The plague stirred up Bailiyan's anxiety, and then a wave of unsettled waves rose again, the front foot returned to the Chinese army, and the back foot Lu Rui hurriedly came:

"General Lu, please take a seat!"

"No, I heard that your army has a way to cure this disease, but that's it!"

Bailiyan was taken aback, and thought she had misheard:

"Why did General Lu say this, our army has also fallen ill nearly a thousand people, and thirty-seven people have died today, how can there be any cure for this general!"

"General Baili is not deceiving me, my Song army has more than 20,000 people who have been sick since the outbreak of the disease, and 50,000 people in the city are dying, why is it only your army with more than 1,000 people who are sick, is it not that this disease picks my Song people to start!"

Lu Rui said it was reasonable, Bai Liyan was speechless for a moment, and Lu Rui chased after him when he saw this:

"Why, there's nothing to say! Don't think that Lord Sima respects you, and I, Lu Rui, can let you deceive and say, does your army have a cure for the disease! ”

"Where does this start, if our army has a cure for the sick, how can it see death without help."

"Then why is it that only more than 1,000 of the more than 17,000 people in your army are sick, while more than 20,000 of the more than 60,000 people in my Song army are sick, and there are more than 100,000 people in the city and 50,000 people are infected with this disease, what is the explanation?"

"This ......"

Bai Liyan suddenly found that what Xu Wei said was reasonable, and this disease did have some special characteristics, which were specific to the host.

The Song army stationed in Yesui was all Song troops who had moved from the front line to repair and wait for replenishment, numbering more than 60,000 people, and in just 10 days, the number of infected people reached 20,000, accounting for one-third, and the number of sick people also accounted for less than one-third, but the infection rate of the Xian army was less than six or seven percent, and the huge gap was easy to give people the illusion that the Xian army had a cure for medicine.

"General Lu, our army really has no cure, if the general doesn't believe it, just move all the medicinal materials of our army and see if it can be cured."

"You!" Lu Rui slapped the table and glared angrily: "You really think that Ben will not dare!" ”

Baili Yan wants to cry without tears:

"Ben Jiang really has no good medicine, if there is, Ben will be able to watch his brother die!"

"Hmph, then don't blame Ben for not being emotional, come on!"

"No!" Lu Rui's left and right guards stepped forward.

"Yu Ben will remove all the herbs of the Xianjun Army, and not a single grass will be allowed to stay!"

"No!"

Seeing that Lu Rui was serious, Bai Liyan hurriedly said:

"General Lu, you really dare to move!"

"As long as you hand over the good prescription, Ben will not be guilty of the past!"

"If you want to say it a few times, if you don't have it, if you dare, all the consequences arising from this will be borne by Song Jun!"

"Hmph, when the real general is frightened, let me move, if the Xian army dares to move, don't blame our army for not talking about the feelings of the coalition army."

"You!"

Baili Yan was angry, how could Ye Sui be the territory of the Song army, and at this time, there was no justification for rash conflicts, and it was extremely passive.

Half an hour later, Jiang Jie and Song Jin came to report that the Song army had really sent 10,000 people to surround the Xianjun camp and dispatched 2,000 people to remove all the medicinal materials.

"My lord, Song Jun is really hateful, you can't just leave it at that!" Jiang Jie said.

"It's all a mistake in a moment's urgency, but this matter is really strange, there are only more than 1,000 people infected in our army, and more than 30% of the people in the Song army are infected with the disease, which is by no means accidental, and there must be an unknown connection. Doctor Song, is there any difference between the sick and uninfected soldiers of our army? ”

Song Jin tried hard to recall, but still shook his head:

"I really can't tell how a sick soldier is different from other soldiers."

"yes......"

Bai Liyan suddenly felt powerless and embarrassed and frustrated......

The next day, the first batch of soldiers who fell ill in the Xianjun army nine days ago died of illness one after another, including both Zhiguo Weiguo and Xu Xianguo, a total of 218 people, at least it is certain that this disease has nothing to do with regional differences.

The situation of the Song army was much more sinister; more than 600 people fell ill in the first batch of the disease nine days ago, but more than 500 died yesterday, and nearly 2,000 died of illness today, and by 16 June, the total number of deaths in the Song army had reached more than 6,700, and the number of people who had died of illness had reached 9,000.

At the same time, follow-up surveys for several days have found that this infectious disease is common among young and strong men, and women and children are rare, but it is not indispensable.

Seventy per cent of the deceased were men between the ages of 55 and 16, while the rest were women engaged in heavy physical labour and underage children.

On June 19, the total number of infected people in the Song army reached 30,000, and more than 14,000 people died, and the rate of infection began to decline, but the spread of a piece of news made Lu Rui attack again. The cause was that since 17 May, there have been no new cases of illness in the Xian army, and after more than 1,200 people have died in the wounded battalion, only 58 people have been infected.

Bai Liyan was feeling inexplicable about this, but Lu Rui's anger came unexpectedly:

"My lord, oh no, Lu Rui is here again!" Jiang Jie rushed into the wounded camp in a panic, as if he had seen a ghost.

"Look at what scares you, he Lu Rui is a tiger or a ghost, if he can scare you, he can't be steady!"

"Yes, yes, yes, the adults have taught us. Lu Rui had already rushed to the logistics camp, bringing 10,000 people with him, and he also called the name of the adult in a disrespectful manner. ”

"Shhh...... He can still pull so many people, and he is not afraid that they will all get sick! You just said he rushed to the logistics battalion? ”

"Yes, I went to the logistics camp."

"What is he doing in the logistics camp, there is no life-saving elixir there! Let's go, go to the logistics battalion! ”

Lu Rui is a martial artist, and it is difficult to reason with him.

Riding to the logistics camp, Jiang Zhan and his people had already blocked Lu Rui's way, and the two were arguing, and the atmosphere was tense. Baili Yan immediately stepped forward and asked in a deep voice:

"General Lu, leading troops to break into our army's camp in broad daylight, is this going to do it!"

"Bailiyan, if you don't come, I will go to look for you! The previous kind words asked you for good medicine and you didn't give it, but behind the scenes, you secretly gave you Xianjun medicine, you said, what is the reason! ”

As soon as the words came out, Bailiyan became more and more inexplicable:

"General Lu, you have removed all the herbs in our military camp that day, how can our army come to herbal medicine to cure diseases!"

"Hmph, that's nonsense. Your army has not been sick for a few days, how can this be explained! ”

"Ben will also be investigating this matter, it has not yet been clarified, and there will be no explanation at the moment."

"I thought that you Bailiyan was also a bright and upright person, but I didn't want to be such a clever and stingy sophist, you see for yourself!"

Bai Liyan's face was stunned, only to see Lu Rui throwing out a large bag of things on the ground with his hand, I don't know what it was, but I could see that there was water, Bai Liyan motioned Jiang Jie to go up and open it, but found that it was all tea residue that had been boiled.

Knowing that it was just tea, not medicine, Bailiyan suddenly had confidence

"General Lu is not teasing the general, this is just tea, if you want to provoke trouble with such clumsy means, I advise you to think twice, my Xianjun is not a vegetarian!"

"Hmph, Bailiyan, until now you are still quibbling sophistry, it is clear that your army uses this as medicine and takes it every day to cure this disease, but you hide it and do not report it, and you will not save the evil opinion, if you sue the marshal, you Bailiyan will not escape the blame!"

"Nonsense" Baili Yan sneered, "This is the tea produced in the north, you Lu Rui said that it is still tea, how can this kind of evil disease be cured by tea!" ”

"Then you say, your army started taking this medicine a few days ago, why has no one been sick in the past two days, and my Song soldiers and civilians have been sick and died so far, what do you say!"

"Hiss......" Lu Rui's reminder surprised Bailiyan: "Tea, it's tea!" ”

"Hmph, you can't rely on it!" Lu Rui was full of confidence: "I advise you to hand over the tea quickly, otherwise Hugh blame Ben will not be emotional!" ”

"Jiang Jie!" Bai Liyan shouted.

"My subordinates are here, what do you command?" Jiang Jie only thought that he was going to make a move, and his left hand was already pressed on the knife.

"How much tea is left in the logistics battalion?"

"Ahh Jiang Jie was surprised.

"I ask you, how much tea is left!"

"There are more than forty stones."

"Go, give fifteen stones to General Lu Ji, and set up tea sheds all over the city, and boil tea and distribute it to the people."

"This ......," Jiang Jie hesitated.

"What are you doing in a daze, go quickly!"

"No!"

Tea cannot treat malignant diseases, but the theophylline, tea polyphenols and vitamin C contained in tea have a certain preventive effect on the treatment of blood diseases.

The death of the plague reminded Bailiyan of scurvy, which is vitamin C deficiency, but the current highly contagious disease is more severe, far more deadly than scurvy, and it is not like scurvy is a non-communicable disease, the current plague is obviously a very contagious malignant disease, a disease that can be transmitted through air and contact, and is extremely infectious to people who are deficient in vitamin C.

From September to April of the second year in the south, vegetables are scarce, meat increases, the reason why the Xian army is less infected is that the tea is unsalable, Baili Yan gives the military attache above the rank of chief and the civilian and technical posts each person rationed tea every month, after the temperature rises, the battalions generally send bean sprouts to eat, and recently a large number of bean sprouts have been made, and the supplement of green leafy vegetables has allowed the Xian army to escape the catastrophe.

And Lu Rui and others, as senior generals of the Song Army, eat small stoves, and vegetables are guaranteed, so they are not easy to get sick.

At the same time, this unexpected plague is not as simple as it seems. This reminded Bai Liyan of the Jin Xuedi scouts captured at the beginning of the month, the wine sacs and lemon-like fruits they carried with them, they came to poison them!

Bai Liyan ignored Lu Rui's roar, and immediately came to the Chinese army to find the translator Zheng Ping:

"Mr. Zheng, quickly follow the general to interrogate that Jin Xuedi!"

"Did the general find anything?"

"Why, Mr. Zheng didn't find a huge clue?"

Bai Liyan asked rhetorically, and Zhengping suddenly felt inexplicable:

"What does the general mean?"

"The barbarian army threw the plague in my rear, and this catastrophe was done by the barbarian scouts!"

"What, this ......" Zheng Ping was shocked: "How does the general know that it was poisoned by the barbarian army?" ”

"Then let me ask sir, has he been drinking tea lately?"

"Drink it!"

"But I've eaten soybean sprouts." Bai Liyan asked again.

"I've eaten it, what does this have to do with poisoning?"

"On that day, several green and yellow fruits were found from the barbarian army, which was the nemesis of this disease, and fruits and vegetables such as tea and bean sprouts could resist this disease."

Bai Liyan couldn't explain the technical issues in too much detail with Zheng Ping, so she dragged him and interrogated the captured Jin Xuedi scout again.