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Boom Boom Boom! Flames splashed, red beads flew, black smoke filled the air, and flames soared into the air.

Countless fireballs in the sky smashed heavily on the water, the ground, the cabin, the white sails, the wooden fence and even the body...... No matter people or things, they burn when they are touched, and they burn when they are rubbed. As far as the eye could see, there were burning objects everywhere, soldiers howling wildly, burning men rolling all over the ground, and soldiers who could not bear the scorching fire and jumped into the water to escape.

From time to time, there are fireballs that fall into the water, stirring up high water columns, and the water surface sizzles, raising puffs of white smoke, gathering into a mist over the river surface, forming a strong black and white contrast with the black smoke clouds on the river bank. When the fireball hit the fire oil tank used for defense in the Jiangdong Army's water village, fireworks flew everywhere, hundreds of soldiers turned into fire people, and the rising flames almost burned the sky.

Fireballs, flames, smoke, charred corpses, a sea of fire, burning men dancing...... It was a terrible sight, as if the end had come.

At this moment, the command system of the Jiangdong Army was completely paralyzed, and everyone from the commanding generals at all levels to the ordinary non-commissioned officers was fleeing for their lives. Even if wisdom is like the sea, pulling mountains and rivers, but water and fire are ruthless, and non-human beings can resist it. Even though the three strongest heroes of the Three Kingdoms gathered, in the face of this man-made disaster, they had only to flee for their lives.

And the worst thing is that because the watchtower gathered almost all the leaders of the Jiangdong Army, at least one-third of the trebuchets in the first wave of attacks were aimed at this eye-catching target.

The three heroes rushed to flee for their lives, and as soon as they rushed down the watchtower, they went to one side: Sun Quan and other Jiangdong generals ran to the back door of the water village; Liu Bei, escorted by Zhang Fei, ran to the water gate on the left to meet Guan Yu; And Cao Cao's father and son saw that the general trend had gone, and they didn't want to follow the Jiangdong people to finish together, so they took a group of people from the dock in front of the right.

At this point, Sun Cao and Liu went their separate ways. The three alliances fell apart.

Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu and other generals tried their best to escort Sun Quan to escape from the watchtower and flee to the back door of the water village. This is an unprecedented shame for Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu. Since the leadership of the army, they have never left their army and fled during the battle, let alone fled for their lives as soon as the battle began. But what's the solution? How can flesh and blood compete with iron and fire?

When they just ran down from the watchtower and escaped more than ten feet, there were several roars behind them. The watchtower was hit hard and collapsed in the black smoke and red flames.

Pan Zhang's reaction was a beat slower than ordinary people because he drank too much wine, and he ran at the end. The watchtower fell down violently, and Pan Zhang only roared angrily, and was completely buried. Pity a tiger general of the Jiangdong Army, he didn't even have a chance to fight the Dragon Wolf Army, so he died in ruins.

Sun Quan looked back and saw that he didn't have time to mourn. Dong Xian's shout came from his ears: "The lord is down!" He was immediately pushed down.

Rumble! A fireball fell from the sky, about ten paces away from the group of fugitives, and exploded into hundreds of fragments, splashing in all directions. Half of Sun Quan and his entourage were affected by this terrible fragment comparable to burning red iron juice. The consequences were simply catastrophic.

How can a fireball explode? Is it a hollow ball? Actually, it's not.

The iron used in these iron balls is the iron slag left over from steelmaking. In Pingguo, Liaodong, such iron slag waste is piled up on a hill high. Ma Ha after the trebuchet was baked. I once wanted to use these iron slag to make iron balls to attack the enemy, after all, it is very laborious to polish and process stone bullets, and it is best to use waste. However, experiments have confirmed. Because of its loose texture and brittleness, it has poor destructive power to the city wall, and can only smash people and things. So Ma Han proposed a braised iron ball, and after a try, its effect was comparable to the iron juice of the defender, which was extremely terrifying.

Because the iron ball is brittle, it turns soft after it is red, and it falls from a height of more than ten zhang, and it will shatter when it hits the ground, and it will break into dozens of large and small pieces, and even collapse into nearly 100 pieces of iron filings. These iron filings, as small as a grain of rice and as large as a fingernail, cut human flesh at most under normal circumstances, but under the high-speed fall and shattering burst, they become sharp weapons with strong kinetic energy, comparable to crossbow arrows. What's even more terrifying is that these sharp weapons are still burned red, and every Jiangdong soldier who is hit in the body is like being tortured by burning flesh.

This kind of double damage is enough to make people lose their low resistance in an instant, which is comparable to the "grapeshot", a big killer weapon in naval warfare in the era of geographical discovery.

When this fireball hit the ground and burst, the first to bear the brunt was the fierce general Zhou Tai who opened the way in front of the team. Among the generals in Jiangdong, Zhou Tai was famous for his scars. Every scar is a symbol of glory, and this one adds no less than twenty or thirty new scars. The shiny red iron pierced through the leather armor, shot into the flesh, and even penetrated into the abdomen, like dozens of soldering irons piercing the body at the same time. This kind of pain is not something that ordinary people can endure.

Zhou Tai let out an earth-shattering roar, trembling all over, kneeling on the ground, slamming the ground with his fists, and the blood was dripping unconsciously. In the end, I couldn't resist it, and I went into shock with pain.

The surrounding servants screamed in amazement, fell down, and rolled on the ground in pain.

Huang Gai and Jiang Qin's hands and feet were each hit, and the two of them wrapped the hem of their clothes around a little iron filings that exposed the flesh, gritted their teeth and pulled them out, their brows jumping. Look at how unbearable it is to see that you only won one piece, and Tai won dozens of pieces that week...... It's gasp just to think about.

Cheng Pu hurriedly turned around and looked Sun Quan up and down: "Is the lord okay?" ”

Sun Quan's face was pale, his facial muscles twitched, and he gritted his teeth and shook his head: "It's okay." The palm of the hand quietly pressed against the lower abdomen, pressing it tightly......

As he spoke, there was another loud bang, and everyone was frightened, and they looked fixedly, but fortunately, they were twenty paces away, and they were blocked by the chaos and were not affected.

"Quick, quickly lift up Captain Zhou and get out of here! Get out of here! Zhou Yu shouted loudly, and his voice changed tone.

Everyone fled in panic, and from time to time, fireballs fell from time to time, destroying people's souls and losing people's hearts.

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Guan Yuzhu stabbed on the ground, sitting on the bow deck, his expression numb, like a sculpture, unmoving. At this time, Guan Erye has lost his former majesty, the green turban has burned a few holes, his red face has been blackened by smoke, purple has been burned, and a handful of beautiful hair has been burned. There were also several scratches on his face, and the deepest strand of flesh rolled up, but it didn't bleed - the only benefit of a soldering iron was to stop the bleeding.

From time to time, there were shadows of fire that pierced the ship's planks, ignited the sails, and burned the cables. It also turned the soldiers who didn't have time to jump into the river into dancing fire men. The howls on the boat and the mournful screams on the river are intertwined into a human purgatory.

Guan Ping knelt down on his father's knees, and begged with a few servants: "General, let's go, this ship is about to sink!" ”

Guan Yu was unmoved.

Rumble! A fireball hit the roof of the cabin, shattering, quickly igniting the contents of the cabin, and half of the ship was on fire.

Guan Yu remained motionless.

When the last few of them scattered and fled, they were the only ones who remained on the ground. Swear to live and die with my father.

Finally, a familiar voice came from a distance: "Second brother, where are you......"

Guan Yu was shocked and shouted, "Big brother! Third brother! ”

The man he had been waiting for had finally arrived.

In the billowing smoke, a small boat rowed on the river, there were only three or five people on the boat, and standing at the bow of the boat was Zhang Fei, who was full of anxiety. Liu Bei, on the other hand, was lying horizontally in the cabin.

When the three brothers reunited, they couldn't help but hug each other tightly and burst into tears.

But soon. Guan Yu found that something was wrong, looked down, and was shocked: "Big brother, you, you are injured." ”

Liu Bei was not only injured. And he was badly injured, one of his right legs was smashed and twisted and deformed, and he was badly burned. At a glance, I knew that in the process of escaping, I unfortunately won the "jackpot". In the late Han Dynasty, when a random arrow could take the life of a general, such an injury was definitely a serious injury, and a late-stage infection alone was enough to kill Liu Bei three times.

Guan Yu burst into tears and held Liu Bei's hand tightly: "Big brother, we won't leave you, let's rush out together!" ”

Liu Bei held the shoulders of the two righteous brothers, sat down hard, his legs were stretched, he endured the pain, shook his head and said, "You guys go, I can't survive." Raise my big rope and attract the enemy to attack, and you will break through in small boats. ”

Guan Yu took a deep breath and nodded resolutely: "Okay, the third brother and Ping'er will go together." My eldest brother and I stayed to lure the enemy. ”

Liu Bei and Zhang Fei exclaimed in unison: "I can't ...... it"

But I saw Guan Yu slowly turn around-God! His entire back armor was burned off, his skin and flesh were charred black, and the red muscles and white muscle fibers could be seen clearly...... The severity of this injury is much worse than Liu Bei, and compared to Zhou Tai, it is unbelievable how he endured it. But thinking about this gentleman's deeds of scraping bones and healing, it is not difficult to understand.

The situation is already very clear, Liu Bei and Guan Yu were seriously injured, and it doesn't make a difference whether they escape or not. Rather than hiding in Tibet like a lost dog, it is inevitable to die in the end, it is better to die on the battlefield vigorously. And Zhang Fei and Guan Ping were only slightly injured, and they still had a chance to escape.

Guan Ping couldn't kneel, knocked his head to the point of blood, and refused to leave his father.

Guan Yu scolded angrily: "Duh! Surely we and others who want to collect the bones of the corpses will not be able to get it! ”

After drinking this, Guan Ping finally stopped. Yes, it is filial piety to accompany my father to die together, and it is even more filial piety to collect the bones of my deceased father and return to Zizi for burial. Zhang Fei was also persuaded by Liu Bei to leave on the same grounds.

Watching Zhang Fei and Guan Ping board the boat and gradually disappear into the smoke, Liu Bei and Guan Yu looked at each other and smiled. Guan Yu hung the word "Liu" on the long knife, sat on the bow of the boat with the knife in one hand and Liu Bei in the other, ignoring the approaching fire behind him......

The soldiers of the Dragon Wolf Army saw a warship rising down the river and rushed straight towards it, and immediately turned the direction of more than ten trebuchets, and the dense fireballs fell like meteors, smashing into the water column and reaching the sky, with a flame height of five feet.

In the flames, Liu Bei's hoarse laughter was heard: "In the past, the peach garden was righteous, the garden was scorching, and now we are going to the trouble together, and the flames are clear......."

Suddenly, the flames moved rapidly, and in the middle of the fire shadow, one person rushed in, it was Zhang Fei.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu exclaimed in unison: "Third brother, ......"

Zhang Fei was on fire on his back, burning his hair and flesh, but he smiled: "I remember, didn't the three of us brothers swear that 'we don't want to be born on the same day and month of the same year, but to die on the same day and month of the same year'." I can't just walk away like that. It's going to be a piece of death. ”

Liu Bei and Guan Yu stretched out their hands to hold Zhang Fei together, looked at each other and smiled: "Okay, well said!" You and I are brothers, we are like brothers and sisters, and we are like flesh and blood, how can we be separated? I don't want to be born on the same day and month of the same year, but I want to die on the same day and month of the same year. ”

The flames raged and finally engulfed the ship.

Guan Ping, who was in the reeds, looked at the fire on the river, poofed, and knelt heavily in the dirty mud. (To be continued......)