"I'm afraid that Shishou is no longer owned by the Jingnan Army!" The man who said this was a young general, with a long white face, and a bookish man in his armor.

Chai Zaiyong didn't look back, and asked casually, "Why did Mrs. Jun say this?" ”

"Along the way, the younger generations feel abnormal, Shishou is the first county in the lower reaches of Jingzhou, and my Wu State Sailor has entered, they should have arranged a guard of honor to greet each other outside the water village. In front of the water village, there is neither a guard of honor, nor a messenger, and it will be difficult to meet, so there is only one explanation, that is, the stone head is no longer owned by Jingnan. The young general said, Juntai is his character, and his real name is Zhou Zong.

If Li Congjing sees this person, he will know: in the future, he will have two daughters, the eldest is called Emperor E, married to Li Yu and becomes the famous Empress of the Great Zhou, and the other daughter will also marry Li Yu after the death of Emperor E and become the Empress of the Little Zhou.

Chai Zayong's gaze still fell on the front, "Then according to Juntai's intentions, who will occupy the stone head and attack our army?" ”

"Judging from the current situation in Jiangling, the one who occupies the head of the stone will not be someone else, but Li Congjing, the king of Li Tang and Qin!" Zhou Zong said firmly.

Chai Zaiyong's face was as usual, and he did not comment, these things, a discerning person can know at a glance, but this Zhou Zong still has a careful analysis of the matter, I really don't know what to say. Chai Zaiyong has a noble status, and the reason why he is willing to accompany him to talk nonsense is just because of this trip to Jingzhou, headed by Xu Zhihe, and Zhou Zong is Xu Zhihe's confidant.

After selling his own knowledge, Zhou Zong began to show his concern about the battle situation again, "General Chai, the enemy burned the ship with fire, this is to repeat the old things in Chibi, the current situation is critical, General Chai has to deal with it quickly!" ”

"Chibi old things?" Chai snorted coldly, although he was polite to Zhou Zong, he was an arrogant person in his bones, "Carving insect skills, easy to break!" ”

After that, he waved the command flag, and in the Wu State Naval Division, there were immediately many boats rushing out at a rapid pace, while the building ships and fighting ships in front began to slow down, and it didn't take long for the boats to get close to those fireships, and before they made contact, the boats that ran out threw out iron chains, which were connected to each other, and it was easy to isolate the fireships from the main body of the fleet.

On the water village, Ma Huaiyuan and others couldn't help frowning when they saw that Wu Guoshuishi was stopped in the river, and the fireboat was circled, and Wuguo's sailor could no longer be burned. Fortunately, the previous offensive was not in vain, and the response of the Wu State Navy Division also took a lot of time, these fire ships still burned several building ships of the Wu State, more than a dozen fighting ships, not counting, and the number of Wu troops who fell into the water was hundreds.

In this light, the Fuzhou Army achieved a lot of results with a surprise offensive.

The fireboat burned and sank, like a drowning man, no matter how unwilling he struggled, he inevitably gradually disappeared into the river, and finally his bones were gone. After the river was cleared, Wu Guoshui continued to advance vigorously, like a proud soldier who raised his jaw.

In front of the water village, the pontoon bridge across the river finally revealed its true face. As the head fortress of Jingnan defense downstream, the pontoon bridge body is a fighting ship, connected by an iron lock, and the horizontal wood is paved on it, like a flat ground, and the fortifications are also complete, its width is up to twenty or thirty steps, and the female wall can cover the whole person. Originally, there was a fence in the middle of the pontoon bridge, which could be opened to sail the boat, but now Ma Huaiyuan removed the fence and built all the walls.

This kind of fortification is the famous "iron chain lock river".

This is the main battlefield of the Fuzhou Army's defense of Wu Guoshui's division.

Ma Huaiyuan stood on the water village and looked at Wu Guoshui with raised eyebrows. At this distance, the waves of the Wu ship's breaking waves, the rapidly sliding oars, can be clearly distinguished, the Wu characters fluttering in the wind, under the banner of the Wu character and the chai character, the Wu army armor soldiers are all eyeing each other, murderous, as if they can't wait to avenge the loss of Fang Cai.

The pontoon bridge is about the same height as the Wu Jun fighting ship, and it is shorter than the Zhilou ship, and Zhou Xiaoquan, who is behind the female wall, saw the other party's ship approaching, and clenched the horizontal knife in his hand. The five-length hook and sickle on the Yang Wu ship was held in the hands of Wu Jun, the sharp blade was cold, and the two-pound plowshare dart was stacked on the deck, as if it would be smashed down on the head at any time, and the big stone tied to the front of the slap pole could easily make people crush their bones, and the arrow sticking out of the arrow hole had been aimed at him, and it seemed that it would shoot through his body in the next moment.

The sound of the wind and the waves are endless, chaotic, near and far, and the river breeze is cold, blowing on people, making people tremble slightly. Zhou Xiaoquan glanced left and right, and found that the officers and soldiers of the Fuzhou Army were all holding their breath, looking at the river hard, their faces were either nervous or excited or hideous.

The waves were louder, and the ships of the Wu Kingdom were getting closer. Suddenly, the drum beat like muffled thunder, exploding behind him.

Zhou Xiaoquan felt that the sound of the drum drilled into his ears, rushed into his body, grabbed his heart, kept pinching and grinding, and gradually increased the force, making people's breathing involuntarily follow its rhythm. The drum beat gradually accelerated, Zhou Xiaoquan felt that his heartbeat and breathing were speeding up, and an inexplicable force was flowing in his body, stimulating his nerves, making him want to shout, and want to rush out desperately and fight with the enemy.

Zhou Xiaoquan looked at the source of the sound, and saw a stone weighing 100 pounds smashed a big pit on the pontoon, and the sawdust splashed wantonly in the sun, like a huge wave blooming.

In front of this big rock, a person's flesh is not stronger than a wooden plank, and when it touches it, it will end up with flesh and blood, and there will not even be a whole corpse.

"Avoid rocks! Avoid rocks! Zhou Xiaoquan reacted quickly, opened his mouth and began to shout, as the head of the capital, on the battlefield, there were more than 100 lives for him to be responsible, and he didn't have time to be stunned. The cat's body bow was behind the female wall, and through the arrow hole, Zhou Xiaoquan looked out, and at this look, his eyes immediately opened like copper bells.

His shout was like a signal that kicked off the war. In front of the pontoon, the ships of Wu were like a group of wild beasts, competing for food, rushing towards them, and on the ships, countless stones, crossbow arrows, arrows, and locusts were also overwhelmingly covering them.

The pontoon bridge began to shake violently, like an earthquake struck, and all kinds of sounds were non-stop, like the devil was raging, and people couldn't help but suspect that the world had collapsed and that they would die soon. Zhou Xiaoquan grabbed the handrail behind the women's wall hard, so that he was not shaken to the ground, he called his subordinates desperately, "Squat, squat!" Grab the handrail and move around! ”

Before he could finish shouting, an unprecedented loud noise shook him for a moment, and just five steps away from him, a big rock smashed the female wall, knocking out a sergeant behind the female wall, the sergeant spurted blood from his mouth, ears and nose, and before he could let out a scream, his eyes lost his lustre, and his lifeless body fell on the bridge in an instant, slipped out of the distance, and was shot by a sharp arrow, nailed to the plank, and suddenly became a dead flesh, and there was no movement.

On the pontoon bridge, there began to be a lot of panicked Fuzhou soldiers, screaming and holding their heads and running around, Fuzhou has rarely been fighting recently, many soldiers have not been bloodied, where can they withstand such a battle, there are more than one or two people who are criing and crying in their hearts.

These soldiers, who left the women's wall and threw away their shields, crashed into the rain of arrows in the crossbow forest, and were destined to die faster, and their bodies were pierced by sharp arrows, or they fell to the ground and did not move, or they covered their wounds and howled miserably on the bridge, and the blinding blood gradually appeared on the wooden board.

Zhou Xiaoquan hated itchy, he knew that if there was nothing to divert the attention of these soldiers, if they were beaten passively like this, I am afraid that there would not be a few people who collapsed. This thought rose, and Zhou Xiaoquan, who was leaning against the women's wall, looked at the water village, and immediately saw the flying flags.

Immediately, the drums beat suddenly and urgently.

Zhou Xiaoquan shouted, took his bow and drew the arrow, turned around, drew the bow and arrows behind the arrow hole, and didn't have time to aim, the iron arrow had already shot out, "Fuck it, let go of the arrow!" ”

After Wu Guoshui's division took the lead, the Fuzhou army immediately counterattacked, and the other party beckoned their stones, crossbow arrows, and sharp arrows, and they dealt with them as well.

There is a never-ending rain of arrows flying in the sky, you come and go, the ships and pontoons are burning from time to time, it is a masterpiece of rockets, but most of the ships of Wu are wrapped in raw cowhide of Qinshui, and the pontoon bridge is not bad for countermeasures, the water potential is not burning, the soldiers on both sides shout and greet each other, and the scene is full of iron and blood.

"All heads, all heads!" A soldier bowed and ran to Zhou Xiao's body, and pointed behind him with an anxious face, "The crossbowman is dead, no one can use this crossbow!" ”

Zhou Xiaoquan fixed his eyes and saw that next to the bed crossbow, a sergeant fell on the bridge deck, with a pool of blood flowing from his body, and he was already dead. The bed crossbow is a sharp weapon, and its power is so great that it is not comparable to ordinary bows and arrows, how can it be idle, Zhou Xiaoquan immediately ran to the bed crossbow, "I'm coming!" ”

"Shield, cover!" The sergeant hurriedly shouted.

The tide will eventually hit the embankment, and as the first Wu fighting ship leans on the pontoon bridge, and the first Wu soldier jumps onto the pontoon, the white-knuckle battle finally arrives. The menacing Wu military fighting ship touched the pontoon bridge, causing the pontoon bridge to tremble, and the violent vibration of the bridge deck made people wonder if the pontoon bridge would fall apart.

"Hook sickle, where is the hook sickle, come here, quick!" Raising his head from behind the bed crossbow, Zhou Qiaoquan saw that there was a Wu army fighting ship approaching in front of him, and the Wu army soldiers on the boat, some of them were holding giant axes, some were holding fierce fire oil, and some were carrying knives and shields, all of them had hideous faces, and they wanted to jump on the pontoon bridge at any time.

More than a dozen Fuzhou soldiers ran over with hooks and sickles, and one of them, before he could run, was shot through the neck by a sharp arrow, and immediately fell down with his hands in his throat, his face was bruised, and he rolled on the bridge deck uncertainly, and his legs kept bouncing. Zhou Xiaoquan didn't have time to take care of anything else, picked up the hook and sickle, and shouted loudly: "Fuck the straight thief, go back!" ”

"Shield, shield, up!" A row of hooks and sickles stretched out, and they were dead against the hull of the Yang Wu Dou ship that was leaning over, and they were forced to support outward, and the armor soldiers on the Wu Guo Dou ship were crazy, and kept throwing arrows and stones, but they were basically blocked by the shield held high by the Fuzhou army. Behind the shield, the archers of the Fuzhou army desperately fired arrows and shot at them, so that the opponent could not do it with all their might.

When the Wu State Fighting Ship approached, it was facing the pontoon bridge on the side, which was originally convenient for the armor to land, but it also lost power, Zhou Xiaoquan and others worked together, although a few people fell, and finally gave the Wu Army Fighting Ship back.

"Well done!" After retreating to the women's wall, Zhou Xiaoquan wiped the sweat from his forehead, relieved himself, he looked at the sergeant beside him, he had gone to control the bed crossbow before, and he had just resisted the Wu State Fighting Ship, thanks to his shield cover, Zhou Xiaoquan saw that the other party was still childish, but full of energy, it was rare that he reacted quickly, moved quickly, and cherished his thoughts, "What's your name?" ”

"Back to the capital, my name is Feng San" The young man was a little excited.

Zhou Xiaoquan nodded, before he could say more, a plow dart fell from the sky, hitting Feng San's brain, and in an instant, the other party's brain bone was shattered, the brain was splashed, and the body fell on the bridge in a shake, bleeding non-stop, unconscious, only the body kept twitching.

Blood mixed with brain pulp splashed Zhou Xiaoquan's face, he was stunned, and at this moment, a slap rod with a big stone tied to the front passed by, and the female wall next to him shattered. The vibration brought Zhou Xiaoquan back to his senses, and he swept aside like a conditioned reflex, and saw a Wu army fighting ship, stretching out a hook and sickle to hook the female wall of the pontoon bridge, and was approaching. The Wu military armor on the boat rushed to jump up when the hull of the ship touched the pontoon.

"The straight bitch thief of the dog day!" Zhou Xiaoquan wiped his face fiercely, spit out a mouthful of blood, drew the horizontal knife on his waist, ran forward, and raised the knife to kill the Wu army soldier in front of him. Wu Jun, who was the first to board the bridge, was holding a huge axe, which showed that he was a brave man, and before he could stand firmly, he saw Zhou Xiaoquan rushing over and hurriedly raised his axe to chop.

The giant axe was heavy and the horizontal knife was light, Zhou Xiaoquan used all his strength with one blow, and the speed was one line faster than that Wu army armorer, and before the opponent's giant axe fell, the horizontal knife in his hand tore the opponent's neck. Under the flying flesh and blood, Wu Junjia's eyes were wide open, and his face was frozen with a look of unwillingness and surprise, but his body was powerless to fall backwards and fall into the river.

Zhou Xiaoquan succeeded in one blow, and before he had time to change his moves, next to the Wu army sergeant, a sergeant holding a horizontal knife stared at Zhou Xiaoquan with red eyes, roared and slashed out horizontally, and the blade arrived in front of Zhou Xiao's body in a blink of an eye.

Zhou Xiaoquan didn't have time to react, and he was about to be hit hard, at this time, there was a Fuzhou army soldier next to him, and his hand was up and down, but his action was slightly earlier than that Wu Jun, but when he saw the knife flash, Wu Jun's arm flew into the air, and the screaming Wu Jun didn't have time to cover his bloody shoulder, Zhou Xiaoquan kicked him back into the river.

Several Fuzhou soldiers who rushed to form a small formation with Zhou Xiaoquan, and in front of them, the Wu soldiers on the bridge also formed a formation, the two sides looked at each other, all of them had hideous faces, gritted their teeth, and suddenly, the two sides roared, stepped forward and raised their knives, killing each other!

At this point, the drum is as dense as rain and as heavy as a mountain.

The two armies were inseparable, and neither of them took half a step back.

"Dutou, then there is Wu Jun who wants to cut the chains!" A group of Wu troops, who killed the Fuzhou army in front of them, immediately did not stop, poured fierce fire oil and ignited the bridge, and then swung a giant axe to cut the iron chains of the ships.

"Hold the chains!" Zhou Xiaoquan screamed, and rushed towards the group of Wu troops with the Fuzhou army soldiers beside him. The chain is the lifeblood of the pontoon, and once the chain is broken, the pontoon will cease to exist. The battle between the two armies on the pontoon bridge was a game between protecting the pontoon bridge and iron locks and destroying the pontoon bridge and chains.

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Note 1: Hook sickle. "Its handle is made of bamboo, one zhang and five feet long, and there is a curved iron blade at the top, when two ships approach, they can push the enemy ship away and prevent it from approaching, or they can hook the enemy ship and pull it in, so as not to let it escape."

Note 2: Ploughshare dart. "Weigh two catties, the first diameter is one inch, the length is seven inches, and the tail diameter is three inches to throw the thief boat, the middle boat will be holed, and the middle man will be broken."

Note 3: Shoot the rod. "Wooden poles are often topped with boulders, which are used to slap the enemy's other defenses when approaching enemy ships."