"Yes!" As soon as the words fell, there was a commotion outside. Some soldiers shouted "unjust" and "spare my life" and were dragged away.
Guo Yuanzhen issued another order, "From today onwards, all those he brought with him, including him, will be deprived of food and water. If they are lucky enough to survive when I return, I will personally punish them with a swift death."
"yes."
As soon as Guo Yuanzhen left, the guards also left quickly, and then there was a sound of locks being locked.
Old Duan rushed into the hall quickly, rushed to Lou Yunchun, and asked nervously: "Sir, are you okay?"
"It's okay." Lou Yunchun said it was okay, but his face was frighteningly pale.
Old Duan pulled his hand away and checked his wound, but he couldn't help but gasp. The wound on Lou Yunchun's shoulder was clearly visible to the bone. Although Guo Yuanzhen's knife didn't hit the vital part, he didn't show any mercy.
"This country thief!" Old Duan cursed and quickly took off Lou Yunchun's shirt to bandage him. But after taking off the shirt, he saw that Lou Yunchun's chest was also covered with bruises and reds, which must have been caused by Guo Yuanzhen's stepping on him.
At this time, several other patrol guards also ran in. When they saw that Lou Yunchun was injured, they immediately went to collect things to bandage him.
Lou Yunchun said, "I have a medicine box in my luggage, and it contains medicine for wounds."
Old Duan immediately went to get it, but found that there was very little medicine left in the medicine box.
Lou Yunchun suffered too many injuries along the way.
He suddenly remembered that they were in Buddha City, and the medicine monk gave him a string of Buddhist beads, saying that it could be crushed into medicine for wounds and would have the effect of stopping bleeding. So he hurriedly took it from Lou Yunchun's hand, picked off a few beads, crushed them in a bowl, and applied them to him.
The effect of the medicine was immediate, and the bleeding stopped after it was applied.
After treating the wound, Lou Yunchun asked everyone, "Are you all okay?"
"It's okay, they are all minor injuries." Everyone sat cross-legged on the ground and checked their injuries.
Old Duan rubbed his stomach. The guard's elbow had nearly dislocated his internal organs. He bared his teeth and asked Lou Yunchun, "Sir, when can we get out? He's cut off our food supply. We won't last many days."
Lou Yunchun's eyes were deep. "It will be soon. As long as he leaves the city, we will be able to leave soon."
He had not lied to Guo Yuanzhen just now. They did not come to Tingzhou alone. Before the establishment of the Protectorate, Beiting and Anxi were both governed by the garrison of General Zhan Fenglie, the old general of Zhenbei.
After repelling the Turks and conquering the countries in the Western Regions, the area was divided and governed, with Anxi and Beiting being established. Therefore, many of the officers and soldiers in Beiting were his former subordinates.
Wei Chifei is the great-grandnephew of General Zhan, and Xiao Gu is the grandson of the general's deputy general. With this relationship, it is much easier for them to place spies in Beiting.
Lou Yunchun's clamorous trip to Beiting and his public reading of the imperial edict was a signal to these people that it was time to act. It also served to show the officers and the people Guo Yuanzhen's rebellious intentions, shaking his prestige within the army and among the people.
The main task of the guards who were thrown into the military camp for causing trouble in Beiting was not to protect him, but to secretly network with these people. Once Guo Yuanzhen was captured, they would join forces with Wei Chifei and Xiao Gu to take over Beiting.
And to be on the safe side, long before Lou Yunchun left the capital, the saint asked the old general to come out of retirement and secretly go to Anxi to take charge.
The old general was very powerful. With him around, those old subordinates who had surrendered to Guo Yuanzhen did not dare to rebel, nor did they have the face to do so.
This is a trap with two jars. Guo Yuanzhen and Prince Ying are the bastards, who are in the hands of the sage and cannot escape.
As for the Turks, since they have helped Dasheng solve its internal troubles, Dasheng will naturally give them a big gift in return.
The few of them rested in the hall for a while. Suddenly, Old Duan's stomach started to growl. He said wistfully, "If I had known earlier, I should have saved that morning bread."
After he said this, the other people also started to lick their lips. They were all strong men with big appetites, but they had become skinny and bony due to hunger in recent days.
A patrolman lamented, "I don't know if we'll still have the strength to leave this state by then."
Lou Yunchun said, "Just bear with it for now. Someone will bring us food."
Everyone looked at him in surprise.
He smiled, leaned on a table, and closed his eyes to rest.
Old Duan and several patrol guards squatted in front of the courtyard gate until dark. When they were dizzy and dazed from hunger, a bundle suddenly fell from the sky and hit Old Duan in the stomach. He screamed in pain and a patrol guard beside him quickly covered his mouth.
Several people immediately stood up and stepped back to look at the roof, but they didn't see a single ghost.
After a while, the sound of guard changing came from outside.
Old Duan and his brothers looked at each other, and then they realized that it seemed that their people took advantage of the opportunity when Guo Yuanzhen replaced the guards to take over.
Several people gave thumbs up to the people outside the door, saying that this strong man has great arm strength!
When Old Duan opened the bundle, he saw it wasn't pancakes anymore, but steamed buns. He smelled them and saw they were stuffed with mutton. Besides the buns, there were also several bags of water. No wonder they were so heavy; they nearly broke him.
Just then, someone outside asked, "What food did you have in your pocket? Why does it smell so good?"
The warrior asked, "Baked buns, do you want some?"
The man said politely, "That's not good."
The warrior said, "It's getting cold in the second half of the night. Eat some mutton to boost your yang energy and avoid freezing."
"Well... okay." The two of them started eating, and heard the people inside the door drooling, and then they tiptoed back to the house.
Lou Yunchun woke up when he heard the noise outside and asked, "Has the food been delivered?"
"It's been delivered. It's baked buns and a few bags of water." Lao Duan first handed him a bag of water, then took a bowl and picked up a few buns for him, and divided the rest among his brothers.
Lou Yunchun drank some water to moisten his throat before picking up the bun and starting to eat it. As soon as he took a bite, his mouth was filled with the aroma of meat and oil, and he couldn't stop eating.
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