265. Win without a fight

In the face of this sudden war, everyone in the water village in Qichun County was unprepared. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although this water village in Qichun County is the first sentinel-type early warning line of defense of the Huangzu River, it originally needed the soldiers in the water village to defend to the death in order to buy time for the water village in Exian County behind.

But now they are really making them resist desperately, and they don't have the heart to fight to the death.

Hearing the shouts from outside, Zhang Shuo couldn't help but look at the four military marquis with troops standing beside him, Zhang Shuo could feel the change in their expressions, and he could feel that they were also frightened in their hearts.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that Childe is gone, how should we deal with it? Don't you have to fight to the death to repay the lord! ”

Faced with the current situation, Zhang Shuo didn't say anything else, nor did he directly express his thoughts, but first tentatively asked the four military marquis here.

After all, the four of them control the actual military power in the water village, and if there is a war, they are also needed to contribute.

"But..., but now we only have two thousand, and there are at least tens of thousands of troops in Zhu Wei outside, if it is a battle to the death, I am afraid, I am afraid that I can't stop it!"

A military marquis in his forties saw the scale of Zhu Wei's army outside, but he already had a sense of surrender in his heart, and said words of weakness with some hesitation in his mouth.

"Yes, now that this Zhu Wei has come suddenly, we are unprepared, this..., how can this be guarded! In my opinion, it is better to surrender by fraud, and then find an opportunity to report to the lord and son! ”

Another military marquis in his thirties said, but although he said that he wanted to surrender by fraud, he only deliberately made an excuse for everyone to surrender reasonably.

"Wait..., how can you say that, if we have descended, then how can we be worthy of the lord and the son! We should have fought to the death here! ”

There was a military marquis in his forties who looked like a loyal and righteous man, and he couldn't help but look at the two military marquis who wanted to surrender and asked in his mouth.

In addition, there was a military marquis who also just glanced at the three military marquis who were talking, but he didn't say anything, but he looked at Zhu Wei's army outside, and he was also a little cowardly.

Zhang Shuo listened to the words of several of them, and the hand holding the ring-headed knife couldn't help but tighten, and suddenly he pulled out the ring-headed knife and stabbed it horizontally, and directly stabbed into the heart of the seemingly loyal military marquis.

"Hmph, what else is there to talk about at this time, if you want to live and surrender, if you want to die, you will fight! This Zhu Wei's first battle against Jiangxia, if we don't surrender, it will inevitably become the benchmark of its prestige, and I still want to live! This person is from the Huang clan, so naturally he is not the same person as us! ”

Zhang Shuo understood the thoughts of the four military marquis here, and he actually wanted to live, so he made a decision at this moment to directly kill people and establish his authority to strengthen the minds of the other three military marquis.

However, Zhang Shuo still deliberately played a careful thought, the seemingly loyal military marquis was actually a member of the Jiangxia Huang clan, and he and the other three military marquis were not surnamed Huang, so he deliberately put himself and the three military marquis in a queue, they were not members of the Huang clan, and there was no need to die for the Huang clan.

Seeing that Zhang Shuo stabbed a fellow military marquis to death, the expressions of the other three military marquis also changed.

It's just that when they heard Zhang Shuo's words, they also felt that it was very reasonable, after all, Ling Cao's shouting also meant not leaving prisoners, and in their minds, this was the meaning of killing them all.

They didn't know that although Zhu Wei's side would not necessarily kill people, he would cut off the thumb of their right hand, which would resolve the possibility of them fighting as soldiers, and it could be regarded as preserving a certain amount of population resources.

But how did Zhang Shuo and the others know this, and they couldn't even cut off the thumb of their right hand.

Anyway, at this time, thinking that Zhu Wei's side might slaughter them all, they didn't dare to leave anything to chance, the only military marquis who was still loyal to Huang Zu and Huang Shot was dead, and no one had any objections.

At that moment, they were unanimous, and soon the gate of this water village in Qichun County opened, and Zhang Shuo took the initiative to surrender with more than 2,000 soldiers inside.

In this way, Zhu Wei's first battle against Jiangxia was won without a fight.

So Ling Cao escorted all the soldiers in this water village to the ships behind, and escorted Zhang Shuo and the other three military marquis to Zhu Wei's side for questioning.

This time, in the water village of Qichun County, Huang Zu's side also captured a light warship, 50 large river boats, and 300 small boats.

Those ordinary ships of all sizes are not enough, this light warship is different from ordinary ships, it is completely an offensive warship with good protection in this era.

The so-called warship refers to a kind of ship with a narrow and long hull, strong maneuverability, convenient for conflict with enemy ships, and the entire cabin and board are covered by raw cowhide, which can be used for fire prevention.

This type of warship has several holes on each side of the ship that can be inserted for rowers to row, even without sails, so that the battleship can move quickly.

There are three decks above deck, also covered with raw cowhide to prevent enemy fire, and each deck has crossbow windows and spear holes on all sides, which can be used to attack the enemy in all directions.

In these days, there was a saying that "the enemy cannot enter, and the arrow cannot be defeated", and there are usually collision posts and the like in the bow of the battleship, which can allow the warship to rush directly and crash into the enemy ship.

To be honest, it is not a cheap thing to build a warship, Zhu Wei is still reluctant to spend financial resources and materials to build a warship, and can only use ordinary galleons as warships, and then can only rely on cross-era weapons bed ballistae to fight against the warships of Jingzhou Huangzu and Cai Mao's navy.

But now that one has been captured in vain, although it is only a light warship, it can be regarded as earned.

However, Zhu Wei did not use this light battleship as his main ship, but continued to allocate it to Ling Cao, who acted as the vanguard, because Zhu Wei's side basically would not charge forward in battle, and the battleship naturally had to be used in battle to play a role, and putting on a show would be a complete waste of its function.

However, after Qi Chun was taken, Pang Yan, who was originally in charge of the Xionglu camp in front between Zhu Wei's Zhongjun and Ling Cao's forward, heard that Ling Cao had captured a warship, but he also took a small boat to the front, and he insisted on acting as a pioneer with Ling Cao.

It was also extremely boring for him to stay behind and command the fleet of the Xiong Lu battalion, anyway, now that everything was under Zhu Wei's personal control, he didn't have anything to command.

In addition, Pang Yan is not a striker, and he failed to get the battle in the first place, but he was a little impatient, and at this moment he wanted to grab Ling Cao's vanguard position, so he could go up and charge into battle.

For Zhu Wei to go with him for the time being, anyway, there is really no need for Pang Yan to command the fleet in the front now, so let him do as he pleases.

In this way, in the first water defense line of Huangzu on the side of Qichun County, Zhu Wei's army barely stayed long, and sailed quickly towards Huang Zu's second river defense line in Exian County, the Turtle Snake Gorge Water Camp......