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Chapter 793 Launch
In Kong Yuan's words, this outbreak of plague in Liyang County was a special operation.

However, the ones fighting were no longer those brave soldiers, but those plague insects that were invisible to the naked eye.

Tai'an City once manufactured some special mirrors using crystal as the material, which were then slowly polished by hand. According to Kong Yuan, it took dozens of workers several years to make a qualified and usable mirror, and each one cost as much as tens of thousands of strings of cash.

There are fewer than ten of these in the entire medical clinic.

Kong Yuan had one.

Of course, he couldn't get it, but the Chi Qiu Institute, which he was backed by, had a way of getting it.

Everyone at the Grand Medical Hall believed that researching epidemics was against the natural order, immoral, and would surely incur divine retribution. However, Chi Qiuyuan did not share this view.

In their view, such a powerful weapon is something that can be used but not needed, but it cannot be without.

Therefore, after Kong Yuan joined, he has been conducting in-depth research in this direction. Over the decades, Kong Yuan has become unique in this area. It is likely that even Master Fu Qingzhu of Changchun Valley cannot compare to his disciple in this regard.

This was Kang Zhen's first time participating in this type of combat, and the shock he felt was beyond words.
In particular, when he saw the tiny, wriggling things on the incredibly smooth crystal sheet through the special mirror in Kong Yuan's hand, he almost froze.

"General Kang, you are ushering in a new era!" Kong Yuan said to him with a smile.

Kang Zhen, however, was not happy at all: "Perhaps it will be a bad reputation that lasts for eternity!"

He knew what was going on.

The commander of this battle is himself. Kong Yuan is just a researcher and a doctor, while Jiang Qian is undoubtedly the one in power. If the great cause is accomplished in the future, the highest official who will command this battle in the historian's writing can only be himself.

Therefore, if this operation is truly a great success, what I will likely gain is not a good reputation.

After all, plagues are such a thing.

It's enough to make people turn pale at the mere mention of it.

Fu Qingzhu's Changchun Powder could prevent and treat plagues to a certain extent, which earned him the title of "Immortal Fu."
Once I become someone who can unleash plagues, my reputation will likely be comparable to Fu Qingzhu's, albeit in a negative way.

The higher the people can elevate Fu Qingzhu, the more they can place themselves on the opposite side.

Kang Zhen was really worried.

The town of Sweetwater is heavily guarded.

There is only one passage leading into Sweetwater Town, and above this passage, a misting corridor has been erected.

The bamboo was hollowed out, with tiny holes drilled into it, and then it was placed in the air, connected to some sealed water tanks next to it. When outsiders wanted to enter Sweetwater Town, they had to walk under this bamboo spray pipe, which was about ten meters long. Soldiers next to them vigorously pumped the spray, and the ten-meter passage would be filled with water mist.

This was done by Gan Zhan; in his words, it was for disinfection, just in case.

Now, Gan Zhan is the one with the most influence in the entire town of Sweetwater.

Because Kong Yuan's mission has been completed.

The disease was already spread during the battles of the past few days.

The personnel responsible for this battle have now been sent to a remote village dozens of miles away from Sweetwater Town. The village is deserted and will be used to isolate these combat personnel. Kong Yuan and Gan Zhan both believe that as long as they stay there for seven miles without showing any symptoms, then they can be confirmed to be safe.

There are several military doctors there now, observing the condition of these people day and night.

The epidemic has begun to slowly brew, and prevention and control on our side has become the top priority.

Disease doesn't discriminate between friend and foe; it kills indiscriminately.

The only difference is that they had already prepared countless precautions for this.

Countless medicinal herbs continue to flow into Sweetwater Town, filling the entire town with a medicinal fragrance.

The prepared medicinal soup would be delivered to the front lines in buckets. I was given a bowl every day, whether I was busy or not. The linen that had been boiled in the medicinal soup was cut into strips and distributed to the soldiers as face coverings.

Every morning they would receive a new one, and at the same time the old ones would be recycled. The old ones would be boiled in a medicinal soup and then reused.

After all, there are tens of thousands of people here, and the resources consumed every day are extremely considerable.

Military funds are flowing away like water; even someone who doesn't know much about it can almost hear the clinking of coins disappearing.

"Empress Dowager!" Kang Zhen walked to Jiang Qian's side.

In front of Jiang Qian was a huge sand table, showing the present-day city of Liyang County.

A long wall surrounds the city, behind which flows an artificial river several meters wide, and beyond that lies a heavily guarded army.

For those inside the city to break out, they would first have to scale the walls and then swim across the artificial river, a task that would be virtually impossible without incurring extremely heavy losses.

"Is everything set up?" Jiang Qian asked.

“Yes!” Kang Zhen said, “Three lines of defense are enough to stifle any possibility of the enemy’s large forces trying to break through.”

Jiang Qian turned to look at Kong Yuan and said, "If Na Wei realizes something is wrong and tries to break through, with tens of thousands of troops, the possibility of us completely sealing them off is extremely small."

Kong Yuan said, “Holy Maiden, please rest assured. This epidemic is not noticeable at its onset; it only causes red spots on the body, like prickly heat, which are neither painful nor itchy. However, it is extremely contagious, spreading rapidly in multiples of one to two, two to four, and four to sixteen. It will suddenly erupt three days after infection, and once it does, it will immediately render a young man incapable of fighting. Therefore, I do not believe that after Na Wei discovers it, he will still be able to organize a large-scale breakout. As long as General Kang can hold off their first or second wave of breakouts, their strength will decrease drastically every day until they are completely incapable of fighting!”

"If such a battle occurs, how can we ensure our soldiers don't get infected?" Kang Zhen asked. "Just with a bowl of medicinal soup every day?"

Gan Zhan said, "It can't be said that there are no risks. Therefore, troops that have fought with the enemy should be separated into separate battalions and closely monitored. If one is found, it should be isolated. Fortunately, the characteristics are still very obvious. As long as treatment begins in the first three days, it is still easy to cure them."

Kang Zhen nodded: "If what you said is true, then the first wave of infection will break out in Liyang County tomorrow. Na Wei is not stupid, he will definitely know that something is wrong. The most likely time for the organization to break out is the day after tomorrow, or the night after tomorrow."

“Wei will only have one chance to break through!” Kong Yuan said decisively. “Then we can quietly wait a few days and then go into Liyang City to collect the corpses!”

Hearing Kong Yuan speak with such certainty, Kang Zhen felt a chill run down his spine.

Whoever created the figurines has no descendants?

For some reason, this sentence suddenly jumped into his mind and lingered there.

(End of this chapter)