Chapter 286 Fire Attack
The Mountain Turtle Tribe firmly stayed and fought against the locusts together with the Teng Tribe, which surprised Jiang Xuan and also touched him a little.
You have to know that except for the people of this tribe, other tribes, including affiliated tribes, all focus on their own interests, and there are rarely such firm allies.
The actions of the Mountain Turtle Tribe successfully improved their status in Jiang Xuan's heart. When he encounters any benefits in the future, Jiang Xuan will definitely not forget them.
The locust plague continued, and the locusts became more and more severe and numerous, until carnivorous locusts appeared and began to attack humans and animals.
“Bang!”
Jiang Xuan held a bronze spear in his hand and accurately struck a mutant locust that was flying towards him, smashing it into pieces, with its juice flying everywhere as it fell to the ground.
However, there were still countless locusts in the sky, and everyone in the forest, including the mounts, was suffering.
Finally it was dark and the locusts finally landed on the branches and became a little quieter.
Warriors from various tribes lit bonfires and roasted meat and ate locusts.
To be honest, they were almost vomiting from eating those locusts, and even felt nauseous at the sight of them, but because the food was limited, they had to eat them even if they didn't want to.
Shanjia, Huo Meng, and the leader of the Thorny Fly tribe were all sitting next to Jiang Xuan. The firelight shone on their faces, and everyone's expression did not look good.
The pangolin took a fierce bite of the roasted locust and said, "Chief Xuan, there are more and more locusts that eat meat. If this continues, we really can't hold on any longer."
Huo Meng said with a bitter face: "Yes, no matter how hard we try, the forest is still being eaten up piece by piece, and my soldiers are almost desperate."
The leader of the Thornfly Tribe nodded, and although he didn't say anything, his meaning was very clear.
Jiang Xuan was silent for a moment, then said, "You are right. We really can't go on like this. It's time to make a decision."
When Shanjia and others heard Jiang Xuan's words, their eyes lit up. They thought that Jiang Xuan had finally faced up to the reality and was planning to retreat.
However, Jiang Xuan's next words surprised them! "I decided to use fire to burn these locusts to death!"
"Fire attack?" The leader of the Thorny Fly Tribe widened his eyes and even thought Jiang Xuan was crazy.
If he wasn't a madman, how could he come up with the idea of a fire attack? You know, the drought has been going on for a long time, and the grass and trees in the forest are extremely dry. Once a fire breaks out, the raging fire will of course burn the locusts, but they themselves will not be able to escape.
The leader of the Thornfly Tribe was very worried that his tribe would be implicated, so he asked anxiously: "Chief Xuan, the fire attack is difficult to control, right?... Think about it carefully..."
Rather than seeing the entire tribe perish in the sea of fire, the leader of the Thorny Fly Tribe would rather kill locusts here. It is a bit hard, but at least his life is not in danger.
Jiang Xuan comforted him, "I know what you are worried about. Don't worry, even if we light a fire, it will definitely not burn the territory of your Thornfly Tribe. We still have allies."
"With the Frog God and the Mountain Turtle God here, putting out the fire is not a difficult task."
The leader of the Thornfly Tribe looked at Shanjia and Huo Meng with a questioning look in his eyes.
Shan Jia nodded and said, "Chief Xuan is right. We have done things like fire attacks before, not to mention that we have Teng Shen here."
Speaking of the Vine God, the leader of the Thorny Fly Tribe felt a little more at ease. After all, he was a great god.
What's more, since he is not afraid of the pangolin, he has nothing to be afraid of.
He asked again: "When do we start?"
"The locusts fly around during the day and can easily escape. Let's first invite the guardian gods of our respective tribes over, and then take action when it's dark."
"Okay! I'll go and ask the Fly God to come tomorrow."
The leader of the Thorny Fly Tribe temporarily put his worries aside and felt much better. When he ate the locusts, he felt that they were not as disgusting as before and were even quite fragrant.
The others also breathed a sigh of relief, because they had extremely fanatical worship of the Totem God and firmly believed that as long as the Totem God took action, the tiny locusts would be solved.
That night, everyone was in a good mood and everyone's mental state was much better.
The next morning, the leaders of each tribe set out, because ordinary warriors could not do such a thing as praying to the totem god, so it could only be done by the leaders and the witch.
Jiang Xuan also rode Tangyuan back to the Teng tribe and asked the Teng God to take charge.
The God of Teng did not refuse and directly sent out a very powerful clone to follow Jiang Xuan to the forest where the locust plague was happening.
Five days later, the totem gods of the four major tribes gathered near the Great Swamp. The terrifying fluctuations of divine power caused all the animals nearby to flee or hide frantically, and they dared not show their heads at all.
During these five days, two more forests were eaten up by locusts. The number of locusts increased, and the mutations became more and more terrifying, with alarming toxicity and attack power.
However, the totem gods of each tribe had arrived, and those warriors were like chicken blood. Facing the overwhelming locusts, they did not feel any fear at all. Instead, they killed them frantically, wanting to show themselves.
"Prepare some more dry firewood. After dark, we will light fires on all four sides of the forest at the same time. Once the fire starts, these locusts will not be able to escape!"
Jiang Xuan assigned tasks to several leaders: "Our Vine Tribe is responsible for the east, the Mountain Turtle Tribe is responsible for the north, the Frog Tribe is responsible for the west, and the Thornfly Tribe is responsible for the south. Did you hear that clearly?"
The three leaders nodded one after another, even feeling a little excited.
"Okay, then get to work right away. Try to pile up enough firewood outside so that the fire starts faster."
After Jiang Xuan finished speaking, each tribe went to the designated location and began to frantically pick up dry firewood and pile it up into a high wall.
The Teng tribe also became busy.
In the primeval forest, there is a lot of dry firewood, which can be seen almost everywhere.
Plus, those locusts only eat green plants, so dry firewood is easier to pick up.
Soon, a long wall made of dry firewood appeared in the forest, and the pile became longer and higher.
"Chief, is this really possible?"
Da Jiao was a little nervous. He brought a lot of birds and beasts with him this time. All of these birds and beasts were afraid of fire. Once a fire started, they would probably be frightened.
Jiang Xuan patted Dajiao's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, we are next to the Great Swamp. With the Vine God, Turtle God, and Frog God here, there will be no problem. Just keep an eye on the birds and beasts in your breeding team."
Jiang Xuan’s words made Da Jiao feel a lot more at ease.
"Then I'll bring someone to tie up their feet first, so they won't run around when frightened."
"Okay, go ahead."
Da Jiao hurriedly led people to tie the feet of birds and beasts, while the others continued to collect firewood.
Amid the busyness of the crowd, the sun slowly sank in the west, and the moon slowly rose in the east. The scorching sun was replaced by the cool moonlight, and the locusts in the forest gradually stopped flying and lay on nearby tree trunks or the ground.
Night falls.
Jiang Xuan was not in a hurry, but let everyone have dinner first and waited until midnight. At this time, most of the locusts had fallen asleep.
When the moon was high in the sky, torches were lit one after another in the Teng tribe. The blazing flames were like stars in the forest, flickering with light.
Jiang Xuan personally held a torch, walked to the tall firewood wall, and shouted loudly: "Light a fire!"
Then he placed the burning torch into the pile of firewood.
Other Teng tribe warriors also put torches into the firewood pile and lit it at the same time.
“Crackle, crackle…”
The dry leaves were ignited first, followed by small branches, large branches, and wood all burning.
“Huff, huff, huff…”
After the fire started, the air heated up rapidly, a whistling whirlwind appeared above the fire, and the tail of the fire was lifted up with a "whoosh".
In the other three directions, other tribes saw the fire and started to light fires.
Soon, fires broke out on all sides of the forest. The flames that shot up into the sky illuminated the night, and thick smoke rose up and turned into dark clouds.
By the time the locusts were awakened from their sleep, the terrible flames had already burned from all directions, and they had no time to escape.
(End of this chapter)
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