"King Jin, is there any news from the Kingdom of Jin?"

Just as Richard was looking at the night sky in a daze, one of them asked.

"Jin Guo?"

Richard was awakened from his thoughts.

"No, there should have been a full-scale outbreak on the Jin side."

Brother Richard shook his head and said, according to the original plan, they should have started the war ten days earlier than the Jin Kingdom, but they deliberately delayed it for fifteen days, waiting for the Jin Kingdom to start the war first, calculating the time, it should be a big war at this time.

"But why hasn't there been any news? If the war over there goes well, Lu Zhishen and those people will not dare to boast of the realm to fight! ”

Some people raised questions, the army of the Jin State is strong in combat, and this time there are steppe people and Goryeo people to help, so it should be no problem to deal with the Qi State according to reason.

"Send someone to Xingqing Mansion to ask!"

In the next few days, the Western Xia army also went out of the city every day, but without the previous impulse, it was firmly established with its back to Hongzhou City every time.

Li Heda gritted his teeth and looked at Brother Richard, surrounded by soldiers, he was embarrassed to speak.

Li Heda looked at Brother Richard like a monster, knowing that the water was not clean, but still drinking?

The corners of Li Heda's mouth twitched.

"The enemy can drink it, why can't we?"

"I really want to die!"

Richard waited quietly, his eyes looking at the Wuding River from time to time, although the water was still clear, he knew that there was already a plague in the water.

Brother Richard looked at Li Heda who came over and asked, Li Heda's lips were already a little chapped, obviously out of a state of lack of water.

Richard smiled and picked up the kettle and took a sip.

Richard handed the kettle to Li Heda.

Li Heda retreated from the soldiers.

"Stand down!"

"What, you don't drink water?"

"I advise you to drink water normally, otherwise your combat power will be worrying during the war!"

Brother Richard did not tell the Western Xia generals about this, and the entire Western Xia army also drank water in the river normally.

"You're really not afraid of accidents? That's a plague! ”

Li Heda was very anxious, the two sides were no longer fighting, and he had no chance to communicate with the Qi side, and there was no way to talk about cooperation.

"You ......"

"Forget it! I'll figure it out myself! ”

Li Heda lowered his voice and looked at Brother Richard and asked coldly.

Brother Richard also felt that it was wrong, with the habit of the Jin State, once he won, he would definitely chase and fight fiercely, and the news of the defeat of the Qi State would spread quickly.

Li Heda looked at the kettle for a long time and didn't dare to take it, so he could only leave with such a sentence and leave, he had already asked his soldiers to go to other places to get mountain spring water.

"I don't have the guts to do that! Hum! ”

Brother Richard looked at Li Heda who was leaving, and sneered, people who are afraid of death will not be able to become the climate after all.

Qi State Camp.

"What found a large number of war horse carcasses upstream? It's all rotten? ”

Lu Zhishen listened to the scout's report with a serious face.

"Yes, yesterday I found abnormal rut marks during my inspection of the periphery, all the way to Xiaohong, a mountain range to the south, and finally found a large number of rotting war horse carcasses in several valley streams! All that water flows into the Wuding River! ”

Scout reports.

"This is a common plague tactic in the grasslands, they will throw the carcasses of sick cattle, sheep and horses into the river to pollute the water source, and then spread the plague!"

Liu Fa reacted immediately.

"Contaminating water!"

Everyone was in a cold sweat when they heard it, no matter how strong the enemy was, there was a way to defeat it, but the plague was invisible and invisible, and they were powerful and had nowhere to go.

"Carving insect skills, don't worry!"

Gongsun Sheng said with a smile.

"The health regulations in the army are very strict, all soldiers' drinking water must be boiled before drinking, and the drinking water of war horses also needs to be filtered! As long as you don't drink raw water, you need to worry about the plague. ”

"What we need to worry about now is the enemy, the observation of the past few days, the enemy is still drinking raw water normally, if the plague breaks out on the enemy's side, it is very likely to be passed on to us in a big war!"

Gongsun Sheng said.

Drinking water can be safely drunk as long as it is boiled, while war horses drink a lot of water and cannot boil it all.

The stomach of a war horse is far stronger than that of a human, and drinking water only needs to be treated simply, so the drinking water of a war horse will only be filtered with charcoal.

"Is this going to die with us?"

The faces of the people were solemn, even if they could overcome the pollution of the water source, they could not deal with the enemy infected with the plague.

"No matter, let's go clean up the corpses of those war horses first, it's hot weather, and the corpses decompose quickly!"

Liu Fa said.

"It's useless, let's clean it up today, the enemy will continue tomorrow, there are so many tributaries of the Wuding River, we have nowhere to defend at all."

Lu Zhishen shook his head and said, if the enemy dares to do it, then he must be prepared.

"I remember that Dr. Tranquility gave us some medicine to prevent the epidemic! You can send someone to Yan'an Mansion to transport it! ”

"And we should not know that the water source is polluted, so that the enemy will be infected with the disease!"

Gongsun Sheng thought for a moment before he spoke.

"yes, and medicine!"

Lu Zhishen patted his head, before this war, Sun Lei asked An Daoquan to configure a large number of medicines, from the treatment of external injuries to internal injuries and epidemics.

"So as long as the plague breaks out, the enemy will be like a lamb to the slaughter."

Liu Tang smiled with a happy face.

"The medicine...... Can it really be useful? You must know that in the Battle of Chibi that year, Cao Mengde's 800,000 army was defeated by the plague! ”

Li Ying asked with some uncertainty, the word plague is too terrifying, and if they are not careful, they may all be wiped out.

"Cao Cao is in the south, and the people in the north are not accustomed to the water and soil, plus the weather is hot and humid, so this will break out of fever!"

"We are here in the north, although the weather is hot, but the climate is dry, and our soldiers are all northerners, and there are many western soldiers, as long as you pay attention to hygiene, you will not be infected with the plague."

Gongsun Sheng said.

"Then do it, let this group of Tanguts lift a stone and shoot themselves in the foot! And we can also add some material to them, but they are downstream! ”

Lu Zhishen opened his mouth and said that the most feared thing about polluted water sources is downstream, not upstream.

In the next few days, the desire to fight in Qi was not strong, and every day tens of thousands of people simply went out of the city to call for battle, and then they withdrew after a while.

This made everyone in Western Xia full of doubts, not knowing what was wrong with the enemy.

Only Richard had a smile on his face, and he felt that the plague must have had an effect, and that there must have been people in the enemy camp who had already been infected with the plague, but it had not yet fully broken out at this time.

"Haha, your time of death has arrived!"

Richard was ecstatic.

"King Jin, a few soldiers in our army have been sick in the past few days, do you want to invite a shaman to do a ritual?"

A leader said that their Western Xia, like the Mongolian steppe, also believed in shamanism, and it was the shaman's specialty to cure illness and pray for blessings.

"Well, go and invite a few great shamans!"

Brother Richard nodded, hearing the news, he also knew in his heart that the plague had reached their side, but he was not prepared to remind anyone.

"Where's Li Heda?"

Richard glanced around before asking.

"I went to the front of the battle to scold, the enemy came out late today!"