Wanli 1592

Chapter 348 Plague Outbreak
Phitsanulok Mansion, where the Burmese army camp is located, has been extremely busy in the Burmese camp these days.

Some Burmese soldiers covered their faces with cloths of various colors and styles in twos and twos, carried the corpses of some former comrades-in-arms who could never wake up out of the barracks, and threw them into the big pit they had dug earlier. Inside, then put some ignited items, and when the big pit is full, ignite and burn it.

Originally they planned to bury them, but their coach, Prince Min Qide, said that the bodies of these brave soldiers cannot be left on the dirty land where these lowly slaves live, and they must be allowed to return to their hometowns. Letting them go back to their hometown is a very serious issue. Bring the corpse back?Obviously impossible, the corpse will rot.

The answer is ready to come out-burn it, and after turning it into ashes, take the ashes back.

The heavy rain lasted for three days and three nights before it stopped. The messenger sent by Min Qide to contact the handyman team brought back news that they were blocked by the heavy rain and could not march at all. Unable to walk, the muddy land and soaring water level after the heavy rain made the Burmese army miserable.

This caused the main Burmese soldiers in Phitsanulok to suffer greatly. A large number of soldiers could not find shelter from the rain. A few tents and houses were either occupied by generals or crowded, and could not be stuffed in. Even for one person, the remaining tens of thousands of Burmese soldiers can't find shelter from the rain, so they can only try their best to find some unburned things from the ruins of Phitsanulok. No matter what it is, they should build it to shelter from the rain .

But it's just a shelter from the rain, without any measures to keep warm.

It was raining heavily and the cold wind was blowing. The soldiers could neither dry themselves nor change into dry clothes. They could only wait helplessly in the heavy rain. One day, two days, three days, when the weather cleared and the sun shone again When they came down, many soldiers found that the comrades around them were already lying on the ground hot and unconscious.

It was at this time that the first dead person appeared, and then the second, and the third. In just three hours, from morning to afternoon, news spread that more than 100 soldiers died of illness in Phitsanulok's Burmese military camp. He didn't think it was serious, because the camp was too big, and the news dissemination and statistical statistics were too slow. He didn't realize that the situation was very serious until the [-]th soldier who died of illness and more news of the infection came. .

This is a contagious plague!

However, things have gone beyond his imagination. When he knew that all the doctors were dead, the situation was far more serious than he knew.

He remembered that more than ten years ago, during the last battle with his grandfather Mang Yinglong, a plague broke out in the camp, killing more than 1000 soldiers, and more than 2000 people were infected. Under the persuasion of a red-haired barbarian, Yinglong made up his mind to put these 3000 people together and isolate them, killed them all with muskets, and then burned them all, keeping the main force of the army, that is, after that time, Mang Yinglong fell ill and passed away soon after.

The Burmese do not have a well-developed medical system at all, and they are basically still in the era of witch doctors. After the Westerners came, they brought bloodletting therapy, but this is also the witch doctor method of the Westerners, Eastern witch doctors and Western witch doctors Together, there are frequent stinky tricks, not to mention treatment, there are too many examples of self-death, so in the eyes of the Burmese, the most effective way to deal with the plague is to find it, isolate it, shoot it, and burn it with a fire.

After one-stop service, any plague can be eliminated. Of course, it has been eliminated and has never been cured. There is also such a tradition in the Burmese army barracks. Once a patient similar to the plague appears in the camp If the doctors accompanying the army cannot treat them, they should be isolated and killed directly, so as not to harm the army.

This time the situation is different, it was discovered relatively late, and the army doctors were the first to be wiped out. When everyone found the dead and went to the army doctors, they found that more than a dozen army doctors died in a group, and none of them survived. Everyone Only then did he start to panic, and reported to Min Qide, who was furious because the handymen couldn't catch up and couldn't rescue him, and killed three messengers in a row, when he heard the news of the plague resurgence, he almost passed out.

No, it's terrible, something is wrong!
He immediately ordered the soldiers to dig a pit outside the camp, and ordered the soldiers to throw the bodies of the dead into the pit. He wanted to bury them, but after thinking about what his grandfather did back then, he thought it would be safest to burn them, so he went down Order, saying that it is not acceptable for soldiers to be buried on enemy land, so all should be burned.

Realizing that only a small number of people were affected by the plague, and most of those who experienced the bloody scene were now military officers, Min Qide held a meeting of military officers and announced his decision.

When no one notices, let these officers bring their own guards, hold muskets, and cooperate with the musketeers of the Franc robot to bring the sick and those with symptoms of infection to the camp in the isolation area , and then sealed off, the action must be careful not to cause the restlessness of the sick people. It was because of the restlessness of the sick people that a group of Mang Yinglong's personal guards who should have been immortal also died.

Min Qide will not repeat the same mistakes.

His plan went very smoothly, knowing that cruel officers and Westerners with no psychological burden acted the fastest. They searched for sick soldiers everywhere, and then carried them out for treatment. No one doubted the healthy soldiers, and the sick were still conscious. The soldiers did not doubt it, and followed them obediently, and lay down in the isolation camp. They were relieved when they saw that there were all sick people around them, and some people covered with cloth asked their names one by one.

However, they didn't know that not far from them, the Burmese musketeers and foreign musketeers with live ammunition were ready, and the materials for burning the camp were ready, and gradually piled up to fill the entire isolation camp. inevitable.

Min Qide is not hard-hearted, and he does not want these elite soldiers who are constantly being carried in to die like this. The training of each soldier and the process of becoming an elite is hard work, and it also requires a lot of investment from the government. Everyone It's all his heart and soul, and it's an important reliance for him to conquer Siam and kill the Ming army. Now that the big battle has not yet started, he is the first to die. The gun is not aimed at the enemy, but he wants to aim at his own people first. What does he think? Feel stuck.

"Is there really nothing you can do?"

Min Qide confirmed again and again.

(End of this chapter)