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Zhang Wu's men and horses rushed up as fiercely as hungry wolves that saw food, and frantically launched a stop and kill Yang Xu's men. Driven by interests and ideals, these people have become unstoppable. They thought that everything they had gained in Shaxian was what they deserved, and they didn't allow anyone else to snatch it from their hands. This is the logic of a bandit, but under Zhang Wu's indoctrination, those soldiers in his team have accepted the logic of such a bandit. All of a sudden, they became deadly.

Yang Xu was defeated and retreated. He couldn't withstand such a frantic attack. He was completely frightened by Zhang Wujun's bloodthirsty appearance. Although his team is also strong, the current enemy seems to be stronger than him. Perhaps such strength cannot be summed up in the simple word "tough", but should be called crazy like a beast. Man cannot go head-on with a wild beast that roars wildly. So, after suffering a certain amount of losses, Yang Xutie retreated with the rest of the men and horses with a blushing face. At this moment, he had to admire Li Sheng's foresight - as early as when he led his troops to attack this camp, Li Sheng had told him that if he encountered a team led by Zhang Wu himself, he should retreat first.

"Sure enough......" retreated to the rear, Yang Xu looked at the corpses of those brothers left in front of him, his heart was full of guilt, he felt that the death of those people was completely caused by himself: "If it weren't for my greed, maybe all this wouldn't have ......"

He took on the responsibility of being a pioneer in this sortie. He had always thought that it would be easy to clean up rebels like Zhang Wu and Chen Sun. Because Zhang Wu and Chen Sun are yellow turbans at all, what skills will people like this have? Yang Xu looked down on the people from the Yellow Turban, and he also looked down on Li Sheng, who looked at Zhang Wu and Chen Sun so powerfully. Although he did not show it on the surface, in his psychology he was unimpressed by the various measures that Li Sheng used to deal with Zhang Wu and Chen Sun. He felt that it was too cautious, maybe only a person like Li Sheng, who was born as a son-in-law and had never seen any interests, would treat this matter so carefully. Of course, this kind of caution is not a big problem, but it is completely unnecessary.

"All it takes is one assault to take down Zhang Wu and them all." Yang Xu thought so, and his always calm heart also became restless: "It turns out that I can become the protagonist and get the first credit for this crusade against the rebellion." "He sees far and thinks beautifully.

Admittedly, this is a big credit. The defection of Zhang Wu and Chen Sun, coupled with the intimidation of the Jiangdong Army, made Jiangxia face an urgent and abnormal crisis. It may be breached at any time, and once Jiangxia is breached, Jiangling and Xiangyang to the west of Jiangxia will be extremely dangerous. These local officials in Jingzhou may not see the world clearly, but they still attach importance to the safety of Jingzhou. This rebellion made them feel dangerous and made them take it seriously. And the attention of the top is undoubtedly a great opportunity for the next head to coexist with danger and merit. As long as he can independently suppress the rebellion of Zhang Wu and Chen Sun and restore stability to Jiangxia, as far as Li Sheng is concerned, he can rely on his relationship with Liu Biao to obtain the status of Taishou. As far as Yang Xu himself is concerned, the most unfortunate can also change from an unpopular general who is responsible for transportation to a celebrity who is highly valued in front of Cai Mao's metropolitan governor.

It's really exciting.

Act because your heart moves. Tempted by the foreseeable merits, Yang Xu directly applied to Li Sheng to participate in the battle: "Lord Zixu, my department wants to assume the vanguard of this operation. ”

"Oh? Can you tell me why? Seeing that Yang Xu, who had always known how to advance and retreat without arguing, suddenly became contentious, Li Sheng couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and he asked curiously.

"Lord Zixu, I guess I'm planning to have a landing battle at Shaxian's ferry. There is nothing wrong with such an idea. But the landing battle is different from the general land battle, he needs the general who commands the landing battle to have a certain knowledge of water warfare, and I don't think any of Lord Zixu's subordinates can do this. That's why the Metropolitan Governor sent me here to help Lord Zixu. Yang Xu knew that Li Sheng didn't understand water warfare, so he used such a seemingly correct sentence as a legitimate reason for his "fight". As a matter of fact, although there are some differences between landing operations and regular land operations, such differences are not as big as Yang Xu said in terms of the current conditions. Of course, Li Sheng is completely unaware of this.

"And the difference? That's my negligence. Then I'll leave it to you. Li Sheng touched his nose and admitted this embarrassedly, and agreed to Yang Xu's request by the way, but he still had a troublesome question in his hand: "It's just that you passed." And what about the fleet on this side? I don't have the talent to command a fleet. ”

"That's not a problem." Since Yang Xu wanted to go on the expedition, then he thought about everything after the expedition, and he recommended his subordinate Zheng Ping to Li Sheng: "Zheng Ping's ability in water warfare is much stronger than mine, but because of his background as a water thief, he has never been trusted by the Grand Governor, and he was transferred to my account." Lord Zixu, if you can trust him, then there is no problem in teaching the fleet to him. He can command the entire fleet as nimble as his own arm. ”

"And such talents?" Li Sheng couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard it. He asked Zheng Ping to be brought in and used some of the questions he knew about water warfare to teach him, and Zheng Ping answered them fluently. This made Li Sheng overjoyed, and immediately asked Yang Xu to hand over the command of the fleet to Zheng Ping.

"I don't know much about that. But I know what I need to achieve. I'll hand over the fleet to you, you just need to be able to do it, and I can get what I want. As for how you did it, you don't need to tell me about it. You have every right to make a decision in this regard. Li Sheng explained these to Zheng Ping with a serious expression.

Li Sheng regarded Zheng Ping as completely equivalent to Yang Xu, and did not despise him at all because of his background. This ordinary view moved Zheng Ping very much. It's just because his own personality is a little cold, he didn't say those words of gratitude, but just nodded vigorously to Li Sheng to ensure that he can definitely do this thing well.

So, Yang Xu went ashore with 1,500 sailors. At Li Sheng's request, Zheng Ping mobilized the formation of the fleet after Yang Xu went ashore, turned the transport ship to the direction closest to the ferry, sailed the building boat and the fighting ship away from the waterfront, hid their figures, and completed the second concealment of the killer - this is the scene that Zhang Wu and Chen Sun saw when they came to the ferry with their men and horses: the only thing that was full of grain and grass was the transport ship full of grain and grass on the river.

These transport ships were placed on the river, and they were an excellent prey for Zhang Wu, but they were a decoy for Li Sheng, who designed all this, a bait that tempted Zhang Wu to run to the river with his men and horses. There, behind those transports, hidden battleships had been put on a posture, and they existed as one of the killer weapons to attack Zhang Wujun. Once Zhang Wujun ran to a certain distance, the transport ships on the river would scatter in all directions. It seemed to be panicked, but in fact, it was purposefully dispersed, revealing the battleship behind him. At that time, the bed crossbow on the Lou boat fighting ship, the **** and the archers on the transport ship will attack Zhang Wujun who was sent to the door, so that Zhang Wujun will suffer the blow on the head. -- These were the battle plans that Li Sheng had originally formulated.

In this plan, the key is the force that will be used to resist Zhang Wujun's attack before the battleship arrives after the transport ship disperses, that is, the force that will carry out the blocking mission. Of course, in Li Sheng's arrangement, this force is not only a simple task as blocking the attack, but also includes luring the enemy in advance and pestering the enemy afterwards. That is to say, they must continue to entangle the enemy after Zhang Wujun discovers that something is wrong here, and has the idea of giving up, dragging them until the moment when Zhao Yun's cavalry arrives.

This is a very difficult and cumbersome task, and it requires a lot of ability on the part of the generals. In Li Sheng's original plan, it was intended for Zhao Yun to carry out this plan. In Li Sheng's view, Zhao Yun's sister is not to mention anything else, in terms of command of the army alone, she already has eighty percent of her brother's ability, and what she lacks may be her prestige in the army and her actual adaptability. For these, Li Sheng planned to make up for it with soldiers he had trained to be able to completely obey orders and Luo Zhao, an "old man" who had a certain prestige in his army. Li Sheng believed that after they made up for it, Zhao Yun would definitely be able to adapt to their own requirements.

It's a good idea, but the plan always seems to change as quickly as it seems to be. When Yang Xu used such a reason to obtain the position of vanguard from Li Sheng's hands, Li Sheng's arrangement of this blocking force became completely empty words. Zhao Yun's subordinates, who were originally going to go ashore from the transport ship, were replaced by Yang Xu's own men. Since Li Sheng was not familiar with this group of people, he could not make any comments or arrangements for this team at all. All he could do was to believe in Yang Xu and his team.

The battle situation is developing, and everything is as Li Sheng expected. Perhaps Yang Xu himself wanted to change this situation of acting according to plan, but after seeing Zhang Wu's crazy attack, he had to retreat to the path that Li Sheng had arranged for him. He abandoned the camp in front of the ferry, and took full control of the back part. Here he had a relatively complete fortification, which was just enough for him to hold out for a while. Although it was a reckless move for him to propose to be a pioneer this time, he was still a cautious person, and he also thought about what to do in case of failure.

Bows and arrows are sharp weapons in water warfare, and Yang Xusuo, as an elite naval army, is also equipped with bows and arrows. This is not very advantageous when attacking. But when they were preoccupied with defense, the bow and arrow became a very useful weapon.

The rear sergeants retreated to the fortifications and quickly formed their ranks. The procession was lined up in seven rows, and all but the first one, who stood with spears in hand, removed the bows and arrows they were carrying. They methodically stretched their bows and arrows, and then "swished" regardless of whether there were any comrades in front of them who were fighting with the enemy...... Sou! Shoot the arrow. As a team composed of veterans who have been in the army for many years, although these soldiers may not be the strongest group, they are undoubtedly the group that knows how to make trade-offs.

"The battlefield doesn't need emotion!" -- They have already engraved this sentence firmly in their hearts.

The black arrows dragged the white tail feathers all over the world, like a heavy blow to Zhang Wujun's head, which made Zhang Wujun's offensive pause.

"What the hell is going on?" Zhang Wu was slightly sober, he saw that his army had fallen under the enemy's bow and arrow when it was attacking the enemy's position head-on, and he also saw his prey, the transport ships loaded with money and supplies, as if they were about to scatter and flee.

"Can't let them escape!" Zhang Wu suddenly became nervous. In the current situation of unfavorable frontal attack, he came up with a "brilliant" idea, he called his personal guard captain Niu Er over and instructed him: "You bring me all the way around." I can't do it, and these few fortifications will stop me. This garbage can protect the front, but not necessarily the side. ”

"Understood!" Niu Er nodded and agreed, and soon brought his one hundred and ten brothers over.

After a moment, a rare smile of joy appeared on Zhang Wu's face. He saw that the enemy formation on the opposite side was in chaos, and there seemed to be a big man with a group of men and horses fighting fiercely in the enemy's formation. "Niu Er's movements are really fast!" Zhang Wu was overjoyed, and quickly ordered his front army to speed up the attack: "The enemy is already in chaos, as long as we get on those ships quickly, they will be ours." Don't let your prey run away. ”

"Oh!" The slightly slowed army became faster here, and when they found that the rain of arrows that had suppressed their advance was gradually thinning out and almost disappearing, they became more ferocious as if they had taken an exhilarating drug. They have managed to completely ignore the lives and deaths of others, and only remember to keep moving forward. Someone may have been killed by an arrow, but that didn't stop them in the slightest, except for an extra reason for their previous justification: to wipe out the garbage that the damned debt evaders had killed their comrades in the first place.

Everything was so unsmooth for Yang Xu that he couldn't help but wonder if today was his unlucky day, and he should have hid instead of staying outside and walking into a predicament of almost extinction right now.

"This is really a bad year!" Yang Xu sighed mentally, but the sword in his hand turned into a rainbow light and folded into the body of an enemy.

Niu Er's attack was completely successful. In the face of this sudden attack from both flanks, Yang Xu's team was simply unable to stop the resistance. They all had bows and arrows in their hands, and it was a joke to use them to fight the sharp-edged enemy. The attack's formation collapsed, allowing Niu Er to smoothly penetrate into Yang Xu's formation. Although the boss Zhang Wu's goal was only to let Niu Er exterminate the opponent's archers, Niu Er was unwilling to do exactly what this goal was. "Attack the center of the enemy and kill the enemy's generals directly." Niu Erda is such an idea. He also wants to achieve higher feats in this battle.

People are like that. When there is no developed poverty, you can often be very willing to be bland, but once you are developed, you want to get more. Li Sheng is like this, Yang Xu is like this, and he Niu Er is naturally no exception. It's not a small thing for him to do this differently from the order of his lord Zhang Wu, but he doesn't care about this at all. Because he clearly knew that as long as he could take the head of the enemy's general in battle, that Zhang Wu would not blame himself for his self-assertions, but would give himself more benefits. This is a benefit, although it is future, but it is also predictable. He Niu Er is now working hard for the foreseen benefits. He used the long knife in his hand to keep opening the way, and gradually killed the other party.

"The enemy will die!" Niu Er drank the knife in his hand and slashed at Yang Xu fiercely. In the process of opening the road ahead, he also deliberately looked at Yang Xu, the enemy general, for a while. He found that he was not strong, although the sword in his hand was very agile and very lethal to those small soldiers, but the strength of the sword itself was not great. Therefore, Niu Er was very confident in the knife that he slashed at the opponent, and he knew that he had seized the opportunity - to attack this knife while the opponent was fighting with his other subordinate. This is a knife that the opponent has no time to dodge. Although the opponent can block, Niu Er believes that no matter whether the opponent blocks or not, the final result will be similar. This blow of his will definitely make him suffer a lot.

And this is exactly what happened. Niu Er's fierce knife really surprised Yang Xu, who had just stabbed an enemy to death. Facing the blade that was about to slash in front of him, Yang Xu wanted to dodge it was too late, he could only use the sword in his hand to block the knife path that Niu Er had chopped. With a soft sound of "dang ......", Yang Xu was shocked back a few steps by Niu Er's knife, but his hands were numb and he couldn't lift the sword anymore. At this moment, he was a little desperate, and his eyes looked blankly at Niu Er's smile that lifted from the corner of his mouth. This smile was a happy smile for Niu Er, but for Yang Xu, it was a devilish laugh. This smile in Yang Xu's eyes made his heart like a knife. He clearly understood that if there was no miracle to save him, he would undoubtedly be his own death today, and the other party's next knife would definitely come quickly and end his life completely.

"Are you going to die?" Yang Xu was helpless, so he had to lament in his heart: "I'm unwilling!" ”

Niu Er's knife had been raised, and he slashed it down, as if he was going to finish everything.

At this time, however, a miracle occurred. A sharp spear stabbed from the slanted ground, opened Niu Er's long knife, and shook Niu Er back a few steps. A slender figure flashed out, but it was Zhao Yun, the general beside Li Sheng.

"Saved?" Yang Xu looked at everything that happened in front of him in a daze, and he was a little unable to come back to his senses. Looking at Zhao Yun who appeared in front of him majestically, while he was glad that he was alive, he also secretly smacked his tongue at Zhao Yun's skills and strength: "There is really everything in this world." I didn't expect Zhao Yun to be such a small guy, and he could still beat that guy with great strength to retreat again and again. It's a hard resistance without any tricks. It's just amazing. ”

He was amazed. The current battle obviously had nothing to do with him, because he saw that Zhao Yun was not here alone, and he was followed by the gentleman named Luo Zhao next to Li Sheng, as well as more than a thousand soldiers directly under Li Sheng. At this moment, the battle situation has stabilized here, and such a group of enemies who were originally chaotic among their archers, up to the leader Niu Er, down to the ordinary soldiers, have been completely suppressed. Although the results of the battle have not yet come out, they can no longer pose a threat to themselves. Due to the timely addition of such a group of reinforcements, the morale of his side has stabilized. With the help of the team commanded by Luo Zhao, they were once again able to contend with the enemy on the opposite side. Everything is going in a good direction.

This is a good thing for Yang Xu, but it is not so wonderful for Niu Er. However, Niu Er doesn't have much energy to deal with this matter at the moment. Because his opponent Zhao Yun was tightly entangled with him, suppressing him bitterly. For him, Zhao Yun was unexpectedly strong, so that he couldn't get out at all. The original plan to solve this trouble-stirring guy first and then restore the battle situation was no longer possible, under Zhao Yun's attack, he only had to defend and was unable to attack.

Zhang Wu didn't know much about all this. Because the fighting was still going on, as far as Zhang Wu was concerned, the chaos inside had not stopped. Although the opponent's offensive gradually showed some signs of strengthening, Zhang Wu still believed that it was just the result of the enemy's counterattack. He believed that Niu Er's strength could solve these problems, so he didn't let his team stop.

At this time, the warships on the river were moving at full speed to this side, and they had already adjusted their formation upstream, and were advancing in a line against the river bank. Because Zheng Ping, who commanded the fleet, was very familiar with the situation in this area, although the entire fleet was going down the river and leaning on the shallow water, the speed of the entire fleet did not decrease, and they still maintained a relatively high speed. They also wanted to get to the battlefield quickly.

About a quarter of an hour later, the fleet arrived. The huge body of the ship appeared in the eyes of the important people who were fighting at the ferry, bringing completely different feelings to both sides: for Yang Xu's side, the arrival of the fleet was undoubtedly a joy for them, especially when they saw Zhao Yun coming to help; And for Zhang Wu's side, seeing this behemoth that suddenly appeared, each of them couldn't help but be stunned, and a sense of consternation and frustration arose.

"Enemy reinforcements are coming, and we can't win!" The tall body of the Lou Boat Battleship undoubtedly gave Zhang Wu's soldiers such a feeling.

The soldiers thought that it was the enemy's reinforcements, but Zhang Wu and Chen Sun, who were commanders, saw it that way. At this moment, they fully sobered up and understood that they were completely caught in the trap of the other party's chain after ring: they first tempted themselves with grain and grass boats, convinced themselves with the deception of the army, and finally used the attack and deterrence of this building to make themselves suffer the greatest defeat.

"That's a great trick." Zhang Wu admired his opponent, and he desperately wanted to understand: "Who is the commander of this battle?" I don't believe that guy in there has such a skill. For now, he is only responsible for luring the enemy. ”

"It seems so." Chen Sun nodded with a wry smile, he raised his eyes to look at the river, and immediately showed a look of understanding on his face: "I said that when did such a talent appear in Jingzhou, it turned out to be our old friend." ”

"Who?" Zhang Wu asked.

"Li Zixu!" Chen Sun said fiercely.

"Is that him?" Zhang Wu was slightly stunned, and also looked at the river, only to see the flag embroidered with the word "Li" in the river breeze. "Sure enough......" Zhang Wu also smiled bitterly.

"What should I do?" Chen Sun asked, "If it's Li Sheng, I think we still have to retreat." The other side is not easy to fight, if it doesn't go on like this without the whole army, I'm afraid ......"

Chen Sun didn't say the following words, but Zhang Wu understood what his brother meant: Li Sheng's strategy will never be as simple as what we see now. The battleship of the naval division seems to have a strong attack power, but as long as he retreats now, the other party has no way to take him. After all, the ship can't go ashore. Although this may also cause harm to yourself, after all, you will not need your own life. This is completely inconsistent with Li Sheng's purpose. Therefore, with Li Sheng's shrewdness, he will definitely hide another killer in the dark - this is the most terrifying. On his side, he can't guess what the other party's killer is, but in any case, it is very important for him to put his troops and horses in order. The opponent is different, and you have to use different methods to deal with him. Therefore, it is obviously necessary to return to the city to reorganize the army.

"Hmm...... There's a lot of truth to that. Then do everything according to what the second brother said. Zhang Wu thought silently for a moment and nodded lightly: "I hope the sooner the better." I don't want to be watched all the time. ”

"Understood!" Chen Sun said approvingly.

The two did not mention how Niu Er, who was trapped in the enemy formation, was like. Maybe the two of them forgot, or maybe they both thought that Niu Er was not important, at least not so important that they were willing to take a certain risk to save him. After suffering from Li Sheng once, Zhang Wu and Chen Sun subconsciously regarded Li Sheng as an extremely powerful opponent. None of them believed that Li Sheng's arrangement would be carried out only by the surface of the water.

"Right now, it's about my own life." They all thought so.

Eventually, the sound of retreat rang out. At the same time, it sounded the sound of spears and arrows shot by the boats on the river and the sound of white feathers breaking through the air, and the iron arrows like spears mixed with the countless small arrows mixed in them were overwhelmingly attacking the former camp of Zhang Wujun's army. There, because the lead rushed very hard, a large part of it was within the range of the battleships on the river.

Maybe Zhang Wu's and Chen Sun's orders were issued in a very timely manner, but they were in time, and the speed of Li Sheng's attack was not very slow. An army is made up of many people, and unlike a single person, it is impossible for an army to respond immediately to orders on a battlefield, especially on a slightly chaotic battlefield like the one now. It will take a while, and this time is exactly the time when Li Sheng will attack. This may be a coincidence, but the appearance of this coincidence has turned Zhang Wujun from extreme prosperity to extreme decline. Because the order to retreat had just been given, all the soldiers were a little dazed and frightened in their hearts. And when the blow came, and in one fell swoop a large number of men were shot down, and the soldiers turned their horror and confusion into fear and horror. Faced with the instantaneous death of their comrades, they were extremely afraid of the huge thing that was docked by the river.

"Hurry up and get out of here, the farther away from that guy the better!" This has obviously become one of the deepest thoughts in their hearts.

"It's miserable." Seeing that God didn't help him, and let Li Sheng's timing of attack be exactly the same as the timing of his own retreat order, Zhang Wu couldn't help but sigh in his heart. However, things have developed to this point, and he obviously has little to do to turn things around. Surrounded by the chaotic soldiers and retreating, he could only helplessly hold the anger of this pair of gods in his heart and curse secretly.

At this time, the ground under his feet suddenly shook......