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Chapter 225 Bravery

The evaluation of Wu Ju in history is "a martial artist who is light and tough" and "courageous". Although the evaluation is both positive and negative, it also shows that he is a "healthy man" known for his "bravery" in the world.

Therefore, he absolutely could not tolerate being the laughing stock of both sides on the battlefield, so he immediately decided to go out in person and lead his subordinates back to the south bank to regain the lost face.

In order to ensure nothing goes wrong this time, Wu Ju specially recruited a hundred "dare to die" people with a lot of money among the nearly 2000 people under his command, plus more than a hundred people he "loved" on weekdays, making a total of more than two hundred people. To the south bank, Wu Ju himself is among them.

Seeing that Wu Ju was willing to take the risk and take the lead, the panic-stricken members all settled down, summoned up their courage again, followed Wu Ju, and charged to the south bank again.

With the comeback of Wu Ju's army, Liu Jingjun's right wing once again blew a storm of arrows.

The range of the heavy crossbow with more than five stones is 150 steps away, which means that Wu Jubu was within the range of the crossbow from the beginning.

However, although the crossbow has a long range, once it exceeds a hundred steps, its power will plummet, and at most it can only play a role in harassment. To ensure the effective lethality of the crossbow, it must be fired within a hundred steps.

Wu Ju, "Darling" and "Dare to Die" were all heavily clothed and armored, holding oars and lying in the middle of the boat, braving the arrows flying all the way to the shore.

"Quick, quick, quick... rush up, form a circle..." Wu Ju, his face flushed red, shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Dear" is a well-raised athlete, and "Dare to Die" is a person who is not afraid of death. Hearing Wu Ju's words, they all jumped off the light boats, holding their big poles to resist the attack of arrow rain, while stepping on the soft ground. The land fought its way.

"Boom..."

The bed crossbow in Liu Jingjun's formation roared again. Huge crossbow bolts more than four feet long and five or six inches thick flew towards them with a piercing howl, oars, armor, body... piercing through everything.

Fortunately for Wu Ju, the bed crossbow was powerful but average in accuracy. Under his command, "Dear" and "Dare to Die" walked dozens of steps to the river bank to form an arc-shaped circular formation.Faced with the violent attacks of the opponent's bed crossbow, kick and horn bow, he was firmly nailed to the position and did not retreat half a step.After stabilizing their position, they raised their bows and crossbows without hesitation to fight back against Liu Jingjun.

Both sides come and go, arrows fly.

Under the cover of their regardless of casualties, hundreds of Wu Jubu began to land.

Cai He and Xi Zhen looked down on Wu Ju at first, thinking that he was too famous and had no way to control his subordinates. Unexpectedly, he realized his shame and was brave enough to lead the crowd to the south bank in person.

As a second minister, the other party has such determination and courage, if they continue to hide behind, wouldn't they become cowardly?The two went to the south bank position almost by coincidence.

However, compared to Wu Ju, the two moved slowly. When they set foot on the south bank, Wu Ju had already led the crowd to attack Liu Jingjun.

Wu Ju did not lead his subordinates to attack Liu Jingjun's tight formation in a swarm. Doing so would be tantamount to death.He limited his steps to a team of 50 people, arranged more than ten cone formations, and rushed to Liu Jingjun respectively.

"Sun Bin's Art of War" has a saying: "The one who walks in the cone is decisive." Sun Bin believes that the forward of the cone must be sharp, and the wings must be sharp. Only such a cone can break through the enemy's formation and cut off the enemy.

Throughout the ages, whether it is infantry or cavalry, most of them use cone formation when attacking. Of course, this is not absolute.China has always respected that "soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent." The formation is dead, and people are alive. Those who can win because of the enemy's changes are the masters of soldiers.

"Puff puff……"

The clusters of sharp arrows were densely nailed into the big yoke covered with cowhide, making muffled noises.

Facing the overwhelming flying arrows, the "Dear" and "Dare to Die" who rushed to the front, even though they were wearing two pairs of armor and a large body shield, they still couldn't avoid falling on the way to the charge.

"Shoot... shoot..."

Wu Ju was protected in the center of the cone formation, raised his sabre, and shouted loudly.

In more than a dozen conical formations that kept moving forward, they used bows and crossbows to fight back, and kept pouring arrows at Liu Jingjun. The soldiers lying on the ground in the front row were not injured because they were wearing armor and holding 楯, while the crossbowmen who lacked armor protection in the rear suffered casualties. Not small.

No way, Liu Jing's foundation is too shallow compared to Liu Biao and Zhang Xian. He didn't have his own smelting workshop until the year before last, and took over the Leiyang Iron Officer last year. Even if he tried his best, now he only has [-] armors.

Not to mention the sailors and cavalry, Liu Jing has 4000 infantry alone, half of which are long-distance combat and half of which are melee. There are more than a thousand armors, and there is not enough for melee combat. How can there be any surplus for crossbowmen.

More than a dozen cone formations came to Liu Jingjun one after another, but between them and Liu Jingjun, there was the last obstacle - antlers.

Wu Ju's "Dear" and "Dare to Die" held a scull in one hand and a knife and ax in the other, striding out of the queue, chopping off the antlers frantically, trying to cut off the antlers and pull them out to clear the way.

Liu Jingjun's soldiers will not let them easily succeed, their spears are like poisonous snakes that devour people, piercing out of the tight wall.

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

Wu Ju's "Dear" and "Dare to Die" were all brave enough to stand against Liu Jingjun's spear with a scull, and kept cutting off the antlers with a knife and ax in his hand.Even if he couldn't stop him and was stabbed by a spear, someone from behind would immediately replace him and continue the unfinished task of his companions in front.

After dozens of hundreds of people stepped forward, the antlers were finally pulled out, and there was no barrier between the two sides. In an instant, the soldiers of both sides collided violently, with the sound of weapons colliding, flesh and blood being torn apart, shouts of fighting, and screams of pain... All kinds of voices merged together.

When the Cone Formation went through repeated back-and-forth and finally embedded into Liu Jingjun's formation, Wu Ju erupted instantly like a waking volcano.

Relying on his body with two armors, he directly abandoned the oar and the scull, holding a halberd in his left hand and a long knife in his right, leaping into the enemy group, three or four spears stabbed at him at the same time, he hooked the spears skillfully with his halberd, At the same time, he flew towards him, and with a flash of the saber in his right hand, he pierced through a person's throat.

As the saying goes, "An inch is short and an inch is dangerous", Wu Ju took advantage of his close proximity, slashed with a halberd and bayonet, and killed two more people.However, in the enemy line, people will only kill more and more. In the blink of an eye, spear shadows are everywhere in front of Wu Ju and on the left and right sides.

However, Wu Ju was not fighting alone, and his cronies Bu Qu who were left behind by him quickly caught up and firmly protected his left and right sides.

Wu Ju's pressure could not help but drop sharply, and he showed his power again. Under his leadership, everyone in his subordinates risked their lives to fight, and they were invincible.

This scene was all seen by Liu Jing. In fact, he had paid attention to it as early as the moment Wu Ju landed.

For Wu Ju to be so brave, it was both unexpected and reasonable.

(End of this chapter)