In the camp of the Qin army, where death was approaching, it was raining continuously again, the east wind was lamenting, and the mist was mixed. Teams of people and horses walked against the wind and walked slowly towards the grand competition field.
The leader of the archery team, Luo Zhihu, was followed by eight people. They were all riding high-headed horses. They were all majestic and proud. The people passed through the observation towers in the thin rain, and there were a few patrolling the border.
Seeing the strange silent atmosphere, the archers couldn't help but become suspicious and began to murmur one after another.
One of them turned his head and whispered in a serious tone: "I heard that Linghu Mu's team has not returned yet."
Another archer took over the words: "When water and fire meet, I am afraid that I have become a dead soul of the enemy ambushing in a corner."
"You have underestimated the people you sent out. How could they be annihilated silently? Even if they die, they will definitely send out a signal." A veteran wearing a turban put forward a different opinion. Everyone was not in a hurry to leave, but was responsible for the outside of the army.
There is no obstruction for ten miles in radius, and the forest is lush with trees, with branches and leaves connected together.
"Anyway, I haven't returned to camp yet, so something must have happened." The first archer was unwilling to be taken away from the topic, and Echo continued.
At this time, there happened to be a cold wind blowing across the beacon tower, which made everyone feel jittery. A pair of pairs of black eyes hurriedly looked around, fearing that an enemy would suddenly burst out from somewhere in the dense forest.
On the freezing school field, one hundred thousand troops seemed to be frozen in the wind.
All the heavy armored soldiers standing in formation felt a low aura that had not been seen for a long time permeating the school grounds. Only Luo Zhihu and a few soldiers understood its origin. One thing was that a control figure appeared in the military camp at night.
He threatened his life and death, and killed twelve archers. The other thing was that in the daytime, which was close to rain, the truth of the death was concealed without a trace.
Although Luo Zhihu, who was on horseback for inspection, had to some extent gotten rid of the shock caused by the death of his subordinates, he still had various lingering feelings when he looked at any movement in this field and saw countless shadows overlapping each other.
shadow.
And the few witnesses who witnessed the death with their own eyes followed the commander without making a sound. They seemed to have not come out of their depressed spirits. Every time they glanced at each other, there was always a feeling of stagnation in their hearts.
They were throbbing, and the same hidden worry was conveyed in their eyes as they looked at each other.
As for other outsiders, because it was a time when the training atmosphere was quite active in the past, today the training was stopped for unknown reasons, which had to make the soldiers think wildly.
At this time when people were restless, the military order from the superiors came down. Everything returned to normal, the Changge chariot was rolling around, and the machine beast was roaring...
Kong Hua walked into the tent where Major General Meng Yi was recuperating from his injuries, and leaned close to the boiling fire, leaning his tired body heavily on the stool.
Looking at the unconscious man wrapped in gauze, his pale and colorless lips showed no symptoms of dryness and peeling, and the wounds showed no signs of infection. When he checked his pulse again, his depressed mood was finally calmed down a little by the steady beating.
: "It's true that the physique of a tiger general has recovered quite impressively!"
At this time, another guard came to report that it was General Nangong who invited him. Konghua didn't ask any more questions. He only thought about the armory that he was worried about. He still had to take this time to get Nangongyan's investigation permission and go and check it carefully.
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Nangong Yan stared blankly at the Yingying charcoal fire. Nearly half an hour had passed. If it were an ordinary incident, soldiers would freeze to death and starve to death in battle. What would cause heartache? These are all normal.
It's so poor that even a singer who makes up a story can sing a desolate ups and downs, and the audience will forget about it when they turn around, but this time it's different.
It was raining outside the tent, and the entire military camp was shrouded in thick rain and fog. He stared outside blankly again, and slowly, slowly... a phantom face appeared in the air.
Nangong Yan moved his head as hard as he could. The face in the air disappeared, and there was still a gloomy rain outside.
"General Nangong, I've kept you waiting for a long time!" Kong Hua came, his pale face a little tired and stiff.
At the beginning, Nangong Yan asked angrily: "You said you have never been to the armory?"
"Well! You can't come to me just to ask questions like this, right?" Kong Hua also asked bluntly.
"Last night was the armory I was guarding." There was something in his words, like a special reminder before interrogating the pretended prisoner.
But Konghua didn't seem to understand any of the mystery, staring at him and sneering: "What do you mean by this?"
"What do you mean? Last night I saw you standing furtively outside the armory. You stayed for a while and then left. I ordered a soldier to go find out your intentions, but I didn't expect him to die afterwards."
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"Dead?" Kong Hua was secretly frightened and asked urgently: "The dead besides the twelve people?"
"It was the thirteenth person who did not return last night and his body was found half an hour ago. I haven't told the matter yet because I don't want people to misunderstand."
"What misunderstanding?" Kong Hua asked coldly.
"You know what's going on".
Kong Hua was stunned for a moment, then his expression suddenly changed: "Do you suspect that your subordinate's death is related to me?"
"Aren't you worthy of suspicion?" Nangong Yan raised the corners of his eyes, with a hint of sadness in his tone.
"Then, what evidence do you have?" Although Kong Hua tried his best to lower his voice, he seemed a little excited.
"Evidence? Okay, let me ask you, why did you appear outside the armory in a sneaky and dishonest manner? How do you explain this? In addition, when examining the body, why did you emphasize that it was poisoning? Don't think that it was just poisoning.
If you know some medical science, you can’t conclude that you died of poisoning before you disembowelled the body and examined the damaged internal organs. I think as a military doctor, you should still have this level of rigor, right?"
Kong Hua looked shocked, his knuckles stiffened with shock and surprise. He looked at Nangong Yan in confusion, and Nangong Yan's face was as dark as the sky at night. Kong Hua finally smiled, even the corners of his eyes
Man smiled: "Let me answer your first question first. You said that I appeared outside the armory, and you said it twice. This makes me extremely confused. What kind of unreasonable thing is this?
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"Hmph! Do you dare to say that you have never been there?" Nangong Yan stared at him with contempt. Seeing that there was no trace of misery on his face, and he was as cunning as a malicious cat. Nangong Yan almost used force to force a confession.
Kong Hua stood dignifiedly, looking at Nangong Yan's expression with a pair of gray eyes: "Exactly, I have never been there, and there were several military medical witnesses who accompanied me on my inspection last night."
"Ha! It's a joke, could it be that I'm dizzy?" Nangong Yan said. His military career was filled with bloodshed, intrigues and intrigues. If he was dazzled, it would be a joke.
Kong Hua lowered his eyes and fell into deep thought. After that, he said seriously: "If such a thing really happens, it would be bad."
Nangong Yan still stared at him with distrustful eyes and said: "I will personally interrogate the witness later, so answer my second question now."
Kong Hua's gray eyes were as restless as an elk when moving, and as quiet as combing when still. His green shirt was stiff, but his whole person had become green bamboo in dry spring. He lowered his head and said: "As a military doctor who played an important role in the empire's war, I can't possibly
Omitting every detail on the corpse, the so-called drugging is just your unilateral guess. You have no sufficient reason to explain that they were drugged. Moreover, I can tell you clearly that those people were not poisoned.
"Sudden death".
"What? Then why did you panic and report that you died of poisoning?" A sharp voice rushed towards the opposite side of Kong Hua, and the cold light flashing in his eyes was dazzling.
"I remember my original words were, 'It's not a stab wound, a blow, or the effect of any external attack. The most likely explanation is poisoning.' I only said that it was the most likely, and I didn't make a conclusion. I explained like this,
It’s just that I don’t want to be alarmist and confuse the public with my monstrous words.”
Nangong Yan frowned and asked coldly: "How do you say this?"
Kong Hua did not answer immediately, only said: "General Nangong, please take me to see your dead soldiers first."
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Nangong Yan came to a small tent, turned to Kong Hua and said, "Can we talk this time?"
Kong Hua looked at the corpse on the wooden board, sighed faintly, and whispered: "This is the result of being sucked dry of essence and blood."
Nangong Yan couldn't help but laugh, it sounded ridiculous: "Such a foolish statement is not what a normal person would say. Can you talk any more nonsense?"
Kong Hua also raised the corner of his mouth, as if mocking or pitying, but he was meticulous in every word: "General Nangong doesn't believe it, how can others believe it?" As he said, he took out a dagger and cut the dry skin on the chest of the corpse.
He opened it, and through the obscure bones, the same dry internal organs could be seen at a glance, which made one's throat choke. Then, he took a silver needle and inserted it three inches into each internal organ, and circulated it in the corpse like this for a week.
It was silver when it entered the body, and it was still silver when it was pulled out. Nangong Yan could see this conclusion clearly. Suddenly, he took two steps back, a chill spread down his spine, and even the hairs on his body stood up, and he murmured
: "Being sucked dry, is such a thing really possible in this world?"
"Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean you don't have it. If such rumors about weird and chaotic gods spread, I'm afraid other people will have the same fearful expression as the general. A ten-mile long embankment, gnawing at an ant nest, a hundred-foot lonely tree, rotten
Sincerely, sometimes on the battlefield, what determines the outcome of the overall situation is not the elite soldiers or the sharp swords, but rather such deceptive visions."
Nangong Yan's cold and emotionless eyes flashed, one black and one white, eye-catching and sudden. He said no more. Hearing this kind of news at this moment almost made him lose his judgment. After a while, he asked in a low voice:
"Who could do such a thing?"
"You", Kong Hua said calmly with deep eyes, pronouncing the word extremely briskly.
"Bastard!" Nangong Yan immediately opened his eyes like a wildebeest with anger, grabbed his collar unexpectedly, mixed with shock and anger, and said angrily: "You want to frame me?"
The raindrops touched Kong Hua's hair and eyebrows, as if they were dyed with a thin layer of frost. The smile on his face suddenly widened. It was an expected and meaningful smile: "You are a soldier in the army."
Important commander, if you want your subordinates to die like this without knowing it, you only need to take them to a secret place, let them drink some drug or something in advance, and then use your unknown method to suck away their blood essence.
If it were you, it would be easy for you to do such a heinous thing among thousands of troops without anyone noticing!"
Nangong Yan was choked by him and couldn't speak. The corner of his mouth was trembling. He had no choice but to punch Kong Hua on the cheek. Blood spattered everywhere and asked: "Then why should I kill Luo Zhihu's people?"
Forget, they don't listen to my orders."
An iron fist made Kong Hua excruciating pain. His hair was wet and stuck to his face. After he stabilized a little, he wiped the hot blood from his lips and sighed in his stomach: "The person who killed Luo Zhihu was just making noises to cover up others' ears. The person who killed himself was the one who killed him.
Your real purpose is because this way you can use the topic to frame me as before and get rid of the most skilled military doctor in the Qin army. But this is still from the surface. Perhaps, your real purpose of killing... to disrupt the war of all armies.
First of all, I need to pay attention to the general and fully perform my duties as a spy. Does this story sound reasonable, General Nangong?"
The more Nangong Yan listened, the angrier he became. He couldn't help shouting: "I don't know if it makes sense, but I am very clear about what I will do next. That is to punish you, the traitor who confuses right and wrong, on the spot."
sword.
Kong Hua was not sulky and said: "Yes, it is the most appropriate time to kill me now because there are few people around to see it."
"ah!"
Nangong Yan's angry sword tip was already placed on Kong Hua's throat. Kong Hua's gray eyes flashed, as if he was about to laugh and cry. He couldn't help but froze, but said calmly: "If you change the angle,
Think about it, if you think I am a spy at this moment, what will be the consequences if you kill me?"
When Kong Hua said this, the aggressive Nangong Yan's expression gradually calmed down. He immediately understood Kong Hua's intention, silently took back his sword, nodded, and speculated: "After I kill you, General Meng will find me sooner or later.
On his head, I have killed the most skilled military doctor in the army, causing great losses to the entire army. But the losses are far more than that. This will be the beginning of chaos in the Qin camp. As the situation develops, suspicion and estrangement will arise.
It will inevitably spread across the board, and the important people in our army will be deceived, leading to the final defeat... You are right, what often determines the outcome of the overall situation is not the elite soldiers, nor the magic weapons and sharp blades.
On the contrary, it is this kind of vision that confuses people’s hearts.”
"That's right. If possible, please ask the general to take me to the armory."