After waiting for a while, Kasha nodded, and his men began to unload the stinky, diseased cattle and sheep from the carriage, and then threw them into the river.
However, the carcasses of these cattle and sheep were not washed away by the river. Instead, they were tied with ropes. The other end of the rope was fixed to a nearby tree to prevent the carcasses of cattle and sheep from being washed away and being discovered by others.
These cattle and sheep quickly contaminated the water source, but all this happened so suddenly and without warning that the Song army was not aware of it at all.
Unknowingly, a disaster was coming to the Song army.
On the second day, Song Jun began to fetch water from the river for cooking. Because the river water was relatively clear, Song Jun found no abnormalities. He asked the medical officer to check it and found that it was not poisonous. Then he started cooking with the river water.
Soon, the soldiers who had eaten began to suffer from vomiting and diarrhea, and some of them even fainted and developed a high fever.
"General, it's not good. Many soldiers are suffering from vomiting and diarrhea. They seem to be poisoned."
Bi Chongzhi was studying the marching route when Quanzi hurried in to report. The news shocked Bi Chongzhi and he was stunned.
"what happened?"
Bi Chongzhi was shocked and hurriedly walked out of the tent.
Feeling anxious all the way, Bi Chongzhi came to the poisoned soldiers and saw that there were thousands of poisoned soldiers, and more than 300 unconscious soldiers. Some of them were seriously unconscious and were about to die.
Not guaranteed.
Such a situation immediately made the soldiers panic. Everyone was speculating whether they had been poisoned by Qi Kingdom, or whether they had offended the local gods and the gods had brought disaster.
At this time, a medical officer came to Bi Chongzhi with a bucket of water, raised his hand and said: "General, there is still a problem with the water. Just now the doctor went upstream and found a group of cattle and sheep that died of illness. The corpses of the cattle and sheep were contaminated.
The river water."
Bi Chongzhi was furious and shouted: "I have already issued a strict order that the army's water source must be inspected before it can be consumed. Now you are telling me that there is a problem with the water!"
The medical officer was so frightened that he knelt on the ground, trembling, and said: "General, calm down, this water is not poisonous. It is just contaminated by dead cattle and sheep and is not clean. Therefore, it was not checked before."
"If it's just unclean, why are so many soldiers getting sick?"
"Returning to the general, our army has just entered the country of Qi. They are somewhat unaccustomed to the local climate. Their bodies are relatively tired and weak, but they can barely hold on. However, in this case, when they drank unclean water, they interacted with each other, causing the yin and yang to interact.
Loss of balance and eventually illness.”
A soldier on the side was angry and cursed: "What's the use of talking about this now? As a medical officer, what do you do for a living?"
"Yes, what's the use of saying this now? If I die, I won't let you go even if I'm a ghost."
Many soldiers were angry with the medical officer. They believed that the medical officer failed in his duty and caused them to drink unclean water. They couldn't help but curse him. For a while, the camp was filled with curses.
Bi Chongzhi looked at the medical officer with cold eyes, then opened his head and looked around. He glanced at the angry soldiers a few times and saw resentment in the eyes of these soldiers.
Bi Chongzhi's face was serious, he suddenly drew his sword and angrily yelled at the medical officer: "As a medical officer, you have a heavy responsibility and you made such a mistake. How can I spare you!"
After that, Bi Chongzhi swung his sword and beheaded the medical officer with one blow. Seeing this, the soldiers also closed their mouths one by one and stopped swearing.
Bi Chongzhi looked around and said to the soldiers: "You guys can rest in peace and recuperate. Your little skills from Qi State will never be a problem for us. When our army comes to the capital of Zi Qi State, we will definitely pay back a hundred times from Qi State!"
"
After hearing this, the soldiers no longer complained, but pointed their fingers at Zi Qi State one after another, and their resentment against Zi Qi State became even greater.
Killing a medical officer and pacifying the entire army, Bi Chongzhi did it with ease and achieved his goal.
After comforting him for a while, Bi Chongzhi ordered him to rest and wait until the patient's health improved before breaking camp.
In the big tent, Bi Chongzhi summoned the other medical officers and said to them: "This mistake must not be made again. You must be careful at all times. If there is a next time, I will still kill you without mercy."
The medical officers were all frightened, kneeling on the ground and not daring to speak.
Bi Chongzhi also ordered people to fetch 10 taels of silver, and said: "There are many sick people in the army, and you have to work hard to treat the patients. Each person will be rewarded with 10 taels of silver. When the commander returns to the court, I will do it myself."
Please take credit."
The medical officers immediately felt at ease, knowing that Bi Chongzhi would not kill them for the time being, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.
The medical officers accepted the reward and thanked them repeatedly. Bi Chongzhi waved his hand to let them go. They hurriedly left as if they had received an amnesty.
Then Bi Chongzhi began to make arrangements. He said to Bi Nian: "Bi Nian listens to the order. From now on, you will be responsible for patrolling the camp. You must be on guard day and night, and you must be alert and make no mistakes."
"Yes, General." Bi Nian solemnly accepted the order.
Bi Chongzhi said to Quan Zicai and Er Dongcheng again: "Quan Zicai and Er Dongcheng will obey orders."
"The end will be here."
"I order you two to each lead 3,000 troops to guard the river and ensure the safety of the water source for the army. There must be no mistakes."
"Yes, General."
Quan Zicai and Er Dongcheng accepted the order and soon gathered their troops to patrol the upper reaches of the river, not daring to delay the army's drinking water and cooking.
On this day, ten Song soldiers under Quan Zicai were patrolling and guarding a river. Suddenly, seven or eight people from Qi State, covered with green leaves and with colorful leaf stripes painted on their faces, appeared in the dense forest nearby.
A few days ago, their village was robbed by a group of self-Qi palace guards disguised as Song troops. More than a dozen women were insulted. During the conflict, some villagers were killed.
Such hatred blinded them, and they blamed all the sins on the Song army. Seeing that there were only ten soldiers in the Song army at this time, they wanted to take the opportunity to take revenge.
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They observed secretly for a while, approached quietly, then took out a bamboo tube as thick as their thumb, pointed one end of the bamboo tube at Song Jun, then they took aim, blew at the same time, and shot out the flying needle inside the bamboo tube.
"ah."
In just an instant, five soldiers were hit in the throat by flying needles. Their faces turned red, they had difficulty breathing, and they fell to the ground and fell into coma.
"There's an ambush!"
The remaining five people were frightened and hurriedly stood guard back to back, but found that no one rushed out. They were hesitant, not knowing whether to run or rush into the woods to chase the enemy.
"Hai Xiu,"
Not long after, several more flying needles were shot out. The Song soldiers were frightened and waved their knives to block, but two people were still hit by the flying needles and fell to the ground.
Seeing that the opponent is so powerful, if they run back and the enemy puts poisonous needles behind them, they will not be able to escape at all, and they will definitely be dead!
After thinking about this, the remaining three soldiers of the Song Army panicked, roared loudly, and rushed towards the place where the flying needles were fired.