Chapter 814: Insect Poison

At the beginning, Lin Xuanzhong not only rescued them from the death row prisoners, but also entrusted them with great trust and gave them hope to live.

"General Chang, you wait before leaving, the general still needs to know about the military situation," Nodding, Lin Xuanzhong was thinking about how many manpower to give Chang Siyuan.

"Report, according to a rough count, there are 17,000 poisoned soldiers. Among them, there were three generals, seven adjutant generals, and thirty-six commanders. After the poisoned person was poisoned, the symptoms were unified, from the general down to the ordinary soldiers, all of them lost their combat ability, and the severely poisoned people have lost consciousness," Lin Xuanzhong had just explained Chang Siyuan's words, and a general hurriedly broke into the big tent, and hurriedly reported the military situation to Lin Xuanzhong without caring about checking the situation in the camp tent.

"General Sima, as a general, you should not be chaotic and not afraid of the battle, you are so flustered, how can the general believe what you say about the military situation?" Without waiting for Lin Xuanzhong to speak, as the second person in charge of the former army, Zhang Jiutian directly instructed General Sima in front of the generals.

"The last general is guilty," the next time, General Sima realized that his behavior was too reckless, and under Zhang Jiutian's authority, he could only admit his mistake first.

"General Sima, can you tell me how much combat strength our army still has for the time being?" With a wave of his hand, Lin Xuanzhong asked General Sima, who was embarrassed, to continue.

"Because most of the original wounded ate boiled meat, there are still 20,000 combat strength for the time being," after reporting an accurate number, General Sima said: "General Fang Cai Ruan asked the last general to pass on the word, and on the periphery of the camp, archers and gunners are in place, and as soon as the enemy comes, our army can adjust the formation as soon as possible to give them a head-on attack." ”

Under Lin Xuanzhong's calm gaze, General Sima spoke neatly, and expressed the meaning clearly in a few words.

"Twenty thousand troops," said silently, a trace of nervousness appeared on Lin Xuanzhong's face, the number of poisoned people exceeded Lin Xuanzhong's expectations, and Lin Xuanzhong didn't know how long he could hold out when he encountered an attack with his current military strength.

"General Chang, you told General Fang that half of the soldiers in the front army were poisoned, and they don't know whether they were alive or dead, and there are still 20,000 life forces, even if the enemy takes advantage of the situation to attack, the general will have the confidence to resist for a while. You tell General Fang to be careful that there may be an ambush on the road, don't send troops easily," his tone eased, and Lin Xuanzhong continued: "Don't forget to remind General Fang that there may be something wrong with those fierce beast meats, and they can't be boiled and eaten." ”

Suddenly thinking that there were also fierce beasts in the rear army, Lin Xuanzhong hurriedly added, and was even worried that the rear army might encounter the same situation. If there were also a large number of people in the rear army who were poisoned, I am afraid that would be the worst-case scenario. However, after thinking about it, there was no place to replenish water in the rear army, and there was a lack of available water, so Lin Xuanzhong slowly put his mind at ease. After instructing another general to assist Chang Siyuan in selecting elite cavalry, Lin Xuanzhong paid attention to General Sima again.

Now that Yang Shifeng and Ruan Yi have set up a defensive line, and the people asking for help have been dispatched, they can then devote their energy to dealing with the problem of those poisoned soldiers. I don't know what the results of the military doctors and Xue Yin outside will be, Lin Xuanzhong is anxious to wait for their reply, and he also wants to know if there is an ambush soldier's whereabouts.

"Is there any news from General Qi's side, could it be that our sentry posts have been attacked?" Thinking about the fact that General Qi was sent not long ago to inform those sentry posts to pay attention, no matter if those people found anything out, Lin Xuanzhong wanted to know something.

Speaking of which, it has been a while since Qin Chong reported the poisoning of the personnel in the army before, and it stands to reason that long before Qin Chong reported the news, those enemy personnel hiding in the shadows should have appeared, but now that the defense line has been arranged around the camp, they still have not received the news of the appearance of suspicious people, such an abnormal situation really puzzles Lin Xuanzhong.

"Report, General Qi ordered his subordinates to pass on the general, and no suspicious person's whereabouts have been found in the east of the camp for the time being," while Lin Xuanzhong was guessing what the plans of those who poisoned the night army were, a herald hurriedly entered the big tent and reported the current situation in the east to Lin Xuanzhong.

"Report, General Qi ordered his subordinates to pass on the general, and no suspicious person's whereabouts have been found in the west of the camp for the time being, please make a decision as soon as possible," Immediately afterwards, another herald came in and explained the situation that General Qi had checked in the west.

"General Zhang, the enemy did not take advantage of the chaos to attack us, is it still like the previous two nights, they did not plan to attack the camp?" Looking away from the two heralds, Lin Xuanzhong intentionally or unintentionally wanted to ask Zhang Jiutian for advice.

"General, the other party used intrigue and trickery to make us lose half of our combat strength without much effort, and now is the best time for them to attack the camp. If they don't attack the camp tonight, it only means that they have bigger intentions. Zhang Jiutian shook his head, the current situation is not realistic at all, no matter how many people there are on the other side, according to Zhang Jiutian's point of view, it is also the best time for the other party to act.

"There are other plans," he said silently, Lin Xuanzhong was already thinking about what other plans the other party had.

"Could it be that their real target is the rear army?" After thinking about it for a while, Lin Xuanzhong suddenly thought that the other party's real target was the rear army, and poisoning the front army was just to create problems for the front army, so that the front army could not reinforce the rear army at a critical moment.

"The general means that they deliberately poisoned and murdered us, but their intention was to deal with the rear army?" Zhang Jiutian's eyes flashed, and he thought of something according to Lin Xuanzhong's reminder.

"If there aren't many poisoned people in the rear army, it's unlikely that they will dare to attack the rear army directly. However, if General Fang can receive our request for help, he will definitely send reinforcements, and when the reinforcements rush over, it is very likely that they will be ambushed, and the consequences will be unimaginable," After further inference, Lin Xuanzhong had some new ideas.

"If it's really as the general said, then we sent General Chang to ask for help, wouldn't it be their trick?" Zhang Jiutian raised his eyebrows, and his face suddenly became solemn.

"That's right, if General Chang and his party go well, the general's speculation can be confirmed," Lin Xuanzhong's face also became serious as soon as his thoughts turned.

"General, should we immediately send someone to chase General Chang back?" After Lin Xuanzhong's analysis, Zhang Jiutian thought of more and more questions, and he felt more and more like he had fallen into the enemy's tricks.

"No need, if we send someone to chase General Chang now, it will expose the fact that we have already made their plan clear, presumably the second team will face the greatest danger, and it will be impossible to catch up with the first team at all," After taking a long breath, Lin Xuanzhong shook his head, feeling a heavy feeling that he could no longer continue the conversation with Zhang Jiutian.

"What is the general going to do?" Zhang Jiutian understood what Lin Xuanzhong meant, but indifference was not Zhang Jiutian's way of doing things.

"General Fang has his own measure, and he should not rush to send troops, so we are still trying to find a way to confirm the situation in the rear army and solve the problems in the army as soon as possible. ”

"Does the general think that those local forces will still attack us?" Seeing that Lin Xuanzhong shifted his attention to the poisoned personnel, Zhang Jiutian asked with a puzzled expression. At the same time, the other generals in the camp looked at Lin Xuanzhong equally nervously. For them, it is not a good thing that the current state of the former army has been attacked by the enemy.

"That's true, have you forgotten that the two spies said that the camp of those local personnel was ten miles away from our barracks? They are still so far away from the front camp that they will only be further away from the ambush of the rear army. Since the two spies had said that those men had no tendency to shift their positions, in Ben General's opinion, they would not be able to rush to an area where they could ambush the rear army overnight. ”

Lin Xuanzhong didn't have time to express his thoughts in a concise tone, so he used a longer narrative to express the reason for his thoughts. When those people analyzed right and wrong, Lin Xuanzhong thought of one more point, "In addition, only by solving the problems in the army as soon as possible can we go over to reinforce the rear army as soon as possible in the event of an attack." ”

After adding a supplement in the following paragraph, Zhang Jiutian and the other generals no longer had any doubts about Lin Xuanzhong's statement. However, when they all expressed their agreement with Lin Xuanzhong's views, Lin Xuanzhong thought of another question. If those people still planned to attack the front army, then their speculation that the rear army would encounter an ambush just now might have been a mistake, and after realizing that the two views were contradictory, Lin Xuanzhong's eyes became suspicious.

On the other side, Zhang Jiutian's eyes were also not much better, obviously taking into account the problem that Lin Xuanzhong was considering. Seeing that the two were silent, the other generals reacted one after another.

After thinking about it for a while, Lin Xuanzhong felt that if the two speculations were to exist at the same time, there was only one possibility, and the other party had enough manpower, but when the generals discussed it together, there was a corollary that the other party could not have enough people, so the more he thought about it, the more problems he had.

Now the situation is like testing Lin Xuanzhong's eyesight, if they can't see the other party's true intentions in a blur, then in the end they really fell for the other party's tricks.

"General, the Great Pharmacist has found out," Just when Lin Xuanzhong was unable to distinguish the hostility and didn't know how to proceed next, Zhou Wenfeng came in from outside with a smile on his face.

"It's not an ordinary poison, or it's not a poison, but it's more powerful than an ordinary poison," the next time, Xue Yin, who was next to Zhou Wenfeng, explained directly: "It's a rare insect poison, and soldiers are poisoned because they eat food that contains poisonous insects." According to my examination, the root of this poison does not come from water, but from the flesh of the beast. ”