Xu Liang secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the thieves retreating into the wooden village, hurriedly straightened his clothes and armor, and shouted "Great victory!" It's a pity that there are very few swordfish sailors who have just been killed, which makes Xu Liang quite dissatisfied. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Liu Wu looked at the water village he built single-handedly, the wooden village built by himself with the logs he ordered his people, and the ironclad soldiers who went out of the city to fight, most of them were his original subordinate sailors, and the weapons they used were not the ordnance they captured from the Chao family's merchant ships?

The person who came was really the Chao family! At that time, he was afraid that the Chao family would go to sea to investigate, and even abandoned Liujiawangzhai outside Dengzhou City, but they were still chased to the sea. This damn Chao father and son!

Chao Chong returned to the wooden village, climbed the wall, and saw Xu Liang whipping the sailors, asking them to line up on the shore, and put his mind at ease.

Huang Xin was a little puzzled: "General, we obviously had the advantage just now, why don't we drive the enemy into the sea in one go!" ”

Chao Chong chuckled and said, "Our combat goal is not to defeat the official army, but to eliminate the official army!" ”

Huang Xindao: "How do you say this? ”

Chao Chong said: "If you just want to defeat the official army, it's easy. But once the officers and troops retreat to the sea, we will be powerless. There were only forty people on Ruan Xiaowu's ship, and he was not at all an opponent of the current official army. If the officers and troops retreat to the sea, block our water village. We are equivalent to turtles in urns and fish in pots, trapped and dead here. The officers and soldiers will be transferred to Dengzhou again, and we will be worried about life and death! ”

Huang Xin nodded and said, "The general wants to rely on this wooden village to continue to consume their strength until the strength of the little five leaders is equal to them and can block their back road?" ”

Huang Xin is an officer, and his tactical literacy is very good, he can understand it at one point, Chao Chong smiled: "Not bad!" Drain their strength as much as you can, get ready for the final blow of Little Five, and leave them here completely! Having controlled the sea forces, we have the initiative whether we go or stay! ”

Huang Xin nodded and said, "My subordinates understand!" ”

Chao Chong said to Huang Xin: "It is imperative to immediately go to the statistics of the military merits in the team, and then issue rewards, and the money is in the stone house He Changyan." ”

Huang Xin took the order and left.

Li Kui leaned over and said, "Boss Chao, what about us?" Since I came to the island, I have killed more than 30 dog thieves, and the five stars on the military card should have been lit up a long time ago, right? ”

Bao Xu didn't dare to be as presumptuous as Li Kui, and said to Chao Chong respectfully: "General, I also killed more than 20 people, all of them have a left ear as proof?" After speaking, he took out a cloth bag from his arms.

Yu Baosi and Zhou Tong hurriedly retreated, a little away from Bao Xu, and said, "Where did I say the stench came from?" Don't you think it's too much? ”

Bao Xu's eyes widened, looking very innocent, and said, "Aren't you the same?" Otherwise, how do you keep count? ”

Zhou Tong took out a small wooden board from his arms, on which were written three and a half "positive" characters, and also wrote a "17" in Arabic numerals, and Yu Baosi also took out a small wooden board from his arms, on which were written three "positive" characters, and a "15" was written in Arabic numerals.

"What the hell is this?" Bao Xu went to Liangshan late and missed the popularization of Arabic numeral teaching in the army. Bao Xu hurriedly looked at Li Kui, whom he admired, maybe only a brave man like Brother Li would use the blood of the enemy to record his military exploits like himself.

I saw that Li Kui also took out a small wooden board from his arms, on which were written seven "positive" characters, and a "35" was written in Arabic numerals.

Bao Xu's heart is broken, you have such a good method, don't tell me!

Chao Chong comforted Bao Xu and said: "Ordinary soldiers naturally need to cut off their left ears to record their military merits, that is because 1 point of military merit may be the only gain in the whole battle for them, and ordinary soldiers are based on what is the unit, and there are teams to cover each other, which can allow him to calmly cut off the enemy's ears." You are different, you often need to charge into battle, rush into the enemy's formation, with one enemy ten, or even one enemy hundred, how can you have the opportunity to cut your ears! So just remember how many you killed and write down the numbers on the board! Let Tie Niu teach you this in a moment! ”

Bao Xu casually threw his cloth bag aside, and said with annoyance: "I said that why do you kill less people than Brother Li?" It turns out that I wasted so much time! I want planks too! ”

Li Kui went over and hugged Bao Xu's neck and said, "Old Bao, you can't read, you can't write, you remember a fart?" ”

Bao Xu hurriedly said, "Brother Li, do you teach me?" ”

Li Kui's old face turned red, and he was embarrassed to tell Bao Xu that the words on this small wooden board were all written by Zhou Tong for him. So he coughed dryly and said, "This word is so difficult to learn, and it's not easy to remember." It's going to start fighting in a while, and you're not a genius in a million, where can you learn? ”

Bao Xu hurriedly said: "What can I do about this?" ”

Li Kui lowered his voice and said, "Just remember how many you killed, and finally let Zhou Tong write ......"

Zhou Tong saw Li Kui and Bao Xu looking at him, snickering with ill intentions, his heart tightened, his life was so bitter, he was bullied by one person before, but now he has become two people! Or Yu Baosi is reliable!

Yu Baosi also lowered his eyes and said softly: "Brother Zhou, my plank depends on you." ”

Zhou Tong said secretly: "That's it, just take it as the price of wooing Yu Baosi!" ”

Li Kui said to Bao Xu: "Old Bao, how many ears are in your cloth bag?" ”

Bao Xu opened his mouth to stammer, and after a while, one jumped off the wall, ran over to the cloth bag and shouted, "I forgot to count!" ”

After Xu Liang gathered his troops, he carried out an inventory and found that more than 100 people were killed and wounded, which can be described as a heavy loss.

Go on the offensive or withdraw?

Xu Liang secretly calculated in his heart that if he withdrew, it would be useless, and he would have to bear the huge responsibility of the disadvantage!

If you continue to attack, once you break through the walled city, as long as you exterminate the thieves, those losses can only be regarded as normal losses, and the responsibility cannot be counted on your own head.

But those thieves are fierce, and their weapons and armor are very sophisticated, which is almost comparable to the Central Forbidden Army. How can we break through the walled city?

Liu Wu, who was next to him, observed his words and found Xu Liang's hesitation, so he said: "Does the Lord know who the thieves in the city are?" ”

Xu Liang glanced at Liu Wu and said angrily: "Who do I care who he is?" Not an enemy of your Liu family? ”

Liu Wudao: "This person is a descendant of the Chao family who took away Tai Cai's teacher and Chen Gang, and Tai Shi issued a heavy reward to arrest this person." If this person is caught by the Lord and escorted to Beijing, he will definitely be valued by the Grand Master, and his future will definitely be limitless! ”

Xu Liang was moved, but he was skeptical: "Is this true? Why didn't you tell the prefect when you were in Dengzhou? ”

Liu Wu robbed the Chao family of thousands of ordnance, and at first he was lucky, hoping to take it back with the power of the government, so he concealed the information of Chao Chong and others from the prefect Cheng Tianzhi. Now seeing that the thief is so fierce, Xu Liang has the intention of retreating, so he decided to expose Chao Chong's identity and lure Xu Liang to continue the attack.

Liu Wuchang sighed and said: "Don't hide it from your lordship, I was only slightly suspicious at first, but I saw that the young man who made the long knife at the gate of the village was Chao Chong, the son of Chao Gai, the king of Tota, so I was sure." ”

"Bullshit Tota Heavenly King, if he meets me, let him become a bear too!" Xu Liang scolded.

Liu Wu saw that Xu Liang's heart was moved, so he strengthened and said: "The reason why this Chao Chong wants to take my Black Mountain Island is because he has a boatload of gold and silver treasures staying in my village. I was notified by Master Chen, the sailor, to encircle and suppress his ships, which provoked this Chao Chong to come to retaliate! ”

"A shipload of gold and silver treasures?" Xu Liang's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Where is the treasure?" ”

Liu Wu lowered his head and wept and said: "It is the order of the sailor Lord Chen to encircle and suppress the merchant ships of the Chao family, and the gold and silver obtained by my Liu brothers naturally dare not be greedy for ink, and they are all stored in the village, just waiting for Lord Chen to send a ship to get them, but I don't want Lord Chen to come before he comes, and this urging Chao Chong will come first." I think my younger brother Liu Qi is still in the village, I don't know what happened to life and death! Woowoo woo ......"

As soon as he heard that the gold and silver were still in the village, Xu Liang straightened his waist and said righteously: "Don't panic, this official has always been jealous and hateful, and I can't see these thieves rampant." Since Brother Ling is in the village, I will send troops to rescue him! ”

Liu Wu hurriedly bowed to the end and said, "Thank you for your kindness!" ”

After Xu Liang was in high spirits, he looked at the wall, sighed again, and said, "However, the thieves are well-armed and ferocious!" ”

Liu Wudao: "Don't worry, listen to me!" This wooden village is hundreds of paces in circumference, and the thieves have only more than 50 people at the head of the city, which is obviously under-guarded. Moreover, the wooden village is only one zhang and five high, and the abandoned boats in the water village can be gradually flattened as long as the abandoned boats in the water village are piled up under the wall. My strength is several times that of him, and I will definitely be able to break through the wall! Moreover, most of the people at the head of the city are my original brothers in Shuizhai, and with my favor for many years, I can naturally persuade them to surrender and further disintegrate the enemy! In this way, wouldn't it be easy for adults to break through the wooden village and capture Chao Chong? ”

Xu Liang applauded and smiled: "Clever plan! ”

After that, Xu Liang asked people to go to the water village to carry the abandoned boat to the shore for later use. After some preparations, 300 soldiers lined up outside the wooden wall, ready to attack the city.

Chao Chong looked at the officers and soldiers thirty paces away, and secretly hated that there were no archers in the village, otherwise he would have to shoot first.

Xu Liang first asked Liu Wu to go outside the wall to persuade him to surrender and disintegrate the hostility.

That Liu Wu dragged his fat body, and under the escort of two soldiers with shields, within twenty steps of the wall, shouted loudly: "Brothers in the wall, listen, I, Liu Wu, are back again!" ”

The ironclad soldiers on the wall of the wall had just received the silver taels issued by Huang Xin, and killed an officer and soldier for twenty taels of silver, which was heavy in his arms, but he felt very down-to-earth in his heart. Hearing Liu Wu shouting, he subconsciously covered the silver on his chest. This silver is all distributed from Liu Wu's inventory, Liu Wu comes back, do you want us to go back!

Liu Wu shouted at the top of his voice: "Now that the government soldiers are coming, everyone is in danger. But I, Liu Wunian, for the sake of everyone who has followed me for many years, pleaded with Lord Xu, I can spare your lives, as long as you put down your sword and gun and come out, you can be spared death! ”

The soldiers on the village glanced at each other, and those officers and soldiers were almost driven into the sea just now! Lord Huang can lead ten people to kill back and forth in their army, without losing a single person! Master Li Kui, the four of them dared to chase and kill the officers and generals and fled with their lives! General Chao guarded the gate of the village alone, and the corpses of the officers and soldiers he killed were all over the place, and he didn't dare to step forward! These defeated generals still want us to go out and surrender and spare our lives? Isn't this Liu Wu joking?

A chief on the wall of the wall took out a large piece of silver of sixty taels from his arms and shook it, and said, "Your Liu brothers usually deduct so much money from us, and you still want us to work for you?" I've been following you for five years, and I haven't earned as much money in a day, and you still have the face to say that it's good to us? ”

Liu Wu was surprised: "What do you mean!" ”

With a "snap", a corpse was thrown off the wall and rotted into a puddle of flesh. Liu Wu took a closer look, wasn't it his younger brother Liu Qi?

"My dear brother!" Liu Wu rushed out from behind the shield guard like crazy and ran towards his brother's corpse.

"Whoosh", a spear flew out, pierced Liu Wu, and stuck to the ground, that Liu Wu still maintained the movement of his body forward, his hand stretched forward, and he whimpered for his life.

Chao Chong withdrew his hand and snorted: "Dare to touch my Chao family's things, this is the fate of your brother!" ”

Xu Liang saw that Liu Wu was killed if he failed to persuade him to surrender, so he ordered the whole army to start attacking. Groups of soldiers approached the wall with small boats on their shoulders.

The ironclad soldiers on the wall of the wall were condescending, poking down with their spears. The officers and troops had a large number of archers behind the sword and shield soldiers, and the two sides fought fiercely over the wall.

The wall was hundreds of paces wide on three sides, and it was difficult for fifty people to guard it, so Chao Chong ordered Li Kui, Bao Xu, Zhou Tong, and Yu Bao to move around each other on the wall to support the Quartet.

Chao Chong stood guard at the mouth of a ramp built by the officers and soldiers in small boats, and from time to time he rushed down the slope to kill the archers.

Xu Liang saw the tragic situation of Liu Wu's death, and did not dare to approach the walled wall for thirty steps, but shouted behind his back: "Those who attack the head of the city will be rewarded with ten taels of silver!" Kill the thief and reward five taels of silver! ”

Those swordfish sailors usually don't have much military salary, and when they heard the reward, they all began to work hard.

Half an hour later, the officers and troops attacked several times, but they all returned in vain. Even if the 50 soldiers were protected by iron armor, they had more than 10 casualties and were sent down the wall in time. And those swordfish sailors also suffered more than 100 casualties in the attack after attack.

Ruan Xiaoqi and his thirty men were all on standby, and several requests for battle were suppressed by Chao.

Xu Liang roared on the shore, and it was clear that there were more than 30 thieves left on the wall, but his own side just couldn't break it! Obviously, they attacked the wall several times, but they were killed again! Obviously, you can succeed with a little more effort, but when you are about to succeed, you can't continue!

Xu Liang had no good way to scold these subordinates for their incompetence, seeing the crumbling wall, and then looking at the exhausted 200 swordfish sailors after half an hour of fierce fighting, Xu Liang decided to attack again! If it is still unsuccessful, go back to the ship to repair for a while, everyone is very tired, and there are more than 200 casualties on the shore, and it can't go on like this.

Chao Chong was also observing the situation, saw the fatigue of the officials and soldiers, and said to Ruan Xiaoqi in the village: "Go and light the wolf smoke!" ”

This news shocked Ruan Xiaoqi's spirits, and lit the wolf smoke, indicating that the decisive moment was coming, and hurriedly waved the red flag towards a peak on the shore.

Waiting by the campfire on the shore was a warlock named Zao Wou-ki, who was rescued by Chao Chong on the supply ship, and he has been cautious, in the face of this kind of battle, he has no power to restrain the chicken, and he does not dare to escape, so he can only pray to God to let the official army be defeated. If not, if you surrender again, will you still be able to survive? He's secretly measuring.

Suddenly, seeing the red flag waving in the wooden village, Zao Wou-Ki hurriedly ran to the bonfire prepared in advance, and lit the wolf smoke, which was like an oolong soaring into the sky.

Ruan Xiaowu, who was hiding on Little Black Mountain Island, saw the wolf smoke burning on Big Black Mountain Island, and hurriedly beckoned the sailors on the ship to start the "Flying Bird" and sail towards the Black Mountain Water Village.

After a stick of incense, Zhao Wou-Ki, who was at the peak of the shore, saw Ruan Xiaowu's big boat approaching the Black Mountain Water Village, and hurriedly waved the red flag in his hand down the mountain.

Chao Chong saw the red flag shaking, and his heart was settled. shouted to Ruan Xiaoqi: "Prepare for war at the gate of the wall!" ”

"Command!" Ruan Xiaoqi was overjoyed, and beckoned the thirty soldiers who had been preparing for war to gather at the gate of the wall.

"Open the door! Counterattack! ”

"Fight back!"

"Fight back!"

Chao Chong took the lead, and rushed down the slope again, the long knife like the wind, sweeping away.

When Li Kui heard the sound of counterattack, he no longer cared about the wall, jumped down, and began to slash unscrupulously!

The gate of the fortress opened suddenly, and Ruan Xiaoqi took the thirty soldiers who had been recuperating like wolves and tigers, and rushed straight to Xu Liang on the shore!

The attacking swordfish sailors had long since reached the point of exhaustion, and when they saw that the enemy began to counterattack, and that there was still a new force of the enemy to kill, they could no longer hold on, and began to retreat on all fronts.

Huang Xin shouted on the wall: "The enemy soldiers retreat, go down to the city to pursue!" ”

"Downtown pursuit!"

"Downtown pursuit!"

Xu Liang saw that the situation was not good, and he couldn't care about others, so he jumped on a swordfish warship first, and beckoned the guards around him: "Row quickly, row quickly!" ”

When the swordfish sailors saw that their commander had fled first, they all fled to the nearest ship and rowed out to sea.

Some of them didn't bother to get on the boat, so they jumped into the sea and swam towards the gate of the water village.

Pity the wounded soldiers, all left on the shore and left unattended.

Chao Chong chased them all the way to the shore, and it was another victory.

Ruan Xiaoqi took thirty people to board three boats and take the lead in chasing them out.

Chao Chong yelled at the follow-up ironclad soldiers: "Disarm, board the ship!" ”

Those ironclad soldiers who rushed to the shore began to take off their iron armor, and wore iron armor in battle at sea, and once they fell into the water, they could hardly survive.

Xu Liang kept urging the sailors to row quickly, but there were too many large and small broken boats in the water village, and the speed was not fast, and finally arrived at the gate of the water village, but found that a big ship of 2,000 stones blocked the gate of the village.

Ruan Xiaowu stood on the "Flying Bird" with a pig iron oar, condescending, and shouted: "Dog officer! Do you recognize your grandfather Ruan Xiaowu! ”

Xu Liang chuckled in his heart and secretly screamed, "It's over!" ”