Chapter 451: Fire and Water Are Ruthless
Zhu Bao waited for a long time, saw the fire in the back village, thought that the opportunity was coming, and then killed in, but never expected that it was a huge trap, more than two hundred parts were first shot by a burst of random arrows to kill a large area, heavy casualties, and then by several times his own barbarians surrounded by a burst of slashing, especially there are two invulnerable fierce men rushing back and forth, stirring up their remaining formation, in a hurry, where is there a chance to fight back.
Before Wang Shuang and Heisha killed Zhu Bao one after another, Wang Shuang took the lead and cut off Zhu Bao's head with one sword.
As soon as the other tribes who were killed in a mess saw Zhu Bao's head fall to the ground, they immediately knelt on the ground and surrendered, the master was dead, and the battle was meaningless.
The battle in Houzhai came quickly and ended faster.
When Wang Shuang and others besieged Zhu Bao, Wei Ba had already sent people to rush out of the wall, recover the front wall, and close the gate of the wall, blocking the Wu army that had just arrived. Wang Shuang struck a blow, didn't care to pick up Zhu Bao's head, turned around and killed the Qianzhai, Heisha followed, led three or four hundred soldiers out of the Houzhai, and pounced on the Wu army that was attacking the Qianzhai.
Seeing that the cottage was already safe and sound, Wei Ba finally let go of Zuihou's worries, and he waved his hand: "Launch!" β
"Whoa!" Wei Xing responded loudly, turned around and rushed at the barbarians next to more than ten stone throwers, raised his arm, and waved violently: "Ignite, launch!" β
The barbarians had been waiting for a long time, and watching their companions kill the Wu people to the ground, they couldn't wait to pull out the machetes on their waists and rush up to kill. Now it's finally time for me to exert my power, and I'm so happy that I can't close my mouth. They lit the straw balls in the toss basket with torches in their hands, and the artillerymen raised their wooden hammers in their hands. Slam down.
With a loud bang, the stone thrower trembled, and the long pole threw up into the sky, and the grass balls soaked in oil burned with a whirring sound, making meteors one after another, and rushed towards the Imperial Daughter Lake.
These stone throwers are the brainchild of Wei Ba in the past few days, not seeking refinement, but practicality. The craftsmen of the Yuanxi tribe are very average, and it is impossible for them to make them very accurate, and Wei Ba did not plan to use it for too long. He only hoped that these stone throwers would launch those prepared haode grass balls. Thrown onto the Wu army's warship, it is considered a great success. I don't count on the quasi-head, what I want is a numerical advantage and all-round coverage.
Compared to stone balls. Grass balls are much lighter. Wei Ba also made a big basket throw. Forty or fifty grass balls can be fired at a time, five stone throwers can be fired at the same time, and four or five hundred fireballs fly out of the back village. Suddenly the lake was red.
Lu Kai was under the support of the guards, ready to go ashore, to the stockade to inspect the fruits of victory, suddenly the ground lit up, the water surface reflected countless bright stars, he subconsciously looked up, suddenly shocked, stayed there for a while, his mind was blank.
Lu Kai is not a negligent person, he has long made a full estimate of the strength of the two sides. He was worried that the barbarians would be unfavorable to his warship, so he sailed the warship to the bottom of the cliff after Zhu Bao captured the Qianzhai to ensure that nothing went wrong. At the level of the barbarians, with their bamboo bows and crossbows with a range of no more than thirty or fifty paces, it was impossible to launch a large-scale attack on the warship.
Warships are most afraid of fire attacks, so the generals of the naval division will be very vigilant against fire attacks. Under normal circumstances, the sailors of both sides would wet the hull with water beforehand before entering the position, including all the decks and bulkheads, in order to avoid being attacked by the opposing fire. It is precisely because of this habit that if you want to attack the opponent's warship with fire, you must take advantage of the opponent's inconvenience and let the opponent have no time to wet the warship, so that the fire attack can be successful.
This is also the reason why Huang Gai wanted to surrender during the Battle of Chibi. The purpose of the surrender was to paralyze Cao Cao and make him unable to take measures to prepare for fire attacks in time. If it is a normal battle, the ships of both sides are wet, and the fire attack will not work.
The barbarian did not have a warship, and he did not have a long-range weapon with sufficient range, so Lu Kai naturally did not need to wet the warship with water in advance, and now there was a sudden situation on the battlefield that he did not expect, and the barbarian was able to throw the fire directly from the back village to the surface of the Emperor's Lake, which made Lu Kai unexpected, and he was not prepared at all.
Lu Kai was unprepared, and ordinary Wu soldiers were even more defenseless. In their eyes, those barbarians are just goods waiting to die, how can they pose any threat to their warships. When they saw the meteors in the sky rushing towards the warship, almost all of them froze.
At least a third of the grass fans landed on the ship, where they bounced and rolled around. In order to be waterproof and used for a long time, warships are usually soaked in oil, and these warships that have been soaked in oil but have not been wet in advance will immediately start burning when they encounter fire.
Wu Jun was in turmoil.
From the cliff to the Yuanshui, a total of about 300 steps, Wei Ba gave up the Qianzhai, Wu Jun in order to be able to use the bow and crossbow on the ship to support Zhu Bao, it is necessary to sail the warship as close to the cliff as possible, so that most of the warships have entered the depths of the Emperor Lake, only the baggage ships that are not equipped with large bows and crossbows are moored in the Yuanshui. Lu Kai's handsome ship was in the middle, about two hundred paces, and it was the first target selected by Wei Ba.
A large number of grass balls fell, several warships caught fire, and the soldiers on board were in a mess, some took water to extinguish the water, some jumped into the water to escape, and some were using oars to prepare to escape by boat. However, it was already late at night, and it was pitch black everywhere, and the huge warship could not have turned around and left so easily. Boats collide with each other, and the scene is even more chaotic.
Lu Kai quickly realized the danger of the situation, rushed back to his warship, and shouted loudly to the soldiers not to panic. He ordered the drums of war to be beaten, and ordered the ships to save themselves, and at the same time not to move. Under the command of the drums, the chaotic scene was finally brought under control, and the Wu soldiers put out the fire while sailing the warship away from the Lake of the Emperor and out of the range of the stone thrower.
Lu Kai's reaction was quick and his decision was correct, but the fireballs flying in the sky continued to squeeze the confidence of the Wu army's soldiers. More and more fireballs fell from the sky, igniting anything they could touch, and more and more ships burned, while their retreat was not so smooth. In the darkness, it is impossible to see each other clearly, and it is inevitable to collide with each other, and once a ship collides with each other and entangles with each other, it will block more warships and cause greater chaos. When several or a dozen warships are entangled and scrambling to flee for their lives, it is not so easy to adjust the direction smoothly.
One ship caught fire, three caught fire, five caught fire, ten caught fire......
When the fire reached a certain point, even Lu Kai's order lost its effect, and the soldiers of the Wu army began to slash and kill each other and collide with each other in order to compete for the opportunity to escape.
The scene began to spiral out of control.
Wei Ba stood on the wall, looking at the brighter and brighter Emperor Nu Lake, looking at the more and more chaotic Wu army's position, and let out a long breath. He is not a god, he can't train all the warriors of the Yuanxi tribe into warriors in a short period of time, with only a few hundred warriors, and it is impossible for him to defeat Lu Kai head-on with 3,000 elite soldiers. But he had an advantage, he learned a lot about Lu Kai from those captives, including the open and secret battle between him and Zhu Bao, but Lu Kai didn't know anything about him, and he didn't know that he had arrived in the cottage.
Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. In this regard, he took advantage of it, which caught him off guard.
Water and fire are ruthless, if you can be good at water and fire, you can defeat powerful enemies, Cao Cao burned Yuan Shao's grand hegemony in Guandu, Zhou Yu burned Cao Cao's ambition in Chibi, Lu Xun burned Liu Bei's prestige in Yiling, and compared with those sages, his fire is really not worth mentioning.
However, this fire was enough to burn Lu Kai's heart.
There were more and more warships on fire, and the Emperor Girl Lake was as bright as day, even illuminating the Emperor Girl Peak in the distance, and also lighting up Wei Ba's eyes.
On the shore of the Emperor Lake, the battle is in full swing. Wu Jun, who wanted to rush into the cottage and grab it, suddenly found that his warship was burning, and he was immediately frightened and panicked, and when Wang Shuang and Heisha killed from the cliff side by side, they had no will to resist at all, and they turned around and ran away. The mountain road is steep, usually you have to be careful when walking in broad daylight, but now there are so many people, and there are fierce enemies chasing and killing behind, where can they retreat calmly, one squeezes one, one pushes the other, and the Wu army quickly evolves into a rout that takes the road and flees. Countless people were unsteady on their feet and fell off the mountain road, some were squeezed into the water by their companions, and some were even hacked to death by their companions.
Wang Shuang and Hei Sha pursued and ordered the arrows to be released, ruthlessly oppressing the Wu army and further expanding their chaos. They shouted loudly, driving the panicked Wu army forward, like a few wolves driving a large flock of sheep.
Wu Jun panicked, suffering heavy casualties, they did not dare to stop, even if they knew that they would fall into the water if they ran fast. If you fall into the water, you will have a chance to swim and escape, but if you are caught by the barbarians behind you, it will definitely be a dead end.
When the road was so supportive that it was impossible to move forward, many Wu soldiers chose to take the initiative to dive. One after another, Wu Jun plunged into the water from a mountain cliff twenty or thirty steps high like dumplings, and many people fell to the stones, breaking their heads and bleeding. Some people jumped into the water, but they were dizzy by their companions who jumped down later, and even fell into the water and never had a chance to float again.
The Emperor Girl Lake is like a pile of rising fireworks, illuminating the Emperor Girl Peak, illuminating the sky, brilliant, celebrating the victory of Wei Ba, but burning the life of Wu Jun.
Lu Kai thumped his chest. After many years of fighting, he knows very well what the words ruthless means. He also knew very well that today he was being calculated by a clever opponent. The other party lured him into the trap step by step, and he didn't know who the other party was. There is no need to guess, there must be more than one commando in the back village, and Zhu Bao, who attacked the front village, probably has no return. Now, he wants to take as many warships out as possible and reduce losses before the opponent has a full-scale counterattack.
LΓΌ Kai ordered a retreat, leaving behind those men who were being pursued, and drove the warship to the quiet Yuanshui.
Seeing the retreat of the handsome ships of the Wu army, there was jubilation up and down the cliff, and countless Yuanxi tribes surrounded Wei Ba and cheered.
"God will! God will! β
"God General!" (To be continued......)
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