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The Wind Rises in Chang'an Chapter 200 People are missing

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    Standing at the foot of the mountain and looking up, you can see the rolling hills covered with clouds and mist. It is a place that is incomprehensible.  Tiannan Five Ridges, another world.  The team of several hundred people only had ten carriages. Except for two that were left for people to ride on, the other eight were used to transport supplies. The Chu assassins always stayed around the carriages and advanced on foot. When they entered the boundary of Wuling, they were at the border of Han.  The more ferocious natives go south, the more the convoys are not foolproof.  In the four-wheeled carriage, Cao Shi stared at the clouds and mist outside the window with an expressionless expression. During the long "journey" through dozens of counties, he also tried to escape many times and killed many assassins who blocked the way.  When the dagger hidden in his body was found, he broke the guarding assassin's head with his bare hands. If he couldn't escape at his convenience, he escaped in the middle of the night. He tried many times but failed to find the best opportunity to escape. Later, the assassins forced him to escape.  There are bells tied to the carriage, and a thick silk cloth is illuminated outside the carriage as a barrier. In the middle of the night, whenever there is movement in the carriage, it will make a jingling sound.  "The Marquis of Pingyang is very skilled. He killed more than a dozen of my disciples. If I give you enough arrows for the war bow, I'm afraid I won't be able to escape death either." Cao Shi sneered and said, "Old man, you know what you are doing.  He is just a traitor and may lose his head at any time. "Haha, you are right! I don't have a few good days to live. I am just trying to see the flesh and blood of the Liu family in Huainan and Hengshan.  Can, do you know? I left ¡Ò Chang ¡Ò ¡Ò Literature ¡Ò, wv¡Ù¨Qet¡¯s disciples left enough evidence there, enough evidence to kill Huainan King Liu An and Hengshan King Liu Ci a hundred times, the emperor sent  The pursuing troops have to deal with two princes and kings. Do you think the emperor still has time to rescue you?" The old man smiled happily, and Cao Shi curled his lips and said, "How did you know that you would pursue the troops all the way?" Ding Gong couldn't laugh anymore.  "Don't think that you can scare me with just a few words. Even if there are ten troops chasing you! The convoy will enter the Wuling Mountains soon. Even if the ten troops arrive at the foot of Wuling Mountain, they still have to think twice." Cao Shi rolled his eyes.  Ignoring him, he didn't expect Ding Gong and his people to run to the foot of Wuling without saying a word. Logically speaking, he should go to the Huainan Kingdom or the land of Lianghuai to stay, and it didn't seem to have much to do with Wuling.  "We're entering the mountain! Be careful!" The white mist surged over. Cao Shi quickly lowered the curtain and tightened his mouth. He turned around and said, "Have you prepared all the things I asked you to prepare?" "You mean this?"  ?¡± Liu Ling took out two cloth bags from under his buttocks. In one of the bags was bamboo charcoal collected from making fire every day.  The bamboo charcoal powder was ground very finely and covered the cloth bag flatly.  The sandwich layer is rolled up and simply sewed with needle and thread, and the left and right sides are sewn with silk strips. It is a simple mask.  Cao Shi grabbed the mask and put it on his face. He tried it on and found that it fit snugly around his mouth and nose without leaving any gaps.  He threw another mask to Wang Meng: "When you go south, remember to take it with you every day and don't take it off. Make a few more filled with bamboo charcoal powder for later use. Whether we can survive the miasma in Lingnan depends on it."  Wang Meng took it and put it on without saying a word. Liu didn't believe that the bamboo charcoal powder was so magical, so he took the ugly cloth bag with him.  The mountain roads in Lingnan are rugged.  From the moment we entered the mountain, we took the mountain road taken by the indigenous villagers. The altitude of Wuling Mountain is not high, but the road conditions are much worse than that of Qinling Mountain. It takes at least a day and night to climb over the mountain. The white mist between the Wuling Mountains is like haze. Dozens of steps  It's so white outside that you can't see anything. It's normal for someone who's not familiar with the road conditions to wander blindly among the mountains.  The miasma in Wuling will only dissipate for a few times. At night, you can't even see the stars in the sky. You have to find your way based on intuition. A greater crisis is lurking around everyone.  Entering a strange mountainous area filled with poisonous miasma, you can see the skeletons of animals. There are elephants, rhinos, deer, sheep, and hares that strayed into the poisonous miasma. There are also poisonous birds, jackals, tigers and leopards, as well as human corpses, and their clothes are rotten.  It looks like it was left over a long time ago.  The assassins were horrified. The number of corpses they saw was increasing almost every day. Within a few days of entering the mountain, they saw hundreds of human corpses. There were still traces of insect bites on the bones. In their panic, they discovered that the poisonous miasma was there.  around.  That night, more than a dozen people became ill first. They were in a coma with high fever all over their bodies in the temporary camp. They were poisoned and miasmatic.  Ding Gong was very hesitant. He was hesitating whether to abandon his illness. Early the next morning, more than a dozen people fell ill. The assassins in the team were all panicked. They were not afraid of death, but they must die meaningfully.  It was absolutely terrifying to die in the white poisonous mist and be corroded by poisonous insects and turn into withered bones.  Thirty people who fell ill were abandoned. Everyone ran south as fast as they could. The faster they ran, the faster they breathed and the more poisonous miasma they inhaled.  They fell down one after another.  More and more people are falling behind the team.Once you fall down, you never get up again, just like dominoes, when the first domino falls, everything cannot stop.  Herodthe horse neighed and fell down with its hooves raised high.  The carriage lost speed and stopped. Four young people jumped out of the carriage, helping each other in panic.  "Ding Gong, please save Wei Youqu, he has been poisoned by the miasma!" "Help me! How can I save you if I can't save myself." Ding Gong's face turned green with anger, and most of the land he had cultivated after seven days in the mountain died.  , the remaining more than a hundred disciples were as panicked as frightened birds.  Zhao Yingqi laughed angrily: "Ding Yi! Don't forget our identities. Without my guidance, you can never leave Nanling. Without my help, you can never hope to gain a foothold in South Vietnam!"  It's up to you!" "Go and pick some fruit from that tree. Feeding him more may help." Several assassins picked up stones and knocked down a few fruits. They threw them into their mouths and chewed them without saying a word.  His expression changed and he vomited it out quickly.  Ding Gong picked up a green fruit and asked: "What kind of fruit is this?" "Betel nut fruit, if you don't want to die, chew it as much as possible. Remember not to swallow it, otherwise don't blame me if something happens." Zhao Ying took the fruit together.  After stuffing it into his mouth, his face turned colorful, as if he was poisoned. The two young princes of the Zu family looked at each other and started chewing betel nuts. They also picked up two and stuffed them into Wei Youqu's mouth.  Ding Gong said angrily: "Why didn't you tell me earlier that there was a precious medicine for treating miasma? I lost so many disciples!" "You never asked me. Besides, why should I tell you? If Wei Youqu hadn't been too ill.  Awesome, I wish you were all dead!" Zhao Yingqi sneered and ignored him.  ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????  Ding Gong has always suspected that Zhao Yingqi deliberately led him astray. Logically speaking, Wuling should not be that big. Some mountains were climbed a few days ago and were climbed again today.  "Boy, please tell me clearly how far away is the Five Ridges of the feudal state. I will take you to Panyu to meet the South Vietnamese King Zhao Tuo. I will let you go when the time comes." "You want to lie to me?" Ding Gong was furious.  rise.  Immediately he sneered and said: "I'm just following the way to arrest you. Aren't you afraid that the Han emperor will conquer South Vietnam, Minyue and Dong Ou with strong troops and horses?" "Impossible! We are a vassal state of the Han family." "Peng Yue. Yingbu.  Zang Tu thinks so too. Do you still see their feudal state? King Wu Rui of Changsha sticks to his duty, and it is said that the emperor of the Han Dynasty is more powerful than he was sixty years ago.  You have also seen the prosperity of Chang'an. The hundreds of thousands of Han soldiers outside Chang'an City. What can you do to stop the miasma of Wuling?  The reason for the miasma in Wuling, which sounds ridiculous, is indeed very reliable. 80 years ago, the Qin army conquered the South Vietnam Kingdom. They fought for ten years and lost hundreds of thousands of Qin army elites. Even the Qin army general Tu Sui died here.  They were defeated only after Ren Xiao's reinforcements arrived.  In the next twelve years, more than 100,000 people died one after another in the Lingnan Qin Army. The second general of the Qin Army, Ren Xiao, also died of illness despite being carefully nursed back to health by the local natives. The third general was Zhao Yingqi's great-grandfather.  The longevity star Zhao Tuo, King of Yue, is almost 100 years old now.  This old man has experienced the entire process of the Great Qin Empire from its unification to its demise. In terms of qualifications, he can be regarded as the number one person in the world.  The reason why South Vietnam is difficult to defeat is simply due to the acclimatization, poisonous miasma that kills people, the South Vietnamese's jungle guerrilla tactics and poisonous needles.  The tactics of primitive people cannot kill hundreds of thousands of Qin troops. What really kills people is the first two. The acclimatization and the poisonous miasma kill people. The superposition of each other is almost irresistible.  The Zu family brothers listened with rapt attention. Minyue and Dongou were not as good as South Vietnam. The two countries were close to the coast and there was no miasma. As long as the Han soldiers arrived, they would be over in an instant. Therefore, the two countries had always lived in fear.  Zou Chou advised: "Brother Zhao, I think what Ding Gong said is reasonable. We went to Chang'an just to see the methods of the Han people. It is natural that the Han people are better than us, but it is so unexpected that they are so powerful. With us  The strength of the Han army cannot stop it, and the miasma in Wuling is not necessarily a natural hazard. If we lose Dongou and Minyue, the Han army can go all the way to Panyu along the seashore. "Ah? Is it really possible?"  He looked serious: "I'm not going to lie to you! Back then, your great-grandfather Zhao Tuo destroyed the royal branch of our Zuo family in South Vietnam. It was the branch of the Zuo family that migrated from Fujian and Yue hundreds of years ago. Our Zuo family all knew about this road.  My father also plans to use this road toWe will take over the South Vietnam Kingdom and recover South Vietnam.  " Zhao Yingqi was stupid. He had only been the prince for a few years and did not know much about the military and political affairs of South Vietnam. His father never told him that South Vietnam had defense zones in several directions. He only knew that Wuling was a natural barrier against Han soldiers.  The Minyue Kingdom is an ally of the Nanyue Kingdom, and it takes two days to get there by boat when the wind is favorable. ¡°Think about it carefully!  "Ding Gong took out the wine flask, took a sip of wine, chewed betel nuts and closed his eyes to sleep. He could hardly sleep for seven days and nights due to the poisonous miasma. Even his iron-clad body couldn't bear it, not to mention that he was an old man over seventy years old.  . Everyone slept soundly. When they woke up, they found that Cao Shi, Liu Ling and Wang Meng were missing! Ding Gong was furious: "Where are the people?"  I told you to look after good people, but why did you fail to look at them?  If we let Cao Shi run away, wouldn't it be that so many of us died in vain!  Why are you still dazed? Chase after me!  "The assassins had sallow faces, hesitating as they looked at the white poisonous miasma. Some woods were completely dead and charred black, and unknown insects were lying on them in groups. Sometimes they would crackle and fall down.  It¡¯s so scary that the assassins don¡¯t dare to chase him. ¡°Ding Gong!  Wei Youqu is seriously ill and must leave Wuling as soon as possible to receive better treatment. The poisonous miasma in your body cannot be completely eliminated by a few mouthfuls of betel nut. Staying here for a quarter of an hour will increase the risk of death. Follow me.  It's not too late to find an opportunity to chase them after leaving the poisonous miasma area. There are only a few roads that can get out of the Five Ridges. You only need to ask the nearby villages to find out quickly.  " Zhao Yingqi's attitude changed, from being forced to cooperate to actively cooperating. Ding Gong looked happy: "But how should we chase them if they run far away?  " "You can't run fast on two legs, and you can't run fast with Huainan Princess Liu Ling. What's more, no matter how far they run, they will eventually show up next to the village. The villages near Wuling belong to the Nanyue Kingdom, so you can rest assured.  "Zhao Yingqi said confidently. (To be continued)
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