Hengdao Sixteen Kingdoms

Chapter 54
If you can't expand outward, you can only strengthen your internal combat power.

Li Yue then began to actively prepare for the battle, recruiting more soldiers.

Many refugees and bandits will basically not do anything other than chopping people all their lives.

Let them farm honestly, but they are not used to it.

However, these people have a complex composition and have not fully returned to their hearts. It is somewhat inappropriate to rashly absorb them into the soldiers.

What Li Yue needs is an army that is completely loyal to him, and no sand will be allowed to come in.

After thinking for a long time, it was decided to set up a death camp.

No matter what their composition, what ethnic group, or whether they are loyal or not, as long as they are physically strong, brave and good at fighting, they will be forcibly incorporated into the Death Battalion.

Let this group of people fight any bloody battles.

The soldiers raised their knives to supervise the battle behind them.

If you want others to sacrifice their lives, the treatment must be worthy of it.

There must be a meal of meat every day in the death camp. One enemy's head is exchanged for one liter of grain, three heads are exchanged for one mu of land, and the price is clearly marked. Can enter soldiers.

Kill the generals and capture the flag, the first to break through the formation, three consecutive ranks, rewarded with hundreds of acres of fields.

Just like the setting of the third-class people, try to let each class have a bright future and see hope. Even if they die in battle, a lot of what they get will be inherited by their families.

As soon as the treatment was announced, the prisoners who were somewhat resistant to it immediately obeyed and asked when the training would start...

Even those among the soldiers wanted to turn into death camps.

One is for the visible treatment, and the other is purely for fighting on the front line.

Too many people came, far exceeding the establishment of 800 people, so Li Yue had to choose the best and lay off some war-weary people.

The quality of the Death Battalion has been greatly improved, and the officers are served by people transferred from the soldiers.

So far, Li Yue has three troops in his hands, the Scout Battalion, the Fighting Battalion, and the Death Battalion, with a strength of [-].

When the autumn harvest began, the scouts from Mount Xuanyuan finally returned.

"General...the subordinates were spotted when they went up the mountain. They arrested him and locked him up for half a month. He ate and drank every day, asked everything, and released him again," the scout said honestly.

"You're not leaking, are you?" Wei Shan's eyes were full of distrust.

The scout looked frank, "This subordinate never revealed anything."

Li Yue looked at the scouts, there were no scars from torture on his body, and he had gained a lot of weight. His whole family was on the mountain, so he didn't have the guts to lie to himself.

Wei Shan looked over with puzzled eyes.

Li Yue nodded, "Guo Shi probably saw through the identity of the second brother."

There are no fuel-efficient lamps these days, and everyone is as smart as a ghost.

"Since that's the case, why does he keep Chief Cui?"

"Secretly form an alliance!" Li Yue almost understood what Guo Shi meant.

This time the encirclement and suppression of Heiyun Mountain, if Xuanyuan Mountain really contributed, it would be very difficult for Heiyun Mountain to resist.

And if Heiyun Mountain was destroyed, would Zhang Yu's next target be Xuanyuan Mountain?

From Guo Shi's standpoint, the triangular relationship is the most stable.

They are Li Ju's relics, and Zhang Yu is Jie Zhao's governor of Yuzhou, so they are naturally difficult to deal with.

It is very likely that Zhang Yu's retreat is also because Xuanyuan Mountain is holding back, killing one thousand enemies will hurt eight hundred, and Heiyun Mountain and Zhang Yuhuo merged, and it was Zhang Yu and other forces in Yuzhou who were cheaper.

These days, wolves, tigers and leopards are everywhere, and anyone with any power is ambitious.

Jie Zhao's core control area is in Hebei, and Hebei suppresses the Central Plains and Guanzhong. Many Wubao only surrender to Jie Zhao on the surface.

"If you form an alliance, you will form an alliance. Why do you have to be sneaky?" Wei Shan said with a curl of his lips, obviously a little incomprehensible.

"Guo Shi doesn't want to offend us, let alone Zhang Yu. He wants to establish a tacit understanding. In any case, we owe them a favor this time."

Li Yue suddenly remembered a famous saying from later generations, which best describes the current situation: the world is not about fighting and killing, but about the ways of the world.

Wei Shan praised: "The general is so young, but he knows so much, he is really a genius!"

Li Yue laughed dryly, at any rate, as a human being in two lives, he naturally has more understanding than ordinary people.

Since Cui Jin was no threat in Xuanyuan Mountain, Li Yue was not so anxious. Guo Shi didn't even kill a single scout, let alone move Cui Jin.

The autumn harvest is coming to an end soon.

A total of [-] stone grains have been harvested. In the short term, Heiyun Mountain no longer has to worry about grain.

But the salt on the mountain has bottomed out.

Without salt, even if the meat tastes bad, the physical strength of soldiers will be greatly reduced. If donkeys and mules want to run far, they must be fed some salt regularly.

The three hundred catties of salt supported by Zheng Wang's family is not enough.

Even if it gets past the present, it will be a big problem in the future.

Zhou Qian and Cao Kan walked for almost a month, and Li Yue sent scouts to try to meet them without knowing what was going on.

People did not respond, but brought back a bad news.

Large-scale plagues appeared in Luoyang, Hanoi, Xingyang and other counties on both sides of the Yellow River!
"Luoyang and Hanoi counties suffered heavy casualties, and many villages in Wubao died..."

Severe droughts will produce locusts, and severe floods will cause plagues.

The corpse was soaked in water, and no one restrained it. After a sultry summer, various germs grew.

Then it was carried by the river to all parts of the Central Plains.

During the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the population of China once reached 6000-2000 million, but after the Yellow Turban Uprising and the Three Kingdoms Melee, the population declined sharply to [-] million.

The vast majority did not die on the battlefield, but died of the plague.

The great plague at the end of the Han Dynasty lasted for more than half a century. Among the seven sons of Jian'an, five died of the plague.

When Li Yue escaped from Jijiabao, he saw large pieces of rotting corpses floating on the water.

A flood has drowned an unknown number of people.

The corpses are not restrained, and the outbreak of the plague is very common.

Li Yue immediately became alert and ordered scouts to seal off the surrounding area of ​​Heiyun Mountain, strictly prohibiting people from entering or leaving at will.

A comprehensive cleaning began on the mountain. All the houses were smoked with wormwood, so the clothes were soaked in boiling water and washed aside. It was strictly forbidden for people to gather and go out without incident.

A large number of simple wooden houses were built in the mountains to disperse people and avoid gathering.

The hygienic conditions in Heiyun Mountain are acceptable, there is very little contact with the outside world, and there have been no patients.

But everything must be prevented before it happens. When this thing comes together, it will never stay.

The range of activities of the scouts was reduced. Every time they went down the mountain, Li Yue asked them to take various precautions. They wrapped their mouths and noses with two layers of sackcloth, smoked one side with wormwood from head to toe when they went out, took a shower with hot water, and then went out alone The room is quarantined for two days.

Yueji took the female battalion up the mountain to collect herbs.

For safety, Li Yue gave her three hundred scouts.

Li Yue was not idle, remembering that there were many medical skills in the study, one of which was "Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases" by the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing.

Grinding the gun before the battle, unhappy also light.

The era Zhang Zhongjing lived in was the era of the outbreak of the plague. Every family suffered from the pain of lying dead, and there was the sound of howling in every room.

But Li Yue suddenly discovered that "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" was also a fragment, and it was written by Yue Jimo...

It is better to have something than nothing, and you can make do with the "Huangdi Neijing".

According to Zhang Zhongjing's theory, there are many kinds of plague, which need to be viewed dialectically, and dialectical treatment varies from person to person, such as fever, aversion to cold, strong pain in the head and neck, and floating pulse. It is divided into sweat and no sweat.

Just like the kidney deficiency in later generations is divided into yin deficiency, yang deficiency, and yin and yang deficiency, it is extremely cumbersome and requires a lot of clinical experience, which cannot be mastered by Li Yue.

It is impossible to have one medicine to cure all plagues.

In addition, it is also necessary to master the temperature of medicine, pay attention to the ruler and his ministers and assistants, if used correctly, poison can also cure diseases, and if used wrongly, good medicine can also kill.

Li Yue gnawed on it for two or three days, but felt that his scalp was numb. Without a master to teach by example, the accumulation of several years, relying on personal exploration, is as difficult as reaching the sky.

"General, refugees are coming from the direction of Luoyang and Xingyang, seeking shelter in Heiyun Mountain!" The scout reported in a panic.

(End of this chapter)