Sure enough, the battle went as expected, and the offensive of the Xianbei coalition army was immediately reduced the next morning, and the Pingzhou army repelled the Xianbei coalition army with almost no effort.

However, in the afternoon, there are branches!

Shang Ji led hundreds of guards and quickly came to the east gate of the inner city, where Zhao Yun had been waiting for a long time.

"How's it going?" Flying off the horse, it was too late to be polite, Shang Ji asked quickly.

"The Lord will follow the end of the world." Shang Ji nodded, although Zhao Yun came to the city wall.

Ascending the city wall, looking up, not far from the inner city wall, a group of ragged and numb "Xianbei Army" with only simple sticks, even walking swaying is walking here.

Behind them, armed to the teeth, were the Xianbei Governors. Anyone who dares to stagnate will be killed immediately by a rain of arrows.

However, these overseers were all covered with white cloth and resolutely did not have any contact with the "Xianbei Army" in front.

With Shang Ji's eyesight, he could naturally see at a glance that these so-called Xianbei siege troops were all sick numbers, and they were also plague numbers!

I saw that most of their bodies were swollen, their feet were floating, and some of them even had pale yellow pus flowing from their bodies. There were also a few who fell to the ground as they walked, allowing the Xianbei Governor clan in the rear to shoot arrows at their bodies and not move. It is estimated that he died on the spot.

"Xianbei people, this is 'driving the epidemic and attacking the city'?" After glancing at it, Shang Ji said with a frown.

"Yes, this morning's Xianbei offensive slowed down sharply and was easily defused by our army. However, from the afternoon onwards, the Xianbei people began to throw stained clothing into the city with catapults. Mr. Xi Zhicai immediately ordered all of them to be burned. However, half an hour ago, a large-scale plague began to appear in the siege of the city. The last general did not dare to assert himself, and immediately reported it to the lord. ”

Shang Ji didn't answer, but frowned and looked at it for a while, the "Xianbei Biochemical Death Squad" outside the city was moving slowly, and there was almost no effective equipment, so it was impossible to pose any threat to the city wall. The only trouble is the plague on them.

"Shoot arrows, destroy them remotely, and then send people to burn all their corpses to prevent the epidemic from spreading to the inner city."

"Obey the order, and the general will arrange it." Zhao Yun shouted and immediately went to command the army to destroy this army.

In the course of this battle, the Pingzhou army was basically cavalry, except for the black armor Xuanqi who used javelins to have skill bonuses, the rest of the divisions used bows and arrows to shoot very reluctantly.

However, as a high-ranking army, even if it is not a full-time archer, it is more than enough to deal with such slow-moving, defenseless "death squads".

After a few rounds of arrow rain, the biochemical death squad was wiped out.

The Xianbei army, who was in charge of supervising the battle, watched for a while, and then slapped his horse and left.

The Pingzhou Army sent a small force to burn the corpses outside the city after taking the plague repellent pill to prevent the epidemic from implicating itself.

However, just an hour later, the Xianbei army outside the city made waves again.

Dozens of catapults directly threw the corpses of the Xianbei people who were infected to death into the city, and at the speed and height of the catapults, the corpses almost turned into meat when they landed, and the flesh and blood could even splash ten feet away, and it was impossible to clean up.

Expressionlessly, looking at a corpse with plague in the city, Shang Ji turned to leave.

"Pass the order down, let all the Flying Phoenix Fire Riders assemble. Suspend the burning of the sick Xianbei corpses, throw them all into the Xianbei army, and see who of us is afraid of whom! ”

With Shang Ji's order, the whole army of Feifeng Fire Cavalry was dispatched, and the corpse of the Xianbei army who died of illness was hung with a rope, and then thrown to the most densely populated place of the Xianbei army by relying on the height advantage.

The bottomless biochemical war between the two sides broke out in the evening.

According to the Thousand Illusions report lurking in the enemy army, the epidemic broke out further in the Xianbei army, counting the part that was expelled from the siege today, a full 8,000 people died of the plague, and the number of sick people exceeded 50,000!

What's more, the epidemic has broken out in full force, with more than half of the Xianbei tribes having epidemics, and some small tribes have even fled the entire tribe.

On the other hand, in the middle of the night, the first case of plague was discovered in the inner city. Fortunately, this patient was not a sergeant of the Pingzhou Army, but a resident of the former Xianbei Inner City.

Although Xi Zhicai sent people to deal with it overnight, he failed to suppress the epidemic. By dawn the next day, the total number of plague patients in the inner city exceeded 100, and the first infected soldier appeared in the Pingzhou army!

"How's it going?"

Shang Ji came to a heavily guarded tent and asked in a deep voice.

Xi Zhicai's face was tired, and he said hoarsely: "I have already isolated all the robes that have been in contact with the soldier, and all of them have taken the plague repellent pill, and there is no epidemic for the time being." As for the sick soldiers, their condition has improved after doubling the dose of the Plague Removal Pill, but I can't say whether they can be cured. ”

"Sir has worked hard, the amount of plague repellent pill and plague dispersion is quite sufficient at present, if it doesn't work, double it. In addition, Mr. himself must ensure his own safety, if Mr. falls, he will regret it for the rest of his life! ”

"The general cares, and the Zhicai is remembered!"

Xi Zhicai didn't talk nonsense, and simply arched his hand.

"I'm going to see the sick soldiers."

"Generals can't ...... Alas, forget it, the general can go if he wants, and asking the infected soldiers in person is also conducive to stabilizing the morale of the army. Xi Zhicai wanted to persuade at first, but after thinking about it, he gave up.

The plague is terrible, but it also depends on people. For ordinary soldiers, the plague is a demon, but for high-ranking generals, the probability of being infected with the plague in the end without any protection in the epidemic area is much less than being killed by a stray arrow on the battlefield.

Even with the training quality of the Pingzhou Army, the appearance of infected robes is a big blow to the morale of the army, and Shang Ji personally went to condole, which can effectively alleviate this negative emotion.

After many inspections, Shang Ji finally saw the infected soldier, who seemed to be in good spirits, holding a book and looking at it quietly.

"Are you still literate?"

The soldier looked serious, and it wasn't until Shang Ji suddenly opened his mouth that he suddenly woke up, but Shang Ji realized that his book had actually been taken down.

"My subordinates have seen my lord!"

When he looked up and saw Shang Ji, the soldier was immediately shocked, and immediately got up and shouted.

"Sit down, sit down, now that you are sick, you don't need to be polite." Shang Ji smiled mildly and waved him to sit down.

"What's your name? To which army? How does it feel now? ”

"Hui Lord, subordinate Li Feng, is the head of the Greedy Wolf Cavalry Front Battalion under General Liu Meng. Now I don't have any other bad symptoms except feeling tired! ”

"Li Feng, good name! It's better than your general's name. Don't look at Huchen's name, but at the beginning, he was as timid as a mouse, and he didn't have anything to do with the word fierce. ”

Shang Ji smiled and talked about Liu Meng's troubles at the beginning, which relieved Li Feng's tense spirit a lot.

"General Liu and General Su are our role models, and the last general also hopes that one day he can serve the Lord like General Liu." Li Feng said with a somewhat excited expression.

Shang Ji smiled when he heard this, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, there will be this day." Don't think about it, recuperate in peace, and wait until you're healed before continuing to fight the enemy. You have a higher starting point than your general, and he was just a bandit who didn't make it inadequate! ”

"I am willing to die for the Lord!"

"Well, I understand your intentions, and you can recuperate with peace of mind. What is needed and the guards mentioned. By the way, you seem to be literate just now, right? Here's a strategy on the art of war, you can study it when you're idle, maybe you can get something new? ”

As he spoke, Shang Ji took out a copy of "Swift Marching Strategy" and handed it to Li Feng. It's just a very ordinary military book, and there is a chance to learn the art of war [Swift March] from it, a very conventional skill, but it is a relatively precious thing for a low-level military general like Li Feng.

"Thank you, the lord, I will live up to the lord's expectations!"

Li Feng took the "Swift Marching Strategy" with some excitement and said in a loud voice.

Shang Ji nodded, said some words of encouragement and exhortation, and then left the big tent.

Shang Ji personally went to comfort the soldiers who were infected with the plague, which did play a role in stabilizing the morale of the army, but it could not prevent the further spread of the plague.

In fact, the plague in the inner city intensified. Compared with the Xianbei army outside the city, the residents in the inner city are less organized. Moreover, the Shang Ji troops were tight, and it was impossible to help them prevent the epidemic, so in the face of the plague, their resistance was not as good as that of the Xianbei army outside the city.

In just one day, by the night of the fourteenth day, the number of plague infected people in the inner city had exponentially increased to six thousand. The internal situation of the Pingzhou Army was better, and the number of infected people was only about 100.

What pleased Shang Ji the most was that Li Feng, the first infected soldier, had basically recovered after taking six plague-repellent pills in a row, and was currently in isolation and observation.

Moreover, there are no soldiers in the Pingzhou army who have died due to the plague for the time being, which makes Shang Ji's heart feel a little better.

In fact, in the biochemical war between the two sides, the most unlucky ones were not the residents of the inner city of Dragon City, but the residents of the outer city of Dragon City. Compared with the inhabitants of the inner city, the out-of-town dwellers are more miserable and less resistant to the plague.

At the beginning, the Shang Ji expelled the residents of the outer city, but with the degree of control of the Shang Ji over Dragon City at that time, it was impossible to expel all of them.

At that time, only the surrounding area near the main road, which might be used by the cavalry troops for maneuvering, was cleared, and many remote areas were not able to control it at all.

Moreover, the Xianbei people don't talk about the friendship of the same clan at all, and the red-eyed tribal alliance doesn't care about the life or death of the residents of the outer city.

In the biochemical war between the two sides, these out-of-town residents have become the most unlucky ghosts. Without unified command and dispatch, the chaotic outer city is a breeding ground for the spread of plague.

No one knows how many ordinary residents of the outer city have been infected with the plague. Anyway, the entire outer city was full of ghosts, and the Xianbei army did not dare to go deep into the remote alleys to investigate, for fear of contracting the plague.