36 Mutiny
General Lu couldn't help but scold, first Jingyue came to his senses, no wonder Prince Geshu's subordinates did not all come, even Mr. Mu was not among them, it turned out that the subordinates of these forty or so carts were all masters, taking advantage of the illusion of "red snow" just now, they had already escaped with the Tibetan envoy, either mixed into the thousands of soldiers under the city wall, or hid in the barracks on both sides of the street. Master Lu was also shocked, and said: "In just this moment, the prince of the Hu people must not be able to run far, I will take the sergeant to search around, once I meet it, I will kill him!"
General Lu shook his head slowly and said, "The other party is clever, and I don't know what other powerful skills he has." If you send the soldiers on the city wall to hunt them down, they will inevitably be infected with the plague by the soldiers below; if you send the soldiers under the city wall to search, first, they will be hungry and the plague has not been cured, so they may not have any combat power, and second, they will only have food to fill their stomachs and good medicine to cure the plague at this time, and they may not be willing to listen to my orders. "Xian Jingyue was a little hesitant to capture and kill Prince Geshu and his party, and he had just shot too hard and killed Ju Xingshi's illusion partner on the spot, so when he heard General Lu say that he wanted to give up the search, he didn't say anything more.
At that moment, General Lu ordered all the soldiers on the city wall to go to the city wall, and according to Mr. Mu's prescription, he boiled medicine for the soldiers to cure the disease, and before the plague was completely cured, the infected soldiers were still not allowed to step on the city wall for half a step, and the soldiers on the city wall could not go down either. For a while, the open space in front of the city gate was very lively, and the soldiers added dozens of fires, and went to the barracks to find a big iron pot for cooking rice, and cooked porridge with rice sent by Prince Geshu. The soldiers also carried the original medicinal materials on the city wall, plus the "hanging golden lamp" and "Chaotianzi" dispensing just sent by Prince Geshu, which were also boiled in a large iron pot.
Xian Jingyue and Li Liu had already been infected by the so-called "Belle Holm disease", so they were naturally not afraid of being infected again, and they also went to the city wall to help boil medicine. After such a busy night, the soldiers under the city walls had eaten a full meal, and drank the medicine that was tormented by the soldiers one after another, and only waited for the power of the medicine to attack and cure the plague on their bodies. Who knew that until dawn, except for a dozen or so sergeants with mild symptoms, the thousands of sergeants present did not get any better, still coughing non-stop, gulping out yellow phlegm. The soldiers were all puzzled, and carefully checked the prescription again, but they didn't find anything wrong, so they had to boil more than a dozen pots of medicine and ask the sergeants to drink another bowl.
You must know that the two sergeants who had tried the medicine before had greatly alleviated their symptoms in just one or two hours after taking the medicine, but why did the same prescription and the same herbs not have any effect? After the sergeants had drunk the second medicine and waited for two hours, the coughs of more than 20 people had improved slightly, but there was still no effect on the other thousands of sergeants. The soldiers were helpless, and they argued for a long time, and finally said that the problem could only be with the medicinal materials.
It turned out that the two flavors of medicinal materials "hanging golden lamp" and "Chaotianzi" used in the previous drug test were from the package carried by Prince Geshu, and what was being given to the army now was the 400 catties of medicinal materials on the cart later. However, if there is a problem with these two medicinal materials on the cart, and if he has been practicing medicine with the military for many years, and the "hanging golden lamp" and "Chaotianzi" are all too common medicinal materials, how can he be mistaken?
The last soldier grabbed a handful of "Chaotianzi" and put it in his mouth to chew, frowned and said: "This taste is clearly not bad at all, except for a little light ......" When these words came out, his face suddenly changed, and he spit out with a "bah", and went to taste the "hanging golden lamp" again, and then scolded loudly: "These medicinal materials have obviously been tormented once, and then dried again, so there is no medicinal power at all!"
As soon as these words came out, the sergeants present were in an uproar, and Xian Jingyue and Li Liu were also shocked, especially Xian Jingyue, who was even trembling with anger. It turned out that the prince of Na Ge Shu really didn't have any good intentions, and actually re-dried the boiled medicinal materials and sent them, although the medicine is still these two flavors, but it has almost no medicinal power, and it is no different from the withered grass, and it is clearly unwilling to save the garrison of Yumen Pass. It can be seen that he has probably already colluded with the self-proclaimed "Jin Wanjin" Yan Sidao, so he will stand on the enemy's side. It is even possible that there is no gold at all, and there is no Divine Fire Sect and the army of Wu'er who are not lost in Bali, and the living corpses and plagues that appeared in Yumen Pass this time were all done by Prince Na Geshu.
As for Prince Geshu personally sending this batch of food and medicinal materials, the purpose was naturally to rescue the Tibetan envoy who was detained by Yumen Pass, and the family affair he had agreed with Xian Jingyue before was completely nonsense. Because the medicine sent by Prince Geshu could not cure the garrison of Yumen Pass at all, Xian Jingyue naturally would not agree to marry Ayi, and the whole agreement was not established from the beginning.
As for the reason why Prince Geshu proposed to Xian Jingyue, it was just to dispel the doubts in Xian Jingyue's heart, so that he could use Xian Jingyue to bring him to Yumen Pass to interview General Lu, and then exchange food and medicinal materials for the captured Tibetan envoy. So when he talked about this family affair with Xian Jingyue at that time, he deliberately wanted to separate Ayi, not because he was worried that Ayi would hear that he had negotiated this family affair as a deal, but because he didn't let Ayi know that he was using his sister's marriage as a cover, so as to cover up his true intentions in front of Xian Jingyue.
It's a pity that I only figured out the reason for the whole thing now, but it was too late, Prince Geshu and his party had already retreated, and they took away the Tibetan envoy as they wished. Although Prince Geshu's people still left a large amount of grain in the end, the two medicinal materials of "hanging golden lanterns" and "Chaotianzi" are fake, and they have never been able to eliminate the plague in Yumen Pass, and they are afraid that in another ten days and a half months, all the soldiers will be infected and die, even if the grain and grass are sufficient, what is the effect? And Prince Geshu is actually willing to use this large amount of grain in exchange for the Tibetan envoy, which shows that he is not just selling his personal favor to the Tubo lord, but really wants to form an alliance with Tubo and jointly plan to send troops to the Central Plains.
Thousands of soldiers under the city wall heard that the medicinal herbs were fake, and they could still sit and stand for a while, and they shouted and cursed one after another. You must know that these sergeants were infected by the plague before, and faced a shortage of food and medicine, although they were unwilling, they could only sit back and wait for death to come. But now that Prince Geshu has sent food and medicinal herbs, it is like a drowning man who suddenly grasps something floating on the water, and immediately has a glimmer of life, rekindling the idea of survival, but in the end, he realizes that he is only grasping a straw, which is of no avail, and the idea of survival will suddenly turn into full of resentment and completely explode.
At that moment, a sergeant picked up a soldier and asked sharply: "Even this little illness can't be cured, what else should you be in Langzhong?" Before they could escape, they were also pressed to the ground by the sergeants and trampled on their feet, and they were silent in an instant.
The sergeants killed the soldiers, and it was still difficult to eliminate the resentment accumulated in the past few months, and all of them were in high spirits, and then they approached Xian Jingyue and Li Liu, some of whom accused the two of being pro-military governors, and some blamed the two for leading the wolf into the house. Xian Jingyue had seen the same scene in front of the city wall of Jiayuguan, knowing that these soldiers had lost their minds when they knew that they were dying, not only could not listen to the advice, but even the murderous aura they emitted did not work, so they had to protect Li Liu behind them and retreat in the direction of the stone stairs of the city wall.
The sergeants were originally a little afraid of the commander of the pro-army Governor's Mansion, but when they saw Xian Jingyue's retreat, they suddenly surged up like a tide, encircling the two of them to death. Xianjingyue lost all his strength, and he could only kill people as soon as he took out the knife, but he couldn't bear to use the knife against these sick sergeants in front of him, so he had to dodge again and again. However, Li Liu's eyes were quick behind him, and he had already snatched a Guan knife, and he struggled to round it and spread it out, forcing all the surrounding sergeants to retreat. In this way, the sergeants were even more angry, and they successively showed their blades to greet the two of them, Li Liu was a woman after all, but in a moment, the Guan knife in his hand was knocked to the ground by the sergeants.
Fortunately, General Lu on the city wall had already learned that the medicinal materials were false, and seeing that the thousands of soldiers under the city wall had provoked a mutiny, he hurriedly asked Master Lu to lead a team of archers down to the half of the stone ladder, and aimed at the soldiers under the city wall with bows and arrows, ordering them not to make a mistake. Hearing this, the sergeants who had already lost their minds were slightly stunned, and immediately some sergeants shouted angrily and said: "If we withdraw to Jiayuguan early in the morning, where will we fall into today's desperate situation? So Lu Yuanpo is the culprit! Anyway, they are all dead, so it is better to pull the back of this surnamed Lu!"
As soon as the words fell, thousands of soldiers echoed in unison, and before the group of archers on the stone ladder of the city wall could shoot arrows, the soldiers under the city wall took the first step to draw their bows and arrows and shot them on the stone ladder. Master Lu was shouting loudly in front of the sergeants, and he couldn't dodge for a while, and was suddenly hit by an arrow in his throat, and died on the spot.