The cavalry in the base area finally stopped attacking and returned to camp to confront the Jiannu and Haraqin coalition forces.
Huang Yi's plan is to let the enemy who can't bear it attack Dazhai and use artillery fire to harvest a wave.
To be honest, it is difficult for artillery to hit cavalry. As long as the enemy cavalry runs fast, they will definitely not be able to hit them.
Therefore, the method of luring the enemy into an offensive and defensive battle was used to conduct an artillery raid.
He still has a little bit of hope. It stands to reason that after receiving the news, Hedanbaatar should lead at least a thousand cavalry to come and take advantage!
Unexpectedly, things were not as expected. The people sent to contact him came back, but Hedanbaatar's department did not send a single soldier.
It was not that Hedanbaatar turned a deaf ear to the invitation of allies, but that the ministry discovered the smallpox plague and people were panicked.
Smallpox is a historic epidemic that was untreatable at this time.
Whether you can survive the disease depends entirely on God's will. Those who are lucky enough to survive become hemp seeds.
The Ministry of Hedanbaatar knew how to prevent the rapid spread of smallpox and had begun to adopt dispersed grazing methods to avoid large-scale infections.
Under such circumstances, you would definitely not dare to gather troops to join the battle!
Huang Yi was also shocked when he got the news. He traveled to the Ming Dynasty for nearly two years and had not yet experienced the power of the epidemic. How could he catch up?
Fortunately, it’s not plague or cholera, it’s just smallpox!
It's just that no matter what kind of plague, it was incurable in ancient times without antibiotics. One person's infection may cause the death of a whole village.
So Huang Yi has been teaching people around him about hygiene, starting from not drinking raw water.
After establishing the base area, many toilets were built and everyone was called on to work together to eliminate rats, lice, and fleas.
Compared with the plague, which could lead to sudden death if infected in the morning, smallpox was less scary.
The plague is actually the Black Death among 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 cure smallpox, but he knows how to prevent it!
He himself was not afraid of catching smallpox at all!
All right! There was no way he could catch it.
Because in later dynasties, all people over the age of fifty were vaccinated with cowpox, and the scars from the cowpox vaccination on Huang Yi's left arm are still vaguely visible!
People vaccinated with cowpox are lifelong immune to the smallpox virus.
So, Huang Yi hurriedly went to look for the cows himself, and soon found cows infected with the pox virus.
The identification is actually very simple, that is, the acne on the cow's abdomen has suppurated.
He milked the cow himself, oh no, not the cow, but the pus from the acne in the lower abdomen of the cow.
Then he ordered Zhang Dong to call Huang Dayong, Huang Daquan, Bi Daxi, Hu Xiaochuan and other thirty-six officers.
Huang Yi didn't say any nonsense, but said loudly: "Stand at attention, take a break, remove each other's armor and expose their left arms."
Huang Dayong, Hu Xiaochuan, Bi Daxi and other thirty-six people are all absolutely loyal warriors and are already senior officers in the base area.
They have long been accustomed to following Huang Yi's orders to the letter, taking off their armor and exposing their left arms. Why is this?
Nobody knows! But they just did it without asking.
It was known that smallpox had appeared, and Huang Yi was not willing to see his generals become infected and die in pain.
He went straight to work, dipped a stainless steel needle in it and squeezed out the pus from the cow's pox, then pricked the arms of Huang Dayong, Hu Xiaochuan and others one by one.
The stainless steel needle is one of the small tools in the handle of Huang Yi's ordnance shovel. It needs to be pierced and disinfected with alcohol.
Loyalty and trust are most evident at this time.
Huang Dayong, Hu Xiaochuan, Bi Daxi and other thirty-six senior officers in the base area did not flinch or even frown.
After pricking all thirty-six people, Huang Yi raised his fists to the sky and saluted, and said loudly:
"Thank you God for giving me the power to fight against the smallpox plague! I can swear to God that those who have the power to fight against smallpox are the most loyal warriors in the base area.
If I break my oath and betray the base, I will die of the smallpox plague and my whole body will fester! "
The thirty-six people were all high-ranking officers in the base area. Of course they knew that there was a smallpox plague in Hedanbaat'er's tribe, so they didn't send any troops.
They all know that some people even experienced the plague many years ago, and they 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.
Zhang Dong was the most understanding person. He immediately bowed to the sky and swore loudly:
"Thank you to the gods for giving me the power to resist the smallpox plague. I swear to always be loyal to the base. If I betray, I will be infected with the smallpox plague and my whole body will fester and die!"
Yo! Zhang Dong took the lead again, and Huang Dayong, who was the first to follow Huang Yi, was depressed.
He plopped down and knelt down in front of Huang Yi and swore that he was not swearing to be loyal to the base, but directly swearing to be loyal to Huang Yi.
The others suddenly woke up and knelt down to swear allegiance.
Huang Yi didn't bother to pretend to be a ghost, but vaccination to prevent smallpox was too mysterious to explain for a while.
"Swallowing the Starry Sky: Sign in to Become a God"
So let’s just talk about divine power! Don’t waste time discussing or discussing, just use your established authority to get started.
Unexpectedly, even if I have done political work a hundred times, I have never been influenced by the gods to become more cohesive.
Huang Yi looked at the excited Huang Dayong, Huang Dapeng, Hu Xiaochuan and others and smiled, saying:
"It's not enough that you have the power to fight the smallpox plague. Later, you can use the method I taught you to give more people a shot! Remember, you can't reveal the secret."
Everyone in Hu Xiaochuan stood at attention and loudly agreed: "Yes!"
Zhang Dong asked: "Do you have to get some of that sacred water when you get an acupuncture?"
"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 has been given power by the gods!"
Hu Xiaochuan suddenly realized: "No wonder this sacred water is so strange, it turns out it's not water!"
"You remember, after you learn the method, teach the method to the general officers and above, and order everyone not to reveal the secret!"
Thirty-six people immediately said in unison: "Yes!"
The admonishment is necessary, but as time goes by, the method of vaccination to prevent smallpox will surely spread.
Huang Yi just thought that only his own people would master this method in a short time, and did not expect that cowpox vaccination would become a patent in the base area.
His idea was to allow the people in the base area to be protected against smallpox, and then to vaccinate as many Han people as possible with cowpox, so that the Jiannu and Tatars would learn about this method as late as possible.
The best way to keep it secret is to keep the technology in your own hands only!
But how can it be possible for Huang Yi alone to complete the vaccination of tens of thousands of people?
Therefore, we had to teach the method of vaccination to officers above the level of the commander-in-chief, and issue a confidentiality order.
With too many people in control, the possibility of leaking the secret was too great. Huang Yi could only hope that it could be kept secret for a while longer.
