For the next two days, Baili Tang's soldiers trained normally every day, occasionally learning to sing "Farewell My Concubine" to relax, as if nothing had happened.
It was also during these two days that people sent out by Ye Hongxue, Zhang Xiaofeng and others sneaked into the mountains one after another and caused all kinds of damage.
Ye Hongxue's idea was to make these bandits go without meat for a month so that they would not have enough physical strength, so they tried to poison all the chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle and sheep in the mountains.
Zhang Xiaofeng is a bit more ruthless. When he was a child, he encountered the plague, so he tried to make the plague happen...
Lin Jiahao's people mainly target the leaders when they carry out assassinations, but they will not assassinate Xiang Tiange because that is unrealistic.
Hu Panyuan and others went to destroy the food supply in an orderly manner. If they could destroy the food supply on a mountain, it would be fine.
…
The hundred elites sent by each army, though few in number, were extremely destructive. They were also all as slippery as loaches, giving Xiang Tiange a terrible headache.
"Sir, what do you think we should do now?" Xiang Tiange had to ask the masked man for advice. Eight out of ten of these bandits were illiterate, a mob of them. Normally, they waited for his orders to do anything. Few of them were adept at using tactics.
"Zhang Dongzheng must have other plans! What they're doing now might not be their real purpose." But he couldn't figure out what it was specifically. "One thing I'm sure of. They're doing this simply to make our people feel uneasy. If my guess is correct, there will be some criticism next. Boss, don't be fooled!"
"Let them curse! Anyway, we're hiding in this mountain and won't go down. What can they do to us?"
Xiang Tiange's point is, even if you, Baili Tang, have made us panic, or even yelled at us, we'll just stay peacefully on the mountain. Let's see who can last longer!
However, Xiang Tiange missed one person - Yunniang!
Yunniang, the spy Baili Tang mentioned, had infiltrated Wuya Peak and hadn't contacted the imperial court in six months. Yunniang also came from a brothel. Her sacrifice to save Xiang Tiange was a self-torture scheme.
Song Chi has not yet persuaded Yunniang to help them carry out this mission.
It's not that Yunniang has fallen in love with Xiang Tiange after her fake relationship with him, but in Yunniang's heart, she has seen too many intrigues in the court - she no longer trusts the court.
Similarly, Xiang Tiange is not a good person either.
However, even without Xiang Tiange, there will still be countless Qu Tiange and Liu Tiange...
The only thing that Yunniang is worried about is the nearly a thousand sisters in this mountain.
There were originally nearly two thousand sisters in the mountains, but after being tortured by the bandits, only less than a thousand were left.
These sisters are worse than the girls in the brothels. At least the girls in the brothels can wear fine clothes and eat delicious food...
That day, Song Chi came to Yunniang again, under the pretext of seeking the antidote. This time, Song Chi was determined to take a gamble, so as soon as he saw Yunniang and made sure no one was watching, he immediately revealed his identity:
"My name is Song Chi, and I'm from Xiyun County. My parents passed away early, and my uncle and aunt raised me... Xiao Yu and I were originally going to be together, but a family gave Xiao Yu's father a betrothal gift of 300 taels... Just when everyone was at their wit's end..."
"Your master solved the case? So, you're willing to risk your life for it?"
"It wasn't because that person solved the case, but because of the poem he recited: If the sky had feelings, it would also grow old; if the moon had no hatred, it would be full forever!" He didn't show any smugness for solving the case, but left with a heavy face.
"It's just human nature."
"If I say that the story I'm telling you now was also written by that person, would you believe it? Also, in Xiyun County, a new type of house is being built now that can accommodate hundreds of people. Would you believe it? Why did these things only appear after Your Majesty was struck by lightning..."
In an instant, the expression on Yunniang's face became extremely rich.
She also decided to take a gamble: "How to do it?"
“Let them have no salt!!”
Yunniang was so surprised she almost burst out cursing: Which bastard came up with this crazy idea...it's incredible! Why didn't they think of it? Brilliant!
"This is the antidote for the three of you. Don't come to me again. Also, I will think of other ways to torture your eldest daughter..." to avoid arousing suspicion!
Chao Man'er: Who did I offend again?
With Yunniang's help, things became much easier.
Women in the mountains have only two roles: to wash clothes and cook for men; and to provide men with happiness.
Aren’t you afraid that they will poison you?
Where did they get the poison?
The poison Yunniang developed couldn't possibly kill tens of thousands of bandits. She couldn't develop sodium cyanide either...
In ancient times, arsenic was considered highly poisonous!
Of course, there are also the most toxic of the venomous poisons, such as the red-crowned crane and the deadly strychnos nux vomica. These are even more precious, and Yunniang, who cannot go down the mountain, cannot buy them.
Poisoning Xiang Tiange, who was willing to listen to her advice, would be of no avail. Soon, the second-in-command, the third-in-command... would come out to take his place!
"For the sake of my sisters, please believe it again!!"
Two more days passed.
Song An would not ask whether Yunniang had completed the task, because he could feel it from everyone's discussions and the meals they had eaten in recent days.
Zhang Qianqian's daily job was still to clean the toilet. As a result, she had no appetite for anything. But when she ate dinner that night, she found that the food had no taste at all.
"Are these bandits so poor that they can't even afford salt?" Zhang Qianqian said depressedly.
She cleans the toilet during the day and doesn't get any salt at night. How can she have the energy to clean the toilet at this rate?
Song An suppressed his excitement and said calmly, "Maybe the cooks forgot to add salt."
Only Xiaoxiang winked at Song An, asking him if he had completed the task.
Song An couldn't answer her and pretended not to see it. It was still unknown how Yunniang had completed it. He had to continue to keep it a secret from Miss Man'er.
After dinner, Song Ande continued to tell everyone about "Water Margin", and recently started talking about Wu Song fighting the tiger...
It was unrealistic for His Majesty to write down everything they read. Fortunately, Song An was good at editing. He even made a minor change—the heroes in the story couldn't be too righteous and hate evil. Because there were too many "unconscionable" bandits in this mountain.
Yunniang was very thoughtful. She did not immediately cut off the food supply to leaders like Xiang Tiange. The people under her command would not make a fuss if they did not eat for one day, but they would only make a fuss after two days and Xiang Tiange would hear about it.
Then Xiang Tiange would send people to investigate, and then they would say it was all the work of the elite soldiers who had sneaked into the mountains...
If we wait another two or three days, it will be too late.
There is scientific evidence that if people do not eat salt or eat less salt for a long time (more than a week), it will cause acid-base imbalance and electrolyte disorder in the body, leading to severe sodium and chloride deficiency in the body, and then cause severe hyponatremia and hypochloremia.
Symptoms include general weakness, muscle atrophy, palpitations, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and even nausea, vomiting, pale complexion, low blood pressure causing dizziness, headache, and even goiter and cerebral infarction.
By then, how will these bandits have the energy to fight?
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