Feyder stood on the edge of the battlements, looking at the mess beneath the walls. In the first siege battle this morning, the corpses left on the battlefield by the invading army of the East Oguna Empire were close to 5,000 people. Most of the soldiers were shot without a thick shield to block the arrows, and some were killed by boulders and ballistas. On the other hand, the defenders on the walls did not lose much, but the siege was like this, the longer the siege lasted, the more troops they lost in exchange for the more defending enemies, and this proportion would continue to increase until the city was captured.

After learning that those mercenary groups that originally belonged to Di were forcibly "involved" into the battlefield, the other mercenaries showed a trace of frustration. Although every soldier and mercenary is a political pawn of those in power, it is a chilling practice. After seeing the expressions of the three regiment commanders, Fei De only suspected that this plan was proposed by Ludwig, who had always wanted to keep all the soldiers and mercenaries under his own control, and since the mercenary group had different intentions, he had to choose to use stratagem to "control" all those people.

At this time, some soldiers began to deliver their prepared lunches to the regular soldiers, who were taking the bread, cooked meats, and rice balls that had been brought and were eating them in large gulps. The Potato Mercenary Regiment and the other three mercenary regiments were not treated like regular soldiers, and they could only eat their own dry rations, envying those regular troops.

But Feder noticed that each of the soldiers was able to distribute large portions of food, and that today's lunch was like a feast compared to the previous situation of eating and drinking. Derek had long said that the supply of food would be tight because half of the granary had been burned down, but today the supply of food is very unusual.

"Commander, don't they really die if they eat so much meat?" Matthews chewed on a dry, hard breadstick, but a crossbowman standing not far away was gulping down lamb ribs, and he was envious.

"Yes, I heard that there was a shortage of food before, but now it seems that it is just to not give us the corresponding food, right?" Leonard, the team leader, also immediately expressed his dissatisfaction.

Fidel didn't say much, he knew that the distribution of food was the responsibility of General Derek, and it was up to him to decide how much to eat and who to eat. But suddenly, a soldier who was eating white bread not far away suddenly fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth! On the other side, a soldier holding rice balls in one hand and roasted white potatoes in the other fell to the ground, trembling all over.

"The food is poisonous!" Fed shouted, and even the mercenary groups who had not been given food put down their food and looked at Fed blankly.

In just a few tens of seconds, all the regular soldiers who had eaten the food that had been sent were poisoned, and many soldiers who reacted quickly immediately threw away the food in their hands. But most of the soldiers who were the first to eat and who were guarding the walls fell to the ground because they had eaten the poisonous food. Fei De ran over with several captains, and found that many of Möngke's own soldiers in the area under Lord Mönggo's responsibility were already foaming at the mouth, trembling limbs, and had been poisoned and collapsed all over the city wall. Lord Möngke, on the other hand, did not eat the food that had been brought because he was still caring for the wounded.

"Möngke, someone poisoned the food. Fed said to Möngke, who also realized that the situation was not good.

"Send someone to inform the Chief of the General Staff, Lord Stanley, that all the soldiers can't eat the food that has been delivered. Mönggo shouted at some of his personal guards who were protecting him, and Fide ordered Lukka to take someone to inform the generals of the High Command.

It's just that the far water is difficult to extinguish the near fire, and more and more soldiers guarding the city wall have fallen, most of their symptoms are coma and foaming at the mouth, and some soldiers who are in good physical fitness and have only eaten a few bites of meat or bread do not fall. However, they also showed symptoms of dizziness and weakness in their limbs, and for a while they could not pick up their weapons and continue to guard the city walls.

Fidel looked in the direction of the invading forces of the East Oguna Empire, there was no movement there, and if they took advantage of the poisoning of the soldiers to attack in a big way, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"How could there be so many people poisoned?!" Meng Ge dropped his weapon and picked up a pro-soldier whose limbs were twitching incessantly, the other man's eyes were rolling, his lips were purple and he was trembling all the time.

"The chefs must have poisoned them!" Noor immediately responded.

"No way, those cooks are soldiers loyal to the regent Xiumo, and the food has been personally inspected by General Derek"

Derek Field recalled that Stanley had asked himself which of the five would be traitors, and that if he had to choose one, the general named Derek would be the most suspicious. Now all the soldiers have food poisoning, it must not be an accident, if I guess correctly, it is Derek, who is in charge of the food baggage!

"Is it really Derek?" Feder couldn't help but ask.

Meng Ge hugged the soldier who was convulsed very much, he couldn't help but shed a few tears, and said in a trembling voice: "How can this be!? All food is checked layer by layer before it can be passed, even if Derek is a traitor, it is impossible for him to poison so much food, and that food is guarded by special soldiers, even the chief of the general staff cannot approach it, unless"

Unless the food was poisoned in the first place, and it wasn't until today that it was brought out for the defenders who were on alert!, Fidel thought to himself. He instantly remembered his mission to deliver the grain here, which he was responsible for transporting, although it was not much, but it was a gift from the Duke of Aldington. This was the only reason to avoid inspection, and Derek didn't need to poison the grain at all, he just had to choose this batch to use today.

Could it be that the Duke of Oldington and the Pope of the Papal State, who ordered him to send food, had already conspired to let this batch of poisonous food go into the hands of Derek, a traitor to the Theoguna Empire?!

The more Feder thought about it, the more incredible it became, and many of these thoughts rushed into his head at once. If, as Möngke said, even Derek could not access the grain, then the possibility that the grain was poisoned in the first place was greatly increased.

As soon as the defenders everywhere were poisoned, the city reservists, who had not yet eaten, immediately walked up to the city walls and carried the poisoned soldiers into the city. A military doctor came to Lord Mönggo's area, and told Fid and Möngke that it was a poison that made the limbs weak and briefly unconscious, and that it would take at least a day or two to recuperate before the poisoned person could get up and walk, and it would take at least a week to rejoin the fight. It is not life-threatening to ordinary people, but poisoning the soldiers defending the city can make them incapacitated.

Based on the toxicity of this poison, Fielder judged that the incident must have been premeditated. At this time, Stanley, the chief of the general staff, also sent knights to recall Feld and Munke to the high command.

But at this moment, the grain storage place inside Doret City suddenly came out of the smoke, which instantly stunned all the soldiers who were still healthy!

A soldier who rushed from the walls of the city of Doret shouted loudly to everyone: "There is an enemy in the city! Some enemy spies have burned down the granary! Now there are some rebels with weapons in the city!" When everyone heard this, they were all surprised, they did not expect that there would really be an enemy lurking in the city, and they would appear at such a critical moment.

Möngke was already stunned, but Fide subconsciously glanced in the direction of the invading army of the East Oguna Empire - those "black tides" were slowly beginning to surge!