Chapter 20: The Battle for the Gate
Zhang Lang stood on the bow of the ship, faintly visible the sentry tower of the water village opposite, the figure was shaking, and there were guards shouting, knowing that he had discovered the whereabouts of his army, and then called Wu Jing out to reply. Wu Jing threw himself into Zhang Lang's account, and saw that he was very kind to him, he didn't remember his past, and he was a peaceful and peaceful person, and he rarely committed crimes, so he was happy and prostrate. However, Sun Ben bravely ran through the three armies and was a general. Tonight, the two of them both went out with the army, although they were confused in their hearts, but they still calmly got up to the front of the boat, and shouted loudly towards the sparse lights in front of them, according to Zhang Lang's intentions: "I am Wu Jing, and the soldiers don't know me?" ”
Several guards were stunned at the same time, looking at each other, not knowing what to do for a while. Because Wu Jingzhi Moling has some words, although some recruits have just joined the army, they have already heard of it, and the team leader is a veteran for many years, and he has a deep memory of Wu Jingsheng, thinking that the relationship between his previous old master and the current new master is not good, and he is doing things for Liu Xuan, he should be loyal to his duties, and he shouted casually: "Lord Wu stops, wait for his subordinates to inform my father-in-law." ”
Zhang Lang was deaf to the ear, the fleet still did not stop, but took advantage of it to make a lot of progress, Wu Jing said on the boat at the same time: "I came to meet Lord Liu today, you go and report it." It is said that Wu Jing has stolen the Jiangjin warship, and the people of the same clan have crossed the river overnight to ask for surrender. ”
The squad leader didn't dare to slack off, and shouted: "The fleet stops, don't move forward, the general has an order, don't let people into the water village casually, wait for me to send someone to report to the lord, and then I can let them go." "Then one person will report back to the night patrol general.
Not only did the Xuzhou army not stop, but the sailors were desperately transporting the slurry, and the water splashed everywhere, intending to make a blow and let the ship dock on the water gate. And Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin asked for their lives at this time, and they were willing to take a hundred people from their headquarters to go down to the river to touch it, and forcibly open the gate of the water village at the end of Liu Xuan's army at this time. Zhang Lang nodded in agreement, and the two looked at each other again, with a tacit understanding, they took off their armor at the moment, and there was only a water jacket inside, so it turned out that the two of them came prepared. At the same time, another hundred people also traveled lightly, with a Pu knife on their backs, and one by one they plunged into the water under the leadership of Jiang Qin. is not afraid of the cold water in spring, and it is indeed worthy of the water thieves who have been rampant on the Yangtze River for several years.
The captain of the squad saw that the boat not only did not stop, but also increased a lot of speed, and felt that it was not appropriate to be steady, and finally found that its boat branch far exceeded the number of people who could carry it, and from time to time there was a flash of sword light, then he realized something, and shouted loudly: "It's not good, the Xuzhou sailors are coming, quickly blow the trumpet to warn." In fact, he can't be blamed for this, just think about the fog hanging down the river, even the visibility during the day is extremely low, and the river patrol team at night is nowhere to be seen, I don't know if it's lazy, or think that when the fog is foggy, who will take the risk to come. In addition, they don't have night vision goggles or anything, so this squad leader can be regarded as loyal and dutiful.
On the tranquil river, the sound was extremely harsh, tearing through the sky. The general village of Liu Xuan's water army in the distance seemed to hear it, and began to make some movements.
At this moment, Tai Shi Ci held an iron bow in his hand, his beautiful temples fluttered, his face was extremely calm, and he loaded the arrow at a fast speed, pulled the iron bow, and shot it out at the same time. The movements are exhaled in one breath and extremely skillful. The arrow was lightning and flint, making a "whoosh" sound of breaking through the air, like a meteor and like an eye, piercing through the heavy fog, and swooping down on the soldier, an arrow in the throat, the squad leader had not yet come and called for the second time, blood was splashed on the spot, and he died on the sentry tower. Then he shot and killed a few soldiers who were in a hurry to blow their horns. The generals were amazed that Tai Shi Ci was so powerful.
There seemed to be a vigilance in Liu Xiang's village, and it began to be noisy, the lights flickered, the voices of people shouted, and the soldiers and horses moved. The troops close to the gate of the water village began to come out to support in twos and threes, and most of the soldiers were still half-asleep and half-awake, wondering why the horn was broken after only one sound. The well-trained soldiers, at first sat or got up, out of the camp to ask each other, and some of them were still lazy and fell asleep under the covers.
The remaining soldiers on the guard tower shouted loudly, and the top and bottom were in a mess, and sparse arrows began to shoot down. Most of the soldiers on the rafts and boats were sword and shield bearers, half of them fighting hard and half of them raising their shields in front of them, sweeping away the arrows to protect themselves and the paddlers. It's just that there are not many soldiers on the police tower, and because of the lack of archery skills, some arrows fall into the water, and some are blocked by shields, so they can't pose a threat. At this moment, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin led a hundred sailors, in the rapids of the Taotao River, chopping the waves, as free as a fish, and quickly dived into the wooden gate of the water gate. These water fences can only stop ships from entering and exiting, but they cannot stop sailors from diving underwater.
The soldiers on the tower only knew how to fire arrows and shout desperately, and they had no idea that someone had touched them from under the water.
Liu Miao finally determined that the Xuzhou soldiers touched the river and suddenly attacked Moling. After he woke up, he knew that the fog was hanging down the river tonight, and he was extremely easy to smuggle in, so he was a little worried in his heart, and after learning the news, he was even more uneasy, and he roared and screamed, and immediately gathered all the soldiers to discuss the matter, and personally commanded the army to meet the enemy in an all-round way. Soon he gave an order, and ordered the general to quickly mobilize 5,000 archers in Mi, and while his naval army was still at the end of the shore, he sent random arrows. He also ordered Fan Neng to take 5,000 sailors, board the warship, bully Zhang Lang's army not to practice water warfare, and crossed the Yangtze River to go out to confront the Xuzhou army head-on. After dealing with some more things, after the dispatch was completed, he was full of anger and waited for news in the big tent.
Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin led people to quickly swim to the outer water gate of Liu Xiang Water Village, quickly dived into the water, crossed the water gate, and when they floated their heads, they were already in the gate of the water village. From a distance, I saw that in the big tent on the shore, the lights were bright, and the figures came and went, which was extremely noisy, and it seemed that Liu Xuan's soldiers had begun to mobilize and assemble. The two knew that they hurriedly stepped up their efforts, and took advantage of the end of their army to win the right to make buildings and open the water gate.
There were hundreds of soldiers on the sentry tower, and they still kept firing arrows, as if they wanted to release them in one go. Liu Xiangbing had another team to support him, the people upstairs seemed to be a lot braver, the arrow rain began to dense, Zhang Lang's water army, except for ten warships, are light boats and bamboo rafts, the defensive ability is extremely poor, and finally in the dense arrow rain there are soldiers who began to be wounded, but there are very few people.
Zhang Lang's navy has reached the outside of the wooden fence of the water gate and is not allowed to move forward. Arrows from both ships flew to the sentry tower, and the two sides attacked each other with arrows. There were casualties.
At this time, Sun Ben suddenly shouted on the boat: "The enemy is going to send rocketeers, everyone be careful." ”
As soon as the words ended, there was suddenly a bright light upstairs, and hundreds of soldiers shot out with rockets, and the wind direction cut through the night sky like meteors, which was very gorgeous. In water warfare, rockets are extremely powerful, and if they are dense, they can successfully ignite the warship without much effort, and get the best effect at the lowest cost.
Zhang Lang's soldiers on the river were busy for a while, and they had to raise their shields to block arrows, and they had to quickly clean up the rockets that fell on the ship, which was a bit of a bit of a tail-wrenching taste. This ship is not made of steel and iron mud now, it is all a wooden structure, and once it catches fire, coupled with the southeast wind, the fire spreads along the way, which is a very bad thing. Like Zhou Yu Zhuge fiery red cliffs.
In the meantime, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin have successfully landed on the shore, although the fog is foggy, they can still vaguely see the lights not far away like dragons, shouting and shouting, before the enemy brigade arrived, touch the enemy downstairs, and begin to forcibly rush up the urn door.
The soldiers on the sentry tower only cared about releasing arrows, and did not notice that the Xuzhou army had touched the water tower. Without preparation, they were killed from behind by Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai and a hundred other people, screaming and screaming. Only then did he realize that he abandoned his bow and arrow and drew his sword to fight. Jiang Qin took a knife and slashed over a soldier who rushed up, and said calmly to Zhou Tai: "Gongyi, you go and open the water gate to welcome the army into the village, and I will block the enemy army." ”
Zhou Tai didn't say a word, and took about 20 people to prepare for the opening of the water gate.
And Jiang Qin and the soldiers struggled to hold off the swarming army of Liu Xuan. Try to get some time on it.
Jiang Qinyi is bold, leading people to rush to the entrance of the building first, taking the lead, dominating the water ladder to prevent the land reinforcements from coming up, the staircase can only accommodate two people to go up side by side, very narrow, one man is the pass, ten thousand people are not open. Although there are more and more enemy troops, they are all blocked below. I couldn't rush up for a while. The other dozens of big men, in the not spacious sentry tower, spread out as much as possible, striving to block the enemy troops on the sentry tower. For a time, the battle was very fierce, and the casualties on both sides skyrocketed.
Zhang Lang outside the water gate knew that Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai had already attacked and killed on the sentry tower, and although most of the soldiers on the ship were not in good spirits, they were also surprised by the events on the enemy's sentry tower, and their morale was restored.
At this time, the water fence suddenly floated slowly, and then took off. The riverside obstruction was swept away. Then, in the midst of the sound of killing, I faintly heard a loud shout: "The water gate has been opened, and the lord's army can enter the village." ”
At the same time, Zhang Lang drank loudly and urged the boat to enter the village. Only because the fog is very thick, and the army is scrambling, there are a few bamboo rafts collided with each other, many soldiers fell into the water, most of them do not learn the surname of water, crying father and calling mother, all soldiers first aid.
At this time, Liu Xuan's army had been dispatched, and they were advancing by land and water. It's just that he didn't expect Zhang Lang to seize control of Watergate so quickly, and the five thousand archers were useless and at a loss on the shore when the two armies were about to start a large-scale melee. Yu Mi, who led the troops, immediately made a decision, abandoned bows and arrows for knives and guns, equipped them to fight against the water gate, and Fan Neng began to dispatch the water army to close the door and fight the dogs.
Zhang Lang was not as he wished, after the ship entered the gate of the water village, he did not wait for the enemy's navy to come up, all docked and landed, and did not fight with the navy, but around the water building door control and Liu Xuan's army launched a fierce competition.
The Yangtze River is foggy, and the Moling is a place, and the sound of killing is in the sky, spreading for miles away. The melee between the two armies, although five thousand soldiers from Xuzhou came across the river, long-distance attack, and the combat power was lost, but at night, and because of the weather, it was difficult to distinguish the military horses, plus Zhang Lang, Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai, Chen Wu, Sun Ben, Tai Shici, Yang Rong Zhao Yu and other dozen generals pressed the formation, and the situation was also bad, and Tai Shici led a thousand soldiers, on the shore to put the water around the water building impassable, forcing the enemy upstairs to only "plop, plop" and jump away. Then he led some people upstairs and shot indiscriminately into the water village with burning rockets on the sentry tower. Zhang Lang commanded thousands of soldiers downstairs, blocking Yu Mi and Fan Neng's soldiers and horses.
At the same time, he loudly encouraged: "In tonight's battle, our army will fight to the death to take Moling, and those who kill the enemy will be rewarded heavily, and those who get Liu Xuan's head will have two hundred gold." If you flee in a cowardly fight, there will be no forgiveness. ”
Although Wu Jing's martial arts are average, he hates Liu Miao like bones, and when he heard Zhang Lang's words, he felt and shouted loudly: "I am Wu Jingye, Liu Miao is such a person with no surname, I should say that I treat him as a mountain and respect him as a guest, but I don't want this person to be so hateful, he will take revenge, take my state and county, want to harm my wife and children, his wolf ambition, why do the soldiers still work so hard for him." Today, General Zhang Lang of Xuzhou, benevolence and generosity, love the people like a son, clear rewards and punishments, the army arrived, looked at the wind and fell, want to return me to the peaceful and prosperous world, if you have a conscience, you should think of the benefit of the people. If you surrender, you will be punished lightly. ”
Zhang Lang didn't expect Wu Jing to be so cooperative, he was overjoyed, and then roared closely, and said in an extremely majestic voice: "Moling, our army is determined to win tonight, and the soldiers of the three armies, if they are hot-blooded men, they should pick up their swords and kill the enemy with all their might, and pacify the thieves." There will be a reward. ”
The soldiers were motivated, their morale was greatly increased, and they fought bravely to kill the enemy, but although Moling had many soldiers, its advantages could not be brought into play, and the battle situation was always stalemate.
Zhang Lang did a lot of tricks, pretending to be determined to win Moling and confusing Liu Xuan. In order to win more people's trust, he personally went to the front line and led the soldiers to rush and kill, the purpose was to strengthen the defense line of Niuzhu-Moling-Qu'a in the future, and loosen the defense of other places. It is convenient for his army to sneak up from behind.
Under Zhang Lang's lead, the soldiers were extremely high, although the combat strength was lost, but under the leadership of Zhang Lang, they cheered up and responded calmly. And Yang Rong and Zhao Yu followed, the three of them were as indestructible as a triangular pyramid, and as strong as triathlon, they were unstoppable and as easy as cutting vegetables. The soldiers who fought with them in close quarters were either splattered with blood or rolled over. There is no one who will be together. Chen Wu, Sun Ben and others were not far behind, and bravely killed the enemy. Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin also jumped down the river early, caught the soldiers who fell into the water from time to time in the water, and beat the water dogs.
Liu Miao was pacing back and forth in the Zhongjun Village, his face was very bad under the lights, he couldn't imagine that the water tower would be lost so quickly, and he really didn't know what they were doing. And from time to time, some soldiers reported that Zhang Lang was how, Wu Jing was so frightened, I didn't expect Zhang Lang to be so courageous, and when it was foggy, he forcibly attacked Moling, intending to calm down overnight. However, thinking about the fact that he occupies a favorable area and is so strong that the enemy army is attacking, even if the 50,000 army pours out, he may not be able to take advantage of much, and he feels a lot more at ease. And as long as he insists on one or two watches, Niu Zhu's army can come to support, and he will definitely defeat the enemy.
Liu Miao was happy in his heart, Zhang Lang could be caught. But soon he was confused, Zhang Lang was so strategic, how could he make such a decision, could it be......
Liu Xuan's heart suddenly snorted, and he was in a cold sweat, could it be that Zhang Lang's attack on Moling was just a detailed attack, he wanted to wait for Niuzhu's army to support Moling, and then another army suddenly attacked Niuzhu? Thinking of Guo Jia and others under Zhang Lang's account, he was scheming and frightened. At the same time, he regretted that he had just sent a fast horse to Niuzhu and ordered his naval army to attack and cut off Zhang Lang's back road. But I remembered that Zhang Lang tried his best to attack the water village, as if he really intended Moling. At the moment, I am uneasy, puzzled, and anxious.
At this time, another soldier came in and reported loudly: "Lord, the Xuzhou army and horses are brave and abnormal, and we have launched a fierce battle with our army in the urn gate, Louxie, and sentry tower. ”
Liu Miao was shocked and urgently called for support.
He didn't know why Xuzhou would be so brave and combative after crossing the river. In fact, it is also very simple, the terrain such as the urn gate and the building pavilion is extremely not open, and the advantages of soldiers and horses cannot be brought into play, although there are nearly 1,000 or 10,000 soldiers, and there are only a few dozen people who really go to the front line to fight. And Zhang Lang's side is full of generals blocking the front line, who wins and who loses, and it will be clear at once. If Liu Miao really wants to win, there is only one way, that is, to use his advantage in the source of troops, bully Zhang Lang's soldiers without help, come to the car [***] battle, and exhaust them to death, as long as it takes a long time, whether Zhang Lang or Ziyi, the physical consumption is extremely great, then it is not far from defeat.
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