Is there a scam in the city? After hearing Geng Shu's words, everyone present was startled. Feng Yi and Geng Shu looked at each other for a moment and asked, "Why did General Geng say this?"
Geng Shu himself was not sure, so he said seriously: "General, please go into the city again to investigate!"
A general of the Western Expedition said: "It's getting late now. If we delay any longer, we may not be able to enter the city before dark!"
Next, they still have a lot of work to do, including collecting the corpses from all over the city, burning the corpses uniformly, etc.
Geng Shu said solemnly: "General, I always feel that things are not simple. Jia Biao's withdrawal from Lingqiu is too weird!" yyls
Another general said: "There are too many corpses in the city, which are rotten and smelly. Diseases will naturally occur. It is normal for Jia Biao to lead his army to evacuate."
Geng Shu shook his head and said: "If Jia Biao really wanted to defend Lingqiu, they should have disposed of the corpses in the city long ago and wouldn't have kept them until today!"
The general thought for a while and said, "Perhaps the enemy's intention is to use the disease to defeat our army?"
Geng Shu still shook his head, feeling that something was wrong. Epidemics are very scary. Once they break out, the consequences will be disastrous, but preventing them is not that difficult.
Unless our own side is unprepared and the army rushes into the dead city of Lingqiu, it may lead to a large-scale outbreak of the disease.
Did Jia Biao really think so and plan like this? I'm afraid it's unlikely.
It is impossible for our side to rush into the city without conducting any investigation. As long as we go into the city to investigate, it is impossible not to find the corpses hidden in the house. Could it be that Jia Biao would not have thought of this? He would be stupid enough to arrange it
Is such a trap easy for others to see through? No! Geng Shu shook his head secretly. There must be something hidden in it, but he just didn't detect it.
He straightened his face and said to Feng Yi: "General, this matter is of great importance. Even if it is delayed for one more day, I feel that Lingqiu City should be investigated carefully."
Feng Yi thought for a moment, nodded, and said: "Okay! General Geng, you can explore again after entering the city!"
Zhao Kuang hurriedly stepped forward and intervened: "General, I will check with General Geng!"
Feng Yi had no objection and nodded in agreement.
Geng Shu and Zhao Kuang, leading two hundred cavalry and three hundred infantry, entered Lingqiu City again to inspect the situation inside the city.
Before entering the city, everyone drank a large amount of moxa leaf water. Each person had two water bags hanging on his body, which were also full of moxa leaf water.
In addition, the medical officer in the army also equipped them with some realgar, sprinkled the realgar powder on the torches, and asked them to light the torches before entering the city.
After entering the city, Geng Shu turned around and said to the two hundred cavalrymen: "Hurry and check everywhere in the city. You have to be fast. Go and come back quickly!"
"Yes!" Two hundred Youzhou Riders responded in unison, and then each urged their horses, holding torches high, to explore various parts of the city.
Zhao Kuang asked in a low voice: "General Geng, do you think there is an ambush in the city?"
Geng Shu said: "Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case!" As he spoke, he urged his horse to move forward.
Zhao Kuang and three hundred infantrymen hurriedly followed up. Although there was no one in the city, people were walking forward cautiously as if they were facing a formidable enemy, looking left and right from time to time, fully alert.
It was getting dark, and the cavalry who went to explore various places came back one after another. The news they brought back was the same: there was no one in the city!
After hearing the report of Youzhou's sudden cavalry, Zhao Kuang breathed a long sigh of relief, smiled at Geng Shu, and said: "Lingqiu City is so big, and it is impossible for the enemy to ambush a force that can rival our army in the city.
I think General Geng is overly worried this time."
His words reminded Geng Shu that, as Zhao Kuang said, it was unlikely that the enemy would set up an ambush in the city. So, would they use other means?
Geng Shu rolled his eyes and suddenly pulled down the sweat towel covering his mouth and nose.
Seeing this, Zhao Kuang was startled and said hurriedly: "General Geng..."
Geng Shu waved his hand to him, raised his nose and smelled carefully, and asked: "General Zhao, what exactly is the smell in Lingqiu City?"
Zhao Kuang blinked his eyes, slowly lifted up the sweat towel a little, and smelled it carefully. He immediately put the sweat towel down again, frowned and said, "This is the smell of rotting corpses!"
"Is it so smelly when corpses are rotting? Does the whole city stink?"
"It's because there are too many corpses." Zhao Kuang felt that Geng Shu was too suspicious, and he said disapprovingly: "If there were only ten, twenty, or one or two hundred corpses, naturally they wouldn't be so smelly, but the corpses
If there were thousands of them, it would be so smelly."
Geng Shu was thoughtful, rolled his eyes, got off his horse, carried the tiger head halberd, and walked out to a wine shop on the roadside.
He kicked open the door of the wine shop and walked inside. Like other shops, the inside was in a mess.
Walking inside, the floorboards creaked under my feet. In the deathly Lingqiu City, this subtle sound seemed particularly harsh.
Zhao Kuang followed Geng Shu in. At the same time, he took out the sword from his ribs, walked to a door, and slowly pushed the door open with his sword.
There were actually more than ten corpses inside. Because they had been left there for too long, corpse water flowed out of the corpses, and the corpse water was mixed with the corpses. The appearance was terrifying and disgusting.
Zhao Kuang couldn't bear it after just one glance. He took two steps back and said to Geng Shu: "There's nothing to see here. Let's go!"
After he finished speaking, he stamped his feet fiercely and turned around to walk out. Maybe he stamped his feet too hard, and a wooden board on the ground was broken by him, and his feet almost fell into it.
Zhao Kuang hurriedly raised his feet and looked down. He saw that there was black liquid under the floor, and there was a foul smell emanating from it.
It's corpse water!
"Oh..." Zhao Kuang couldn't help it any longer, he retched, and ran out with his sword in hand. Once outside, he held his hands on the wall and vomited.
When the surrounding soldiers saw this, they were all startled. They stepped forward with spears and halberds in hand, and asked nervously: "Zhao...General Zhao?"
"Beasts! What a bunch of fucking beasts!" Zhao Kuang wiped the corners of his mouth and panted.
Geng Shu did not run out in a hurry. He walked to the floor that was broken by Zhao Kuang, lowered his head and looked inside. Then he squatted down, reached the tip of the halberd under the floor, and dipped the contents inside.
liquid, then raised the halberd and looked carefully at the black liquid stained on the tip of the halberd.
It's very dark and viscous, indeed like corpse water, but more viscous than corpse water.
Geng Shu blinked, stretched out his hand, and slowly touched the tip of the halberd. The black liquid stuck to his fingers. He took his hand back, put it under his nose, and smelled again and again.
Zhao Kuang, who had just finished vomiting, was about to walk back to the wine house when he saw this scene. He felt that the internal organs in his body that had just calmed down began to churn again. He made a sound of vomiting, and the acid water in his stomach was rising up.
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He covered his mouth and said intermittently: "General Geng, you...are you crazy...you can't touch that...vomit..."
Zhao Kuang retreated to the wall again and vomited again. Two soldiers held torches high, entered the wine house, and walked towards Geng Shu.
Geng Shu smelled the black liquid on his fingertips. Suddenly, his body shook, he stood up suddenly, and shouted to the two soldiers who were walking over: "Get out! Get out immediately!"
The two soldiers were startled, and under the glare of Geng Shu's bloodshot eyes, they rolled and crawled out of the wine house. Geng Shu was not slow at all. In just a few steps, he rushed outside the wine house. He faced
A Youzhou Assault Cavalry said: "Send sentry arrows! Send sentry arrows immediately! Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw! Everyone withdraws from Lingqiu City immediately!"
Zhao Kuang, who almost vomited all the acidic water, wiped the corners of his mouth, staggered over, and asked in surprise: "General Geng, what happened...what happened?"
"It's a trap! The entire Lingqiu City is a big trap! Get out of here quickly!"
A Youzhou cavalry general shot a hollow whistle arrow into the sky. The whistle arrow flew into the sky, making a harsh and long whistle. In Lingqiu City, which was seizing the opportunity like a death, the sound of the whistle arrow was extremely harsh. Not only the people in the city were
You can hear it, even people outside the city can hear it clearly.
The faces of the soldiers around Feng Yi also changed. People subconsciously looked at Feng Yi and said anxiously: "General, there seems to be a situation in the city. Is there really an enemy ambush?"
"Rescue General Geng and General Zhao quickly!" A general shouted, preparing to lead his army into Lingqiu City. Feng Yi hurriedly raised his hand to stop his general, frowned, and shouted in a deep voice: "
Why are you panicking? Li Yu, lead the team and go to the city to check!"
The general named Li Yu agreed, but before he could lead his men into the city, Geng Shu and Zhao Kuang had already led their men and ran out of Lingqiu City in a panic. The soldiers in front of them automatically and consciously retreated to both sides.
, get out of the way.
Geng Shu and Zhao Kuang passed through the crowd of Han troops unimpeded and came to Feng Yi. Feng Yi looked at them and asked in a deep voice: "What happened in the city?"
Until now, Zhao Kuang still hasn't figured out why Geng Shu asked him to run away, nor why he said that the entire Lingqiu City was a big trap.
He turned to look at Geng Shu, who said seriously to Feng Yi: "General, there is indeed an ambush in the city!" As he spoke, he raised his hand and said: "General, please look!"
Feng Yi looked at Geng Shu's raised hand. There was some black liquid on his fingers, and he couldn't tell what it was. He frowned and asked, "This is it?"
"General, that's corpse water!" Zhao Kuang began to feel nauseated again when he saw the black liquid on Geng Shu's fingers.
The expressions of everyone present changed. Before they could speak, Geng Shu said seriously: "This is not corpse water, but fire oil!"
"Kerosera?" Everyone present was shocked again. Zhao Kuang was also stunned. After a while, he came closer to Geng Shu and carefully looked at the black liquid on his fingertips. Then he leaned a little closer and smelled carefully.
He shook his head and said, "No! Kerosene can't be so smelly!"
Geng Shu said meaningfully: "General Zhao may not know something. Most kerosene has no smell, but there is a kind of kerosene that has a smell!"
Zhao Kuang looked at Geng Shu blankly and said nothing for a while. He really didn't know that there was stinky kerosene in the world. Geng Shu raised the halberd in his hand and made an angry mouth at the tip of the halberd.
Said: "Which general brought the fire seal?"
An officer took out the halberd from his armor and turned to look at Feng Yi. The latter nodded. The officer took off the cap and blew on it twice. The halberd ignited. He put the flame close to the tip of the halberd and heard a whirring sound.
, the black liquid on the tip of the halberd immediately burned.
This scene made everyone present dumbfounded. Several other generals came closer to Geng Shu, first looking at the flames on the tip of the halberd, and then carefully examining the black liquid on Geng Shu's fingers, touching and smelling it.
A general turned back and said: "General, this... this is indeed kerosene!"
The so-called kerosene is actually petroleum. Although most petroleum smells pungent, it is not smelly, with the exception of one kind of petroleum.
Because petroleum contains too much mercaptans, it emits the smell of rotten eggs. This smell is indeed very similar to the smell of rotting corpses.
Therefore, when collecting kerosene, no one is willing to collect this kind of oil with excessive mercaptan content. Therefore, many people do not know that there are different types of kerosene, and there are even stinking kerosene.
