In Li Dingguo's plan, after Liu Tichun's Second Army entered Huangzhou, He Zhen's Third Army, Xu's Fifth Army, and Geng Jimao's Second Artillery Town also joined the Henan battlefield at about the same time, and together with the 10th Army's Party Shousu's headquarters, launched a general attack on the Manchurian and Mongolian army in front of Jingxiang.

The 14th Army followed the Imperial Camp and waited for an opportunity to defeat the enemy.

In this way, the main force of the two main forces of the Shun Army on the Eastern Front and the four and a half armies on the Western Front will be formed. Whether it is the Eastern Front or the Western Front, the Shun Army will have an absolute advantage over the Manchu and Mongolian Army. Especially in terms of artillery.

With the cooperation of Shang Kexi's ministry, it can be said that as long as there is no major change, it is possible to completely wipe out the Ajige Group.

"Tan Tai of Nanyang City is the general of Henan appointed by the Hongguang Dynasty. In order to lure the enemy to abandon Nanyang and Xinye, our army forced the Manchu and Mongolian army's food supply route to lengthen, and also made their troops more dispersed..."

Li Dingguo emphasized that the 10th Army Party Shousu's unit did not have to be too fierce when attacking Nanyang, so as not to give up Nanyang and retreat back to Xiangyang, which would make it difficult to encircle and annihilate the main force of Ajige in the future.

"How do I fight this?"

Dang Shousu was confused. The information showed that Tan Tai in Nanyang City had about 7,000 Eight Banners soldiers under his command. After his 10th Army was reorganized, his total strength was 30,000. The military government allocated a batch of firearms seized from the Western Army to him some time ago. Therefore, even though he was defeated by Tan Tai twice before, Dang Shousu did not think that he could not defeat Tan Tai, and he was full of confidence in seizing Nanyang.

But as Li Dingguo said, he asked his 10th Army to attack Nanyang again, but he could not destroy the city in one go. Then the battle was a bit cramped and he was very frustrated.

"It's not that you don't let your old party do it, it's because you don't do it too hard and scare General Tan away."

Lu Si stood up and explained Li Dingguo's meaning. In the first stage of the battle, we should focus on Nanyang City. On the premise of dragging Tan Tai's army, it is best to induce Ajige to increase troops from Xiangyang and continuously increase troops to Nanyang to form a situation of fuel. In this way, when the Third Army and the Fifth Army arrive, they can give Tan Tai to Bao Yuan in one go.

Henan Governor Yuan Zongdi nodded and said, "Tan Tai is a famous Manchu general and the most important general under Ajige. If he can kill this person, it will be no less than a single arm of Ajige."

"After capturing Nanyang and defeating Tan Tai, our army should quickly regain Xinye and march towards Xiangyang. Without giving Ajige a chance to breathe, give him a soldier to the city first. In addition, as far as I know, Ajige's life is actually not easy now."

While speaking, Li Dingguo general Shun's army wrote a piece of information sent from the Xiangyang area to the generals. This piece of information was not the garrison of the Manchu and Mongolian army, but an information about sudden illnesses among the Manchu and Mongolian army.

"According to detailed investigations by our army, many Manchu and Mongolian soldiers have suddenly had fever and abdominal distension since March. Those with severe illness have taken off their shirts and can clearly see that the liver is swollen... As the weather gets hot, the disease spreads even more among the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers. It has been initially found that at least thousands of Manchu and Mongolian soldiers have been infected with this disease..."

Hearing this, Lu Si suddenly said, "It's not a plague, it's schistosomiasis."

"Schistosomiasis?"

All the generals were stunned, not knowing what this was.

Lu Si explained that this is a parasite in southern waters, mostly parasitic in nail horns, especially in Huguang, because there are the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake in Huguang, and the most nail horns are produced.

It is also said that schistosomiasis can't tell anything when it first entered the human body. It usually lies in the hibernation for several months to a year before it breaks out. From the perspective of time, the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who were sick in the Azige tribe have been parasitized by schistosomiasis last year, and it is certain that the number of Manchu and Mongolian soldiers infected with schistosomiasis will increase.

"People who have this disease are basically worse than death. Not to mention wearing armor and knives, they will be exhausted and very tormenting even if they carry a few bricks."

When Lu Si thought of leading the Huai Army to the north, he wanted to severely damage the Qing army through smallpox and even extinct Manchuria. However, in the end, he only allowed more than 3,000 people to be contaminated by Haoge's troops, and all these Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who were stained with smallpox died in Shandong. In addition, the weather became colder, so the smallpox did not pass to Beijing as Lu Si wished.

But last time it was done by man, but this time it was done by nature.

Li Dingguo thought of something and asked: "Your Majesty, when I was in Beijing, I heard that the Imperial Hospital was organizing man-made insect pills to produce insect pills. Is this insect pill related to schistosomiasis?"

"The insect pill is a roundworm in the human belly, and it has nothing to do with schistosomia... This schistosomia has no good treatment method at present. Once a person is parasitized by schistosomia, he will die early and late."

When the generals heard this, their faces were frozen, because schistosomia can parasitize the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers, and they can also parasitize the soldiers who are great and smooth.

"This disease cannot be cured, but it can be prevented."

Lu Si thought about it and asked Henan governor Yuan Youlong to listen to the memory, but he told him what he knew about preventing and controlling schistosomiasis.

For example, when the water is dry, people are organized to slaughter nails, or sprinkle lime on rivers and beaches. In addition, it is strictly prohibited for people near the water of nails to drink raw water, and they must wait until the water is boiled before drinking.

"This schistosomiae cannot think that this insect is a good thing just because our enemy is infected. The insect does not distinguish between humans, and it does not ask who is the Han people or who is the Tartars... In my eyes, this schistosomiae is more terrifying than any enemy and is a real plague god. If we do not value this insect, our great people will suffer a great loss."

Lu Si was not a coward who heard about it, but he was indeed worried about swelling and swollen. At the beginning of the founding of the country in the previous life, hundreds of millions of people in the 13 provinces south of the Yangtze River Basin were threatened by schistosomiasis. After children became ill, they affected their development, and women became ill and did not have children.

The severely affected areas in Hubei even suffered from patients' deaths one after another, resulting in the desolation of people and barren fields, and the emergence of unmanned areas.

Therefore, it is necessary to cure the problem of schistosomiasis and treat this plague god as the top priority of the country.

He said to Henan governor Yuan Youlong: "You Henan first do the test of schistosomiasis, use all the methods I have mentioned, combine the government organization, hospitals at all levels, the people, and the garrison to create a vigorous movement to send the plague gods. Once the matter is done, you Yuan Youlong is my great hero and Dashun great hero!"

Then he said to Wenwu earnestly: "I really can't let this disease be rampant. There are so many children, so many young people, and so many elderly people. If I have schistosomiasis, will I, the emperor, have just ascended the throne?"

After saying that, the admirals of each army and the commanders of each town will teach every soldier how to prevent and treat schistosomiasis when they go back. In the future, no matter where the army goes, as long as they find that there is this disease in the local area, they will organize people to help the people prevent and treat them and kill nails.

At the end of the meeting, Lu Si pointed out that the last step to encircle and annihilate Ajige is to break into Xiangyang, and Ajige must not be allowed to continue to use the troops under Ajige's command, which are quite capable of fighting, for the Hongguang Dynasty.

After the end, Lu Si ordered Li Dingguo to stay in Luyang Pass to be responsible for the mobilization and contact of the various armies, and he went to Runing Prefecture to inspect the local people's livelihood recovery.

On the way, in order to confuse the Southern Ming court, Lu Si instructed the Jiangbei Governor Lu Wenliang to ask Hui Shiyang, the old master of Donglin who was afraid to go south in Yangzhou to represent Dashun to serve in Nandu. He also asked Henan Governor Yuan Zongdi to continue asking Ajige for the body of Li Zicheng, and asked Beijing to send Ajige and Dorgon's daughter to the front line.

At the same time, a series of instructions were made to organize a large army of grain and grass supply in Shandong, Henan, Huaiyang, Shaanxi and other places to fight in the south.

The armies participating in the Battle of Jingxiang also took action after receiving the order. For a moment, the canal was filled with ships carrying soldiers and ordnances, and the official road leading to Henan was also waving flags, and cars and horses were constantly connected.

On April 13, Dang Shousu commanded the 10th Army to take the lead in attacking Nanyang City.

Tan Tai, the general general of the Ming Henan in Nanyang City, was so painful that he couldn't even get on the top of the city. The reason was that he also had schistosomiasis, his liver was abnormally swollen and his neck was extremely thick. Compared to before, he looked like he was fatter.

Tan Tai, who didn't know that he was parasitized by schistosomiasis on the Yangtze River last year, after learning that the Shunjun Party Shousu's troops had come, he forced himself to deploy the city defense matters and sent people to Xiangyang for help.
Chapter completed!