Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 435 Crazy killing

Almost at the same time, several warships on the left and right sides also stopped abruptly, as if they were also blocked by something under the water. The dozen or so sailors standing on the bow were caught off guard and immediately went "puff!" "Puff tom" fell into the water, and the warship behind hit it again, and the whole river suddenly became a mess.

"What's going on?" Jiang Ji frowned, strode to a grille window on the deck, and shouted at the bottom cabin, "Niu Dan, hit something? Is the bottom cabin cracked?!"

As soon as the voice fell, someone in the bottom cabin responded: "General, a wooden stake has pierced the bulkhead, and it is already permeable!"

"What? It's permeable?!" Jiang Ji's heart sank, and he immediately went down to the hold. A wooden stake came in, the top of the stake was shaved into white sharp stubble, it was clearly a repelling horse, a repelling horse placed in the water!
"General, what should we do?" A junior named Niu Dan stepped forward and asked.

"This ship is dead." Jiang Ji grunted, and said coldly, "Abandon the ship!"

Immediately, Jiang Ji went up to the deck again and transferred dozens of sailors to another large ship. As for the dozens of "slaves" who were chained to the bilge, they were ignored at all. Those who have no status, if nothing happens, they will definitely sink to the bottom of the Mianshui River along with the destroyed warship.

Soon, the six or seven warships pierced by the horses in the water began to sink slowly.

Jiang Ji sent dozens of excellent water ghosts into the water to investigate, and was surprised to find that hundreds of big trees with branches and leaves had sunk in the nearby waterway, except for this big tree with branches and leaves. There are also an unknown number of refusal horses. These refusal horses are tied to big trees with hemp ropes or iron cables, and it is extremely troublesome to clean them up.

In other words, the entire river has been completely blocked!

"General, what should we do?" Niu Dan asked anxiously, "The fleet can't get through!"

Jiang Ji also felt guilty for a while, but he knew that he must not be confused at this time. As the commander of the navy, if he loses his mind, the whole navy will collapse, so he forced himself to calm down and said: "This way , Niu Dan, you took three boats and hurried to the Hewan camp, and said that the navy fleet was blocked and could not get through in a short time!"

"Here!" Niu Dan responded with a loud voice, and immediately led his men to put the three small boats on the river, and then jumped onto one of the small boats. A dozen sailors paddled like flying, and the three small boats flew away. Now, although the sunken trees and horses can block the navy warships, it is impossible to block these extremely shallow-drafted boats.

Jiang Ji drew out his horizontal saber again, turned his head and shouted to the sailors on the warship: "Ten guards are left on each boat, and the rest all go ashore and drag away the big trees and horses in the river. Hurry up!" Jiang Ji jumped into the water with a puff, and the sailors and soldiers on the large and small warships also jumped into the water one after another.

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The section of the river where Chu's naval forces were blocked was called Liyutan. There was a sparse forest less than two miles away from Liyutan. Zhou Guanfu's thousand elite riders were ambushing in this forest.

As for the other two thousand riders brought by Zhou Guanfu, they followed Zhou Yafu in ambush in the woods on the opposite bank.

On a big tree, a small correctional officer of the Han army who was in charge of looking out was staring at the river two miles away without blinking.

All of a sudden, the Han army junior lowered his head and yelled at Zhou Guanfu who was resting with his eyes closed under the tree: "General, the Chu army has landed, they have landed!"

"Huh?" Zhou Guanfu jumped up suddenly, jumped onto the back of the red dragon again, and immediately raised a black iron tire bow and shouted at the surrounding Han soldiers, "Get on the horse, everyone get on the horse, and work!" It's gone!" The next moment, the red dragon under Zhou Guanfu's crotch had already thrown off its four hooves and galloped towards the outside of the forest.

"Kill, kill, kill..." A thousand elite cavalrymen of the Han army got on their horses one after another, raised their horn bows one after another, and followed Zhou Guanfu out of the woods like a storm.

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Jiang Ji tied a hemp rope firmly to a large tree that sank to the bottom of the water, and swam back to the shore like a fish, but before his feet had time to step on the shallow pebbles, a forest on the west bank of Mianshui was flooded. Suddenly there was the overwhelming sound of horseshoes, and then the black cavalry of the Han army rushed out of the woods.

Damn it, there's an ambush on the shore?This is trouble!

The next moment, the cavalrymen of the Han army charged out from the woods drew their bows and released their arrows one after another, pouring a dense rain of arrows on the heads of the Chu navy soldiers who had just landed. Nearly a hundred people were shot down, and there was a continuous wailing sound on the river beach.

The leading general of the Han army was especially terrifying. He shot six or seven arrows in just a moment, and at least five of them killed both arrows. Jiang Ji gasped. Zhou Guanfu turned out to be Zhou Guanfu, the evil !At that moment, Jiang Ji pulled his arms suddenly, and he slid back to the center of the river like a fish.

When Jiang Ji returned to the boat and ordered the boat to turn around, ready to shoot the Han cavalry with his crossbow, the Han cavalry had already retreated like a tide. They came suddenly and retreated even faster. After a while, at least thousands of cavalry had disappeared into the woods several miles away, leaving only hundreds of wounded soldiers of the Chu army on the river beach.

Jiang Ji's heart sank slightly, there were ambushes on the west bank of Mianshui, and there may be soldiers on the east bank as well!
With the harassment of these Han army cavalry, it is probably impossible for the navy to clean up hundreds of trees and unknown numbers of horses that have sunk into the river. If the river cannot be dredged in time, the navy ships will It is impossible for the army to return to the Hewan camp in time. In other words, the defenders of the Hewan camp will not be able to get the support of Liannu!
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In the Hewan camp, the Chu army had already fallen into a bitter battle.

As a defender, although the Chu army has a camp to rely on, the camp is not a city after all, and the protective effect it can play is quite limited, especially when the Han army has a large number of catapults, the defensive effect of the camp drops sharply. , because no matter how strong the fence is, it is impossible to resist the bombardment of the catapult.

After more than two hours of catapult and archer bombardment, the Han army finally cleared the deer village and Juma outside the camp of the Chu army after paying tens of thousands of casualties, and the trenches were filled. In an instant, the heavy armor of the Han army swept in, swarming in along the hundreds of gaps in the wall of the stronghold.

The Chu and Han armies finally entered the cruelest hand-to-hand combat!

The battle situation has evolved to the present, and it is completely melee around a hundred gaps. The heavy armored infantry of both sides are crowded inside and outside the gap, fighting desperately, while the flying spearmen and archers of both sides are crazily shooting at each other from behind. The only difference is that , A small number of Chu army archers can shoot from the walls of the village and the arrow towers.

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Lu Tai turned his head and cast a questioning look at Liu Bang, who nodded slightly.

In the next moment, Lu Tai raised his right hand and clenched it into a fist, and pressed it forward. Liu Bi, who was guarding behind Lu Tai, turned around and roared angrily: "The general has an order, heavy cavalry... attack!"

There was a deep neighing sound immediately under the towering nest cart, and then three hundred heavy cavalry of the Han army, both men and armor wrapped in black iron armor, slowly came out from the forest of false banners. , the leading heavy cavalry of the Han army slowly put on their masks, then lightly urged their horses, and began to trot forward, and the three hundred heavy cavalry also began to trot one after another.

Behind the three hundred heavy cavalry, there are thousands of light cavalry selected by three thousand cavalry.

Two hundred steps away from the camp of the Chu army, the heavy cavalry of the Han army began to speed up, while the archers of the Han army who were standing outside the camp and were shooting at the archers of the Chu army rushed to the sides one after another, giving way to the heavy cavalry of the Han army. Only the heavy armor of the Han army who fought against the heavy armor of the Chu army at the gap remained motionless, and they had to persist until the end.

A hundred steps away from the camp of the Chu army, the heavy cavalry of the Han army began to sprint, and the heavy cavalry in the front row pressed down their long lances.

Fifty steps away from the camp of the Chu army, the leading heavy cavalry of the Han army suddenly raised their hands and pressed forward. The three hundred heavy cavalry behind them separated left and right in an instant, split into two attacking arrows, and rushed obliquely towards the two. At the largest gap in the wall of the village, the heavy armor of the Han army at the gap retreated like a tide, and gave up the front to the heavy cavalry of the Han army.

The heavy armor of the Han army can be dispersed, but the heavy armor of the Chu army guarding in the gap cannot be dispersed.

"Stand up the shield, form the formation..." The leading Chu army junior raised his sword and howled, and was pierced through the body by the cavalry spear.

The heavy armor of the Chu army in the gap could form a defensive formation, and the first row of heavy cavalry of the Han army slammed into it violently with incomparable violence. In an instant, the cavalry spears were broken, the shields were broken, and the armor was broken. Cracking and blood splattering, the violent assault power of the heavy cavalry was vividly displayed at this moment.

The heavy armor of the Chu army advanced one after another, blocking them layer by layer, but they still couldn't resist.

As soon as the first row of heavy cavalry from the Han army collapsed, the second row of heavy cavalry came one after another, then the third row, and the fourth row... Under the ravages of the heavy cavalry of the Han army, the heavy cavalry of the Chu army The defense was smashed to pieces in an instant, and the flesh and blood finally couldn't resist the steel-wrapped human weapon!

The two attacking arrows composed of three hundred heavy cavalry of the Han army were like two ferocious and heavy barbed thorns, smashing through the thick defense line of the Chu army at once, even though the heavy cavalry of the Han army who lost their horse speed in the end all fell down. They fell under the knife of the light soldiers of the Chu army, but their mission has been completed, and the heavy armored defense line of the Chu army has been broken through by them!
In the next moment, three thousand Han army light cavalry swarmed up, and along the bloody path stepped by the heavy cavalry, they poured into the blood-soaked gap continuously. There is a gap, but their efforts are like a dam that has already burst. The more they struggle, the bigger the gap will be.

The Han army light cavalry swarmed past, and in the flickering sword light, the Chu army's heavy armor, which had lost its complete formation, fell down row by row, and the flying spearmen and archers behind the Chu army's heavy armor were even more attacked by the Han army. The ruthless massacre of the army Qingqi, not far away, the Chu army Qingqi is swarming, but the Han army Qingqi ignores it, just chases and kills the Chu army archers...

(End of this chapter)