Chapter 123 Ancient Brand Mosquito Coil
Chapter 123 Ancient Brand Mosquito Coil
Without burden, Ling Yu rode his horse and led the army to the battlefield of the decisive battle with Beidi.
Lin Qi kept bowing his head to salute, knowing that Ling Yu and the army had disappeared from sight, so he didn't move.
Ma Cheng could not wait any longer anxiously.
He couldn't help but walked up behind Lin Qi, and wanted to ask when Lin Qi would return to the city to discuss with the generals and counselors about how to deal with the Imperial Guards, when he suddenly realized something was wrong.
I saw Lin Qi swaying unsteadily, and before Ma Cheng could react, he fell down weakly.
"grown ups!"
Ma Cheng was so startled that he almost jumped up.
At this juncture, the surrounding soldiers responsible for protecting Lin Qi were also in a panic.
"Get the doctor quickly! Bring the carriage! Quick!"
……
"Doctor, why is my lord still awake?" Ma Cheng's anxious voice sounded.
The doctor's old voice: "Worried, anxious, angry, and the arrow wound on the shoulder cracked and recurred. Sleeping for three days and three nights is not enough. How can I wake up! The injury is no longer healed? Is my life gone?"
"But... but now... oh..."
Lin Qi felt bad.
The sharp pain in her right shoulder seemed to spread to her whole body along the blood vessels, making her whole body ache.
The drowsy spirit and the aching body are telling her that she needs to sleep very, very much now, and sleep deeply for several days and nights to get rid of these discomforts and pains.
But something that she couldn't think of in her dazed mind was telling her that she had to get up now, there were very important things waiting for her to deal with, and the time was running out, so she had to wake up immediately.
She chose discomfort and pain without hesitation.
Lin Qi struggled and tried his best to open his eyes.
"grown ups!"
As soon as he opened his eyes, what he saw was Ma Cheng who was so relieved that he was about to cry.
Can he not be excited? Before Lin Qi lost consciousness, he only ordered him very resolutely to hide the news of the emperor's personal conquest, but he didn't tell him what to do next. He didn't dare to tell others. The time to arrive was getting closer, and things had to be dealt with, so he lost a lot of hair in a hurry.
Now that Lin Qi finally woke up, he was so excited that he wanted to cry, it was already a sign of holding his breath, and it was okay to make him really cry.
"Now, cough, cough, cough!"
Lin Qi opened her mouth to speak, but the dry and astringent throat made her cough so much that she wanted to pass out again.
"My lord, drink some tea to moisten your throat first!"
Lin Qi took the teacup and drank it down.
While serving tea to Lin Qi, Ma Cheng angrily said to the doctor who was still taking Lin Qi's pulse:
"You quack doctor, my lord has woken up now, why does he need to sleep for three days!"
The doctor is not unfamiliar with Lin Tong, he is the old doctor who took care of Ling Yu's injuries back then.
The old doctor blew his beard and stared and said: "What kind of medical skills do laymen know, do you think it is a good thing to wake up now, the body has reached its limit and does not rest well and forcefully wakes up, life loss is a trivial matter, sudden sudden death is also possible! "
Lin Qi knew that the old doctor was right. She felt very close to the feeling she had when she stayed up late for a week and didn't catch up on sleep during the day. It was the feeling that she might die suddenly when she got excited.
But the matter of the imperial guards cannot be let go for a second, even if she faces the risk of sudden death, she must wake up.
Lin Qi pushed away the old doctor's hand for checking the pulse, struggled to sit up, and looked at Ma Cheng: "When is it now? How long have I been unconscious? Is there any battle report from His Highness? Where did the Imperial Guard go?"
As soon as he opened his mouth, there was a series of urgent questions.
Ma Cheng also answered quickly: "Your Highness left the city yesterday, and you have been in a coma for a whole day. Now it is just dawn, and there is no bad news in the battle report from His Highness. With the marching speed of the imperial guards and the speed of the news from the carrier pigeon Counting the time, there is still about a day and a half away from the border town."
Hearing that he had been unconscious for a whole day, Lin Qi's eyes darkened and he coughed angrily.
Seeing this, Ma Cheng hurriedly said: "My lord, after you passed out yesterday, I issued an order to dispatch troops to the surrounding towns on my own initiative. You are just waiting for reinforcements to arrive, so it is not a waste of a day."
Lin Qi was not comforted, and her expression didn't even improve much.
She staggered out of bed, endured the strong dizziness and the discomfort of wanting to fall asleep, and said helplessly as she put on her clothes: "For those who cannot transfer soldiers, in order to deal with Beidi who is fighting to the death, the troops in the three border cities are all concentrated Now under the command of His Highness, there are only a few hundred defenders left in the other two cities who must guard the city."
"The vassal kings who are farther away, not to mention whether there is too little time, they don't think it is enough to station their own troops in this situation, how could they be willing to send troops, let alone deal with the emperor who was conquered by himself."
"From the very beginning, I never expected reinforcements."
Hearing Lin Qi's words, Ma Cheng was not too surprised.
In fact, as a counselor, he himself knew that there was no way to transfer troops, and the order to transfer troops was only because he couldn't think of any other way besides this.
The sense of powerlessness made Ma Cheng feel hopeless.
Lin Qi tied up her hair hastily, biting the silk ribbon that tied her hair, and said, "However, if you want to say that there are soldiers available, it's not like there are none."
The sense of despair was dispelled a lot at once, Ma Cheng said quickly: "What soldier?"
Lin Qi turned her head and paused every word: "Beidi captive."
Ma Cheng suddenly lost his voice: "Why are they willing to listen to the command and dispatch of the adults?"
Lin Qi fastened her belt, raised her head and replied, "I don't need them to obey the command and dispatch, I just need to bring them in front of the guard army, and then cut off all the back routes, that's enough."
"The tens of thousands of Beidi captives in the camp outside the city are not Beidi civilians, but Beidi 'warriors' who wandered and plundered the border all year round. The blood of Ling Minmin, even if they don't listen to the command and dispatch, they can probably compete with the Imperial Guards in a short period of time."
If such an act is placed in the history books, it probably cannot escape the infamy of tyranny and injustice in the historian's pen.
But I have to say that in the current situation, this is indeed a feasible approach.
Besides, this infamy doesn't necessarily have to fall on the prime minister.
Ma Cheng took a deep breath, stood up and said, "My lord, leave this matter to me. Your injury is still unhealed, please cultivate more."
Lin Qi said directly: "The leader of the army can only be me."
"What the people of Beidi are afraid of is Princess Daling and the prime minister who have completely lost their fighting spirit. Only I, with the [-] disabled soldiers in the city, can suppress tens of thousands of Beidi captives until I choose to block them." On the battlefield of the imperial guards, except for Ling Yu and me, anyone else would only be killed by the rioting Beidi captives."
Ma Cheng has nothing to say.
Indeed, only Lin Qi and Ling Yu, whose reputations had already terrified the people of Beidi, could do it.
But at this time, the old doctor who had never spoken before suddenly said: "The grassroots dare not talk about the military strategy, but the grassroots can assert that if you don't cultivate your body now, you may not be able to set foot on it. In the battlefield, they will faint or even die suddenly on the spot."
Lin Qi paused.
To be honest, at this very moment, she is already mentally lax tormented by the severe pain in her right shoulder and the feeling of powerlessness pervading her whole body. She also knows that she is really likely to faint or faint in the middle of the plan. She died suddenly on the horse, and she couldn't even imagine how the Beidi prisoners would riot.
But even so, what can she do, this is the only way she can think of to break the situation, other than that, she is desperate.
Therefore, even if you know that you may not be able to survive, there is really no other feasible way except to grit your teeth, fight your willpower, and gamble your luck.
The helplessness and determination in Lin Qi's eyes made Ma Cheng so shocked that he couldn't help but stepped forward and grabbed the old doctor's front: "Shut up! Your Highness and Your Excellency have done their best! If you say these things that hurt morale, I will take care of you carefully." You will be beheaded for your crime!"
But Lin Qi himself looked at the old doctor with a fixed gaze.
She stopped Ma Cheng, and said to the old doctor: "Even if you don't open your mouth, I can feel what you said, and I have to say something superfluous. Could it be that you have a way?"
The old doctor didn't hide anything: "Indeed, Cao Min's master once passed on to Cao Min a prescription called [Three Days to Return Yang]. This prescription..."
Lin Qi stretched out her hand directly: "Needless to say, just give it to me."
The old doctor was stunned: "This, this prescription has extremely serious consequences, my lord should wait for the grassroots..."
Lin Qi shook his head, without any hesitation on his face: "It's probably just a good life for three days, and there is no future effect, just give it to me."
The old doctor was silent for a moment: "Once taken, the grass people will be helpless."
"I've made up my mind, it's useless to say more."
With a determined face, Lin Qi smiled wryly in his heart.
In the final plot, she still couldn't survive.
I just don't know if Ling Yu will cry in anger when he comes back.
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