Besides, this Vatu found that what he led his troops to pursue was nothing more than a small fishing boat, and there were only a dozen merchant soldiers on board. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The rest of the battalion generals were unwilling to accompany him on this journey again, and the tens of thousands of people who chased a small boat were already laughing at him. If he went to Xiakou with him to help, but his camp was broken through by the merchant army, wouldn't it be a greater sin.

Vatu led his six or seven thousand soldiers all the way down the river, secretly praying in his heart: Don't have an accident, but you must not have an accident!

Halfway through, I saw the wolf smoke rising into the sky and not dissipating in the air for a long time, although it was more than ten miles apart, the sound of the horn was faintly audible.

While Vatu sent people to a nearby stronghold to ask for help, he quickly whipped his horse and led the cavalry to rush back to the camp to help.

"Why can't you see the barbarian reinforcements?" Lin Xing stood on a high place and looked around, and he couldn't see the shadow of a barbarian army as far as he could see, so he shouted to Fang Lei: "Is there too little wolf smoke?

Fang Lei snorted coldly, twisted his head to the side, and no longer looked at Lin Xing's handsome face that made him more and more angry the more he looked at it: "Wen Zhong! Shi can be killed but not humiliated, although the old man has become your prisoner, if you humiliate me like this again, do you believe that the old man died to show you?"

"Okay, good!" Lin Xingyi jumped down from the observation deck more than ten feet high, and landed firmly in front of Fang Lei: "Don't shout all day long that you want to die or live, just like a girl, if you really have the courage to die, this seat really admires you as a man!"

Fang Lei finished for a while, if he was really so heroic, he had already been martyred when he broke the camp just now, where would he be captured and become a prisoner of the merchant army. The ants are still stealing life, not to mention that he is a living person.

However, he was still unconvinced in his heart, if it weren't for this Wen Zhong who used the technique of the side door to capture himself and threaten his subordinate soldiers to lay down their weapons, the merchant army would have to pay a heavy price if they wanted to break through his camp. Although it will not be wiped out, it will not be as easy as it is now: at the cost of only a few hundred casualties, he can easily take down his defense of 3,000 men, how can he be embarrassed?

Now the third batch of merchant troops who crossed the river have joined Lin Xing, and now the number has exceeded 10,000, plus more than 2,000 barbarian prisoners, which has made Lin Xing's self-confidence unprecedentedly inflated.

That's why he urged Fang Lei to release a signal for help to the surrounding strongholds, and he himself led thousands of people to stick to the camp, and the rest of the people were scattered and ambushed around, preparing to kill them by surprise before the rescue troops could gain a firm foothold, and eliminate all the invading enemies before and after.

But after waiting for a long time, I didn't see the shadow of a person who came to support, and I couldn't help but wonder if it was because my reputation was too famous, and these people were scared? Or was this Fang Lei not welcome and was given up by his teammates? Or was he led too far by the boat and couldn't come back for a while?

This is not right! The wolf smoke has been let go for almost an hour, and even if it runs farther, it should come back, right? The ships of the transport team have all run back and forth.

Lin Xing suddenly thought of a possibility, could it be that Deng Jiugong's people guessed correctly, did he really want to gather together and besiege him again?

"Report to the Taishi!" The general in charge of counting the materials walked up to Lin Xing and hugged his fists: "The materials have been counted, there are about 100,000 quintals of various grains and grasses, more than 30,000 standard spears, and thousands of trebuchets have been found!"

"Trebuchet?" Lin Xing glanced at Fang Lei with some surprise, he didn't understand that there was such a killing weapon, how could this thing choose to fight with him?

The latter said helplessly: "It is used to deal with the ships in the river, and Lord Vatu will not let it be used." ”

What an obedient and good boy! However, Lin Xing hurriedly asked people to push out the trebuchet and divide it into four phalanxes, east, west, south and north, and sent people out to collect stones to use as cannonballs.

Finally, after the sun was setting in the west, Vatu lived up to expectations and appeared in Lin Xing's field of vision with about thirty or forty thousand barbarian reinforcements.

Originally, Vatu was going to gallop back to help, but when he passed by his eastern stronghold, he was forcibly left behind by his brother Tut, and it was not until the four battalions of men and horses gathered that he sent troops to Xiakou.

At this time, two more groups of people from the merchant army landed, and there were no less than 20,000 people in the Xiakou stronghold, and a lot of traps were also arranged in various traps.

Without waiting for the barbarian army to gain a foothold, Lin Xing ordered the trebuchet to attack first, and although the hundreds of stones were smashed indiscriminately, it did not cause many casualties, but it also made the barbarian army confused.

Lin Xing knew that the Shang army lacked war horses and the impact was not enough, so he could only use the geographical advantage to drag the barbarian army to the death, waiting for the follow-up troops to cross the river.

The barbarian army is numerous, but the countermeasures discussed before are useless, and only half of the enemy's troops ambush others are undoubtedly to deliver food.

Even if there is a stalemate, it can't be too long, and when the barbarian armies of the rest of the strongholds converge here, it will be a fierce battle. The overall quality of the Hubei merchant coalition army is not as good as that of the barbarian army, and it will definitely suffer losses under hard fighting.

Lin Xing suddenly regretted that he was in too much of a hurry to cross the river, and he should wait until the imperial court reinforcements arrived, and the gap in combat effectiveness should be made up by the number of people, and maybe he would still have the strength to fight against the barbarian army.

Having said that, the imperial court does not know how much time it will take to recruit troops and horses, and no one can say whether the barbarian army will increase its troops during this period.

Vatu also saw that the Shang army's defense was weak and lacking, and he knew in his heart that the Shang army crossing the river and fighting must first transport soldiers, and then the war horses and grain and grass. Once all the troops are ready, with Wen Zhong's use of troops, there may be a possibility of being overturned.

Explain the situation to Tut and the other three battalion commanders, discuss the strategy against the merchant army, and send people to rush to the upstream stronghold to urge.

The barbarian army did not attack, the merchant army held on, and the two armies were waiting for follow-up reinforcements, and it was a stalemate for a while.

By sunset, two more groups of merchant troops had landed, and the total number had exceeded 30,000. However, the barbarian army came with five battalions of men and horses, plus the previous troops, there were as many as eighty or ninety thousand, several times the merchant army.

Lin Xing is now painstaking, what is the rejection of horse piles, tripping ropes, horse pits, tunnels, trenches are all the best, in order to defend the barbarian cavalry rushing to the camp.

As for the infantry, he was not afraid, there were thousands of trebuchets where they were, and how many came over were not enough to smash them.

After doing this, Lin Xing vaguely felt as if he had missed something, but the Eye of Loyalty did not warn, so he couldn't calculate it. Zixia has this ability, and he is embarrassed to ask.

In the upper reaches of the river, less than fifty miles away from Xiakou, there are no less than tens of thousands of people gathered in a small place, and hundreds of warships are densely packed with barbarian soldiers, but at the head are a few small fishing boats, which are full of dry firewood and weeds and other flammable materials.

"The merchant army has already boarded the ship!Judging from the previous experience, it will not take more than half an hour at most to return home!" The speaker was dressed in a hundred magic robes and held a soul-attracting gong, this strange costume could anyone else but a barbarian shaman.

At this time, he was controlling several eagles in the sky, using spells to observe the situation of Jiangbei's commercial camp through the eagle eye.

At this time, there was a busy scene in the commercial camp, the coalition soldiers were methodically boarding the conjoined warship, taking up as little space as possible on the ship and carrying more soldiers, no one noticed the few eagles that had been hovering in the air, even if someone saw it, they didn't feel anything wrong: the eagle soaring in the sky was originally a normal thing, and it was not normal to be grabbed by someone and put it on the shoulder.