833. The plague is rampant

On the 23rd day of the seventh month of the 10th year of Zhenguan, from the army blocking the border on the front line, a group of Goguryeo people approached the Tang defense line, and after the army demonstration, they still advanced non-stop, and the situation was more irritable, and finally Xue Rengui immediately ordered the bow team to fire crossbow arrows, and after shooting a group of people, a few people who could speak Chinese came out of these Goguryeo people, and kowtowed to Xue Rengui and cried that they were not sick, but that the plague was rampant in their place of residence, and they had to leave their place of residence and come to take refuge, begging the Tang army to give them a way to live.

Xue Rengui couldn't bear it after all, and did not order these Goguryeo people to be killed, so he let these people temporarily live in a place five miles away from the Tang Dynasty military camp, prepared hot water and gruel for them, and made their feelings calm, and then asked Suning for instructions on his next move, saying that he really couldn't bear to shoot these unarmed Goguryeo civilians, and there were many people in the army who couldn't bear it.

Zhang Liang was furious when he heard this, and immediately said to Suning that he wanted to withdraw Xue Rengui, the Goguryeo people are enemies, the two countries are still at war, and it is a good thing for us that the plague broke out on the other side, and it is too late for us to dodge, you still want to contain them in our territory? Kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself, Zhang Liang said that he could lead his army to kill all the Goguryeo people who tried to approach the territory of the Tang Dynasty, Xue Rengui was still too young to understand the truth in this.

Zhang Shigui was silent, but in Suning's view, he was more inclined to Zhang Liang's approach, and Suning himself was more inclined to Zhang Liang's approach. It is already the highest level that can be done, and the medical forces of the Tang Dynasty are basically serving the army in the grasslands, and the medical forces on the Liaodong Peninsula only came later, and they do not have the conditions for epidemic prevention at all.

Sealing the border is the only feasible way, and it is not yet known what kind of plague Goguryeo belongs to, what other modes of transmission there are besides water transmission, whether droplets will spread, whether physical contact will spread, and what is known is that the mortality rate of this plague is very high, and it is a virulent plague. Generally, it is no more than three days from onset to death. And the fastest is only a short six hours from the onset of the disease to death, only half a day, which is almost as fast as the fatality rate and death rate of the Black Death, which was originally regarded as the world-destroying plague.

It is impossible for Suning to let those Goguryeo people enter the territory of the Tang Dynasty, which is irresponsible to tens of thousands of Tang Dynasty soldiers. In the case that no one else can be saved. In this kind of situation where it is difficult for the mud bodhisattva to cross the river itself. To think about helping others is stupidity, not kindness. put your life into it, and you don't even have to think about it.

Suning decided to transfer Xue Rengui back, and he couldn't let him stay there, otherwise according to his temperament......

Although it was necessary to expel those Goguryeo people, if Xue Rengui was forcibly ordered to do this kind of thing himself, Suning didn't know what impact it would have on his character, and at present, there was no need to take risks for the sake of the Goguryeo people, so Suning decided to transfer Xue Rengui back, and asked General Zhang Liang to come forward and take his headquarters of 3,000 iron cavalry to stabilize the border line.

"General Zhang Liang, please take your headquarters of 3,000 iron cavalry to the border, replace Xue Li and Xue Li's headquarters army, and then expel all the Goguryeo people, and those who do not want to leave will be killed! Burn his corpse, and before receiving a clear order, never let a Goguryeo enter the border of the Tang Dynasty! Healthy or not! Suning made this decision and handed over the talisman to Zhang Liang, Zhang Liang nodded with satisfaction, took the talisman, and turned to leave.

As the deputy head of the Liaodong Road March, Suning can give such an order, of course, he is also responsible for it, but in this matter, no one will think that Suning is wrong, no matter how pedantic the literati are, they all know what the plague is all about, they have experienced the pain of the plague and the torture of terror, no one wants the plague to happen again in Datang, and the plague will happen to their side again.

After giving this order, Suning wrote another letter, which was a letter to Li Erma, as far as the current situation is concerned, the plague in Goguryeo is something that the Goguryeo people themselves cannot prevent and overcome, except that all the infected people die and the corpses are all burned, so it is possible to stop the plague, and even according to the current situation, after the plague, it is possible for the entire Goguryeo population to die.

Although the Tang Dynasty has the opportunity to take down the entire land of Goguryeo without a single soldier, but this way is too tragic, although the other party is an enemy country, for my Central Plains feud, but after all, they are also people, and Goguryeo people are also people, if you just watch all the Goguryeo people die, and the entire Goguryeo is reduced to a dead domain, but it is too much, so Suning hopes that Li Ermajesty can draw some medical power to the Liaodong Peninsula to see if there is a way to solve this plague.

This is not an act of capital enemies, and even from the perspective of the Tang Dynasty, it is not cost-effective to let so many laborers die, if these people can appreciate the kindness of the Tang Dynasty and have less resistance to the Tang Dynasty in the subsequent war, then after the Tang Dynasty occupies this land, it will be much easier to consolidate the rule.

After writing it, Suning ordered his subordinates to send this letter to the hands of the emperor, asking the emperor to decide, and then sighed slightly, although he still felt a little relieved when he heard about the outbreak of the plague in Goguryeo, but in the end, there were some worries in his heart, if the Goguryeo people really died, it would really be a tragedy in the history of the world, although it was not directly caused by anyone, but for the reason, the lives of these millions of people, everyone is responsible for this.

There are also Silla people, and there are Baekje people, now they are under control, but it is difficult to guarantee that this plague will come back and forth, this is something that no one can be sure, without Sun Simiao's determination and the confirmation of those famous doctors in Chang'an General Hospital, Suning does not dare to blindly think that if the dead are burned, then the plague will be lifted, no one can guarantee this, only under the leadership of Chang'an General Hospital, which currently represents the strongest medical level in the world, this plague can be solved.

Pity. Chang'an General Hospital belongs to the Tang Dynasty, not to Goguryeo, and now the doctors of Chang'an General Hospital are also in the grassland, not in Chang'an, even if they have a heart, they can be regarded as powerless.

As for Qin Qiong, Suning sent someone by water early in the morning to inform him, telling him to be more careful, seal the border, and not allow any Goguryeo people to pass through Guò. In particular, it was relatively close to the Great Wall defense line of Goguryeo. It is said that a large number of sick refugees in Goguryeo have now been abandoned on the front line of the Great Wall, and if the people there enter the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the situation will only be worse.

Suning is very chaotic here, let alone raise Guli. It's just a mess. Panic. It is not stable all day long, but fortunately, there are no signs of illness in the three leading figures, and Quan Gai Suwen, Li Yuenan, and Jin Sheng do not look sick. However, this terrible plague has frightened them, Jin Sheng has become a frightened bird, after the death of the guards around him, he burned all the guards, and then replaced a group of absolutely healthy, absolutely not allowed others to get close to him a little, he himself covered his body tightly, and he was not afraid of prickly heat on a hot day.

Li Yuenan's territory is further north, it was originally a lack of food and clothing, and now it is even more short of medicine, once infected with the disease, there is no doubt that he will die, many people have a heart to die to impact the defense line set up by Li Yuenan, and then were shot to death by the ironclad army, and were killed by the army using the tactics of killing the enemy, Li Yuenan's mobilization meeting said that if you don't want to die, you must kill all those who are sick, and those who are sick look like I die and you will die, and the army has completely stopped treating them as compatriots.

Those who approach will be killed!

Then a fire burned down, and the dust flying in the sky made the already extremely gray sky even more gray, without a trace of sunlight penetrating the earth, the whole world seemed to become very hot and humid all of a sudden, becoming an excellent hotbed for the spread of the plague, although the plague was first discovered in Jinsheng's territory, but Li Yuenan died the most here.

The Silla people didn't want to fight anymore, and the Baekje people didn't secretly laugh anymore, and they armed their armies one after another, and they were heavily armed, blocking the border coefficient, and the entire coast of the Taedong River was blocked by the Silla army, and the Silla people turned the entire coast into a military base for the first time in history, and set up a large defense line that stretched for hundreds of miles, and exterminated anyone who tried to cross this defense line.

Those infected with the plague in the country are also merciless, once discovered, immediately killed, quickly burned the corpses, and then blockaded the local area, leaving those people to fend for themselves, as long as they do not try to cross the line, the soldiers do not want to risk killing them, as long as they let themselves die and then set fire to them, they will also be in danger of being infected if they kill them, so they cannot take risks.

Once infected, it is certain death!

After Zhang Liang arrived at the front line, he announced Suning's order without saying a word, dismissed Xue Rengui and his headquarters military horses, and then let them leave the front line and return to the Chinese army camp, which was received by his army, Xue Rengui was puzzled, but Zhang Liang did not explain at all, and ordered Xue Rengui to leave immediately, without delay, Xue Rengui had the heart to ask the truth, but there was no way to be suppressed by Zhang Liang's coercion, so he had to lead the army to leave.

Not long after Xue Rengui led the army to leave, Zhang Liang ordered the army to wear masks and crossbow arrows and go with him to the temporary residence of the Goguryeo people, and then, there was a long period of miserable howling, and when Zhang Liang and they left with a tired body and returned to the barracks to re-block the border, the original place for Goguryeo refugees to live was only a raging flame, at this time it was only an hour before Xue Rengui left, and the smoke quickly attracted the attention of the army that Xue Rengui left.

"General! Look there! A guard pointed in astonishment in the direction they came, thick black smoke drifted into the sky, Xue Rengui chuckled in his heart, suddenly realized something, and shouted: "Everyone go back with me!" Then he turned his horse's head and was about to charge, he finally understood why Zhang Liang had to let him leave quickly without a trace of leeway, but before everyone could react, he rode from the direction in front of them.

"General Xue! General Xue! General Su has something important to discuss, and asks General Xue to return to the camp quickly! The people who came shouted, Xue Rengui looked back, it was Zhang Long among the four guards around Suning, Xue Rengui knew what these four guards meant to Suning, and he also knew what this person was sent to represent, this qiē was arranged by Suning.

Thick smoke billowing out, Xue Rengui knew that it was useless to go back by himself at this time, there was obviously no one there who was infected, there was no trace of infection with you, they were all healthy people, they were all normal people, they were all refugees, and there were even a few people who could speak Chinese, it was said that the ancestors of the family were all Han people, but, but, ...... Obviously wrote everything clearly, obviously Suning shouldn't be such a cold-blooded and ruthless person......

Xue Rengui had too many questions to ask, looking at Zhang Long's slightly embarrassed look, Xue Rengui knew that he must have Suning's mandatory order on him, so Tie Qing snorted, turned the horse's head again, and said lightly: "Go back to the camp!" (To be continued......)