"Looking at the moon? No, I'm looking at the spring breeze!" Li Ye looked at her and replied quietly.
"Looking at the spring breeze?" Mu Mu chuckled upon hearing this, looked at him and said, "This is not Fengyun City, there are not many apricot trees."
When Wei Qingyu heard this, he couldn't help but ask: "So the Imperial Master likes Xinghua?"
Li Ye lowered his head, looked at the two of them, shook his head and sighed: "Yes, but no. I just want to see which way the spring breeze blows..."
"Which way is the wind blowing?" Mu Mu was confused.
Wei Qingyu is a talented woman. She understood Li Ye's thoughts, lowered her head and pondered for a moment, and said with a smile: "People say that in spring, it is the south wind, and the south wind is the rainy season. Doesn't that mean it is spring?"
When Li Ye heard this, he suddenly understood, patted the table and said, "I see, is this what they had in mind?"
Wei Qingyu looked at him and asked in a low voice: "What are they planning?"
Mu Mu looked at Li Ye and suddenly said: "Do they want to imitate their brother in setting fire? But the moat is so wide, what can be burned by setting fire?" Mu Mu thought of the attack in the three towns.
Li Ye looked at Mu Mu and said with a smile: "Mu Mu is still smart. I finally understand that they just want to set fire, but their purpose of setting fire is not to burn down Nanyun City."
"What's that for?" Wei Qingyu frowned.
"Do they want to smoke Mumu and brother with smoke?" Mu Mu shouted: "Do they treat me like a piece of meat and want to smoke me to death?"
Li Ye stretched out his hand to pull Mu Mu to sit down, and said with a faint smile: "You will know if you go to the city with me tomorrow and hug me, won't you?"
Wei Qingyu's brows had already furrowed into a "Sichuan" shape. She looked at the two of them and said, "I'll go too."
That night, Li Ye slept soundly. He finally understood some of the intentions of the grassland tribes. Since the grassland cavalry without heavy weapons could not launch a charge, they could only pursue Feng's ideas.
As long as you take precautions, you won't be afraid of their machinations.
...
The next day, after breakfast, Li Ye and his party arrived early at the top of Nanyun City.
Just as he expected, the soldiers on the grassland built a fire and wood formation made of pine branches and green grass mixed with a long snake one and a half feet away from the moat of Nanyun City overnight.
Under Li Ye's solemn gaze, a group of soldiers lit the hay under the pine branches.
In just a moment, a long snake formation of wolf smoke rose into the sky outside Nanyun City, and slowly blew over in the south wind...
There was nothing strange about the expression on Li Ye's face, but the hand holding the iron bow clenched tightly for no reason. It showed that he was more nervous than anyone else. More depressed than anyone else.
Although he expected it, he had no time to prepare.
What was going to come finally came.
He was in a solemn mood, not knowing what kind of storm he would face this time.
"Send the order, bring water up, everyone find a towel to wet it and cover their mouths and noses." Li Ye looked at Wei Qingyu behind him and shouted loudly.
Mu Mu, who was sitting in the room, quickly took out her silk scarf and wet it with the tea in the pot. Before she could cover it, she ran out and handed it to Li Ye.
"These bastards really smoked Mu Mu's dried meat!" Mu Mu put a scarf around Li Ye and shouted loudly.
The spring breeze is getting stronger and stronger, and the south wind is blowing hard.
Even though Li Ye had anticipated the other party's conspiracy, the soldiers guarding the city wall still fell into the trap one after another. After all, the soldiers guarding the city had no habit of carrying handkerchiefs with them.
Moreover, the wind assisted the smoke. Before Li Ye's military order could be passed on, the billowing smoke had already spread at the top of Nanyun City, and was rolling into the city with an unstoppable trend.
In less than half a day, all the troops in Nanyun City will be attacked!
Li Ye finally understood why Yeluqi wanted him to leave Nancheng City, because it was a conspiracy that could not be guarded against. Even if you already know, you can't prevent it.
Not long after, the soldiers guarding the city began to cough, shed tears, and have red and swollen eyes.
Even if the soldiers covered their mouths and noses with a wet towel in time, they would have different symptoms of redness and itching on their faces and hands.
"Go on, don't scratch the itch, it will only get worse." Li Ye looked at Nalan Yu who heard the news and shouted.
Even Mu Mu also had redness on her face. There was also Wei Qingyu, who was running around and coughing constantly.
"One general is incompetent and the three armies will be exhausted." Li Ye just wanted to give himself a slap in the face now.
While he was blaming himself, an arrow sounded outside the moat. Li Ye turned around and saw an arrow stuck in the door frame behind him, with a letter tied to the arrow.
Mu Mu pulled out the arrow with a wave of her hand, untied the letter tied to the arrow, lowered her head and read:
"According to the orders of the Khans of the various tribes, the garrison of Nanyun City is given three days to give up resistance and open the city gate. The kings may spare your life. Otherwise, when the time comes, the army will massacre the city and leave no chickens or dogs behind!"
"These guys want to die, brother, do you want Mu Mu to shoot them?" Mu Mu shouted loudly.
Li Ye looked at the wall of fire two hundred feet away from Nanyun City, shook his head, stretched out his hand and said, "It's too far, you can't reach it. Get me some iron arrows."
Before Mu Mu could react, Wei Qingyu had already ran into the room, piled a pile of iron arrows at Li Ye's feet, and handed one to him.
"Although I can't see your King Khan, I'll take action on you first!"
Li Ye held an iron bow in his hand, set an iron arrow, aimed at the prairie soldiers who were pulling away the smoke behind the wall of fire, and released his fingers.
With a sound of "Buzz!", the iron arrow left the string and flew towards the prairie cavalry 200 feet away. Just in the light of the carbide fire, someone was hit by the arrow and fell to the ground. Then there was a burst of exclamation and roar: "The enemy is attacking! There is an enemy." Attack!!”
Captain Li Ye had a stern face and said nothing. He just kept taking the iron arrows from Wei Qingyu's hand, and shot them out one by one. After a while, the iron cavalry outside the city fell to the ground one after another.
Carrying a bow, Li Ye walked back and forth around the city wall. In less than an hour, the prairie cavalry in front of the long snake formation were either hit by arrows and fell to the ground, or they fled outside Nanyun City and headed towards the camp in the rear. Cang left in panic.
"Send a large army to extinguish the smoke?" Nalan Yu looked at Li Ye and asked carefully.
"No, it's too late!" Li Ye replied coldly.
Leaving the city now is a target for the prairie cavalry to attack. Besides, the smoke has been raging throughout Nanyun City. The only way to detoxify it is to find a way.
Looking at the deserted Nanyun City, Li Ye put away his iron bow.
Looking at the stunned Wei Qingyu and Mu Mu, he said calmly: "Mu Mu will grind the ink for me, Qingyu and Brother Nalan will go to the various camps and ask them to prepare the medicine as soon as possible..."
Mu Mu said "oh" and hurried back to the house to find pen, ink, paper and inkstone to grind the ink for Li Ye.
After sitting at the table and meditating for a long time, Li Ye looked at the redness and swelling on Mu Mu and Wei Qingyu again and again. After a while, he sighed and put the pen down on the paper.
After writing several copies of the same formula, Li Ye looked at Nalan Yu and Wei Qingyu and said, "This prescription is also a temporary measure. I have to analyze it carefully... Let the army take a break first."
Nalan Yu and Wei Qingyu put away the prescription and hurried down the tower without asking any questions.
Li Ye rummaged through the space ring for a long time, found a few herbs, and put them into the kettle on the table. He wanted to prepare some relief herbs for Mu Mu.
Mu Mu couldn't help but stretched out her hand to scratch the itch, but Li Ye reached out to grab it; "If you don't want scars on your face in the future, just bear with it. I'll make you a bowl of concoction, drink half of it, and mix the rest with water." Then take a bath.”
Mu Mu was so anxious that she jumped up and down and kept urging: "Hurry up, it'll tickle me to death."
Li Ye shook his head, thinking that the eldest prince and Yang Kaiyi should be on their way here now.
Just as Li Ye expected, just as Mu Mu drank the cooked concoction and told her to go home and take a medicinal bath, the eldest prince and Yang Kaiyi climbed up the tower and walked in.
"What's going on? The whole city is filled with smoke. The soldiers in all the military camps are crying out in discomfort. They can hardly control themselves." Yang Kaiyi shouted as soon as he entered the door.
The eldest prince didn't speak, he just sat at the table and smelled the concoction in the pot.
Looking at the eldest prince's appearance, Li Ye smiled bitterly, poured half a pot of water into the pot, and put it on the fire to boil.
"I didn't expect them to come up with a trick..." Li Ye told the story of the grassland tribes setting off wolf smoke.
"Where did they find such a vicious herb, and it actually made the whole city's soldiers and people fall victim to it? Master, have you figured out a way to deal with it?" Yang Kaiyi looked at Li Ye and asked anxiously.
Li Ye looked at him and shook his head: "It came so suddenly. How could we find the antidote at once? But I have prescribed the medicine, which should be able to temporarily relieve the symptoms of the soldiers and people in the city."
"It seems that this is the only way." The eldest prince looked at the kettle on the fire and nodded in reply.
Yang Kaiyi looked at Li Ye, suddenly as if he had found a treasure, he took his hand and asked: "Master, why didn't you get hit? Ordinarily, you were the first to be exposed to the poisonous smoke on the tower?"
Li Ye was stunned. Only then did he remember why he had no reaction to being poisoned, even Mu Mu had been poisoned.
After lowering his head and thinking for a while, Li Ye said quietly: "First, it is possible that I have tasted all kinds of medicinal herbs there since I was a child in Tianshan, and my husband used precious medicinal leaves to temper my body since I was a child."
"Secondly, it's possible that the antidote was in the wine Yeluqi invited me to drink yesterday!"
After hearing this, the eldest prince slapped the table and shouted: "That should be the case, otherwise he wouldn't have come here to buy you a drink. He wants to let you live!"
Yang Kaiyi also suddenly realized: "It seems that this is the only explanation." Then he circled around Li Ye.
Li Ye looked at his scalp and shouted, "That wine was drunk yesterday, and I didn't leave a drop. Why are you looking at me?"
Could it be that you want to bleed me? Even if my blood has the effect of detoxifying, it's still a drop in the bucket.
The eldest prince looked at Yang Kaiyi, shook his head and sighed: "City Master Yang, just as the Imperial Master said, the wine has the antidote, and it took one night. Besides, since they were on guard, how could they allow the Imperial Master to take the wine back for research? ?”
"Is there really no other way?" Yang Kaiyi said bitterly.
Li Ye spread his hands, pointed to the kettle on the table and said, "You two have a cup of concoction to relieve the pain. Let me think about it again. There will always be a way to solve it."
Li Ye suddenly missed his husband. If he were here, this little thing would definitely not trouble him.
However, this is Southern Xinjiang, his battlefield.
Now that the opponent has released his ultimate move, everything that follows depends on how he responds.
After all, there are only three days.
