For the next three days, the Emperor did not come to his senses again, and his pulse became less and less optimistic every day.
The eunuch doctors and military doctors finally turned on the dead horse mode, inviting the godly Xue Yao into the medical team as well.
Before that, Xue Yao used the tools brought from the palace - syringes made by polishing and painting according to the shape of modern syringes, needles carved and perforated in white jade, sterilized, assembled, and injected into the arms of the wounded soldiers.
Because there is no cork, the medicine is squeezed out of the back of the syringe and cannot be injected at all.
Xue Yao remembered that he had bought a western medicinal herb that came with a medical rubber dropper in the package, and utilized this dropper, together with a needle, to perform a squeeze injection, and finally succeeded.
Wounded soldiers are doing better.
Only then did Xue Yao qualify for the experience of beating a dead horse against the Emperor.
Xue Yao felt bad when he saw the emperor.
The Emperor's symptoms were nothing like those of a wounded soldier infected with tetanus, nor was his face the same.
The emperor did not have any of the typical symptoms of myasthenia gravis.
As a rule, the incubation period of tetanus infection should be more than a week, and the emperor was only three days from the time he was wounded to the time he returned to the camp, and when he brought it back, he was already showing symptoms of weakness.
According to the doctor's diagnosis, the arrow wound is not deep, and did not cause intestinal adhesions and other complications, the emperor's symptoms, more like poisoning.
Xue Yao had to guess that the diagnosis of the Imperial Doctors was the correct one - I'm afraid that the arrows used by the Khitans to assassinate the Emperor were really tainted with poison, or chronic lethal poison.
Though the speculation was desperate, it didn't stop him from making a last-ditch attempt to treat the Emperor with an injection.
Xue Yao's attempts didn't reverse the Emperor's injuries, but they didn't worsen either.
The Emperor has been in a heavy coma.
In that case, the emperor's last life was also due to poisoning, so he didn't have time to arrange the aftermath.
The Khitans tampered with the arrows so that the emperor would die slowly, facilitating enough time for them to withdraw their troops, or else they might be subjected to a reckless annihilation once the emperor died.
Several civil ministers were anxious and proposed to ask the Seventh Prince to order that Tong Ningzhao's men and horses be withdrawn to Guangdong, so that the Northwest Governor's troops and horses be disbanded back to their respective garrison areas, leaving only the forbidden army here to wait for the visit of the Qidan emissaries.
The ostensible reason was that the war was over, that the Khitan ruler had been so devastated that he could not possibly cross the river to counterattack, and that if all three armies stayed here, there would be insufficient food and provisions.
In fact, with the Emperor unconscious, the new Crown Prince will not be able to rally the various forces of the Crown Prince for a while, and many of them are afraid that they will choose to wait and see for the time being.
There's a lot of rain on the mountain.
The Tong family army could open the way for the Third Prince at any time, the Northwest Governor's troops were unstable, and the only ones that could be fully trusted were the Royal Forbidden Army.
The ministers hoped that the Seventh Prince would be able to get rid of the encirclement of the Third Prince's forces first, and then return to the capital with the posthumous edict to lead the forbidden army on his behalf, in order to mobilize all the forces to station in the capital and stand on firm ground.
Xue Yao knew that these ministers were all the Crown Prince's people, so he made the decision to let the Seventh Prince do as they said.
However, the seventh prince's order was rejected by Tong Ningzhao, saying that the battle was not yet decided, and that without an imperial decree, withdrawing the troops was equivalent to leading the troops to return in a clamor, and he vowed not to follow it.
Ministers actually want him to have the ability to die a see, along with his account of the commanders to die together to call for peace of mind.
But Tong Ningzhao above there are three princes backing, seven princes of the enthronement ceremony have not yet set the date, is still suppressed by the elder brother, tough not up.
On the contrary, it was the third prince who toughened up that night, and the civil officials who had come up with the plan were all taken into custody by him on the grounds that they were disturbing the heart of the army.
Xue Yao immediately shielded the little chubby cub back behind him, not allowing him to be maneuvering around the Third Prince's party.
Want to Gou to return to the capital and then make plans, at least first the big emperor hope back to the town scene.
The system told him that the Grand Prince had been rescued, so it was unlikely that he would die in battle on the other side of the river, and would surely return.
On the third day, the Sixth Prince and the Seventh Prince went together to look out of the barracks, expecting the figure of the Khitan emissary to burrow out of the line where the blue sky met the grass.
However, they did not expect the messenger until evening, and the two returned home defeated.
On the way back to the tent, the Sixth Prince touched shoulders with a soldier who appeared out of nowhere, and the soldier apologized repeatedly and came forward to dust off the Sixth Prince's shoulders.
This move was really abrupt, the Sixth Prince just wanted to push his hand away, when he heard the man come closer and said in a low voice, "Let's take a step to talk, the last general has urgent information to report."
Subsequently, the two young emperors were informed of a frightening piece of information - the Khitan emissary had already rushed to the camp yesterday to negotiate, and was intercepted halfway by Tong Ningzhao's sentries and secretly brought back to the camp to be imprisoned.
The Third Prince didn't want to exchange hostages, what if the Khitan side sent the Crown Prince back alive?
The Prince doesn't have a few younger brothers to deal with.
Thousands of miles away, the cronies that the Fifth Prince secretly sent out to chase the Crown Prince before crossing the river finally chased him all the way to the capital and informed the Crown Prince of the bad news that the Emperor had been ambushed.
The already fatigued Crown Prince is now eight hundred miles back in a hurry.
Unfortunately, the two younger brothers in the barracks couldn't wait.
The Sixth Prince and the Seventh Prince put on their silver armor and hung up their swords, leading the commanders of the forbidden army to raid the tent where the messenger was being held.
Outside the tent, there were close friends of the Tong family guarding it.
Seeing the two armor-wearing young princes with people walking over, the guards were caught off guard, but still hardheadedly went forward to smile and ask the princes "what is your business".
The Sixth Prince was about to explain his intentions, but the Seventh Prince asked the guards, "What is your business?" with an expressionless face.
The guards said, "I wouldn't dare, I wouldn't dare."
The Seventh Prince said, "Then get lost."
The commander in the tent heard the commotion outside and immediately came out alertly.
As soon as he saw the two young emperors rampaging over, the commander reacted quickly and stepped forward to stop the way in vain, saying that the tent was holding a human prisoner that the third prince wanted to dispose of, and that the matter was confidential, so it was inconvenient to release him.
The Sixth Prince frowned and chided, "What prisoners is Third Brother holding that we can't know about?"
That commanding officer to see the two emperors brought behind the forbidden army, more convinced that the Northwest Governor and Tong Governor are not subject to the new Crown Prince transfer orders, so there is no hurry and panic, said: "Two Your Highnesses, if you are curious, you can go to find the three emperors to ask for details, the end of the general is just acting under orders, the military order is like a mountain, if someone breaks into ...... Heh heh heh ......"
The Seventh Prince remained expressionless and asked the commander, "What about breaking in?"
That commanding officer stood up his waist and said forcefully, "Then he has disobeyed the Third Prince's military order!"
The Seventh Prince stepped forward and pressed himself in front of him, pointing his finger to the tip of the nose of this "huh huh huh" commanding officer and said, "You'll see."
The Commanding Envoy was forced back two steps by the inexplicable ferocious aura of the young prince, and watched as the Seventh Prince barged in with a few of his forbidden army cronies.
The sixth prince was very surprised in his heart, when the seventh brother was angry, he would make stubborn and rebellious behavior, but most of the time he wouldn't be so directly provocative to people, it was obvious that he was very angry at the moment, but on his face there was still no expression, which made people puzzled.
The two emperors barged into the tent with the commander of the forbidden army.
The Khitan messenger was gagged and bound to a couch.
The Seventh Prince glanced sideways at his subordinate, who immediately drew his sword and cut the messenger's bindings.
The Seventh Prince bent down to remove the ball of cloth from the messenger's mouth.
The emissary burst into a rage, accusing the Han of being untrustworthy and unruly.
The Seventh Prince bent over and tucked the cloth back in, pressed the messenger's shoulder, and asked succinctly, "Where are the Crown Prince and the Fifth Prince? Don't talk nonsense."
The cloth ball was once more removed, and the messenger, who had regained the right to speak, unmemorably began to vent again, "When two armies are at war, they don't cut off the envoys!"
The Seventh Prince steeply gripped his sword and pushed the hilt, the blade came out of its sheath three inches, and the blade was pressed against the messenger's neck, threatening with the attitude of "when two armies are at war, one must behead the incoming envoys", "Don't, waste, words."
Messenger face green piece purple piece, obviously detained when not less beaten by the party of the three emperors, and now want to promote the image of the state of etiquette of Daqi is too late, simply do not stick to the false rituals.
That messenger immediately did not feel aggrieved, and answered the question gently and courteously, "I have said countless times, your country's fifth prince is on the other side of the river, we only sent 300 people to camp and escort, waiting for your country to exchange the hostage, your country's prince is really not in our camp, it's true! Please think about it, if we captured your prince and exchanged two for one, how could we not add other demands in the letter of surrender?"
The words were a shock to everyone who heard them.
The Prince is not in the hands of the Khitans?
The Seventh Prince was about to ask again when there was a cacophony of noise outside the tent and it returned to silence.
Immediately afterward, the Third Prince walked in with Tong Ningzhao and a few of his cronies.
"Sixth Brother and Seventh Brother didn't stay in the tent and skewered me in my forbidden land?" The third prince raised his chin and walked aggressively to the two young emperors.
"Why are you detaining the Khitan envoys!" The Sixth Prince was furious: "Is it because you want to let Big Brother and Fifth Brother be trapped for the rest of their lives!"
The Third Prince laughed coldly and replied unhurriedly, "On the contrary, you should have asked just now, this guy doesn't admit that his big brother is being held by them, that is, he doesn't want to return his big brother, I certainly have to interrogate the truth and then make plans."
The Sixth Prince argued, "Even if you want to interrogate, you can't do it privately!"
The third prince laughed: "Big brother is not here, I don't make the decision, do you make the decision? Do you still have any respect in your eyes?"
The Sixth Prince rebuked, "How is it that you're the one making the decisions! Father has already changed the seventh brother to be the Crown Prince and handed over the military talisman to the seventh brother as well!"
The third prince pretended to be sad: "Father is sick and confused, can't count, even if big brother can't come back, should set up the second brother as the crown, how can there be the reason to set up the seventh brother instead? This is not the rules, the second brother agreed, the group of ministers will not agree, the group of ministers agreed, the people of the world will not agree!"
These words were a blunt disavowal of the Seventh Prince's status.
The commander of the forbidden army and the two close friends immediately gripped the hilts of their swords.
Tong Ningzhao and the others quickly responded by slightly sheathing their blades for a fraction of a second, forcing the other party not to act rashly.
The Seventh Prince looked at the Third Prince without much emotion and faintly said, "Big brother is not in their hands, first change back to the Fifth Brother."
"Joke." The Third Prince said with a disdainful face, "If it's not in their hands, who else could it be in? They just want to use Old Five to exchange for their prince first, and then use Big Brother to make things difficult for us!" He smiled triumphantly, "We must not fall for their cunning plan, we must exchange one for two, big brother and fifth brother must both be handed back."
The Sixth Prince stepped forward and stared at the Third Prince: "Father has already recognized the order for Old Seven to lead the three armies, so Third Brother should not judge himself or make up his own mind, all actions should be executed in compliance with Seventh Brother's decision!"
"What decision?" The Third Prince narrowed his eyes at his two younger brothers with a threatening look, "Ignoring big brother and only saving fifth brother? Seventh brother, could it be that you are trying to get big brother killed in order to keep your temporary position as Crown Prince? If you're really so treasonous, don't blame Third Brother for disregarding brotherly love!"
All of these grandiose reasons were taught to him by Tong Ningzhao's party members, and would allow him to justify not exchanging hostages.
There was a silence in the tent.
The Sixth Prince was so angry that his ears turned red.
The Seventh Prince was still without much emotion, and suddenly looked sideways at Tong Ningzhao: "General Tong, in the holy oracle, 'civil ministers and military generals will collaborate to assist', what is the previous sentence?"
Tong Ningzhao froze, thought for a moment, lowered his head without answering, and secretly squinted at the Third Prince to ask him to step in to solve the problem.
The Seventh Prince asked the commander of the forbidden army with a sideways glance, "You tell him."
The Commander of the Forbidden Army immediately replied aloud, "Re-establish the Wise Prince, King Ning, as the Crown Prince!"
The Seventh Prince asked again, "Was the seal stamped by Father himself?"
"Yes!"
The Seventh Prince nodded his head once, "The Commander of the Forbidden Army, Yan Fan, is at your service."
Yan Fan immediately knelt down on one knee, "The last general is here!"
"Immediately escort the Khitan emissary and the Khitan prince to the west of the river and exchange hostages as agreed."
Yan Fan immediately took the order, and as soon as he had pulled the couch messenger up, he prepared to send him out of the camp.
Tong Ningzhao's fists gradually clenched.
But he wasn't ready for a head-to-head confrontation.
Fighting with the forbidden army, I'm afraid to lose half of the men, he originally planned to let the two young emperors think that the qidan has broken faith, personally lead the army to crusade, take advantage of the chaos to kill these two emperors, rely on the qidan.
So good to make the three emperors more legitimate to take the mountain, I did not expect the old seven this kid is quite difficult.
Tong Ningzhao is grimly trying to think of ways to deal with it, but unexpectedly the third prince in front of him suddenly pulled out his sword with a "choking" sound!
Without waiting for the crowd to react, the Third Prince stepped forward and slit the throat of the Khitan emissary with a knife!
The earth-colored tent curtain was instantly sprayed with blood in a crooked red curtain.
The defenseless Khitan emissary's eyes were about to stare out of their sockets as he covered his neck in death, trying to stop the blood and life from leaking out of his body, before he eventually collapsed limply to the ground.
Death is not an option.
A shock.
A hot stream from the Seventh Prince's dantian surged throughout his body, and the airflow around his body instantly crashed out of this tiny tent, pushing and overturning out towards the outside of the tent.
That pair of shallow pupils that had always been gentle and harmless had now converged on a stern killing intent.
Like an instinct, the Seventh Prince, in a flash of lightning, had already made a judgment based on the force and standing position of the several hostile forces within the tent, and the best routes and moves to strike one by one flashed through his mind.
It was as if a lion raised by a gazelle, starved to the extreme, the hunting instinct in its bloodline, no longer had anything to hide.
The author has something to say:
Old Father Remote: Who? Who said Dad is a gazelle? I'm not a white rabbit.
Seven Pups: what I said.
Old Father Remote: oooh wow ahhhhhhh! Cold night drifts sprinkle my face, my son's rebellion hurts my heart ......