Buyulin Village is surrounded by a canal at least three meters wide. This is an overflow canal used for irrigation. The water inside is quite strong.
The canal surrounds the village like a moat. It seems that the amount of work is quite large. This is probably the work of Dean a few years ago.
There is a small wooden bridge at the entrance of the village, connecting it to the road.
A brazier was lit by the wooden bridge, and a few knights were walking back and forth at the entrance of the village, seemingly maintaining law and order.
In the village, some people could be seen leaning against the village and sitting, seeming to be moaning in a low voice.
Occasionally, I could hear a few coughs coming from afar.
Seeing the motorcade approaching, the knights at the entrance of the village stopped the carriage.
The lord opened the curtains in the carriage and took a look. They were people from Radiant Cross Knights. The cross coat of arms on their chests was very conspicuous.
Several Radiant Knight are wearing pointed helmets - this kind of helmet has a protruding mask at the nose and mouth, which looks like a pointed bird's beak, which looks very weird.
The steel beak has some holes for ventilation, and the inner layer is filled with cotton fabric filter, which can tightly cover the mouth and nose.
This is not only a helmet, but also a gas mask of this era. It should still have some protective capabilities.
Dean and several other exterminators got out of the car and came forward to greet them.
"What's going on? What happened here?"
Due to the relationship between Creon, Dean is very familiar with Radiant Cross Knights, and Yublin Village is the place where he once worked. He once built canals for irrigating fields here, so he is very concerned about the changes here.
The Radiant Knight held a torch and came closer, recognized the exterminators, then looked at Dean carefully and pulled down his mask.
"Are you... Master Dean? Sir, don't enter the village, there is a plague in the village!"
This person Radiant Knight seems to know Dean.
After all, his father is Sergeant Major of Radiant Cross Knights, and many knights know him.
"Plague?!"
The exterminators screamed in surprise.
Dean is still calm, but also frowned deeply. "Knights, do you need our help?"
"We do need manpower, but don't go in, this is Red Death, and it's very serious!"
Hearing that it was Red Death, the lord also became nervous.
This severe infectious disease was the direct cause of the collapse of the Old Pendor Kingdom in a short period of time. It had been raging on this continent for seven years.
In just seven years, Pande Continent's population dropped by half.
Especially in those prosperous big cities, social production is basically at a standstill.
The reason why they are called Red Death and Bloody Calamity is because the skin of people infected with the disease will gradually fester and fall off, and in the end only blood-red muscles will be left, and the whole person will look like a red blood demon.
People who die from the disease will eventually look somewhat similar to Fallen One, but when Red Death people reach the level of Fallen One with no skin, they are basically dead.
This is one of the reasons why people in various countries will be extremely nervous once they discover Fallen One. Many people believe that there is a certain connection between the two.
The doctors of Radiant Cross Knights have always been the pioneers in the fight against Red Death. It was precisely because of the ravages of Red Death that they began to recruit epidemic exterminators from civilians extensively in order to protect the doctors from practicing medicine.
But what is interesting is that more than a hundred years ago, it was not Radiant Cross Knights who first achieved results on Red Death, but the thief Alfred and his collaborator Lion Knight Order.
After establishing Lionheart Kingdom and maintaining a brief peace with various countries, presumably to protect the lives of the upper-class nobles, Alfred declared that Red Death people were heretics, and he ordered the killing of all 'heretic apostles'.
Any village where Red Death is found will be sealed off and no entry or exit will be allowed, and all things related to the infected person will be destroyed.
As long as the patient is confirmed to be infected, he will be directly treated as a heretic - killed and thrown into the fire and burned, and many of them will be burned alive.
Maybe Alfred was just trying to protect himself and the nobles, but his actions inadvertently formed an actual isolation system, and it was a very effective forced isolation.
At that time, Alfred was the first generation Lion King. He was a dictator. He always killed anyone who disobeyed him, so his orders were carried out very well.
Of course, a large number of innocent people were accidentally killed during this period, and some shameless people took advantage of this opportunity to massacre and loot. However, in any case, Lionheart Kingdom did suppress the spread of Red Death within the country in a short period of time.
Sometimes, a more vicious person can solve the problem - at that time, except for Alfred, no king would kill the villagers in his country like this.
This is not a secret. Except for the Lionheart Kingdom, every country has records of this incident.
But this period of history is recorded as a stain on Alfred - just as he was nicknamed a 'stealer' by various countries, he was also considered a tyrant among the people.
After all, his order to kill patients indiscriminately is indeed cruel.
However, this kind of cruelty has actually saved most people...
But the strange thing is that there is no record of the origin of Red Death, as if it appeared on the mainland overnight, and it was probably destroyed like the records of the six months before and after Alfred became king.
After Lion Territory's Red Death was solved, other countries also began to use quarantine to solve the problem, and only seven years later did the entire continent get back on track.
However, other countries did not adopt overly brutal measures to enforce quarantine. The implementation was not thorough enough and many fish slipped through the net, so they were unable to completely eliminate this terrible plague.
As a result, for more than a hundred years since then, Red Death has still appeared repeatedly, but it has never reached the terrifying scale that covers the continent.
As for Lion Territory, it is now also the place where Red Death has been found the least - this is indeed due to the previous killings and the cleanup was relatively thorough.
Lion Knight Order's helmet was also the first to be changed to a pointed helmet style, but it was not for epidemic prevention at the beginning, but to avoid stench.
Because most of the people who carried out blockades and killings were people from Lion Knight Order. They changed the traditional helmets into sharp beaks and filled them with cotton fabrics or sponges. This was mainly because infected people would emit a stench, and the stench would be even worse when burned.
However, later, the knights discovered that wearing pointed helmets seemed to be less susceptible to infection. Lion Knight Order had been facing patients for a long time while performing tasks, but few of them were infected with Red Death, so many knights began to follow suit.
Especially the knights who belong to the Old Pendor Kingdom, basically all their helmets have pointed beaks.
And Radiant Cross Knights is the earliest imitator.
They have better medical knowledge and understand better than others that masks can filter the air and play a role in preventing the epidemic.
Li Ang jumped off the carriage and stood next to Dean: "Are you sure it's Red Death?"
"I'm sure, I saw a few bloody patients with my own eyes... This plague spreads very quickly, and there is no way to treat it. We can only blockade this village. It's too close to Imperial Port. If it spreads to big cities, the consequences will be disastrous..."
The Radiant Knight sighed and shook his head.
"If that's the case, then you'd better send people quickly to find more manpower. With just a few knights and plague hunters, I'm afraid they won't be able to seal off this village."
Li Ang looked towards the entrance of the village, where there were only a few knights and seven or eight plague exterminators guarding it.
The knight nodded to Li Ang and Dean: "We have sent people to summon people everywhere, and they will be here soon. I hope you can help me and stay at this intersection for a while until people from our knights come over."
Li Ang nodded without hesitation and shouted to his men, "Come down, let's block this intersection."
"Sir, you'd better not stay here..."
Hearing Li Ang's order, Kloze hesitated a little, but still led the team down the train and formed a row.
Although Kloze has not experienced Red Death, he knows that any plague is extremely terrifying, and he does not want Li Ang to face this risk.
"We must help with this kind of thing. If a few infected people escape, it may endanger the entire continent. This is not a matter of a country or a nation, let alone a knighthood. It is a matter of everyone. No one in the village can be allowed to escape!"
The lord finished speaking to his men very seriously, then pulled down the curtains in the carriage, tore them into facecloths and distributed them to everyone, and asked them to fold them into two layers and tie them on their faces.
This curtain is made of plush and linen, which may have some effect.
A group of people followed Li Ang's example and covered their mouths and noses with cloth.
Li Ang doesn't know how Red Death is spread, but since the pointed helmet can have a protective effect, this homemade mask should also be able to do so.
Although it is impossible to have the filtering ability of modern masks, it is at least better than no protection at all.
People of this era already know the role of breathing and air, and it is understandable to cover their mouth and nose when encountering the plague. This is because of the Bloody Calamity more than a hundred years ago, which gave people such common sense.
"Thank you for your selfless help. Sir, may I have your name?"
The knight gave a knightly salute to Li Ang and Dean.
Dean began to introduce, "This is Lord Li Ang, a kind nobleman."
Well, someone actually said that Li Ang is kind again.
But Li Ang shook his head directly. "I am not a kind-hearted noble... I just want to ensure my own safety. If this place is not controlled, people infected with the disease may flow to my territory..."
Radiant Knight frowned and thought for a while, "Lord Li Ang, I seem to have heard this name somewhere..."
But then he shook his head and stopped thinking about it, and put on the beak mask. "You are right, Lord Li Ang, this is for the safety of everyone... Such an idea itself is the greatest kindness. If every noble thought like you, then Red Death would have been able to eradicate it long ago."
After he finished speaking angrily, he was about to turn around, but then he looked at the carriage behind Li Ang and turned around again.
Just as he was talking, there seemed to be a little commotion in the village, and sounds were heard from a distance.
"Don't abandon us! Please treat us, please..."
That should be the voice of a middle-aged woman.
"Sorry, there's nothing we can do..."
Another deep voice came.
Radiant Knight sighed, said sorry, and hurried over with the people.
As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the village, a group of people who looked like farmers ran out in a panic. The leader of the farmer shouted, "They want to lock us in here! They don't want to treat people, they want us to die here..."
Several Radiant Knight stopped them with shields and pushed them towards the village. "You can't leave here! Go back quickly!"
Several plague exterminators also picked up their shields and short-handled hammers and rushed forward without saying a word. It seemed that they had seen this scene before.
But their manpower was too small, and it was too difficult for a dozen people to completely block hundreds of villagers. The leading farmer struggled desperately to break out of their blockade.
"Is this Radiant Cross Knights? You guys just want to kill us! You don't want to treat us, and you still want us to die here!"
The guy danced and ran outside the village, shouting loudly as he ran.
Then all the villagers became noisy and began to rush and besiege desperately.
Radiant Knightly Order's people tried their best to stop them and waved hammers to threaten them, but no one took any serious action.
The lord frowned. That guy seemed to be inciting the villagers?
He pointed at the guy and said to Amy next to the carriage, "Shoot that guy to death!"
"A bunch of sanctimonious liars..."
"Bang!!"
The leading farmer shouted as he rushed out of the village. When he was still about twenty meters away from the lord, a loud noise made everyone shut up.
Amy is right behind Li Ang. Her sword is stuck on the ground, and a musket has been set up above. A large cloud of smoke almost completely covers her figure.
The sound of muskets was so loud at night that the entrance to the village became silent for a while.
The guy who had been instigating the farmers had a hole the size of an egg punched in his chest by a lead bullet, and he was lying on his back on the road.
The muskets of this era have this effect - if they are not wearing armor, the lead bullet will deform after hitting the body directly, and will form a frontal wound that is much larger than the caliber. As long as it hits the torso, most of them will be killed directly.
And if the armor is penetrated, the lead bullet will shatter when it hits the armor. If the armor is penetrated, irregular shrapnel will be left in the body.
If it hits after penetrating the armor, it may not be fatal on the spot because the speed of the bullet is slowed down.
However, the wounds caused by this kind of irregular shrapnel are quite troublesome. According to the medical skills of this era, it will basically only increase the pain, and it will still be difficult to save in the end.
However, the leading farmer was obviously not wearing armor, and he had been killed with one shot.
The lord is obviously much more ruthless than Radiant Knight. Regardless of whether this guy is deliberately inciting, his behavior does play an instigating role anyway - then the lord directly asks Amy to kill him, so that the situation can be controlled in the fastest way.
Amy fired this shot without any hesitation. The lord made it clear that he was going to shoot that guy to death.
Li Ang had never given her an order before, because she was not Li Ang's subordinate, but a disciple who was studying.
Although the relationship is very good, she is actually not in the lord's team list so far.
But now Li Ang has given Amy a murder order, so Amy naturally understands that this person must be killed.
She always had a round of ammunition loaded in the chamber, she just needed to light the match and aim and fire.
This is the correct way to prepare a musket in this era. After all, it is a matchlock gun. As long as the ignition powder is not poured out and the matchlock is not ignited, it is impossible to misfire.
The match rope will be lit just before the battle, and the ignition powder will be poured into the medicine pool just before the battle, but there will always be a round of already pressed ammunition in the barrel of the gun so that it can quickly enter the battle.
In fact, this is the real reason why the muzzle is pointed upward when marching with a gun on your back - this habit started from the age of matchlocks, to prevent the compacted ammunition from loosening and falling out while walking.
Amy waved his hand to fan away the smoke, put down the butt of the gun and raised the barrel, cleaned the barrel of the gun with a purge, tested the temperature of the barrel, and began to reload.
"Go back all! My temper is not as good as Radiant Knights!"
The lord took a few steps forward, walked to the corpse, drew his sword and drew a line on the ground.
"As long as someone dares to cross this line, I will kill him without hesitation!"
Meitengheim people also drew their swords, stood behind the lord, and formed a row behind the line.
The corpses on the ground have proved that this is not a lie. The gleaming sword is also in front of you. There are more than ten tall and tough men with linen scarves covering their faces. They look like a group of tough gangsters.
The image of the gangsters was obviously more intimidating, and the villagers retreated to the village in fear.
The Radiant Cross Knights people also held up their shields and slowly retreated outside the line, standing in the front row of the Great Swordsman people.
The knights obviously agreed with Li Ang's approach of cutting through the mess quickly. In fact, if it hadn't been for this shot, their shield wall would have been broken through.
"You should act decisively... I thought you would be more experienced than me."
The Lord Lord said to the leader Radiant Knight.
"It's useless for us to start. It will only cause greater conflicts... The deterrent power of short-handled hammers is not as good as muskets and swords. Thank you for your help, Lord Li Ang, you took action very promptly!"
This Radiant Knight was obviously a sensible person. He nodded towards Li Ang and raised the mace in his hand.
Indeed, their Flanged Mace is a threat to knight plate armor, but civilians are not afraid of them...
The loud noise and smoke of muskets, as well as the large and long blades, can intuitively scare ordinary people.
"Is there any other exit from this village?"
Li Ang nodded to express understanding and began to think about how to completely seal off the village.
"There is an exit behind the mountain. The rest of the area is surrounded by canals. It is not easy for people to escape. We have left manpower there."
Radiant Knight pointed in the other direction.
"Take your knights to patrol along the periphery of the village and load the crossbows of the plague hunters. If you encounter a situation like this, don't hesitate!"
Li Ang stared seriously into the eyes of Radiant Knight.
Radiant Knight nodded and rode away with several other knights.
Lord Dean looked at the canal and small wooden bridge at the entrance of the village and said to Li Ang, "I remember that there are more than 3,000 people living in this village! If it is completely blocked, they may..."
The lord shook his head with a heavy face. "There is no way, Red Death still cannot be treated. Blockade and isolation is the best way. We cannot let them spread the infection everywhere..."
Dean sighed deeply and began to pray to Goddess Damia.
The emergence of pointed helmets (also called bird-beaked helmets) is indeed due to the Black Death in Europe.
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