Chapter 520: The Plague Fernando did not argue with the Governor, and under the Governor's stern gaze, several Austrian soldiers followed Fernando, who were to keep an eye on Fernando at all times to make sure that the sheriff did not do anything stupid.
Fernando could understand the governor's worries, so he had to silently accept the governor's arrangement.
And then things did develop in the direction of the governor's plan, and during the period of loss of relief, the refugees also made some trouble, but under the governor's iron-blooded suppression, a large number of refugees became the ghosts of the gun, and the other refugees could only endure the suffering.
A few days later, when the Governor threw out the news that he was going to recruit among these refugees, all the refugees were boiling, and unlike the difficulties encountered in the previous forced recruitment, almost all the young and strong refugees took the initiative to flock to the recruitment site, and the Governor laughed when he saw that these refugees were still rushing to the recruitment site despite their thin skin and bones "Untouchables are untouchables, a bunch of cheap bones!"
After the governor's words, the Austrian officials around him flattered, and only Fernando was silent. ..............................
The Polish young men who defended the city swelled from the original 20,000 to more than 30,000 in an instant, and the addition of these people did bring inconvenience to the Prussian attack, although these refugees did not know how to cooperate to fight, but relying on the advantage of numbers, they still firmly held Krakow.
"What's going on, what are those Poles in the city doing!"
In the face of such a situation, Blucher was naturally angry, you must know that he hoped that the resistance group in the city could help the Prussian army create a gap in the city of Krakow, but these days the Prussian army encountered the Poles one by one desperately, even if they had no guns in their hands at all, only simple sticks and other weapons, but in the face of the heavily armed Prussian soldiers, they still dared to rush up and fight.
This allowed the Prussian army to increase casualties to a certain extent that should not have occurred.
Later, when the Polish Resistance informed Blucher of the Austrian governor's system in the city, Blucher calmed down, and he had to admit that the Austrian governor did have a system, at least in the control of people's hearts.
But Blucher was not prepared to throw in the towel, his target was Krakow, and the military ministry gave him a rather stern order that Austrian Poland must be conquered in a short time, and then send troops to Silesia.
"No, it will never work like this, although those Poles are not professional fighters, but driven by the instinct of survival, their combat effectiveness will be even more terrible than our soldiers!"
And at this moment, Blucher's staff officer walked up to him with a very depressed face and said: "Your Excellency, I have to tell you the not-so-good news that we have found a sick man suspected of suffering from plague among those captured Polish youths.............
Blucher's head suddenly buzzed, the plague, what a terrible name.
The first time Europeans saw the power of the plague was when the Mongols marched westward, and in the face of a recalcitrant enemy, the Mongol cavalry would often throw the corpses of the plague into the city in trebuchets, and over time, the unpredictable plague would often kill an entire city on behalf of the Mongols.
In the Middle Ages, plague and other diseases also ravaged the European continent many times, and to a certain extent, the plague caused a large-scale reduction in the population of Europe.
The flu, which is the same infectious disease as the plague, ravaged the world in 1918, and between 1917 and 1918, the Spanish flu infected 1 billion people and killed between 25 million and 40 million people in two years.
So when Blucher learned that someone in the army had symptoms of the plague, he could no longer be calm.
"What the hell is going on, is the news conclusive!"
"Your Excellency, after the diagnosis of the military doctor, these people are indeed suffering from the plague!"
Faced with Blucher's angry face, the staff officer, despite his concern, had to answer Blucher's question.
Blucher was completely stunned on the spot.
The army has never been a clean place, how good can a group of men live in, even if Prussia pays attention to the tidiness of the barracks, but in this era, there are still many people who do not pay attention to hygiene ().
At this time, it is already summer, which is often the season of disease outbreaks, and the activity of mosquitoes in this season contributes to the rampant extent of the disease to a certain extent.
In a hurry, Blucher walked out of the camp and ran towards the wounded barracks not far away, the Prussian wounded barracks at this moment were completely like a great enemy, under the influence of William, at least the Prussian doctors knew the meaning of the words isolation and disinfection.
Therefore, as soon as Blucher entered the wounded barracks, he was presented with more than a dozen steaming cauldrons, which were filled with water, and in them were some gauze, knives, and other items.
Seeing Blucher walk in, the head of the wounded barracks, Tenistan, hurriedly handed a white towel to Blucher, and after taking the towel, Blucher covered his mouth and nose with this towel, it was obvious that this towel had just been boiled in a cauldron, although it had been cold for a while, but the temperature of the towel was still very hot, but at this moment Blucher couldn't care so much.
"How's it going?"
"Your Excellency General, it should be said that this discovery is very fortunate for us, when we found out, only three people were infected, and there were only less than ten new people in the next few days, so it should be controllable now, but now it has entered the summer, with the rise in temperature and the increase in mosquitoes, I am not sure if the plague will break out!"
Hearing Tenistan's words, Blucher secretly rejoiced, and then he asked: "Have you found out what caused the plague?"
"Your Excellency, General, according to the patient's recollection and our investigation, the plague came from the prisoner of war camp, because of the food problem in the prisoner of war camp, so some prisoners of war caught the rats in the camp and ate them, and these eaten rats are the source of the plague ()!"
Hearing that the plague was caused by eating rats, Blucher was eager to hang all the gluttonous prisoners of war.
Although the Prussians did not mistreat these prisoners of war, after all, prisoners of war were prisoners of war, and their food was naturally inferior to that of Prussian soldiers, and Blucher could only ensure that these people would not starve to death, but he could not guarantee that they would be able to eat meat, so these prisoners of war hit the rats with their ideas.
But can rats eat it?
Of course, rats are edible, and for some prisoners of war, rat meat is already a rare and good delicacy.
But can the rats outside Krakow be the same as rats from other areas?
In order to resist the Prussian attack, the Austrians implemented a policy of clearing the walls on the outskirts of Krakow, and not only that, but the water sources and pastures were also polluted to a certain extent by the Austrians.
Just imagine, how can those rats that live on polluted water not carry some germs, and these rats usually haunt some of the dirtiest places, and over time, the germs on these rats are naturally quite powerful, just put these rat meat on the fire and roast it, how can it be possible to completely eliminate the germs on these rat meat.
"Immediately begin to cull rats throughout the camp, and strengthen the management of the barracks, and give me twenty horsewhips for those who are not in good personal hygiene, whether soldiers or prisoners of war, and those who are killed are to be destroyed by fire on the south side of the barracks, and from this day onwards, all the food must be cooked, even the bread is cooked for me in a pot and then eaten, and if anyone is found to disobey the order, forty horsewhips ()!
Later I will do a spot check, and the punishment will be doubled if I find out!
” Blucher's order was immediately issued to the various camps, and today the Prussian army did not unexpectedly attack the city of Krakow, where both soldiers and prisoners of war were busy culling rats and sorting out their personal affairs.
You must know that Blucher said that he would do random inspections immediately, and if he did not agree, the punishment would be doubled.
Originally, twenty horsewhips were a kind of heavy punishment, and forty horsewhips can definitely make people take off a layer of skin, if it is doubled, there is absolutely nothing to say about eighty horsewhips to whip people to death.
No one thought that Blucher was joking, and no one in the whole of Prussia, including Wilhelm, dared to joke about military law, knowing that Frederick the Great made mistakes back then, but he was dealt with by military law.
Under these circumstances, the first batch of hundreds of rats to be culled was soon rushed to the south of the barracks, and the people who transported the corpses of these rats were the best of the Prussian soldiers, and of course several doctors and their assistants were on duty in each group of small carts transporting rats.
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Each Prussian division will have a team of doctors, numbering between 50 and 100 people, and if you add assistants, a Prussian division will have at least nearly 200 medical personnel.
This ratio may not be very good in later generations, but don't forget, it is now the eighteenth century, and it is thanks to William's attention to military hygiene in the eighteenth century that such a configuration can be made, otherwise how could it be on such a scale.
At first, Blucher's order was resisted in the prisoner of war camp, but after Blucher took action and severely whipped a dozen opposing prisoners of war with forty horsewhips, the entire prisoner of war camp was immediately mobilized, and although the prisoners of war were unwilling to give up the delicious food in their hands, no one was willing to appreciate the power of the eighty horsewhips!