The plague came faster than Li Qing imagined, Li Qing came to the tent where the sick soldier was lying, and as soon as he approached the tent, he smelled an unpleasant stench.

Li Qing hurriedly stopped Sima Xin and the other soldiers who followed, telling them not to approach those sick soldiers at will, so as not to be infected.

Li Qing said to Sima Xin: "General, from today onwards, all sick soldiers will be isolated, no matter how sick they are, no one will be allowed to approach at will, and in the future, when you drink water, you must drink cold boiling water, and I will write you a prescription later, you can take medicine according to the prescription and give it to the soldiers, maybe you can barely have some effect." ”

Although Sima Xin felt that Li Qing was a little alarmist, when he thought of the horror of the plague, Sima Xin still decided to do what Li Qing said.

Li Qing asked Sima Xin to arrange for someone to make a simple mask out of linen, to be honest, linen cloth is not suitable for making masks, but in today's Qin State, there is only silk and linen, silk is expensive, and the isolation effect is not necessarily better than that of linen, so Li Qing can only choose to use linen to make masks, although such a mask may not necessarily play a protective role.

Li Qing walked into the patient's tent, there were dozens of Qin soldiers lying inside, they were all haggard, coughing constantly, some were dying, they might swallow at any time, while some were still awake, but they were weak, and after seeing Li Qing come in, they only barely opened their eyes and glanced at Li Qing, and then continued to close their eyes and wait for death.

That's right, these soldiers are waiting for death, because the doctors in the army have no way to treat them.

Li Qing put his hand on the vein of a bearded man who looked to be in good health, and then slowly shook his head, his eyes full of regret.

The bearded man grinned and said in a weak voice, "Little one, are you a doctor?" Am I no longer cured? Those who raised animals did not give me a full meal when they died. ”

Li Qing reached out and touched the beard's forehead again, it was very hot, according to Li Qing's estimate, it should be almost 40 degrees, if you don't want to reduce the fever, it may take up to two days, this beard will faint like everyone else.

Li Qing asked, "This brother, how long have you been sent here?" ”

The bearded man said: "My name is Zhang Hu, it has been two days since I was sent here to die, you are the first doctor to come in to see me, if you can, can you give me some food?" ”

When Li Qing heard this, a trace of understanding flashed in his eyes, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qin army gathered together, and the grain and grass consumed every day was simply an astronomical amount, so those generals in the army felt that these sick soldiers were already dead, so they were unwilling to waste food on them, that is to say, in fact, most of these people who died of illness were not sick to death, but starved to death.

"Zhang Hu, don't worry, I will definitely ask them to bring some food to you brothers."

Li Qing comforted Zhang Hu and said, and then asked some of Zhang Hu's current physical symptoms in order to find a cure.

Li Qing returned to Sima Xin's military tent and washed his hands carefully outside the military tent, although Li Qing knew that with his own physique, these diseases should not be able to help him, but Li Qing was worried that others would be infected by the germs carried by him, so he still didn't dare to be careless.

Li Qing said to Sima Xin: "General, please ask people to send some porridge to the sick tent, although they are sick, they are always brothers in the army." ”

Sima Xin showed a smile on his face, nodded, made a face to a general next to him, asked him to deal with it, and then asked Li Qing, "Sir, have you come up with a way to cure my nephew?" ”

Li Qing said solemnly: "General, it is no longer a matter of Ling Nephew alone, if it is not handled well, the hundreds of thousands of troops in the entire army will be lost." ”

Sima Xin said with a smile: "Sir's words are serious, isn't it just that hundreds of soldiers are sick, how can there be immortals in this war, whether they die of illness or death, it is normal." ”

Li Qing stood up and said angrily: "Since the general thinks that the matter is not serious, then he will leave." ”

Sima Xin's eyes narrowed, stopped Li Qing, and said in a deep voice: "Sir really thinks that this is a plague in our army?" ”

Li Qing nodded and said, "Yes, if you listen to me now, maybe there will be a chance to save it, if you wait for the plague to break out completely, I'm afraid that even if Da Luo Jin Immortal descends to earth, he can only be helpless." ”

Sima Xin still felt that Li Qing was exaggerating, thinking that there were only occasional soldiers in the army who were sick, which did not prove anything.

Li Qing had a headache, I had heard that the ancients were ignorant, but among the people Li Qing came into contact with on weekdays, whether it was Meng Yi or not, they were all too smart, so Li Qing did not feel the ignorance of the ancients, but at this moment, Li Qing felt for the first time that the ancients were sometimes really ignorant.

Even if Li Qing repeatedly asked, the soldiers in the army still had no way to boil water for drinking, because boiling water for hundreds of thousands of people required too much firewood, but Li Qing's efforts were not useless, at least, Sima Xin had agreed to send soldiers to dispose of the corpses under the mountain, and burn and bury those corpses.

Zhang Hu was asked out by Li Qing on the grounds that he was testing the medicine for Sima Yun, and Sima Xin naturally had no opinion on this.

Li Qing took the silver needle off Zhang Hu and shook his head, although the fever on Zhang Hu's body had subsided, but if he wanted to be completely cured, he still needed to find a truly symptomatic medicine.

Li Qing frowned, thinking carefully about the memories in his mind, trying to find a way to deal with the plague in history.

"Oh no, sir, please save me."

Just as Li Qing was thinking, Sima Xin ran in with a panicked face, and as soon as he saw Li Qing, he directly begged.

Li Qing was taken aback and asked, "General, what's wrong?" ”

Sima Xin hesitated for a moment and said, "Sir, as you said, the plague has broken out. ”

It turned out that although Sima Xin made some arrangements because of Li Qing's reminder to isolate the sick soldiers, some of the sick soldiers were afraid of being isolated, so they hid their illness, and in just a few days, nearly half of the soldiers in the army were infected, so that they could no longer control it.

Not only Sima Xin's soldiers and horses, but also Zhang Han and Dong Peng's battalions, such problems also appeared, and in a short period of time, hundreds of thousands of Qin troops fell ill one after another.

Sima Xin regretted seeing this situation, so he hurriedly came to see Li Qing and wanted to ask Li Qing for help.

When Li Qing heard this, he was stunned, the last thing he wanted to see happened after all.

Looking at Sima Xin, who was full of regret, Li Qing suddenly thought of the battle that Xiang Yu had in history, was it really because Xiang Yu was strong, or was it because the Qin army was defeated by the plague.