si-mexico Chapter 1358: Treat the person with his own medicine.
Chapter 1358: Treat the person with his own medicine.
The next day, as the scorching June sun burned the Tang army camp, the soldier on duty on the watchtower at the gate suddenly staggered and grabbed the flagpole.
On a gentle slope ten miles away, three hundred strong men of the Chu army were pushing a five-meter-high wooden platform slowly approaching.
The black iron cage on the top of the platform glowed faintly blue in the sunlight - Li Mi was suspended in the cage by iron chains, his charred skin and flesh exposed under his torn crimson official uniform.
"Listen, Yuchi, you idiot!"
Ran Ming's roar came along with the war drums: "Today I will return half an ear of your minister!"
The knife flashed, and a shrill scream broke out from the cage.
The blood-stained left ear was shot onto the gate of the Tang army by a crossbow arrow and nailed to the center of the military flag with the word "Yuchi" on it.
The surrounding Chu troops suddenly roared: "Blood debt must be paid with blood!"
They fell into a trap a few days ago and lost many of their companions, who were tortured by the Tang army in this way.
Today, they captured Li Mi, the Minister of Personnel of the Tang army, and naturally they had to take revenge.
They want to regain their lost face and make the Tang army lose all face!
Inside the Tang army camp, Yuchi Gong's wrist guard creaked from under his knuckles.
He really wanted to send troops to rescue, but he also knew that once he did, he would fall into the Chu army's trap.
Since the Chu army dared to send Li Mi to the front of the battle to torture him, there must be an ambush. If the Tang army goes out, it will suffer heavy losses.
As the commander-in-chief, he cannot joke with the lives of his soldiers.
At this time, angry roars of generals were heard outside the tent. They had already smashed the seventh wooden table.
"Change to a three-bow crossbow."
Yuchi Gong came out of the tent and suddenly spoke, his voice so hoarse that it seemed to have been squeezed out of hell.
"Use clusterless arrows."
When the Chu army's wooden platform advanced to 500 steps, twelve huge arrows wrapped in cotton cloth suddenly shot out from the Tang army's formation.
The arrows pierced the wooden stand accurately, and the unrolled plain silk was covered with ink:
"Chu Ning, little boy, you are my mother's maid!"
This line of insult, written by Yuchi Gong himself, caused the Tang army to burst into laughter that had been suppressed for many days.
Chu Ning's peacock carriage suddenly braked, and the golden nanmu handrails were smashed to pieces.
"Humph, you want to humiliate me? Then be prepared to pay the price!"
"Come here, tell the military doctor to prepare the most cruel punishment!"
Since Yuchi Gong doesn't dare to fight, let's just play it bigger and put extreme pressure on him!
At midnight that night, twelve glazed lamps were suddenly erected around the cage. Li Mi was hung on the edge of a wooden platform with iron chains. Ten witch doctors of the Chu army, holding silver needles, danced a strange war dance around him.
"Yuchi Gong, do you know this technique?"
Chu Ning's voice echoed throughout the area through the copper speaker.
"This is called the Hundred Acupoints Soul Locking. Within three hours after the silver needles are inserted into the acupoints, Minister Li can clearly feel the pain of every inch of flesh and blood being torn off!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a seven-inch long silver needle had already pierced into Li Mi's shoulder well acupoint, and the finger with its nails peeled off suddenly spasmed into the shape of chicken claws.
A soldier suddenly fell from the Tang army's watchtower. He covered his ears and fell on the chevaux-de-frise. Black blood oozed from between his fingers. He could not bear Li Mi's inhuman screams and pierced his eardrum with an arrow.
Yuchi Gong's nails dug deep into the wooden cracks of the fence, leaving ten bloody scratches on the blue bricks.
At dawn on the third day, eighteen torture instruments shaped like water wheels were rolled out from the Chu army.
Ran Ming lifted Li Mi's chin with his axe and showed his sewn eyelids to the Tang army: "Your Shangshu cried too hard last night, so we had to help him."
As he spoke, the boiling salt water in the torture instrument was poured onto Li Mi's festering back through a bamboo tube, and white smoke mixed with a burnt smell drifted across the front of the two armies.
Yuchi Gong suddenly drew his sword and smashed the fence, roaring angrily, "Give me the Shocking Heaven Bow!"
The deputy general held onto his waist tightly and said, "General, think twice! The wooden platform is surrounded by poisoned caltrops. It's clearly a trap to lure our army to charge!"
At this moment, Li Mi in the cage suddenly let out an indistinct roar, and his tongue pierced by the iron stick stirred up blood foam in his mouth.
Chu Ning smiled and untied his gag: "Master Li, do you have anything to say?"
Li Mi was seen banging his forehead against the iron bars wildly, leaving a blurry word "勿" on the cage post. Blood mixed with brain matter slowly flowed along the iron bars.
The string of Yuchi Gong's amazing bow suddenly broke, and the broken wooden thorns from the bow pierced into his palm.
He stared blankly at the gradually drying blood words, knowing that it was Li Mi who told him not to send troops.
"Get some paper and pen."
Yuchi Gong bit his finger with his teeth and wrote quickly on the paper with blood: "Eight hundred miles to present to your majesty: I have observed the Chu army formation. The right wing has hidden the Western Regions Fire Dragon Chariot, and the left valley has hidden traces of the soldiers. Now Minister Li..."
His pen tip smudged a large blob of ink on the rice paper: "...still in the hands of the enemy, but I am afraid of falling into a chain of traps, so...so..."
Before the urgent report was finished, thunderous cheers suddenly broke out from the Chu army.
Eighteen Ferghana horses dragged the iron cage and began to gallop around the formation. Li Mi's body kept hitting the iron bars in the cage, and the blood that spilled along the way quickly coagulated into brown streams under the scorching sun.
Ran Ming's axe was carrying Li Mi's golden seal of the Shangshu, and he was chopping at the gate of the Tang army.
Yuchi Gong roared: "Send the letter to His Majesty immediately!"
Now, he was powerless to save Li Mi and could only let the emperor make the decision.
The day passed quickly, and that night, Yuchi Gong stood alone on the top floor of the arrow tower.
The Chu army would use catapults to throw part of Li Mi's body at every hour - first three toes, then half of his little finger.
What was delivered at Yinshi was actually a tooth stained with brain matter.
Yuchi Gong silently put the body parts into the sandalwood box.
At five o'clock in the morning, when the Chu army began to burn Li Mi's broken body, Yuchi Gong suddenly ordered the whole army to play "The Qin King's Breaking Formation Music".
Three hundred war drums shook the rain curtain back. He stood at the highest point of the arrow tower and pointed his sword at the Chu army's banner:
"Chu Ning! This blood and flesh will be returned a hundredfold - I will use your head as a cup and the blood of the King of Chu as wine!"
Chu Ning's mocking laughter was heard in the night wind, and the burning cage illuminated the tens of thousands of Chu troops lurking in the mountains.
Yuchi Gong looked at the outlines of the siege vehicles that appeared in the firelight, and finally understood the real purpose of this slow slicing drama.
The main force of the Chu army had already attracted Li Mi's attention by abusing him, and completed the encirclement of the Tang army camp.
"What a cunning Chu Ning, he really lives up to his reputation!"
Yuchi Gong felt a little regretful at this moment. If he had known this would happen, he should not have deliberately massacred the Chu army in the past few days.
But there is no medicine for regret in this world. Since he has done it, he can only admit his mistake.
Fortunately, the number of Chu troops here is less than that of Tang troops, so even if the other side starts an attack, he is confident that he can stop them.
Thinking of this, Yuchi Gong narrowed his eyes and said in a cold voice: "Pass the order, the whole army is on martial law, be ready to deal with the attack of the Chu army at any time!"
At the command, the Tang army began to prepare.
On this side, Chu Ning stared at the Tang army camp with a cold expression.
Jia Yu came to report: "Your Highness, everything is ready. Tomorrow is the day to defeat the enemy!"
"very good!"
A cold expression appeared on Chu Ning's face: "In this battle, we must take down Yuchi Gong's head!"
"Pass the order, all troops should have a good rest tonight, and attack the Tang army camp tomorrow."