Chapter 296: Old tricks are used again and are well prepared
Boom!

As soon as Tianxuan finished speaking, something unexpected happened outside the city. Amid the terrifying sound, a huge arc-shaped tunnel appeared, starting from ten feet in front of the military camp and with a circumference of three feet. The kerosene thrown outside the camp, along with the strange snakes that had arrived around the Qin army camp and were about to attack the Qin soldiers in the camp, fell into a five-foot-deep cave due to the appearance of this tunnel.

A few years ago, when Tianxuan set out from Xianyang to manage the Western Regions, he specifically asked Gongshuchou, the head of the Gongshu family, for a batch of mechanical creations. Among them, some earth-breaking insects were included. No one would think that the poisonous insects raised by the Queen of Jingjue were only fire beetles, pig-faced bats, and marching ants.

To be on the safe side, Chen Ping specially used Po Tu San Lang to dig such a tunnel around the military camp.

As soon as the tunnel appeared, several burning torches made of pine resin were thrown out from the military camp and fell into the cracked tunnel.

boom!
The tunnel was soaked with kerosene, and with the countless strange snakes, it only took a little flame to catch fire. Throwing several torches in at once, the kerosene ignited and turned into a blazing fire, enveloping the army of strange snakes.

Zizizi!
Fire snakes danced in the burning tunnel, and occasionally jumped out of the cave with their powerful jumping force. However, their bodies were already covered in flames. Even if they were lucky enough to reach the surface and try to use the sand to extinguish the flames on their bodies, it was just a dying struggle and it was of no use.

The sound of the snake's tongue flickering rose and fell, echoing in the night sky. To the Qin army officers and soldiers, it sounded like the sound of nature.

"Hahaha."

"It's so happy, so happy!"

"This kind of method is ultimately not acceptable!"

……

When Tianxuan led the troops to the battle this time, he brought the defeated soldiers who had fled back from the previous battle, and now they were all in the military camp outside the city. When these Qin soldiers who had suffered saw these densely packed strange snakes, they knew that it must be the work of the "Exquisite Demon Woman". Seeing these strange snakes struggling in the flames, they smelled the meaty aroma that filled the air.

Including Li Shang, the defeated soldiers of the past felt that most of the evil anger in their hearts was released and they were ecstatic.

"Qin Jun, indeed, was well prepared!"

"Queen Jingjue, what do you mean by this?"

"What a trick!"

……

The army of strange snakes raised by the Queen of Jingjue first attacked a group of her own troops. After a dozen breaths, the Queen of Jingjue seemed to have recovered and blew the melody of controlling the strange snakes again, letting the army of strange snakes pounce on the Qin army camp. However, in just a short while, the unprepared Eight-Nation Alliance had been bitten to death by the strange snakes.

Including those shot by the Qin army, in a short period of time, more than half of the 5,000 Eight-Nation Allied Forces were killed, and the rest were frightened and no longer wanted to fight. They fled the battlefield full of their companions in a panic and fled to the rear!

Seeing their troops being attacked by the snake army of Jingjue, and seeing the Qin army set up a fire road to block the attack of the snake army. Among the eight monarchs who were guarding the rear, except for the Queen of Jingjue who was hiding in the sedan chair and whose expression could not be seen, the others were either angry or afraid, and some even had cold hands and feet and were sweating all over.

"Everyone, please be patient." In the light of the burning torches, the Queen of Jingjue changed her posture on the sedan chair, from lying down to sitting up, and said in a normal tone, "The Qin army can stop my black-eyed monster snakes. But I don't believe they can stop the marching ants, pig-faced bats, and fire beetles!"

At the end of her speech, the Queen of Jingjue's gentle and charming voice was filled with the majesty and dominance of a king.

"Throw out the firebugs!"

As soon as the Queen of Jingjue gave this order, nearly a hundred Jingjue people who had surrounded the sedan chair immediately rushed out, carrying ten rectangular wooden boxes shaped like coffins, and ran towards the Qin army camp in the distance.

Bang!

When the Jingjue people carrying the rectangular boxes came to the Qin army camp ten feet away, the flaming kerosene was almost burned out, and the snake army named the Black Eyed Monster Snake by the Queen of Jingjue had been burned to death. Although there were long black strips twitching, everyone knew that it was just a conditioned reflex.

The Jingjue people who arrived here threw the sealed boxes in their hands and smashed them to the ground. Then, everyone turned around and fled to their own side as if there were wild beasts chasing them.

Wow!
The coffin-shaped wooden boxes fell to the ground and disintegrated, revealing ten pale skeletons with azure light flowing on them.

After the skeleton fell to the ground, the azure light lingering on the bones exploded, and a group of crystal-clear ladybugs with blue fireballs flew at an incredible speed. Wherever they went, a slight vibration sound came from the air, which looked indescribably mysterious and strange.

Fire beetle!
"Water guns ready!"

Last time, Li Shang and Chen Ping led 3,000 soldiers and were defeated by three insects: fire beetles, pig-faced bats, and army ants. The lessons learned from the defeat and what Mr. Lu told them made the two men who came back fully prepared.

As soon as the skeleton fell to the ground, Li Shang gave a decisive order.

Zizi!

The water guns in this world are of course different from the water guns that Tianxuan played with in his previous life. Most of the water guns in this world are made of bamboo tubes or hollowed-out tree trunks. They are filled with water, and when used, you only need to push them to eject the water through the holes, like a water column.

Hundreds of Qin soldiers held water guns filled with clean water and sprayed the clean water at the fireflies flying in the sky. As soon as the fireflies were hit by the clean water that was larger than their bodies, they immediately turned into wisps of green smoke and dissipated between heaven and earth.

Oh oh oh!
On this side, the Qin army soldiers, who had been prepared, aimed their water guns at the sky, shooting at the fire beetles, destroying these strange insects that seemed to be born from the flames. On the other side, the Queen of Jingjue did not put all her hopes on the fire beetles. When she released the fire beetles, she had already ordered the remaining wooden boxes to be opened.

Inside the opened wooden box, half were army ants with black bodies and blood-red tails. The average size was as big as a knuckle, and the largest was as big as a lamb. They gathered together like a huge black and red wave. The other half were large bats with horrible pig faces. They were bloodthirsty by nature and also carnivorous. They preyed on cattle, sheep and other livestock. They were dormant during the day and came out at night, with their fangs exposed.

The method used by the Queen of Jingjue to control the army ants and the pig-faced bats seemed to be no different. The sound of the flute was passionate, and thanks to the Queen's profound skills, it broke through the silent night sky and fell into the ears of Tianxuan who was standing on the top of the city wall, reminding Tianxuan of an ancient poem 'The silver bottle suddenly broke and water splashed out, the iron cavalry rushed out with swords and guns ringing'!
After the army ants appeared, they gathered into a huge ball, wrapping the queen ant as big as a lamb inside, forming a densely packed black sphere about ten feet high, rolling at high speed on the ground, like a snowball falling from a high altitude, rolling towards the Qin army camp.

A large pig-faced bat rose from high in the sky, its eyes emitting blood-red light, locking onto the Qin army soldiers, as if it wanted to pounce on them immediately and suck their blood and flesh.

(End of this chapter)