If we cannot expand outward, we can only strengthen our internal combat strength.

Li Yue then began to actively prepare for war and recruit more soldiers.

Many homeless people and bandits basically don't do anything else in their lives except cutting people.

Let them farm honestly, they are not used to it.

However, these people are complex in composition, and they have not completely returned to their hearts, and it is somewhat inappropriate to rashly absorb them into the soldiers.

What Li Yue needs is an army that is completely loyal to him, and he will not allow sand to come in.

After thinking about it for a long time, it was decided to set up a death camp.

No matter what ingredient, what ethnicity, and whether they are loyal or not, as long as they are physically strong and good at fighting, they will all be forcibly incorporated into the death camp.

All vicious and bloody battles will be brought to this group.

The soldiers carried their swords and supervised the battle.

If you want others to play with your life, you must naturally be worthy of treatment.

There must be a meal of meat every day in the death camp, one enemy's head for one liter of grain, three heads for one acre of land, the price is clearly marked, and the child is not bullied, and after five years of fighting, he can choose to retire, or become an officer, or he can enter the army.

Kill the general to capture the flag, the first to climb the formation, three levels in a row, and enjoy 100 acres of land.

As with the setting of the third-class people, try to let each class have a head start, see hope, and even if you die in battle, a lot of what you get will be inherited by your family.

As soon as the treatment was announced, the captives, who had been somewhat resistant, immediately complied and asked when the training would begin......

Even those in the soldiers wanted to be turned into death battalions.

One is for visible treatment, and the other is purely for fighting on the front line.

There were so many people who came, far more than the establishment of 800 people, that Li Yue had to select the best and lay off some war-weary people.

The quality of the death battalion has been greatly improved, and the officers are served by the soldiers who have been transferred from the soldiers.

At this point, Li Yue had three armies in his hands, the scout battalion, the battle battalion, and the death battalion, with a strength of 4,000 troops.

At the beginning of the autumn harvest, the scouts of Xuanyuan Mountain finally returned.

"General Yu...... When he went up the mountain, he was recognized by them, arrested, and locked up for half a month. The scout said honestly.

"You kid didn't leak, did you?" Wei Shan's eyes were full of distrust.

The scout's face was calm, "The subordinates never leaked anything to get out. ”

Li Yue looked at the scouts, there were no scars of torture on his body, and he had gained a lot of weight, his family was all in the mountains, and he didn't have the courage to lie to himself.

Wei Shan looked at him suspiciously.

Li Yue nodded, "Guo Shi may have seen through the identity of the second brother. ”

There are no fuel-efficient lamps these days, and they are all shrewd like ghosts.

"In that case, what does he mean by leaving Leader Cui behind?"

"Secretly forge an alliance!" Li Yue almost understood what Guo Shi meant.

This time to encircle and suppress Heiyun Mountain, if Xuanyuan Mountain really contributes, it will be difficult for Heiyun Mountain to resist.

And if Heiyun Mountain is destroyed, will Zhang Yu's next target be Xuanyuan Mountain?

From Guo Shi's standpoint, the triangular relationship is the most stable.

They are Li Ju's relics, and Zhang Yu is the Yuzhou assassin of Zhao Zhao, and he is born to deal with them.

It is very likely that Zhang Yu retreated, also considering that Xuanyuan Mountain was constrained behind his back, killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 self-losses, Heiyun Mountain and Zhang Yuhuo merged, and it was Zhang Yu and other forces in Yuzhou that were cheaper.

In recent years, there have been jackals, tigers and leopards everywhere, but anyone who has a little power is ambitious.

The core control area of the Zhao Dynasty was in Hebei, and Hebei suppressed the Central Plains and Guanzhong, and many Wubao forts were only superficially subservient to the Zhao.

"If you form an alliance, you will form an alliance, why make it sneaky." Wei Shan pouted, obviously a little incomprehensible.

"Guo Shi doesn't want to offend us, let alone Zhang Yu, he wants to establish a tacit understanding, no matter what, we owe them a favor this time."

Li Yue suddenly remembered a famous saying from later generations, which is the most appropriate way to describe the current situation: the rivers and lakes are not fighting and killing, but human feelings.

Wei Shan praised: "The general is young, and he actually knows so much, he is really a genius!" ”

Li Yue laughed dryly, he was a human being in two lives, so he naturally had more understanding than ordinary people.

Since Cui Jin is no threat in Xuanyuan Mountain, Li Yue is not so anxious, Guo Shi will not even kill a scout, let alone move Cui Jin.

The autumn harvest was soon over.

A total of 35,000 stone grains were collected, and in the short term, Heiyun Mountain no longer had to worry about food.

But the salt on the mountain has bottomed out.

Without salt, even if the meat tastes bad, the physical strength of the soldiers is greatly reduced, and the donkeys and mules want to run far, they must be fed some salt regularly.

The three hundred catties of salt and water supported by the Zheng and Wang families.

Even if you get through the moment, it will be a big problem in the future.

Zhou Lian and Cao Kan had been gone for almost a month, and without knowing what the situation was, Li Yue sent scouts to try to meet them.

The person didn't answer, but brought back bad news.

Luoyang, Hanoi, Xingyang and other counties on both sides of the Yellow River have seen a large area of plague!

"Luoyang and Hanoi counties suffered heavy casualties, and many villages and forts were ...... dead"

Great droughts will bring out great locusts, and great floods will bring forth pestilences.

The corpse was soaked in water, no one restrained, and after a sultry summer, all kinds of germs were grown.

Then it was carried by the river to all parts of the Central Plains.

During the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the population of China was as high as 50 or 60 million, but after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Three Kingdoms War, the population withered sharply to 20 million.

The vast majority did not die on the battlefield, but from the plague.

The great plague at the end of the Han Dynasty lasted for more than half a century, and five of the seven sons of Jian'an died from the plague.

When Li Yue escaped from Jijiabao, he saw a large area of rotting corpses floating on the water.

A flood drowned an unknown number of people.

No one has collected corpses, and outbreaks of plague are commonplace.

Li Yue immediately became vigilant and ordered the scouts to block the surroundings of Heiyun Mountain, strictly prohibiting people from entering and leaving at will.

A comprehensive cleaning began on the mountain, and all the houses were smoked with wormwood, so the clothes were soaked in boiling water, and it was strictly forbidden for people to gather, and they were not allowed to go out without anything.

A large number of simple wooden houses were built in the mountains to disperse people and avoid gatherings.

The sanitary conditions of Heiyun Mountain are acceptable, there is little contact with the outside world, and there are no patients.

But everything must be prevented before it happens, and if this thing comes together, it will leave no chickens and dogs.

The range of activities of the scouts was reduced, and every time he went down the mountain, Li Yue asked them to take all kinds of precautions, wrapped their mouths and noses in two layers of linen, smoked wormwood from head to toe when they went out, came back to take a hot shower, and then isolated them in a separate room for two days.

Tsukihime took the women's battalion up the mountain to collect medicine.

For safety, Li Yue gave her three hundred scouts.

Li Yue was not idle, and remembered that there were many medical skills in the study, including a book of "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" by the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing.

Grinding guns in battle, not fast and light.

The era in which Zhang Zhongjing lived was the era of the outbreak of the plague, and there were countless people who had the pain of lying in wait for corpses, crying in the room, or dying with the door closed, or mourning by the whole family.

However, Li Yue suddenly discovered that "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" was also a fragment, and it was written by Yueji Mo......

Something is better than nothing, and with the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", you can still settle it.

According to Zhang Zhongjing's theory, plague is also divided into many kinds, which need to be seen dialectically, and dialectical treatment varies from person to person, such as fever, chills, strong pain in the head, and pulse floating.

Just like the kidney deficiency in later generations, which is divided into yin deficiency, yang deficiency, and yin and yang deficiency, it is extremely cumbersome and requires a lot of clinical experience, which is not something that Li Yue can master.

It is impossible to cure all plagues with a pair of medicines.

In addition, the use of medicine also needs to master the heat, pay attention to the monarch and the minister, if used correctly, poison can also cure the disease, and if used wrong, good medicine can also kill.

Li Yue gnawed for two or three days, only to feel that his scalp was numb, there was no master to teach by word and deed, and the accumulation of several years was difficult to climb to the sky by relying on personal exploration.

"General, refugees are pouring in from the direction of Luoyang and Xingyang, seeking to be taken in by Heiyun Mountain!" The scout panicked.