Hello Chang’an

“I dare to ask Mr. Han, what exactly was thrown into Yuezhou City that day?” In the tent, Xiao Min almost asked Li Xian: “Is the strange disease that is suddenly raging in Yuezhou City related to this matter?”

Li Xian, who was sitting behind the low table with a sand table, saw that Xiao Min was so angry, but his expression softened. He smiled and asked, "So what. I'm worried about the war. What's wrong with me?"

Xiao Min looked shocked and angry, and when he was about to speak again, he was questioned by Li Xian: "General Xiao, are you complaining about the illness of Bian Jun?"

"There are not only Bian Jun in Yuezhou City, but also at least 50,000 people!" Xiao Min, who has always had a peaceful temperament, could no longer suppress his inner anger: "When the Korean public secretly decided on this strategy, did they ever think about these innocent people? So... What is the difference between disregarding the life and death of the people and the brutal and arrogant Bian Army!"

There was a sneer in Li Xian's eyes, but his voice was very light: "I'm afraid General Xiao has forgotten that you just came to support under orders, and I am still the coach of this battle, Li Xian. It seems that it is not General Xiao's turn to make the decision as the coach. Come and give some advice.”

Xiao Min clenched his fists: "Is the policy decided by Mr. Han to massacre his own soldiers regardless of the safety of the people?"

Xiao Min said, clasping his fists heavily in the direction of the capital, and said in a loud voice: "Xiao will ask the saint for advice on whether the Korean master's move is enough to continue to serve as the head coach!"

"General Xiao doesn't have to use saints to pressure me. I will be outside and have the right to do things for my own convenience." Li Xian leaned back in a leisurely manner and said nonchalantly: "As for the massacre of our own soldiers that General Xiao said, he was referring to the hundreds of people who participated. The soldiers who threw stones? Even now, General Xiao still doesn’t understand my good intentions?”

"If I don't kill them, if the plan is leaked, how can we have such a good situation today?" Li Xian looked at Xiao Min with a half-smile: "Moreover, does General Xiao still think that as long as I don't kill them, they will Can you survive?"

Seeing that Xiao Min's face was slightly pale, Li Xian said quietly: "If they come into contact with those things, they are likely to get sick. If they are not killed, the scene in the army at the moment will be no different from the situation in Yuezhou City."

Xiao Min's face turned a little paler, and his eyes became colder: "What Mr. Korea means...is that this disease spreads very fast, but there is no cure?!"

"You can say that." Li Xian smiled: "But General Xiao, please be patient. Recently, I have developed a decoction. As long as it is given to the army officers and men to take every day, this disease can be generally prevented. Even if you get infected accidentally, it won’t kill you easily.”

Immediately afterwards, he said in a very "magnanimous" tone: "Later, I will also have this decoction delivered to General Xiao's tent."

"But what should we do about the people in Yuezhou City who have already contracted the disease or are about to contract the disease?" Xiao Min asked one word at a time.

Li Xian suddenly sneered: "General Xiao, how can we fight without killing people? Such a benevolent woman is not suitable for leading troops in battle."

"But these people don't have to suffer what they are facing now!" Xiao Min retorted bluntly: "I have successfully intercepted Bian Jun's food and grass. All plans are going smoothly. If the Korean government had not used this matter to obstruct it, our army might have taken back Yuezhou at this moment. city!"

"What is obstruction? Only with this plan can I truly defeat Bian Jun at the minimum cost!" Li Xian narrowed his eyes: "What does a Yuezhou City mean? According to General Xiao's plan, at most If Bian Chunliang retreats from Yuezhou from the rear, it will be difficult to severely damage Bian's army, let alone kill Bian Chunliang! If General Xiao takes such a slow approach, it will take half a year to capture Yuezhou, but it will take another half to capture Dongting? It took several years to capture Tanzhou, Hengzhou, Yongzhou, and Daozhou?”

"The current situation is in tatters, and the imperial army is unable to pay its troops. It is not yet known whether General Xiao's tactics can destroy Bian Chunliang. I am afraid that the national treasury will be destroyed first—"

"And what I am doing now is to benefit the overall situation. Abandoning the people of a mere state and getting rid of Bian Chunliang can also help the countless remaining people in Dongting, Tanzhou and other areas behind to be liberated from Bian's army as soon as possible - this is not to make a living for the people. And worry about it?”

Hearing this self-righteous and hypocritical statement, Xiao Min's anger suddenly increased: "Xiao, I would like to ask, in whose hands were Dongting and Yuezhou lost in the first place?"

The sarcastic smile on Li Xian's face disappeared, and he stood up slowly, with a chill in his eyes: "General Bu Laoxiao reminds me that I will take back Yuezhou and Dongting soon! Not only that, I will also kill them Bian Chunliang's head has wiped out Bian Jun's rebellion in one fell swoop! For the saint, for Da Sheng, this serious trouble has been completely eliminated!"

After finishing speaking, he looked at Xiao Min steadily: "When something big is about to happen, rather than questioning and obstructing it, Li hopes that General Xiao will cooperate with the plan - otherwise, if he misses the important matter of protecting the country, you and I will not be able to bear it!"

"Xiao will write a letter to ask the saints and the imperial court if they also agree with the so-called 'strategy to protect the country' spoken by the Korean public!" Xiao Min turned around and opened the curtain and strode away from the place.

Xiao Min returned to his tent and immediately reported the matter to the Holy Emperor in a letter, and ordered him to quickly send it back to the capital.

After the letter was sent away, Xiao Min's mood became increasingly difficult to calm down. Previously, he only thought that the Korean public was overjoyed, but he did not expect that the other party would secretly resort to such means!

After returning from the banks of the Han River, he followed the advice of the Chang Envoy and paid close attention to Li Xian's every move, and discovered that he had ordered hundreds of stone-throwing soldiers to be secretly killed...but by then everything was a foregone conclusion.

Xiao Min was in a hurry, and a confidant came into the tent to ask for a meeting.

"How!" Xiao Min asked anxiously: "Have you found out everything?"

The soldier said in a heavy and complicated tone: "Back to General, we have found out that the sacks that the Korean minister threw into Yuezhou City that day contained not only wet hay and lime, but also many poisons and corpses... "

"Corpse?"

"Yes, most of them are human corpses..." the soldier said: "They should be from refugees and the corpses of soldiers who died of illness in the army before."

Xiao Min gritted his teeth.

He had also heard of old examples of how one side threw a large number of corpses into the city to create a plague when the two armies were fighting, but that happened several dynasties ago and was very far away...

plague…

As soon as these two words appeared in his mind, Xiao Min felt chills all over his body - so, from the beginning, Li Xian's plan was to artificially create a plague in Yuezhou City!

But Li Xian did it more covertly, leaving Bian Jun even more defenseless.

As far as Li Xian was concerned, he only threw the corpse into Yuezhou City. Once Bian Jun cleaned up and buried it in time, it would be difficult to obtain it.

And Allan next to him is good at making poison—

The corpses were mixed with prepared poisons, hidden in hay mixed with lime, and covered with smoke. They were lit and thrown into Yuezhou City. The corpses were indestructible when water was poured on them, so Bian Jun hurriedly covered them with soil on the spot.

Some fell into the river in the city, and Bian Jun did not salvage them carefully after that.

Afterwards, there was a light rain in Yuezhou. It was humid, sultry, rotten, and the summer mosquitoes, flies, and insects closed the dirty and food-deficient city, which provided the necessary breeding ground for the spread of the epidemic.

The soldier told Xiao Min that at least 30% of the soldiers and people in Yuezhou City were now infected with the disease.

However, as the number of infected people increased, the spread also became faster. In a few days, another 10% of the people in the city were infected with the disease.

Li Xian was still not in a hurry to send troops. He wanted to wait until Bian's army was exhausted to the point where he was completely unable to fight back. On this day, Li Xian even heard that even Bian Chunliang's eldest son had been infected with the disease.

"Is there any progress on the antidote?" In Yuezhou City, Bian Chunliang was anxious and asked a group of doctors who came.

The doctors knelt on the ground, and the leader replied in a trembling voice: "Not yet..."

"A bunch of useless idiots!"

Bian Chunliang suddenly drew his sword, but it slashed at the screen aside.

He still has sense and knows that what is most lacking now is healers, so he doesn't use them to vent his anger.

The screen was torn into pieces under Bian Chunliang's sword and collapsed suddenly, scaring the doctors so much that they lowered their bodies even lower.

They heard Bian Chunliang's angry, sarcastic and hateful voice ringing above their heads: "Korean Duke, Xiao Min... This is the method of the generals of the imperial court nowadays! Even if I, Bian, were not there, the day when the government would be overthrown would not be the same. Far away!”

After he had an attack, the counselor on the side just said: "My lord, this disease can kill people within ten days. It is really terrible. Since it is difficult to prepare an antidote, there are two urgent tasks at the moment. The first is to deal with the people who are already sick. Clean it to prevent them from spreading the disease again..."

The counselor said, and raised his hand to salute solemnly: "The imperial army has been deployed to surround our army's retreat, intending to trap our army in Yuezhou City. While the situation is still controllable, I boldly ask the lord to put his own safety first and return as soon as possible. Start preparing to evacuate Yuezhou City!”

At first, soldiers and civilians in the city frequently fell ill, but they did not think that this was the enemy's tactics at first. Until more and more people became sick, they had to start paying attention to this matter...

It has only been five days since it was actually discovered that this was poisoning by the imperial army.

Bian Chunliang's first reaction was to ask the doctors to give him a cure, but after five days he found nothing, and even the doctors fell ill. But now, the enslaved people in the city have no food to eat, and the sick soldiers are no longer provided with food. Even so, the healthy soldiers had not been full for many days, and the food in the city was almost exhausted. Although the city behind was stepping up its efforts to raise funds, it was still difficult to supply Yuezhou for the time being.

In such a situation, Bian Chunliang also knew that he could no longer defend Yuezhou.

The deputy general beside him suggested: "General, we should kill all the infected people as soon as possible, and then burn them all!"

They had kept these people before, naturally because these people who did not dare to resist could be driven by them and ensure their basic needs in the city, but now they could not keep them.

"Of course I want to kill him." Bian Chunliang held the sword in his hand, with unwillingness in his eyes: "But it's not up to us to kill him."

He said solemnly: "It's time for the people of the world to take a good look at the true face of these people in power today!"

The next day, before the sky became bright, urgent news reached Li Xian's ears.

The gates of Yuezhou City were wide open, and a team of thousands of people were rushing towards their military camp.

But it was not Bian Jun who came, but the common people who were described as embarrassed.

To be precise, it is the common people who are affected by the epidemic.

They were driven out of the city by Bian's army. In order to speed up their pace, Bian's army rode their horses in the rear and killed them with arrows, forcing them to run forward, just like driving away livestock.

The sky was getting brighter, and the surviving people continued to run for their lives. They heard the sound of footsteps and horse hooves in front of them. Just like a frightened bird, they heard an old man shout happily: "It's the imperial army! The imperial army is coming to save us!"

This voice is like the fairy voice of redemption, giving great hope to the people in desperate situations.

But the next moment, the old man shouting in front suddenly fell down after being hit by an arrow.

This time, the direction of the arrows was no longer from behind, but from the front. They thought they finally saw the dawn of the front.

After Yuezhou City was occupied by Bian's army, they were reduced to the lowest slaves, suffering every day. Not a day passed without thinking that the imperial army could take back Yuezhou and rescue them from the sea of ​​misery.

Now that they finally escaped from that purgatory, they never thought that what was waiting for them ahead was an even more terrifying purgatory.

Countless arrows flew towards the face, and the embarrassed figures fell down one after another.

Some people fled in panic, and some people who had arrows in their legs fell on the ground crying and begging for mercy, thinking that the imperial army had made a mistake: "...We are all citizens of Yuezhou City, and we are also citizens of the imperial court!"

In order to prevent these sick people from approaching, and to prevent Bian's army from mixing among them, some soldiers formed a shield formation in front. The crossbowmen squatted behind the shields, and arrows were shot from the gaps in the shields.

Behind the shield, listening to those hoarse cries, some soldiers could not bear it, and the hand that fired the arrow was trembling slightly.

But military orders cannot be violated, and these people are all carrying deadly diseases...sooner or later they will die!

Moreover, when epidemics occur... it is common to set fire to villages! Just give them a good time!

A crossbowman paralyzed himself with such persuasion from the bottom of his heart, gritted his teeth and fired another arrow.

The arrow landed in front of a woman, or to be precise, the child she was holding tightly in front of her.

The child was very thin, and looked to be less than two years old. He was protected by his mother, huddled in a ball, and did not dare to move.

The woman suddenly knelt down on the ground and called out a few trembling words. After being stunned for a moment, she suddenly burst out into mournful cries with confused words: "My child is not infected! He is fine. He is so young. He is just too young." I'm hungry...why do you want to kill him?"

She suddenly sat up and rushed towards the shield array in front: "I will fight with you!"

The woman was thin, dressed in rags, and her cheeks were ulcerated due to the disease. She looked vulnerable. She shouted that she wanted to "fight", but she didn't even have a stone in her hand. However, the hatred that erupted around her body and in her eyes was extremely shocking.

The crossbowman behind the shield actually felt fear. This fear came from the most basic human nature and conscience.

He stared blankly at the advancing woman until other crossbowmen shot her dead.

The crossbowman suddenly sat and knelt on the ground, feeling that he was in purgatory, and that he was one of the evil ghosts.

Xiao Min learned about this and tried to stop him, but was stopped by Li Xian.

"General Xiao, these are not ordinary people, but people who are infected with the disease, and there is no cure -"

"Once infected, the lieutenants of our army will not die from the disease, but they will inevitably become weak due to the disease. How can the army support the overall situation?"

"And if those people are allowed to flee and even flow into Jingzhou, causing more innocent people and soldiers to get sick - will General Xiao bear the responsibility?"

"General Xiao must put the overall situation first."

“…”

On the third day, Bian Jun expelled the third group of sick people out of the city.

Xiao Min, whose mind was still echoing with Li Xian's words of obstruction, tightly grasped the copper coins tied with a red rope in his hand.

"General..." The deputy general on the side hesitated, frowning.

Xiao Min stood up suddenly: "Call five thousand soldiers and follow me out of the camp!"

He struggled for a long time, but no matter what, he could not continue to stand by and watch.

Even if what he can do is limited, he should try his best... Otherwise, Xiao Min will not only be unworthy of being a general, but also unworthy of being a human being!

Two days later, Bian Chunliang wanted to lead the remaining 50,000 soldiers who had no signs of infection to evacuate Yuezhou from the rear.

Li Xian had been waiting for a long time and had arranged everything. He was only waiting for this battle to behead Bian Chunliang with his own hands.

It was also on this day that the empress' edict came from the capital. This edict was in response to Xiao Min's letter to Li Xian about poisoning and creating a plague. The emperor's intention was clear and clear - the overall situation of the war must be given priority at the moment. Let’s discuss the merits and demerits of putting down Bian Jun’s rebellion.

When receiving the order, Li Xian smiled slightly and looked at Xiao Min aside.

Xiao Min lowered his head to accept the order, feeling as if his heart was weighing heavily.

Li Xian, who was wearing armor and carrying a sword, turned around and walked out of the tent: "...order the rest of the army to follow me to kill Bian Chunliang, the traitor who brought disaster to the country!"

There are nearly 4500 words. Good night and see you tomorrow.