Chapter 17: Heavy Casualties

As soon as the huge explosion occurred, a large number of soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade rushed over.

But the explosion was over, and the people were almost dead, and without asking the truth, they knew that it was the strange "bird" shaped mechanism and artifact that caused the disaster.

There were piles of fragments of this strange artifact on the ground.

Knowing that those were the fragments of the culprit, several pro-soldiers stepped forward to gather the fragments one by one and carefully put them up.

But when they made a move here, they didn't notice that with the explosion, another thing was also released.

After about ten minutes, a thin and elegant pale yellow gas slowly appeared around the soldiers of the Eight Banners, slowly drifting towards the officers and soldiers along the wind, gathering more and more, and the color became more and more intense.

Compared with the strange color of the previous **, this time the gas is more than one grade lower in terms of color and concentration.

But the officers and soldiers around have come and gone to fight fires and save people, and they have seen the yellow-green gas before, although the color is different, it doesn't look so terrifying, but it also needs to be guarded against.

At the command of the commander, everyone pulled their sleeves or cloth corners and covered their mouths and noses.

After taking precautions, these officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners suddenly relaxed.

In a relaxed atmosphere, this gas gradually drifted close to the soldiers of the Eight Banners.

They dodged slightly, slowing their breathing and covering the cloth tighter around their mouths and noses.

But a choking smell still drilled into their noses and then penetrated their brains, and the strong and somewhat familiar smell of garlic and mustard made these people stunned.

Just when some people were immersed in this smell, a full-fledged flag soldier suddenly lost the spear and bow in his hand, his hands suddenly clasped his throat, the whites of his eyes rolled, and his throat let out a fierce roar like a beast!

"Why?" Tuo Heqi, the commander of the Eight Banners Infantry Army, was taken aback, and before he could order someone to hold him down, the Manchurian soldier convulsed all over his body and fell straight backwards.

I saw that his face had a painful expression at the moment, and his face was distorted like a ghost.

At the same time, the surrounding bannermen and soldiers also let out a terrible howl: they either grabbed their bodies and rolled wildly on the ground, or ran wildly like mad cows.

Several infantry stumbled and prepared to flee towards Sijiu City, but they staggered a few dozen steps before they fell with a bang, and black and purple blood slowly flowed out from their swollen and ruptured seven orifices.

The commander of the infantry army, Tuo Heqi, was shocked.

Before he could react, an unimaginably violent suffocation and pain suddenly erupted from the inside of his body's chest, and the whole person seemed to be blown up into thousands of pieces from the inside out! In an instant, his organs were cracked, his throat was burning, and he wanted to say something, but he could only let out a terrible howl that was no longer human.

The same thing is happening in various places in the Inner Banner People Settlement of Sijiu City.

This mustard seed poison gas, known as the king of poison gas, encountered ancient people who had never encountered poison gas attacks and could not be immune to the body, and all kinds of effects were even more crazy and obvious.

Countless Manchu officers and soldiers suffered from severe poisoning shortly after inhaling mustard gas: they were either spinning in front of their eyes, or their brains were dark, or their whole body strength was rapidly withdrawn, or their body organs were so painful that they seemed to have been cut to pieces inch by inch by the blade......

A large number of officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners could not bear the poisoning and fell to the ground in a short period of time, and finally they were able to react quickly and run away, and in the end only one-tenth of the bannermen escaped with their lives.

Moreover, almost all of the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Manchurian Forbidden Brigade were dressed in coarse cloth clothes, and a few wore armor, but they were all large swaths of bare skin in the air.

Even if mustard gas does not breathe, it can destroy the characteristics of the human body through the action of the skin, which is vividly reflected at this moment.

As time passed, the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners in the poisonous gas gradually felt that their arms, feet, and faces were in sharp pain, and when they looked down, they were shocked to find that they had grown shocking patches of hypertrophic edema and bright red spots on their exposed skin!

In a panic, some officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners immediately reached out to scratch in order to alleviate the pain, but to their horror, their fingers grabbed patches of blood-drenched rotten loose flesh, and pus flowed for a long time.

Like the symptoms of several officers and soldiers after direct inhalation of mustard gas, these officers and soldiers also suffered from nausea, fatigue, and nervous failure, and because they had been in the poison gas for too long, the depth of the poison was even greater than that of those who had directly inhaled the poison gas before!

The officers and men who were lucky enough to escape immediately flew into these situations. Then these intelligence documents were quickly uploaded layer by layer, all the way to the Taihe Palace.

At this time, the Taihe Hall had just finished the explosion attack.

Several of the surviving courtiers died from serious injuries.

Kangxi ordered someone to count the lost ministers.

There are four scholars, Wu Wei, a scholar of Bohol Temple, Zhang Yushu, a scholar of Wenhua Temple, Ma Qi, a scholar of Wu Yingdian University, Chen Jingting, a scholar of Wenyuange, and Xi Hana, who died of their injuries.

Wu Yan, a scholar of the Bohol Temple, was very old and was seriously injured and died immediately.

The most painful thing for Kangxi is the death of the two Manchu scholars, Ma Qi and Xi Hana, who were originally less Manchu and have fewer seeds of study, and now two scholars have died at once.......

There are also the former exiled ministers Li Guangdi, Mingzhu, Amida, Tong Guowei and two imperial historians, Zhang Ying and Zheng Wei......

These are his ministers of the humerus, an important force for him Kangxi to control the court, and a capable minister that he relies on to govern the court and govern the world.

And there is also the commander of the infantry army, Tuo Heqi, who is the henchman of his henchmen, and is the force guarding the nine gates of the palace.

and Zhang Tingyu, who was reviewed by the Hanlin Academy at this time and entered the study of Zhinan, was originally called "Wenhe" after his death in history, and was the only Hanchen in the entire Qing Dynasty who was worthy of enjoying the Taimiao.

Afterwards, Zhang Tingyu's father, Zhang Ying, who was also a former scholar of Wenhuadian University and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, lost his son and died of gout directly. So far, the Zhang family, known as the "Father and Son Prime Minister's Mansion", "Five Miles and Three Jinshi", and "Two Champions across the River", has gradually declined and disappeared.

Now they're all dead......

Kangxi's body in his fifties has always been strong, but now he feels empty, and he is a little unsteady when he walks......

As for the other officials, there were many casualties: Qi Shiwu, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Geng E, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Manjin in the matter, Zhang Pengxi, Guo Xiu, the governor, Peng Peng, Huang Dingji, Tang Youzeng, Xu Zhijin, Song Junye, Wang Yuan, and Wu Jintai in Langzhong......

The entire Taihe Hall of the court meeting was empty.

Soon, the information of the chaotic and tragic situation in Sijiu City came to pass.

As soon as Kangxi opened it, his eyes turned black and he fell on the dragon chair.

was still treating the minister, and several imperial doctors who were treating the minister's wounds hurriedly came to wake Kangxi up.

After Kangxi woke up, he picked up the fold and held it in his hand, and immediately burst into tears and his expression was distorted.

The court was suddenly even more silent.

After a while, Kangxi calmed down and handed down the order: "Circulate them one by one by the ministers." ”

As soon as the ministers opened it and looked at it, they were all shocked. Half of the officers and soldiers mobilized into the city by the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade actually died, and the inhabited areas of the Imperial Banner people in the imperial city were destroyed everywhere, the people were displaced, the casualties were heavy, and all kinds of deaths were extremely miserable.

The number of dead and wounded among the banner people reached tens of thousands!

When the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the losses were not so big!

Who is this doing, that it is so! Trying to rebel?

Kangxi held on to the huge hatred in his heart, summoned the Admiral of Jiumen, and the infantry army was all in charge, learned the details of the current Sijiu City, and ordered the murderer to be strictly arrested, and issued a document from all over the world, wanted, and any relevant personnel, raze the nine clans!

Then he sent all kinds of poisonous gas samples to the princes of Belle's house, and ordered many princes to send people to send people to help save people and put out fires, and at the same time ordered the imperial doctors to study the injuries of various poisonous gases, and then make an antidote, at least how to prevent it.

After returning to the Xinuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, Kangxi summoned his spies and ordered them to find clues to the murderer.

Then a large number of people were formed, and all the forces of the entire court revolved around this matter, and all the clues were magnified by a magnifying glass, and they were watched countless times over and over again.

All kinds of intelligence and secret reports were continuously summarized and screened, and Xie Qiang, Ran Lingyang, two people with strange whereabouts, were immediately found out and marked heavily.

Then the officers and soldiers of the Nine Gate Admirals, the soldiers who survived the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade, and the soldiers and horses of the green battalion outside the city were mobilized one after another.

The city of Sijiu was surrounded and turned around, and the water could not be passed.

At the same time, a group of soldiers, horses, bows, arrows, broadswords, spears, and simple firearms rushed directly towards the city where Ran Lingyang and Xie Qiang were located.