Chapter 199: The Plague Crisis (Asking for Subscriptions, Monthly Passes, and Various!! ）

However, only a day later, a shocking news came from Zhangjiakou that what happened in Zhangjiakou was not the flu at all, but the plague, and it was the most intractable plague in the plague.

When Hu Jishi, Fidel and others arrived in Zhangjiakou, they found that the situation here was much more serious than the telegram said, and in a telegram sent by the headquarters of the independent 7th Division to the headquarters of the group army, it was stated that since the exchange of prisoners on the 20th, a total of four patients had died. However, when the medical rescue team arrived at the field hospital in Zhangjiakou, they found that in just one morning on the 25th, 134 patients had died in the field hospital, including 12 soldiers.

What is even more serious is that as of the 25th, in just five 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 Seventh Independent 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, Hughes and Field came to the conclusion that it was not a common cold or a contagious flu, but a plague, and Fidel even concluded that it was the plague.

According to Fidel, he had seen a similar outbreak in Spain, when he was only 22 years old and a student at a German medical school, when a frightening epidemic occurred in Spain, and he and his teacher were invited by the Spanish royal family to study ways to control the epidemic. Unfortunately, despite his teacher's great medical skills, he was unable to stop the plague, and according to Fidel, the situation was not much different from what happened in Zhangjiakou, so he judged that it was the plague.

After the news reached Xinghe, Chen Feng 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, the outbreak happened so suddenly, with little warning. Plus this outbreak happened just after the prisoner exchange. This made Chen Feng have to think of a possibility, whether the plague was a Japanese conspiracy or not.

For this reason, Chen Feng immediately sent a telegram to the defenders in the direction of Datong and Weixian, who had also received a large number of prisoners, asking them if a similar problem had arisen there. The information fed back by the defenders of the two places made Chen Feng very anxious. A similar situation occurred in Datong and Wei County, where the 101st Division was stationed. And it's getting worse.

Suddenly, Chen Feng fell into an ice cellar. It must have been done by the frenzied Japanese. Only they could have created such a plague in such a short period of time, and they did it so secretly.

Chen Feng couldn't sit still now, plague has been the biggest killer of human beings since ancient times. China has a detailed record of the plague thousands of years ago, "Zhou Li? Heavenly Official? 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: "When the summer is in the spring of the season, the people are plagued. "Su Q? There is also a "treatise on the method of thorning": "The five plagues are all easy to infect, regardless of the size, the symptoms are similar...... righteousness is stored in the body, and the evil cannot be done, so as to avoid its poisonous gas." ".

In addition, Zhang Zhongjing of the Eastern Han Dynasty said in the preface to his book "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases": "The Yu clan has many Su and two hundred. Since the Jian'an era (196 A.D.), there have been two thirds of its deaths, and seven out of ten have typhoid fever. Feeling the loss of the past, the wounded and the dead can not be saved, but to seek the ancient teachings diligently and learn from all sides. ......" 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 was rampant at that time. And Cao Zhi also recorded in "Speaking of Epidemic Gas" that "in the twenty-second year of Jian'an (217 AD), the epidemic of warp was epidemic, and every family had the pain of zombies, and there was a cry of sorrow in the room. or die with the door closed, or lose the family. Or think: the plague, the work of demons and gods. The husband suffers from this, and he is the son of the brown weed, and the ear of the person in the thorn room! Ruofu Hall is in the home of Ding Shi, the door of heavy mink, if it is, it is fresh. This is the dislocation of yin and yang, the wrong time for cold and summer, it is an epidemic, and the foolish people are disgusted with it, which is also ridiculous. "It depicts the tragic situation when the epidemic is prevalent. According to historical records, in the more than 70 years from Emperor Liu Zhi of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, 17 epidemics of epidemics 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.

Not only China, but also Western countries have had many plagues in history. The most famous is the Athenian plague that occurred in Greece more than 2,400 years ago, when the plague destroyed almost all of Athens. For more than a year, the citizens of Athens lived in a nightmare where strong, healthy young people would suddenly develop high fevers, their throats and tongues would become bloodshot and give off an unusually foul smell. The unfortunate patient sneezes, is hoarse, has chest pain due to a strong cough.

There are many types of plagues, including rabies, tuberculosis, influenza, smallpox, and plague, but the most harmful should be the plague. The Black Death, which ravaged Europeans for centuries on the continent, was the bubonic plague, one of the worst plagues in human history. The plague is said to have originated in southwestern Asia and spread throughout Europe around the 1340s, and the name "Black Death" is the name for the plague in Europe at that time. The plague killed an estimated 75 million people throughout the world, and it is estimated that about 30% of the population of medieval Europe died from the Black Death during the plague outbreak.

The same disease struck Europe many times until the 1700s, causing varying degrees of death and severity. Later pandemics included the Italian plague of 1629–1631, the Great Plague of London from 1665–1666, the Great Plague of Vienna of 1679, the Great Plague of Marseille from 1720–1722, and the Plague of Moscow from 1771.

Thinking of the plague, Chen Feng thought of the notorious Ishii unit in the Japanese army, which was stationed in northeastern China. In addition, the main body of this prisoner exchange is also dominated by the common people in the Northeast, and these ordinary people from the Northeast broke out a terrible plague as soon as they arrived in Zhangjiakou, which is inseparable from the mad demon army in any case.

Chen Feng knows a lot about the information about the Ishii troops, and it can be said that this unit will always be a stinger in the hearts of the sons and daughters of China, and the Ishii troops, also known as the 731st unit of the Kwantung Army, are a special forces unit prepared by Japanese militarism for bacteriological warfare. In terms of its size, it is the largest bacterial factory in the world. As far as its status is concerned, it is under the dual leadership of the Japanese Ministry of Army, the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, and the Japanese Kwantung Army Headquarters, and its personnel allocation is very strong. It has more than 2,600 personnel engaged in bacteriological warfare research, including as many as five general-level officers.

Chen Feng remembered that there was indeed a unit specializing in plague research in Unit 731, and the commander of the unit seemed to be called Takahashi or something, and in addition to Unit 731, there were also units specializing in the study of viruses, insects, frostbite, cholera, pathology, serum, typhoid fever, etc., and this plague was caused by this unit nine times out of ten.

At the same time, Chen Feng had to calm himself down, anger would only make him lose his mind, which was not conducive to the resolution of the matter, and now he not only had to face the terrible plague, but also to prevent the Japanese army from taking this opportunity to launch an attack on the 40th Army.

On the one hand, Chen Feng ordered the troops in Datong, Weixian, and Zhangjiakou to immediately impose martial law on these cities, and from now on, all troops, including troops, were prohibited from entering or leaving Zhangjiakou. Military control is also imposed in all districts and municipalities under the jurisdiction of Chahar, and no one is allowed to enter or leave the city gates at will until the ban is lifted.

Second, the whole province immediately entered a state of combat readiness, all ammunition was distributed to combat units, and all recruits stopped training and were immediately organized into a reserve unit of the whole army on the spot. In addition, the regular units immediately closely monitored the movements of the Japanese army to prevent the Japanese from launching a full-scale attack on Chahar. In addition, the troops immediately took over all pharmacies and pharmacies in the counties and cities, and all doctors and nurses immediately moved into action and waited for orders at any time.

In order to actually understand the epidemic situation in Zhangjiakou, Chen Fengyu personally flew a plane to Zhangjiakou on the night of the 25th, accompanied only by the beautiful reporter Claire and the genius sniper Li Zong, who had just returned to the headquarters of the group army. (To be continued......)

PS: Today the city union has a training, in the morning to 12 o'clock and in the afternoon to 6 o'clock. And the county where we are located is still more than 1 hour's drive from the city, and it is already more than nine o'clock when we return to the unit, so today the update is late, and the number of words in each chapter is only more than 2,500, please forgive me.