At night, in the Jibei Army barracks, someone noticed something was wrong.
After eating dinner and drinking water, most people's hands and feet were so weak and their whole bodies were so weak that they couldn't even pick up a knife.
A military doctor was invited to take a look, and the military doctor immediately judged, "It seems like he was poisoned."
"What poison?" Zhang Cheng was shocked.
"It's like Ruanjin Powder." This military doctor still has some skills.
Zhang Cheng's expression changed. He glanced around and saw that most of them were lying on the ground, unable to move. He asked, "How could they be poisoned?"
Even the military doctors don't know.
"Quick check." Zhang Cheng immediately ordered.
The military doctor looked at more than ten people one by one and said with certainty: "General, they are all the same, they just got Ruanjin San."
He also wondered how someone in the military camp of the Northern Hebei Army could poison someone quietly.
"Is this Ruanjin Powder fatal?" Zhang Cheng asked.
The military doctor shook his head, "It is fatal but not fatal. But if the number of people is small, I can easily find the antidote and I can prepare a prescription. After all, this is an ordinary Ruanjin Powder, but if the number of people is large, I even have a formula for the antidote."
, there is no way to get so many antidotes. If there is an antidote, just drink a bowl of it, but without an antidote, this stress will probably take three days to pass at the earliest."
The implication is that don't even think about killing the enemy and attacking the city.
Hearing this, Zhang Cheng looked around again and saw that seventy-eight out of ten people had fallen down, while others were still falling down one after another.
He had an angry look on his face, "Have you found out?"
No one answered him, and he hasn't found out yet.
He suppressed his anger and walked quickly to Zhang Yun's tent. He saw Zhang Yun lying on the bed, his face turned pale. His expression changed, "You have been tricked too?"
Zhang Yun nodded and pointed to the food on the small square table, "Second uncle, this is food."
Zhang Cheng remembered that he had not had time to eat because he was arranging and reorganizing the team to evacuate the injured. Zhang Yun was more seriously injured than him and was not the head coach, so he did not need to deal with this, so he had time to eat first.
His face looked extremely ugly, "I have already ordered someone to check."
"I'm afraid that 70% of the soldiers have been recruited, right? The most urgent task now is to order those who don't have food to stop eating for the time being." Zhang Yun said.
Zhang Cheng nodded, "I'll give the order right away."
So Zhang Cheng left Zhang Yun's camp and ordered the entire army not to eat or drink for the time being.
The military doctor quickly went to the food camp to inspect the food and the water brought in. Sure enough, the food was poisonous and the source was water.
The military doctor reported to Zhang Cheng, "General, it's the water problem."
Zhang Cheng's face suddenly changed, "That river?"
"Probably." The military doctor also didn't expect that someone would poison the river. For such a wide and long river, the water flow is slow under the ice in the winter. How much poison would be needed to infect the entire river?
Water source?
"Take the people to check the river immediately." Zhang Cheng ordered.
So, I immediately went to explore the river not far away.
The soldiers drew water from the river, and the military doctor examined it and quickly concluded, "General, the problem is with the river."
Zhang Cheng's face was ashen. He had never expected that someone could be so cunning as to poison the entire river. Was this a plan that took several days? He was unaware that he was really being tricked.
He was so angry that he went back to discuss with Zhang Yun, "There is something wrong with that river. The water source of the entire river has been destroyed. We have 200,000 soldiers and horses of the Northern Hebei Army. We need to eat and drink water. Even in the army,
War horses cannot live without water."
Zhang Yun had seen the river, "The whole river was poisoned, it was really powerful."
Zhang Cheng nodded.
"It must be Zhou Gu." Zhang Yundao said.
Zhang Cheng also thought so, but after searching the mountain for two days, no trace of him could be found. Now, someone appeared out of nowhere and poisoned the river. How much was it? How many herbs were thrown in?
?He couldn't even imagine it.
"Second Uncle, how many of us are good now?" Zhang Yun asked.
"Less than fifty thousand. There are still people who are gradually getting sick." Zhang Cheng almost suffocated and secretly hated himself for being careless. Because the food camp prepared meals in batches, and the soldiers also had to eat in batches, so the remaining people had to eat in batches.
Night.
"Less than fifty thousand is enough to attack the city." Zhang Yundao said.
Zhang Cheng was shocked and emphasized again, "There are still people who are having attacks one after another. Now in a hurry, we can only make a rough estimate."
"But Nanping City has experienced two sieges and is at the end of the war." Zhang Yun said: "Second uncle, let's go find out how many people are not poisoned now. As long as Nanping City can be captured, military doctors can be sent from the city.
The drug store will prepare the antidote."
Zhang Cheng made sense after thinking about it, "I'll go right away."
Fengling ordered his people to keep an eye on what was going on in the Jibei military camp. When news came from the Jibei military camp that the soldiers had been poisoned at night, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and reported it to Su Rong Zhougu.
Su Rong and Zhou Gu also breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. As for the 200,000-strong Northern Hebei Army, they would not have been able to be delayed if they had not used extraordinary methods at an extraordinary time.
Zhou Gu ordered, "We will investigate again to see how many soldiers of the Northern Hebei Army were poisoned. I am afraid that if the Northern Hebei Army reacts quickly and knows that the water is poisonous, some soldiers will be stopped."
Fengling nodded, he had expected this, "I've asked people to continue investigating."
Su Rong thought, "Ruanjin Powder is an ordinary poison after all. The military doctors in the Northern Hebei Army can detect it if they have some skills. If half of the Northern Hebei Army's people are not infected, then Nanping City is still in danger."
"Yes." Zhou Gu nodded, "Half of them is enough to capture Nanping City."
"By capturing Nanping City, we can get a large amount of common herbs from the drug stores in the city, which can be used to detoxify." Su Rong sighed, "I'm afraid we still have to find a way."
"For the time being, let's check the current situation in the northern Hebei military camp! Then send a letter to Ningchi. No matter what, we must defend Nanping City and we cannot let the northern Hebei army break through Nanping City or let them enter the city to find herbs to detoxify."
Zhou Gu thought that if it didn't work out and the number of people remaining in the Northern Hebei Army was small, he would have to take his people with him to defend the city.
Or, would he take the opportunity to kill Zhang Cheng and Zhang Yun?
It's not impossible.
Because most of the soldiers in the northern Hebei army camp were planted with Ruanjinsan, chaos suddenly broke out. The secret guards who were good at stealth detection didn't take long to get back the news, saying that probably 70% of the soldiers in the Northern Hebei army had planted Ruanjinsan.
Depending on the situation, it is estimated that only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were not infected by the poison. The specific number cannot be found out.
Zhou Gu roughly estimated, "Forty to fifty thousand soldiers and horses."
"Although this number is small, compared to Nanping City, it is still large." Su Rong said.
Zhou Gu nodded, "But it's okay. The number is not that huge. It is easier to deal with than 200,000 soldiers and horses."
"Send a letter to Ningchi immediately and ask Fei Ying to deliver it. Let the city defend Nanping City no matter what. Mobilize the people in the city as well. As long as they survive this hurdle, the danger of Nanping City will be resolved." Su Rong
He said immediately.
Zhou Gu also meant the same thing, so he immediately picked up a pen, wrote a brief letter, tied it to the eagle's leg, and let it fly.
