Fernando finally did not argue with the governor. Under the strict gaze of the governor, several Austrian soldiers followed Fernando, and these soldiers would monitor Fernando at any time to ensure that the sheriff would not do anything stupid.
Fernando could understand the Governor's concerns, so he had to silently accept the Governor's arrangements.
The subsequent events did develop in the direction planned by the Governor. During the period when the relief was lost, the refugees also started to cause trouble. However, under the iron-blooded suppression of the Governor, a large number of refugees became dead souls under the gun, and other refugees could only endure the suffering.
A few days later, when the Governor revealed the news that he wanted to recruit soldiers among these refugees, all the refugees were in a state of excitement. Unlike the difficulties encountered in the forced recruitment before, almost all the young and strong refugees took the initiative to swarm towards the recruitment site. Seeing these refugees rushing towards the recruitment site despite their skinny skin and bones, the Governor laughed.
"Unpardon is untouchable, a bunch of bad bones!"
After the Governor said this, the Austrian officials around him flattered him, and Fernando was the only one who remained silent.
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The young and strong Polish defending the city instantly expanded from 20,000 to more than 30,000. The joining of these people did indeed bring inconvenience to the attack of the Pu army. Although these refugees did not know how to cooperate in the fight, they still firmly defended Krakow by relying on the advantage of the number of people.
"What's going on? What are the Poles in the city doing!"
Faced with such a situation, Blüchel was naturally angry. You should know that he hoped that the resistance organizations in the city could help the Prussian army create gaps in the city of Krakow, but the Poles encountered by the Prussian army were more and more desperate. Even though they had no guns and only simple sticks and other weapons in their hands, they still dared to rush up and fight against the fully armed Prussian soldiers. This increased the casualties that should not have occurred to a certain extent.
Later, when the Polish resistance organization informed Blüchel of the Austrian Governor of the city, Blüchel calmed down. He had to admit that the Austrian Governor did have one, at least it was very unique in the control of people's hearts.
But Blüchel was not prepared to admit defeat like this. His target was Krakow, and the military department also issued a very strict order to him. That is, he had to conquer Austrian Poland in a short time and then send troops to Silesia.
"No, it's absolutely impossible to continue like this. Although the Poles are not professional soldiers, their combat effectiveness will be even more terrifying than our soldiers under the driving force of survival instinct!"
And at this moment, Blücher's staff officer walked to him with a very depressed expression and said:
"God General, I have to tell you a bad news, that is, we found patients suspected of suffering from plague among the captured young Polish people...."
Blücher's head suddenly buzzed, "The plague, what a terrible name."
The first time Europeans saw the power of the plague was when the Mongols advanced westward. Facing the stubborn enemy, the Mongolian cavalry often threw the plague-affected corpses into the city with catapults. As time passed, the unpredictable plague often replaced the Mongols to kill everyone in a whole city.
In the Middle Ages, diseases such as plague were plundered many times on the European continent, and to a certain extent, the plague in Europe suffered a large-scale reduction in population.
Influenza, which is also an infectious disease as well as the plague, swept the whole world in 1918. In two years, the Spanish flu caused 1 billion infections, 25 million to 40 million deaths due to illness.
So when Blüchel learned that someone in the army had symptoms of plague, he could no longer calm down.
"What the hell is going on? Is the news sure!"
"Your Excellency General, after being diagnosed by the military doctor, these people are indeed suffering from the plague!"
Facing Blücher's angry face, although the staff officer was worried, he had to answer Blücher's question.
Blüchel was completely stunned on the spot.
The army has never been a clean place. How good can a group of men live in? Even though Prussia pays attention to the tidyness of the military camps, there are still many people who do not pay attention to hygiene in this era.
At this time, summer has entered, and summer is often the season for disease outbreaks. In this season, the activity of mosquitoes has contributed to the degree of disease erosion to a certain extent.
Blüchel hurriedly walked out of the camp and ran towards the wounded barracks not far away. At this moment, the Prussian wounded barracks looked like they were facing a great enemy. Under the influence of William, at least the Prussian doctors knew the meaning of the words "isolation and disinfection". Therefore, as soon as Blüchel entered the wounded barracks, he presented more than a dozen steaming pots in front of him, which were filled with water, and some gauze, knife and other items soaked inside.
Seeing Blüchel walk in, Tenster, the head of the injured barracks, quickly handed a white towel to Blüchel. After taking the towel, Blüchel covered his mouth and nose with the towel. It was obvious that the towel had just been cooked in a large pot. Although it had been cool for a while, the temperature of the towel was still very hot, but Blüchel could not care about so much at this moment.
"How is the situation?"
"God of General, I should say that this discovery is very fortunate for us. When we discovered it, there were only three people infected, and less than ten people were added in the next few days, so it should be controllable now, but now it has entered summer. As the temperature rises, the number of mosquitoes increases, and I am not sure whether the plague will break out!"
After hearing Tennestine's words, Blücher called out a secretly thankfulness, and then he asked:
"Did you find out what exactly happened to be infected with the plague?"
"God General, according to the patient's memories and our investigation, the plague was caused by the prisoner-of-war camp. Because of the food problems in the prisoner-of-war camp, some prisoners of war caught the mice in the camp and ate them. These eaten mice were the source of the plague!"
Hearing that the plague was caused by eating rats, Blücher wanted to hang all these greedy prisoners of war.
Although Prussia did not abuse these prisoners of war, the prisoners of war were prisoners of war, and their food was naturally not as good as that of the Prussian soldiers. Blüchel could only guarantee that these people would not starve to death, but could not guarantee that they could eat meat. So these prisoners of war put their ideas on the heads of mice.
But can mice be eaten? Of course, mice can be eaten. For some prisoners of war, rat meat is a rare and delicious food.
But can the rats outside the city of Krakow be the same as those in other areas? In order to resist the attack of the Prussian army, the Austrians implemented a policy of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields outside Krakow. Not only that, the water sources and pastures were also polluted to a certain extent by the Austrians.
Just imagine, how could those mice that live on polluted water sources not carry some bacteria? These mice usually appear in some of the dirtiest places. Over time, the bacteria on these mice are naturally quite powerful. How can they completely eliminate the bacteria on these mice meat just by putting these rat meat on the fire and roasting them?
"Immediately start slaughtering rats in the entire camp, and strengthen the management of the military camp. Those who are not hygienic, whether they are soldiers or prisoners of war, will slaughter me with twenty horse whips. The slaughtered rats will be concentrated in the south of the military camp with fire. From today on, everyone will eat cooked food, and even bread will be cooked in the pot before eating. If someone ignores the order, he will beat forty horse whips! I will conduct a random inspection later, and the punishment I found will be doubled!"
Blüchel's order was immediately issued to various camps, and today the Pudong army unexpectedly did not attack Krakow. In the Pudong army camp, both soldiers and prisoners of war were busy culling rats and tidying up their personal internal affairs. You should know that Blüchel said that he would conduct random inspections immediately, and those who were not as good as he wished would have to double the punishment.
Originally, twenty horse whips were a heavy punishment, and forty horse whips could definitely take off a layer of skin. If they doubled again, there would be absolutely nothing to say to slap people to death by eighty horse whips.
No one thinks Blüchel is joking. No one in Prussia, including William, dares to joke about military law. You should know that Frederick the Great made mistakes back then, but he led the military law to deal with them.
Under such circumstances, the first batch of hundreds of rats that were culled were soon transported to the south of the military camp, and the people transporting the corpses of these rats were all the strongest among the Pu Army soldiers. Of course, in each small carriage transporting the rats, there were several doctors and their assistants on duty. Each Pu Army division would be equipped with a team of doctors, with a number of between fifty and one hundred people. If an assistant was added, a division of the Pu Army would have at least nearly two hundred medical personnel.
This ratio may not be very good in later generations, but don’t forget that it is now the 18th century. It is a blessing that William attached great importance to military health in the 18th century. Otherwise, how could this scale be possible?
At first, Blüchel's order was boycotted in the prisoner-of-war camp, but after Blüchel took action to whip more than a dozen opposing prisoners of war on forty horse whips, the entire prisoner-of-war camp immediately mobilized. Although the prisoners were unwilling to give up the delicious food they received, no one was willing to learn about the power of the eighty horse whips again!