Zhu Zhi heard the sudden scream and knew that the target had been exposed. He smiled and looked at Cheng Pu beside him and said, "Brother, are you going to take command or should I?"
Cheng Pu Fusu smiled and said: "You and I, brothers, do you still need to be so polite? You just give the orders, I won't take your credit."
Zhu Zhi nodded and said to the ordering soldiers behind him: "Beat the drums and march!"
The ordering soldiers roared in unison: "Beat the drums! March!"
Suddenly, the sound of war drums resounded across the river.
The original thick fog seemed to be shaken by the sound of war drums and dissipated a little.
As the war drums sounded, the Jiangxia defenders on the Xiakou Pier were instantly awakened.
Roaring sounds came and went.
Countless soldiers gathered towards the dock defenses!
In the handsome tent, Huang She was sleeping soundly.
The sudden sound of drums scared him so much that he almost rolled off the bed.
He didn't even have time to put on his clothes, so he ran out of the handsome tent and rushed towards the dock.
His face was so pale that there was no trace of blood.
This is definitely a night attack from Lujiang County!
How did Lujiang County know about Jiangxia's situation?
When Huang She hurried to the dock, the Jiangxia defenders at the dock were already attacking the enemy troops who emerged from the thick fog on their own.
But, there are too many!
Too much!
The enemy warships were connected with iron chains and the sails were set up. Driven by the breeze, they broke through the Jiangxia warships on the dock and rushed into the dock.
Countless enemy troops rushed out of the warships like ghosts, roaring, stepping on the warships, rushing ashore, and fighting with the Jiangxia defenders!
The Jiangxia defenders only held on for a quarter of an hour.
As a steady stream of seemingly endless enemy troops descended from the sky like divine soldiers and came ashore, the Jiangxia garrison gradually became unable to hold on and was constantly forced to retreat.
Huang She looked at this scene and felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, his whole body cold and stiff.
So many enemy troops!
I'm afraid it's several times the Jiangxia garrison.
It can't be stopped at all!
"Major General, we can't hold on anymore, retreat quickly! If we retreat to the city, we still have a chance of survival!" A general rushed to Huang She's side and reminded loudly.
Only then did Huang She come to his senses. He turned around and ran away, trembling and saying, "Where's my horse! Bring my horse! Back! Back into the city - no, back into Xiling City!"
Xiling City, the seat of Jiangxia County, has a high city and thick defenses.
The generals escorted Huang She and rushed towards Xiling City.
When the Jiangxia defenders saw their commander-in-chief Huang She retreating first, their defense line collapsed instantly.
The navy from Lujiang County surged ashore like a tide, chasing the Jiangxia defenders all the way.
Xiakou Dungeon.
At this time, Gan Ning and others who were imprisoned here also heard the sound of fighting in the distance.
Everyone turned pale.
Gan Ning hurriedly signaled for everyone to quiet down, fell to the ground and put his ears to the ground.
After listening to the shaking of the ground for a while, Gan Ning's eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes, and he gritted his teeth and said, "It's over! Jiangxia is over! The enemy is coming!"
At this moment, there was the sound of chains being opened outside the dungeon.
A jailer hurriedly opened the door of the dungeon and rushed in. While tremblingly opening the doors of each cell, he said: "The enemy has already reached the shore. The Major General has retreated towards Xiling City. You should escape quickly! Otherwise, the enemy will If we fight in, you will definitely die!"
When the prisoners in the dungeon heard what the jailer said, they rushed outside.
Gan Ning also rushed out of the cell with his brothers.
As soon as he rushed to the cell door, he saw Jiangxia defenders running towards this direction one by one.
Behind them, enemy soldiers were chasing each other.
These enemy troops caught up with the Jiangxia defenders and threw them to the ground, stabbed them to death, or cut off their heads.
Seeing a Jiangxia defender holding a bow and arrow and carrying a quiver, but not daring to fire an arrow and just running away, Gan Ning kicked the Jiangxia defender to the ground.
When the Jiangxia defender fell to the ground, Gan Ning pounced on him, grabbed the bow and arrow from his hand, and bent his bow and arrow at the murderous enemy who was chasing after him.
As the sound of arrows sounded, the enemy soldiers who were chasing them fell into a pool of blood one by one.
However, instead of being intimidated by Gan Ning's arrows, more and more enemy troops came roaring and killing him.
Gan Ning called on his brothers to retreat while continuing to shoot arrows.
However, soon, the arrows in the quiver behind him were all gone, leaving only one.
Gan Ning's expression suddenly changed and he was about to shoot the last shot.
Suddenly, he discovered that among the enemy troops chasing behind him, one was particularly brave, like a fierce ghost, catching up with the Jiangxia defenders and killing them one by one!
This person is none other than Sima Lingcao from another department.
Xu Sheng, Ling Cao and Zhou Tai always rushed to the front.
Now that they saw Jiangxia's defenders completely defeated, the three of them went after them without thinking.
These Jiangxia defenders were all frightened out of their wits. There was no enemy for them in one round!
However, just when they were red-eyed, they actually saw one of the retreating Jiangxia defenders in front, bending his bow and arrows, and shooting arrows at the soldiers behind them.
The opponent's shooting skills are extremely superb, and his arrows are not missed.
With every arrow fired, a soldier fell in a pool of blood.
Ling Cao was furious and rushed towards Gan Ning with his sword in hand.
He must kill this marksman with a knife!
Zhou Tai and Xu Sheng, who were furious around Ling Cao, also noticed Gan Ning's presence.
Seeing Ling Cao charging forward alone, Xu Sheng and Zhou Tai gave up the other fleeing Jiangxia defenders and chased Ling Cao.
To Ling Cao's delight, Gan Ning quickly shot all the arrows in the quiver behind him.
Ling Cao yelled, sped up, and chased after him.
Gan Ning watched Ling Cao catch up and hurriedly hid the last arrow in front of him, pretending to be extremely frightened and fell to the ground.
Ling Cao rushed to him, raised his sword and was about to chop him down.
Gan Ning suddenly raised his head, picked up the last arrow, raised his hand and shot towards Ling Cao.
This move completely exceeded Ling Cao's expectations!
Seeing the arrow rapidly enlarging in front of his eyes, Ling Cao's eyes narrowed.
The next moment, the arrow shot directly into the center of his forehead!
When Gan Ning saw that he had succeeded, he got up and ran away.
Ling Cao raised his sword and froze on the spot.
Xu Sheng chased after him, ran past him and said, "Why are you standing there in a daze? Chase him!"
Zhou Tai originally wanted to follow.
When he passed by the frozen Ling Cao, he looked back.
His steps stopped instantly.
I saw an arrow nailed into Ling Cao's forehead, and red and white things sprayed out from the wound.
Zhou Tai lost his voice and said: "Old Ling!"
Ling Cao then slowly raised his head and looked at Zhou Tai, his eyes full of reluctance and reluctance: "Tell Marquis Wu that Tong'er will be in trouble——"
Ling Cao didn't finish his words after all, he fell forward and fell heavily to the ground.
Zhou Tai hurriedly ran back.
He hurriedly picked up Ling Cao from the ground and stretched out his hand to feel his breath.
Zhou Tai's body was shaking like chaff and he said: "Old Ling!"
The war continues!
Of the 40,000 naval troops led by Zhu Zhi, only 10,000 landed at Xiakou.
Stopping briefly in Xiakou, Zhu Zhi asked Han Dang to lead 5,000 naval troops to guard Xiakou. At the same time, he approached Xiling City and attacked Jiangxia with Zhang Liao, who was about to attack from the land.
Zhu Zhi himself led the remaining more than 30,000 sailors and continued to attack Hanjin Port!
Soldiers are valuable and quick.
Now that there is civil strife in Jingzhou, we must take advantage of Huang Zu's rush to help Xiangyang and catch Jingzhou by surprise!
Sure enough, the Jingzhou defenders at Hanjin Port did not expect Zhu Zhi's attack at all.
They just watched Huang Zu lead an army of 6,000 people passing by this morning, thinking that Jiangxia was infallible.
But he didn't expect that Zhu Zhi's army would come in force!
The battle only lasted two hours.
The five thousand defenders at Hanjin Port were all annihilated!
Zhu Zhi only stayed at Hanjin Port for a day and counted the results of the two wars.
What makes both Zhu Zhi and Cheng Pu a little sad is that in this night attack, in addition to nearly 500 sailors killed, more than 300 seriously injured, and more than 3,000 slightly injured, the Lujiang navy also lost one member. The brave and skilled Sima from other departments——
Ling Cao.
Ling Cao is the head of the Ling family in Wu County. He is young and one of the two young generals promoted by Wu Marquis Lu Yi himself.
The other one is Xu Sheng.
Ling Cao's son Ling Tong was still in Wu County with Lu Xun and others.
Before the expedition to Lujiang and Xuzhou, Wu Hou Lu Yi took these people with him.
Now, let Wu Hou Lu Yi know that Ling Cao died in battle——
Zhu Zhi fell silent as he watched Zhou Tai and Xu Sheng burst into tears.
Late that night, Zhu Zhi received a letter from Taishi Ci ahead of him.
Taishi Ci, together with Changsha Hengjie, has already conquered Wulin Port, captured Jiangling County, and headed straight for Yicheng!
Zhu Zhi had no time to continue feeling sad, leaving Chen Wu to lead a thousand troops to sit at Hanjin Port and clean up the battlefield, while he himself led another thirty thousand troops to gather towards Yicheng!
At noon two days later, Zhu Zhi's army met Tai Shici and his army in Yicheng.
Chen Deng and Gao Shun are also in the Hengjie team.
Taishi Ci introduced Hengjie and others to Zhu Zhi, Cheng Pu and others.
Zhu Zhi reported to Chen Deng the news of Ling Cao's death in battle.
Chen Deng sighed and consoled him: "The general died in a hundred battles. There is nothing we can do about it. When you see Wu Hou, I will tell him this misfortune, so you don't need to take it to heart."
"When we hit here this time, even if the news from Jingzhou is delayed, we will know that we are attacking."
"Before, we relied on Wu Hou's intelligence, and we caught others off guard."
"But next, the enemy must be prepared."
"Don't underestimate any enemy."
"Everyone has to go all out."
Everyone responded in unison.
The army was about to move forward when a general galloped over on a war horse and said, "Report! Generals, there are two ragged men in front of us, who claim to be former Jingzhou generals Huo Jun and Wei Yan. They want to see you generals!"
Chen Deng said: "Bring them here!"
The general rode away.
After a while, two men came over.
Sure enough, it was Huo Jun and Wei Yan.
Chen Dengce immediately stepped forward and said, "I am Chen Deng, the acting commander-in-chief here."
Huo Jun lay prone on the ground and said: "Huo Jun, the former Jingzhou city defense captain, has met the general!"
Wei Yan also said: "Wei Yan, the former Jiangling general in Jingzhou!"
Chen Deng glanced at Huo Jun and Wei Yan and said, "Why are you here?"
Huo Jun raised his head and gritted his teeth and said: "Jingzhou Mu was killed in Xiangyang City, and my brother was killed by Cai Hao. I originally asked Liu Pan to attack the city immediately, kill Cai Hao, and avenge Jingzhou Mu and my brother. But that idiot Liu Pan was afraid Take responsibility for missing the opportunity to break the city!"
"Chang Wen and I originally wanted to leave Jingzhou and go to Jiangdong."
"Unexpectedly, the general led his army to kill here with lightning speed."
"General, Chief Wen and I are willing to serve as vanguards!"
"We know there is a small road that can reach the south of Xiangyang City faster!"
(End of chapter)
