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Chapter 415
"Baidi is located along the river, with a mild climate, and there are few insects and ants. Before the expedition, we sent people to investigate the local conditions, and found no problems. No matter how you look at it, this battle should be a war. Such an ordinary battle, as most literati and writers in Chang'an City said at that time, will soon return to the imperial court..."

In the eyes of outsiders, victory on the battlefield only depends on the strength of the commander and his subordinates, but it is not the case. The climate and terrain are also considered, and sometimes they often play a decisive role.

Jiang Pingping closed his eyes: his thoughts seemed to return to that time in 20 years, when 20 troops went out to fight, and they traveled all the way without hindrance, to Baidi.

The people of Baidi City had heard early on that it was the famous young general who led the troops this time. Although people at that time didn't like the tyrant, they respected the Zhao family army.

When their 20 troops arrived at Baidi, the people of Baidi City spontaneously ran out of the city to greet them. The people who greeted the officers and soldiers lined up all the way from outside the city to the temporary camp where the officers and soldiers were about to move into.

Among them, General Zhao Xiao is the most popular, he was thrown a lot of fruits and flowers, although he was still a young boy blushing shyly, but he insisted on not accepting any fruits and flowers - he already had favorites Damn, that is the daughter of a celebrity who is famous all over the world, the most beautiful flower in Chang'an City.If he accepted the flowers, she would definitely be unhappy.

Jiang Pingping also collected some flowers and plants, but he didn't care. He was thinking that after the victory in this battle, he promised his elder brother to take care of Ayan.He knew the character of Little General Zhao, and he would definitely love that girl named Ayan for the rest of his life, and he himself would be rewarded for his ambition.

In this way, life seems to be complete.

"After entering the city, there were no problems. There were a lot of rebels outside the city, but they were not as good as our 20 army. What's more, they were elite soldiers trained by the Zhao family. We have won countless battles with less, Not to mention such a numerically superior war?"

Instead of letting Jiang Pingping immerse himself in the past and continue talking on his own, the girl spoke at the right time, interrupting his immersion in the past rather unsightly.

"Even if there were no other wars at that time, why would General Zhao go out in person for a small Baidi City? Even if General Zhao was willing to go out, why did he bring 20 troops?"

Jiang Pingping, who had withdrawn from the past, took a look at the spoiled girl, saw her serious and serious expression, temporarily restrained her sad expression, and said, "This was decided by General Zhao, and I was also a little strange at that time." , but later I found out that General Zhao was looking for something."

The girl didn't even blink her eyes, she opened her mouth and asked, "What is it?"

Jiang Pingzhen shook his head and said, "I don't know."

After the deployment in the city, General Zhao went out of the city alone overnight on the second day, and didn't even mention what he did to him as a military adviser.

"He left the camp, dressed up in disguise, and didn't come back until near dawn. After several days in a row, he happily told me that the matter was done and he was sent back to the capital."

Send... back to the capital?Jiang Shaoyan's heart skipped a beat, her fingers trembled subconsciously, and she asked Jiang Pingping: "What do you think it is? Could it be...for Miss Jiang?"

When Jiang Pingping heard the words, he hesitated for a moment. Although he was not sure, he shook his head and said, "Why do you need to hide it from me? I knew about the betrothal gift of Ye Mingzhu that night. He even asked me to get it from time to time. Idea, why do you think he needs to hide it from me? I won't talk nonsense in front of Miss Jiang. "

Although his little general Zhao is a bit more kind than ordinary generals, he is still a general on the battlefield. No matter how much he likes Miss Jiang and misses Miss Jiang, he will not bring so many gifts for Miss Jiang. soldiers and horses.Uprisings were frequent at that time, and every soldier and horse was precious.

"I don't think he would do these things. Even if he wanted to, Dalang, even the current emperor would not allow it. No matter how crazy the tyrant was, he would never agree." Jiang Pingping glanced at her and said, "After all There are frequent uprisings, and the Zhao family holds a heavy army. Even if I know that General Zhao is not such a person, the tyrant will definitely be suspicious. How could he let him take away so many soldiers for no reason? Are you not afraid of his rebellion?"

It is useless to talk about friendship between monarchs and ministers who are wary of each other. The tyrant is crazy or stupid, so he will never let him take away so many soldiers and horses for no reason.

Moreover, Jiang Pingping has already pondered over the things that General Zhao Xiao went to Baidi to find many times in the past 20 years.

"I don't know what it is, but the tyrant must know what I'm looking for." Jiang Pingping subconsciously glanced at the girl's reaction again, seeing that she was still serious, and continued He continued, "The tyrant has coveted Miss Jiang, the most beautiful flower in Chang'an City, for a long time. Although the Zhao family is important, General Zhao was so happy before going to Baidi that he even began to think about his marriage with Miss Jiang. It must have been compromised by the tyrant."

General Zhao is sincere and sincere, and he is not stupid either. Although the rich and powerful want to sell the Zhao family's face, the world belongs to the Duan family after all, so he doesn't think that General Zhao will be at ease.After all, it is inconvenient in the army, and on the battlefield, the sword has no eyes. General Zhao can't take Miss Jiang with him, but he can stay at home... The tyrant may not be unable to do the thing of robbing a wife, and of course the things after Prove it, he really can do such a thing.

"So I think the thing that General Zhao is looking for must be what the tyrant wants, and it is very important, so the tyrant is willing to compromise." Jiang Pingping said here, his eyes were stained with a thick layer of sadness, "I just want It's a pity...everything didn't go as Little General Zhao expected."

After making Jiang Pingping sad for a while, the girl spoke again: "Now it seems that there are several possibilities for this matter."

"One is that the tyrant really wanted something like this and made an agreement with General Zhao, but in the end, something happened and General Zhao died...he...he forced Miss Jiang into the palace."

This may have made Jiang Pingze frowned.

"Secondly, it is very likely that the tyrant didn't want such things from the beginning. It was a pretense to agree on these things with General Zhao, in order to ruin the 20 army and the Zhao family..." This possibility... after the tyrant Judging from his behavior, it's not like he can't do it.

He disdains uprisings everywhere, and feels that those insurgents are just mobs, and it is these courtiers in the court that make him vigilant and suspicious.The Zhao family's army, which holds a heavy army, is also the object of his doubts. This move can directly remove a young man of the Zhao family. It is not impossible for a tyrant to do such a thing.

And judging from the fact that the imperial court did not increase its troops afterwards, this possibility is extremely high.

"Of course, if the imperial court didn't increase its troops, it might be because it felt that it was no longer necessary. It is even possible that the tyrant wants something and wants something to happen to the Zhao family's army." After mentioning this possibility, Jiang Pingping's eyebrows twitched. .

The girl spread her hands, with a serious and innocent expression on her face: "The tyrant is a lunatic, Mr. Jiang shouldn't use common sense to infer him, he has no limit to his virtue, isn't it impossible to want everything?"

Besides, she said that this guess is not without reason.

"General Zhao left for several days in the middle of the night after he entered the camp. Didn't he already tell you that the matter was settled? It can be seen that this trip went smoothly, so we can send it back to the capital first." The girl glanced at her face. Bai Jiang Pingping took a look and said, "I heard that the things were sent out, so I made a plan to persecute Zhao's army and the 20 troops."

Although Jiang Pingping is a military advisor in the army, all he knows about the tyrant comes from hearsay, and he has never seen the tyrant himself.Unlike her, she has seen the tyrant herself, and knows the character of the tyrant too well.

Without leaving Jiang Pingping too much time to be shocked, the girl asked him again: "General Zhao is sending something back to Chang'an in Baidi, is it from the bodyguard agency entrusted by him?"

If it is a note, you can fly a pigeon to pass the letter, but there is a risk of being beaten in the teeth.If the tyrant wanted something, he would definitely not dare to take such a risk. In addition to sending a special escort, walking a dart is indeed a good choice.

However, General Zhao trusted the familiar subordinates, and he had never seen anyone who could be entrusted with such an important task leave.

In this way, a good bodyguard agency with good credit is indeed the most likely.Jiang Ping said flatly.

These things have always been pressed in his heart, even if he thinks about it, he only dares to think about it and bear it alone. It is rare for colleagues to confess and analyze it openly and honestly, even the eldest lady of the other party has never said it.

At that time, in his opinion, this matter was just an errand done by General Zhao Xiao, but he never thought about the things and the process of sending them.

But being reminded by Miss Jiang Si, Jiang Pingping thought for a while and said, "There seems to be an escort agency in Baidi City, it's quite big, it's called..."

"Is it the Tongwei Escort?" The girl took a deep breath, closed her eyes, covered the emotions in her eyes, looked at Jiang Pingping, and asked, "Is it the Tongwei Escort?"

The reputation is good, and the bodyguard bureaus that can take on such a heavy responsibility are all century-old bodyguard bureaus, and they will bloom everywhere. There must be a big bodyguard bureau in Baidi City.

In this way, it is enough to look for the famous bodyguard agencies in the row. Coincidentally, the Tongwei bodyguard agency that gives oranges is one of them.

Tongwei Escort?Jiang Pingping seriously thought for a moment, nodded and said: "It seems to be this bodyguard agency, but I don't know what the gift is. After all, General Zhao did these things by himself, and I didn't see it."

The girl listened carefully, and when she heard this, she immediately said: "That is to say, the only thing that General Zhao didn't tell you about going out in the middle of the night alone, if he sent something with Tongwei Escort, it is very likely It’s something like this. If it’s something else, you should know what it is, right?”

Can it be said the other way around?Jiang Pingping couldn't help being taken aback when she heard what she said, but after carefully analyzing what ordinary girls said, he was surprised to find that he couldn't find any faults.

Seeing that Jiang Pingze was silent, the girl nodded her head to show that she understood, and then asked, "What happened after that? What happened after that?"

That thing is very likely to be something agreed between General Zhao and the tyrant, but the 20 army was buried because of other things. This may be due to the tyrant's killing of the donkey, but this is not what really killed the 20 army. It should not be those rebels.

Regarding this... Jiang Pingping glanced at her, silently took out a worn-out booklet from his bosom and pushed it in front of her.

This booklet was dilapidated, and a few pages were even about to fall off. The pages were still stained with old dust and blood. It was inexplicably frightening to look at.

"This is something recorded by the doctor accompanying the army. You will know it after reading it."

Hearing this, Jiang Shaoyan opened the worn-out booklet in her hand.

"On the third day of the outbreak of hysteria, I boasted that I have been with the army for many years, and even prepared for the worst. I treated it as an epidemic, but there was still no way to deal with it. The water has been scalded, and the anti-epidemic powder has been sprinkled, but there is still nothing to do. More and more soldiers will fall into hysteria..."

"On the fifth day of the outbreak of hysteria, more and more soldiers were infected. Many people almost self-mutilated or even hurt the soldiers around them under the emotional madness. Some people went crazy for no reason and said that seeing those killed enemy soldiers turned into evil The soldiers are back, no matter how you kill them, you won’t be able to kill them..."

"Hysteria entered the main camp on the ninth day, General Zhao has not eaten for two days, and is quite worried about the situation of the soldiers in the army."

"Hysteria No. 13, General Zhao is still awake, and even Junjun Jiang is in a trance, starting to lose consciousness..."

……

Seeing this, Jiang Shaoyan instinctively raised her head and glanced at Jiang Pingping across from her: From what I heard and asked, from the outside, Jiang Pingping has no problems or hidden diseases, and he doesn't seem to have suffered from a serious illness.

"Hysteria No. 15, I searched through medical books and suddenly thought of a terrible guess, but if this guess is true, what should the army do?"

"Hysteria No. 20th, the speculation has come true, I don't know what to do as a doctor anymore."

……

Then there is a blank.

Seeing that the girl had turned to a blank page, Jiang Pingping said, "The doctor committed suicide, and there is no way to get rid of hysteria."

"The strongest city is often defeated in it, and so is the army." It is not surprising that the 20 army was defeated by a strange disease. The girl looked up at him and asked the expected question: "Since it is not Epidemic, what happened to the hysteria? Also, Mr. Jiang, how did you get better with those escaped soldiers? Why did the doctor commit suicide?"

Jiang Pingze's face was so pale that it was almost transparent. He lowered his eyes, and when he raised them again, his eyes turned red.

"The doctor wants to commit suicide because he cannot accept the method of breaking hysteria." Jiang Pingping said, his voice choked unconsciously, "He committed suicide suddenly, when General Zhao and I broke into it and found this booklet." He couldn't figure it out for a while, but on the second day, General Zhao told him...he already knew the way to get rid of hysteria."

The doctor would rather die than tell everyone how to get rid of hysteria. Jiang Shaoyan looked at Jiang Pingping, whose voice was choked up, and his eyes were red.

"All of you are suffering from hysteria, isn't General Zhao the only one who hasn't suffered from hysteria from the beginning to the end?"

(End of this chapter)