Seeing this, Baili Yan frowned, approached the heated pan to carefully identify the smell, and next moment, he approached the cold flatbread to identify the smell. He found that only the heated cake seemed to have a garlic flavor, while the cold cake had a very light garlic flavor.

Thinking of this, his face couldn't help but become gloomy, and he took out the cloth towel that had wiped off the white powder before, and rubbed some with his fingers, without the slightest slippery feeling of flour.

"Stop!" Shouting to stop the gang, Bai Liyan and Jiang Jie said: "Jiang Jie, immediately send someone to row a small boat to inform each boat one by one, but all the grain and grass that has been plundered this time are not edible." ”

"My lord, this is poisonous!"

"It's arsenic, and arsenic smells like this when it's hot. Immediately inform the boats, but those who have eaten, symptoms of poisoning, immediately induce vomiting, can five egg whites, take three coins of sulfur, a large amount of vegetables can be used to detoxify this poison, go quickly! ”

"Yes!"

Arsenic is a white, odorless powder under normal conditions, but it will emit a garlic smell when exposed to heat, and does not produce any gas at room temperature.

Arsenic is very harmful to the human liver, arsenic can be used vitamin C, a small amount of sulfur can be used to neutralize arsenic, in order to reduce the concentration of arsenic into the blood, egg white is the use of arsenic to denature the protein, the principle of neutralization reaction, dilute the concentration of arsenic.

It is almost certain that the Kincherdi added arsenic to their flour, and the dosage was significant. Generally, arsenic is poisoned at room temperature and will not be heated, so it has to be said that it is a failure when used in flour.

After a while, hearing the news that the flour was poisoned, Sikong Nan hurriedly came to the rear cabin:

"General, what arsenic?"

"Well, it must be arsenic, I have washed the flour into the water, and I have tried it with silver, and the white silver is black, and the poison of arsenic can be discerned[Note 1]. And a lot, enough to poison hundreds of thousands of people in one night. ”

"It's despicable!"

Sikong Nan gritted his teeth and twitched his old tendons, and Bai Liyan sneered:

"Hmph, I'm afraid this is the key to the enemy generals sitting firmly on Mount Tai, they have poisoned the flour of all the villages along the way, and no matter how much we rob, it will not help. Even once stored, we will either starve to death or be poisoned to death in winter, which can be described as annihilating our army once and for all. ”

"But why are their people spared from this?"

"This is very simple, as long as the grain and grass are collected and stored in the warehouse, just like the princes of the Central Plains, the government will open a porridge shed in the village, and of course all the people will eat is non-toxic flour. And where did we know their situation in a hurry, after entering the village, they were robbed, and it was impossible to know the inside story without careful investigation. What's more, if you don't understand the language, you can't know.

This is really troublesome, with the current situation, the enemy general has no intention of leaving the base camp at all, and we have been transferred out by them, and it is now the past ten days, and it will take at least five or six days to return to Deranki, which is really careless. ”

"Simply, don't do anything, go straight to Zhongyuan Village." South Sikong Road.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple. Our army is swimming against the current, and it does not travel more than 100 miles a day. Their cavalry pursued us, but they could travel 150 miles a day, and they could always get to the next station ahead of our troops, and it would be difficult for our troops to get ahead of the enemy. ”

Since the Jinxuedi pursued the coalition fleet with cavalry, the frequency of the coalition's looting and goods fell off a cliff. Raiding all the way up the front river, now can only plunder the mouth of the three-forked river at the intersection of the two rivers, first use the fast boat to go out and drop the boat to blow up the small river pontoon bridge to block the ground reinforcements, and then the big boat then lands on the shore.

Robbing a village of a few thousand people often takes only half a day to dispatch one or two hundred thousand people, but it is too late to rob a stranger with a village of several thousand people. And within a day or two, the cavalry all had time to arrive around and detour, not to mention that not all the villages of the Central Plains were located at the mouth of the Three Forks River.

At this time, Jiang Jie said:

"Our army is slower than the enemy cavalry when it goes upstream, but it is faster than them when it goes downstream."

"How?" Bai Liyan hurriedly asked.

"Your Excellency, if our army can travel three hundred miles a day down the river, it will be at least one hundred and fifty miles more than the Jin Xuedi cavalry every day, and they need to make a detour, but our navy does not."

"And then?"

"If there are Central Plains villages within 500 miles along the river, our army can sail upstream, and then go down the river for 300 miles a day, and the Jinxuedi cavalry will travel 150 miles a day. Then our army traveled 500 miles in one and a half days, while the Jinxuedi people were less than 250 miles, and our army arrived at the Zhongyuan Min Village downstream 250 miles ahead of it, so our army was ahead of it for nearly two days. ”

"It makes sense, it's feasible!" Bai Liyan affirmed, motioned for the gang and the others to leave, and spread the map on the wooden table: "Our army is here now, south of the river, there are still more than 15 miles away from our army's nearest Zhongyuan Min Village, and the farthest Central Plains Min Village is 800 miles away from our army's waterway.

The distance between the two places is 650 miles, and our army can travel more than 300 miles by boat day and night, that is, two days' journey. And the enemy army is now one man and one horse, and even if they don't make a detour, they will run 180 miles in a day.

After reaching the upper reaches, our army can go down the river, and can reach the village of Zhongyuan Min downstream at least three days before it, and then take away all the people with all their baggage, and then repeat the cycle, so that it can never catch up with our army. Moreover, in the future, our army can be concocted in the same way, and its cavalry is not as fast as our army, and it is even more difficult for the infantry to pursue"

"But our army is full of men this time, and at most five more adults, if they take too much, where will they be placed?"

"Here!" Baili Yan pointed to the city of Govins: "After our army has plundered some of the Central Plains people, we can throw off the enemy cavalry and pursue it downstream, capture Govins, and then slaughter the city to occupy this place." ”

Parvens is a small city downstream of the Bedmis, more than eighty miles north of the fleet, at the junction of the small river and the mouth of the Bedmis, on the west bank of the Bedmis. The east and south sides of the city face the water, it is the only small city in the local area with a circumference of less than 12 miles, the height of the city is less than two zhang, very small, the population is unknown, but it will not be too much. Because it is faced with water on both sides, it only needs to blow up a gap in the wall, which is extremely convenient for attacking from the water.

Having made up their minds, the fleet continued to move south along Bedmis, during which time it received more than 300 poisoning incidents of various ships, all of which were poisoned by the use of arsenic flour, and dozens of people died after being poisoned even after not being rescued.

The news that the navy continued to move south reached Mooney's base camp more than two days later, and the speed at which the coalition army traveled 130 miles a day against the water really surprised Mooney:

"Strange, what are they trying to do as they continue south?"

Looking intently at the map, Mooney muttered to himself, and Norenga said disappreciatively:

"Your Excellency, south of Bedmis is the village of Zhongyuan, but there are very few chakou rivers there, and no matter how fast they row, they can't be faster than our horses' legs. As long as they dare to land, they will be defeated. ”

"But have you ever thought that if they rowed a hundred and thirty miles a day, they would take boats, and they would all take turns rowing. And we are riding horses, one person and one horse, people can stand it, can the horses stand it? Can you run 150 miles a day, and can you run all the time for 10 days? ”

"We can transfer other horses to supplement the cavalry, one person and two war horses are used alternately, and two times a day should be enough!"

Mooney shook his head with a wry smile:

"Your Majesty has suffered repeated defeats on the front, and the war horses have suffered great losses, and in August an envoy was sent to urge the horses, and there are not many war horses we can use. And now it is autumn, the horses are losing fat badly, and the excess is grazing and fattening, preparing for the winter, where are the surplus horses in the army.

But the farther south they went, the later they returned to Drangi, so that we had more time to cover the tidal flats. Norrenga, how many more days will it take to get close to the earthen wall? ”

"It's going to take at least half a month, but this morning I've let the fangs into the filling area, the ground is very solid, and I can already push the stone machine forward into range."

"Then pull them over and let them know what fear is!"

"Yes!"

While Mooney intensified his offensive against the Drankie, Bailiyan led his naval army to Kemaitan, the southernmost point upstream of Bedmis, four days later. The people of Jinxuedi compiled the people of the Central Plains like their own people, and the household registration of the villages was marked as the place name of Jinxuedi, and Kematan was one of them.

Baili Yan made a big flag, on the book "Central Plains King Shi million" six big characters, the warship is close to the shore, the crew all stand on the deck, a small time to cause Ke Machitan not a small shock, at this time Jin Xuedi cavalry across the river, force to drive away the troublemakers who are watching.

As soon as it was dark, the fleet immediately went down the river, and the sailors of each boat rowed backwards in six steamers, and the boat traveled more than 350 miles in one day, and in less than two days, it reached Monaso, 590 miles downstream of Kemachitan.

The fleet was divided into two routes, and Sikong Nan led half of the warships to continue to go down the river for sixty miles to Luojiafa, and the coalition forces landed in both places at the same time, plundering the people of the Central Plains and boarding the ships. Within two days, more than 23,000 men and women were intercepted, more than 700 members of the maintenance team and more than 500 auxiliary soldiers were killed, and a number of grain, grass and military funds were obtained. After traveling more than 200 miles in a day, they arrived at Govinns at night, and the coalition forces attacked in the morning and dusk, blowing up the eastern city wall.

The bow of the ship looked at the collapsed city wall in the firelight, and Bailiyan said in a deep voice:

"Sikong Nan."

"The last general!"

"After entering the city, men are killed, not women, strong men are killed, but the old and young are killed, but whoever commits adultery shall be punished with thirty military sticks."

"Dare to ask the general, how do the old and young survey?"

"Under fifty, all men over ten years old will be slaughtered!"

Sikong Nan hesitated a little when he heard the news, and Baili Yanzhi said in a deep voice:

"Brother Sikong can't do it!"

"Back to the general, poisoning a ten-year-old child, I'm afraid it's not appropriate."

"The kindness of a woman!" Baili Yan scoffed: "My Central Plains people will serve hard labor at the age of fourteen, and they will be conscripted into the army at the age of sixteen." If you are over 10 years old, you will not be able to use it for four or five years. If it is relaxed to 12 years old and above, you can be enlisted in the army after three years. Our army is now stranded here, and we don't know if we will be able to return to the Central Plains in three years. Get rid of it as soon as possible to avoid future troubles! You get the idea. ”

“…… The last will obey! ”

Man, as the source of all economic production and military and political affairs, is the fundamental resource for waging wars and maintaining national strength, especially in the agricultural period.

Since ancient times, many battles have been carried out to slaughter cities, not only to nourish the war by war, but also to reduce the pressure of military security on their own occupation in the future by destroying the enemy's living forces, so as to facilitate long-term peace and stability and cultural assimilation.

Even modern warfare, the so-called international law, is nothing more than a piece of waste paper. Disguised biological attacks, genetic sterilization, and economic sanctions to create poverty and hunger are all aimed at cutting off the potential of other countries' populations in order to achieve eventual extinction or enslavement.

It's just that the bloody visual sensory impact has become a soft strangulation, and its essence is no different.

[Note 1] After arsenic is mixed with water, it reacts weakly with silver and turns black, so in ancient times, silver needles were used to test poison, and in most cases arsenic was tested, as for whether other poisons reacted with silver and turned black, it is unknown.