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Chapter 222

Seeing the huts, masts, and even the sides and decks of the large ship burning, Cai Mao had to make a painful decision to abandon the ship, and was so embarrassed that he didn't even have time to take away the belongings in the royal room and the cabin.

Cai Mao came to another building boat through a temporary plank.However, it may not be safe here, and there is a danger of being burned at any time. To be on the safe side, he changed the boat several times, and finally came to a large boat near the south bank, where the fire could not be burned, and the rockets could not be shot.

At this time, the building ship has turned into a huge bonfire, with black smoke billowing straight into the sky.However, the frightening thing is that there are still people on the boat, and from time to time, soldiers covered in flames can be seen screaming and jumping off the boat.

There is no way, there are more than 300 soldiers and soldiers on the upper ship, and there are only a few ways to get off the ship safely. Facing the raging fire, it is difficult to evacuate in a timely and orderly manner.

"Xiao Liu Jing...!" Cai Mao's face was covered with traces of smoke, it looked black and dirty, covered with hideous colors.

Compared with the soldiers, he cared more about his own ship. Even the mighty Changsha Navy couldn't hurt a single plank of it. He never thought it would be destroyed here.

In addition to the building ships, there are another twenty or thirty large and small ships that are being swallowed by the fire, and the fire continues to spread to the surroundings.

During this period, the rockets and fire spears on the mountains never stopped, causing the soldiers of the Jingzhou army to complain endlessly.Because the mountains are more than a hundred feet high, even if you want to fight back, you can't do anything.This kind of attack can only be beaten passively, but it is difficult to fight back. The blow to the morale of the Jingzhou army is self-evident.

Cai Mao's eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth and said, "What a Liu Jing boy! No wonder he dared to intercept my fleet on the river. It turned out that he recruited Jing Man to help him."

Cai He made a suggestion: "Military Master, the mountains here are extremely steep and difficult to climb. It is better to let the rear army choose a flat place to land and surround the Jingman." A little later, now it is only Sima of other departments.

Cai Mao was furious, but he did not lose his mind. He nodded and approved Cai He's suggestion.However, at this moment, there was a sudden sound of drums from the south bank, and Cai Mao's heart skipped a beat, and he looked back abruptly.

Behind the hills on the south bank, in the jungle of dense forests and deep greens, accompanied by the sound of orderly drums, there are groups of people wearing hoods on their heads, grass shoes on their feet, wearing crimson clothes or armor, and holding swords and spears. , Bow and crossbow soldiers.From west to east, the queue is two miles wide.

Cai Hao and Cai He couldn't help but look at each other, they both saw the shock on the other's face, and the fear hidden behind the shock.

It's no wonder that the two of them were so shocked. Even with the most conservative estimate, there are more than 3000 people on the other side, maybe [-], or [-].Moreover, judging from the fact that the opponent's soldiers marched in order, they were definitely not a group of mobs or the like.

"Little Liu Jing..."

For a moment, Cai Mao was extremely anxious. First, there was a powerful naval army, then the vicious Jingman, and now thousands of well-trained infantry appeared, which made him feel like he had stabbed a hornet's nest.

Liu Jing's hole cards are a bit too much!Cai Mao even suspected that the other party might still have a backup.

At the same time, Cai Mao was also very puzzled, how could a small county magistrate with less than [-] households in the Liu scenic area have so many troops under his command?Even if, as Wu Ju said before, some of the remnants of Changsha's defeated generals were recruited, it shouldn't be on such a scale.

Soon, a more shocking scene appeared. A large number of large-scale war equipment suddenly appeared among the enemy formations. It is not difficult to see from the appearance that these are flying stone chariots and large crossbows, all of which are equipped with wheels and pushed away by the soldiers. .

Cai Mao had heard of the legendary deeds of Chen Qiu making a giant crossbow to kill the enemy in Lingling in the past. He never thought that Jingnan not only had a giant crossbow, but also a flying stone cart, which completely refreshed Cai Mao's understanding of Jingnan.It's just strange, why don't these two things exist in Linxiang City?

Either, these two things are just ostentatious, not useful, or, Zhang Xian didn't know about these two things at all.

Cai Mao has too many doubts in his heart, but now is not the time to think about them. Now that the road ahead is blocked and he is being flanked, if he can't respond as soon as possible, the consequences will be unimaginable... He doesn't want to return to Linxiang in despair.

Cai Mao no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered the fleet ships to cross the river, connecting end to end, forming pontoon bridges, and then ordered Cai He, Xi Zhen, and Wu Ju to lead the trilogy to seize the south bank and form a position to meet the enemy.Finally, send someone to order the rear army to choose a place to land as soon as possible, and attack the enemy from the flank.

At this time, the front of Liu Jingjun was already close to the south bank, and the antlers were placed at the forefront of the two-mile-long position as the first line of defense.

Behind the antlers, there are elite soldiers holding spears. They form a team of five, or two, and form a horizontal line with five rows in depth. It happens to be a "team" of 50 people. The pawns holding drums and flags stand at the front of the line. , while the team rate is behind the team.

Although there is a gap between the teams, they can still be regarded as a group, that is, 20 people in the front, five rows in depth, forming a "tun".

Whether it is a 50-man team or a hundred-person tun, they can basically practice all the common formations of the Han army, so in the Han army, the team and the tun have a very important position.

In fact, not only in the Han Dynasty, but from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, although the names of the team and the village level are different, they are very important to an army.In troubled times, the first level of the team is enough to enter the eyes of the princes, while the first level of the village can enter the eyes of the country.

There is also a discontinuity between Tun and Tun, extending for two miles from west to east.Behind the spears is the crossbowmen phalanx, the number of which is also five, two or two, five rows deep, and between the crossbowmen and the crossbowmen phalanx, there are a small number of archers.

Because Liu Jing's soul comes from modern times, he knows that the power of the bow is actually higher than that of the crossbow, and the rate of fire is even more incomparable.The advantage of the crossbow is that it can be quickly formed into an army. Even an ordinary farmer can become a qualified crossbowman after a few months of training.

The bow is not good. If you want to train a qualified archer, you need to take years as the unit.And the power of the two is exactly proportional to the training time.

It's a pity that there is no tradition of learning bows in Jingnan area, only some martial arts heroes and knight-errants practice bows and arrows, but it is not a scale.However, regardless of Han and barbarians, crossbows are their strengths, so even if Liu Jing intends to train archers, he will not be able to succeed in a hurry.

(End of this chapter)