Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2401: The pandemic breaks out, Liangzhou has become a deadly place

What Temujin did could be said to be an open conspiracy.

No matter what choice Wei Qing and Meng Tian make, they have to bear the necessary consequences, and the only problem is the severity of the consequences.

These people were all soldiers of the Jin army. After being captured by the Yuan Mongols, some of them, like Wang Bi, eventually chose to bend their knees and save their lives by this means.

The other part was forced by the Yuan Mongols to kill each other, forcing those who had bent their knees to have no way out.

The remaining small number of people are considered to be relatively lucky. Even though they would rather die than surrender, they still survive to this day.

Such a group of people have now been released by Temujin. How should Wei Qing and Meng Tian treat them?
If they were to bring this group of people back at such a critical moment, it would be obvious that there were definitely problems with this group of people.

When this group of people come back, they themselves will become a huge threat!

If it is not handled properly, it may even endanger the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers!

In fact, the troops of Wei Qing and Meng Tian had already begun to suffer from plague, but it was not as serious as that in Mongolia for the time being.

Since the Liangdong area has been infected with the plague, how could their camp be completely unaffected?
With hundreds of thousands of troops fighting, the scouts sent out every day extended over dozens of miles. As long as these scouts came into contact with civilians infected with the plague without knowing it, it would naturally affect the rest of the troops.

As a result, it was natural that a plague would break out in the camp.

Otherwise, how could Wei Qing and Meng Tian have completely disregarded their status and pointed at the noses of those civil officials and cursed them? In fact, if no one stopped them, they would have directly started fighting.

If we ignore this group of people, it will be a huge blow to the morale of the army.

Moreover, they don't even have the right to ignore it now.

If we ignore this group of people, they will probably drift to various places in Liangdong area. By then, the situation will probably be even worse.

As a last resort, even though they knew there were problems with these people, Wei Qing and Meng Tian had no choice but to accept them. However, they did not allow them to enter the camp. Instead, they immediately transferred them to the rear and put them under strict control.

However, although the two of them were cautious enough, they were still completely defenseless.

The number of Jin troops who were released was at least several thousand, and the people responsible for guarding them in the rear had at least a thousand soldiers.

After all, each of these soldiers still had problems, so Wei Qing and Meng Tian naturally did not dare to take it lightly. They had to send soldiers to guard them strictly and ensure that these people were kept under control in one place.

However, the soldiers responsible for guarding these people will inevitably come into contact with them. No matter how careful they are, they may be infected if the time goes on for a long time.

However, at least, the situation of Wei Qing and Meng Tian's troops was much better than that of Yuan Meng.

Temujin's ruthless revenge did not stop there. When he found that the situation in Wei Qing and Meng Tian's camp was limited, he launched further revenge. This is why Wei Qing and Meng Tian had been resisting this method before. In addition to this method, it has touched their bottom line. It is also because, if you can do this kind of thing on the first day, then others can naturally do it on the fifteenth day.

You have already started to take such extreme measures, can you still expect mercy from your enemies?

In the end, it was a complete lose-lose situation.

In fact, because of the population density of both sides, this may not be a matter of mutual destruction, but a matter of killing one thousand enemies and losing twelve thousand of your own. The result may even be worse.

After the plague broke out on the grassland, Temujin decisively ordered the Mongolian tribes within 100 miles of Liangzhou to migrate southward, toward Liangzhou, or even directly into Liangzhou. He also ordered the tribes outside Liangzhou to migrate northward or westward to prevent the further spread of the plague.

It is unknown whether this method can really stop it, but at least it is better than doing nothing.

However, Temujin could use the same method on the grassland. Could it be possible that the Jin army could also use it in the Central Plains?

Let's talk about Temujin again. When he found that releasing those Jin prisoners was effective, and following the advice of his adviser Zhonghang Shuo, he had people hold down the people of Liangzhou who were infected with the plague and throw them directly into Meng Tian's camp using catapults.

A plague broke out on Temujin's side, and naturally the people were the ones who suffered in the end. The number of people infected with the plague was much greater than the number of Yuan Mongolian soldiers infected with the plague.

And under Temujin's brutal revenge, the plague in Meng Tian's camp has become completely out of control?
Therefore, today's Liangzhou, except for the two westernmost places of Dunhuang and Juyan, has almost become a dead place.

The two westernmost places, Dunhuang and Juyan, are mainly desert areas with sparse population density, and the population is concentrated in a limited number of cities.

After the outbreak of the plague, in addition to the measures on the grassland, Temujin decisively isolated the two places in Liangzhou, prohibiting any Yuan Mongolian soldiers or Liangzhou citizens from entering here. Anyone who dared to cross the border would be killed without mercy.

Even Temujin himself was still on the front line at this time and had not entered Dunhuang, which had not yet been affected by the plague.

After all, Dunhuang at that time was home to so many of Temujin's troops, so it would be natural to protect as many as possible!

Moreover, as long as these two places are separated, the Western Province behind will be safer. Today, Temujin has already regarded the Western Province as his own.

Although it is said that there are vast Gobi and deserts all the way out of Yumen Pass, and it is almost impossible for the plague to spread there, but having such a buffer zone will always make it safer.

And this was the time when the war in the South was about to achieve a major victory.

By the time this news reached Li Xiang, the southern part had just received Li Xiang's order to reorganize the troops and enter the Central Plains through the Jianghuai River system under the escort of Qi Jiguang.

However, just as they entered the Central Plains and were about to cross Yuzhou along the Wuguan line and then enter Yongzhou, they were urgently stopped by Li Xiang who sent people.

At this time, there is naturally no need to send more troops into Liangzhou.

At this time, the more troops you send over, the more troops you will have to sacrifice.