Chapter 901: The End of the Road (3)
"Projectile!" Countless giant arrows fell from the sky, and this time Liu Bei was really in bad luck.
If he can resist on land, he can also let his men help him resist the enemy.
But now this is above the water, and they are just a few small boats, these are the ferries on both sides of the Yangtze River.
How can you stop the battleship in the water?
What's more, the current Yangzhou Navy can be regarded as the most elite Navy in the whole world.
He didn't engage you in battle at all, but directly threw countless giant arrows.
It's cool all of a sudden, I was beaten, and I didn't even have a chance to fight back.
"Boom, boom!" This is the roar of the ferry being pierced directly by the giant arrows of the bed crossbow.
"Ahhh
"Puff puff!" Blood splattered through the crowd.
Liu Bei was not given a chance at all.
After a few volleys, soon there were no traces of ships on the river, and all that remained was the wreckage of a few ships and broken arms.
The bodies that fell into the water floated above the river.
Over there, Dove also got on the ship with the help of the Yangzhou navy on Galen's ship.
"But Dove-sama!" A Yangzhou Navy general walked out and asked Dove.
"It's under you, I don't know who this general is?" Dove asked, looking at the young general in front of him.
"In the Lower Luxun!" The young general Lu Xun said to Dove.
"Overseer Lu!" Dove hurriedly stepped forward and saluted back, this person was none other than him. It was Lu Xun, the commander of the Yangzhou Inland Naval Army.
On the edge of the Yangtze River, there is a large camp of the Yangtze River Naval Army, and Sun Ce is the commander in charge of everything. And Zhou Yu on the side assisted Sun Ce as the military division in the army, and Lu Xun was the commander of the naval army.
"Lord Dove, is it really Liu Bei and the others on this ship?" Lu Xun anxiously asked Dove over there.
"It's true, I'm on the boat with the Lord, no, with this Liu Da'er!" Dove nodded in confirmation.
"Good, good. Good! Lu Xun couldn't help laughing, "As long as this version can win Liu Bei, Lord Dove, you are the first merit!" ”
This Dove is also considered his own. Lu Xun didn't have much feeling for Liu Bei, but he knew that this was a big enemy of the lord.
Only by killing Liu Bei can Jingzhou be taken.
"Dove dare to be greedy, these are the credit of the Overseer!" Dove said modestly.
"Hey! Lord Dove. Our Yangzhou army doesn't believe in this falsehood. This credit is yours and yours, and if you hadn't sent someone to the naval camp to report the news, I wouldn't have come with a boat!" "Although this is a great credit to solve Liu Bei, for Lu Xun, it is just better than nothing.
His current boss is Sun Ce, will he be promoted to Sun Ce's position?
Not to mention that the lord will not let it, even if the lord does, he Lu Xun doesn't want this position. His Lu Xun's ideal is the vast and boundless sea, not the inland rivers. After all, the army is not where he Lu Xun wants to be.
The reason why he Lu Xun is happy is because the lord Liu Mang once said that as long as he takes Jingzhou, he Lu Xun can leave the Yangtze River naval camp and go to Guangling to join the Han Navy.
"Come on, go into the water for me to search for Liu Bei and others, I want to see people alive and corpses when I die!" Waiting for the boat over there to sink, Lu Xun immediately asked the water ghost to go into the water to find someone.
"Yes!"
"Poof, poof!" Countless sailors jumped into the Yangtze River, cruising like dragons in the river.
The corpses were all recovered, and of course there were still people alive among them.
As long as they can be saved, they will come up and control them on one side, and on the other side are those corpses.
Lu Xun and Dove talked about the time of a stick of incense.
Naturally, someone over there came to report, "Report, all the Liu Beijun who fell into the water have been salvaged!" It's just that! The lieutenant said with some hesitation.
"Just what?" Lu Xun frowned, and subconsciously had a bad premonition.
"It's just that Liu Bei's body has not been found!"
"There is no body of Liu Bei? Is he still alive? ”
"I haven't found it either!"
"Take me there!" Lu Xun frowned and spoke.
"Yes!" Soon someone took Lu Xun to the back of the deck, where the body was placed.
The corpses of Liu Bei's personal guards were lying there, a full hundred elites, and only three survived in the end.
The rest either drowned, or were shot through the bed crossbow.
Most of the corpses were incomplete and horrific.
Lu Xun didn't care at all, and looked over one by one.
"Lord Dove, how much do you remember about Liu Bei?" Lu Xun has never seen Liu Bei, but there is one person who is familiar with him, and that is Dove.
"I know everything in ashes!" Dove has been with Liu Bei for a long time.
"That's going to be a hassle!" Lu Xun pointed to the pile of corpses over there and said to Dove.
Dove nodded, and stepped forward.
I was shaking my head for a while, and suddenly I was "tearing!" "Yes.
"What's the matter, Lord Dove!"
"This corpse is Liaohua!" Dove pointed to a body that was no longer half of his head and said to Lu Xun.
"Liaohua? But that Liao Hua, who was born in the Yellow Turban Army and later followed Liu Bei as the commander of the First Army? "Lu Xun is the overseer of the Yangtze River Water Army Battalion, so he naturally knows the information.
"Exactly!" Dove nodded, how can this Liao Hua say that he is also Liu Bei's henchman, and he is also the captain general who commands the first army, but now he is dying miserably.
The whole head was gone, and the whole eye socket was cracked.
The top of his chest also collapsed, enough to see the horror he had before he died.
Three giant crossbow arrows hit him, and Liao Hua's luck was also a little worse.
"Rest in peace! Who let you choose such a master! Dove shook her head1 and said to Liao Hua's corpse.
Zhang Yunke tried every possible way to kill Liao Hua, but he never thought of it. He died on the Yangtze River. Liao Hua died unjustly, if it weren't for Guan Yu's compassion, I'm afraid Liao Hua would have died in the hands of the wolf rider in Bingzhou.
Crushed by a warhorse and shot through a bed crossbow. It doesn't make much difference, there are no dead bodies.
Dove searched around, but her brow grew tighter and tighter.
"What's the matter, Lord Dove? Is Liu Bei really not in it? Lu Xun also looked at Dove nervously.
If his subordinates hadn't found Liu Bei's body before, it would still be understandable, after all, they hadn't seen Liu Bei.
And now Dove, a person who is very close to Liu Bei, can be said to be a person who gets along day and night. is very familiar with Liu Bei, but he has never found Liu Bei's body.
Then there is only one problem.
"This Liu Beihai is not dead!" Dove affirmed.
"Search, keep searching for me. Liu Bei definitely didn't go far! Lu Xun gritted his teeth, he really didn't expect that such a layout would be able to allow Liu Bei to escape.
Not only Liu Bei's body is gone. Not even Pang Shiyuan's! Dove continued.
This Liu Bei and Pang Shiyuan's master and servant actually escaped and ascended to heaven.
A group of water ghosts on Galen's ship. He went into the water again and searched for it.
But after looking for a long time, I couldn't find any other shadows.
"Could it be that it sank into the undercurrent at the bottom of the river?" The adjutant general on the side raised such a doubt. The bottom of the Yangtze River is full of undercurrents, and if the corpse falls, it is really possible to be swept away by the undercurrent.
"That's all I can think about now!" Lu Xun sighed and said.
When Lu Xun came, he left in a hurry, and only brought a Galen ship, and Dove's fleet over there had already been broken up, so there was no way to separate the oil on the Yangtze River and search for it.
"Let's go back first!" Lu Xun could only shake his head. Liu Bei has been defeated, and the purpose of the Yangzhou army has been achieved. Nanyang County has also been placed under the command of the Yangzhou Army, and now the regular army needs to fight to the other side of the Yangtze River.
"That's all there is to it!" It was already dark, and I couldn't find it anymore.
Lu Xun and they left, fifty miles downstream of the waterfront from which they had left.
The two voices finally came out of the water.
These two people are not outsiders, it is Pang Shiyuan and his master Liu Bei.
Pang Shiyuan, who is from Jingzhou, grew up on the edge of the Yangtze River, and Pang Shiyuan's water art is natural.
When Liu Bei's army was surrounded by Galen's ships, Pang Shiyuan secretly found two reeds.
This is basically equipped on the ship, so that you can breathe underwater and be able to stay underwater for a longer period of time.
Over there, when Lu Xun ordered the Galen ship to throw giant arrows.
Pang Shiyuan grabbed Liu Bei and jumped into the Yangtze River.
Although the giant arrow is terrifying, it has the resistance of the river, and when it falls into the river, it also reduces its power by a point.
When the fleet was about to be destroyed in chaos, Pang Shiyuan pulled Liu Bei to embed himself in an undercurrent under the Yangtze River, and followed the thrust of the undercurrent towards the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Only then did he escape.
Now it's getting late, the visibility above the river is still very low, and it's safe to come out.
Pang Shiyuan pulled Liu Bei out of the Yangtze River to the shore.
"Breathe, whew, whew!" Liu Bei gasped heavily.
It's not comfortable to be underwater, if it weren't for Pang Shiyuan's good water skills, maybe Liu Bei would really die in the Yangtze River today.
"Shi Yuan, thank you for saving your life, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid today would be my Liu Bei's death!" Liu Bei said with a wry smile.
"Where does the lord say, this is the heavens are endless, the lord wants the lord to live, and he will create a great cause, but he just follows the trend!" Pang Shiyuan said to Liu Bei.
"Huh!" Liu Bei smiled bitterly and shook his head, what is the destiny of heaven, it is just Liu Bei himself comforting himself, if the destiny is returned, he Liu Bei will not be displaced now.
"Without further ado, we still hurry early, and it is safe only when we arrive in Xiangyang!" Liu Bei said to Pang Shiyuan, he was already frightened.
"Well, as long as we go back to Xiangyang, relying on the city defense of Xiangyang is enough to block the invasion of Liu Mang's army! As long as you persist for a few months, the situation in the Central Plains will inevitably undergo earth-shaking changes, and then it will be the time for the lord to have a great cause! Pang Shiyuan comforted Liu Bei on the side.
Now Yangzhou Liu Mang can free up his hands to deal with Liu Bei, not because Cao Cao has no time to deal with Yangzhou Liu Mang now.
Xiliang Ma Chao made rice, which made Cao Cao anxious.
Ma Chao didn't have many troops, but he couldn't stop him from pulling a bunch of people, like Han Sui and Qiang.
There are hundreds of thousands, and they are all cavalry, even if the weapons are not elite enough, but this momentum alone can make you uncomfortable.
So the first thing Cao Cao solved was Ma Chao.
It is impossible for him to keep such a scourge as Ma Chao in the decisive battle with Liu Mang in Yangzhou. If Ma Chao is all foot soldiers, he is not afraid, and he is guarded by Xiongguan outside Chang'an.
Even if he gives him more than 100,000 horses, it will be difficult to break through Chang'an. threatened him Cao Cao.
But if you want to die, all the cavalry in the hands of this Ma Chao are cavalry.
The mobility of this cavalry is not comparable to that of a foot soldier.
Although Xiongguan is tall, it also needs people to go.
Rather than filling it with human life, which is thankless, why not just bypass this Xiongguan.
In this way, the Yangtze River Guanzhong generation will become Ma Chao's horse farm.
Therefore, it is reasonable for Cao Cao to eliminate Ma Chao.
Although Ma Chao is powerful, it is a pity that he is arrogant, and he has the momentum of Lu Bu back then.
Even Lu Bu was defeated by Cao Cao, let alone such a small Lu Bu.
According to the information that Pang Shiyuan obtained, the Northern Xiliang Alliance had already been suspicious of each other under the planning of Cao Cao's advisers, and Han Sui and Ma Chao had already begun to argue.
No one wants to be the first to contribute.
Jingzhou is nearly a month's journey from Xiliangna.
This information was still a month ago, and now the outcome is even more unknown.
However, Pang Shiyuan put himself in his shoes, as long as Cao Cao is not a fool, divide and annihilate him, pull one to fight another, Ma Chao's Xiliang coalition army, fast in January, slow in March, will inevitably be defeated.
Supplemented by cavalry and foot soldiers, in the end, Xiliang had no second way to choose except for a big defeat.
Cao Cao eliminated Ma Chao, a big confidant, so the next step is to compare with Liu Mang in Yangzhou to see who is the overlord of the world.
Cao Cao and Liu Mang, neither of them is easy to mess with.
Once the two of them fight to the death, won't they be Jingzhou who will benefit in the end?
"Liu Mang, Cao Cao!" When the names of these two people were mentioned, Liu Bei was so angry that his teeth itched.
Cao Cao cooked wine and talked about heroes, and pretended to be compared in front of him Liu Bei.
Liu Mang and Liu Hanyang, whether it is the Battle of Shouchun or the Battle of Fancheng, it was all slapped in the face of Liu Bei, and even more, there is a Lu Bu over there, which is also his Liu Bei's enemy. If Lu Bu hadn't come to Xuzhou at the beginning, he Liu Bei wouldn't have gotten to this point today.
It can be said that there are two people, and Liu Bei is the one who has the greatest resentment.
"Let's fight, let's fight, two dogs bite a mouthful of hair!" Liu Bei thought maliciously. (To be continued......)