Zhang Tang suppressed the turmoil tonight, strengthened his troops to patrol the river embankment, and at the same time asked people to count casualties.

Finally, the situation here was sent to Bai Zhong overnight.

The night gradually became quieter, but Zhang Tang did not dare to relax, and his nerves were still tense. He went out to inspect the military camp all night, and he must not let anything happen to the river embankment or delay the progress of the excavation.

The excavation place is not very far from the river embankment.

Near dawn, the news was finally delivered to Bai Zhong.

"The enemy wants to destroy the river embankment?"

After reading the news, Bai Zhong said: "Send another thousand people to Zhang Tang."

Ying Shu said: "If the river embankment is destroyed and the Xiang River flows into this unfinished canal, many people will drown."

Bai Zhong agreed: "This is probably what the Luoyue people think. If they fail to destroy the river embankment, they may come here and send orders to strengthen their vigilance. Last night, the enemy also used wild boars to attack the river embankment. Watch out for wild beasts."

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Wang Li and others had never seen the enemy's ability to control beasts, so they were very curious.

As the military order was passed down, everyone in the camp received news of the attack on the river embankment. The entire army began to be on alert, and batches of scouts were sent out to ensure the safety of the surrounding area.

The excavation of ditches is still going on and will not stop because of a small episode.

"Wu'an Jun, the people of Luoyue can already guess the purpose of digging this spiritual canal, right?"

Shi Lu said worriedly.

Bai Zhong nodded and said: "It's normal for them to guess it, but don't worry, Young Master, they can't stop it."

Of course Shi Lu believed in the strength of the Qin army, especially the strength of the soldiers under Bai Zhong's command, and continued to urge the corvees to dig, trying every means to speed up the excavation and complete it as soon as possible.

"Giant!"

Yuan Hong came over and said: "I led the people from the Young Master to make two more digging tools. After trying them, the results were good. I asked people to make them in large quantities, and the digging speed can be increased a lot."

Bai Zhong nodded and said, "Well done, you continue."

Tools are the primary driving force. As long as the tools are useful enough, the project progress can be faster.

A few more days passed.

It was very quiet on the other side of the river embankment. According to Zhang Tang's news, no Luoyue people dared to attack again.

The excavation of the ditch has been advanced for some distance and is progressing quite smoothly.

Just when they thought there would be no more accidents.

"Wu Anjun, what do you see outside?"

Wang Li suddenly came over and pointed outside the camp in surprise.

Bai Zhong looked up and saw insects, poisonous snakes, scorpions and other things on the ground crawling towards their camp in groups. There seemed to be a faint sound of flutes echoing in the air.

"not good!"

Bai Zhong's expression changed.

In later generations, he heard that in the southwest, there were people who controlled poisonous insects and poisonous insects, as well as witchcraft. He didn't expect that they existed in this era, but they still existed, but this was not the Miao Village area.

How come people from Baiyue know how to do this?

These were attacks that Bai Zhong and others had never thought about. They prepared a lot of medicinal materials to avoid all kinds of miasma and acclimatization, but they never thought about avoiding poisonous insects.

In the past few days, the Luoyue people had not made any movement. They might be collecting those poisonous insects in preparation for a fatal blow to the Qin army.

"Everyone, come back to the military camp immediately. Yuan Hong dismantled all the explosives in our army and poured the gunpowder along the military camp. If there is still sulfur, pour it all down and circle the military camp."

Bai Zhong ordered urgently.

Shi Lu saw the poisonous insects in the distance crawling in this direction. He was so frightened that he was covered in cold sweat. He quickly called the corvee back and stopped all work.

Gengwu, Yuan Hong and others arranged for people to dismantle the fire and powder, first pour it in a circle around the camp, and then pour some remaining sulfur near the gun and powder to ward off poisonous insects.

"My dear, a poisonous insect has crawled in!"

Ying Shu exclaimed.

As a woman, she is more afraid of these things. When she sees them, she feels very disgusted and has goosebumps all over her body.

There are still gaps nearby, places that are not surrounded by fire and poison, and those poisonous insects crawl in through the gaps at this time. Facts have proved that fire and sulfur are very effective against poisonous insects and snakes.

Bai Zhong said quickly: "Quickly kill these poisonous insects, don't get touched!"

Not only was Ying Shu scared, but many soldiers felt their scalps go numb after seeing it.

But there was no other way. They could only use long weapons such as Changge to kill all the poisonous insects that crawled in to attack the soldiers.

"Yuan Hong, hurry up!"

Bai Zhong urged.

Yuan Hong commanded several people to come over and block the gap here.

squeak……

Those poisonous insects were very afraid of the smell of sulfur. As soon as they touched fire, medicine and other objects, they made a strange sound and backed away in fear.

The camp was finally surrounded by gunpowder. As long as the wind didn't blow, it wouldn't be a big problem. Fortunately, there was no wind or rain these days, otherwise we wouldn't know how to deal with the poisonous insects.

Seeing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

It's okay for now.

There were still a few people from Luoyue outside. They looked at the camp curiously. They didn't expect that the Qin army had something to scare the poisonous insects. After hesitating for a while, they did not let the poisonous insects retreat. Instead, they found another group of poisonous insects.

Come back and continue to surround the camp.

As long as the smell of sulfur fails, these poisonous insects will definitely break in and bite people.

"Wu Anjun, what should I do?"

Shi Lu had never seen such a scene.

People from Baiyue have such methods that make people's scalp numb.

Bai Zhong said: "There will be a way, let's fight with the people outside first."

He couldn't think of a way yet. If there was something like kerosene, he might be able to pour it out and burn the poisonous insects outside. Now he was unprepared, he lacked everything, and he couldn't do anything.

"Prepare firewood and collect all the horse dung in the army."

Bai Zhong said again.

Ren Xiao asked curiously: "What can horse manure be used for?"

"Put it away first, I hope you won't need it."

Bai Zhong did not explain his attitude and said again: "Zhao Tuo, you have been here once, do you know how to deal with poisonous insects?"

Zhao Tuo shook his head and said: "Last time I went south with General Tu Sui, the enemy didn't have any use for poisonous insects."

What he meant was that Bai Zhong's soldiers were too strong, and the Luoyue people could only use extreme means such as poisonous insects to fight against them. If Tu Sui had the ability before, the Luoyue people would not be able to use these things at all.

Faced with this situation, they don't know how to deal with it.

Soon, the collection of horse manure was completed.

"Have firewood ready and light a fire at any time!"

Bai Zhong looked outside and saw that the Luoyue people who were controlling the poisonous insects had not moved yet.

Others didn't quite understand why Lord Wu An did this, but they could only follow the instructions and prepare all kinds of firewood.

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Chapter completed!