Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 533 What kind of poison is this?
Yesterday they used the three-dimensional effect of the sand table in Yandi Valley to roughly determine the marching route, but the target of each attack must be judged based on the information sent by the Huaxia Weifu spies at any time.

Ye Chen continued to say to the left and right: "Now Li Guangrui has wiped out the Fei Ting clan and the Quili clan, and the 2000 iron cavalry lost nearly [-] people, but there are almost the same number of fighters from these two tribes who have taken refuge in him. So their total numbers haven't changed."

"In addition, during this process, Hu Sanguang led a few gold medal spies to sneak in in disguise during the melee, and burned all the food and grass in the two tribes. Li Guangrui still had dry food for the soldiers in the [-] cavalry. But the hay they ate was hard to find. According to reports from spies, Li Guangrui may go to a small tribe more than ten miles to the north of us next, and we want to go ahead of them.”

The crowd said yes.

It has been two days since Ye Chen led 300 cavalry into the Gobi of Hengshan Grassland. During this time, they robbed and burned three small tribes and a medium-sized tribe in front of the route of Li Guangrui's army.Nearly [-] people have been lost. Although the effect has initially taken effect, Ye Chen also feels that the implementation of this plan is much more difficult than expected, and the loss of soldiers is higher than his estimate.So, he needs to change his plans.And the Dangxiang small tribe he was going to now would be the most critical part of his plan to change.

An hour later, Ye Chen and his party killed all the adult men in a small Dangxiang tribe, leaving nearly a hundred old, weak, sick and disabled, and then took them away quickly.They didn't burn the food and grass in the tribe this time, nor destroyed the food, and even left more than 100 sheep, but Ye Chen added something to the water that the more than 100 sheep drank before.This point, the nearly [-] old, weak, sick and disabled people in the tribe didn't know about it.

Half an hour later, Li Guangrui came here with nearly [-] cavalry.So far, Li Guangrui has not had too much doubt about the fact that there are few food, grass, cattle and sheep left in the tribes he has visited. He just thinks that the party has adopted the most common strategy of strengthening the wall and clearing the wild.He was slightly worried about this, but not very worried, because based on his many years of combat experience, there must be tribes who were reluctant to burn their own food and kill all their cattle and sheep.

There is a rolling hillside ahead, a dozen snow-white felt bags are scattered on the grassland, and there are two groups of white sheep swimming leisurely like clouds.

It seems that this is a settlement of a small tribe.Such an environment is just right for a small tribe to settle down.Li Guangrui saw nearly a hundred people running out of the felt bag after realizing their arrival, shouting and fleeing to the distance.He originally wanted to ask someone to chase him, but he saw that they were all old people and children, so he waved his hand to stop the men under his command.After all, his goal in dealing with the Seven Departments of the Party is not to kill all the people, but to make the Seven Departments completely surrender to him. His ultimate goal is to build a country of the Party members themselves. Naturally, the more Party members, the better.In his opinion, these nearly a hundred people from the small tribe who ran away will become his own people sooner or later.

After three days and two nights of galloping and fighting, although there was a small break in the middle, even though they used to wander and fight like this, they began to feel tired at this time.The small tribe in front of us just let the army take a rest, and let the cavalry and horses enjoy the hay and more than 100 sheep by the way.

Li Guangrui gave an order, and the rangers immediately rode their horses to the yurt camp, wandered around the yurts for a few times, and then came back to report the number of cattle and sheep for food.

Li Guangrui looked around, waved his hand and said, "We will arrive at the Fangdang tribe in two hours, there will be a big battle, let the people below rest for an hour, and continue on our way after an hour."

He didn't need to worry about it specifically, sent out sentry scouts in all directions, scattered around, stood on a high place and looked around.The people below have already started to kill cattle and sheep, make fires and fetch water, and find milk sheep to milk the sheep, and the war horses are also pulled to the haystacks to enjoy their own food.Some people just sat on the ground as soon as they got off the horse, and were reprimanded by the leaders with whips to get up, barely moving their bodies.

This is one of the most common small tribes, and there is nothing suspicious about it. Even so, Li Guangrui did not allow people to enjoy some ready-made food, buttered tea, kumiss, etc. left in the felt bag for the sake of safety. During the war, it was not that poison was not used. Most of them just gnawed on the dry food and dried meat they carried. Among them, the five thousand most elite cavalry were waiting to drink fresh goat milk and eat fresh mutton. case, it is their prerogative.

Whether it is a milk goat or other goats, they all look healthy. Absolutely no one will suspect that there is any problem with goat milk and mutton.On the contrary, it was the water in a well. They brought a few sheep and let the sheep drink it first to make sure there was no problem. Then the soldiers rushed forward, blasted the sheep away, and walked away on the wet and dry sheep dung. Go up to the well platform, draw water from the well for drinking, fill your own water bladders, then lead the horses to the ditch, and fill them with water for them to drink.

After resting in place for an hour, everyone ate something, and Xiazhou's army recovered a lot of strength. Following Li Guangrui's order, everyone mounted their horses and galloped towards Fangdang's tribe, one of the Eight Departments of the Dangxiang. go.

Soon a team of spies came forward and reported to Li Guangrui that the Fangdang tribe had noticed their arrival and began to move. Li Guangrui ordered the army to speed up.

However, as the [-] army moved forward, the speed seemed to be getting slower and slower. Li Guangrui turned his head angrily, and saw the pale faces of the guards who were standing next to him, with cold sweat on their foreheads. He couldn't help saying in surprise: "What's wrong?"

An assistant general pressed his abdomen tightly, and said with difficulty: "My lord, I think my subordinates have eaten their stomachs badly, and they want to run out of their stomachs."

"My lord, this subordinate... I feel a little sick, my chest is so tight that I want to... wow..." Before a soldier finished speaking, he immediately vomited.

Li Guangrui was shocked, he reined his horse suddenly to stop, turned around and looked at the army, he saw nearly one-tenth, about [-] people were stumbling around on the horse, each of them had very ugly faces, and they were just struggling to hold on. As soon as he stopped his horse, many of the soldiers couldn't bear it any longer. They hurriedly jumped off their horses, and after a few steps, they hurriedly tore off their robes and trousers, squatted on the grass, and "cracked and crackled." "stand up

"This... this..." Li Guangrui saw so many soldiers dismounted one after another, squatting everywhere, some of them didn't even have time to untie their battle robes and armors, and they were all ugly for a while, so their expression changed drastically.

When those people endured diarrhea, although their stomachs were tossed, they still barely had a little strength to support them. After squatting down, they couldn't get up again, and they all pulled upside down, their faces were pale, and they were sweating profusely.There are two or three hundred people with relatively weak physiques, which is even more exaggerated. They pulled and pulled, and even bled, and then fainted on the excrement they made themselves.

"They were poisoned! It's the poison in the well water." Li Guangrui suddenly realized, what kind of poison is this?Judging by the symptoms, it seems to be crotons, and only the crotons that are easy to get can be used in large quantities to make soup and sprinkled to turn the well water into poisonous water. Poison is not so easy to handle, other poisons are fine. I can get one pack or two packs, and the water will be diluted by the well water, so it is impossible to have such an effect.But if it's Croton, why are those sheep safe and sound?

"No, it's not that the well water is poisonous. Almost everyone drank the well water, but now only one tenth of them are poisoned." Li Guangrui's face was so gloomy that he could drip water.

"My lord, the people who are poisoned now seem to have eaten the poison from the mutton." A general said with some uncertainty.

Only now did Li Guangrui realize that the 5000 people who were poisoned were the most elite [-] cavalry under his command, and his face became even more ugly.And he suddenly thought of a very serious problem, the enemy would definitely not have just poisoned him when they arrived, because it was impossible for him, there could be roads everywhere on the grassland, how could the enemy predict his own path, How could it be possible to grasp the timing so well?
Li Guangrui's younger brother Li Guangyan frowned and said: "Brother, the Fangdang tribe is moving, if they are allowed to escape, it will be troublesome to chase and escape."

Li Guangrui's eyes jumped, and after a little hesitation, a flash of determination flashed in his eyes, and he said: "There is no big tribe nearby, Li Guangyan! You take 1000 people to stay and watch them, and catch up after they recover." , I will lead the army to destroy the Fang Dang clan first."

Li Guangyan bowed and agreed, and Li Guangrui gave an order to leave 1000 people and lead the army to gallop northwest.

A sea dongqing hovered twice in the sky, as if it couldn't stand the soaring stench here, it flapped its wings and flew in the direction of the [-] army led by Li Guangrui.

Just when the army that Li Guangrui fell disappeared from the eyes of the five thousand Xiazhou elite iron knight soldiers who were "laying mines" everywhere, these guards who were dizzy and sweating suddenly heard the sound of cavalry galloping, and they looked up. When I went there, I saw a group of cavalry in the distance, about 3000 people came to kill them.

After Li Guangyan was shocked, he gritted his teeth and led a thousand cavalry to meet him.Although he knew that the difference in numbers was too large and he was probably lost, it was absolutely impossible for him to leave the five thousand Xiazhou's most elite iron cavalry and flee on his own. If so, even his own brother Li Guangrui would most likely be killed. Li Guangrui beheaded.You must know that Li Guangrui killed his own brother not once or twice.

(End of this chapter)