On the pot closed, Lu Bu was protected by more than ten personal guards, and the soldiers who were responsible for supervising the army in the rear endured the anger in their hearts, their existence was to supervise the soldiers on the pot to fight on the battlefield and not retreat, but when they saw the scene of the bloody battle of the robes one by one, they shed tears.

"Guards come forward!" Lu Bu said in a deep voice, in such a battlefield, a person's strength is limited after all, relying more on the strength of ordinary soldiers, only ordinary soldiers are more brave and cooperate closely, in order to cause greater casualties to the enemy.

"Whoa." After Dian Wei hugged his fists, he ordered a hundred guards and went to the gate.

Whenever the guards arrived at a place, it would always cause a bloody storm, and they would shoot neatly and kill a coalition sergeant.

The guards were like a whirlwind, although there were only a hundred people, but they broke up the operation of the princes' alliance at the pass, and the defenders got time to breathe, while the wounded soldiers took advantage of this gap and were carried down the pass.

Half a month later, the walls of the Huguan are already full of devastation, looking at it from a distance, the potholes are full of pits, reflecting the sunlight, and you can see a little black color on the Huguan, and the corpses of the princes and soldiers under the Huguan are piled up even more densely.

The coalition of princes does not give Huguan time to breathe at all, let alone collect the corpses of soldiers killed in battle, and severed arms and stumps can be seen everywhere.

At this time, the weather was gradually getting hotter, and there was a foul smell outside the kettle.

"Summons, let Hua Tuo come." Lu Bu's expression was a little gloomy, under the attack of the princes' coalition army, and the situation outside Huguan had reached the current situation, under the hot weather, it was very likely that the plague would spread, and if the plague spread, it would be the most deadly for a large army.

Under the plague, Mo said that there were 200,000 troops, that is, the number was doubled, and if there was no timely response, there would be heavy losses.

Since the army of the princes attacked Huguan, Hua Tuo has been staying in Huguan, organizing doctors to treat the injured soldiers, and the role played by this medical team cannot be underestimated.

If an injured soldier on the battlefield cannot be treated in time, the consequences of wound infection in such weather will be extremely serious, and it will be difficult for the mild one to heal, and the severe one may die directly.

"Yuanhua, and today is hot, and the enemy army is fighting day and night in order to attack Huguan, if there is a plague, the consequences are unimaginable." Lu Bu said in a heavy tone.

Hearing the word "plague", Hua Tuo's complexion kept changing, although he was a figure standing at the peak of doctors in this era, he was still helpless against the plague, and the power of the plague could be experienced through the information recorded in the past.

Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of troops, if the plague swept through the state and county, maybe the entire state and county would be left uninhabited.

"What does the Marquis of Jin mean?" Hua Tuo asked.

Lu Bu said: "Since we can't change the will of the princes to attack Huguan, our army can completely prevent it first, the place where the plague is very likely to spread is the wounded soldiers, live these soldiers alone, once they find the injured who are unwell, transfer them to other places in time, so as not to spread the problem, and today the air is hot, you can make some soup to clear heat and detoxify for the soldiers to drink, and the departments of Huguan must also be clean and tidy, and there should be no filth." ”

Hua Tuo nodded, he already knew what Lu Bu had explained, the plague was indeed not something that could be controlled by manpower.

"Even if the plague spreads, the loss of the annexed state must be minimized, Yuanhua, this matter will be left to you." Lu Bu said in a solemn tone.

Hua Tuo arched his hand and said: "Saving the life and helping the injured is what the doctor should do, and since he is in the state, he will consider the injured in the state." ”

Lu Bu showed a look of approval, Hua Tuo is not an ignorant doctor, it can be seen from his actions that now the state is up and down, it can be said that it is a glory, as long as the pot pass is breached, what will follow is the shock of the state, even the medical hall founded by Hua Tuo is very likely to come to naught, this time the princes went to the state, it was to plunder.

The atmosphere in the princes' armies outside the city is also a little dignified, and the number of soldiers lost in successive attacks on Huguan has reached 20,000, but the defenders of Huguan are extremely tenacious in this situation, and it can be said that they will not give an inch, even if the coalition forces have attacked Huguan several times, it is difficult to succeed.

From the mouths of the besieging soldiers, the princes saw the strength of the Bingzhou army, and they were completely crazy when guarding Huguan, which was three points crazier than the Qingzhou army under Cao Cao.

Cao Cao said with a solemn face: "According to Ben Hou's estimate, the casualties of the defenders in Huguan will not exceed four thousand at most. ”

Yuan Shao and Sun Ce nodded slightly, there are 50,000 troops in Huguan, and under the loss of one to five, 50,000 and state troops can consume 250,000 princes' troops, of course, this is an ideal situation, once the coalition army is seriously damaged, the most likely result is the rout of the army.

Not every army can be called elite, and morale will be low when the number of large armies is reduced to a certain point.

Behind the state army is their homeland, for the homeland behind them, they will burst out with far beyond the ordinary combat effectiveness, but the armies of all sides are coming from afar to attack the state, which is a little different in meaning, as for the sake of the Han in the mouth of the princes, it is not so important in the seriousness of ordinary soldiers, more often, ordinary soldiers also consider their own safety.

After Zhang Duo led his troops to flee back to Jiguan, he set off a stormy wave in the Jingzhou army, and the grain and grass were cut off by the enemy.

Cai Mao listened to Kuai Yue's advice, and when the soldiers who were about to flee back were controlled, this was the critical time to attack Keiguan, and there was no room for the slightest mistake.

After Cai Mao listened to Zhang Duo's story, he fell into a long silence, Cai Zhong was usually in Xiangyang when he was still in order, but he didn't expect to be so virtuous after leaving Xiangyang, which directly led to the destruction of the army's grain and grass, but Zhang Duo also had an unshirkable responsibility as the deputy general who escorted the grain and grass, and Cai Mao temporarily imprisoned Zhang Duo in the army.

"General, now that Jiguan has not been captured for a long time, the soldiers have suffered serious losses, and the morale of the army will inevitably be turbulent. Kuai Yue Road.

Cai Mao nodded with a heavy face, the most feared thing about the army is not the strength of the enemy, but the lack of food and grass, grain and grass are related to the life and death of a large army, once the soldiers can't eat, the resulting result is not something that the majesty of the commander of the army can control.

(End of chapter)