Xia people were well-calculated, they initially lit a fire in the southwest where Qin and Mongolia were fighting, and when the Qin army avoided the fireworks and ran to the north, they set fire to the wood that had already been buried in the north. Xia is a small country, and its agricultural and animal husbandry products are not outstanding, but many places produce miasma in summer, which troubles the people. Now that the country is gone, the last hole card used to resist is miasma.

Many people stopped when they looked at the fireworks in front of them. I only heard General Xue shouting: "Pioneer, rush over and kill that group of dead slaves!" ”

Previously, some scouts had risked their lives to check the situation everywhere, and they had already known that the Xia people were ambushed everywhere, and the road to the north would not be too peaceful. However, there was no other way but to send a team of vanguards to kill all the Xia people at the risk of death, and then rush out with black smoke.

The vanguard army did not hesitate, and a partial general led the rush out, chasing and killing the Xia people who lit the fire with a machete. The people of Xia didn't even have armor, let alone BMWs and weapons, and they were all powerless to fight back.

It's not hard to kill, but it's far from over. The people of Xia were quickly slashed and slaughtered, and the earthquake rumbled in all directions, and black smoke rose everywhere.

The Xia people were already dead, and most of the pioneers were poisoned and died because they rushed into the smoke. But the bombs planted around were ignited, and the Qin army was surrounded by fireworks.

"Rush out to survive!" One of the generals shouted. For them, it was a great fortune for the Holy Driver to be here, and there were four imperial doctors with the army, and these national players had just boiled some herbs in the back of the hill and distributed some to each of them. The people of the Central Plains have no experience in treating miasma, but they are some prescriptions for detoxification and anti-heat, which are somewhat useful. Everyone took a strip of damp cloth dipped in the potion and covered their mouths, and the chances of survival were greater.

Lin Yuan almost wanted to cry. Gong Fu has been up and down for half her life, even when she is the saddest, she can always find life. However, in the current situation, poisonous gas is everywhere, and even the emperor is in danger, she really doesn't know if she can survive it.

I brought emergency medicine with me, and there were some detoxification to stop bleeding. A dead horse was a live horse doctor, she ate a few indiscriminately, and the wet handkerchief on her hand was covered tightly, and she couldn't breathe.

In the evening of this day, the Qin army finally bypassed the glacier.

On the other side of the glacier is the border town of Mongolia – fortunately, it is a small town with walls and fenced yurts everywhere.

When the Qin army fought the Mongols, what they hated most was that this group of nomads did not like to settle, and it was a chicken rib to capture a small city without walls, and how many people would be wasted just to defend the city. Although the Mongols were lazy, the border with their neighbors was finally a bit of a look, and it was better to build the walls with haystacks and red bricks.

This place is not a major town, and the defenders are very lazy, after all, the opposite side is the Xia State, not the Qin State, just pretending to be a guard. Of course, they would not have thought that the Mongol army that invaded the territory of Xia from this city half a month ago with high morale would have been pit by the Xia people to the point that there were no bones left.

After the Qin army reassembled, they captured the town, drove the people out of it, and set up camp.

The Qin army suffered 30,000 casualties, and when they escaped, they were all in disarray. In addition to the city walls, another thing to be thankful for was that the Mongol army was completely wiped out in the black smoke, and there were no enemy troops in this place. Most of the Qin soldiers who died unfortunate in the territory of Xia were lowly soldiers, and they fell behind the army without riding horses, and they were poisoned by the miasma they inhaled.

And the rest of those who escaped by luck were also unwell at this time. The miasma first injured the lungs, and in the dark midnight when there were no fingers, the empty grassland was full of painful wails and coughs, and many people vomited blood despite their lives, and the military doctor said that they would not live long. Lin Yuan ran ahead, and his chest hurt from being smoked, so as soon as he got out of danger, he hurried to the edge of Daze Bay to irrigate again. Induce vomiting. A large group of men vomited with her, almost losing their lives, and everyone couldn't care about anything at this time, and the generals in front also ordered everyone to hurry up and drink water to clear the poison.

If those half-dead patients are removed, the Qin army will lose half of it. Of the 150,000 soldiers and horses that the emperor brought out from Yunzhou City, only 80,000 are now available, and the wounded soldiers have become a drag. Several generals knew that this was the Mongolian territory, and they did not dare to slack off, so they sent troops everywhere to defend and protect the holy car, and sent scouts to investigate. The Mongol royal city is thousands of miles away, but it should be news in ten days at most. If Empress Dowager Jingwen learned that the Qin army had been defeated and retreated, and the emperor was still trapped inside, she would definitely take the opportunity to send troops over.

This battle was fought in a nest, and the great enemy Mongolia was completely annihilated, but in the end, it was plotted by a group of dead slaves in the Xia State, and Tuoba Hong was furious. He is the emperor, and he is escorted by four imperial medical insurances, and he is much luckier than others. However, he couldn't stop coughing at this time, and he was angry and shouted to summon his courtiers to discuss matters.

The monarchs and ministers of the Qin State were relatively speechless, the emperor was so angry that his beard stood up, and the generals looked bitter and hateful. When things came to this point, everyone knew that the battle was a humiliating loss, and they were worried that the Mongols would send troops to fight them, and they were nervous.

"Take a day off first, and I'll go back tomorrow!" Tuoba Hong threw the jade bead in his hand to the ground, and said hatefully: "When will King Wu arrive?" ”

Under the crushing defeat of the Qin army, no matter how unwilling and greedy he was, he couldn't lose his mind and continue to fight. At present, if these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses can return to the capital safely, God blesses.

"The Northern Cypriot army is ......," General Xue said, "Your Majesty, even though His Royal Highness King Wu is in a hurry, it is marching in the territory of the enemy country." The road is far away, and I originally planned to arrive in January, just in time for us to go to Xiping Mansion, where the three armies will meet and ......"

Tuoba Hong was even more angry, he couldn't bear this grievance. If it was defeated by the Mongol army, it would be fine, and the Xia Kingdom would only have a few thousand people......

"Then I have to wait for another half a month?!" The emperor was very angry, but he couldn't find a stubble to get angry.

Concubine Zhen was too frightened to speak, she had been following Tuoba Hong, but the tens of thousands of cavalry in Tubo were recalled by her father when they were in Yunzhou. Her father is not a faint king, and he can clearly see the greed of the emperor of Qin, the Qin army has the ability to fight everywhere, but Tubo does not want to lose too much capital.

Now Concubine Zhen wants to help Tuoba Hong but can't get the hole cards, so she can only serve him more carefully, and when she saw that he was angry, she hurriedly sent tea and gave him a good luck. Tuoba Hong was still angry, waved her away and said, "Stand down!" Monarchs and ministers, what are you doing here! ”

Although Concubine Zhen is resolute, she wants to cry when she hears this. She always knew that the emperor treated her as an outsider, and although Concubine Shu was down, she was able to win the emperor's trust at the beginning, but she couldn't get it in her life.

Just because of the sentence "not my race"!

Just as he was about to walk out of the corner of his eyes, he suddenly heard an exclamation behind him: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty...... Come on, the emperor fainted......"

***

When Lin Yuan got the news, the Holy Driver's side was already on his back. At that time, several courtiers of the face saint were in charge of concealing this matter - just after suffering a defeat and preparing to return to China, when the army's morale was weakened, and the news of the emperor's illness came out, could these tens of thousands of troops still have the strength to climb back to the capital?

Everyone is on duty at the border as usual, preparing to retreat south tomorrow. Only here is Lin Yuan, there is a young medicine servant who led a group of imperial attendants to rush over, and said sadly and anxiously: "The emperor is really dangerous!" The imperial doctors are not very sure, Concubine Zhen is not very old in serving the emperor, there are always things that are not thoughtful, and the servants have to come to invite Concubine Niangniang ......"

Lin Yuan no longer has the dignity of Concubine Shu, the medicine servant who passed the word was just respectful on his face, and the attendants behind him couldn't help but set her up and rushed out. She was dragged so much that she almost twisted her foot, and one of the leading eunuchs in Dongchang also urged: "Hurry up, Niangniang!" You have served the emperor well, and the days ahead will be better. If you hurry, you and our family can't afford to ......."

Lin Yuan's heart was actually more anxious than this eunuch. She walked faster and faster, bypassing the group of soldiers to reach the tent, and the moment she lifted the curtain, she could smell the strong smell of herbs and the smoke of burning mugwort leaves. Before he stepped in, he bumped into a woman with a cloak in his arms, crying: "Save the emperor......"

Yun Dan was crying so much, she saw that it was Lin Yuan, and her face was no longer the-for-tat when she was competing for favor in the past, but she grabbed her clothes and begged: "Concubine Shu, the emperor can't drink the medicine!" Is there a way for you, I can't pour it in......"

In Yun Dan's eyes, Lin Yuan is an eyesore, after the East Palace was dragged into the rebellion case, this woman was still safe and sound, she almost bit a mouthful of silver teeth. But in this crisis, she is glad to have such a savior.

Lin Yuan has been with the emperor for more than ten years, and she knows the emperor's preferences and habits well, so she is naturally better at serving than her. Now that the emperor is unconscious, he can't drink the medicine or eat anything, so he has to be served by the concubine.

Lin Yuan didn't dare to delay, washed his hands in front of the door, took the medicine bowl, and asked the imperial doctor. The four imperial doctors crowded in front of the dragon couch together, and one of them said anxiously: "The emperor was injured by a knife before, so he shouldn't be tired anymore." Later, the miasma invaded, and although the emperor was sitting in the car, he inevitably inhaled a little...... Now the old wound on the shoulder has begun to suppurate, and the head is bleeding in the lungs......"

Lin Yuan knew that the miasma was severe, and people like her, who had never been injured, sucked a little, and vomited faint all day long. The emperor's old injuries were not healed before, and his old age and physique were not good, so how could he not have an accident if he was poisoned by miasma.

"Did you make this medicine? Can it cure the poison of miasma? She asked the Imperial Doctor anxiously.

"If it can really detoxify, we don't have to be so worried!" An imperial doctor surnamed Zhang was so anxious that his face was full of sweat: "Niangniang, what I am waiting to pour for the emperor is just mung bean water and millet wine, and some herbs to relieve arsenic and frost poison." The Xia Kingdom has miasma all the year round, and the people there are unbearable, and the lord of the Xia Kingdom can't come up with a good way to detoxify. If they are poisoned, they just drink some heat-clearing medicines, if the poisoning is too deep, after heavy bleeding in the lungs, even the gods will not be able to save them. This time, the Xia people who attacked us were wearing special hats with charcoal in them, which could filter the miasma. But in the end, some of them were captured alive and brought back, and they all sucked a lot of miasma, and they couldn't hold on to death last night. ”

Lin Yuan understood. In modern society, miasma often occurs in that area of Guangxi, and the Zhuang and Miao people have ways to detoxify. But if you want to detoxify, it is in the case of mild symptoms, using herbs such as Artemisia annua, calamus, mugwort leaves, as well as rice wine and mung bean water that Imperial Doctor Zhang said just now are good prescriptions for detoxification. But if the poison gas has already injured the lungs and caused the person to vomit blood, then there is no problem.

"Anyway, let's detoxify the emperor first. Even if you have begun to vomit blood, you are not certain to die. Lin Yuan rolled up his sleeves, stretched out the emperor's tongue, and pressed a silver spoon under the base of his tongue.

After pouring it this time, the emperor was really able to swallow it.

Moments later, however, he began to vomit again, blood and mung bean soup alongside him. Concubine Zhen was so frightened that her face was pale, and she knelt in front of the emperor and wept bitterly.

Lin Yuan didn't have the same affection as Concubine Zhen, but she didn't want the emperor to die. She and Xiaoqi's mother and son were involved in a major rebellion case, and it was a time of crisis, and now it is King Wu who is leading the troops outside, but it is the queen and King Zhao who are in power in the capital. Their mother and son are innocent, and if the emperor really has something, he should not be summoned to pass the throne to the East Palace before he dies.

She plans to get through the current catastrophe first, and then take the heir after clearing the stigma. Waiting for the emperor to live for more than ten years, everything is settled, and the succession of the East Palace is justified.

"Don't cry, go get Panax notoginseng to stop the bleeding." She ordered Yun Dandao.

Everyone in the house was running around, and it was chaotic. Yun Dan hurriedly went to boil the medicine, but was stopped by the imperial doctor and said: "Two mothers, it is true that the emperor vomited blood, but now is not the time to stop the bleeding." Bloodletting can also be detoxified. ”

Lin Yuan felt that it was reasonable, but when he saw the emperor vomiting blood one by one, he was even more restless: "Then what do you say!" ”

"Well, it's not blood in the lungs!" Imperial Doctor Zhang lamented again: "The emperor's old injury has recurred, look at this, it should be that the five internal organs are beginning to fail......

A few imperial doctors couldn't come up with a good solution at all. Lin Yuan and Yun Dan poured medicine on the emperor over and over again, and the emperor had to vomit most of them after drinking it. I really vomited blood and vomited hard, so I poured Panax notoginseng again.

On the third day after the Qin army bypassed the glacier, on the 25th day of the seventh month of the 20th year of Qianwu, the holy car set off for the south.

The night before, Concubine Zhen was arguing with several courtiers. The emperor was seriously ill, and the imperial physician said that if he moved, he would aggravate the symptoms of vomiting blood. However, if they stand still, the Mongol soldiers and horses are likely to arrive here before His Royal Highness King Wu and besiege the holy car; Not to mention the Xia Kingdom in the west, they are afraid that there will be more people who will come to set fire to it and use the poison gas attack again.

In the end, everyone decided to immediately go south and return to Qin.

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