Seeing that the field battle could not defeat his opponent, Marshal Pershing could only report to his superiors, demanding to strengthen the air force and regain air supremacy, while dispersing the troops again and dispersing them into every city, preparing to use street fighting to offset the opponent's air supremacy. At the same time, he
The newly equipped troops' 360 mm heavy artillery and 300 mm 18 joint rocket launcher were also hidden in the city, hoping to use this to severely damage the Chinese army's troops.
The dispersion of the troops brought the plague bacteria to various cities, but the Bostonians were completely unaware of it. The Chinese army was stationed in the occupied cities and did not come out. Every day, at least the air force was dependent on the air force to harass the Bostonians in various cities, and their bombing was also very good.
In particular, they avoided all factory areas and only bombed residential areas, so a large number of Bostonians were killed by air strikes.
In addition, the Chinese Air Force also attacked the logistics transport convoy entering the Chicago Industrial Zone, consuming the logistics supplies of the Bostonians in this way. This pure air combat method allowed Marshal Pershing, who wanted to use street fighting to kill the Chinese army.
Surprisingly, they could not think of why Su Zhizhen was so calm, as if she was not anxious about the attack.
When many workers and engineers from the Chinese Empire or the St. Marshal Pershing was transported by planes and entered more than a dozen cities occupied by the Chinese army, Marshal Pershing realized that the Chinese army wanted to solve the supply problem nearby.
The situation made Marshal Pershing feel a headache. Originally, the Boston Empire had the advantage of inside combat, and it was convenient for logistical support. Now the other party actually wanted to produce weapons and ammunition on the land of the Boston Empire, so that their weapons supply would be quite smooth.
, How can this not make Persh anxious?
This is a war to support the war. They will use the industrial facilities and mineral resources of the Boston Empire to produce enough weapons and ammunition, and in turn attack the Boston Empire. Such a situation will inevitably have catastrophic consequences. Once the opponent is slow
It slowly eroded the entire Chicago area, and the Boston Empire's local weapons supply could not even catch up with the Chinese army.
At this time, if the Boston Empire had its full strength against the enemy, it could still save half of the land. If the weapons produced were still divided into two parts and the more they had to support the Western Continent, then the Boston Empire's territory would definitely fall.
Just as Pershing was thinking about how to destroy the other party's production plan, a bad situation suddenly appeared. Among the soldiers who had followed him, many suddenly had a fever. At the beginning, the fever was
Not many, but this disease seems to be spreading very quickly. Many soldiers taking care of their companions also began to have fever one after another. Even soldiers who went to the city to buy food passed the virus to the citizens, and soon the disease began to occur among the people.
They appeared one after another.
Fever accompanied by symptoms such as loss of appetite and enlarged lymphatic symptoms spread among the army and the people, and more and more people fell ill. In just over a dozen days, more than 10% of the people in the barracks had high fevers.
, and the situation was spreading rapidly, and soon some of the senior officers got sick.
The military doctors in the military camp are all experts in surgery. If they are asked to treat gunshot wounds and perform surgery, they are very good at treating infectious diseases. If they are asked to treat infectious diseases, they will be powerless. For this reason, Pershing had to recruit private internal physicians in the city.
According to the classification method of the Chinese Empire, the doctors in the Boston Empire all belong to the Chinese medical system. The biggest feature of these Chinese medical doctors is that they need to rely on antibiotics that appeared in the Chinese Empire. Once these drugs are not available, their abilities are limited. In this regard,
Traditional Chinese medicine is far from the same.
Traditional Chinese medicine belongs to the confidential medical field in the Chinese Empire. All those who study traditional Chinese medicine must be Chinese talents. Those white people should not let them learn, even if they are allowed to learn, due to the large differences in cultural background, for this profound
It is also difficult for them to learn the essence of medicine.
At this time, there were also quite a shortage of doctors among the people, because the population density was larger, the physical condition was much worse than that of soldiers, and the disease prevailed faster among the people. Now the Boston Empire lacked drugs, and many doctors could only use bloodletting and cold water for patients.
Physical therapy such as cooling is considered to be a matter of duty.
Marshal Pershing now has no time to care about the lives of the people. Many doctors in the city were quickly recruited and went to the military camp to see the soldiers, but the result disappointed him. The doctors said that there were no antibiotics, and they treated this.
He was helpless in a disease. Marshal Pershing was disappointed, but he summoned the first local doctor, Aland.
"I want to ask you now, what kind of disease is this?" Marshal Pershing asked anxiously.
Aland paced back and forth between the room and said, "From the patient's condition, this should be plague."
"Plague? What disease is that?" Pershing, who is a layman in pathology, did not understand the name of the disease.
Aland sighed and said, "According to folk sayings, it's the Black Death."
"What? The Black Death?" Marshal Pershing stood up in shock. He knew this terrible disease and knew that many horrible legends in the Western Continent are related to the Black Death.
Aland nodded and said, "If we had enough antibiotics, we might be able to control the epidemic, but now the Chinese Empire has long cut off our country's supply of medicines, and we have no way to treat it."
Marshal Pern Xing frowned and sat back on the chair and said, "Why is this disease? Is it a conspiracy of the Chinese army?"
Aland shook his head and said, "I'm not sure about this, but during the war, many corpses didn't have time to be buried. If they let them rot in the air, it would be easy to produce viruses. The virus can be spread through the air, and plagues will easily form.
Especially the plague, they can be spread through wild rats that eat dead human flesh. Although there is an epidemic in the army of the Chinese Empire, they have sufficient antibiotic reserves, which is not comparable to us." For real medical knowledge,
Bostonians also have only a few understandings. Because of the limitations of the Chinese Empire, there are few people in Boston who have truly studied medicine in the Chinese Empire, so their abilities are quite limited.
Pan Xing sighed, "Is there no remedy? We cannot control the spread of this plague?"
Aland pondered for a moment, and suddenly said in a deep voice: "Yes, but it is quite cruel, and the price to be paid is also quite high."
A fierce light flashed in Pan Xing's eyes: "I don't care about that much. As long as I can control the plague, I have to bear no matter how much the price."
A few days later, a city-wide search began. All those who had started to have fever were concentrated in the slums in the south city, which had been completely cleared. Five barbed wires were drawn around the city, and quicklime was sprinkled on the ground.
There is only entry and not exit inside, and a strict blockade is carried out.
All the sick people were sent in, even the soldiers and officers were no exception, and the sent people were never able to come out alive again. In order to prevent cross-infection, they could live longer, those sick people
The lighter people quickly stacked the dead bodies and burned and disinfected them. Soon the black smoke in the south of the city began to rise one after another, and the stinking smell of corpses could be smelled throughout the city. But soon the milder diseases were
People were no longer satisfied with burning bodies, and they threw those seriously ill and unable to move into the fire.
Amid the screams, the stench of the corpse in the city became stronger, but the number of patients continued to decrease, and more places could be freed up in the south of the city to accommodate new patients. Those who burned severely ill patients would soon be no longer
They could not crawl anymore, and they were burned to death by later light patients. Although this method was quite cruel, the plague was really effectively controlled, the number of people suffering from illness in the city began to decrease, and people's emotions gradually recovered.
.
Seeing that the method of quarantine was useful, Marshal Pershing immediately notified other cities where the epidemic occurred, and also used the method of quarantine to eliminate the epidemic. Davenport's quarantine lasted for a week before the effect was achieved, and Marshal Pershing, who saw the effect, was then
It's too late to inform other cities.
Although many cities tried their best to treat patients, they did not achieve much effect due to improper methods. Soon, the first people who started the disease died one after another. When the purple-black corpses appeared in front of people, some people with knowledge immediately recognized them.
This is the Black Death disease that made the people of the Western Mainland become more terrified.
When rumors of the Black Death spread among the public, everyone panicked. The Black Death was called a terminal illness. At this time, the Boston Empire was simply incurable. This very easily contagious disease, once it was infected.
It's hard to heal.
Faced with such a terrible disease, many people chose to escape from the epidemic area. Some people who were not sick began to flee with their families. When the local garrison received a notice from Marshal Pershing and began to set up an isolation epidemic area.
It was too late, and many people had already escaped, and they would bring this terrible disease to all parts of the country.
A plague that affected the entire Chicago industrial area destroyed Marshal Pershing's defense plan. During this rat plague, the troops were reduced by more than 30%, many of them were excellent grassroots commanders, and the people had already been isolated and fled.
There was not much left, the city was short of supplies, and even food and drinking water were quite tight. Facing such a situation, Marshal Pershing had to consider changing his strategy.
A week later, Marshal Pershing ordered Boston troops to withdraw from the industrial area, and they would evacuate to the rear Michigan Lake District, where they would continue to isolate until there was no plague, and where they could also replenish freshwater nearby,
And use fish from the lake to improve the food.
In addition to trying to retreat strategically to preserve his strength, Marshal Pershing also wanted to use the plague in the city to paralyze the Chinese army and let them get infected with this terrible disease to resolve the opponent's offensive. Unfortunately, he made a mistake again.
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