Chapter 22 first quarter

September 21st, Imperial Capital, Gui Palace. "The weather is really gloomy." Ning Qing opened the windows of the Nuan Pavilion one by one. "Even a blind person like me can feel it." "Close the window!" The eldest princess lying on the side of the couch yelled in a low voice, "The cold wind comes in, do you want my life?" There are four braziers around the bed, which still can't block the chill in the wind, and the long princess tulle is the skirt, which is still the attire in the summer palace. Lei Bicheng sat opposite her, with a peaceful expression: "The princess is impatient."

"Yes, I'm impatient. It's been another ten days since I met Mr. Bicheng last time. It's been a full fifteen days, and Bai Yi has been huddled in Shangyang Pass, and the Li army has not attacked the city. The final outcome of the war is becoming more and more unpredictable." The eldest princess admitted. "Bai Yi doesn't fight, so he can't fight. To the north is the royal family's territory and the heavy crossbow of the Habayashi Army, and to the south is swarms of zombies. Now he only has 20,000 remnants who can fight at most, and he is unable to fight. And Xie Xuan It’s smart not to attack, why would he risk attacking zombies now, and then go to attack the city? Zombies are things without intelligence. When Xie Xuan passes by, they will also attack Xie Xuan.” Lei Bicheng opened his eyes, “Princess, please rest Don't worry, compared with Bai Yi today, we are already in the clouds."

"How about Bai Yi holding on for lunch?" Lei Bicheng shook his head slowly: "No, according to my estimation, he has no food, and he has killed hundreds of war horses now. He knows that they are corpses, so he dare not eat the horses that died earlier. And he was about There are 13,000 war horses, and only two or three thousand are left after the war, and these horses will not last long for him." "He still has so many horses left. He kills dozens of horses every day. It will be the end of the year of the monkey?" The eldest princess frowned. "No, I don't expect him to starve to death after killing a horse. It's just that for an army, how killing a horse will affect its morale, the eldest princess can also imagine." Lei Bicheng said calmly, "Soon, Bai Yi's men, It is an army of despair. An army without fighting spirit will collapse like sand at the touch of a finger."

Lei Bicheng held up a finger, and looked at the eldest princess through the finger. Ning Qing had already closed the windows one by one, and came to the eldest princess's bed with a cup of warm tea, and offered it respectfully: "Princess drink tea to relieve fatigue, the weather is very gloomy, and people are easy Tired. Maybe it will rain in the afternoon and it will be better." Lei Bicheng looked out the window: "These clouds seem to come from the south. I heard that after the war, the anger and resentment of the dead rose into the sky with the overflow of spirit, condensed like clouds, and looked like lead."

The eldest princess sipped her tea, and when she heard these words, she shivered for no reason. Ning Qing responded casually: "It's a pity that I don't have eyes, but I think I can imagine the color of the cloud after hearing Mr. Bicheng's words." "Bai Yi's anger and resentment are like this cloud at this moment, right? It will rain cats and dogs at any moment." Lei Bicheng seemed to be talking to himself, "But let his anger and resentment be stronger." He whispered, "More intense until it breaks..." At Shangyang Pass at this time, the sky was so low that it seemed to be pressing on top of people's heads.

The commanders of the coalition forces were silent, walking slowly past the wounded soldiers' barracks.This is the best barracks in the heavy camp of the North Camp, but the lighting and airflow are still not ideal. The earth kangs in the rows are covered with straw and thin quilts, and the wounded soldiers are lying side by side, some with sallow faces, some ashen, Some were as pale as paper, moaning, unable to get up and salute the generals.It was cloudy and rainy these days, and most of the wounds of the people were already rotten. There was no medicine, and it was ineffective to cut and cut the carrion. The whole barracks was filled with a disgusting smell of decay.

Cheng Kui couldn't stand it anymore, and strode away without saying a word. Bai Yi was still walking slowly, his eyes sweeping over every face that was not human.He didn't show any expression, but his face was pale and ugly.These days he has lost weight rapidly, his cheeks are sunken, his cheekbones are high, and his eyes are bloodshot.Xi Yan looked at his old friend's back, and saw that he was wearing a white battle suit hanging on his shoulders, and his waist and back were obviously empty.Xi Yan also sighed lowly. The generals finally came out of the barracks. The old medical officer guarding the door gave Bai Yi a silent look and stopped talking.He now understands that it's useless to talk about it, Bai Yi can't make medicine.

In the open space outside the barracks, dozens of sergeants were driving their horses and gathering together.These war horses are extremely smart, even after killing the horses for so many days, they also feel that the end is approaching at this time, neighing in panic but powerlessly, and refuse to give in easily. "How did you kill so many people today?" Bai Yi asked in a low voice. "There is not enough horse grass," said the commander of the supply battalion behind him. "If you don't kill them now, they will die if they are hungry. There is still a little salt left. Why not kill them and marinate them, so that they can eat for a few more days."

Bai Yi nodded slightly, looking at the horses in a daze.The fur of those horses has lost its luster and has lost fat, with ribs exposed on the abdomen, so thin that it can hardly carry people.The same is true of the horses used in the expedition. If they are fed with fine grains, they will be fat and strong and charge like thunder. But without the support of fine horse grains, they will not be as strong as rough pack horses. The soldiers held the teacups and handed them to the generals one by one.Nowadays, the only thing that can serve guests is tea. Xi Yan put aside the tea foam and took a sip, frowning slightly.

Gu Yueyi caught a glimpse of his expression, and spit out the tea in his mouth: "The water quality is bad, there is a peculiar smell." Gang Wuwei was suddenly alert: "Someone is using General Bai's method of poisoning the water source?" Bai Yi shook his head: "I'm on guard. I've ordered the pool to be opened to store water. The well water in the city must be inspected before being poured into the pool." Xi Yan took another sip of tea, his face changed.He whispered: "Everyone follow me." The generals didn't know why, so they followed suit.Xi Yan's footsteps were extremely fast, and he walked against the water along the canal.There are stone canals leading to each camp in Shangyang Pass, so it is not necessary to go to the well to get water.Before they reached the cistern, they heard the noisy voices on the other side.A group of soldiers surrounded the pool, fishing for something in the water with bamboo poles.Bai Yi took the first step and pushed away several sergeants.The faces of the generals of the army were all ugly, and they felt a nausea rising in their stomachs, and the faint smell in the tea just now became more and more obvious in their mouths.

There were about twenty or thirty whitish corpses soaking in the clear reservoir, all of whom were dressed as coalition sergeants.They didn't come up, and each of them stared at the sky with wide-eyed eyes, and their pupils became darker and darker in the soaking in the water, which made people feel chills. "What happened?" Cheng Kui slashed his chest and grabbed a sergeant next to him.Those were soldiers from his Chun Kingdom, who were also responsible for guarding the canals, but under heavy guards, this kind of thing happened in the iron-walled Shangyang Pass. If the other party was poisoned, half of them would have fallen down by now. down. "This subordinate doesn't know... this subordinate doesn't know..." The sergeant waved his hands in surprise, "Last night, my subordinate took someone to test the water quality, but after taking a nap in the middle of the night, I found something strange when I woke up. out of water!" "It's late!" Cheng Kui slapped him angrily, "I drank it all to my mouth, so why talk about other people?" "If you can transport the corpse here and put it into the pool quietly, it's not difficult to poison it. There are secret operations by the enemy in Shangyang pass." Gang Wuwei's face is also extremely ugly. Fei An shook his head: "Don't worry about poisoning. It's extremely difficult to poison tens of thousands of people. General Bai has his reasons for setting up the canal in this way. If the water keeps flowing, the toxin will continue to flow into the water." As far as I know, when General Bai attacked the city, he only applied light poisons to Shangyang Pass, such as chamaema chamaejasma and euphorbia aconitum. As long as the vomiting is induced in time, the poison can be detoxified. Even for such a light poison, the crude medicine can be refined to a few thousand catties, and fine workmanship can be mixed in alone, but it is absolutely impossible to find thousands of catties of crude medicine in Shangyang Pass." Xi Yan didn't say anything, he suddenly jumped into the water!He was actually very good at swimming, and plunged into the bottom of the pool, approaching the dead soldiers.They were all nailed into the rock crevices at the bottom of the pool by iron wedges pierced through their chests, so they would not float up.Xi Yan grabbed the hand of one of the corpses and brought it closer to his eyes. The thumb of that hand was covered with an iron blue finger cot. The eagle emblem on it was still shining after hundreds of years.He took the hand of a nearby corpse and saw the glove on the thumb again.And then the third one, too. He stopped looking, held his breath, and silently counted the corpses at the bottom of the water. There were twenty-three corpses in total. On the list he obtained, there were still 1,080 Heavenly Exorcist warriors who could be contacted.Today only one thousand and fifty-seven remain.Someone found these people from the coalition army, killed them, nailed them to the depths of the pool, and put eagle emblem knuckles on their thumbs after their death to mark their identities.Sky Drive will not always carry the emblem on their bodies blatantly, they will only hide their fingertips in a secret place next to them. "This is a demonstration," he thought, "to kill our blood!" He shivered slightly, soaked in the icy cold water, felt his whole body heat up maniacally, he clenched his fist hard, his nails sank into the flesh without feeling. The generals watched Xi Yan's actions by the water in amazement.After a long time, Xi Yan floated up from the water, swam to the shore expressionlessly, and dusted off his drenched long clothes. "They are all new dead last night. They can kill so many people at once, and the other party's workmanship is very capable." He said lightly, "Okay, very good!" "What should we do now?" Gu Yueyi asked. "Clean up the corpses and strengthen your guard." Xi Yan said, "This is just a demonstration. They want to break our morale here." "This is a demonstration," Xiyuan followed his uncle, and suddenly heard Bai Yi growling in Xiyan's ear in a very low voice, "This is Chenyue's demonstration against Tianqi! They are here for you! "