Chapter 21: Attacking the Sandbank
On the twenty-second day, about four o'clock at dawn.
Tian Xinliu Luo Qiong led three Qu to guard Nanguan and Nanshan to care for the wounded and take care of the prisoners, while he and Dong Hui led the four Qu to the bank of the Hanshui River in the morning mist.
Different from yesterday, today, from Tian Xin and Dong Hui to the drummers and Yi soldiers, they all only wear single clothes and shorts.
In the cold morning, Tian Xin wrapped his head in a red scarf, wearing only a pair of boxers sewn by himself and holding a shield on the bamboo raft, followed by Lin Luozhu and the private soldiers of the tribe.
Seeing that the rising sun in the east was a little orange, and he couldn't wait for Zhan Yan, the striker of the Jingzhou Navy Division, Tian Xin raised the iron halberd horizontally in his right hand: "March!" ”
The river is damp and cold, the water mist obscures the sight, and more than 50 bamboo rafts and small boats slowly sail into the Han River, with Tian Xin as the arrow, forming a cone-shaped fleet.
The sergeants on the boat held shields and propped up the boat, and two sergeants on each boat held long bamboos four or five feet long, all vigilantly observing the fog surging upstream.
Behind this fleet, there were more than 30 bamboo rafts, from which armor, clothing, and bows and crossbows were transported; On the only small boat, Dong Hui looked at his own fleet looming in front of him, his spirit was highly concentrated, and there was a war drum standing behind him, and two drummers were waiting with hammers.
About two quarters of an hour later, Tian Xin saw the silhouette of a boat rowing in front of him, and within two breaths he heard the boat shout: "Enemy! Warning! Trumpet! ”
Suddenly, a short horn sounded, and immediately three or four small boats warned together, and the horn also seemed long: "Woo~!" ”
"Doo!"
A stray arrow pierced the fog and nailed the big shield in Tian Xin's hand, Tian Xin shouted: "Pay attention to avoid arrows!" The speed of the ship remains the same! ”
The upstream boat went down the water, and before it had time to hover or turn around, it rowed towards the east bank of the Han River, and did not forget to shoot with a bow and crossbow, and the tenacious will to fight was obviously different from the army of Jingbei.
In less than a quarter of an hour, when the fog gradually cleared and the visibility was more than ten feet, fireboats and bamboo rafts began to float downstream.
Flames burned, smoke filled the air, and the mist was expelled.
Tian Xin saw that the bamboo raft and the fireboat were scattered and drifted away, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and he did not need his command, so his own sergeant took a long bamboo to drive away the fireboat and make it deviate from both sides of the strait.
In the choking fireworks, Tian Xin's cheeks were blackened and he couldn't feel the cold, and his blood was boiling and staring at the outline of Shazhou Island, where Cao Jun was assembling and arranging, and a battle flag with the word 'Wen' was fluttering.
He held a shield and a halberd: "One hundred and fifty steps away from the enemy!" ”
"100 paces away from the enemy!"
"Fifty steps!"
"Don't mess around, speed up!"
"Watch out for arrows!"
As his words fell, a round of arrow feathers whizzed down on the left and right of his side, and the sound of the doo was endless, and from time to time there were sergeants who supported the boat and were hit by arrows due to insufficient cover, and sergeants who fell into the water with arrows in twos and threes.
The third round of arrow rain crossed Tian Xin's head and fell backwards, at this time the bamboo raft hit the beach, Tian Xin jumped to the shore and rushed ten steps forward: "Stand up!" ”
Behind him, there were sergeants running barefoot, holding shields to join the two wings, and the shield array gradually widened.
Tian Xin took a big breath and looked back behind him, and couldn't help but squint, only seven or eight breaths, about three rounds of arrow rain strikes, more than a dozen Yi soldiers fell on the beach, or held a shield to defend themselves, or moved towards the shield array, and many soldiers on the bamboo raft were hit by arrows when they ran ashore, and most of them fell on the cold Han Shui, and the Han Water was dyed red in an instant.
I didn't want the water village to open at this time, and more than 100 Cao troops came in armor and spears.
Tian Xin saw it through the gap and shouted: "The enemy army bullied me without armor, the shield array cannot be separated, and the sharp soldiers of the left team will fight him to the death with me!" ”
In the water village, the guard general Wen Hou slowly raised his hand, and more than 200 archers on the left and right were ready to shoot with half a bow, raising the angle of shot, and waiting quietly.
As long as you get into a melee, three rounds of throws are enough to kill and injure most of the unarmoured.
Even if there is a mistake, it is worth it.
Under Wen Hou's gaze, the shield array suddenly let go of five gaps, and five or six people rushed out of each with small swords and shields and halberds in both hands.
Among them, Tian Xin, who wore a red scarf on his head, was particularly conspicuous, stepping barefoot on the beach at a very fast speed, he rushed forward, and only the eyes of the Cao army officer in front of him were exposed in the gap of the shield.
Almost instantly, the halberd rushed and stabbed at the edge of the shield, piercing into the eye sockets of the Cao army officer, and stabbing the skull, bursting a large cloud of blood.
A successful blow, Tian Xin held the halberd back hook when the side branch hung on the edge of a Cao army shield, very smoothly hooked the Cao army shield, Cao Jun armor naturally stabilized the shield and pulled back, at this moment Tian Xin did not pull the backstab, the halberd blade grazed the neck of the armor, and the protruding side branches successfully cut half of the armor's neck.
Seeing blood in an instant, Cao Junjia subconsciously avoided it.
Tian Xin held the halberd and shouted: "Fufeng Tian Xin is here, who will fight with me!" ”
He looked around and saw that four or five Cao Jun armorers seemed to have reached a tacit agreement to stab at him with a spear, his footwork was faster, but he faced the nearest person with a stride and twisted his waist and held a halberd to avoid the spear that came straight to him, and the iron halberd in his hand pierced the opponent's throat, and he didn't look at the halberd.
When he turned his head sharply, the two spear-wielding Cao soldiers hesitated, and the other was unaware and still holding spears.
Tian Xin still relied on his body to avoid it briskly, and a halberd broke through the iron armor on the opponent's chest.
In the blink of an eye, four armor soldiers were killed, and the rest of Cao Jun's armor soldiers dodged farther, so that the formation was divided by Tian Xin alone.
Cao Jun of the rear team hesitated, and the soldiers of the front team were worried about Tian Xin's counter-killing behind him, so he couldn't focus on the fight, and was pressed and beaten by the naked and barefoot sword and shield and halberd soldiers.
Tian Xin saw that more than 40 members of the Cao army in the rear team spontaneously assembled, leveled the spear and tried to stab him to death in one fell swoop.
At this time, Dong Hui behind him ordered the drums, and the two drummers fought hard to beat the drums, and the drums rumbled.
Tian Xin's blood was surging, his mind was ethereal, and there were only thirteen Cao Jun who came with spears and stabs in his eyes: "Fufeng Tian Xin is here, who will die together!" ”
Cao's spearmen roared and stabbed at him, but there was no one to answer.
Tian Xin's footwork jumped briskly to avoid the spears, and these spear-wielding armoured soldiers could stop their pace, and rushed four or five steps before rushing to the backs of the armored soldiers in front of Cao's army.
At this time, another Cao army official came to kill with a shield and a sword, Tian Xin calmly stabbed a halberd, hooked back to break the shield, and another thorn, and the side branches easily cut the neck of the soldier. The most important feature of the halberd is to control, to control the enemy's equipment.
Five people were killed in the formation, but Tian Xin was not stained with much blood, and looked back at the pile of spear-wielding armor soldiers, and the armor soldiers retreated in panic.
Seeing this, Wen Hou, the guard of the water village, pointed to Tian Xin's location: "Shoot the enemy general!" ”
More than 200 archers raised the angle of fire slightly, and released the arrows in no particular order, the bowstrings buzzed, and the arrows broke through the sky and went straight to the sky.
Tian Xin's eyelids turned up to see the silhouette of the afterimage of the rain of arrows, and immediately raised his legs and held a halberd to chase and slash the retreating Cao army armor soldiers who were scattered in formation.
Projectile, the arrow will fly slower and slower, and after reaching the apex, the strength will fall, and it will gradually accelerate.
A round of projectiles, from the time the arrow is shot to the time it hits, there is about a minimum of ten seconds of time in the air.
When the rain of arrows fell, Tian Xin had already chased ten paces away, fighting with Cao's army's routed and fleeing armor soldiers.
The two-percent movement speed bonus brought by the fourth-level walking talent, and there is no armor at the moment, how can Cao Jun's armor outrun him?
The land gate of the water village was open, but Tian Xin saw twenty or thirty crossbowmen holding crossbows on the fence, and suddenly his hair exploded, and he picked up a Cao soldier on the ground who was not yet dead and retreated.
The crossbowman shot, and the armor soldier he carried in his hand hit four or five arrows, and when he saw the crossbowman winding, Tian Xin still dared to hold it up, discarding the armor, and the long halberd pointed at Wen Hou with a contemptuous gaze with his chin, but he quickly retreated.
Wen Hou's face was gloomy, and he couldn't help but close his eyes in pain when he saw that the brave guards sent to him by his uncle would be killed by Tian Xin, who retreated, and the remaining twenty or so armor soldiers surrendered without retreating.
These armor soldiers are all private soldiers of the Wen family.
"Go through a fight."
"The quality of the items you carry with you has been improved."