Chapter 157 If I say that I took this thing from the Black Armor Army, would you believe me?
In today's world where cold weapons are rampant, Ruan Mian discovered that even hot weapons are limited to some black powder weapons, muskets and artillery carts.
Even the new artillery vehicle on the Lan Qiang side has a maximum range of only a hundred meters, and the power of the explosion is negligible in Ruan Mian's opinion.
Of course, it still has a certain degree of lethality, but it is far inferior to the modern weapons she knows.
This musket was taken by her when she looted the Xuanjia Army's warehouse.
She took a closer look at the time and found that there was a unique Lanqiang pattern under this musket. Later, when she contacted Huo Zong and others, she found that there was no such weapon in the military camp of Dajing.
Therefore, the Xuanjia Army has the exclusive weapons of the Lanqiang. Doesn't that prove something? That is, as the book says, the Xuanjia Army has long colluded with the people of King Yan's party.
Ruan Mian had specialized in studying this type of musket. It was very primitive, and due to the ratio of the raw materials for the gunpowder, the thrust was very limited, and the range was less than a hundred meters.
Moreover, the shooting method was very rigid, and the barrel was made of bamboo, so it broke after only four or five shots.
On this basis, she rearranged the ingredients.
Adding willow charcoal, iron residue, sulfur, arsenic, etc., it can not only burn but also have a spraying effect.
The bamboo tubes were also replaced with iron tubes, and the lethality immediately increased.
But there is still room for more improvement.
Now Ruan Mian took out the original musket, with the purpose of showing it to General Bal.
As expected, Bal was shocked.
Ruan Mian did not hide anything and said frankly: "General, if I say that I took this thing from the Xuanjia Army, can you believe it?"
It was obvious that Bal didn't believe it and was a little angry.
Ruan Mian continued, "There's something the General doesn't know. You're being used by others to believe that the epidemic was caused by the people of Dajing. But in reality, this border battle was already part of someone's plan."
"General, you have become nothing more than a sharp blade in their hands. They are using you to provoke war and achieve their goals."
"You talk so much nonsense, do you think I will believe you?! Considering that you are a weak woman, brave and knowledgeable, I will not bother with you now."
"As you said, I will take you to the town's epidemic prevention center right now. If I don't see those people getting better, I will chop off your head in three days as a spy!"
When the eldest aunt heard this, she flinched, thinking that General Barr was extremely cruel! She rolled her eyes at him and said, "What if we can cure him?"
Ruan Mian then stopped and said, "Not three days, give me two hours, and I will make them feel better. If that's the case, General, please give me a chance to trust me and not send troops for the time being."
"After all, if both sides were to use their muskets and artillery, both would suffer losses. This is not the outcome the general wants most."
Ruan Mian really spoke to his heart. Bal just hoped that the people in the town would no longer suffer from the epidemic.
He can also put an end to the war as soon as possible so that the brothers in the barracks can live in peace.
It would only take about two hours, so it wouldn't hurt for him to give it a try.
So he replaced silence with acquiescence and took them to the place outside the town where the epidemic was most serious.
It was originally a stable used by the army outside the town, but now it has become a severely affected area. The people sent in have almost no chance of survival after being diagnosed by the doctors.
Not far away is a corpse pit where the bodies of the sick and dead are dragged in and burned and buried at any time.
Everyone in the town was locked inside and not allowed to go out.
Ruan Mian saw the tightly closed city gate and knew that if the epidemic in the city was not under control, the final result would be burning down the city.
In this life, this is the most direct way to block the source of the epidemic, and it is also the last resort.
Otherwise, once it spreads to other places, the country will suffer more than just a little bit of losses.
Bal dragged on for so many days, and it is said that he even invited many doctors from far away, just to prevent the people in these small towns from being massacred.
But the effect is mediocre.
Ruan Mian has a precedent of treating epidemics, and he has exchanged a lot of medicines from the space. If he can control it and block it from the source, there is still hope.
She and her aunt put on homemade masks, and the soldier leading them stopped at a distance and motioned for them to go in.
There is an area outside the stable that is enclosed by hemp ropes, and no one is allowed to cross this area.
Bal stood outside the hemp rope, waiting for her result.
As soon as Ruan Mian and her aunt entered, they saw many people dying, lying crowded together in the airtight earthen-walled house.
There was a mixture of various foul smells and the smell of blood that rushed straight to my head.
If you count carefully, there are more than twenty people.
My aunt frowned. "So many people? Where do we even begin? Will the medicine be effective in two hours?"
Even if we use advanced antibiotics, they may not take effect so quickly, right?
Ruan Mian was not in a hurry. She first patiently diagnosed the disease and roughly speculated that the cause of this wave of epidemic was the cold weather.
Since their exile, they have been plagued by continuous snowstorms and ice disasters, and at the beginning of the mutiny they also experienced blizzards.
The densely populated town of Lanqiang, further north, was hit harder by the disaster, with a drastic reduction in crops, leaving many people without enough food and clothing.
Viruses are more active in cold weather and are naturally more aggressive towards a malnourished body.
However, if they were kept together without any effective isolation measures and treated as a simple plague treatment method, there would not be much effect.
We can only rely on the survival of the fittest, and when the weather turns warmer in spring, this wave of epidemic will gradually disappear.
But countless lives will be lost during this period, and even the people in this small town will be burned to ashes before that time comes.
After Ruan Mian made a preliminary diagnosis of the cause of the disease, he first used spiritual spring water to heal them, which was the most effective in the short term.
It was especially effective for the festering wounds on their bodies.
And that's what Barr wanted to see.
Then she exchanged the corresponding antibiotics in the space and used them for medicinal purposes first. As for other measures such as dividing the wards and disinfection, she would have to wait until Bal completely trusted her before she had time to do them.
Two hours was only enough time for her to heal her wounds with spiritual spring water.
Especially those whose wounds were particularly festering, they were recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
When the time came, the people sent by Bart came in to check.
I was surprised to find that the large areas of festering wounds on those people had actually healed a lot!
He was immediately surprised and looked at Ruan Mian and his nephew with a different eye!
"My wife's medical skills... are just as you said!" Not only that, the other people also looked much better in spirits, and it's only been two hours!
They had invited many doctors before, but none of them could achieve such an effect.
So he was overjoyed and quickly told the general the news.
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