Chapter 186: Snakes and rats are really a nest
Wang Cai's scream first alarmed the general Zhang Debiao who led the troops, he got up, rubbed his eyes, and then reprimanded loudly: "Wang Cai!
The second one who came was Zhao Yongsheng, the general manager of the military justice team on duty, whose duty tent happened to be next to him, and he also heard Wang Cai's shout, and ran over with two members of the duty team. After entering the tent, he didn't say a word, and waved his hand: "Tie it up and take it away!"
Disrupting the order of the barracks is a serious crime, and no army can tolerate it, and even if the discipline is poor, it must be strictly controlled, not to mention that Xiang Rong's army discipline is not very bad. Therefore, the military law team came up to seize Wang Cai and wanted to enforce the military law.
Zhang Debiao's mouth opened to plead, but it was useless to think about it, and no one dared to challenge the authority of the military justice team, otherwise no one could afford to take off the hat of an accomplice.
But at this time, the snake that bit Wang Cai saved him, I don't know whether it was intentional or hated that someone came to disturb its good deeds, and the snake that didn't continue to bite, but still didn't leave from Wang Cai's feet, suddenly jumped up and bit Zhao Yongsheng's hand that was still waving!
An even more terrible cry resounded through half of the camp, and the effect was much greater than that of Wang Cai.
Zhao Yongsheng didn't care about pursuing Wang Cai, so he pulled out the long knife on his waist and slashed at the big snake that was still biting his hand!
How do you know that the big snake is unusually clever and moves quickly, so he jumped away with a "whoosh", and as a result, he bit Zhang Debiao's thigh again. This winning bid did not scream, gritted his teeth, and as soon as his hands were wrong, he had to use his iron claws to catch snakes. However, the snake had already touched and left. Ran to the next goal.
By this time the more than 100 soldiers in the whole camp had already woken up, and knew what was the matter, and they all checked their beds, and almost all of them cried out: "Ahh
At this time, someone found a candle to inspect Zhao Yongsheng's wounds, and saw two large snake tooth bite marks vividly. Everyone has been in the area infested with poisonous snakes all their lives, so they naturally knew that this was a poisonous snake's tooth marks, so they quickly took all three of them to see the military doctor.
When they got out of the tents, everyone realized that the same thing had happened in every tent. Everyone's bedding was frequented by rats and snakes, and now everyone ran out of the tents, and more than 20,000 people scattered around the huge grounds during the night, making a noise like a thriving night market.
After a while, Xiang Rong got a comprehensive report, all the tents were full of rats and snakes, and on average, one person in each tent was bitten by snakes. Strangely, however, the wounds were examined by a doctor and found to be caused by a poisonous snake, but none of them were poisoned.
As soon as they entered the tent, countless big snakes and small snakes and all kinds of rats pounced on them, so frightened that they quickly ran away, and never dared to step into the tent again.
As a result, the 20,000-strong army had to stand in the open air and wait until dawn to deal with these pesky guys. Now they are at a loss, because they can't see them in the dark, and as soon as someone approaches with something illuminated, they are attacked by their swarms.
However, the idea of waiting until dawn to settle accounts with them still failed. When the sky was bright, everyone heard a rustling sound, and by the faint light of the morning light, they saw a group of big snakes and small snakes, rats of all sizes, leaving the tent in a hurry and withdrawing!
Not to mention the flocks, what is even stranger is that many small rats ride on the big snakes, as if they are riding on trains, and there are also several fat rats, with neat steps and a long snake hanging from their bodies. These people, who are usually timid and afraid, are now surging in clusters, swaggering and walking away under the gaze of everyone.
Twenty thousand people witnessed such a strange phenomenon, all like wooden clay sculptures, until they disappeared, and then they woke up like a dream, breathed a sigh of relief, and came back to their senses.
Then everyone ran back to the tent, which was not only a place to sleep, but also dry food and other belongings. As a result, as soon as they entered the tent, everyone was dumbfounded again: everything else was fine, except for the dry food bag in the pack that was bitten into tatters, and the dry food inside was taken out and thrown on the ground in a mess.
If the rats steal food, it is their nature to take away some of it, which is understandable, but when they look left and right, these dry foods have not diminished at all, and when they leave, they return empty-handed, instead of desperately transporting the food they have in their hands back to their nests, as is their habit.
After such a toss, I hardly slept all night, and now I don't want to sleep, not to mention the fear of being afraid, the tent is full of the smell of rat droppings, and it is too late to rebuild the tent. It took a lot of effort to put it on, and it was about to be dismantled.
Not only did I not sleep, but I also didn't have to eat breakfast, because all the dry food was destroyed. I had to go hungry. As a result, they were all listless, and they completely lost the spirit of yesterday. In fact. Not eating a meal or two meals is really not a big deal for these soldiers who are in their prime, but this "nest of snakes and rats making trouble in the barracks" has dealt too much damage to their morale, casting a thick shadow on their dispatch this time.
These Green Battalion soldiers are basically local soldiers, and local rats and snakes are everywhere, but they are natural predators. It is common knowledge that snakes eat mice, and where there are mice, there are snakes, which is also a phenomenon that can be seen everywhere, and the reason is that snakes often burrow into mouse holes to prey on mice.
Now they see the anomaly, but this anomaly is directly against them, so they have no score from the bottom of their hearts.
Finally, at noon, I marched another thirty miles, and it was a wide plain, and a specially arranged grain transportation team also arrived here. The Chinese army ordered: make rice in a pot and solve the stomach problem.
The food transport team carried limited food, so everyone barely ate half full. In addition, I didn't sleep much last night, and everyone wanted to rest and catch up on sleep. However, Li Hongzhang, Lao Chongguang and others who accompanied the army asked to arrive at the front line of the purging as much as possible, so everyone had to continue marching until it was dark, and then walked out of thirty miles.
Everyone was still lucky, hoping that yesterday would make trouble with rats and snakes, but it was only because the camping place happened to be on top of the rat's nest and snake's nest that it provoked their masters to fight back, and it should not be repeated today. As soon as they fell asleep, they knew it wasn't like that at all.
When they saw today's army of snakes and rats, they knew that yesterday's was just an appetize!