Chapter 578: Miasma Problem
No matter what you do, there will be all kinds of difficulties. At this time, Liu Yi was really stumped by the difficulties in front of him.
Don't look at the invincibility of the New Han Army in the Han Dynasty, there seems to be nothing that can be difficult to stop the New Han Army, but all the forests in the Han Dynasty are not as bad as the tropical rainforests in the Nanyang area.
Of course, this does not mean that there are no such and such difficulties in the mountains and forests in the territory, but after all, they are all in their own land, and the people of the Han Dynasty are all over the mountains and rivers of China, and the people generally know and are familiar with any dangers. However, in a foreign place, completely unfamiliar, Liu Yi had to think about how to overcome the difficulties that his Xinhan soldiers faced after entering the vast tropical rainforest? How to avoid unnecessary losses of the New Han Army?
If there is no accurate prediction to avoid unnecessary sacrifice plans, this is now coming, and Liu Yi really can't just give an order to let his soldiers go deep into the rainforest like this.
This time, fortunately, I was reminded by Enlightened Tailin, otherwise it would be a little difficult to recall the New Han Army that had been dispersed after rashly sending troops into the rainforest.
In this way, Liu Yi temporarily stopped the operation, and only asked the soldiers below to temporarily be stationed outside Donglin City, and gathered all the generals to discuss and plan together to see how to deal with the difficulties raised by General Kaimingtai.
Liu Yi realized that such difficulties would not only be encountered here in Vietnam, but would definitely encounter the same difficulties in the future with the expedition of the New Han Army. Moreover. There will only be more difficulties, not less.
Now that Liu Yi calmed down and thought about it, he found out. That question is definitely not only the one raised by Enlightened Tai, but also many difficulties that have not yet been discovered.
Like what. Although this has always been a major consideration and training item for the New Han Army, training in peacetime is one thing, but fighting in a place with a different climate will be another matter. In particular, in the New Han Army, there are actually a considerable number of soldiers in the Northern Army. Although they have become excellent soldiers of the New Han Army, they have never fought in the hot and smoking tropics. And the humid heat of the southern region is not the same as the heat of the desert in the northwest desert.
Because of the dampness and heat, it will be easy to cause diseases, and in terms of diet, a little attention will cause the soldiers to vomit and discharge, and all kinds of dissatisfaction will follow.
And also. Mosquito bites and insect bites will bring great harm to the soldiers.
If it is a combat injury, or even an accidental injury, its wound is not treated in time. Even if it is not handled properly, it will easily cause the wound to become inflamed and thick. Extremely difficult to cure.
The weather in the north is very cold, and bacteria should not breed. But in tropical rainforests, bacteria grow quickly. Some meat can grow bacteria every other day, and sergeants may become infected with diseases if they eat it.
Gan Ning, Kaimingtai and other generals of the New Han Army and Donglin City gathered together, and by the way, Liu Yi summoned the military doctors in charge of the New Han Army.
Through everyone's deliberation and discussion, Liu Yi felt that it was necessary to reformulate some operational guidelines for the New Han Army Navy in Vietnam and even in the entire Nanyang region, and re-standardize all the action plans of the New Han Army and Navy, so that every soldier should always pay attention to it, act in accordance with the established code of conduct, and avoid all kinds of problems as much as possible.
No matter how big or small, we must improve the code of conduct of the New Han Army and Navy in Nanyang from a small aspect.
First of all, the first article is to stipulate the hygiene of the officers and men of the New Han Army.
It is stipulated that the convenience of the sergeant should be concentrated in one place, and it cannot be convenient everywhere, because in that case, it will attract a lot of mosquitoes and bring a lot of bacteria. Secondly, it is very important to stipulate that the officers and men of the Xinhan Army must take a bath every day, and if they do not maintain personal hygiene in the Nanyang rainforest, if they do not maintain personal hygiene, the sergeants will not have to be afraid of getting sick.
, that is, the diet of the sergeants, strictly ordered the officers and soldiers of the New Han Army to drink cold water, and must drink boiled water. In the usual breakfast, lunch and dinner, it is necessary to eat the food made by the soldiers in the army, and some unknown wild fruits or beast meat are not allowed to be eaten at will. Meat in the army is not allowed to be eaten overnight, and the meat of the day must be eaten, and those that cannot be eaten must be disposed of, and it is not allowed to be left for the next day to be eaten by sergeants.
In order to adapt to the tropical climate of the South Seas, the sergeants immediately improved their clothing, because in these hot and humid areas, the sergeants were no longer suitable for wearing long shirts and trousers. Because of the heat, the sergeant will sweat profusely, and after sweating, his clothes will be wet and extremely uncomfortable. Make your clothes as hexagram as possible, and turn your trousers into shorts. In this way, if you put on the armor again, it will look refreshing and clean. But in this way, there will be many places on the soldier's body that are exposed, such as arms and legs. There is no need to worry about this, because it was learned through Kai Mingtai and other generals in Dong Lin City, Vietnam. The reason why the indigenous people of Vietnam are able to move and even fight in the forest naked is because they apply a plant juice from the forest to their bodies, so that ordinary mosquitoes do not come close to them and do not bite them.
Fourth, the officers and men of the New Han Army immediately began to work out a small-scale combat method as much as possible according to the army and the unit, because in the forest, it is very likely that they will be attacked by a small number of natives, and they may be one or two people who dare to launch a sneak attack on the soldiers of the New Han Army deep in the forest. Faced with such a situation, it was impossible for the New Han Army to send a large number of soldiers to attack the three or two natives, and would only send a small number of soldiers to pursue and kill them. At this time, it was necessary to require the New Han Army, which was based on Wu and Shi, to be familiar with the combat methods of the indigenous people.
According to the generals of Donglin City such as Kaimingtai, the combat methods of the indigenous people are actually very similar to the combat methods of the mountain and forest special operations soldiers of the New Han Army. It's nothing more than that their indigenous people are very familiar with the habits of the forest, the type of land in the forest, and that's it. They can walk in the forest, fly and so on. Then, they will also lay some very lethal forest traps. This is what the soldiers of the New Han Army should pay great attention to.
Speaking of which. In fact, Liu Yi had already expected that he would encounter such a situation one day, when the New Han Dynasty was established not long ago, Liu Yi had already trained special operations forces in the mountains and forests. It's a pity that such a special operations soldier cannot be expanded, and not everyone can become such a fighter. Therefore, there are not many special operations soldiers who went to Nanyang with Liu Yi this time, but only hundreds.
Also, it is worth mentioning. Comparatively speaking, the forest special operations soldiers of the New Han Army are much more powerful in jungle warfare than these indigenous people in Vietnam. At present, these indigenous people, at best, are only the prototype of the mountain and forest special operations in later generations, and they are in an embryonic state, and it is the living environment that forces them to survive in their daily lives, and they slowly explore a method similar to special operations, which is much weaker than the special operations soldiers of the New Han Army who deliberately and deliberately trained them to fight like this.
But it's also a pity that the sailors of the New Han Army. It is more about training in water warfare, and it is not very good at land operations, and the mountain and forest special operations method cannot be popularized among the naval forces. In fact, it is unlikely that it will be popularized throughout the army, and there are some soldiers who simply cannot adapt to such training methods and combat methods.
But now. Whether they can adapt or not, but also ask of them. It is important to recognize this mode of warfare. Only in this way can they avoid casualties as much as possible.
A total of more than a dozen codes of conduct have been summarized. Let the officers and men of the New Han Army familiarize themselves with and abide by them.
However, there is another problem that Lewi has never been able to solve.
Because this problem could not be solved, the army of the New Han Army was stranded in Donglin City for more than ten days.
That's the problem of miasma in the forest.
Forest miasma is the most fatal, and Liu Yi doesn't know what kind of forest will have miasma, once the soldiers of the New Han Army encounter miasma in the forest, how can they save their lives?
As for the forest miasma, Liu Yi knows, it is the poisonous gas generated by the decay of animals and plants in the tropical primeval forest, the main reason is that no one can effectively dispose of the dead carcasses of animals, and the high temperature in the tropics has created favorable conditions for the production of miasma.
In addition, there are many miasma in the south, and the miasma is the turbid gas of the mountains and forests, which occurs in late spring, and the miasma converges in late autumn. The miasma of all roads occurs after the Qingming Festival, and it is collected after the frost festival, but the miasma that is unique to the south and west of Nanjiao (southern Vietnam) is not so, and it can be said that it is available at all four times. The four seasons are endless, especially in winter and spring, which is different from other places.
This point is the most fatal, the miasma in Vietnam is endless, and it just so happens that it is still summer, and in the primeval forest, the miasma may break out anytime and anywhere.
There are also two types of miasma, one is tangible and the other is intangible.
The tangible miasma is like a cloud, like a dense fog. Invisible miasma or fishy wind, or strange fragrance attacking people, is actually miasma. There is another kind, at the beginning, but see the jungle shrubs in the bright golden light, suddenly fell from the air, as small as a projectile gradually drifted away, as big as a wheel suddenly cracked, non-rainbow non-xia, five colors all over the field, the fragrance is compelling. When a person receives this smell, he immediately becomes ill, and he is called a miasma, which is the most terrible of all. In some places, the miasma is thick, get up early in the morning, people do not see each other within a stone's throw, and you must go to the middle of the day, the fog disperses, and you can distinguish objects, especially in the mountains.
And to break the miasma, one is coix seed, after a long time, you can lighten the body to get rid of the miasma. There is also a betel nut, which can also defeat miasma. The rest, such as realgar and atractylodes, are often burned and smoked, and can also remove miasma.
That's what Lewi knows.
However, coix seeds, which can only be taken for a long time to break the miasma, are obviously not suitable for the current soldiers of the New Han Army. Moreover, this refers to the miasma that does not die and can be taken to crack it, but Liu Yi hopes to prevent it and not let the soldiers of the New Han Army poison the miasma, because in the forest, once poisoned, I am afraid it will be difficult to come out of the forest again, where is there a chance to take coix seeds for a long time?
The same is true of betel nut, and betel nut itself is a difficult thing to chew, chewing too much, it will also cause mouth ulcers, gingival degeneration, submucosal fibrosis, and then lead to oral cancer, especially soldiers who are not used to this taste, chewing betel nut, they don't have to fight, and their combat effectiveness plummets. This is equivalent to killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of yourself, and before the war starts, there will be various problems in itself.
In the open forest, a little bit of realgar and atractylodes can not play a major role at all, as soon as the wind blows, it will dissipate, where can the miasma everywhere in the forest?
Besides, when the soldiers of the New Han Army entered the forest, it was impossible for them to keep burning these things step by step to find the plant species that Liu Yi wanted, right? If that's the case, don't think about searching the primeval forests from the west of Vietnam for ten or eight years. If this is the case, Leo would rather form a naval army and go directly to South America, go straight to the Amazon River basin, and get back the rubber trees and sweet potatoes. Even so, Liu Yi estimates that it won't take more than three years.
Now, within a year and a half, Lewy has found rubber tree species and sweet potato seeds.
At this time when Liu Yi was worried, Yin Xiao and Yuan Qing actually brought someone to the tent that Liu Yi did not expect.
The person who was brought into the tent was actually Mrs. Zhurong.
When Liu Yi saw Mrs. Zhurong, he was really surprised. Because, when she and Su Xin were taken away from Yizhou and arrived in Dongting Lake Xinzhou. Considering that the two women were still worried about their clan and family, Liu Yi did not invite them to accompany them on the expedition. In fact, Lewi didn't really want to take them with him. Although it has been a long time since the expedition went to sea, no one knew what they would face when they got to sea. Although they have a heart for Liu Yi for the time being, they have not really had that kind of relationship with each other. Therefore, Lewy did not want to force them to take risks with him.
However, Liu Yi really didn't expect that Mrs. Zhurong would always be mixed in her own army and follow her to Vietnam.
Think about it, from Dongting Lake Xinzhou, followed to Qu'a, and then from Qu'a to Donglin City, Vietnam, for so long, Liu Yi didn't feel the slightest idea, and he didn't know that Mrs. Zhurong had been by his side all the time, which really surprised Liu Yi.
"Hey! Mrs. Ben didn't follow you on purpose...... It's just that...... It's just ......" Mrs. Zhurong is obviously a little unnatural, she is so strong in her heart, it seems that she doesn't want Liu Yi to see that she has been following Liu Yi.
"Alright, alright, let's come." After Liu Yi was surprised, he didn't feel anything, and signaled: "Follow me in the future, don't mix in the army, it's not convenient for you to have a daughter." ”
"No, no, aren't you having some difficulties right now? I mean, I have a way for your soldiers not to worry about miasma. ”
"What?" Lewy jumped up all at once. (To be continued......)