Chapter 491: Spread of disease

"Order, let the military advisor and Guo Yan, Huang Zhong, and Zhao Yun come!" Jia Rong said in a deep voice.

In fact, Jia Rong already admitted in his heart that this was a plague, the soldiers of the Xiliang Army were in good health, and there had never been such a soldier who died incurably and died in the same condition, and the medical personnel did not find that this was a phenomenon of poisoning.

"Lord, what's going on?" When Guo Jia came, he saw that the soldiers along the way were heavily guarded, and he couldn't help asking.

"From three days ago to now, four people have died in the army one after another, one of them is a company commander, the death is almost the same, if it is not bad, it should be the plague, now the medical personnel are surveying the battalions, once they find soldiers with abnormal conditions, they will be gathered together, completely separated from the army, and then treated, after you go back, you must carefully comfort the soldiers under your command, do not panic, especially the soldiers who are isolated." Jia Rong sighed.

Guo Jia's expression froze slightly, there was a plague in the army, which meant that in a short period of time, it was impossible for the Xiliang Army to go to war, and he wanted to implement the strategy of the Qin State to deal with the Six Kingdoms back then, and the difficulties increased dramatically, and he said unwillingly: "Lord, isn't it nonsense from medical personnel?" ”

"Fengxiao, the enemy is at present, it is important to kill the enemy, but if the soldiers are really infected with the plague, it will be a nightmare existence, imagine that thousands of soldiers died overnight, what a heartache, through the blanket return, the princes outside the gate died of soldiers." Jia Rong said.

"I have asked Hua Yu of Chang'an to come day and night with sufficient medicinal materials to suppress the plague in the army." Jia Rong said.

The Xiliang army has always been orderly, there will be no soldiers walking around at will without orders, and in the army, there will be no soldiers running around like the princes and the ground is dirty.

"Big brother, you lead the soldiers to inspect the city in case the princes' alliance forces take advantage of this to attack the city."

After the four of them left, Jia Rong said, "Zhang Xiu, let the lone wolf soldiers outside the city come back." "The most important thing now is to resist this plague in the past, otherwise years of hard work will most likely be wasted because of this one thing.

Zhang Xiu just came out of the camp for a while, turned around again, and said with a solemn expression: "Lord, there were originally more than 5,000 wounded soldiers in the army of the princes, but now there are only 3,000 people, and 2,000 people have died, and there are many people in the princes' army who are infected with diseases and die, and the princes' soldiers are panicking. ”

When Jia Rong heard the latest news led by Zhang Xiu, he was more sure that this was a plague caused by the princes, and the oil and dung juice of the defenders made the coalition army cold, and there were tens of thousands of wounded, and Yuan Shao gathered these people together, let them wail, and had the idea of leaving them to fend for themselves.

"Let the lone wolf soldiers withdraw as soon as possible, and after entering the customs, they must be examined by medical personnel one by one, and the attack on the princes is not as important as the lives of the soldiers." Jia Rong hurriedly ordered.

Zhang Xiu sighed, turned around and left, feeling regret and warmth.

After the news of the plague came out in the princes' army, the Xiliang army paid more attention to the hygiene of the camp, in the camp tent, the items were neatly placed, and the stinky shoes were all thrown away, except for weapons, clothes, and daily necessities, the rest were all discarded, the dead corners and dark corners were cleaned, and the soldiers carried out to the letter.

Jia Rong's series of measures did not cause major fluctuations in the morale of the army, and once the soldiers who were found to be abnormal were all sent to the wounded barracks, the soldiers reported to each other.

For the sake of their own safety, no soldier will come nonsense, and who doesn't want to live a little longer.

However, in three days, nearly 500 people gathered in the wounded barracks, these soldiers without exception, all of them were people with signs of plague in their bodies, and the soldiers in charge of delivering food trembled every time they walked into the camp tent, their faces were covered with a thick white cloth, and some potions were sprinkled on them, of course, from Jia Rong's hands.

The soldiers of the wounded barracks are no longer fierce on the battlefield in the past, one by one, like frosted eggplants, quietly sitting on their own one-third of an acre, waiting for Jia Rong's order, they believe in their hearts that the coach Jia Rong will not abandon them.

Dozens of medical personnel traveled back and forth in the wounded barracks to see what to find.

The plague made Jia Rong very busy, and the princes' army outside the gate actually had an example of a thousand people dying overnight, which made Jia Rong frightened, and stepped up the survey of the soldiers in the battalion, a pot of medicinal materials was boiled, and the whole camp was basically filled with the smell of medicinal materials, which was also the reason for Chang'an's rich savings, and the taste of medicinal materials made the soldiers feel at ease.

Bowls of medicinal juice have become the spiritual sustenance of the infected plague soldiers, all of whom think that after a bowl of medicinal juice is in their stomachs, they can alleviate their illness, pick up weapons and kill the enemy, so that they would rather rush to kill on the battlefield and be killed by the enemy.

Hua Yu shouldered a heavy responsibility in danger and led a group of disciples to treat soldiers in the wounded barracks.

Another soldier was taken to the wounded barracks, the number of wounded barracks in the Xiliang Army reached eight hundred, most of the people who were brought here, most of them were like ashes, and the gods of death were so close, the feelings in their hearts can be imagined, and what is even more terrifying is that this enemy will not be restrained because of your strong martial arts, some soldiers and generals can't believe all this, shouting, and those who see it are sad.

Hangu Pass suffered from the plague, the army in Chang'an was also busy, some teams even directly served as the work of cleaners, every street in Chang'an was cleaned, the city gate was closed, outsiders could only enter the city after strict inspection, at this time there were more than 100,000 people in Chang'an City, once the plague spread, it was a hundred times more troublesome than Hangu Pass.

Jia Rong found Hua Yu and asked, "Do you know lime?" ”

"Lime?" Hua Yu shook his head and said he didn't know.

The intelligence network of the Xiliang Army is strong, Jia Rong described it a little, and found the real thing, of course, the lime is also troublesome to make, with lime, Jia Rong's confidence in resisting the plague has risen by a point.

In fact, Hua Yu just came to the barracks, and after seeing Jia Rong strictly distinguishing the soldiers infected with the plague from the army, he expressed his approval, and the hygiene in the camp made Hua Yu not picky, and now it is lime sprinkling, although he is puzzled, he knows that Jia Rong will not be targeted.

Compared with the wounded barracks of the Xiliang Army, the princes' army can be said to be overcrowded, and the empty camp was originally empty because of the death of a group of soldiers who were scalded by oil and dung juice, and it was filled again, in Jia Rong's view, the plague was very likely to be infected from the coalition camp, and the first to bear the brunt was naturally the coalition army, and the city wall was sprinkled with lime powder to avoid the spread of the plague in the coalition camp.

There were about 10,000 wounded soldiers in the camp, and soldiers died every day, and it was understandable that the burned soldiers died, but the living soldiers died mysteriously after a few days in the camp, making them feel a shiver all over their bodies.

"This place can't be stayed!" The hearts of all the soldiers flashed with such a thought, they were originally healthy soldiers, but they became a corpse within a few days of coming here, such a situation, let alone a hundred battles of elite soldiers, even heavenly soldiers and generals, will also escape.

On the periphery of the camp are coalition soldiers with weapons in hand, if you want to escape, it is not easy to say, at the critical moment, Yuan Shao will not be as indecisive as Liu Bei, and directly send the soldiers to the wounded barracks without hesitation.

"Order Chang'an to escort a large number of vinegar over." Jia Rong ordered.

Hua Yu was puzzled, "Lord, what is vinegar?" ”

Jia Rong described it vigorously, so that Hua Yu understood, I have to say that everything Jia Rong did in the camp before was still very effective, and there were few scenes of infection with the plague among the soldiers, and the entire camp, looking from a distance, was like a heavy snowfall.

Under the effect of lime and vinegar, it alleviated the spread of the plague and gathered the soldiers infected with the plague together, Jia Rong did not let it go, but took care of it by medical personnel, although it contained a lot of risks, but he did not want to abandon any soldier of the Xiliang Army, in the battle all the time, Jia Rong was most unaccustomed to abandoning his comrades in times of crisis, what to preserve the overall situation, it was completely nonsense, even the soldiers could not take care of it when they were sick, how to let them give you a hard time, and kill the enemy bravely on the battlefield, As for the princes outside the pass, if they can't be defeated, they will be kept for the time being, and it will not be too late to charge and kill them after the soldiers under their command have recovered their health.

Compared with the mourning of the wounded barracks of the coalition army, the faces of the soldiers of the Xiliang Army did not have the imaginary sadness, they chatted with each other, played a boring time, and the medical personnel also fully cooperated with the treatment, of course, the shock brought by the occasional death of a robe Ze was still very great, these people did not die in the hands of the enemy, but died in the silent plague.

"Alliance leader, retreat, overnight, our army died more than a thousand people again, in the long run, how many soldiers can be fought in the army, and then I am afraid that a charge of the Xiliang army will be able to defeat our army and return." Cao Cao said worriedly.

Liu Biao Liu Bei nodded again and again, the two of them and Jia Rong did not have the pain of the skin, no matter how strong the Xiliang army was, they would not be able to attack them for a while and a half, in fact, Liu Bei came this time, one is to show his benevolence and righteousness to the people of the world and the people under his rule, and he also wants the soldiers to see what a cruel battlefield is, the soldiers in his hands are basically new soldiers, lack of combat awareness, can not be called elite soldiers, no better than the elite soldiers under Cao Cao, and even Liu Biao is not as good as him, there are fierce generals, if there are no elite soldiers, how can the battle be won, After the battle, these soldiers grew rapidly, and even in the face of enemy attacks, they did not have the initial panic.

Now that the plague has broken out, Liu Bei naturally does not want the death of the soldiers who have been trained with great difficulty, among the princes of the Central Plains, I am afraid that Liu Bei's family background is the weakest, except for wearing the title of a Han clan on his head, he is useless, and he is not a martial artist.