The Conquest of the Three Kingdoms

Liu Bei's composure made Mi Xue secretly heave a sigh of relief.

Mi Xue supported Liu Bei to sit down, refilling tea, and then asked: "If Zhang Fei defends the water stronghold and your husband sticks to Xiapi City, then Nie Zefeng will do nothing, and will withdraw sooner or later."

"Nie Zefeng, this general has a sworn feud with him, how can he be allowed to retreat completely, as long as Chen Gui breaks through the pontoon bridge, this general will trap him to death on the south bank."

Liu Bei gritted his teeth with hatred.

Mi Xue's expression changed drastically when she heard this, before she could think about it, she blurted out in surprise: "Nie Zefeng and Chen Gui are extremely powerful, and the former Fan Gongnuo was defeated by him, if your husband forces your elder brother to attack, you will not be looking for your own death."

In Chen Gui's secret letter to Mi Xue, he strongly said that Nie Zefeng was very powerful and he didn't want to fight.Tell Mi Xue and Liu Bei to blow the pillow.

At this time, Mi Xue heard that Liu Bei sent troops, but also ordered Chen Gui to fight. She was shocked, and wanted to persuade her without even thinking about it.

Liu Bei's hearing was extremely harsh, and his old face, which was originally gloomy and cold, couldn't help but suddenly changed.

Furious, Liu Bei glared at Mi Xue angrily, "You were the one who persuaded the general to hold on. As a result, Nie Zefeng built the pontoon bridge, and now you persuade the general not to attack the pontoon bridge. Tell me, what is it that you are safe with?" Heart?"

Liu Bei's aggressive questioning made Mi Xue's expression startled and she was speechless.

What kind of heart Mi Xue can have is nothing more than a little selfishness of a woman.But Liu Bei's every word seemed to point directly at her secretly conspiring with Nie Zefeng.

Mi Xue felt guilty again.Another grievance.For a while, I looked panicked and didn't know how to respond.

Liu Bei suddenly stepped forward, grabbed Mi Xue's wrist, and shouted sharply, "Tell me, are you secretly colluding with Nie Zefeng to usurp my Xuzhou foundation!"

Although he is a literati, he is a man after all.Such a strong pinch only pinched Mi Xue's slender wrist into bone-piercing pain.

"Husband, you pinched my concubine so badly, it hurts..."

Mi Xue groaned in pain.Liu Bei just refused to let go, but the strength in his hands became heavier.

"Will you tell me or not? If you don't say, this general will never let you go." Liu Bei didn't show any pity.

Mi Xue was so painful that her eyes filled with tears, she said aggrievedly: "I just accepted some bribes from Nie Zefeng privately and said a few nice words for him, how dare I have the heart to betray my husband, if I really want to betray my husband, my concubine How could the few brothers in the family fight to the death for the husband, and protect the husband's foundation to the death, please learn from the husband."

Liu Bei's serious expression gradually disappeared, and his mind gradually calmed down.

After all, he is not a fool who can't think, and how could Liu Bei not understand the truth of Mi Xue's pleading and self-defense.

In the past, he was only emotionally unstable because of failure, and he overreacted to the slightest stimulation.

At this moment, I calmed down and thought about it, I have long been aware of my wife's money-greedy nature, and what good would it be for her Mi to betray herself, if she really wanted to betray, how could Mi Zhu protect him desperately.

As soon as his thoughts were cleared, Liu Bei immediately became rational.

"Hmph, I forgive you for not daring to betray this general." Liu Bei snorted coldly and shook Mi Xue's hand hard.

Mi Xue lost her balance, and her frail body fell to the ground.

When she lowered her head to look at her wrist again, it was already a circle of red. Mi Xue felt aggrieved and hurt, but she didn't dare to say anything, she just fell on the ground and rubbed her wrist and sobbed softly.

Although Liu Bei suppressed his anger, his suspicions were still there, and he secretly said in his heart: "Chen Gui still holds [-] Chen Gui. After he breaks through the pontoon bridge, I have to send someone to share some of his military power, so it will be safer... ..."

After thinking about it, Liu Bei didn't want to stay here, so he snorted again and walked away.

Mi Xue got up tremblingly from the ground, watched her husband leave, looked at this deserted room, felt more and more wronged in her heart, the eyeballs rolled down her face like broken beads... Dongfang Fa White, the sky will be bright.

Xu water upstream, pontoon bridge.

Two hundred warships were waiting in line, five thousand soldiers were in awe, and the banner with the word "Gan" was flying proudly in the morning wind.

Gan Ning was suspicious of the double halberds, standing on the bow of the boat, staring downstream like sharp blades.

Behind him is the pontoon bridge across the Xushui River. Mule carts full of grain and grass are passing the pontoon bridge continuously, from north to south, to the front line on the south bank.

That pontoon bridge was the lifeline of Nie Zefeng's army.

Gan Ning's task is to guard this bridge of life so that Nie Zefeng has no worries.

Success or failure is in the hands of him and these five thousand soldiers.

How could Gan Ning not feel Nie Zefeng's trust in him and the heavy weight on his shoulders.

While thinking about it, a vast expanse of whiteness appeared indistinctly along the line of Tianshui downstream.

Not long after, the white expanse covered the sky and covered the earth, covering the rolling river water.

That endless white is exactly the countless sails.

In Xiapi Chen Gui, five hundred warships, with their flags unfurled, heavily armored, marched up the river mightily, with thousands of sails gathered, slowly approaching like the white yarn of the Changjiang River.

"Sure enough, as the general expected, Chen Gui from Xiapi has already left, trying to destroy my pontoon bridge."

Sword eyebrows were deeply fixed, and murderous intent gradually gathered in Gan Ning's eyes.

Majesty, I, Gan Ning, will repay your kindness with a bloody battle today.

Fighting like fire, Gan Ning swung his halberds and said sharply, "Fire boat, get ready!"

Two hundred warships, with their sails up, started to go down the river with the sound of rumbling war drums.

Gan Ning, who was at a disadvantage, faced an enemy several times larger than himself, but still chose to fight against the strong.

Chen Gui, who was going up the river, saw the enemy fleet dispatched, but a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"You Jinfan thief, if you want to repeat the old tricks, you will underestimate my strength, Chen Gui."

There was disdain on Chen Gui's arrogant face, and he immediately ordered the ships to approach each other in a calm manner, reducing the distance between the ships, and advancing steadily towards the enemy in a dense formation.

Chen Gui advanced forward in a dense formation, blocking the opportunity for the enemy ships to penetrate. He believed that as long as he pushed across with such a dense formation of iron walls and suppressed the opponent with a powerful crossbow net, even if Gan Ning Cunning, too, will be crushed.

Five hundred warships straddled the river, advancing mightily, with great momentum.

Gan Ning's fleet mainly consisted of small warships, the number of which was only [-], compared to Chen Guijun's, it was really too small.

Gan Ning showed no fear, and only urged the fleet to advance faster.

Based on the upstream momentum, the full sail is raised, and the paddle is pushed, and the speed reaches the fastest, traveling like the wind, and quickly approaching the enemy.

In a moment, the two armies entered the crossbow range of each other.

With a wave of his sword, Chen Gui took the lead in giving the order to attack.

More than 3000 warships and more than [-] crossbowmen in front of them shot out the sharp arrows that had been set up long ago.

Amidst the startled sound of thousands of birds chirping, countless arrows soared into the sky, roaring towards the Gan Ning army like a net from heaven and earth.

As the arrows rained down, there was a sudden scream, and hundreds of Gan Ning soldiers were shot.

Immediately afterwards, wave after wave of arrow rain poured towards Gan Ning's fleet without stopping.

Faced with such powerful arrows, Gan Ning and his soldiers did not back down, only advancing rapidly against the rain of arrows.

After a while, the distance between the two armies was no more than a hundred steps.

The timing is perfect.

Standing proudly on the bow of the boat, Gan Ning yelled: "Send down the order, each team will release the fireboat."

Make the flag shake, and it will spread throughout the army in an instant.

According to the prior combat plan, each team ignited the guns at the front, and the soldiers retreated to the walking guns that followed.

After the ropes were untied, more than forty fire boats rushed towards Chen Guijun like wild horses that had run loose.

Inflammable materials such as saltpeter, kerosene, etc. were hidden in the rushing boats in advance, and they burned blazingly in a short time. With the momentum of the downstream and the inertia of accelerating forward, the fire boats were like fire dragons. Usually, unstoppable, rushing forward.

On the flagship, Chen Gui, who was proud of himself, suddenly fell into endless horror.

It never occurred to him that Gan Ning did not once again use the fast boat to pick up the meat Bo as he expected, but resorted to the fire boat tactic unexpectedly.

Now the formation of his own fleet is so dense, the original formation like an iron wall has become the biggest mistake.

"Quick, spread out the whole ship and avoid the fire boat!"

Chen Gui was horrified, completely lost his dignity, and shouted anxiously.

Before he gave his orders, the frightened ships immediately began to evade in all directions.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

The fire boat coming like the wind did not give the enemy a chance to evade.

With such a short distance, such a dense formation, and such a fast speed, when Chen Gui's navy just changed its course, more than [-] fire boats sprayed flames and slammed into the fleet.

Accompanied by the loud noise of impact, eight fire boats hit the enemy ship in the first time.

The raging flames spread rapidly, and within a blink of an eye, the entire wooden battleship was set ablaze.

The fire was raging, and seeing that it was impossible to put out the fire, the enemy soldiers on the battleship were afraid of being buried in the sea of ​​fire, so they had no choice but to rush to the deck and dive into the water to escape.

The remaining 20 or more fire ships passed through the gap in front, and hit the enemy ships behind in a blink of an eye, and those enemy ships that were ignited lost control and could only drift backward along the current , In this way, it is equivalent to more fire boats crashing down the current.

If it spread like this, in less than a quarter of an hour, half of the river was covered by fire, and more than half of the more than [-] Xiapi water warships were burned.

Countless terrified soldiers jumped into the water, either drowning in the raging river or being hit by their own warships. The rest of the soldiers who were not able to jump away all died in the fire.

The desperate Chen Gui, seeing that the general situation was over, abandoned the flagship at the first time, and changed his boat and fled downstream to the last city of Xiapi.

The Xuzhou Fleet, which had lost its command, quickly fell into chaos under the impact of the fire. The remaining ships turned around and fled desperately.

At this time, Gan Ning calmly drove the fleet, followed closely behind the fire boat, like a wolf chasing a sheep, and went down the river in pursuit of the enemy.