Unlimited Resources: Raising a Minister with a Space Supermarket-Chapter 556 - 490: Sewage with Sulfuric Acid

Ting Mao pondered for a long time, feeling unwilling to retreat in this way. The hard-earned prestige would likely be swept away.

However, without retreat, there is no water source. Today, the soldiers have only had fried rice for lunch to barely fill their stomachs.

"Dig a well, tomorrow near the river, dig a well for me!" They cannot retreat, and the groundwater near the river is abundant. It should be easy to extract some clean water.

The next day, the main forces of the Hu army were responsible for attacking the city, while several teams went to dig wells. As they dug, a stench began to assail their noses.

The location of the well was quite far from Yangcheng’s city gate, yet they could smell the stench. One can imagine what the air was like near the city gate.

Boiling feces water was poured over the Hu soldiers trying to climb the walls with ladders. It burned them, causing agonized wails, and some even accidentally swallowed the foul water.

Disgusting!!!

Is this something a person can think of? If it were kerosene, I might understand, but feces water?

Ting Mao covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, yet still couldn’t help but retch.

In addition to those pouring boiling feces water, Su Jingchen had others use catapults to throw the feces water even farther.

One of the bizarre effects of these manure bombs was scalding wounds. Unlike water, they didn’t evaporate easily but clung tightly to the enemies’ skin.

Being doused with feces was disgusting enough, and the accompanying stench made it even harder to remove.

The first wave of attackers was successfully repelled. Su Jingchen stood atop the city gate, covering his mouth and nose, not daring even to chuckle.

"Sir, many of us are wounded by burns, continuing like this is not feasible!" Ting Su, who led the first wave, was also splashed with a considerable amount of filth. As he approached, Ting Mao raised his hand to stop him.

Stop, stand further away!

"How did the Liang army come up with such a vile trick?" Ting Su spoke angrily despite his nausea.

Ting Mao kept his sleeve over his mouth and nose, speaking in a muffled voice, "I suppose the Liang army has run out of arrows and kerosene, so they came up with this plan."

"Oh Xu Lun, never underestimate the enemy!" Wu Kudan hurriedly said, "This boiling feces water is also called golden juice. The places burned by golden juice are very difficult to heal, and the filthy excrement contains bacteria that can cause contracted diseases, with serious consequences!"

"Wu Kudan, do you have any ideas? Speak freely!"

Ting Mao sought his teacher’s opinion for the first time.

Just now, they lost some people because the Liang army dug invisible traps along the road. With this feces water tactic now, Ting Mao wanted to hear Wu Kudan’s opinion. After all, scholars have a wealth of knowledge.

Wu Kudan was delighted, "Retreat, my opinion is to retreat!"

Ting Mao glared angrily, "Wu Kudan, you dare to attempt escape during battle and disrupt military morale, deserving of death!"

"Men, take Wu Kudan away and execute him!"

"Sir Xu Lun, you can’t kill Wu Kudan, Wu Kudan is your mentor, you can’t kill him!"

Ting Su also had thoughts of retreat, but he dared not mention it in front of Ting Mao. Now that Wu Kudan had suggested it first, he naturally supported Wu Kudan to achieve a peaceful retreat.

"Then send him back to the main camp, I don’t want to see him!" Ting Mao, aware of his father’s high regard for Wu Kudan, knew he couldn’t easily kill him.

Wu Kudan was carried back to the camp by two soldiers, but before leaving, he shouted, "Ting Mao, you fool! You fell into a trap without knowing, your stubbornness will harm everyone, you will become Hu Kingdom’s sinner!"

An angry Ting Mao jumped off his horse and charged at Wu Kudan with his saber.

"There’s already no water, you still...ugh..."

Wu Kudan tried to persuade Ting Mao one last time to save the Hu army, but Ting Mao didn’t give him a chance to finish, striking his forehead with a saber.

"Anyone else spreading false rumors and disrupting military morale will meet the same fate as Wu Kudan!" If Li Guangpu were on the opposite side, he might be wary, but supposedly, the person atop the wall is a twenty-year-old literary zhuangyuan, so what’s he afraid of?

Scholars can only resort to these sneaky tactics. If it comes to direct combat, he can cut down ten zhuangyuans with one blade.

With Wu Kudan dead, the initially noisy Hu army suddenly fell silent.

Ting Mao was very pleased with this deterrent effect.

These cowards only take a step when pushed, all of them very timid!

"As long as we take Yangcheng, we won’t worry about having no water to drink!

Prepare the second wave to attack the city!" He refused to believe the enemy had an endless supply of feces water.

Shortly after the second wave went up, Ting Su felt a burning and painful itch in his neck from the feces water, so he went with the first group who retreated to seek the army doctor’s help.

The army doctor examined Ting Su’s wounds and noticed unusual festering, quickly using a silver needle to dip into the feces on Ting Su’s body.

With this dip, something shocking happened, the silver needle turned black.

"General, this feces contains poison!" The army doctor exclaimed.

"I know, feces is filthy to begin with... What? Are you saying the Liang army added poison to the feces water?" Ting Su’s voice suddenly rose.

The army doctor solemnly nodded, "Yes, they did."

The army doctor then used his finger to rub the feces on Ting Su, and a burning sensation came from the skin immediately. Fortunately, the skin was thick enough, or it would have already damaged the surface layer.

"This is a poison that can corrode skin, like green vitriol (sulfuric acid)!" The army doctor was shocked.

Ting Su, disregarding his pain, ran to notify Ting Mao about the feces contamination, warning him that continuing the attack would leave no healthy personnel in the Hu army because of the feces mixed with green vitriol.

Returning with news, Ting Su informed Ting Mao about the green vitriol in the feces water.

Ting Mao watched the attacking forces but couldn’t bring himself to give the retreat order.

Some must be daredevil vanguards, or Yangcheng could never be broken.

"Go, call back those just retreated, let them join the second wave to continue the assault!"

Once the city gate was breached, he would cut down that zhuangyuan for revenge!

"But... their wounds haven’t been treated?" Even Ting Su felt discomfort at this, considering the soldiers.

"Since they’ve already been injured, let them go anyway. We can’t let others charge into another batch of poisoned feces water!" Ting Mao was already seeing red, determined to take Yangcheng by tomorrow at the latest.

Ting Su hesitated, swallowed his words of dissuasion momentarily.

The Hu army didn’t know. Su Jingchen had added high-strength sulfuric acid to the feces water.

Where did the sulfuric acid come from?

The academic prodigy Su Shen had synthesized it, following Yu Xiaolian’s chemistry book.