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Chapter 509: Observing Zhang Jiaos Army Management (1)

The Yellow Turban War is over.

The giant deer is the most violent of thieves, and the Yellow Turban War is over.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion in the world will surely come to an end.

Going south to Luan City, beside the main road, there was an endless stream of people in front of him. Liu Bei looked back at the boundless marching team, and before he knew it, there were nearly 150,000 people under his command.

This time, he was able to defeat the Yellow Turbans for their shocking first achievement. Recalling that when he left Zhuozhou, there were only a thousand people in attendance, Liu Bei thought about it as if in a dream.

The chaos in the world is over? What is left to do? Liu Bei is at a loss.

The entire rebel army and Zhang Jiao's troops returned to Nanluan City. Since there was a city in Nanluan, it was convenient to rest and reorganize.

Nanluan City has water, houses, and walls to defend it. In addition, the rebel camp is only more than ten miles away from Nanluan, so we went to Nanluan to rest and recuperate.

In just half a day, 150,000 people arrived in Nanluan.

The rebels were stationed outside the city, while the Yellow Turban Zhangjiao troops were stationed outside the city.

At that time, when the official army was attacking Nanluan, the Yellow Turbans and the official army fought fiercely for many days. The city was full of corpses, which had not been cleared away properly.

No one can enter the southern city. Outside the city, under the city walls and in the moats that protect the city, there are dead bodies. Even in the freezing weather, the stench of corpses still fills the city.

Li Mengxi went into the city for a trip, but the rancid smell made him sick. After walking halfway, he stopped going and waited until the city was cleaned up before entering the city.

When the rebel soldiers went to clean up the corpses, Li Mengxi was afraid of the plague, so he specially distributed a piece of cloth to each person. The cloth was slightly sprinkled with strong alcohol. The smell of alcohol could slightly cover up the disgusting smell of corpses.

He also told the rebel soldiers to remember not to eat immediately after carrying the body, and to wash their hands first after returning, sterilizing and disinfecting them. This military order stated that rebel veterans should be able to act in accordance with the order.

Nanluan City was probably the first city that Li Mengxi encountered that suffered a long-term siege and siege.

In Wen'an County, it took less than a day for the rebels to breach the city, and in Nanhe City, it still took less than a day for the rebels to breach the city. Therefore, these two cities did not encounter the situation of corpses piling up all over the city for more than ten days.

Although Nanluan City is not big, and the rebels did not participate in the siege, the brutality of ancient siege battles is evident.

The suicidal man went to see the pile of corpses under the city. Li Mengxi felt that his nose was going to malfunction. Even after walking a long way, his nose still seemed to be able to smell the stench of the dead.

He also felt that if in the future, he would clean up corpses all over the city after the war, he would inevitably encounter them from time to time. During the process of cleaning up corpses, epidemic prevention would be the top priority. Li Mengxi thought of the respirator mask he had considered some time ago.

With the technical conditions of the late Han Dynasty, it is completely possible to make a biochemical protection level respiratory mask.

The core of making respiratory masks in the late Han Dynasty was to use charcoal as an adsorption purifier, and the key technology was sealing.

Charcoal is not difficult to make. As for the respirator that is attached to the mouth and nose, leather can be used. Linen can be coated with paint or tung oil to make it airtight. As for sealing, glue, isinglass, gum, etc. can be used to stick it in circles.

, absolutely.

With respirators, you don't need too many. One hundred and twenty are enough to carry the body.

With charcoal used as the air filter core material, any corpse odor can no longer be smelled.

If a respirator mask is troublesome, then you should have a simple mask, linen is fine. No matter how rough the linen is, it can still provide some protection.

Furthermore, in addition to respiratory protection, people carrying dead bodies must also wear gloves, because some bacteria and viruses can also infect the human body through skin contact.

Gloves are not difficult to make, and maybe they don’t have to be made. Just wrap a strip of cloth around your hands and you can make gloves, just like the gloves of a fighter.

After carrying the body, take off the cloth and burn it, which saves trouble.

Li Mengxi left from the city wall while thinking about epidemic prevention.

The sound of horse hooves alarmed Li Mengxi.

When Li Mengxi looked up, he saw Zhang Jiao getting off his horse and leading a large group of people behind him.

It turned out that Zhang Jiao saw the rebels cleaning up corpses at the foot of the city and thought he would come over to see if he could help.

Li Mengxi frowned and looked back at the busy rebel soldiers at the foot of the city wall in the distance. Li Mengxi said in his heart, our rebels have a strong awareness of epidemic prevention, you Yellow Turbans... better forget it, it will be a waste of time.

So, Li Mengxi said, "No need to help, our army has enough manpower."

As he said that, he looked at Zhang Jiao. After a moment of silence, Li Mengxi said, "Let's go and have a look at your Yellow Turban camp."

Zhang Jiao led his horse and walked side by side with Li Mengxi, followed by the Yellow Turbans.

In a short time, we arrived at the Yellow Turban Camp.

Zhang Jiaobu was busy setting up camp, and there were a lot of people.

Li Mengxi stood outside and watched for a while.

Suddenly, Li Mengxi saw many chariots and horses coming and going in Zhangjiao camp, and he was immediately surprised and suspicious.

There were children crying again. Li Mengxi followed the sound and saw a woman wearing a yellow scarf over there, chasing a child wearing a yellow scarf. The child was screaming.

I have never been to Zhangjiao Army to take a closer look. Now I take a look and see that there are many women and children in Zhangjiao Army.

The crying child in yellow scarf was caught up by the woman and beaten.

After the beating, when she saw Zhang Jue approaching, the woman picked up the baby, bowed to Zhang Jue, and then left.

Li Mengxi raised his head and looked at Zhang Jiao doubtfully.

Meeting Li Mengxi's doubtful gaze, Zhang Jiao's expression was full of compliments and flattery, and he carefully explained, "That woman and the baby are my Huangjin retinue, not the Yellow Jin." Zhang Jiao laughed along with him, "

Women and children are innocent."

What Zhang Jiao wanted to tell Li Mengxi was that if one day he wanted to kill the Yellow Turbans, he wanted to ask Li Mengxi to spare the women and children.

Li Mengxi frowned slightly, and looked at Zhang Jiao in confusion, "Your brother Zhang Liang's troops, our army intercepted and killed his army. There are many women, children, old and weak in Zhang Liang's army.

I originally thought that it was you Zhang Jiao who defended the city to delay Dong Zhuo, while Zhang Liang escaped with the old and weak to survive.

But why are there so many women and children in your army?"

Li Mengxi was very puzzled. Since Zhang Jiao wanted to defend Nanluan, why not let Zhang Liang take away all the women, children, old and weak.

After Li Mengxi asked, Zhang Jiao looked at the group of women and children who were camping not far away, and sighed, "No one wants to leave."

I understand that there are quite a few old, weak, women and children who are willing to follow Zhang Jiao to the death, and would rather die than leave.

At this point, Li Mengxi was silent for a moment.

There are so many women and children in Zhangjiao...

Li Mengxi raised his eyebrows and asked again, "With so many women, children, old and weak people dragging them down, how can your troops march quickly and repeatedly throw away Dong Zhuo? This is extraordinary."

Zhang Jiao said, "There are women, children, the old and the weak. The old and the weak walk slowly, and the children cannot move quickly. The women are burdened by the children, and they cannot move quickly."

And if the army is marching, the speed of the whole army will not be the fastest, but the slowest.

My whole army is moving at a fast pace because of the women, children, old and weak."

"Therefore, for the sake of women, children, the old and the weak, many of our troops collect chariots and horses, and make the strong men pull the carts to pull the ones who cannot move quickly. One cart will drag three or four, and there will be several young and strong men to push the carts. In this way, there will be no old men.

The drag of weakness.”

Zhang Jue did not hide his secrets and told Li Mengxi the method of the Yellow Turban March. Li Mengxi stared at Zhang Jue in great surprise.

Zhang Jiao actually knows this method of helping people with carts?

Li Mengxi was extremely surprised.

The Yellow Turban Army was surrounding the carriages in a circle around the camp, clearly intending to set up a formation. Li Mengxi pointed to the gathering place of carriages and asked, "You have a lot of carriages and horses in your army. How many are there approximately?"

"There are more than 4,000 carts and more than 3,000 mules and horses at times. However, due to repeated battles, many of the animals are scattered. Now, there are less than 1,000 animals left." Zhang Jiao seems to be very familiar with the Yellow Turban Army. Li Mengxi

Zhang Jiao was able to answer the question casually.

There are more than 4,000 carts in Zhang Jiao's army. This number... Li Mengxi calculated again, Zhang Jiao's army only has about 40,000 people. In other words, there is one cart for every ten people.
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