cite Han

Chapter 221 Yaishi

In order to maximize the effect of the secret weapon, the pole, Liu Zong chose to abandon the entanglement in the periphery and directly attack the central army. Cai Zhong's flagship is the most important target.

After being attacked by several warships, Cai Zhong's flagship has become completely unrecognizable. The original tall and magnificent high-rise buildings are now only a piece of broken walls, and the hull of the ship has begun to tilt due to water ingress.Dead bodies and wounded were everywhere on the dilapidated deck.

At this moment, Cai Zhong was no different from ordinary soldiers, lying on the deck like a dead dog, with pain everywhere in his body, especially the head, which seemed to be about to split.

Cai Zhong's body was limp and weak, his mouth and nose were struggling to breathe, his vision was blurred due to the blood flowing into his eyes, but he still easily recognized that what was pressing under him was his general flag.

"Lieutenant... Hurry up, hurry up..." Cai Zhong's own weight plus armor, no less than [-] Han Jin, the general and a guard, one left and one right, forcibly set him up, pulling and dragging, staggering all the way He ran to the rear of the ship.

Cai Zhong's previous impact was really not light, and he has not fully recovered from it until now, but he is still holding on to his general flag in his hand.

"This ship is sinking soon... Captain, you should quickly transfer to another ship, or you will be in danger if you are too late!" The general looked at Cai Zhong, who was battered and bleeding, and thought to himself that if he had listened to my persuasion just now, why would he be in danger? Fall into such an embarrassing situation?

Cai Zhong did not object again this time, and the rhetoric that "those who dare to repeat this will be punished" has become a complete joke.

Cai Zhong tightened his grip on the flag in his hand, there was nothing he could do if he continued to stay, he had to raise the flag on other ships as soon as possible, otherwise a long delay would definitely cause panic in the whole army, causing the soldiers to be unwilling to fight, and even There is a risk of a collapse of the entire army.

The fall of the Louchuan was imminent, and at the critical moment, the soldiers huddled together to grab the place to disembark, and some of them were impatient, so they jumped directly into the river.

"Get out of the way, everyone out of the way... let the captain go first..." the general swung his knife and shouted.

When the soldiers heard the words, some consciously gave way, while others ignored them. How can they control so much in the time of life and death.

Seeing this, the general was furious, rushed forward with several guards, cut down several people in a row, and frightened everyone in one fell swoop.

Cai Zhong escaped from the ship without any risk, passed a light boat, boarded a tall ship behind him, and raised his general flag again.

…………

As the battle broke out ahead, Cai Mao's Chinese fleet soon had no way to advance, and they were all blocked in the winding and narrow mountains and rivers. Looking around, the entire river surface was crowded with ships of all sizes, and the sails were overwhelming.

Cai Mao was confident that he was strong, so he didn't pay much attention to the enemy at first, thinking that Cai Zhong's former army was enough to deal with it, so he ordered all the ships to be anchored and moored in the river, waiting for orders.

However, when he received the report from Cai Zhong's front line, he learned that the enemy had nearly [-] warships, warships, and more than [-] large and small ships. He was quite surprised and began to face his opponent squarely.

The overall strength of the enemy was not much inferior to that of Cai Zhong's former army. Of course, Cai Mao could no longer stay out of the matter. Just when he was about to assign his generals Cai He and Xi Zhen to lead battalions to land from the south bank to help Cai Zhong, an accident happened.

Thousands of arrows suddenly shot out from the quiet mountains on the north bank.

Being blocked in the river and unable to move, the Jingzhou Army officers and soldiers gathered on the deck to let the wind blow, and they were suddenly attacked, causing heavy casualties immediately.What's even more frightening is that these are not ordinary arrows. It can be seen from the faint black light of the arrow clusters that they must be smeared with poison.

"The arrows are poisonous, the arrows are poisonous..." A soldier held his shovel aloft and hid behind him to avoid the crossbow arrows. In the process, he suddenly found that the color of the arrow tip at his feet was not right, and he exclaimed after pulling it out.

"This is Jingman's medicinal crossbow..." The shape of the Jingman's crossbow is very different from that of the Han people, so some soldiers recognized it immediately.

In fact, Jingman is not only distributed in the four counties in southern Jing, but also in Nanjun and Jiangxia counties in northern Jing, there are also a large number of Jingman, so the Jingzhou army is no stranger to Jingman.

"Jing Man..."

"Dog breed..."

"what……"

Shouts of exclamation, cursing, screams... One after another, the soldiers of the Jingzhou army used buildings, battle sheds, parapets, ship sides, shields, and even the corpses of their comrades, anything that could be used to defend themselves against the poison that fell from the sky. Arrow attack.

Jingman’s first round of volleys had the best effect, because the Jingzhou army was unprepared and killed more than a hundred people at one time. The second round of Jingzhou army was prepared, and the killing effect was only half of the first round. There is another decrease.

However, Jingman's methods were of course more than that. After three rounds of arrow rain, stones of different sizes began to fly out of the mountains.

Since it is dropped from a height of more than a hundred feet, even a stone the size of a fist can produce extremely astonishing power.

Don't say it's a human being, even if a boat hits it, don't even think about being intact.

Moreover, the stones thrown by Jingman are not only the size of a fist, but also the size of a human head.Stones of various shapes fell like raindrops, hitting the fleet of the Jingzhou Army.

Whether it was buildings, battle sheds, or shields, they all turned into pieces one after another, and the soldiers who hid themselves were naturally killed and injured for a while.

Large warships can still support for a while, and some light boats and small boats are directly destroyed.

If you want to rely on stones to sink warships, fighting ships, and even building ships, you can't say that you have no chance at all, but the success rate is definitely not too high.At this time, the most effective long-distance attack method is undoubtedly fire attack.After a shower of stones, a large number of burning arrows and short spears flew towards them.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Pieces of rockets and fire spears were densely nailed into the cabins and decks of Jingzhou ships.

It is not an easy task to ignite a large ship, especially the arrows and short spears are only covered with a layer of tarpaulin, and the flames are not stable. The building boats and the cowhide-covered boats will inevitably ignite spontaneously.

What's more terrible is that although the wind is not strong at this time, the Jingzhou army fleet is densely covered on the river, and the boats are connected. If a ship catches fire, it will often quickly spread to the neighboring ships.What's more terrible is that due to the limited space, even if you want to avoid it, you can't avoid it.

Cai Mao looked at the burning ship, his eyes bursting with anger, and veins appeared on his forehead.Because its ships are as luxurious as a palace on the water, even though they are moored in the middle of the river, far from the north bank, they are still attacked by rockets.

Originally, a small amount of rockets did not pose much threat to the building ship, but the blue canopy and crimson curtains on his ship were all flammable. When they were touched by fire, they began to burn blazingly, and quickly spread to the buildings, masts and masts. .

(End of this chapter)