The remaining food could only feed the more than 40,000 soldiers and civilians of the castle for three days.
This conclusion made Manhard's heart filled with a heavy haze.
The life and death of more than 40,000 people depended on him alone.
The situation was really unfavorable.
Although the number of the Western Qin army was small, they were almost all cavalry.
These cavalry were scattered in all directions and besieged Bam Castle.
Every time people were sent to break out of the castle to move reinforcements, they were intercepted and killed by the Western Qin cavalry outside the castle every time. , and they were intercepted and killed in front of all the Dashi Army soldiers on the city wall.
Manhard and the Dashi soldiers and civilians even despaired of sending people to break out to bring in reinforcements.
Manhard sat on the top of the tallest fortress in the castle and stared blankly at the soldiers and civilians who were cleaning up and treating the wounded below.
It took a long time before he had to face the reality.
He regained his consciousness and thought about the rest.
The food rationed can still feed the soldiers and civilians for three days.
After the food is eaten up, drinking water can still last for three days.
In this way, it can still last for six days.
We must find a way to repel the Western Qin army within these six days or Move in reinforcements.
Manhard looked at the densely packed soldiers and civilians in the castle.
He was thinking about how to inspire the local residents to feel the same hatred and let them exert their maximum fighting power.
In this way, they could gain up to 10,000 fighting power.
But with these It was very difficult for the local residents to take up arms and kill the enemy just like him and his soldiers.
After all, these locals were not Arabs, they were Arabs.
The local Persians, although the Persian Empire has been destroyed for more than a hundred years, there are still many local Persians who miss their homeland.
They have never regarded themselves and their families as Arabs, so they have no sense of belonging to the great food country.
Feeling that how to get these local Persians to take up arms to resist the attack of the Western Qin Army together with the Dashi Army is a problem that Manhard currently needs to consider.
At this moment, many screams suddenly came from the castle, and Manhard was shocked.
He stood up involuntarily: "Did something happen again?
Why did I keep making mistakes and losing control as soon as I faced off against the Western Qin Army?"
Without having time to think about it, Manhard immediately led his guards and rushed to the location of the accident.
On the way, a soldier ran over and reported: "Your Excellency, something serious has happened.
After praying just now, some soldiers and locals started to eat. , Unexpectedly, some of the soldiers and locals who had eaten immediately fell asleep, foaming at the mouth, and looking black.
The lieutenant general suspected that they were poisoned, so he sent someone to report to you immediately.
Please go and have a look."
A bad premonition arose in Manhard's heart.
He looked solemn and immediately said: "Let's go over and take a look."
The group of people quickly arrived at the location of the accident and saw many people lying on the ground in various directions.
It was impossible to count how many there were.
Without exception, they were foaming at the mouth, with dark faces, and their bodies were twitching constantly.
There were many people nearby trying to rescue him in various ways, but to no avail.
When Lieutenant General Schneider saw Manhard coming, he immediately came over and said, "Your Majesty General, the situation is very bad.
I made a preliminary estimate that nearly two thousand people have been in this situation one after another.
I suspect they have been poisoned.
You see Their symptoms are basically signs of poisoning.
We don’t know the specific cause yet, but I have sent people to find the medical officer.”
Manhard frowned and looked at the dark-faced soldiers and civilians lying on the ground, convulsing, twitching, foaming at the mouth, and he immediately said: "Send someone to the medical officer quickly and ask them to come here quickly."
"It's the general" Several medical officers rushed over quickly, and Manhard did not want them to salute.
Before they could speak, he immediately said: "Look at what happened to these people."
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"yes" After a short examination, the medical officers found that the symptoms of these people were basically the same, and there were a large number of them.
They quickly came to a preliminary conclusion.
A medical officer quickly walked over and said to Manha: "Your Excellency, General, we After preliminary inspection, it is believed that this is a large-scale food poisoning incident.
Someone put a variety of mixed drugs that can cause death in the food or the water used to prepare the food."
Manhard immediately asked: "What kind of drugs can detoxify them immediately?"
The medical officer shook his head and said: "General, I have been a medical officer for more than thirty years, and I have never seen these toxic drugs in our big food country.
However, I have seen a Taoist priest from the East in the Tang Dynasty.
I discussed medical issues with him and heard the Taoist priest talk about some of the drugs currently popular in the Tang Dynasty that can kill people.
He mentioned that the effects of several toxic drugs are very similar to the symptoms of these people, among which One is snake liquid, the second is red letter stone, and the third is gallbladder.
Currently known drugs that can cause death can be divided into three categories, namely plant, animal and mineral.
The drugs in these people's bodies have been taken up.
If we want to save them, we can only seek treatment from Oriental doctors who are well versed in the properties of these drugs.
If we don't treat them in time, there is really no way for these people to die one after another."
Manhard was so anxious that he was sweating profusely and immediately said: "Go find someone quickly and ask in the castle to find someone who can treat them."
"Yes, I will send someone to inquire immediately."
The soldiers of the Great Food Army shouted everywhere in the castle if anyone knew how to detoxify, and summoned all those who knew medical skills.
At this time, a centurion came over and whispered something to the deputy general.
The deputy general's face instantly turned extremely pale.
Manhard saw the abnormality and immediately asked: "Schneider, what happened?"
Schneider's mouth was bitter and he said with difficulty: "General, we are in big trouble.
Someone went to drink water just now and fell down soon.
The symptoms were exactly the same as these people.
In other words, someone put water in our karez.
After getting the medicine, my soldiers We checked all three karez wells in the castle and found that drugs had been put into all three karez wells.
From now on, we will have no water or food.
Although the water in the karez wells is flowing, by the time their toxicity dissipates, we will probably die of thirst.
Starved to death” When Manhard heard this, his eyes turned black and he fell to the ground.
The surrounding generals were shocked: "General."
Bam Castle, Western Qin Army Camp.
A Western Qin soldier who was standing on the archery tower of the village wall observing the situation in the castle saw a ribbon hanging on one of the fortresses and immediately ran down the wall, came to a large tent in the camp and reported to Wang Can: "General, our people Success, I placed a yellow ribbon on the top of the Seventh Fortress."
"Oh, take me to see it quickly."
Wang Can said and immediately stood up and walked outside the tent.
The two came to the shabby, and the soldier pointed to one of the fortresses and said: "General, please look, there is a yellow ribbon hanging on that fortress.
This is one of the codes for us to communicate with Xizuo.
If they succeed in the well in the castle, After being drugged, the ribbon was tied to the seventh fortress."
Wang Can looked it over, immediately turned around and walked down the arrow tower to the Chinese army tent.
He stood outside the door with fists clasped and shouted: "Wang Can, a humble minister, wants to see the king."
"Come in" Zhao Ziliang's voice came from inside.
Wang Can walked into the tent and clasped his fists to Zhao Ziliang who was handling the memorial: "Your Majesty, our detailed work has been successful.
They have put lethal drugs into the three wells in the castle.
From now on, the cannibals will have no water or food." " "Oh" Zhao Ziliang raised his head, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, Wei Chen has already observed it.
The castle has become even more chaotic.
Many people have died, and many more are about to die.
The big cannibal has been frightened out of his gall and is beginning to despair."
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Zhao Ziliang was overjoyed and immediately said: "Well done, come and summon the generals and officials to discuss the matter."
The generals and officials in the army were notified and rushed over quickly.
Zhao Ziliang said to everyone: "Everyone, there are three karez in Bam Castle, but now they have all been drugged by our craftsmanship.
In other words, from now on, At first, the castle began to run out of food and water.
If they could not survive for three days, they would start to die on a large scale.
As the saying goes, God has the virtue of good life, I think it is better to They should be given a chance to live.
Du Fu, you write a letter of surrender in the name of my king, saying that the water and food shortages in the castle are all caused by our Western Qin army.
We already know their situation, and ordered General Man to eat.
Hader led all the soldiers and civilians in Bam Castle to surrender, and I can promise to ensure their personal safety.
If they do not surrender, they will wait to die of hunger and thirst."
"Yes," Du Fu agreed, and immediately walked aside and began to splash ink.
After a while, he wrote a letter of surrender with gorgeous words but extremely threatening and coercive meaning.
Zhao Ziliang felt quite satisfied after hearing Du Fu read out the letter of persuasion to surrender.
He looked at the other generals and officials and asked, "What do you think?"
Liu Dan stood up and raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty, can this surrender letter really persuade the big cannibals in the castle to surrender?
Wei Chen has been the minister of Honglu Temple for many years, and he understands the nature of the big cannibals.
All the big cannibals are fierce.
Like fire, very stubborn, I'm afraid all of them would rather die of hunger and thirst than surrender."
Zhao Ziliang said: "The country of Dashi is not only the Dashi people, but also Persians and other races.
They are not monolithic.
Let's translate this surrender letter into Dashi words, copy hundreds of copies, and shoot them into the castle with bows and arrows.
Inside, in addition, we will send people to shout to the castle with big words on the wall, urging them to leave the city and surrender to Du Fu.
It is up to you to handle this matter and complete it as soon as possible."
Du Fu raised his hand and agreed: "Yes, Your Majesty."
Under the auspices of Du Fu, 300 surrender letters written in Arabic took a whole morning to copy with the efforts of more than a dozen scribes.
Du Fu stopped people from shooting bows and arrows into the castle, and soon everything in the castle was They were all letters of persuasion to surrender, and someone on the wall of the Western Qin camp kept shouting loudly, urging the cannibals in the castle to leave the city and surrender
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