Chapter 588: The Plague II
"Divine doctor, turn over the mountain beam in front of you and walk more than 100 miles to the Tiger Prison. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
Cao Hong licked his chapped lips and looked back at the middle-aged man behind him anxiously.
Half a month ago, Cao Hong was ordered by Cao Cao to go to Runan to find the divine doctor Hua Tuo, and when he arrived in Runan, he knew that Hua Tuo had traveled the world, fortunately, Hua Tuo's left-behind disciples told Cao Hong that there was a divine doctor in Nanyang surnamed Zhang Mingji, whose medical skills were not under Hua Tuo, and the medical skills for curing the plague were even above Hua Tuo.
Cao Hong rushed to Nanyang non-stop, and finally found Zhang Zhongjing in Fancheng, and then the two of them rushed directly from Nanyang to the Tiger Prison Pass, but such a toss has been delayed for half a month. This half-month period is really a disaster for the coalition forces on the verge of collapse.
"General, don't worry, although this plague is severe, the soldiers who suffer from the disease will not die immediately, and the slightly better physique can even last for two months, and some people can even be cured without medicine! Moreover, most of the officers and men in the army practice martial arts and have strong physique, so I believe that nothing major will happen in the future. ”
Zhang Ji stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and tried his best to comfort Cao Hong.
Cao Hong rode his horse at a gallop, and the anxious look in his eyes did not subside because of Zhang Ji's consolation.
In the middle of the hurry, the two finally turned over the mountain beam, the majestic tiger prison pass suddenly appeared in front of the two of them, a huge military camp stood on the flat and vast wasteland in front of the pass, the camp tents in the barracks were continuous, the flags were densely covered, on the majestic gate, a big flag fluttered in the wind, and the word "Yuan" was written and depicted.
For no reason, Cao Hong felt a trace of uneasiness in his heart, the coalition camp that was supposed to be noisy and lively was as silent as death at this time, and the light wind blowing from a distance revealed a thick stench, which made people nauseous. As the distance approached, Cao Hong was horrified to find that the wasteland outside the coalition camp was actually full of corpses of coalition soldiers.
The corpses of many of the soldiers were mutilated, but most of them had been gnawed by wild beasts.
There were no knife wounds or arrow sores on the bodies of these allied soldiers, and the armor and robes on many of them were still intact, except for the strange pain on their faces, and it was clear that these soldiers had endured unimaginable pain and torture before they died.
There is no doubt that these soldiers died of that terrible plague.
From the foot of the mountain to the Allied army camp, there were countless corpses lying in wait, and the corpses of many soldiers were already highly decomposed, and the air was filled with a suffocating stench, as well as buzzing green-headed flies, which was upsetting. Witnessing such a tragic scene, Zhang Ji couldn't help but have a thick haze on his face.
Obviously, under the scorching sun and high temperature, the plague has completely lost control and began to spread on a large scale. Now it is the Eastern Emperor Taiyi Tianzun, and it is difficult to recover the fate of the collapse of the coalition army!
The matter has come to this point, the only thing Zhang Ji can do is to do his best and obey the fate of heaven, and save one is counted as one.
Cao Hong had a black face, beat his horse and went straight to the Cao army camp.
There were two Cao soldiers killed outside the gate, the complexion of the two Cao soldiers had turned dead black, a pair of eyes were still open, staring at the front, one arm raised, making a desperate shout, as if they were calling for help, but in the end, they could not escape the doom of death.
There was a dead silence in the camp, except for the buzzing of green-headed flies flying all over the sky, which was simply maddening.
"My lord? Lord! ”
Cao Hong turned over and dismounted, galloped to Cao Cao's big tent, and opened the low-hanging curtain at once.
"Whew."
A figure fell down from the curtain and pressed heavily on Cao Hong, almost face to face with Cao Hong. Cao Hong recognized at a glance that this person was Cao Cao's personal soldier Cao Yu, who had been dead for a long time at this time, and his entire face had begun to liquefy, and the flesh and blood had turned into pus and pus.
"Cao Yu."
Cao Hong's heart was miserable, and he gently placed Cao Yu's body on the ground, and when he looked up, the Chinese army's tent was empty, and there was not a single ghost in sight.
"My lord? Where is the lord? ”
"General Yuanrang!"
"Zixiao!"
"Manchester City?"
"Mr. Wenruo!?"
Cao Hong turned around and went out of the tent, looking up to the sky and shouting, but the empty camp was silent, only Cao Hong's panicked echo echoed in the camp, and two vultures were startled by Cao Hong's roar, and flew up into the air with their wings, flying and circling. Zhang Ji walked to a stove, stuck a piece of ash and smelled it, and said to Cao Hong: "General, this stove has not been lit for three days, which means that three days ago, there was no one in this camp. ”
"But everything is still in the camp, except for people!" Cao Hong stretched out his hand and pointed to the mountains of grain and straw in the camp, as well as the weapons and ordnance scattered everywhere, and roared with a hideous expression, "Even if you withdraw the troops, you won't be in such a hurry, you should always bring the grain and grass baggage, right?" ”
"Ugh."
Zhang Ji sighed softly and remained silent.
"General~~Army~~"
In the maddening silence, a low moan suddenly sounded.
Cao Hong Huo Ran turned around, only to see a corpse not far behind him was squirming gently, Cao Hong rushed forward in two steps, turned over the corpse, and found that a soldier who had not yet died was struggling under the corpse, Cao Hong was overjoyed and hurriedly helped the soldier to sit up.
"Where's the lord?" Cao Hong shook the soldier's shoulders vigorously and asked anxiously, "What about the lord's army?" ”
"Lord ~~Lord ~~ Gong ~~"
The soldier groaned with difficulty, raised his hand with great difficulty, and stretched out his finger to guide the way, but before he could lift it halfway down, he fell down, and died with a crooked head. Cao Hongwu shook the soldier's corpse vigorously and asked bitterly, "Hey, wake up!" Wake up~~ Tell me where my lord has gone? Where did the lord's army go? Hey~~"
"General." Zhang Ji sighed, "He's dead." ”
Cao Hong hurriedly said: "But he should always tell me where the lord went!" ”
"He's already told you." Zhang Ji looked in the direction of the soldier's finger and sighed, "Prime Minister Cao Cheng and the army under his command should have gone to Xuchang." ”
"Went to Xuchang?"
Cao Hong still did not give up, turned over and turned around the barracks twice, and found that except for the big rats scurrying around and the vultures hovering in the sky, there were no other living creatures in the Cao Jun camp, but fortunately, the corpses of Xiahoudun, Cao Ren, Yu Ban, Li Dian, Xun You, Cheng Yu, Guo Jia and others were not found in the camp, and Cao Hong finally felt a little at ease.
The two left the camp and went all the way to Xuchang, Nantou, and the corpses could be seen everywhere along the way, which was really a thousand miles of corpses.
In Xuchang, Cao Hong finally met Cao Cao and the rest of the princes.
The poor Middle Route Coalition Army's more than 300,000 troops, at this time, there are only more than 30,000 Liao Liao left, and most of them are already sick and can no longer move, the great Sima Yuan Shu, Prime Minister Cao Cao, Jiangdong Thorn Shi Liu Ray, as well as Xun You, Cheng Yu and other civil officials who are not very good are also mostly sick in bed, and they can't survive for a few days.
However, Lu Bu, Xiahoudun, Cao Ren, and Sun Jian, these strong generals, are still alive and well.