Huo Guang sat in the big tent, holding the paperwork and military newspaper in one hand and shaking the pu fan in the other. It's June, the temperature has risen sharply, and the location in the south is even more scorching. Huo Guang is now only wearing single clothes, and he almost shows his breasts. Most of the other soldiers in the battalion, except for the patrolling guards, were shirtless and hiding under the shadows of the trees. Because the soldiers' tents were small and exposed to the scorching sun, there were no people in them during the day.

"Your Majesty, Miss Tang has arrived." Huo Qi walked into the camp and whispered beside Huo Guang, these generals have no position in the army, and they are still used to calling Huo Guangjun instead of general.

"How is it so fast?" Huo Guang dropped the paperwork in his hand, stood up and asked in some surprise. He had only arrived at Yangshan Pass for more than a day, and it stands to reason that Huo Tang should wait at least another three or five days before he arrived.

Before Huo Qi could reply, Huo Tang was helped into the big tent by Huo 11 and Huo 12. At this moment, Huo Tang looked haggard, his face was pale, and there were beads of sweat on his cheeks.

"What's going on?" Huo Guang asked Huo Shiyi solemnly.

"Your Majesty, I don't care about them, I will ride a horse myself. It shouldn't be a big deal, maybe it's just a little tired! Huo Tang endured the discomfort of his body and said with difficulty.

Huo Guang looked at Huo Tang's expression, stretched out his hand and gently wiped Huo Tang's forehead, feeling that his forehead was a little hot. He hurriedly asked, "How are you feeling now?" ”

Huo Tang saw that Huo Guang not only did not get angry, but cared about himself first, and felt extremely warm in his heart, the tiredness he had suffered in the past few days seemed to be nothing, and even his spirit was much better, and the previous discomfort was slightly reduced.

"It's just that my body is a little weak, and I feel dizzy and tight." Huo Tang whispered.

"Go get some water, and send the medical officer with the army to come and have a look." Huo Guang felt that Huo Tang was not as simple as simple exertion, and it seemed to be more like a manifestation of heat stroke. So he hurriedly ordered the medical officer to come and take a look.

Huo Guang helped Huo Tang to the bed where he was resting, and then wiped Huo Tang's forehead with a damp cloth. Huo Tang didn't resist this, but was slightly embarrassed. Although the two were brother and sister, Huo Guang seemed to feel a little embarrassed, so he said, "You girl didn't expect her temper to be so stubborn. I thought you would be there in a few days, so I haven't arranged a tent for you yet, so you can rest with me for the night tonight. Tomorrow I will build a camp for you and find a few women, it is indeed a little inconvenient for you to be a woman in this barracks. ”

"Your Majesty, I'm fine, Your Majesty takes care of me in the army, if it spreads, it may damage Your Majesty's majesty." Huo Tang felt very happy at first, but lying on the bed and thinking, if this matter spread tonight, General Pingnan would take care of a sick woman in his big tent, and this kind of impact would be very unfavorable to Huo Guang.

Huo Guang threw the wet cloth on the noodle plate, gently touched Huo Tang's forehead again, and then frowned slightly and said, "What does it mean to be an elder brother and take care of a younger sister?" You can rest in peace, don't think about the rest, you have to get better quickly, there are still many things waiting for you to do. ”

"Ahem, the villain has seen the general." Just as Huo Guang and Huo Tang were talking, an old man with a medicine box appeared at the door of the big tent.

"Come on in." Huo Guang immediately commanded.

Soon the medical officer took Huo Tang's pulse, and after asking a few simple questions at the same time, he said to Huo Guang: "The general doesn't have to worry, this.... This young lady is a symptom of summer heat, the weather in the south is hot, and most of our army is a northern soldier who will inevitably be unaccustomed to the water and soil, and many soldiers in the army have begun to suffer from this summer heat in recent days. The old man has a pair of herbs here, boil them and feed them to the young lady to drink, and after a few days of rest, it should be fine. ”

"You say there are quite a few of the soldiers in this situation?" Huo Guang didn't care at first, but when the medical officer said that many soldiers in the army had suffered from summer heat, he suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

"Back to the general, there are a lot. However, they are still relatively mild symptoms, as long as you rest more and avoid sun exposure, it is not a big problem. Seeing that Huo Guang suddenly became serious, the medical officer also quickly stood up and bowed in reply.

"Even if it is a heat disease, can there be a way to prevent it?" Huo Guang did not underestimate the problem of heat stroke, the conditions in ancient times were not as good as those of later generations, and the medical treatment had not yet formed a system, so any small problem could kill people.

"That's not it...."The medical officer's answer was not as Huo Guang expected.

"Alright, you go down!" Huo Guang waved off the medical officer, but he couldn't help but think about it in his heart. In the past few days, many of the generals in the battalion have shown signs of heat stroke, and even Huo Guang has not noticed it, but the attrition report sent by Lu Bode every day makes Huo Guang have to be concerned. At first, Huo Guang also thought that the serious illness or direct death of as many as 1,000 people every day was simply due to the prisoners' poor physical fitness to travel long distances. Now it seems that the body of those prisoners is the root cause, and the trigger is most likely the heat stroke.

From the beginning of the assembly, the number of attrition in the march of about half a month has been as high as 30,000, that is to say, the original 100,000 army, now only half of the distance, only about 70,000 remained. Although these 30,000 people did not die directly, those who were seriously ill and unable to walk were abandoned by the brigade and eventually died. According to this situation, Huo Guang estimated that it would be good if Lu Bode's 100,000 army would be able to survive when he made peace with him.

The tradition of taking prisoners as an army has existed since ancient times, and the last Great Qin army at the end of the Qin Dynasty was an army of prisoners who built a mausoleum for the first emperor in Lishan. However, at that time, the army of prisoners led by Zhang Han was also facing the peasant rebel army that did not have enough to eat at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and the battlefield at that time was also in the Guanzhong area, unlike today's thousand-mile expedition, and they had to face the scorching heat in the south.

"What's bothering you?" Huo Tang was lying on the bed, but he also saw that Huo Guang was preoccupied, so he asked.

"What is now in front of our army is the plague of this summer disease, and if we don't solve it, our army's combat strength will be greatly reduced, and we will have to stop moving." Huo Tang Huo Guangzhi didn't hide anything, and directly told her about her worries.

"Can you please let me see the latest information?" Huo Tang opened his mouth and pleaded.

"No, don't even think about it until your body recovers." Huo Guang refused without hesitation.

Later, Huo Guang personally fed Huo Tang with the decoction, and ordered his subordinates to order Yuzhang County and Changsha State to recruit doctors and send them to the front line. When everything was arranged, Huo Guang sat in front of the desk and pondered, and he tried hard to recall how the future generations would deal with this kind of high temperature and prevent heat stroke. He thought a lot, but it seemed that none of these methods were feasible under the current conditions.

Huo Tang lay on the bed and watched Huo Guang ponder from a distance. Huo Tang has always been very entangled in her heart, she doesn't know whether she has a master-servant relationship with Huo Guang, or a relationship between men and women, or both. But when he came to Huo Guang's side again today, when Huo Guang put down his identity and took care of himself personally, Huo Tang really had the urge to cry in Huo Guang's arms. Huo Tang has been displaced from her father since she was a child, and it can be said that she grew up under an extremely panicked and difficult condition, which created her insecure and eager heart, although she has always shown herself to be very strong, and has always covered her fragile heart very well, but today Huo Guang really appeared as a brother when Huo Tang needed it most, she finally understood that the love of master and servant may be the love of men and women, but she really let herself follow thousands of miles away, and endured that her body was on the verge of collapse, What really happened after a few days of riding was that I was afraid of losing this feeling of being cared for like a sister!

Soon Huo Tang also fell asleep in a daze, in her sleep she had a long dream, in the dream she was born in a family with a prominent family background, there was no upside down life, and she was pampered like a princess. Although there are no parents in the dream, there is a powerful brother who loves him, and the image of that brother is exactly what Huo Guang looks like.

On the second day, Huo Tang woke up in a daze, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Huo Guang staring at her curiously. "What kind of dream did you just have? Tell me about it, I giggle when I see you asleep! ”

"What's the ..... things.... I didn't even know I was dreaming...."Huo Tang lowered his head and said embarrassedly. When she thought of the scene in her sleep, she was embarrassed to look at Huo Guang.

"Come and drink the decoction, I see that your complexion is much better than yesterday, and I think it will be fine in a day or two." Huo Guang naturally stretched out one arm to help Huo Tang up, and the other hand held the medicine bowl and prepared to feed Huo Tang medicine.

"Thank you, second brother." Huo Tang said thank you in a low voice, this time she finally didn't call Huo Guangjun.

"That's right." Huo Guang also felt that Huo Tang's eyes were not as evasive as before, and he could naturally call himself his second brother. In the past, Huo Tang could not escape Huo Guang's eyes, and seeing this today can be regarded as removing the last worry in Huo Guang's heart.

"Can the heat stroke in the camp be controlled?" Huo Tang asked Huo Guang after drinking the decoction, she lived in Huo Guang's big tent last night, and she had the medical officer's decoction, plus Huo Guang's care was half better, but she still remembered the conversation between the medical officer and Huo Guang last night, and knew that this summer fever had become a major hidden danger in the army.

Huo Guang also frowned slightly when he heard this, and said with a sigh: "The situation has deteriorated a little, the herbs carried by the medical officer are already insufficient, and the temperature is rising day by day, and there are many more soldiers with summer fever today than yesterday......

"How's that okay?" Huo Tang was also extremely worried when he heard this, sometimes these large-scale epidemics were more terrible than the battle between the two armies.

"I have already ordered the rear to recruit doctors, and in addition, the imperial court has also urgently mobilized the medicinal materials, and Lu Shu will also collect some medicinal materials and send them. You don't have to worry too much, how can a mere summer illness stop my southern expeditionary army, I will find a way to solve it in the next few days. Huo Guang said as if he was comforting Huo Tang, but in fact he was the commander of the entire Southern Expeditionary Army. However, Huo Guang was naturally convincing when he said this, as if he could really find a solution to his summer illness in a few days.