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The rainy season in autumn has only stopped for less than seven days, and it has started to fall again.

Sima Xin knew that it was rainy in the south before Nanjun, and once it rained, it wouldn't stop for three or five days, and now he finally knew that it wasn't nonsense. It had been two days since he led his army into the territory of Nanjun, and the rain had been intermittent since that afternoon, because he did not react in time on the first day and did not set up camp tents in time, and at least 30,000 of the 60,000 soldiers became chickens in the soup, and thousands of people had suffered from the wind chill in just two days, which made him extremely annoyed.

Qin had a plan to invade the south, and there were relevant investigations on the factors that were difficult to conquer in the south, and the most troublesome thing was the lack of adaptation to the water and soil, followed by the long rainy season in the south.

I vaguely remember that Lu Zhe once wrote a battle report to the Xianyang Center, describing the battle of entering Qianzhong County, and talked about the loss of soldiers, more than 40,000 people who entered Qianzhong County died in the battle, and the number of people killed was less than 2,000, but more than 3,000 people fell to the water and soil.

During Lu Zhe's second southern invasion, he prepared a large amount of ginger and firewood, ordered 70,000 troops not to drink water, and cooked some ginger soup from time to time.

When he sent troops to invade the south for the second time, Lu Zhe had not received an order from Xianyang for almost four months, so naturally he would not report the preparations and restrictions that needed to be made for the southern invasion, so the Qin State only had a clear understanding of the symptoms of unadaptation to the soil and water when fighting in the south, but did not know what to do to prevent it.

Of course, without the permission of the First Emperor or the State Governor's Office, Sima Xin was not qualified to read the war reports about the south at all, in fact, even if he read it, it would not be of much help. However, before he set off, he had a night chat with Xu Yan, the commander of the Central Plains Army, but he heard Xu Yan relay some of it, and prepared a large number of hats and robes before leaving.

Southshire isn't really South in some sense. It is necessary to cross the Yangtze River to be regarded as the real south, and now the area south of the Yangtze River has a general name "Jiangnan", which means south of the river.

It rained for two days in a row, and it didn't seem to stop raining. Now nearly 4,000 people are sick, and Sima Xin has no choice but to stay put. He also has a big trouble, that is, before the main force came, Shao Ai's department had been fighting, and there was no time to cut firewood as a reserve, more than 60,000 people needed to use a lot of firewood every day, and the dry firewood had been consumed in two days, and now it was raining all the time, even if the firewood was chopped, it was wet. There's no good way to do it, and tomorrow you shouldn't be able to eat hot food.

Qin Jun actually has a way to dry firewood, that is, to build a cave to dry with fire, but even this speed is not fast.

"What has been the movement of the enemy army in the past two days?" Sima Xin's tone was very irritable, he didn't reply to the letter he wrote to Xu Yan, and tomorrow the enemy army would have no dry firewood to use, so how could he not be irritable.

Standing under the throne of the big tent of the Chinese army was a 500 lord about 30 years old with two beards, and he immediately replied: "Scouts report, the enemy army in Ye County has been reinforcing the city wall in the rain, and now there is a road between the south gate and the enemy camp. The East City Gate, which is near the water, is also building a road, which seems to be a wharf that wants to connect to the Han River. ”

Sima Xin caught a key word, and that is to brave the rain! He asked urgently: "The enemy army strengthens the city wall in the rain?" Aren't they afraid that the soldiers or the leaders will get sick in large numbers, and then cause a plague? ”

This is not the time for medical skills. A little cold and fever, that is, wind chill, may kill a small person, if this kind of rainy weather no one dares to send a large number of people, for fear that too many people will die of wind and cold and will evolve into a plague if not handled properly.

The Five Hundred Lords are actually very confused. He saw with his own eyes that at least 10,000 men were not only building the road, but also digging trenches at a distance of 150 or 300 paces in front of him, and he wondered in his heart whether the enemy defenders of the city would not take those people too seriously, and actually braved the heavy rain to drive them.

Sima Xin waved his hand when he saw the confusion on the faces of the five hundred masters below. He knew that Lu Zhe had sent troops south twice before and after, and now he heard that the soldiers and civilians of Nanjun were building fortifications in the rain, and he felt as strange as he could.

There is no good treatment for soil and water adaptation in modern times, it is nothing more than to improve cleanliness and put more effort into diet, as for the psychological soil and water adaptation, there is basically no good way.

Treating wind and cold and so on is like that now, and it is not a good means to build fortifications in the rain, but to do it knowing that it cannot be done.

Because of the construction of fortifications in the rain, more than 2,000 people in Yixian County have suffered from wind chill in just two days, which is still a large number of people who have only been greatly reduced under the preparation of a large number of rain gear, ginger soup, and warm houses.

War is full of cruelty, and many times cruelty is necessary, both against the enemy and against one's own people.

This intermittent rain fell for four consecutive days, waiting for the weather to become clear again, the number of more than 64,000 Qin soldiers who were sick was actually more than 5,000, and the number of soldiers who died of illness was only more than 300 for the time being, but the number of deaths under the lack of firewood for heating and medicinal materials would definitely increase again, so Sima Xin's brows were not relieved.

On the other hand, Mei Kai was also speechless for a while when he saw the statistics of patients, and it was he who was tough enough to organize people to consolidate the defense line, and the number of soldiers and civilians who died of illness within six days was more than 500, and the number of sick people was even more than 4,000. There will be such a large mortality rate and his handling measures are absolutely inescapable, Lu Zhe sent a letter of reprimand on the desk, ordering him to properly handle the follow-up, if it causes a civil rebellion or mutiny, he will definitely cut off his head.

Mei Kai's way of dealing with it was to go from house to house to apologize and offer condolences, and then give generous pensions to the families of the deceased. The words he most often said were: "The death of your husband (son) is valuable, and the whole county will remember his kindness." If he hadn't braved the rain to strengthen the city defenses, how many more people would have died in the Qin army."

The words are very empty, but there is a personal apology and condolences from the head of the county defense of the county, what can the leaders of the Qianqian who have died of illness in their families? The resentment in his heart has faded a little under the generous pension, and he has heard Mei Kai infinitely elevate the role of his dead relatives, and most of them feel proud and proud. I have to say that Mei Kai is really not a thing, and he actually used the methods he learned from Lu Zhe to fool the Qianshou under his rule, but he still succeeded.

For the follow-up of the patient, Mei Kai went to visit him in person, and under the premise of sufficient material, he tilted a lot of resources to the past, and many patients who were well fed and clothed and stayed in the warm house all day began to recover slowly, but the mortality rate dropped a lot.

A rain that lasted for five days stopped, Sima Xin was worried about how to solve the more than 5,000 sick numbers, and for a while he was unable to continue to go south, and the big battle that should have broken out long ago was actually postponed by a rain, which was absolutely unexpected for both sides in advance.

Lu Zhe, who stayed in Yan County, was not happy because it rained for five days in a row to stop the Qin army from going south, in fact, he cursed countless times in his heart that it was raining at this moment, which delayed the attack in Ye County, which should have started earlier, and the rain stopped Sima Xin still stayed still, God knows when the Qin army will continue to move south.

The fact that Ye County did not arrange too exaggerated fortifications is not an omission, but is closely related to the overall deployment. Nanling City, then the cities in the rear want to be established and improved, and the top of Ye County is on the front line, how can it not be paid attention to if there is no other reason?

In the entire grand strategy, Ye County is a point to attract the Qin army, and then Yan County is used as a cooperation to firmly nail the Qin army to this position. If Ye County has too strong fortifications, God knows if the Qin army will move the land, and Lu Zhe definitely doesn't want the Qin army to attack in other directions, after all, the communist lieutenant led the army from Hengshan County, this is the best battlefield.

Now the Qin army has not moved the land, but it has not entered the scheduled battlefield, and Lu Zhe has sent people to Hengshan County to inform the communist lieutenant to send troops, if Sima Xin still did not move to the city of Ye County before the arrival of the communist lieutenant, then the entire deployment will change, and I don't know which direction it will develop.

On the other hand, Lu Zhe not only had to deal with the Qin army, but he also had to deal with the rapid changes of several anti-earth, and the longer the time dragged on, the more changes there were. He had received two consecutive letters from Wu Rui's own handwriting, one of which was that Wu Rui was defeated again on the front line of Xiangshui, and 130,000 people were killed by the eleventh coalition army of the four clans, and only 80,000 turtles retreated to Leiyang. The other letter turned out to be that Wu Rui was defeated again in Leiyang and had to retreat to Linxiang, the capital of Changsha County.

The Four Clans Coalition is so brave? This is not the key, but Wu Rui mentioned in the letter that the Baiyue people appeared in the four clans' coalition army.

The Qin army had only been heading south for less than ten days, and even if the Baiyue people were well-informed, it was impossible for them to know the situation that Lu Zhe was facing now, so the Baiyue people could only attack Changsha County at the invitation of the four clans. What Lu Zhe is worried about now is that if Wu Rui can't stand it anymore and wait for the four clans to successfully occupy Changsha County, will they reach out to Cangwu County and even Nanjun after getting the support of Baiyue?

The first unfavorable speculation has slowly become a reality, Lu Zhe believes that this will not be the first bad news and will definitely not be the last, he has never been so anxious in his heart to fight with the Qin army in the south, the victory will have the strength to face the unfavorable situation in the south, and the defeat will shrink Nanling City and consolidate the Linyuan line of Cangwu County.

Maybe it's a disaster, right? When Lu Zhe was worried about when Sima Xin would continue to go south, Yan Bi came from Lujiang County with more troublesome news.

Under the bribe of Yan Bi's large amount of wealth, Xiang Bo didn't know if it was intentional, and after drinking, he said that the direction Xiang Liang had gathered 200,000 troops was not Jiujiang County, not Chen County, which was claimed to be attacking, but Lujiang County, which was occupied by Huan Chu, whose mentality was swaying from side to side and had not yet made up his mind which side to take.

After reading Yan Bi's letter, Lu Zhe scolded, "Fuck, what are you afraid of." The face is as ugly as it gets! (To be continued......)