The further inside, the stronger the smell of blood on the tip of his nose became. Su Ce led a group of brigade soldiers into the core area of the underground city.
At every moment, crickets rushed out from the side rooms on both sides of the secret passage and threw themselves into the ranks of Lu Ben's army.
The deaths and injuries of his comrades left every brigade soldier with lingering fears. Even Su Ce was hit by the attack, and his chest was hit by a short hammer.
The armor on the chest shattered and pierced into the chest. The wound was not deep, but the force of the short hammer caused all of Su Ce's chest to be caught. Seeing that Su Ce was injured, a brigade commander from the Brigade Army took over Su Ce's position.
Regardless of casualties, the advancing formation must always remain intact. This is different from fighting on the battlefield. Fighting with injuries will only drag down your comrades in a small space.
In the low passage, as time went by, the sound of fighting in the passage became smaller and smaller, until finally only the sound of tired breathing remained.
In the empty hall of the dark city, there were less than seventy crickets left in the dark city. Looking at the Lu Ben army pouring in, there was not much nonsense.
After seeing the evil deeds done by these mole crickets, the Luben army was already eager to drive away these gray-skinned mole crickets.
"put!"
"prick!"
"Press!"
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People who are on the verge of death will always burst into unimaginable violence.
The Lu Ben army fought very hard. With the goal of perishing together, the crickets fought for their wounds and their lives.
The last seventy people caused great damage to Lu Ben's army.
Su Ce stepped over the corpses on the ground, and the Luben army armed with long spears stabbed and killed the mole crickets that were still writhing on the ground.
There was an unexpected soft couch on the wooden platform in the main hall. The white tiger skin was picked up by the horizontal knife. Su Ce squatted down and used the horizontal knife to lift the wooden board. Inside was a small box with a copper lock inlaid on it.
Su Ce didn't open it rashly, he just picked it up and left quickly, not wanting to stay here any longer.
"Huh!" When he came out of the secret passage, the Peony guard pretending to be a bad guy was waiting for Su Ce at the entrance of the cave.
"The mole crickets have been cleared, you can take over later!" Su Ce waved his hand a little tiredly and handed the box to the Peony Guards, who then asked the Luben Army to withdraw from it.
At this moment, there is a long line of Brigade Ben troops who died in the battle beside the small lake. The crickets are very vicious, and their weapons are coated with poison. Among the 300 Brigade Ben troops who followed Su Ce down, more than 170 people were lying down.
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Even if there were no injuries, there were many who lost their strength.
Su Ce watched as the Peony Guard sent someone to leave in a hurry with the wooden box.
At this moment, the prince is in Yeting Palace, and the saint is leaving the palace in Nanshan.
Duke Jiang Bu of Qi gave an order, and the Imperial Guards of the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya entered the city with torches at night. There were 108 squares, each with a thousand men, and the rest were cavalry, standing on standby in the streets.
It is impossible for the saint, the prince, and the second prince to bypass Qi Duke Jiang Bu, so Jiang Bu had already mobilized many generals from the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya after the court meeting at the beginning of the year.
It is a taboo for military strategists not to know what soldiers and generals do. However, since this is not a battle, Jiang Bu is afraid that some soldiers will disobey orders, so he made such an arrangement.
The Nanya Forbidden Army had an affair with the Sixteenth Guards. The second prince had already informed Jiang Bu about this, so tonight, Jiang Bu led the cavalry of the Zuo Yulin Guards and began to arrest people according to the list provided by the Peony Guards.
I would rather kill the wrong person than let him go!
When the wooden box was opened, cold sweat broke out on the second prince's face: "Go quickly and let Su Ce go to the East Palace!"
Su Ce had just bandaged his wounds when a purple-robed offering came to him.
"The second prince has sent word that you should go to the East Palace. It's a big deal!"
Su Ce didn't say anything and asked the army doctor to tie the white cloth on his upper body tighter. Jiang Lan on the side helped Su Ce put on his armor.
"I'll leave this to you. Let's take the brothers to Beiyuan Camp first." Su Ce patted Jiang Lan on the shoulder.
Two thousand brigade troops were killed, 673 people were killed, one was seriously injured, and 15 were slightly injured.
The reason why so few people were injured was because the crickets used poison and the weapons scratched them. They were originally just flesh wounds, but they ended up killing people.
Su Ce followed the worshiper and left. Su Ce looked at the yard where the wounded were treated. The yard was filled with the corpses of the Lu Ben Army, covered with sheets of white cloth.
Su Ce stopped, looked around, and shouted to Jiang Lan: "Take these brothers back with you, don't leave them here!"
"Here!" Jiang Lan nodded towards Su Ce. Jiang Lan was also injured. He was shot in the back by a cricket with a bamboo crossbow. Fortunately, the goggles on his back bounced away.
Su Ce knew that he underestimated the enemy!
One general is incompetent and the three armies will be exhausted!
"Ahem, let me take a look!" The worshiper opened the white cloth with a scabbard, and a brigade soldier came over with a torch.
The worshiper frowned and muttered: "It shouldn't be!"
"You know!" Su Ce looked at the worshiper thoughtfully.
"The Nanzhao blade is smelted with poison when it is forged, and it is like a star. It takes ten years to be used. It is tempered with horse blood to seal the throat. If it hurts someone, it will die. It's just Nanzhao's poisonous blade. How can it reach Chang'an?"
Come on, you shouldn't!" The worshiper frowned, but he knew that this was not the time for small talk, as the second prince was still waiting at the Inspiration Temple!
At dawn, on the street outside the square wall, half of the Imperial Guards of the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya stood on the street, and the other half were sleeping in the corner with their weapons in hand. The situation is unknown now, and we don't know how long the lockdown will last.
The people within the square walls were living their own lives, but they could not go out of the square. There were various small shops in the square. The people knew that something big happened last night, and they began to speculate. Some said that someone was plotting rebellion, and some said that they were arresting corrupt officials...
There are different opinions.
When Su Ce arrived at the Inspiration Temple, the second prince also arrived on horseback and anxiously pulled Su Ce into the East Palace.
"How unbecoming are you in such a hurry!" The prince was feeding the prince goat's milk. The prince disliked drinking the goat's milk, which smelled like sheep. He frowned and looked at Su Ce and the second prince bitterly.
"It's urgent!" the second prince shouted and took out two pages of paper from his arms.
"Nanzhao! Tubo! Army in June! The people from the Peony Guards are following the clues to investigate. This is what I just sorted out! Look!" Inspiration Temple is closer to the East Palace than Su Ce in Yongpingfang, but it is
Arriving at the East Palace almost at the same time as Su Ce.
In the meantime, the second prince went to the Sixteenth Prince's Mansion, then to Honglu Temple, and then rushed to the East Palace.
Prince Zhao Zaicheng looked at the two pages of paper. The handwriting on the paper was very sloppy, but it outlined a general situation.
"The Luben army lost 30% in the battle. Mole cricket used a poisonous blade. On the way, the palace enshrinement said that they encountered such a weapon when they went to Nanzhao Kingdom to work in the underworld when they were young." Su Ce also spoke at the right time.
"Go find your husband to study!" The prince put the prince in his arms on the ground, and a servant hugged the prince and left.
"Nanzhao wants land and Tubo wants food. They both have a good appetite!" Prince Zhao Zaicheng frowned and drank the goat's milk in his hand that the prince had not finished.
"Is Su Ce's injury serious?" Prince Zhao Zaicheng asked when he saw the broken armor plate hanging on the chest of Su Ce's armor.
"Able to fight!" Su Ce was also holding back his anger, and his Luben army had lost 30%. When he heard that the weapons were provided by Nanzhao, Su Ce definitely wanted to go to Nanzhao to avenge his subordinates.
"Take this list, arrest them all, and kill the three tribes!" The prince threw one of the two pieces of paper to Su Ce.
Seeing Su Ce hesitate: "Northerners are not good at fighting in the South! Do you understand?"
"Understood!" Su Ce nodded, no longer hesitated, took the paper and walked out.
When Su Ce left, Prince Zhao Zaicheng kicked the second prince Zhao Zaixiao.
"Forgot what I told you. There is no need for a battlefield in a secret war. Your men will have to fight with their lives for your decision!" Zhao Zaixiao pulled up the second prince who was kicked down.
Looking at the somewhat aggrieved second prince, the prince sighed and said softly: "I know you are very ambitious and want to complete the battle. Although you have lost a lot of people, the result is good. Next time, let Mu Dan be the best."
The more careful the investigation is, the more follow-up matters will be done boldly. The matters in the court, both the father and the orphan, cannot be messed up!"
"Then I'll go first!" The second prince, Zhao Zaixiao, also knew that his investigation of the information about the Peony Guards was not thorough this time, and he ignored the source of the Molecule's weapons, causing unnecessary losses to the Luben Army.
After leaving the East Palace, Zhao Zaixiao looked at Su Ce who had not left: "The armor is broken, I will give you another one. Who would have thought that the cricket could get Nanzhao's poison blade? It takes too much to make the poison blade, even if it is from Nanzhao
Not much."
"I want 30% of the house confiscation this time!" Su Ce did not blame the second prince. The dead are dead, and the living still have to live. Su Ce cannot let the subordinates who died in the battle worry about their families and leave with worries.
"I'll give you 40%!" the second prince, Zhao Zaixiao, got on his horse, shouted, clapped his horse and left.
The Luben army, which had just returned to the Beiyuan camp, was no longer as noisy as before, and had lost 30% of its brothers. No one was happy.
Su Ce rode from the East Palace to the Beiyuan Camp and arrived in less than half an hour.
Seeing the low morale in the camp, Su Ce ordered six guards from the army to rush over.
Confiscation of homes and extermination of clans has been a common practice since ancient times. In such things as plunder, people's greed will be clearly exposed.
"Make food at noon, and follow me to the city to pick up people in the afternoon." After giving the order, Su Ce went to the place where the corpses were placed.
The business of the coffin shop in Chang'an City must be very good today!
Watching the army captains wiping the bodies of Brigadier Benjun who died in the battle, he put on clean clothes, carefully placed them on the firewood, and lit the firewood.
There was no meat for lunch at the Beiyuan camp at noon, just plain corn porridge. This was a tradition in the army. After a war, the army would eat vegetarian food for three days to commemorate the dead.
Eating corn porridge that hurt my throat a bit.
In the afternoon, Su Ce gathered the 700 brigades of Ben troops and led them out of the camp. The other brigades of Ben troops had other things to do.
When Su Ce entered the city, the first group of fifty soldiers left the Beiyuan camp. Their armors were wiped clean. Everyone held a general jar in their arms and carried a package on their backs. They were the first group of soldiers.
A group of Luben troops left, followed by more than a dozen groups.
Go to funeral!
The brave soldiers opened the way for the dead to return, and the general carried his loyal soul in a jar!