Chapter 174: Captured Alive
In the mountains, the Jiangdong Army led by LΓΌ Meng was still marching rapidly.
However, at this time, there were less than 500 people left who could still march behind Lu Meng, and the remaining 2,500 people either fell behind or fell into the deep stream and died.
A tun commander panted and ran to Lu Meng and said: "General, we have only four or five hundred people left, even if we get to Qiaojiawu, it's useless, Yuan Jun still has cavalry, we are already tired like this, they only need a surprise attack to defeat us easily, we are simply sent to death, sent to death!" β
"You know!" Lu Meng slapped Natun Chang's head and scolded angrily, "In case, I mean in case the lord is trapped in Qiaojiawu, there are only five hundred armor soldiers by his side now, and he is being besieged by Yuan Wei's army, what do you say, what do the lord and the five hundred armor soldiers under his command need most?" β
"Most needed?" The commander replied, "Reinforcements." β
"Wrong." Lu Meng shouted loudly, "What they need most now is not reinforcements, but hope, because only hope can make them hold on and withstand the siege of the Yuan army, so that they will have the opportunity to wait for the return of the army of the Governor, and we are the ones who want to send hope to the lord!" Now do you understand? β
"The villain got it!" Tun Chang responded loudly.
"So......" Lu Meng gritted his teeth and roared loudly, "even if you run until you are the only one left, even if you are so tired that you only have one breath left, you just climb, you have to climb to Qiaojiawu for me, so that the lord and the five hundred armor soldiers under the command of the lord can see it, and let the lord know that the reinforcements ...... Killing back to Qiaojiawu Fort! β
"No!" The tun chief suddenly agreed, turned around and ran away.
Lu Meng wiped the sweat from his forehead, raised his head to look at the vast mountains in front of him, and began to pray silently: Lord, you must hold on, you must hold on!
(Dividing Line)
On the battlefield, morale is important, but morale does not solve all problems.
If morale could solve all the problems, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, would not be defeated.
The reason why Sun Ce is called the little overlord is not only because he is brave and unparalleled and does not lose to Xiang Yu, but also because he is also like Xiang Yu, he must take the lead in every battle, which can always greatly boost morale.
For example, just now, as soon as Sun Cefu appeared, the Jiangdong Army immediately became demoralized.
When Sun Ce beheaded Wu Siliang with a sword, the morale of the Jiangdong Army reached its peak!
In a moment, more than 30 Yuan Junxiao riders who grabbed the top of the wall were slaughtered.
However, morale is only morale after all, and it cannot erase the huge gap in strength between the two sides.
Especially when the opponent's main general is also a brave and fierce general, and he also likes to take the lead to motivate the three armies, the gap in strength between the two sides has become a decisive factor.
The reason why Yuan Fu let the two thousand Yuan troops storm for one night, but did not let Gan Ning's water thieves go, was to let Gan Ning's three hundred Jinfan water thieves better recuperate, and then to provoke the generals!
It must be admitted that Yuan Wei is really becoming more and more familiar with people's hearts, and he is more and more able to take advantage of the weaknesses of human nature.
Yuan Fu's strategy was successful, and after the military order to attack was issued, the Jinfan water thief, who had been waiting impatiently, immediately became a tiger descending the mountain, followed Gan Ning, and rushed to the dock fort with a roar.
Gan Ning is not only strong in martial arts, but also proficient in swords, guns, arrows, and halberds, and also makes a good meteor hammer!
At this moment, Gan Ning carried a meteor hammer weighing dozens of pounds in his hand, and the hammer was also covered with hideous and sharp wolf tooth nails, each wolf tooth nail exuded a dark sharp light, which was stunning to see.
Gan Ning ran as he lifted a meteor hammer high above the top, spinning rapidly.
When he arrived at the bottom of the fortress wall, Gan Ning's right hand holding the iron chain suddenly loosened, and the rapidly rotating meteor hammer shot like lightning towards the wall under the action of powerful centrifugal force in an instant.
Listening to a bang, the iron chain was blocked by the wall buttress, and the meteor hammer tied to the end of the iron chain roared back, and the iron chain was wound twice on the battlement, and the next moment, Gan Ning shouted, held the iron chain with both hands, and the whole person came sideways, and actually stepped on the wall perpendicular to the ground, and directly grabbed the wall.
The two-zhang high fort wall is just over four meters, and it took Gan Ning less than ten seconds to climb the wall.
At the same time as jumping off the wall, another meteor hammer in Gan Ning's hand had already been thrown out, and a Jiangdong Army's front door was smashed, and the whole head was shattered in an instant, and the broken bones flew together with blood and brains, splashing Gan Ning's face, but Gan Ning didn't bother to wipe it at all, and pulled out the shocking knife with his backhand.
With the stunner knife in hand, Gan Ning was even more unstoppable, with only one knife, he cut off the six or seven spears that the Jiangdong army stabbed over, and with another knife, he killed the two Jiangdong troops closest to him on the spot, and after using three knives, there was no Jiangdong army that could still stand within ten steps of Gan Ning, and six or seven Jiangdong troops all fell in a pool of blood.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the brocade thief under the wall hurriedly set up a long ladder and climbed to the top of the city.
In just a moment, more than 20 Jinfan thieves grabbed the top of the wall, and immediately launched a thunderous onslaught along the wall to the Jiangdong Army on the left and right.
The situation on the fort wall showed a one-sided trend.
This is also reasonable, although the three hundred sail thieves under the command of Gan Ning are water thieves, but in terms of combat effectiveness, they are by no means comparable to ordinary foot soldiers, after all, the navy of this era still has to rely on the battle to distinguish the winner and loser, without strong melee ability, even the navy is difficult to achieve the final victory.
In addition, the Jiangdong army has been fighting all night, tired, hungry, and sleepy, because of Sun Ce's encouragement, they have surpassed their physical and mental limits, but they are completely supported by a breath, and now, when the Jiangdong army encounters an opponent who is not inferior to them at all in terms of combat effectiveness or morale, it immediately can't hold on.
"Gan Ning!" Twenty steps away, there was a sudden shout, but it was Sun Ce who appeared.
"Sun Ce!" Gan Ning saw Sun Ce at a glance, and his tiger eyes suddenly shot a burning look to the extreme.
The next moment, Gan Ning and Sun Ce threw off their strides at the same time and pounced on each other, both of them were big men who were more than eight feet tall and close to nine feet, and their heights were more than four hundred Han catties, and their heavy footsteps trampled on the aisle of the fort wall, which shook the entire fort wall violently, and a large amount of sand and dust fell straight down.
"Roar!"
"Hey-ha!"
When there were still three steps and four steps away, Gan Ning and Sun Ce used their right feet to stirrup the ground at the same time, and then their huge bodies rose into the air at the same time, people were in the air, and the two of them also stabbed almost at the same time, Gan Ning used the Shocking Knife, and Sun Ce used the ancient ingot knife left to him by Sun Jian, all of which are rare and superb treasure knives.
"Boom!" Between the lightning and the fire, the two knives struck each other fiercely in the air.
An invisible wave of qi exploded with a loud sound that could pierce through the golden cracking stone.
In the next moment, the figures of the two had already separated, Gan Ning took a step back after landing, but Sun Ce took three steps back after landing, and a handsome face like white jade instantly turned red.
"Good knives!" After landing, Gan Ning couldn't help but praise, "Good martial arts!" β
Sun Ce's Adam's apple twitched violently, as if he was swallowing something, and then said, "The feet are not bad!" β
Gan Ning smiled, suddenly took a step forward again, and the shocking knife in his hand suddenly lifted up, and went straight to Sun Ce's lower abdomen, actually to give Sun Ce a big disembowelment.
Sun Ce shouted violently, and the ancient ingot knife in his hand was-for-tat, and he slashed down suddenly.
There was another violent sound of gold and iron, and Sun Ce's healed body finally couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately opened his mouth to spurt out a mouthful of old blood, and the ancient ingot knife in his hand also flew out.
Fortunately, Sun Ce's knife still knocked Gan Ning's stunning knife crooked after all.
The Shocking Knife almost slashed against Sun Ce's left ribs, and the blade rubbed violently against Sun Ce's gilded armor, instantly bursting into a dazzling burst of fire, and at the same time emitting a piercing grinding sound that made people's teeth sour.
When the brilliance dissipated, the Jiangdong army on the fortress wall was extremely frightened to find that their lord Sun Ce, the invincible god of war in their minds, had withered on the ground, and the blade of the super luxuriously decorated elongated ring head knife in the hand of the Yuan army had rested on Sun Ce's neck.
Suddenly, the morale of the Jiangdong Army was exhausted to the end and gave up resistance.
Sun Ce shrank to the ground, and the red blood overflowed from the corners of his mouth like a fountain, but the expression that came out of Sun Ce's eyes was still so unruly, still looking at the world as before.
Sun Ce raised his head, looked at Gan Ning coldly, and said, "You win, cut off my head and ask Yuan Wei for credit." β
Gan Ning rested the shocking knife on Sun Ce's neck and said, "You are seriously injured and have not healed, but I am invincible and offended!" β
After finishing speaking, Gan Ning turned around and beckoned, and the two Jinfan water thieves pounced on him and tied up Sun Ce.