Bring the whole war back to Nanming

Chapter 229 Escape from the Dungeon

Joseph's methods can be described as inexhaustible. With the fire, there will inevitably be thick fog. The air in the dungeon is not well circulated, and the filthy atmosphere permeates the entire underground cave.

The fire needs oxygen to burn, and the raging flames will drain the last trace of oxygen in the dungeon, and any humans or ratmen remaining in the dungeon will suffocate to death.

Joseph naturally knew this. He who had wiped out more than a dozen dungeons yelled at the imperial soldiers who were still surrounding the dungeons: "Everyone immediately return to the surface through all the passages! Cover your mouth and nose tightly! Withdraw!"

The Ratman dungeon has not been excavated for a long time, and there are only four passages to the surface, two of which are still being excavated and do not directly lead to the surface.Joseph didn't know this, and thought that all four passages could go back. Based on the principle that time is life, he ordered the 2000 soldiers who entered the dungeon and the 1000 sergeants who were still in the tunnel to leave the underground in six batches.

He wondered that there were actually four passages, but he didn't want to disperse his troops through the four passages. The Ratman was so frightened that he hid in the city to put out the fire, trying to save the new homeland, and had no time to deal with the imperial army that was about to retreat.

Joseph would not miss this great opportunity. To be on the safe side, he ordered a team of five people to be sent out to explore the situation in the three underground passages that he had not passed through. The other soldiers took turns to return the same way. Joseph did not know something, but his caution saved the day. The lives of his men.

After the five-person voluntary investigation team left, Joseph squeezed out urine and sprinkled it on the towels he had prepared. This trick was told to him by the captain not long after he joined the army.

The imperial soldiers followed suit one after another. They more or less heard that urine could resist poisonous smoke, and the black smoke caused by the fire naturally belonged to the category of poisonous smoke.

In order to prevent the black smoke from affecting his vision, Joseph ordered all the soldiers to hold hands to prevent them from getting separated.The way back is much easier than the way back, and many soldiers often only need 10 minutes to climb out of the tunnel and return to the surface.

But it still made Joseph frown: "The fire seems to be getting bigger. If you can't go out for half an hour, you can't escape safely while covering the diaper."

However, the reality gave him more rewards than that.Not long after, the expedition team heading to the other three passages returned to the dungeon to report the situation to Joseph.

"General! My road is a dead end! Damn rat, but can I be careful?"

"General, our side is also a dead end, but we still have some victories and killed a few mice."

The information fed back by the two search teams made Joseph feel cold: What are you doing!It's all at this juncture, and I'm still reporting the results of the battle or not!Deliberately block me.

Ignoring the other two renters, Joseph cast his hopeful eyes on the last group of soldiers who did not report.

"Report to the general! We found a passage leading to the corner of Fengtian Temple in the imperial city. The passage is wide, and two people can walk side by side without feeling crowded!"

good news!Joseph was overjoyed, and took a deep look at the five-person team, remembering their appearance in his mind: "Good job! After I go out, I will ask His Royal Highness King Yue to ask for credit for you. Edward! Order brothers not to wait there foolishly , divide half of the people, and go up from the other direction."

The guard named Edward hurriedly took the order, took Joseph's order, divided half of the soldiers, carried the bodies of the temporary comrades, and followed the successful expedition team into the wide tunnel.

The Ratman soon realized that the water stored in the dungeon would not be able to put out the fire without groundwater flowing through it.They are wrong in that the entire dungeon is almost made of wood and stone, and a little spark can be set on fire.

Seeing that the situation was over, the rat people who cherished their lives so much that they had no clan honor, threw down their buckets one after another, and while the fire did not completely cut off their way of survival, they fled one by one into the two passages where there were no imperial soldiers.

Of course they knew that the two passages were not completed, but it didn't matter. As the saying goes, dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes give birth to phoenixes. Rats are born to dig holes. Isn't it just a half-finished passage?Get it through in minutes.

The rats rushed into the passage and followed closely behind the tails of their respective clan leaders. The passage that could only accommodate one or two humans could actually allow four rat-men to walk side by side at one time. They burst out with a strong desire to survive and dug desperately. soil.

If the claws are broken, use the teeth, and if the teeth are broken, use the hind legs. Whenever a rat man uses up all the organs in his body, he will be pulled behind by the patriarch, and a new slave rat will continue to dig.Under such frenzied digging, the ratman's escape speed was no slower than that of the imperial army.

Gradually, the dense fog became more and more dense, and part of it drifted into the four passages leading to the surface. There was nothing on the human side, and the preparations were relatively complete.The rats suffered, without any measures to protect the respiratory tract. They inhaled the poison in large mouthfuls, and gradually felt stunned and weak, and finally their heads tilted and passed out.

There is no concept of sympathy for the old, weak, sick and disabled among the rat people. Seeing that many slave rats lost consciousness, the patriarch ordered without hesitation to carry the fainted rat people to the back and let them fend for themselves. Stormrats received proper treatment, which was actually just giving their bodies to other slave rats to take care of. The slave rats often carried them on their shoulders so that they would not interfere with their own digging.

They don't have scientific common sense. They don't know that when a fire occurs, the higher the place, the easier it is to be choked by black smoke, and eventually lead to premature death due to excessive inhalation of toxic gases.

Surface, deserted courtyard.

The Eternal Queen Alarielle noticed that there was black smoke coming out of the tunnel.At first she thought it was some kind of chaos magic, until the first soldier climbed out of the passage and told her that the dungeon was on fire, and she hurriedly used light magic to disperse the thick smoke in the area about 500 meters inside the passage.

"Yosparis! You take the sisters and take them down for treatment!"

"But the queen..."

"This is an order!"

Alarielle didn't know how the dungeon burned, and there was only one thought left in his mind: rescue all the soldiers who returned to the surface, save one, count as one.

Her life safety comes second. Now that the dungeon has been destroyed, there is no need to worry about the rat assassins.

Yosparis couldn't resist her, so she left behind two queen maids, and immediately turned around and took a group of Avalon sisters, stretcher-carrying stretchers, wounded and wounded, trying their best to treat every human being who escaped from birth .

To say something inappropriate, it is estimated that all the imperial soldiers present were flattered. After being a soldier for more than ten or twenty years, it was the first time that they were taken care of by a beautiful elf. The cowhide can last a lifetime.

Of course, the imperial soldiers didn't have any other thoughts at the time, they just wanted to find a place with fresh air to breathe fresh air, and accidentally missed the opportunity to strike up a conversation with the beautiful woman.

　Thanks to Vada Rich for the vote!

　　


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