In the evening, in the camp outside Shaoling City, countless smokes gradually dissipated, and curfew was about to begin. Soldiers were forbidden to move around at will, and fire was not allowed to be fired at will. However, the camp, which should have gradually become quiet, coughs sounded from time to time.

This cough was not heard from a tent somewhere. Many tents were coughing, some were coughing very simply, some were coughing with phlegm, while some were coughing very heavily, as if they were to cough out all their lungs.

Zhang Yan, who was leading the troops between the camps, seemed to be infected by the coughing sounds around him, and he coughed a few times from time to time, and the soldiers following him were also coughing from time to time.

Zhang Yan was responsible for the patrol patrol in the first half of the night. Of course, what he had to inspect was the camp where his troops were stationed. The official army camp lasted for more than ten miles. Even if he didn't sleep all night, he would walk around the outer edge of the camp for a while and it would be dawn.

As night is approaching, the generals will supervise the extinguishing of the camps in various camps to prevent the unattended fire from igniting the tents and causing fire to burn the camps. Therefore, in addition to the necessary lighting flames, Zhang Yan will take people to drink as long as there is a ray of light.

However, when a torch appeared outside the tent in front of him and someone was making noise, he did not yell loudly, but signaled his subordinates to let him go as he did.

One person held a torch, and two people carried a stretcher, followed by another person holding a torch. The group advanced along the tent road and passed by Zhang Yan's team. On the stretcher was a soldier with a severe cough, with a haggard face and blood on the corners of his mouth.

I cough and bleeding, and my life will be in the near future.

This thought flashed through Zhang Yan's heart. He was about to carry the patient to the team in the isolation camp to walk away. He led his subordinates to continue moving forward. After walking a few steps, someone was carrying the patient torch and carrying the patient by.

Not long after, the third team carried the patient's team by.

Then there is the fourth team and the fifth team.

In one stick of incense, Zhang Yan had witnessed ten patients being carried away. The camp where it should be quiet was coughing continuously, and there was also a crying sound. Although the crying was very gentle, Zhang Yan still heard it.

Crying will affect the emotions of other soldiers. If it were in the past, no one would be allowed to cry for no reason in the military camp. However, the situation is different now, and Zhang Yan cannot take people to stop him.

An epidemic broke out in the military camp, with a large range. Many soldiers fell ill, some coughed violently, some had diarrhea, diarrhea, and even bloody stools. Because the symptoms were different, it could not be said to be a plague, but it could be said to be a generalized epidemic.

Many diseases can cause coughing, so it is hard to say what kind of disease a person who coughs suffers from, but diarrhea, diarrhea, and bloody stools indicate that these people have dysentery and are afraid they cannot be cured.

Dysentery is usually caused by eating unclean food and drinking unclean water. This is not a rare disease in the military, but if there is a large-scale outbreak of dysentery, it means that there is a problem with the water source.

As General Yitong, Zhang Yan knew that his side sent people to patrol the Lishui River every day to beware of someone throwing dead poultry and livestock into the water to pollute the water source. During this period, his side had not found any floating corpses floating on the river.

But today, some cavalry found that the river water smelled when drinking horses. It was about thirty miles upstream of Lekou. The soldiers then fished out many stenched vessels from that river, which seemed to contain feces.

It is obvious that the enemy dropped the feces in the upper reaches of the river, allowing the officers and soldiers in the Shaoling area to drink the "dung water" that had been drunk for a long time.

This situation should have been discovered earlier, but the cavalry who patrolled the river surface every day only paid attention to the river surface. They never thought of getting off the horse and smelling the river water. Until today, when drinking horses, the mounts were unwilling to drink water, which made the soldiers suspicious and later discovered the truth.

But it was too late, because everyone had drunk so many days of feces and had already fallen into a large area of ​​illness.

Zhang Yan knew a shocking number. At least half of the people in the official army had coughed, had diarrhea, and diarrhea to varying degrees. If this continues, about five or six people will die due to the epidemic.

In other words, the more than 100,000 people at Lekou outside Shaoling City may die of at least half of them due to illness!

The war is no longer possible. In order to avoid chaos in the morale of the army, only a few generals know about the pollution of the upper river section, and tomorrow, the troops will be withdrawn no matter what.

The infected soldier is seriously ill and can no longer get up. The soldiers who are not so ill are unable to shoot arrows and tremble with their knives or spears, not to mention that their stomachs are rumbling every once in a while, so where can they fight?

The enemy established a camp in the south. Once the other party noticed that the epidemic had indeed occurred on its own, the official army could not retreat even if they wanted to. The army of more than 100,000 troops now had little combat power, and was just a native chicken and a treasure.

Can only make a quick decision and withdraw immediately

Thinking of this, Zhang Yan lamented in his heart that the imperial army was heading south in a mighty way, but the momentum was quite large. As a result, the troops suddenly made no progress outside Xuanhu City and were attacked one after another. After several months of hard work, they were about to end up in a bleak situation.

At the beginning, the situation was very good, and it was reversed just a few months later. The imperial army was defeated one after another, and the prime minister fell ill. The situation was a little bad. Zhang Yan couldn't help but feel worried about the future development of the situation.

A night wind blew towards him, Zhang Yan felt a little chill, and suddenly his throat itched. He quickly covered his mouth with his hands and started coughing again. This time, the cough was very severe. Seeing this, his subordinates rushed forward to greet him: "General, is it important? Should I let the military doctor take a look?"

"It's okay, it's okay."

Zhang Yan led his subordinates forward and continued patrolling the camp. When no one noticed, he spread his hands and looked at the palm of his palm in the light of light and darkness.

There is bloodshot phlegm in the palm of the hand.

‘It’s okay, after I get Yingzhou, there will be a famous doctor who can cure the disease...’

Zhang Yan thought so, looking forward to withdrawing troops as soon as possible. He listened to the coughing sounds in his ears, and his mood became increasingly depressed. At this time, the golden crow fell and the last trace of afterglow disappeared on the horizon.

As night fell, it was pitch black all around. I don’t know how long it took, but after Zhang Yan finished his second round of patrol, he looked up at the stars in the sky, and was about to sigh and sigh, but he saw that the sky was cut by countless meteors.

There were warning horns sounding from arrow towers everywhere. Countless rockets flew into the air outside the camp and then fell into the camp, like fireflies flying all over the sky, dazzling.

A tide of thunder sounded on the south side of the camp, which was the thunder that was throwing by the enemy, constantly exploding.

The enemy actually launched an attack shortly after nightfall.

......

The camp that stretched for more than ten miles had turned into a sea of ​​fire at this time, and the fire lights soared into the sky and reflected in the middle of the night sky. Countless figures disappeared in the fire. Countless figures rushed to the river, rushing to cross the river with floating bridges, and then most of them fell into the river, struggling for a moment and then disappeared.

Dozens of cavalry rushed out of the sea of ​​fire and rushed straight to the floating bridge. They rushed forward despite the crowds on the bridge. Even if these soldiers who fled on foot were friendly troops, they could not stop their determination to escape.

The marching chief Cao Jingsong rushed north under the desperate protection of his troops. The enemy attacked at night, and his side collapsed instantly, and the situation was over.

The official army camp stretched for more than ten miles, with more than 100,000 troops. As a result, more than half of the soldiers are now infected with the disease. Many people coughed up blood and died of bloody stools. Even the alive soldiers could still move, and many people could no longer take up weapons to fight. Such a war could not continue. Will they wait to die if they didn't leave?

When the enemy attacked the camp, Cao Jingsong happened to fall asleep. The opponent came too quickly and his side collapsed too quickly, so he caught him off guard. In a hurry, he didn't even have time to wear the Mingguang Armor and did not wear the pants. The enemy cavalry had already broken into his camp.

What else can you do except run at this time?

The sound of horse hooves rose again, and dozens of cavalry rushed across the floating bridge and chased Cao Jingsong and his party. The soldiers running around along the way were knocked down by them and trampled into a pool of bloody and bloody beaches.

One escaped and one chased, among the chaotic army, the speed continued to change, the distance between the two sides continued to approach, the pursuers continued to shoot arrows, and Cao Jingsong's troops continued to fall.

Xue Shixiong looked at the prey in front of him and couldn't help but lick his lips, then pulled out an arrow, and began to aim.

Hunting is very interesting, and the prey turns from tigers and wolves into enemies, which is even more interesting. If you can take the head of a general in the chaos, it is the ultimate pursuit of a warrior.

Xue Shixiong felt that the enemy general who had not worn a bag was probably the first-level general of the marching general. Even if it was not, it would not be much different, so he had to decide the head of the enemy general.

The distance between the two sides was about thirty steps closer and no longer shortened. Xue Shixiong stared at the enemy general running in the front, but he never fired his bow: there were at least five people blocking him and the target.

Although the positions of these five enemy cavalry have been changing, they have always blocked the pursuits. Xue Shixiong rushed to the front of his team, blocking these people's shooting circles, and never had the chance to aim at the enemy generals.

It is said that arrows go straight, and now the enemy will be blocked by someone. Unless the arrow shot out can turn, where will it hit the opponent?

So, let the arrow turn the corner!

Xue Shixiong bent his bow and arrows, and used a special technique to spread them. The feather arrow roared out, turned a corner, drew a graceful arc and bypassed the five cavalrymen, and shot the back of the heads of the enemy general in the front.

Cao Jingsong was shot in the back of his head, and his eyes fell from his horse. The followers were shocked and they all ordered their horses to save the Lord. The rest turned their horses and faced the pursuers who were rushing towards him. The two cavalrymen collided together, and their figures swayed in the flames.

......

The central army flag fell down with a loud bang, and the soldiers cheered one after another. In the fire, King Yuwen of Xiyang bent his bow and arrow and aimed at a wooden stake behind half of the flagpole. In order to avoid accidents, he had asked Zhang Yu to "clear the field".

The arrow shot in a straight line was Yuwen Wen's initial understanding, but when he saw Zhang Dingfa's archery technique, he couldn't help but be stunned: arrows can turn.

After observing Zhang Ding's actions of firing the "bending arrow", Yu Wenwen was able to use "science" to understand this incredible archery technique: after bent the bow and put the bow string, just let the bow string be placed to one side and release a biased force on the arrow, and the effect of "bending arrow" can be achieved.

In other words, those beginners with half a bucket of water will often shoot "bending arrows" because of the incorrect posture of scattering bow strings. However, it is not so easy to shoot "bending arrows" consciously and shoot accurately.

This kind of archery is very beautiful, but it is limited in actual combat. First, the effective distance is close, which is about thirty steps; secondly, the lethality of the arrow is reduced and can only deal with armor-free targets.

Therefore, this kind of archery is useless for Yu Wen Wen, but after changing his thinking, it is a must-learn skill for picking up girls, such as using it to rescue hostages and to exaggerate the favorability of the hostage relatives (beauties).

As for killing people on the battlefield...

Everyone is wearing armor and trousers, how is that possible?

Yuwen Wen thought so, then let go of the bowstring. The arrow from the string turned a corner, and flew around half of the flagpole toward the wooden stake behind it, but the wooden stake was inserted into it - this arrow left the target.

"The king is good at archery!"

Ning Changzhen, who was standing beside him, was amazed. It was the first time he had seen such an archery technique. Although Yuwen Wen did not hit the wooden stake, Ning Chang was really impressed by the arrow that could turn.

"Oh, the shot missed, the shot missed."

Yuwen Wen handed the bow to Zhang Yu, feeling a little disappointed. Looking at the sea of ​​fire around him, he sighed that he could not lead the troops to charge himself. His soldiers were all killing the enemy, but as the commander, he could not run around.

Ning Changzhen led his clan soldiers to gather around Yuwen Wen. He was responsible for protecting the King of Xiyang tonight, and did not dare to be careless. Looking at the battlefield that looked like daytime, he couldn't help but fascinated: "King, our army may be able to kill and kill most of the enemy in this battle?"

"That's right, but this is not enough, haha." Yuwen Wen smiled, "This night attack will definitely wipe out more than 100,000 enemy troops!"

If someone else said this, Ning Chang really didn't believe it, but since it was Yuwen Wen said it, he would have to believe it even if he didn't believe it. In this battle, the King of Xiyang generals put all his troops into battle, and even the guest troops from Lingnan were no exception, in order to annihilate the enemy in one battle.

But someone always has to protect King Xiyang to ensure safety, so the unlucky Ning Changzhen drew the lottery and could only follow King Xiyang to watch the battle.

Seeing his own troops sweeping the enemy camp like chopping melons and vegetables, Ning Changzhen was very excited. This was the first time he had seen such a large battle and for the first time he saw how big a military camp with more than 100,000 people was.

However, no matter how many enemy soldiers are, they are all native chickens and tiles in front of the King of Xiyang!

......

To the north of Lekou, on the banks of the Rushui River, a large number of defeated soldiers were fleeing north. The marching chief Lu Ji turned his head to look south. Looking at the night sky that looked like daytime, he couldn't help but feel sad: the army with more than 100,000 troops would be defeated if it was defeated. It was so miserable.

However, even if the enemy does not attack tonight, our side will collapse sooner or later. After all, the outbreak of the disease in the military camp, and half of the soldiers who died of illness may have to be killed. How can this battle continue?

We can only escape to Xingzhou as soon as possible and organize the defense line as soon as possible. As for Yecheng, we should not go, so as not to prevent the patients in the defeated soldiers from spreading the epidemic to the defenders. At that time, the troops rushed out of Jingzhou, Shannan, and the situation in Henan will have no room for recovery.

When Lu Ji thought of the patient, he was shocked. He decided to warn civil and military officials along the way that when the defeated soldiers were contained, they must be strictly checked and quarantined, and those who were sick must be isolated, otherwise the disease would spread, which would not be a joke.

Just as we were thinking, the sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded in front of us, and there were shadows full of black shadows, as if cavalry were approaching.

At this time, it is unlikely that reinforcements will come, because it is too late, so it must be the enemy!

However, where did the enemy come from? Could it be that it was a roundabout way from the south?

Within a few breaths, several thoughts flashed through Lu Ji's mind. Sure enough, the cavalry approaching opposite began to shoot arrows and shot down his soldiers who were caught off guard. He made up his mind and ordered his subordinates to blow the horn.

The brave one wins when they meet on a narrow road. He does not believe that his side, whose desire to survive, will be intercepted by this cavalry.

The sound of the trumpet sounded, and the one-eyed Yang Su shook his spirit and led his cavalry to charge. He was ordered by the King of Xiyang to detour to the north of Shaoling, intercepted the enemy's defeated troops, and attacked the enemy camp from the north.

Although this move is quite difficult, he still did it.

Yang Su didn't know what method Yuwen Wen used to actually make the enemy lose its combat effectiveness. Now that friendly forces have attacked the enemy camp, his hundreds of cavalry appeared in the north of the enemy camp and could launch a fatal blow.

He finally waited for the opportunity to make great contributions.
Chapter completed!