Lu's relatives

Chapter 401 Crossing the River!Cross the river!

The battle on the river is still going on.Unbelievably, the warships that don't know where the soldiers belonged still didn't charge directly, but only shot arrows at the soldiers in the river who were walking slowly holding up their "shields" in the middle of the river. Lost, in the face of the rounds of flying arrows, some damage has already begun to appear.

"General Qin, why don't Qu Mou lead his soldiers to shoot along the river bank for a round? The crossbow of Mou has a range of a hundred paces, and it should be able to pose a threat to them. At least let's rescue the brothers in the river!" Seeing Cheng Lian beside him Qu Yi frowned and pondered for a while, looking anxiously wishing to rush down the river and suffer arrows with the soldiers of the Flying Cavalry Battalion, and said to Qin Xu.

"The first boarding crossbow is originally a cavalry crossbow, and its effective range is only a hundred paces. The wind here is strong, and maybe some discounts are needed. Even if it can hit the incoming ship, the damage is extremely limited, not to mention the opponent's ship. It is hard to hit, and I am afraid that the arrows will be wasted in vain and will not cause too much damage." Before Qin Xu could speak, Zhen Jiang, the second young lady of the Zhen family who was standing beside Qin Xu, spoke first.

"General Qin!" Qu Yi still had an expression of surprise when Zhen Jiangneng reported the detailed parameters of Xiandeng's crossbow, but he didn't answer, and stood aside to listen to Qin Xu's decision.

"Emissary Qin, although the crossbow is powerful, it is not suitable for the current situation. The range is short and cannot be sustained. It can be used for close combat but not for long-distance attack. It will definitely be useless! Moreover, if it cannot be used, it will be weak. In order to make your subordinates’ morale worse, make you think twice!” Perhaps because he still feels a little guilty that it was his own news that caused this situation to happen, Zhen Jiang frowned lightly, and said to Qin Xu with a persistent face.

"The girl of the Zhen family is so unreasonable! How powerful is Qu Mou's first crossbow? How can she be easily obliterated by a woman?" I have some guesses about the "relationship" between Zhen Jiang and Qin Xu, but this time I heard Zhen Jiang repeatedly mentioning the limitations of the Xiandeng crossbow, which is the first-to-camp killer, and I still feel a little uncomfortable. It was Cheng Lian who reciprocated and secretly winked, but Qu Yi still whispered it out.

"Does General Qu know the origin of this first ascending crossbow?" Although Qu Yi's voice was not loud, it was relatively speaking. Zhen Jiang almost heard what Qu Yi said clearly, but did not see it. With a look of annoyance, he showed a slight smile instead, with the corners of his mouth slightly hooked, and asked Qu Yi.

"Miss Zhen Er's question is so strange! She even asked how did someone who was the first to lead the camp get her own weapon?" Qu Yi immediately showed some unbelievable and teasing expression after hearing Zhen Jiang's words, but seeing Zhen Jiang The question was serious, and Qin Xu didn't intend to stop him, so he laughed a few times and said proudly: "So that Miss Zhen can find out that this murder weapon, as Qu knows, is the former Jizhou Muyuan Gong who accidentally won the Qin Dynasty. At that time, it was painted on a fragment of an ancient picture, and I was shocked by its power, so I sent a famous craftsman to do more research, and selected various fine iron, fine steel and iron wood to make it. Unfortunately, this picture was either destroyed in the war, or it was for Yuan Yuan. After the death of Mr. Yuan, there is no news about the secret collection of the family. The second Miss Zhen saw this tool in our hands because of the foresight of our masters, General Lu and General Qin, who ordered exquisite craftsmen to study with great concentration according to the finished product, and almost Allocating half of the iron and steel stored in Qingzhou to make these hundreds of pieces, the power...uh...the power remains the same as before!"

"Heh...does General Qu Yi want to see the so-called remnants of the pre-Qin period that you said?" Zhen Jiang looked at Qu Yi with a noncommittal smile, like a little fox who wanted to show off the drumstick in his hand. Looking at Qin Xu from the corner of the eye, he spoke to Qu Yi.

"What!?" Qu Yi suddenly widened his eyes.As the commander of Xiandeng's battalion, he is naturally aware of the shortcomings of Xiandeng's crossbow.However, knowing the flaws and correcting them are two different things. Qu Yi also thought about finding a skilled craftsman to improve the flaws of the Xiandeng Jin crossbow, which has a short range and weak follow-up force. In that way, the fighting power of the Xiandeng camp can at least be improved by a little bit. More than double.However, no matter whether they were under Yuan Shao's command or served in Lu Bu's army at this time, the craftsmen on both sides had agreed as if they had agreed to say the same thing, that is, unless they could see the original atlas, as well as the crossbow strings and crossbow arrows. The formula and ratio of the ingredients must be kept in mind, otherwise, even if the finished product is disassembled into original parts, it will only be a copy of a similar semi-finished product.Qu Yi said just now that the power of the Xiandeng crossbow copied by the craftsmen in Lu Bu's army is not diminished. In fact, there is water in it, and it is more than reduced. There is no deduction in the slightest, but for some reason, the power is cut in half and there is more to spare, and even the range is shortened by [-]%!Fortunately, the greatest effect of the Xiandeng Jin crossbow is reflected in close combat, and it is a cavalry crossbow. In a battle, there is only one chance to shoot one round, which is better than nothing.This is the reason why Qin Xu didn't let the soldiers of the Flying Cavalry Battalion trapped in the river start to get injured, but he still didn't let him go to the camp first and shoot them with a crossbow.

"Xiandeng Jin crossbow was once in the hands of General Qu, and it became a powerful weapon that could resist Gongsun's tens of thousands of cavalry with [-] troops. It would be a pity if it was buried like this!" Zhen Jiang was careful again. He cast a glance at Qin Xu, put his hands behind his back, and said to Qu Yi pointingly.

"Could it be that the pre-Qin picture scroll is in the hands of the Zhen family? That's right. At the beginning, Yuan Gong relied on the help of the Zhen family to become the hegemony of Hebei. The armor, grain, iron, and army horses were all provided by the Zhen family. The construction of the crossbow is also done by the Zhen family. God is pitiful! God is pitiful! This... this..." Qu Yi looked at Zhen Jiang with naked desire at this moment, as if as long as Zhen Jiang nodded "Admit", even if it is kidnapping, Zhen Jiang must be tied up in exchange for such important things.

"Scared!" Zhen Jiang, startled by Qu Yi's coveted look, subconsciously took a step behind Qin Xu, but then even though she thought that she looked like the dignified Miss Zhen's family, just this action was a bit too encouraging for Qin Xu. The meaning of arrogance.Seeing Qin Xu's eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, Zhen Jiang immediately rolled his eyes and gave Qin Xu a gouged look, and he had no intention of continuing to tease Qu Yi, and said, "General Qu is right. When I entered the battalion first, I entrusted my Zhen family to search all the fine materials to make it. Although the fragments of the scroll were destroyed in the fire of war, the craftsman who cast this thing was still in my Zhen family at that time. Heh... now, Qu Is the general still doubting what Zhen Jiang just said?"

"Yes! Yes!" With the "temptation" of Zhen Jiang's words, Qu Yi couldn't care less about competing with Zhen Jiang. He only hoped that after going to Hebei, General Qin could make a way to get these from Zhen's family. The craftsman is the most important thing, other verbal disputes are just, why should a man have the same knowledge as a little girl, he nodded and said: "Miss Zhen is really kind-hearted and thoughtful, and Qu Mou also only wants to give to the Feiqiying brothers. It's just a rescue, if it's rude, I hope Second Miss Zhen will forgive me."

"But Zhongming has a plan to break the arrogance of the incoming ship?" Since Zhen Jiang vetoed what Qu Yizhi wanted, it is almost the only way to solve the danger of the soldiers of the Flying Cavalry Battalion in the river. Rejected, Lu Lingqi squinted at the seemingly inexhaustible arrows on the boat, and had already begun to "focus" on heading towards the other side of the river, which was less than [-] feet away, but was blocked because the river diverged and the current Hurry up, the soldiers of the Flying Cavalry Battalion, who can't move forward easily, looked at the silent Qin Xu with big eyes full of hope, hoping to get a satisfactory answer from Qin Xu's mouth.

"Wait a little longer! Wait a little longer!" Qin Xu's eyes were fixed on the east and lower reaches of the river, where there was a fork in the river.It seems to be waiting for something.He didn't even pay much attention to the conversation between Zhen Jiang and Qu Yi just now. At the moment when Lu Lingqi spoke, Qin Xu's face showed a little joy, as if he finally got what he was waiting for.

"Huh? What's that?" Listening to Qin Xu's incoherent words, he followed Qin Xu's gaze to the east, and now even Cheng Lian, who had been worried about being passively beaten by the Flying Cavalry, surrounded Xian Dengjin Qu Yi and Zhen Jiang, who were chattering endlessly, and even Zhen Jian and his son, who hadn't looked at each other since seeing the stalemate between the two armies, showed some doubts.

"It's reinforcements! It's Uncle Wen Yuan's reinforcements invited by General Qianzhao!" It was still Lu Lingqi who had the same heart with Qin, and when the fleet of ships that were going upstream, but still not slow slowly appeared from the fork in the river. All over her body, Lu Lingqi suddenly jumped up like a child, grabbed Qin Xu's arm, and shouted with excitement on her small face.

"It's Wenyuan! It's Wenyuan!" Lu Lingqi's cry seemed to ignite the hopes of the soldiers on the bank who were worried about the battle in the river but had nowhere to go. They all shouted.Cheng Lian, who was originally full of tangled faces and repeated sorrows and joys, seemed to regain his energy in an instant, and approached the river in two or three steps, regardless of the strong wind of the river, as if he could take his hundred catties away at any time. The danger of being blown into the river, regardless of whether you can see clearly from the approaching boats hundreds of meters away, just jumping and waving there, doesn't look like a veteran in the army who has followed Lu Bu for more than ten years.

In the river, the shadow of the slow-moving boat from the downstream soon revealed its true body.With a tall hull, even those who don't know the formation of various armies can tell that this is a large river boat that can carry a hundred people. This kind of boat is rare even in Jizhou, and I don't know where Zhang Liao got it. Come.But on the big ship headed by Qin Xu and others, the black-edged and white-bottomed Lu Bu army flag, as well as the large characters, are enough to show the identity of the person who came. It is the leader of the Xiaoqi Battalion. Zhang Liao, Zhang Wenyuan, who was promoted to the general of Huben Zhonglang by riding the captain!

When people are extremely frustrated, they suddenly get what they want, and the emotions that erupt are definitely not something that can be imagined in ordinary times.Originally, because he was only passively beaten, he suddenly realized that he could not cause much harm to himself, and his morale increased greatly. After the initial "satisfaction", especially after the wounded soldiers began to appear in his own army, he also gave birth to some points. Uneasy come.It is conceivable that if this kind of uneasiness cannot be resolved quickly, the morale boosted by the various measures that Qin Xu arranged before that have already taken effect will drop to the bottom in a short time.It has nothing to do with whether the soldiers are elite or not. After all, in the big river where they may die at any time if they are not careful, facing the continuous incoming arrows, but they are powerless and have no chance to fight back. Despair is human nature, and being able to persist for such a long time without disturbing the soldiers' minds is enough to show the strength of Lu Bu's army.Seeing that they have persisted to the limit, if there is no good way to solve this situation where they can only watch the incoming ship being beaten passively, there will be heavy casualties in the next moment.But at this moment, the arrival of Zhang Liao's reinforcements is no different from the fact that a dying person is blessed with willow nectar, and a thirsty person sees several streams of sweet spring.The feeling of surviving the disaster immediately turned into a huge morale. The hedgehog-like warship became more and more stable, and the carriage full of arrows was raised higher.

Zhang Liao's naval warships came quickly, and there were more than [-] of them in total. Almost relying on Qin Xu's lack of warships, he "played" with the soldiers of the Flying Battalion who were stuck in the water like a cat playing with a mouse. Of course, the upstream warship is also in the eyes.It is conceivable that they have been attacking with arrows for almost half an hour. Even if the ship is full of arrows, it cannot withstand such a waste. Now that the reinforcements from the Flying Battalion have arrived, they have already begun to change their formation into a straight line and want to cross the river. Turning from the deep water of the fork, the twenty or so upstream boats almost immediately turned around to avoid the battle.But firstly, it was not an easy task to reverse the hull of the ship against the current, and secondly, it was just "too much work" under the underestimation of the enemy. Perhaps it was because Qin Xu and others could not threaten them other than staring at the shore. I don't know why these ships are just shooting arrows, and they gave up the most likely to cause damage to the soldiers of the flying cavalry camp. Rubbing and bumping are naturally inevitable.So much so that after a flurry of fuss and finally turning the hull of the ship, Zhang Liao's more than [-] large warships have successfully avoided the soldiers of the Flying Cavalry Battalion who were struggling to advance and retreat in the river, and came from the fork of the river. close.It's also due to the fact that these unidentified ships were too arrogant just now, only remembering that their own side was going downstream, and Zhang Liao's army was going upstream, but I don't know if they forgot or they were too stupid. When you return, is yourself also against the current?In the situation where the "advantage" on which he relies is exhausted, he is still so slow, isn't it because he is not happy for himself.

The fate of those incoming ships being besieged and captured alive has been "locked", and there is no doubt about the complete annihilation of the incoming enemy. The ships that arrived after that have already begun to throw their tow ropes at the flying cavalry soldiers who have been soaking in the river for half an hour. The sampan was used to help cross the river, and the large ship with the handsome flag headed by the reinforcements also left the fleet and headed towards Qin Xu and others on the south bank.

"The last general, Zhang Liao! Greetings to General Qin! Miss! The last general is late for rescue, please punish me!" Zhang Liao, who came to the rescue this time, came to Qin Xu and Lu Lingqi in a hurry after landing. The posthumous title of Marquis Gang was immediately set aside by Cheng Lian, who greeted him with a grateful smile, and saluted with a serious face.

"General Wen Yuan has worked hard! If General Wen Yuan hadn't come to save me this time, Qin would have no face to face the lord. Strictly speaking, he has saved Qin's life. It's too late for Qin to be grateful, so why punish him? Serious words It's too serious!" Qin Xu bowed to the ground and solemnly returned the salute as a junior.

Although Zhang Liao is also a senior general of Lu Bu's army and has the same temperament as Boss Lu, he hasn't seen Qin Xu for nearly two years except when he first came into contact with him in Chang'an and when he was stationed in Pingyuan after the Battle of Dingqingzhou in Beihai.Furthermore, Zhang Liao was upright, seldom talkative, and had different temperaments from Qin Xu. Although they had no personal grudges, they had exchanged gifts with each other, but in fact they did not communicate too much.What's more, this time in Hebei, Zhang Liao's help may be needed in many ways. Qin also admits that he treats the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, so he has to make a gesture.I think that when Zhang Liao met Qin Xu, Qin Xu was just a small head of the inner palace, and when he was sent to Pingyuan, he was just a young mansion and marching head, but today, Qin Xu is already the nine ministers of the Han Dynasty , a governor of a state, a feudal marquis and a general, but Zhang Liao has only worked hard to be promoted to the general of Huben Zhonglang. As long as he is a normal person, it is understandable to be dissatisfied in his heart.Although Qin Xu believed in Zhang Liao's character very much, just like when Lu Bu decided to leave Chang'an that day, although Zhang Liao had different opinions, he still carried out the military order. Qin Xu didn't dare and didn't want to be disgusted by the "veteran" gift of "the grace of saving life", so he directly regarded himself as a junior.

"Uncle Wenyuan! How are Auntie and Xiao Huzi?" Unlike Qin Xu, Lu Lingqi was simple-minded and didn't have so many twists and turns. When Zhang Liao voted for Lu Bu, Lu Lingqi was by Lu Bu's side, and she also used a halberd. As a master, she also pointed out Lu Lingqi's martial arts in her spare time, so Lu Lingqi was very close to Zhang Liao when she saw Zhang Liao, and couldn't wait to ask about the daily routine after seeing the ceremony.

"All good! All good! When the young lady got married, the general did not show up, and Zhuo Jing still complains that the general is rude!" Sure enough, the treatment was different from that of Qin, and Zhang Liaohu was impressed by Lu Lingqi's charming voice. Showing some kindness, when he asked about his wife at home, there was a warm smile on his resolute and silent face.

"Wen Yuan! You came too timely! You saved the lives of four thousand brothers, and we will always be grateful for your great kindness!" Cheng Lian, who had been emotionally ups and downs, joined Zhang Liao and Qin Xu and Lu Lingqi after seeing the ceremony. Said.

"This is a matter within Liao's duty! General Cheng doesn't need to do this!" Cheng Lian was not treated like Lu Lingqi. After hearing Cheng Lian's words of gratitude, Zhang Liao still replied without a trace of emotion in his words. At this moment The soldiers of the Xiaoqi Battalion who were on the same boat as Zhang Liao rushed over and whispered a few words beside Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao frowned slightly, and looked at Qu Yi, Zhen Jiang, Zhen Jian, his father and son beside Qin Xu, and turned his head. Said to Qin Xu: "General Qin, the last general has just received a summons from the soldiers. This time, a few people were captured alive on the opponent's boat. It may be a little troublesome..."

(End of this chapter)