Chapter 983 Retreating in Disgrace
Why doesn’t Zhou Dingzhen want to go further?
He can't hold on!
He kept doing this for three days!
The next night, the exhausted soldiers had almost recovered, but Zhou Dingzhen collapsed.
He was so exhausted that he lost all color and had no strength to speak.
Just when he was about to let his deputy general lead the troops to attack the city first, the deputy general also started to pull.
On the third day, he weakly ordered the soldiers to attack the city directly and temporarily promoted a few young generals to lead the troops. However, the soldiers had no strength again!
Most of the soldiers lay down in panic again, unable to get up.
The siege plan was forced to be shelved again.
Zhou Dingzhen was so angry that he almost had a cerebral infarction.
How could he not see at this point that it was Xiao Lanyuan's doing?
But he just couldn't figure out how the other party had given him the drugs! How could those drugs be colorless and odorless?
"It must be Fu Zhaoning. She must have made the medicine—"
Zhou Dingzhen finally thought of this, but by then he was already exhausted and couldn't get up.
There is nothing to eat here. Even if he hunted prey, he couldn't chew it now.
If this continued, Zhou Dingzhen felt that he would die.
His deputy general was also very anxious, so he went to the city wall and shouted, asking for a pot of hot porridge.
Zhou Dingzhen never thought that he was here to attack the city, but in the end he had to show weakness to You Zhangwen for a pot of hot porridge.
What’s even more infuriating is that after listening to their request, Xiao Lanyuan, standing on the city wall, spoke in a light tone with a hint of sarcasm.
"Zhecheng is full of sick people, and the capital has not yet allocated food for disaster relief. It's so tragic, and General Zhou still wants to take food from the mouths of the victims?"
"Prince Jun, our general has been ill for three days! He can't even eat our food, and the general can't eat the game we hunted!"
They really can't finish the food they brought with them.
Zhou Dingzhen was even worse off. He had diarrhea after eating a steamed bun soaked in hot water. Now, whenever he saw the steamed buns they brought, he felt traumatized and almost wanted to vomit.
"General Zhou, are you used to eating big fish and meat? Now you suddenly want a mouthful of tasteless porridge?" Xiao Lanyuan asked back lightly.
The deputy general bit his back teeth.
General Zhou was in such a state, it must be Prince Jun's doing, but now Prince Jun has been pretending to know nothing and mocking them like this! It's too much!
"Prince Jun, if anything happens to our general, it will be difficult for Prefect You to explain to the Emperor!"
"Oh?" Xiao Lanyuan laughed. "Your general came to attack the city to attack You Zhangwen. Now you want him to give an explanation?"
"We are not here to attack the city. We are just here to help deal with the victims who are infected with the disease! We are here to help Governor You relieve his worries!" the deputy general defended.
"Really? Then why didn't you come to deal with it in the past three days? Did you go sightseeing for a few days first?"
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An Nian, who was listening nearby, twitched his lips.
It was clearly you, Prince Jun, who had been administering the drugs, and now you're asking why they didn't come. That's a bit mean.
The other party also knew what was going on, but they just couldn't do anything about Xiao Lanyuan!
But if Zhou Dingzhen really can’t eat anymore, he will die!
I've been defecating for three days and I'm almost out of it.
"Prince Jun, please give us some porridge!" The deputy general felt that he was really enduring humiliation.
"Alright, General Zhou is an important general of Zhao State after all, and he suddenly wants to try some light porridge with side dishes. Although this request is a bit hypocritical, I am not a heartless person, so I will give him a pot of porridge."
Xiao Lanyuan said this very generously, and then asked, "However, does General Zhou dare to drink the porridge that I gave you?"
Ah, this——
His rhetorical question immediately changed the deputy general's expression.
The veins on his forehead twitched and he was not sure.
Could it be that Prince Jun wanted to put more medicine into the porridge? No way!
"In order for General Zhou to drink the porridge with peace of mind, I think we should make a condition in exchange. This way, General Zhou can also feel at ease. He will only be able to drink the porridge if it is not given for free, right?"
After Prince Jun said this, the deputy general actually thought it made sense!
Prince Jun gives out porridge with certain conditions, and he won’t put any drugs in it!
"What does Prince Jun want?"
"What does the king want? Nothing, just withdraw your troops. Just go back and tell the emperor that you all have trouble acclimatizing to the climate in Zhecheng since you arrived." Xiao Lanyuan said calmly.
"This is impossible!" the deputy general cried out.
"Heh," Xiao Lanyuan couldn't help laughing, "Then let's continue to go to the mountains to hunt for your General Zhou and grill more meat."
In other words, forget about the porridge and side dishes.
Who asked them to go to war without bringing rice and flour?
However, even if they took it, Xiao Lanyuan could sneak into their army and steal it without anyone noticing.
Thinking of this, he felt it was a pity that they didn't bring rice and flour, otherwise he could have stolen some and given them to Zhecheng.
"Prince Jun!"
The deputy general was both angry and anxious, so he had to go back and ask Zhou Dingzhen for instructions.
But Zhou Dingzhen felt dizzy and could only hum twice. It was impossible to tell whether he was awake or not, or whether he heard his request.
"General, this won't do!"
The others were also very anxious.
The deputy general gritted his teeth and said, "Then we can only agree to Prince Jun!"
If they don't withdraw their troops, they will die here! If the general really dies, it will be even harder for them to explain themselves.
"As long as there is green, there will be no shortage of firewood! The general will understand when he gets better!"
After the deputy general and his men discussed it, they went back and agreed to Prince Jun's conditions.
So, five thousand soldiers came in a rush, and then retreated in embarrassment.
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