"I've been drinking the general's potion for several days in a row, and I felt very itchy in my buttocks last night."

"I can't help but reach behind and touch it, hey, guess what I touched?"

In the Qin camp, a Qin pawn with acne on his face was gesturing to the surrounding robes.

Seeing that everyone was looking over, their faces were full of curiosity.

This Qin pawn squeezed his eyebrows and said proudly: "Hahaha, you don't know. I actually felt a big worm on my buttocks, moving around on my buttocks. I grabbed it with one hand, and it was really soft and slippery. ”

"Hiss......"

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other, and they all gasped, and goosebumps crawled on some people's bodies.

The acne-covered Qin pawn became more and more excited, squeezed his eyebrows and said, "Do you want to see it, I still have that big worm?" It's thin and long, like a worm. ”

He spoke, without waiting for an answer.

After groping for a while, he took out a soft bug in front of the robes, and shook it triumphantly, causing everyone to exclaim.

Such a scene is not uncommon in the Qin army camp, which has tens of thousands of people.

……

"The general's mugwort and artemisia fruit are really effective, after drinking the potion. A total of sixty-five officers and men in the army gave birth to worms in their stomachs. Even a few soldiers who were tortured by the water Gu also felt a lot of relief, this medicine really had a miraculous effect! ”

In the tent of Qin Junshuai, Meng Tian looked excited and reported the data he had counted today.

After listening to this, Zhao Tuo nodded, with a slightly calm look in his eyes.

Sure enough, these earthy methods known in previous lives were effective.

Wormwood.

In addition to being used to repel mosquitoes in the pre-Qin era, this substance has been used as a medicinal material.

Mencius said, "Seven years of illness, seek three years of love."

Some doctors even use moxibustion to treat diseases.

It's just that the medicine of the pre-Qin era was still in the enlightenment stage, and people didn't know much about the parasites in the body, and they didn't know that wormwood water could have the effect of driving away the parasites in the body.

Zhao Tuo had trouble with roundworms when he was a child in his previous life, and he had an impression of this after being fed wormwood water by the old man in his family.

Of course, the effect of wormwood water in killing internal parasites is definitely not as good as the special drugs of later generations, and can only play an adjuvant treatment effect.

But in this era, that's all Zhao Tuo can find and use, and he can only make do with it.

As for the other Artemisia.

The reason why Zhao Tuo used this thing was because he had heard the name of artemisinin researched by Tu Youyou in his previous life.

At that time, the Nobel Prize publicity was overwhelming, so Zhao Tuo was very impressed.

He knew that artemisinin could be used to treat malaria, but it was also effective against parasitic diseases such as schistosomiasis and toxoplasmosis.

To deal with parasites, in addition to wormwood, Zhao Tuo's first thought is artemisinin.

According to reports from his previous life, artemisinin was extracted from a species of artemisia grass called Artemisia annua. But he couldn't tell what this yellow artemisia looked like.

Zhao Tuo found many people, but no one had heard of this plant.

"It seems that this name should have been taken by a later dynasty, and the pre-Qin may have been called by other names."

Zhao Tuo had no choice but to send someone to collect all kinds of artemisia plants and test them one by one.

He is now a general, in charge of all conquests. More than ten counties in the Central Plains and Chu can be mobilized, and it is not difficult for each county to collect wormwood and artemisia grass and send them.

He was going to rely on the large number of people in the barracks to conduct group experiments to screen out Artemisia grass that was effective against parasites.

Anyway, he still has a lot of time now.

After Meng Tian arrived, Yin Tong had already led 10,000 men to Dongou to help resist the invasion of Minyue and South Vietnam.

It is said that the Minyue and South Vietnamese allied forces already had the intention of withdrawing after knowing the arrival of the Qin army, and the situation in Dongou was not urgent.

He only needs to test the medicine slowly in Fanyi, waiting for the new recruits to arrive, so he doesn't need to be in too much of a hurry.

"Wormwood water continues to boil in a cauldron, let the sergeants drink it for a while longer."

"There are also those species of artemisia, we need to experiment more and choose the most effective species."

Zhao Tuo told Meng Tian about the matter again, and then talked about another matter.

"After the water Gu is discharged from the human body, it still remains in the feces, and if a person is contaminated, it is very easy to get the poison of the water Gu again. Therefore, starting today, the army ordered special personnel to set up public toilets for people to defecate, and all soldiers should not defecate anywhere, and those who violated the order will be severely punished. ”

Meng Tian was stunned, but he still received the order.

After talking about parasites and disease control, Zhao Tuo discussed the current situation in Yuedi with the generals.

Not very good.

After Feng Wuxue's death, Nanyue and Minyue took advantage of the situation to counterattack, and the deputy general Yin Tong saw that the situation was not good, and immediately decided to lead the army to evacuate Minyue.

This decision was made very correctly.

At that time, under the situation of the main general falling ill, the defeat of friendly forces, and the counterattack of the Yue people, if the Qin army did not retreat from Minyue, it was easy for the Yue people to be trapped alive after cutting off the supply and grain routes.

And at that time, it had already entered the rainy season in Yuedi, and there were many epidemics, and it was very unfavorable for the Qin army to stay in Yuedi for a long time.

Yin Tong's decisive withdrawal avoided the worst outcome.

However, the Minyue Wangcheng is thousands of miles away from Fanxian County, Lujiang County, not only the road is far away and the road condition is not very good, coupled with the fact that the Yue people attack from time to time on the way, so that the Qin army has suffered a lot of losses.

If you add the casualties during the previous capture of Minyue, the casualties of the Qin army reached 12,000 in the entire battle!

Even if half of them were auxiliary soldiers in charge of transportation, the casualties would not be small. Coupled with the 70,000 people killed in the battle on Tu Sui's side, the Qin army's first expedition to Vietnam is equivalent to more than 80,000 casualties!

"Yuedi is really difficult to fight, Feng Wuxue's side has not suffered a big defeat like Tu Sui. But the battle damage plus the non-combat attrition along the way, the numbers are still quite terrifying. It is no wonder that in history, 500,000 Qin troops were killed by the Yue people and blood flowed like a river. ”

Zhao Tuo shook his head, feeling that if he wanted to conquer Baiyue, he really couldn't do it brutally, he had to fight steadily step by step.

"More than 10,000 people were lost in the battle, and there are about 85,000 soldiers available on my side."

"This time there are 100,000 conscripts in the rear. Among them, 30,000 will be assigned to Changsha County to help Ren Huan quell the rebellion and contain Xiou. So the reinforcements I can receive here are 70,000. It adds up to 155,000 people, and then Dongou should be able to recruit two or three thousand Yue people to help, plus the Lou Boat Division from Jiangdong, the available soldiers in my hands are about 160,000. ”

The strength of 160,000 troops is enough for Zhao Tuo.

He had already figured out a strategy on the way here.

Before, Tu Sui and Feng Wuxuan attacked Baiyue, and adopted the tactics of flowering on both sides and outflanking things from east to west. Vainly trying to defeat Baiyue in the shortest possible time.

As a result, he failed one way, and the other way was also implicated, and he retreated in defeat.

Zhao Tuo learned from experience and decided to attack and defend.

In terms of the Western Route Army, Tu Sui's original 100,000 Qin troops were only about 30,000 who could retreat to Changsha County.

Even if there are 30,000 new soldiers to support in the future, in the face of the invasion of Xiou and the situation of the Yangyue tribe in Changsha, Ren Huan can recover all of Changsha County, which is already highly capable.

If he can contain the power of the people of Xiouyue and make Xiou unable to support the eastern battlefield, it will be a great achievement.

Therefore, for the entire Qinyue battlefield, the direction of the Western Route Army is on the defensive.

Zhao Tuo's side is the real main direction of attack.

"First find out the useful artemisia grass that can cure diseases, and reduce the fear of water Gu and epidemics when the soldiers are marching south, which can boost morale."

"When the recruits arrive, train them accordingly and get them used to the local climate."

"At the same time, let people explore the intelligence of the land, so that they know themselves and the enemy."

"When everything is in order, it's almost winter, and then it's time to make a tentative attack."

Zhao Tuo set the corresponding strategy.

Because of his arrival, the tens of thousands of Qin troops who were originally panicked after the defeat of the friendly army and the death of the main general suddenly had the backbone.

In particular, the continuous boiling of wormwood water and artemisia grass water in the camp of the Qin army, the smell of medicine wafting in the camp, and the long worms that were pulled out of the body from time to time made the soldiers feel at ease.

"As soon as the martial arts hou arrived, the water Gu retreated, and the epidemic disappeared."

"General, the medical skills are superb!"

"With such a commander, why should we be afraid!"

The ordinary soldiers were all from Qian's head, had no culture and knowledge, only knew that the arrival of the general, everything changed for the better, and they were secretly grateful and excited.

And all of this is actually guided by General Shi Li Shi in secret.

"Hehe, the work of people's words can be worth tens of thousands of male teachers. I have people secretly praise the general's medical skills and potions, so that the morale of the army will be greatly boosted, and the morale of the army can be used! ”

Zhao Tuo was a little speechless about this, these vertical and horizontal strategists really mastered the power of words very proficiently.

However, Li Shiqi's trick was effective, and his morale was raised a lot, so he let it go.

As the weather gradually became cooler, the recruits recruited by various counties crossed the river one after another in the corresponding order and arrived outside the military camp in Fan County, Lujiang County.

The first to arrive was the new pawn of Jiujiang, which was separated from Lujiang County by a river.

When the mustachioed Liu Bang jumped out of a wagon, he was greeted by piles of burning open-air stoves in the military camp in the distance.

On the stove was a huge cooking utensil called an iron pot, and at the moment the smoke was rising, and a strange smell was in the air.

"What is this doing?"

Liu Bang was a little confused, he had never seen this kind of posture.

Soon, Qin generals at all levels conveyed military orders to their pawns.

"Line up!"

"All the soldiers, stand in the order of the soldiers!"

"Liu Bang, line up for me, ready to drink medicine!"

It's late, and the third one will be postponed until noon tomorrow.