Blazing Inferno Burns the City

Rat extermination was a traditional technique that had appeared in human civilization thousands of years ago. The earliest rat poisons could be traced back to the pre-Qin era.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Classic of the Western Mountains recorded that on "Mount Gaotu," "there are white stones there, named Ju, which can poison rats. There is also a grass, shaped like medicinal ferns, with leaves like mallows and red undersides, named Wutiao, which can poison rats."

At first, people used plant toxins or mineral toxins. By the nineteenth century, rat poisons had become a dazzling jumble, with more than a hundred different varieties.

The "Black Death" carried too fearsome a reputation. After receiving Vienna Government's diplomatic note, the governments of European nations voiced their support in a dazed muddle.

Shipload after shipload of motley rat poison was sent to the Asia Minor Peninsula. All manner of bizarre methods of use drove the Austrian troops tasked with rat extermination to the brink of collapse.

The eyes of the European world converged here, and every country dispatched medical experts to inspect the situation firsthand.

Naturally, such hot news could never lack reporters. After witnessing the miserable state of the Russian Army camp, every doubt vanished into thin air.

No matter how the Anti-Ottoman Alliance played its games, it could not possibly use the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers to stage a self-inflicted ruse. The name "Black Death" was now firmly pinned on it.

During the centuries when the Black Death ravaged Europe, it had also broken out in stages and by region, continuing all the way into the eighteenth century.

The most severe period was from 1347 to 1353. It began in Sicily, then spread through Italy, Austria, France, England, Central Europe, Northern Europe...

Later came the Italian plague