If we cannot expand outward, we can only strengthen our internal combat capabilities.
Li Yue then began to actively prepare for war and recruit more soldiers.
Many refugees and bandits will basically do nothing else in their lives except killing people.
Let them farm honestly, but they are not used to it.
However, these people have a complex composition and have not completely returned to their original mission. It is somewhat inappropriate to rashly absorb them into the soldiers.
What Li Yue needs is an army that is completely loyal to him and will not allow any sand to come in.
After thinking for a long time, we decided to set up a death camp.
No matter what their composition is, what ethnic group they are, and whether they are loyal or not, as long as they are physically strong, brave and good at fighting, they will all be forcibly incorporated into the death camps.
In any fierce and bloody battle, let this group fight.
The soldiers were behind with their swords in hand to supervise the battle.
If you want others to risk their lives, you must be treated accordingly.
The death camp must have a meat meal every day. One enemy head is exchanged for one liter of grain, and three heads are exchanged for one acre of land. The price is clearly marked, and no one can bully anyone. After five years of fighting, you can choose to retire, or become an officer, or You can enter the soldiers.
The one who kills the generals and seizes the flag first to break the formation will be rewarded with three levels of life and a hundred acres of land.
Just like the setting of third-class civilians, try to make each class have a goal and see hope. Even if they die in battle, everything they get will be inherited by their family members.
As soon as the treatment was announced, the prisoners who were initially somewhat resistant immediately became compliant and asked when the training would begin...
Even those in the military wanted to be converted into death camps.
One is for visible treatment, and the other is purely for fighting on the front line.
Too many people came, far exceeding the establishment of 800 people. Li Yue had to select the best and lay off some who were tired of war.
The quality of the death battalion has been greatly improved, and the officers are people who have been transferred from combat service.
At this point, Li Yue had three troops in his hands: the scout camp, the combat camp, and the death camp, with a strength of 4,000.
When the autumn harvest begins, the scouts from Xuanyuan Mountain finally return.
"General... they found out as soon as my subordinates went up the mountain. They arrested him and imprisoned him for half a month. He was given food and drink every day and asked questions about everything. Then he was released." The scout said honestly.
"Is your kid safe?" Wei Shan's eyes were full of distrust.
The scout looked magnanimous and said, "My subordinates have never leaked anything."
Li Yue looked at the scout. There were no wounds on his body from being tortured, and he had gained a lot of weight. His whole family was on the mountain and he didn't have the guts to lie to him.
Wei Shan looked over with doubtful eyes.
Li Yue nodded, "Guo Shi probably figured out the second brother's identity."
There are no fuel-efficient lamps these days, everyone is as shrewd as a ghost.
"In that case, what's the point of leaving Leader Cui behind?"
"Secret alliance!" Li Yue almost understood what Guo Shi meant.
If Xuanyuan Mountain really contributes to the siege of Heiyun Mountain this time, it will be difficult for Heiyun Mountain to resist.
And if Black Cloud Mountain is destroyed, will Zhang Yu's next target be Xuanyuan Mountain?
From Guo Shi's point of view, the triangle relationship is the most stable.
They are Li Ju's remnants, and Zhang Yu is the governor of Yuzhou in Jie Zhao, so they are naturally difficult to deal with.
It is possible that Zhang Yu retreated because Xuanyuan Mountain was constraining him from behind, killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred. Heiyun Mountain and Zhang Yu merged with each other, and the advantage was Zhang Yu and other forces in Yuzhou.
There are wolves, tigers and leopards everywhere these days, and anyone with some power is ambitious.
Jie Zhao's core control area is in Hebei, and Hebei suppresses the Central Plains and Guanzhong. Many Wubao only surrender to Jie Zhao on the surface.
"If we make an alliance, we'll make an alliance. Why be so sneaky?" Wei Shan curled his lips and said, obviously unable to understand.
"Guo Shi doesn't want to offend us, let alone Zhang Yu. He wants to establish a tacit understanding. No matter what, we owe them a favor this time."
Li Yue suddenly remembered a famous saying from later generations, which best describes the current situation: Jianghu is not about fighting and killing, but about the sophistication of the world.
Wei Shan praised: "The general knows so much at such a young age, he is really a genius!"
Li Yueqian laughed twice. After all, he has been born in two lifetimes, so he naturally has more understanding than ordinary people.
Since Cui Jin poses no threat in Xuanyuan Mountain, Li Yue is not so anxious. Guo Shi won't even kill a single scout, let alone touch Cui Jin.
The autumn harvest will soon be over.
A total of 35,000 stones of grain were harvested. In the short term, Heiyun Mountain no longer has to worry about food.
But the salt on the mountain has bottomed out.
Without salt, even if the meat tastes tasteless, the soldiers' physical strength will be greatly reduced. Donkeys and mules must be fed with salt regularly if they want to run far.
The three hundred kilograms of salt supported by the Zheng and Wang families was a drop in the bucket.
Even if we get through it now, it will be a big problem in the future.
Zhou Qian and Cao Kan had been gone for almost a month, and without knowing what was going on, Li Yue sent out scouts to try to pick them up.
The person didn't respond, but brought back bad news.
Large areas of plague have appeared in Luoyang, Hanoi, Xingyang and other counties on both sides of the Yellow River!
"Loyang and Hanoi counties suffered heavy casualties, and many villages and villages were wiped out..."
A severe drought will bring out locusts, a severe flood will bring out a plague.
The corpse was soaked in the water without anyone restraining it. After a sultry summer, various germs grew.
Then they were carried by the river to various parts of the Central Plains.
During the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the population of China once reached as high as 50 to 60 million. However, after the Yellow Turban Uprising and the melee of the Three Kingdoms, the population declined sharply to 20 million.
The vast majority did not die on the battlefield, but died of the plague.
The great plague in the late Han Dynasty lasted for more than half a century. Five of the seven sons of Jian'an died from the plague.
When Li Yue first escaped from Jijiabao, he saw a large number of rotting corpses floating on the river.
A flood killed countless people.
No one had collected the corpses, and an outbreak of plague was nothing new.
Li Yue immediately became alert and ordered his scouts to seal off the surrounding areas of Black Cloud Mountain, strictly prohibiting people from entering and exiting at will.
Comprehensive cleaning began on the mountain. All houses were fumigated with mugwort, and clothes were soaked in boiling water. No gathering of people was allowed, and no one was allowed to go out without any reason.
A large number of simple wooden houses were built in the mountains to disperse people and avoid gatherings.
The sanitary conditions in Heiyun Mountain are acceptable, there is very little contact with the outside world, and there have been no cases of illness.
But everything must be nipped in the bud. If these things come together, there will be no chickens or dogs left.
The range of activities of the scouts was reduced. Every time they went down the mountain, Li Yue asked them to take various precautions. They wrapped their mouths and noses with two layers of linen, smoked mugwort from head to toe when they went out, took a hot shower when they came back, and then stayed alone. The room was quarantined for two days.
Yue Ji took Nuying up the mountain to collect medicine.
For safety, Li Yue gave her three hundred scouts.
Li Yue was not idle and remembered that there were many medical skills in the study, including "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" written by the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing.
Sharpening a gun in the face of battle will bring displeasure.
The era that Zhang Zhongjing lived in was an era of great plague outbreaks. Every family suffered from the pain of laying corpses, and there were sobbing sounds in every room. Countless people either died after closing their doors, or mourned as a whole family.
However, Li Yue suddenly discovered that "Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases" was also a fragment, written by Yue Jimo...
Something is better than nothing, and it can be managed with the help of the "Huangdi Neijing".
According to Zhang Zhongjing's theory, there are many types of plague, which need to be viewed dialectically. Dialectical treatment varies from person to person, such as fever, aversion to cold, strong pain in the head and neck, and floating pulse, which are superficial syndromes and are Taiyang diseases, but Taiyang diseases It is also divided into sweating and non-sweating.
Just like the kidney deficiency in later generations, it is divided into yin deficiency, yang deficiency, and both yin and yang deficiency. It is extremely complicated and requires a lot of clinical experience. It is not something that Li Yue can master with half a spoon.
It is simply impossible to have one medicine that can cure all plagues.
In addition, when using medicine, you also need to control the temperature, and pay attention to the coordination of monarchs and ministers. If used correctly, poison can also cure diseases, but if used incorrectly, good medicine can also kill people.
Li Yue gnawed for two or three days and felt his scalp was numb. Without a master's words and deeds, years of accumulation and personal exploration would be as difficult as reaching the sky.
"General, there are refugees coming from the direction of Luoyang and Xingyang, seeking shelter in Black Cloud Mountain!" the scout reported in a panic.
