The 30,000-strong army went all the way to the south, avoiding the counties along the way, and arrived at the mouth of the water five days later. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"My lord." In front of the camp gate, Cao Xing, Zhang Liao, and Gan Ning hugged their fists.

Lu Bu turned over and dismounted, hurriedly helped the three generals up, and said with a smile: "How many people did you bring?" ”

"There are 10,000 generals, 10,000 Wenyuan, 10,000 Xingba, plus the 30,000 army of the lord, there are 60,000 troops." Cao Xing knows it very well.

"Hmm." Nodding, Lu Bu smiled and asked, "How is the riding of Rudi and Zhou?" "These days, I have been buying war horses from Yuan Xi, and I am afraid that now Cao Xing's cavalry is as small as 5,000 people.

"Five thousand and five hundred." At the mention of his precious cavalry, Cao Xing was excited.

Hehe. The key to this battle depends on these 5,500 people. He smiled secretly in his heart, and asked on his face: "What is the reflection of Juchao Liu Xun?" ”

"After the autumn harvest, the last general will not supply him with grain and grass because of the lack of grain and grass, Liu Xun* can barely survive until now with the grain and grass collected from the land of four or five cities, and the last general can swallow it with only 5,000 people." Cao Xuan patted his chest and pleased.

"No need, you and the two of you will surround the nest from the left and right, and Lone will send someone to inform him to gather a large army to come to help." Lu Bu turned to Gan Ning and said, "You will drive the naval army to the Yangtze River and show off the majesty of loneliness." ”

"No."

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Ju Chao, Liu Xun was drinking a lot of stuffy wine in the mansion, cup after glass, his face was red and terrifying, and his subordinates on both sides even suspected that as long as one was not careful, he would hang up

"Don't drink, general, Lu Bu sent someone to ask the general to send an army to attack Jiangdong together, the army is slowly approaching Juchao from the north, east, west, and three sides, and even Ganning's naval army is already on the Yangtze River." One of his men persuaded.

Liu Xun was stunned, and then he was furious, his head slammed down on the case, his face turned from red to blue, and his eyes immediately turned white.

The general is not going to commit suicide. The subordinates were all frightened, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Liu Xun up.

"Let go." Liu Xun drank loudly and pushed everyone away, and it seemed that people were also much sober. "Huh. These generals had expected it a long time ago, but they didn't expect Lu Bu to turn his face so early. "Liu Xun regretted it in his heart, he originally wanted to be sandwiched between the two forces of the north and the south and be a carefree little prince, but he didn't expect it to come to an end so soon.

"The general is prepared?" The subordinates said excitedly.

"Shut the gates of the city and wait for help." Liu Xun only had eight words, but he scared his subordinates half to death, Lu Bu's 50,000 army, this Juchao city is not high, how can he resist it.

But Liu Xun couldn't care so much, he had been a real superior for a few months, and no one was pressing on his head, how happy he was.

Short on food? He Liu Xun has never lacked any food, he has secretly sent small troops to rob the manors of some big clans many times, and now the granary is full of grain, but he has eaten seventy percent of the soldiers to cover up people's eyes.

Now that Lu Bu has been bullied, and Sun Ce has also promised to save him, why not give it a go.

It seems that Liu Xun wants to defend the city, so he will not blame him for being lonely and ruthless, and his face changed when he lifted the thunderbolt, and he shouted.

An army of 30,000 broke through it, and twenty wooden four-wheeled thunderbolts slowly moved forward, the whole body of the thunderbolt was made of wood, and the middle was made of a crossbar, which was an iron pot-shaped stone loader, which was very complicated, and simply used the principle of levers to launch the stones.

This small one, which can shoot about ten pounds of stones, has a range of about 300 meters, but unfortunately the workmanship of this kind of thing is too complicated, and only a few dozen of them were made in April and May, and most of them were loaded on the big ship called the Thunderbolt by the sailors.

After the soldier of the cart loaded the boulder, he took a look with one eye, and when he pulled the rope, the boulder on the loaded stone formed a perfect parabola, and several unlucky guards were immediately smashed into meatloaf.

But about half of the boulder also smashed on the city wall, Lu Bu shook his head, still too poor, pulled out his sword, raised it and shouted: "The first person to go up the city wall will enjoy thousands of acres of land." ”

It's not that Lu Bu is a loser, but that there are too many fields under his command, so many that they can't be managed.

"Kill." The soldiers rushed forward with red eyes and shouting, those who ate military rations were originally working for people, not to mention that there were thousands of acres of land, which was enough for them to fight hard.

"Bump, bump, bump." The loud sound made the guards of the city tremble slightly behind the female wall, and they didn't even dare to raise their heads, they saw the scene with their own eyes just now, and several colleagues didn't say a word, they fell down, and one of the more decrepit ones was smashed in the head, and their brains flowed all over the ground, but their feet were still cramping.

"Get up. Give *** to Lao Tzu up. "I know that this battle is at stake for my own life. A general wearing iron armor braved the stone rain to kick the soldiers desperately, and the howl resounded throughout the city.

The soldiers reluctantly got up and shot arrows. But at this time, there were already countless soldiers under the wall, and they couldn't clean it up in a short time.

It was raining stones outside, it was raining oil on the walls, and the hot oil was pouring on the people who could peel off their skins alive, and countless people fell from the ladders, rubbing their bodies hard before they died. But he could only rub off the skin, and the contact between the flesh and the ground in the bloody ground was even more painful, but he could only roll on the ground and wail.

Some of the unlucky ones were even hit by their own boulders, and even the stones and people formed a sandwich cake with the city wall, and the flesh balls that were no longer recognizable in human form fell to the ground one after another, leaving only patches of red and yellow corresponding filth on the city wall.

The tragic aura spread, and the soldiers around Lu Bu all looked at the thunderbolt cars that kept firing stones in the distance, it was too terrifying.

Lu Bu frowned. Ordered the thunderbolt to stop, although this thing is a strong deterrent, but it also hits your own morale.

There was a tragic siege battle here, but it was even more lively over there in Ganning. Zhou Tai, who was ordered to keep an eye on Lu Bu's navy, sailed three building ships, countless large lands. The small ships, forming a pointed cone on the water, headed for Ganning's motley fleet.

Countless waves crashed against the hull of the boat, the big boat was fine, those specially made small boats swayed, like a leaf falling on the river, although it was difficult but could not sink.

A rain of arrows shot down from the opponent's ship, the boat was no protective ground, and several people on the boat were quickly shot by the range hedgehog, but the boat was unabated, and the black and shiny cone spurs hit the front row of the Dongwu Navy fiercely.

"Bump." The soldiers of the Eastern Wu on the ship shook violently, and a few soldiers who were unstable in their standing were immediately thrown out of the boat, and there was a beautiful splash of water in the "boom", but the water in December was cold, and these water-based soldiers floated and sank for a while, and with a "grunt", they immediately sank to the bottom of the river.

These small boats have also completed their mission, and the small cracks that appear in front of the ships of Soochow will naturally sink to the bottom of the river as the warships drift on the water for a long time.

The collision between the "killing" ship and the ship was tragic, just like on land, the sailors jumped out of the hull one by one, rushed to the enemy's warship to slash, an experienced Dongwu soldier was as stable as Mount Tai, the spear in his hand waved, one person killed several people, but was stabbed in the chest by a soldier who was stabbed in the chest by him flew out of the warship, and both of them fell into the water.

But it's not just a desperate job, although the soldiers are not afraid of death, but they still can't fight the powerful Soochow naval army.

In the battle on the water, the Soochow people occupied an absolute advantage, not in the water, but in experience.

The originally turquoise river surface was dyed a blood-red color as the soldiers of the two sides continued to fall into the water, "Kill, the ship in front of it detours, and the thunderbolt boat moves forward." Then order the left and right Sima to advance to the two flanks of Eastern Wu. On a thunderbolt ship, in the cabin covered by thick wooden planks, an anxious-looking Gan Ning shouted.

The two Thunderbolt ships immediately turned their bows and took dozens of ships in an arc to outflank the two wings of the Eastern Wu people, while the wheels on the ship were removed but the Thunderbolt carts that gave the cylinders to turn automatically, and aimed at the enemy's three ships.

Gan Ning's eight thunderbolt ships were at full power, and countless burning boulders were thrown into the three building ships of the Eastern Wu Army, bumping, causing the hull to shake violently, but what was even more terrifying was that the entire wooden building ship and the dry building ship were definitely the best food for the fire.

Boulders rushed into the hull from the windows from countless directions. The fresh water on the ship was limited, and the busy soldiers were not enough to extinguish the countless fires, and countless soldiers slapped the flames on their bodies, howling miserably and jumping into the icy river.

"Withdraw troops." Zhou Tai immediately made a decision, and after the palace, the three building boats with billowing smoke quickly returned to the water village, ordered the soldiers to close the wooden fence, and he escaped from the building boat in a hurry.

Although this thunderbolt is easy to use, the soldiers who have been released are indeed not as strong as those of Soochow. The casualties in the first battle just now were almost two to one, and Gan Ning looked at the river in a daze.

"Salvage the soldiers." Without the slightest joy of forcing back the Eastern Wu Naval Army, Gan Ning looked at some soldiers on the river who were still calling for help and said lightly.

"Hurry up and put out the fire, put out the fire." His feet had already stepped on the planks of the water village, but the fires on the boat were getting longer and stronger, and Zhou Tai was distressed

, I can't wait to personally go forward to extinguish all the fires, the cost of these three building ships.

"Hell, the ship I'm waiting for has become a live target. However, the ship seems to be specially used to deal with the land for the building ship. "Jiang Qin is more rational. It quickly came to mind the weakness of the Thunderbolt Land.

"What do you mean?" Although Zhou Tai is fierce, he still has a set of sailors, and his eyes are bright. Said thoughtfully.

"Dongwu is not only a building ship, but a ship can resist Lu Bu's sailors." The navy lost hundreds of people just now, and Jiang Qin was a little ruthless.

"Okay, rescue the warship first, and fight again tomorrow."

At the head of the nest city, the general was lucky. Urging the soldiers with all their might, shouting to boost morale, the soldiers who were no longer threatened by the boulder threw the crossbar hard, moved the ladder together, and threw it to the ground together with the people above, and the back of the Lu Bush soldiers in a row was downward, hitting the ground fiercely, and blood overflowed from their mouths frantically. After a few moments, there was silence.