Chapter 82: The Flames Soar to the Sky
The fire under the Xisai Mountain was soaring, the Zhou army warships that attacked in the middle of the night instantly broke through the Hengjiang iron cable, and some of the warships of the Chen army just came out of the water village, and the rushing Zhou army fleet blocked them at the door, and the first was the car and ship.
The chariot and ship collected the sails and rowed forward with the oars, the distance between the Zhou Jun boat and the boat was very close, and it was inconvenient to use the long pole to row the water, but the chariot and the boat did not have this kind of problem, they were lined up in a neat horizontal formation, and the boat and the boat were very close to each other like a wall and crashed into the Chen Jun warship in front of them.
In order to ensure that each has enough paddling space, a certain distance should be kept between the two ships, so that the formation of the Chen army's warship is much sparse, and it is at a disadvantage under the collision with the Zhou warship that is like a wall.
Chen Jun's small boat was directly knocked overturned, and the big ship was still evenly matched when a single ship collided, but the Zhou army's chariot and boat fought hard to move forward with the oars, and the Chen army's war boat shook the bow of the ship and finally hit the hull horizontally.
A brutal gang battle broke out, with the covering crossbowmen first shooting over a group of Chen soldiers on the deck, and then the wolf-like Zhou soldiers jumped over and fought a bloody battle on the deck with the surviving Chen soldiers.
The warship will shake when it floats on the water, so if you want to fight on the deck of the ship, you have to stand firm, and the soldiers of the navy on both sides have no such concerns, but the Zhou army has many warships and the number of crossbowmen on the mast is also large, and soon the Chen army on the first-line warship was defeated.
The Zhou army's vehicles and ships immediately advanced separately, and even led the other warships that arrived behind them to break into the Chen army's water village, and the Chen army's warships that had not had time to leave the village were caught on the head and crowded together with the warships that came from behind.
The constant squeezing, the warships of Zhou and Chen were crowded together, and the ships and boats moored on the shore soon became a 'boat island', and the Zhou archers on the periphery shot rockets, and the arrows rained down to set the 'boat island' on fire.
At this time, the northwest wind was blowing, and the scattered flames on the ships quickly rose in the wind, and the sails that had been lowered were ignited and turned into torches, and the sparks scattered in the wind ignited more sails of the warships.
The warships of the Zhou army in the upwind direction set fire unscrupulously, and the northwest wind swept the fire towards the Chen warships in the southeast direction and burned to the shore camp, and the sparks had become a prairie fire.
Countless soldiers of the Chen Army ran and wailed in the sea of fire, and the people on the boat had no time to escape and had to throw themselves into the water, and the soldiers on the shore were so smoked by the thick smoke that they rushed to their faces that they burst into tears, and saw countless sparks coming with the wind to ignite the camp on the shore, and they were all anxious to carry water to put out the fire.
The skyrocketing fire illuminated the Xisai Mountain in the night, and the Zhou warships forcibly docked next to the water village, and after the pedal was lowered, in addition to the infantry and cavalry, they used the fire to cover the Chen army water village all the way, and pounced on the panicked enemy soldiers like hungry tigers in the sea of fire.
The generals of the Chen army organized soldiers to try to intercept, they struggled to draw their bows and release arrows but were still approached by the other party, the soldiers of the Zhou army charged with arrows to cover their bodies with regimental cards, and the cavalry who also did not avoid arrows was men and horses with armor, and the Chen army was crushed at the touch of a touch after the two sides were short-handed.
Countless soldiers turned around and ran when they saw the enemy army entering the village, and they wanted to take refuge in their own camp at the southern foot of Xisai Mountain on the shore, and they felt that it was the best way to meet the enemy together with the garrison attacking from the camp.
The soldiers of the Zhou army also thought so, they followed the rout and killed the camp not far away, and the chaos was a good opportunity to fish in troubled waters, and their goal was to take the opportunity to take the gate of the village.
"Don't open the door, no one is allowed to open the door!" In the camp, the Chen army guard raised his knife and shouted, and countless embarrassed soldiers fled outside the village and shouted to open the door, he looked around the city and repeated the order.
"General" someone opened but couldn't continue, looking at the comrades outside the wall who were crying and shouting to open the door quickly, and then at the vague Zhou Jun in the distance, as long as he was more rational, he knew that it could only be like this.
Of course, some people will think that things will not be so bad that they can open the door and release people until the pursuers arrive, and then close it, which sounds very reasonable but actually does not work, because this is purely an idea that only newcomers on the battlefield have.
Because as soon as the door opens, don't even think about closing it.
The enemy is in hot pursuit, the fleeing soldiers do nothing in order to survive, they can throw away their armor in order to run faster, and the defeated soldiers on the battlefield can rush backwards to the formation in order to escape, which directly causes the defeat of the soldiers, and the soldiers who are about to flee into the camp are already red-eyed, and if they see the gate to be closed, they can do anything.
Those who have already entered the door will turn around to prevent the door from closing, in order to let their brothers in, or to save their fellow villagers or friends, then the soldiers who close the door will be attacked, and the pursuers will take the opportunity to rush in when the situation is chaotic.
"Open the door, open the door!"
The screams came and went, the Chen soldiers who were blocking the door slapped the gate of the wall, they were constantly being shot by the Zhou army chasing behind them, although the defenders on the wall were also shooting arrows to cover, but there were still Chen soldiers falling one after another under the firelight.
They gathered under the wall, huddled together, there was no place to hide, and the Zhou army behind them kept firing arrows under the cover of shields, and it was dark under the wall, but they didn't need to aim at the arrows directly.
The desperate Chen soldiers tried to turn around and rush out to counterattack, but without exception they were shot into hedgehogs, and more and more Zhou troops surrounded them, and they did not get too close in order to avoid the archers on the wall, but the feather arrows shot by the strong bow still put down more and more Chen soldiers.
Listening to the screams and looking at the more and more Zhou soldiers in the darkness outside, the guard closed his eyes and gritted his teeth to emphasize the order not to open the door, this order was cruel but not wrong, and as long as the officials reasoned afterwards, it was impossible to blame them.
"The Zhou army even came to the shore, what about the Hengjiang iron cable, why was the water army beaten so badly!" Some people are suspicious, the upstream Wuzhou is only forty miles away from Xisai Mountain, and now it is smooth sailing, and it will come quickly to sneak attack at night, so the Hengjiang iron cable plays a role in blocking the opponent's warship.
"Who knows, it's just cutting corners?" Someone scolded, there have been many dirty things in the army in recent years, and it is not necessary to say that the rope that crosses the river is called an iron rope to the outside world.
"The warship is over, the water village is also over, now the water army is finished" The other person looked at the sky-high fire by the river in the northeast and sighed, the water village was only four or five hundred steps away from their land village, and the water army camp had now turned into a sea of fire.
The shouts outside the wall had subsided, and the soldiers of the Chen army who were blocked outside had already suffered casualties under the rain of arrows, and the night wind was blowing, and the defenders could vaguely hear the neighing of men and horses in the direction of Shuizhai.
Once pillowed to wait for the revenge of Zhengrongzhou, once the soldiers came to the five continents to shout and scold the Zhou army to come out for a decisive battle, they were thinking about a decisive battle with the Zhou army every day and night, but tonight, the Zhou army's surprise attack turned all the preparations into laughter.
The naval warships stationed in Xisaishan were so majestic that the Zhou army in Wuzhoushu was forced to avoid the battle and protect the ships, but now they have turned into fireboats, and the skilled sailors were chased out of the land village like sheep, and then easily shot one by one.
In May, the westward navy had lost more than half of its troops in Zhengrongzhou, and the rest of the troops anchored in Xisai Mountain tonight seemed to be finished, and the only thing that could be done was to hold Luzhai, and when all parties sent reinforcements after dawn, the Zhou army would naturally retreat.
"The Zhou army is going to attack the village!" An archer shouted, and everyone looked from the arrow stack, only to see the black shadow swaying on the flat ground outside the village, and then the fire of the water village in the distance reflected in the light of the fire, and someone carrying a bamboo ladder could be vaguely seen.
"Even the bamboo ladder is ready, could it be that they want to even end the landing village tonight?"
"It's a good time, there are enough rolling wood and stones, ready to release arrows!"
"Let the attention of the Western Wall beware, don't let anyone touch it!"
The defenders of Luzhai saw that the Zhou army intended to attack from the east wall and prepared, this camp crossed the north and south to meet the enemy only east and west, the scale of the Xisaishan mountain village was large, but their land village was larger, and even all the grain and grass of the Xisaishan garrison were stationed in the camp.
Therefore, the defenders have sufficient troops, all kinds of defense facilities are complete, and they are not afraid of the Zhou army who want to use bamboo ladder ants to attack the village, and they are not completely sure of the more than a month, but it is absolutely no problem to guard until the reinforcements from Jiangzhou come.
"Hold your breath and let go of the arrows when they get close and see clearly!" ……
At the north end of the Lu village, under the steep slope of Xisai Mountain, the Chen soldiers who defended the east wall of the wall held their breath, and the Zhou army outside the wall was assembling to prepare to attack the wall, and the direction of its attack was near the walled gate, and the pressure on the left flank of the walled gate was small.
The other party was preparing outside the range of his bow and arrows in the dark, as if he was waiting for the time to come, and the archers of the Chen army were also prepared, they did not light torches so as not to find death, and the other party did not light torches It seems that they planned to shoot in the dark.
"Steady, don't give them the arrows to deceive, get closer and see before shooting." Many archers hold their bows in one hand and carry arrows in the other, with feathered arrows on the bow but not stringed, while crossbowmen are much more convenient, and they aim directly at the outside with their well-wounded crossbows.
"Sounds like?" Someone looked up at the northern slope of the mountain, which was very steep and had many shrubs, and at night there were often cries of clams and the like.
"The sound of the wind blowing the branches," said the other, who looked at the swarthy hillside and saw nothing but the dark shadows of the trees, where the wind blew from time to time, and the sound of the branches swaying was normal.
"No, I think"
Before he finished speaking, an arrow was nailed to his face, and before the comrades next to him could react, the sound of breaking the air sounded one after another, and several people were shot down by the feathered arrows flying from the top of the hillside, and at the same time, several thick hemp ropes were thrown down the hillside, and a black shadow slid down the hemp rope.
"Someone sneaked up!" The soldiers of the Chen army shouted loudly, they rushed to the bottom of the hillside and met the black shadow that slid down, at the same time, a Ming Di roared into the sky on the mountain, and the Zhou army outside the village heard the sound and launched an attack, shouting and killing resounded in the sky.
Chen Midou drew his knife and cut off the enemy soldiers who rushed to the front, and the other person saw that he was not firmly on the ground and rushed up to mend the knife, Chen Midou rolled on the spot and tripped the other party, and the Hulin Army comrades behind him came to a real mending knife.
"Rush!" Chen Midou got up and roared, and led his subordinates to meet the Chen soldiers who surrounded him with long knives in both hands, but the other party was caught off guard by their surprise attack, and failed to gather in a formation in a hurry, this is the opportunity for Chen Midou and others.
The Xin You knife technique taught to them by Yang Sima is to use both hands to grow a knife, which is good but has a disadvantage: the blade is too long and requires a large space to be used, so the soldiers must keep a distance from each other when killing the enemy. In this way, your own formation will be looser, and it will be nothing to deal with the enemy army that is also loose, and it will be a little difficult if the opponent is in formation.
And now the soldiers who came up sporadically from the Chen army were facing their appetite, Chen Midou first deceived the opponent with a feint, and then rushed forward with a blow to pierce the opponent's chest, drew the knife and jumped backwards to avoid the blade cut by the other person, and then stepped forward and twisted the blade of the knife to pick up, and picked the man's crotch with a knife.
After practicing the knife technique for more than a year, Chen Midou is now very skilled in dancing with a two-handed long knife, and he and his subordinates are divided into joint attacks, and the Chen army who is scattered by the guerrillas is cut to the ground, and the wind sounds, Chen Midou dodges sideways, and a feather arrow deviates from the heart socket and is nailed to the left shoulder.
Wearing two sleeve armors, the arrow did not penetrate the armor, Chen Midou pulled out the arrow and picked up a group of cards on the ground, leading his subordinates down the stairs to kill the wall.
Behind them, many soldiers slid down the hill along the hemp rope to the village, some joined Chen Midou and rushed up the wall, and some bent their bows and arrows to shoot down the archers on the wall as cover.
The sudden surprise soldiers made the Chen army in the village chaotic, the guards assigned people to rush to the north end, and from the hillside by the rope sliding down the Zhou army is also more and more, the Chen army on the wall of the wall was killed and retreated, outside the wall of the Zhou army smoothly took the bamboo ladder ant attached to it, over the north end of the wall into the wall.
"Fight with them!" The general of the Chen army, who had just arrived, drew his sword and shouted, and the soldiers of the two sides then collided in one place and started a fight, but where were the Chen soldiers the opponent of the Zhou army.
The long knives in the hands of the Zhou soldiers were very flexible, and they liked to scream loudly before the battle, and the skull mask was very terrifying, many of the Chen soldiers were suppressed as soon as they fought each other, and few of them were either killed or injured after three rounds.
There are domineering Zhou soldiers holding knives in both hands to cut off their heads, Chen soldiers block the knife and the arm is sore, the knife in his hand is knocked away by the other party, not to mention, the long knife will bloom in the head, facing this group of fierce soldiers with amazing strength and skillful knife skills, the Chen soldiers will collapse at the touch of a button.
There were also soldiers of the Zhou army who set fire to the camp, and more and more soldiers turned into the camp from the north end of the wall, they lit rockets and fired arrows in the direction of the south gate, and even the comrades who attacked the village outside the wall shouted in unison: "The village is broken, the village is broken!" ”
The shouts of the tide made the guards anxious like ants on a hot pot, and the soldiers struggled to release arrows to suppress the Zhou archers outside the wall, and countless bamboo ladders were set up on the wall, and some soldiers rushed up to push them away.
Some people were shot by stray arrows and fell off the wall, some people just rushed to the front of the ladder but they had a face with the Zhou soldiers who climbed up, and they were hacked to death by their head in the lightning, and some struggled to grab the two sections of the bamboo ladder and retreated outwards and successfully pushed it away from the city wall.
The bamboo ladder did not have an iron hook, so it could not hook the arrow stack to prevent it from being pushed away, and I saw that the bamboo ladder was connected to the soldiers on the ladder and fell backwards, but I saw that there were Zhou soldiers on the ground who struggled to lift the long bamboo to support the bamboo ladder, and then smashed the bamboo ladder on the arrow stack of the wall again.
Zhou Bing, who climbed on the ladder, jumped and knocked Chen Bing to the ground directly, and under a hand-to-hand fight, he punched Chen Bing unconscious with brute force, and other Chen soldiers rushed over to mend the knife, but he was not expected to be intercepted by Zhou Bing who climbed the wall later.
In the fighting, more and more Zhou soldiers climbed up to the top of the city, seeing that the general trend had gone, the face of the Chen army guard was pale, looking at the fire of the water village, looking at the Lu village that was about to be breached, his eyes were full of despair.
"He was so defeated that he was so shameless to face the Jiangdong father," he sighed and pulled out his sword to kill himself.
With a squeak, the gate of the village was opened by Zhou soldiers from the inside, and a tide of soldiers poured into the camp, shouting everywhere: "Surrender and don't kill!" ”
The banner of Chen Jun fluttering in the camp was ignited by rockets, turning into a blazing fire flag falling with the wind, and the dawn of dawn lit up from the east, and the light pierced the dark sky like an arrow. (To be continued.) )