After losing the vest at the beginning, the female general was forced to marry the scheming prince

Chapter 185 How about Acupuncture?

In addition to oral pills for the prevention and treatment of miasma, the medicines sent by Mantuo Mountain Villa also include sachets and medicine bags to prevent snakes, insects, rats and ants.

The medicine in this sachet can be replaced, but the corner of Qu Chu's mouth twitched at the sight of this sachet.

The material of the sachet itself is the same as that of ordinary sachets, except that a black and white snake is embroidered on each sachet.

Qu Chu knew at a glance that it was the snake named "Xiaohuan" raised by Su Yingxue, and he didn't know why Yingxue spent so much effort to embroider this pattern.

When every soldier hung the sachet on his waist, not only Qu Chu, but also other generals found it funny.

The soldiers all over the ground are not so conspicuous, and all the sights are the black and white "snake".

Qu Chu stroked his forehead. Fortunately, the embroidery was a snake. If it was any other weird pattern, it would look even more ridiculous.

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Su Yingxue was also speechless.

When she accidentally said that she didn't know who to make the sachet to make it faster, Deng Mingyu volunteered to pack it on him.

He said that their family has a big workshop not far from Mantuo Mountain Villa, with more than 1000 workers. They usually also take over jobs such as military uniforms in the army. It only takes a few days to make sachets.

Su Yingxue was still worried about Deng Mingyu, so she asked the steward of Mantuo Villa to see it in person before making a decision.

But who knew that after the finished product came out, there was an extra snake on each sachet. The workshop said that the pattern given by Mantuo Villa was like this, and Su Yingxue saw that it was indeed so.

As for the snake, it was naturally added by Deng Mingyu secretly.

Fortunately, adding this snake will not affect the effectiveness of the medicine pack, otherwise everything will have to be reworked.

So far, apart from scolding Deng Mingyu a few words, he had no choice but to give up.

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Before entering the territory of Nanshu, it is obvious that the topography has changed.

It is no longer a flat land, but more mountains.

These mountains are just bare mountains, piled up with rocks, without any trees, but the mountain roads are rugged and winding, which is not easy to walk.

But the further you go to the south of Shu, the more different the terrain is from Zizhou. There are more and more mountains and forests, and the roads are covered by dense forests so that you can't see the road clearly.

After more than ten days on the road, despite the preventive medicine, some soldiers still developed rashes.

After the military doctor saw it, he said it was not serious, it was just caused by acclimatization, so Qu Chu gave the order to march forward.

Finally reached the boundary of Nanshu City.

Qu Chu ordered the soldiers to be stationed on the spot, and she herself took a few people to Nanshu City to investigate.

The city of Nanshu was built on flat land, and its area was not too large, with a maximum radius of more than three kilometers in diameter, but the city was surrounded by tall mountains and dense forests.

The city walls of Nanshu City are similar to those of Zizhou City, tall and strong, but the gates are closed.

A general looked at the terrain and sighed: "If you use fire to attack, if you don't control it well, will all the surrounding mountains and forests be burned?"

This is what Qu Chu thought.

Nanshu City is different from Zizhou City.

Although the area of ​​Zizhou City is not large, the outside of the city is full of flat land and mud, even if it is set on fire, it cannot be burned.

However, there are mountains and forests outside Nanshu City, if a gust of wind blows, not all of them will be set on fire.

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Seeing that Qu Chu was silent, one of the generals said, "General, how should Nanshu City be destroyed?"

Qu Chu looked around for a week, and his eyes fell on the ground.

She stepped on it hard, um... the ground is not hard.

Southern Shu is forested and rainy, and the land is soft, not as hard as the land in the northwest.

"What do you say, how about acupoint attack?"

The so-called hole attack is to dig a tunnel under the city wall, hollow out the underside of the city wall, support it with wooden stakes, and then set fire underneath.The walls would collapse after the fire broke the supporting stakes, and the siege army would enter through the breach.

After listening to Qu Chu's words, the other generals turned their gazes to the ground.

Several generals also stepped on it as hard as Qu Chu, and the ground was really not so hard.

A general took out the knife he was wearing and poked it at the ground, and it went in.

"It's amazing, this land is more than a little softer than the land in Ganzhou."

is not that right?

If the land in Ganzhou is poked like this with a knife, not only will it not go in, but the edge of the knife will curl up.

"General, I think you can use acupoints to attack. It's easy to dig this tunnel."

Everyone agreed.

Qu Chu checked the surrounding environment again, calculated the distance, and said, "Let's go back first!"

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Zinan Governor's Mansion in Nanshu City

The atmosphere in the Governor's Mansion of Zinan is heavy and depressing. The Governor of Zinan, who has always been known for his good temper, has been very angry recently, and the antique vases have been broken many times.

Not only Yan Qingnan has a bad temper, but the rest of the Zinan Governor's Mansion is also panicked.

First of all, the young master and the three young masters left, and they don't know where they went?

Then the gates of Nanshu City were closed tightly, people from outside the city were not allowed to enter, and people from the city could not come in again if they went out.

Then I heard the news that [-] soldiers were stationed outside the city...

In the study

Yan Qingnan asked Yan Han with a gloomy face: "Is there still no movement in the barracks outside the city?"

"Well," Yan Han replied: "Our people went to investigate, and the barracks was on fire, but there was a faint smell of medicinal herbs. It seems that some kind of smell was deliberately used to cover up the smell of medicinal herbs."

Yan Qingnan's face was gloomy and he didn't make a sound, his eyes fixed on one place.

Yan Han knew that this was Yan Qingnan's thinking.

After a while, Yan Qingnan said:

"Could it be that someone in the military camp was sick, but you were afraid that we would know, so you covered up the smell of the medicine?"

Yan Han said: "If this is the case, it means that many people are sick. What kind of disease could it be?"

Yan Qingnan didn't speak.

Yan Han had a flash of inspiration, "Isn't he suffering from miasma poison?"

Yan Qingnan then said:
"It's not necessarily as serious as the miasma, but I thought: They are all soldiers transferred from the northwest, and they must not adapt to the climate in Southern Shu. It's normal if they can't stand the miasma."

What Yan Qingnan said was correct, but it was a pity that Qu Chu had already taken precautions.

Now the smell of medicine in the barracks is trying to cover up, making Yan Qingnan mistakenly think that they didn't attack because the soldiers were not acclimatized, thus covering up the soldiers' action of digging tunnels.

Yan Han asked: "Master, should we do something?"

Yan Qingnan thought for a while, and then said: "Wait a minute, if we can't defend the city anymore, we will send someone to sprinkle the medicine prepared by the pharmacist into the water source."

Yan Han was shocked, "Master, if this happens, the people in Nanshu City will suffer."

The medicine that Yan Qingnan said was a poison that could infect people with diseases, and it was prepared by the pharmacist next to King Jing, the same pharmacist who dispensed the medicine and caused the death of more than a dozen people in the Pengzhou station of Mantuo Villa.

Yan Qingnan gave Yan Han a cold look, "Since the city is lost, what's the use of keeping these people?"

Yan Han couldn't bear it, but he didn't say anything.

Yan Qingnan is his savior, no matter what Yan Qingnan does, he will never betray him.

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(End of this chapter)