Chapter 454: Taking the Body as Bait
Wei Ba sighed softly, these barbarians were so excited, and even a little carried away, even forgetting the basic formation. They are not Wang Shuang and Heisha, they have iron armor to protect themselves, as long as the Wu army shoots a lot, they will be beaten back to their original form. And although Lu Kai was attacked one after another, and even the handsome ship was burned by him, he did not mess up, let alone rout, which made him very tricky.
If you can't defeat the opponent in the first place, it means that the victory is slim.
The two armies are facing each other, and the two sides calculate each other, and if you want to defeat the strong with the weak, there must be a premise, that is, the strong make a mistake and expose a flaw, and the weak catch this flaw, so that it is possible to reverse the tide of the war. If the strong man holds his ground and does not make mistakes, then the weak man's strategy is useless no matter how clever he is.
In the final analysis, it's all about strength.
Lu Kai is not Wei Jing, he didn't leave more opportunities for Wei Ba, he has stabilized his position, and if he continues to stalemate, Wei Ba will not be able to please him.
Although regretful, Wei Ba still ordered the troops to be withdrawn.
A crisp gong sounded suddenly, and the barbarians who were in the mood for killing came back to their senses and formed a formation one after another, covering each other and retreating. Wang Shuang also realized his danger, and without saying a word, jumped out of the boat and retreated quickly.
Wei Ba's reaction was very fast, and the barbarians admired him again without the slightest suspicion. With the sound of the gong, the barbarian retreated, and the formation was orderly, as if he had the feeling of a hundred battles. This scene in Lu Kai's eyes added a little doubt. Advance when you hear the drums, retreat when you hear the gold, and you can retreat quickly without falling in love with the situation when the scene is dominant. This is by no means the style of the barbarians, this can only be a regular army that has been on the battlefield for a long time.
Where did this enemy come from?
Lu Kai hesitated for a moment, whether to continue to send people to land and attack, or to stop there?
In Lu Kai's contemplation, his handsome ship slowly capsized and sank into the water, the flames were extinguished by the water, and only wisps of green smoke shook in the morning light. The water was full of people, both alive and dead. Blood stained the river. Slow flow.
While being on guard, the soldiers of the Wu army begged their comrades who had fallen into the water to come up, even if they were corpses, and they could not be allowed to float and rot in the water. For the Wu army stationed downstream. The decay of corpses is the source of the disease. Once it spreads. It is more lethal than thousands of troops, and there can be no carelessness.
The battlefield fell silent for a while, and both sides were figuring out each other's thoughts. Lu Kai didn't know who the enemy on the other side was. How much strength there is, Wei Ba doesn't know what Lu Kai's casualties are now, when he left the cottage, he didn't have time to count the casualties of the Wu army, I don't know how many people Lu Kai still has now, but there is no doubt that there are more than him.
The sudden attack burned Lu Kai's handsome ship, killing and wounding more than 100 Wu troops, and there were basically no casualties on the other side, and this result should be reasonable. It's just that he failed to intercept Wu Jun's baggage ship as he wished, and Wei Ba was still a little unwilling. He looked at Wu Jun who was slowly adjusting his formation on the river, and his mind was racing.
His gaze slowly fell on the five warships on the shore.
Those warships were all small warships, each with more than ten people, shallow draft, fast speed, often used for assault or landing operations, but the number of soldiers that could be carried was also small. More than fifty people were killed by Wang Shuang and Heisha's counterattack, and the remaining few people jumped into the water and fled, leaving only the empty boat on the shore.
Wei Ba gradually had an idea, he called Dunwu and Heisha, and whispered a few words. Dun Wu nodded repeatedly, and Hei Sha turned around and pointed at a dozen young barbarians: "You, you, you, follow Lord Dun." ”
"Whoa." The barbarian who was in the point broke away from the battle formation and rushed to Dunwu's side. Atsuwu led them away quietly. Wei Ba called Wang Shuang: "Can you still open the bow?" ”
Wang Shuang fought viciously for a day and a night, and his face was already a little pale, but in the face of Wei Ba's inquiry, he still puffed up his chest and replied loudly: "Yes!" ”
"Alright, let's go to the shore and set up a formation." Wei Ba stood up from his hiding place, reached out and took the long-handled war knife from Wang's hands, and paused vigorously: "You are here to cover with these archery skills. Don't waste your arrows, look for worthy targets. ”
Wang Shuang nodded, took off his armor, and personally helped Wei Ba put it on. This set of armor weighs at least eighty or ninety pounds, and as soon as he puts it on, Wei Ba feels heavy, and he can't help but sigh that Wang Shuang and Heisha's physical strength is extraordinary, if he wears this armor, he can't slash and kill like them.
Wearing the battle armor, Wei Ba and Heisha walked down the hillside together, more than a hundred barbarians followed, they came to the shore and placed in the formation, Wei Ba stood in front of the formation, lifted the armor, Heisha held a long knife in his hand, followed him closely, Wei Xing raised the battle flag, shook it in the wind, the big flag of the word "Wei" fluttered in the wind, and the hunting sounded.
Wei Ba took a long breath and shouted: "Lu Kai, Wei Ba is here, do you dare to fight?" ”
There was an uproar on the battlefield. Lu Kai was also taken aback, and couldn't help but walk to the side of the boat and hold on to the side of the boat to take a closer look. There were only more than 100 people on the shore, except for the two people in front of the battle, whose armor and weapons were a little weird, all of them were wearing standard armor and holding standard weapons, which was enough to show that these people were exactly what he guessed, regular soldiers, not barbarians. Wei Ba's battle banner further confirmed his suspicion that these people were Wei Ba and his personal guards who had fled all the way from Yiling.
"Wei Ba?" Lu Kai was moved, if it was really him, and there were only more than a hundred people around him, it was entirely possible for him to take down Wei Ba. Wei Ba kidnapped Princess Sun Luban, who was already an enemy of Wu and a core figure in Shu Han's attempt to destroy Wu Jihua. As long as he is captured, then the battle can end early.
"Pass my order, go ashore, and kill Wei Ba!"
"Whoa!" The soldiers of the Wu army also realized the opportunity, and for them, Wei Ba was a lot of rewards. There are only more than 100 people around him now, even if these people are good at fighting, the gap in numbers is huge after all, even if it is to pay two to three times the price, as long as Wei Ba is captured, what kind of losses can't be made up?
The morale of the Wu army was greatly increased, and under the command of Lu Kai, dozens of warships lined up and marched towards the north shore, with crossbowmen in position, ready to cover. More than 300 soldiers were ready for the landing operation.
At the sound of an order, Wu Jun rushed over murderously. A rain of arrows flew up from the ship formation and rushed towards Wei Ba and the others on the shore. Wei Ba waved his hand, and dozens of barbarians rushed over, some holding shields to block arrows, and some people working together to overturn the five unmanned warships in the water, and then crouched behind the warships, ready to fight.
The other barbarians crossed Wei Ba and the black sand and rushed to the shore. Just a bunker made of five warships. Those in front squatted, and those in the back stood, each holding up their shields to form a solid shield array.
Arrows gallop. Wei Ba stood with his knife in his hand. Didn't even raise an arm shield to protect the front door. The warships of the Wu army, equipped with large crossbows, were basically destroyed in the Lake of the Emperor Girl yesterday. The remaining crossbows shouldn't be too strong to shoot through the heavy armor. With the shield array in front as cover, his safety is guaranteed to a certain extent. That's what makes him so majestic.
Wu Jun's arrows shot at the shield, like popping beans, but Wei Ba and the others did not move, not even counterattacking, even Wang Shuang on the hillside remained silent, expressing his contempt for Wu Jun to the greatest extent.
When Wu Jun saw this scene, he was furious, and more than 200 soldiers went down by boat, but they didn't have time to throw down the gangplank, they jumped directly into the water and waded. They lined up in a loose formation, brandished the weapons in their hands, roared, and rushed towards Wei Ba.
Seeing that the enemy was about to rush in front of him, Heisha roared and rushed out from the middle of the two warships, and slashed directly at the Wu soldier at the head with a long knife, slashing left and right, killing two people in a row. More Wu troops rushed up, and Heisha was not afraid, and the long knives danced and whirred, and they were invincible.
"Up!" Wei Ba shouted loudly, and the two barbarian soldiers fought out from the left and right sides of the black sand respectively, protecting the two wings of the black sand and blocking the gap in the ship formation.
The Wu army could not break through the interception of the black sand, and could not break through the small formation of the barbarians, so they could only rush to the ship formation, and the barbarian soldiers behind the boat formation stood up and fought hard, killing the Wu army that rushed over one by one on the bottom of the boat.
Although the formation was small, it was imposing, and more than a hundred barbarians fought vigorously under the command of Wei Ba. Although the Wu army, which was twice as large as itself, kept rushing and killing in front of the battle, it was never able to break through the blockade that blocked them.
Wei Ba stood behind the formation, standing still.
Lu Kai was furious and ordered to send two hundred men again, making sure to kill Wei Ba in front of the battle.
Seeing more Wu Jun jumping off the warship and rushing over, Wei Ba stood up and strode out of the ship formation, and at the same time shouted: "Change the formation!" Hearing this, Heisha, who was on the rise, immediately put away his sword, retreated backwards, and gave up his position to Wei Ba. Wei Ba took it, his legs were slightly separated, he picked up the war knife, waved it diagonally, and killed a meritorious Wu soldier with a knife, and then the long knife drew half a circle around his waist, and flew around, stopping and killing one person again.
The long-handled war knife that rotated with the strength of the waist showed a strong liliang, and when the Wu army was cut off by the waist, and the internal organs gushed out of the wound and drifted down the water, all the Wu soldiers were stunned, and they took a step back in unison, and did not dare to approach Wei Ba for a long time.
Wei Ba does not have the majestic liliang of Wang Shuang and Heisha, but he has more clever power skills, he stands firmly on the ground with his legs, avoiding the physical exertion caused by moving, and at the same time uses his waist strength to dance the long knife like a wheel, slashing horizontally and vertically, which looks no inferior to Wang Shuang and Heisha. And in order to save his physical strength, he stood in front of the battle, and his posture of not giving up a single step added a bit of strength to him, and won the applause of the barbarian soldiers.
The two sides fought bloody on the riverbank, and no one noticed that several unmanned warships floated upstream. Yesterday, a fire in the Imperial Daughter Lake burned countless warships, and it was also commonplace for these warships to flow down the river and through the positions of the Wu army. If they saw that there were warships that were still complete and could be repaired and reused, the Wu army would collect them, and if the damage was too serious, they would leave them to fend for themselves. Now the Wu army was attracted by the vicious battle on the shore, and no one noticed anything unusual about these broken warships drifting down the river.
Dunwu and more than a dozen barbarians who were proficient in water were hidden under these broken ships, and they followed the current and unknowingly entered the position of the Wu army.
Wei Ba did not hesitate to risk his life to attract Wu Jun's attention, just to give them this rare opportunity. (To be continued......)
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