Chapter 568: Iga Ninja
The next day, as soon as the sky was dark, Liu Jian and the fifteen thousand sailors of the Fire Dragon King were ready to attack the Dongying Osumi Peninsula.
Looking at the narrow pier and high mountain peaks, Liu Jian's brows furrowed deeply. From the mouth of the Fire Dragon King, he already knew that the Osumi Peninsula was not easy to fight, but he didn't expect it to be in trouble like this. Such a narrow and rugged terrain made it impossible for him to give full play to his superiority in troops, and it seemed that there was no other way to take the Osumi Peninsula than to fill it with human lives.
"Let's attack." What the hell, Liu Jian has to try, he ordered.
Upon receiving his order, fifty tortoiseshell boats with five hundred soldiers on board rushed to the docks as a tentative force. All the long-range weapons on the big ship were aimed at the dock, and as long as the Dongying people showed up, they would immediately give the tentative troops fire cover.
The speed of the tortoiseshell ship was very fast, and in the blink of an eye, it had traveled a normal distance without any blows from the docks. Liu Jian's face was full of suspicion, he felt that such a situation was not reasonable at all, how to say that this is also a dock, and there is no reason for the people of Dongying not to set up any defenses.
"General Liu, is it true that the people of Dongying don't have long-range weapons?" Seeing Liu Jian's expression, the Fire Dragon King boldly guessed, "After fighting with the Dongying people for so long, the last general really hasn't found out that Dongying has any decent long-range weapons. ”
"Maybe." Liu Jian's eyes didn't stretch a little, "Inform them and let them be careful." ”
Reminded by Liu Jian, those tortoiseshell ships were more cautious, and the fifty warships scattered more and rushed towards the shore more quickly. When the first tortoiseshell boat came ashore, Liu Jian was relieved.
Five hundred men landed on the Osumi Peninsula one after another, and this was the first time in hundreds of years that a Han Chinese army had landed on the territory of the Toying people. They quickly assembled into a complete formation, and under the leadership of a battalion commander, they felt deep into the peninsula.
"Leave 7,000 men to guard the ship, and the other 8,000 to go ashore!" Seeing that things were going so well, Liu Jian knew that if something went wrong, he would be a demon, but as long as he could successfully land, he was really not afraid of any opponent.
Eight thousand men quickly got ready, and they boarded small boats such as Falcon and Tortoiseshell in batches, and rushed to the shore in an orderly manner. Because it was a land battle, they were well prepared, and there was no shortage of cotton armor, strong bows, and hard crossbows. After the first people rushed ashore, they quickly formed a defense and prepared for the landing of a large force behind.
"Follow those five hundred, go!" Seeing that all the 8,000 people had arrived, Liu Jian pointed in the direction of the 500 people and ordered loudly.
Eight thousand people walked towards the mountain in an orderly manner, but the mountain road in Dongying was rugged, and the eight thousand people could only line up in such a fragile formation as a long snake formation to move forward slowly, which made Liu Jian feel very bad.
"Stop!" After walking a few miles forward, seeing that the surrounding area was full of dense mountains and forests, Liu Jian's heart was even more uneasy, and he waved his hand to stop the advancing troops, "Scout, go and explore the way." ”
After receiving the order, dozens of scouts answered and rushed into the mountains and forests.
"General Liu, are you worried about an ambush?" The Fire Dragon King stepped forward and asked with a frown.
"If it is this general, this general will definitely bury heavy troops here, the dragon king look at the terrain here, not to mention that we only have 8,000 people, even if we come again 8,000, we will only be dumplings." Liu Jian replied.
"Yes, it's better to be cautious." The Fire Dragon King nodded and agreed.
After a stick of incense, the five hundred vanguard troops did not have the slightest news, and even the dozens of scouts who had just rushed into the mountains and forests did not have the slightest reaction.
After another stick of incense in the past, also
No one came to report the news.
"Dragon King, something happened, neither the vanguard nor the scouts would be so ignorant of the rules, after so long, they would definitely send someone here. It seems that our opponent is not simple. Liu Jian's eyes were full of solemnity.
"General Liu means they're all dead?" The Fire Dragon King said incredulously, "That's a full fifty or fifty elite scouts, how could the Dongying people kill them quietly?" It's unbelievable. ”
"It's unbelievable, but there's only one explanation. Don't forget, those perverts from Iron Sword Castle have such a ability. Liu Jian was very sure.
"The Dongying people also have such elite scouts?" The Fire Dragon King didn't believe it very much, "No matter how elite you are, it is impossible to eat our dozens of strong troops so easily." On the contrary, I think that the Dongying people are playing tricks, if they really have such strength, they can completely fight with us with real swords, and hiding their heads and tails like this shows that their strength is not good. ”
"The Dragon King has a point, don't care, drop ten times with one force, and enter the forest." Liu Jian felt that what the Fire Dragon King said also made some sense, and with a wave of his hand, he stepped into the dense woods with eight thousand people.
Eight thousand people stepped into the forest for the first time, Liu Jian immediately felt something strange, the woods were too quiet, there was not even a bird call, and he didn't see the birds and finches fly up because of their entry, that can only show one problem, those birds and finches have already flown away.
"Dragon King, be careful." Liu Jian turned his head and told the Fire Dragon King.
Before the Fire Dragon King could answer, Liu Jian heard the sound of clothes fluttering above his head, and he suddenly turned his head to look up, only to see a person floating down from the top of the tree, and the Dongying knife in his hand stabbed him directly.
Liu Jian's reaction was not slow, and before the assassin's Dongying knife stabbed him, the long knife on his waist came out of its sheath with a bang, and slashed diagonally upward, slashing at the assassin's lower abdomen.
Seeing that he had disemboweled the assassin first, a trace of disdain flashed in Liu Jian's eyes. But the next moment, his eyes widened like a ghost, and he saw that the assassin had suddenly turned into a wooden man, and the knife in his hand had also slashed into the wood.
"What's going on?" Liu Jian only had this idea in his mind, and he couldn't figure it out for a while.
At this moment when he was stunned, a strange laugh suddenly sounded behind the wooden man, and a flash of sword light flashed like lightning.
"General Liu, be careful!" Liu Jian didn't have time to react at all, but fortunately, the Fire Dragon King beside him reacted quickly, and hit his body hard, so that his neck avoided the blade and avoided this nirvana.
Just when Liu Jian was attacked, countless short figures in green night clothes suddenly jumped out of the big trees around him. These people appeared unexpectedly, and as soon as they fell on the heads of the sailor soldiers, they slashed with a swing of their knives, killing two or three hundred sailor soldiers in an instant, and as soon as they landed, they covered up and killed Liu Jian.
"Ninja?" Seeing that the Dongying people were coming, Liu Jian smiled coldly, "Destroy them!" ”
Hundreds of sailor soldiers received the order and drew their swords to kill them. Those Toei ninjas are indeed good at each other, but they seem to be better at the art of assassination, and in front of well-trained warriors, they are slightly insufficient. What's more, the sailors were all wearing face armor on their bodies, and they had a great advantage in equipment, and it didn't take long to kill half of those assassins.
"Insect carving skills." Seeing that the sailor soldiers under his command continued to kill those ninjas, Liu Jian sneered slightly.
"General Liu, be careful." Liu Jian, who was staring at the battle group with all his attention, suddenly heard the shouts of the Fire Dragon King, and Liu Jian was alarmed in his heart, and he subconsciously
Di drew his knife, and before he could make any movement, more than a dozen knife lights had already rushed in front of him.
I saw that from the ground, from the trunk next to Liu Jian and the others, more than a dozen ninjas suddenly rushed out, because the distance was too close, the sharp long knife easily beckoned to Liu Jian's body, and immediately broke the cotton armor on his body.
Liu Jian is worthy of being a battle-hardened general, he was not panicked at all when he was cut seven or eight wounds on his body, and with a backhand sweep of his waist knife, he hacked a ninja to death, and he turned his body to kill the Dongying ninja.
"Protect General Liu." The Fire Dragon King and the others were also attacked by the Dongying ninjas, but they didn't have time to take care of themselves, and they all rushed towards Liu Jian's side.
"Look for death!" The Fire Dragon King yelled at a ninja who wanted to sneak up on Liu Jian, and slashed at his back with his sword.
"Bang!" But before he could cut the ninja in two, the ninja suddenly turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared.
"General, be careful." The Fire Dragon King was stunned for a moment, his personal soldier suddenly roared and rushed over to knock him aside, the Fire Dragon King looked up, and a sharp Dongying knife split the back of the personal soldier in half, the ninja didn't know what was going on, and reappeared in the smoke, wanting to kill the Fire Dragon King, but a knife slashed at the Fire Dragon King's personal soldier.
"Little Light!" The Fire Dragon King shouted in distress, Xiaoguang is a little brother who has been with him for a long time, but he didn't expect to fold here.
"Die!" The Fire Dragon King didn't have time to grieve, and stabbed the ninja in the chest, "Brothers, kill me." After putting Xiaoguang's body away, he rushed to Liu Jian's side with his own soldiers.
"General Liu, how is it?" Seeing that Liu Jian was covered in scars, the Fire Dragon King asked worriedly.
"It's okay, these ninjas are weird." Liu Jian coughed, and blood actually flowed out of the corner of his mouth.
Seeing that the Lord was attacked, countless soldiers rushed over to this side to save the driver, and the amazing thing was that before those soldiers rushed over, those ninjas suddenly shot countless hidden weapons at Liu Jian, and threw down countless ball-shaped things, and in the smoke, their figures flashed and disappeared.
Liu Jian and the others were busy fending off the attack of the hidden weapon, allowing those ninjas to easily escape.
"Heaven and earth?" Seeing that the hundreds of ninjas disappeared again, Liu Jian's brows furrowed, "Send the order to go down and search the surrounding tree tops, tree trunks and underground, they must be hiding there." "Even if it really happened in front of him, Liu Jian didn't believe that those Dongying ninjas really had the ability to go to heaven and earth, it was just some tricks.
After receiving the order, the soldiers immediately moved into action in groups of a dozen people, and they shot at the big trees with crossbow arrows, and immediately dropped dozens of green-clothed ninjas from the surrounding trees; Searching the trunk of each big tree, sure enough, the ninjas who rushed out of the trunk were actually just wearing clothes of the same color as the trunk, and before they could escape, they were hacked to death by the sailor soldiers; There were also many soldiers with spears stabbing on the ground, and sure enough, they found a lot of holes in the ground, and the ninjas inside were stabbed to death by spears before they could jump out......
"General, a total of two hundred and thirty-two ninjas were cleaned up, and we lost four hundred and fifty people." After the kung fu of the two incense sticks, Gu Fangbo came over with a dark face and reported, "I also found the vanguard, it's all right, and these Dongying ninjas did it." ”
Looking at the strange corpses of the vanguard in a dense forest not far away, Liu Jian's distressed face twitched. Those men were either stabbed in the vital position, killed by various traps, shot through the body by arrows, or poisoned with blue faces, and an entire battalion died without making a sound.