The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 409 Source
How do you choose from 20,000 people?
The seven captains each selected four thousand soldiers who performed best in their respective garrisons.

General Gan directly selected a central area among these garrisons and then ordered 28,000 men to undertake a forced march with heavy loads.

After a day and a night, the first 18,000 troops to arrive were victorious.

It's all about physical strength and endurance.

Simple and crude.

Besides selecting the men, Gan Minglan also needed to worry about the rations and warhorses needed for the 20,000 elite troops from Guanzhong to march.

Rice and flour cannot be brought along, as carrying such supplies will slow down your journey.

Nutritious and filling military rations have to be beef jerky and milk powder.

Milk powder is available at Ganluchuan.

Beef jerky can be made right away!
After a month of rapid travel, each person has at least three warhorses used for long-distance running.

There is also medicine.

In the era of cold weapons, external injuries were the most common cause of combat.

She also needed to find the clinic at the sanctuary to prepare plenty of hemostatic powder.
There are quite a few things that General Gan needs to handle.

The entire Ganluchuan region was thrown into a frenzy by this sudden battle.

The rations of the two thousand vanguard battalion were brought by themselves.

Fifty cattle were slaughtered.

Armor and boots, all must be made new.

The sound of blacksmiths sharpening knives never stopped in the blacksmith's shop.

The most excited were Lu Ye, Lü Chen, and Hu Tou, the young guards.

Gan Minglan selected fifty men from her one hundred personal guards to go to the battlefield, and they were fortunate enough to become one of those fifty.

They were all strong young men of sixteen or seventeen, their bones almost fully developed, and their physical strength and energy were incredibly abundant.

Having studied Xingyi Quan with Leader Yuanzhi for over a year, their skills surpassed those of most of the Vanguard Battalion members.

Being good isn't something you can achieve in a day.

They often receive unexpected tasks from their masters when they have a sudden inspiration.

Sometimes, a dozen or so guards would wake up to find themselves abandoned on the grasslands, surrounded by wolves.

To survive, they had no choice but to entrust their backs to their comrades and fight the wolves with their bare hands.

He has killed wolves, bears, and even leopards.

Whether it's individual combat or teamwork.

Everyone has quite a few animal lives in their hands.

After several years, all that's left is real-world application!

At that fearless age, their willingness to follow their master to the Miao region speaks volumes about their enthusiasm.

Everyone was eager to prove themselves and make a contribution.

These military family members are incredibly carefree.

They didn't take those Miao mountain people seriously at all.

They assumed the child was going out with General Gan to gain credit.

General Gan: "."

She was busy for five whole days.

The night before departure, she remembered that the man who was busy monitoring the weaving of dragon and phoenix robes in the brocade workshop was busy there, so she quickly sent her personal guards to call him back.

Zuo Wenkang was devastated when he heard that his wife was going to fight in the Miao region as soon as he got home.

His face was slightly pale.

He asked cautiously, "Wife, may we not go?"

"His Majesty has personally appointed me, and I will command 20,000 troops. I have no choice but to go. Don't you trust my martial skills, my husband?"

“My wife, I am not worried about your martial prowess. However, the Miao region is different from any other battlefield. The Miao people are skilled in using Gu poison.”

Gu is a very terrifying creature! There are many kinds of it, such as: epilepsy gu, snake gu, malnutrition gu, insect gu, poisonous gu, love gu, etc.

There once existed a red, blood-sucking worm that ravaged the Phoenix Dynasty for hundreds of years.

When a person afflicted by a Gu poison develops symptoms such as fever, a rash all over the body, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and a distended abdomen, it may cause other symptoms.

The imperial medical team and folk doctors have studied the disease for hundreds of years but have not found a cure.

These blood-sucking worms are extremely harmful. At best, they cause men to lose their ability to work, women to lose their fertility, and children to fail to develop normally. In the worst cases, patients can only wait for the worms to rot their intestines and die.

And that love potion.

During the Feng Dynasty, Miao men used their own blood and a type of Gu (a type of poisonous insect) to create a love Gu, which they fed daily with their own blood, taking ten years to obtain. This Gu was then placed on their wives, and the love Gu would activate once a month; without an antidote, most people could not endure the pain.

Gan Minglan's eyes widened.

In her previous life, she had only heard of Miao women using love potions. Could this thing be used by both men and women?

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Zuo Wenkang became increasingly agitated as he talked, pacing back and forth in their dormitory room:

"Gu poison is truly terrifying. My wife, just imagine what it would be like for a normal person to have worms growing inside their body?"

Gan Minglan: "."

How could a peak-level wood-type ability user like her allow herself to be poisoned?
To put her husband at ease, she could only comfort him by saying:
"I heard that when His Majesty and his men attacked the Shang capital, they used the method of fighting poison with poison, and even poisoned the Miao King's most capable son to death. There shouldn't be any major problems!"

Clearly, Zuo Wenkang did not have a deep understanding of her abilities, and having once been the King of War's bedmate, he was deeply wary of Gu poison.

He wouldn't listen to any words of comfort, muttering repeatedly, "Once you're afflicted by a Gu curse, it's incurable, and difficult to cure."

He was so worried that I had never seen him look so pale.

"Husband, don't worry too much. I've heard of the blood-sucking worms you just mentioned. They lay their eggs in water, and when people drink the eggs, the worms hatch from their bodies."

The best way to prevent being poisoned by Gu poison at its source is to drink boiled water wherever you go. Boiling water can kill all the insect eggs in the water!

This is also the origin of why people in the Flower Kingdom love to drink boiled water.

Upon hearing this, Zuo Wenkang finally stopped pacing and suddenly realized:
"The outbreaks of vampire worms mostly occur in the lower reaches of major rivers, and the root cause is drinking water!"

"Yes, food that we eat is the easiest thing to be poisoned. Taking precautions with our food can help us avoid disaster to the greatest extent possible."

"Yes, yes, yes! Speaking of food, I remembered something good: garlic. If you eat some garlic before a meal, and the food contains parasites, you'll vomit immediately. Eating water chestnuts has the same effect."

Zuo Wenkang only regretted that his memory was not strong enough, as he couldn't remember any of the prescriptions for deworming medicine.

I only remembered raw garlic and water chestnuts.

How could I possibly sleep now? I had to get up and prepare these things for my wife.

Gan Minglan, however, told the maid to find Steward Zhu to do some work.

How can someone who is about to go on a long trip and may not be back for three to five months waste their time on this?

With a single effort, she dragged the still-talkative man onto the bed.

"Well"

All of Zuo Wenkang's worries about the Miao region were instantly blocked.

Under the dim light, the five senses are amplified.

I can't afford to, I simply can't afford to.

Once certain organs in a man are activated, he becomes like a glutton, with an insatiable appetite, never getting enough of anything.

The tassels on the headboard swayed back and forth until the third watch of the night before finally stopping.
(End of this chapter)