"Commander Liu, secret report from the iron torture platform."
Sitting in the tent, Liu Chen just raised his head and saw a general walking in hurriedly.
"A plague has occurred in Western Shu."
Listening, Liu Chen frowned and raised his hand to take the secret letter. He opened it and found that the content inside was just as General Pi said.
"How is this possible? It's almost summer and there are no droughts or floods."
"Commander Liu, I didn't believe it before. But this matter has spread not only in the camp, but also among the people in Sizhou. Occasionally, you can still see animal carcasses flowing down from the upper reaches. Northeast of Sizhou From the shoal on the shore, more than ten human and animal corpses have been fished out."
"What do you say?"
"It is indeed a plague."
Liu Chen's face showed joy, "Very good. If this happens, Thief Xu will have to worry about the end."
"Military advisor, epidemics are not a good thing."
"Of course I know." Liu Chen nodded again, "Let people find more doctors to help the people along the coast and stop the epidemic in Western Shu."
"Don't worry, military advisor."
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"Twigs, grass balls, and especially rotten fishing nets are all thrown downstream." Chen Sheng stood on the shore and kept talking angrily.
According to the wishes of his little military advisor, the Jijiang River is extremely wide and long. Only if there is more blockage, those Beiyu talents will dig out the shoals by themselves.
After giving the instructions, Chen Sheng pressed the knife and walked back to the camp. In order to complete his military affairs, he came specially from Dayuan Pass and threw his body on the bank of Sujiang River.
The bodies were freshly killed. There were also two or three disciples of Chen Que who helped fake the epidemic.
"General, this general, please spare your life!"
As soon as he walked into the camp, Chen Sheng, who heard the sound, frowned and turned back. At this time, dozens of remnants of the Dong family were kneeling in front of him. People like these have made many riots in the past for the sake of rebellion.
My lord's order is just convenient for my strategy, so I will kill them all.
Ignoring these pleas for mercy, Chen Sheng walked straight inside. In the camp, Chai Zong was already waiting in front of him.
"Brother Sheng is back."
"Brother Chai, what's wrong?"
Chai Zong smiled and said, "Brother Sheng, don't worry. I have received information that many Beiyu people in the lower reaches of the river bank have begun to panic. From the current perspective, there is no problem with the strategy of the military advisor."
Listening, Chen Sheng also smiled.
"In this way, I will do it for two or three more rounds and then I will be done."
"Of course it is."
At Dayuan Pass, not long after receiving the information, Xu Mu and Dongfang Jing also smiled.
This plan, since Chang Sheng was not around, was considered to have gone smoothly. And on the surface, there seems to be no connection between Xishu and this epidemic.
Even Liu Chen couldn't have imagined that he would spend so much effort just to dig a beach. I guess I'll have to jump in and scold my mother if I find out later.
"If this thing can succeed, my lord should have made preparations early. The information from Night Owl made it vaguely clear that King Sha Rong might have escaped Changyang and disappeared. In this way, then, With King Sha Rong escaping, we, Western Shu and Northern Chongqing, will inevitably face tit-for-tat again."
Xu Mu nodded, this was something that was impossible to do. From Western Sichuan to Northern Chongqing, only one can make it to the end. At first glance, it seems that both of them are just one step away from establishing eternal hegemony.
"By the way, Bolie, is there any news about the sheepherd?"
Dongfang Jing shook his head, "No, this person is either dead or well hidden. There is no news about him until now. I can't say why, but I always feel that he should still be alive."
"Bo Lie, I also have this feeling."
After the surprise attack on Dayuan Pass, Xun Pingzi was no longer seen in the world, no one was seen alive, and no corpse was seen dead.
"I sent people to all the camps we planned to surrender to, but found nothing." Dongfang Jing said in a deep voice, "My lord, you should know that situations like this are often the most terrifying. Just like a poisonous snake, you walk in the grass. But you never know when it will bite you."
Dongfang Jing's words also made Xu Mu worried. Even with the victory in the beginning of spring, just like now, as long as the old family can be appeased by constant victory, Beiyu can still crush Xishu to death with the foundation of Beiyu.
On the other hand, if Xishu is defeated in the spring, not only Dayuan Pass will be lost, but Dingdong Pass may also be lost. It is impossible to say that the entire northwest will be quickly eroded by Beiyu.
Therefore, he will be extremely cautious every time he takes a step. Of course, even so, Chang Sheng still fell into several schemes.
The scholar from the Chang family is no longer the same as before.
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"Commander Liu, please look, this is the corpse that was just fished out." Captain Shen Chong pointed at the three or four floating corpses in front of him with a solemn face. His hands kept moving, and Liu Chen, who was about to move forward, pulled back a few times.
"Teacher, be careful. If you get too close, you may get infected."
Hearing this, Liu Chen frowned, nodded and took a few steps back.
"In the past two or three days, we have picked up several bodies every day. I have asked several doctors that these Shu people or villagers upstream may be contaminated by the villagers over there, and they will be thrown into the river directly."
"Logically speaking, if there is an epidemic, the corpses should be burned."
"Military advisor, if anyone discovers that there is an epidemic in the village, it will be sealed. When I was seven years old, there was an epidemic, and the villagers were also afraid, and the whole village was surrounded."
Liu Chen was silent for a while and didn't say much.
"By the way, military advisor, there were people digging at the shoal ahead."
"That's why."
"Probably because of this disaster, from time to time larger branches would rush down through the net and block a section of the river. It's also because of this that things like this-"
Shen Chong paused, pointed at the corpses on the ground, and kept sighing.
Liu Chen did not answer, looking far away on the river.
He had much more to think about than Shen Chong in front of him. For example, whether the digging of the beach will be beneficial to Xi Shu? For another example, he needed to wait for another round of information from the iron torture platform before he could truly make a conclusion about this sudden epidemic.
Before that, just like the message from Chang Sheng, when he was undecided, he remained calm and motionless. There are many deceitful people in Western Shu. He had already fully understood this when he met Thief Xu.
"Shen Chong, you first need to find more doctors and make medicinal soup to stabilize the people along the coast."
"Military Liu is righteous."
Liu Chen turned around and walked forward. Before he could reach the carriage, he happened to be bumped into by a commoner. He had a cold face and was about to speak... but he held it back and slowly put on a smile.
The people were stunned for a moment, and after apologizing, they quickly ran away.
Standing there, Liu Chen remained silent for a long time. He discovered one thing. After being humiliated by Xu Thief that day, his temperament... became less and less like a scholar.
In other words, he stepped out of the bookstore and stepped into the struggle for hegemony in troubled times. At this time, the obsession in his heart was like a fire, burning more and more fiercely.
Even he himself was burned.
