Guo Jia's talent in intelligence analysis can be called against the sky. And those captured Yuan Jun had no intention of keeping a secret for Yuan Shao. Moreover, the point is that even if the officers don't say it, the reason for Yuan's retreat is almost to the point that the whole army knows everything. Guo Jia hadn't left for long, but he hurried back again, stopped the arrogance who was about to return from the city, and shouted out of breath:

"My lord, I am very happy!"

Hearing Guo Jia come to report so excitedly, Zhang Mad stopped and asked suspiciously:

"What's the good news?"

Maybe it was because he was running too fast, and it seemed to be related to the lack of strong small body, after Guo Jia stopped, he still gasped for a moment, so that he could say it smoothly:

"Lord, then, that old thief Yuan Shao, infected with the epidemic!"

Even in an arrogant state of mind, when he heard Guo Jia's words, he couldn't believe it for a while.

"What? You repeat? ”

Guo Jia was not surprised by the insolence of the insolence. Facing the arrogant eyes, he replied loudly with undiminished excitement:

"Lord, it's Yuan Shao's old thief, who has contracted the epidemic!"

The so-called plague is the plague. This thing was in the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, and it was simply a big killer to reduce the population. Zhang Zhongjing, who was known as the "medical saint" in later generations, was because two-thirds of his family died from the plague, so he didn't even do the 2,000-stone Taishou, but devoted himself to the study of medicine, and finally wrote the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" that has been passed down through the ages.

Zhang Ji and Zhang Zhongjing were born in Jingzhou, and their family's living standards are much better than ordinary people. Even the family of a generation of "medical saints" has suffered like this, and the vulnerability of those ordinary people in the face of the plague can be seen. The biggest cause of population death during the Three Kingdoms period was not all kinds of natural disasters or man-made killings, but actually the spread of plague.

I want to be arrogant uncle Zhang Jiao. It was also with his own brilliant medical skills that he distributed some medicinal materials that could effectively treat the plague to the common people in the form of talisman water, saving a large number of people who were on the verge of dying, and was able to expand the Taiping Dao to most of the Han Empire in just a few years. But even so. Many members of Zhang Jiao's family also died of the plague. Among them, the insolent parents are among them.

However, the lethality of this scourge to those great families is obviously weaker than the prestige among the people. Because the main members of the family are of high quality, they have studied more medicine and health preservation. Their living conditions and nutritional level are higher, so that their physical fitness is much higher than that of ordinary people, and it is conducive to the children of the family to resist diseases. Once the disease occurs. With the economic strength of the family, you can also get treatment from famous doctors with high medical skills, so that you will not be unable to look down on the disease and buy medicine.

Especially for strong people from top wealthy families such as Yuan Shao, not only have special people to take care of their daily diet and daily life, but also try to avoid contact with people with epidemics to protect themselves. In this way, they want to be infected with the plague. That's really not an easy thing to do.

Now, it is crumbling in Julu City. Even Zhang Qiang was secretly calculating, when Yuan Shao would suddenly get sick when he fled after the city was broken, it was simply that God was helping Zhang Madness, and he didn't want him to fail and lose the face of the traverser.

Some readers may have questions. Yuan Shao's illness is just a matter of one person. Seeing that Julu was about to break the city, so many civil and military ministers around Yuan Shao, couldn't they even help him stabilize the mood in the army and insist on completing the Julu strategy?

Answer: Other times it may be, but not currently.

Originally, even if Yuan Shao was sick, the consequences should not be so exaggerated. The illness of the main general is indeed a major event that will demoralize the whole army. However, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians originally had their own rulers and duties. As long as the generals in the army are not chaotic, even if the chief general cannot be the director, it can be completely supported in a short period of time.

Just like the battle of Quyang below, in order to save Dian Wei, Zhang Madness lost the ability of the director in a short period of time. However, under the control of other merge state generals and schools, and the Jizhou strategy of the merge state army, there is not much problem.

However, the bad thing is that Yuan Shao got the plague.

Why can't Yuan Shao get the plague?

Let's start at the beginning.

Why did Yuan Jun launch this counterattack so fierce and caught Zhang off guard?

That's because the people and Haoqiang in Jizhou expressed their dissatisfaction with the Bingzhou army and turned to fully support Yuan Shao.

Jizhou Haoqiang supports Yuan Shao, which is a matter of course. Who let Zhang Qiang be born from a Yellow Turban remnant, and never show kindness to the scholar class?

Then, why are the people of Jizhou so hostile to the state army?

It's because of Tian Feng's strategy. Tian Feng used all kinds of rumors to successfully destroy the image of the Bingzhou Army.

Why did Tian Feng's rumors work wonders?

Because Tian Feng's rumors claim that the plague that is now spreading widely in Jizhou was brought by the Bingzhou army, and it was the insolence of the Yellow Turban thief demon who deliberately spread in Jizhou in order to perform evil magic to defeat Yuan Jizhou!

Since Zhang Qi is the creator and spreader of the plague, in order to eliminate the "demon" Zhang Qi who brought disasters, the people of Jizhou have no other way than to rely on Yuan Shao, the leader of the righteous scholars. The rumors also faintly implied that as long as Zhang Qiang and his thieves were eliminated under the leadership of Yuan Shao, the plague in Jizhou would naturally dissipate.

The majority of the people in ancient times were ignorant and ignorant, and their level of ignorance was by no means understandable to those who received higher education in later generations. Their judgments about things that they are not directly exposed to are largely derived from the rhetoric of the country scholars.

Since the scholars who have always had outstanding prestige in the countryside have unified their caliber and arranged the state army, can the foolish people in the countryside still have a choice?

If it weren't for such a powerful rumor effect, most of the tens of thousands of local auxiliary soldiers who had been recruited by Zhang Madness into Jizhou would not have turned against each other, allowing Chun Yuqiong to easily conquer Lieren City, and then quickly hit Julu City. Although he was arrogant and had the ability to recognize a person's loyalty with the Taoist skills he had learned, he was busy holding imperial examinations and governing the affairs of the state at that time, and as a result, he neglected to pay attention to the Jizhou auxiliaries. The combination of these two factors made Yuan Shaojun's raid a great success.

However, there is a weakness that is not a weakness in this message, that is, Yuan Shao must not get the plague.

As soon as Yuan Shao got the plague, those people who believed in the rumors would think like this: Yuan Shao led a large army to fight against the "demon" arrogance, but the enemy had not yet been defeated, and he got the plague first. Doesn't this mean that Yuan Shao is not an arrogant opponent at all?

What's more, they will think like this: Yuan Shao himself will get the plague, does it mean that the plague is actually related to Yuan Shao?

Although the people's will is a virtual thing, it can sometimes have huge consequences. If he could cover it up, of course Yuan Shao would not let himself get the news of the epidemic to the point where everyone in the army knew about it. Just when the tunnel was dug and the walls of Julu City fell, news of the plague spread in many camps of the Yuan army.

Due to the large number and scattered camps where the plague broke out, almost overnight, the news spread all over the Yuan army. Yuan Shao finally suppressed this unfavorable news and forcibly drove the troops that did not break out of the plague to attack, but they were blocked by the arrogant and ruthless fire attack.

Yuan Shao himself was infected with the plague and didn't know it, he only felt the wind and cold occasionally, and he barely stood up to supervise the battle behind the commando formation. When Yuan Shao witnessed it with his own eyes on the front line, and cut off his own siege line with a fire of the state army, he suddenly became ill. No, he didn't survive in one breath, and in front of thousands of soldiers, he suddenly fell from his horse.

Such a change was not noticed by the Bingzhou army, who were busy persuading the Yuan army to surrender and repair the city defense. However, there are so many soldiers and soldiers of Yuan who have seen with their own eyes, how can the news of Yuan Shao's sudden illness be blocked by the anxious Tian Feng and others?

Especially a guy who was responsible for decocting medicine for Yuan Shao actually knew herbal medicine. He saw that the herbs prescribed to Yuan Shao by the military doctor were usually used to treat the plague. The guy was surprised and failed to keep the secret, so he leaked the news and buried his head.

The angry Chun Yuqiong, Tian Feng, Guo Tu and others, although they cut off the head of the mouthy guy, they had nothing to do about the rumors that spread rapidly in the army.

If at this time, Yuan Shao can inspect the camp full of energy, the rumors will collapse by themselves. It's a pity that as soon as Yuan Shao became ill, he vomited and diarrhea, and couldn't even stand up. Of course, this thing to appease the hearts of the army can't be done.

As soon as the news of Yuan Shao's plague spread, it immediately caused a huge wave in the military camp.

Those Jizhou Haoqiang and Minfu, who originally took the initiative to participate in Yuan's army's operation, dispersed thousands of people overnight after the news spread. The rest of those who stayed were also heavy on their minds and had no intention of fighting. And the plague in the army suddenly increased several times.

The entire camp of the Yuan army was panicked, and now it can be maintained as it is, which can be regarded as a good way to govern the army. In such an extremely bad situation, where did Yuan Shaojun still have the ability to continue to attack Julu City?

Getting the exact news that Yuan Shao was infected with the epidemic, Zhang Qiangwu was a little hard to believe.

Yuan Shao used the reason of "bringing plague to the people of Bingzhou" to incite the powerful and common people in the county to launch a rebellion, but he was defeated by the plague.

Isn't this very dramatic?

As for the sister-in-law of the Yuan family, who has always been pampered and properly cared for by the servants, how could he suddenly get the plague together with the soldiers in the army?

In this regard, Zhang Qiang has some speculation in his heart, but he can't be completely sure.

In fact, the insolent guess was largely correct. Because, the plague in Yuan's army can be said to have been single-handedly planned by him. (To be continued......)