Chapter 115: The Black Death

Yilong and the fifth brother only came back in the middle of the night. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After they infiltrated the water village with the raft of the bandit army, they were just in time for Wang Erniu to organize the craftsmen and people to build a field, and the bandits thought that the Tiemu battalion was going to attack the island. The bandits prepared for battle, everyone was on guard, and the two were trapped, waiting until the bandits relaxed their defense in the middle of the night, and seized an opportunity to sneak back to the floating island barracks. The two of them were cold and hungry, and Ga Li Guang beckoned them to warm up after eating, and rested in their rooms.

Now the sun is rising, and the two of them are still sleeping.

Ga Li Guang knew that they were working hard, and he didn't wake up the two. I brought two rafts and patrolled outside the bandit water village.

Artisans and militia are still making shelf fields. The wood cleared from the reed ditch of the bandits' lair was obviously not supplied, and Ga Li Guang commanded the soldiers to row the raft into the reed ditch.

According to Yilong and Wuge, the bandits' barricades were concentrated in the outer half of the waterway in the reed ditch, and the inner half of the waterway was mainly defended by numerous dead river waterways. Ga Li Guang can't help but complain that the bandits are lazy, but you have filled the entire reed ditch, and we don't think you have rotten wood, you can use it as a field.

A soldier suddenly pointed in the direction of the bandits' lair, "Captain, it's on fire!" ”

A puff of black smoke rose above the bandits' nest, and Ga Li Guang ordered, "Go inside and take a look." ”

The two rafts slowly went deeper, past the militia digging wood, and directly into the barricade waters. Ga Li Guang felt a little abnormal, a few days ago, there would definitely be bandits patrolling out to confront him, but today there was no one.

Ga Li Guang took off his bow and arrows, leaving a raft to break, and he led a raft to zigzag and continue to go deeper.

The raft proceeded cautiously until it exited the barricade area, and not a single bandit appeared.

The duck song and bird chirping around told Ga Li Guang, who was born in Orion, that there was no ambush.

Ga Li Guang was overjoyed, there must have been an accident in the bandit's nest!

Take down this reed ditch first! Advance to the position of confrontation with the bandits, and then the militia can safely and boldly dig wood.

Ga Li Guang instructed the signal soldiers, "Contact the headquarters quickly and ask for reinforcements!" ”

The signal corpsmen waved their flags, and the raft behind them relayed at once, and the news reached the watchtower.

The watchtower informed the floating island barracks that Yang Ritian in the staff department immediately received the request through the walkie-talkie.

Yang Ritian immediately decided, "What the master said is good, the plan can't catch up with the changes!" The militia who was used as a field outside the military camp on the floating island was sent to Ga Li Guang to control him, and asked him to do his best to expand the waters he occupied, and bite the bandits when he had the chance! The rest of the men immediately set off to the floating island to assemble! ”

The order was given, and suddenly the sentinel for the urgent assembly of the Ironwood battalion sounded.

Yang Ritian led the soldiers of the Changshengbao military camp to the dock first, jumped on the raft and set off.

The militia who were making the fields near the floating island threw down their tools, picked up their knives and guns, and plunged into the reed ditch without hesitation.

Ga Li Guang counted his subordinates, and the soldiers led more than 20 militiamen, and they were divided into three squads at the moment, and he personally led a team of main soldiers as the vanguard, a soldier commander led a team in the center, and a militia captain led a team to postpone.

According to the order, to expand the results of the battle, Ga Li Guang led the vanguard to attack.

Ga Li Guang asked the soldiers to remain absolutely silent, and every time they passed through a river, they did not send troops to search, but just shot an arrow into it.

If there is a wild duck screaming and a wild bird flies, Ga Li Guang doesn't look at the river, and skips directly.

If there is no movement in the river, they will wait for the team in the center to come up, and the second team will work together to block the river with reeds, and the follow-up militia team will also dig up wood and stubble to die on the river.

As for which one is the river and which one is the passageway, the map issued by the General Staff is clearly drawn.

Ga Li Guang wondered, why didn't the bandits in ambush come out to fight? Now the two sides can still fight, and when the reinforcements from the headquarters come, the bandits will be surrounded and annihilated by the front and rear when they come out, and if they don't come out, they will be blocked inside and dig out the bird's nest one by one.

A good hunter will not put himself in it because he is greedy for prey, and Ga Li Guang carefully handles each river one by one, silently advancing his position.

Seeing that he could see the dock of the bandits' lair, Ga Li Guang ordered to stop advancing.

The bandits on the docks staggered, not at all like the end of a big war.

Didn't the bandits notice? It's incredible.

If you can't figure it out, you don't want to, how can the advantages be on your side, Ga Li Guang decided to wait. Waiting for the soldiers and horses at the headquarters, today at least the reed ditch was taken.

Yang Ritian led the first 20 people to arrive, and the two discussed and decided to block the dock and dig out a river to see what kind of tricks the bandits were playing.

The battle of digging the river is over before it has even begun, and the bandits do have ghosts, but they are not tricks. The four bandits in the river were blue-faced, vomiting up and down, and they didn't even have the strength to hold weapons.

After a little torture, the bandits confessed that the big boss on the island cleaned up the portal last night, and the ghost of the second shopkeeper came back to take revenge on the island. The second shopkeeper was short-tempered and killed people at every turn. Now all the bandits on the island have been caught in their hearts and complained by the second shopkeeper indiscriminately, and more than a dozen have been strangled to death. The dead corpses were all covered in blue and black, and even their souls were sucked away by the second shopkeeper, and their eyes turned purple! The big boss placed the dead body in the "gold hall", which annoyed the second shopkeeper, and the second shopkeeper burned the "gold hall" and the dead body cleanly with a ghost fire. Now no one on the island dares to collect the corpse, and they have no intention of fighting.

After the bandit captives confessed, they gave Yang Ritian a few "bangs" on his head, almost crying:

"The brother who went to the other side yesterday said that there are Taoist priests in the general's army. Please show mercy to the general and send a Taoist priest to hunt ghosts! ”

Ga Li Guang gasped, only to feel that his scalp was numb.

Yang Ritian had to kick over the bandits, "Nonsense! The second pole is not dead yet! Retribution is being received from the nomads, where are some ghosts? ”

Ga Li Guang's eyes rolled, "Lord Commander, since the bandits think it is haunted, let's send the Taoist priest, put on the Taoist robe and shake the feather fan, and tell the bandits to surrender when they see it!" ”

Yang Ritian laughed, "You clever ghost, just do it!" ”

Yang Ritian brought the walkie-talkie of the floating island barracks with him, and immediately called the communication corps of the General Staff Department, invited Daoist Jia to explain the original situation, and asked Daoist to come and make meritorious service quickly!

Unexpectedly, Daoist Jia cried when he heard it on the other end of the walkie-talkie, "Lord Ritian, this is not a haunting, what a ghost is it in broad daylight!" It's a plague! It doesn't matter if you go to fight to the death, you must take care of yourself! ”

Yang Ritian was like being struck by lightning at that time, and he couldn't make a sound for a long time.

In this year, the epidemic will not end unless people die.

There was a mess in the staff headquarters, the general army was deep in the epidemic area, and there was no backbone, so the boss of the communication corps sent someone to rush to invite Sun Yi.

Sun Yi's head buzzed after understanding the situation.

He himself summed up that the Ironwood Battalion faced four death threats: starvation, freezing death, war death, and plague death!

In this era, there was a global epidemic of plague, the plague in the East, the Black Death in the West, and smallpox in the New World. The plague in the East overthrew the Jin, Yuan, and Ming dynasties one after another; The Black Death in the West harvested half of Europe's lives; Smallpox in the Americas wiped out almost all of the indigenous population.

Sun Yi is not a doctor, he has some concepts about trauma, and he only has a deep fear of infectious diseases.

The epidemic reported back from the front, Sun Yi's first feeling was the Black Death - the body was black, and he died when he got sick!

Sun Yi immediately ordered that the bandit island be blocked and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

Those who had close contact with the three bandit messengers yesterday were immediately quarantined.

All the people, forbid to take water from the river! Do not drink raw water!

All those who know how to heal are gathered and on standby!

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References (not related to the plot, skip for uninterested readers)

black death

The Black Death was one of the worst plagues in human history. The plague killed an estimated 75 million people worldwide, and it is estimated that about 30%-60% of the population of medieval Europe during the plague outbreak died from the Black Death.

Later pandemics included the Italian plague of 1629–1631, the Great Plague of London from 1665–1666, the Great Plague of Vienna of 1679, the Great Plague of Marseille from 1720–1722, and the Plague of Moscow from 1771.

The black color of the Black Death is not only a symbol of melancholy, sadness and fear, but also a striking symptom of the disease, which is that the skin will darken due to subcutaneous bleeding. In addition, patients may have symptoms such as chills, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, shortness of breath, cyanosis, decreased blood pressure and general failure, and generally die three days after the onset of the disease.