Chapter 14: The Battle is in Full Swing

As mentioned last time, the Shu army was shot down three hot air balloons, two of which had exploded, and one was floating towards the position of the Shu army.

The situation was urgent, Liu Hou didn't want to think about it, and ordered the vulture bones around him to send a platoon of vine armor soldiers to rush up to rescue the pilot on the hot air balloon. Without saying a word, the vulture rushed forward, and his own soldiers, seeing that their own kings had rushed out, also rushed out.

"Come back!" When Liu Hou saw this situation, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to pull him back, but he could still hold it there, and he didn't know if he couldn't hear or pretend not to hear Liu Hou's words, so he just buried his head and rushed forward, like a bull in heat who had been holding back for ten years.

The vulture bone is indeed suffocated, and he fights with Liu Hou's side, Liu Hou strictly restricts him, does not give him a random fight, and often uses firearms to easily win, he is not happy at all when he fights, and now it is rare to rush up to do something exciting, he will let go of this opportunity, and rush forward like a wild horse that has escaped the reins.

Liu Hou just knew that he was wild and difficult to restrain him, so he took him with him, and in the same way, he also took Zhang Bao with him. On Guo Youzhi's side, he asked generals such as E Huan and Guan Xing to assist him in blocking the Dongwu people who came to the rescue.

The vulture bones soon rushed to the hot air balloon that had fallen to the ground, and the arrows of the Soochow army rained down, and the two pilots hid in the overturned rattan basket and did not dare to come out. The rattan basket was fine against normal arrows, but the stove that had overturned on its side nearly burned both of them.

Thankfully, they are well-trained and have enough experience to deal with this situation. Of course, the musketeers of the Shu army would not show weakness, and they also fired back, and for a time the two sides "swished" and "ping-pong" fought very lively.

The poor pilot was caught in the middle with the vultures and their own soldiers, shuttling through the rain of arrows and bullets, and the rest of the people were so frightened that they were weak except for the vultures, who did not know whether they were nervous or unresponsive.

The vulture and his own soldiers were wearing rattan armor, and they were not afraid of arrows at all, they let the arrows fall on their bodies, just keep their heads down and rush straight away, so they could quickly reach the hot air balloon landing, and the Dongwu people also sent a team of death squads out, obviously they also had the idea of leaving the pilot, but they were suppressed by the muskets, and they couldn't rush at all.

In addition to rattan armor, several pro-soldiers also held rattan cards, which came in handy at this time. They put the two rattan cards together, and the two rattan armor soldiers escorted a pilot and quickly evacuated backwards.

However, at this time, Liu Hou once again found out that he was wrong, he should not have sent someone to pick up the two pilots, maybe it would be better to leave them to fend for themselves.

Because at this time, he heard more than a dozen bowstring sounds of "buzz", "buzz", "buzz". These bowstrings are very loud, very different from ordinary bows and arrows, and they are countless times louder, which means that the force of the shot will be countless times greater.

"Bastard!" Liu Hou clenched his fists and cursed.

"Run!" "Bed crossbow!" Many people in the Shu army shouted, after all, they were all their comrades in the field, and some of them still had a good relationship with each other, and at this time, they had to be reminded loudly at the expense of violating military discipline.

More than a dozen black shadows flew to the people in front of the two armies with a whistle sound, and it was really the bed crossbow of the Eastern Wu Army, after the first launch, it needed to go through a long reloading process, and it was also necessary to adjust the elevation angle, and adjust the state of hitting the sky to flat shooting, which was very time-consuming.

Therefore, after the first launch just now, the second launch has not been possible, and it is precisely because of this that two hot air balloons can escape the scene intact. But it was precisely because they hadn't launched for so long that Liu Hou had forgotten about their existence and the threat they might have, otherwise how could he have sent a rescue team to send them to death.

Although the life of the pilot is very important, the life of the vine armor soldier is also very important, there is no distinction between high and low in front of life, and it is not right to exchange more than a dozen lives for two lives.

But the three countries don't believe in tears, and the rescue team has been dispatched, just like water, and it can't be recovered at all. The crossbow arrows as large as the javelin came in a blink of an eye, and only a "click-poof" and "click-poof" sound could be heard, and the "click" sound in front was the sound of the crossbow arrow breaking through the rattan armor, and the "poof" sound in the back was the sound of breaking the human body.

Of course, these two sounds are very close to each other, and the average human ear cannot distinguish them, so what you hear is a mixture of these two sounds, but you can't describe what this sound looks like.

The five rattan armor soldiers were pierced, and the crossbow arrows were blocked by the vine armor behind the vine armor soldiers, and they failed to continue to break through the back armor, and the huge impact force carried the vine armor soldiers backwards for a few steps before landing.

Seeing this scene, Liu Hou's eyes were about to crack, his fists were clenched, and his nails pinched his palms so much that they were about to bleed. What made Liu Hou even more nervous was that the last arrow was still flying, and it was aimed at the vulture bone.

The vulture ran last, with two rattan cards in front of him, and behind the rattan were two rattan armor soldiers and a pilot.

He heard the shouts in the Shu army camp, saw several of his own soldiers being carried by crossbow arrows flying in front of him, and finally realized what he was facing.

Listening to the whistle in his ears, he turned around sharply, picked up the mace with both hands and struck it back, a tooth-aching friction sound sounded, the mace was shot by a crossbow arrow, and the huge impact continued to fly forward with the mace, and the natural divine power of the vulture bone could not hold the mace.

Not only was the mace shaken out of his hand, but the hand of the vulture bone was also shaken to the point that the tiger's mouth was shattered, and the blood flowed, and his people were also taken by this huge force, staggered back two steps, and finally sat down on the ground without standing firmly.

"General Wu is mighty!" There was a burst of cheers in the Shu army, although the vulture bones were unsteady, and their footsteps were unsteady, and finally they fell to the ground, looking unusual.

However, no one can deny that he is really mighty, and he can go head-on with a bed crossbow that can penetrate the bodies of several soldiers in a row without dying, who dares to say that he is not mighty? Who is confident that they can do better than him?

After waking up, he immediately got up, ran a few steps forward, picked up the mace that had fallen to the ground and was nailed with a crossbow arrow, and ran away. The rest of the soldiers were not ambiguous, and the comrades who had lifted the arrows also ran back.

They were all worried about the resounding of the deadly bed crossbows, but apparently their worries were unfounded, because although they were powerful, they had to go through a long rewinding time after each fire, which was enough time for them to run back.

It's just that there is no bed crossbow, and there are arrows shot by ordinary archers, and the last vine armor soldiers who ran back each had no less than ten arrows stuck behind their backs, even the vulture bones were no exception, but there was a rattan armor in the body, no one cared about this at all, and after coming back, just let the comrades help pull it out, these arrows were not inserted deeply, and they had little impact on the normal use of the rattan armor.

The worst thing was the five soldiers who were hit by the arrows, they were pierced by the crossbow arrows, except for one who was shot in the shoulder, the rest had been dead for a long time. Even if he was shot in the shoulder, his entire shoulder was shot to pieces, and I believe that if he had a choice, he would rather die than suffer this kind of injury.

It's hard to say whether such a strict injury can be saved, maybe in the next few days, he will be tortured to death, and even if he can be saved, he will be crippled, and the rest of his life will obviously not be easy.

Liu Hou ordered the military doctors to do their best to rescue the wounded. He felt very guilty in his heart, saving 2 people but killing 4 and injuring 1, is it worth it? It's hard to tell.

If it is a profit-oriented hero, he must feel that it is worth it, because there are very few pilots in the Shu army, compared with the rattan armor soldiers, only one thousandth, and the pilots' physical requirements are much stricter than the vine armor soldiers, and it is much more difficult to train than the vine armor soldiers, and the resources consumed are much more.

If it is simply calculated in this way, it is not a loss to exchange a hundred vine armor soldiers for a pilot. But in terms of human life alone, this is a bit unfair, which is a very simple arithmetic problem 4.5>2. Exchanging four and a half lives for two lives is, of course, a loss.

Some people may say that the life of a pilot is noble, but some people will say, who stipulates that the life of a pilot is more noble than that of a rattan armor soldier? Is it still meaningful to talk about the high and the low in the face of life and death?

From another point of view, if a comrade-in-arms is in trouble, if he does not save him when he sees death, and sees them die in front of his eyes, is this moral?

Saving comrades or subordinates who are in danger at great cost and without fear of sacrifice embodies a humanitarian spirit, which is a universal value.

Uncle Sam likes to promote this spirit the most, hence the emergence of films like "Saving Private Rennes". This film has also caused some people to controversy, that is, whether the humanitarian spirit of saving a soldier with the lives of 8 people should be should?

Far away, in the Three Kingdoms era, people didn't have so much thought, didn't know how to think about these worthwhile questions, and no one complained about the five vine armor soldiers who were killed and injured.

They will only feel that this prince is worth following. They were moved by the prince's unhesitating act of sending his henchmen to lead his troops to rescue two soldiers in danger.

They will have a strong sense of substitution: "If one day, it is himself who is in danger, this prince will definitely not give up on himself, and he will definitely do his best to rescue himself as he did today." Such a prince is not worthy of his own death, and who else is worthy of allegiance? ”

Liu Hou himself was still struggling with whether this operation was worth it, and he sent people out to save two people, but instead he sacrificed four and seriously injured one, whether he made another mistake, but he didn't know that his unconscious behavior had quietly and unexpectedly won the hearts of the army for himself.

Liu Hou was very angry, out of the ground angry, not only because the hot air balloon was broken, but also because he had just watched the five rattan armor soldiers being shot into four dead and one wounded. Maybe there's another reason he doesn't want to admit, and that's that he's making mistakes so often today.

He did not think that this mistake was due to his own reasons, and he attributed the reason to the cunning of the Soochow people. His eyes were covered with anger, and he forgot what he often said: Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent.

There is nothing wrong with the tricks that he made and the tricks he was used to, so how could the Eastern Wu Army dare to change the countermeasures? He attributed his mistake to the fact that the Eastern Wu army had changed and did not fight according to the original routine.

It's like someone hits a telephone pole and blames it on how it was installed here, how it got in my way, how unreasonable it was to install it here, and so on. complaining, that is, not complaining about how you walk without eyes.

ps. I've been too busy with work lately, so I can only go home at night and write a little bit, and I can't maintain the speed of two chapters a day, so please forgive me.