The Imperial Army, which had been resting for four years, was busy again.

Out of the playfulness of making up for the blank in history, Luan Yi handed over the handsome seal of the battle to Zhuge Liang, Jiang Wei, who was about to graduate from Yanwutang, served as his negative hand, and Dianman, Zhang Bao, and Guan Suo, these sons and nephews participated in the war with the army. Fa Zheng served as the staff officer of the army, Ma Liang served as the chief secretary of the march, Huang Zhong's son Huang Xu served as the patriarch of the army, and Hua Tuo's son Hua Huang served as the chief medical officer of the medical battalion...... Luan Yi seemed to regard this war as a practical test for the next generation of successors of the various ministries of the empire.

After Zhuge Liang received the order in Luoyang, he commanded 20,000 imperial central troops out of Luoyang, passed through Chang'an, and used the holy decree to transfer 20,000 horses and three generals Zhang Xiu, Zhang He, and Gao Lan from the Liangzhou army in Xiliang Ma Teng. The army then advanced into Hanzhong, where Zhao Yun, Zhao Tong's father and son, and 20,000 Qiang troops had been waiting here for a long time.

The three-way army merged into one, and joined Zhang Ren in Yizhou. The imperial army totaled 80,000 and marched towards the southern barbarian hinterland, and for a time it was unbeatable.

For the Imperial Army, the difficulty of this expedition was not so much fighting the barbarians as fighting against nature.

Under the action of the plateau climate of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the 80,000 troops have more or less altitude sickness, and in the dense primeval jungle, there are swamp gas and toxic miasma from the decay of plant and animal carcasses. Hindered by these natural roadblocks, if it weren't for the tremendous role of the medics, half of the army would have died of disease and poison gas before it reached the clouds.

During the march, under the unified dispatch of Hua Jie, the medical soldiers followed the prevention and treatment strategies of many famous doctors of the Imperial Medical Bureau before the expedition to prevent and treat diseases caused by the harsh environment in the Nanban territory. On the one hand, the strategy of combining food and medicine is adopted, and the cooking camp is told to let the guards eat mutton every two days to enhance the guards' ability to prevent cold and tide. Due to the difficulties in transporting and supplying mutton on the southbound road, Zhang Zhongjing, the imperial physician, personally went out and developed a kind of pasta dish that cut mutton into diced meat, mixed it with vegetables and vegetables, added salt, soy sauce and other seasonings, wrapped in dead noodles and cooked in water. It not only reduces the consumption of mutton, but also allows the soldiers to eat mutton frequently, and the pasta is also very delicious, which is very popular with the imperial guards.

The name of the noodle is well known to the world, but it is a real novelty for the Imperial Guardian in the 27th year of the Shengyuan Dynasty - it is dumplings.

Except for lamb. On the other hand, the Imperial Medical Battalion also purchased large quantities of fruits and medicinal herbs such as lemons and banlan roots from Yizhou. Among them, it is needless to mention that the root of Banlan can improve the body's immunity when taken regularly, and prevent the guards from replacing malaria, plague and other diseases that endanger the entire army in the humid forest.

The offer to bring lemons was clearly from Luan Yi. He knew that when the swine flu was raging in later generations, the Oriental people's trick to prevent epidemic diseases was banlangen, while in the Western world, people in Europe relied on dark chocolate in one hand and lemon in the other to get through the difficulties. At the moment, dark chocolate is nowhere to be found, but as the main producer of lemons, Yizhou is full of mountains. You can buy a big car for a few small bucks. The large amount of vitamin C rich in lemons can not only enhance people's immunity, but also beautify the skin, which is very suitable for guards to use to soak in water.

In addition, the doctors of the medical battalion also equipped the civil and military officers of the Imperial Army at the rank and grade level with silver utensils to prevent them from taking poisonous food in their diets. In addition, they regularly disinfect and disinfect military tents by spraying alcohol and burning vinegar.

Therefore, through the combination of food and medicine, lemon board and blue, and the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, a wall of health was built, and the virus in the harsh environment was successfully kept out of the imperial army.

To prevent and treat diseases, prevention is fundamental, and treatment is to check and fill in the gaps. The Medics were the most special group of the Imperial army that walked through the dark forests, wearing only leather armor, neither guns nor knives, carrying medicine boxes on their sides and folding stretchers on their backs.

They didn't even have a fixed queue, they just went back and forth through the army, and they appeared wherever they called.

Whenever they hear the news that someone is not injured in a fall, they will be glad about it. Because no matter how hard you fall, it is only a skin injury, and this minor injury can be healed after two days of rest. But when someone says that someone is sick, their hearts will rise to their throats, for fear that the person will get malaria or even the plague, and spread the disease to the other guards, and it will be out of control.

They would carefully take the man's pulse, and if it was just a common typhoid fever, they would carry it to the wagons of the rear army, give them needles, and cook medicine for them until they were cured.

If the man was really seriously ill, he was immediately isolated from the army, gave him a full meal, gave him a bowl of poison, and watched them die. And immediately began to isolate the unit where the deceased was alive, with close friends and people who had contact with him isolated separately, and the rest of the people were slightly isolated. No one became ill until five days later.

If someone gets sick during this period, then he will be like his robe, and he will be able to eat a full meal and drink a bowl of poison.

The reality is so cruel.

So far, 139 people have drunk the poison in the army. Every time they saw the former robe in their hands, from dying, to breathing, to dying, to death, the hearts of the imperial medics were broken.

But reason told them that with their current medical skills, it was impossible to contain the disease before it spread through the army. Therefore, the sick robe must die.

On several occasions, the medics couldn't stand the condemnation in their hearts, and collectively approached Hua Jie and begged Hua Jie to let them try to save the patient.

Hua Jie said to them with tears in his eyes: "Are your medical skills as high as that of my father and Zhang Ji?" What they can't cure in a short time, you can cure? ”

The medics shook their heads blankly.

"So......" Hua Jie choked up as he bit his lip for a while, "So, for the sake of the Empire and the other robes in the Imperial Army, they must die." Remember, the reason why they are going to die is not that the empire abandoned them, but that we are incompetent. It was our medical skills that caused them to die at our hands. After the triumph of this expedition, our generation must work hard to solve the problem, and strive to overcome the problem as soon as possible, so that the defenders of the empire will no longer be plagued by the epidemic. Do you understand? ”

Hearing this, the eyes of the medical officers were full of fighting spirit. "Order!"

To Luan's surprise, the First Battle of Nanban became the catalyst for the advent of penicillin decades later. Of course, that's an afterthought.

It is said that the imperial army, under the protection of an effective medical security system, drove all the way into the territory of the Southern Barbarians.

The barbarian king Meng learned that the 80,000 troops of the Holy Chinese Empire were coming, and hurriedly gathered Jinhuan Sanjie, Dong Dana, and Ah Huilan, Marshal Sandong to discuss countermeasures. "In recent years, the people of the Central Plains have fought in the north and won successive victories, and the momentum is huge. Now that the troops are pointing to southern Xinjiang, what can I do? ”

Dong Dana showed a little disdain and said: "The people of the Central Plains are good at fighting on the plains, and my southern Xinjiang is surrounded by mountains, and no matter how strong he is, he is not an opponent of my generation." I have three caves in the south of Xinjiang and are strong against them, and if we advance in three ways, the other army will be defeated. ”

Meng was overjoyed, "Then according to your words, join forces with the enemy." Whoever can break the enemy in the three-way army is the cave master. ”

The three knots of the golden ring, Dong Dana, and Ah Hui smiled happily and took the order to leave. As soon as they walked out of the gate, a beautiful figure walked out from behind the screen, this woman's skin is slightly darker than that of the Central Plains, it is a standard brown and yellow healthy color, and her beautiful figure is matched with long black and soft hair, which looks very sexy.

She has peacocks and pheasant colorful feathers on her head, and at the same time she is also matched with some gold and silver jewelry unique to the Central Plains, she is draped in animal skin and half-leaking incense shoulders, and her arms and thighs exposed outside the robe highlight the arc of muscles. She is Zhu Rong, the wife of Meng Shu, the king of the Southern Barbarians.

"My king." She looked at Meng Shu, who looked worried, "But what's wrong?" ”

"The Central Plains people called?"

"What?" Zhu Rong was taken aback, "The people I came back from the Central Plains said that the Central Plains people are now very powerful. Can we beat them? ”

"It should work. Southern Xinjiang is different from the Central Plains, with dense mountains and forests. We occupy the advantages of mountains and rivers, the people of the Central Plains do not know the way, once they enter the mountains, they can't even find the east, west, north and south, how can they fight with us? Besides, our ultimate goal is not to defeat them, but to drive them out of southern Xinjiang. Take them around the mountains a few times, and they will leave on their own when they run out of food. ”

"That's right!" Zhu Rong nodded. In the past, they used this method to force the army of the Central Plains people back. But she vaguely felt that this time was different from the past, and she couldn't say what the difference was. "My king better be careful."

"Provincial province. Come and have a drink with me. The barbarian king handed the wine glass to Zhu Rong, but took Zhu Rong into his arms at the moment when Zhu Rong took the wine glass.

"My king, what are you doing? In broad daylight. Zhu Rong was shy.

"What do you say?"

As Meng Shu said, since the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, the Central Plains soldiers and horses have repeatedly fought southward because it is difficult to adapt to the environment of southern Xinjiang and they are not familiar with the geography of southern Xinjiang, and finally the grain and grass are exhausted. Just as Zhu Rong thought, this time the imperial army is different from the army of the previous dynasty in the past few years, the difference is that as early as twenty years ago, the Imperial S.H.I.E.L.D. infiltrated southern Xinjiang in the name of business, travel, etc., and after a lot of hard work, he drew a detailed map of southern Xinjiang, and recorded the living habits of the southern barbarians, forming a detailed report and submitting it to Luan Yi.

Objectively speaking, the imperial army knew all aspects of the Nanban better than Meng Shu himself.

In addition, in order to ensure that the guards in the army do not get lost during the march. The Empire provided miniature compasses to military officers at the rank of captain and above.

The guides, detailed maps, and binoculars served as a living guide for the imperial army's invasion of southern Xinjiang.