Chapter 121: The wind is sluggish and the water is cold
Looking from the city of Jiayuguan, the desert is in full view. Hu Yun climbed the tower of Jiayuguan City, glanced at the thousands of Tartars outside the pass, and suddenly sighed: "I think that at the beginning, my Emperor Mingwen personally led an army of 300,000 to conquer Mobei, and defeated 50,000 Mongolian iron cavalry in the Battle of Feiyun Mountain, forcing the Tatars of the Mongolian headquarters to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. After that, the army entered the extreme north of the Fox Mountain, and carved the inscription on the boulder as a tablet: "Hanhai is a stele, and Tianshan is a stele." "What a hero, now, but?" Hu Yun sighed and shook his head. Yu Shilong suddenly said: "General Hu doesn't have to be discouraged, although the current emperor is not as eloquent as Taizu Chengzu, but he is not a confused emperor, he is just confused by Yan Song's dog thief for a while, we have to believe that he will wake up one day, by that time, how terrible will I be this batch of hateful tartars?" Right now, we're dealing with these Tartars. Hu Yun laughed a few times and said, "What Lord Yu said is good! At this time, the thousands of Tartars suddenly stood a few feet away from the Jiayuguan City Tower, and one of the Tartar officers glanced at Jiayuguan, and snorted coldly in his nose: "Release!" "When I boarded, there was a burst of shouts, and thousands of people with thin heavy objects were thrown into Jiayu Pass through the ladder erected by layers of soldiers!"
"General, what are they doing here?" I asked something I didn't understand. Hu Yun glanced at it and said, "It seems that they have started!" "What's going on?" I asked curiously. "These days, although the Tartars have not attacked again, there are still dead bodies in the city at this time of the day!" Hu Yun sighed and said. "What, still dead?" I asked, trembling.
"Yes, for several days, the Tartars have been throwing dead bodies in the city every day, which has made the people in the city panic, and I don't know what the Tartars are up to?" Hu Yun glanced at the heavy object thrown in and said worriedly.
At this time, a heavy object was thrown up by the tartar, and it happened to fall at my feet, but I saw that the heavy object was wrapped in layers of cotton cloth, and I couldn't see what was inside, I curiously stretched out the dragon sword, the long sword shook, and only heard the sound of 'snort', the cotton cloth broke in response, revealing an unrecognizable human head, Lu Shuang had never seen such a terrifying thing, and was frightened 'Ah', and called out, I saw that although the human head was unrecognizable, the whole face was pitch black, exuding a thick smell. Sun Fei glanced at it and said, "General, what's going on?" Hu Yun took two steps back and said, "We don't know that since we have run out of food and grass, the Tartars have been transporting dead bodies to the city every day!" I really don't know what they want to do? I looked at the dead body for a moment, and there was a vague strangeness in my heart. Lu Shuang saw me looking at the dead corpse in a daze, and asked in a low voice, "Brother Tang, have you found anything?" I nodded and said, "It can be concluded that this dead body was poisoned to death!" "Poisoned?" Hu Yun asked with a suspicious face. I nodded and said, "Yes, judging from this dead corpse, the whole person's face is black, and his whole body is ulcerated, and he died after being poisoned by a very powerful poison!" "What kind of poison?" Yu Shilong also asked with a puzzled face.
I glanced at the dead body again and hesitated, "Probably poinsettias!" "Poinsettia? Isn't it amazing? Zhao Wu asked nervously. I nodded and said, "It's very powerful, poinsettia is also called Hades, the poisoned person's face is black, the whole body ulcers and dies, what is even more terrifying is that this poison is extremely contagious, and it spreads extremely fast." If you spread ten or ten, you will soon become a major disaster! "His grandmother's, Lao Tzu thought that those Tartars would only fight openly and honestly, and only we in the Central Plains would engage in these indiscriminate methods, but I didn't expect that Genghis Khan's descendants were just a group of despicable villains!" Yin Jun scolded loudly. ”
In this way, this Tartar must want to use the spread speed of this batch of dead corpses to make our army die in large numbers, so that this Jiayuguan can be broken without spending a single soldier! What a poisonous strategy! Yu Shilong sighed. But I don't understand why this tartar would make this group of dead bodies so unrecognizable, if this magenta is so poisonous. Zhao Ming interjected. I looked down and thought for a moment, "It's very likely that the Tartars didn't let me know what this poison was, which is why they made these corpses unrecognizable!" ”
"But these are just Tang Zhutou's conjectures, this is the battlefield, there is still no guess, and once this word spreads, the army's heart will be chaotic, in this way, how will our army face the enemy?" Qin Chengfeng shouted at me. "I think what Tang Yukuai said is very reasonable, everyone think about it carefully, why did the Tartars stop attacking in the past few days? What is the purpose of them coming in with such dead bodies, is it possible that they know that we have been out of food for a few days, and these dead bodies still come in and make me human flesh? And have you noticed that many soldiers in the city have died in the past few days, and at first everyone thought they were starving to death, but now I think it must have something to do with this dead body! I have to make people guess! Hu Yunlang said.
"But general, this is a battlefield, no one is allowed to speculate randomly, once the guess is wrong, the consequences will be unimaginable!" Qin Chengfeng said a little anxiously.
"Whether it's a poinsettia poison or not, find a Lang Zhong to try it!" I said to Qin Chengfeng in a questioning tone. "Yes, I believe in Tang Zhutou's analysis, Cheng Feng quickly go find Lang Zhong!" Hu Yun ordered.
"Yes, the last general commands!" Qin Chengfeng took the order and left. Not long after, an elderly Lang Zhong trembled and followed behind Qin Chengfeng and walked towards us. Qin Chengfeng walked up to Hu Yun and said, "General, Lai Langzhong brings it!" "The grass people knock to the general!" Lai Langzhong knelt down with trembling legs and said. Hu Yun squinted at Lai Langzhong and shouted at Qin Chengfeng, "What about Langzhong in the army? Why did you come to him? "General Qiyu, I don't know why I haven't seen any Langzhong in the army, only Lai Langzhong!" Although he is a fellow man, it is said that he has practiced medicine before, and the last general really didn't find those military lieutenants, so he took him to take a look! ”
Hu Yun frowned and said, "Since Lang Zhong in this army is not in the army, where will he go?" When did they disappear? "Well, just for these two days, right?" Qin Chengfeng thought for a moment. "Are you sure it's in one or two days?" Hu Yun turned around and stared at Qin Chengfeng's eyes and asked. "Sure, two days ago, a brother in the army was seriously injured, and I sent someone to get a few pairs of medicine from Langzhong in the army, but the soldiers came back and told me that none of the Langzhong in the army were gone, and I thought they had escaped when they saw that our army was weak and weak?" "In this case, all this is not a coincidence, it seems that this must be a conspiracy of the enemy, but what did the enemy do when he captured Lang Zhong in the army?" Hu Yun looked at the Tartars outside the city and muttered.
"I think, the matter is already very clear, the Tartars must want to spread the plague through these dead corpses, and then this Jiayuguan City will become an empty city, and at that time, they will be able to drive straight into the first pass of my Ming Dynasty without much effort, and go straight to the Jingshi!" Yu Shilong said with a frown. "Yes, this tartar is cunning enough!" Hu Yun turned around and looked at Yu Shilong and said.
"So what now? Checkmate? Qin Chengfeng said with a worried face. Hu Yun glanced at Qin Chengfeng and said angrily, "What are you panicking about? The so-called soldiers will block the water and cover the earth. Although this Tartar is cunning, it is nothing more than trying to spread the plague through these dead corpses, as long as we find a few Lang Zhong as soon as possible and take precautions, then this conspiracy of the Tartar will be self-defeating! Qin Chengfeng said with a happy face: "Yes, the general is still thoughtful!" "I don't think it's that simple, since this Tartar wants to use the poison of poinsettia on these corpses to kill the soldiers in the city, so as to break through Jiayu Pass without much effort, then they will definitely think that we will find Lang Zhong to treat the toxicity of this magenta, so?" "So what?" Yin Jun said a little nervously. "So these Tartars must try their best to kill all the Langzhong in our Guan, and those missing Langzhong may have been killed!" Hu Yunlang said.
"It's too late to say that, so what to do? Do you just wait to die? Lu Shuang said a little anxiously. Waiting for death, of course not, we are the last barrier of the Ming Dynasty, if we want to die, we must die with those hateful Tartars! I snorted coldly and said viciously. Brother Tang, have you thought of a way to deal with the Tartars? Sun Fei asked me happily. I smiled wryly and said, "No! Sun Fei said with a disappointed face: "Then you still say that!" I glanced at her and said, "For the sake of now, the only way to do this is to infiltrate the Tartar camp to find the antidote, then the Tartar conspiracy will also be self-defeating!" "Okay, this is a good way, I'll go with you!" Lu Shuang said happily. "I'll go too!" Sun Fei hurriedly yelled at me.
"No, it's too dangerous to infiltrate the enemy camp, and it's more convenient for me to act alone!" I said firmly. "No, I'll go with you, I can help you get rid of those tartars!" Lu Shuang pouted. "I'll go too, although my martial arts are not as high as yours, but I can also help? Maybe I'll find the antidote a little sooner than you? Sun Fei hurriedly said. "No, it's just not good, that's so much nonsense! I yelled angrily.
"What are you yelling, what's so great about you, isn't your martial arts better than ours?" Lu Shuang yelled at me with some grievances. I turned my face and glanced at Lu Shuang and Sun Fei, and said in a gentle tone: "Fei'er, Shuang'er, now is not the time to grab this, now the people in the city are panicking, you have to help Lord Yu General Hu appease the army, now the city needs you even more!" "Lu Shuang wanted to say something, but when she saw that I was paying attention, she swallowed back what she wanted to say." I think so, right? Although my martial arts are not the best, I think they are not bad, since you don't worry about Brother Tang alone, then I will accompany him on a trip, right? Yin Jun walked over and said.
"It's okay, if one more person goes and something happens, there's someone to take care of!" Yu Shilong looked at me and said. I nodded and said, "That's good!" "The last general will go and arrange it for the two of you!" Qin Chengfeng hugged his fist slightly. Hu Yun nodded and said, "Go ahead!" Qin Chengfeng responded to the order. Late at night, Yin Jun and I wore a set of Tartar soldiers' robes and walked on the walls of Jiayuguan. "Brother Tang, you?" Lu Shuang Sun Fei said with a sad face. I smiled and said, "Don't worry, right?" I will definitely be back! Although Sun Fei Lushuang was a little worried, she still nodded at me. Brother Tang, are you coming back, and I, Zhao Wu, still want to follow you to solve the case? Zhao Wu said as he put his arm on my shoulder. I smiled and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, right?" Brother Tang will definitely come back! Zhao Wu nodded.