Chapter 339 Nine-tailed Fox vs. Nervous Knife (Part 1)(1/2)
Although Deputy Director Tao knew some local methods for treating aconite poisoning, and the Xuzhou military doctors who received guidance from Zhang Zhongjing also tried their best, more than 30 Xuzhou soldiers who were hit by poisonous arrows were not rescued in the end because they were too poisoned.
His death inevitably affected the morale of the Xuzhou Army, causing rumors to spread within the Xuzhou Army that the enemy's medicine and arrows were so powerful that if they were shot, their whole body would fester and die, making many new recruits timid and fearful of war.
Deputy Director Tao was forced to personally refute the rumor, pointing out that the enemy's poisonous arrows were just poison from common aconite, which was expensive to make and not widely available, and could not be used in large quantities for a long time. Moreover, even if poisoned, it could still be cured as long as the rescue was timely.
After having dozens of rescued poisoned soldiers go around the camp to speak out for themselves, and finally suppressing the rumors, Deputy Director Tao, who had suffered such a big loss for the first time, was furious and ordered the army's craftsmen to rush to make a large number of poisonous soldiers.
Then he ordered the soldiers to collect poisonous snakes and the doctors to collect the corpses of plague patients. When Xuzhou Civil and Military Affairs asked him in surprise, Deputy Director Tao said viciously: "Of course it's a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye! Zhuge villagers are cruel,
I want one more ruthless than him!"
It was rare to see Deputy Director Tao with such a ferocious and violent expression. Of course, the civil and military officials in Xuzhou understood that Deputy Director Tao was completely ruthless this time, and they could not help but sympathize with the enemy in their hearts, especially Young Master Yuan Tan who was shot afterward - it was normal.
Deputy Director Tao is already ruthless and vicious when he is in a state of rage. How ruthless and vicious Deputy Director Tao can be when he is in a rage is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
While preparing to ruthlessly retaliate against the enemy, Deputy Director Tao did not forget another major event. He arranged a large number of capable scouts to capture the enemy's patrol soldiers. The result was a small success. Five Yuan Tanjun scouts were captured in two days.
, was escorted back to the camp for interrogation. Inspired by kindness to the prisoners and severe torture, Deputy Director Tao quickly got the answer he needed - Mr. Guo Tu had indeed fallen out of favor in front of Master Yuan Tan! Although he had fallen out of favor,
The reason is not yet clear, but now every time Yuan Tan goes in and out of the Chinese army, the person who follows Master Yuan Tan has indeed been replaced by Cui Yan, a famous scholar from Jizhou who is not too senior.
After learning about this situation, Deputy Director Tao, Xun Chen and others were secretly happy. They quickly stepped up their efforts to collect Mr. Guo Tu's information, and began to try every means to get in touch with Mr. Guo Tu to test Mr. Guo Tu's attitude and attitude.
Plan - Deputy Director Tao, who is cautious by nature, does not dare to act directly, because Mr. Guo Tu is the person who volunteered to be buried for Master Yuan Tan in history. It is definitely not as easy as imagined for him to betray Yuan Tan. But Deputy Director Tao never dreamed
Unexpectedly, the Xuzhou army's vigorous efforts to capture Yuan Tanjun's scouts had already aroused one person's suspicion...
"Another scout from the Jihou army was captured alive by the Xuzhou bandit army? In two days, fifteen of the scouts from the Jihou army were killed, four were missing, and three were captured alive? The scout team was attacked one after another.
Six times, three of which were encounters and the other three were ambushes? Is this a coincidence, or was it intentional by Tao Thief?"
The person who had this suspicion was of course Zhuge Liang, the most cautious person in the world. After much deliberation, Zhuge Liang took Uncle Liu Huang to see Mr. Yuan Tan overnight and reminded Mr. Yuan Tan to be careful about this matter. Mr. Yuan Tan yawned and waved his hand and said, "Mr. Kong Ming."
Isn’t that too suspicious? There was no scout sentry during the battle? What’s suspicious about it? Besides, didn’t our army’s scouts also kill a few Tao thief scouts? It’s so normal, there’s no need to worry.”
"What Jihou said is absolutely true. It is true that there are scout battles during every war. It is very normal and common." Zhuge Liang nodded and admitted that what Mr. Yuan Tan said was reasonable, and then reminded: "But Jihou, don't you think it's normal?"
Is this a little strange? Prior to this, our army's scouts had fought many times with Xuzhou Army's scouts, but only once were they ambushed by Xuzhou Army's scouts. Twenty-one scouts were sacrificed, three were missing, and they were confirmed to be captured.
There were only two of them. But after the defeat of the Xuzhou Army, in just two days, our army lost four scouts, and three were confirmed to have been captured alive. The number exceeded the total of the previous seven days. Isn't this too weird?"
"Yes, Jihou, it's better to be careful." Uncle Liu Huang also reminded: "Jihou, don't forget that the little thief Tao Ying is famous for his treachery. Even the treacherous thief Cao Ying can only be defeated in front of him.
He suddenly intensified the intensity of the scout war, and clearly intended to capture our scouts alive. There must be an ulterior and despicable purpose behind it, and I hope that the Marquis of Ji will be careful in what he does."
"Really?" Mr. Yuan Tan finally wavered. After thinking about it for a while, he wondered: "But what should we do? We have to send scouts out of the camp to detect the enemy's situation, right? That would be too passive."
"Don't worry, Lord Ji. Liang has already thought of a plan, and he will definitely be able to find out the details of this matter." Zhuge Liang quickly said: "Liang plans to arrange for a careful and reliable soldier to serve as a scout and go out to patrol the enemy's situation tomorrow, and then let him deliberately
Captured by the Xuzhou Army and surrendered, he answered whatever the Xuzhou Army asked him, tricking the Xuzhou Army into believing his surrender, and finally allowed him to find a way to escape from the enemy camp and return to our camp to report the situation. In this way, Liang could
During the interrogation by the Xuzhou army, Tao Ying’s next intention and purpose were analyzed.”
"What if the Tao bandits kill this craftsman?" Yuan Tan was a little worried.
"No, although Tao Yingshijun has a bad character and a scorpion-like heart, he likes to be benevolent and righteous. He never kills prisoners indiscriminately. The captured prisoners are either inducted or given travel expenses and sent back to their fields, so as to show his benevolence and righteousness and shake people off.
The opponent's military morale." Zhuge Liang shook his head and said: "Moreover, Liang has already prepared a candidate. He plans to arrange a local soldier from Yanzhou who has served Cao Cao to take this position. After he is captured by the Xuzhou army, he only needs to reveal his identity.
With his experience and place of origin, and his full cooperation with the Xuzhou Army's interrogation, he might be able to be released by the Xuzhou Army and return to our army soon to report the news."
"Then you go make arrangements." Mr. Yuan Tan yawned again and said: "Anyway, even if we can't succeed, we will only lose one pawn at most. I'll leave this matter to you, Mr. Kong Ming. If you need any assistance from our army,
, go directly to Cui Jigui to negotiate, I will ask him to fully support your actions."
Zhuge Liang was overjoyed and quickly handed over his hands to express his thanks. Then he limped back to the emperor's army camp with Liu Huangshu, and called in one of his own soldiers named Shi Yunfeng - who also served in Cao Jun's Ye County guard Han Fu's team.
Then Zhuge Liang told Shi Yunfeng the opportunity in person, and promised to arrange for Shi Yunfeng to spy on the Xuzhou Army with a heavy reward. His wife and children had been taken to Xinye by Liu Huangshu, but Shi Yunfeng did not dare to refuse, and he coveted the offer of Zhuge Liang and Liu Huangshu.
He was highly rewarded, so he was willing to accept the mission. He quickly took Zhuge Liang's instructions to heart and started arranging and executing the mission.
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Zhuge Liang has indeed studied Deputy Director Tao's character and habits to the core. If nothing unexpected happens, Shi Yunfeng will definitely be captured by the Xuzhou army who are demanding a confession. After becoming a prisoner, Shi Yunfeng will definitely not be in danger of life. Having escaped from Xuzhou
The hope of the camp is also possible to be released by the Xuzhou army. In this case, Deputy Director Tao's evil intention to plot Mr. Guo Tu will have to be exposed in front of Zhuge Liang. But Mr. Zhuge Kongming also never dreamed of it.
, at the same time, there was an unexpected third party who also got involved in this matter very unexpectedly...
"Ah! It's so boring! If I had known that it would take so long to fight Guandu, I should have asked Ayu to beg her sister to let her go with the army, so that I would not be bored at night."
The one who can complain is of course our heartthrob Yang Hong and Yang Changshi. Although it is already halfway through the second update, Yang Changshi, who has had enough sleep during the day, still has his eyes wide open and is bored at the same time.
He sighed deeply, only regretting that he had not thought of a way to bring his concubine Guo Yu into the army, so that he could not do some fitness exercises that the masses loved in the dead of night.
Yang Changshi, who had slept enough during the day, was full of energy, but Li Lang, the captain of the soldiers who was serving at the side, was already yawning. Li Lang yawned and asked: "Sir, why don't you let Madam Eleven go and beg for help?"
Where is her sister? Madam Eleven’s sister is now a popular person in front of the lord. If she asks the lord, he will definitely agree."
"I thought we would capture Xuchang soon. Once we enter Xuchang, we can live freely and happily. It's inconvenient to take Ayu with us. I didn't expect that I would be blocked by Yuan Tan in Guandu." Yang Changshi explained with a bitter face and scolded him again.
He said, "Bad Yuan Tan, wait until the master breaks into Xuchang and see how I play with your woman!"
"There are also Guo Tu and Xin Ping!" Yang Changshi thought of his two former enemies again and cursed fiercely: "How dare you help Yuan Tanpifu take me to the execution ground? When we get into Xuchang, I will also kill you."
Their wives and daughters have enough fun!”
"If you are too busy at that time, I am willing to help you." Li Lang quickly volunteered, then suddenly remembered something and said hurriedly: "Sir, you seemed to be dozing off the afternoon before yesterday. You probably didn't hear me.
That’s good news, right?”
"That good news?" Yang Changshi, who was really dozing off at the time, asked.
"Good news about Kutupif's fall from grace."
Li Lang, the first party involved, hurriedly introduced the matter of Xun Chen sending himself to spy on the enemy camp. He also introduced Guo Tu's situation at that time in detail, pointing out that Guo Tu's status in front of Yuan Tan had undergone tremendous changes. And Yang
Chang Shi was also happy to hear this, and immediately clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Okay! Okay! The sky has eyes! The sky has eyes! Guo Tu, a common man, Xin Ping and other common men at that time persuaded Yuan Tan not to kill me.
Sir, Guo Tu, a common man, dared to give Yuan Tan a bad idea. He tied me to the execution ground and then asked Yuan Shao for an order to be executed. He almost scared three of his souls away! He deserves this retribution!" (
See Chapter 106 of this book for details)
"Yes, yes." Li Lang, who was also involved, nodded repeatedly and agreed: "I remember, sir, you peed your pants in front of thousands of people at the execution ground...
.”
"What? Why don't I remember?" Face-saving Yang Changshi stared at him and asked coldly: "Is there such a thing?"
"It doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. I remembered it wrong!" Li Lang quickly changed his mind and added in his heart: "It's useless if you don't admit it. Not only did you pee your pants at that time, you also peed more than once!"
In any case, Li Lang's words still brought back Yang Changshi's old hatred for Guo Tu. The thought of Yuan Tan and Guo Tu causing him to wet his pants in front of thousands of people, and later having the opportunity to kill him
Guo Tu was scolded by Deputy Director Tao again, and Yang Changshi, who was narrow-minded, refused to criticize him. Under the hatred, Yang Changshi, who was determined to retaliate and was bored, inevitably started to use his brain full of bad ideas.
The brain cells are so crowded with wine, sex, and wealth that there is almost no room for them, and they are thinking about how to take revenge!
Again, our Yang Changshi is not stupid at all - it's just that his clever head is used for greed for money and lust, so after careful calculation for a moment, Yang Changshi quickly slapped his thigh and said happily: "Yes
Now! I have a way to avenge that time! This time, I will use Yuan Tan's hand to kill Guo Tupifu, and let Guo Tupifu die in the hands of his dog master Yuan Tan.
Don’t close your eyes!”
"Let Guo Tupifu die in the hands of Yuan Tan?" Li Lang was stunned and said hurriedly: "My lord, this is impossible, isn't it? When I saw Guo Tupifu the day before yesterday afternoon, although he seemed to have fallen out of favor, but
He is still wearing official uniform, which proves that he still holds an official position. Sir, why do you let Yuan Tan kill him?"
"Of course it's my master's specialty, framing him." Yang Changshi didn't hide anything in front of his absolute confidant Li Lang, lowering his voice and laughing ferociously: "My master only needs to forge a letter from the lord to Guo Tu, and frame him as a collaborator.
If you deliberately let this letter fall into the hands of Yuan Tan, then Yuan Tan will have to kill him!"
"Forged the letter from the lord to Guo Tu?" Li Lang's eyes almost popped out of his sockets, and he quickly lowered his voice and exclaimed: "Sir, are you crazy? If the lord knows, your head will not fall off the ground?"
"If you don't tell me, if I don't tell you, who knows?" Yang Changshi rolled his eyes at Li Lang and said in a low voice: "Besides, the lord hates Guo Tupifu to the core. I will help the lord get rid of Guo Tu and shake the enemy's morale.
, it’s too late for my lord to be happy, how can you blame me?”
"Really?" Li Lang was a little confused and asked quickly: "But sir, how do you forge the lord's letter? Do you know the lord's handwriting?"
"Idiot, have you forgotten that your Marquis is a master of contemporary calligraphy?" Yang Changshi said proudly: "Not to mention the handwriting of my lord that is so ugly that no one can see it, it is the handwriting of Chen Ying and Chen Yuanfang. I can do it too.
Imitate it so that no one can recognize it!"
After saying that, Yang Changshi added in his mind and said to himself: "Actually, I have already imitated it twice, once for six million yuan, and once for more than eight million yuan."
"But sir, what if Yuan Tan doesn't believe that Guo Tupifu's seller is asking for glory?" Li Lang reminded again.
"It's okay, I have already thought it through." Yang Changshi said with a sly smile: "I know that the last time Guo Tupif was released by the lord and returned to Jizhou, it was because he secretly betrayed Yuan Shao, the old man, to help our army.
Qingzhou was captured through negotiation. I imitated the lord's handwriting and used the lord's tone to threaten him, Guo Tupif, and asked him, Guo Tupif, to help our army break through the Guandu camp. In this way, as long as the letter falls to
In Yuan Tan’s hands, it’s impossible not to believe Yuan Tan, and it’s impossible not to let Guo Tupifu’s head fall to the ground!”
"Then, sir, how do you plan to deliver the letter to Yuan Tan?"
Li Lang asked again. Seeing Yang Changshi staring at him with a malicious smile on his face, Li Lang almost wet his crotch in fright. He quickly knelt down on his knees, held his hands in his hands and begged: "Sir, you
Just spare the villain, even if you kill the villain, the villain will not dare to go to the enemy camp to deliver the message! Sir, sir, villain, I beg you, sir, I will never tell anyone about your forged letter.
, I am very loyal to you, please forgive me for serving you for so many years."
"It's because of your loyalty that I can rest assured to let you go." Yang Changshi encouraged: "If it were Wang Wu, I would not be able to rest assured. That kid not only dared to steal my chicken legs, but also dared to steal
I care about my lady, so I don’t trust him as much as I trust you. You can also rest assured that I will arrange a clever escape plan for you and won’t let you die.”
To be continued...