I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

John's mother also sat up from the bed: "What happened outside?"

'boom! '

This time the sound was closer, and it woke up the two little ones who were sleeping soundly inside. They opened their mouths and started crying.

There was a loud kicking sound at the neighbor's yard door, followed by screams for help and wails.

Old John's brown face grew paler and paler, and in the moonlight he saw the huge wolf heads in the firelight.

He turned around and rushed to the two children, punched each of them and knocked them unconscious. He lifted the wooden board in the corner and said to his stunned wife on the bed, "Quick! Carry them down."

John's mother subconsciously followed his instructions and picked up the little body of the elder sister on the bed. The other sister was held in the arms of old John. After his wife went downstairs, he handed the younger one down and covered the bed with the board.

"Why don't you come down?!"

Hearing his wife's panicked voice from the cellar, Old John sighed, "Everyone who survives counts. From now on, no matter what you hear, you are not allowed to make a sound!"

After saying this, he overturned his son's previous bed, and the soft straw used as a pad was pulled everywhere. He carefully used the largest piece of straw to cover the cellar.

He also smashed the chamber pot used for getting up at night onto the straw above the cellar. Yellow and white dirty stains and liquid flowed everywhere, and the whole house was filled with a strong stench.

'Boom! '

Hearing the sound of his fence gate being kicked open, Old John hid behind the gate with a wooden stick and waited for the final moment to come.

"Tessa, you will survive with the children."

Chapter 120 Smallpox

The long night will eventually pass

As soon as the day broke, the officers of the Ortu Alliance began to blow whistles and form a formation. Countless soldiers with wolf heads and human bodies walked out of the houses in the ruined village, and from time to time, the screams of women could be heard.

Seeing that the soldiers had assembled fairly quickly, the officer's hairy face showed satisfaction: "After a night's rest, it seems that my warriors have recovered well."

"Next, we will join forces with our brother troops to attack the main city of Harpalos. Our ancestors are above us! From today on, the humiliation brought to us by the Kingdom of Palia will be washed away with their blood!"

"Ow~"

After one wolf howl, a whole group of wolf howls followed. Led by an officer, this thousand-man team, consisting of spears, muskets, and cannons, slowly approached the important city of Harpalos.

At the end of the village where they invaded, a human stick with all five limbs cut off was hung on a wooden stake at the entrance of the village, and his golden hair stained with blood swayed weakly in the wind.

The Kingdom of Palia is powerful, and this is not their boasting, but a reputation built with the blood of surrounding countries.

The history of the Palia Kingdom's rise began with raising horses and various mounts of magical beasts. The Palia grassland is located at a high altitude with a mild climate, which is suitable for animal husbandry.

People who fled from the main continent due to crimes occupied this area. After a short period of rest and recuperation, they started their old business again, kidnapping people.

But this time they are no longer homeless. With the vast grassland behind them, they have natural advantages in mobility and logistical supplies. Raising war horses and other war beasts can also allow them to quickly replenish their strength.

The flat terrain around the Palia steppe is also the best place for cavalry to charge. Combined with the magician's enchantment to increase the speed of the Knights, the surrounding countries are basically defeated by Palia's iron hoof.

You cannot fight with him because the weak will be eaten, and they will surround the tough ones without attacking them, waiting for your food and supplies to run out before killing you.

Defeat opponents, abduct people, sell slaves, increase strength, continue to expand territory and extend strategic depth, repeat this cycle and become stronger and stronger. This operating logic can be said to be invincible in places with no strategic locations.

It is difficult for you to cause effective damage to the highly mobile cavalry that comes and goes like the wind, and you cannot penetrate deep into the enemy, so the supply line will become a fatal breakthrough point for you.

It was not until the rise of the Seris Federation that it came to an abrupt end.

In the past few years, the Dwarf Kingdom of Secast has purchased a large amount of arms from Seris, including hundreds of thousands of fixed-charge muskets, thousands of wheeled Maxim heavy machine guns, and more advanced wheeled field artillery.

And Seris also taught them a special set of line tactics, with spearmen holding several-meter-long spears at the forefront, machine gunners beside them, and musketeers and artillerymen in the middle.

This made it impossible for the Palia Kingdom's unrivaled cavalry advantage to be fully utilized. Not many cavalrymen were able to charge to the front line under such firepower, and even if they did, they still had to break through the spearmen.

It was not that Palia had not thought about military reform. They bought a large number of muskets and equipped them to the cavalry units on the front line. They even equipped the rear with explosive packs filled with gunpowder in an attempt to open a breakthrough.

But all this was in vain, because after receiving the arms from Seris, Secaster began to spread and dump the secondary arms it had previously produced to neighboring countries.

Dwarf craftsmen cannot produce firearms in such large quantities as Seris does. The range of the muzzle-loading cannons they cast is also short, and they cannot make machine guns, but they can make up for some of the gaps with their superb craftsmanship.

The dwarves were able to produce some of their own firearms, and then sell them to other countries to earn profits and supplement the national finances.

The first people to whom firearms flowed were the orc tribes, which had no state system. They had no country, only a loose alliance for communication and trade among different tribes.

They were also the ones who were bullied the most by Palia in the beginning. Before the ordinary orcs could escape from their primitive life, the organized Palia cavalry broke into their homes and took them as prisoners.

It can be said that Palia almost made his fortune by selling animal slaves, and the deep blood feud behind this is simply beyond description in words.

So when the Ortu Orc Alliance learned the tactics of the Dwarves, they sold all their belongings to buy muskets and other weapons, and cooperated with the Dwarf Kingdom to launch an all-out counterattack against Palia.

Palia's positioning of the border town is a supply station, which only needs to have certain military defense attributes. It mainly serves as a supply point for large cavalry units to help the kingdom's army attack outward faster.

When the battle line was pushed back into the country and there was no good way to drive the enemy away, the disadvantage of having no natural barriers or other dangerous areas to build cities for defense became apparent.

Almost all the troops they had seen were in this hedgehog formation, even the baggage troops were like this, leaving almost no room for them to gnaw.

Often a heavy cavalry unit of several thousand people would charge forward with magic shields and acceleration.

Rushing through the metal storm created by shrapnel and Maxim, and paying a huge price in casualties to get to the front, facing the chevaux de frise and the spears in the hands of the spearmen was basically a dead end.

Even if they could occasionally destroy a coalition force, the casualties in the process would be a number that would make King Palia bleed.

It's not that he didn't have muskets, but the great nobles before him were all cavalry lords, and they didn't care about the manufacture and storage of muskets. The production was not as fast as that of their rivals, and the organized musketeers were almost useless.

The Osser coalition forces were unstoppable and quickly occupied several territories on the surrounding borders, while also starting a series of bloody massacres.

This is the best way to pay blood debt with blood.

Medea also heard a little about what happened to Paglia, because Paglia withdrew most of the military forces from the Pralo defense line and went back to put out the fire.

However, she was not ready to give up now. Even if Palia was not resilient, the country's foundation was there, and the coalition forces' increasingly long supply lines would make this war protracted.

Although she couldn't quite accept the actions of the Ortu Alliance, she would not comment on it, at least not now when the Ortu Alliance was at its peak.

Most of the orcs in Seris were former residents of the Ortu Alliance, and they were extremely resentful of Palia, and there was nothing she could do to prevent them from venting their resentment.

And...a crisis that was deadly enough was brought over from across the ocean.

【Infectious diseases, smallpox...】

'bang'

[The patient had herpes all over his body, with raised areas around the herpes and sunken centers, oozing yellow pus, and had a high fever and difficulty breathing. He had died.]

Herpes, it’s been at least a week, and she just found out now?

Mitia's face became increasingly uglier as he looked at the medical report on the paper. He stood up and threw the document he had just handed over, hitting Golitsyn on the head as he knelt on the ground.

"You're telling me now that the person is dead?"

"Have I ever told you that all outsiders must be monitored and that if they show any symptoms of infection, they must be questioned immediately and allowed to receive treatment and observation?"

She took a deep breath to suppress her emotions. She knew that they could not be blamed for this. The transmission efficiency of the smallpox outbreak far exceeded the current level of communication and treatment.

The most urgent task is to stabilize the development of the situation

Mitia said: "Close the port of Sendegas, sound the alarm and impose martial law throughout the area, prohibiting all movement of people, immediately! Immediately!"

Chapter 121 Vaccine Vaccine

Smallpox is a highly contagious infectious disease that can be spread over a large area through the air. If one person is infected, everyone around him will be infected.

The incubation period is approximately 7-20 days. At first, dense macules will appear, followed by rashes over time, and finally herpes, accompanied by high fever, photophobia and other symptoms.

There are roughly three causes of death: toxemia, massive bleeding, and suffocation due to herpes blocking the respiratory tract.

This was what made her angry before. She waited until the third herpes stage and death occurred before she thought of reporting it.

So in the past month, as a super-large port that handles about 40% of the federation's sea transportation, how many virus carriers have slipped out?

Looking at the secretary not far away with her cat ears stuck back on her head, Mitia's serious face softened and waved her over: "Go call Secretary Anna over."

"Yes! Your Majesty."

The cat-girl secretary walked out quickly as if she had been pardoned, her high heels tapping so hard that she was almost running.

Medea shook her head upon seeing this, wondering if she had recruited a cat girl or a rabbit girl, as she was so timid.

Soon, Anna, wearing a copper monocle, pushed the door open and walked in.

Orders came out of Medea's mouth one by one, and were recorded and delivered by Anna. As a playmate and best friend who grew up with Medea, the orders she issued on her behalf were more authoritative than those issued by other administrative secretaries.

First, the main ruling team was separated into offices and residences to prevent being wiped out by a wave of smallpox. Then orders were issued to the state, city, and town levels near Sendegas, requiring everyone to work from home.

Part of the army began to take over the operation of the city.

All factories and schools were closed, residents were confined to their homes for a week of initial quarantine, and food necessities were delivered regionally by the military.

At the same time, factories in the rear began to prepare large quantities of brine, which was converted into disinfectant water through electrolysis and loaded onto airships for large-scale spraying throughout the city.

The detailed spraying is carried out by transporting disinfectant water by land.

At the same time, a medical team composed of magicians was dispatched to Sendegas by transport plane to extract the smallpox virus from the corpse and quickly send it to various cattle farms to infect cows.

Their magic can temporarily isolate the air flow in a small area, which can be used by Medea as a human medical kit.

Most people didn't know what was going on or why the city was under martial law, but soon they heard Medea's voice on the radio.

She asked everyone to rest at home and not go out, and all daily necessities were delivered by the army at designated locations. She also informed the people what had happened.

After learning that it was a smallpox outbreak, many residents began to panic. Smallpox is not a rare thing in this world and it has broken out many times in history.

However, the problems were generally dealt with in a perfunctory manner. Either people had to survive, or they died and were buried with quicklime.

However, Mitia promised them that she would do her best to treat those infected, and let others stay at home to avoid secondary infection and irreparable losses.

Most people obeyed the Queen's orders. At least so far she had not broken her promises. Until they heard Medea say that the food distribution would be free of charge, most people had no objections.

The overall situation was temporarily stabilized by Medea, and what followed was a long wait.

As she expected, most of the infected were concentrated in the continents near the port of Sendegas, including the federal capital Sera and the industrial continent Astar.

All states where people with smallpox symptoms appeared were required to stop all social activities and all factories were shut down.

Entrepreneurs are not willing to do this because it will cause huge losses, a large number of orders will have to be postponed, and the compensation for breach of contract will be very terrifying.

The countermeasures that Medea had prepared earlier came in handy at this moment. The trade union directly organized workers to strike and resolutely implement the Queen's orders.

The Chamber of Commerce has also repeatedly warned small business owners who are not obedient that once this large-scale outbreak of infectious diseases is completed and spreads, not only will they lose money, but they may not even be able to save their lives.

Moreover, the existence of infectious diseases will inevitably make people unwilling to go to work and consume. Who will you sell the products to? There is no reason to force yourself into a crisis of overcapacity.