The scouts went to reconnoiter for a whole morning, and only returned from Luoyi when the sun was setting west.

A squad, seven warriors, all pale and frightened in their eyes.

When Murong Xue saw their ghostly appearance, she knew that the situation in the city must be very bad, and she couldn't help but say in a deep voice: "What do you see, tell the truth!" ”

The scouts looked at each other, but no one said a word, and finally the captain said with a bitter face: "General, Luoyi is too miserable!" Corpses gnawed by monsters were everywhere, and the whole city stinked. ”

"Even the gutters are full of rotting flesh and blood!" A young warrior resisted the feeling of nausea and nausea, added.

The captain nodded, and continued: "We did not dare to go through the city gate, but climbed the city wall with ropes, and then went down the stairs into the city. Because there are too many poisonous monsters, I only explored the area around the East Gate Inner Street, so I ask for your forgiveness. ”

"There are almost 500 houses in the four miles next to the street, and there are no living people anymore. We hid in the shadows and counted roughly, and we probably saw nearly a hundred poisonous soldiers. They spread out and didn't care about each other, and they didn't seem to be commanded. ”

Murong Xue's sword eyebrows tightened, and she thought about it in her heart: the scale of Luoyi is only a little smaller than that of the imperial capital, and there are about eighty lifang in the city, according to what the scouts can see, there are nearly a hundred poisonous soldiers gathered in four lifang, so there must be at least two or three thousand murderous monsters in the whole city. In addition, there is a very large imperial palace that is not counted, and it is estimated that there are a lot of hidden places.

Damn, the troops may not be enough!

He raised his head and looked at the scout team: "If there is anything else to discover, tell me quickly, don't ask a little and squeeze a little." ”

The captain thought for a moment, then continued, "Those monsters are not all in the same state. Some seem to be milder, either eating people or napping, which is relatively quiet. But some of them look very manic, seem to be in pain, and scream. ”

Another soldier also said: "Yes, I saw a guy rolling on the ground and howling very miserably, as if it hurt. ”

Murong Xue nodded. He had heard Shen Lie say that Blood Demon and Soul Eater were similar to this situation. Before he died, Soul Eater said that when the toxin in his body attacked, the whole person felt pain, and his ferocity skyrocketed. And the Turks relied on highly toxic drugs to control them.

However, the poison soldiers in Luoyi City are obviously different from the Blood Demons. The Turks did not seem to intend to care about these monsters, and did not give orders or provide an antidote, and left these creatures to crouch in the city like wild beasts and feed on the people.

Don't...... The Turks just let these monsters out to do evil?

This guess flashed through his mind, and he continued to listen to the scout captain speak: "In addition to the different states, the vigilance of the poison soldiers is also very high. At the slightest hint of wind and grass, they will immediately rush together. We deliberately threw rocks a few times to try it, each time. I guess we were attacked last night because the monsters in the neighborhood heard the movement and ran over. ”

Murong Xue's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she secretly said in her heart: This dare is good. If you can create movement to attract poisonous soldiers, you don't need to use live people as bait as Shen Lie said, you can also set traps to kill those monsters.

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Li Bing looked at the military report sent back by Murong Xue, and his ups and downs could not be calmed down for a long time.

Twelve days ago, his beloved general led his troops to an expedition, with 10,000 elite death-defying soldiers as the vanguard, and went straight to the eastern capital to kill the evil ghosts and poisonous soldiers.

Murong Xue took advantage of the local terrain to set traps, laid fifteen battlefields in the east of Luoyi City, fought fiercely with nearly 2,000 monsters for three days, and killed more than 1,300 of them.

Later, he personally led 500 crossbowmen into the city, shot 200 poisonous soldiers in a row, and drove most of the murderous monsters to the southwest corner of Luoyi, surrounded by more than a dozen lifangs.

However, what he didn't expect was that just as Murong Xue was preparing to expand the results of the battle and annihilate the remaining poisonous soldiers in one fell swoop, countless poisonous soldiers and demons suddenly poured into the west of Luoyi City again, covering the sky and the sun, and menacing.

Fortunately, the scouts warned in advance, and Murong Xue's reaction was also very fast, and his main force immediately retreated in alternate cover, and withdrew from Luoyi from the east and north of the city before a large number of poisonous soldiers pounced.

Who knew that those poisonous soldiers were frantically killing, chasing after the Shengtang army, forcing Murong Xue to run for more than ten miles before stopping.

However, because there were almost no living people in Luoyi City at this time, those man-eating monsters didn't feel that there was much fresh food, so they didn't stay in the Eastern Capital for long. They were scattered into dozens of large and small groups, and then moved to nearby towns to continue to plague the people.

Murong Xue immediately broke the troops into pieces, rushed to the aid of various places, and at the same time urgently dispatched follow-up troops to reinforcements.

When this military newspaper was written, he had already returned to Luoyi, and was commanding the Liaodong Army and the Hebei Army to clear out the remaining lone poisonous soldiers in the city, and at the same time step up the repair of the city gate fortifications.

Li Bing put down the military report, sighed softly, and said to Shen Lie: "This palace has imagined many scenes to recover Luoyi before, but I didn't expect that the dignified Eastern Capital was finally taken back from a group of demons and demons. Hundreds of thousands of people in the city were slaughtered by that group of beasts, and I am afraid that they will not be able to recover for ten or eight years. ”

"Your Highness doesn't need to worry too much," Shen Lie persuaded: "According to Jiezhichuan, in addition to the heavy casualties among the people of Luoyi on the night of the poisonous army's attack on the city, many people fled on the second and third days, and even in the days that followed. The minister estimated that the maximum number of casualties among the people was about 100,000......"

Li Bing interrupted him: "100,000 people is not a lot!" Besides, there are so many people who died tragically in the city, and the grievances and grievances of the souls will not be dispersed, who will dare to live in Luoyi in the future? Alas, ruined, completely ruined. ”

Shen Lie nodded bitterly: "The Turks are mad and outrageous!" At present, they are in a bad situation, so they will do this despicable act, and if they are trapped in the beast in the future, they don't know what more cruel tricks they will have. The most troublesome thing at the moment is that Brother Shuxuan is obviously speeding up the refining of poison soldiers, and the number is increasing day by day, and it is impossible to prevent it. ”

Li Bing remembered something and asked: "This palace remembers that you said last time, according to Miss Xiahou's investigation, Ge Shuxuan was in urgent need of a material called lead in refining poisonous soldiers, so that the number of poison soldiers that had become only six or seven hundred. Why is there suddenly tens of thousands of people now, could it be that he got lead from the western frontier? ”

"It's impossible." Shen Lie said: "Right now, the second prince of the Turks, Tanli, is leading his troops to threaten the two passes, and the Zhenjiang army under Li Jiangyao has gathered fifteen troops to meet the battle. Zijin Pass and Shengyu Pass are now completely blocked, and Ge Shuxuan has no way to transport lead from the western frontier. ”

Li Bing frowned: "Could it be that the lead ore was discovered in the Longxi area or the Guanzhong area?" ”

Shen Lie shook his head: "This possibility is not high. First of all, we have never heard of any lead ore in Longxi Guanzhong before, and secondly, the Reverse Scale Division has widely spread eyeliner in the northwest, and if the Turks mine lead, there will not even be a little rumor. ”

He paused slightly, and analyzed: "The only explanation is that Ge Shuxuan gave up using this material. According to the head of Xiahou Sect, the main use of lead seems to be to control the onset of toxins in the body of the poison soldiers, on the other hand, if Ge Shuxuan does not use lead, then it means that it is difficult for him to effectively control and command these monsters after creating the poison soldiers. Combined with the different situations in Luoyi and Zhongmu, this speculation exists. ”

Li Bing thought about it seriously for a moment and agreed: "Well, that's true. After the Zhongmu tragedy, all the poisonous soldiers quickly withdrew from the city and disappeared; Luoyi is completely different, two or three thousand monsters have been entrenched in the city for more than half a month. Compared to the two, the former is more like a soldier, while the latter is more like a beast. ”

He looked at Shen Lie: "How are the countermeasures considered?" Is there a better way than to send troops to exterminate them? ”

Shen Lie responded: "Back to Your Highness, I haven't found an effective way yet. However, both the Yizhou Military Department and the Zhenjiang Army are working hard. ”

Li Bing bowed slightly: "Well, it seems that you can only count on Yizhou." The people in the military department are experienced, and the imperial court is also full of talents, so they should always come up with a way. Moreover, they are close to Yunnan and Miaojiang, and the people there are good at using drugs, so they go to the experts for advice, and there may be a way to solve it. ”

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The prince's idea of seeking advice from drug experts does coincide with the military department in Yizhou. It's just that the military department mentioned here does not refer to the military department's yamen, but to a person.

Wailang Dong Tianxing, a member of the military department.

Dong Tianxing is 66 years old this year, and he is the oldest fifth-rank official in the entire military department, and even in the entire imperial court, among the six departments and 24 divisions of the three provinces.

This old gentleman was originally a first-class scholar and a first-class scholar in liberal arts, such a high starting point, and I don't know how to do it, at that time, he neither entered the Hanlin Academy, nor entered the imperial history platform, after winning the list, he directly followed the second-class and third-class people, and was sent to the sixth department to be a loose official.

From Xuanyi Lang of the seventh grade, he worked for five years; Xuande Lang, who is the seventh product, he has been working for six years; From the lower pastoral overseer of the six grades, he worked for seven years; is the history of the sixth product of the Kuling, he has been working for eight years; finally survived to become a member of the fifth grade, and let him work for nine years.

Dong Tianxing was admitted to the Jinshi at the age of 31 and entered the political arena, and he worked hard for 35 years before he became a foreigner, and his promotion speed was comparable to that of a snail. You must know that Taifu Nian Jinsong, who is the same age as him, started as a county official, and only 20 years later ascended to the court and received the title of Shangshu Order.

However, although the official promotion was slow, it did not affect the good mood of Lord Dong. No matter what he does, he is serious and meticulous, and he has the style of a scholar.

At present, Dong Tianxing works in the Ordnance Department of the Ministry of War, specializing in the manufacture and deployment of weapons, armor and other equipment for the army, as well as the construction of various large-scale combat equipment. In order to support the front line, the old man was so busy every day that he couldn't even take care of a hot meal. However, he didn't feel tired at all, and he still looked happy.

Until he heard about the poison soldiers.