Water Margin people

Chapter 1331 Plague Tactics (Part )

"Prince Jin, is there any news about the Kingdom of Jin?"

Just as Brother Richard was staring at the night sky in a daze, someone asked.

"Golden State?"

Brother Richard was awakened from his thoughts.

"No, there should have been a full-scale outbreak in the Jin Kingdom."

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, the war should be going on at this time.

"But why has there been no news? If the war over there goes well, people like Lu Zhishen will not dare to come to fight!"

Some people have raised questions. The Jin army is powerful in combat, and this time there are grassland and Korean people to help. Logically speaking, there should be no problem in dealing with Qi.

"Send someone to Xingqing Mansion to ask!"

In the next few days, the Xixia army also left the city every day, but without the previous impulsiveness, they always backed up Hongzhou City steadily.

Li Heda gritted his teeth and looked at Brother Richard. He was embarrassed to speak those words surrounded by soldiers.

Li Heda looked at Brother Richard like a monster. He drank the water even though he knew it was unclean?

The corners of Li Heda's mouth twitched.

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

"I really want to die!"

Brother Richard waited quietly. From time to time, he would look at the Wuding River aside. Although the water was still clear, he knew that there was already a plague in the water.

Brother Richard asked as he looked at Li Heda who was coming over. Li Heda's lips were already a little chapped, obviously due to lack of water.

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

Brother Richard handed the kettle to Li Heda.

Li Heda yelled at the soldiers to retreat.

"You guys stand down first!"

"What, you don't drink water?"

"I advise you to drink water normally, otherwise your fighting ability will be worrying during the battle!"

Brother Richard did not tell the Xixia generals about this, and the entire Xixia army drank water from the river as usual.

"Are you really not afraid of something happening? It's a plague!"

Li Heda was very anxious. There was no more fighting between the two sides, and he had no chance to communicate with Qi State, 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 something was wrong. According to the habits of the Jin Kingdom, once they win, they will definitely pursue and fight fiercely, and the news of Qi's defeat will spread quickly.

Li Heda looked at the kettle for a long time but did not dare to take it. He could only leave with these words. He had already asked his soldiers to get mountain spring water elsewhere.

"You don't have any courage at all! Humph!"

Brother Richard looked at Li Heda who was leaving and sneered. People who are afraid of death will never succeed.

Qi State Camp.

"Why are so many war horse corpses found upstream? They are all rotting?"

Lu Zhishen looked serious as he listened to the scout's report.

"Yes, I discovered abnormal ruts while patrolling the perimeter yesterday. I went all the way to Xiaohong Mountain in the south, and finally found a large number of rotting war horse corpses in several valleys and streams! All that water flowed into the Wuding River!"

Scout reports.

"This is a common plague tactic in the grassland. They will throw the corpses of dead cattle, sheep and war horses into the river to pollute the water source and then spread the plague!"

Liu Fa reacted immediately.

"Polluted water source!" Everyone broke out in cold sweat after hearing this. No matter how powerful the enemy was, there was always a way to defeat it, but the plague was invisible and they had no power to use it.

"It's a small trick, don't worry!"

Gongsun Sheng said with a smile.

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

"What we need to worry about now is the enemy. From our observations in the past few days, the enemy is still drinking raw water normally. If a plague breaks out on the enemy's side, it will most likely be transmitted to us during the war!"

Gongsun Sheng said.

Drinking water can be safely consumed as long as it is boiled, but War Horse drinks a large amount of water and it is impossible to boil all of it.

The stomach of a war horse is far stronger than a human's, and the drinking water only needs simple treatment, so the drinking water of the war horse will only be filtered with charcoal.

"Are you going to die with us?"

Everyone's faces were solemn. Even if they could overcome the pollution of the water source, they could not deal with the enemies infected with the plague.

"No matter what, let's go clean up those war horse corpses first. It's hot today and the corpses will rot very quickly!"

Liu Fa said.

"It's useless. Let's clean up today. The enemy will continue tomorrow. There are so many tributaries of Wuding River, and we have nowhere to defend ourselves."

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

"I remember Doctor An prepared some medicine for preventing and treating epidemic diseases for us! We can send someone to Yan'an Mansion to transport it!"

"And we just pretend that we don't know that the water source is contaminated and let the enemy get infected with the disease!"

Gongsun Sheng thought for a moment before speaking.

"Yes, there is also medicine!"

Lu Zhishen slapped his forehead. Before this battle, Sun Lei asked An Daoquan to prepare a large number of medicines, ranging from those to treat external injuries to internal injuries and diseases.

"This means that as long as the epidemic breaks out, the enemy will be like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered."

Liu Tang said with a smile on his face.

"Is that medicine... really useful? You know that in the Battle of Chibi, Cao Mengde's 800,000-strong army was defeated by the plague!"

Li Ying asked with some uncertainty. The word "plague" was too scary. If they were not careful, they might all be wiped out.

"Cao Cao was in the south. The people in the north are not accustomed to the climate and the climate. In addition, the weather is hot and the humidity is heavy, so the fever will break out!"

"We are in the north. Although the weather is hot, the climate is dry. Our soldiers are all northerners, and there are many Western soldiers. As long as you pay attention to hygiene, you will not catch the plague."

Gongsun Sheng said.

"Then let's do this, let these Xixia people shoot themselves in the foot! And we can also add some ingredients to them, they are downstream!"

Lu Zhishen said that the people who should be most afraid of polluted water sources are the downstream ones, not the ones upstream.

In the next few days, Qi's desire to fight was not strong. Every day, tens of thousands of people came out of the city to simply call for formation, then fought for a while and then withdrew.

This made everyone in Xixia full of doubts, wondering what was wrong with the enemy.

Brother Richard was the only one with a smile on his face. He felt that the plague must have taken effect. Someone in the enemy camp must have been infected with the plague, but it had not completely broken out yet.

"Haha, your death has come!"

Brother Richard was ecstatic.

"Prince Jin, several soldiers in our army have been sick these days. Should we invite a shaman to perform a ritual?"

A leader said that they in Xixia, like the Mongolian grasslands, also believed in shamanism, and curing diseases and praying for blessings were the shaman's expertise.

"Well, let's invite some great shamans to come!"

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

"Where's Li Heda?"

Brother Richard glanced around and then asked.

"Go and yell before the formation. The enemy came out a little late today!"