Chapter 429: Epidemic Outbreak (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything!) ）

With the full cooperation of the intelligence department, many spies, traitors, and even soldiers with bloody cases were soon uncovered.

However, while the intelligence department was examining these people, the field hospitals in the three places were quietly overcrowded, and the defenders did not realize the seriousness of the matter, and thought it was a normal phenomenon. After all, these prisoners of war are a group of talking animals in the eyes of the Japanese, and if you treat them as human beings, they are all destroyed and inhuman, and it is inevitable that many people will get sick when they suddenly settle down.

Comrades in field hospitals are no longer surprised by this phenomenon, and this has also happened after the previous exchange of prisoners of war. Therefore, in order to ensure that the bodies of these prisoners can be well conditioned and treated, Ma Zheng issued instructions very early on, and the vast majority of doctors and nurses in the military region should gather in these places, and as soon as these prisoners of war returned, they would immediately organize doctors in the hospital to conduct physical examinations for them one by one, and at the same time, a large number of beds would be vacated to prepare to receive patients.

In addition, the logistics department was also asked to get more condiments such as ginger and chili peppers when cooking for the returned prisoners of war to prevent colds.

The results of the physical examination on the first day were not bad, more than 500 of the more than 28,000 people in Zhangjiakou City were unwell, 300 of the 14,000 people in the direction of Xinghe were not in good health, and more than 300 people in the direction of Fengzhen also needed treatment.

More than 1,100 of the more than 60,000 people were examined, which was not bad, and the vast majority of the prisoners of war were ill by long-term fatigue and malnutrition, as long as they were slightly recuperated.

But what is unexpected is that only two days later, a large number of patients were hospitalized in Zhangjiakou and Xinghe, and these new patients all had almost the same symptoms, all of them felt headaches, hot bodies, and sweating profusely.

At first, the doctors in the field hospital thought that these people were just suffering from wind chills, that is, some common colds, after all, this season was the time of winter and spring communication, and they were most prone to colds. Not only ordinary people, but also many such patients in the army at this time. Not to mention that these people travel long distances, they can't eat well, they can't sleep well, and they are also worried about being afraid, and it is really God's blessing not to get sick.

Because of this, these patients did not attract the attention of the field hospitals of the various units, but only freed up some beds for those who were more seriously ill, and each of those with milder illnesses was given some medicine, and they were still allowed to live in ordinary barracks.

However, in just two days, the situation in Zhangjiakou has changed dramatically, and before you know it, the number of seriously ill patients has exceeded two thousand, and the number of patients seems to be increasing. More importantly, many soldiers of the Suicha Military Region have also contracted such soldiers, and many of them have been admitted to hospitals. The first patients in the hospital were getting worse and worse, and their condition was not controlled, and even they died.

On May 1, the Zhangjiakou side reported to the headquarters of the military region, and three people who were seriously ill died, and there were no deaths in the direction of Xinghe and Fengzhen, but on the 4th, Zhangjiakou reported to the headquarters of the military region, and the death toll reached 77, and there were also prisoners of war deaths in Xinghe City, with 8 people dead, and 6 people in the direction of Fengzhen.

In addition to the deaths, the number of new patients increased even more, and the number of new patients in the Zhangjiakou direction alone exceeded 7,700 as of 4 p.m. on the 4th.

After learning the details of the situation, Huang Sicheng and Yang Chengwu immediately reported the situation to the headquarters of the military region, and at the same time requested the headquarters of the military region to send medical personnel to support them.

At first, Ma Zheng didn't pay much attention. Although there are a lot of sick patients, but the number of deaths is not very much, Ma Zheng thinks that it should be a relatively powerful flu, there should be no major problems, think about the outbreak of the big flu in later generations, it must not infect millions of people, and the small flu of only a few thousand people really did not attract Ma Zheng's attention.

Although he did not attach great importance to it, Ma Zheng still asked Li Haiyan and Li Lanqing from the field hospital to rush to Zhangjiakou with a medical team composed of more than 20 doctors and more than 200 nurses, and at the same time brought a large amount of medicinal materials.

However, just one day after the medical team arrived in Zhangjiakou, Ma Zheng was shocked by the news that what happened in Zhangjiakou was not the flu at all, but the plague, and it was the most difficult plague in the plague.

After the medical team arrived in Zhangjiakou, they found that the situation was far more serious than what the telegram had said, and that the number of deaths in the previous two days was only a few dozen, but on 6 May, in just one morning, 225 patients had died in the field hospital of the Second Division, of which 33 were soldiers on active duty of the Third Division.

What is even more serious is that as of the 6th, in just seven days, the number of infected people exceeded 6,500. In addition to the prisoners of war who were exchanged, there were also soldiers of the Second Division, ordinary people in Zhangjiakou City, and even doctors and nurses in the field hospital who also suffered from fever and headaches.

After careful examination and judgment, Li Lanqing came to a conclusion that this was not an ordinary cold or a contagious flu, but a plague, and Li Lanqing even concluded that it was a plague.

The main reason why Li Lanqing has such a judgment is that she once saw similar symptoms in the teacher's medical notes. Li Lanqing's teacher is a very skilled doctor, who has studied in the United Kingdom and Germany, and he has seen similar epidemics in Spain and recorded them. The phenomenon that occurred in Zhangjiakou and other places was almost the same as that recorded in the teacher's notes, coupled with his own understanding of the plague, so Li Lanqing judged that this should be the plague.

After the news came back to Sui, Ma Zheng suddenly felt chills, he knew very well what the plague represented in this era, it was no different from a death notice. What's more, this epidemic happened extremely suddenly, with almost no warning in advance, and this epidemic happened just after the prisoner exchange, which made Ma Zheng have to think of a possibility whether this plague was a conspiracy of the Japanese.

For this reason, Ma Zheng immediately sent a telegram to Fengzhen, which had also received a large number of prisoners, and the defenders of Xinghe, asking them if a similar problem had arisen there. The information fed back by the defenders of the two places made Ma Zheng very anxious. A similar situation is happening in both places, and it's getting worse and worse.

Suddenly, Ma Zheng fell into an ice cellar, no need to think about it, this must have been done by the frenzied Japanese, and only they could have created such a big plague in such a short period of time, and they did it so secretly.

Ma Zheng really can't sit still, plague has been the biggest killer of mankind since ancient times, China has a detailed record of plague thousands of years ago, "Zhou Li. Tianguan. Tsukasa Zai recorded: "The diseases of the people are in charge of the diseases, and there are diseases at all times. "Lu's Spring and Autumn? Ji Chun Ji recorded: "Ji Chun is summer, and there are many diseases and epidemics. ".

In addition, Zhang Zhongjing of the Eastern Han Dynasty said in the preface of his book "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases": "Since the beginning of the Jian'an era, there have been two thirds of the deaths, and seven out of ten typhoid fevers. Feeling the loss of the past, the wounded and dying, but diligent to seek ancient teachings, learn from all sides......"

The "typhoid fever" in the text, in addition to referring to external fever, also includes the virulent infectious diseases at that time, which shows that the epidemic of temperature fever was rampant at that time. According to historical records, from Emperor Liu Zhi of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, 17 epidemics of the epidemic were recorded. The epidemic has been going on for many years, and people are not struggling to make a living, even the doctors have not been spared. For example, Xu Gan, Chen Lin, Ying Ling, and Liu Zhen in the famous "Seven Sons of Jian'an" in the history of literature also passed away for a while. The tragic situation can be seen.

Although today's medical conditions are far from comparable to those of feudal times, it is still difficult to cure the plague. (To be continued.) )