Chapter 119 Spare the horse!

Chapter 119 Spare the horse!

Outside the racecourse, a series of heavy, chaotic footsteps accompanied by the clanging of armored vehicles could be heard.

Tie Kui strode in with a gloomy face.

Behind him followed a squad of personal guards carrying torches and long swords, each with a face filled with sorrow and determination.

Outside the horse farm, countless cavalrymen who had rushed to the scene were clinging to the fence, looking at the warhorses lying on the ground inside. These seven-foot-tall men were crying like children.

"Black Wind! My Black Wind!"

"General! Please don't kill them! Wait a little longer!"

The cries were deafening, but they could not shake Tie Kui's heart of stone.

A kind heart cannot command an army.

Once the equine plague spreads, all the warhorses in Yanmen Pass will die.

In order to save the remaining horses, these sick horses must die, and they must be burned and buried immediately!

"Shut up, all of you!"

Tie Kui roared, silencing all the crying.

He walked up to the black horse that was convulsing, and looking at this fine steed that had once charged into battle with him, a hint of pain flashed in his eyes, but it was quickly replaced by ruthlessness.

"A short pain is worse than a long one."

Tie Kui drew his sword from his waist, the blade gleaming coldly in the firelight.

"Brother, don't blame me for being heartless. In your next life, may you be reborn into a better family."

After saying that, he raised his long sword high and slashed it down hard at the black horse's neck!

"stop--!!!"

A sharp cry rang out, like a thunderclap from a clear sky.

Just as the blade was about to touch the horsehide, a white figure rushed over without regard for anything else.

Tang Li spread her arms and, without any hesitation, stood directly in front of the black horse!

"call!"

Tie Kui was shocked and abruptly stopped his sword strike mid-air.

The tip of the knife stopped just three inches from Tang Li's brow, and the sharp wind even cut off a strand of hair at her temple.

"Are you crazy?!"

Tie Kui looked at the woman in front of him who was so reckless that she trembled with rage, and the veins on her forehead bulged:

"Get out of the way! This is a military order! Horse plague is extremely contagious. Do you want to kill all the horses in the army?!"

Tang Li didn't back down. She stared intently into Tie Kui's eyes, her chest heaving from the intense running, but her voice remained unusually firm:

"I told you, this is not a plague!"

"They can still be saved! We can't kill them!"

"Womanly compassion!"

Tie Kui wouldn't listen to a word. He felt that the princess was being unreasonable and was playing with the big picture.

He shoved the knife into the ground, pointed it at the pear tree, and roared:

"Your Highness! This is a battlefield! Not a place for you to show mercy! If the plague spreads, can you bear the loss of these thousands of horses, and the lives of the brothers who will die on the battlefield later?!"

"Guards! Pull the princess away! If she dares to resist, tie her up and send her back to the main tent!"

"yes!"

Although the two guards hesitated, they could not disobey orders and had no choice but to step forward and forcibly take Tangli away.

"Don't touch me!"

Tang Li abruptly shook off the outstretched hand, her fierceness startling both of the guards.

She stopped looking at Tie Kui, turned around, and rushed to the fodder trough next to her like a madwoman.

The trough was piled high with chopped hay, mixed with dirt and horse saliva, and was filthy.

But Tangli didn't mind at all.

She took off her gloves and plunged her delicate hands, which she had originally used only to count gold and peel grapes, into the rough haystack.

I frantically searched for it.

The hay pierced her delicate skin, and her fingernails were filled with black mud, but she seemed oblivious to it.

What is she doing?

"Has the princess gone mad?"

Everyone around was stunned.

Just as Tie Kui lost his last bit of patience and was about to personally arrest the person.

"Found it!" Tang Li suddenly shouted.

She turned around abruptly and raised her right hand high.

In that fair palm lay a small handful of withered leaves, dark purple in color and broken in shape.

Tang Li strode up to Tie Kui, held the handful of broken leaves right in front of his eyes, her gaze surprisingly bright:

"General Tie! Look carefully!"

"This isn't an ordinary weed! This is Gelsemium elegans! Also known as Gelsemium elegans!"

She pointed to the warhorses on the ground, foaming at the mouth, and explained very quickly:

"The horse ate this stuff and suffered from intestinal cramps and nerve paralysis. The symptoms looked like the plague, but it was actually poisoning!"

"As long as you induce vomiting with salt water and then give them a large amount of mung bean and licorice soup to detoxify, they can survive!"

Tie Kui was stunned.

He looked at the inconspicuous broken leaves in Tang Li's hand, and then at Tang Li's firm and determined eyes, and a slight wavering arose in his heart.

Could it be... poisoning?

"Nonsense!"

Just then, the old veterinarian jumped out in a fit of rage.

He pointed at the blade of grass in Tang Li's hand, his face full of disdain and mockery:

"Your Highness! What medical knowledge do you have? It's common for fodder to be mixed with weeds! How could a few small leaves possibly poison hundreds of horses?"

"This is a plague! It's a natural disaster! If you insist on calling it poisoning, are you implying that someone deliberately poisoned us? That's a capital offense!"

To maintain his authority, the old veterinarian spoke in a shrill, piercing voice:

"You, a sheltered woman, have probably never even ridden a horse. It's absurd for you to be pointing fingers and making pronouncements based on a few rotten leaves!"

The surrounding generals nodded in agreement.

Yes, even a veteran veterinarian with decades of experience says it's a plague, while a delicate princess says it's poisoning. Neither of these explanations seems plausible.

Tang Li remained calm in the face of doubt and ridicule.

She gave the old veterinarian a cold look and did not argue with him.

"Whether it's absurd or not, we'll find out once we try it."

Tang Li turned to look at Tie Kui, her gaze burning with a resolute determination that suggested she was willing to risk everything.

"General Tie, give me half an hour."

"I will save this black horse. If it doesn't survive in half an hour, you don't need to lift a finger; I'll just roll back to the capital and never set foot in the military camp again!"

"But if it were alive..."

Tang Li's voice suddenly rose in pitch:

"Then please, General, rescind your order, thoroughly investigate the fodder, and save the lives of all the warhorses!"