Even if it is not a year of great drought, the average Chinese farmer basically has two meals during the winter slack season. Even those landlords who were wealthier rarely had three meals a day. Unless those wealthy and big landlords, according to the thrifty and even somewhat stingy character of Shanxi people, no one will eat three meals a day during the slack season.

After all, you don't have to go to the ground, there is not so much physical exertion, and it is better to save a little food if you can save a little. Even if it's the New Year, it's the same two meals. Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and every family attaches great importance to the first dinner after the Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve meal.

Although at present, because of the many sweeps of the Japanese army last year, and God also fell into the ground, life is very difficult. But the housewives of each family still try their best to cut some meat and get some fine grains, so that the meal can be more abundant, so that the family can have a better year.

In the afternoon, when families come to the well to fetch water, prepare the most important dinner of the day, and fill the tank, which is already short of water, no one notices any difference in the well water today. As usual, they all carried water into the house.

Even if a few mouths are awkward, they find that today's well water has a somewhat bitter almond taste, but they don't pay too much attention. Well water, that's the thing. Especially now, they are all open-air wells exposed along the edge of the well, not the closed machine wells that are not polluted by the outside in later generations. It's normal for the mountain wind to blow some of the things inside, and it's not bitter water anyway.

Compared with the common people who went to the wellhead to fetch water, the cooks of Li Ziyuan's headquarters took the two soldiers who helped the kitchen and went to the back mountain with buckets. This mountain village, with only 100 households, is not very large, and it is impossible to accommodate all of Li Ziyuan's troops. For the time being, the troops are still centered on this village and have adopted a company as a form and dispersed garrison.

In this small mountain village, there is only Li Ziyuan's detachment headquarters and half a company. And there is only such a well in the whole village, and hundreds of people, together with drinking animals, rely only on such a well. As soon as Li Ziyuan's troops were stationed, there were nearly 100 more people, and this water had to be lined up to fight. In addition, years ago, every family was washing clothes and bedding, and this water was a little unavailable.

Therefore, Li Ziyuan demanded that the troops not be allowed to grab water from the common people and not to use the water wells in the village. All the drinking water is fetched from a spring in the back mountain, no matter how big the drought is, there is water in all seasons. Although this year's drought has dried up many springs in the mountains, this spring is still flowing.

Underneath the spring, there is also a naturally formed cistern. The water in the pool is always full. However, because this spring is a little far away from the village, and the water quality is generally even a little bitter, it is not better than the well water, so the common people do not like to go there to fetch water. Usually it is just people who herd cattle or sheep and come here to drink their livestock.

The people in the village still drink water and livestock, and the well in the village is still the main drink. After leading the troops into this mountain village, in order to avoid occupying too much water in the well, which does not produce a lot of water and only satisfies the lives of the people in the village. Li Ziyuan ordered the troops to use water, whether it was for cooking or drinking, and they should all go to the spring in the back mountain to fetch water.

As a result, Li Ziyuan's order allowed the troops to basically not be poisoned, and they escaped. However, after eating or drinking well water, the people in the village who used the well water were poisoned in a very short period of time.

After receiving a report that something unusual had occurred in the village, Li Ziyuan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly rushed to the home of the poisoned villager with a hygienist. When they arrived at the place, the hygienist saw at a glance that the family who were convulsing was definitely not sick, but poisoned.

It is winter now, and although the winter in Taihang Mountain is not too cold, there will definitely be no infectious diseases. To say that plague is possible, but there has never been an outbreak of plague in this season. He had seen what plague patients were like, and they definitely didn't die so quickly.

The hygienist thought that these abnormal people should have been poisoned. It's just that the hygienist is not a doctor after all, he is better at dealing with war wounds. For the poisoned villagers, they are basically helpless. After the hygienist suggested that these residents were poisoned, Li Ziyuan still had some doubts that these residents were poisoned by eating spoiled food.

After all, for Chinese peasants, who have always been frugal and regard grain as their life, even if it is spoiled, very little is generally thrown away. There were even many people in many places who, in order to get more food, dug vole nests after the autumn harvest and took out the grain stored by voles and were infected with plague.

Although the general public does not know it at the moment, Li Ziyuan knows that once the grain is moldy, it will produce deadly aflatoxin. For Chinese peasants, who have always been frugal and still depend on the sky for food, grain is extremely precious. Let them throw away the moldy grain, I'm afraid few people will do it. Even if you can't feed the animals, you won't throw them away easily.

So at the beginning, after hearing the hygienist say that it was poisoning, Li Ziyuan still thought that the villagers who had an abnormality were caused by food poisoning. But as the number of poisoned people increased, Li Ziyuan immediately felt that something was wrong. This is definitely not caused by food poisoning, but by people who have been poisoned on purpose.

Sensing this, Li Ziyuan turned his gaze to the hygienist he had brought. Just seeing Li Ziyuan's gaze, the hygienist could only shake his head helplessly, saying that he was powerless. Seeing the hygienist's helpless expression, Li Ziyuan frowned and was about to get angry, but then calmed down.

The hygienist was right, not only did he not have any antidote, but he didn't even have any professional instruments or testing equipment in his hand, so he couldn't even tell what kind of poison he was in. This hygienist, who had only undergone a short period of accelerated training in the military region and could only cope with external injuries, had seen such a scene there, and there was no solution at all.

Looking at the poisoning of a family and the villagers struggling in pain, Rao is Li Ziyuan was also a little busy at this time, no matter whether he was calming. Li Ziyuan, who didn't know the cause of the poisoning, had no first-aid medicine, and didn't even have a doctor, could only urgently report to his superiors on the one hand and ask his superiors to send doctors to help.

On the one hand, the local method of filling fecal water to induce vomiting, or pouring charcoal ash water to detoxify, induces vomiting for these poisoned people, trying to alleviate some symptoms and buy time for superior support. But the problem is that this kind of local method is not the root of the problem at all, and even the effect of alleviating it is minimal.

As the number of people who were poisoned became more and more, Li Ziyuan and half of the company that followed him would not be able to take care of him even if they were pulled up to rescue except for the necessary sentries. The villagers who were the first to find poisoned died after a long and painful struggle, and their families died because of the poisoning for too long.

This kind of poisoning in drinking water, once the user is poisoned, it is basically a family. With the exception of babies who fed the nurses, or the few villagers who used the water stored for the first day, were not poisoned. As the poison began to occur, the poisoned villagers died one by one. By dusk, the whole village had even reached the point where it couldn't even find anyone to carry it.

People often say that blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not one-way, which is not false at all. With the onset of the toxicity, a large number of villagers died. Li Ziyuan, who was helpless, could only watch the villagers die one after another after experiencing painful struggles, and even the death of a family. But the roof leak happened to rain overnight, and bad things came together.

Just when Li Ziyuan took a few villagers who were not poisoned, as well as half of the company stationed in this village, and hurriedly rescued the poisoned villagers, the gunshots of the sentry firing the alarm suddenly came from outside the village. And with the alarm from the sentry, several shells also fell into the village.

Seeing these shells that fell into the village, Li Ziyuan immediately understood that the poisoning of the villagers this time was definitely not a simple incident. Looking at the poisoned villagers, Li Ziyuan gritted his teeth. Ordered the half company to immediately go out of the village to meet the enemy, and ordered Liu Yanlai and Chang Juan to immediately command the villagers who had not yet been poisoned and immediately withdraw to Nanshan.

As for the villagers who were poisoned but not yet dead, Li Ziyuan gritted his teeth and had no choice but to give up. What else can I do? The number of poisoned people in the whole village is too large, it has already reached two-thirds. And half of the villagers who have been poisoned are now dead. Now, even the evacuees who are still struggling with these villagers can't get together.

In the delay, the remaining more than 100 people who were not poisoned could not be evacuated. The people who are still alive but have been powerless are more than 100 people who have not been poisoned, or who have not yet shown symptoms of poisoning, which has left Li Ziyuan with no choice.

Seeing Li Ziyuan's pale face, he gave the order to withdraw from the village immediately. Whether it was Liu Yanlai or Chang Juan, they all used pleading eyes, hoping that Li Ziyuan was thinking of a way. There are also those villagers who have not been poisoned, and they are also looking at Li Ziyuan with pleading eyes.

The people who were poisoned here were the villagers they got along with day and night, and even their brothers and sisters. Just leaving them here and ignoring them is unacceptable to Liu Yanlai, Chang Juan and the villagers who were not poisoned. But this is the truth, no matter how quick Li Ziyuan is, he has no power to return to heaven at all.

Now for Li Ziyuan, it is more important to protect these villagers who have not been poisoned and will not be slaughtered by the devils. The scene in Wangjiagou is a pain that Li Ziyuan can never erase in his heart. He didn't want the villagers here to repeat the mistakes of Wangjiagou, and they could rush out one by one.

Faced with the eyes that cast all the hopes of his last life on himself, Li Ziyuan shook his head compulsively and calmly, but insisted on withdrawing immediately. Li Ziyuan, who knew that something was wrong, was extremely resolute, and asked the two soldiers to force Liu Yanlai and Chang Juan, who refused to leave, out.

He quickly left the village with two guards and came to the high ground where He Sanliang commanded the troops to seize and was fighting fiercely with the Japanese puppet army. Li Ziyuan raised the telescope to look around, but his heart was even cooler. Not only did a large number of Japanese puppet troops appear in the direction of the Japanese-occupied area in the west of the village, but even some Japanese puppet troops appeared in the north and east of the village.

In the southwestern direction, artillery units of the Japanese army are also being deployed. That is to say, in addition to the calm in the south, the small mountain village where his headquarters is stationed has fallen into the semi-encirclement of the Japanese puppet army. And at the moment, although there is no movement in the south, Li Ziyuan knows that the south will definitely not be so calm on the surface.