In the evening, in the camp outside Shaoling City, countless cooking smoke gradually dissipated, and the curfew was about to begin, and soldiers were forbidden to move around at will in the camp, nor were they allowed to make fires at will, but the camp area that should have gradually quieted down sounded coughing from time to time.

The coughing sound was not from a tent somewhere, but there were people in many tents, some coughing crisply, some coughing with phlegm, and some people coughing so loudly that it seemed to be coughing out their lungs.

Zhang Yan, who led the soldiers walking between the camps, seemed to be infected by the coughing sound around him, and he coughed a few times from time to time, and the soldiers behind him also coughed from time to time.

Zhang Yan was in charge of patrolling the camp in the first half of the night, of course, he only wanted to inspect the camp area where his troops and horses were stationed, and the official army camp stretched for more than ten miles, even if he didn't sleep all night, he walked around the outer edge of the camp and walked around the outer edge of the camp.

As night fell, the governors had to supervise the extinguishing of the fires in the camps, so as not to ignite the tents by unattended fires, which would then lead to the burning of the camps.

However, when torches appeared outside the tent in front of him and people were making noise, he did not shout and curse, but motioned for his subordinates to step aside like him.

One man was carrying a torch, two others were carrying a stretcher, and another was followed by a torch, and the group marched along the road between the tents and passed by Zhang Yan's team, on which lay a soldier who was coughing violently, with a haggard face and blood at the corners of his mouth.

Coughing and coughing up blood, his life is short.

This thought flashed through Zhang Yan's heart, and when the team carrying the patient to the isolation camp walked away, he led his subordinates to continue to move forward, and after a few steps, someone passed by with torches and carrying the patient.

It didn't take long for a third team carrying the sick to pass by.

Then there is the fourth team, the fifth team.

With a stick of incense, Zhang Yan had already witnessed ten patients being carried away, and the camp that should have been quiet, coughing continued, and a cry sounded in between, although the cry was very slight, but Zhang Yan still heard it.

Crying will affect the mood of other soldiers, if it was in the past, no one was allowed to cry for no reason in the barracks, but now the situation is different, and it is impossible for Zhang Yan to take someone to stop it.

The outbreak of the epidemic in the barracks was very large, and many soldiers fell ill, some had a violent cough, some had diarrhea, diarrhea, and even blood in the stool, because the symptoms were different, so it could not be said that it was a plague, but it could be said to be an epidemic in general.

Many diseases can cause cough, so it is difficult to say what kind of disease the person with cough has, but diarrhea, diarrhea, and blood in the stool indicate that these people are suffering from dysentery, and I am afraid that it will not be cured.

Dysentery, which is generally contracted after eating unclean food and drinking unclean water, is not a rare disease in the military, but if there is a large-scale outbreak of dysentery, it means that there is a problem with the water source.

As General Yitong, Zhang Yan knew that he had sent people to patrol the upper reaches of Lishui every day to prevent people from throwing dead livestock into the water to pollute the water source, and during this time, he had not found any floating corpses floating on the river.

But today, when some cavalrymen were drinking their horses, they found that the river was smelling, and it was about thirty miles upstream from Lekou, and the soldiers then fished out many foul-smelling vessels in that section of the river, which seemed to contain feces and other things.

Obviously, it was the enemy who dropped this dung in the upper reaches of the river, so that the officers and soldiers in the Shaoling area downstream drank the 'dung water' for a long time.

This situation should have been discovered earlier, but the cavalry who patrolled the river every day only paid attention to the surface of the river, and did not think of dismounting to smell the river.

But it was too late, because everyone had drunk so many days of fecal water, and they had already fallen ill.

Zhang Yan knows a shocking figure, at least half of the officers and soldiers have coughs, diarrhea, and diarrhea to varying degrees, and if this continues, there is about five or six out of ten people who will die because of the epidemic.

In other words, the more than 100,000 horses in Lekou outside Shaoling City are afraid that at least half of them will die of illness!

There is no way to fight the battle, and in order to avoid chaos in the morale of the army, only a few generals know about the pollution of the upstream river, and tomorrow, the troops will be withdrawn no matter what.

Soldiers who are sick can no longer get up when they are seriously ill, and soldiers who are not so sick can no longer shoot bows and arrows, and they are a little trembling with knives or spears, not to mention their stomachs that rumble every once in a while, where can they go into battle and kill.

The enemy army is set up in the south, once the other party perceives that there is indeed an outbreak of the epidemic on their side, then the official army will not be able to withdraw if they want to, and the army with more than 100,000 horses and horses will not have much combat effectiveness at all now, but it is just a chicken and a dog.

can only make a decision immediately and withdraw the troops immediately

Thinking of this, Zhang Yan lamented in his heart, the imperial army was mighty and marching south, and the momentum was not small, but as a result, the army made no progress outside the Hanging Gourd City, and was attacked one after another, and after tossing for several months, it ended miserably.

At the beginning, the situation was very good, but just a few months later, there was a reversal, the imperial army was defeated one after another, and the prime minister also fell ill, the situation was a little bad, Zhang Yan could not help but feel worried about the future development of the situation.

A gust of night wind blew in his face, Zhang Yan felt a little cool, and suddenly his throat was itchy, he quickly covered his mouth with his hand, and coughed again, this time the cough was very violent, and his subordinates hurriedly stepped forward to greet when they saw this: "General, does it matter?" Do you want the military doctor to take another look? ”

"It's okay, it's okay."

Zhang Yan led his subordinates forward and continued to patrol the camp, and when no one was paying attention, he spread out his hand and looked at the palm of his hand in the light of the uncertain fire.

In the palm of his hand, there was bloodshot phlegm.

"It's okay, when you get Yingzhou, there will be a famous doctor who can cure the disease..."

Zhang Yan thought so, looking forward to the early withdrawal of the army, listening to the coughing sound in his ears, his mood became more and more depressed, at this time, Jin Wuxi fell, and the last trace of afterglow disappeared on the horizon.

When night fell, it was dark all around, I don't know how long it took, Zhang Yan finished his second patrol of the camp, looked up at the starry sky, and was about to sigh and sigh, but saw that the sky was broken by countless meteors.

Warning horns sounded on the arrow towers everywhere, and countless rockets flew into the air outside the camp, and then fell towards the camp, like fireflies flying in the sky, which made people dazzled.

On the south side of the camp, a tidal wave of thunder sounded, and it was the thunder thrown by the enemy troops that was constantly exploding.

The enemy attacked shortly after nightfall.

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The camp, which stretched for more than ten miles, had turned into a sea of fire at this time, and the sky-high fire reflected the red sky in the middle of the night, countless figures disappeared in the fire, and countless figures rushed to the river, scrambling to squeeze the pontoon bridge across the river, and then most of the people fell into the river, struggling for a moment and then there was no movement.

Dozens of cavalry rushed out of the sea of fire and rushed straight onto the pontoon bridge, ignoring the crowding on the bridge and forcing them forward, even if these soldiers who fled on foot were friendly soldiers, they could not stop their determination to take the road and escape.

Cao Jingsong, the head of the march, rushed north under the desperate protection of the troops, and the enemy attacked at night, and his own side collapsed instantly, and the general trend was gone.

The official army camp stretched for more than ten miles, with more than 100,000 horses, and now more than half of the soldiers are infected with the epidemic, and many people cough up blood and die of blood in their stools.

When the enemy attacked the camp, Cao Jingsong just fell asleep, the other party came too fast, and his own side collapsed too quickly, so that he was caught off guard, and in a hurry, he didn't even have time to put on the Mingguang armor, and he didn't wear the scarf, and the enemy cavalry had already broken into his camp.

What else can you do at this time besides running?

The sound of horses' hooves rose again, and dozens of cavalry rushed across the pontoon bridge and chased after Cao Jingsong and his party, and the soldiers who were running around along the way were knocked down and trampled by them, turning into a pool of flesh and blood.

Fleeing and chasing, in the chaos of the army, the speed is constantly changing, the distance between the two sides is constantly approaching, the pursuers are constantly shooting arrows, and Cao Jingsong's troops are constantly falling off the horse.

Xue Shixiong looked at the prey in front of him, couldn't help licking his lips, pulled out another arrow, and began to aim.

Hunting is very interesting, and the prey from the tiger wolf to the enemy, it is even more interesting, if you can take the head of the general in the chaotic army, it is the ultimate pursuit of a martial artist.

The enemy general who did not wear a hood, Xue Shixiong felt that he was probably a general at the level of the marching commander, even if it was not, it was not much worse, so the head of the enemy general, he had to decide.

The distance between the two sides was shortened to about thirty paces, and Xue Shixiong stared at the enemy general who was running at the front, but he never opened his bow: between him and the target, there were at least five people in the way.

These five enemy horses, although their positions are constantly changing, have always blocked the sight of the pursuers, Xue Shixiong rushed to the front of his team, and the shooting range was blocked by these people, and he never had the opportunity to aim at the enemy generals.

It is said that the arrow goes in a straight line, and now the enemy will be blocked, unless the arrow shot can be turned, where can the opponent be shot?

So, let the arrow turn!

Xue Shixiong bent his bow and arrows, and used a special technique to scatter them, and the feather arrows roared out, and he turned a corner, drew a graceful arc around the five cavalrymen, and shot the back of the head of the enemy general in the front.

Cao Jingsong was hit by an arrow in the back of his head, his eyes rolled and he fell off the horse, and his entourage was shocked, and they all reined in to save the lord, and the rest of the people turned their horses' heads to meet the rushing pursuers, and the two cavalry crashed together, and their figures shook in the firelight.

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The banner of the Chinese army fell violently, the cheers of the soldiers came and went, in the firelight, Xiyang Wang Yuwenwen bent his bow and arrows, aiming at a wooden stake behind the half-section of the flagpole, in order to avoid accidents, he had asked Zhang Yu to 'clear the field'.

The arrow shot went in a straight line, this was Yu Wenwen's initial cognition, but when he saw Zhang Dingfa's trick arrow, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded: the arrow can be turned.

After observing Zhang Ding's action of firing the 'Turning Arrow' many times, Yu Wenwen was finally able to use 'science' to understand this incredible archery technique: after bending the bow and setting the arrow, when the bowstring was cast, as long as the bowstring was deflected to one side and a deflection force was released on the arrow, the effect of the 'Turning Arrow' could be achieved.

In other words, beginners with bows and arrows with half a bucket of water will often shoot "crooked arrows" because of the incorrect posture of the bowstring, but it is not so easy to consciously shoot "crooked arrows" and shoot them accurately.

This kind of archery is good-looking, and there are many restrictions in actual combat, first of all, the effective distance is close, about thirty steps; The second is that the lethality of arrows decreases, and they can only deal with unarmored targets.

Therefore, this kind of archery is a chicken rib for Yuwenwen, but after changing his thinking, it is a trick and flirtatious skill that must be learned, for example, it is used to rescue the hostages and blow up the favorability of the hostages' relatives (beauties).

As for killing people on the battlefield ...

Everyone is wearing armor and a hood, so how is that possible?

Yu Wenwen thought so, and then let go of the bowstring, and the arrow from the string actually turned a corner, bypassing half of the flagpole and flying towards the stake behind it, but it was stuck in the stake - this arrow missed the target.

"The king is good at archery!"

Ning Chang on the side was really amazed, it was the first time he had seen such archery skills, although Yu Wenwen didn't shoot the stake, but for the arrow that could turn, Ning Chang was really amazed.

"Hey, the shot missed, the shot missed."

Yu Wenwen handed the bow to Zhang Yu, a little stupid, looking at the sea of fire around him, he only sighed that he could not personally lead the troops to kill, his soldiers were killing the enemy, but he was the commander but he couldn't run around.

Ning Changzhen led the clan soldiers to surround Yuwen Wen, he was responsible for guarding the King of Xiyang tonight, he didn't dare to be sloppy in the slightest, looking at the battlefield like daylight, he couldn't help but be fascinated: "King, I'm afraid our army can kill and injure most of the enemy in this battle?" ”

"Yes, but it's not enough, hehe." Yu Wenwen said with a smile, "This night attack will definitely wipe out more than 100,000 enemy troops!" ”

If someone else said this, Ning Chang really didn't believe it, but since it was Yuwenwen who said it, he had to believe it if he didn't believe it, in this battle, the king of Xiyang put all his troops into battle, and even the guest army from Lingnan was no exception, in order to annihilate the enemy in a battle.

But there must always be someone to protect the King of Xiyang to ensure safety, so the unlucky Ning Changzhen drew the next lot, and he could only follow the King of Xiyang to watch the battle.

Seeing his own soldiers and horses sweeping through the enemy camp like chopping melons and vegetables, Ning Changzhen was excited, it was the first time he had seen such a big battle, and it was the first time he had seen how big the military camp of more than 100,000 people was.

However, no matter how many enemy soldiers there are, in front of the King of Xiyang, they are all local chickens and dogs!

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North of Lekou, on the banks of the Rushui River, a large number of routs are fleeing northward, and Lu Ji, the head of the march, turned his head to look south, looking at the night sky that seemed like day, and couldn't help but feel sad in his heart: the army of more than 100,000 troops, saying that it was defeated, it was too miserable.

However, even if the enemy army does not attack tonight, their own side will collapse sooner or later, after all, there is an outbreak of epidemic in the barracks, and more than half of the soldiers are afraid that they will die of disease, where can this battle continue?

You can only flee to Xingzhou as soon as possible and organize a defensive line as soon as possible, as for Yecheng, don't go, lest the patients in the rout infect the epidemic to the defenders, and then be rushed out by the soldiers and horses of Jingzhou in Shannan, and there is no room for recovery in the situation in Henan.

Thinking of the disease, Lu Ji was shocked, and he decided to warn the civil and military officials of the prefectures and counties along the way that they must strictly check and verify when containing the defeated soldiers, and those who are sick must be isolated, otherwise the epidemic will spread, and it will not be a joke.

While pondering, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves in front of him, and there were dark shadows, as if a cavalry was approaching.

It is unlikely that reinforcements will arrive at such a time, because there is too late, so it must be the enemy!

And yet where did the enemy come from? Could it be a roundabout outflanking from the south?

Within a few breaths, a few thoughts flashed through Lu Ji's mind, and sure enough, the cavalry approaching on the opposite side began to release arrows, knocking down the unprepared soldiers, and he turned his heart and ordered his subordinates to blow the horn.

When the brave meets on a narrow road, he doesn't believe that his own side, which has a high desire to survive, will be intercepted by this group of cavalry.

The horn sounded, the one-eyed Yang Su shook his spirits, led the cavalry to charge, he was ordered by the king of Xiyang to return to the north of Shaoling, intercept the enemy's rout, and by the way attack the enemy camp from the north.

Although the move was difficult, he did it.

Yang Su didn't know what kind of means Yu Wenwen used, he really made the enemy lose his combat effectiveness, and now that the friendly army has attacked the enemy camp, then his hundreds of horsemen appeared in the north of the enemy camp and could launch a fatal blow.

The opportunity to make great contributions, he finally waited.

Like a poisonous snake that has been dormant for a long time, Yang Su finally waited for the moment when the enemy showed his flaws, and the rout in front of him was just the beginning, after his cavalry rushed into the enemy camp from the north, the other party would not have the slightest chance to turn around!