I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 238

The cavalry in the base area finally stopped attacking, but returned to the camp to confront the coalition forces of Jiannu and Karaqin.

Huang Yi's plan is to let the unbearable and unbearable enemy troops attack Dazhai, and use artillery fire to reap a wave.

To be honest, it is difficult for artillery to fight cavalry, as long as the enemy cavalry runs fast, they will definitely not be able to hit them.

So use the method of luring the enemy to fight offensive and defensive warfare to engage in a surprise artillery attack.

He still has a little bit of expectation. It stands to reason that Hedan Battelle should have led at least a thousand cavalry to pick up the bargain after receiving the news!
Unexpectedly, things were not as imagined, the people sent to make contact returned, and Hedan Battelle did not send a single soldier.

It wasn't Hedan Battelle who ignored the invitation of his allies, but the fact that the Ministry discovered the smallpox plague and made people panic.

Smallpox was a historic epidemic that had no cure at this time.

Whether or not one can survive the disease depends entirely on God's will, and those who survived by chance have turned into marrows.

Hedanbaatar's department knew how to prevent the rapid spread of smallpox, and had begun to adopt the method of scattered grazing to avoid large-scale infection.

Under such circumstances, you must never dare to gather troops and horses to join the battle!

Huang Yi was also taken aback when he got the news. Traveling to the Ming Dynasty for nearly two years, he hadn't experienced the power of the epidemic yet, so he caught up with it?

Fortunately, it wasn't plague or cholera, it was just smallpox!
It's just that no matter what kind of plague, it is incurable in ancient times without antibiotics. One person's infection may lead to the death of a village.

So Huang Yi has been teaching people around him about hygiene, starting from drinking unboiled water.

After the base area was established, many toilets were built, and everyone was called on to work together to eliminate rats, lice, and fleas.

Compared with the plague, which can be fatal in the evening if infected in the morning, smallpox is less terrifying.

The plague is actually the Black Death in the European population. According to legend, it was a virus brought by the Mongols when they conquered Europe.

Huang Yi doesn't know how to treat smallpox, but he knows how to prevent it!
He himself was not afraid of smallpox!
Ok!It is impossible for him to catch it.

Because in later dynasties, all the people over the age of 50 have been vaccinated, and the scars of vaccinia on Huang Yi's left arm are still faintly visible!
Vaccinated people are immune to the smallpox virus for life.

Ever since, Huang Yi hurried to find the cow himself, and soon found the cow infected with the pox virus.

The identification is actually very simple, that is, the acne on the abdomen of the cow has suppurated.

He milked the cow himself, oh no, not the milk, but the pus from the pox in the lower abdomen of the cow.

Then he ordered Zhang Dong to call Huang Dayong, Huang Daquan, Bi Daxi, Hu Xiaochuan and other 36 officers.

Huang Yi didn't say a word of nonsense, but said loudly: "Stand at attention, rest a little bit, take off each other's armor and expose your left arms."

Huang Dayong, Hu Xiaochuan, Bi Daxi and other 36 people are all absolutely loyal warriors, and they are all senior military officers in the base area.

They have long been used to carrying out Huang Yi's orders to the letter, removing their armor and exposing their left arms. Why is this?

Nobody knows!But they didn't ask and just did it.

It is known that smallpox has appeared, Huang Yi is not willing to see his generals infected and died in pain.

He went straight to work, dipped a stainless steel needle into the pus squeezed out of the cow's pimples, and pierced the arms of Huang Dayong, Hu Xiaochuan, etc. one by one.

The stainless steel needle is one of the small tools in the handle of Huang Yi's military shovel. It is sterilized with alcohol every time it is pierced.

Loyalty and trust are on full display at this time.

Huang Dayong, Hu Xiaochuan, Bi Daxi and other 36 senior military officers in the base area did not flinch, not even frowning.

After finishing tying 36 people, Huang Yi clasped his fists to the sky and saluted, and said loudly:

"Thank the gods for granting me the power to resist the smallpox plague! I can swear to God, those who have the power to fight smallpox are the most loyal warriors in the base area.

If I break my oath and betray the base, I will die when I get infected with the smallpox plague and fester all over my body! "

The 36 people are all high-level military officers in the base area. Of course, they knew that there was a smallpox plague in Hedan Bateer's department, so they didn't send troops to come.

They all know that there are even people who have experienced plague epidemics many years ago and were very upset.

Suddenly, Huang Yi, who was blessed by the gods, said that he had the power to resist the smallpox plague, and everyone smiled happily.

Zhang Dong was the most confidant, and immediately bowed to the sky, swearing loudly:

"Thank the gods for giving me the power to resist the smallpox plague. I swear to be loyal to the base forever. If I betray, I will be infected with the smallpox plague and fester and die!"

Yo!Zhang Dong took the lead again, and Huang Dayong, who was the first to follow Huang Yi, was depressed.

He knelt down in front of Huang Yi and swore with a plop. He didn't swear to be loyal to the base, but directly swore to be loyal to Huang Yi.

The others suddenly came to their senses, hula la knelt down and swore allegiance together.

Huang Yi didn't bother to play tricks at first, but such things as vaccinating against smallpox were too mysterious to explain for a while.

So let's talk about divine power!Don't spend time discussing and discussing, and use the authority you have established to do it directly.

I did not expect to do political work a hundred times without being favored by the gods, and it would be more cohesive.

Huang Yi looked at the excited Huang Dayong, Huang Dapeng, Hu Xiaochuan, etc. and smiled, saying:

"It's not enough just that you have the power to fight against the smallpox plague. Later, you will use the method I taught to give more people an injection! Remember, you can't reveal the secret."

Hu Xiaochuan and the others stood at attention and loudly agreed: "Yes!"

Zhang Dong asked: "Do you have to dip some magic water when getting the needle?"

"Yes! The magical power is attached to the divine water. Ordinary water will not work. It must be the pus from the cow! Later I will teach you how to find the cow that is given power by the god!"

Hu Xiaochuan suddenly realized: "No wonder this magical water is so strange, it's not water!"

"Remember, after learning the method, teach the method to the senior officers above Zongqi Town Fuguan, and order everyone not to reveal the secret!"

The 36 people immediately said in unison: "Obey!"

Admonitions are necessary, but as time goes by, the method of vaccinating against smallpox will surely spread.

Huang Yi just thought that only his own people could master this method in a short time, and he didn't have the extravagant hope that vaccinia could become a patent in the base area.

His idea was to prevent the people in the base area from smallpox, and then let as many Han people as possible be vaccinated, and let the Jiannu and Tartars learn about this method as much as possible a few years later.

The best way to keep it secret is that the technology is only in your own hands!
But how could it be possible for Huang Yi alone to complete the vaccination of tens of millions of people?

So I had to teach the method of vaccinating to the senior military officers above Zongqi Town Fuguan, and issued an order to keep it secret.

There are too many people in control, and the possibility of leaking the secret is too great. Huang Yi can only hope that he can keep it secret for a longer period of time.

(End of this chapter)