As Zhang Shuo made a move on Chen, Ling Cao also led people out of the cabin. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the first time, Ling Cao took more than 300 crossbowmen to the side of the ship, and shot a round of crossbow arrows at Deng Long, who was a little stunned on the dock, and other personal soldiers who followed Deng Long and Chen Qi.

This Deng Long was the focus of, so he was quickly nailed with four or five crossbow arrows, and before he could say anything, he fell to the ground.

"Kill! Take the camp! ”

Then Ling Cao took the lead and led people to rush to the dock along the sampan, and rushed to the inside of the Turtle Snake Gorge Water Village, and the other big ships and small boats that followed the warship into this water village had also docked at the edge of the dock, and when they heard the movement here, the soldiers hiding in the cabin also went to the dock to kill.

Among them, the soldiers wearing Jiangxia military uniforms cut their clothes with knives, revealing their own military uniforms inside, and they also killed them on the dock together.

"Kill, kill!"

The shouts of killing sounded in all directions in the Turtle Snake Gorge Water Village, and the Jiangxia soldiers in the Turtle Snake Gorge Water Village were completely unprepared, and they didn't even know what was going on.

Originally, there were 3,000 soldiers here, but now there are about 1,000 soldiers scattered on the cliff of the Turtle and Snake Gorge, and there are less than 2,000 soldiers in the water village, of which there are about more than 500 people who are responsible for guarding the water camp, and the other 1,500 people are in a state of rotation, or resting in the camp tent, or playing in the back camp.

Now that he suddenly encountered a surprise attack by nearly two or three thousand soldiers brought by Ling Cao, it could be regarded as powerless.

In addition, there are about 1,000 crossbowmen brought by Ling Cao, they are divided into a hundred or more than two hundred, and under the escort of hundreds of soldiers around them, they rush to the front, and when they encounter Huang Zu's soldiers who dare to resist, they will be defeated first by a round of crossbow arrows, and then other sword and shield hands will rush up and slash indiscriminately, and naturally no one can stop them.

After a while, the turtle and snake gorge water village completely fell into chaos, the Huang Zu soldiers in the water village were basically not on the boat, a few were on guard on the arrow tower of the water village, or patrolling on the wall, but most of them were also in the land camp of the water village.

Therefore, Ling Cao did not need to go to the boat of the water village to collect the enemy army, under the command of Ling Cao, those soldiers located in the arrow tower and camp of the water village were cleaned up first, and then approached the camp on the land, and captured the entire water village little by little.

At this moment, the soldiers of Huang Zu in the Huangzu Water Village in Turtle and Snake Gorge can only escape from the direction of the land camp gate and retreat all the way to Xiling County, where Huang Zu is located, or they can only flee to the cliff of Snake Mountain in a panic to join those soldiers on the cliff.

At this time, without the commander-in-chief of Deng Long and Chen Zuo, even if there were still some military marquis who could control their subordinates, they were still fighting on their own and could not organize an effective defense in the water village.

Not long after, the entire Turtle and Snake Gorge Water Village was taken by Ling Cao, and then Ling Cao asked people to seal the land gate of the Water Village, and then led people to rush to the Snake Mountain cliff on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

And Zhang Shuo also escorted Chen Zuo, carrying Deng Long's body to follow behind, hoping to use Chen Zuo and Deng Long's corpses to make the remnants of the Turtle and Snake Gorge defenders surrender.

Of course, at this time, the soldiers of Huang Zu located on the two cliffs of the Turtle and Snake Gorge also discovered the changes in the water village, and the military marquis who led the troops on the cliffs and the military marquis who fled with the soldiers inevitably organized manpower to start defending on the spot.

Now, in addition to the more than 1,000 soldiers who were originally on the two cliffs, there seem to be more than 800 soldiers who escaped from the water village, and with the help of the slope of Snake Mountain, they can also condescendingly counterattack the Ling Cao soldiers who came up.

Ling Cao organized more than 800 crossbowmen to form a three-column formation, and then used more than 1,200 sword shields to guard the crossbowmen with hand shields, and pressed towards the snake mountain step by step.

More than 800 crossbowmen took turns to shoot crossbow arrows, and they almost didn't stop falling up step by step, but they also made the Huang Zu soldiers who had no shelter on the cliff retreat step by step.

However, as the defenders of Huangzu retreated to a certain position, they also brought a lot of stones that were originally placed at the mouth of the mountain cliff and gorge, and rolled down the slope.

These stones were originally intended to smash the boats under the canyon, so they were really stored on the cliffs, and now they don't need much effort on the part of Huang Zu's soldiers, as long as they are moved to the slope of the slope, they can roll down with inertia.

The stone rolled down with great force, and if it was hit by the stone, it would be a broken head and bone, and even with a shield, there was no way to block it.

Therefore, Ling Cao didn't dare to let the soldiers gather together, and used flesh and blood to resist the rolling stones, so he could only let the soldiers scatter, but this also weakened the covering threat of the crossbow arrows, and then he could only let the crossbowmen find their own targets to shoot.

At the same time, from the cliff, there were also Huang Zu's soldiers who fought back with bows and arrows, and the feather arrows fell down, even the crossbowmen and sword and shield hands occasionally fell to the ground with arrows, and most of the sword and shield hands on Ling Cao's side took hand shields instead of big shields, and the defensive effect of the feather arrows was also average.

In this way, Ling Cao's offensive was also somewhat restrained, and the battle to attack the hillside fell into a stalemate for a while, and for a while, there were three or four hundred dead and wounded on Ling Cao's side, and the offensive was also suppressed.

"Listen to the brothers above, Deng Long is dead, Chen has been captured, and now the prince of Yuzhang Qian, Tang Marquis Zhu Wei, has come to Jiangxia with an army of 100,000, the turtle and snake gorge water camp has been breached, and it is pointless to hold on, it is better to descend quickly!"

It was also at this time that Zhang Shuo escorted Chen Zuo, carried Deng Long's body to this side, and began to shout to the top, showing up as him would make the Huang Zu defenders on the cliff shake.

"Stop fighting, come down! It's going to come down! ”

A burst of shouts reached the top of the cliff, but it made the Huang Zu soldiers who were busy carrying the rocks and carrying bows and arrows hesitate for a moment.

In fact, their resistance was also habitual, but now after listening to these words, and thinking about it calmly, they also began to plan for themselves, just as Zhang Shuo shouted, it is meaningless for them to keep it like this, there is no food on the cliff, and the Turtle and Snake Gorge Water Village has also been broken, how long can they hold the cliff.

If there is really an army of 100,000 attacking, then they are just grasshoppers shaking the tree, and they are not able to do anything.

Of course, now they still have a way to retreat, that is, through the trestle bridge above the Turtle Snake Gorge from the Snake Mountain side to the Turtle Mountain on the other side, and then retreat from the Turtle Mountain side to escape.

Therefore, several leading soldiers on the cliff discussed, but they did not have the intention of fighting again, so they led their troops to withdraw in the direction of Turtle Mountain, as long as they crossed the canyon and cut off the trestle, they could naturally retreat safely.

It's just that at this time, the Guishan side located on the south bank of the Yangtze River has already been killed by Zhu guards......