Shooting Dog City, Cao Cao's camp.

Cao Cao was playing with the military book in the camp, and suddenly heard the soldier's report: "Master Cheng has something to ask to see." ”

When Cao Cao heard that Cheng Yu was coming, he knew that it must have been that thing, and he couldn't help but be happy, and hurriedly got up and personally welcomed Cheng Yu in.

"The last will see the lord." Cheng Yu saluted Cao Cao and hurriedly said respectfully.

"Hehe, Zhongde doesn't have to be polite, follow me into the tent and talk." Cao Cao enthusiastically took Cheng Yu's hand, let him into the big tent, and then retreated from the servants, and then couldn't wait to say: "Since Zhongde is here, is that thing done?" ”

Cheng Yu smiled and nodded. Then he bowed his hand and said: "Fortunately, the last general of the five thousand dead soldiers has also been found, and they can act tonight, please rest assured that each of them has been rewarded, and even their children have been arranged, and none of these people will have any complaints, and none of them will confide in the lord's secret." ”

"That's good, hehe, in fact, I don't have to worry about this matter at all, I know that Zhongde does things well, and this matter will definitely be done very safely, so let's act tonight."

"No. Please rest assured that this time the end will ensure that none of Yuan Shao's 70,000 troops will survive. Cheng Yu's words were full of confidence, and he said excitedly to Cao Cao.

"Hehe, I'm looking forward to the moment when Zhongde makes meritorious service." Cao Cao saluted Cheng Yu again, and then said solemnly.

Cheng Yu hurriedly said that he didn't dare to do it, and hurriedly returned the courtesy, so he left in a hurry.

On the night of the same day, the five thousand dead soldiers led by Cheng Yu's personal general, Cheng Ran, quietly came to the outside of the city, and then dug something somewhere.

If anyone familiar with it passes by here, they will definitely know clearly that this is the place where Cao Cao buried those soldiers who died in battle and the people of Turbid Deer City who suffered more than ten days ago.

After a while, someone exclaimed in a low voice: "I dug it." ”

Cheng Ran opened his eyes and saw that it was indeed a head and a broken corpse. In the dark night, there are tens of thousands of heads and a broken corpse here, because it is April, the weather has gradually become hot, those corpses have been buried in the ground for more than half a month, it has already been full of rancidity, Rao is these 5,000 people have experienced nine deaths on the battlefield, accustomed to seeing how many killings and bloodshed, seeing those corpses that exude rancid smell and describe hideous, they can't help but feel a chill all over their bodies.

Cheng Ran's heart was also nervous, and he prayed secretly: "Soldiers, all the people, if we don't want you to live in peace after death, it's really because Yuan Shao is powerful and has to do it, not to mention that we are also doing this to avenge you, I hope you have knowledge and can forgive us." ”

After that, Cheng Ran said in a deep voice: "Don't be afraid, these are our own people, we are here to avenge them, they know it, and they will not blame us." Without further ado, everyone started to act quickly, everyone did their best, carried a few more, and then everyone listened to my instructions and set off immediately. ”

"No." Although they were still apprehensive in their hearts, none of these soldiers disobeyed the order, and all of them agreed obediently, took out the broken corpses and heads in the pit, and filled the big pit with soil, and then carried the broken corpses on their backs, holding one or two heads, enduring the fear and pungent smell of corruption in their hearts, and then quickly left and headed in the direction of Yuan Shao's military camp

Due to the extreme fear and nervousness, the speed of these dead soldiers was more than twice as fast as usual, and the distance of more than ten miles took less than half an hour to arrive.

Yuan Shao has been leading the army to attack Cao Cao's Shooting Dog City these days, although the two sides have won and lost each other, but the scale is generally not large, and the situation has once again fallen into a stalemate stage.

Yuan Shao learned the lesson of the last time this time, sent heavy troops to guard the grain land, and did not dare to slack off on the main camp tent, but the layout was loose on the outside and tight on the inside, because he knew that Cao Cao was good at robbing the camp, this time it deliberately looked lax on the surface, and people could rush in lightly, but various alarm means could ensure that as long as the enemy army rushed in, it would be discovered by the surrounding ambushes in an instant, and as long as it was surrounded by ambushes, Yuan Shao dared to guarantee that even if Cao Cao came with all his strength, there would inevitably be no return in the end.

This time Cheng Yu sent troops to sneak attack, it was indeed not unexpected by Yuan Shao, but Yuan Shao did not expect that this time the enemy troops who came to rob the camp did not think about going out at all, their only purpose here was to send them to death, and hoped that Yuan Shao's troops would surround as much as possible.

Not long after the 5,000 troops led by Cheng Ran arrived in the camp, they were discovered by the soldiers patrolling the camp, only to hear the sound of the horn of the alarm, and then saw that tens of thousands of troops immediately rushed over like a tide, surrounding the team like an iron bucket.

"Hehe, fool in Cao Cao's army, your plan to rob the camp has long been seen by the general, this time our army has laid an ambush on all sides, and it is difficult for you to fly now, quickly throw down your weapons and surrender, or spare your life.

Yuan Shang's subordinate general Zhang Yi sneered, and said to the besieged troops, in his opinion, this team of only a few thousand people dared to rob the camp, it was simply sent to death, and now he gave them a chance to live, it was already merciful.

But Zhang Yi didn't expect that the 5,000 people were indeed sent to death, but he just saw that each soldier was carrying a bundle of things, and he couldn't see it clearly under the reflection of the torches, accompanied by a foul smell, but he thought it must be a tool for ignition, and he didn't think about it carefully as to why the stench came, and then waited for the scene of the besieged Cao soldiers putting down their arms and surrendering.

But he didn't expect that those enemy troops didn't know how to lift, and they all rushed towards him with a roar.

"Since they want to die, let them be perfected." Zhang Yi snorted coldly, and ordered the guards to start a massacre.

But to Zhang Yi's surprise, those besieged Cao soldiers did not resist in the slightest, and calmly accepted the slaughter of their own soldiers.

Neither Zhang Yi nor his soldiers noticed that the Cao soldiers who were killed had quietly thrown their corpses to all corners of Yuan Shao's camp before they died.

And in the dark night, those corpses that exuded a foul smell of corruption were mixed with the corpses of the five thousand dead soldiers in Cao Cao's army, and they were not noticed by Yuan Shaojun's lieutenant generals at all.

Seeing that this qiē was done seamlessly, Cheng Ran's heart breathed a sigh of relief, anyway, they were contaminated with corrupt corpses, and sooner or later they were all mortal people, and they successfully completed the task today, but they also died well, so he smiled and glanced at the soldiers of the Yuan army who were about to end the massacre, and directly killed themselves with a knife.

Because the city was going to be attacked the next day, after the massacre, Zhang Yi ordered people to clean up the battlefield, but he didn't understand why there were only four or five thousand enemy corpses, and the time spent cleaning the battlefield and collecting the enemy corpses was more than cleaning the corpses of 10,000 enemy soldiers.

But then the trouble appeared again, because for some reason there was a faint rancid smell wafting out of the barracks, and this rancid smell made it impossible for all the soldiers in the entire barracks to sleep peacefully......

Early the next morning, Yuan Shao still ordered the soldiers to attack the shooting dogs as usual, and the time still passed as usual, but within three days, there was vomiting and diarrhea in the army, and the high fever did not go away, and the patient kept sneezing, and his throat and tongue were congested and emitted a foul-smelling smell, and he suffered from chest pain because of a violent cough.

After that, when the military doctor reported to Yuan Shao, he said with a pale face that this should be a plague.

"What? Plague, where did the plague come from? Yuan Shao couldn't help but be furious when he heard this, slapped the table in the tent, and roared.

The military doctor naturally did not know the root cause of this qiē at all, so he had to shake his head and say: "Said: Yin does not abdicate, that is, the wind is early, the rain does not fall, the humidity does not melt, the people are sick and warm, and the defects are wasted." Wind is born, people are suffering from joint pain, head pain, heat and internal trouble, and dry throat to drink, so the qi of the epidemic will often attack, which is also a matter of no choice. ”

"There is no way? Why is there no plague anywhere else, but only in our army? Cao Cao's Dog Shooting City is so close to us, isn't the wind and rain different? Why haven't you heard of the plague in his army? Besides, can this year be regarded as a time when the rain does not fall? It's summer now, can it be considered a windy early move? Isn't it time for the gale to move early in the spring? It's even more nonsense if you say that the humidity doesn't melt, the weather in the north is dry, where is there any humidity? If there are no such reasons, why does the plague breed? ”

Yuan Shao actually wanted to ask in his heart, this qiē is not this, could it be that God deliberately came to punish me and let me be exterminated by the hand of the plague? But as long as such words are spoken, they will inevitably affect the morale of the military, so I didn't dare to say it.

The military doctor didn't understand the meaning of Yuan Shao's words, but he suddenly thought of another point, and said to Yuan Shao hesitantly: "Do you remember the strange thing that happened when Cao Cao led the army to rob the camp a few days ago? Xia Guan felt that it was likely to have something to do with it. ”

"You mean the foul smell that came from that night?" Yuan Shao couldn't help frowning, and then covered his nose and said.

Yuan Shao is from the Yuan family in Runan, the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, and his protégés are all over the world, and a noble-born son like him likes to clean the most, so he is particularly sensitive to the stench of that night, and he is still deeply impressed by it until now.

But seeing that the military doctor nodded, he recalled carefully for a long time, and then said: "As far as the lower officer knows, most of the first sick sergeants participated in the battle that night, or participated in the cleaning up of the battlefield, and the lower officer heard General Zhang Yi say that the time to clean up the battlefield that night was particularly long, obviously there were only 5,000 enemy troops, but the time taken was even longer than 10,000, so the lower officer doubted that there were a lot of corrupt corpses mixed in it." ”

"What do you say? Are you saying that the purpose of Cao Ying's sneak attack was mainly to throw carrion corpses into our army and deliberately infect our army with the plague? Yuan Shao couldn't help but tremble, Huo stood up, and asked in a trembling voice.