Although it must be said that Jiang Ming's intelligence work was indeed somewhat lagging behind!
But that doesn't mean they lack ability!
Numerous scouts have discovered the Northern Xiongnu camps, as well as their supply lines and food routes...
According to the scouts, in addition to transporting food, these Northern Xiongnu people were also constantly sending a special kind of 'coffin' to the front lines!
This type of coffin is made by hollowing out a single log.
At first, I didn't know what was inside... I just thought it smelled terrible!
Until a scout discovered... after the log coffin rolled off the carriage, a dead body fell out of it!
Hearing what the scouts said, Jiang Ming knew that these bastards were up to something!
In his previous life, when the Mongol army attacked a city on the island of Crimea, they threw the corpses of people who had died from the plague directly into the city, causing the Black Death pandemic!
Then the fleeing Italian merchants brought the Black Death back to Europe, causing a major Black Death pandemic in Europe!
As a result, nearly half the population of Europe died in the 14th century!
Now, in this world he's transmigrated to, Sahehan of the Northern Xiongnu wants to bring this misfortune directly upon the East Asians...
Actually, as a plague... its real danger lies not in its high transmissibility or the lack of a specific cure.
Its truly formidable weapon is human ignorance!
Just like the typhoid plague that swept through the late Eastern Han Dynasty, which directly caused a precipitous loss of the population of the Eastern Han Dynasty!
The population dwindled from over 50 million to less than 9 million during the Three Kingdoms period...
Moreover, the cause of typhoid fever has not been clarified!
People always thought that typhoid fever was caused by infection with evil winds... as if it were a respiratory disease.
Actually, that's not the case!
Typhoid fever is a disease transmitted through the digestive tract!
To put it bluntly, the water you drink and the food you eat contain the patient's feces!
As long as the water is boiled, this plague will not spread at all!
However, under those conditions, being able to drink a sip of boiled water was not a privilege that ordinary people could enjoy!
The same applies to the Black Death!
Although it is indeed very vicious, as long as we can take good preventive measures and cut off its transmission routes, even if there is no specific medicine for the time being, it will not cause too much of a stir!
Therefore, prevention is always the best weapon to eliminate disease, rather than waiting until people get sick before developing effective drugs!
After learning about the situation, Jiang Ming immediately ordered that all cities and passes in the northern border of Zhao be closed, and no one be allowed to enter or leave!
Any unidentified corpses discovered must be cremated on the spot!
Locals who die from illness are cremated. Anyone who uses the excuse of "burial for peace" to defy the will of the state is talking nonsense... and will be executed by being cut in half at the waist and their entire family exterminated!
There's also the issue of water sources.
Everyone must boil their drinking water!
Shanxi is rich in coal.
There are also some large coal mines in Yunzhou City... so boiling water is not a difficult task.
Thanks to Jiang Ming's previous industry reforms, Zhao State's reforms were the most thorough, and it had no shortage of "workers" who only served the country.
The entire industrial chain was quickly completed and assembled!
All the people stopped drinking wild water; they all took their containers to the state-run "water-boiling station" in Yunzhou City to get hot water, let it cool, and then drank it...
This effectively eliminated the possibility of Sakhalin successfully spreading the plague!
Moreover, a large amount of tung oil was placed on the city wall.
Once enemy soldiers throw in corpses, they'll pour tung oil over them, set them on fire, and then throw them out!
In this way, the spread of the disease can be avoided to the greatest extent possible.
It must be said that Jiang Ming's wariness of others played a crucial role!
The Sakhalin's method of warfare is always the same: as long as victory is achieved, no means are of any concern...
He brought hundreds of bodies of people who had died from the plague from the Western Regions... His contamination targets were not limited to the garrison troops in Yunzhou City.
He wanted to throw all these corpses into the nearby water source, polluting it completely...
He understood very well that throwing it directly from below the city wall wouldn't necessarily have a good effect!
What if people realize the danger of the rotting corpse and burn it down? Wouldn't my plan fall through?
Therefore, we can't rely entirely on this...
Only by polluting all the water sources!
If even one person falls ill, bringing the disease into Yunzhou City...
Then his own army only needs to surround and not attack, and he can watch Jiang Ming's 200,000 troops be wiped out!
He had a good plan, but the problem was... he encountered Jiang Ming from the future.
His trick was indeed an insidious and inescapable tactic against other renowned generals...
But to Jiang Ming, it was nothing more than a child's game!
After learning this information, Jiang Ming was actually quite scared!
Fortunately, I didn't let Le Yi lead the troops to resist Sahehan's main force. Instead, I personally came from Yan to fight my way here!
Otherwise, given Le Yi's experience, he would probably be finished this time!
Moreover, once the plague spreads...
If this trend were to spread within the Great Gan Empire, it would be an irreversible and hopeless situation!
This Sahehan brought hundreds of coffins of the dead. As soon as Jiang Ming heard this report, he knew that the other party was up to something bad!
What's even more despicable about Sahehan is that the coffins he planned to throw into Yunzhou City contained not only corpses but also a lot of gold and silver treasures, intending to make the soldiers guarding the city fight over them and indirectly infect them...
This move can be described as extremely insidious!
The Northern Xiongnu army arrived quickly after traveling thirty miles, and their troops were already at the gates of Yunzhou!
The final battle between the Great Gan Empire and the Northern Xiongnu is about to begin!
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