Almost at the same time, the Jin army scrambled to flee to the east bank on the way to the defeat, pushing and trampling on the casualties.

"Report to General Han, countless soldiers of our army have fallen, and the situation is unknown!"

"General Qiqi Han, the former soldier suddenly fell, suspected of salty military poison."

"Report ...... General Han ......"

The generals came one after another, and the situation was as anxious as fire, and Han Hefang was in a big mess and had nothing to do, and at this moment the Jin army was like a defeat, and there was no power to parry.

"Quick, quickly meet the soldiers who crossed the river, and the whole army will immediately return to the camp, quickly!"

"No."

In the darkness, the hearts of the army were fluctuating, and there were constantly soldiers who fell to the ground without warning, and then had diarrhea, vomiting, and even fainting, spreading infection quickly like a plague, and even rumors spread that the Xian army was poisoned, so that the tens of thousands of Jin troops besieging the city had fallen nearly 10,000 before they could retreat.

In particular, the nearly 10,000 people who crossed the river were all reinforcements led by Wei Han, the governor of the capital, and their morale was at their peak, and they were defeated without a fight, and the Jin army's morale was shaken.

The Jin army quickly withdrew to the camp and constantly sent people across the river to pull away the infected soldiers. When Bailiyan saw this scene, her heart was full of doubts.

"It's weird, what is the situation, can put down so many people at the same time, is it collective food poisoning?"

When he was secretly worried, Zhao Xun came from the east gate:

"Wei Xian, tonight's event was designed by you."

Bai Liyan also felt inexplicable, he said:

"It has not been designed, if it is against the sky, it will not make our army fall to such a field today, I am afraid that there will be changes within the Jin army."

"That being the case, if the Jin army does not attack today, it will definitely attack the city tomorrow. Rest with all the people, and tomorrow there will be a great battle. ”

"No!"

Zhao Xun was worried that even if something happened to the Jin army tonight, after all, there were many people, and if they didn't attack the city tonight, they would definitely attack the city tomorrow.

At the same time, the Jin army was in great decline, the soldiers fell ill, the wounded camp was full, and the medical officer Ling was busy with his life.

The number of sick people has soared from one or two thousand during the day to more than 15,000, and there is a trend of continuous spread and spread, and for a time the people of the Jin army are panicking.

"The medical officer ordered why the disease spread so quickly."

Han He asked, and Qiu Yan hurriedly said:

"This is a terrible disease, and it spreads so quickly that it spreads like a plague. One person's illness can spread to many people overnight, and it has never been imagined that one day it can spread to the whole army. For today's plan, our army should quickly repair and recuperate, otherwise it will not take many days, and our army will feed itself! ”

"Bold!" When Ji Chang heard the news, he angrily reprimanded: "The medical officer's order to speak out is really disturbing the morale of the army!" General Han, this son thinks that Yin Yangcheng is within reach, and he should immediately attack the city without delay, and this son is willing to lead the cavalry to attack the city overnight and take the city. ”

"There is no need to say anything about this matter, the old man will never bury the life of the whole army."

Han He once again rejected Ji Chang's request, and quickly ordered a letter to be repaired, and complained to Feicheng urgently.

At the same time, the sky gradually brightened, and many of the sick Jin troops were still trapped under Yin Yangcheng on the other side of the river.

I saw that some of the soldiers who crossed the river and carried people had just lifted the sick and planted themselves on the ground, and some had just crossed the river and fell down. The rapid spread made Bailiyan (Wei Xian) dumbfounded:

"It's a plague, it's definitely a plague!"

He concluded that it was the plague that stopped the Jin army from attacking the city last night.

Just as he was looking, a soldier behind him came to report:

"Lord Junlang, General Zhao quickly ordered Junlang to go to the entrance of the market to discuss matters."

"I'll let you go."

Walking down the mound and rushing to the entrance of the market, Zhao Xun hurriedly stepped forward and said:

"You came just in time, someone suddenly fainted this morning, and now he is unconscious."

"Sick!" Baili Yan lost color when she heard the news, and in a blink of an eye, she must have been out of the city last night and indirectly infected when she was fighting with the Jin army. Thinking of this, he hurriedly asked: "How many people, where are they?" ”

"Twenty-seven in all."

"So much!"

Bai Liyan's heart sank, it has only been a few hours, and more than 20 people have been infected, what the hell is this disease, so stake. Avian flu and SARS are not so fast, it only takes a few hours from infection to severe disease, and there is no incubation period.

Thinking of this, Bai Liyan didn't dare to slack off at all, and immediately said to Zhao Xun:

"General Zhao, anyone who comes into contact with the soldiers should be separated from everyone immediately, and they should not come into contact with them, otherwise the epidemic will spread and the consequences will be unimaginable."

"Why, this is a plague!" Zhao Xun was shocked.

"When I fled from the northern part of the Jin Kingdom, there was already a plague, but it had not yet spread, and now it has spread to the east of the Xianguo River, and I am afraid it has spread."

Bai Liyan is worried that if this vicious infectious disease spreads, with the current medical and epidemic prevention conditions, there will be no more than a dozen or hundreds of thousands of deaths.

After some instructions, Bailiyan first asked people to boil water, and they had to boil a lot of water. Then he wrapped his face in a cloth and entered the thatched hut at the entrance of the market to check the situation.

In the middle of the house, there were more than 20 people lying on the ground, white and unconscious, and the floor was covered with excrement from diarrhea and vomiting.

According to Zhao Xun, these people began to get sick before dawn today, and after the onset of diarrhea, they were still dry goods at first, but then they went straight to diarrhea, and finally they simply pulled blood.

All of them had the same symptoms, severe dehydration, weakness in their limbs, no strength to even open their eyelids, and even more unable to get up, and even lying on the ground with incontinence, excrement discharged directly to the ground.

Shocked, it is almost certain that the only thing that can die of such a disease is cholera.

If it is typhoid, there will be an incubation period, followed by a high fever. The onset of pneumonic plague is considered to be fast, but the disease cannot progress so quickly, and neither of the above two will cause diarrhea to severe dehydration, but only cholera.

There is a term in Chinese medicine to describe the horror of cholera, that is, "death at the end of the day", that is, infection in the morning, death in the evening.

Because the onset of the disease is so fast, there is no room for drug treatment at all, and once the treatment is delayed, even modern medicine is very dangerous, let alone now.

Moreover, cholera is extremely contagious, and if it is not good, as long as it is contaminated with the patient's feces, body fluids, or even a word, breathing the air of the other party, it will be infected. This also means that Bailiyan is now contaminated with the source of pollution.

"It's over...... It's cholera! ”

Baili Yan is in chaos, this is cholera, once it gets sick, it will kill people.

When he was thinking, he quickly exited the room, and at this time, Zhao Xun was about to step forward, but he categorically stopped him:

"Don't come here, it's dangerous. No one is allowed to come near! ”

Zhao Xun was puzzled and asked urgently:

"Wei Xian, what kind of illness is this?"

"Cholera is cholera."

"Cholera!" Zhao Xun's face suddenly turned like ink when he heard the news.

He knew that once cholera broke out, it could kill people in a day or two, and in retrospect, it must have been cholera.

Because the whole Xianguo is located in the northern low latitude region, the monsoon is warm, and even in winter, the temperature rarely falls below freezing, similar to the Fujian and Guangdong generation. Therefore, cholera should be an acute infectious disease that is prevalent in late summer and autumn, and it is more suitable for outbreaks in the northern part of the Central Plains. Once it is not controlled, it has the potential to spread rapidly.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xun shouted in the air:

"Wei Xian, how to cure this disease."

"Quickly prepare quicklime for later use, the more the better, the utensils should be boiled in boiling water for half a moment, there are still coptis, Huoxiang, realgar in the baggage camp, everyone can drink after boiling, so as to prevent this evil disease."

Xianguo is located in the subtropics, Coptis chinensis and Huoxiang are common medicines, especially the necessary drugs to clear heat and relieve heat in summer, and the output is very large. Realgar is toxic, can repel snakes, and has a certain effect on malignant diseases, and is also a common local medicine.

However, none of these three drugs can be used as a prescription to cure cholera, and other herbs must be used to curb cholera, at most they can only be used to prevent and treat cholera. Moreover, the effect of herbal prescriptions is too slow, and the psychological comfort effect is greater in the short term.

At present, the top priority is isolation and disinfection, quicklime can be disinfected, used to cover human and animal excrement and all possible contamination of dead corners to be touched, and at the same time all supplies and utensils are disinfected at high temperature, and everyone washes hands and bathes, so as to isolate the spread of pathogens to the greatest extent.

Cholera-inducing agent is Vibrio cholerae, which is highly multiplicative and contagious and can spread rapidly if left unchecked.

I think that when I was still in the camp of the northern army of the Jin Kingdom, I heard that the plague had occurred, and if I could stop the signs at that time, it would not spread for one or two thousand miles, and spread westward to Xianguo. Cholera basically spread westward along military and logistical routes.

The simple thing is that Yin Yangcheng was discovered early, Bailiyan dealt with it in time, and successively isolated and controlled a large area, and the spread range was all soldiers, and the people were concentrated in the west of the city, as long as they were isolated, drinking clean water and Coptis soup and Huojiao perfume, the probability of infection could be greatly reduced.

At the same time, a large amount of quicklime is sprinkled on the dead corners where Vibrio cholerae is easy to parasitize, such as well water, river banks, and latrines, and sterilized. Of course, it is best to have hypochlorine and disinfectant, and quicklime is just a helpless choice.

Quicklime is exothermic when exposed to water, making the liquid alkaline, which can destroy the growth of germs, as is the case with Vibrio cholerae, but at best it is a minimal means.

At the same time that Bailiyan was trying his best to control the epidemic in Yin Yangcheng, the Jin army was supposed to attack the city during the day, but the result was that the siege was delayed, the reason was the cholera epidemic, the people who fell ill last night died this morning, and some of the injured soldiers had weak resistance and died overnight after being infected. Moreover, the cholera deaths were tragic, and the whole army was panicked.

What's even more unfortunate is that Jin Jun doesn't understand the truth of epidemic prevention and cross-infection, especially when eating, a bowl is washed casually, and several people take turns to eat, you eat in the morning, he eats in the afternoon, and a large group of people live in a tent, and they don't know whether it is clean or not.

Then it spread ten to hundreds, and the infection was as fierce as a tiger, and by the night of the same day, there were more than 20,000 sick soldiers.

In other words, Wei Han's subordinates, who came to reinforce yesterday, fell ill, and they also brought the main force of the Jin army with a little.

At this time, Han He was already six gods and no master, and he never expected that the little Yin Yangcheng would let the Jin army stop here:

"Old General Han, the medical officer made Qiu Yan sick, and so far, this Yin Yangcheng will not attack or not." Wang Shuo asked.

"Naturally, I want to attack, but in the current situation, I'm afraid I can't attack it. Yin Yangcheng is less than 2,000 people, and it may be more than that. If our army were to attack the city, it would need at least four or five thousand men. And at present, Wei Han's troops are all sick, our army is exhausted and demoralized, and last night was ill, and the siege of the city at this time is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. Han He was anxious.

In fact, Han He has more than 40,000 people available in addition to Wei Han's 20,000 people, and of course it is okay to storm it, but the problem is that the morale is seriously frustrated, and the sergeants are exhausted, and now when the plague spreads, who knows that the morale of the army will not suddenly collapse when attacking the city.

At this time, Wang Shuo said again:

"That being the case, our army should think of a strategy for retreating."

"Retreat!" Han He stared at him anxiously, and said maliciously at the next moment: "Retreat at this time, how can the old man be worthy of the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom who died in death, and how can he be worthy of the trust of my king." ”

"But now the siege of the city is not down, and there is a plague, there are not many people left in the army, how can our army last for a long time."

Just as the two were talking, a report suddenly came from outside the tent:

"Report, report to the two generals, His Royal Highness the Prince is sick and has diarrhea."

Han He was shocked when he heard the news:

"Quick, lead the old man to see!"

"No!"

The words fell, and Han He and Wang Shuo hurried away.