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Chapter 388 Breakthrough

The second wave of the Jiangdong Army's offensive, led by the fierce general Ling Cao, invested a large number of warships, but it still ended in failure. Xu Kun finally couldn't sit still, and no longer commanded safely in the center, and ordered the ships to sail directly to the front line.

Seeing this, Ling Cao personally boarded Xu Kun's ship to plead guilty. He was the first soldier to charge forward and was hit by five or six arrows.

Ling Cao said in a deep voice: "General, the enemy's two large ships across Xiakou are anchored by palm cables and tied stones. You only need to cut the cables, and the enemy ships will be destroyed without attack. Just now I I have rushed under the enemy ship, I didn't want the ancestor army to be cunning, and set up an ambush on the cliffs on both sides, and I was defeated by the ancestor army when I was unprepared for a while."

"I hope the general will give me a chance to take the blame and make meritorious deeds. With preparedness this time, I will succeed in one fell swoop." Ling Cao then said sternly, "If I lose again, I will be punished by military law!"

"Okay..." Xu Kun rubbed his hands, "This time, I will let Dong Yuanshi and you both be the forwards. I hope you two can work together to open the gap and clear the way for the army."

Dong Yuanshi was Yangwu Duwei Dong Xi, a native of Yuyao, Kuaiji, eight feet in length, extraordinary courage, and an old general of Sun Ce.At that time, Huang Longluo and Zhou Bo, the thieves from Shanyin, gathered thousands of people in the party. Dong Xi followed Sun Ce to fight against them.

"Promise." Ling Cao accepted the order with his fists clasped, but his expression was a little unhappy. He was a ranger, and he was always righteous. Xu Kun sent Dong Xi to go with him, obviously because he lacked confidence in him.

Xu Kun pretended not to see, and looked at the cliffs on both sides of Xiakou. Huang Zujun lay in ambush between the two mountains, condescending and attacking wantonly, while his own side could only be beaten passively.Fortunately, as long as they break through Xiakou smoothly, the Huang Zu army on the mountain will collapse without a fight.

Not long after, Dong Xi came in a big boat, joined Ling Cao, and with the deafening drumbeat, charged towards Xiakou again.

Ling Cao had the heart to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds, but Dong Xi had no intention of humility and fulfillment. Under his stern scolding, Zhao Fu tried his best to make his boat move faster than Ling Cao from the beginning, until before the enemy was approached, Ling Cao also did his best. Couldn't catch up.Ling Cao fell behind, gnashing his teeth in anger, and could only vent his anger on the captain and the soldiers.

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

Stones the size of fists and even heads were smashed into the river one after another, causing splashes of water.Dong Xi stood upright on the bow of the boat, and his armor was soaked by the river water in an instant. The soldiers on the boat looked terrified, but Dong Xi was unmoved. In the end, the boat, like him, passed through the stone rain with an indomitable momentum. Kill the enemy ship.

"Hey...hehe...hehe..."

Dong Xi's bravery and fearlessness clearly shocked the soldiers of Huang Zu's army on the giant ship, and he couldn't wait to shoot arrows at him just after he was within range.

This time, Dong Xi didn't ask for help anymore, and he fell behind the back, and the left and right guards also raised the back to cover.

Although Dong Xi's big boat could be called a big boat, it was nothing compared to Huang Zujun's gigantic ship, and hitting it directly was like hitting a stone with a pebble.

Therefore, in the last few dozen steps, Dong Xi deliberately slowed down his speed, but even so, the huge impact of the collision between the two ships still made the soldiers of both sides unstable and fell sideways.

Dong Xi got up from the deck and immediately organized a dare-to-die, braving the arrows coming from the opposite side like locusts, and hooked and refused to hook the enemy ship.Dong Xi personally led more than a dozen relatives and athletes, rushed to the anchorage of the enemy ship, and chopped off Dalan with one blow.

Without anchors to fix the hull, Huang Zujun's giant ship was swept across by the river.

Just as Dong Xi was about to make persistent efforts to deal with another giant ship, Ling Cao rushed up from behind and cut down the giant ship Dalan before him.

At this point, the two giant ships of the Huangzu Army lost their anchorage, and could no longer cross the river to hold Xiakou. Facing the surging Jiangdong Army, the two giant ships turned around and fled without hesitation.

Naturally, Dong Xi and Ling Cao didn't want to stop there, they drove their boats and chased after them.Seeing that he had successfully broken through Xiakou, Xu Kun sent someone to report to Sun Quan, and at the same time led the former army to follow up.

Sun Quan, who was in the rear, received the battle report and couldn't help laughing and said: "Since the Xiakou is broken, the old tin forging thief can do nothing!"

The old thief forging tin refers to Huang Zu, the prefect of Jiangxia, who was scolded by Sun Quan as "the old thief forging tin" because he made iron smelting in his early years.

Lu Su nodded, agreeing, and said: "Xiakou is lost, Huang Zu has no danger to rely on, so he can only choose to fight our army on the river. Huang Zu's soldiers and ships are not as good as our army. If he confronts head-on, he will definitely lose. Our army defeated its boat division, took advantage of the victory to encircle Shaxian, and if we conquered it, we would sweep across Jiangxia and enter Xiangyang. It is difficult to threaten Jiangdong, but our army can come and leave whenever they want, and they are all free."

Sun Quan was overwhelmed when he heard that, the east and west of Jiangxia were divided by Xiakou, even if Huang Zu could not be eliminated this time, he would be happy to capture Jiangxia and keep the east of Xiakou.

One must know that Sun Ce, who was as strong as his elder brother, failed to capture even an inch of Jiangxia's territory, and he was able to occupy half of Jiangxia's territory in one fell swoop on his first expedition, which would definitely greatly enhance his prestige.As a young man succeeding to the throne, what he lacks the most is prestige.

However, Dong Xi and Ling Cao led the front ships and went all the way up the river, chasing down the fleeing enemy ships. However, not long after leaving Xiakou, they saw hundreds of warships of the Huangzu army densely packed on the river in the distance. .

Dong Xi took away half of the merit of breaking the olive, Ling Cao was quite upset, this time he was naturally unwilling to "give way", in order to win the first prize, he even sailed directly towards the enemy.

Dong Xi was not to be outdone, he followed Ling Cao, and the other ships in the front were encouraged by the second general, even facing dozens of times the enemy, they did not show any fear, and each fought bravely to be the first.

Of course, they didn't seek their own death. At this time, Xu Kun's former army fleet had continuously sailed out of Xiakou, and under Xu Kun's command, a formation of five ships lined up in the river.Waiting for Ling Cao, Dong Xi and others to disrupt the formation of Huang Zu's water army, they launched a full-scale attack.

"What is this?" As the two sides got closer, Ling Cao's brows gradually frowned. Just now, he was far away, and he didn't see clearly. The prow of the enemy's large ship was equipped with a mast-like pole. It is about fifty or sixty feet high, and there is a huge stone on the top. Although Ling Cao saw this object for the first time, it is not difficult to guess its function.

Ling Cao accompanied Sun Ce to conquer Jiangxia in the past, but Huang Zu's navy did not have such a thing at that time.

Suddenly, random arrows attacked from the opposite side, Ling Cao suppressed his uneasiness for the time being, and organized a counterattack while avoiding the rear.

In view of the huge size of the enemy ship and its mysterious weapons, Ling Cao did not dare to attack him directly, and prepared to take over from the side.What he didn't expect was that there was also a huge boulder on the side of the enemy ship, which was suddenly photographed facing the ship...

(End of this chapter)