The corpses of ants that were collected were enough to count the money, and these fist-sized insects had a unique flavor after being roasted.

As soon as I arrived at the edge of the jungle where the insects were entrenched, I encountered this terrifying big ant, and I didn't know what terrible things I would encounter if I went deeper.

After a brief rest, the army continued its march into the depths of the jungle.

With what happened just now, the soldiers were doubly vigilant, and all directions were closely watched.

Passing through a low patch of grass, an eerie small puddle appeared in front of me.

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

"Be careful!" Chen Su lowered his voice and said.

The soldiers were not kidding with their lives, and the dark pools didn't look like a good place to go, and the unpleasant smell in the air was much lessened as the team walked around the strange place.

Coming to a fairly open area, Yang Shu said: "General Chen, the brothers have also been gone for a day, and now that the sky is getting dark, the field of vision here is quite broad, let's rest here for one night!" ”

Chen Su looked around and nodded, "It's okay!" ”

Finally able to rest, the soldiers sat 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 starry and cloudless, and the silvery moonlight illuminated the camp, and with the light, the soldiers' nervous mood was somewhat relieved.

From time to time, there were chirping around, which always frightened the soldiers who were on the night watch, and this place was full of danger, and these disgusting things crawling everywhere did not know when they would come out.

Poplar inspected the camp, and when he saw that most of the soldiers had already fallen asleep, he yawned himself and returned to his position in the middle of the camp.

Seeing that Chen Su had also finished inspecting his camp, he walked over and sat down beside him and said, "We can't go on like this, with our strength, we will kill them one by one, when will it be a head!" ”

Chen Su said: "Is there any good way for General Yang?" ”

Yang Shu smiled when he heard this, and said, "I do have an idea, and His Majesty has used this method before." ”

Chen Su looked at the poplar tree with a sinister smile, frowned and said, "Has Your Majesty also used it?" ”

Poplar nodded, "That's right, but I'm not sure if I can use it here." ”

Looking at Yang Shu's troubled appearance, Chen Su couldn't help asking, "Tell me what to do?" ”

"Fire!" Poplar said only one word.

When Chen Su heard this, he suddenly realized that this method was indeed Wang Lang's method of dealing with the poisonous insects entrenched in the iron mine, but that time a large amount of alcohol was used as an accelerant, and the scope there was not large, but with such a large area of jungle here, coupled with damp wood, it was not easy to set fire to the forest.

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

Poplar sighed and said, "Hey, I can't think of how to put this fire, if only we had oil or wine." ”

Chen Su smiled and said: "Don't think about it so 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 in the far south." ”

"Your Majesty doesn't know what to think, there are no good things in this hellish place, and these bugs didn't hinder us and brought us here to suffer, hey!" Poplar complained helplessly.

"These are not things we can control, we are just soldiers, what Your Majesty tells us to kill, we just go and kill, thinking so much is to make ourselves uncomfortable."

Yang Shu lost the interest in talking, shook his head and said: "It's not early, hurry up and sleep, it seems that we don't want to go back to this year's winter solstice." ”

After a peaceful night, the army marched forward again, but not long after it had passed through the open field, it encountered new troubles.

They had encountered the kind of giant spiders that Li Mu's troops had encountered before, but this group was far more numerous than the one 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 be fought in a team at all, and the long-range attack method is completely useless.

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

Chen Yang and the others, who were shocked, hurriedly ordered a retreat, and the soldiers fought and retreated, dragging the bodies of their dead comrades out of the jungle in a hurry, returning to the open area where they had rested before.

Without the obstruction of trees, the soldiers quickly lined up, and this group of spiders without trees as cover did not dare to take a step out of the jungle and confronted humans from afar.

"What the fuck is this!" Poplar scolded in shock.

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

When Yang Shu heard this, he said with a gloomy face, "Dog, sooner or later, I will kill all these ghosts." ”

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

Four soldiers were killed and five or six wounded in the blow, and the military judge was asked to write down the names of the fallen soldiers, and that night, in the presence of the soldiers, they were cremated, their ashes were placed in an altar, and their souls were returned.

At dusk, the sky gradually darkened, and the rolling thunder rang for a long time.

The soldiers gathered a large number of palm leaves around the area and set up trading tents to shelter from the impending rainstorm.

At midnight, rolling thunder filled the sky, but the rain did not fall for a long time.

Thick lightning lit up the night sky, and looking at the terrifying lightning that kept appearing in the sky, the soldiers were worried about whether they would fall from the sky and end their lives.

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

A fire broke out where the lightning fell, but the ensuing torrential rain quickly extinguished the fire, and the night returned to darkness.

Tents made of palm leaves look crumbling under torrential rain.

Three or four soldiers huddled in their tents, shivering as the rain subsided.

And Chen Yang and the others were very worried at the moment whether this sudden rainstorm would wet the gunpowder, which was the foundation of their life here.

Before the rainstorm, although the gunpowder had been covered with a large number of palm leaves, the rainstorm was so violent that if the gunpowder was wet, they would have to rely on cold weapons and those terrible insects to fight in the future.

The torrential rain did not subside until dawn, and when the morning sun rose, the open area had become a country full of small puddles of varying shades.

Chen Yang and the two could be said to have not slept all night, and as soon as the day dawned, the two hurriedly ran to check the situation of those grenades or gunpowder.

Fortunately, a drainage ditch was dug near the tent where the gunpowder was planted, and when the thick palm leaves were removed, the two were relieved, although the gunpowder was a little damp, but it was not serious, and as long as the sun rose and dried for a while, they could continue to use it.

This is Chen Su's nose sniffed lightly, and said, "What kind of smell do you smell here?" ”

Poplar was stunned when he heard this, sniffled, and sure enough, he smelled a strange smell in the air.

"What a strange smell!" Yang Shu also said in surprise.

"It looks like it's coming from over there." Chen Su pointed to the jungle when he came.

Yang Shu nodded and said, "It does seem to have come from over there, so I'll bring some people over to take a look, and you look at the camp." ”

"Okay, stay safe!" Chen Su said.

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

Entering the jungle, the soldiers carefully observed the surrounding situation, and those terrifying spiders yesterday caused them a great psychological shadow.

As we slowly progressed, the strange smell became stronger and stronger, and the pungent smell made everyone cover their noses, and the surrounding temperature gradually became hotter.

"Everyone, be careful!" Poplar said in a low voice.

After the group continued to walk forward for a distance, they saw a little fire in front of them.

The poplar tree was deeply surprised that it could catch fire after such a heavy rain yesterday.

When people approached, they found that the place where the fire was burning was the small black puddles that they had passed by before.

In the middle of these puddles, a fallen tree had been burned to black charcoal.

Poplar grinned when he saw this miraculous sight.

This is exactly when I encounter a pillow when I am sleepy, and I am worried about something that has not been ignited, but I find that the baby is by my side and I don't know it.

"General, how can this thing burn!" An officer asked.

Yang Shu smiled and said, "It doesn't matter why the damn thing can burn, with this thing, Lao Tzu will burn those ghost things to death, go, go back, and send someone to collect these things." ”

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

"Brother Chen, a good thing, a great thing!"

Chen Su asked in surprise, "General Yang, what happened, why are you so happy?" ”

"You don't know, I just saw that black pool of water that we encountered before can actually burn like oil or alcohol, and we should be able to set it on fire this time." Poplar said excitedly.

When Chen Su heard this, he hurriedly asked, "This matter is true. ”

"Really, of course it's true, hurry up and send someone to prepare the container, let's burn this forest with a fire, maybe we will be able to complete the task by the end of the year." Poplar said again and again.

"Okay, that's great, it's a gods-bless." Chen Su was also excited.

When they found something good, they immediately ordered the auxiliaries to prepare all the containers that could hold them.

The black waterhole seemed to not be extinguished, and after days of collection, the smoke of the flames was still burning.

Over the course of several days, with the combined efforts of hundreds of people, this viscous feed water was sprinkled hundreds of meters along the edge of the jungle.

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

Chen Su said: "It should be okay, let people step back a little and light the fire!" ”

Poplar shouted excitedly, "Brothers, light a fire and burn these ghosts." ”

As the torches fell, the flames spread out like a fire dragon, and the hundreds of meters long fire dragon emitted a rolling wave of heat, drying the trunks of the trees, and the huge damp trees crackled under the scorching flames.

It is a very dangerous thing to set fire in the jungle, and if you are not careful, you will set yourself on fire, and after lighting the fire, seeing that the fire has become a prairie fire, the two immediately ordered the whole army to withdraw from here.

The flames burned rapidly, this man-made fire, I don't know how many innocent lives will be buried in the fire, but at this moment, no one cares about the life or death of these low-level lives, anything that blocks the progress of the Xia Kingdom, whether it is a human or an animal, there is only one end, and that is to send them to the Western Heavens.

In today's Shenzhou Continent, human beings are just emerging, and most areas can be said to be a paradise for beasts, whether it is for safety or interest considerations, Wang Lang is not allowed to have any sense of animal protection, there are too many beasts in this world, and it is not a big deal to die some.

The army retreated ten miles and did not hear until it reached the small hill before entering the jungle.

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

"Brother Chen, how long do you think this fire can burn?" Poplar laughed.

Chen Su stretched out his hand to feel the wind direction and speed, and said: "Now the wind direction is westward, the wind speed is okay, this fire can burn for at least more than ten days!" ”

"Hehe, hey for more than ten days, it seems that if we go over again, we can just eat roasted bugs." Poplar laughed.

Then a faint westerly wind and flames went straight to the west, and when the army came to the jungle again a dozen days later, it looked like hell on earth.

The burned black jungle is full of floating ashes, and this open land is bounded by two worlds of black and green.

Looking at the dead black world in front of him, Yang Shu sneered: "Holy shit, those insects should die this time!" ”

"I don't think the insects are dying, I don't think there is even a single one who can breathe." Chen Su said with a smile.

Hearing this, Yang Shu waved his hand and said, "All of you go forward and step here." ”

A fire destroyed the world, and the soldiers walked into the ashes that were still a little warm as if they were marching in victory.

Everywhere I passed, I could see corpses burned to black charcoal, small mammals, and more often insects of different shapes, these reptiles were so vulnerable to the fire that all that remained in the world were corpses twisted in the ashes.

Poplar crouched down, peeled open the thick ashes, and picked up a charred black spider corpse.

The spider's head and huge belly were screwed off, and the thick spider leg meat tasted like those crabs fished out by fishermen.

Poplar smashed his mouth a few times and shouted, "This thing tastes good, if you are hungry, pick up a few to eat." ”

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