Three Kingdoms Swept the World II

Chapter 1144 King Qin is a Great Inventor

The Qin army and the Shu army fought in the Sanjiang area.

The two sides invested a total of more than [-] troops. Although the Shu army was relatively passive, it occupied a favorable location.

After the Qin army was trapped in the shallow wetlands and approached Neijiang, the base camp of the Shu army, the two sides faced each other across the Mengxi River, and it was difficult for the Qin army to make a breakthrough.

When summer comes, the heat and humidity affect Qin Jun.

This brought the two sides into a stalemate, and it gradually became protracted.

The two sides began to confront each other on both sides of the Mengxi River.

A serious problem began to affect the Qin army and the Shu army.That is, tens of thousands of people gather in the wild without any facilities, and the environmental sanitation problem is highlighted in the humid and hot summer.

Bacillary dysentery became prevalent within the Qin army.

Bacillary dysentery is caused by bacteria that infect the human body through the digestive tract, causing inflammation and ulceration of the colonic mucosa, and releasing toxins into the blood.The clinical manifestations mainly include fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, tenesmus, mucus pus and blood in the stool, accompanied by symptoms of systemic toxemia, and severe cases may cause septic shock or toxic encephalopathy, resulting in a high fatality rate.

Bacillary dysentery, which can be transmitted by mosquitoes and flies, is therefore a type of plague.

Since the Qin army has a complete set of epidemic prevention monitoring system, it is too early to discover.

"The source of infection must be cut off." Hu Ming said.

Old Jia Xu asked, "Where is the source of infection for this disease?"

"Most of them are excrement as the source, with flies as the medium, and the spread is rapid. If you don't deal with it carefully, it is very easy to cause a large-scale outbreak of the plague." Hu Ming, the medical administrator, explained.

Everyone was shocked when they heard that flies were the medium.Don't look at the flies as small creatures, they are too powerful, they are numerous, and they mostly breed in excrement.

Qin Feng kept nodding and said: "Yes, these are easy to breed flies. Flies are extremely abnormal insects. A pair of flies can have 1.9 million offspring. Human food, human and livestock secretions and excrement, kitchen waste and other garbage, as well as plant juices, etc., can be used for food. After the fly is full, it will excrete within one to two minutes at the fastest. Its frequent vomiting and diarrhea, defecation, and water loss make it eat frequently, so It eats, vomits, and pulls on the bad biomass, causing serious pollution."

Eating while pulling, it was so dirty that both civil and military officials were shocked.

"That's it, that's it, what the king said is so good and so reasonable!" Hu Ming danced, and as a comprehensive health official, he hurriedly took out a pen and paper, recorded it, and said: "What the king said is too meaningful!" There's scientific value, we didn't know that before."

Everyone was even more shocked.

To say how Qin Feng knew, he still needs to thank the animal world of later generations.

"Then, my lord, how do we cut off the source of infection?" Old Jia Xu asked, shaking his white beard.

"Can be buried."

Everyone immediately admired and celebrated with each other, the king's idea is great.

As a result, Qin Jun began to implement strict and mandatory sanitation work, forced to wash hands, forced to drink boiled water, and prohibited any behavior of "pooing" anywhere.Soldiers in the army take the battalion as a unit, dig pits and bury all the "poo" and kill mosquitoes and flies.

Because Qin Jun implemented timely and appropriate measures, the number of cases quickly decreased.

the next day.

Commander-in-chief of the Shu Army, Zhuge Liang, accompanied by the frontline general Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, sat on a small cart and came to the Shu Army-controlled area on the north bank of the Mengxi River for inspection.

Squeak twist~.

Zhuge Liang pointed to the shore, and the soldier hurriedly pushed the cart over, and all the generals followed.

Zhuge Liang set up a pergola with a feather fan, and looking at the other side, he saw many Qin soldiers holding tools and attacking the ground, and dust was everywhere.

"What's the situation?" Zhuge Liang asked.

Wang Ping, the garrison general here, said: "Prime Minister, this subordinate is also wondering."

Zhuge Liang looked at it carefully for a while, hehehe laughed, and said: "The Qin army must have had an outbreak of disease. This is digging a hole to bury the excrement. This is to prevent the epidemic."

The enemy had an epidemic, and everyone was delighted.

Zhuge Liang was also secretly happy, but at the same time he was also wary, so he asked, "How is the situation of our army?"

Everyone naturally knew what Zhuge Liang was asking, and they were really caught up in the question.If Zhuge Liang hadn't asked, no one would have asked about this matter.

So, the messengers scattered away.

On the afternoon of this day, Zhuge Liang received a report from the military doctor of the Shu Army in his base camp.

"Prime...Prime Minister, if you want to talk about epidemic diseases, infectious diseases..., our military medical camp has admitted and treated 58 cases of dysentery." The military medical officer said again: "There are no other infectious diseases, only dysentery. But dysentery is very difficult and difficult to cure. , and contagious."

Zhuge Liang contacted the situation of Qin Jun who had seen on the shore earlier, and said, "Is it contagious through excrement?"

The military doctor said: "It is mainly transmitted through excrement, and flies are the vector."

Everyone can understand when they think about it, the flies bite the excrement and hang around people and people's food, and they will naturally infect them.

Ever since, coincidentally, Zhuge Liang also ordered mandatory sanitation work, prohibiting all "poo" anywhere, with the battalion as the unit, all excrement will be dug and buried.

In the following time, heat, humidity, dullness, and confrontation became the main theme of the battlefield.

In this environment, both the Qin Army and the Shu Army chose a temporary truce.

For a while, there was no gunpowder smoke and shouts of killing on the battlefield, but the sound of chanting and digging holes was everywhere.

But soon, that is, half a month later, something unexpected happened.

The number of new cases of dysentery in the Qin army has risen exponentially.

The king of Qin turned pale with fright, and urgently ordered to find out the reason, and the reason was soon found out.

"What, there is no place to dig a hole?" King Qin stood up in shock after receiving the news.

Old Jiaxu reported the difficulties, "Your Majesty, our army is more than [-]..."

The situation is roughly like this, the Qin army has hundreds of thousands, and tens of thousands of people need to defecate every day. Because the Qin army has good food, some people need to defecate several times a day. After a long time, there is no place to dig a hole to bury them.

In fact, there has been a set of effective methods for garbage disposal in marching operations since ancient times.But the environment in the Sanjiang area is too humid, humid and hot.In such an environment, the conventional treatment method fails, and the only way is to dig a hole and bury it.

Places are limited and cannot last long these days.

After the number of cases exceeded [-], the generals, seeing that the situation was not good and unable to defeat the enemy, advised Qin Feng to retreat.

"Let me think about it."

By the second day.

When Wen Wu came to the temporary palace, he heard the sound of clanging.

Jia Xu, Pang Tong and others saw that King Qin was working with his sleeves rolled up, holding a hammer and beating on a wooden box.

Dangdangdang~.

Qin Feng fixed the last piece of wood with the last nail, showed it, and said, "Everyone, what do you think of this thing?"

I saw that the thing in Qin Feng's hand was infinitely close to the ammunition box of the later generations. It was all made of wooden boards and hollow, but it was not completely sealed, but there was a big hole in the upper part.

A wooden box with a hole in the top, what is this for?

Jia Xu, Pang Tong, Xu Huang, Zhang He, Lu Bu and others were full of question marks.

(End of this chapter)