The fighting on the river continues. I don't know where the soldiers belong to the warship still unbelievably did not rush straight over, only in the middle of the river to the river soldiers who slowly walked with their "shields" to shoot arrows, and although the soldiers of the flying cavalry battalion have all kinds of protective measures, but after all, they will lose their defenses for a long time, and in the face of this round of arrows, some injuries have begun to appear.

"General Qin, why don't you lead the soldiers to shoot a round along the riverbank! A certain crossbow with a range of 100 paces should be able to pose a threat to them, so let's rescue the brothers in the river! Seeing that Cheng Lian beside him looked anxious to rush down the river and be attacked with the soldiers of the flying cavalry battalion, Lu Yi frowned and groaned for a while, and said to Qin Xu.

"The first Dengjin crossbow is a cavalry crossbow, the effective range is only 100 steps, the wind is strong here, maybe there will be some discounts, even if it can hit the incoming ship, the damage is extremely limited, not to mention the opponent's ship horizontally, it is not easy to hit, I am afraid that it can only waste arrows in vain, and it will not cause much damage." Qin Xu hadn't spoken yet, but Zhen Jiang, the second lady of the Zhen family who was standing beside Qin Xu, spoke first.

"General Qin!" Lu Yi still had a somewhat surprised expression at Zhen Jiang's ability to report the detailed parameters of the first crossbow, but he didn't answer, and stood aside and only listened to Qin Xu's decision.

"Qin Envoy Jun, although the first ascending crossbow is powerful, it is not suitable for the current situation, the range is short and cannot last, it can be used in close combat but not far away, and it is absolutely useless to use it! Moreover, if you can't become a trend, there will be a misfortune that will weaken the morale of the tiger under your command, and make you think twice! Perhaps because he still felt a little guilty that it was his own news that caused this situation to happen now, Zhen Jiang frowned lightly. said with a persistent face beside Qin Xu.

"The Zhen family girl is so unreasonable! How powerful is this first-ascending crossbow, how can a woman easily wipe it out with her beak? Although what happened in Zhen Jiang's military account last night was hinted at by Cheng Lian, Lu Yi had some guesses about the "relationship" between Zhen Jiang and Qin Xu. But this time, after listening to Zhen Jiang repeatedly mention the limitations of the Xiandeng crossbow as a big killer in the first camp, he was still a little uncomfortable in his heart, even if Cheng Lian reciprocated Li secretly on the side, but Lu Yi still whispered.

"Does General Koji know the origin of this Xiandeng crossbow?" Although Lu Yi's voice was not loud, it was also relatively speaking, Zhen Jiang almost heard what Lu Yi said clearly, but he didn't see any annoyance. Instead, he showed a shallow smile, the corners of his mouth hooked slightly, and asked Lu Yi to say.

"Miss Zhen Er's question is so strange! He even asked how this first commander of the camp got his weapon? Lu Yi listened to Zhen Jiang's words. Immediately showed a look of disbelief as if he was ridiculing, but seeing that Zhen Jiang was asking seriously, and Qin Xu had no intention of stopping it, he laughed twice. said proudly: "So that Miss Zhen Er will know." This killing weapon according to the knowledge of the Koji, is the former Jizhou Mu Yuan Gong even got the pre-Qin period of an ancient map fragment painted, shocked by its power, then sent a famous craftsman to do more research, and the cost of a variety of fine iron fine steel and iron wood and made, but unfortunately this picture was either destroyed in the war, or for the Yuan family secret collection, with the death of Yuan Gong. There was no more news. And what Miss Zhen Er saw in our hands was the foresight of my lords, General Lu and General Qin. ordered the exquisite craftsmen to study according to the finished products, and transferred almost half of the iron stored in Qingzhou to make these hundreds, and the power was ...... Belch...... It's as powerful as ever! ”

"Huh...... So do you want to see the so-called pre-Qin fragments that you said? Zhen Jiang looked at Lu Yi with a noncommittal smile, as if he wanted to show off the little fox with chicken legs in his hand, glanced at Qin Xu out of the corner of his eye, and said to Lu Yi.

"What!?" Koji Yideng's eyes widened. As the commander of the Xiandeng Battalion, he is naturally very aware of the shortcomings of the Xiandeng Crossbow. But knowing the defects and correcting the defects are two different things, and Lu Yi also thought about finding a clever craftsman to improve the defects of the Xiandeng Jin Crossbow, which has a short range and weak follow-up power, so that the combat power of the Xiandeng Battalion can at least be doubled. But whether it was under Yuan Shao's command or in the army of Lu Bu at this time, the craftsmen of the two parties once said the same thing as if they had made an appointment, that is, unless they could see the original atlas, as well as the formula and ratio of the materials used for crossbow strings and crossbow arrows, even if the finished product was disassembled into the original, it was only a copy of a semi-finished product. And just now Lu Yiyan said that the power of the Xiandeng Jin crossbow copied by the craftsmen in Lu Bu's army is not reduced, in fact, there is also water in the words, in fact, it is not just reduced, compared to the "original" Xiandeng Jin crossbow that is used as a reference, although there is no deduction of half a point in the materials, but somehow, the power is half of the surplus is still left, and even the range is full of three percent! Fortunately, the biggest effect of the first-ascending crossbow is reflected in close combat, and it is a cavalry crossbow, and there is only one chance to shoot in the battle, which is better than nothing. This is the reason why even when he saw that the soldiers of the Flying Cavalry Battalion who were trapped in the river at this moment had begun to be injured, Qin Xu still did not let the first battalion shoot them with crossbows.

"The first time I ascended the crossbow, but it was once in the hands of General Koji, and it became a great weapon that could rely on it to resist tens of thousands of cavalry of Gongsun with eight hundred people, and it would be a pity if it was buried like this!" Zhen Jiang glanced at Qin Xu cautiously again, put his hands behind his back, and said to Lu Yi pointedly.

"Could it be that the Qin Scroll is in the hands of the Zhen family? Yes, yes, at the beginning, Yuan Gong relied on the help of the Zhen family to become the hegemon of Hebei, and the armor, grain and grass, iron tools, and military horses were all provided by the Zhen family. God be pitiful! God be pitiful! This one...... This ......" Lu Yi looked at Zhen Jiang with naked (naked) longing in his eyes at the moment, as if as long as Zhen Jiang nodded and "admitted", even if it was a kidnapping ticket, Zhen Jiang would be tied up in exchange for such an important thing.

"Scared!" Zhen Jiang, who was taken aback by Lu Yi's coveted appearance, subconsciously took a step behind Qin Xu, but then he thought that he seemed to be a dignified Miss Zhen family, and this action was also a little too much to boost Qin Xu's arrogance. Looking at Qin Xu's smiling eyes, Zhen Jiang suddenly glanced at Qin Xu with white eyes, and lost the meaning of continuing to tease Lu Yi, and said: "General Lu is right, when Yuan Gong intended to cast this Qin Jin crossbow to strengthen the combat power of the first camp, he was fully entrusted to my Zhen family to search for fine materials, although the fragment was now destroyed in the war, but the craftsman who cast this thing at that time was still in my Zhen family. Scold...... Now, is General Koji still doubting what Zhen Jiang just said? ”

"Yes! Be! With the "temptation" of Zhen Jiang's words, where can Lu Yi still care about competing with Zhen Jiang. I just hope that after going to Hebei, General Qin can make the method from the Zhen family to get these craftsmen, that is the most important thing, and some other verbal disputes, why should the big husband be like a little woman, and nodded again and again at the moment and said: "Miss Zhen is really good-hearted, thinking far-sighted, and Lu Mou just wants to relieve the siege of the brothers in the flying cavalry battalion." If it is rude, I hope Miss Zhen Er will forgive me. ”

"Zhong Ming has a plan to crack the arrogance of this ship?" Since what Lu Yizhi wanted was vetoed by Zhen Jiang. Then this is almost the only way to solve the danger of the soldiers of the flying cavalry battalion in the river, and it can be regarded as an indirect veto, Lu Lingqi squinted at the arrows on the boat that seemed to be inexhaustible, and had already begun to "focus" on the other side of the river, which was only less than thirty zhang away, but was shot to the ground. Because the river splits. The soldiers of the Flying Cavalry Battalion, who were rushing forward and could not move forward easily, looked at Qin Xu who was silent with big eyes full of hope, only hoping to get a satisfactory answer from Qin Xu's mouth.

"Wait! Wait! Qin Xu's gaze had been looking at the lower reaches of the east side of the river, where there was a fork in the river. It seems that something is waiting for you. Even the conversation between Zhen Jiang and Lu Yi just now didn't pay too much attention, and as soon as Lu Lingqi's words came out at this moment, Qin Xu's face showed a little joy, as if he had finally waited for the thing he was waiting for.

"Huh? What is that? Listening to Qin Xu's words. Following Qin Xu's gaze and looking eastward, even Cheng Lian, who had been worried about the passive beating of the Flying Cavalry Battalion, and Lu Yi and Zhen Jiang, who were arguing around Xiandeng's crossbow. Even Zhen Jian's father and son, who did not say anything after seeing the stalemate between the two armies, showed a little doubt.

"It's reinforcements! It's the reinforcements of Uncle Wenyuan invited by the general! Lu Lingqi and Qin had a heart-to-heart relationship, and when the fleet that was going upstream, but the speed was still not slow, slowly revealed its whole body from the fork in the river, Lu Lingqi jumped up like a child, grabbed Qin Xu's arm, and shouted loudly with excitement on her little face.

"It's Wenyuan! It's Wenyuan! Lu Lingqi's shout seemed to ignite the hopes of the soldiers who were worried about the war in the river on the shore but had nowhere to go, and they shouted one after another. Cheng Lian, who was full of entanglement, sorrow and joy, seemed to have recovered his spirit in an instant, and approached the river in three or two steps, regardless of the strength of the river wind, as if he could blow his hundred and ten catties into the river at any time.

In the middle of the river, the shadow of the boat that seemed to be slow and fast from the downstream was soon revealed. The tall hull of the ship, even people who don't know the military establishment can see that this is a river boat that can carry hundreds of people, this kind of boat is rare even in Jizhou, and I don't know where Zhang Liao got it. But on the big ship headed by that, the black-edged and white-background Lu Bujun flag style that Qin Xu and others are familiar with, as well as a big Zhang character, are enough to show the identity of the comer, it is the commander of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, Zhang Liao, Zhang Wenyuan, who was just promoted from the cavalry captain to the general of the Tiger Ben Zhonglang some time ago!

When people are extremely frustrated, they suddenly get what they want, and the emotions that erupt are by no means something that can be imagined on a daily basis. Originally, because he was only passively beaten, he suddenly found that he couldn't actually cause much damage to himself, and his morale was greatly improved, but after the initial "pride", especially after his own army had begun to appear wounded, he was also a little uneasy. It is conceivable that if this kind of uneasiness cannot be quickly resolved, I am afraid that the morale raised by the various effective measures arranged by Qin Xu before will fall to the bottom in a short time. This has nothing to do with whether the soldiers are elite or not, after all, in the big river where they may die at any time if they are not careful, in the face of continuous arrow attacks, but they are powerless, and they don't even have a chance to fight back, it is human nature to be afraid and even desperate, and it is enough to show the strength of Lu Bu's army to be able to hold on for so long without the soldiers being distracted. Seeing that it has been held out to the limit, if there is no good way to solve this situation where you can only watch the incoming ship passively beat, there will be a large number of casualties in the next moment. And at this moment, the arrival of Zhang Liao's reinforcements is tantamount to the dying people who are fortunate to get the nectar of the willows, and the thirsty people who are dying of thirst see several sweet springs. The feeling of the aftermath of the catastrophe was transformed into a huge morale, and the hedgehog-like warship became more and more stable. The wheel, full of arrows, was lifted higher.

Zhang Liao's naval warships came quickly, and there were more than 30 of them, almost relying on Qin Xu's warships. Like a cat playing with a mouse, they wantonly "played" with the upstream warships of the soldiers of the Flying Cavalry Battalion who were stuck in the water and could not backhand, and naturally saw it in their eyes. It is conceivable that it has been almost half an hour since it was attacked with arrows, even if the ship was full of arrows, it could not withstand such a cost, and at this moment, seeing that the reinforcements of the flying cavalry battalion had arrived, they had begun to change their formation into a straight line and wanted to turn from the depths of the fork in the river. The twenty or so ships were about to turn around almost immediately to avoid the battle. But firstly, it is not easy to reverse the hull of the ship against the current, and secondly, it is also "too made" under the light enemy just now, perhaps because he saw that Qin Xu and the others could not threaten it except for staring dryly on the shore. Although I don't know why these ships only shoot arrows, and abandon the most lethal collision of the soldiers of the Flying Cavalry Battalion, the formation that was still a little neat has been scattered. In a panic, the bow of the ship was turned. When you make mistakes in your busyness, it is inevitable to rub and bump. So much so that after finally turning the ship right under a period of chaos, Zhang Liao's more than 30 large warships were already the soldiers of the flying cavalry battalion who had successfully avoided the difficulties in advancing and retreating in the river, and they came from the fork of the river against the current, and they were about to get closer. It deserves that these unknown ships were too arrogant just now, only remembering that they were going downstream, and Zhang Liao's army was going upstream, but I don't know if they forgot or were too stupid. Don't you see that when you return, you will also go against the current? In the event that the "advantage" relied on is lost. It's still so slow, isn't it that you can't find yourself happy?

The fate of those incoming ships being surrounded and captured has been "locked", and there is no doubt about the total annihilation of the enemy, and the ships that arrive later have begun to throw down towropes and sampans to the soldiers of the flying cavalry battalion who have been soaking in the river for half an hour, in order to help cross the river, and the big ship with the handsome flag led by the reinforcements has also left the fleet and is also heading towards Qin Xu and others on the south bank.

"The last general, Zhang Liao! Meet General Qin! Miss! The last general's rescue is late, and the general is asked to punish him! After Zhang Liao, who came to the aid this time, came to Qin Xu and Lu Lingqi in a hurry, he was indeed worthy of the nickname of the Ganghou in history, and immediately ignored Cheng Lian's grateful smile and saluted with a serious face.

"General Wenyuan worked hard! If it weren't for General Wenyuan to save him this time, Qin would have no face to face the lord, strictly speaking, he would have saved Qin's life, and Qin would have been too late to be grateful, so how could he punish him? It's serious! It's serious! Qin Xu shook his head to the ground and solemnly returned the salute as a junior.

Although Zhang Liao is also a senior general of Lu Bujun, he has a similar temperament with Boss Lu, but he has not seen Qin Xu for nearly two years, except for the contact with Qin Xu since he was in Chang'an, and after he was stationed in the plain after the Battle of Dingqingzhou in Beihai. Moreover, Zhang Liao has a straightforward temperament, few desires and few words, and Qin Xu have different temperaments, although they have no selfish grudges with each other, and they have exchanged gifts, but in fact, there are not too many interactions. What's more, this time in Hebei, it is impossible to say that Zhang Liao has to help him in many ways, and Qin also admits that he has the heart of a villain to live the belly of a gentleman, so he has to make a gesture. I think when Zhang Liao knew Qin Xu, Qin Xu was just a small master of the inner house, and when he was stationed in the plains, he was just a young mansion and a marching master book, but today, Qin Xu is already a Han Jiuqing, a state assassin, and a marquis to worship the general, but Zhang Liao is only promoted to the general of the tiger Benzhonglang, as long as he is a normal person, it is understandable to be dissatisfied in his heart. Although Qin Xu believed in Zhang Liao's character, just like when Lu Bu decided to go to Chang'an that day, although Zhang Liao had different opinions, he still carried out the military order, for this "veteran" who actually had a "life-saving grace" for himself and the full army of 6,000 people, Qin Xu didn't dare or wanted to arouse his disgust, and directly regarded himself as a junior.

"Uncle Wenyuan! How are Auntie and Little Tiger good? "Unlike Qin Xu, Lu Lingqi is simple-minded, but there are not so many twists and turns, when Zhang Liao voted for Lu Bu, Lu Lingqi was by Lu Bu's side, plus he is also a master of using halberds, and he also instructed Lu Lingqi in his spare time, so Lu Lingqi was still very close to Zhang Liao, and after seeing the ceremony, she couldn't wait to ask about her homework.

"All good! All good! When the eldest lady got married, the last general was not present, and Humble Jing is still complaining about the last general's rudeness! Sure enough, it was different from Qin's treatment, Lu Lingqi's coquettish voice made Zhang Liaohu's eyes show a little love, and when he asked his wife at home, a warm smile welled up on his resolute and silent face.

"Wenyuan! You've come just in time! Saved the lives of 4,000 brothers, let's inherit your great kindness! Cheng Lian, who had several emotional ups and downs, saw Zhang Liao and Qin Xu and Lu Lingqi finishing the ceremony, and they also came up and said.

"This is a matter of Liao's division! General Cheng doesn't have to be like this! Cheng Lian didn't have the same treatment as Lu Lingqi, after listening to Cheng Lian's words of gratitude, Zhang Liao still replied without a trace of emotion, at this moment, the soldiers of Zhang Liao's cavalry battalion on the same boat rushed over and whispered a few words beside Zhang Liao, Zhang Liao's brows wrinkled slightly, and he glanced at Qin Xu's side Lu Yi, Zhen Jiang, Zhen Jian father and son, and others, turned his head and said to Qin Xu: "General Qin, the last general has just received a summons from the soldiers, and this time a few people were captured on the other party's boat, it may be a little troublesome......" ( To be continued ......)