Chapter 821: Drawing Salary from the Bottom of the Cauldron
On the west bank of Poyang Lake, a two-horse carriage hurried forward surrounded by dozens of Wu soldiers, and immediately sat two civil officials, one of whom grabbed the car and shouted angrily: "Slow down, slow down, Lao Tzu's heart and lungs have been turned upside down by you." β
The civil official sitting on his right ignored him at all, and urged repeatedly: "Hurry, hurry, hurry." β
The driver waved his whip, the two horses gasped and galloped, and the carriage galloped on the official road. The armor soldiers urged their horses forward, looking nervous one by one, carefully controlling their mounts, for fear of friction with the carriage that was about to fly.
With a "bang", the scribe sitting on the left side rolled his eyes and collapsed on the carriage, but his hand was still dragging the cart.
The scribe on the right was taken aback and hurriedly shouted, "Stop! "Quick-eyed, he held the fainting scribe in one hand and dragged the cart with the other, so as not to be thrown out by the bumpy carriage.
"Phewβ" The rider let out a long whistle, grabbed the reins, and slowly took control of the horse.
"Sir, wake up, wake up." The scribe was anxious and slapped the fainted man on the cheek. The fainting scribe raised his hand and grabbed his wrist tightly, his eyes opened, and the two sly gazes looked so hateful.
"Don't fight, fight again, Lao Tzu will not be killed by you, but also by you."
"Hmph, it turns out that Mr. is not dizzy." The scribe said angrily: "Then why do you delay, if you delay for a moment, our army's losses will increase by one point." β
"What's the matter with me?" The faint scribe sat up and slowly straightened his clothes, showing no shame on his face. He squinted his eyes. looked at the scribe with a ruffian face, and his face turned red with anxiety. "Let me tell you, if you rush so hard, Lao Tzu will get there, and you will have to rest for a few days before announcing the order."
"You ......"
"What's wrong with me? Dissatisfied? If you are not satisfied, go back now and change to someone who satisfies you. β
The scribe was so angry that he jumped out of the car, beating his chest, but he did not dare to give the order to rush forward. The armor soldier next to him also hated his eyes, and many people put their hands on the knife ring, but no one dared to really draw their knives against the scoundrel in the car.
They were the envoys who had just arrived from Wuchang, and the one who pretended to be stunned was Wei Ba's envoy. Daimyo Pi Erding. It turned out to be a gangster in Chang'an City, and by chance, he met Wei Ba, who was in Chang'an at the time, and became an acquaintance with Peng Xiaoyu. Later, he went to Jingzhou to find a life. Because of that relationship. Coupled with being able to speak well, he has now become Wei Xing's deputy.
The armistice agreement was signed, and Pi Erding shouldered the heavy responsibility of passing orders to Xiahou Xuan and Zhuge Dan. followed Sun Quan's confidant Shiyi all the way to Chaisang. When they arrived in Chaisang, they learned that Xiahou Xuan had led the sailors directly into Poyang Lake and was about to fight with the Yuzhang shipyard left behind. Shi Yi panicked when he heard this, and urged forward, hoping to pass the order to Xiahou Xuan's hands as soon as possible, end this battle, and preserve a little vitality for the Wu army.
But Pi Erding quit, he found many reasons to delay time, and he couldn't wait until the fight was over. Now, he has even taken out the scoundrel when he was a gangster, forcing him to jump like thunder, but there is nothing he can do.
Who let Pi Erding pass on the password? If Pi Erding is not happy, this battle will not be over.
Shi Yi knew Pi Erding's plan very well, but now that the initiative was not in his hands, it was useless for him to be anxious. In fact, he didn't tell Pi Erding all the information, otherwise God knows if this thing would directly pretend to be dead, and he wouldn't leave a single step.
Not only Xiahou Xuan arrived at Poyang Lake, but Deng Ai also arrived. Deng Ai led tens of thousands of mountains and Yue, all the way like a bamboo, every county broke the county, every county broke the county, every county broke the county, drove straight in, and had already attacked Yuzhang County to govern Nanchang. After he and Xiahou Xuan rendezvous, they advanced by land and water, and Yuzhang Shipyard was never spared.
This cannot be blamed for the incompetence of the garrison Wu army, it can only be said that it is forced by the situation. The main force of the Wu army is now Shanyue, they have long been dissatisfied with being forced to be an army, as soon as they saw the troops holding the battle flag of the god general, they listened to two words of persuasion to surrender, they surrendered happily, those soldiers loyal to the Wu country are few and few, and they are simply unable to resist the internal and external attacks of these Shanyue. Deng Ai was almost bloodless all the way, even if there were a few roadblocks, they were all trampled into smoke and dust in front of the mountains and fields.
Now, Deng Ai really realized Wei Ba's intention of assigning Chen Yuan to him as his deputy, and the prestige appeal of this god general was too strong.
Shi Yi hoped to rush to Yuzhang as soon as possible to convey the order of the armistice and preserve a little strength for the Wu army's naval division. However, although Pi Erding did not know the specific situation, he had incredible trust in the strength of the Jiaozhou Naval Division, and he believed that as long as the Naval Division entered Poyang Lake, even if the 30,000 Wu troops stationed in Chaisang caught up, it would not be able to save the fate of Yuzhang Shipyard. Eating Yuzhang Shipyard, even if the foundation of Wu Junshui was hollowed out, for this purpose, he could play any shameless tricks, and even cheated to death at the expense of threatening Shi Yi.
Shi Yi was full of anger but had nowhere to vent. In the face of such a scoundrel who doesn't even want a face, even if he has a thousand clever plans, he can only look at the lake and sigh.
The strength is not as good as the people, how about the knowledge? Shi Yi felt deep sorrow and humiliation.
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Deng Ai looked at the city tower in Nanchang from a distance, looked at the figures on the city wall, smiled, and then ordered to move on. He is not interested in taking Nanchang at all now, his purpose is the shipyard of Poyang Lake.
He set up a position between the shipyard and Nanchang City, leaving 10,000 men in line to block it, and then sent 10,000 men to attack the land camp in the shipyard. At the same time, Xiahou Xuan in Poyang Lake also raised the battle flag and commanded more than 30,000 sailors to launch a charge against the Wu army's water village.
Zhuge Zhi led a building ship and dozens of medium-sized warships to take the lead and enter the Wu army in formation. As a general, Zhuge Zhi knows very well what he should do, he is not like Zhuge Dan who took the initiative to defect to Wei Ba, but was defeated and captured, if he does not fight hard and make more achievements, it will be difficult for him to smooth his career in the future. Since you have decided to take refuge in Wei Ba, you must always show some sincerity. The general trend of the world is already obvious, Wu Wei is not the opponent of Shu Han, and Shu Han is the strongest, and the one with the most development stamina is undoubtedly Wei Ba, now the Jiaozhou Navy Division has just been formed, and there are still many opportunities, if you don't take advantage of this time to hurry up, will you wait to dominate the world and then exert your strength?
In successive battles, Zhuge Zhi has made great contributions, and this time it is an exception, he did not hesitate to be a striker.
Not to be outdone, Wu Jun sent two ships to attack Zhuge Zhi.
As soon as Zhuge Zhiyi saw the two building boats coming from the opposite side, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. It is true that these are two Wu Jun's building boats, but these two building ships are not the kind of building ships he is familiar with, this kind of building boat has no oars on both sides, and it is very similar to the building ship of the Jiaozhou Naval Division, but it is not so big. What's more, the speed of these two ships is significantly faster than his ship.
Is this a new type of warship built in secret? Zhuge Zhi thought urgently while hanging up the battle flag for help. A while ago, Sun Shao once gave them a briefing, saying that Sun Quan was trying to produce a new ship at Yuzhang Shipyard, and once it was successful, he would give priority to equipping them. If it weren't for the Jiaozhou Sailors who came too quickly, maybe these new-style building ships would have become their warships, but now they have become his opponents.
Zhuge Zhi didn't dare to slack off, adjusted his direction, and rushed towards one of them.
As the two ships got closer and closer, the soldiers of both sides rushed to the side of the ship and began to shoot at each other with their bows and crossbows. Zhuge stood on the Feilu and clearly saw the splash behind the other party's boat, which was the same as the boat of the Jiaozhou Sailor, but he didn't know Weishenme, the speed of these boats was only faster than him, and there was still a lot of distance compared with the boats of the Jiaozhou Sailor.
Wu Jun hadn't realized this yet, and they were now proud that their speed had increased significantly, and they were ready to annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop, especially the shameless traitor Zhuge Zhi in front of them. Against Zhuge Zhi, they have obvious advantages.
"Boom!" With a loud bang, the two building ships collided, and although Zhuge Zhi grabbed the railing, he still almost fell off the flying house. The other was faster, the deck was thicker, and his boat was slammed to its side, nearly capsizing. However, the other side is not much better, and the hull has also been tilted significantly, and it can be seen that the other party does not have any advantage in terms of balance performance.
"Shoot! Shot! Zhuge couldn't stand up straight, and ordered repeatedly. After the surrender, his building ship did not change, but Zhuge Dan did not treat him badly as a brother of the same clan, equipped him with twenty crossbow cars, and replaced the soldiers on the building ship with a full set of new equipment. With the equipment provided by the Jiaozhou Navy Division, the combat effectiveness of Zhuge Zhi's subordinates has increased by at least fifty percent, especially the twenty crossbow cars, which are too easy to use, not only have a long range, fast rate of fire, but also look beautiful.
As Zhuge Zhi's order was given, twenty crossbow carts began to roar, shooting a dense and fast rain of arrows, pounced on the Wu soldiers who were close at hand.
In the collision of the building boats, Wu Jun's new building ships took advantage, but when it came to shooting at the bow and crossbow, they were not cheap at all, so they could only raise their armor to protect themselves. As a result, the power of their arrow arrays was greatly reduced, and the sporadic arrows could not play their due role at all.
With his rich combat experience and understanding of new equipment, Zhuge Zhi successfully regained the main power.
Behind him, Xiahou Xuan and Zhuge Dan also went out at the same time, and the two giant ships advanced side by side, unstoppably killing the Wu army. This was a situation that had never been seen since the beginning of the war, and they had always attacked and defended to maintain their strength, but now they were fighting side by side and launched the fiercest attack on the Wu army.
Because they also discovered the strangeness of the Wu army's warships. Yuzhang Shipyard is the construction base of the Wu army's warships, the number of warships is very large, if these warships have a significant increase in speed, they will lose a lot of advantages, so they must crush these Wu troops in the first round and hit their morale, otherwise those pirates and river thieves may be shaken or even scattered.
The two giant ships cleaved the waves and moved forward at full speed...... (To be continued......)