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Chapter 224 Rout

Since the beginning of Xiangyang Hou Xiyu, the Xi family has developed into a famous family in Xiangyang for more than a hundred years. The new generation is also full of talents. The most famous is Xizhen, the younger brother of the Xizhen clan. Only under Pangtong of Pangzi in Xiangyang.

In addition, there is Xi Chengye, who is knowledgeable and talented, and has an unlimited future. He is known as the person who can prosper the Xi clan.

As a direct descendant of the Xi family, Xi Zhen can actually follow the path of the two, that is, study hard, and when he has accumulated enough knowledge, he will marry the Kuai family, Huang family, Pang family, Xiang family, Yang family and others in Xiangyang who have been married for generations. Criticize each other in order to achieve the purpose of fame.Those who are interested in an official career will join the Liu Biao shogunate, and those who have no official career for the time being will continue to raise their names at home.

But Xi Zhen did not do this, not because he was not knowledgeable enough, but because he happened to experience the Yellow Turban Rebellion in his youth, and as he grew older, the world did not return to peace, but became more and more chaotic.

Until Dong Zhuo abolished the emperor and created chaos all over the world, Guandong prefectures and counties recruited soldiers one after another to attack Dong Zhuo. It was under such an era background that Xi Zhen abandoned her pen and joined the army and joined the army.

Xi Zhen's eyes froze suddenly, and she saw dozens of flying stone carts beeping one after another in the enemy's formation on the south bank. The long arm was thrown high into the sky, and then flew towards Xiangshui like a meteor shower.

"Boom...boom...boom..."

The stone bullets whizzed and hit the river one after another. If a person was hit, no matter how good the armor was, he would definitely die.The small boat is broken, even if it is a large ship, it is in danger of sinking after being hit by several stone bullets in a row.

"Whoosh..."

A stone bullet flew over Xi Zhen's head, and with only a "click", the huge building was directly pierced by the stone bullet, and then the screams of soldiers rang out inside.

Soon, another stone bomb flew past Xi Zhen's side and blasted straight into the water with such force that it turned a light boat full of soldiers not far away directly upside down. ,

Xi Zhen's heart tightened, but her expression did not change, but this frightened the people around her, and she hastily persuaded: "Captain, the enemy's flying stone chariot is so powerful, it's too dangerous for you to stand on the deck, why not temporarily avoid……"

Faced with the persuasion of her entourage, Xi Zhen was indifferent, and insisted on not leaving the deck for half a step, saying: "I was ordered by the military adviser to lead my troops to land and attack the enemy. Now I can't lead the way, and I feel extremely ashamed. If I am in the rear Afraid of arrows and stones, wouldn't the hearts of the scholars be chilled? What more face stands between heaven and earth?"

"But..." The attendant wanted to persuade him again.

"No but!" Xi Zhen said with a serious expression, "I've made up my mind, don't say anything more."

In fact, Xi Zhen is not an exception. The two generals Cai He and Wu Ju who were also assigned by Cai Mao to land, one is Cai Mao's clan brother, and the other is a rebellious second minister. up.

The Xiangjiang River here is only a hundred feet wide, and the Jingzhou navy fleet is densely distributed on the river, so the hit rate of the catapults is astonishing, destroying more than ten large and small ships in an instant.

Standing on a hill in the distance, Liu Jing looked at Jiang Fang, and was even satisfied with the effect of the trebuchets. These trebuchets were all large-scale trebuchets, which required four or fifty people to operate together, and could fire stone bullets weighing twenty to thirty kilograms, which were extremely powerful. .

The principle of the trebuchet is not difficult, and the production is relatively simple. There are tens of thousands of people who can be driven by Liu Jing, and hundreds of trebuchets can be easily made in one day with local materials.

However, it is easy to make a trebuchet, but it is not easy to obtain stone bullets. Since the target this time is a wooden ship, the requirements for stone bullets are not high, and a little polishing is enough, but quarrying was never an easy task in ancient times. thing.

It was restricted by the number of stone bombs, so Liu Jing only prepared more than seventy trebuchets.But now it seems that even these seventy trebuchets have achieved good results.

Liu Jing is now in the Chinese army, and he never forgets to pay attention to the battle situation on the navy side. Tanqi keeps sending back battle reports from the front line. Yu Ship even forced Cai Zhong to replace the flagship twice. If things continue like this, victory will come sooner or later.

Liu Jing was in a good mood when he heard that, as long as the navy wins, the battle is basically a sure thing, and Cai Mao has no hope of coming back.

At the same time, Liu Jing did not forget to pay attention to the other side, which is the rear of the Jingzhou Navy. For that side, he is also prepared to back up.That is to say, in Laishui, a tributary of the Xiangshui River in the north, dozens of light boats full of oil and firewood were hidden. This small team was led by Wang Qiang. Attack the subsequent warships and try to buy more time for your side.

On the Xiangshui right now, arrows, rockets, and flying rocks are everywhere... Ships were either reduced to ruins, caught fire, or capsized and sank, and dead bodies and injured people floated all over the river.

Under such a situation, the speed of information transmission is far less convenient than that of the land, but Cai Mao still received news that the former army's operations were unfavorable.

Cai Hao's face was gloomy, and he was speechless for a long time. He did not blindly vent his anger on Cai Zhong, because he knew that although his brother was not a general, he was also a good general. He destroyed the Changsha navy, and he contributed a lot as the front of the navy. .

When the warships of the two sides were almost the same, he was actually beaten by the opponent to change ships, and he even had to ask himself for help. From this, we can know the strength of the opponent.

Cai Mao also got an important piece of information. The reason why Cai Zhong was defeated was because a wooden pole with a boulder was installed on the opponent's ship. Whether it was a warship, a fighting ship or even a building ship, there was no one that would shatter and sink when hit by the boulder.

Cai Mao's first reaction was to fly a stone cart, and he and the Chinese army were suffering from it.The person who sent the message said that it was a flying stone cart with stones fixed on wooden poles that could be used repeatedly.

First came the giant crossbow, then the flying stone chariot, and now there is a new weapon. There must be someone in Liu Jing's army who is good at making large-scale war equipment.

However, this is not the point now, the point is that Cai Zhong must not be defeated, otherwise, not only will his intention of attacking Liu Jingjun be completely bankrupt, but he will also be attacked by the opponent's land and water.

Cai Mao couldn't help taking a breath, it was the first time he felt that failure was so close to him.

At this moment, soldiers from Cai He, Xi Zhen, and Wu Ju boarded to the south bank one after another after paying a very heavy price. With a foothold, the soldiers from all three sides formed a wall almost at the same time to cover the landing of the comrades behind.

"put……"

While the flag was waving, dozens of bed crossbows ready to go roared at the same time in Liu Jing's formation, and the wall that could withstand the attack of horn bows and kicks immediately became a powerful force when faced with the arrows of the thick and abnormal bed crossbows. Papery in general.

"boom……"

The arrows of the bed crossbow came flying with a sharp sound, and the Jingzhou soldiers who were holding the lance fell backwards like flowers scattered in the sky.

The arrows from the bed crossbow not only easily penetrated the wall of the wall, but also pierced through two Jingzhou soldiers hidden behind the wall.

The power of the bed crossbow was astonishing. Just one round of attack left the formation riddled with holes and fragments. The dense rain of crossbow arrows followed closely. Jingzhou soldiers fell down in batches like harvested wheat. land.

Wu Ju's trilogy is all from Changsha, facing the villagers with swordsmen, his fighting spirit was not strong, but now that there are heavy casualties, he immediately collapsed and abandoned the battle.

This behavior of fleeing before the battle exposed his back unreservedly. Liu Jingjun would not let go of such a rare opportunity, and the crossbow array fired alternately, continuously.

"what……"

"Do not kill me……"

"We are fellow villagers..."

Wu Jubuqu shouted while fleeing, as if he wanted to impress Liu Jingjun with his nostalgia, but unfortunately the crossbow arrows attacking from behind did not slow down because of their shouting.

The crossbow bolts like flying locusts covered the sky, sweeping everything in front of them.In the end, less than one-tenth of Wu Jubu was able to escape back to the ship, and most of them died on the way.

Seeing Wu Ju's tribe break up and flee, the soldiers of Cai He and Xi Zhen's tribe could not help but feel a little shaken, but then Wu Ju's tribe gave them the most realistic warning at the cost of their lives.The soldiers of the second part were very fortunate in their hearts, fortunately they didn't run away, otherwise they would end up in the same end as the other side.

At this moment, Wu Ju felt that the eyes of both sides on the battlefield seemed to be focused on him. The eyes were sharper than knives, and he seemed to be naked, suffering the punishment of Ling Chi.The strong sense of shame made him almost unbearable, and he really wanted to find a crack in the ground to get in.

Wu Ju was so ashamed and indignant that in a fit of rage, he executed all those who had taken the lead in fleeing, and one of them was his family slave.

Then, in order to save face and also to boost the low morale, he decided to go out in person and lead the crowd ashore.

(End of this chapter)