The sky was getting darker, and the forest between Shiling and Wuling was as vast as a sea of smoke.

Not just a plain forest, but also hills, streams, rivers, hillsides, and highlands, so much so that the terrain is extremely complex, and it is difficult to find directions and roads without a guide.

After the Jiangdong Navy pursued Shiling and couldn't find the location of Shen Chenjun, they decided to return to the ship again and continue the pursuit along Shushui to the south.

After about half an hour, about five o'clock in the afternoon, the two sides fought again.

There is a stream that flows out from Shushui, and hundreds of Jiangdong sailors took scouts, airships and other small boats down the stream, went deep into the forest, and were shot by the Jiangxia sailors who were ambushed in the forest.

However, skirmishes also revealed the location of large forces, and soon Lü Meng and Xu Sheng led their troops ashore again, and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle around the surrounding dense forest.

Both sides were actually very tired, and Shen Chenjun had walked for a day and had hardly rested. Lü Meng and Xu Shengjun rowed continuously for a day and a night, and although they were in shifts, most of the soldiers were still in a very tired state.

Therefore, the two sides are now a battle of willpower, including Shen Chenjun, in fact, many soldiers have been scattered, and many people are too tired to walk and walk, and they want to rest for a while, and then turn back, and the large army has disappeared.

"Kill!"

"Hurry up and release the arrows, release the arrows!"

"Come on two teams, come with me over here."

Shen Chen occupied a small hill and condescendingly fired arrows back.

However, there are many trees around, and the bow and arrow are blocked by the trees, which is useless, and has to fight in close combat.

The two sides were in a state of struggle in the forest, and in fact, except for Lu Meng and Xu Shengjun in Shiling, and Xiaoxi just now, who lost hundreds of people, neither side died a few people.

All the time shooting arrows or throwing rocks, doing long-range attacks. It was only at this time that they came into close contact and collided with each other.

Shen Chen pulled out the ring knife on his waist, in fact, there were only more than 400 people around him to escort Zhang Hong, because the forests are vast, there are many mountains and hills, and it is not like the plain area where troops can be arranged, so it can only be scattered by officers at all levels to fight guerrillas.

After a day's march, the soldiers were tired, thirsty and hungry, and they had only walked more than ten miles from the stone ridge in the afternoon, but they had to keep climbing the mountain, which caused them to be extremely tired and had to stop to rest.

The place where they rested was by the stream, and they wanted to drink some water and eat some dry food, but they had just rested for a while, and the Jiangdong Navy came again, so they could only continue to fight.

At this moment, they fought and retreated, and they were already less than ten miles away from Wuling, and even the scouts sent out by Liu Qi saw them and kept blowing horns.

"Reinforcements are coming."

Listening to the sound of this horn, the Jiangxia sailors were all excited and fought to the death.

Shen Chen's location was on a hill near the stream, only more than twenty meters away from the ground of the stream, and more than twenty small boats under the hill rushed into the stream, attacking the hill through the dense woods.

In addition to the small boats, more than 200 Jiangdong soldiers also intermittently bypassed, and around the road rushing up the hills, more than 400 Jingzhou soldiers and more than 700 enemies fought to the death.

Hundreds of Jiangdong soldiers formed a phalanx dozens of paces away from the hills, waiting for the opportunity to assault; More Jiangdong soldiers carried ring-headed knives, howling like wolves in their mouths, and rushed up like ants on the road below.

The roars, echoes, weapons blocking, and muffled snorts on the hill barely stopped.

From late afternoon to close to dark, for a whole afternoon, the Jingzhou soldiers and Yangzhou soldiers fought each other, and the mountain roads that stretched for more than ten miles were full of corpses, and there was no end in sight to the tragic killing.

Clusters of arrows rained down, and the entrance to the hill was splattered with the blood of soldiers from both sides, and in many places the yellow-brown earth was completely soaked with blood, turning a blackened crimson. Cast iron helmets and leather hats were visible on the ground, and bald tails and feathered arrows and broken weapons were thrown to the ground.

Shen Chen personally went into battle to slash and kill several Jiangdong soldiers, but a steady stream of Jiangdong soldiers were still coming. Everyone knows that they caught a part of the main force of the Jiangxia Navy that left, and killed them on the battlefield and strangled them, which is an eternal topic.

"Have you found Ziganggong?"

A mile away from this small hill, Lu Meng had just killed a Jiangxia naval army of more than 200 people, and was about to order to continue the pursuit south along the forest river, when he suddenly heard someone reporting it.

The scout knelt down on one knee and replied, "Yes, Lieutenant, we pursued eastward along this stream, and found that at least five hundred Jiangxia sailors were resting on a small hill, and there was an old man in the team who was being held on a shelf, and we suspected that it was Zhang Gong, so we immediately came to report it." ”

Lu Meng was overjoyed and said: "Okay, if you really save Ziganggong, you will all be a great achievement." Messengers, come with me. ”

As he spoke, he raised his arms and exhaled, and thousands of soldiers around him followed his footsteps to the east.

At this time, in the hills of Shen Chen, the battle was fierce, and the corpses of soldiers killed on both sides at the foot of the mountain, some of the corpses had no time to be carried, and they were kicked and trampled under the feet of the people.

The Jiangdong soldiers below were charging up like ants, and the arrows were constantly shooting down from the mountain, and the shields were lined up, and the two sides fought fiercely.

Fortunately, Shen Chen did not send all the troops, but personally led the team and led fifty veterans to form two groups of reserves to take turns to plug the hole, otherwise this small hill would have been kicked flat by the enemy long ago.

The early autumn weather in mid-July has lifted the veil of summer warmth and revealed its blazing face, and although it has been raining continuously in the south lately, this rain is like some kind of summer thundershower, not only does not bring coolness to people, but gives it muggy.

A string of hurried horns suddenly sounded in the distance, and with the sound of the horns, several groups of Jiangdong soldiers slowly came from the upper reaches of the stream.

When they got close to the hills, these Jiangdong soldiers swirled and lined up in three rows, their leather boots stepping on a long circle of floating dust, and the surrounding forest birds flew in shock.

In addition, the big knife in the soldier's hand was rhythmically slapped against the leather shield on his chest as he stepped forward, and it looked quite majestic.

Shen Chen, who had just shot another enemy with an arrow, heard this sound, stood on a small hill and looked at the stream, and saw that more than 200 steps away there were already thousands of Jiangdong soldiers attacking them, rolling like a torrent and surging tide.

"General."

Zhang Nan beside him pointed to the flag over there with an ugly face and said: "It's Lu Meng, this person is extremely brave in battle, and he once killed several generals of General Huang. ”

"Oh?"

Shen Chen became interested and looked to the west.

I saw a burly man wearing armor standing in front of the line at the front of the line.

Although the navy army will not wear battle armor when fighting on the water, it will wear it on land, and many Jiangdong troops wear leather armor or small armor, only this person wears big armor.

He looked to be no more than thirty years old, eight feet tall, with a muscular build, and a large sword with a ring at his waist, and walked slowly forward.

Soon the distance between the two sides was less than fifty paces, which was the effective killing range of the bow and arrow, but there were many trees on both sides of the creek, although not as dense as the forest just now, but they could also prevent the arrows from missing, and the enemy had already erected his shield.

"Which of you is the main general!"

The burly man came to the bottom of the hill and shouted to the top.

Shen Chen stepped on a big rock on the edge with one foot, put the other foot behind him, put his right hand on the knee of his right foot stretched out, peeked down and said, "You are Lu Meng?" ”

"Exactly!"

Lu Meng raised his head and saw that it was a young man in his twenties, thought for a while and said, "Are you Shen Chen?" ”

"Yes."

Shen Chen nodded.

Lu Meng grinned: "It seems that today's harvest is not small, and it is a great achievement to catch you." ”

Shen Chen laughed: "Aren't you afraid that I will kill that old man?" ”

"The Sub-Gang Guild understands my painstaking efforts."

Lu Meng said without hesitation.

Shen Chen turned his head to look at Zhang Hong and said with a smile: "Gong Zhang, it seems that Sun Quan doesn't take you too seriously. ”

Zhang Hong's face changed slightly, although he was carried away, but in order to prevent escape, his two feet were tied with ropes like shackles to prevent him from running away with big strides, so he could only bow his head secretly at this time.

"Shen Chen, you take Zhang Bus out, if you are willing to surrender to my Jiangdong, with your talent, Wu Hou will treat you well."

Lu Meng shouted again.

Shen Chen chuckled and said, "Do you think you'll win me by surrounding me?" ”

"Isn't it?"

While negotiating with Shen Chen, Lu Meng gently waved his left hand behind him a few gestures.

The soldiers in the rear understood, and the last platoon hid in a place that Shen Chen could not see in the forest, and a large number of Jiangdong soldiers began to move down the hill.

Shen Chen raised his head and looked at the forest not far away, the whistle of "Xiu Xiu" continued, in fact, not only the whistle, but also the gongs, drums and horns between the enemy and us resounded throughout the mountains and forests, echoing everywhere.

But only the Jiangxia Navy became more and more courageous.

Because they could all hear a voice coming from farther away, and that voice only conveyed one message—reinforcements were coming.

Therefore, at this time, although there were battles everywhere in the forest, and the Jiangdong army had a great advantage in strength, the Jiangxia naval army did not collapse, but the remaining more than 2,000 people were still fighting with the enemy in the forest.

At this moment, as the whistle got closer and closer, Shen Chen said softly: "Since you are looking for death, then come!" ”

"Kill!"

Lu Meng did not hesitate to give the order to attack.

"Hugh!"

There seems to be a sound of beating leaves through the forest.

A sharp arrow pierced through countless dense branches and leaves, like a meteor slashing through the void, startling the passing branches and leaves to flutter gently.

In an instant, it silently shot into the back of the head of a Jiangdong soldier besieging the hills.

"Reinforcements have arrived, kill with me!"

Shen Chen raised the ring-headed knife in his hand and gave the order for a general attack.

"Kill!"

Zhang Nan was in good spirits.

Many Jiangxia sailors who retreated to the small hill also raised their weapons one after another and began to charge down the mountain.

At this moment, countless arrows rained down in the forest, shooting the Jiangdong soldiers besieging the hills from behind.

By the time they reached the bottom of the mountain, there was almost no Jiangdong soldiers besieging them.

At the same time, thousands of Jingzhou soldiers emerged in the forest, rushing towards Lu Meng's direction.

Seeing this situation, Lu Meng also knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered: "Withdraw!" ”

"Withdraw!"

The command belonging to the Jiangdong Navy suddenly sounded.

This is a very different voice from the Jiangxia Water Army.

In fact, the passwords of the two trolls are different, and they often change from time to time in order to prevent the other from cracking.

At the moment, although I don't know what order the other party has given, I know that it is a retreat with my toes.

So Shen Chen immediately said to Zhang Nan: "Order a general attack." ”

"Order a general attack."

Zhang Nan turned his head and shouted to the soldiers who were blowing the horns.

"Woooooooooooo

The melodious sound of trumpets resounded in the sky.

The Jiangxia naval army throughout the forest knew that reinforcements had arrived, and their morale skyrocketed, and they began to counterattack.

There seemed to be countless figures in the jungle, and arrows swept through the Lü Meng army like rain.

In just a few moments, they were shot and killed by hundreds, and they had to flee back to the stream, hide in their boats and begin to retreat towards Shushui.

The soldiers chased and fled, and after Shen Chen stabbed several Jiangdong soldiers, he watched them row in the direction of Shushui and escape, and hurriedly continued to pursue along the stream.

The forest was a mess, full of soldiers coming and going, and within a kilometer or two of the surrounding area, tens of thousands of warriors were entangled.

After running for about ten minutes, Shen Chen finally came to the river, he and Zhang Nan intercepted more than 800 people on the opposite side with more than 300 people, and the two sides fought fiercely.

By this time, Shen Chenjun actually didn't have many arrows, and those who could shoot arrows must be reinforcements.

Shen Chen hurriedly looked in the direction of the reinforcements.

I saw thousands of archers springing up from the woods, climbing onto the hills on the shore of Shushui, and shooting wildly in the direction of the ships.

The leader was an old man of about sixty years old, he was wearing black armor, with a large sword hanging from his waist, and his body was extremely muscular, and the whole person stood on the top of the mountain, condescendingly, bending his bow and arrows, aiming in a certain direction.

Huang Zhong?

This thought suddenly flashed through Shen Chen's mind.

Then he turned his head to look in the direction that Huang Zhong was aiming at, and on the boat, a young general in armor was constantly shouting for the soldiers to get on board.

Lu Meng!

Shen Chen recognized that it was Lu Meng, who was showing off his might just now.

In the next second, the old man on the hillside let go of the bowstring in his hand, and the arrow seemed to cut through the void, and in an instant, it was like lightning, shooting towards Lu Meng's chest.

"Ahh

Only a scream was heard, and Lu Meng, who was directing the retreat, fell to the other side of the ship with an arrow and fell into the water.

It's just that he was blocked by the ship, but he didn't know the situation.

"Captain, Captain, Captain!"

The soldiers on Lu Meng's ship were so shocked that they jumped into the water to fish, and after a while, a large number of planks rose from the boat, blocking the view, and they didn't know if they had fished up.

At this time, the Jiangdong Army was in chaos, and Xu Sheng took over the command and ordered the soldiers on the ship to raise their shields and planks to defend and respond to the retreat of the soldiers on the shore.

Countless Jiangxia sailors emerged from the jungle and attacked the enemy on the ship, seeing that there were more and more people on the other side, Xu Sheng didn't care about anything else, and after receiving most of the soldiers, he gave an order.

In the midst of countless clanging shots, hundreds of small and medium-sized ships of the Jiangdong Navy Division sailed downstream in embarrassment and fled from Wuling!