In this era, there were no telephones, no telegraphs, and no Internet, so there were not many options for transmitting information.
Especially for complex information, the only option is to deliver it through people.
Jiang Wan has almost isolated his Zhenjiang Fort from everyone's sight, so it is normal for him to not know the situation over there with the mercenary group.
It's normal to not know the situation in Liaoyang.
It would be even more normal if we don't know the situation on the Tartar side.
Just as Huang Taiji didn't know the situation on Ming's side, in fact, Huang Taiji didn't care about the situation on Ming's side at this moment. He had been almost thrown into confusion by this sudden plague.
The plague broke out in Daikin's territory almost immediately after the beginning of spring. Some people said that this was because of the plague brought back from the grasslands by Daijin's cavalry expedition to Chahar last year. However, the scholars in the library told Huang Taiji,
This plague has nothing to do with the Chahar tribe. In fact, the Chahar tribe was implicated because of Dai Jin's troops.
The plague broke out from Daijin, and Daikin's cavalry brought the plague to the grassland. However, because the grassland was vast and sparsely populated, the plague had not had time to spread. People infected with the plague had already been infected by the plague.
died.
Daikin is different. Not only has it developed and expanded over the years, there are a large number of densely populated towns in his territory. Even a large number of slaves have been captured and brought to Daijin to imitate the Ming Dynasty for reclamation and planting. These densely populated places have created
The spread of the plague provided sufficient breeding ground.
The population of one town after another was almost wiped out, and those who managed to escape brought panic and plague to other places. Witch doctors and shamans tried all kinds of methods but could not stop the spread. In a short period of time,
It seems that no place in the entire Dajin Khanate is safe. Even in Shengjing, the flow of people on the streets has become much thinner. Once people leave the city, it is almost impossible to enter the city again.
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Government orders and military orders were still sent from Shengjing to every corner of the Great Golden Khanate, but the speed of feedback was much slower than usual. After all, Huang Taiji did not trust his own shamans too much, but adopted the advice of civil servants.
The suggestions of the readers adopted the Ming Dynasty's consistent approach to dealing with this extremely terrible plague.
Isolate first, then admit and treat.
There is no need for admission and treatment. Judging from the feedback from various places, once infected with this plague, there is almost no cure. Only a few lucky people can survive it. Therefore, the so-called admission and treatment is just to clean up the mess afterwards.
The only good news is that people infected with this plague will die in as little as the same day or at most within a few days. As long as these people infected with the plague are isolated, when these people die, the plague will be over.
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To be precise, Huang Taiji was right to adopt the method of the scholars in the library, which also fully reflected his courage. After the plague broke out among the people, the number of people lost by the Great Golden Khanate was simply immeasurable.
Perhaps, the strength and advantages that the Great Golden Khanate has accumulated so hard over the years will be completely lost as a result.
However, Huang Taiji still did this. It is better for a strong man to have his wrist cut off than to lose his life. And he firmly believed that as long as his elite Eight Banners suffered little losses in the plague, the national power lost due to the plague would soon be lost.
Will make up for it.
The general direction is right. The only difference with Jiang Wan is that Jiang Wanqing clearly knew the harm of this plague and that the plague was spread through rats and fleas, but Huang Taiji did not know that his civil servants also
have no idea.
This made the plague in the Great Golden Khanate begin to become endless.
Often the plague in one place has just ended, and almost all the people there are dead, but suddenly it breaks out again somewhere nearby.
At the beginning, his army was able to maintain order in the disaster area. However, when people in the army began to be infected with the plague, once the plague broke out somewhere, the army's first choice was often to stay away immediately.
This place, and then build a defense line far away to ensure that no one in this area can escape.
People in the territory can die at will, but the army must not suffer losses.
Even if the servant army suffers losses, the elite Eight Banners must not suffer losses.
This is Huang Taiji's decision during this plague.
This caused a large number of Eight Banners elites to leave the areas they usually controlled, leave their bases, and begin to move closer to Shengjing and the towns and forts around Shengjing. If it is said that in the past few years, Shengjing, as the headquarters of Daijin, had never encountered
If there is any threat, that's because Daijin's soldiers and horses have always been attacking instead of defending, and there is no need for much defense at all.
Well, this plague really made this sturdy nation adopt absolute defense in their capital. Under such defense, no enemy can invade his capital - including this plague!
The garrison of Gushan Fort was not among the troops concentrated towards Shengjing.
After secret talks with the Overseas Prosecution Department, the garrison of Gushan Fort was not Dorgon or Abatai, but had long been replaced by a little-known Eight Banners general, while the thousands of people stationed at Gushan Fort were
Most of the elite soldiers have been transferred during last year's expedition to Chahar. The strength of the garrison at Gushan Fort is now completely different from that when Abatai and Dorgon were the garrison generals.
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Among the garrison of less than 3,000 people, at least 90% were servant troops transferred from various places, of which the Mongols accounted for more than half. There were only one or two hundred Eight Banners soldiers, accounting for 10%.
But after someone was found to be infected with the plague in the military fort, the little-known guard general took a rare step and passed the news about the plague in the military fort where he was stationed to the nearest wall.
In addition to the Wall Army Fort, he immediately sealed the Gushan Fort, cutting off everyone's way of escaping from the military fort.
Of course, this includes himself.
And this is what happened a month ago, and it is also the reason why in the past month, the Gushanbao camp of the Overseas Town Fusi has been guarding them tightly, but no enemy troops in Gushanbao have been found to have made any move.
Regardless of his position and camp, although this little-known guard is not known for his bravery, loyalty, or even his origin, his actions are truly worthy of the word "hero"
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Jiang Wan didn't know about this guard until much later, because the Manchu name had a weird pronunciation, and he heard about it from a Han, so he wasn't even sure of the other person's name.
But he was still lamenting and expressed his admiration for the defender.
Any nation should have its own heroes and should remember its heroes, even if its heroes are in the eyes of the enemy, even if they are devils!