General Lu insisted on going his own way, and the entire Yumen Pass suddenly fell into a panic of "poisonous glutinous rice". There are still few traces of the glutinous rice distributed by Master Zhou, but most of the glutinous rice that was previously robbed by the people and sergeants cannot be traced at all. Master Zhou was annoyed by this, and searched day and night, and finally found out more than 200 people who had eaten glutinous rice, except for a dozen ordinary people, almost all of them were sergeants in the battalion. And Master Lu's side was responsible for collecting the batch of glutinous rice in the "Sending the Guest Building", but in the end, only a dozen catties were recovered, and I don't know how many people have eaten it.

For the more than 200 people who were investigated, General Lu did not dare to slack off, and left all of them in the barracks for observation. General Lu still couldn't rest assured, and asked them to stay in the camp for a little longer, who knew that within a few days, some of them coughed muffled and stuck out yellow phlegm. After another two days, almost all of the more than 200 people who were left in the barracks coughed, and all of them had tightness in their chests and phlegm gushing in their throats, all of which had exactly the same symptoms.

Obviously, Xian Jingyue and General Lu's worries were not wrong at all, and there was really something wrong with the batch of glutinous rice in the "Sending the Guest Building". The soldiers who followed the army did not dare to be careless anymore, and hurriedly asked carefully, and finally came to the same conclusion: the symptoms of more than 200 people were not poisoned, but infected, but infected with the plague. One of the soldiers was even more hindsight, only then did he wake up and speak: "I understand, the color of these glutinous rice is yellow, and there is a faint smell of fish, which is obviously soaked in the blood of plague patients!"

Hearing the words of the soldier Langzhong, General Lu, Xian Jingyue and the others all looked like ashes. If it is said that the glutinous rice is highly poisoned, even if it is a poison that seals the throat with blood, the consequences can still be controlled, but the glutinous rice actually contains plague, and the consequences cannot be predicted. You must know that this plague, although it is only a sudden illness, may not kill people for a while, but the most terrible thing is the word "infection". As long as one person is sick, the slightest carelessness will infect others, and then spread ten, ten to hundred, so that all the people around him are sick, and the speed of infection is so fast that it is simply unexpected. Therefore, wherever the plague goes, people often die village by town, and in the end, there are no chickens and dogs left, and they are completely reduced to ghost villages and ghost towns.

I can't imagine that the Shenhuo Sect hiding behind the scenes, or that Yan Sidao, the living corpse that was made a few days ago is just a disguise, but the real killing move is the batch of glutinous rice in the "Sending the Guest Building", which actually uses such a tragic means as spreading the plague, and its intentions are outrageous.

Fortunately, General Lu insisted on dealing with the glutinous rice at that time, and immediately gathered the people who had eaten the glutinous rice together, otherwise in the past few days, the people and soldiers of the entire Yumen Pass would have been infected by the plague. Although the epidemic was temporarily controlled, the entire Yumen Pass suffered continuous twists and turns, and the people were already panicked, and General Lu hurriedly gathered all the more than 30 soldiers in the general, telling them to come up with a treatment of the plague as soon as possible.

Some people say that the plague is also known as the "ghost plague", which is derived from the aura of the ghouls, and most of the plague infected this time comes from the living corpses that appeared before the Yumen Pass, so those living corpses should be used as medicine. Some people quote scriptures, saying that according to the record of "Suwen", the plague originates from the qi of the five elements, which is divided into gold plague, wood plague, water plague, fire plague and earth plague, so it is also called "five plagues". After some fierce debate, the soldiers reached a consensus that the symptoms of these plague patients were coughing and phlegm, which was naturally a lung disease, and should be tried with a prescription for lung disease.

You must know that the horror of the plague lies in the "sudden" and "infection", and it is not an incurable and terminal disease. As the so-called three stinkers beat Zhuge Liang, there are now more than 30 followers who have taken action together, and they have drawn up more than a dozen prescriptions in an instant, intending to use this as an experiment, decocting the medicine to the plague patients in turn, so as to try out the right prescription. Unexpectedly, after testing the medicine, it was found that a large number of medicinal materials in the army's inventory had been lost at some point, especially the "white velvet grass", "hanging golden lamp", "Chaotianzi" and "grass stone silkworm" for the treatment of lung diseases.

From this point of view, the other party obviously had a premeditated plan, and had already stolen these medicinal materials from the army's inventory early in the morning, and most of them were done by Zou Song, the master of the Divine Fire Sect who killed the cook in the house. However, the other party's move is undoubtedly three hundred taels of silver here, but it confirms the speculation of the soldiers who are in the army, so it can be seen that if you want to cure this plague, you have to start with these medicinal materials. Fortunately, there were two pharmacies on the streets of Yumen Pass, so General Lu sent people to purchase them from the people, and reluctantly collected more than ten catties of these medicinal materials.

After another two days, suddenly more than a dozen disheveled sergeants came from the official road in the east, but it was the team sent by General Lu to Jiayuguan to transport back the salary. Under inquiry, it turned out that they went to Jiayuguan to ask for this batch of grain in the autumn, although Gong Baisheng refused to let them into the customs, but used a hanging basket to put down a batch of grain from the city wall, although compared with the total amount of this batch of grain and salary, at least more than half of it, but the general who transported the grain kept in mind General Lu's instructions, and did not dare to argue with Gong Baisheng, so he had to transport this batch of grain back first. On the way back, hundreds of bandits were suddenly killed, and the sergeants who transported the grain were only about 200 in total, and they were immediately caught off guard, most of the dead and wounded on the spot, and the two generals were killed by the bandits' knives, only a dozen sergeants survived, and the grain was naturally robbed by the bandits.

To say that the bandits in this northwest desert are basically the three groups of "Wind and Sand Riders", "Dirty Beard" and "Curry Magic Knife", but they only operate in the area of Beishu Bali City on weekdays, and they don't dare to come to the vicinity of Yumen Pass to make trouble, how can they appear between Yumen Pass and Jiayu Pass now, and they are still staring at this batch of grain and grass robbery? General Lu and Xian Jingyue speculated a little, and concluded that this must be another method of the Divine Fire Sect, and the other party's series of poisonous schemes are interlocking. The water is not leaking, it must have predicted today's situation in advance, and bought the bandits in the desert early in the morning, and let them break into pieces and mix into Yumen Pass, or cross the mountains in the north to pass through, the purpose is to cut off the supply of Yumen Pass at this time.

As a result, not only was the plague rampant in Yumen Pass, but also there was a shortage of food and medicine, as for General Lu's report to Lanzhou City, and Li Liu's carrier pigeon sent to the pro-army Governor's Mansion, they were also like mud cattle entering the sea, and there was no response. Obviously, this garrison of Yumen Pass has been abandoned by the imperial court and has been completely reduced to an outcast. The generals in the army couldn't help but propose that the whole army should withdraw to Jiayu Pass, and if Gong Baisheng did not open the city gate, he would go straight to Jiayu Pass. General Lu was extremely stubborn, refusing to abandon the Yumen Pass for anything, and it took a lot of effort to calm the generals and barely stabilize the morale of the army.

Since Gong Baisheng of Jiayuguan had already given a batch of grain, if he asked for it again, with the personal grudge between him and General Lu, most of them might not be willing to give it again. What's more, there are bandits ambushing on the official road leading to Jiayuguan, and if a heavy army is sent to Jiayuguan to ask for food, he is worried that it will arouse Gong Baisheng's suspicion, and he will not give food. Seeing that the grain and grass were about to run out, General Lu had to gamble with his own life and take the lead in eating the batch of ingredients outside the barracks on the right.

With this batch of ingredients, the garrison of Yumen Pass could hold out for more than a month, and General Lu took advantage of the late autumn to send sergeants to the desert to hunt more prey and hoard in order to wait for the coming winter. At the same time, two teams of 1,000 people were sent to the official road to the east to exterminate the bandits who robbed grain.

And the treatment of the plague day and night with the army Langzhong was also quite effective, especially the two medicinal materials of "Hanging Golden Lamp" and "Chaotianzi" were extremely symptomatic, although the plague patients who took the medicine were not cured, the symptoms were also alleviated a lot. It's a pity that the quantity of these two medicinal materials bought from the people is limited, which can almost be said to be a drop in the bucket, but I am afraid that before the right prescription is tested, these two herbs will be exhausted first. Therefore, in the end, you still have to ask for medicine from Jiayuguan, or go out of the customs to buy it from the caravans of the Western Regions.

Seeing that the situation at Yumen Pass had taken a slight turn, General Lu's tense nerves dared to relax slightly, but unexpectedly, the sergeant suddenly came with the news, saying that more than a dozen people on the street and in the left and right battalions were infected with the plague, and they were also the same symptoms, all coughing with muffled voices and sticking out yellow phlegm. Hearing this news, General Lu only felt a "buzz" in his head, and almost collapsed to the ground on the spot.