Chapter 739: Plague?
"Squeak~" With a tooth-sore friction sound, a strange-shaped car was pushed out of the forest by a group of natives, saying that it was a car, but in fact, it was a flat plate with four wheels, and the wheels were not round, and the things on the car were also very simple, the most conspicuous thing was a long pole, Li Xiu looked at it but felt a little familiar, as if he had seen this thing somewhere. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"This ...... Looks like a trebuchet, right? Li Xiu looked at the car that was getting closer and closer, and asked with some uncertainty at the moment, the trebuchet is almost the standard in the army, although this thing is very bulky, but it is an indispensable weapon in siege warfare, and sometimes it is even better than a bed crossbow, but the trebuchet made by these uncivilized natives in front of him is too ugly, and Li Xiu is a little afraid to recognize it for a while.
"It's ugly, but it's a trebuchet, but these natives don't think they can knock down our walled city with just one such primitive trebuchet, do they?" Zhang Shiyi also said at this time, they also have trebuchets, and there are a lot of them in the city, after all, this thing can not only be used to attack the city, but also very useful when defending the city.
Just when Li Xiu and they were puzzled, those natives had already pulled the trebuchet to the position facing the walled city, but the distance was a little close, it seemed that their trebuchet range was not far, if it was placed on the battlefield, Zhang Shiyi should have let his trebuchet fire first and destroy the opponent's trebuchet, but the other party only had one trebuchet, which made Zhang Shiyi not pay attention to it at all, just let the people in the city get ready, and then prepare with a smile and a smile to see the excitement of these natives.
"Huh? What are these natives carrying, it doesn't seem to be a stone? At this moment, Li Xiu suddenly exclaimed in surprise, because the shells of trebuchets are generally stones or clods of soil, and the high-end ones use clay pots filled with fire oil, but at the level of the natives, at most they throw some stones and the like, but what he didn't expect was that the things carried by the natives behind them did not look like stones.
"Those are...... Corpse! Zhang Shiyi's eyes were sharp, and he suddenly saw those things carried by the natives, which made him stunned for a moment, and then glanced at Li Xiu, and then the two of them exclaimed almost at the same time, "It's not good, these natives are weird!" ”
If the stones and other things prepared in advance on the battlefield are used up, sometimes the corpses will be thrown directly into the city as cannonballs, but like these natives in front of him, it is absolutely strange to throw corpses as soon as they come up, and Li Xiu remembered that the leader of the natives just now also said that the people in their tribe had a strange disease, which made him think of the plague first.
Not only did Li Xiu think of this, but Zhang Shiyi also thought of the above, and at the moment he almost screamed and issued an order: "The trebuchet prepares, launches, all launches, and the other party must not be allowed to throw things into the walled city!" ”
The people at the head of the city were also not stupid, and they were also hurriedly preparing trebuchets at the moment, and even two bed crossbows were pulled apart by several big men, and the long arrows with javelins were also placed in the crossbow grooves, and then with a heavy hammer, the long crossbow arrows flew away like lightning ships.
However, Zhang Shiyi's group of pirates is not a regular army after all, and the weapons used are all old equipment that the Tang Army has long been eliminated, not only is it troublesome to use, but the accuracy is not too high, and the crossbow arrows that flew out only shot through a few natives, but they did not hurt the other party's trebuchet at all, and when the trebuchet on this side of the city was ready, the other party had already cut the rope, and only heard the sound of "��", a corpse of unknown origin had flown into the air, and accurately fell into the walled city, although it did not hurt anyone, But these corpses were not meant to smash people.
Seeing this, Li Xiu couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, but the natives only had such a chance, at this time the trebuchets on the head of the city also began to exert their might, and they used clay pots that could be burned, although the quasi-head was also very problematic, but it could not stand a large number, and there were always a few cans that fell on the trebuchets of the natives, and then there was a fire, burning the trebuchets of the natives into a cloud of ashes.
It's just that the purpose of the natives has been achieved, and with the shout of the other party's leader, all the natives turned around and fled, and disappeared into the jungle in the blink of an eye, which made Zhang Shiyi at the head of the city have a gloomy face, and he didn't expect that he would be put together by these natives.
"Let the corpse be burned, and no one is allowed to approach!" At that moment, Zhang Shiyi immediately ordered, this was also the only way he could remedy it, and at the same time, he still had some extravagant hopes in his heart, hoping that the natives would just want to take revenge on themselves with the so-called "curse", instead of throwing a corpse with plague into his own walled city!
"Wait a minute, I think we should find out the origin of this corpse first, so that even if something happens in the future, we can have a way to deal with it!" Li Xiu suddenly opened his mouth to stop at this time, he was not as amazing as Zhang Shiyi, and even had already decided that the corpse thrown in by the natives must have a plague, but there are many types of plagues, if they could know in advance what kind of plague it was, they might have a way to deal with it.
"This ......" Zhang Shiyi showed a hesitant expression when he heard this, although he knew that Li Xiu was a famous miracle doctor in the Tang Dynasty, but this was not the Central Plains after all, and the humid and hot climate of Liuqiu Island was more likely to produce all kinds of plagues, and one carelessness could cause the destruction of the entire walled city, and the most important thing was that he didn't want Li Xiu to take this risk, and even just now he was already thinking about leaving with Li Xiu first, so as not to be infected with the plague and unable to escape.
"Okay, Brother Eleven, don't worry too much, even if there is a plague, it's not that there is no way to cure it, not to mention just a corpse, I'm afraid you are not willing to give up this stronghold like this, right?" Li Xiu smiled again at this time and said, as long as the prevention and control method is successful, it is not necessarily infected with the plague, not to mention that even the most powerful plague smallpox has been overcome, for example, he and Zhang Shiyi have already been planted with cowpox.
Seeing Li Xiu's resolute attitude, Zhang Shiyi had no choice but to nod, and at the same time called the doctor in the village, and then a group of people came to the landing point of the corpse, and the people in the village also knew that the corpse must be greasy, so no one dared to approach for a while, and finally Li Xiu asked people to take a jar of spirits, soak one in it with a cloth towel, and then cover it on the mouth and nose, which can barely be disinfected to prevent germs from entering the respiratory tract.
This is a blackened corpse, and the doctor in the walled city also looks very scared, but at this time, he also stepped forward, and then carefully looked at the characteristics of the corpse, but before Li Xiu could see anything, he saw that the doctor was already trembling all over, and he staggered back a few steps, and his face also showed a look of horror.