Chapter 255: The Battle of Ants and Centipedes

Cai Bian sat on a sampan, and under the escort of several soldiers of the forbidden army, he shouted loudly: "A certain is the Great Song Longtu Pavilion to be systematized, and in the process of giving things, Cai Bian, the chief envoy of Liao, who are you, don't report your name quickly." ”

The black-clothed men on the shore didn't speak, just replied to Cai Bian with a "slugging" bow and arrow.

Arrows rained down, more and more corpses floated up on the surface of the Fen River, and red flowers bloomed in the water, slowly rippling into a large patch of red, just like a maple forest in the distance.

Xu Xian'er sat behind Li Kang, although she couldn't see the archers, but she knew the danger ahead, she hurriedly paddled with her hands, trying to make Li Kang's bamboo raft go backwards. However, Li Kang's bamboo raft was too simple, and its stability was not good, and Li Kang waved a wooden plank to resist the raindrops of arrows, and actually formed a circle in the river, so that Li Kang could only hold a large wooden plank and circle around Xu Xian'er.

Fortunately, several convex sampans had already reached the vicinity of Li Kang's bamboo raft, and they threw out ropes and tied Li Kang's bamboo raft to their own sampans to prevent the raft from capsizing.

Several Janissary soldiers braved the rain of arrows with shields in their hands to get Li Dare into the sampan. Unexpectedly, Li Dang said to them: "Quick, quickly rescue Xiaoxian back to the sampan!" ”

When it is critical, think of your subordinates first, such a master is reliable!

A few people came to pull and drag, and finally got Xu Xian'er to the sampan, they didn't know that Xu Xian'er was a woman dressed as a man, and when they saw Li Dang trying so hard to rescue his cronies just now, they were already envious of Xu Xian'er.

"Retreat, retreat to the side of the car and boat."

Li Dang turned around and found that the sunken ship he was riding on was not completely sunk, and the upper two-story cabin was exposed on the water, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to retreat behind the car and boat, after all, it was far away from the embankment.

A group of people quickly retreated to the back of the car and boat, and a few of them who had come all the way to the water were already tired, and when they saw that the car and ship would not sink again, they simply climbed into the car and boat and hid in the cabin. Even gasping for air.

At this time, a water ghost who was good at swimming surfaced and told Li Dang that because there was a big wreck under the water, the car and ship just hit the big wreck before it entered the water, and now the hull of the car and ship just fell on the big wreck, so it did not sink to the bottom of the Fenshui River.

Needless to say, everyone understands that this is a trap, and the other party did not hesitate to pay the price of a large ship in order to silence the vehicle and boat, and deployed an artificial reef in the river.

The kind of car and boat that Li Dang took was very large. But under the bottom of the boat is not the "V" shape that Li Kang often saw in later generations, but flat. This kind of river boat with a flat bottom rarely runs aground in normal times, but once it hits the reef, the underside of the hull cracks together, and the consequences are often catastrophic.

With the cover of the huge car and boat, a group of people got a chance to breathe, and Cai Bian was also relieved, he secretly glanced at the black-clothed people on the embankment. Said worriedly: "It's not a way to go on like this, let's wait like a way to get out." ”

Li Dang nodded, and he said to the water ghost who had just come to pay respects: "Quick, gather all the water ghosts." Divided into two groups, one group with axes and chisels, dived upstream of the car and boat, and encountered a boat and bamboo raft coming. Just find a way to scuttle him. Another group lurked near the vehicles and ships, ready to be called. ”

Several water ghosts received the order and dived into the water one after another. There were also more than a dozen sailors of the chariot and boat, who were also excellent in the water, and they also volunteered to pick up tools and join the ranks of these water ghosts.

Sure enough, as Li dared to expect, after a while, he saw a centipede boat upstream going downstream, and on the deck were standing black cloth masked archers, holding bows and arrows, speeding towards the car and ship.

The archers in the centipede boat had apparently spotted the water spirits under the water, and were firing their bows and arrows at the bottom.

"Bang bang!"

As the dull sound of arrows entering the body sounded in the water, several more corpses floated on the surface of the water.

A group of people looked at the centipede ship nervously, and everyone knew in their hearts that if the centipede ship was allowed to come to a certain distance, those black-clothed people had bows and arrows in their hands and could attack from a distance, and there were only a few shields and steel knives on the dozen or so sampans on their side, which could not compete with the centipede ship no matter what.

Li Dare saw the centipede ship approaching, and he hurriedly said, "Quickly disperse and prepare to attack." "Li Kang has watched naval war movies before, and knows that in the era of hot weapons, it is not appropriate to deploy his ships too densely against each other, because it is easy to be hit by enemy artillery fire. Although he only had bows and arrows now, Li Kang also knew that if he wanted to avoid the dense bows and arrows, he still had to separate his sampans.

The centipede ship was getting closer and closer, and was about to come within range of an arrow.

Li Dang glanced at Cai Bian and said decisively: "Cai Gong and Xiaoxian will take the first step, and Li will be behind here." After speaking, Li Dang instructed a few sampans to hand the shield to Cai Bian's sampan again, and urged Xu Xian'er to board Cai Bian's sampan as soon as possible.

The surrounding soldiers all looked at Xu Xian'er with puzzled eyes, and now they were all speculating in their hearts about who this Xu Xian'er was, and it was so important for Li Dare to attach so much importance to her, it seemed that her identity would definitely not be ordinary.

Xu Xian'er was bandaging the arrow wounds of a few wounded, she listened to Li Kang's words, shook her head, and said with a firm expression: "If Brother Li doesn't leave, the little one will definitely not leave." ”

Cai Bian also nodded and said, "This little brother is right, if Brother Li doesn't leave, we will never leave first." ”

Li Dang shook his head and said: "Cai Gonggui is the main envoy, of course you have to take care of your body, and you don't know martial arts, and you can't kill the enemy if you have no strength to keep the chicken, so let's take a few Hanlin medical officers and go first." ”

Cai Bian also shook his head, and he said, "Brother Li's words are wrong. Now you and I are grasshoppers on the same line, how can Cai have the reason to leave first, and besides, this sampan only has two wood pulps, even if it goes downstream, where can it compare the speed with dozens of centipede boats with wooden oars, I am afraid that Cai Mou has not gone far, and he will be caught up by them, rather than die on the way to escape, Cai would rather die on the battlefield. ”

Several Hanlin medical officers also raised their fists one by one and said to Li Kang: "Li Shilang doesn't need to urge, Cai Gong is right, we are all willing to follow all the soldiers and sacrifice on this battlefield." ”

Li Dang nodded and said, "Okay, then we will fight to the death with this centipede ship, and the second batch of water ghost death squads are ready to march towards the centipede ship, remember to pay attention to concealment." ”

On the water surface of the Fenshui River, a huge centipede boat is dancing with dozens of wooden oars, like a thousand-legged centipede. And Li Kang's dozen or so sampans are like a dozen ants, this is a battle between ants and centipedes, who will win the final victory? (To be continued......)