"I have long heard that Li Su Li Boya is full of tricks, he has only been here for more than a month, how many more tricks have been in Liu Beijun's siege, damn it, if it goes on like this, how long can our army's military rations last? If you don't survive this winter and demoralize Liu Beijun to the point where the veteran soldiers are tired, ask your father for help and let him send the main force to fight Liu Bei in a decisive battle, right? ”

Looking at the recent losses of military rations and firewood and grass reported by his subordinates that were burned by the enemy's catapults with fire oil tanks, Liu Mao was simply a head and two big, and for the first time he had fundamental doubts about how long he could hold out.

Originally, it was said that he would eat more than fifteen months of grain and grass, but as he was forced to release so many surrendered soldiers, he could only eat for a year at most. A small batch of grain scattered at the front was burned, and it is estimated that it can only be eaten for ten months.

Fortunately, the main granaries in Diaoyu City are all in the Diaoyu Mountain area, the defense is strong, and the position is high, and it is impossible for the enemy's catapults to hit such a high position, so more than eighty percent of the stored grain is still absolutely safe.

But who knows if Li Su will have another trick next?

Since the beginning of June, Liu Mao has fallen into a state of suspicion, and he can't sleep well every night, lest there be some new bad news or tired tactics.

On this day, about the sixth day of the sixth month of June, Liu Mao was woken up by Liu Beijun's bluff in the middle of the night, and finally fell asleep again in the early morning, but not long after, the sky was just bright, and a henchman colonel next to him came to wake him up.

"Shizi, it's not good, look at what is this in the sky? There is a ghost fire in the sky! ”

Liu Mao rubbed her eyes, hurriedly ran out, and saw that in the misty morning light, there were indeed dozens of hazy firelight that seemed to be shrouded in gauze paper flying in the sky, like large fireflies.

"What is this? Could it be that Li Boya can still make something that can fly? ”

Watching these boya lanterns (Kong Ming lanterns) fly into the sky above Diaoyu City, the sergeants and officers of Liu Mao below were all terrified.

There is no way, things that can fly under human control are too shocking for people in this era, not to mention fire. Many illiterate soldiers were even directly frightened, and as some kind of supernatural apparition event, they knelt down to pray, complain and repent, even if these lamps had no offensive power against them.

After all, it takes one or two catties of sugar and oil to be loaded, and according to simple physical calculations, it takes a few cubic meters of hot air density difference to rise, so the largest one, the skeleton of bamboo strips inside is seven or eight feet high, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a small hot air balloon.

No matter how big it is, the strength of the paper in this era will not be able to hold up. The lights were all made two or three days ago, but it was not until today that the wind was released. When it flies to a similar position, the lantern bearer will tear off the thin kite string, and the candle inside the lamp will be strangled and fall into the oil bladder, immediately turning the lamp into a large fireball and falling from the sky. (In order to reduce the weight and fill more oil with oil, I did not use a clay pot as a container, but used a pig casing made of sausages, which would not leak after half an hour)

Liu Mao, Liu Bi, Wu Yi, and the main generals in the city soon gathered nearby to watch, closely alert for further changes.

"Hula~" A wind sounded, and they watched as a ghost fire lamp turned into a large fireball, rolling down, and falling on a brick and wood house in the city - of course, this place is not a granary, at least it is still a hundred zhang away from the nearest granary, and the hot air balloon fire attack fluttering in the wind is impossible to aim.

But that's enough, because once the defending soldiers discover a new type of attack that would allow them to be beaten in vain and they have no chance of fighting back, the morale itself will be greatly damaged, and chaos will ensue.

"Hurry up and put out the fire! It doesn't matter if the house is heavy or not, anyone who is lit by a sky lantern must be saved immediately! Don't mess around! Rebel slash! Liu Mao was also very conscious, and instantly realized that in order to consolidate his morale, the most important thing at this time is not to be afraid.

Dozens of lamps fell one after another, which soon made the soldiers fighting the fire at a loss, rushing to their own and mixing them up.

In fact, only two or three percent of these lights fell on the house, and none of them could pick a target, but they smashed the house, causing a total of seven or eight effective fires.

However, in the midst of the chaos, more troubles followed.

"Oh no, the granary in the north of the city is also on fire! Hit by a ghost fire lamp! ”

Liu Mao was startled, looked up, and saw that there was a granary on fire in the distance. He remembered that there was a ghost fire lamp flying in that direction just now, why did it hit it?

Could it be that he had mixed up with the fine work by releasing them into the captives before? Or were some of those captives corrupted by the Han army's delicious food and drink and secretly surrendered?

"Quick! Hurry up and put out the fire! The guards guarding the granaries everywhere must not be moved! Assign a special person and don't go anywhere else to put out the fire! Under the pretext of fire elsewhere, those who leave their posts without permission will be killed! ”

Liu Mao was anxious and added some orders, and finally stabilized the situation a little. This is also something that can't be helped, don't look at his age than Liu Bei, he is in his thirties, but he really hasn't fought before, how can he have so much experience.

However, the soldiers in the city were panicked, and it has been rumored these days that the logistics of the Han army are too strong, and the consumption must be unwinning, which makes Liu Mao frightened and unable to trust others.

After some tossing, in the end, the loss was counted at dawn, and at least the grain and grass that accumulated more than 10,000 stone were burned.

After the stop, Liu Mao tried to thoroughly investigate whether all the prisoners who had been released had defected, but this kind of thing was definitely not resolved in the end.

Two days later, a small colonel came to report, saying that some soldiers took the opportunity of their turn to go to the river beach in the north of the city to draw water, and secretly fled to the enemy.

……

"The effect of these tired enemy techniques is also good, a few more hands, the morale of the defenders in the city will definitely collapse, and when the time comes, try to sneak attack and surrender, maybe there will be a decisive flaw."

Li Sugou secretly observed from a distance for a few days, and found that his disgusting harassment had indeed disgusted the enemy army, and he couldn't help but feel proud in his heart, and was about to carry out further sabotage.

However, it is also possible that he lacks virtue and does too much, too hurtful Yin and morality, after returning to the camp this day, Xu Huang, who has been in charge of the land siege on the eastern front, came over to report a bad news to him, interrupting Li Su's original rhythm.

"What's the matter with Komeito?" Li Su saw Xu Huang's panicked face and signaled that he didn't need to be nervous.

Xu Huang sighed: "Zhonglang, my Hedong soldiers, are all from the north, they can't bear the heat of Ba County, it's the end of June, and many soldiers are sick, I'm afraid that they will be hit by miasma, and I beg Zhonglang to ask General Zhengxi for reinforcements, and send reinforcements to change the guard, so as not to be caught by the enemy The opportunity to break through or go out of the city to counterattack." ”

Li Su was shocked in his heart, the army was not adapted to the soil and water, and there was an epidemic, which was the most important thing for the army to pay attention to when fighting in the south.

Last year, the fighting was actually over at the end of May, and there was no military action in June and July, the hottest lunar months. The problem of northern soldiers being infested with miasma, subtropical bush sickness or other infectious diseases is not very serious.

However, this year's battle of Diaoyu City, although the intensity is not large, is protracted, and now it is held until the end of June, but it is not the period of concentrated outbreak of physical problems in the northern soldiers.

Nanyang Zhang Ji has not yet written "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", and the people's cognition of infectious diseases in the late Han Dynasty is still at the stage of Zhang Jiao's witchcraft runes, but Li Su can't be cautious, he hurriedly asks what diseases have appeared in the army.

Xu Huang: "Some soldiers have swollen abdomen, yellow muscles, vomiting and diarrhea. Others are unidentified fevers. ”

Li Su frowned, he knew that the people of the Han Dynasty called many kinds of infectious fever "typhoid fever", and it was estimated that among the people who had problems in Xu Huang's camp, there must also be typhoid fever.

As for an enlarged abdomen and thin yellow muscles, it will also be contagious...... Could it be a schistosome? Did the troops eat a snail or something else? Or did you eat undercooked herring fed on snails?

In any case, it is estimated that there are digestive tract infections.

Li Su doesn't care what kind of illness he is, a few admonitions of gold balm will not be wrong after all: "Immediately ask the military medical engineer to adjust the treatment!" I will go to Dianjiang County and invite some more medical workers. Soldiers with signs of illness were immediately isolated, all excretion was buried, covered with firewood and burned, and lime sprinkled!

All drinking water must be taken from the upper reaches of the Jialing River! If the river water is unreliable, then dig a well, and the drinking water must be cooked! The diet must also be thoroughly cooked! Did some soldiers eat the meat of the big herring that ate snails raw? Military rations must be uniformly distributed, and you can't catch fish to supplement food just because the besieged city along the river is idle! Violators will be killed! ”

After Li Su ordered this, let Xu Huang make sure to supervise the army to do it thoroughly. Fortunately, Xu Huang is also a person who governs the army well, and he strictly implements it immediately after writing it down.

Li Su was a little scared in his heart, and he didn't dare to go to Xu Huang's camp to hang around, but he isolated himself for three or five days to ensure that he was okay for the time being, so he told Xu Huang, Zhou Tai and others that he would go back to live in the county seat of Dianjiang County on the other side of the river first.

If there is a problem with the military situation, send someone to write a letter to report to him, don't write the letter on paper, but write it on a piece of bamboo (Li Su will boil it in the soup when he receives the letter, and then read it, and the paper will be boiled)

Of course, in order to appease them, Li Su also rewarded them for their performance in the previous stage of the siege, and also honored the reward of promoting Gan Ning from the Marquis of Qu Jun to Sima of other tribes, in recognition of his previous merit in killing Gao Pei and defeating the enemy's grain fleet.

As for Zhou Tai Xu Huang, for the time being, he was only besieged, and his merits were not obvious, so he could not be promoted, but Li Su also promised that when Diaoyu City was breached, there would definitely be promotions, stabilize people's hearts, and let them continue to stay where they were.

These generals are in good health, and they are not easy to be infected with a little infectious disease, Li Su is a weak strategist, how can he take the same risk as them. It is better to go back to the county town to boil water every day and take a bath after cooling, and pay attention to personal hygiene - originally in winter, Li Su only boiled part of the hot water in the bath, and it was not required to boil it thoroughly, and it could also be mixed with cold water to the right temperature before washing.

But now that he heard that there might be schistosomiasis, Li Su immediately demanded that his bath water must be boiled thoroughly, even if it was cold water, it had to be cold boiled water, not raw water.

Although it is a bit wasteful, and it is not in line with "sharing weal and sorrow with the soldiers", who made him the Zhonglang general and the highest commander of the Diaoyu City War Zone.

Li Su was so cowardly, he was really not found by the infectious disease, but the situation on Xu Huang's side was relieved relatively slowly, and the spread of schistosomiasis was diagnosed and distinguished, and it was isolated and controlled.

However, it was soon discovered that there were also heavy cattle in charge of the "last ten miles after unloading" transport work were infected with subtropical diseases, and many sick cattle died—these cattle were all used to haul supplies and vehicles when they followed the army into Sichuan, and the northern cattle were infected with the virus and got summer diseases because they were not adapted to the pests and diseases in the south, and it was impossible to avoid it.

Li Su strictly ordered Xu Huang not to let the soldiers be greedy, and he must not eat the beef that died of illness, and would rather burn the plague directly.

However, just after Li Su gave this order, he suddenly remembered a game he had played in his previous life, called "Fortress", in which there seemed to be a siege weapon "Sick Cow Cannon", which was to replace the stone bullets thrown by ordinary catapults with cow corpses that had died of infectious diseases......

"It's probably the hottest time of the year...... Hey, I remember that these days I have been observing that the soldiers of Diaoyu City also have to go to the Jialing River beach outside the north city wall to get water, and they will use ox carts to pull water along the slope back to the city......

Can you use a remote catapult to smash some cattle pulling the cart while they are getting water, and mix a little stuff into it? Moreover, after these fires, I think there is less cooking smoke in their city, and while the military rations are burned, the shortage of straw and firewood should be more serious, right? It is estimated that it is to save fuel to prepare for the winter, and in the summer, I am ready to eat raw. If that's the case, you can also add some snail green to them with a trebuchet......"