cholera.
A malignant infectious disease caused by Vibrio cholerae.
One of the most vicious infectious diseases in human history, its mortality rate is not high among several malignant infectious diseases. With proper treatment, the mortality rate is less than 1%, while without treatment, the mortality rate reaches 50%-60%. What is truly terrifying is its unimaginable speed of transmission.
The risk factors for cholera all come from poor sanitation and lack of clean drinking water.
Where is hygiene worse than in the military?
The medication that Hilde had mentioned to Dr. Hosbach before.
It's the cholera vaccine.
Dr. Hossbach certainly knew what a cholera outbreak on a war front meant.
Hilde asked General Kutinchev for cavalry.
The purpose was to allow highly mobile cavalry to destroy the Romanian army's health system.
To put it nicely, it is destroying the health system.
To put it bluntly, it means blowing up the Romanian army's toilets and destroying Romania's water resources.
Once you do that.
The consequences are predictable.
They will also face the same retaliation from Romania. If Bulgaria can destroy Romania's health system, then Romania can also destroy Bulgaria's health system. They will continue to escalate the situation until one side is destroyed.
The most important thing is.
A mere mortal wants to get involved in natural disasters?
What is taken from this land must be returned from this land.
Once something goes wrong.
From Cilistra the cholera would spread into Bulgaria and Romania, and the cholera epidemic would get completely out of control.
This is also the reason why General Kutinchev lost his composure like this.
Such a sin.
No one can afford it.
General Kutinchev fell into a long period of suffering.
He joined the army in 1879 and fought for more than 30 years. Whether it was the war with Serbia or the war with the Ottoman Empire, almost all of them were conducted in the worst way, with massacres, torture of prisoners, and grain collection. All kinds of sins could be seen in this land, and now he was about to commit an unforgivable sin.
but.
He is a Bulgarian general and he must defend Silistra at all costs.
General Kutinchev could only pray.
Pray to the Lord who is high above and never looks at the Balkans.
This is the last time.
When this war is over, there will be no more wars in the Balkans.
Industry along the Danube is not well developed.
Therefore, industrial pollution is not as serious as the Thames and Elbe rivers in Europe, but due to the war
The outbreak of the war and a series of pre-war preparations by both sides caused the Danube in Silesia to become particularly serious.
Silistra is located south of the Danube.
The Romanian army was in the north.
Therefore, it is very difficult to attack Silistra.
This also made it very difficult for the Bulgarian cavalry to counterattack the Romanian army.
On the evening of July 21, 1913.
Nearly a thousand cavalrymen were secretly assembled.
As a top-level secret military operation, even the cavalrymen themselves did not know what they were here for. The only mission they received was to assemble tonight.
Among them was Major Vasily.
Now it should be Lieutenant Colonel Vasily.
He was specially appointed as the commander of this cavalry regiment.
He rode alongside Hilde.
The two of them tacitly agreed not to talk about what happened before. There was no point in talking about it, it would only add to the awkwardness, so it was better not to ask.
"You made me the commander of this cavalry regiment?
"Yes."
The cavalry regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Vasily, who was chosen by Hilde.
Hilde continued.
"I have to tell you in advance, Lieutenant Colonel, this mission is very dangerous and your chances of coming back alive are very low.
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Major Vasily smiled indifferently.
He said half-jokingly to Hilde.
"I am your knight and I will win victory for you, my princess"
"If you really knew what this mission was about, you might not think so."
"What purpose?"
"You need to cross the Danube at 3 a.m., raid the Romanian army's logistics system, blow up their sanitation system, and pollute their water supply."
"What does this do?"
From the perspective of war theory, destroying the enemy's logistics system is indeed useful, but Major Vasily found it a little difficult to understand why so many cavalrymen were used and such a high level of secrecy were maintained just to do this.
"Do you know what that bag on each horse's back is?"
"What?"
Of all the cavalry today.
There was a small bag hanging on each horse, and no one knew what was in the bag.
"Cholera excrement."
"What did you say?"
Major Vasily stood there in a daze.
"As you thought, your mission today is to spread cholera to the Romanian army. Only in this way can we defend Cilistra."
"Did you make this suggestion to General Kutinchev?"
Unlike others who don't understand.
Lieutenant Colonel Vasily is the one who knows Hilde best in the Bulgarian army.
Plus, Hilde has been in a field hospital these days.
You will understand it if you just think about it a little.
Customer City
Hilde admitted it straightforwardly.
"Yes."
No
"Are you crazy? We can't control cholera. Once cholera spreads throughout Cilistra,
This is a sin we cannot bear!"
"It's not me who makes the decision."
"You brought this up!"
"It was indeed me who proposed it, but it was General Kutinchev who asked me for it. The Ottomans have declared war on us. We have no supplies and no troops to support Silistra. General Kutinchev must defend it at all costs, so he turned his attention to me. I just responded to him. He and you are the ones who made the real decision. If you object, you can go to him right now."
Lieutenant Colonel Vasily wanted to open his mouth to refute, but he said nothing.
What Hield said is very right. They want to win. Hield provides the solution, but they still make the decision.
Even if Hilde is really a German princess, she cannot force Bulgaria to make a decision.
but.
Before Lieutenant Colonel Vasily could speak, Hilde continued.
"The above is all my sophistry, Lieutenant Colonel. I planned it all from the beginning. From luring you into the trap in Bregarnica to making you a hero of Silistra, all of this was planned by me, including letting General Kutinchev act according to my plan this time. It was all within my plan."
"Of course, I'm not a demon."
"You are still free, and you have the power to choose."
Lieutenant Colonel Vasily retorted.
"We don't have the power to choose at all!"
"Really not?"
Hilde's red eyes seemed to emit a strange light.
It was as if it was staring at Lieutenant Colonel Vasily's soul, luring him into the abyss.
Lieutenant Colonel Vasily felt that Hilde no longer looked like a princess.
More like a witch.
A bewitching witch.
The most terrifying thing is that even if Hilde told him all this plainly, if Lieutenant Colonel Vasily were allowed to choose again, he would still do the same thing.
Hilde made him a hero of Silistra.
Promoted him from major to lieutenant colonel.
It brought a glimmer of hope for Bulgaria, which had no chance of winning.
He finally understood why Lieutenant Colonel Artyom of the quartermaster station said that.
Lieutenant Colonel Vasily placed his right hand on Hilde's chest.
Lower your head slightly.
"Your will, Captain."
"Even though you know it's poison, you still choose to drink it to quench your thirst. Humans are really interesting."
Hilde smiled.
If Hilde really just wanted to protect her own safety, then she should follow the army to the capital Sofia and go to the game.
He could leave at that time, and no one would stop Hilde, but Hilde did not do so. Hilde still chose
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nt line of the war and play with fire.
Once the road to power begins, there is no way to stop it.
Even at the level of Lieutenant General Kutinchev.
Not enough.
Not nearly enough.
What Hilde wanted was supreme power.