"Dare to ask Han Gong, what exactly was put into Yuezhou City that day?" Inside the tent, Xiao Min almost asked Li Xian: "Is the strange disease that is suddenly raging in Yuezhou City now related to this matter?" ”

Li Xian, who was sitting behind the sand table, saw Xiao Min so angry, his face softened, and he asked with a smile: "What's the matter?" I am worried about the war, why is it wrong? ”

Xiao Min's face was furious, and when he was about to speak again, he was questioned by Li Xian: "It's General Xiao, is he complaining about those infected Bian Jun now?" ”

"There are not only Bian troops in Yuezhou City, but also at least 50,000 people!" Xiao Min, who has always had a peaceful temperament, could no longer suppress his inner anger: "When the Korean public secretly made this decision, did he think about these innocent people? What is the difference between such an act of disregarding the lives of the people and the brutal and arrogant Bian army! ”

Li Xian had a sneer in his eyes, but his voice was very light: "General Xiao is afraid that he has forgotten, you are just ordered to come to support, and the commander of this battle is still me Li Xian." How the coach decides, it seems that it is not General Xiao's turn to dictate. ”

Xiao Min clenched his fists: "Is the policy set by the Korean government to slaughter their own soldiers regardless of the safety of the people?" ”

Xiao Min said, clenching his fists heavily in the direction of Jingshi, and his voice was loud: "Xiao wants to ask the sage for instructions or two, whether this move of the Korean Duke is enough to continue to serve as the coach!" ”

"General Xiao doesn't have to use the saint to press me, he will be outside, and he has the right to act cheaply." Li Xian leaned back leisurely and said disappreciatively: "As for General Xiao's massacre of the soldiers on the other side, does he mean the hundred soldiers who participated in the stone throwing?" Even now, does General Xiao still not understand my good intentions? ”

"If I don't kill them, if the plan leaks, how can we have a good situation today." Li Xian looked at Xiao Min with a smile: "Besides, at this time, General Xiao still thinks that as long as I don't kill them, they will be able to live?" ”

Seeing that Xiao Min's face was slightly pale, Li Xian said lightly: "If they come into contact with those things, they are very likely to be infected." If they are not killed, the scene in the army at this moment is only afraid that it is no different from the situation in Yuezhou City. ”

Xiao Min's face turned a little paler, and his eyes became colder: "The meaning of the Korean public...... Does it mean that this disease spreads very quickly, but there is no cure?! ”

"So to speak." Li Xian smiled: "But General Xiao is a little calm, recently I have asked people to develop a decoction, as long as it is distributed to the soldiers in the army every day, it can be roughly prevented from this disease, even if it is accidentally infected, it will not easily kill you." ”

Immediately afterwards, he said in a rather "generous" tone: "Later, I will also have this decoction sent to General Xiao's tent." ”

"But what about the people in Yuezhou City who have contracted and are about to be infected?" Xiao Min asked word by word.

Li Xian sneered suddenly: "General Xiao, how can there be no reason for not dying in war?" Such a woman's kindness is not suitable for leading troops into battle. ”

"But these people don't have to be in this situation!" Xiao Min bluntly retorted: "I have successfully intercepted the grain and grass of the Bian army, everything is going well, if it is not for the Korean public to obstruct this matter, our army may have recovered Yuezhou City at this moment!" ”

"What is filibuster? Only now can I truly defeat the Bian army at the lowest cost! Li Xian narrowed his eyes: "What is a Yuezhou city?" According to General Xiao's plan, at most, Bian Chunliang withdrew from Yuezhou from the rear, but it was destined to be difficult to hit Bian's army hard, let alone kill Bian Chunliang! With General Xiao's slow strategy, half a year to collect Yuezhou, do you want to use half a year to collect Dongting? How many more years will it take to collect Tanzhou, Hengzhou, Yongzhou, and Daozhou? ”

"The current situation is divided, the imperial court is difficult to pay, and General Xiao is fighting like this, whether he can exterminate Bian Chunliang is unknown, but I am afraid that the treasury will be dragged down first——"

"And what I'm doing now is for the benefit of the big picture. Abandoning the people of just one state, getting rid of Bian Chunliang, and even more so that the remaining hundreds of people in Dongting, Tanzhou, and other areas in the rear can be freed from the hands of Bian Jun as soon as possible - isn't this for the sake of the people? ”

Hearing this self-righteous hypocrisy, Xiao Min's anger suddenly rose: "So Xiao wants to ask, who did Dongting and Yuezhou lose in the first place?" ”

The mocking smile on Li Xian's face dissipated, and he slowly stood up, with a chill in his eyes: "General Bulao Xiao reminds me that I will be able to take back Yuezhou and Dongting in a few days!" Not only that, but I also want to cut off Bian Chunliang's head and sweep away the rebellion of the Bian army in one fell swoop! For the saint, for Dasheng, completely get rid of this confidant! ”

After finishing speaking, he looked at Xiao Min steadily: "When the big thing is about to be accomplished, instead of blindly questioning and obstructing, Li hopes that General Xiao will cooperate with the plan - otherwise, once we miss the important matter of protecting the country, you and I can't afford it!" ”

"Xiao will write to ask the sage and the imperial court if they also agree with the so-called 'policy of protecting the country' in the mouth of the Korean public!" Xiao Min turned around and brushed open the curtain and strode away.

Xiao Min returned to the tent and immediately reported the matter to the Holy Emperor in the form of a letter, and sent him back to the capital as soon as possible.

After the letter was sent away, Xiao Min's mood became more and more difficult to calm down, he only thought that the Korean public was happy, but he didn't expect the other party to secretly use such a method!

After returning from the Han River, he followed the advice of Changjie's envoy and closely followed Li Xian's every move, so he discovered that he had secretly killed a hundred slingers...... But by then it was all a foregone conclusion.

Xiao Min was in a hurry, and a henchman entered the account to ask for a meeting.

"How!" Xiao Min asked anxiously: "Can you find out?" ”

The soldier said in a heavy and complicated tone: "General Hui, we have already found out that the sack that the Korean prince put into the city of Yuezhou that day not only wet the hay and lime, but also a lot of poison and corpse parts......

"Corpses?"

"Yes, it's mostly ......human corpses," the soldier said, "It should be from the homeless people, as well as the corpses of soldiers who died of illness in the previous army." ”

Xiao Min gritted his teeth.

He had also heard of the old war of one side throwing a large number of corpses into the city and creating a plague when the two armies were fighting, but that was a long way away......

Pestilence......

As soon as these two words appeared in his mind, Xiao Min felt a chill all over his body - so, from the very beginning, Li Xian's plan was to artificially create a plague in Yuezhou City!

But Li Xian did it more covertly, making Bian Jun even more defenseless.

As far as Li Xian is concerned, it is difficult to succeed in only throwing the corpse into Yuezhou City, once Bian Jun cleans up and buries it in time.

And Arlan beside him is good at making drugs-

The corpses were mixed with prepared poisons, hidden in lime-mixed hay, under the guise of creating smoke, and then ignited and thrown into the city of Yuezhou.

Some fell into the riverine in the city, and Bian Jun did not salvage them carefully.

After that, a light rain fell in Yuezhou, damp, sultry, rotten, and summer mosquitoes, flies, and insects, closing the dirty and food-scarce city, giving enough hotbed for the spread of the epidemic.

The soldier also told Xiao Min that at least thirty percent of the soldiers and civilians in Yuezhou City were now sick.

However, as the number of infected people increased, the rate of transmission became more rapid, and in a few days, the number of infected people in the city increased.

Li Xian was still not in a hurry to send troops, he had to wait, and wait until Bian Jun was exhausted to the point that he had no strength to fight back - on this day, Li Xian even heard that even Bian Chunliang's eldest son had been infected with the epidemic.

"The antidote, but there is no progress!" In Yuezhou City, Bian Chunliang was anxious and questioned a group of doctors who came to him.

The healers knelt on the ground, and the leader replied in a trembling voice, "There is no ...... yet."

"A bunch of useless straw bales!"

Bian Chunliang drew his sword violently, but slashed at the screen on the side.

He still has reason, and knows that the most lacking people are healers, and he will not use them to vent his anger.

The screen was torn apart under Bian Chunliang's sword and collapsed with a bang, causing the healers to fall even lower.

They heard Bian Chunliang's angry and ironic voice sounding above their heads: "Han Gong, Xiao Min...... This is the method of the current court generals! Even if there is no one in me, the day of this death is not far away! ”

After he had a seizure, the strategist on the side said: "My lord, this disease is enough to kill people in ten days, it is really terrible, it is difficult to dispense an antidote, then there are two urgent tasks at the moment, one is to deal with the people who have already fallen ill, so that they will not continue to spread the epidemic!" Second, ......"

The strategist said, raised his hand and saluted solemnly: "The imperial army has been deployed to surround our army's retreat, and wants to trap our army in Yuezhou City, taking advantage of the current situation to be controllable, I dare to ask the lord to put his own safety first, and start preparing to withdraw from Yuezhou City as soon as possible!" ”

At first, the soldiers and civilians in the city were frequently sick, but they did not think that this was an enemy method at first, until more and more people were infected with the disease, and they had to start paying attention to the matter......

It has only been five days since it was really found out that this was the poisoning of the imperial army.

Bian Chunliang's first reaction was to ask the doctor to give a treatment, but after five days, nothing was found, and even the doctor fell ill nearly halfway.

Today, the enslaved people of the city have no food to eat, and the sick soldiers are no longer fed. Even so, the healthy soldiers had not been full for many days, the food in the city was almost exhausted, and although the rear city was stepping up its fundraising, it was difficult to supply Yuezhou for a while.

In such a situation, Bian Chunliang also knew that he no longer had the strength to defend Yuezhou.

The lieutenant general beside him proposed: "General, now we should kill all the sick people as soon as possible, and burn them again!" ”

They had kept these people because they could be driven by the people who did not dare to resist and ensure their basic needs in the city, but now they could not stay.

"Naturally, I want to kill." Bian Chunliang was holding a sword in his hand, and his eyes were unwilling: "But it's not up to us to kill." ”

He said in a condensed voice: "It's time for the people of the world to take a good look at the true face of these people in power now!" ”

The next day, before the sky was bright, an urgent report reached Li Xian's ears.

The gates of Yuezhou were wide open, and a team of thousands of people was rushing in the direction of their military camp.

But it was not Bian Jun who came, but the embarrassed people.

The people who are plagued, to be exact.

They were driven out of the city by Bian's army, and in order to speed up their pace, Bian's army rode their horses in the rear and killed them with arrows, forcing them to flee as if they were expelling livestock.

As the sky grew brighter, the surviving people continued to flee for their lives, and when they heard the sound of footsteps and horses' hooves in front of them, just like a frightened bird, they heard an old man shouting happily: "It's the army of the imperial court!" The imperial army has come to our rescue! ”

This voice is like a fairy sound of salvation, giving great hope to the people in desperate situations.

But the next moment, the old man who was shouting in front of him suddenly fell down with an arrow.

This time, the direction in which the arrows flew was no longer behind, but ahead, and they thought they had finally seen the light ahead.

After the city of Yuezhou was occupied by the Bian army, they were reduced to the lowest slaves, and they suffered every day, and they did not think that the imperial army could take back Yuezhou and save them from the sea of suffering.

Now that they had finally escaped from that purgatory, they never thought that what awaited them ahead was an even more terrible purgatory.

Countless arrows flew head-on, and the embarrassed figures fell one after another.

Some people fled in all directions, and there were also people who were hit by an arrow in the leg, lying on the ground and crying and begging for mercy, thinking that the imperial army had made a mistake: "...... We are all the people of Yuezhou City, and we are also the people of the imperial court! ”

In order to prevent the approaching of these infected people, and to prevent them from mixing with the Bian army, some soldiers lined up in front of them, and the crossbowmen half-crouched behind the shields, and arrows were shot through the gaps in the shields.

Behind the shields, listening to the screams of exhaustion, some soldiers looked unbearable, and the hands that drew the arrows were trembling slightly.

But military orders cannot be disobeyed, and these people are carrying deadly epidemics...... Sooner or later, too, you will die!

Moreover, when the epidemic appears...... It is also common to set fire to villages! Just give them a good time!

There is a crossbowman in his heart to persuade himself to paralyze himself, gritting his teeth and sending another arrow.

The arrow landed in front of a woman, or rather, a child that she was holding tightly in front of her.

The child was very thin, looked to be less than two years old, and was held in his mother's arms, huddled in a ball, and did not dare to move.

The woman sat on her knees, and after a few words in a trembling voice, she was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly burst into a mournful cry, and her words were confused: "My child is not sick!" He's fine, he's so small, he's just so hungry...... Why do you want to kill him? Why? ”

She suddenly sat up and threw herself at the shield array in front of her: "I'm fighting with you!" ”

The woman, thin and ragged, with her cheeks festering from the disease and looking vulnerable, cried out to "fight," but there was not a single stone in her hand. However, the hatred that erupted around her and in her eyes was extremely amazing.

The crossbowman behind the shield had a fear, which came from the most basic human nature and conscience.

He stared blankly at the woman who pounced on her until the other crossbowmen shot her.

The crossbowman sat on his knees, feeling like he was in purgatory, and that he was one of the demons.

When Xiao Min learned of this, he wanted to go to stop him, but was stopped by Li Xian.

"General Xiao, those are not ordinary people, but people who are infected with epidemics, and there is no cure-"

"Once infected, even if the officers and men of our army will not die of this disease, they will inevitably be weak due to illness, how can the army support the overall situation at that time?"

"And if those people are allowed to flee in all directions, and even pour into Jingzhou, causing more innocent people to become ill - will General Xiao bear the responsibility for this crime?"

"General Xiao should focus on the overall situation."

“……”

On the third day, Bian's army expelled the third group of sick people from the city.

Xiao Min, who was still echoing in his mind with Li Xian's words of obstruction, tightly clutched the copper coin tied with a red rope in his hand.

The adjutant general on the side of "General ......" stopped talking, his eyebrows locked.

Xiao Min got up suddenly: "Order five thousand soldiers, follow me out of the camp!" ”

He struggled for a long time, but he couldn't continue to sit idly by.

Even if there is a limit to what he can do, he should do his best...... Otherwise, he Xiao Min is not only unworthy of being a general, but also unworthy of being a man!

Two days later, Bian Chunliang wanted to withdraw from Yuezhou from the rear with the remaining 50,000 soldiers who had not yet shown signs of infection.

Li Xian has been waiting for a long time, has deployed everything, just waiting for this battle, and personally beheaded Bian Chunliang.

It was also on this day that the fast horse in Beijing sent the will of the empress, and this decree was in response to Xiao Min's letter to Li Xian to poison and create a plague.

When receiving the order, Li Xian smiled slightly and looked at Xiao Min on the side.

Xiao Min lowered his head to accept the order, and his heart seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.

Li Xian, who was wearing armor and sword, turned around and walked out of the big tent: "...... Order the rest of the army to follow me to kill the anti-thief Bian Chunliang! ”

There are close to 4500 words, good night, see you tomorrow.