Fenghou

Chapter 1494 Epidemic Prevention
In the afternoon, Chen Qing convened the generals and relevant officials to discuss the impact of the plague.

"The news of the outbreak of the plague in Shangjing, the capital city of the Kingdom of Jin, must be known to everyone. In order to reduce the pressure, Wanyan Wushu sent millions of people back to their hometowns. This actually brought the plague to other places. Our strategy must be adjusted in time. I suggest to take Shenzhou as the boundary. We will not attack the north of Shenzhou for the time being, and wait and see the development of the plague. Second, we must take down the Liaodong area as soon as possible, and then take various epidemic prevention measures to ensure that the plague will not affect the army. How specifically? Let’s do it, everyone express their opinions!”

Chen Qing glanced at Zhang Xiao again, "Let's talk about Zhang's participation in politics beforehand!"

Zhang Xiao said slowly: "Actually, one of the plagues is prevention and the other is treatment. We have experience. We did a good job of epidemic prevention in Caizhou and Chenzhou. His Highness suggested that we wear multi-layer masks. We have to prepare a lot. Then sterilize with lime, the third is to isolate in time, and then it is medical treatment. According to the plague treatment prescription left by Zhang Zhongjing of the Han Dynasty, boil a big pot of soup. First of all, the army is guaranteed. In the army, not a single soldier was infected."

Yang Zaixing raised his hand and said, "I also have a suggestion. We need to take down the Liaoyang Mansion as soon as possible and wipe out the enemy troops. Then the garrison in Liaodong will not need so many troops. I suggest that the garrison be reduced to 10 to protect the soldiers from infection to the greatest extent. .”

Gao Ding also said: "A large number of people can be transferred to Yanshan Road together, and then Yuguan is blocked, and no one is allowed to enter Yanshan Road."

Liu Cui also added: "As well as the Dading Mansion and Linhuang Mansion, we must also be careful, and no one from the Kingdom of Jin is allowed to approach. The humble official suspects that Wanyan Wushu may sneak into these two places with merchants infected with the disease, and give the Western Army Hit hard."

"Doctor Zhou also talked about it!"

Medical officer Zhou is called Zhou Mian, the chief military doctor of the Western Army. He nodded, "Actually, my opinion is similar to that of Zhang Shenzheng. Masks, medicines, and lime must be urgently transported to Liaodong in large quantities. Then I emphasize one point, that is, isolation. Separating sick people from normal people is the key to treating the plague in all dynasties. The army needs to set up isolation camps and observation camps, and then use several counties for isolation and observation. Healthy people must be separated, and there are toilets , This is the key to spreading the plague, toilets must be far away from military camps, disinfected with a lot of lime, and we must develop the habit of washing hands before meals and after defecation.”

Everyone said something to me, and the plan gradually matured. Chen Qing immediately made a decision: "First of all, set up a Liaodong epidemic prevention dispatching headquarters. I will be the supreme commander. Zhang Canzhengshi and Yang Dutong will be my deputy. Next, we will set up Sixteen members of the military, involving various links, each link must have a member of the military responsible, and then this member of the military must have dozens of subordinates, all of them must absolutely obey the command and arrangement of the epidemic prevention dispatch headquarters, and those who do not obey Those who disobey the order will be beheaded!"

With an order, twenty heavy trebuchets in the north creaked and pulled up. The soldiers of the Western Army put an [-]-jin kerosene tank into the iron bucket. There was also a layer of kerosene on the outside, which was ignited by the soldiers with torches. The fire oil tank was ablaze.

But Chen Qing has made up his mind. In order to switch to epidemic prevention as soon as possible, he decided to fight a fierce battle with the Liaoyang defenders. After breaking through the city gate, he immediately switched to street fighting.

Twenty trebuchets were launched at the same time, and twenty large burning and smoking kerosene tanks were thrown densely at the top and sides of the city gate.

The clay pot burst, and eighty catties of kerosene splashed out, which was immediately ignited by the burning pottery fragments. The flames on the top of the city instantly blazed. The Korean soldiers, who had no experience in fire prevention, were caught off guard and fled to both sides in terror. Dozens of soldiers were set on fire. Frightened and yelled and ran away.

The moat was covered with long wooden boards, and the soldiers rushed over. Several soldiers spread the wet bedding on the ground, and the fire was extinguished immediately. They placed the iron fire mine nervously, and inserted an iron pallet into the soil. Lei was placed on the iron plate, next to the city gate.

At this time, there were several small explosions again. This was the explosion of the chain mine, the iron chain was blown off, and the suspension bridge crashed down. For a moment, broken wood, bricks and stones fell from the sky.

The large iron fire mine exploded, the earth trembled, thick smoke rose into the sky, and dust filled the air.

Two hundred soldiers held large shields and long planks to cover ten soldiers running. The soldiers carried a 250-jin iron fire mine, and some soldiers held a chain mine.

All the soldiers covered their ears, only to hear an earth-shattering explosion, "Boom!"

Forty heavy-duty trebuchets pushed towards the city gate from the north and south at the same time. Arrows rained down from the top of the city, basically too far apart to reach the western army.

At nightfall, fierce battle drums sounded in the camp of the Western Army, "Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Chen Qing decided to capture Liaoyang City. He could only use a large iron fire thunder to blow open the city gate. The city walls of Liaoyang City were very strong and were made of large blue stones. The iron fire thunder could not blow open the city wall.

While setting up the Liaodong Epidemic Prevention and Dispatch Headquarters, Chen Qing also decided to use the fastest way to capture Liaoyang City, and Liaoyang must be captured before dawn tomorrow.

At 250 steps, the soldiers of the Western Army fixed the catapults, and the large baffles were also placed in place. The defenders on the top of the city also realized the intention of the Western Army, and began to shoot violently at the catapults with bed crossbows. There were also catapults on the top of the city, but They are all medium-sized trebuchets, and the projection distance is only within 150 steps. The range is not enough to cause damage to the heavy trebuchets of the Western Army.

"emission!"

Now the Western Army has a lot of experience in blasting open city gates. The more troublesome thing is the suspension bridge. However, the Firearms Bureau has designed a kind of iron fire mine specially designed to blow up the suspension bridge. Thunder, throw it up, and the chain mine will wrap around the iron chain of the suspension bridge, and can blow the iron chain pulling the suspension bridge into two pieces.

After three rounds of shooting, the entire city, including the tower, was engulfed in flames.

Chen Qing shouted, "Shoot into the city!"

After a while, the thick smoke cleared away, most of the city gate had disappeared, and a large black hole appeared, from which the inside of the city could be clearly seen.

Some soldiers lit the matchlock, and at the same time, several soldiers also lit the chain mine, and threw the chain mine onto the chain, instantly entangled the chain of the suspension bridge.

This kind of chain mine has a wide range of uses, such as blowing up siege ladders, blowing up ship masts, and so on.

More than a dozen soldiers quickly retreated, and ran about seventy or eighty steps, lying on the ground with their heads tightly covering their ears.

According to Pang Guangji's description, the [-] Koryo soldiers in Liaoyang City are different from those in other places. The Koryo soldiers here are soldiers from the north. They are pro-Jin people. They are all soldiers who have served in the army for many years. Donghu soldiers.

Although two fire oil tanks were not strong enough, they only hit the city wall, and a fire was ignited beside the city gate, but this did not affect the attack of the firearms soldiers.

Liaoyang City is a large city with a population of nearly 20, mainly Jurchen, Khitan and Han. The Jurchens in the southern part of the Kingdom of Jin are different from those in the northern part of the Kingdom of Jin. There is no difference from the Han people. In the northern Jurchen, there are mature Jurchen and raw Jurchen. The raw Jurchen still maintains the fishing and hunting tribal system.

The 20 troops began to spread out in front of the north and south gates, and the gates were full of soldiers from the Kingdom of Jin, most of whom were soldiers from Korea, armed with swords and spears, ready to fight.

"Kill!"

With a loud roar, Yue Yun brandished his double hammers and led ten thousand cavalry to kill the city first.

At this time, there was also an earth-shattering explosion from the direction of the south city, and the gate of the south city was also blown up.

Yang Zaixing and his deputy Li Fuxing led an army of [-] to enter the city from the south, while Liu Cui, Gao Ding, Yue Yun, Zhang Xian and other generals led [-] troops from the west to attack the city.

(End of this chapter)