Han’s Son is Not a Slave

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There are no trivial matters in the army, marching and fighting is a major event, food, clothing, housing and transportation are also major events. Mosquito bites seem to be a trivial matter, but in Zhou Shixiang's view, it is a major event equivalent to sieging a city. You must know that most of the malaria is caused by mosquito bites. Once malaria is popular in the military, although the fatality rate of malaria is not high, normal people can’t stand fever and play every day. For example, in the case of antibiotics, the complete cure of malaria depends only on time and the patient's own physical strength, and there is no other way.

What the Taiping Army lacked at the moment was time, and the execution of the mission was a thousand miles. Even if there is no malaria, soldiers are bitten by mosquitoes while sleeping every day. How can they rest? If you don't have enough sleep, you won't have enough energy. If you don't have enough energy, how can you march in the daytime, and how can you fight against the Qing army in front. In view of this, it is necessary for Zhou Shixiang to convene the senior officers of each battalion for a military meeting and brainstorm, so as to find a good way to prevent and control mosquitoes.

Except for the Xiongwei Camp, the other four camps with 100 households and 100 trial households rushed to the Qianhusuo located at the highest point of Antelope Canyon after receiving the order. Squeeze a dozen people, not even one more.

There was also a wooden watchtower next to the Thousand Houses, and a few soldiers with good eyes were specially in charge of watching. Looking down from the lookout tower, you can see the inside and outside of the canyon unobstructed. It is impossible for anyone to sneak into the canyon and hide from the Taiping army on the lookout tower.

The conditions of the hundreds of households and the trial households were no better than that of Zhou Shi. They were scratched all over here, or they were bitten by mosquitoes and had a few bubbles there. If I asked again, they basically fell asleep in the second half of the night. I was busy slapping mosquitoes there in the middle of the night.

After the group of senior officers sat down, they were all sluggish, even the stubborn Ge Zheng and the bald Jiang He, who were usually the most able to endure, had their heads drooping, unable to lift their spirits.

Zhou Shixiang looked at it. With a sigh in his heart, he didn't blame his subordinates for being so unbearable, because it wasn't just about being bitten by mosquitoes, but after he set off from Gao Gao, he spent most of the day on the march, and the march alone was nothing, the problem was originally I can't sleep at night when I should be resting because of mosquito bites. Rest is not good, people are sleepy and horses are tired. How can people eat it? Now these subordinates can still hold on, and if they stay like this for three or five days, even if you are an iron man, you will have to lie down.

As the leader of thousands of households, Zhou Shixiang has the responsibility and obligation to eliminate the interference of non-war factors for his subordinates, so he will briefly explain the purpose of calling everyone here.

When they heard that the adults of the thousand households came to them to discuss how to prevent mosquitoes, the hundreds of households did not feel that it was a big deal, but everyone agreed, and Ge Zheng said with a look of longing: "If there is a mosquito net If so, you don't have to suffer like this."

Hearing this, Qin Zhisheng gave a wry smile: "We are marching to fight, you should be enjoying yourself at home and paying back the mosquito nets. Where do you go to get the mosquito nets in the wilderness? Besides, with so many people, how many mosquito nets are needed?"

Ge Zheng sneered: "Didn't I just say it casually."

"We can't get the mosquito net right now, and even if we get it, it's impossible for everyone to use it. You still need to think about other methods, which must be practical." Zhou Shixiang emphasized that it must be practical, and not practical. Needless to say.

Everyone thought about it after hearing this. After a while, Peng Dazhu suddenly patted his head and called out, "Thousands of households. I remember that those big households seem to have incense burners. Repel mosquitoes and flies, just don't know what incense is."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Erjiang, the test household next to him, rolled his eyes and choked him: "You said that it was prepared by the big family, who in the common people's family has such a thing? Besides, that incense must be worth a lot of money. How can we have so much money to buy it?"

Being so choked by Zhang Erjiang, Peng Dazhu couldn't help but want to refute, but just as he was about to speak, he was stopped by Zhou Shixiang shaking his head, Zhou Shixiang said: "It's not about the silver, I've heard Brother Dazhu say this incense, but this incense Even if we have money, we can’t buy it. I heard people say that the incense is only sold in the provincial capital, so we can’t go to Guangzhou to buy it, right?”

Peng Dazhu thought about it too, and shut his mouth obediently. Tie Yi saw this and said, "Qianhu, there is no distinction between mosquito bites, so the rich have ways of being rich, and the poor have ways of being poor. In mines, wormwood is used to repel mosquitoes."

Lin Shengxing, who has been quiet in military discussions, rarely spoke up and said, "Yes, wormwood is useful. Apart from wormwood, there seem to be other insectivorous herbs, sagebrush, etc. that can repel mosquitoes, and some are used directly in the house. , Some are dried and ignited, but the smell is a bit choking."

"It doesn't matter if the smell is bad, the important thing is that these grasses are useful." Zhou Shixiang didn't care about what was choking or not, what he cared about was whether these flowers and plants could repel mosquitoes.

"It's definitely useful. I used agarwood and wormwood to repel mosquitoes in the army in my early years."

The person who spoke was Li Fuguo from Shibaihu, his voice was not too loud, and he seemed very humble. Zhou Shixiang glanced at him and nodded with a smile.

One person suggested a solution, and soon several others came out. For example, Zheng Tiezhu said that he could put a large bucket containing water and stones in the tent, and then put some frogs in the bucket. He said that mosquitoes like the shade, and they will fly in as long as they come in. Become a frog's mouthful of Chinese food.

Zhou Shixiang was stunned when he heard this method, but saw that Lin Zaisheng, Song Erniu and other test households nodded in approval, listening to them, it seemed that they had used this method at home before.

It doesn't matter if you have great ideas~www.wuxiahere.com~ As long as this method is useful, there are some wooden barrels in the army, and there is no shortage of frogs. When Zhou Shixiang asked people to write down all these methods, and then asked all the senior officers to return. The battalion dispatched people to look for mosquito repellents such as wormwood and carnivorous herbs nearby.

In order to completely eliminate mosquito pests and prevent malaria, according to legend, Zhou Shi ordered that he did not have to march today, but stayed in Antelope Canyon for one day.

After the order was delivered, cheers rang out when the canyon was neutralized. After five days of marching, the soldiers of each battalion were looking forward to one day to rest.

After the hundreds of households returned, they quickly arranged for people to search for mosquito repellent grass. The Antelope Canyon is originally a mountainous area. As long as it is carefully identified, it is not difficult to find wormwood and other wormwood. By noon, each camp has harvested, and the mosquito repellent grass will be placed by the scorching sun. Sun on the stone.

In the afternoon, a group of people rode into the canyon from the west side of the canyon, but it was Zhu Er and others from the cavalry team who had been sent to Houying by Zhou Shixiang earlier.

Zhu Er brought bad news that the rear camp was surrounded by Qing troops at Guifeng Mountain, forty miles southwest of Xinhui. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to your support, which is my biggest motivation.)