Chapter 55: Capture Xu Sheng, Kill Lu Meng, and Win a Big Victory!
Although the ship is not as tall as the towering and tall building ship, it is also a medium-sized ship, like a small city tower on the sea, with a total height of three floors in the cabin, which can accommodate more than 200 people.
There were almost no small boats in Huang Zhong's department, all of them were medium and large ships, with more than 300 ships and 70,000 troops, which almost blocked the entire lake.
When Liu Bei selected elite soldiers to set up an ambush on the Yandao Road, he chose the soldiers and horses under Liu Pan's account and the Yangtze River Naval Division of that year, which itself belonged to the Jingzhou army sequence, not because he didn't understand water warfare.
After several years of training in Yandao, the water war was no worse than that of the Jiangxia Naval Division and the Jiangdong Naval Army.
At this moment, all the ships almost did not need to be commanded, and all instinctively poured onto the pier, completely blocking the entrance to the lake outside the entire pier, and densely lined up in a phalanx.
Immediately after that, Huang Zhong's flagship at the front took the lead and rushed towards the central fighting ship of Lu Meng's army, and the distance between the two sides quickly narrowed, and then began to slow down, wanting to get close to the side of the ship, using a hook or ladder to get close.
However, Lu Meng's side was already red-eyed, and there were too many enemy ships, and it was impossible to escape through the gaps, so he finally ordered the whole army to ram the ships.
The purpose of this was simple, to break through the enemy blockade at the cost of all the soldiers who had already boarded the ship in front of them, so that the flotilla behind could get out.
"The Grand Duke!"
The adjutant general who conveyed the order was stunned and dissuaded: "If we also rush, wouldn't it be ......?"
Lu Meng gasped, his scarlet eyes were full of murderous intent and looked at the Yangtze River sailor ships that were getting closer and closer not far away, and roared angrily: "As long as I can preserve my strength, I won't be sorry to die, go quickly!" β
"I ......"
"Go!"
"Yui!"
The adjutant general was helpless, so he had to give an order, and secretly scolded Lu Meng in his heart, Lu Meng is really crazy, you are not afraid of death, I am afraid.
After the order to charge was issued, the scattered Jiangdong Army fleet hesitated and began to speed up the hedge, among which Lu Meng's main ship was in the front and attacked Huang Zhong's ship with a bang.
But when they approached the pass, they reluctantly deviated from the course, and the two sides passed by, until the dense array of ships in the rear rushed up, and the Lumeng ship began to slow down.
"Why don't you rush, why don't you rush!" Lu Meng held the knife in his hand and looked back angrily at the deputy general in the distance.
The lieutenant general shirked the responsibility and shouted: "The helmsman who rocks the oars is afraid of death." β
"Kill him!"
Lu Meng roared angrily, he had fallen into the encirclement of the Yangtze River Naval Division, and the front and left and right sides were full of enemy ships.
A large number of hooks and ladders were thrown over, hooking the sides of the ship on both sides.
Immediately after that, the Jiangdong Naval Divisions in the rear continued to board the boats on the lake, with a total of forty or fifty large ships, hundreds of small and medium-sized boats, and about 30,000 ships of the Jiangdong Naval Division set off.
The remaining Jiangdong sailors who had not yet boarded the boat in the direction of the dock were already in chaos, because Shen Chen's army finally attacked and blocked them by the lake.
Nearly a thousand large and small ships were intertwined, some colliding with each other, some facing each other, and some small boats tried to use their flexible bodies to cruise out of the big ships and escape from the battlefield, but they were crushed to pieces.
Soon, the lake of Yunmengze, which was more than ten miles long, was crowded with enemy ships. The two sides staggered and began to climb each other's boats to engage in close combat, fighting bravely in the ups and downs of the lake.
LΓΌ Meng's ships were also hooked by the big ships of the Yangtze River Navy on the left and right, and the one in front was also in front of him, unable to advance, and unable to turn the rudder on the left and right, and he could only order the sailors to rock the oars and row in the opposite direction to try to get rid of the enemy ships.
But the ships on both sides had already hooked up their ships and could not move. The water of Yunmengze's lake was suddenly not as turbulent as the Yangtze River, but it was also rolling with huge waves, and the sailors couldn't control the hull of the ship at all, and they could barely move.
The sound of "bang bang" was endless, sawdust flew sideways, masts fell, waves hit from time to time, and the deck was almost empty of people swept away by heavy rain and waves, only Lu Meng was still holding on.
"Governor, Governor, let's go back to the cabin first." The lieutenant grabbed him by the shoulders and tried to drag him back from the deck.
The wind and waves outside were too strong, and the Yangtze River sailors on both sides had already begun to board the ship, and it was obvious that there was no chance of winning a battle with the enemy on the deck, and all the soldiers wanted to use the cabin to meet the enemy, and retreated from both sides of the ship to the direction of the cabin.
"Damn!"
Lu Meng looked at the left and right of only a few soldiers, but the enemy was already about to board the ship through the hook and ladder, gritted his teeth and hammered the side of the ship, and also retreated to the deck.
The situation on Xu Sheng's side is not much better, the Jiangdong Naval Division is outnumbered and surrounded by regiments, and now the Yangtze River Naval Division is continuing to attack their fleet, and many ships have been robbed of the deck, and the two sides are in a death battle and entanglement.
Huang Zhong happened to be near Xu Sheng's main ship, and the soldiers on board stood firmly on the slippery and bumpy plank, and then threw the hook at Xu Sheng's ship, but they could not throw it because of the wind and rain.
In the Han Dynasty, the ships of both sides approached and hooked the enemy's side through hooks and ladders with barbs, but it was really difficult to operate today.
Seeing that the soldiers threw out the hook several times and threw it empty, Huang Zhong stepped forward and snatched the rope from the deputy general and shouted, "I'm coming!" β
With that, he flicked the hook and aimed at the far side of the ship and threw it hard.
But his strength was too great, and with the blessing of the wind and waves, he threw it off the rails of the second deck of the main ship, and then began to slide to the left, and unbiasedly hit the mast on the second deck.
Everyone looked at this scene in a daze, and then Huang Zhong was overjoyed and said: "What are you doing stupidly, use the winch to pull me!" β
"Pull!"
The adjutant immediately shouted loudly.
"Pull!"
The soldiers shouted.
"Hey Hugh, hey Hugh, hey Hugh, hey Hugh!"
With the rhythmic beat, the winch behind the rope began to turn, the rope quickly straightened, and using the pulley principle, the two boats were pulled closer again.
Originally, the two ships were seven or eight zhang apart, but now they are soon less than three zhang apart, which can already be reached by the ladder.
But the mast simply could not bear the weight of a ship, and there was a "snap".
The mast on Xu Sheng's main ship was entangled in the hook and rope, and when it pulled with the enemy ship, Kacha Kacha cracked open, and then someone shouted in a panic: "The pole has fallen." β
The Koto sailors traveled from north to east, which was considered a semi-tailwind, so almost all of them had their sails open.
The Yangtze River sailors sailed from the Yangtze River in the south to the north into Yunmengze in the north, which belonged to a big headwind, so they did not sail, purely relying on the smooth water and the power of the oars and paddle wheels.
In this case, the mast was fatal, because it did not fall with a bare pole, but with a sail large enough to cover the entire deck, and the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army on the deck were buried directly under the sail and could not get out.
Seeing the huge sail falling downward, all the soldiers of the Jiangdong Navy Division opened their eyes wide, their faces were full of horror, some had fled in a panic, and some couldn't run and were smashed off by the sail.
"Hahaha."
When Huang Zhong saw this scene, he laughed, and waved the big knife in his hand: "Go up the ladder and kill it." β
"Yui!"
The adjutant general waved his hand and said, "Go up the ladder and kill!" β
"It's all of it."
"Kill!"
A sharp whistle sounded, and as the two main ships were getting closer and closer, more than a dozen ladders were set up on the opposite ship.
On both sides were medium-sized ships such as warships, the height was flush, and after the ladder was put up, Huang Zhong took the lead, stood on top of the ladder, and waved his hand: "Kill." β
"Kill!"
The Yangtze River sailors rushed up the ladder to the other party's boat.
At this time, the deck on Xu Sheng's main ship was in chaos, and most of the soldiers were covered under the cover of the sails, constantly struggling underneath.
Huang Zhong jumped onto the other party's deck, and a sharp ring-headed knife pierced the sail fabric below, and just as he showed his head, the big knife was on his neck.
The Jiangdong soldier watched this scene in horror, and then honestly threw down his knife and was captured by the Yangtze River sailors who came up from behind.
In an instant, the deck was occupied by the Yangtze River Naval Division, Huang Zhong glanced around, thinking that he controlled the ship, when suddenly there was a sound of fighting not far away, and when he looked for the sound, he saw more than 20 soldiers besieging a general.
The general was shirtless, extremely athletic, although the ship was bumpy, but he was like walking on the ground, facing the siege of more than 20 people, he dodged left and right in a hurry, and gradually supported the situation.
Hand-to-hand combat on the ship is different from on land, Huang Zhong also trained in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River for many years before he slowly got used to water warfare, at this time, seeing that the general was quite powerful, he couldn't help but itch his hands, and stepped forward and shouted: "Go and block the cabin, let them surrender, I will deal with this person." β
"Yui."
When many soldiers saw Huang Zhong coming, they retreated one after another.
The general is none other than Xu Sheng.
When he saw an old man coming, dressed in the armor of a general, he knew that it was a big fish, so he did not hesitate to bully him.
Huang Zhongyi was not afraid, and rushed with a knife.
The two sides quickly fought together, and as soon as they took over, the two sides knew that they had encountered a hard stubble, and the two knives collided, and they actually burst out with violent sparks, and they were deadlocked.
With a bang, both of them swung the knife with their right hand, and pushed their left hand on the back of the knife to increase their strength, but neither of the two knives could help anyone.
The strength is half a catty, Huang Zhong and Xu Sheng chose the slide knife almost at the same time, because Huang Zhong is crackling, Xu Sheng is a horizontal knife side cut, so after the two people sliding the knife, Huang Zhong lowered his head and poked down, and Xu Sheng swept back to twitch.
However, what made Xu Sheng creepy, and in a cold sweat, Huang Zhong actually didn't dodge or dodge, and went to meet his blade. I chose to play with injuries for injuries, and I didn't care about my own casualties at all.
It's not that he really intends to exchange injuries for injuries, but that Xu Sheng didn't wear armor, and Huang Zhong wore armor. Even if Xu Sheng cut it, it would be cut on Huang Zhongjia's stomach at most.
Realizing this, Xu Sheng hurriedly stopped the knife momentum, kicked his legs hard, and rolled to the side.
Fortunately, he had no armor and stomach, and his body was extremely vigorous and light, and he had already reacted at the moment when Huang Zhong poked under the sliding knife, and the whole person flew out without being poked by Huang Zhong.
"Damn!"
Xu Sheng rolled on the deck, his body covered with blood, and he got up and glared: "You old man is so despicable. β
"Hahahahaha."
Huang Zhong immediately slashed and laughed: "Boy, you have good strength, ordinary people will be cut down by me if they stab me, but you can stop it and say your name?" I don't kill the nameless ghost under the sword! β
"Langya Xu Sheng is also!"
Xu Sheng shouted.
Huang Zhong said: "Jiangdong is a rat, since you are from Xuzhou, why do you have to work hard for Sun Quan?" Why don't you surrender to the king of Hanzhong and help the Han family together? β
"Phew!"
Xu Sheng sputtered and said, "Dream! β
"It's a pity."
Huang Zhong smashed his mouth and took the lead in making a knife, this time using ten percent of his strength, and slammed his head towards Xu Sheng.
Xu Sheng almost instinctively raised his knife to block.
In the next second, the knife seemed to have encountered Mount Tai's pressure, and a terrifying force smashed down, directly snorting the knife in Xu Sheng's hand.
"Humph!"
Immediately afterwards, Huang Zhong kicked him to the ground, and the surrounding soldiers rushed up and clamped the halberd around his neck.
"You!"
Xu Sheng was shocked, this strength was completely different from just now, this old man had left his hand before.
Huang Zhong sneered: "You still dare to underestimate the enemy in the life-and-death struggle, and if you want to save your strength to deliberately withdraw your strength, you can stab me obliquely with a knife." But the old man's seventy years of skill, how can you unload the strength? β
Xu Sheng's eyes widened, because his thoughts and thoughts were completely guessed by the opponent, and he thought that the opponent's strength was the level just now, so he wanted to collect the force to achieve the effect of unloading.
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As a result, the strength of the people was far greater than they imagined, and they dropped ten times with one force, but the unloading force was unsuccessful, but the knife in their hands flew out.
"Tie it up."
Huang Zhong waved his hand.
Xu Sheng was captured by the five flowers in an instant.
The battle in the cabin was over, and after Xu Sheng was captured, all the Jiangdong soldiers on the ship surrendered.
The fierce wind and rain were much lighter than in the morning, and at this time it was actually only three quarters in the middle of the day, that is, more than twelve o'clock in the afternoon.
However, the sky was still gray and dim, and the field of vision could only see a few hundred meters around, but because of the large number of ships crowded together, the shouts of killing continued, and the decks of the enemy and our ships were full of fighting, the situation was not very clear.
However, the river bank in the distance became clear, and Shen Chen's army surrounded the entire wharf, and Huang Zhong divided the Jiangdong army into two parts, the shore and the ship, like dumplings, and the two sides fought separately and fell into entanglement.
Seeing that the situation on the shore was very good, Huang Zhong also knew that he had to speed up his pace, and at the next order, he continued to approach the next enemy ship and constantly attacked the enemy's large ships.
When he rushed to the fourth ship, it was already late afternoon, this was the ninth time that Lu Meng had repelled the attack of the Yangtze River sailors around him, his ship was close to fragmentation, and there were only more than 100 of the more than 300 soldiers on board.
The most difficult time was that the ship's board was completely occupied by the enemy, and even the top two floors were enemies, and they could only retreat in the cabin to fight back, which is also the real dilemma encountered by most Jiangdong sailors at present.
Many people chose to surrender, and the Jiangdong Army that was still fighting was getting smaller and smaller, and the lake dozens of miles wide was full of colliding boats from both sides, sawdust was flying, and blood and corpses were flowing with the waves.
By three o'clock in the morning, the rain was much lighter, and the clouds were still dense in the sky, but there were still a few gaps in the west, allowing the long-lost remnant sun to illuminate the earth.
Huang Zhong's ship crashed headlong into the flank of Lu Meng's ship, and the bow of the ship was directly embedded in it, which was not Huang Zhong's original intention, but because the battlefield was too crowded, a large number of ships rushed back and forth, and in order to avoid an enemy ship on the flank, they had to adjust their direction and crash into Lu Meng's ship.
Unless the ships are fighting to the death, they rarely collide, because when they do, their own ships will fall apart.
Fortunately, Huang Zhong's ship was actually quite stable, only the bow was damaged, and he hurriedly waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to kill the enemy ship and rob the Jiangdong Army's ship.
The soldiers jumped from the bow to the enemy ship, and it was only then that the deck of the ship was littered with the corpses of our and enemy soldiers, and it was clear that the ship was a stubble.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Lu Meng, who had recaptured the second deck, gave an order, and arrows rained down.
The soldiers of the Yangtze River Sailor were caught off guard and many people were shot.
Only Huang Zhong turned around, lowered his head, and used the hard armor and stomach all over his body to resist the arrows, and his body made a clanging sound.
When the arrows stopped, there were few people standing around, corpses everywhere, and the living people hurriedly retreated to their own ships, leaving only Huang Zhong alone.
In addition to hand-to-hand combat on the ship, more battles in water battles are bows and arrows.
Before, the wind and waves were strong, and the bow and arrow could not be effective, but now the rain is much lighter, and the wind is not so strong, it is a good time to use the bow and arrow.
Not only them, but all the ships around were shooting arrows, and the rain stopped, but the rain of arrows began again.
Huang Zhong looked at the corpses all over the ground, and was furious, and raised his knife to kill the cabin.
The bow and arrow stopped.
Seven or eight soldiers poured out of the cabin, surrounding Huang Zhong.
That armor really can't shoot, so it can only fight in close combat.
But Huang Zhong raised and dropped his knife, one by one, and soon killed at the entrance of the cabin.
There were spears stabbed down from time to time on the second deck, Huang Zhong held the knife in his right hand, grabbed a spear with his left hand, and pulled it hard.
"Ahh A scream was heard, and the soldiers on the second floor deck were pulled down and then slashed to death.
Then the second, the third, the fourth, and in the end, no one dared to stab them with a spear.
After blocking the cabin, Huang Zhong beckoned the soldiers behind him to rush up, and this time they were on guard, and everyone approached with shields.
A soldier carried a ladder to the ship, and Huang Zhong shouted, and the soldier drove the ladder to the second deck and climbed up.
The soldiers of the Yangtze River Naval Division flocked to the ship, and Lu Meng continued to command the release of arrows on the second deck, but at this time there was little effect, and the entrance to the lower cabin was also killed by the Yangtze River Naval Division.
In the narrow and dense passage of the cabin, the soldiers on both sides were crowded together, the front with shields, the back with spears, stabbed each other, and the blood splashed bloomed into brilliant flowers, and the LΓΌ Meng army was defeated and retreated.
Huang Zhong also followed the ladder to the second deck, he took the lead, raising a shield in one hand to block the attack above, and constantly slashing left and right with a knife in the other, killing a bloody path.
The soldiers behind him followed him like ants to the second level of the ship, and soon occupied the edge of the ship.
"Kill!"
Seeing that the enemy was approaching step by step, Lu Meng rushed over with a knife with scarlet eyes.
There were about thirty or forty people on both sides who were scuffling together.
Huang Zhong looked at Lu Meng, of course he didn't know Lu Meng, he intuitively felt that this was a famous general, and then rushed straight over with a knife.
Lu Meng also discovered him, and saw that the enemy who rushed over was gray-bearded, and it was a seventy-year-old man, and the scene of an old man shooting an arrow at him like a god shot at him in Yixian County more than ten years ago.
"Huang Zhong!"
He subconsciously let out a scream.
If it weren't for the heart shield that year, I'm afraid his corpse would have been white bones.
Huang Zhong was slightly stunned when he heard the other party shouting his name, then stopped and asked, "Who are you and why do you know me?" β
"Runan Lu Meng is also!"
LΓΌ Meng was also a famous general in his early years, and later Zhou Yu and Sun Quan persuaded him many times, and he gradually became both civil and military and became the commander of the three armies.
But at this moment, when he met the old enemy, he couldn't care about anything, and raised his knife and roared: "The old thief almost shot me back then, and today I will kill you to avenge the year!" β
"Humph!"
Huang Zhong snorted coldly, did not stop, stepped forward and slashed with a knife.
"Bang!"
The two sides are at war together.
Lu Meng first raised the knife horizontally, the two knives sparked and splashed, and after brushing it, he stabbed Huang Zhong diagonally and directly picked up Huang Zhong's neck.
Both of them were wearing battle armor and wearing helmets, but there were not many flaws.
But Huang Zhong turned his head to dodge, and then grabbed Lu Meng's shoulder with his left hand, counteracting the ship's inertia, and the ring knife in his right hand actually slashed down at Lu Meng's foot.
The whole body armor is also exposed on the feet, palms, neck, and face door, which is the focus of a general's protection.
There are many generals in history who are obviously wearing a suit of armor, but they die because of an arrow in the front door. Xiahoudun is a typical example, he lost an eye if he didn't protect his face door.
Therefore, the close combat between the generals is basically around the neck and the face door. It is extremely rare to attack the enemy's feet like Huang Zhong.
Lu Meng was caught off guard, his ankle was cut, and if he hadn't dodged quickly, the entire soles of his feet would have been cut off.
Feeling the sharp pain in his ankle, he took a few steps back.
But Huang Zhong took advantage of one step at a time, attacking step by step, constantly swinging his knife and slashing, and the two sides soon fought for more than 20 rounds, and Lu Meng was already defeated, only had the strength to parry, not the strength to fight back.
In the end, Lu Meng roared angrily, wanting to fight back desperately and exchange injuries for injuries, but a huge flaw was exposed, and the neck was exposed, and Huang Zhong found an opportunity.
"Huh!"
As the brilliant silver light streaked across the void, the silver dragon roared like a half-moon sword.
Huang Zhong appeared behind Lu Meng, holding a knife in both hands, the tip of which was dripping blood.
And Lu Meng still maintained the stabbing move, the corners of his mouth were bleeding, he looked back with difficulty, and fell to the ground softly.
There was a knife in his neck that pierced the major artery in his neck, and blood flowed all over the deck.
The person had not yet swallowed his breath, and his whole body was shaking and convulsing.
Huang Zhong looked back and looked around, the Jiangdong Army on the deck was almost wiped out, and a steady stream of Yangtze River sailors and soldiers were pouring into the cabin.
He walked to Lu Meng's fallen body, and when he held Lu Meng and took his last breath, he said in a deep voice: "If you were not shot to death with an arrow back then, then I will kill you with a knife today!" β
Saying that, he took off Lu Meng's helmet, chopped off Lu Meng's head with a knife, dragged his hair, held it high, and roared angrily: "The thief gave Lu Meng the head!" β
"The thief will give Lu Meng the head!"
First, Huang Zhongjun on the deck heard this sentence and shouted one after another.
Immediately after that, the sound spread to the surrounding boats, and all Huang Zhong's soldiers also began to shout, and the sound wave spread out in all directions.
A falcon streaked across the void, watching as the sound below spread out from the ships in the middle of the battlefield, and then more and more people joined in.
Soon there was only one voice left on the battlefield of ships that stretched for dozens of miles.
"The thief will give Lu Meng the head!"
The entire Jiangdong Army seemed to have lost its soul, and countless people collapsed to the ground, threw down their weapons, and chose to surrender.