Seeing that the opponent could not be defeated in the field battle, Marshal Pershing could only report to his superiors on the one hand, demanding that the air force be strengthened and regain air supremacy, and on the other hand, the troops were scattered again and scattered to every city, preparing to offset the opponent's air supremacy advantage with street fighting. At the same time, he also concealed the 360-mm heavy artillery and 300-mm 18-mounted rocket artillery of the newly equipped troops in the city, hoping to inflict heavy damage on the Chinese army's troops.

The dispersal of the troops brought plague germs to various cities, but the Bostonians were completely unaware. The Chinese army was stationed in the occupied cities, and relied on at least the air force to raid the Bostonians in the various cities every day, and their bombing was also very particular, they avoided all the factory areas, and only bombed the residential areas, so a large number of Bostons were killed by the air raids.

In addition to this, the Chinese Air Force also attacked logistics convoys entering the Chicago Industrial Zone, and in this way consumed the logistics supplies of the Bostonians. This purely aerial combat method surprised Marshal Pershing, who wanted to use street fighting to grind the Chinese army to death, and they couldn't figure out why Su Zhizhen was so calm, as if he was not in a hurry to attack at all.

When many workers and engineers from the Chinese Empire or the St. Martin's Empire were transported by plane into more than a dozen cities occupied by the Chinese army, Marshal Pershing knew that the Chinese army wanted to solve the supply problem nearby. This situation gave Marshal Pershing a big headache, originally the Boston Empire had the advantage of fighting on the inside line, and the fight was the convenience of logistics support, but now the other party actually wants to produce weapons and ammunition on the land of the Boston Empire, so that their weapon supply will also be quite smooth, how can this not make Pershing anxious.

The Chinese Empire is feeding the war with war, and they will use the industrial facilities and mineral resources of the Boston Empire to produce enough weapons and ammunition to attack the Boston Empire in turn, which will inevitably have disastrous consequences. Once the other side slowly encroached on the entire Chicago area, the Boston Empire's weapons supply on home soil could not even catch up with the Chinese army.

At this time, if the Boston Empire goes all out against the enemy, it is still possible to keep half of the country, and if the weapons produced are still divided into two parts, and the extra one will support the Western Continent, then the territory of the Boston Empire will definitely fall.

Just when Pershing was thinking about how to sabotage the other party's plan to resume production, a bad situation suddenly appeared. Many of the soldiers who had followed him suddenly developed fevers. At first, there were not many people with fever, but the disease seemed to spread quickly, and many soldiers who took care of their companions began to have fevers one after another, and even soldiers who went to the city to buy food spread the virus to the citizens, and soon the disease began to appear among the people.

The fever, accompanied by symptoms such as loss of appetite and lymphoma, spread among the army and the people, and more and more people fell ill, and in just a few days, more than 10 percent of the people in the barracks developed a high fever, and the situation continued to spread rapidly, and soon even some of the high-ranking officers fell ill.

The military doctors in the barracks are all skilled surgeons, and if they are allowed to treat gunshot wounds and perform surgery, they are very good, and if they are allowed to treat infectious diseases, there is nothing they can do, so Pershing has to recruit civilian physicians in the city.

According to the classification method of the Chinese Empire, the doctors of the Boston Empire all belonged to the Chinese medical system, and the biggest feature of these Chinese doctors was that they needed to rely on the antibiotic drugs that appeared in the Chinese Empire.

Traditional Chinese medicine is a secret medical field in the Chinese Empire, and all those who study Chinese medicine must be Chinese, and those white people don't let them learn, even if they are allowed to learn, because the cultural background is too different, it is difficult for them to learn the essence of this advanced medicine.

At this time, there was also a considerable shortage of civilian doctors, because due to the greater population density of the people, their physical fitness was much worse than that of the military, and the epidemic of diseases among the people was faster. Now that the Boston Empire is short of medicines, many doctors can only resort to physical therapies such as bloodletting and cold water cooling for their patients.

Now Marshal Pershing has no time to care about the lives of the people, and many doctors in the city were quickly recruited to treat the soldiers in the barracks, but the results made him very disappointed, these doctors said that there were no antibiotic drugs, and they could not do anything about the disease. Marshal Pershing was disappointed, but summoned the first local doctor, Alander.

"I'd like to ask you now, what the hell is this?" Marshal Pershing asked anxiously.

Aland paced back and forth in the room twice and said, "Judging by the condition of the patient, this should be the plague. ”

"The plague? What's that? Pershing, who was a layman about pathology, did not understand the name of the disease.

Aland sighed and said, "According to folk saying, it is the Black Death. ”

"What? Black death? Marshal Pershing stood up in shock, he knew about this terrible disease, and knew that many of the horror legends in the Western Continent were related to the Black Death.

Aland nodded and said, "If we have enough antibiotics, we may be able to control the epidemic, but now that the Chinese Empire has long since cut off the supply of medicines to our country, we have no way to treat it at all." ”

Marshal Pershing frowned and sat back in his chair and said, "Why is there such a disease, is it some conspiracy of the Chinese army?" ”

Aland shook his head and said: "I'm not sure about this, but many corpses in the war have not had time to be buried, and if they are left to rot in the air, it is easy to produce viruses, and viruses can spread through the air, and plagues can easily form, especially plague, which can be transmitted by wild rats that eat the flesh of dead people." Although there is also a possibility of an epidemic in the Chinese Imperial Army, they have ample antibiotic reserves, which are simply not comparable to us. "Bostonians are also ignorant of real medical knowledge, because of the restrictions of the Chinese Empire, there are very few people in Boston who have really studied medicine in the Chinese Empire, so their abilities are quite limited.

Pershing sighed, "Isn't there any remedy?" We can't control the spread of this plague? ”

Aland pondered for a moment, and then suddenly said in a deep voice: "Yes, but it is quite cruel, and the price to be paid is also quite large. ”

Pershing's eyes flashed with a fierce light: "I don't care so much, as long as I can control the plague, even the biggest price must be beared." ”

A few days later, a city-wide manhunt began, and all those who had begun to have a fever were concentrated in the area of the slums of the southern city, which had been completely emptied, and five barbed wire fences had been erected around the city, and the ground was sprinkled with quicklime, and only the inside was strictly cordoned.

Those who were sick were sent in, even the soldiers and officers, and those who were sent in never came out alive. In order to prevent cross-infection and allow themselves to live longer, those who are less ill quickly pile up the dead bodies and incinerate them. Soon black smoke began to rise from the south of the city, and the smell of burnt corpses could be smelled throughout the city. But soon those who were less ill were no longer satisfied with burning the bodies, and they threw those who were too sick to move into the fire.

Amid the screams, the stench of corpses in the city has grown, but the number of sick people continues to decrease, and more space can be freed up in the south of the city to accommodate new patients. Those who burned the seriously ill patients were soon no longer able to crawl, and they were incinerated to death by the later mild patients. Although the method was quite cruel, the plague was effectively controlled, and the number of sick people in the city began to decrease, and the people's mood slowly recovered.

Seeing that the method of isolation worked, Marshal Pershing immediately notified other cities where the epidemic occurred, and also used the method of isolation to eliminate the epidemic. Davenport's quarantine lasted for a week before it took effect to see results, and Marshal Pershing, who saw the results, was too late to inform the other cities.

Many cities have also tried their best to treat patients, but they have not achieved much success due to improper methods. Soon the first people died one after another, and when the purple-black corpses appeared in front of people, some knowledgeable people immediately recognized that this was the Black Death that made the people of the Western Continent smell and change.

When the rumors of the Black Death epidemic spread, everyone panicked, the Black Death was called a terminal disease, and at this time the Boston Empire was simply incurable, this very easily contagious disease, once infected, it was difficult to cure.

In the face of such a terrible disease, many people chose to flee the epidemic area, and some people who were not sick began to flee with their families, and by the time the local garrison received a notice from Marshal Pershing to start setting up quarantine areas, it was too late, and many people had already fled, and they would bring this terrible disease to all parts of the country.

A plague that spread throughout Chicago's industrial district ruined Field Marshal Pershing's defense plans. In the midst of the plague, the number of troops was reduced by more than 30 percent, many of whom were excellent rank and file commanders, and the population was left with little left after isolation and dispersal, and the cities were short of supplies, and even food and drinking water were quite scarce, and Marshal Pershing had to consider changing his strategy.

A week later, Field Marshal Pershing ordered the Boston troops to withdraw from the industrial zone, and they would retreat to the rear of Lake Michigan, where they would continue to quarantine until there was no plague before proceeding to the next step, where they could also replenish the nearest fresh water and improve their diet with fish from the lake.

In addition to wanting to retreat strategically to preserve his strength, Marshal Pershing also wanted to use the plague in the city to paralyze the Chinese army and let them also contract this terrible disease to defuse the opponent's offensive, but unfortunately he miscalculated again.

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