Serpents swam into the barracks from all directions with terrible hissing sounds. The entire barracks suddenly screamed and screamed. In a short period of time, hundreds of soldiers were bitten by poisonous snakes in the dark, and the military camp was in chaos for a while.

These snakes are colorful and varied, but looking at the bright warning colors and diamond-shaped heads on their bodies, you know that they are all highly poisonous. Moreover, these snakes seem to be very excited, they are agile and fast in swimming, and they are not afraid of people, but rush towards people, and they are very aggressive.

"It's all poisonous snakes, don't come close." Song Jiangong shouted, as a member of the Jiannan Army, he had already heard about the many poisonous snakes in the dense forest of Nanzhao Yunling. Once upon a time, Jiannanjun also specially investigated and identified these poisonous snakes, and as one of the participants, he also recognized several highly venomous snakes.

Like the four-eyed snake with a huge body and a neck open like wings, the golden and silver krait snake that is small but extremely poisonous and extremely flexible, the white-headed viper with a snow-white head with fleshy tentacles, the green bamboo-leaf green snake, the petite but extremely venomous Liwen snake, etc., Song Jiangong has also seen it. But he had never seen so many species of poisonous snakes gathered here, and it was the first time he had seen thousands of poisonous snakes pouring into the camp to attack.

The soldiers began to kill the vipers with their long blades, and because they did not dare to approach, the archers began to shoot the vipers with their bows and arrows. However, the constant influx of venomous snakes into the camp and their swiftness and agility make it difficult to kill. In a matter of moments, hundreds more people were ready to be bitten by poisonous snakes.

In the chaos, Wang Yuan suddenly remembered something, and ordered Liu Jun in a loud voice: "Hurry up and get medicine from my military tent, your mother brought a large bag of realgar powder from the capital, this thing is the best way to drive snakes." ”

Liu Jun rushed away when he heard this, and rushed back with a sheepskin bag after a while. Song Jiangong frowned and said, "How can such a little medicine be enough?" It takes at least a few hundred catties of realgar powder to surround the camp. ”

Wang Yuan rushed forward, took the medicine bag, and reached out to grab a small handful of realgar powder sprinkled in the fire in front of him. There was a burst of beep and beep, yellow smoke rose up, and the air was suddenly filled with a pungent smell. Dozens of poisonous snakes wriggling around the campfire turned around and ran away almost instantly, frantically avoiding them.

"It works. There is an effect. And they rejoiced.

Wang Yuan rushed out and ran around the camp, and every bonfire on the edge of the camp was sprinkled with a handful of realgar powder. The pungent and choking smell filled the air, and the venomous snakes that had invaded the camp rushed to the ground when they smelled it. After a circle, a large bag of realgar powder was sprinkled cleanly, and the whole camp was filled with a pungent smell. As the smell spread, the venomous snakes that swarmed in the earthen walls outside the camp also stopped rushing inside, and instead turned around and retreated into the grass as the pungent smell dissipated.

Rustling, rustling, the sound of crawling faded away, and within half an hour, it disappeared cleanly.

The venomous snakes that rushed into the camp were also killed, and the soldiers picked the dead snakes into the fire and burned them to ashes, and it was only then that everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Wang Yuan ordered people to check the wounded soldiers, but more than 300 people were bitten by the infiltrating poisonous snakes, and half of them had already died of exhaustion. Wang Yuan ordered people to carry the wounded who still had a breath to his big tent, and took out the medicine sent by Mrs. Qin Guo from the capital to treat the injuries of snakes and insects for them to treat. These are highly venomous snakes, and only God knows whether these drugs will work, and the soldiers are also busy squeezing the poisonous blood of the wounded, cleaning their wounds with urine according to the usual method, which is said to slow down the spread of the poison.

After this toss, who dared to sleep calmly in the soldiers and horses of the Jiannan Army, one by one nervously guarded with their weapons, for fear that something strange would happen.

Wang Yuan led everyone back to the big tent, and the generals were also discussing in confusion, but Wang Yuan didn't say a word, and sat behind the table with his brows tightly wrinkled and pondered.

"Deputy marshal, this matter is really weird, how can there be so many poisonous snakes pouring into the barracks to attack, someone must be making trouble about this matter. I heard that the barbarians in the mountains have a kind of witchcraft that can summon poisonous snakes and poisonous insects to attack others, but I don't believe it, and now it seems that it is really witchcraft. Song Jiangong stepped forward and said in a deep voice.

The generals nodded nervously, the strange methods of the Nanzhao barbarians emerged one after another, and everyone had heard a lot of rumors. It is said that they can drive away snakes and beasts, and they only need to sacrifice to the ghosts and gods, and recite a spell to let the ghosts and gods do these things for them. Although the rumors felt ridiculous, I had to believe it when I saw the scene of the dense poisonous snakes attacking frantically just now, and I was still creepy when I thought about it.

Wang Yuan listened to their chatter and chatter, and slammed the table and shouted: "Shut up for me, don't be scared by false rumors?" What drives the ghosts, what incantations? They have that ability, why don't they just let the ghosts and gods attack us, but they have to take off their pants and fart and use some poisonous insects to attack us? ”

Everyone hurriedly shut up, the deputy marshal was angry, and what the deputy marshal said also made some sense. Since there can be spells to drive the ghosts and gods, why don't you order the ghosts and gods to ask for their lives directly, isn't there no one to resist?

"Lieutenant Marshal, but how do you explain what happened tonight?" Song Jiangong asked.

Wang Yuan snorted coldly and said, "This is undoubtedly a trick made by Ge Luofeng. Wang Yuan slowly got up and came to Gongsun Lan and said, "When we went out for a walk before dinner, you said that you smelled the strange smell of blood and fishy smell in the camp, I didn't care about it at the time, but now that I think about it, it must have something to do with it." ”

Gongsun Lan nodded slowly and said, "I just understood, and I was about to say this." I have heard it said that the powder mashed into a puree with earthworms and stirred with medicine can make a poisonous snake smell within a radius of ten miles. I think that's what I smell of this mixture. When we came here, I found that there were many burrows under the long grass, and they were the burrows of grass rats. Snakes love to eat rats, so there must be a large number of snakes inhabiting the surrounding hillsides, and it is not ridiculous to use medicine to lure poisonous snakes to gather and attack the camp, as long as this medicine works. ”

"Oh, I've heard such rumors too, is there really such a way to attract snakes?" Song Jiangong slapped his forehead and shouted.

Before Wang Yuan could speak, Liu Jun, who had just been sent out by Wang Yuan to check if there were any Nanzhao soldiers and horses intending to take advantage of the chaos to attack the camp, rushed into the tent, carrying two wooden barrels in his hands, and shouted loudly: "Father-in-law, there is no trace of barbarians outside the camp, we found a strange wooden barrel, but we didn't see this thing before camping." ”

Liu Jun placed the barrel on the ground, which was hollowed out from a tree trunk, with a pattern carved on the side, a small hole underneath, and a small partition that could be pulled out and pulled in to cover the barrel. There was also a thick piece of wood in the barrel, bulging at one end and slippery at the other. The whole barrel emitted a foul smell that made people want to vomit.

Wang Yuan circled around the wooden barrel twice, nodded and said: "It seems that what he said is true, this is a wooden barrel specializing in grinding medicines, and there is still earthworm flesh and earthworm powder on this wooden pestle, it seems that this bucket is used to grind medicine and sprinkle it into the camp." “

Gongsun Lan nodded and said, "That's the smell, it's just that the smell I smelled before was lighter." ”

Wang Yuan nodded and asked Liu Jun, "What was wrong with this barrel when you found it?" ”

Liu Jun scratched his head and said: "Don't mention it, it scared us, the barrel is full of snakes, and it is because of this that I feel strange, so I killed all the poisonous snakes and picked up the barrel." ”

Wang Yuan said coldly: "That's it." We had sprinkled the poison that attracted the poisonous snakes in our camp, but we stupidly set up camp in the open space here, and we were in their hands. At night, the poisonous snakes came out to feed, and when they smelled the smell that attracted them, they gathered and rushed into the camp to attack us. This is the trap set by Ge Luofeng for us. Ge Luo Feng, Ge Luo Feng, I will make you pay for your actions. ”

Liu Dehai shouted: "Deputy marshal, can you still stay in this camp?" It's only been less than two minutes, and after a while, the smell of realgar dissipates, and these poisonous snakes are going to make a comeback again? ”

Wang Yuan nodded and said: "That's right, pass the order, before the smell of realgar is gone, the whole army will immediately take action to sweep all corners of the camp and eradicate the floating soil on the surface." He also ordered people to increase the number of bonfires around the camp, and the soldiers and horses on duty at night were on strict alert. ”

When the order was given, the whole army immediately began to move, scraping almost a layer of ground in the camp and throwing all the soil sprinkled with medicinal powder into the stream. A bonfire was built around the camp, and a number of soldiers were sent to patrol it. Tossed until the third watch, then settled down. Gongsun Lan walked around the camp with a wrinkled nose, only smelling the slightest smell of medicine, and thought that it was fine, so she ordered the soldiers to rest in peace.

The soldiers were apprehensive at first, but soon they all fell asleep until dawn, until the morning sun rose.