If this trouble is left to harm civilians, then what's the point of what they do?

"Marshal, I am willing to fight to the death with the marshal!"

One person said in a trembling voice, with fear that could not be hidden in his black and white eyes, but he was unwavering, "We must not let poisonous people harm more people!"

"I am willing to fight to the death with the marshal!"

Everyone echoed loudly.

Meng Shulan's throat rolled, and she was choked and unable to speak.

He suddenly remembered that on the day of the funeral of the Marquis of Zhenxi and the Crown Prince of Zhenxi, in front of the gate of the Marquis of Zhenxi's mansion, when Yan Qing spoke passionately, everyone supported him.

In the past, he only regarded it as a means.

Now we know that this is really a kind of decisive helplessness.

"Thank you for your willingness to live and die with me."

Meng Shulan bowed solemnly to everyone, then looked solemn, glanced at everyone's faces, and waved to a small man in the crowd, "Shui Yuan, come here."

Shui Yuan followed the instructions and asked meticulously with a straight face: "Marshal, what do you want me to do?"

Meng Shulan took a deep look at him and said: "We are outnumbered and we are outnumbered, and we are hard to guard against poisonous insects and poisonous snakes. Killing them like this is not an option. You and Li Tong lead 30 people down the city tower from the secret passage, go to the city's traditional Chinese medicine shop, and sell realgar,

Sulfur, wormwood and other insect repellents were all brought to the city gate."

When Shui Yuan heard Meng Shulan ask him to come down from the tower, he immediately frowned: "Marshal, I won't be a deserter!"

A young and energetic boy, only twelve or thirteen years old, holding the lightest bow, solemnly said to Meng Shulan with a straight face: "I can kill poisoners together with you, and I will never hold you back."

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"This is a military order."

Meng Shulan lowered his eyes, with a dark look in his eyes, and said to him patiently and solemnly, "I'm not letting you escape. You have to bring sulfur, realgar and other substances back to the city gate. Although these things are not completely effective against poisonous insects,

But it will definitely buy us more time to eliminate the poisonous people."

Poisoners have difficulty moving, and their attacks mainly rely on the poisonous insects fed with their own blood, as well as their own venom.

As long as the poisonous people are eliminated, these poisonous insects that have lost their source of sustenance will gradually disperse or die.

Poisonous people are not difficult to deal with. If life is exchanged for life, only a few hundred people can twist off the heads of thousands of poisonous people.

The difficult thing is to get past the countless poisonous insects and get close to the poisonous people.

The medicinal powder that can drive away most snakes, insects, rats, and ants, even if it cannot drive away all poisonous insects, is enough to allow them to deal with the poisonous people at a smaller cost.

"It's up to you whether you can save more brothers."

Meng Shulan patted Shui Yuan on the head, looked into his eyes seriously and warned.

After hearing this, Shui Yuan felt that he had a heavy responsibility and quickly promised Meng Shulan: "I promise to complete the task!"

Meng Shulan nodded, then turned around and motioned for Li Tong to leave with Shui Yuan.

Shui Yuan grew up eating hundreds of meals in Talir City, and was very familiar with the situation in the city. He quickly led Li Tong and others into the medicinal material warehouses of several large pharmacies.

On top of the city tower, seeing Shui Yuan going down the maze, Meng Shulan called out to another person: "Yi Wang, Hu Xiang, each of you take two hundred people down to the city tower and seal all the other entrances and exits of the garrison where the poisonous man is with firewood.

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Meng Shulan's eyes flashed with cold light, "Set fire directly, guard the entrances and exits on both sides, and never let any poisonous person escape!"

Yi Wang, one of Shang Ming's personal guards, glanced at the general and his twin brother Yi Shuo who were still fighting bloody battles at the top of the city. He finally turned his head and gave Meng Shulan a fist in his arms: "I will never disgrace my life!"

After that, Yi Wang and Hu Xiang each led a team of troops and left the tower.

Meng Shulan glanced at the hundreds of people left on the tower and said, "We have to guard the other exit on the tower."

Judging from previous intelligence, the poisonous people were concentrated in the garrison under the city tower and the left city wall of the west gate.

There are only four exits in these two garrison posts: one from the bottom of the city tower leads to the city gate; one leads to the garrison post on the right wall of the north gate; and the remaining one is where the poisonous people go up to the tower to fight with Shang Ming and others.

The other one is behind them, and the poisonous man has not been seen yet.

Poisonous people have been tortured by poisonous poisons and poisonous insects all year round, and their sanity is running low.

They did not come out from the exit behind them, probably because Meng Shulan and others captured the tower here and there were no Xirong soldiers to lead them up.

But if a fire breaks out in the tower below and Bennon flees for his life, there is no telling what will happen here.

"Afraid?"

Meng Shulan tightened her grip on the handle of the knife and asked Suifeng.

Suifeng showed a forced smile: "I'm afraid, but if you don't leave, master, my subordinates will have no choice but to follow you to their death."

Meng Shulan smiled, lowered her eyes, and said quietly, "Actually, you can run."

With Sui Feng's light body technique, even if he were to fall directly from the tower, he would be broken into pieces at most, but his life would definitely be saved.

Suifeng smiled bitterly and took a deep look at Meng Shulan.

Meng Shulan lowered her eyes and concentrated on guarding the exit, so she didn't see the determination flashing in Sui Feng's eyes.

Not long after, the fire started burning under the tower.

White smoke penetrated the holes and gaps in the tower and filled up, and thick smoke billowed up.

Meng Shulan suddenly became alert and stared at the entrance of the cave, but did not notice Sui Feng falling behind him.

Densely packed black beetles crawled out from the exit under the thick smoke, bumped into the floor tiles that Meng Shulan had previously paved with realgar, sulfur, etc. that had been brought out in advance, and huddled together.

efficient!

Everyone was happy, but soon their hearts dropped.

The piles of beetles, driven away by the hot smoke behind them, kept moving forward after all. The beetles that came up from behind even climbed onto the bodies of the beetles in front. They were like a tower bridge, swarming towards everyone in layers.

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The sound of rustling and the dense swarm of beetles can make one's scalp numb just by looking at it.

A timid soldier couldn't hold back any longer. He picked up a broken lance pole and threw it at the tidal wave of beetles!

"Don't!"

One person shouted, trying to stop him.

But it's too late.

When this wooden pole was smashed down, a bunch of beetles were indeed killed.

The black juice suddenly splashed all over the floor and stuck to the head of the wooden pole.

But more beetles, as if they had found a life-saving straw, climbed up the wooden pole and crawled along the wooden pole.

The soldier holding the wooden pole was immediately frightened and tried to throw the beetle down with the wooden pole raised.

But unexpectedly, this time, the beetle mucus stuck to the head of the wooden pole, as well as the beetles on it, were thrown into the air and fell towards everyone.

"careful!"

Just as Sui Feng was about to take action, he saw that with the soldier's flick, the beetles started to rain down towards the few people standing at the front.

Among them is Meng Shulan.
Chapter completed!