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Chapter 96 Zixiao crosses the river without leaving any trace behind

The most important thing at the beginning of malaria is to suppress panic.

Li Qi asked Ren Yang, who was accompanying the army, to issue a notice to the effect that our army had already prepared malaria pills when they were in Chengdu. The famous contemporary doctor Zhang Zhongjing personally prescribed and prepared the pills. He only needs to take them for a few days to recover. However, the dosage of the pills is not enough.

It is limited. If everyone does not strictly abide by the isolation system, causing more soldiers to be infected with malaria, the pills may not be enough to cure them. Therefore, for the health of you and others, please strictly abide by the prohibitions, and those who violate the orders will be executed.

I'm afraid that the trembling words in the first few lines are not as powerful as the last four words.

But the last four words are specifically used to summarize and reflect a tough attitude.

The isolation camp was built in a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides. There was only one exit, but it was guarded by the Liennu Battalion. Those infected soldiers must have been panicked, but under the suppression of power, they could only obey

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Fortunately, Li Qi quickly sent someone "Biejia Pills" to them, which made the infected soldiers feel a little more at ease - at least they really had the medicine, and they didn't have to wait to die, or in other words, they didn't have to go out to find death.

In the next few days, some more patients were sent to isolation camps one after another.

Within ten days, thousands of soldiers were quarantined.

This was the result of Li Qi's immediate coercive measures. If Cao's camp was replaced by 730,000 troops (leaving aside Cao Ren's 100,000 troops stationed in Jiangling), not only would it be slow to clean up, but the isolation camp would not be so easy to build.

It is still unclear whether Li Qi has such a tough attitude. It can be seen that malaria did play a big factor in Cao Cao's defeat at Chibi.

After experiencing the mushroom poisoning incident in Nanzhong, Li Qi was experienced in things like soldiers suddenly falling ill.

He decided to seduce Cao Ren.

Li Qi used his last plan to correct the enemy and sent some soldiers, pretending to be deserters who were afraid of malaria infection, to spread rumors near Jiangling, saying that the Shu army had suffered heavy casualties due to malaria and that the military camp had been in chaos.

Of course, these soldiers sent out were selected by officers at all levels. They were not only smart, but at least familiar, so they would never send back the malaria soldiers Cao Cao sent back.

Moreover, the malaria soldiers released by Cao Cao had been infected for a long time, and they had been traveling here for days, so the medicine had long been ineffective.

Cao Ren found out the news in Jiangling, but failed to confirm it, so he sent an agent across the river to understand the situation.

Within two days, I made a detailed report: "The Shu army is well-defended and it is difficult to sneak in. However, another strange thing was discovered."

Cao Ren asked: "What's the matter?"

Xi Zuo said: "Every night at midnight, a group of Shu troops carried cloth bags and threw them into newly dug holes by the river. The young ones risked their lives digging the holes and found that the bags were filled with soldiers who died of malaria.

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Cao Ren was overjoyed when he heard this: "The prime minister has a wonderful plan."

Xizuo was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, wasn’t it me who went to find out the news? Why should it be attributed to the Prime Minister?

It turned out that Cao Cao sent the young general who was infected with malaria to lead dozens of soldiers infected with malaria to sneak into the Shu army stationed in the public security area and send them the "blessings" of the cold winter.

At the same time, Cao Cao also asked Cao Ren to pay attention to the movements on the other side of the river. If there was an opportunity, he could send a general to make a surprise attack.

Cao Ren and the general Shi Chenjiao analyzed: The people sent by Prime Minister Cao could easily sneak into the enemy camp, but the people on their own side could not sneak in. From this, it can be seen that a major change must have occurred in the Shu military camp.

That's why defense and inspections have been strengthened.

Looking at the corpses they buried every night, there were thousands of them. This obviously did not include the soldiers who were sick but not dead.

It is conservatively estimated that close to tens of thousands of people in the Shu army were infected with malaria.

This was one-fifth of the police force, and Li Qi also had to dispatch some personnel to monitor the isolation camp and conduct daily inspections.

Calculated in this way, Li Qi could only devote 20,000 to 30,000 people to the battle, and most of them were panic-stricken people.

However, in order to prevent Fazheng from Zigui County from sneak attack, it was obviously impossible for Cao Ren to send out all Jiangling's 100,000 troops.

That night, Cao Ren summoned the generals to discuss matters and ordered Cao Chun and Niu Jin each to lead 10,000 men across the river to sneak attack the Shu army camp. Even if they could not capture Li Qi alive, they would still defeat the hidden danger south of Jiangling.

At the same time, on the other side of the river.

A group of soldiers carried cloth bags and buried them in the dug pit.

Everyone's face showed helplessness, but the military order was not to speak when throwing the bag, in case Cao Jun's spies found out the truth. Therefore, everyone could only hold it in.

But even if the soldier could hold back his words, the mountain next door couldn't hold it back. In the past few days, Nima almost emptied the mountain in order to fill the bag with stones.

The only corpses that were actually infected to death by malaria every day were only the top few, and the rest were all stones.

Li Qi said that this kind of life will not end until Cao Ren comes across the river.

If Cao Ren doesn't come back after a long time, then everyone should just exercise. Your body will be better and your ability to fight the epidemic will be stronger.

Finally, the bored Shu army saw the torches on the other side of the river drifting over like ghosts from the watchtower, and immediately reported it to Li Qi.

There have long been Liannu camp behind the piles of rubble on the river bank - these piles of rubble were dug out for the purpose of digging pits. It has simply reached the pinnacle of waste utilization.

When the troops of Cao Chun and Niu Jin disembarked from the east and west banks respectively, the crossbowmen of the companies on both sides of the bank set up their crossbow machines.

Huang Zhong raised his right arm and stared at Cao Jun who was coming ashore one after another without blinking. He thought silently in his heart: Get closer, get closer.

It's not that the range of the repeating crossbow is insufficient, but that it will be difficult to retrieve if it lands in the river.

Finally, at this moment, Huang Zhong pressed down with his right arm: "Let go!"

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!" The shadow of the crossbow was completely invisible in the dark night, but Cao Jun fell down amidst the screams.

Before all Cao's troops could land, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan each led an army to fight out.

After a round of ambush battle, the Huang and Wei troops each beheaded thousands of people. After the general Niu Jin also struggled to resist, Huang Zhong raised his sword and killed him, and his head was missing.

On the other side, Zhao Yun led Meng Huo and Shamoke to ambush Cao Chun and also achieved a great victory.

Cao Chun, who was on the boat, saw this and was not allowed to land. He quickly took advantage of the southeast wind to raise the sail and rowed straight towards the north shore.

The generals captured Cao Jun and seized countless weapons, and happily walked towards Li Qi's tent.

Meng Huo said carelessly: "If the southeast wind hadn't suddenly blown, I don't think Cao Chun would have been able to escape!"

Li Qi was startled when he heard this: Southeast wind?

He ran out of the camp under the stunned eyes of the generals, and looked carefully at the wind vane. It turned out to be a southeasterly wind.

"Quick, follow me up the mountain." Accompanied by Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao, Li Qi climbed to the top of the mountain and looked toward Wulin.

There seemed to be a faint hint of red trembling in the sky.

You can still vaguely hear the sound of drums and horns, and the shouting of people - of course, this is pure nonsense. But it does give Li Qi an immersive feeling that he has never experienced before.

He never thought that he would personally take part in one of the most famous and largest battles in history - the Burning of Red Cliff.

After a moment of emotion, Li Qi immediately issued the assembly order.

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