Chapter 5: Tanka (8)
Chapter 5: Tanka (8)
As if hearing their prayers, a bolt of lightning suddenly struck the air, sending the tribal high priest flying directly into the air.
"Ahh......h
Several bolts of lightning slashed into the air, slashing off the deck of a dozen or so leaders who couldn't dodge. Immediately after, hail of crossbow arrows rained down, smashing the rest of the Straw Warriors to the ground.
"It's a ship crossbow, a ship crossbow!" Tao Dachun, who was blocking the hatch with a horizontal gun, was surprised and delighted, and shouted loudly, "Our ship crossbow, and Wuhou crossbow." Ship, our double-decker ship!"
"What?" Zheng Ziming and the others couldn't believe their ears at all, and at the risk of being accidentally injured by Wuhou's crossbow, they rushed out. Raising his eyes, he saw that fifty steps downstream, a double-decker giant ship broke through the waves. On the second deck, a female general wearing a green cloak stood against the wind, waving the flag up and down. More than 100 Cangzhou warriors pulled the trigger under the command of Ling Qi and used Wuhou crossbows to shoot the fishskin and straw people on the black lacquer boat into the water in rows like toads.
"This, this is our Breaking Wave!" Madam, the eldest lady is on the boat, and the eldest lady has come to save us with the Breaking Waves!"
"It's the Breaking Waves, it's really the Breaking Waves!" The other four Cangzhou warriors also cheered with hoarse voices, and their smoky faces were instantly filled with tears.
The Breaking Wave is the Breaking Wave, a double-decker ship transformed by the Cangzhou Navy Division with the use of the Fu Boat. On each battleship, there were twenty crossbows alone. The image of this ship is majestic, the combat effectiveness is amazing, and the speed is far beyond the ordinary. But in terms of wave resistance, it is far inferior to this single-deck ship under everyone's feet. In the event of a storm while driving, the whole ship is in danger of being buried in the belly of the fish!
Therefore, this time when they came to Liaodong to save people, everyone did not choose to take the tall and mighty Breaking Waves, but chose an inconspicuous medium-sized merchant ship, ready to quietly rob Shi Zhonggui and quietly slip away. Unexpectedly, due to the betrayal of the traitor, the entire plan of action and route were exposed one after another, and the inconspicuous merchant ship almost became the burial place of everyone. But the Breaking Wave came against the current at the last moment, pulling everyone out of the sky again!
"Ahh......h
The green-cloaked woman will not be in a hurry, raise her hand, and wave the command flag from side to side. The violent sound of war drums instantly covered the ghost crying wolf howl of the Motar people. The Cangzhou warriors on the lower deck struggled to pull the mechanism, and dozens of levers fell down the side of the ship, slapping the black lacquer boats that rushed over one after another in the water.
Some of them were stunned and floated downstream like dead fish. But most of the people of the Motatar have escaped with their skillful water nature. Turning their heads to look at the mountain-like Breaking Waves, their eyes suddenly began to redden, and they shouted several times, greeted each other, and swam to the bottom of the boat.
"Scuttle the boat, be careful of the bilge, they want to scuttle the boat!" Shi Chonggui looked anxious, and jumped to his feet to remind loudly.
Before his words fell, he saw the green cloak girl wave the flag to the left and right. Immediately after, the war drums suddenly changed their tune, and two rows of Cangzhou warriors roared angrily and rushed to the side of the ship, condescendingly, and used their throwing guns to dress the Tatar people who tried to get close to the bottom of the boat into meat skewers one by one!
"Okay, okay! Whose daughter is this? Shi Chonggui has a good ability!" Shi Chonggui's eyes lit up, and he pointed to the woman in the green cloak and asked loudly.
"Dad, she is Chang Wanying, the daughter of Chang Si, the envoy of Zelu Jiedu. When I was young, I used to live in our house!" Zheng Ziming smiled on his cheeks, glanced back at his father, and reported in a low voice.
It's a little junior sister, a little junior sister with strong martial arts and unparalleled archery. Every time there is a crisis, it always falls from the sky. This time, when she was in a desperate situation, she came again, commanding an unsafe battleship and killing the surrounding enemy troops all over the river!
"Oh! Fat Fox Chang Kegong's daughter, no wonder! No wonder!" Shi Chonggui's gaze kept focused on the Breaking Waves on the opposite side, and he didn't notice the proud expression on his son's face at all. Nodding his head, he said casually.
Before he became the emperor, his friendship with Chang Si was not bad. But after all, Chang Si is Liu Zhiyuan's henchman deliberately planted in Bianliang, and he is the adopted son and confidant of Emperor Shi Jingjiao. Therefore, although there is a lot of interaction between the two sides, it is far from the point where they can become a good family.
Later, he became the king of a country, and it was impossible for him to make friends with the generals under the command of the princes in a certain place. It's just that he was born weak, and he didn't deliberately give the other party small shoes to wear because Chang Si was Liu Zhiyuan's henchman.
After seeing that the father praised his wife, there was no follow-up. Zheng Ziming is not good at introducing his wife's situation too early. Anyway, as soon as the Breaking Wave arrived, the trap on the water was immediately crushed to pieces. No matter how many black lacquered boats there are, no matter how fierce they are and not afraid of death, they cannot be the opponent of the Cangzhou Naval Division. And the Khitans on both sides of the Liao River are even more unlikely to jump into the water to find their own death!
"Woo woo, woo woo, woo woo, woo ......" The sound of the horn came from both sides of the strait, with a bit of anger and depour. Sure enough, the Khitan army on both sides of the Liao River found that the situation was not right, and immediately issued an order, asking the fishskin and sorrels to fight to the death, but they themselves did not have the courage to jump into the water, so they could only stand on the shore and desperately shoot their bows and arrows at the Breaking Waves.
Most of the feathered arrows were blown away by the river wind before they reached their destination. A small number of feathered arrows with sufficient strength were blocked by the warriors on the Breaking Waves with shields, and they were all busy in vain. The fishskin stalks, who had already suffered heavy losses, did not dare to disobey the orders of the Khitans, and reorganized the attack. This time, they learned a lot more, and they didn't have the courage to get close enough to start a gang jump, but relied on the small and flexible boats, surrounded more than 30 steps away from the Breaking Waves, and kept firing feather arrows to sneak attack. Many of the feathered arrows were also equipped with lit balls of fish oil on their heads, trying to cause a fire on the side of the ship through the accumulation of numbers, and the Breaking Wave was set on fire.
As the saying goes, more ants can bite an elephant to death. At the moment when the Motar people had just changed their tactics, the Wave Breaker was really caught off guard. Zheng Ziming, who was standing on the opposite boat, watched as smoke rose from more than a dozen places on the side of the ship at the same time, and several brothers were hit by arrows and fell into the water, and his heart suddenly rose to his throat.
However, before he could offer advice across the boat, Chang Wanying had already made adjustments quickly. I saw dozens of barrels of mud poured down from the lower deck, and immediately suppressed the fire that had just risen. Immediately after, the bow of the Breaking Wave swung violently, like an angry dragon, and while firing crossbow arrows in all directions, it ran over the north side of the river at high speed, crushing more than a dozen black lacquered boats hovering on the north side of the river and the Moya warriors on the boats into the bottom of the river.
"Ah, woo away, woo grains ......" The fishskin and straw people who were lucky not to be crushed to death on the spot were frightened, picked up the oars, and desperately rowed the black lacquer boats where they were to the shore. But the Breaking Wave was unforgiving, like a giant whale hunting for food, chasing after it from behind and rampage.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" On the north bank of the Liao River, the angry and corrupt Yerodiel with his minions fired ten thousand arrows in unison.
In the rain of arrows, the Breaking Wave turned proudly, and the dragon swung its tail. Overturned a dozen other black lacquer boats on the shore, and then pounced on another group of black lacquer boats that were stunned on the south side of the river, crushing a scarlet blood wave.
"Ah, woo away, black grains away from ......" The black lacquered boats on the south side of the river scattered and fled, and the Breaking Waves chased closely. Yelu Chacha and Han Kuangsi were furious, mobilized all their forces, and launched an attack on the Breaking Waves. The Breaking Wave crushed the small boat of the Motar people at high speed, and at the same time returned the color with the Wuhou crossbow and the ship crossbow without fear. The distance between the two sides was seventy or eighty paces, and arrows came and went, and in the blink of an eye, the fallen arrows and the corpses of the warriors floated all over the water.
"Boom, boom, boom......" The bed crossbow that was ready to be put in place was repeated, and the fire crossbow wrapped around the butter bag was shot at the Breaking Wave. When the flames came into contact with the river, they exploded instantly, setting off a huge wave.
Under the command of Chang Wanying, ......the crossbow on the Breaking Wave shot at the bed crossbow on the shore and the Youzhou army operating the bed crossbow in turn. The crossbow pole wrapped in sulfur and butter exploded immediately after landing, and sparks flew away, burning the position of the Youzhou army into thick smoke.
All ship crossbows are based on the old bed crossbows, and are improved. Zheng Ziming drew the drawing by hand and made several corrections to achieve the best effect under the current process conditions. Whether it is the ease of operation, the speed of loading, or the accuracy, I don't know how many streets have been thrown off the old-fashioned bed crossbow.
"Boom, boom!"
"Woohoo, Woo, Woo, Woo, Woo!"
"Woo, Woo, Woo......, Woo, T
Ships moving at high speed fired crossbows at stationary bed crossbows on the riverbank, twice as many crossbows as bed crossbows, and had an absolute upper hand in reloading speed and accuracy. The results can be imagined. After only half a pillar of incense kung fu, more than half of the bed crossbow of the Youzhou army was destroyed, and the rest saw that the situation was not good, so they hurriedly dragged it with their war horses and evacuated the river beach at high speed.
"Woo, Woo, Woo......, Woo, T
"Boom, Boom......" Breaking Waves fired a round of crossbow arrows at Han Kuangsi and Yelu Chacha respectively, and then returned to the middle of the river in a hurry, slowly leaning towards the sinking ship. The bows of the two ships had just been aligned, and several iron hooks and ropes descended from the sky, firmly tightening the side of the large ship.
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" Two sturdy figures fluttered down with the cable, and rushed towards Zheng Ziming together, in no particular order.
"Why are you hurt? You deserve to leave the three of us behind!"
"Why are you injured? Quick, Sister Tao and I will help you jump over, there is a golden medicine you prepared yourself in the Breaking Waves!"
Tao Sanchun and Hu Yanyun have very different expressions, but the worries and concerns they contain are the same.
"This is my father, you send him over first, the ship is about to sink!" Zheng Ziming didn't care about explaining, pulled his father Shi Chonggui from behind him, and commanded loudly.
Tao Sanchun is the daughter of a farmer, and Hu Yanyun was born in a green forest family, and neither of them is a twisted person. knows the truth that her husband is in a hurry, so she doesn't talk nonsense. Immediately, one person grabbed Shi Chonggui's arm, turned around and jumped. "Whoosh!" Before Shi Chonggui could react to the smell, three pairs of feet had already stepped onto the deck of the Breaking Waves.
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" More warriors flew in with cables, and together with Tao Sanchun and Hu Yanyun, Zheng Ziming, Tao Dachun, Tao Yong, Li Shun'er, and all the seriously injured people, together with the corpses of the dead robes, were sent back to the Breaking Wave one after another. On both sides of the Liao River, the morale of the generals of all ethnic groups was so angry that they gritted their teeth and fired arrows in unison, but they could not slow down the speed of saving people in the slightest.
In the blink of an eye, there were no living people on the burning ship. Chang Wanying gave an order, and the warriors cut the rope connecting the two ships and pulled up the sails. The huge Breaking Waves was as fast as a galloping horse, and under the "farewell" of the enemy troops on both sides of the strait, it flew away.
At this time, Chang Wanying finally breathed a sigh of relief. Handing over the command to the female soldiers beside him, he walked quickly to Zheng Ziming and asked softly: "It doesn't matter if you are injured! I brought your gold sore medicine and knives, I am afraid that you will encounter any trouble." More than ten days ago, the guy sent by my family to Youzhou suddenly risked his life and ran to Cangzhou to warn. My two girls and I hurried to ......."
As he spoke, unconsciously, he was already crying with joy.
"It's okay, it's better to clean up the wound!" Zheng Ziming shook his head with a smile, accidentally pulled the wound, and couldn't help grinning, "Hiss-"
"What's wrong with you, be careful!" Chang Wanying, Tao Sanchun, and Hu Yanyun immediately didn't care about being reserved, and rushed forward to help. Zheng Ziming's face was slightly red with shame, and he quickly took two steps back, waved his hand and said, "No, I'm fine." Senior sister, spring sister, Yun sister, this is, this is my father. Daddy, they, the three of them, are your daughters-in-law. ”
"You ......" The third girl was suddenly ashamed, hurriedly turned around, and saluted Shi Chonggui.
After Shi Chonggui was rescued, he was so busy running for his life that he didn't bother to talk about family affairs with his son. Suddenly, I saw three heroic women saluting to me, and my eyes suddenly widened, and while I was nervous, I stammered, "Okay, okay, hurry, hurry up, hurry up, no, hurry up, get up." This, this, the first time we met, the old man didn't prepare any gifts, this, this...... , Erbao, if your mother is still here, I don't know how happy I should be!"