Chapter 680: The Last Trumpet (1)

The victories of the Zuihou of the imperial capital were accompanied by a series of tragic battles, and later generations have commented objectively when commenting on this period of history, in the most far-reaching battle of the empire, the battle victory of the Shenwu army was accompanied by a large number of corpses and bones step by step. In general, there is no winner and no loser in this war, because they have all done their best to win this war. Whether it is the Shenwu Army or the Xiliang Army, or the Praetorian Guard under Zhang Bai, and the troops of the Eight Great Emperor Merchants who were completely at their peak during this period. They have all given enough blood, enough lives.

The sound of long trumpets resounded through the canal's waterways, and the thunderous drums of war and the shouts of the soldiers made the calm canal waterways as lively as before, only this time they were not so peaceful. This uproar is destined for many people to pay for their most precious lives in order to win that unpredictable glory. Su Xing and Su Hai led their warships to attack the naval army of the Imperial Capital.

The shouts of the soldiers in the sound of war drums shook the sky, and the naval armies of the two sides first had to fight with bows and crossbows, and the crossbow in the Tianlong Empire, which had no artillery, was the strongest attack weapon of the sailors' warships. The Empire's bed crossbow is very well-designed, has strong combat ability, and is extremely penetrating, except for the Empire's special ships, the Iron House Ship, almost all ships can easily penetrate. The warships at the forefront of both sides were the most elite sailors, and the sound of crossbows constantly sounded in the warships of both sides.

"Rocket ready!" Su Xing pulled out the sword at his waist and stood on the warship, shouting loudly at the soldiers under his command, the soldiers behind him quickly grabbed the bed crossbow arrows with hideous faces and installed them on the bed crossbows, and one soldier quickly ignited the fire oil on the crossbow arrows. There was a pop of fire that burned the bed crossbow arrows. The red flames danced on the arrows. It looks unusually glaring.

"Release!" The sword in Su Xing's hand pointed at the enemy's warship, and the soldier who controlled the bed crossbow let go of the crossbow arrows on the bed crossbow with a loud sound, and the bed crossbow arrows that had been ignited rushed towards the enemy's warship with roaring flames. The crossbow arrows of both sides pierced the sky sharply, the flames provoked a dance of death in the air, and the red flames turned into demons, and with a hideous smile on their faces, they pounced on their respective targets.

"Defense!" the captain of the warship standing in front of him shouted, and the soldiers behind him answered loudly, pulling the rope in their hands in unison. A heavy cowhide shield was pulled into the sky. This heavy shield made of cowhide is the experience that the navy of the Celestial Dragon Empire has summed up in countless battles with the Sea Clan. The soldiers around them roared in unison, and the heavy shields made of stainless steel clicked on the sides of the warship, blocking the incoming bed crossbow arrows.

Bang bang bang, with the sound of bed crossbow arrows piercing through the warship, countless screams rang out on the warship. The flames flickered, the waves fluttered, and corpses were shot into the sea in a skewer of flesh by the powerful penetrating power of the bed crossbow arrows. The crackling fire made the warship sound very miserable, and countless soldiers frantically raised everything that could be used around them to extinguish the fire.

"Don't stop, keep attacking. "Su Xing's helmet was directly hung up by a crossbow arrow. Su Xing, who was scattered from his cloak, looked extremely hideous, and Su Hai, who was driving a warship to the forefront, was the same. Rushing to the front is the hardest hit. Just one round of attacks allowed the destruction of three warships in the Suhai Sea. Su Xing commanded the soldiers on the battleship to fight while directing the soldiers to extinguish the fire. He and Su Hai are both leading the army to fight for the first time, and it is inevitable that they are a little nervous, and it can be seen from the command of the soldiers that Su Xing and Su Hai still need to be trained.

Crossbow arrows flew all over the sky, the sound of warships being pierced by crossbow arrows everywhere, and the crackling fire made the battlefield smell strange. Su Hai constantly urged his subordinates to speed up and get close to the enemy's warship at all costs for broadside battles. And Su Xing commanded the warships under his command to cover Su Hai's attack, and the two of them cooperated very sharply when attacking and defending, but in Zhou Yu's opinion, the cooperation between the two still needs to be honed.

"Metropolitan Governor, now the warships under Su Xing and Su Hai have lost more than ten warships, if they continue to fight like this, I am afraid that before they can get close to the enemy's warships, our warships will all be destroyed. Are we going to support them in the battle?" Zhou Tai said to Zhou Yu with a tense face, the battle was very fierce, and the warships on both sides suffered heavy losses, Zhou Tai looked at the decreasing number of his own warships, and his face showed a look of worry. The purpose of Su Hai's operation was obvious, that is, to get close to the enemy's warships and defeat the enemy in front with the strong combat strength of the Jingzhou army. As long as they can defeat the enemy in front of them, they can win this victory, and the other party can obviously see that the battle between the two is also constantly mobilizing the most elite warships to block the front to prevent the collapse of the rear pair.

"No, even if the two of them have lost their ships, our goal has been achieved. Zhou Yu said to Zhou Tai with a solemn face: "I sent Su Xing and Su Hai this time, one is to test the art of war and martial arts of the two, and the other purpose is to find out how the other party wants to fight. ”

Zhou Yu's words obviously stunned the generals who followed him, Zhou Yu looked at the generals beside him with a confused look and continued to explain: "My Jingzhou army came with Tianwei, and the soldiers went up and down, and their fighting spirit was high, especially when they knew that the lord was trapped in the imperial capital, and their combat effectiveness suddenly increased several times. On the other hand, Zhang Rang has only controlled most of the generals of this army, and has not really mastered these armies, and it is not difficult to see from this mutiny of the Guards that these soldiers do not want to fight us to the end. ”

"The reason why I let Su Xing and Su Hai go into battle is to see what combat strategies the other party's generals adopt, and now it seems that the other party is the same as I thought. Zhou Yu smiled and said to everyone: "As long as Su Hai can attack the enemy's warship, we will not be far from victory." ”

"Brothers, follow me, get on!" With a bang, the two warships slammed together, and with the wooden warship making a creaking sound, Su Hai took a war knife in his mouth, grabbed a rope, and with Su Hai's shout, Su Hai grabbed the rope and fell heavily from the sky with a bang.

"Die!" The war knife in Su Hai's hand flipped over, and with one sword, he slashed an enemy soldier blocking in front of him to the ground, and the hot blood instantly rushed into the sky. Su Hai, who was drenched in blood, did not hesitate at all, and the war knife in his hand was a backhand, and he cut the enemy soldiers who rushed up from behind into two pieces. Su Hai's bravery suddenly aroused the soldiers who rushed up, and everyone roared loudly and raised their swords to kill the enemy soldiers.

"Lean up, lean on me!" Su Xingyi saw that the only six warships under Su Hai's command collided heavily with the other party, and immediately hurriedly commanded the warships under his command to desperately move closer to the enemy. As soon as the broadside battle began, all the bed crossbows and bows on the ships were useless, and the ships of both sides leaned together in the midst of a loud crash. The soldiers on both sides who rushed to the front were also brave, and they raised their weapons to kill the enemy who rushed over. Blood instantly spilled all the decks of the warship, heads flew into the sky, and corpses fell to the ground with a thud.

"Dadu, I have come up, but the ships in the rear of the enemy have also begun to move. Zhou Tai had been carefully observing the battlefield, and when he saw that the enemy's rear team had moved, he immediately said to Zhou Yu anxiously. Zhou Yu smiled slightly, Zhou Tai should not be nervous, and he himself quickly gave a few orders to the herald, and the herald quickly reported to other warships with a banner.

Knock knock, the rapid sound of war drums resounded throughout the battlefield, and Su Xing and Su Hai, who were fighting, suddenly perked up, urging their soldiers to fight to the death. The powerful naval troops of the Jingzhou Army finally slowly mobilized in the sound of war drums, and the naval warships in the rear quickly advanced towards the enemy in front of them in front of them. And Su Xing and Su Hai rushed to other warships without the slightest hesitation after clearing all the enemies of a warship.

"Grand Duke, the enemy has fled!" Zhou Tai looked at the panicked enemy warships on the battlefield and suddenly shouted, he couldn't believe the scene in front of him. Now only Su Xing and Su Hai's and a dozen warships are leaning up, and the number of soldiers is even less than 5,000, but just like that, the 5,000 people and horses who killed hundreds of thousands of horses on the other side turned over on their backs and fled in embarrassment. Even if Zhou Tai knew that the naval army was not like the army operation, and the number would sometimes become a drag, he didn't expect that these naval forces would be defeated so quickly, when did the naval division of the imperial capital fall to this extent.

"It's not that the other side wants to escape, it's that their rear team is afraid, and their generals have lost confidence in such a battle. Zhou Yu looked at the battlefield coldly and said with a smile, the key to breaking the enemy this time is the opponent's reserve army. Judging from the resistance of Su Xing and Su Hai, the enemy generals didn't have the heart to fight such a meaningless battle with Zhou Yu at all.

"Pass the order, the whole army charges, and goes straight to the imperial capital!" Zhou Yu solemnly looked at the generals under his command and said, once the enemy's sailors are defeated, no one will be able to stop his army, and from now on, he Zhou Yu will have the final say.

"No!" (to be continued......)