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From a number of earthen platforms that were quickly piled up in the south of Jiaozhou City, it can be seen that the civil engineering work is gradually approaching the city, and there are no measures and actions to crack the city for a while; In the blink of an eye, it had broken through the original embankment from the southeast, and approached a hundred paces below the base of the wall; Then I saw a sparse array of arrows coming from the city, but they were blocked by the cover of the preset mud.

But the progress of the siege was limited to this, and for a while the defenders in the city could not come out to counterattack, and the rebels could not attack it for the time being; Because this is a large city with high walls and thick walls; If you want to cut off the river and drain the moat, sorry, the Red River and its tributaries are not small ditches, and just building embankments and dams is a long-term project.

If you want to attack by fire, sorry, this is a river surrounded by water sources in the city, so it can be said that it is extremely convenient to get water; Want a water attack? , with the kung fu and manpower to block the Red River and flood it in the water, then Jiaozhou City should almost be defeated.

As for attacking from the cave, I'm sorry to dig a tunnel on the edge of the Red River, it's not fast enough to drown. It is not easy to find thick trees suitable for the construction of various equipment in the Red River Plain, which is highly developed for agriculture, and in fact, the local building materials come from the mountains where the upper reaches of the Red River flow.

If this is the case, it will be easy to do, but just if you want to push the well-built siege equipment into the city to play a role, you need to overcome the three obstacles of the river embankment, the river channel, and the breast wall under the obstruction and counterattack of the defenders.

It can be said that when Gao Biao built this Daluo City, he took into account the possibility of being besieged and trapped for a long time in the plain water network area where there is no danger to defend, and carried out targeted prevention and countermeasures in the layout of the city defense one by one.

And with this big city as the support and support, with sufficient materials to prepare for long-term defense, it will be the biggest obstacle and trouble that any force that wants to occupy and control Jiaozhou cannot ignore and bypass;

This is the water and land transportation hub and heartland of the seven states in the north and south of Anbei where the Red River Plain is located; Once it changes hands, it can be used as a support for the stronghold and the rear, and it is very convenient to rely on the advantages of water transportation to divide troops and attack and pacify all places.

As early as when Gao Biao built Daluo City, the military and civilians of Jiaozhou, under the leadership of Cai Xian, the former capital protector, withstood several sieges by tens of thousands of troops in Annam with a sub-city; In the end, when the Pang Xun Rebellion broke out in the Central Plains and the reinforcements did not arrive for a long time, and the soldiers in the city were killed and wounded and demoralized, the failure of the initiative to break through was only succeeded by the Nanzhao army.

Therefore, the current countermeasures are still to besiege and attack the heart first; The real key lies in the change of hearts and minds in the city. Thinking of this, Zhou Huai'an's eyes seemed to have passed through the thick city wall and landed in the inner city where those wealthy families lived.

But he didn't expect that one day, he would need to negotiate with these objects who should have been overthrown and beaten;

If it were someone else, they might be able to endure for a while in this Jiaozhou city in the hope of change, but most of their fields and estates, and even relatives and tenants were in the hands of the rebels; And under the acuteness of the situation, you need to make the corresponding choices to be able to keep all this.

Otherwise, even if you succeed in holding Jiaozhou in the future, but lose the local inheritance accumulated for generations, the name of the so-called wealthy and powerful family will become a joke in a sense;

At least, as a real threat in a sense, Zhou Huai'an did not mind distributing these rebellious assets that dared to confront the rebel army to those other local forces who were close to him; And further train and arm them to annex and encroach on more anti-party foundations that are not subject to indoctrination, ignorant of interest, and ignorant of the general trend.

"Tell the leader ... The husband patrols the outer camp"

Qu Chengyu, who was dressed in a drape, walked over and said in a low voice.

"I found out that a number of people from the city tried to sneak in, trying to do that lobbying thing."

"It's just that most of them have been seized by patrols, or they have been bundled out of the camp tent where they are located... Under interrogation. ”

"You're doing a good job."

Zhou Huai'an nodded slightly.

"This generation wants to repeat the old tricks, but it's a mistake. Tie people to the flagpole and show them to the public. ”

"Then, I will arrange for those relatives related to the guards and soldiers to go to the front of the battle to shout in turn as a return salute."

"Besides, how did you persuade Fan Xuan?"

Zhou Huai'an continued to ask.

"After the contemptible husband knows the benefits, he has loosened his attitude."

Qu Chengyu is the way to stop talking.

"It's just that the guy proposed that he wanted to meet the leader and ask for clarification."

"Yes."

Zhou Huai'an was slightly surprised, and said disapprovingly.

"Then let's just see him."

It was only then that he was diverted by another breaking news. Because dozens of cases of infection have been reported in the besieging barracks;

However, it is not an intestinal infection with vomiting and diarrhea, but a typical tropical disease symptom of chills, fever, night sweats, and fatigue. This is also in line with Zhou Huai'an's worries and expectations; Since ancient times, the Central Plains army has fought in the barren areas of southern Xinjiang, and one of the important factors for its defeat and attrition is the various tropical diseases that are prevalent in the local area.

Although in most cases, most of them can be eliminated and prevented (e.g. cholera, dysentery) through strict hygiene practices and efforts to keep the environment clean and tidy, such as high-temperature sterilization and disinfection methods such as fire roasting, vinegar smoking, lime sprinkling, etc.; However, malaria infectious diseases carried by mosquitoes and flies are still somewhat unpreventable.

You know, although pyrethrum, which originated in Europe, was not introduced to China until the 20th century; But in this era, there were already products similar to mosquito coils; It is to roll wormwood and penny into a rope, and light it at night and smoke it slowly to repel mosquitoes, compared to the curtains that most people cannot afford or the incense that can only be used by large families, it can be described as a cheap solution for poor families;

Therefore, similar medicinal grass rope products were also made in large quantities in Guangfu and widely used in the army of the expedition to Annam. Despite this, it is still inevitable that in the daily work and labor activities, there is a chance of being bitten by local mosquitoes, and there is a certain probability of contracting local subtropical diseases.

However, there is no way to do it, and at present, we can only rely on physical fitness to get through, and then further strengthen the management of environmental sanitation, such as burning the reeds near the camp and staying away from the sewage pit and other places that are prone to breeding mosquitoes and flies, to reduce the probability of corresponding infection.

Although Zhou Huai'an also knows the principle of artemisinin and artemisia annua as substitutes for malaria specific drugs; But under the current rudimentary conditions, it is clear that there is still a long way to go to extract effective ingredients and make medicines; As for the cinchona tree, which is native to the Americas, it is still out of reach.

At present, it was not until the city of Jiaozhou that these dozens of cases were discovered, which can be regarded as a kind of luck in some misfortune; The main thing is to try to select soldiers from the southern region, and use those newly attached Long March soldiers and officials as the precursor and guide of the army, scouts, and match them in the team that goes out to patrol and raise food, so as to avoid the worst outcome.

Because these soldiers and officials have formed a certain sense of antibodies and immunity in the long process of local military defense (compared to those who have not survived).

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