Fortunate Young Gentleman

After leading the strongest ewe, Sadik sent the ewe to the room of the Eighth Elder as instructed.

He looked at the ewe with pitiful eyes and was about to leave when the Eighth Elder suddenly said, "Stay and help me."

"Me?" Sadik was startled when he heard this, then shook his head violently and said repeatedly, "I can't help you with this..."

Crack.

The Eighth Elder simply twisted the ewe's neck and said, "Help me find a copper basin."

Sadik was stunned again, and then realized that he had just thought about something wrong. He walked out in shame and quickly brought in a copper basin.

The Eighth Elder first poured a few cups of water into the copper basin, then took out some bottles and jars from his arms, poured the powders and liquids of various colors in them into the copper basin, and the water in the copper basin soon turned black and emitted a burst of fishy smell.

Sadik covered his mouth and nose, a little confused.

At this time, the Eighth Elder took out a wooden box from his sleeve, opened the box, and took out an unknown insect from the box.

He looked at the insect in his hand with some heartache and threw it into the copper basin.

The insect was lying motionless in his palm, but after entering the copper basin, it suddenly became active, with its belly bulging, as if it was drinking the black water in the copper basin.

The Eighth Elder took out several wooden boxes one after another, took out various poisonous insects from the boxes, and did the same. 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 on its body seemed to be a little darker, and the pain on the face of the Eighth Elder became more intense.

He took out a dagger and cut a wound on the leg of the dead sheep.

After the blood oozed out of the sheep's leg, the poisonous insect lying motionless in the copper basin suddenly seemed to be in spirit, quickly crawling towards the sheep's body, and soon drilled into it from the wound.

This scene made Sadik's scalp numb, and he wanted to run away from this weird place immediately.

However, the eighth elder looked at him and said again, "Find two people to bury the sheep ten feet outside the city gate, half a foot deep, and cover it with sand... Remember, these two people cannot have wounds on their bodies, let alone blood."

"What if they have wounds?" What happened tonight made him confused and scared, and Sadik asked for some reason.

"Wounds?" The eighth elder looked at the dead sheep on the ground and smiled at him evilly.

A chill rushed straight from his spine to his head, and Sadik couldn't help shivering, and immediately said: "I'll go find someone now!"

In the dark night, two figures carrying a huge cloth bag came to the outside of the city gate.

Ten feet away from the city gate of Wu Tanzi, a half-foot deep pit had been dug. The two threw the cloth bag into the pit and filled it with yellow sand.

Then, they pulled a rope out of the pit and stretched it to the top of the city wall.

After doing all this, they looked at Sadik behind them and asked curiously: "Chief, why are we doing this?"

Sadiq glared at them and said: "Stop talking nonsense, just do it if I tell you to. This is the order of the king."

After being scolded, the two stopped asking questions, but they were still a little nervous when they thought that the enemy was about to arrive.

One of them showed 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."

No one knows what the outcome of a country's rise and fall will be. Even if those countries are afraid of the number of horse thieves and refuse to rescue Wutanzi, he is not surprised at all.

The other man had a fearful expression on his face and said, "Why don't we run? It's still in time..."

"Stupid!" Sadiq glared at him and said, "We still have a chance of survival if we stay in the city. If we leave here and are caught by the horse thieves in the desert, we will all die!"

The man showed 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 way!"

After experiencing the initial fear, he gradually calmed down, especially when he thought that the king had never shown a timid or fearful expression in the face of so many horse thieves, he felt more at ease.

Any person, when faced with such a threat to his life, would not think of leaving them behind and running away. If he still wanted to stay here, he would either want to die or he would not take those horse thieves seriously at all.

Although he had only been in contact with the king for a few hours, Sadiq was sure that he was definitely not the first type of person.

A trace 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.

The national regime has just been overthrown, and they learned that a large group of horse thieves have targeted them and will attack the city in a few days. Who can still sleep?

The long night is very difficult to endure, and tonight, the people of Wutanzi also discovered something special.

After nightfall, a large number of poisonous insects suddenly emerged from the cracks in the tiles in the city, including scorpions, snakes, spiders, centipedes...

There are many poisonous insects in the desert, and they are very poisonous. Ordinary scorpions sting people and they will hurt for a few days. If you are bitten or stung by those highly toxic insects, you will lose your life.

There are not a few people who die in the desert every year 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 Wutanzi country, 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 could understand what small countries like Huhu were doing. The population of these small countries in the Western Region was not large. If a country like Huhu sent out all its troops, a few ordinary horse thieves could massacre their country. Several other countries Compared with it, it's not much different.

From their country's standpoint, staying put is the safest approach.

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 Wu Tan Zi Kingdom, it has nothing to do with them anyway. In a place like the Western Region, it is extremely difficult to protect yourself. Not many people will care about other people's affairs.

"Since they are unwilling to reinforce, we should prepare to meet the enemy." Tangning looked at him and said, "Send people to strengthen patrols nearby. If there is any abnormal movement 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 Country became more tense, several small neighboring countries were also panicked.

Huhu country.

The leader of the 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..."

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 be 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 it is impossible for their countries to be involved for the sake of corruption.

Facing these horse thieves, whether Wu Tan Zi can survive depends on their own luck.

…

Although the other countries of Wu Tan Zi were not prepared to send 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 a barrier here, they will not be nakedly exposed to 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, Tangning asked Sadiq to kill four sheep just in case. After being processed by the eight elders, they were buried in 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 have already prepared for a war. The atmosphere in the city is tense and ready to explode. The people of Shanheng who still have fighting power have also joined the ranks of defending their new homeland.

On the city wall, Lao Zheng stood beside Tang Ning and said slowly: "Here we come."

Tang Ning looked forward and saw a cloud of dust in the distance.

That was the dust splashed by countless horses running in the desert. Tang Ning thought these horse thieves would choose to attack at night, but he didn't expect them to be so bold that they dared to destroy the country in broad daylight.

Lao Zheng glanced at the billowing dust and said: "There are at least two thousand of them."

Sadiq looked solemn, looking at the archers on the city wall, and said in a deep voice: "Enemy attack, everyone, be alert!"

The horse thieves came roaring and running all the way, faster than Tang Ning imagined.

This unscrupulous aggression is simply arrogant and arrogant to the extreme, which also shows that they don't take Wutanzi country seriously at all.

In fact, these horse thieves did not take a small country with less than 200 soldiers seriously.

Their broken walls would be defeated without any suspense. The ten-fold difference in numbers was enough for them to slaughter the people of Wutanzi and rob their treasures and women.

When the horse thieves entered the range of the bows and arrows, more than 200 people shot arrows together. After a rain of arrows in the air, dozens of horse thieves fell off their horses, twitched twice and then stopped moving.

Among these people, only a few were shot to death directly by arrows, and 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 long ago. They knew that Wutanzi would be prepared, but they did not care about it.

Although everyone in Wutanzi was a soldier, their population was too small, and Cheshi and other countries did not send reinforcements to help them. To deal with these two hundred people, they did not even need to attack in the middle of the night. They could defeat this poor little country with a head-on attack.

The proactive attack by Wutanzi caused them to lose so many people at the first sight. Several horse thieves were shocked and angry. Looking at the low city wall in front of them, they shouted: "Go in and kill them all!"

The horse thieves heard this, clamped their horses' bellies, and accelerated forward.

However, before they rushed to the bottom of the city wall, many horse thieves' horses stepped on the traps that tripped horses, and they immediately lost their hooves and fell to the ground, and the horse thieves and the horses fell to the ground.

"Get off the horse!"

"Everyone get off the horse!"

...

Wutanzi's thorough preparation was far beyond the expectations of the horse thieves. After discovering the traps for horses on the ground, they immediately turned over and got off the horse decisively, and walked towards the city on foot.

The rain of arrows continued, but because the horse thieves were prepared, the effect was not great. When all the arrows were shot, less than 10% of the horse thieves were killed.

Wu Tanzi, with only 200 people, had killed the same number of enemies as them before the 2,000 horse thieves approached the city wall. This was enough to be proud of.

However, the remaining horse thieves were still beyond their resistance. Once the city was breached by the horse thieves, today would be the day when Wu Tanzi's country would be destroyed.

Tang Ning turned his head and saw that the Wu Tanzi guards around him were holding their weapons tightly, with grief and determination on their faces.

Tang Ning naturally couldn't really wait for the horse thieves to rush up. He looked at the eighth elder and asked, "Is it almost done?"

The eighth elder nodded, picked up a thick straw rope from his feet, and pulled it hard.

Outside the city wall, on a piece of sand, something was suddenly pulled out.

It was a sheep carcass, exposed to the air, emitting an unpleasant smell, and the strong smell made people dizzy.

A bandit leader almost vomited and said angrily, "What is that!"

Another bandit stepped forward to take a look and said, "A dead sheep."

The bandit leader waved his hand and said, "You, go over there and throw it away!"

The bandit secretly cursed and walked forward with his nose pinched, ready to throw the sheep carcass into the corner.

However, he had just taken two steps when many bugs suddenly crawled out of the dead sheep's body.

The bugs were all black. After breaking out of the sheep carcass, a stronger smell suddenly spread. More than a dozen bandits nearby vomited immediately, and then they felt weak all over, and even the weapons in their hands could not be held steadily.

The bandit leader kicked the bandit's butt hard and said angrily, "What did you do!"

The bandit fell to the ground and vomited 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.

Sand scorpions are poisonous insects that live in the desert. They are very poisonous. The piercing pain on his arm made him roar.

However, at this moment, he suddenly heard a series of rustling sounds in his ears.

He turned his head and looked around, his body trembled, and his face turned pale.

Countless poisonous insects suddenly crawled out from the sand around them, including scorpions, centipedes, spiders, and poisonous snakes.

The number of these poisonous insects is very large, densely packed, and people shudder at the sight of them.

Not only that, more black spots appeared on the sand in the distance, and they were quickly gathering here.

These poisonous insects are huge in number and very manic. When they meet people, they crawl up along their legs.

"Go away, go away!"

"Ah, I was bitten by a snake!"

"I was stung by a black scorpion, help me, help me!"

...

The horse thieves who were planning to rush into the city to kill people just now began to scream in fear. 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 stepped on many of them and were bitten by others.

These horse thieves had long forgotten that they were going to slaughter and rob the Wutanzi Kingdom today. The poisonous insects in the desert are extremely poisonous. Being stung or bitten is not only painful, but also more serious. Even life will be lost.

The people of Wutanzi Kingdom stood on the city wall, looking at the horse thieves who were in chaos under the city wall. They were so shocked that they even forgot their fear for a while...

[ps: This chapter has 5200 words, which is the number of words in two chapters. It has been updated today. No need to wait. It should be posted together frequently in the future, so that it will be smoother whether writing or reading. The update time is usually in the afternoon or evening. 】