Eight hundred men crossed the river on small rafts, although they were said to have crossed the river without danger. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info However, after 800 people crossed the water one after another, the sun in the sky had already set.

As soon as the sun sets, it is naturally dark in the mountains and forests. In this case, these soldiers naturally can't be on the road. So they set up camp on the spot under Zhao Jiu's order, lit a fire by the river in Shuishui, and prepared to rest here for the night, and then march the next day.

So as for why they lit a fire this time? Of course, one is because it's by the river, so you don't have to worry too much about catching fire; The second reason is that when these people crossed the river on a raft just now, they all became chickens in soup, and if they didn't use the fire to roast at this time, it was estimated that these people would fall ill if they couldn't reach the battlefield.

After all, these people are mortal fetuses, and they are not beaten by iron, no matter how elite the soldiers, they can't withstand such a continuous toss.

However, at this time, let's not talk about these eight hundred elite soldiers who have already rested in place, but outside the city of Nanyang Mansion, to the east of Shuishui, the main force of the Red Turban Army led by Zhang Shihua.

Here, Zhang Shihua and the others have gone through a day and a half, and they have already built the boats they used to cross the river into seven, seven, eight and eight. Therefore, tonight, Zhang Shihua also decided to launch an attack, and let the generals under his command lead the army to attack the enemy camp at night.

Of course, this night attack on Zhang Shihua did not force a certain success. If Zhao Jiu and their side had successfully crossed the river, then Zhang Shihua's night attack, even if it was just to attract firepower for them, would be worth it.

But even so, Zhang Shihua still attached great importance to this night attack, not only selected 500 elite soldiers under his command as the vanguard of the night attack, but also sent his own general Zhang Mingtong as the commander of the night attack.

This means that although this night attack is not forced to succeed, it must not be defeated and returned.

And Zhang Mingtong naturally understands Zhang Shihua's thoughts. Therefore, when he received the order to attack at night, he cautiously left the camp in the middle of the night with 500 black-clothed soldiers. And after leaving the camp, he quietly walked several miles south with this soldier, and found a hidden place with lush reeds before preparing to launch a night attack.

Of course, it is said that it is a night attack, but it does not mean that you directly pull out the boats that you have built, and then you cross the river by boat. After all, the defenders on the other side of the house are not blind and deaf, so what is the difference between you doing this and looking for death.

Therefore, in this night attack, Zhang Mingtong first sent more than a dozen black-clothed soldiers with good skills and good water nature. Let them swim across the river first, explore the road, and get rid of those officers and soldiers on the other side of the river, and then Zhang Mingtong and them crossed the river by boat and attacked at night.

Of course, it's not easy. Therefore, the Tartar defenders of Nanyang Mansion City, in order to resist the attack of the Red Turban Army this time, really came up with any way. At this time, on the other side of the river, the Tartar defenders of Nanyang Mansion City sent a thousand soldiers as sentries to guard the river at night.

And these river guard sentinels are also based on what is the unit, a group of ten people, and a sentry of ten people. On the bank of the river, every 100 meters, there must be a soldier who will light a fire to make a sentry. As soon as something unexpected happens, these people will immediately shout a fire warning.

In other words, these 1,000 sentries guarding the river formed a ten-mile-long cordon on the other side of the river. And this ten-mile cordon also includes all the crossing points in this section of the river, and this suddenly minimizes the possibility of the success of the Red Turban Army's night attack.

So in such a situation, Zhang Mingtong and they also have to be cautious.

"Bang la la~~" An extremely slight sound of water came, and when I looked closely, it was the dozen or so black-clothed soldiers of the Red Turban Army who had excellent water quality and went down the river.

And after these black-clothed soldiers entered the water, they also swam quietly towards the other side of the water as quietly as possible by diving and swimming. This section of the water is extremely wide, almost more than 300 meters, so these dozen soldiers also swam carefully for almost a quarter of an hour before swimming to the other side of the water.

And after reaching the other side of the river, the dozen or so black-clothed soldiers did not dare to stand up. Because the Tartar sentries guarding the river were not far from them, they were only on the shore, and they were all cautiously groping beforehand, for fear of being discovered by the sentinels guarding the river.

I have to say that these black-clothed soldiers are really elite. These people are really like fish in the river and cats on the shore, and they really don't move at all when they walk. Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, these people touched the place more than ten meters behind the sentry guarding the river in one breath, and these sentry guarding the river were stunned and found nothing.

Seeing this, among the dozen or so black-clothed soldiers, there was a leading young man named Zhang Zhi, who couldn't help but turn around and make a gesture to wipe his neck to the others beside him.

And the rest of the black-clothed soldiers saw their platoon commander Zhang Zhi like this, and they all took off a pair of special small crossbows from their waists. The arrows of this crossbow arrow were all glowing with a strange cold light, and at first glance, they were all highly poisonous with blood and throat sealing.

After taking off these special small crossbows, these black-clothed soldiers also aimed their crossbow arrows at the sentries guarding the river. However, I heard two soft sounds of "whoosh~~", and the soldiers who were squatting there to keep vigil were shot by Zhang Zhi and them.

After shooting these people, Zhang Zhi and a few people who were close to him also rushed forward one after another, cutting the throats of the remaining sleeping soldiers. In this way, the ten sentinels guarding the river on the bank of the river were killed, and there was really no movement at all during the whole process.

However, just when Zhang Zhi and the others killed this sentry and were about to make a move towards another one nearby, they suddenly heard one of the sentries on their left asking them loudly: "Ergouzi, when the time is up, quickly say the password." ”

"Password" Hearing this, Zhang Zhi and a few of them were completely stunned, a few people, you look at me, I look at you, the hell knows what their password is. Therefore, in desperation, Zhang Zhi could only wave his hand and shout to the others beside him: "The wind is tight, and it is nonsense." ”

After saying this, Zhang Zhi and the others didn't care if they found out or not, they took three steps and jumped into the water in two steps and swam back. And before they could swim a few meters, they heard a roar from the shore of the Tartar officers and soldiers, "Oh no, the red turban thief has attacked at night, and the red turban thief has attacked at night." ”

Then when he looked back, he saw all the sentinels on all sides, all surrounded by the side where they had killed. Seeing this scene, Zhang Zhi couldn't help but sigh while being full of joy. Because he knew that from now on, the method of night attack would not work at all.

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Early the next morning, that is, after Zhang Zhi and his several night attacks failed. Zhang Shihua immediately put on a posture of "if the darkness doesn't work, I'll come to the light", on the shore is a mighty and fanfare gathered 500 red turban soldiers, let them take the boat and roar towards the river bank on the side of Nanyang Fucheng.

Seeing this, the 4,000 officers and soldiers guarding the river in Nanyang Mansion naturally formed an arrow formation on the shore under the command of the commander. There were almost a thousand archers with bows and crossbows, aiming at the red turban soldiers who were rushing at them.

Although it is said that the Red Turban Army on the other side of the river only sent 500 people, looking at the posture of these 500 people, it can also be seen that these people are menacing and extremely not simple. Therefore, on the side of the Tartar defenders, in addition to archers, a large number of axemen and pikemen were assembled on the riverbank.

It seems that it is to prevent the killed red turban sergeants from landing on the shore.

However, their actions seemed to be in vain in hindsight. For, after the menacing 500 armoured men on the other side had come by this boat to a place about seventy paces from the west bank of the river, they did not go any further, but began to shoot at them.

Yes, it is a confrontation, two armies on both sides, one on the shore and one on the boat, the arrows on both sides are back and forth, and he just doesn't get close to anyone.

It is said that in this kind of shooting, there are only 500 people on the side of the Red Turban Army, and there are 1,000 people on the side of the Tartar defenders. However, don't forget that there are no more people in the war, although there are fewer people on the side of the Red Turban Army, but the two sides shoot at each other, and the Red Turban Army does not suffer at all, but also takes advantage.

And why is that, and here's why.

You must know that the 500 soldiers sent by the Red Turban Army are all wearing iron armor, 500 iron armor soldiers, and 300 pairs of divine arm crossbows. This guy, the two sides shot at each other, those Tartar defenders of Nanyang Mansion shot an arrow from the Red Turban Army, and the Red Turban Sergeant didn't do anything at all, and the arrow on the opposite side shot at the iron armor, which was like tickling.

But the Red Turban Army shot them with an arrow with a strong bow and a crossbow in their hands, and for these farmers and soldiers who were not wearing all the leather armor, and even most of them were still wearing cloth clothes, it was definitely an arrow and arrow, either dead or maimed.

Therefore, after shooting like this for almost a quarter of an hour, the officers and soldiers on the side of Nanyang Mansion finally couldn't stand it. Okay, don't take such a bully. They had shot thousands of arrows on their side, and they had shot down a dozen of them, and the rest of the others were still alive and kicking like no one.

In this way, they would not kill as many people as they would with those fifty trebuchets.

And look at yourself here, this shot down, more than a hundred are dead, who the hell can bear this thing at ten for one.

And it's not enough to be dead, so the blow to morale is really too big. Good fellow, the soldiers on his side are like the papier-mâché, wounded with one arrow and killed by two arrows. But if you look at the ones on the other side, they are all wearing iron armor, just like they have opened a plug-in.

Some of the soldiers wearing foot armor have more than a dozen arrows hanging on their bodies, but they are stunned that there is no, where do you reason. And that's not to mention, there are also those who stand at the front, all wearing armor that they have never seen before, like a tin can, and the arrows shoot at them, and they are bounced away without even a trace.

Shooting arrows here is like a joke for them, how can this Nima fight.

Therefore, seeing this scene, the commander of the Tartar defenders ordered: "All the archers, all retreat, and the sword and shield hands will go up to resist the attack of the thief army." ”

Hearing the general's words, the archers who were shooting at the Red Turban Army in front of them were suddenly relieved. One by one, they were scrambling to retreat. After all, both sides had only been shooting in this pair for a quarter of an hour, and a hundred and ten people had died on the side of the officers and soldiers.

If they had been shooting at each other for a quarter of an hour, they would have been defeated by archery alone.

So the current officers and soldiers archers can really be said to be afraid of the Red Turban Army. After all, it was terrifying to see the comrades next to him being shot in a pool of blood one by one like a roll call.

And not to mention, when all these archers retreated. Zhang Shihua and their side, there is really no good way to take these sword and shield bearers with complete armor and shields. After all, the power of such a thing as a bow and arrow is limited, and even if it is a divine arm crossbow, it is impossible to shoot through someone's shield from seventy paces away.

Therefore, in the face of this group of turtle-like enemies, there is really no good way for the Red Turban Army to do it. Anyway, you can't just rush to the shore and fight them in close quarters.

Of course, this is not to say that the hand-to-hand combat on the side of the Red Turban Army is not the opponent of the Tartar defenders on the opposite side, but that the Tartar defenders are really shameless.

You must know that the Red Turban Sergeant had no way to line up in the river, so it would be quite a loss to fight with the Tartar defenders. But even so, the group of Tartar officers and soldiers on the other side still set a lot of traps in the water on the shore, and he had everything he needed to resist horses, pits, triplines, and so on.

In this case, no matter how powerful the Red Turban Army is, it is impossible for him to kill it ashore.

Therefore, after the Tartar archers on the opposite bank retreated, the 500 armored Red Turban soldiers released two more rounds of arrows, and after blindly shooting and killing several officers and soldiers, the 500 Red Turban soldiers turned the bow of the ship and returned to their camp in a burst of bravaful shouting and scolding.

And after the Red Turban sergeants withdrew like this, the Tartar officers and soldiers also dispersed in formation, and the two sides once again fell into a confrontation of big eyes and small eyes.

The words are divided into two ends, after talking about Zhang Shihua's side, let's take a look at Zhao Jiu's side. Zhao Jiu and his 800 Red Turban soldiers marching in the mountains and forests, after crossing the water without danger, they were also under the command of Zhao Jiu, and went straight to the south to kill.