Chapter 31: Retribution
Of course, the French army did not know that the French army was showing off their might in Italy at this time, looking for fun, and they enjoyed the fruits of victory brought by easy victory, and they could say that they wanted money and money in Italy, and women and women, and they looked at them with panic and awe wherever they went, which made their self-confidence extremely inflated.
Charles VIII was no exception, although he was still very sad about the arrangement of military affairs, after the experience of being attacked last time, he was very careful to arrange the encampment of the army and the density and intensity of the soldiers' patrols, as for the rest, he felt that there was no need to care so much.
Charles VIII was now holding two beautiful blonde beauties in both hands, hugging him left and right, very pleasantly, and he enjoyed the appearance of these delicate beauties in front of him. Ever since he learned that Calier had fled, he began to search for beautiful women non-stop, and after arranging military affairs all day, he began to have a good time with these beauties.
Suddenly, a soldier's voice came from outside: "Your Majesty, the little one has something to report!" Hearing his anxious voice, His Holiness felt a little strange, so he said, "Come in, what's the matter?" ”
After hearing the words of the king, the soldier immediately walked in, his face was a little anxious, and said: "Your Majesty, it seems that the situation is not good, our soldiers have been dying of strange diseases one after another in the past few days, the symptoms are very strange, I have never seen it before, and the military doctor can't figure out what is going on." ”
Charles VIII was also taken aback when he heard that soldiers had died of illness in the past few days, he waved his hand and asked the two beautiful women sitting next to him to go out first, and then asked the soldier for details: "What's the matter, why did you come to report to me after dying for several days in a row?" ”
The soldier obviously also received the order, and replied: "Tell Your Majesty, the military doctor said that because the number of deaths in the first two days was not much, there were only one or two, and it was not until the two days began to increase that I found out that the matter was serious, so I will report to Your Majesty today." ”
After hearing this, Charles VIII felt that it was right, after all, there were tens of thousands of people in the army, and sometimes one or two people died because of some accidents was not a big deal, so he followed the soldiers to find a military doctor to understand the situation in detail, and then take measures.
Charles VIII entered the barracks of the military doctors, looked at the military doctors, and asked: "What is the situation now, what disease are these soldiers suffering from, and are they still saved?" ”
"Your Majesty, this disease is very strange, I have never encountered it before, I am afraid that it is a new type of disease, there is no effective medicine that can treat this strange disease, it can only help some people with mild conditions to control some of the disease a little."
"Is that a plague? Is it contagious? ”
"Your Majesty, this is not a plague, it does not spread as fast as the plague. However, I am afraid that it is contagious, and there is no clue about how it is transmitted for the time being, so we can only gather those soldiers who have already fallen ill in a military camp, so as not to affect other soldiers who seem to be in good health at present. ”
Charles VIII nodded solemnly, and asked, "Then what are the specific symptoms of these sick soldiers?" ”
The military doctor said: "At the beginning, those soldiers began to have some small red papules or induration in the sexual organs, and then began to erode, and they were hard in nature, with clear borders, neat edges, embankment-like bulges, and dark red infiltrates around them. After a period of time, some soldiers began to lose weight, feel unwell, and have diarrhea and mouth ulcers, and then the situation became more and more serious, and eventually some soldiers began to die, and more and more soldiers died because of such symptoms in the past few days! ”
After hearing this, Charles VIII tried to recall all the symptoms of the disease, and there was no similar situation, and it was actually mainly in the sexual organs, which had not been heard of before. Charles VIII thought about it and felt that the disease should have been transmitted to them by those damned Neapolitans, and it should have been transmitted to them by those Neapolitan women, otherwise how could the initial symptoms appear on the sexual organs? He also felt that the matter was serious, and he had to gather the generals to discuss the future.
So Charles VIII went back to his main camp and asked the heralds to consult with the commanders on how to deal with the situation.
When the generals had gathered in the main camp, Charles VIII spoke of the present situation and asked them if there was a similar situation. The others all said that it was okay, and they had not seen such a situation so far, only Tiger was the only one with a blue face and a look of disbelief and horror.
Charles VIII noticed Tiger's strangeness and asked, "Tiger, what's wrong with you?" Are you experiencing similar symptoms? The other generals are fine, you won't be so unlucky, right? ”
Hearing Charles VIII's question, Tiger reluctantly turned his head to look at Charles VIII and said with difficulty: "Your Majesty, I now have the first symptoms of those dead soldiers!" Your Majesty, there is medicine for the military doctor to heal, right? Can he heal me? Tiger spoke incoherently, and the anxiety in his heart could be imagined.
Charles VIII was also pale, he was still glad that he didn't have these symptoms just now, but he didn't expect that there was a general who had such a situation! At the thought that he was likely to lose one of his right-hand men, Charles VIII was in a very bad mood, and the expression on his face changed. However, he still comforted Tiger: "Tiger, don't worry, you are only the initial performance now, the military doctor should come up with a way to heal, don't worry too much!" ”
After hearing this, Tiger's heart sank directly, although he was used to seeing generals who lived and died, but after all, he was still alone, thinking that he would die in the near future, the panic in his heart could be imagined, and Tiger was ruthless by nature, and he liked to sneak attack in the back the most, because he was timid and afraid of death, and he didn't dare to confront the enemy head-on, and he didn't expect that this time the god of death would actually come to the door by himself!
Charles VIII didn't care about comforting Tiger, it was still important to get down to business, and after the meeting, he had to send Tiger to the concentration camp, lest he infect others, in fact, now everyone had faintly distanced themselves from Tiger, for fear that they would be accidentally tricked.
Charles VIII said: "This disease is mainly found in the sexual organs, and has never been encountered before, so I think the greatest possibility is that it was passed on to our soldiers by those damned Neapolitan women, so from this day onwards, all soldiers are ordered not to have sex again, whether it is hard or the woman herself willingly!" ”
The rest of the generals also knew the seriousness of the matter, and they answered yes in unison, and then waited for the next command of Charles VIII.
"The second thing is that now we must immediately conduct a check-up in the whole army to see who else has similar symptoms, and it must be checked strongly, and everyone, including all the senior generals and soldiers, as well as the logistics personnel, must be checked! The third thing is that soldiers who are found to have similar symptoms or who already have symptoms must be forcibly gathered in a camp and isolated from the rest of the people, so that healthy people will not be infected! ”
"Yes, Your Majesty!" The leaders agreed in unison, and then went down to carry out their mission. Only Tiger had been responding with a pale face, and at last he was in a trance and saw that everyone else had left together, so he followed out.
It was only at this time that the French army discovered the seriousness of the problem, but it was too late, and this disease was actually called syphilis in later generations, and the French called it the Italian disease, while the Neapolitans called it the French disease. The so-called heavenly retribution is not happy, since the French army invaded Italy, it can be said that there is no evil, adultery, adultery, captivity and plunder, and they have enjoyed a very luxurious life, and the beastly desire can be vented every day, and all kinds of ** can be very satisfied. Now, God could not see it anymore, and he caused a catastrophe to befall them that would have brought the French expedition to a halt. Among them, the most typical is Tiger, his perverted ** after Monte San Giovanni was fully released and satisfied, and it became even more intensified in other places, although he no longer slaughtered, but the tricks he played were endless, and every day was different. Now, he is overindulgent, and his indulgence has also tasted the taste of his life hanging by a thread.
In the next few days, the syphilis disease began to break out in earnest, the French army died in pieces, countless soldiers died every day, and a large number of soldiers were detected to be sick every day. Especially in that concentration camp, you can hear the endless wails and painful moans of the people inside every day, which makes people feel panic when they hear it, and the chill on their backs is swishing upward. In this terrible outbreak of disease, the French army lost more than half of its strength and lost more than half of its strength, which greatly affected the French army's rule and ability to continue fighting in Italy.
Tiger was also sick because he was also placed in a concentration camp, although because he was a general, he was placed in a delicate small tent, but Tiger was not the slightest happy, he saw that the soldiers who suffered from the same disease as him either kept moaning in pain, or were tortured to death, and even some could not stand such a huge pressure and chose to end it by themselves. He looked at all of this, and the cure that the King had said the military doctor must have come up with was nowhere to be found, and he did not see any soldier alive at all! Tiger lives in endless torment every day, and this feeling of knowing that he must die, but having to wait for death, makes Tiger almost break down. He used to be such a good crossbowman, and he was an excellent crossbowman leader, but he was also a crazy demon with excessive indulgence and perverted beast desires, but in the face of death, he couldn't escape either, so he could only wait for it to come.
In the end, Tiger couldn't stand this endless torture, and on a sunny afternoon when the warm wind was blowing everywhere on the earth, he followed the example of the rest of the soldiers who had gone first, and ended his life as both legendary and sinful.