A stench filled the garden. Some soldiers and Ding Yi pinched their noses and gathered around to poke their heads into the well. Liu Zhang led Hao Sheng and Fazheng to separate the crowd, and Aguda quickly came over to stop him.w w w . cread
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"Lord, don't come close. A rotting corpse is unlucky."
Sang Ye was also in the courtyard. When he saw Liu Zhang, he hurriedly saluted and said, "My lord, please forgive me. My husband's family wanted to drive away the livestock when they left, and these two pigs fell in by mistake. I have forgotten about this since you moved in."
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The dead pig fell into the well. It had been raining heavily and lightly for some time, and the dead pig was swollen. After the weather cleared up, there was water in the well, but I didn't feel anything. Until the sun shone in the past few days, the dry well was probably leaking, and the water was soaked.
After drying in the sun, the stench of the dead pig's corpse came out. After decades of brewing, the stench was particularly intense.
Liu Zhang shook his head, asked Sang Ye to get up, and said to Wang Xu: "What are you doing so stupidly? This smelly dry well is in the middle of the yard. Don't you want to sleep tonight?"
"Yes." Wang Xu quickly commanded the soldiers, wrapped a few rags around his mouth and nose, and hung up a soldier and a wooden barrel.
The dead pig was rotting into a state of disgrace in the well. It was covered with numb spots and white maggots. Even if the mouth and nose were tightly wrapped, the stench was overwhelming and it was completely impossible to breathe. The soldier just touched the dead pig skin with his saber.
, the dead pig carcass was cut open immediately, and the inside was like meat porridge, and the soldiers vomited it out on the spot.
Except for the skeleton, the pig's carcass was not in pieces but in lumps. The rotten meat could even flow. It was filled into a bucket and was hoisted up by the soldiers above. The stench suddenly spread, and it was close to the dry well.
The people forced him to retreat five or six steps away, and Liu Zhang also covered his mouth and nose with the white towel handed by the soldier.
"My lord." Aguda said to Liu Zhang: "These carrion is unlucky and must be handled with caution. The sun is shining brightly and the ground is damp. Whenever we in Wuxi encounter such a season, we will clean up the dead bodies near the village. This is
This is a rule left by our ancestors. These corpses have grievances. If they are not buried, natural disasters will occur. It is best to bury them in the soil, and not in the spring area, which will offend the earth gods."
"What's this mess?"
"My lord, you must not ignore the words of our ancestors." Aguda hurriedly bowed.
"Okay, got it."
Liu Zhang nodded. Although Aguda talked about a lot of gods and ghosts, isn't it just a dead body that can easily cause diseases? The ancients did not understand the principles of disease, so they had to explain it with some ghosts and gods. These feudal superstitions are still very
Makes sense.
Wang Xu was asked to pass on the order. At this time, the rope was tightened three times. The soldiers on the ground quickly pulled up the soldiers in the well. As soon as the soldier who retrieved the body came out of the well, he pulled off the cloth and gasped.
He quickly waved his hands and said: "I can't do it anymore, I can't do it anymore, change someone, change someone."
It took five people to finally clean up the well after two dead pigs. Sang Ye also asked the kitchen staff to bring a few buckets of boiling water and poured them into the dry well, thus suppressing the stench.
Aguda took away five soldiers. Liu Zhang and Fazheng walked out of the yard. They took a deep breath. Liu Zhang said: "This Jingxiang area is really not as good as Shuzhong. The humidity is too heavy. When the sun shines, the water vapor that rises will kill some animals."
It is indeed easy to get sick when the germs are brought along, so we have to ask each battalion to take precautions to avoid being acclimatized and the city not being captured, which will increase the number of sick people."
"Lord, what are germs?"
"Ahem, don't pay attention to the words of the sorcerer." When Liu Zhang said this, he suddenly remembered something: "By the way, we suffered heavy casualties when we attacked the city. What about the corpses of soldiers who died in battle, and the corpses of those Jingzhou soldiers who attacked the camp?
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Fa Zhengdao: "The Jingzhou soldiers buried them on the spot. The bodies of our soldiers were wrapped in straw mats and horse leather and buried shallowly. They will be transported back to their hometown after the battle."
"No." Liu Zhang frowned, thought for a moment, and said resolutely: "Bury them all on the spot."
"This is not possible, Lord." Fazheng said worriedly: "Although soldiers have died on the battlefield from ancient times to the present, and most of them are buried in green mountains and green waters, but that was under unavoidable circumstances. If we can't capture Xiangyang, that's all. If we can successfully
After Xiangyang is captured, these soldiers should be buried in their hometowns. If they are buried now, I am afraid it will chill the soldiers."
"I would rather make them feel cold than to die in vain. When the rotten smell of those corpses spreads out and causes a plague, I'm afraid we won't be able to withdraw our troops."
Fazheng looked at Liu Zhang in surprise and lost his voice: "What did my lord say? Human corpses will cause plague?"
Plague has always been a nightmare that plagues mankind. It has never stopped from ancient times to the present. Plagues have broken out in all dynasties before the Three Kingdoms, especially in the late Qin Dynasty and the late Western Han Dynasty. Not long ago, when Sun Ce pacified Jiangdong, there was also an outbreak in Jiangdong.
The plague was so severe that the miracle doctor Hua Tuo personally came to Zhang Zhongjing to find a prescription to curb the plague.
How could the ancients be ignorant of the fact that the ancients talked about the plague? However, in the Three Kingdoms era, people did not know the cause of the plague. Almost all of them, like the barbarian doctor Aguda, thought it was a natural disaster, let alone the method of prevention and treatment, like Zhang Zhongjing.
There are very few people who love science.
In plague areas, only some charlatan warlocks will be invited to perform practices. This is also the main reason why every outbreak of ancient plague will bring about a catastrophe.
"So the corpses of soldiers must be buried. Especially now, when the water vapor is heavy and the sun is bright, the corpses will die faster, the concentration of the air is also high, and the spread will be more violent. Now it is issued that once an animal corpse is found, it must be cleaned up immediately
"Soldiers are strictly prohibited from drinking raw water and eating raw food. Once a soldier is found to be unwell, with symptoms such as body sweating, flushed face, trembling limbs, etc., he will be isolated on the spot and handed over to a military doctor if confirmed."
Liu Zhang took a deep breath: "Execute him on the spot."
Fazheng frowned, but after recalling Liu Zhang's words in his mind, he suddenly looked at Liu Zhang and murmured: "The carcass of an animal?"
Liu Zhang looked at Fazheng's expression and was stunned for a moment. Suddenly, an idea came to him. When they looked at each other, they knew they coincided with each other.
Both of them were a little surprised by their own thoughts, but once they came up, they couldn't get rid of them.
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Under the scorching sun, Sichuan soldiers dug long pits in the fields, dug out the corpses of their companions, and buried them all neatly in the pits. Both the buried soldiers and the watching soldiers were filled with sadness, even though they all
I knew from the beginning that this was the fate of a soldier.
After an expedition of thousands of miles from Yizhou, they were unable to return to their homeland and were buried in a foreign land. Even the most basic "returning the body in horse leather" could not be done. Liu Zhang and Fazheng did not tell them the reason. The soldiers' faces were full of loneliness, and there was only a long pit.
The one-foot-high stone tablet outside can prove that thousands of dead soldiers were buried here.
But before long, these soldiers will lament how lucky they are, both the soldiers buried here and themselves.
Liu Zhang and Fazheng climbed up the hill again. This time they did not look at the ancient city defenses of Xiangyang. Instead, they looked at the mountains on the other side, at the meandering Han River and the primitive jungles of the remaining mountains of Daba Mountain, which were suffering from the scorching sun.
The scorching water seems to contain countless secrets. The Han River twists and turns, and the mist evaporates. It is divided into two parts in ancient Xiangyang. One goes around the city and surrounds the city, and the other goes through the city. Whenever there is a heavy rain,
, flooding flooded the city.
Liu Zhang watched this scene for a long time, until his skin was baked by the sun like a ripe taro. Fazheng said to Liu Zhang: "My lord, have you thought about it?"
Liu Zhang's eyes looked into the distance. Under the ancient Xiangyang City in the distance, the Sichuan army, under the command of Zhang Renyanyan, launched a fierce attack on the city from the east gate and north gate. The soldiers looked like ants before Liu Zhang's eyes, and the ladder was knocked over by the wood.
Turning over, a group of soldiers above fell down along with the ladder, and Liu Zhang could not see their broken bones and bleeding.
The war raged from sunrise to midday. The Sichuan army withdrew its troops and returned to camp. The Sichuan army soldiers collected the corpses under the city wall and sacrificed thousands of lives. The city was still not captured. What awaited the Sichuan army soldiers in the afternoon was still a fierce battle.
After ten days of offensive and defensive battles, the ancient Xiangyang city was beaten to pieces, but the new soldiers who defended the city gradually became more proficient under the training of actual combat. With Xu Shu's command and the cooperation of strong crossbows, it became increasingly difficult for Liu Zhang to see
The hope of taking over the city within a month.
"Let's persuade him to surrender first." Liu Zhang sighed, his tone slow and heavy.
Fazheng raised his head and glanced at Liu Zhang, silently looking at the ashes of ancient Xiangyang City.
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"Report."
In the ancient Xiangyang City, Xu Shu was discussing with the generals how to defend against the enemy. The Jingzhou soldiers had suffered heavy casualties in the past few days, and the isolated city could not be defended. Xu Shu was thinking of ways to open up the corridor or open a new corridor. Only Xiangyang and
In ancient Xiangyang, mutual support could truly ensure that the city was not lost.
Xu Shu had already made a plan. When the rainy season changed, the Sichuan army would not be able to capture Gu Xiangyang. When the heavy rain came, it would be even less likely to shake the city. The only thing to worry about was the period in between. Even if it was rainy, it would be difficult to guarantee that the Sichuan army would not be able to capture it.
The city, not to mention the scorching sun now, has already dried up the water on the city walls.
After defending the city for several days, those soldiers who had no battle experience suffered heavy casualties and the defenders became weaker and weaker. Xu Shu couldn't help but worry.
Liu Zhang and Fazheng were worried that they would not be able to capture the city within a month, and Xu Shu was also worried that they would lose the city within a month.
He worked hard every day, checking for loopholes in the city defense at any time, training soldiers and thinking of countermeasures, and also dealing with the generals in the army who were dissatisfied with him. He rarely slept since the rain stopped. He was thirty-one or twelve years old, and the bags under his eyes were as swollen as if he were forty or fifty years old.
Generally, the eyes are bloodshot.
Xu Shu worked harder than Liu Zhang and Fazheng combined.
Just as Xu Shu was drawing the new corridor lines, a soldier came in and said: "Report, the Sichuan Army envoy requested to see Xu Shu's military advisor and is waiting for orders below the city."
"Messenger from the Sichuan Army?" Xu Shu frowned, and Li Yan and other Jingzhou generals were a little surprised.
"Hahaha." Suddenly a sudden laughter came from the corner. A general with a round face and a bulging belly was eating barbecue slices on the table in the corner, laughing loudly and swallowing a piece of meat.
He said loudly: "Liu Zhang is scared, my general is here to take charge, and the Sichuan bandits have been defeated one after another. Liu Zhang is here to negotiate peace."
Xu Shu glanced at the general. He would not believe that someone like Liu Zhang would come to negotiate peace at this time. (To be continued.)