This war took place in Feilongpo, Beihu and Southern Xia each suffered tens of thousands of casualties, Feilongpo became a red sea of corpses, the air was filled with blood, the dead, missing arms and legs, everywhere, the tragic situation was unprecedented.

Zhao Zheng and Hu Zhuo met on the battlefield, and the two fought, Zhao Zheng was wounded and rescued by the soldiers of Southern Xia.

Hu Zhuo also returned to his battlefield and Mingjin withdrew his troops.

He sat on his horse, looked at the corpses and wounded soldiers all over the ground, and did not leave for a long time.

Then the soldiers came to clean up the battlefield, but the death toll was too great to bury it, and in the end they had to abandon the corpses in the wilderness, leaving them to rot and worm in the hot summer days.

The smell of corpses can be smelled within a radius of several kilometers.

Zhao Zheng was injured and could not supervise the battle on the battlefield, and because of the heavy losses in the first battle of Feilongpo, his morale was greatly reduced.

Nanxia retreated while responding to the battle, and was very embarrassed.

Just when he wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, a plague broke out in Beihu's military camp.

The plague initially came from Jingcheng, not far from Feilongpo, where people fell ill one after another, and soon their bodies began to festering and dying.

When the soldiers entered Jingcheng to buy supplies, they brought the plague back to the barracks, where it quickly spread.

Fortunately, he had heard Shen Yuexi talk about the plague before, and immediately ordered the people with symptoms to be isolated, and then summoned the military doctor to discuss countermeasures.

Some of the soldiers sent to prepare the medicinal herbs were already on the way back, so they could only wait first, and those who were infected with the epidemic could only survive first, and they would die, if they could wait until the medicinal herbs came back, they would be regarded as picking up a life.

In those days, the Beihu military camp was solemn and solemn, everyone was very careful, Shen Yuexi took Yi'er to stay in the big tent all day, but he was afraid that even the air outside the tent would be unclean.

Although Nanxia was not infected with the epidemic, because of the clumsy repeated attacks, he was like a frightened bird every day, always on guard.

But for several days, Beihu settled down.

Nanxia didn't dare to take it lightly and sent someone to detective. But he didn't dare to get too close, watching the movement of the Beihu military camp from a distance.

On this day, the Nanxia spies saw a man dressed as a civilian lying on the road, he carefully looked at the side, and then approached to see what was going on.

The man sprang up from the ground and pounced on the spy.

The spy was startled, and a sword hit the man, only to find that the man's face had a lot of blisters on his hands, and there were festers, and the spy only thought that he had met a madman, and he didn't care.

However, on the third day of returning to Nanxia, the spy had a fever, blisters on his mouth and tongue, and the blisters spread out, all over his face and body.

The next day, the blisters began to burst and fester.

After the military doctor came to see it, he didn't know that it was an epidemic at first, and it wasn't until many more people had this symptom that they were shocked to realize that there was an epidemic in the barracks.

hurriedly reported the matter to Xu Du and Zhao Zheng.

"How can a plague be born in a good way?" Xu Du was anxious and discussed countermeasures with Zhao Zheng.

Zhao Zheng sent someone to ask the spy, and the spies told him about the madman he had met on the road.

Zhao Zheng thought about it and realized that he might have fallen into a clumsy trap, and the epidemic should have come from the Beihu army.

Zhao Zheng didn't guess wrong, it was indeed a clumsy plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, since the plague of the Beihu army was spreading, then it was necessary to let the Nanxia military camp also be infected, otherwise, Beihu was just waiting to be beaten.

But at this moment, Zhao Zheng no longer had the heart to find a clumsy showdown, and the top priority was to first contain the plague that was about to spread in the barracks, so he summoned military doctors and ordered them to find a way to control the epidemic.

Nanxia and Beihu have no intention of fighting again at this moment, and each treats the soldiers.

They each retreated to a little further away from the Flying Dragon Slope, and the military doctors stayed up almost all night, developing prescriptions and then boiling them for the sick, but there were still soldiers who kept dying and their bodies were dragged far away for burial.

Military doctors continue to develop formulas.

Shen Yuexi also holds a medical book to read every day, but there are many kinds of plague, and no one can say which prescription is suitable, so he can only try one by one, observe the reactions of those soldiers who have suffered from the plague, and constantly adjust the prescription.

Before Beihu's recipe was developed, Nanxia took the first step to brew a recipe that could cure the plague, and the recipe came from a famous folk doctor in Nanxia, and the doctor was sent by Shen Yi to find it.

After the soldiers of Southern Xia improved, Shen Yi couldn't help but think of Shen Yuexi, his heart was burning, and he didn't know what happened to her now, if she was in the barracks, her body was so weak, and Yi'er was so small, what if she contracted the plague?

After thinking about it, Shen Yi secretly took the medicine of a famous doctor and went to the military camp in Beihu one night, and told the soldiers guarding the barracks that he wanted to see Shen Yuexi.

The soldier told him about his clumsiness.

Suddenly came out, saw that it was Shen Yi, and hurriedly let him into the big tent.

Shen Yi left the Nanxia military camp without permission, so he couldn't stay for a long time, so he gave Shen Yuexi what he brought, saying that this was a medicine that could cure the plague, and said a few words to each other about the current situation, and Shen Yi returned to the Nanxia military camp overnight.

Shen Yuexi repeatedly kept him behind, worried that it would be dangerous for him to go back, but Shen Yi shook his head: "I came out secretly, no one will know." ”

Hu Zhuo was also worried that Shen Yi would be embarrassed by Zhao Zheng when he went back, but after all, he couldn't keep Shen Yi, so he didn't force it, and only told Shen Yi to be careful.

Shen Yi said goodbye to Hu Zhuo and Shen Yuexi, and seeing that Shen Yuexi and Yi'er were fine, Shen Yi's heart finally let go.

However, the fact that he left the military camp without permission had been secretly reported to Zhao Zheng by people with ulterior motives, and when Shen Yi returned to the Nanxia military camp, he was taken down and escorted to see Zhao Zheng.

At that time, it was already dark, Zhao Zheng got up, and the military doctor came to change the dressing for his injured shoulder.

Zhao Zheng sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Shen Yi who was pushed to the ground, he hadn't spoken for a long time, this playmate of his youth was no longer close to him after all.

"What are you doing at the Beihu barracks?" After the military doctor changed the medicine, Zhao Zheng waved his hand and motioned for everyone to go down, and asked.

Zhao Zheng thought that Shen Yi had always been in harmony with Hu Clumsy, so he was defeated again and again.

"I was not at ease and took the medicine for the plague to her." Shen Yi said frankly that he had nothing to be ashamed of, because apart from this incident, he had never done anything unfavorable to Nanxia.

Zhao Zheng smiled faintly, he didn't think about what would happen to Shen Yuexi if he suffered from the plague at the moment, what he thought of was what kind of loss Shen Yi's move would bring to Nanxia.

"Do you know that the medicine you sent to Yuexi will be prepared by the military doctors of Beihu, so that the plague in Beihu can be solved, you do this, it is tantamount to saving Beihu's life, what kind of crime do you say you should suffer?" Zhao Zheng's voice was cold.

Shen Yi lowered his head, "It's because I'm not thinking about it, and I'm willing to let you deal with it with the Seventh Prince." ”

"It doesn't do you any good to dispose of you, but what if Yuexi knows that you will be punished?" Zhao Zheng asked Shen Yi.

Shen Yi looked up at Zhao Zheng, and somewhat understood Zhao Zheng's thoughts.

"It turns out that Yuexi has been in the military camp in Beihu, if I knew, I would have used you to let her see me." Zhao Zheng said lightly.

He also sent guards to the General's Mansion in Youzhou City, wanting to follow the example of Clumsy and bring Shen Yuexi back secretly.

It turned out that Shen Yuexi was in the Beihu military camp not far from him, and it really didn't take any effort to come here.

"Yuexi is very happy now, can you just let her be happy like this?" For the sake of his sister's happiness, Shen Yi asked with such difficulty.

"She is my seventh princess, she is happy, what about me? What if I'm not happy? Zhao Zheng lowered his body and asked Shen Yi in a deep voice.

"You have a life-saving grace to Yuexi and me, and now that Yuexi is away from you, all the grace and sin will be repaid to you by me, and you want to kill or chop, I will never complain." Shen Yi said, kowtowing three times on the ground.

Zhao Zheng shook his head, "Whoever will repay his kindness, and whoever will repay his sins, this kind of thing cannot be replaced by others." ”

"The ...... of the Seven Princes"

"Someone," Shen Yi's words hadn't finished before he could finish his words, and he had already been interrupted by Zhao Zheng, "Put Shen Yi in the military prison and wait for disposal." ”

Immediately, a soldier came in and dragged Shen Yi out, dragging Shen Yi's words to Zhao Zheng farther and farther.

Then, Zhao Zheng wrote a letter, and the messenger went to the military camp in Beihu and handed it to Shen Yuexi.

The two sides are at war and do not kill the envoys, this is the rule since ancient times, so the envoys of Southern Xia were courteous, and waited for Shen Yuexi's reply in the big tent of Beihu.

Shen Yuexi unfolded the letter, and Zhao Zheng's familiar handwriting came into view: Yuexi, I haven't seen you for a long time, I heard that you are now in the Beihu military camp, it is better to come to me to talk about it, it doesn't matter if you don't come, Shen Yi said that he is willing to make cattle and horses on your behalf to repay the kindness he once owed me.

After Shen Yuexi finished reading it, she held the letter in her hand, her heart tugged, she regretted that she shouldn't have let her brother go back to Nanxia that night.

Obviously, Zhao is threatening Shen Yi's life, where should she go.

Shen Yuexi's face was very ugly, she frowned, took the letter in her hand and unfolded it.

After reading it, Hu Zhuo also rubbed the letter, held it in the palm of his hand, and fell into deep thought.

At this time, he couldn't persuade Shen Yuexi not to go, or not to take it to heart, after all, the person who used to threaten her was her brother, and he was her only relative of the Shen family in this world.

But let Shen Yuexi go like this, and he would never agree.

At this time, he couldn't let Zhao Zheng lead him, he wanted to be passive and active.

"You like this, write a reply to Zhao Zheng, and say that you have to think about it for a few days before replying." Hu Zhuo said to Shen Yuexi.

Of course, this was a delaying tactic, buying time so that he could come up with a plan.

Shen Yuexi did so, quickly finished writing a reply and handed it to the envoy.

When the envoy left, Shen Yuexi was depressed, she was worried that Zhao Zheng would be carried away by anger for a moment and kill her brother.

After thinking about it suddenly, he felt that this possibility was zero, if Shen Yi died, he would have no hostages to contain Shen Yuexi, how could he be a person with brains and would not do such a stupid thing.