Chapter 1405
Enemy Army Sieges the City [6]
Chapter 1405 Enemy Army Sieges the City [6]
The two companions were horrified; unpleasant memories overwhelmed them, and they crouched down, clutching their heads.
The two quickly stood up again, cursing angrily, "Open the door! Destroy the poisonous flames! Destroy the so-called great cause of these wicked beasts! Damn their ancestors!"
"Hahaha, why are you two arguing too? Disrespecting the people of all tribes is a capital offense," Donglai asked with a mock laugh.
Two companions: "Pah! What crime is it to disrespect a beast? Normal people should kill beasts. We're just normal people now, doing normal things!"
On their deathbed, they finally understood what life was all about, but their tears streamed down their faces uncontrollably... They were no longer normal people; they were accomplices of the beasts.
Click, click, click, the mechanism turned, click, click, click, click, the three inner doors of the inner chamber opened. Donglai said to his two companions, "You two slowly pry open the door cracks. I'll pour oil and light it. Don't open the door cracks too wide, the flames are very small and will jump out."
The two companions said, "Understood. Hurry up and pour oil on it to start a fire. The fireflies will jump out in the blink of an eye. They are also incredibly resilient. They can live for ten years on a corpse! All the beasts have kept records of this!"
Fireflies are fleas that carry pathogens, but what survives is not the flea itself, but the pathogens that live inside the flea.
In such a confined space, germs can survive for years as long as there is a corpse, so it must be burned!
Donglai immediately took some pine resin and splashed it into the crack of the inner chamber door, then quickly set it on fire.
Whoosh! The pine resin was highly flammable, and the fire quickly flared up, burning fiercely in the inner chamber. Soon, a burnt smell wafted out, and the three of them almost vomited.
But the three of them didn't have time to vomit, because they saw fleas jumping out from the small cracks in the inner chamber.
"Quick, the fireflies are coming out! Kill them!" Donglai shouted.
However, it was no use; the fleas were too small to catch, and they could live for a long time as long as they hid in small crevices in the mud.
The fire poison they carry allows them to live longer!
With a splash, Donglai poured pine resin on himself and his companions: "Burn down this outer chamber too. By the time the Wei soldiers break down the door, we and the Fireflies will have already been burned to death, and the Firefly poison won't leak out."
"Self-immolation? That would hurt so much." One of his companions didn't want to die such a gruesome death.
Donglai cursed him: "You idiot, you lit the fire and immediately killed yourself with a knife. It's like you're dead before you're burned, so you won't feel the pain of self-immolation!"
Ah this?
"Haha, our Lai Zi is so smart." His companion praised him, then stuffed more jerky into his mouth: "It's real jerky, stolen from the Liangwei people. Eat it without worry, and die a full man."
Donglai and his companion then took the dried meat he offered, chewed it quickly, and swallowed it. When they heard another rumbling sound coming from the tunnel outside, they dared not delay any longer and immediately set the entire outer chamber on fire with torches.
hula.
A fire broke out.
"Ouch, it hurts so much!" his companion screamed, then hurriedly raised the knife and slashed his own neck several times before collapsing to the ground with a thud.
The flames quickly engulfed them.
……
Fearing the tunnel might be poisonous, Jiang Dalang first blew it up with a sharp weapon, then fumigated it with medicine, and waited two hours before sending his elite soldiers into the tunnel.
When the door to the secret chamber at South No. 30 was opened, a wave of heat hit them, almost baking the soldiers who opened the door.
"Ugh! It stinks!" Even with his face covered by a towel soaked in medicinal liquid, Wei Jun almost vomited from the stench.
It was too hot to enter the secret chamber, so the Wei soldiers poured water to cool it down. After waiting for half an hour, they finally stepped into the No. 30 secret chamber in the south.
"Commander Fang, there's another secret room inside!" Wei Jun hurriedly reported after discovering the inner secret room: "The stench is coming from inside; there might be rotting corpses inside."
The burning of a fresh corpse won't produce such a strong smell; only the burning of a rotting corpse will create a terrible stench.
"Let me see." Commander Fang personally entered the inner chamber to check the situation. Surprisingly, the corpse inside was not human, because the charred remains were only the size of a rabbit.
“It’s animal carcasses…” Fang Zongqi frowned in confusion, but then quickly thought of what Jiang Qianhu and the others had said about the old village of Azu in the mountains.
He was horrified and shouted, "Go! Get out of here immediately! This might be where the enemy is breeding germs!"
what!
The Wei soldiers were shocked and furious. They hurriedly left, but fearing they might have contracted the disease, they dared not come out of the ground for fear of spreading the plague. They stayed in the tunnels. They sent two soldiers to the tunnel entrance to shout, "Quickly find Commander Zhu and tell him to find Commander Zhao and Commander Jiang. The brothers may have contracted the plague!"
Wei soldiers guarding the tunnel entrance: "..."
Their centurion: "..."
It's about to die!
"Stay put and don't panic, we'll go report right away!" After reassuring them, Commander Zhu hurriedly led his troops to find someone.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Dalang and Zhao Qianhu rushed over. After learning the details of what happened inside the secret room, Jiang Dalang said, "Come out. There's no need for any plague prevention measures. Even the most severe plague can't withstand being burned or boiled at high temperatures for an hour or two."
"Really?" The Wei soldiers inside the tunnel still couldn't believe it, looking at him with hopeful eyes.
Jiang Dalang nodded: "It's true. There is such a plague-raising cave in the old village of Azu in the mountains. After it was burned, no one who went in got sick."
"Phew," Commander Zhu breathed a sigh of relief and said to the Wei soldiers inside the tunnel, "Hurry up and come out... Sprinkle a spoonful or two of the medicine on them. The germs in the secret room have been burned away by the fire, but you've been squatting in the tunnel for so long, there's still a risk of infection."
"Commander, can you expect us to do well?" The hearts of the Wei soldiers were in their throats again.
"Look at you, you coward! I was just trying to scare you. The enemy soldiers have been in this tunnel before. Do you think they would spread plague germs in the tunnel? Hurry up and come out, stop dawdling." Commander Zhu said with disdain.
"Oh, they're coming out now!" The Wei soldiers hurriedly lined up and came out.
Whoosh!
After being splashed with the medicine, I went to stand to the side.
It took a quarter of an hour for all the soldiers of a battalion commander to emerge from the tunnel.
"I'll go down and take a look." Jiang Dalang took the lead, went down into the tunnel, and entered the large secret room at No. 30 South to investigate.
Zhao Qianhu hurriedly followed.
Commander Zhu: "..."
Two thousand households went down at once. If something went wrong, that would be the loss of two thousand households!
Fortunately, none of the Wei soldiers who went into the secret chamber were harmed.
This trip was quite fruitful.
“This is a central tunnel. There are eight tunnel entrances from this point. We went through one of the tunnels. At the end of the tunnel is a small secret room. After the secret room, there are four more tunnel entrances.” Jiang Dalang was a little numb, but also a little excited: “If we can capture the enemy’s master craftsman in the future, it will be of great use to the Ministry of Works of the Great Wei.”
So many tunnels were dug in a short period of time, and one large tunnel even radiated out to so many smaller tunnels, without causing the land to collapse.
The enemy has experts in geological exploration and excavation.
In addition to discovering more than a dozen new tunnels, they also found weapons, supplies, gold and silver jewelry that the enemy had not taken with them in a large secret room.
Inside the secret chamber, they discovered that the enemy had already dug holes underground in the Northeast region to cultivate plague bacteria.
"These beasts! They're going to slaughter us at any cost!" Commander Zhao was furious, yet utterly powerless. "We've only managed to burn the germs in one of the secret chambers. What about the germs in the others? If we don't eradicate even one of them, we'll die from a plague outbreak, even if we defeat the enemy!"