At the beginning of March, the armor, bows and crossbows, as well as the ordnance and even grain and grass and other ordnance and even grain and grass transported from all over the Great Song Dynasty were transported to Yizhou.

In the city of Yizhou, Emperor Zhao Kuangyin, Cao Bin, and Pan Meizhu generals were discussing the matter of sending troops, and grain and grass arrived in Yizhou.

Everyone was also overjoyed, but it was difficult to send troops to the layout, and Pan Mei, who was wearing armor on the side, asked: "Official, there are enough soldiers and food in Yizhou City, when do we plan to send troops to fight?" ”

The generals are also urgent, they also want to go to Jinyang as soon as possible, kill Liu Jun Lao'er's majesty, and then push the territory of the Great Song Dynasty to the north, but the Liao army is like a dog skin plaster, unable to tear it, they all hid in the Taihang Mountains, relying on the Taihang Bashan, and the Song army opened a battle.

Zhao Kuangyin was thoughtful, he had been waiting for news there, "Just wait for the news from Heishiling, He Lingtu will make progress there immediately." ”

Pan Mei was a little worried, he said: "Official, but after three or four days, what will go wrong in Heishiling, we don't know, if the official family is not at ease, let Li Jixun and General Li Chuyun in Jinpo Pass lead the scouts to go to Flying Fox Shanshao first. Disturb Jeruxiugo's army. ”

"Right now, the number of troops in the Flying Fox has increased to 20,000."

"The Liao army has mobilized some troops from Ulzhou, unless we can find a breakthrough from Heishiling, but now there is no news from Heishiling, I don't know what happened there, whether those martial arts students are thorough, if our men and horses attack Feihucheng, I'm afraid it will outweigh the losses."

"This north reaches Ulzhou, two cliffs stand, a line of micro-passing, more than 100 miles of winding. The ancients: Standing on the flying fox, strangling the back, entering the secluded and swallow, the most victorious place. If you take down the Flying Fox, you can capture Ulzhou, and the next step is to enter the land of Hidden and Swallow. ”

"Without further ado, let Jin Poguan prepare as soon as possible."

At this time, a soldier suddenly rushed to the outside of the military tent, and then said in a loud voice: "Official, Heishiling is reporting." ”

"Blackstone Ridge?" Everyone's eyes suddenly looked at the soldier, and the soldier immediately handed over the report to Emperor Zhao Kuangyin.

Zhao Kuangyin hurriedly unwrapped the layer of paint that was sealed on the outside, and then looked at it again.

Zhao Kuangyin completely ignored the emperor's majesty, and he said loudly: "Heishiling is under the control of my Song army, and everything in Heishiling is written on this note. Recently, in the Black Stone Ridge, the Liao army has fallen partially ill, and even Xiao Siwen can't avoid it. ”

"Official, can you let us see?" Cao Bin and Pan Mei immediately asked.

Cao Bin and Pan Mei were also very puzzled, in the spring season, how could they get this kind of disease, Pan Mei passed the song to the rest of the generals in the tent, and they were also puzzled in their hearts, "Why did this disease come so urgently, I don't know what the disease is?" However, some of the Liao army fell ill, which also relieved my Great Song army a lot. ”

Zhao Kuangyin didn't know about this kind of thing, but he thought it was a good thing, so he immediately issued a military order to transfer 20,000 troops from Yizhou, let Cao Bin and Pan Mei each lead 10,000, and then send troops to the west, and the rest of the Song army was stationed in the east and north of Yizhou, in case the rest of the Liao army suddenly went south from the north.

That night, the military report from Yizhou had been passed to Li Jilong and Li Chuyun, and the two immediately ordered scouts to go west to inquire about the situation of the Flying Fox Liao army.

And Jinpo Pass, after the governance and jurisdiction of the Song army, this city pass has become impregnable, and a lot of military rations are now hoarded in Jinpo Pass.

Jing Si and Wei Kang were also among the scouts with the army, and they looked at the Flying Fox Side, a little inexplicably excited.

Jing Si smiled: "The plague is really timely. ”

Wei Kang said: "Plague, as long as our army is not contaminated with Amitabha Buddha, don't die in poverty." ”

Jing Si said: "Fortunately, I knew in advance that there was a plague, and the military doctor also prepared a lot of medicinal materials to treat the plague."

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In Taihang Mountain, the lonely fort of Heishiling has become a little lifeless now, in recent days, Xiao Siwen feels that his body has been getting worse, and the whole person has been lying on the sickbed because of a cold and Xiao Abudi's death, and he has let his subordinates bring tea and medicine for two meals a day.

On the other hand, Gao Xun is like a nobody, he is very strong, he witnesses people dying every day, and the Khitan witch doctor prays every day to drive away the filth. things, but it didn't work much.

"Why don't you see a military doctor from Ulju coming here?" Gao Xun knows the tradition of the Khitan people, but when you are sick, you have to see a doctor and take medicine, and the jumping god has a fart, and there are a lot of soldiers who have died in the Japanese army in the past few days.

Gao Xun frowned, he stood on the suspension bridge, and then touched the cold iron cable, his heart was as cold as ice, he looked at the mountains opposite, and didn't know what to do.

Now that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, there are a lot of insects flying in the air, and some flies are starting to appear sporadically. They use the corpses of dead soldiers as the best place to lay their eggs, and the living inevitably become their sags. The object of the disturbance.

In addition, mosquitoes in the mountains and forests have also become vectors for the spread of diseases, and those female mosquitoes suck the blood and then transmit the disease to the living, where they bite the dead and then land on others.

Moreover, the Liao army's disposal of the corpses was not very timely, and the witch doctor had to jump a big god after the death of the soldier, and these corpses had to be fiddled with like treasures, and then disposed of.

The big camps were all full of corpses, and when the weather was hot, they were crawling with some unknown insects, and some maggots were crawling up and down the corpses, and the air in the tents was not circulating, and a rancid and pungent smell came, which was very disgusting.

In the distance came a few sick soldiers, who were supporting each other, looking very weak and thin.

Gao Xun frowned, he left the chain bridge, and then walked straight to the side of the soldiers, and asked, "How do you feel?" Much better, isn't it? ”

"Back to Gao Xianggong, I didn't get much better after taking the witch doctor's medicine, and I was straining all the time" The soldier was halfway through his words, and immediately frowned, and his face drooped, "Gao Xianggong forgives his sins, and Xiaodi is going again"

Gao Xun was also helpless, he sent people to Ulzhou to ask for the military doctor who asked for it did not go south as scheduled, and Ulzhou did not know what happened.

In a hurry, Gao Xun had no choice but to let those soldiers in the army who knew a little about medicine try herbal medicine on the soldiers, but it was useless, diarrhea and death continued, and corpses were everywhere.

When Gao Xun saw the camp, he immediately shouted: "Come on, set fire to all the corpses, and if you continue like this, it will be us who will die." ”

Here in Heishiling, there are not many soldiers left in the Liao army who can take up arms and fight.

"It's the plague." Gao Xun lived for so many years that he concluded that this was the plague.

At this moment, suddenly a group of people came from that direction in the north, heading in the direction of Blackstone Ridge.

Their footprints are clearly visible from Blackstone Ridge.

"Let's see, are those enemies or reinforcements?" Gao Xun immediately asked the scouts to go down the mountain to find out the news, and if it was an enemy army, they could prepare for battle as soon as possible.

The scout led some soldiers and horses and headed down the mountain.

Half an hour later, the scouts had returned to Blackstone Ridge.

Gao Xun asked urgently: "Xiao Buhua, have you found out clearly?" ”

Xiao Buhua said: "It's the soldiers and horses of Ulzhou, but there are only twenty people, and there are five military doctors among the twenty people." ”

"Medic? That's great. Gao Xun thought of Xiao Siwen and the Liao soldiers, and he hoped that the five military doctors could heal them, so as to reduce the losses of the Liao army.

The five military doctors, escorted by the rest of the soldiers, had already arrived in Xiao Siwen's room.

Xiao Siwen was lying on the hospital bed, his eyes were sunken, his body was a little swollen, and the gray-white fur and fur quilt were a little cold on his body.

Xiao Siwen was trembling, he had never felt so cold, he felt that he was about to die, as soon as he thought of Xiao Yanyan and them in Youzhou City, Xiao Siwen's tears slipped down.

And the five military doctors looked very young, and they seemed to be less than thirty years old, Xiao Siwen felt that they couldn't help themselves.

There were only five military doctors left in the room, and they were taking turns to treat Xiao Siwen.

The military doctor spoke in a Khitan dialect and said, "Xiao Liushou has the disease of plague, but it's okay, after we prick the needle and use the medicine, we can recover after a while." ”

"And he's recovering." Xiao Siwen still felt very happy after hearing this, and it was good to survive.

Another military doctor frowned and said, "After I received the letter from the Prime Minister Gao, I went south non-stop, and after a three-day delay on the road, I was able to catch up. ”

"Don't worry, this is also excusable, if Your Majesty punishes him in the future, I will explain everything."

The five military doctors all knelt on the ground and said, "Thank you Xiao for staying behind." ”

"Get up, the soldiers still need you to save them."

Under the treatment of Xiao Siwen by the military doctor, he felt that his body was better, and there were no more symptoms of diarrhea, and he slept quite soundly this night.

Near the Black Stone Ridge, the mountains and forests are already pitch black, and the terrain here is very complicated, and there are usually no people at all.

In the silence of the mountains and forests, there were occasionally one or two tiger roars and wolf roars, and I was a little frightened to hear them.

Beneath a large rock, there are several caves that are naturally formed, and under the shade of the surrounding trees, it is difficult to spot them even during the day, let alone at night.

There are a few tents in the cave, just like a modern combat headquarters, if in normal times, you only need to rely on the cave, but in order to prevent poisonous snakes and other insects at night, at night, the jungle is full of dangers, Duanmu Liang and the rest of the martial arts students have already set up tents before dark.

"Your Highness said that this is a plague, let us pay attention to mosquito bites in the mountains and forests, as well as the rest of the poisonous snakes and pythons." Duanmulin took out some anti-mosquito liquid from the backpack behind him, and the bottle of pale yellow liquid was like a miracle medicine at the moment. In addition, he took out another bottle of liquid medicine, which was in a black bottle, and on the top of the bottle was a note with the word "insecticide" written on it.

Duanmu Liang said to Wang Liang: "This is an insecticide, I heard that it is very effective, this time we brought a lot, and sprinkled some around the tent before going to bed at night, so that it is safe to sleep." ”

Wang Liang nodded and said, "Brother Duanmu, I was bitten by a mosquito last night, what is the name of that smeared thing?" ”

"It's called flower water, it's especially useful for biting mosquitoes, I heard that herbs such as musk and borneol are used in it, but I don't understand it anyway, but I heard it be very useful."

Wang Liang was lying in his sleeping bag, "Why have so many Khitan soldiers died recently?" ”

Duanmu Liang on the side opened his eyes, and he said impatiently: "Go, go, Wang Dan. Son, why are there so many words, I don't know this, then Imperial Doctor Liu only knows, but he has a student among us, you can ask him tomorrow to know. ”

"Oh!" Wang Liang felt bored with himself, but he asked again, "What's his name, I'll ask tomorrow." ”

Duanmu Liang closed his eyes, "It's that Huyanzan, go to sleep, I have to go out on a mission tomorrow, and hunt some wild animals by the way." ”

"Oh." Wang Liang turned sideways, then snored and fell asleep.

"What a fool." Duanmu Liang laughed and scolded, then turned sideways and went to sleep.

Early the next morning, after Wang Liang got up, he went to look for Huyanzan, but he didn't see Huyanzan, but heard that Huyanzan and others had gone to Ulzhou and Heishiling Mountains.

"When General Huyan comes back, you will know, more than 20 of them who know how to medicine have gone to the north."