Great Tang Southern Emperor

"Why not?" Li Zhen said with a smile: "Anyway, there are not many other things in this rainforest. The only thing that is not lacking is food. As long as we don't enter the Jedi, can we starve to death? As for the enemy, what do you think Nanyang has?" Will an army be our match?"

"That's right." Wang Can struggled and said, "Your Highness, you can take it easy, but the brothers below may be a little..."

"This needs to be solved by you staff." Li Zhen looked at Wang Can and said with a smile: "Besides, we are going to reach Rili soon. When we get there, brothers can naturally relax."

"..." Wang Can was speechless, Your Highness, we are all a group of teenagers, why are you so blatantly taking us to have fun?Won't you be struck by lightning?

By the way, we are all in our teens, yet we haven’t touched a woman yet, this is indeed a bit too condescending... Amitabha, Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, you can’t think about it, you can’t think about it...

"Where are you going?" Li Zhen couldn't tell whether to laugh or cry, and was about to explain, but Fang Yiai suddenly ran over and whispered something in Li Zhen's ear.

Li Zhen suddenly got up: "Where is it?"

"I have placed him in your Highness's tent."

"Take me there immediately."

"Yes."

As they spoke, the two left in a hurry, leaving only Wang Can with a dignified face. Although Fang Yiai lowered his voice, some words still fell into his ears.

"Huanzhou..."

"come..."

"Break out..."

"The road is broken..."

"..."

Although he didn't hear the complete content, just these few words were enough for Wang Can to roughly deduce the truth of the matter.It's just that although he guessed the truth, for the sake of the overall situation, he didn't announce it—of course, it's okay even if it was announced. The Youth Army is Li Zhen's absolute diehard. Strengthening brainwashing, after five years, it can be said that they are loyal to Li Zhen and will never betray the kind, let alone just getting into trouble, even if they die for Li Zhen, they will not care.

Li Zhen didn't know that the little staff officer beside him had guessed the truth of the matter, and he had already quickly walked into the big tent.

In the tent, a wounded man in his thirties was being treated by a military doctor. When he saw Li Zhen, he immediately broke away from the military doctor and bowed down: "My subordinate is the Jiaozhou Governor's Mansion, Guoyi Captain Baili Changsheng, I have seen His Royal Highness the King of Yue, this is the token of my subordinate, please check it with His Royal Highness."

"Captain Baili, please get up." After checking the token and confirming that it was correct, Li Zhen quickly helped Baili Changsheng up, and asked eagerly, "What happened to the north? Why did the contact suddenly stop?"

To be honest, after losing contact with the rear, Li Zhen was under a lot of pressure, but as the commander of the first army, he couldn't show the pressure, otherwise it would inevitably lead to chaos in the army. Now that he finally got the news, he was naturally a little excited.

"His Royal Highness, after you led the southern expedition, Chief Liu Hongji, the chief of the Lingnan Road march, also led an army of [-] to meet the White-headed Lord, and at the same time ordered Qiu He, who was already exhausted, to lead the army back to Jiaozhou for rest.

But at this moment, the white-headed army suddenly turned around and marched eastward to attack Huanzhou, and an elite group called the Death Battalion suddenly appeared in the opponent's army. as much.

It was these 15 elites who captured Huanzhou by surprise. The governor of Huanzhou, Jia Lidun, died in battle. ) was massacred... What's more important is that the white head is not an army of [-] at all, but a full [-]. "

"What? They still have an elite team?" Fang Yiai exclaimed: "How did the other side train? How do they have so many elites?"

"What's so strange about this? As long as there is national support, how many elites can't be trained?" Li Zhen said indifferently, and then asked Baili Changsheng: "And then? Liu Hongji has a hundred thousand troops, even if he has three thousand elites, Even if they have an army of 15, it should be no problem if they want to take down Huanzhou with the strength of the Lingnan Army? Don't tell me that Liu Hongji can't even beat an army of 15?"

"The problem is that just when Director Liu was about to attack, a plague broke out in the barracks..." Baili Changsheng said in a deep voice, "Besides, this subordinate was intercepted more than a dozen times on the way here, and almost fell into the hands of the other party." gone."

Chapter 367 The Plague

Chapter 141 The Plague

"Plague?" Hearing this word, even with Li Zhen's calmness, she couldn't help but change color.

In ancient times, what is the most terrible thing is not drought, not flood, let alone locust plague, but plague.

Although the three disasters of flood, drought and locust are terrible, there are traces to follow after all, and the government can provide disaster relief. Even if the government does nothing, at least the people can escape the famine, and there is a chance of survival after all.

But the plague was different, it broke out silently, and by the time it was discovered, it had already formed a large scale.

Moreover, the plague category does not refer to a single disease, but a collective term for all malignant infectious diseases.In ancient times when medical technology was underdeveloped, doctors were often unable to determine the type of plague immediately. If they could not determine the type, they would naturally be unable to prescribe medicine to treat the disease... After they determined the type of plague, it would probably be too late.

Even the plague may have mutated, and they have to re-determine... so they fell into a vicious circle and eventually led to a catastrophe.

Compared with the three disasters of flood, drought and locust, although the power is astonishing, as long as the rescue is effective, the number of dead people will be a minority after all.

The plague is different. Once it breaks out, its power will be destructive. No matter men, women, old or young, rich or poor, high or low, once it is infected, it will be close to death.

There are not many records of famous droughts and locust floods in history, but there are many recorded plague outbreaks:

The Spanish flu at the end of World War I infected one billion people around the world (the total population of the world was only 17 billion at that time, including the Big Three, all of them were infected to varying degrees), and the death toll was 4000 million. There were only 4000 million people who were injured and died in the war, and only 1000 million people died.In other words, the people killed in the four and a half years of World War I were at least a quarter of the people killed by the Spanish flu in two years (the Spanish flu outbreak was divided into three waves, starting from the first wave in the spring of 1918 in one of the United States. The outbreak began in the barracks until the last case of the third wave in Hawaii was cured in March 1920).This was still the beginning of the 3th century, and even though technology had developed to a considerable extent, more than 4000 million people still died, which shows how terrible this flu is.

More than 2400 years ago, a disease nearly destroyed all of Athens.For more than a year, the citizens of Athens lived in a nightmare. The strong and healthy young people around them would suddenly have a high fever, congest their throats and tongues, and emit an unusually foul smell.

At the height of the plague, the death toll in Athens was so great that there was not enough time and energy to bury the dead. "Incineration sites have been set up in various parts of the city, especially those that are crowded with refugees, even in the sacred areas. People throw dead bodies into the incinerators, sometimes because of the dead bodies. The incineration was complete. In order to provide enough wood for the burning site, some special teams were even formed. Some incinerators were kept on all night. White marble." A third of the population of Athens died in the plague.

More famously, in the Middle Ages, the Black Death broke out in Europe. Within a century, half of the people in Europe died...

……

In China, the plague is also a disgrace. It has been with the Chinese people for thousands of years and has become our nightmare.

In the winter of the 22nd year of Jian'an (217), a disease broke out in the north. Cao Pi, who was the prince at that time, wrote to Wu Zhi in the second year: "There are many disasters for relatives, and Xu, Chen, Ying, and Liu all died in a short time."

Except for Kong Rong and Ruan Yu who died early, five of the seven sons of Jian'an died of infectious diseases.Cao Zhi's "Shuo Epidemic Qi" described the tragic situation of the epidemic at that time: "In the 22nd year of Jian'an, the epidemic was prevalent, and every family felt the pain of zombies, and every room was crying. Or the door was closed and the family died."

Wang Can (not the previous Wang Can), one of the Seven Sons of Jian'an, also recorded in "Seven Sorrows Poems": "...go out and see nothing, white bones cover the plain. There are hungry women on the road, and children are abandoned in the grass. Gu Wenhao was crying, waving his tears and not returning it alone. I don’t know where my body is going to die, how can I end up with the two? I can’t bear to hear this...”

Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties Jin Hui Emperor Guangxi's first year (306): "Ningzhou suffered from frequent famines and epidemics, with hundreds of thousands of deaths. Wuqinyi was strong, the state soldiers were repeatedly defeated, and many officials and people flowed into Jiaozhou."

In the first year of Emperor Guangde of the Tang Dynasty (763), there was a great epidemic in Jiangdong, and 'more than half of the dead'. At the age of Xin Chou (762), there was a severe drought, and the three Wus were very hungry, and people ate each other.Next year there will be a great epidemic, and the dead will be [-] or [-]. The cities and towns will be empty, and the survivors will have no food, and the dead will have no coffins to mourn.Most likely, although his parents and wives also ate his flesh, they abandoned his remains in the field, and the bones of the road supported him for a distance of two thousand miles. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, there has been no book. '

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There are countless types of plagues, whether it is smallpox, cholera, black death (plague), typhoid, tuberculosis, anthrax in ancient times, or SARS, bird flu, swine flu, Ebola in modern society... Plagues have never been None are far from us.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Zhen's face changed drastically after hearing about the plague—in fact, Li Zhen would rather encounter severe drought and flood than plague.

Not only did Li Zhen's complexion change, but Fang Yiai's complexion was even pale - as an out-and-out "native", he was far more afraid of the plague than Li Zhen.

"Have you found out the cause? What are the symptoms?" Swallowing, Li Zhen asked tremblingly. After all, he has the experience of later generations. If he knows the name of the disease, there may be a solution.

"It's the plague."

As soon as Baili Changsheng finished speaking, Fang Yiai swayed and almost fainted—plague, which was one of the severe plagues that was almost unsolvable in ancient times.The biggest culprit in the halving of Europe's population in history is almost disgruntled. It is the number one human killer alongside smallpox, and it is even more terrifying than the sky—at least if smallpox can survive, it will die again for the rest of its life. You won’t get sick anymore, but even if you survived the plague, you will still get sick if it breaks out again in the future.

Li Zhen is also pale, unlike Fang Yiai who thinks that the plague has no cure, Li Zhen knows that the plague can be cured, but it is a pity that the plague happens to be that he does not know how to cure the plague.

When Baili Changsheng saw this, he quickly comforted him: "Your Highness, don't worry. This time, because it was discovered in time, the scale is not large. Only more than 5000 people were infected. Before the strength of the subordinates, Manager Liu had already quarantined them all, and the court also sent them It’s just that there is a plague after all, the army is panicked, and the soldiers have no fighting spirit, so Manager Liu stands still, it’s not that we don’t want to recover Huanzhou immediately.”

"5000 people is still a small scale...haha." Li Zhen smiled lightly, but he also knew that only 10 infected people appeared in 5000 people, which was indeed not considered a large-scale in ancient times, so he planned to say something up.

Chapter 368 See Through