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Chapter 24 Intentions

In Hanshanyan, the river water in the drainage canal is turbulent. A specially made bamboo fence is inserted into the water in the direction of the water flow, like a slope, completely blocking the canal.

As the fish rushing in the river were intercepted by the fence, they kept rolling on the fence because of the impulse, as if they were being washed uphill.

The fish that left the water jumped around on the fence. The soldiers guarding the side quickly walked up the fence, picked up the "uphill" river fish and put them into the fish basket.

As for those little fish, as long as they don’t go through the gap, they will pass through the gap and continue to move forward with the river.

The water flowed rapidly and river fish kept rushing onto the fence, so the people who "guarded the fence and waited for the fish" had a lot of gains. A large number of onlookers on the shore were happy to see this scene.

There are fish to eat every day, which is great!

Someone has never seen such a fishing facility, so he can explain it.

This kind of fishing facility is called "fish beams", which is to block rivers and build dams, leave a gap for water to flow, and then place a fish basket or fence in the gap to block the fish that come out of the water.

Yuliang is a very common fishing facility, so the minor officials in charge of fishing in many places in the Liang State are called "Yuliang official".

But no one expected that the Hanshanyan used to store water to attack the city would become a huge fish beam, providing a large amount of fresh river fish every day, allowing the Liang army soldiers to eat fish every day to eat enough.

In an arrow tower in the camp on the shore, Li Li looked at the Hanshan "Yuliangyan" playing its role. He was very satisfied, but he still felt that it was a pity that the water resources of the dam drainage channel were so rich that it could not be used, which was too wasteful.

If a hydraulic field is built here and more than a dozen "Redic" fully automatic needle making machines are installed, the production capacity will inevitably be very objective when the raw materials are enough.

The "Li Sanlang" brand iron needle produced in this workshop was dumped on a large scale in Lianghuai, and there will be no competitors and there will be no worries about selling it.

Even if you rely on small profits and quick turnover, you can still make money every day.

Then open a "branch" and sell the "Li Sanlang" brand iron needle to Henan, Hebei, Hedong and Guanzhong.

After 20 or 30 years like this, the name of "Iron Needle Li" is probably not to be famous all over the Central Plains...

Li Li withdrew his thoughts and looked at a corner of the camp.

There were many big cauldrons on the stove there, and the chefs were busy adding firewood and boiling water to ensure that the soldiers of the army had clean water to drink.

Drinking boiled water is a living habit that only emerged in later generations. Most people in this era do not pay so much attention to it.

For civilians, it is not important to note: boiling water requires firewood, which is a considerable expense for people with shortages.

Even if you live at home, you can’t drink boiled water, and the conditions during marching and fighting are bad, let alone doing it.

But as long as there are conditions, Li Li must ensure that he and his subordinates can drink the boiled "cooked water" to ensure combat effectiveness.

Other generals would think that he would do something extra, but Li Li would rather "do it extra" than have an accident.

However, the conditions for marching and fighting are indeed difficult. Many times, he really cannot provide boiling water to the soldiers, so he can only share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers and drink "raw water" together.

Fortunately, there is no industrial pollution in this era, and green mountains and clear waters are everywhere. It is still okay to drink well water and river water directly while ensuring the water source is clean.

It’s just that there are different degrees of disagreement, just overcome it.

However, if a river that looks clear in water, if there are a large number of dead livestock upstream, then people who don’t know the truth downstream will easily get sick if they drink river water.

A famous example in history is Huo Qubing, a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty. It is said that when he was pursuing the Huns, he drank river water that was deliberately polluted by the Huns with dead horses, so he became infected and died young.

It can be seen from this that the idea of ​​using polluted water sources to make the enemy defeat without fighting has existed.

Therefore, it is not considered "original" to play tricks on the Jingjing Gully Water.

The enemy commander Duan Shao was the "chief general" of Qi. He thought he would pay great attention to the water source issue, so when Li Li sent someone to pollute the river water, he specially made a concealment.

Make the rotten things into a ‘source of pollution’, sink them to the bottom of the water, ‘enough enough pipes’, and deal with them appropriately to prevent the odor from being so obvious. Then scouts who explore the water quality of the upper river section will not notice that there is something wrong with the river.

Therefore, a large number of bacteria released by the "pollution source" were drunk by the uninformed Qi army soldiers and river water. They lasted for many days and would sooner or later get sick.

For example, today's air is hot, high temperature and rainy, and sick soldiers are easily judged to be unacceptable to the local environment at the beginning, and the situation is wrong and it is too late to save them.

In a camp where tens of thousands of soldiers gather, once a "plague" breaks out, non-combat reductions will be amazing.

Li Li thought about it and looked at the dam again. At this time, a large number of young and strong men were busy on the dam and continued construction.

If you are not sure to win a head-on confrontation, you have to take a different approach. If this strategy is successful, the key is to make sure that the Qi army will use clean ditch water as the source of water before "poisoning" in advance.

He is not a god and does not have the ability to predict the future, but he can steadily let the Qi army camp on the banks of Jingjinggou according to the existing conditions.

More than five years ago, the Liang army built Hanshan Weir here, returned to water to irrigate Pengcheng, and reinforced the Wei army (the Eastern Wei at that time) in Pengcheng, and once camped in the southwest suburbs of Pengcheng.

This is because Pengcheng has become a big lake, and if reinforcements want to conquer Hanshanliang, they have to camp in the south of Pengcheng. The higher terrain is the southwest of Pengcheng and the higher terrain to the east of Jingjinggou Water.

Camping camped at the "lakeside", camp sewage and excrement would pollute the "lake water", so at that time, the Wei army used the clean ditch water on the west side of the camp as the water source.

Now, Li Li’s “replicate” Hanshanyan, one of the purposes is to let the Qi army still camp at the “formerly site” and still use the water of the clean ditches as the source of water.

Therefore, even if the Qi army comes in a fierce manner, they are all elite soldiers and first-class combat power. The Liang army is not sure to defeat the opponent in the field, so what?

Thinking of this, Li Li couldn't help but smile, turned around and walked down the arrow tower.

Li Li not only sent people to pollute the water source, but also lurked scouts on Tongxiao Mountain next to him. The scouts were equipped with telescopes and observed the enemy camp from a high place nearby.

The scouts could see every move in the Qi army camp clearly. Through the method of "sentence transfer", the enemy situation was transmitted to the chief general Li Li.

Therefore, the army led by Duan Shao arrived in the suburbs of Pengcheng and lost half of the time the former site was camped.

Now that Pengcheng has changed its owner, the other party is shocked by the "Thunder Breaking the City". He will definitely rely on the camp to "resist and respond to all changes". Then the next battle will be decided without fighting.

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In the southwest of Pengcheng, Tongxiaoshan, Qi army camp, and on the south side, there are a large number of dry firewood piles piled up, and corpses are piled up on each dry firewood pile.

It rained for days and finally waited until the sky was clear, so the person who died of illness had to be "treated" as soon as possible.

After a while, a fire flashed on the piles of firewood, and gradually became a big fire.

The dry firewood piles that were lit one after another turned into huge bonfires.

There were many soldiers watching each bonfire. They watched the bodies of the deceased being swallowed by the fire, and they remained silent.

It is said that it should be dug a hole and buried it, but it has rained for several days and the ground is muddy. If it is buried outside the camp, it is afraid that the plague will still spread to the camp, so it would be better to burn it.

When many people thought of the plague, they looked solemn.

At the beginning, some people in the military camp felt uncomfortable, and everyone thought it was because they were not adapted to the local conditions.

Later, more and more people felt uncomfortable. Although everyone was a little worried, they felt that it was not a big deal: they were not adapted to the local conditions, and it would be over after a while.

However, when more and more people fell ill and died in pain, the soldiers realized that a plague broke out in the military camp.

Even the military doctors fell ill one after another.

It is not rare to marches and fight, and plagues occur in the military camps. So the response measures were quickly implemented: transfer the patients to separate camps to avoid spreading to others.

However, this measure has little effect, because the epidemic has been out of control, not only people, but also a large number of horses pulling carts have fallen ill and died of illness.

More and more people are sick, and the camps specially used to accommodate patients are already overcrowded, and the wailing sounds are endless day and night, which makes other soldiers feel panicked when they hear it.

The dry firewood was burning, and the crackling sounds were endless, while the burning sound of the body, as well as the gradually obvious sobs and discussions among the onlookers made the atmosphere at the scene depressed.

The coach Duan Shao looked at the miserable clouds in front of him and frowned.

A plague broke out in the army, causing great chaos in the morale of the army. He has experienced this many times, so he doesn't think there is anything.

The more this happens, the less you cannot be confused, because if it is in chaos, the enemy will have an opportunity to take advantage of.

Liang's army used the "Tian Thunder" to break Pengcheng. Duan Shao judged that this was a powerful weapon, so he did not take the initiative to attack Hanshan Liang Army during this period, nor did he easily move his own camp.

At the same time, cavalry were sent everywhere to investigate the enemy situation, trying to find out the opponent's flaws.

However, the rain from time to time restricted the activities of the cavalry. Fortunately, the "lake water" did not rise after the rain for several days, so the camp was safe and sound, but unexpectedly there was a plague.

How did the plague start? Duan Shao couldn't help but think about it.

The cause of the plague in the military may be that it is not suitable for the local environment or the water source is problematic. He has sent people to check upstream of Jingjinggou to see if the cause can be found.

As of today, no rotten corpses were found in the upper reaches of the river. It seemed that the water was fine.

But it is a fact that the outbreak of the plague in the army. If it is indeed done by the enemy's intention, then the other party is really poisonous.

His opponent, like a cunning wolf, hid in the grass and slowly approached his prey. When the time was right, he would reveal his fangs and take a fatal blow.

No, it's not a wolf, it's a poisonous snake!

The King of Qinghe was plotted by this poisonous snake. Could it be that he had plotted against me now?

Duan Shao was a little lost when he thought of this. He had fought for decades and was not in danger, but compared to the enemies he faced back then, his opponent this time was really different.

After he led his army to the vicinity of Pengcheng, although the cavalry sent out fought many small battles with the Liang army cavalry, the two sides did not fight head-on.

But the situation of the battle took a sudden turn for the worse, and before we knew it, we were already at a disadvantage.

If this is the other party's calculation, then

Is that right? Duan Shao doesn't think so. The stronger the opponent, the more he can arouse his fighting spirit, and some of his cavalry have not been greatly affected.

Because these cavalry were not idle and often attacked, the camp was elsewhere.

While thinking, the sound of a horn suddenly came. It was the sentry on the arrow tower in the northeast of the camp blew the warning horn.

Duan Shao quickly climbed up an arrow tower and looked into the distance, but saw a large number of warships cruising in the northeast direction "on the lake".

It seemed like I was going to dock and put down my soldiers, but the number of ships was not very large.

It was like being close to reconnaissance, but he didn't dare to get too close, so he just swam like that.

Duan Shao looked at the shore and saw that there had been many wooden stakes hit by him, like a long wooden fence.

If Liang Jun really plans to dock by boat and land and attack, he will not be able to do it at all.

So, what is Liang Jun’s intention?

After a moment, he sneered: I want to restrain my army and still refuse to leave here. In the end, most of them died of illness. Do you take the opportunity to annihilate it in one battle?

What a big appetite!
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