After Meng He died, Alsileng Khan ordered his people to disperse around according to Meng He's final arrangement, and scattered the corpses of many soldiers who had died of illness in all the ponds he knew. Then he led the whole clan to the
Migrate westward.
And along the way, all the water sources they passed were manipulated by Als Lenghan in the same way.
Jia Ke, who was chasing Alsileng Khan closely behind him, did not know that the water source in front of him had been polluted, and he continued to chase westward day and night with hundreds of thousands of horses.
Just looking at the scouting horse in front of me was rewarded. It was said that Ars Lenghan was camping more than two hundred miles ahead with millions of troops.
Jia Ke listened to the report of the scout on the horse, with a smile on his face. He has been leading his army day and night these days, and now he finally caught Als Lenghan's tail. This time, he can't let this man escape easily.
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That night, Jia Ke followed his usual practice and set up camp by a pond on the grassland. The Huotou Army began to fetch water nearby to make a fire for cooking.
Soon the delicious meal was delivered to Jia Ke.
Jia Ke didn't enjoy it alone. He invited the generals from various ministries to drink together and talk about how to reward everyone after returning to the grassland.
While Jia Ke was thinking about the future, Sun Yan, who was participating in the military plane with the army, hurried in.
Sun Yan came to the tent, looked at the generals, waved to Li Deshan, and finally exited the tent.
Li Deshan was a little surprised when he saw Sun Yan waving, but he still apologized to Jia Ke and quietly exited the tent from the side.
When Li Deshan arrived outside the tent, he saw Sun Yan circling anxiously.
Sun Yan was bothering Nao there. When he saw Li Deshan coming out, he immediately took a step forward and grabbed his hand to a secluded place.
"Hurry up and report to His Majesty that there is a plague in our camp, and it is very serious. Please make plans in advance."
Li Deshan was so frightened that he lost his mind. He had heard before that the plague was a terminal disease that could spread from one person to ten, or from ten to a hundred. If it was not controlled properly, all the people in the city would die.
So Li Deshan did not dare to delay any longer, returned to the big tent, quickly came to Jia Ke's side, then leaned in Jia Ke's ear, and said softly: "Master Sun Yan came to report that there was a plague in the camp.
, and it is very serious, please make preparations in advance, Your Majesty."
As soon as Jia Ke heard this, the cup in his hand fell to the ground.
The generals who were singing and drinking happily below saw this situation and suddenly became silent. They looked at Jia Ke sitting in the middle and were at a loss.
Because these generals have never seen Jia Ke lose his temper like this since they followed Jia Ke.
Jia Ke was no longer in the mood to eat, drink and have fun here, and waved his hands to the generals below to leave the Chinese army's tent.
After everyone left, Jia Ke hurriedly ordered Li Deshan to send Sun Yan to the tent to meet him.
Soon Sun Yan hurried into Jia Ke's tent.
As soon as Jia Ke saw Sun Yan coming, he immediately asked: "When was this plague discovered? Is it serious? What did the military doctors accompanying the army say?"
Sun Yan said with a gloomy face: "The military doctors accompanying the army are also helpless against this plague, but they learned from the shamans of the Eight Banners that the source of these plagues is the nearby water source."
Jia Ke was shocked when he heard this, and then his mind started racing.
This time the plague was obviously man-made, and it seemed to be a trick played by Arslen Khan.
Jia Ke recalled the knowledge he had learned in his previous life. During the Han Dynasty on earth, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty made an expedition to the north. The Huns at that time could not resist it and moved westward. Finally, before leaving, they gave Emperor Wu of the Han a lesson.
, they polluted the water sources along the way, causing many soldiers of the Han Dynasty to become ill, and finally had to give up the pursuit. Even Huo Qubing, the most trusted general of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, died of the plague.
After Jia Ke thought clearly about the cause and effect, he immediately felt guilty. Although he said he had some abilities, could he really stop the spread of the plague?
Sun Yan saw that Jia Ke remained silent after receiving his report, and hurried forward and said: "Your Majesty, what should we do now? Please make it clear, Your Majesty."
Jia Ke feels a little frustrated. What can he do now? He can only temporarily take some isolation measures in accordance with modern epidemic prevention policies. As for whether these people will recover, they can only leave it to fate.
"It is my order to arrange all sick soldiers into a separate camp. From now on, all those who are found to be sick will be treated in this camp and are not allowed to have contact with the outside world."
"Furthermore, all the clothes of these sick soldiers were burned, and all their excrement was dug into deep pits and buried."
"Starting from today, all soldiers in the entire battalion must drink boiled water, and at the same time, the soldiers are asked to reduce the frequency of drinking water as much as possible."
After Jia Ke gave these instructions, he sighed helplessly, and finally continued: "Now that the soldiers in the army are sick, I am afraid that they are no longer able to pursue them. They can only lead the army back to the country. As for the Tatars,
We can only let them fend for themselves."
Jia Ke's intention was to give up the pursuit and leave a way for the Tatars to survive.
Sun Yan nodded silently after listening to Jia Ke's order. This time the army was infected with the disease. If they continued to pursue, I'm afraid more people would become sick. By then, they might not have the strength to fight even if they catch up with the Tatars.
Jia Ke was not in a good mood now, and waved Sun Yan to go out and arrange the arrangements, while he sat in the big tent and began to blame himself.
After all, he is a modern person, but he was tricked by an ancient person, because Jia Ke already understood that this plan must be the work of that bastard Meng He.
Jia Ke has been cursing Meng He for this bastard in his heart, and he will die badly.
But he didn't know that Meng He had already returned to the West, and he agreed to Jia Ke's words, and he really didn't deserve a good death.
Jia Ke led the army to stop the pursuit, rest locally, and isolate all the infected soldiers.
He then ordered the military doctors accompanying the army to treat these soldiers as much as possible, but the plague was not so easy to control. More and more soldiers were infected, and Jia Ke had no choice.
Sun Yan saw that continuing like this was not an option, so he quickly suggested to Jia Ke that these sick soldiers should be abandoned here, and Jia Ke and others immediately retreated south with the army.
If Jia Ke had just led the army to fight with compassion in his heart, he would never have adopted Sun Yan's strategy, but as Jia Ke's status became higher and higher, his heart became harder than before.
Now Jia Ke accepted Sun Yan's proposal on the spot and immediately ordered his army to retreat south. As for the soldiers who were sick, Jia Ke could only leave some food and supplies and let them fend for themselves here.
It can be said that Jia Ke was very aggressive when he came, but he was in a panic when he left.
When Jia Ke went there with his cavalry and infantry to rendezvous, there were more than 300,000 chasing cavalry. When he came back, the number was only about 200,000.
Seeing this scene, Jia Ke ignored the civil and military generals around him and lay down on the ground, stamped his feet, beat his chest and cried bitterly.
Jia Ke thought about the fact that the soldiers who followed him in the southern and northern wars did not die on the battlefield, but died in the trap set by the Tatars. It was also his fault that he was arrogant and ignorant and underestimated these ancients, which led to today's disaster.
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Seeing Jia Ke looking so sad, the surrounding generals hurriedly stepped forward to persuade him.
Under the persuasion of the generals, Jia Ke slowly stopped crying. Although Jia Ke stopped crying, there was an expression of resentment in his eyes. He suddenly stood up and looked at the person beside him with a fierce look in his eyes.
Sun Yan ordered: "How many Tatars were captured this time?"
Seeing Jia Ke's expression and his question, Sun Yan already understood in his heart what Jia Ke was going to do, but seeing Jia Ke's expression, he did not dare to persuade him, so he could only answer truthfully: "Report to your Majesty,
This time we went north and captured a total of 200,000 Tatars, old and weak."
After Jia Ke heard this, he directly ordered Li Deshan on the side: "Pass on my order to dig a big hole and bury all the prisoners alive to vent their anger for my dead soldiers."
Li Deshan received Jia Ke's instructions and immediately went out to deliver the order.
Among the civil and military generals around Jia Ke, except for Sun Yan who couldn't bear it, the other generals didn't think what Jia Ke did was excessive.
That night, Jia Ke's soldiers dug several large deep pits near the military camp, and then drove all the Tatar prisoners into the pits.
When these prisoners first left the camp, they didn't know what was going on, but they already understood it when they saw these deep pits.
So these people ran around like crazy, but they were surrounded by Jia Ke's army, so how could they escape.
So these people were either killed and thrown into the pit by Jia Ke's soldiers when they were escaping, or they were driven into the pit by the soldiers with swords and guns.
As a result, the two hundred thousand Tatar prisoners were killed by Jia Ke overnight.
After killing these people, Jia Ke felt angry, but the matter could not be undone anymore.
In the end, Jia Ke could only rest on the spot, and then ordered the detective horses to patrol the grassland, marking all the lakes where the dead bodies were thrown.
The final result reassured Jia Ke. Although Alsilenghan said he released the virus along the way, they were only going northwest after all, and they couldn't care so much about other places.
Except for the lakes in the northwest, the water sources in other places are still clean.
After Jia Ke further investigated the actual situation, he sent his Eight Banners tribe to begin receiving the inheritance left by the Tatars.
These vast grasslands in the north are not all directly controlled by the Tatars. There are also many weak ethnic groups, and these ethnic groups all exist dependent on the Tatars.
Now that the Tatars have been driven away by Jia Ke, these tribes have begun to expand everywhere. How can Jia Ke agree to this?
So he sent the cavalry under his command to sweep around, and spared the surrendered ethnic Jia Ke, allowing them to continue herding sheep in the same place, and used his troops to wipe out the rebellious Jia Ke.
In this way, Jia Ke spent nearly five months trying to appease the grassland.
When the weather turned very cold, Jia Ke took his men back to the army.