The breeze blows and flags waving. At the top of the city of Gushan, the Goguryeo soldiers who should have been alert were listless, one by one, one by one, and one by one, and one by one, looked at the Zhou army camp at the foot of the mountain, and they had no intention of fighting.

A plague broke out in the city, and many people fell ill. The condition was serious and more and more people were infected.

The patient's forehead, cheeks, arms and other areas have red rashes, and then they become larger, bulge, and turn into red rashes. In a few days, it turns into herpes, and then the herpes become suppurated and turn into pustites.

During this period, the patient will feel weak all over the body, headache, sore limbs, and then have a fever and faint when the fever is severe. Many people will faint from the fever and never wake up again.

At first, people thought the disease was typhoid fever, so the patient's family took good care of it, but the patient's condition did not improve and the family members also got sick. When everyone realized that this disease was a very contagious plague, it was too late.

There are many people who are infected with the disease and the condition spreads very quickly. The city lord thought of making a quick decision and isolating all patients, but this idea encountered many obstacles.

No one wants to leave their relatives alone. Even though they know that their relatives' illnesses will be contagious, few people are willing to let their relatives die on their own. Under such circumstances, the situation in Gushan City is getting worse and worse.

Many soldiers who had not yet been infected, were worried when they saw that a large number of patients had begun to die in the city. Some people began to flee and fled out of the city to surrender to the Zhou army. However, after the city lord personally cut down several deserters who had failed to escape, the others couldn't help but be afraid.

Since you can't escape, it's better to wait for the Zhou army to attack and kneel down and beg for mercy. What else can the city lord who is unable to protect himself?

Many soldiers thought so, but did not dare to say it out loud. They just waited silently, waiting for the Zhou army outside the city to launch an attack.

However, during this period, the Zhou army has surrounded but not attacked, as if they knew that a plague broke out in the city, so they were waiting for the whole city to get infected with the plague and die.

If this is true, it means that everyone in the city is dead, and many soldiers and people do not want to die, so they still want to escape.

Due to the spread of the plague, although the city of Gushan City is easy to defend and difficult to attack is sufficient, it is already shaky. The city lord Mu Tiande knew this situation well. It was not that he had not taken measures to save it, but he was already powerless.

People's hearts are fluctuating and morale plummet. The problem cannot be solved by killing alone. Mu Tiande himself has become infected with a bad disease and has a rash all over his body.

It has been more than twenty days since the plague occurred in the city. Most of the people who started to have died at the beginning. Mu Tiande noticed that it took only ten or twenty days for these people to die from the onset to the death of illness.

Those who were lucky enough to die had pustipes scabs on their faces, falling off, and turning into numb faces. The time span from the onset to the recovery of the disease is not often more than ten or twenty days.

By this calculation, he only has a few days left. If he can't get through it, he will have a dead end.

If he dies, his subordinates will inevitably open the city to surrender. At that time, his family will be helpless and the fate will be bad.

If you are not dead, but the soldiers and civilians in the city suffer more than half of their casualties due to the plague, how can you resist the Zhou army that sieges the city?

As he thought about it, Mu Tiande was sad and angry, and regretted his decision at that time.

Nearly a month ago, the Zhou army approached Gushan City. While summoning troops to strengthen the city defense, he allowed the surrounding people to enter the city for a while to avoid it. After the troops that had previously fought disintegrated, many defeated soldiers also rushed to the mountain city.

It is said that among these defeated soldiers, there were probably fine works bought by the Zhou army, or the Zhou army's fine works were directly involved, but Mu Tiande thought about it again and again and still accommodated the defeated soldiers.

It is impossible not to contain it. The enemy is facing a great enemy and it is necessary to inspire the morale of the army. If the defeated troops are abandoned, the soldiers in the city will murmur in their hearts. As for possible detailed operations, just take precautions.

Among the fleeing soldiers, many of them had red rashes. At that time, Mu Tiande didn't think so much, so he specially set up an area in the city to place these wounded soldiers and arranged for doctors to treat the other party.

It turns out that these people have become the source of the plague.

There is no medicine for regret in the world. At this moment, Mu Tiande stood on the city tower, looked at the soldiers who had dealt with the matter on the city, looked around, sighed and said, "Send someone to take the surrender book out of the city, surrender."

When I heard this, my eyes lit up, and I felt a sense of liberation in my heart, but I didn’t dare to show it on my face.

A plague broke out in the city, and everyone knew that the city could not be defended. As soon as possible, they would leave the plague land one day earlier. At least they still had a chance to survive.

If the city lord insists on pulling everyone to die together, then...

The thought of being ready to move dissipated as the city lord Mu Tiande ordered the surrender. After the envoy who brought the surrender letter out of the city, he quickly brought back the request of the commander of the Zhou army: to open the city gate immediately, and the city lord and the main generals led the city out of the city.

This is a matter of course. If the Zhou army wants to prevent fraud and surrender, they will inevitably let Mu Tiande go out first, so as not to close the gate after entering the city and beat the dog.

Mu Tiande was soon ready to surrender. He put on his clothes and cloak stained with the patient's pus, and brought several loyal subordinates who were dressed in the same manner. With anger, he opened the city gate and walked to the Zhou soldiers waiting for him outside.

Previously, the sick defeated soldiers should have been intentionally released by Zhou Jun, allowing them to enter the city of Gushan and spread the plague.

Now, Mu Tiande knew that his life was not long, so he wanted to take revenge in the same way, causing the Zhou army to be infected with plague, and then it might also spread to the main army besieging Pyongyang.

Let these plague gods who deliberately release the plague suffer their own consequences, and it is best to die because the plague is rampant.

Thinking of this, Mu Tiande was excited, whose forehead began to heat up. He wanted to use his sacrifice to exchange for heavy casualties in the Zhou army. In this way, he and the soldiers and civilians who died of illness in Gushan City were buried with him.

Looking at the Zhou army soldiers in front of him, Mu Tiande seemed to see the other party's face full of pustipes, a high fever and a dazed look, and finally fell on the couch and waited for death.

His head started to get dizzy, but he was still walking firmly, trying to bring a plague to the other party.

Under the banner, he looked at the Goguryeo general who was getting closer and closer, the Zhou army commander, and the Kaifu General Zhang Dinghe, feeling a little nervous. He knew that a plague occurred in the city, and once the other party surrendered, his soldiers would easily get infected with the plague.

Now, maybe these generals who came out to surrender were already deeply infected with a serious disease. Then, after a while, they would cough a few times, would they...

Zhang Dinghe is not afraid of death. He is not afraid of dying in battle on the battlefield, but is worried that he will die of illness on the couch. So he is confused and can't help but turn his head slightly and whisper to someone beside him: "Brother Wu, this... is really okay with acne?"

The "Brother Wu" was thin but kind-hearted. He smiled and said, "General, please relax. Since our soldiers have had acne, they will definitely not get sick. I can guarantee this!"

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Zhang Dinghe wanted to speak but stopped. He was afraid that he would appear timid if he asked too much. Seeing that the Goguryeo general was about to arrive in front of him, he put away his thoughts and kept his guard against the other party's sudden attack, and pulled out his weapons to hold him as a hostage.

As for the plague, now that things have come to this point, I can only believe Brother Wu.

"Brother Wu" has a special identity, and it seems to be directly under the command of the emperor. He led a mysterious army to attack and used special weapons to assist Zhang Dinghe in combat. This weapon is said to be powerful, so Zhang Dinghe, who was skeptical, chose to trust the other party.

Seeing Zhang Dinghe's appearance, the "Brother Wu" knew that the other party could not let go, but he did not intend to reveal anything further so that the other party could rest assured.

Keep it confidential, first of all, you must be strict. After all, the weapons you use are very special and are not enough to be known to outsiders.

Their weapon is a plague, and the epidemic that was launched this time is "spicy sores". It is recorded in the "Emergency Prescriptions for Elbows" written by Ge Hong in the Jin Dynasty. When this disease occurs, it is very fierce. The patient will be covered with rashes and then turn into pustipes. At the same time, the patient's high fever will not subside, causing various diseases and finally die.

If you can survive, the pustipes will scab and fall off, leaving marks. If the marks are on your face, the person will turn into a numb face.

Therefore, this disease is now named "smallpox" by them.

After experiments, it was found that people who had smallpox would never get this disease again, so they first gave a pimple to get mild smallpox, so they would not be afraid of this disease in the future.

The principle of this method is to first let the patient get a slightly infected disease, and then develop resistance to the disease in the body, so that it will not or be difficult to get the disease again.

Who came up with such a mysterious method?

Everyone is not sure. Anyway, the laboratory conducts experiments according to this principle, taking cowpox "seed" on people, causing minor illnesses. After being cured, the person will indeed not be infected with smallpox again.

In this way, they have a weapon that is safer than the plague. As long as their soldiers infuse acne in advance and do not contact the patients too much, they will not be afraid of being infected by the smallpox they release.
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