After leading the strongest ewe, Sadiq followed the instructions and sent the ewe to the eighth elder's room.
He looked at the ewe with pitiful eyes and was about to leave when the Eighth Elder suddenly said: "You stay and help me."
"Me?" Sadiq was startled when he heard this, then shook his head violently and said repeatedly: "I can't help you..."
Click.
The eighth elder simply broke the ewe's neck and said, "Help me find a copper basin."
Sadiq was stunned again, and then he realized that he had gone astray. He walked out in shame and quickly brought in a copper basin.
The eighth elder first poured a few glasses of water into the copper basin, then took out some bottles and jars from his arms, and poured the powders and liquids of various colors into the copper basin. The water in the copper basin soon turned into
It is jet black in color and emits a fishy smell.
Sadiq covered his mouth and nose, a little confused.
At this time, the eighth elder took out a wooden box from his sleeve, opened the wooden box, and took out an unknown insect in the box.
He glanced at the insect in his hand with some distress and threw it into the copper basin.
The insect was lying motionless in the palm of his hand, but after entering the copper basin, it suddenly became active, and its belly bulged up and down, as if it was drinking the black water in the copper basin.
The Eighth Elder took out several more wooden boxes one after another, took out all kinds of poisonous insects in the boxes, and followed the same method. After a while, the color of the black water in the copper basin became much lighter.
Looking at the poisonous insect lying motionless in the basin, the color of his body seemed heavier, the pain in the flesh on the face of the eighth elder became even stronger.
He took out a dagger and cut a wound on the leg of the dead sheep.
After the blood seeped out from the lamb's leg, the poisonous insect lying motionless in the copper basin suddenly seemed to be energized, and quickly crawled up the lamb's body, and soon got in through the wound.
Watching this scene, Sadiq's scalp went numb and he wished he could apply oil on his soles and leave this weird place immediately.
However, the eighth elder looked at him and spoke again, "Find two people to bury the sheep ten feet outside the city gate. The pit is half a foot deep and cover it with sand... Remember, these two people cannot
There are wounds, let alone blood."
"What if they have wounds on their bodies?" What happened tonight made him confused and scared, so Sadiq asked in a strange way.
"Is there a wound?" The eighth elder glanced at the dead sheep on the ground and smiled evilly at him.
A chill rushed from his spine to his head. Sadiq couldn't help but shiver and said immediately: "I'm going to find someone right now!"
In the dark night, two figures carried a huge cloth bag and arrived outside the city gate.
Ten feet away from the gate of Wutanzi Kingdom, a large pit half a foot deep had been dug. The two people threw the cloth bag into the pit and filled it with yellow sand.
Then, they pulled a rope out of the pit and up to the city wall.
After doing all this, they looked at Sadiq behind them and asked curiously: "Chief, what are we doing this for?"
Sadiq glared at them and said: "Stop talking nonsense, just do what I ask you to do. This is the order of the king."
After being scolded, the two of them stopped asking questions. They just thought that the enemy was about to arrive, and they still felt a little nervous.
One person had a worried look on his face and said, "Chief, do you think they can bring in reinforcements?"
Sadiq shook his head and said, "I don't know."
Regarding matters related to the rise and fall of a country, no one knows what the outcome will be. Even if those countries are afraid of the number of horse thieves and refuse to rescue the Wutanzi country, he will not be surprised at all.
The expression on the other person's face was a little frightened, and he said: "How about we run, it's still too late to run now..."
"Confused!" Sadiq glared at him and said, "We still have a slim chance of survival if we stay in the city. If we leave here and are caught up by horse thieves in the desert, all of us will die!"
The man had a look of despair on his face and said, "It doesn't matter if I die, but my Aji is only three years old..."
Sadiq took a deep breath and said, "Don't worry, the king will definitely find a solution!"
After experiencing the initial fear, he gradually calmed down, especially when he thought that in the face of so many horse thieves, the king never showed any timid or fearful expression, which made him feel even more stable.
When anyone's life is faced with such a threat, what he wants is not to abandon them and run away, but to still stay here. Either he wants to die, or he doesn't take those horse thieves seriously at all.
Although he only had contact with the king for a few hours, Sadiq was certain that he was by no means the first type of person.
A look of determination appeared on his face, and he said: "I hope they can bring back reinforcements..."
Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night for the people of Wutanzi Country.
The country's political power has just been overthrown, and they have learned that a large group of horse thieves are targeting them and will attack the city in a few days. Who else wants to sleep?
The long night was very difficult, and tonight, the people of Wutanzi also discovered something special.
After nightfall, a large number of poisonous insects, including poisonous scorpions, poisonous snakes, spiders, centipedes... suddenly emerged from the caves in the city.
There are many poisonous insects in the desert, and they are all very poisonous. If a person is stung by an ordinary poisonous scorpion, it will hurt for several days. If you are bitten or stung by those poisonous insects, you will lose your life.
A lot of people die every year in the desert because of this.
After these poisonous insects emerged from their nests, the people immediately became nervous and told their children not to walk around casually. Being poisoned by these poisons was no joke.
Surprisingly, these poisonous insects did not hurt anyone this time, but ran out of the city one after another. It seems that there is something in the city that scares them, or there is something outside the city that is very attractive to them...
Less than half an hour later, there was no more poisonous insect in the city. The people of Wutanzi Kingdom were in awe after seeing this. Could it be that these poisonous insects also knew that Wutanzi was about to encounter a disaster, so they fled first?
Compared with the upcoming national disaster, the poisonous insect incident was quickly forgotten by everyone.
The next day, the news came back from outside, which made their already uneasy hearts completely fall into the bottomless abyss.
Huhu, Cheshi Weidu, Jieguo, Cheshihoucheng, refused to provide assistance to the Wucaizi State, and the people Sadiq sent out to ask for help returned without success.
As the news came one by one, a kind of panic and anger began to spread in Wu Tan Zi's country.
In the palace, Sadiq looked at Tangning with a pale face and said, "Excluding the elderly and children, Wu Tanzi and Shan Huan can only dispatch two hundred people..."
Two hundred men faced off against 1,500 fierce horse thieves, and almost the entire army was annihilated.
Tang Ning can understand what small countries like Huhu are doing. The population of these small countries in the Western Region is not large. If a country like Huhu deploys all its troops, a few ordinary horse thieves can massacre their country. Several other countries
Compared with it, it's not much different.
From their country's standpoint, staying put is the safest course of action.
In order to deal with Wu Tan Zi, all the horse thieves in this area have been gathered together. Although Wu Tan Zi is not the opponent of these horse thieves alliance, these horse thieves will have to pay a high price if they want to kill Wu Tan Zi.
By then, they will no longer have the strength to attack small countries like Huhu, which will be more beneficial to these countries.
As for the Wutanzi Kingdom, it has nothing to do with them anyway. In a place like the Western Regions, it is extremely difficult to protect yourself. Not many people will care about other people's affairs.
"Since they are unwilling to reinforce, let's prepare to meet the enemy." Tangning looked at him and said, "Send people to strengthen patrols nearby. If there is anything unusual nearby, report it immediately..."
Although Sadiq's face was pale, there was still a trace of calmness deep in his eyes, and he said: "My subordinates will go make arrangements immediately..."
When the atmosphere in Wutanzi became more tense, several small neighboring countries also became panicked.
Huhu country.
The leader of Huhu Kingdom looked at an old man and asked: "Why don't we reinforce Wu Tanzi?"
The old man shook his head and said: "We Huhu are the smallest country around. If all the guards are dispatched, who will protect Huhu's people? Without guards, only ten horse thieves can kill all of us."
The people..."
The leader of Huhu Kingdom showed a trace of worry on his face and asked: "What about Wu Tanzi..."
"Even with Huhu's help, Wu Tanzi is no match for those horse thieves. If they go, they may die on the battlefield. By then, Huhu's situation will be even more dangerous..."
Upon hearing this, the Lord of the Huhu Kingdom sighed and stopped speaking.
After all, he is the king of Huhu, not the king of Wu Tanzi. As the king, he needs to be responsible for the people of Huhu.
At the same time, Cheshi's Weidu was robbed of the country, and people in Cheshi's back city were also in panic.
Since the chaos in the Western Regions, the horse thieves have actually dared to take action against these countries in the Western Regions. Shan Heng and Wu Tan Zi are just the beginning. After Wu Tan Zi is destroyed, those horse thieves will definitely shift their targets to them.
The thieves dare not provoke these big countries with a population of several thousand, and can only focus on small countries like them. It is foreseeable that if they do nothing in the coming days, they will definitely end up like some small countries in history.
As time goes by, it disappears forever in the yellow sand of the desert.
As for the reinforcement of Wu Tanzi, the heads of state and ministers of several countries naturally rejected it after discussing it.
Countries like theirs, which are small and have few people, simply cannot afford casualties, and there is no way they would involve their own countries just for the sake of corruption.
Facing these horse thieves, whether Wu Tan Zi can survive depends on their own destiny.
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Although the other countries in the Wutanzi Kingdom were not prepared to provide reinforcements, Tang Ning did not count on them in the first place.
After all, even if he gathered the strength of several countries and went head-to-head with these horse thieves, he would still kill a thousand enemies and suffer eight hundred losses. There were only a few of his men, and he could not afford to die at the hands of these horse thieves.
He asked several elders to apply poison on the warriors' bows and arrows. Although it was not fatal, if there was even a slight scratch, the poisoned horse thief would lose its fighting ability.
In addition, Tang Ning has also asked them to strengthen the weak areas of the city wall. Wu Tan Zi's city wall is far from comparable to Chen Guo's, but it is better than nothing. With an obstacle here, they will not be nakedly exposed.
Under the attack of horse thieves.
This time, Tang Ning relied on the six elders. The old beggar's task was to protect Tang Yaoyao and Xiaoxiao.
Although there were only two city gates in Wutanzi, as a precaution, Tangning asked Sadiq to kill four sheep, and after being processed by the eight elders, they were buried in the four directions of the city wall.
In addition, within a hundred feet of the city, the people dug many holes in the ground to make simple traps. These simple traps could not do anything to the horse thieves, but they could break their horses' legs.
The people of Wutanzi Kingdom were ready for a war. The atmosphere in the city was tense and on the verge of breaking out. The people of Shan Hengguo who still had fighting ability also joined the ranks of guarding their new home.
On top of the city wall, Old Zheng stood beside Tang Ning and said slowly, "Here we come."
Tangning looked forward, looking far into the distance, and saw a line of smoke appearing in the distance.
It was the dust kicked up by countless horses running on the desert. Tang Ning thought that these horse thieves would choose to attack at night, but she did not expect that they would be so bold and dare to blatantly destroy the country during the day.
Lao Zheng glanced at the billowing smoke and said, "There are at least two thousand of them."
Sadiq looked solemn, looked at the archers on the city wall, and said solemnly: "Enemy attack, everyone, please be alert!"
The horse thieves roared in and ran faster than Tang Ning imagined.
This kind of unscrupulous aggression is simply arrogant and arrogant to the extreme, and it also shows that they don't take the Wutanzi country seriously at all.
In fact, these horse thieves did not pay attention to a small country with less than 200 troops.
Their dilapidated city walls would be defeated without any suspense. The ten-fold difference in numbers was enough for them to slaughter the people of Wucaizi Kingdom and steal their treasures and women.
When the horse thieves came within the range of the bow and arrow, more than two hundred people fired arrows together. After a burst of arrows rained from the sky, dozens of horse thieves fell off their horses, twitched twice and then stopped moving.
Among these people, only a few were directly shot to death by arrows. The rest were only slightly injured by arrows, but the poison on the arrows could directly make them lose their combat effectiveness.
These horse thieves united in a big way this time, and the news had been released a long time ago. They knew that Wutanzi Kingdom would definitely be prepared, but they didn't care about it.
Although everyone in the Wutanzi Kingdom has soldiers, the number of their people is too small, and Cheshi and other countries have not increased their troops to assist them. To deal with these two hundred people, they don't even need to attack late at night, just make a frontal attack.
Can defeat this poor little country.
Regarding Wu Tan Zi's proactive attack, they lost so many people when they met. Several horse thieves leaders were shocked and angry. They looked at the low city wall in front of them and shouted sternly: "Charge in and kill them all!"
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Upon hearing this, the horse thieves tightened their grip on the horse's belly and accelerated forward.
However, before they could rush under the city wall, many of the horse thieves' horses stepped on the horse traps. They suddenly lost their hoofs and fell to the ground. The horse thieves and the horse thieves were all overturned.
"dismount!"
"Everyone dismount!"
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Wu Tanzi was fully prepared, which greatly exceeded the expectations of the horse thieves. After discovering a trap for the horses on the ground, he immediately dismounted decisively and walked towards the city on foot.
The rain of arrows continued, but because the horse thieves were on guard, it was no longer effective. When all the arrows were shot, less than 10% of the horse thieves were eliminated.
With 200 men, Wu Tan Zi was proud of having already defeated two thousand horse thieves who had the same number of enemies before they even got close to the city wall.
However, the remaining horse thieves are still unable to resist them. Once the city is breached by the horse thieves, today will be the day when Wu Tanzi's country will be destroyed.
Tangning turned around and looked around, and found that the Wutanzi guards around her were all holding weapons tightly, with grief, anger and determination on their faces.
Naturally, Tangning couldn't really wait for the horse thief to rush up. She looked at the Eighth Elder and asked, "Is it almost done?"
The eighth elder nodded, picked up a thick straw rope from under his feet, and yanked it hard.
Outside the city wall, on a piece of sand, something was suddenly pulled out.
It was a sheep carcass. It was exposed to the air and gave off an unpleasant smell. The strong smell made people dizzy.
A leader of the horse thieves almost vomited and said angrily: "What the hell!"
Another horse thief came forward, looked at it, and said, "A dead sheep."
The leader of the horse thieves waved his hand and said: "You, go over and keep it as far away as possible!"
The horse thief muttered something bad, pinched his nose and stepped forward, ready to throw the sheep corpse into the corner.
However, he had just taken two steps when suddenly many insects crawled out of the dead sheep's body.
Those bugs turned black all over. After breaking out of the sheep carcass, a stronger fishy smell suddenly spread. The more than ten horse thieves approaching immediately started vomiting, and then they felt weak all over, and even their hands
The weapon can no longer be held firmly.
The leader of the horse thief kicked the horse thief hard on the butt and said angrily: "What did you do!"
The horse thief threw himself to the ground and vomited out the bitter water. He was about to get up from the ground when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his arm. When he looked over, he saw a sand scorpion crawling over his arm.
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The sand scorpion is a poisonous insect that lives in the desert. It is very poisonous. The pain in his arm made him roar.
However, at this moment, there were sudden bursts of rustling sounds in his ears.
He turned his head and looked around, his body trembled and his face turned pale.
They saw countless poisonous insects crawling out from under the sand around them, including scorpions, centipedes, spiders, and poisonous snakes.
The number of these poisonous insects is very large and dense, making people shudder just by looking at them.
Not only that, more black spots also appeared on the sand in the distance, and they were quickly gathering here.
These poisonous insects are numerous and very manic. When they encounter people, they will crawl up their legs.
"Go away, go away!"
"Ah, I was bitten by a snake!"
"I've been stung by a black scorpion, help me, help me quickly!"
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The horse thieves who had just planned to rush into the city to kill began to scream in panic one by one. They jumped and jumped on the spot, trying to avoid the poisonous insects on the ground, but because there were too many poisonous insects, they accidentally trampled many to death.
But they were also bitten by others.
These horse thieves have long forgotten that they are going to massacre and plunder the Wutanzi Kingdom today. The poisonous insects in the desert are extremely poisonous. If they are stung and bitten, they will suffer unbearable pain. What is more serious, they may even lose their lives.
Everyone in the Wutanzi Kingdom stood on the city wall, looking at the horse thieves making a mess under the city wall. They were so shocked that they even forgot their fear for a moment...
[ps: The word count of this chapter is 5200, which is the usual word count of two chapters. It has been updated today. No need to wait any longer. It will be published together frequently in the future, so that both writing and reading will be smoother. The update time is usually in the afternoon or evening.
