According to Yuan Yao's knowledge, at the end of the Han Dynasty, there would be a relatively serious plague every five years, and the most serious plague occurred in the 22nd year of Jian'an.

In the 22nd year of Jian'an, with Yecheng in Hebei Province as the center, there were outbreaks of plague, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, typhoid fever and other plagues, which spread from person to person and from house to house, and the epidemic spread to the north of the Yangtze River and the east of the Yangtze River, with a large number of people dying and the sad events of exterminating the door and the tribe have become the norm.

This is not nonsense, but it is recorded, Cao Zhi once described the tragic situation of the epidemic epidemic at that time in "Speaking of Epidemic Gas" and said: In the twenty-second year of Jian'an, the epidemic of warp, every family has the pain of zombies, and there is crying in the room. or die with the door closed, or lose the family.

Zhang Zhongjing said in "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Death" that "the Yu clan has many people, more than 200, since Jian'an, it has not been ten years, two-thirds of its dead, and typhoid fever is seven out of ten."

Even Emperor Wen of Wei, Cao Pi, once recalled: "In the past, the epidemic was plagued, and many relatives suffered from it. There are many plagues, and the scholars are falling."

The plague was very serious, causing many people to dare to stay at home, rarely traveling, all afraid of contracting the plague, a disease could not afford to die, and finally died.

But the nobles and big families were not spared, and many officials and wealthy families also died, and the more famous one was the seven sons of Jian'an, except for Kong Rong and Ruan Yu, who died of other reasons, all the others died of this plague. For a time, the population was halved, and the world became a hell.

As for the epidemic matter, Yuan Yao can not worry about it for the time being, after all, it will happen in a few years.

It is also necessary to prevent problems before they happen, after all, as long as there is a war, there will be deaths, and there will be more deaths, plus the weather is hot, the corpses are decomposed, and bacteria breed, which will slowly evolve into a plague.

This is also what Yuan Yao does not want to see.

Now that he has news from Hua Tuo, he naturally plans to invite Hua Tuo.

It's just that now he is still supervising the battle in Wanling, so he can't go in person, so he has to send someone to find out the news of Hua Tuo first.

Two soldiers were called and asked to go to Guangling County to find out the news of Hua Tuo, while Yuan Yao himself continued to visit the wounded soldiers in the camp.

Before he could visit everyone, Liu Ye came again.

"Master, Zheng Bao and Zu Lang ask to see each other."

"Let them wait for me in the tent, and I will pass."

Although the war outside Wanling County has been over for a while, the war between Zu Lang and Zheng Bao has just ended.

These two people attacked the north and south gates of Wanling respectively, and under the attack, they lost a lot of manpower, and they had not yet taken the county seat of Wanling.

Later, because Yuan Yao passed the news to them, they also knew that there were reinforcements from the Sun family on the periphery at this time.

They did not dare to continue the siege of the county seat, so they had to give up, and quickly withdrew their troops back to their camp.

After returning to the camp, they sent people to find out the news from Yuan Yao's army.

I also learned that Sun Ce led his men and horses to aid Danyang, and started a big battle with Yuan Yao more than ten miles outside the city, and was finally successfully repelled by Yuan Yao.

When they got the news, they were surprised and delighted, and hurriedly ran over to discuss with Yuan Yao what to do next.

Originally, they thought that they could quickly take down Wanling County with the help of a sudden surprise attack, but as long as they were fast enough, even if Sun Ce knew that something was happening here, he would not be able to support him in a short time.

Even because Zheng Bao had greeted Yan Baihu and others in advance, he had discussed that Yan Baihu must contain Sun Ce's reinforcements.

Yan Baihu's strength is still very strong in Wu County, even if it can't be compared with Sun Ce, it shouldn't be a problem to contain Sun Ce for some time.

This is also the reason why Zheng Bao is very sure that he can lay down Danyang County.

It's just that they didn't expect that in the siege battle they had been planning for a long time tonight, someone would still disrupt the situation.

Right now, Sun Ce's appearance has put a lot of pressure on Zheng Bao and Zu Lang.

If Yuan Yao hadn't been on the side, I was afraid that Zheng Bao and Zu Lang would have evacuated with their troops overnight.

It didn't take long for Yuan Yao to return to the big tent.

When the two saw Yuan Yao coming back, their faces immediately turned happy, and their hesitant appearance immediately disappeared.

"Childe, you're here."

"Childe, what should we do next, then Sun Ce has already brought people to kill him, can we still fight this county?"

At present, Zheng Bao and Zu Lang, the two have lost their backbone, and they don't know what to do at all, and they only know what to do next by asking Yuan Yao.

Yuan Yao glanced at Zheng Bao and Zu Lang, and saw that the two of them were a little hesitant.

But he immediately comforted the two of them.

"Two, don't be impatient, Sun Ce's main force should not have come to Danyang, otherwise it would be impossible for me to repel it with my three or four thousand people last night."

Hearing Yuan Yao say this, Zheng Bao and Zu Lang breathed a sigh of relief.

If it wasn't Sun Ce's main force that came, it would be better. With the current Zheng Bao Zulang and Yuan Yao's soldiers and horses, it is not without the power of a battle.

"It's not the main force that comes, it's not that much pressure, but Sun Ce's strength is still very strong, this person is very famous in the Jiangdong area, Childe, the two of us are not sure that we can deal with him."

"Tell me about last night's battle, how was your battle?"

Originally, Yuan Yao was outside the city last night to supervise the battle, but because of Sun Ce's appearance, he left the city, and he didn't know much about the battle outside the city.

At the moment, the battle is not very anxious for the time being, ask about the situation of Zheng Bao and Zu Lang, and Yuan Yao can arrange the next battle plan.

"Childe, the loss of my men and horses is not particularly large, I have attacked several times, although I did not succeed, but I also climbed the city tower, but I was counterattacked by the enemy several times, and finally did not break the gate of Wanling County."

"In the end, I counted it, and I lost about 1,500 people, and more than 3,000 fresh troops."

Zheng Bao's battle this time, the degree of bravery, Yuan Yao also saw it, if it wasn't for Sun Ce's sudden attack, Yuan Yao asked him to order the withdrawal of the army, he really had a chance to take Wanling County.

After listening to Zheng Bao's description, Yuan Yao nodded, the loss of these manpower was still expected.

"Well, the loss is not big, and it is acceptable, what about you?"

Immediately, Yuan Yao looked at Zu Lang.

"Childe, my loss is greater, in order to show in front of Childe, this time I have made great efforts to attack the city, and thousands of soldiers and horses under my command have all landed in the city, and the city is about to be broken, and the result is ......"

Zu Lang replied to Yuan Yao with a bitter face.