heavy weapon is king

Chapter 290 Entering the Jungle

At dusk at sunset, the sun shines lightly.

The water of the Chishui River is tumbling and torrenting as before.

Nie Zheng reckoned that it would be more than an hour before dark, so he ordered the team to camp here to rest and wait until the next morning before crossing the river.

All of a sudden, on the long river bank, eight thousand Black Eagle soldiers set up tents and set up pots to cook.

Nie Zheng came to the river under the guard of several dragon blood masters. Looking at the boundless and dense jungle on the other side, he couldn't help frowning.

It might not be an easy task to lead [-] Black Eagle soldiers through this jungle and enter the hinterland of Yue country.

In the tropical jungle, it is dark and humid, and there are countless poisonous insects and ants. If you don't take precautions in advance, you will easily be attacked by those cunning and insidious Dai Viet people.

In addition, in the jungle, at night, it is dark everywhere, and you can't see your fingers. At that time, let alone fighting, you may get lost even if you go out to urinate.

This is why Nie Zheng bought so many thermal imaging displays and military night vision goggles.

"Swish..."

A burst of hurried footsteps, from far to near, quickly came behind Nie Zheng.

"Subordinate investigation... Yang Feihu, the commander of the investigation company, has met the commander!" Yang Feihu bowed and bowed, but secretly felt a little awkward about the new official positions that Nie Zheng had arranged for these leaders.

Especially strange titles such as platoon leader, battalion commander, and regimental commander sounded very awkward.But Nie Zheng ordered everyone to obey, so the following generals and leaders had no choice but to follow the new army titles.

Nie Zheng turned his head to look at Yang Feihu, and found that this guy was much fatter than when he was in Heifengzhai, especially his face, which was obviously a little round. It seems that he had a good meal during this time.

Since the last military reorganization, Nie Zheng specially transferred Yang Feihu from Chishui City to the Black Eagle Army, appointed him as the company commander of the reconnaissance company, and was in charge of the [-] reconnaissance soldiers under him.

Nie Zheng looked at him and said calmly, "Is everyone ready?"

Yang Feihu nodded and said: "The eighty scouts have already been equipped with night vision goggles and other night combat weapons given by the commander in chief. Now they are all ready to go and wait for the commander's order."

Nie Zheng's eyes flashed, and he ordered on the spot: "You lead all the scouts to sneak to the other side now, responsible for scouting the way and clearing the way. If you find any spies planted by the Dayue people in the jungle, kill them all!"

Yang Feihu's heart trembled, he cupped his hands and said, "Your subordinate obeys!"

Soon, Yang Feihu led eighty scouts, quietly dispersed along the river, and sneaked into the jungle on the other side when night fell.

Not long after, the gang leader's dinner was ready, and Nie Zheng returned to the camp when he saw this.

Nothing happened in the camp that night.

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Early the next morning, the [-] Black Hawk soldiers were divided into two groups, and one group was responsible for packing up the tents and setting off.Another group was responsible for felling trees and making rafts to cross the river.

Originally, Nie Zheng wanted to lead the army directly by boat, down the Chishui River, and go straight to the Mehe River to kill them, but he thought about the water monkeys domesticated by the people of Dayue, and finally Nie Zheng gave up his plan to go by water.

After weighing it again and again, he still felt that it would be more reliable to go directly through the jungle.

Not long after, hundreds of simple rafts appeared on the shore. At this time, all the soldiers under the command of their respective officers took the rafts to the opposite bank.

When all the horses and horses were provided and all of them successfully crossed to the other side, at this time, Nie Zheng led the team and rushed into the dense jungle.

Because the country of Yue is in the southernmost part, the climate in this area is very hot.

After entering the jungle, the harsh environment inside made Nie Zheng frowned.

Inside the jungle, it was dark and humid, with towering giant trees as high as ten feet above the head, with dense branches and leaves blocking most of the light.

On the wet and soft ground, there was a thick layer of dead branches and rotten leaves. Throughout the jungle, the air was filled with an unpleasant rotten smell.

In the hot season like now, it would be fatal to enter the jungle. Piles of mosquitoes flew all over the sky as if they had exploded nests, biting everyone around them non-stop.

What is even more troublesome is not only mosquitoes, but also poisonous animals such as poisonous snakes, poisonous ants, scorpions, centipedes and poisonous spiders hidden in the jungle.

These snakes, scorpions and ants like to live in this humid and hot jungle the most, and they pose a great threat to everyone.

Anyway, after entering the jungle, the things Nie Zheng saw the most were mosquitoes and dry leeches, and it was these two that caused the most headaches.

The dry leech is more aggressive than the water leech. If you are not careful, they may be attached to the human body, and in the process of their bite, people do not feel pain at all, and it is difficult to detect it.

However, after being bitten, the wound will often bleed, and after a while, the wound will be slightly red, swollen and itchy.

These hateful dry leeches are very troublesome for Nie Zheng's team. Every time someone is attracted by them, Nie Zheng told them that they must not be pulled by hand, and they must use the spirits they carry with them. It needs to be expelled, otherwise, if the leech is pulled by hand, the sucker of the leech is very likely to stay in the human body, which contains a large number of bacteria, which can easily infect the wound.

Fortunately, Nie Zheng conveyed some precautions in the jungle before entering the jungle, so the soldiers knew how to deal with these poisons in the jungle.

Wu Xuanyin followed him this time, and he brought some secret insect repellent ointment on his body. As long as he smeared the insect repellent ointment on his body, he would not be disturbed by snakes, insects, rats and ants.But his insect repellent cream is only enough for a few hundred people at most, and the Black Hawk Legion has 8000 people, so the insect repellent cream is not enough at all.

Finally, according to the method taught by Marshal Nie, everyone grabbed some mud from the ground and applied it on the exposed skin. After the mud dries, it will be able to effectively prevent mosquito bites.You must know that after being bitten by these mosquitoes in the tropical jungle, it is very easy to be infected with viruses. Most of the dengue fever and malaria that were common on the earth in previous lives were caused by mosquitoes.

After Nie Zheng entered the jungle, he discovered a strange phenomenon.

When everyone was harassed by snakes, insects, rats and ants, nothing happened to him.

Not to mention poisonous snakes, not even a mosquito appeared in front of him. Basically, wherever Nie Zheng went, within a radius of several feet, all snakes, insects, rats and ants stayed away.

Seeing this scene, Nie Zheng felt very strange, and thought to himself: "I haven't applied Wu Xuanyin's insect repellent cream, why are these snakes, insects, rats and ants so afraid of me? Could it be because I swallowed the inner pill of the dragon python?"

Wu Xuanyin once said that the dragon python is an ancient fierce beast, the bane of all poisons, no matter what kind of poison, as long as it detects the breath of the dragon python, it will run away and escape.

Although Nie Zheng is not a dragon python, the inner core of the dragon python in his body contains the essence of the dragon python for tens of thousands of years, so it is not surprising that he exudes the breath of the dragon python.

But in the team, there are many soldiers who have taken the blood of dragon python, but they don't have this kind of treatment.

It can be seen that although dragon blood can improve strength, heal wounds and detoxify, it does not have the effect of driving away poison like oneself.

(End of this chapter)