It was the second half of the night, and those who went to bed early were already asleep, and those who couldn't sleep were still struggling to sleep. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoSome of them just took a nap with their spears in their arms and their eyes closed, while others gathered in groups and talked to each other, trying to dispel the feeling of tiredness and sleepiness by chatting. The patrol of the city has long since stopped, and this is definitely not their intention to be lazy, but a habitual behavior. Long-term comfort can be relaxing, and there are no exceptions to such things for them. “…… Anyway, it's just another abandoned city. If you have already been abandoned, what danger is there? Everyone thought like this, and the string in their hearts naturally relaxed early.

At an intersection not far from the barracks, a bonfire was lit, and several Cao soldiers with spears in tow gathered around it, eagerly talking about something, and as they talked, they put their hands close to the bright part of the fire to absorb the heat. It's really spring now, although the weather has gradually become warmer, but the water in the air is still very large, if you don't use the heat of the fire to roast your body contaminated with water, I am afraid that the next day I will find that my whole body is as if it has been soaked in water, wet and heavy.

"Old Gao, I heard that you participated in the last expedition to attack Jingzhou?" A slightly immature voice around the fire asked, "Tell me what happened last time?" ”

"Oh, last time! The prime minister has used a large army. The expeditionary force had two or three hundred thousand horses, but it was a spectacular scene that claimed to be among a million, but stretched for nearly a hundred miles. Seeing that everyone's eyes were looking at him, a veteran who was about forty years old opened the conversation a little proudly.

"Whoa......" Hearing Lao Gao say this, everyone couldn't help but be surprised. After several years of fighting, the proportion of new recruits in Cao Cao's army has increased, and among the infantry under the command of Zhang Jaw at present, there are many "new" soldiers who only joined the army after the Battle of Chibi. Although after the baptism of several battles, the combat power is not inferior to that of a soldier like Lao Gao, but he doesn't know much about some anecdotes of the past. Now that I have time to rest, I have been chasing veterans who know more things. They all know that Lao Gao is one of the first Qingzhou soldiers trained by the lord Cao Cao, and he can be regarded as having rich experience in the rest of his life.

"Nearly a hundred miles. Oh my God, what about that? Everyone felt sorry for a while, but then asked, "Then Lao Gao, what team were you in at that time?" ”

"I was under General Zhang Jaw at the time. And General Zhangjaw's men and horses were incorporated into General Xiahoudun's ranks. Although it is clear that it is the team of General Xiahoudun, in fact, we are under the jurisdiction of the lord. You know, the lord was in General Xiahoudun's team at that time. Lao Gao seemed to show off and told him about the situation of the unit he was in.

"Then you could see the lord in the first place, right?" Another creep asked.

"Of course, the lord is very powerful...... I think I was less than three feet away from my lord...... That's ......" Lao Gao may have been a little intoxicated, but he narrowed his eyes but said in Lagua Lagua. He said it well, but in the end there was no reaction or approval. A cool night breeze blew, and he opened his eyes, vaguely feeling that something was wrong, but the horror on his face suddenly rose and froze: the four comrades who had surrounded him had fallen to the ground and had lost their breath, and behind where they were sitting, stood four men in black with daggers. The dripping blood fell little by little along the blood groove on the dagger, but the bright red was so vivid under the scorching firelight. Lao Gao was shocked, he was about to scream loudly, but suddenly he felt a cold in his neck, and then a sharp pain came from his neck. He struggled to scream, but he couldn't make any sound, and he fell to the ground with a thrust.

"Cao Cao's lackey, it's not a pity to die......" Lao Gao's ears suddenly came with such words, and the resentment in the words Lao Gao was felt, but he felt strange, this voice was so familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere: "Yes, this voice is very revealing of his brother's voice, but sometimes it is much more immature." I guess it's my brother's descendant. It's just that why did the younger brother's descendants kill themselves......? Lao Gao didn't understand, in the extreme pain, the strength in his body quickly disappeared. He seemed to have drifted up, and vaguely returned to his hometown, a beautiful village on the edge of Langya.

Seeing Lao Gao finally swallow his breath, one of the men in black seemed to be much more relaxed, and took a breath softly. Unlike the other one who still had a spark of hatred in his eyes, this man's eyes were deep and calm. He glanced at Lao Gao's corpse, but said the reason why he wanted to kill them: "...... I don't want to do it either, but you're all in my way......" He seemed to sigh a little, but quickly regained his composure and calmness, and gave the battle order again: "Go in, it should be to let Zhu Rong's power be shown here." He waved his hand lightly, but he led the few people under his command into the southern city where Cao's army was stationed.

The power of Zhurong? In the legend, Zhu Rong is the god of fire, and the power of Zhu Rong naturally refers to the fire attack.

A few men in black quietly came to a building that looked like a temple, and they didn't see any mechanism pressed, only the "click...... The sound of "click......" sounded, but I saw a lot of oil spewing out of the ditch next to the temple like a fountain was bubbling. The oil was rising very fast, and in less than a quarter of an hour, it had filled the shallow ditch on the edge of the temple, and it was still slipping into the street.

"Hehe, this time the military advisor has made a big deal. You must know that the vegetable oil used here tonight is enough for the people of Changsha City for two years. The leader with a deep gaze smiled and said, "These oils were originally used to make vegetables, but I just didn't know that they would be used to burn people at this moment, and the result would be like this." He spoke relatively calmly, but the people around him did not invariably feel the cold under the calm. At this moment, they all felt the deep hatred for Cao Jun hidden in the heart of this leader: "It turns out that his peace is just to cover up this hatred?" "They were all a little stunned.

Only one mechanism was opened, which was naturally not enough to burn the south of the city. Therefore, in the design of Pang Tong, there are more than a dozen large and small mechanisms scattered throughout it. Although it is somewhat troublesome and dangerous to let his subordinates use their hands to activate these mechanisms, these troubles and dangers are nothing to Haoyue, who is a high and bold artist. They marched forward on their waists, divided into several groups to get close to the location of the mechanism, and then opened the mechanism one by one. As for the soldiers of the Cao army and the like that they met on the way, because they hated the people on Cao Cao's side, and realized that the existence of these people was definitely a threat to them, they easily wiped out their lives with the daggers in their hands. Don't doubt how they managed to do this, anyone who was able to enter Haoyue was a bit of a master, and the gap between them and ordinary Cao soldiers was like an adult versus a child. When the Cao soldiers formed a battle formation, they naturally didn't have much to do with the Cao soldiers, but in the current environment where the Cao army was scattered, it was still easy for them to kill some people.

More than two dozen mechanisms were opened in this way, and vegetable oil with a slight jerky taste flowed all over the street. All the warriors of the bright moon retreated to the top of the city. At this moment, they did not say anything, but focused their eyes on a few comrades with hard bows. They watched with bated breath as the first-class archers in front of them spread the hard bows with rockets in their hands, and then let go of their hands and shot the rockets far into the south of the city.

The fire burned all at once. The rockets that fell on the ground met the flames of the grease flowing on the ground and spread as fast as they could, and the streets, alleys, and houses all burned rapidly. In just a few breaths, a huge southern part of the city was surrounded by soaring flames.

Cao Chun was woken up by this heat wave. He opened his eyes and saw the flames still spreading on the beams of the roof where he lived, but a clever man turned over and got dressed very quickly. He had already had an experience, and he quickly realized that the current situation was not good: "It's miserable, I've been tricked again." ”

He anxiously pulled the door out of the house, only to see that the house where he lived was surrounded by scorching flames, and a wave of heat like a sea tide rushed towards him, mixed with many pungent smells, but he couldn't bear to cough. Knowing that the situation was not good, he raised his eyes to look at the sky, but saw that the night, which was originally pitch black, had been dyed red by the shining power of Zhurong on the ground, and from a distance it seemed as if the sky was burning.

The originally silent south of the city suddenly became lively. The sound of the flames was mixed with the struggles of the soldiers, the howls and the rare crying.

"It's a trap set by the enemy." Cao Chun was more and more sure of this at this moment. The reason is very simple, if such a big fire was only caused by accident, then it would never be discovered by itself in such a short period of time, when it burned the entire south of the city.

"What should I do?" Cao Chun asked himself. He knew that with Pang Tong's level, the attack on himself tonight would definitely not be as simple as setting fire to the city. I think that Liu Bei's military advisor Ma Tan knew that he would send troops to ambush while setting fire to the city, not to mention the "phoenix chick" who was described as "Wolong, phoenix chick, and can settle the world".

"The only way to do this is to rush to the city quickly." Cao Chun thought so. Although it was foreseeable that leaving the city would definitely encounter the enemy's followers, there was nothing he could do at the moment. After all, the entire south of the city has already burned, and if you continue to stay where you are, you will be killed if you don't burn to death—fires lit in humid weather are always mixed with a lot of gunsmoke.

Called a few people who could be called, and Cao Chun rode away like this. At this moment, he is already unable to protect himself, and all he can take care of is himself and the people he meets, as for the other soldiers who are now in the fire, even if he has the heart to rescue them, he is still powerless. Fortunately, because he was the first to enter the city, he had already concentrated his tiger and leopard riders in one area in the camp arrangement, although in this sudden fire, there were still some people who fell into the fire and had no time to rescue, but there were still most people who woke up at the same time as Cao Chun, got on the horse at the same time, and reacted quickly.

Cao Chun couldn't rest assured that his subordinates were stationed, so he took his personal guards around the area where he was stationed twice, bringing more people with him. The place he originally chose to be stationed was in the south of the city, which was very close to the city gate, and since he planned to break out of the city at this moment, he naturally would not go to the other city gates. After all, he also knew that the more he stayed in this fire, the more dangerous he would undoubtedly be.

Flames burned all around, and the air that permeated them was scorching and scorching. Perhaps instinctively sensing the danger, the tigers and leopards threw their hooves restlessly on their horses - they all felt that it would be very dangerous to go any further.

It's dangerous! Because the road ahead has been sealed by flames, to go forward, through the south gate, is undoubtedly to cross the burning street. Although everyone knew that this place was not far from the city gate, the light of the fire in all directions had already dazzled their eyes, and they only knew that it was not far away, but they did not know how far away the earth was, and whether they could leap through it with their horsepower.

It is certainly possible to escape by moving forward, but it is not impossible to die in the fire. There is definitely a need for risk, but is it worth it? For a while, Cao Chun froze there and was thinking about it in his heart. He hesitated, because he had to take responsibility for all his brothers on his side.

The flames were still dancing and the heat waves were coming in waves, and as time went on, the fire in the city grew a little stronger, and the temperature rose with it. Not only was the scorching wind coming from the gusts of wind really unbearable, but even the increasingly thin air couldn't help but make people feel sad. They all felt the suffocation coming, even though they were still breathing.

The urgency of the situation forced Cao Chun to make a quick decision. He decided to take the risk. Although it is very likely that he will be buried in the sea of fire, in Cao Chun's opinion, this sea of fire is much better than staying in place and enduring the pain of suffocation. And they had no second way to choose, and the fire spread out to the burning of their backs—Pang Tong's arrangement was almost extinct, and he not only set up oil boiling mechanisms in the city, but also installed oil bags and oil cans in some inconspicuous corners of the houses in the city. At this moment, as the fire burned in the city, these hidden accelerants were also exposed one by one, making the fire even bigger.

There was no way, Cao Chun took a deep breath and calmed his heart. He took a few steps back, then slammed his horse forward, speeding toward the scorching fire. Of course, he didn't rush in so stupidly, but at the moment when he was about to rush into the fire, he slammed the belly of his mount under him, lifted the reins of his mount, and let his mount soar into the air, jumping high like the golden scales that climbed over the dragon gate, and landed at the other end of the fire.

"Come on...... This is the city gate......! Cao Chun's voice became a little blurred by the whirring body of the fire, but the meaning he wanted to express had already become clear in this haze. In fact, he didn't need too many words, he just needed to make a sound there, showing his safe existence, and the soldiers here naturally knew that as long as they were bold, they could get safe as long as they rushed over like this.

This is definitely a very tempting fact. Cao Chun's explorations provided the basis for the actions of his soldiers. They took a few steps back as neatly as Cao Chun, and then rushed forward, jumping over the huge fire barrier like a copy of Cao Chun, and landed lightly in front of the city gate one by one.

The cavalry's action was indeed rapid, and the jumping action of more than 4,000 people took only half an hour under Cao Chun's organization. Although it is not without casualties, after all, there are still a few unlucky guys who are very miserable and did not jump over and fall into the fire, but they are only a very small number of people, and those who can be soldiers in Cao Cao's tiger and leopard riding are not soft-footed shrimps.

When I arrived at the south gate safely, I naturally went out. But this is not the place where you can go out and walk in Fancheng. Outside the south gate of Fancheng is a port, and you need to turn west from the south gate to leave here. This is also the only way to transport goods directly from the south gate to other places, because from the south gate to the east is the remnant of the moat, the moat of Fancheng is led by the Han River, injected from the north of the city, and only after a circle around the city is returned to the Han River by a tributary in the south of the city. This is an important defense facility in Fancheng, and in general, such a moat with living water is difficult to seal by the enemy.

"It should be safer now. However, we should be aware that there is a high probability of an attack on the way west. Cao Chun thought like this, and was about to turn his head to remind his subordinates of this, but he was attracted by the bright cloud of light rising from the south - oh my God, it was not a cloud of light at all, but a large piece of rocket black pressure, in terms of the number, there were not afraid of tens of thousands. They were like pouring rain, dancing locusts towards Cao Chun. Without any notice in advance, Cao Chun naturally had no chance to dodge at all.

"Dodge ......!" Cao Chun's elongated words sounded, although he already knew that even if he shouted like this, it would be impossible to save many soldiers' lives, but he still made such an effort.

The entangled troops scattered in a swarm. But they still scattered a little slowly, and countless arrow feathers fell like this, piercing their bodies at the moment they were scattered, and the powerful penetration from top to bottom made the sharp arrows often pass through one arrow and two holes, but most of them were nailed to the ground with men and horses - this kind of arrows are different from arrows in other places, most of the arrows used by Li Shengjun and Pang Tong are made of bamboo chips, which is a hollow arrow, the front section uses a leaded metal Mitsubishi arrowhead, and the middle is a round hole, It is possible to achieve more propulsion by holding a certain amount of gunpowder, allowing the arrow to shoot farther.

In just one wave of invasion, Cao Chun's more than 4,000 cavalry lost nearly a thousand people, which made him feel frightened while being surprised: "When?" Li Shengjun actually has such a powerful bow and arrow? I'm not afraid of Hanshui here, it's still nearly a mile away! It is really amazing that Li Shengjun's German warship could shoot so far at such a distance. Did they all shoot with bed crossbows? However, how many bed crossbows will be used for such a wave of attacks? "Cao Chun didn't understand this, so he thought that Li Shengjun definitely had some terrifying secret weapon or something." Damn, Wen He didn't give us any information on this. Because of the heartache of the death of his subordinates, Cao Chun put this series of responsibilities on Jia Xu, who was in charge of intelligence, and he felt that Jia Xu was fully responsible for this matter.

But that's all for later. Even if Jia Xu is to be held responsible, he must wait until his side is safely rendezvous with General Cao Ren. After seeing that the enemy could reimburse so many soldiers at once, the question of how to make his army escape smoothly was very clear in front of Cao Chun. Cao Chun has no more ways to deal with this problem. Generally speaking, there are only three means to deal with the enemy's dense bow and arrow coverage: blocking, dispersing, and rapid traversing. Resistance refers to relying on one's own armor, shields, and other defensive equipment to resist the enemy's bow and arrows. This is basically impossible now, and how much penetration the arrows falling from the sky are, Cao Chun is very clear. As for dispersion, it is also impossible, the port outside the south gate is very close to Hanshui, it can be said to be a long and narrow terrain, how can it be dispersed on such a terrain? "It seems that the only thing we can do right now is to travel quickly!" Thinking like this, Cao Chun quickly gave an order. He and the rest of the tiger and leopard knights sped up in speed, but they sprinted westward at an almost frantic pace. Obviously, they wanted to use such a move to get rid of the attack of the enemy on the opposite side.

There didn't seem to be anything wrong with their approach, and from the time they started to sprint to the time they left the southern part of the city and turned to the west of the city, the enemy didn't make any movement, as if they had completely disappeared, and there was no sound at all, which was strange.

"Perhaps, one of their bow-covered weapons can only be used once?" Cao Chun guessed. He didn't know that his guess was actually very close to the whole truth - the ground weapons equipped on the Hanshui Naval Division's warships were all flying rockets, although they could be fired in a salvo, and each salvo was also very powerful, but after each salvo, certain things needed to be reloaded, and such reloading took a lot of time.

Cao Chun finally relied on the weakness of the slow reloading time of the flying rocket to escape the "Yongdao" outside the south gate. Although he himself didn't know that Li Shengjun's weapon had such a shortcoming, all this did not hinder his escape, which may also be his luck. But before he could rejoice in anything, his face turned blue again. The reason is very simple, they were surprised to find that Liu Beijun's men and horses appeared in front of them, and the bright red flag with a few big characters written on it "General Hanzuo - Liu" made his eyes hurt like a ghost. Cao Chun had experienced the Battle of Wancheng, and he was deeply impressed by Liu Beijun's combat effectiveness. Especially in Wancheng, Zhang Fei's appearance of riding alone in his own army formation like a demon god made him feel fear. Although he already knew that Liu Bei was dead and Zhang Fei was dead, the fear hidden in his heart still made him give an order that almost wiped out his entire army after seeing this flag and the familiar army under the banner, "Rush forward and destroy ......them," Cao Chun roared.

This is also a correct command in general. When Cao Chun's mistake was that he put this general correctness on Li Shengjun, who was always surprised. Although the team that appeared here was holding Liu Beijun's military flag, the soldiers standing at the forefront of their entire army formation were wearing Liu Beijun's armor, and the generals who led them to battle were also Liu Bei's descendants, but as far as the entire army as a whole was concerned, they were Li Shengjun's team, most of them were equipped with Changsha weapons, and they were also supported by 20,000 Changsha troops, which made this team have Liu Beijun's mourning madness at the same time, but also have Li Shengjun's unique professionalism and all kinds of amazing weapons.

Of course, before fighting Li Shengjun, Cao Chun would not feel how different Liu Beijun in front of him would be compared to other troops, and he would not have thought how much effect such a difference would have. He believed in the strength of the tiger and leopard riders in his hands, and believed that they were capable of tearing apart everything they encountered. So, he didn't have much to worry about after the order was given. Although he also saw that the opposing army was tens of thousands of people, far outnumbering him in terms of strength, and the queue was neat, which was always a rare elite soldier, he still thought that he could break through their formation and escape.

However, the situation in front of Cao Chun was very different from what he imagined. Facing the thousands of cavalry that rushed over, Liu Feng, who was standing in front of the formation, smiled coldly and did not make any moves. He watched calmly as Cao Chun's cavalry got closer and closer to him, and it was not until there was a difference of about five zhang between the two sides that he ordered loudly: "Squat!" Raise your gun! ”

The two rows of soldiers standing at the front of the formation squatted down at once, exposing the Changsha sergeant behind them. Rows of spears came from the depths behind those people, but in an instant, they formed a forest of layers of guns.

"Damn it......" Cao Chun shouted and cursed, but he turned the horse's head over with great force and ran out diagonally. The tremendous force caused his body to tilt outward, narrowly slashing through the sharp edge of the gun forest. Although he didn't really suffer any injuries, it also made him break out in a cold sweat involuntarily. "It's just too dangerous." Cao Chun thinks so.

He was lucky, but the soldiers behind him were not. When Liu Feng gave the order, they were only less than five zhang away from Liu Feng, and by the time Liu Feng quickly prepared everything, they were less than three zhang away from Liu Feng. Such a distance was only a few breaths for the cavalry. How could they change direction so quickly in a matter of breaths? Naturally, they were dragged forward by the huge convention. couldn't retract his steps at once, but in a burst of ping-pong impact, he crashed into the gun forest with people and horses, and was stabbed in the heart by several spears in one breath.

In just one round, Cao Chun's army lost hundreds of men and horses - Pang Tong's marksmanship and tactics were clearly successful.