wild trail

Chapter 349
There are more than a few ants in the collected ant carcasses. These fist-sized insects have a special flavor after being roasted.

Just arrived at the edge of the jungle infested with insects, and encountered such a terrifying big ant. If you go deeper, you don't know what terrifying things you will encounter.

After a brief rest, the army continued to march toward the depths of the jungle.

With the encounter just now, the soldiers were more vigilant, and all directions were closely watched.

Passing through a piece of low grass, a strange small puddle appeared ahead.

The water in these puddles was as black as ink, and there was a very foul smell in the air.

"Be careful!" Chen Su said in a low voice.

Naturally, the soldiers would not make fun of their own lives. These dark pools did not look like good places to go. The team bypassed this weird place, and the unpleasant smell in the air was reduced a lot.

Coming to a relatively open area, Yang Shu said: "General Chen, the brothers have been walking for a day, and the sky is getting dark now. The view here is quite wide, let's rest here for one night!"

Chen Su looked around and nodded, "Alright!"

Finally able to rest, the soldiers sat down on the ground, wearing armor, carrying supplies through the jungle, and the hot and humid weather had already made them feel exhausted.

The night was full of stars, cloudless, and the silver moonlight illuminated the camp. With the light, the soldiers' nervous mood was somewhat relieved.

From time to time, there were chirping sounds around, which would always frighten the soldiers on guard at night. This place is full of dangers, and these disgusting things crawling around will appear at any time.

Yang Shu inspected the camp and saw that most of the soldiers had already fallen asleep, so he yawned and returned to the middle of the camp.

Seeing Chen Su, he also finished inspecting his camp, walked over and sat beside him and said, "We can't go on like this. With our strength, we can kill them one by one. When will we be the first!"

Chen Su said: "Does General Yang have any good ideas?"

Yang Shu laughed a little when he heard the words, and said, "I do have an idea. Your Majesty has used this method before."

Chen Su looked at Yang Shu with a sinister smile on his face, frowned and said, "Has Your Majesty used it too?"

Yang Shu nodded and said, "That's right, but I'm not sure if it can be used here."

Seeing Yang Shu's serious appearance, Chen Su couldn't help asking: "Quickly tell me what can be done?"

"Fire!" Yang Shu only said this word.

Hearing this, Chen Su suddenly realized that this method was indeed Wang Lang's method to deal with the poisonous insects entrenched in the iron mine, but that time, a large amount of alcohol was used as a combustion aid, and the area there was not large, but such a large forest here, Combined with damp wood, it is not an easy task to set fire to the forest.

"I'm afraid this method won't work!" Chen Su said slowly.

Yang Shu sighed and said, "Hey, I can't think of how to set this fire. It would be nice if we had oil or wine."

Chen Su smiled and said: "Don't think too much, oil and wine are not cheap, and those ministers in the court will definitely not agree to use such precious things to kill these insects far away in the south."

"Your Majesty doesn't know what to think, there is nothing good in this ghost place, and these bugs didn't hinder us, they brought us here to suffer, hey!" Yang Shu complained helplessly.

"These are beyond our control. We are soldiers. Whatever His Majesty tells us to kill, we can just kill it. Thinking so much is just making ourselves uncomfortable."

Yang Shu lost interest in talking, shook his head and said: "It's getting late, go to bed quickly, it seems that this year's winter solstice we don't want to go back."

After spending the night peacefully, the army moved forward again, but not long after passing through this open land, the army encountered new troubles.

They encountered the kind of giant spiders that Li Mu's troops had encountered before, but this group was far more numerous than the ones Li Mu had encountered.

These spiders that like to fall from the sky are very different from those ants crawling on the ground. This attack method cannot fight in formation at all, and the long-range attack method is completely useless.

Four or five soldiers were killed on the spot under this sudden attack.

The shocked Chen and Yang quickly ordered to retreat. The soldiers retreated while fighting, dragging the body of their dead companions and hurriedly exited the jungle and returned to the open area where they had rested before.

Without the obstruction of the trees, the soldiers quickly lined up. Without the cover of the trees, the spiders didn't dare to take a step out of the jungle, and confronted humans from a distance.

"What the hell is this!" Yang Shu scolded in shock.

"General Yang, this jungle is too dangerous, it seems we can't get through it." Chen Su said with an ugly face.

Hearing this, Yang Shu said with a gloomy face, "Damn it, sooner or later, all these ghosts will be killed."

Seeing that the group of spiders had no intention of coming out to fight, the two immediately ordered the army to retreat and keep a certain distance from the jungle.

Four soldiers were killed in this blow, and five or six were injured. The military judge was asked to write down the names of the soldiers who died in battle. That night, under the witness of the soldiers, the two cremated them and put their ashes in jars Here, let their souls return to their hometowns.

At dusk, the sky gradually became dark, and the billowing thunder rang for a long time.

The soldiers collected a large number of palm tree leaves around and built trading tents one by one to avoid the coming rainstorm.

In the middle of the night, billowing thunder rang through the sky, but the rain did not fall for a long time.

Thick lightning illuminated the night sky. Seeing the terrifying lightning that kept appearing in the sky, the soldiers were very worried whether it would fall from the sky and end their lives.

The soldiers' fears soon became a reality. A thick bolt of lightning struck straight from the sky, but the target was not the army's camp.

The place where the lightning fell suddenly ignited a raging fire, but the ensuing torrential rain quickly extinguished the fire, and the night returned to darkness.

A tent made of palm tree leaves looks crumbling under the torrential rain.

Three or four soldiers huddled in the tent, waiting shiveringly for the rainstorm to subside.

At the moment, Chen and Yang are very worried whether this sudden rainstorm will wet the gunpowder, which is the foundation for them to live and work here.

Before the rainstorm came, although the gunpowder had been covered with a lot of palm leaves, the rainstorm was so violent that if the gunpowder got wet, they would have to fight those horrible bugs with cold weapons in the future.

The torrential rain did not subside until dawn. When the sun rose in the morning, the open area had become a swamp, and there were small puddles of different depths everywhere.

It can be said that Chen and Yang didn't sleep all night, and at dawn, the two hurried to check the situation of those grenades or gunpowder.

Fortunately, a drainage ditch was dug near the tent where the gunpowder was placed. When the thick palm leaves were removed, the two breathed a sigh of relief. Although the gunpowder was a little damp, it was not serious. Continue to use it.

This is Chen Su sniffing lightly with his nose, and said, "What does it smell like?"

Yang Shu was taken aback when he heard the words, and sniffled, and sure enough, he smelled a strange smell in the air.

"Why does it have a strange smell!" Yang Shu also said in surprise.

"It seems to come from over there." Chen Su pointed to the jungle where he came.

Yang Shu nodded and said, "Indeed, it seems that it came from over there. In this way, I will bring some people over to have a look, and you look at the camp."

"Alright, be careful!" Chen Su said.

Yang Shu cupped his fists, checked the steel knife on his waist, called more than 100 sword and shield soldiers, and followed the smell.

Entering the jungle, the soldiers carefully observed the surrounding situation. Those terrifying big spiders yesterday caused a great psychological shadow on them.

As he slowly moved forward, the strange smell became more and more intense, and the bursts of pungent smell made everyone cover their noses, and the surrounding temperature gradually became hotter.

"Everyone be careful!" Yang Shu lowered his voice and said.

After everyone continued to walk forward for a certain distance, they saw a little flame appearing in front of them.

Yang Shu was deeply surprised that there was still a fire in the heavy rain yesterday.

When people approached, they found that the places where the fire was on were the small black puddles they had passed by before.

A fallen tree in the middle of these puddles had been burned to black charcoal.

Seeing this miraculous sight, Yang Shu grinned.

This is exactly when you meet a pillow when you are drowsy, and you are worrying about something that is not lit, but you find that the baby is by your side without knowing it.

"Commander, how can this thing burn!" an officer asked.

Yang Shu chuckled, and said: "Why the hell can it burn? With this thing, I will burn those ghosts to death with a fire. Go, go back, and send someone to collect these things."

While Chen Su was waiting anxiously, Yang Shu ran back excitedly.

"Brother Chen, good news, great news!"

Chen Su asked in surprise: "General Yang, what happened and why are you so happy."

"You don't know, I just saw that the black pool we encountered before can burn like oil or alcohol. This time we should be able to set fire." Yang Shu excitedly said.

When Chen Su heard the words, he hurriedly asked, "It's true."

"Really, of course it's true. Hurry up and send someone to prepare the container. Let's burn the whole forest with a torch. Maybe we will be able to complete the task a year ago." Yang Shu said again and again.

"Okay, that's great, it's really a blessing from the gods." Chen Su also became excited.

When they found something good, the two immediately ordered the auxiliary soldiers to prepare all the containers that could hold the things.

The black pool of water seemed to be unextinguishable. After everyone had collected it for several days, the flames were still burning with thick smoke.

Over several days, hundreds of people worked together to spread the viscous water for hundreds of meters along the edge of the jungle.

"Brother Chen, I think it's almost the same!" Yang Shu said excitedly.

Chen Su said: "It should be ok, let people back up a bit, and light the fire!"

Yang Shu roared excitedly: "Brothers, light a fire and burn these ghosts to death."

As the torch was thrown down, the flames spread like a fire dragon. The hundreds of meters long fire dragon radiated a billowing heat wave, drying the tree trunks, and the huge wet trees crackled under the burning of the flames.

Setting fire in the jungle is a very dangerous thing. If you are not careful, you will burn yourself. After lighting the fire, seeing that the fire has turned into a prairie fire, the two immediately ordered the entire army to withdraw from here.

The flames are burning fast. In this man-made fire, I don't know how many innocent lives will be buried in the flames. But at this moment, no one cares about the life and death of these low-level lives. Anything that hinders Xia Guo's progress, whether it is humans or animals , there is only one end, and that is to send them to the west.

In today's Shenzhou Continent, human beings have just emerged, and most areas can be said to be a paradise for wild animals. Whether it is for safety or profit considerations, Wang Lang is not allowed to have any awareness of animal protection. There are too many wild animals in this world, and it is okay to die. Big problem.

The army retreated ten miles, and did not listen until they retreated to the hill before entering the jungle.

Standing on the hillside, looking at the thick smoke rising into the sky in the distance, Chen and Yang looked at each other and smiled.

"Brother Chen, how long do you think this fire will last?" Yang Shu laughed.

Chen Su stretched out his hand to feel the wind direction and speed, and said, "The wind direction is westward now, and the wind speed is not bad. This fire will burn for at least ten days!"

"Hey, it's been more than ten days. It seems that if we go there again, we can just eat grilled bugs." Yang Shu laughed.

Then there was a weak westerly wind, and the flames went straight to the west. Ten days later, when the army came to that jungle again, it looked like hell on earth.

The burnt pitch-black jungle was full of floating ashes, forming two distinct worlds of black and green with this open land as the boundary.

Looking at the dead black world in front of him, Yang Shu grinned and said, "Damn it, those bugs should die this time!"

"I don't think the bugs are dead, there probably isn't even a breather here." Chen Su laughed.

Yang Shu waved his hand when he heard the words, and said, "Let's all go forward and level this place."

A fire destroyed the world, and the soldiers stepped on the still warm ashes as if in a victory parade.

Wherever you pass, you can see corpses burned to black charcoal from time to time, including small mammals, and more insects of various shapes. These reptiles are so fragile in the face of the fire, and the only thing left in the world is the ashes twisted corpse.

Yang Shu squatted down, scraped away the thick ashes, and picked up a charred spider corpse that had already been burned.

Twist off the spider's head and huge belly. The thick spider legs taste like crabs caught by fishermen.

Yang Shu smacked his mouth a few times, and shouted: "This food tastes good, if anyone is hungry, pick some up and eat."

A big fire turned the pest control operation into a barbecue feast.

(End of this chapter)