Zongwu: Madam, please respect yourself.

The flames continued to burn under the city wall.

The smell of rotten and burnt paste penetrated into the nostrils, and the strong stench made people feel like their hair was crawling, and an indescribable feeling spread all over the body. The soldiers on the city wall all looked pale, and they looked numbly at the fire that had been burning for many days below the city wall.

From the fear on the first day, the panic on the second day, the nausea on the third day to now just numbly looking at the fire below, it can be said that the soldiers on the city wall have grown a lot.

No one knows why this war became such a situation.

Queen Wu walks on the city wall.

Behind her were two teams of generals, including the young and strong ones she had trained over the years, as well as veteran generals who had made great achievements in the early years. It is no exaggeration to say that the generals behind her are one of the biggest trump cards against Wu Guogong this time.

It turned out to be exactly what Queen Wu thought at the beginning.

Because of their thorough knowledge and perfect intelligence work, the imperial army entered Fujian with almost overwhelming force. The mob gathered by Wu Guogong was not the enemy of the imperial army at all.

It only took a month to capture 19 cities on Fujian East Road and Fujian West Road, two official roads, and completely imprisoned Wu Guogong in a small circle centered on Fuzhou. Although Wu Guogong had There are still hundreds of thousands of troops, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that defeat is certain.

Duke Wu wanted to negotiate.

I want to exchange the hundreds of thousands of troops on hand for a small prince in a remote area.

However, Queen Wu did not give him a chance to negotiate at all. Not only did he refuse the negotiation, he also beheaded the envoys who came to negotiate. Then the army pressed on the border and began to encroach on Fuzhou bit by bit.

But what no one expected was.

A sudden epidemic swept through the imperial army.

among the army.

Soldiers rarely survived the disease for more than three days.

Not only did the offensive momentum drop sharply, it could even be considered stagnant.

Even though Queen Wu had prepared a large amount of medicinal herbs in advance, she did not expect that such an epidemic would come so violently.

Empress Wu relied on the experience she learned from the Five Poison Cult. Once she encountered infected soldiers, she would kill them without mercy. At the beginning, such actions did have the effect of curbing the spread of the disease.

Moreover, as more and more doctors were urgently recruited into the imperial army, some special medicines were also provided, and the soldiers began to recover quickly. It looks like we can continue to attack again.

But no one thought that it was just the last calm before the storm.

Overnight.

Tens of thousands of infected or recovered soldiers have all turned into monsters that don't know pain and prefer fresh flesh and blood. The scary thing about these monsters is that not only do they not know pain, but they also have infinite strength.

It can run as fast as an average horse and is extremely contagious.

Just one bite.

It will become feverish and crazy within a few hours and turn into a man-eating monster.

Empress Wu always remembered what happened that night.

There was a general named Sun Jin.

He is one of the generals of the Qingzhuang sect. He is a very talented young man. Although his martial arts is not very good, he is superb in arranging troops and formations, and has the style of Wuhou Zhuge.

But because his martial arts skills were not very good, he fell ill as soon as the epidemic arrived. In order to prevent such an outstanding young general from dying young. Empress Wu was most concerned about his condition. When she heard that he was cured, she hosted a banquet for him in person.

But I never expected it.

Just at that banquet.

Empress Wu lost nearly half of her generals.

The violent Sun Jin was obviously just an ordinary person with no power to restrain a chicken. But he burst out with overwhelming power. With the power of one person, dozens of generals with martial arts skills were unable to suppress him, and they were all bitten by him.

Empress Wu had no choice but to kill him herself.

But I didn't expect that it would only be a few hours later.

The generals who were bitten all showed similar symptoms.

Then came the mutual infection.

Wait until dawn the next day.

Several military camps with tens of thousands of troops stationed were completely destroyed, with less than a few thousand people escaping. As for the cities on the border of Fujian, they turned into dead cities, and the cities were full of crazy life. corpse.

The imperial army shrunk across the board.

Withdrew from Fujian again, and blocked all the checkpoints between Fujian and the outside world, temporarily blocking these invulnerable living corpses.

After these days of research.

Empress Wu found that these monsters had almost no weaknesses. If there was a weakness, it would be that their intelligence was not very strong. However, compared with their super endurance and extremely strong hearing and perception abilities, Such weaknesses are almost negligible.

At most, it makes a fierce and harsh sound. Just attract them here.

But the sound should not be too harsh.

Because once the harshness is too harsh, these living zombies will fall into a state of excitement. Facing the towering city wall, they can even build a ladder and climb up!

Stand on the top of the city wall.

Looking at the beacon fire in the distance.

That was another city dozens of miles away.

The beacon fire at this moment is no longer an alarm device.

It is a device to report safety.

If the beacon is lit every day, you can know whether the city is safe. If the beacon is not lit at the specified time, it means that the city has fallen.

"Your Highness, I have made sufficient preparations. Although these living corpses are powerful and agile, they are not very smart. We can use our wisdom to dig traps and use weapons!" A young general knelt down on one knee. He sent his own suggestion to Queen Wu: "We still have hundreds of thousands of troops on hand. As long as we use appropriate methods, we can reopen the passage to Fuzhou in two months. The annihilation of Wu Guogong is just around the corner."

His speech naturally received heartfelt ridicule from many generals, but they soon put away their smiles because they discovered that Queen Wu's face actually showed a heartbeat expression.

After thinking about it carefully, each of them showed a helpless expression. An army of more than 100,000 people spent tens of thousands of taels of silver every day. This was because they did not attack and were huddled in various cities. Once they are marching and fighting, the daily expenses will be even greater. What's more important is that although there is no shortage of military expenses for the time being, there is a lack of a lot of food and grass.

Especially those cities that are surrounded by living corpses, because they are cut off from the outside world, they have no source of food, so if the passage between the cities is not opened as soon as possible, then there will soon be people who exchange their children for food. Condition.

The city has become an isolated island. Faced with endless living rocks that can't be seen to the end, the morale in the city will quickly decline.

How long it can last depends entirely on God's will, but it will definitely not last a month.