At ten o'clock in the night, the big tent of the Chinese army in Jiangdong was brilliantly lit. Pro, Baidu search eye & fast, a large number of free looks. Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Lü Meng, Xu Sheng, Zhang Song, the wounded Zhou Tai, and more than a dozen Jiangdong generals gathered in the big tent, guarding a brief map of Xiangyang, frowning and pondering.

"Where do you say, where will Cao Cao hide?" Sun Ce asked.

Zhou Yu pondered for a moment and pointed out on the map: "According to the information reported by the scouts today, the cult's soldiers and horses are mainly concentrated in the north of the city. Only a small number of enemy forces were active in the southern city, so it was certain that Cao Cao must be in the north of the city. In this way, the scope of the search is narrowed down considerably. ”

"But Beicheng is also very big, the streets and alleys are staggered, extending in all directions, where to find him!" Lu Meng scratched his head again and again, he had never encountered such a situation.

"Pay attention to the search for the deep mansion compound!" Zhou Yu pointed out a few places on the map, "The Assassin's Mansion, Cai's Mansion, and five churches should be searched, and Cao Cao must be arrested if he digs three feet into the ground." As soon as he dies, the entire cult army will collapse. ”

"This method is not advisable!" Lu Su questioned, "Cao Thief is cunning, he will never expose himself to such an obvious place." ”

"With the meaning of Zijing (Lu Su table), where will he be?"

Lu Su pondered for a while and said, "He is hiding here, in these small alleys in the northeast corner. These alleys are flat, and one person can see all the situation within two miles of the surrounding area by sending one person to lie on the roof and observe with the cult's telescope. It is not only convenient to command the battle, but also can take advantage of the criss-crossing terrain to retreat safely, which can be said to be offensive and defending, which is more beneficial to him. ”

What Zijing said is very reasonable. Tomorrow, I will send the army to search for it. Sun Ce said.

"No!" Zhou Yu shook his head, "Fang Caizi said respectfully. Cao Mengde only needs to send a lookout to observe on the roof to see the surrounding movements. The army of the lord and the commander went forward, and before they reached the entrance of the alley, Cao Cao could see in advance and escape. Therefore, instead of searching for vain during the day, it is better to act tonight and use the cover of night to give Cao Cao a fatal blow by thunderous means. ”

"What Gong Jin said is reasonable. Lu Meng, you will immediately lead the troops to search the northeast alleys of Xiangyang. ”

"Whoa!"

Zhou Yu told Lu Meng and said, "Ziming remember. Too many soldiers and horses, too big a target is not beneficial for a sneak attack, so it is not easy to bring too many soldiers and horses in this battle, the key is to be fine. ”

"Thank you for the mention." Lü Meng took the order and left, ordered a thousand elite soldiers from the army, asked the soldiers to paint the armor with charcoal ash, and quietly touched the northeast of Xiangyang by the night.

After leaving the big tent of the Chinese army, I walked for more than a mile, and when I crossed a low house with scorched smoke, I saw a small river blocking in front of me.

Lü Meng knew that this river was an artificial river, and it was named Liuwu River because of the willows on the riverside. In the past, it used to be the southern moat of Xiangyang City, and with the expansion of the city for hundreds of years, this river became the city river of Xiangyang. In the past, when Liu Biao was alive, as one of the eight juns, he was happy about the scenery and taste, so he diverted the river and gathered one section of it into his mansion, which is now the Thorn Shi Mansion.

Speaking of which, the catkins river is more than ten zhang wide, and the depth is more than one zhang. Although it was neither late nor wide, the army could not cross the river after all. If you want to cross the river, you need to take a bridge, take a boat, or swim in the water.

Lü Meng chose this route because he knew that there was originally a bridge here that could lead directly to the opposite bank, and when he came to the river, he found that the solid stone piers of the bridge were still in the middle of the river, but the wooden bridge body had been burned to ashes in the raging fire, and only some scorching stumps remained.

Obviously, it is impossible to cross the river by a bridge here. As for swimming - although the children of Jiangdong can swim in the water, swimming in the water in this cold winter season is tantamount to looking for death. As for the boat ride...... The bridge is gone, and Cao Cao will leave him a boat?

Lü Meng had no choice but to maneuver westward to find the next bridge to cross the river.

The ancient city of Xiangyang at night is exceptionally quiet, only the crows that smell the blood flying after the war stand on the treetops, making a tragic sorrowful cry. With blood-red eyes, they stared at the Jiangdong soldiers passing by at their feet, as if they were looking at the beautiful and delicious food, looking like they were waiting for them to die at any time, expecting to taste their delicious flesh and blood. That look made Jiang Dongbing panic for a while.

The dark door of the deserted courtyard by the side of the road was like the huge mouth of a monster, as if it was ready to swallow the people who passed in front of his door at any time.

The biting cold wind blew fiercely, blowing the weeping willows by the river to the side, and thousands of bare willows swept around, like the tentacles of the devil grabbing people.

The Jiangdong pawns trembled with fear from the moonlit view, or more accurately, the elusive priests of the Virgin Mary who frightened them.

Within two days, 3,700 robes died in this Xiangyang City, and their deaths were so unknown that they didn't even know that they were killed. Jiang Dongbing saw a familiar robe Ze patrolling back to Dazhai with his own eyes, and he was fine before entering the village, and he went to look for him again after taking a nap, but found that the other party was bleeding and died in his tent. Later, people learned that the man had been poisoned by drinking well water in Xiangyang City.

There were many people like him who were poisoned that day. Thanks to Sun Ce's death order, all water sources in the city were sealed, and it was forbidden to drink and eat food in the city, which reduced the number of poisoned people.

However, even so, a large number of Jiangdong soldiers died every hour at the assassination of the priests of Our Lady.

Thinking of this, the Jiangdong soldiers couldn't help but feel a chill down their spines, and they always felt that someone was peeping at them. Maybe then he will shoot a stray arrow from somewhere and take his life.

The group marched cautiously as if facing a great enemy, and finally came to the front of an earthen bridge across the Liuwu River at midnight.

Lu Meng took advantage of the moonlight and starlight to look at the surrounding situation, and saw that there was no trace of the enemy around, so he bowed down and took the lead on the bridge. The soldiers behind followed suit. Half of the thousands of soldiers had seen it, but at this time they heard a loud "boom". The earthen bridge was blown into two sections, and the most densely populated bridge body in the middle was blown up into the sky under the action of the huge blasting force, and the corpses, living people, and clods of soil fell into a river. More than 30 people were killed on the spot, and more than 200 fell into the water, dragged to the bottom of the river by the heavy armor that had been used to protect them.

Lu Meng was stunned for a moment, and the first thing he thought of was that Cao Cao still had gunpowder in his hand. This battle is not easy to fight!

But he didn't know that the current bit of gunpowder was the ash that remained on the ground of the Xiangyang gunpowder warehouse. It was Zang Ba who finally scraped the ground and collected it, and he used half a ** bag and used it all.

Lu Meng recovered from the shock and immediately realized the unfavorable situation. Thousands of soldiers were killed and wounded, and the rest were separated on the north and south banks of the Liuxu River because the bridge was broken. "Enemy attack, enemy attack, pay attention to vigilance."

At this time, there was a crisp sound of cow tendon popping in the quiet night, "buzz".

Immediately, two iron spears more than a zhang long fell from the sky, stringing the five Jiangdong pawns into a string like wearing a sugar gourd, and firmly rooted them on the ground.

More and more iron spears continued to shoot into the dense Jiangdong army formation, causing huge casualties.

"It's a ballista! The cult's ballista ......" someone shouted.

Lu Meng replied and asked, "Do you see which direction?" ”

"It's too dark to see!"

"Damn it!" Lu Meng hated the roots of his teeth, "Pay attention to hide!" They still can't see us! He immediately realized that the Church soldiers had used the light from the explosion of the steel trough to locate them, and then launched an attack.

As soon as Lu Meng's words were finished, an iron spear that ignited the tip of the spear fell from the sky, although it failed to take human lives, but it exposed the Jiangdong soldiers within a radius of one zhang in the field of vision, followed by a string of iron spears throwing, taking more than a dozen lives one after another.

"They all hid in the shadows. You guys, go to the back of that house. Listen to my instructions in a moment, go and destroy the ballista for me. ”

"Whoa!" A Jiangdong team glanced at the location where the fiery iron gun flew just now, nodded to Lu Meng, and trotted towards the backyard wall of the adobe house that Lu Meng said. After walking about 20 steps, I felt that the earth was loosened...... "ah......" fell into the trap one after another.

Sharpened clothes poles burst out of the trap and pierced them into a sieve.

Immediately afterwards, there was a roar of Luo around the surroundings, and the gates of the courtyards on the left and right sides were opened, killing Zang Ba and Cao Ang, and there were more than 500 people counting them carefully, surrounding Lu Meng, who was backed by the Liuxu River, and correspondingly, more than 600 guards who were lurking in the north of the city gathered in Yu Ban also surrounded the Jiangdong pawns on the north bank.

The church side was superior in numbers, coupled with the ease and waiting for work, the offensive was sudden, and the Jiangdong pawns were defeated and retreated, and were squeezed into the icy river by the surging church soldiers and horses.

Lu Meng fought hard, but he couldn't support it alone. was unintentionally pushed and pushed by the soldiers around him to the river, and sank directly to the bottom of the water with a "poof".

The ice water sheltered, and Lu Mengdeng's whole body stiffened. Driven by the strong desire to survive, he struggled to resist, and after a while, he didn't know whether his body had regained his warmth or adapted to the coldness of the river. The feeling of stiffness gradually subsided.

He held his breath and pulled out the dagger he carried from his boots, cut the velvet threads that bound the armor one by one, the armor was separated from his body, the feeling of being overweight was suddenly lost, his legs slammed into the mud at the bottom of the river, and he floated to the surface and let out a sigh of "......"

It was the first time he felt that breathing was such a pleasurable and blissful thing.

"There's a living one over there, shoot him!"

When Lu Meng, who was enjoying the pleasure of breathing, heard this, he was so frightened that he dived back to the bottom of the water and swam desperately downstream, even ignoring the arrow in his arm.

That night, the thousand-man raid team led by Lü Meng was completely annihilated, and only Lü Meng was wounded and returned to the Chinese army at dawn.

Looking at Lu Meng, who was soaking wet, Sun Ce was so angry that he walked around the big tent like a cat in heat. "Bastard!"

Lu Meng looked ashamed, covered his wounds and trembled and knelt down to plead guilty, "The last general is incompetent." The last will be a bastard! ”

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