Chapter 1199: Pre-Battle Preparations
Sun Yuan slapped his forehead: "I forgot a very important thing, come and bring things up." Read the full text of the latest chapter"
Immediately, a group of soldiers came in with several lacquer plates, and placed the contents on the tables around everyone.
Everyone looked at it, but it was a can and a bottle and a pocket sewn with gauze, and they didn't want to pocket a handkerchief that didn't look like a handkerchief.
Ningxiangjun's canned food is very famous, and the taste is very good, especially the canned luncheon meat and canned fruit, which have begun to become popular in the market, and are also the refreshment snacks and dry food for the rich and noble families in Nanjing and Jiangnan.
Today, however, this can is very strange, half as small as ordinary luncheon meat, and you can grasp it with one hand, and it contains a yellow liquid, like tea and sugar water.
"What is this?" Someone asked.
Sun Yuan smiled and ordered someone to divide the canning knife, and made a gesture of please: "Everyone can try it." ”
Everyone opened the cans with all their hands, and immediately there was a strong smell of medicine in the hall, and some people poured the potion directly into their mouths because of their recklessness, and immediately cried out in pain
。 It's so bitter that it's hard to describe. But in front of so many people, it is not easy to spit it out, so it is in the mouth, full of pain.
Ruan Dacheng was quite knowledgeable about medical science, sniffed, and said, "Huoxiang, distilled liquor, and banlan root...... Oh, it's supposed to be a good medicine to cool off the heat. ”
Hearing him say this, the man with the potion swallowed it with confidence.
Sun Yuan: "It's not just to clear the heat and cool off, to tell you the truth, there has been a big plague in the old camp of Jiannu, and it is cholera." If I'm not mistaken, the death toll in the camp should be more than 20 percent, and 30 percent of the sick people. In other words, there are only more than 10,000 soldiers available to Jiannu, and their army has been without food for more than ten days, that is to say, there are only more than 5,000 people who can still hold weapons at this moment. So, as I said earlier, it was a simple battle, and strictly speaking, Dordor was not our main enemy, our enemy was the plague. ”
"Cholera!" This terrible term is what everyone in the festival hall hears.
Everyone is a veteran soldier, even Ruan Dacheng and other civilian officials who have never fought know how powerful this thing is.
In such a hot summer, the battlefield was so crowded, and the speed at which the plague spread was unusually fast. Tens of thousands of soldiers were built, plus more than 200,000 Ming troops surrounded them. If the plague is together, I am afraid that it will not take a few days, and everyone will die cleanly.
Ruan Dacheng realized, pointed to the medicine in the small can, and asked Sun Yuan: "Yingchuan Hou, this is the potion for cholera?" ”
Sun Yuan: "I dare not say that the treatment can be used, but it can be used for prevention." [See the latest chapter of this book, please go to the marshmallow] This medicine is a prescription prescribed by my adviser Fu Shan, Fu Qing is the national hand of Xinglin, if he is the second humble, I am afraid that no one will dare to call him the first. To put it mildly, compared with his medical skills, the so-called imperial doctor is just a little boy who eats mixed rice. ”
Sun Yuan's Fu Shan and Garcia's medical skills have long been heard of, these two people are east and west, and they are both national hands of the living dead.
Someone said: "It turned out to be a recipe prescribed by Mr. Qingzhu, and it must be eaten." Cure the disease, prevent the disease. "Immediately, I picked up the canned bottle and drank it all.
To tell the truth, when I heard Sun Yuan say that there was a plague in the old camp of the Qing army, everyone was shocked by cold sweat
。 Sun Yuan had a bad habit of setting up the command post at the forefront of the troops. It's not a few miles away from Jiannu here, maybe the tea that everyone drank just now has been polluted by Jiannu, even if the water is fine, this miasma blows with the wind, and once it enters the five orifices of the human body, isn't it going to be directly infected to death?
Whatever, it's better to take medicine first for peace of mind.
At the beginning of him, everyone understood, and they didn't speak anymore at the moment, and they all gulped cow drinks, and the whole room was filled with the sound of drinking potions.
There is a county man from Gu Town, Fengyang Prefecture, who failed to get the potion because of his humble official position, and he was so anxious that he couldn't help but give his hand: "Give Xiaguan a mouthful of decoction, give Xiaguan a mouthful of decoction!" ”
Originally, with his official position, he was not qualified to participate in such a military conference at all. It's no wonder that Ruan Dacheng arrested too many people and killed too many people after coming to Yangzhou, so that he has become the biggest official in Fengyang Mansion who fled to Yangzhou City. The Tongzhi and Zhixian above him are now all locked up in Ruan Dacheng's prison to feed mosquitoes.
Sun Yuan: "Everyone be quiet, stop, rest assured, there are still many medicines, enough to manage." ”
At this time, everyone calmed down.
Sun Yuan: "It was precisely because of the fact that there was already a great plague in the old camp of Jiannu, so I ordered the rear to quickly boil 5,000 cans of medicine and send it." Otherwise, when the time comes, we will completely annihilate Jiannu, but our own soldiers don't know how sick they will be. ”
Ruan Dacheng suddenly realized: "I see, no wonder the Marquis of Yingchuan has been delayed in launching a general attack, presumably because he already knew that there was a plague in the Jiannu army." Because of the preparation of the potion, this has been delayed until now. ”
Only then did the crowd realize: "I guess it is." ”
Sun Yuan smiled and bowed: "What Da Sima said is true." ”
Ruan Dacheng: "But...... Yingchuan Hou, this time my Ming army has more than 200,000 horses and horses into the battlefield, and I am afraid that only 5,000 cans of potion will not be used, right? ”
"Yes, what is the use of five thousand cans, I'm afraid it won't be enough for the Ningxiang army to eat." Everyone was vigilant. To tell the truth, if there is no anti-epidemic medicine in this war, it will be death.
"It's enough, it's enough, everyone can rest assured" Sun Yuan said busily: "This potion is only prepared for all armies, and my Ningxiang army can boil it early the day after tomorrow." After saying that, he applauded.
Immediately, two soldiers came in carrying a wooden barrel, and Sun Yuan pointed to the barrel and said, "Five thousand cans like this should be enough, right?" "The barrels are made of oak for Western wines, and they are sealed with tin
。
Everyone laughed: "Enough, enough." ”
However, some people still say, Yingchuan Hou, what are you doing to make such trouble, just give Fang Zi, let's just boil it ourselves.
Sun Yuan could only smile bitterly, and gave Fang Zi directly, and got Fu Shan's consent. This old fox doesn't have any thoughts of family and country in his heart, he only plans for himself, of course, he will still think about him Sun Yuan. After all, he could only rely on the Ningxiang Army to get into the current situation, and without Sun Yuan, Fu Shan was nothing.
This kind of prescription is an unpassed secret that Fu Shan has at hand, and the other town troops have not given Fu Qingzhu the slightest benefit, so they will give them the formula in vain?
Really, I'm a fool to Master Fu Qing?
As a result, Fu Shan adopted this stupid method, which cost a lot of money, and directly provided medicines to other armies.
The soup with Banlan root as the king medicine is actually not too unpalatable, and there is a faint medicinal fragrance when it is returned, which makes Sun Yuan's Zhongjun Festival Hall look quite elegant. I think that in the book "Dream of Red Mansions", Sister Lin's room is perennially filled with this kind of smell, it is really elegant, if there can be a guqin ringing, there is a delicate beauty spit out half of the blood, it is the best.
After everyone finished taking the medicine, Sun Yuan picked up the white gauze made of the case in front of him: "This kind of mask has been made by our army in the past few years, and now all of them have been sent to the front line." In addition to keeping one for their own use, if each army wants to use it, they can report a number, and tomorrow they can bring it back to the army and send it to the front-line soldiers. ”
"What is this, masks, and what is the use?" Ruan Dacheng picked up the small pocket-like thing and couldn't help asking, at this time, he knew what the name of this thing was. It was a sparsely woven cotton cloth, with an ear sewn on each side with a strap.
When he asked, everyone was also puzzled, and they all took it in their hands and played it carefully.
"I know, I know." Huang Degong said with a smile: "This mask is used to isolate the stench, if the Qingying camp has already started a plague, I don't know how many people have died now, what the stink looks like, we won't be half stinky when we attack." With this, the morale of the army can also be guaranteed. I think back then, when Sun Taichu and Ma Cifu were crusading against Liu Chao in Yongcheng, almost every soldier had a mask, and the sergeants and soldiers of our army knew it and knew how to use it. ”
A large part of Huang Degong's troops were recruits trained by Ma Shiying that year, and they were enriched into the Lufeng Army after the Battle of Yongcheng
。 It is also because of the addition of this group of fierce soldiers that the combat effectiveness of the Lufeng Army has been raised by a notch. The masks in his army were also brought back by veterans who had experienced that war.
That's right, this mask was invented by Sun Yuan when he attacked Liu Chao in Yongcheng. At the beginning, because Liu Chao insisted on defending Yongcheng and did not come out, he turned that war into a cruel urban attack and defense war, and Liu Chaojun was almost dead in the city, and there were dead people everywhere, and the stench was stinking. In order to prevent his troops from being infected with the plague, he had an idea and ordered people to rush out.
At that time, the weather was still cold, but there was no plague in Yongcheng, and the masks did not come in handy. However, this incident also reminded Sun Yuan. Fighting a war is not a game of play. Although the ancients agreed to use troops after the autumn cool, but the soldiers are treacherous, and people want to choose the hottest days to attack, what can you do?
Moreover, given the poor communication and transportation conditions in ancient times, it is possible for a major battle to drag on for two or three months from the beginning to the end, and six or seven months or even a year at a slow pace. Usually you lead your troops out in the early autumn, and by the time you complete the enemy's strategic objectives, it may already be the middle of summer the following year.
If the corpse is not buried, it will swell and rot in three or five days, and when the plague is together, the ghost knows how many more people will fall.
Therefore, the Battle of Yongcheng reminded Sun Yuan that from that time on, masks became one of the essential equipment of the soldiers of the Ningxiang Army, as if they were gas masks for the modern army in later generations.
Since then, the Ningxiang Army has relied on its strong manufacturing capacity to produce masks like flowing water and send them to the troops. It's a very good thing, it uses fine cotton yarn, white and tough. As a result, many soldiers gathered masks and sent them home, dismantling them to make mosquito nets. Or simply weave clothes for children to wear, cool and breathable, you can directly see the doll's ******. Sun Yuan saw an old woman dressed like this with his own eyes, and he was so shocked that his eyes were about to fall to the ground, this is too immoral, right?
Of course, the use of masks as rags and dishwashers is condemned by all.
Hearing Huang Degong's words, some people asked curiously: "Chief Officer Huang, how can I use this thing?" ”
"Easy to use, simple." Huang Degong picked up the mask and put it on his face.
"Poof!" Seeing that his appearance was really funny, Ruan Dacheng laughed out loud.
"Haha!" Everyone in the room couldn't help laughing, and they all felt that Huang Degong's appearance was really funny.
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