Chapter 363: Preventing the Plague
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Whether Cao Cao can solve the plague is another matter, but with Cao Cao's prestige in the army, he can still suppress the panicked people's hearts in a short period of time.
Looking at the Wei soldiers who gradually calmed down, Le Jin breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and couldn't help but start praying in his heart that Cao Cao would arrive at Tongguan sooner so that he could solve the matter this time.
Cao Cao personally led the troops to the expedition for many years, although his prestige in the army was very huge, but in the same way, this also led most of the generals of the Wei army to not get the right and enough opportunities to exercise, this time the defeat was not only a big defeat that the Wei army had never had, but also made Cao Ren and other generals a little masterless.
The chaos in Tongguan for a moment, under the rapid response of Cao Ren and Le Jin and other generals, reluctantly suppressed it temporarily, but it is obvious that with the passage of time, if Cao Cao did not come to Tongguan, if the plague broke out, then Tongguan would be defeated without a fight.
The heralds sent out by Cao Ren took advantage of the darkness of the night, and at the same time sacrificed several other heralds, finally broke out of Tongguan and headed in the direction of Chendu, and nearly two days later, on the road to Tongguan, they met Cao Cao, who personally led the troops.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Tongguan Urgent Report, this is General Cao's handwritten letter!"
The moment he saw Cao Cao, the herald who had always been worried and nervous, relaxed in an instant, staggered off his horse, and walked quickly in front of Cao Cao, ready to hand over the letter in his hand to Cao Cao, but before he could walk in front of Cao Cao, he was directly stopped by Dian Wei and Xu Chu.
"Let him go and let him come."
After Dian Wei and Xu Chu were no longer stopped, the herald finally came to Cao Cao's side, handed the envelope in his hand to Cao Cao and said, "Your Majesty, this is General Cao's personal letter, and I invite the king to look at it." ”
"En, Dian Wei, pass the order, the army continues to advance, don't stop!"
After commanding Dian Wei, Cao Cao opened the envelope, took out the letter paper, and looked at it carefully. ”
When the Mongols marched west, it was usually a large army to surround the city, throw the corpses into the city, cause the plague, and finally go down without a fight, because of this strategy, the Mongols do not know how many majestic cities they have captured, if only from the aspect of war, throwing the corpse into the city can be described as a very good strategy.
However, from a moral point of view, this strategy is too harmful to the peace of the heavens, and the princes of the Central Plains hardly considered this point when they were fighting for hegemony, not only because of the disadvantage to their own reputation, but also because the Confucian education from childhood to adulthood still left traces in the hearts of the princes.
However, it is what most princes in the world dare not do, Ma Teng and Guo Yan did it without scruples, how else Cao Cao felt embarrassed and angry, as a person from the Central Plains, he actually did something that only barbarians could do, which was simply a shame on the face of the entire Han people in the world.
"You immediately return to Cao Ren, the army led by Gu will arrive soon, and ask him to properly handle the morale of the army in Tongguan, and at the same time tell him that he will immediately send a doctor to gather the corpses thrown by the enemy into the pass, and put them in one place to cremate them, and at the same time be sure to pay attention to people with different bodies, once found, immediately isolate them, and ask everyone in Tongguan to be sure to clean their bodies every day, and if they find that they are not, they will be fined ten military sticks!"
Although it is said that the corpse will be cremated in time and quickly, the plague brought by the corpse will generally not occur, but for the sake of insurance, Cao Cao still talked about some measures to prevent the plague in later generations, and said them one by one, if he didn't just remember these, Cao Cao was ready to say more.
Because, Cao Cao he can't take risks, can't have any luck psychology, 100,000 troops, absolutely can't be defeated again, even if Cao Cao can be said to have a deep foundation at this time, but continuous defeats, Wei State can't afford to eat, 100,000 troops defeated without a fight, can definitely greatly hurt the vitality of Wei.
Listening to Cao Cao's words in response to the plague, the herald looked at Cao Cao's gaze as if he were looking at a god, of course, it was not just him, Xu Chu, Sima Yi and others, who stayed by Cao Cao's side and heard Cao Cao's words, also looked at Cao Cao with a trance of looking at a god.
In later generations, almost all human beings knew some ways to prevent plague, but at this time, more than 190 years ago, the plague is heavenly punishment, preventing plague, stopping plague and stopping heavenly punishment can almost be equated.
Often such people will be regarded by most people as gods, divine doctors, divine doctors, at this time, a doctor does not say to prevent the birth of the plague, if it can alleviate the danger caused by the plague, then it is enough to be called a divine doctor.
"Yes, mark it and understand!"
Ma Teng, Guo Yan, you want to cause a plague, and guide my Wei army to defeat without a fight, it's just delusional!
Cao Cao, who didn't know that he had just experienced the taste of a god, was thinking about Ma Teng and Guo Yan and others at this time, as long as he thought of what Ma Teng and Guo Yan had done, Cao Cao hated it in his heart.
If he hadn't had the memory of later generations, he clearly understood that the plague caused by corpses often took time, and it was also because it was not dealt with in a timely and proper manner, this time the Wei army would have been really dangerous.
Not to mention the others, the 100,000 Wei army was defeated without a fight, not only did the Xiliang coalition army of Ma Teng and others be able to break through Tongguan unscathed and threaten the eastern part of the country, but the princes of the world also did not take advantage of this good opportunity to come up and take advantage of it, if it really came to that time, Cao Cao's rule could be described as dangerous, and before he thought of the future that could happen, Cao Cao's hatred for the Xiliang army rose irrepressibly.
The army led by Cao Cao, after all, was not as fast as the single-handedly heralds, and after they came to Tongguan, nearly four days had passed, and six days had passed since Ma Teng and other Xiliang troops threw their bodies into the pass.
In the past six days, in the first three days, the panicked hearts of the Wei army were originally flooded with waves, but as the heralds returned to Tongguan and conveyed Cao Cao's orders, this wave was quickly calmed down, and after Cao Cao personally led the army to arrive today, the morale of the Wei soldiers was abnormally raised, and there was a mountain cry in Tongguan. (To be continued.) )