After an unknown amount of time, Yong Kai finally woke up leisurely.
The first thing he saw when he woke up was a crowded scene. The small room was filled with people dressed in different styles, all staring at him with complicated expressions.
Seeing the way everyone was hesitant to speak, Yong Kai was a little confused - and his head was also dizzy, as if he had forgotten what caused him to faint before...
His eyes searched among the crowd, and finally he saw the pale Zhu Bao...
"Master Zhu, what are you..."
Zhu Bao exchanged glances with the people around him, and he probably finally made up his mind. He squeezed through the crowd and came to Yong Kai's bed. After swallowing a mouthful of saliva, he hesitated and replied:
"Um...Master Yong...you...do you remember what happened before you fainted?"
Zhu Bao's words stunned Yong Kai. He rubbed his swollen head and tried hard to recall what happened before.
"I remember I went out... I seemed to think that Pu Tao was here. When I walked out of the government office, I saw a group of you people surrounding a carriage..."
"By the way, where did my rose apple go?
Comfortable?
Shuxiang, where are you?"
"Old...Master, I've finished eating the peaches..."
Shu Xiang, who was standing at a later position, was holding on to his collar... His face was pale, and his expression looked extremely frightened and nervous...
"Oh...it's gone, it's gone. Think about it, the season is almost over - by the way, why do you all look so ugly?
Wasn't it just me who fainted?
I'm just overworked and a little tired. It's not worth it for so many people to come see me. If nothing happens, just go back."
Yong Kai seemed to really regard these people as people who came to visit the doctor. He was secretly happy and even took this opportunity to secretly praise himself.
But he didn't expect that after he finished saying these words, no one left the venue at all.
On the contrary, their expressions were even more complicated than before.
"Master Yong, there is something you may have forgotten... Now let me explain it to you. You should be mentally prepared first and don't be too surprised..."
Zhu Bao pursed his lips, coughed twice, and spoke as calmly as possible.
Looking at Zhu Bao's sad eyes, Yong Kai seemed to realize that things might not be as easy and happy as he imagined...
In the end what happened?
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Bao told Yong Kai everything that happened today - these were summarized by him through the explanations of the people who had personally experienced the entire incident today and the soldier who pulled the carriage to the city.
the whole story.
In general... it's probably because of the continuous rainy weather a few days ago, which not only did not make the surrounding area cooler, but instead aggravated the hot and humid situation in Qiongdu.
In fact, it’s just hot and humid. Over the years, the common people have experienced countless springs and autumns, and they have long known how to escape the heat in this hot summer...
But the problem is, this cannot be the case in the military camp.
If we really want to talk about the initial cause, the source may lie in a seemingly ordinary decision made by Yong Kai before -
Because of Meng Huo's arrival, Yong Kai, who was still recuperating, had no choice but to restart the army. While summoning a large number of soldiers stationed in the fields to return to the camp for training, he repeatedly mobilized the city defense forces in surrounding areas - after all, Duosi got Qin's
With the help of Mi, he also knew that Duosi would definitely take some actions to retaliate against him recently. He was worried that Duosi would march quickly to attack Yuexun and even Qiongdu, and the baby would not dare to let the soldiers rest at all. In addition, he seemed to have noticed that Meng Huo
Due to the rift between him and him, he also sent many troops to guard the south and closely monitored Meng Huo's actions.
In short, under such arrangements, an army of more than 10,000 Han people carried out various high-intensity operations under the scorching sun.
Soon there were people in the army who could no longer resist.
At first it was just heat stroke. The symptoms of heat stroke include syncope, dehydration, constant sweating and chills...
This situation often happened in summer military camps, so the superior officers did not take it to heart and just ordered the soldiers to gather patients suspected of heatstroke into several relatively spacious barracks in the camp.
However, this decision ultimately led to disaster.
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"The miasma is pervasive... The plague is raging. Half of the nearly 2,000 soldiers in the Xuanji Camp outside the South City Gate have been infected with the disease... Nearly 200 people have lost their ability to move, and..."
"The man who was pulled on the carriage today was the seventeenth person who died and was also the first officer."
Listening to Zhu Bao explaining such a terrifying thing in a calm tone, Yong Kai was completely stunned.
"Master Yong, while you were in coma, I have sent people to isolate the Xuanji Camp. In addition, Master Gao will not be able to come back for a short time, so I took the initiative to use Master Gao's personal guards and asked them to gather in the city.
Doctors who are capable of controlling the plague...but..."
"But let alone doctors here in Qiongdu, there are very few Han people..."
Zhu Bao sighed.
Yong Kai smiled awkwardly and said:
"Zhu...Master Zhu, are you kidding me again?
We had been in Juti County for so long before, so how come we didn't see the effects of plague and miasma?
Now...now half the battalion has fallen all at once, how is this possible..."
"Master Yong..."
Zhu Bao pursed his lips, looked at Yong Kai's unconfident look, and explained to him in despair:
"You may not know that there were soldiers in our army who were poisoned by similar miasma, but they all recovered later, and there was no infection due to intensive emissions..."
"Then why!"
Yong Kai didn't understand. He struggled to sit up and wanted to go outside to see the situation in person, but Zhu Bao stopped him:
"Sir! Don't go out...you...do you really want to know the reason?"
"That goes without saying! I don't understand, how could..."
"Sir, I have never dared to tell you before that our soldiers who were poisoned by the miasma were only able to recover because of Duosi's intervention... Although Duosi is a good-for-nothing, he is one of the few barbarians.
Someone who knows how to deal with miasma."
"This is why we were not disturbed by miasma before..."
"Actually... Meng Huo may also know about this... His barbarian warriors have never been affected by the miasma... But he has..."
At this point, Yong Kai finally understood...
Although Meng Huo didn't cause any trouble for him, he still kept a careful eye on him, unlike the way they got along with Duo Si before...
It can be said that Duosi completely trusted him, which made him cheat Duosi very easily.
"This guy Meng Huo... turns out he has been pretending to be stupid!"
Yong Kai gritted his teeth and said... The reason why he came to this conclusion is because according to time calculation, the day Meng Huo came happened to be before the outbreak of the epidemic...
Yong Kai even remembered that Meng Huo said that he had been to his military camp, so he must have discovered signs of the disease in his military camp...
But when he came to visit him later, he didn't mention it at all...
"Sir, it's too late to talk about this now..."
"The key point is that we must deal with this plague as soon as possible, otherwise, when the plague rages... Dosi will not be able to miss this opportunity to defeat us."
"You...you are right! Then...what should we do...didn't we say that there is no doctor? If there is no doctor, how should we solve this plague?
Is it possible that I can only watch my soldiers die?"
"This...this is of course a way."
Zhu Bao nodded, but both of them knew that this could only be the last resort.
"But there is another way now. I wonder if Master Yong can accept it..."
He changed the topic and his tone was a little hesitant, but how could Yong Kai, who was extremely anxious, care about his own feelings...
Soldiers and horses are the basis for his foothold in Nanzhong. He still wants to be the king of Nanzhong. Now he only has to defeat Duosi and annex Menghuo... But before that, if his army is attacked by the plague first
If you fail, then you really lose everything.
To a certain extent, he could even accept defeat...but he couldn't accept defeat without a fight.
After hearing Yong Kai's answer, Zhu Bao took a deep breath and said solemnly:
"Look for Meng Huo."
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Yong Kai probably spent a whole day struggling with this matter.
Ever since Zhu Bao told the truth...he knew that in order to solve the plague now, he had to seek help from the local people.
Meng Huo, or in other words, many barbarian leaders, had their own ways to prevent miasma and plague. They were a group of people who had lived in this hot and humid land for many years, so it was strange that they had no way, right?
Among them, according to Zhu Bao's understanding, Meng Huo's tribe is the best at dealing with miasma and plagues - the reason is very simple. As a tribe of barbarians who are quite close to the Han people, during the heyday of the Meng family, their lives were
The method is not much different from that of the Han people. That is to say, in recent years, with the decline of the Meng family, they will return to the original way of survival of the tribal people...
Meng Huo is younger and may have changed relatively quickly, but among the Meng clan, there are still many old people who had good relations with the Han people in their heyday. They are familiar with the Han culture and have a very high status in the tribe.
Even if Meng Huo didn't know how to prevent the miasma plague, there must be such capable people in his clan.
But the problem is...because of this, it is difficult for Yong Kai to speak again.
From the time when Meng Huo kept silent about the miasma and plague, and later when he came to hold people accountable, it is not difficult to guess that now Meng Huo must be sitting in his own territory and watching their jokes...
It was really humiliating for him to lose face and apologize to Meng Huo or even plead for mercy.
But in the end, he made a decision...
Because in just one day as he was thinking about it, the number of people who died from the plague in Camp Xuanji doubled...
Upon receiving the news, Yong Kai immediately began to write a letter, intending to contact Meng Huo.
But what he doesn't know is...
At this time, Yi Xiaotian, who had been hiding his whereabouts, also set his sights on Meng Huo.
Yes, after Yi Xiaotian cooperated with Duosi, in addition to letting Duosi lay some deceptions, the most important thing was to conduct a detailed investigation of Meng Huo through various sources of intelligence.
The conclusion is simple…
That is to defeat Yong Kai, we must start from Meng Huo.
Regardless of whether it is a estrangement or an instigation of rebellion, as long as Meng Huo is prevented from helping Yong Kai, Yong Kai will undoubtedly lose.
