Li Di said with a solemn expression: "There is no problem with the war outside Yumen Pass, but there seems to be a black sweat outside Yumen Pass who has been infected with the plague. Kou Shimi is checking this time.
Until this matter is verified, there will be no communication between the two gates for the time being. "
Di Qing's pupils shrank slightly, and he said in a deep voice, "The plague... The plague is terrible... How did the black sweat get the plague?"
The ancients were very afraid of the plague.
Because no matter what plague the ancients were infected with, there was no cure.
So the ancients caught the plague and almost died.
The ancients used a simple method to prevent the plague, that is, blockade and massacre. There is no possibility of research and treatment.
Often when a plague occurs in one place, the imperial court will send troops and horses to blockade the place, and then block up the people in this place and let them fend for themselves.
When necessary, soldiers and horses will be sent to slaughter.
Li Di solemnly said: "Kou Shumi said in the official document that it was the Black Khan King Yusufu who drove hundreds of thousands of wounded soldiers to one place, regardless of whether they were asked. This led to the tragic death of nearly 100,000.
Nearly one hundred thousand dead people live together with hundreds of thousands of dead people.
Over time, a plague was born. "
Di Qing gritted his teeth and said, "Damn the king of the black sweat Yusufu!"
Li Di nodded and said, "Zhong Shiheng has led his troops to chase the Black Khan King Yusufu."
Di Qing said angrily: "I hope that Tongzhi can cut off the head of the black sweat king Yusufu."
The ancients were very afraid of the plague, and naturally hated the people who gave birth to the plague.
Li Di heard Di Qing's words and said with emotion: "Although the Black Khan King Yusufu had a terrible defeat in front of Yumen Pass, he still has a lot of soldiers and horses left in his hand. It is hard to say whether he can win him or not."
Just when Li Di and Di Qing were thinking about Chong Shiheng, Chong Shiheng led the soldiers and horses to the city of Suoyang.
After the Black Khan King Yusufu retreated to the city of Suoyang, he ordered his soldiers and horses to be stationed inside and outside the city of Suoyang.
Chong Shiheng led soldiers and horses to the city of Suoyang, and saw the black sweat flags flying in the city of Suoyang, and it seemed that there were black sweat soldiers and horses stationed inside.
Outside the city of Suoyang, there were also a large number of black sweat soldiers and horses stationed around the city wall.
The city of Suoyang is just a small city, and there is no way to accommodate 800,000 black sweat soldiers to station, so some black sweat soldiers are stationed in the city, and some black sweat soldiers are stationed outside the city.
After Zhong Shiheng led his troops to the outside of Suoyang City, he did not rush to attack, but was thinking about how to use the least force to drive the enemy out of Suoyang City.
He will no longer go head-to-head with the enemy.
Even if Kou Ji didn't remind him, he would not face the enemy head-on.
Because he and Kou Ji had already laid down the back hand that swallowed 800,000 black sweat soldiers, there was no need to head-on with the black sweat soldiers.
Zhong Shiheng ordered his soldiers and horses to be stationed not far from Suoyang City, thinking about how to break the enemy.
Inside the city of Cynomorium.
Black Khan King Yusufu is thinking about how to approach Yumen Pass again.
The general hurriedly broke into the black khan king Yusufu's temporary row.
"Khan, something happened?"
Black Khan King Yusufu raised his eyebrows and asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter? The Song people are chasing me?"
The general solemnly said: "The Song people have chased them, but there are more serious ones than they chased."
Hearing this, the black sweat king Yusufu wrinkled his brows tighter, "What's the matter?"
The general took a deep breath and said, "There are soldiers in our army coughing up blood..."
Black Khan King Yusufu was taken aback, and asked: "But was he seriously injured?"
The general gritted his teeth and said: "The severely injured soldier, we have already been lost at Yumen Pass."
Black Khan King Yusufu asked, "Why is that?"
The general hesitated: "It may be... the plague..."
The black sweat king Yu Sufu's face changed.
Kou Ji is unfamiliar with the plague because he has cleaned the corpses of the enemy and the corpses of his own soldiers during the campaign.
But the black khan king Yusufu is no stranger to the plague, because when he was fighting, he didn't care about the corpses of the enemy and the corpses of his own soldiers, so he often encountered the plague during the expedition.
He not only encountered plagues from time to time, but occasionally used horse plague horses to pollute water sources.
So he knows the plague very well.
"Quick! Quickly pull out the soldiers who coughed up blood and behead them, and burn the corpses. The soldiers who are with them will also be pulled out."
"Khan King!"
The general shouted loudly.
Black Khan King Yu Sufu asked: "You want to keep them?!"
The general said in a deep voice, "I mean, we abandon the soldiers who have contracted the plague and let them fight with Song Bing."
Black Khan King Yusufu raised his brows and said hurriedly: "You mean, let Song people catch the plague as much as possible?"
The general nodded, "Since we can't take Yumen Pass for a long time, we can simply let the people in Yumen Pass die. If they are all dead, then we can take Yumen Pass without blood."
Black Khan King Yu Sufu hesitated, "If Yumen Pass becomes a ghost town, how do we cross Yumen Pass?"
The general opened his mouth and said: "Yangguan!"
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu was taken aback, thinking: "Song people dispatched so many soldiers and horses to Yumen Pass. If all of them are infected with the plague, they fall at Yumen Pass. There will be very few troops holding Yang Pass.
If we were to attack Yangguan with the Liao soldiers, they should not be able to stop it. "
Speaking of this, the Black Khan King Yusufu said: "Just do as you said. Leave those soldiers who contracted the plague to deal with Song Bing. We led Song Bing to run behind, and waited until Song Bing was infected. The plague, we cut off our tails and turned around to go to Yangguan."
The general nodded, bowed his head, and went down to follow the instructions of the Black Khan King Yusufu.
The Black Khan King Yusufu ordered people to pack their bags and prepare to leave the city of Cynomorium.
A place far outside the city of Suoyang.
Chong Shiheng had just ordered the soldiers to set up the camp, and he heard the scout report that it was the Black Khan King Yu Sufu who led most of the soldiers and horses and began to pull out the camp, preparing to leave Suoyang City.
Zhong Shiheng immediately rode his horse to see.
Sure enough, he saw the Black Khan King Yusufu led the army, and Haohao rushed out of Suoyang City, all the way to the direction of Guazhou City.
On the one hand, Zhong Shiheng ordered the scouts to continue chasing after him, and on the other hand he ordered the soldiers and horses to pull out the camp and rush to Suoyang City.
Zhong Shiheng took his troops to the city of Suoyang, and saw the soldiers infected with the plague left by the Black Khan King Yusufu staying in the city of Suoyang.
Zhong Shiheng felt that the behavior of the Black Khan King Yu Sufu was strange, and instead of leading the army to attack Suoyang City directly, he dispatched a special division to attack Suoyang City.
There are not many black sweat soldiers left in the city of Suoyang, only a few thousand.
The partial teachers assigned by Chong Shiheng amounted to tens of thousands.
Relying on the power of the artillery, they easily broke through Suoyang City, beheading some black sweaters, and leaving some black sweaters behind.
After taking the city of Suoyang, the general who led the partial teacher immediately rushed to Zhong Shiheng to report.
"Zhong Shuai, when his subordinates were arresting the Black Khan prisoners, they found something wrong."
Zhong Shiheng frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"
He said in a deep voice, "Many people are coughing up blood!"
Zhong Shiheng raised his brows and asked: "When you were capturing the prisoners, did you use blunt instruments to injure them?"
The general shook his head and said: "If your subordinates and others use a blunt weapon, it is impossible for them to come and think about it."
Zhong Shiheng's face changed slightly, and he asked, "What are your guesses?"
Pian Jiang solemnly said: "The subordinates suspect that they may have contracted the disease... It is very likely that it is an extraordinary disease..."
Zhong Shiheng screamed badly in his heart, those black sweat soldiers must not have contracted the disease.
It was infected with the plague.
But with the word plague, Zhong Shiheng couldn't say it directly, and it was easy to shake the military's mind.
With a gloomy face, Chung Shiheng ordered the general: "You take people to cut them off, burn their corpses, and then take your people to guard the city of Suoyang. Without my military order, no one Access is allowed."
There was no doubt about him, and he immediately led his soldiers to follow Chong Shiheng's instructions.
After Chong Shiheng was about to leave, he stared at the place where the black sweat king Yusufu had left with a gloomy expression, and cursed in a low voice: "The dog in the sun should have discovered the plague in the army a long time ago, so I want to use the plague to harm my subordinates. Of soldiers and horses.
It may also be the plague deliberately made by Gouri.
The purpose is to break the Yumen Pass. "
People on the grasslands often use horse plague to destroy water sources and use plagues against enemies. It is not surprising that Chang Shiheng.
Zhong Shiheng ordered the people to take the banknotes, wrote a letter and sent them to Kou Ji, and then chased them in the footsteps of the Black Khan King Yusufu with his soldiers and horses.
When Zhong Shiheng led his army to Guazhou City, it was already two days later.
The Black Khan King Yusufu did the same, and once again left thousands of soldiers infected with the plague, guarding Guazhou City, and then left Guazhou City with his team of soldiers and horses.
Zhong Shiheng sent a team of soldiers and horses to besieged Guazhou City, but did not attack Guazhou City.
Then led the remaining soldiers and horses to chase after the soldiers and horses of the Black Khan King Yusufu.
All the way to the Le River.
Kind of Shiheng Le.
He originally thought that he would waste a lot of means to drive the enemy to Lehe, but he did not expect the enemy to take the initiative to run to Lehe.
After Zhong Shiheng arrived not far from Lehe, he found the Black Khan soldiers crossing the river.
Looking at the black sweat soldiers crossing the river, Chong Shiheng sighed faintly: "Yu Sufu, Yu Sufu, there are some evil things that shouldn't be done. If you do too much, you will be caught by the gods."
God seems to have responded to Chong Shiheng's words.
After Chong Shiheng's voice landed.
Somewhere on the Le River, a torrent suddenly gushed out.
The torrent rushed down with some wood wrapped in it.
The black sweat soldier who was crossing the river was cut into two sections in the middle.
Some black sweat soldiers who yelled in horror in the river were directly washed away by the water.
Immediately afterwards, I saw rows of wooden rafts appearing on some rivers.
The raft was full of people. They held muskets in their hands and pointed them at the black sweat soldiers on both sides of the river.
On the front raft, stood a veteran who was holding a heavy bow in his hand and a heavy arrow on the bow.
"Wow~"
After approaching the Black Khan Soldier, the veteran let go of the bowstring.
Heavy arrows rushed out.
After the heavy arrows flew out, the soldiers and horses sitting on the raft shot one after another.
For a while, gunfire broke out on the river.
The black sweat soldiers on both sides of the river fled everywhere.
"ambush!"
"Song Bing has an ambush!"
"..."
Black Khan King Yusufu saw his soldiers and horses in a mess, his eyes widened and his face was unbelievable.
"Why? Why is it like this..."
What answered him was the voice of Chong Shiheng ordering a charge.
On the raft floating on the river, the soldiers and horses of Song Dynasty sat.
Together with Chong Shiheng, they attacked the black sweat soldiers who remained on the east bank of the river on both sides.
The black sweat soldiers fled around under the attack.
Those who couldn't escape simply knelt on the ground and chose to surrender.
Black Khan King Yusufu could only watch dryly on the west bank of the river.
The big Song soldiers and horses on the river floated to the place where the Black Khan soldiers crossed the river. They shook their hooks, hooked the rocks and other objects on the river bank, and then dragged the raft to the river bank and rushed to kill them. Hei Khan soldiers.
After a killing that lasted more than two hours.
The great Song soldiers and horses on the river successfully joined forces with the soldiers and horses led by Chong Shiheng.
Zhong Shiheng and the veteran met, jumped off their horses together, ran to the front, and the bear hugged.
After the veteran hugged Zhong Shiheng, he laughed and said: "I have been waiting for these bastards upstream for a full month. I thought they were not coming."
Zhong Shiheng smiled and said, "You are afraid that I will not be able to beat them, and you will squat here for a month for nothing."
The veteran laughed and said, "Nothing..."
Zhong Shiheng shook his head and smiled, without exposing the veteran's lies.
The veteran is Chen Yaozi who was transferred from Yongzhou to Kou Ji.
Under his leadership is Yongzhou’s Fifty Thousand Forever Forbidden Army.
After he rushed to Hexi, Kou Ji discussed with Chong Shiheng, and ordered him to quietly walk along the desert north of Yumenguan to the upper reaches of Le River.
Then built a dam on the upper reaches of the Le River to store water, ready to use water power to give the black soldiers a head-on blow.
The number of black sweat soldiers is huge, and it is difficult to defeat them in one fell swoop only by the constant confrontation on the battlefield.
If you want to completely defeat them and maimed them, unless there is a large number of forbidden troops, or with the help of water and fire.
Kou Ji cannot send a large number of imperial troops, so he can only rely on fire and water.
When Zhong Shiheng built the wall and cleared the wilderness, he cut down the trees outside Yumen Pass, so the firepower could not be used.
Only water power can be used.
It just so happens that there is a Le River at the junction of Guazhou and Shazhou.
They happen to be able to use Lehe to lay out.
The three of Zhong Shiheng thought that to drive the enemy to Lehe, they would have to fight head-to-head with the enemy a few times.
Unexpectedly, the enemy actually took the initiative to retreat to Le River in order to make them infected with the plague.
Actively got into the ambush.
Then, it became a bloody massacre.
Black Khan King Yusufu, and some Black Khan generals, took the lead to cross the river.
Only a part of the small leader was left to command troops to cross the river on the east bank of the river.
Therefore, the black sweat soldiers on the east bank of the river can almost be said to be a group of dragons without a leader.
Facing a sudden attack, facing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses strangling on both sides.
Apart from fleeing, they surrendered.
Seeing his soldiers and horses running around grabbing prisoners, Chong Shiheng couldn't help but said with emotion: "The King of Black Khan Yusufu is just a pig's brain. When he took people across the river, he didn't pay attention to the drop in the water level on the river. Quite a few, and don't think about whether there is an ambush."
Chen Yaozi heard what Zhong Shiheng said and laughed: "It's not that Yu Sufu is stupid, but because he has been stuck outside Yumen Pass, and he didn't expect our soldiers and horses to appear behind him.
More importantly, when I blocked the water, I didn't stop the water, but only part of it.
Although the water level has dropped, it hasn't dried up.
Still maintain a certain amount of water and flow rate.
Most people rarely care. "
Zhong Shiheng looked at Chen Yaozi with some surprise, and wanted to ask him how he controlled the amount of water.
He just swallowed it when the words came to the lips.
Because he remembered one thing.
Chen Yaozi came from a famous family and had a family history.
And his elder brother Chen Yaozuo was a well-known water conservancy expert in Song Dynasty.
Since his elder brother is an expert in water conservancy, even if he is not proficient in water conservancy, he will understand more or less, and he will naturally use water more satisfactorily than others.
When the two talked, the war did not end.
Black Khan King Yusufu probably left nearly 500,000 soldiers and horses on the east bank of the river, strangling and capturing 500,000 Black Khan soldiers, but it would take a long time.
Standing on the west bank of the black sweat, Yusufu, the king of the black sweat, watched the black sweat soldiers under his command being strangled and captured, with blood dripping in his heart.
Chen Yaozi and Chong Shiheng finished recounting their old stories. Seeing the black sweat king Yusufu leading the soldiers and horses on the other side of the river, Chen Yaozi suddenly became dissatisfied, "Will you not leave?! Waiting for us to invite him to dinner?! "
"Go! Push up the artillery, give him a few shots! Let him go!"
Chen Yaozi yelled loudly.
Immediately, soldiers of the Forbidden Army pushed their artillery to the shore and bombarded the Black Khan King Yusufu on the other side of the river.
The Black Khan King Yusufu was almost vomiting blood with anger, and in the end he could only gritted his teeth and left the river bank with the remaining soldiers.
He lost, completely lost.
In order to fight against the Song Dynasty, he dispatched nearly 1.5 million soldiers from the Black Khanate back and forth, and almost emptied four-fifths of the Black Khanate's troops.
Now there are less than 300,000 black soldiers left.
He has no confidence to fight Song Jun.
Because if he fights with Song Jun again, the 300,000 black sweat soldiers under his hand may also be eaten by Song Jun.
If he doesn't have any soldiers and horses, then he, the Black Khan King, may not be able to sit securely.
The Black Khan King Yusufu led the people back to Shazhou City in a hurry.
Zhong Shiheng and Chen Yaozi led the prisoners who had been arrested overnight.
After dawn.
Among the nearly 500,000 black sweat soldiers, more than 400,000 became prisoners.
The others either dived and escaped, or were chopped on the battlefield.
Chen Yaozi decided to invite Zhong Shiheng to celebrate.
In the Great Tent of the Chinese Army.
Chen Yaozi, who had won the battle, smiled brightly. "Brother Kind, we have won a rare victory. Should we celebrate it?"
While writing the letter, Zhong Shiheng sighed: "I don't know where to go next. I don't have any thoughts to celebrate."
Chen Yaozi was taken aback and asked: "What do you mean by this kind of virtuous brother?"
Zhong Shiheng put down his pen and said solemnly, "We may not be able to return to Yumen Pass for the time being."
Chen Yaozi frowned, "What do you mean? There are evil tigers in Yumen Pass?"
Zhong Shiheng nodded and said: "Almost..."
Chen Yaozi asked in a deep voice, "Who?!"
Zhong Shiheng sighed: "The black sweat..."
Chen Yaozi looked puzzled.
Zhong Shiheng explained with a solemn expression: "There is a plague among the black sweat..."
"Hiss..."
Chen Yaozi gasped in horror.
Chen Yaozi asked unbelievably, "Really?"
Zhong Shiheng glanced at him and said in a deep voice, "Kou Shih Mi first discovered this. He has ordered the blockade of Yumen Pass. When I was leading people to chase the black khan soldiers, I found many of them. Cough up blood for no reason.
The soldiers under my command felt that it was a human-to-human disease.
But I think it is a plague. "
Chen Yaozi inhaled, "If it is really a plague, it will be terrible."
Zhong Shiheng said solemnly: "We have just captured hundreds of thousands of captives of the Black Khan Soldiers. We don't know if any of them have been infected with the plague, so we can't go back to Yumen Gate now.
Chen Yaozi gritted his teeth, pondered for a long time, and said: "When I was in the town, I had seen the plague and blocked the plague-stricken town with troops. I roughly know how to deal with it.
We first separate the soldiers and horses from the prisoners.
Then the captives were subdivided and guarded.
We will stay here for a few days.
Waiting for those black sweat soldiers who had the plague to strike.
After their attack, we immediately executed all the people in one of their tents.
In this way, the spread of the plague in the army can be prevented.
When we kill all the people in the army who are infected with the plague, we will be able to lead the soldiers and horses to close the Yumen. "
Zhong Shiheng thought for a moment, and sighed.
"Now that's the only thing..."
Both Zhong Shiheng and Chen Yaozi knew the horror of the plague, so they decided to separate the prisoners from the soldiers and immediately put them into action.
The execution of the army is very fast.
After the orders of Chong Shiheng and Chen Yaozi were passed on, the soldiers were immediately separated by the 251st Battalion.
The same is true for the captives.
Even the captured horses, cattle and sheep are the same.
After the soldiers were divided, Chong Shiheng and Chen Yaozi strictly ordered all the soldiers to guard the barracks and not get in.
In the next few days, the two of them led people around the barracks and prisoner camps.
After the Black Khan King Yusufu retired to Shazhou City with his people, his heart gave birth to retreat.
Nearly 1.5 million soldiers and horses entered the Song Dynasty, ruining nearly 1.2 million.
Less than three hundred thousand are left.
A large number of elite soldiers of the entire Black Khanate were ruined in Song State.
The Black Khan King Yusufu didn't dare to fight anymore, he was afraid that if the fight continued, the capital of the Black Khanate would be exhausted.
As for causing Song Jun to be infected with the plague and then detour to Yangguan, he has already left behind.
After the heart gave birth to a retreat, the Black Khan King Yu Sufu sent someone to contact Xiao Pidi.
See if Xiao Pidi is still alive.
If he is alive, he will tell Xiao Pidi, if he is dead, he will decisively lead his troops and horses to leave.
Just when he sent someone to find Xiao Pidi, several horses came from the direction of the Black Khanate.
I told a black sweat king Yusufu that he could not accept the news.
His princess got involved with a young man named Ge Ge Wu, and that fellow named Ge Ge Wu, somehow became the Zuo Xian King of the Black Khanate.
After the Black Khan King Yusufu learned the news, he didn't care about Xiao's rivals at all, so he immediately left Shazhou with the soldier Ma Haohao and went straight to the Black Khanate.