Chapter 187: Making up for the situation after a desperate situation
It's not too late to make up for the lost situation---------"Warring States Policy"
It is said that Haopu's team detected the location of the Jingzhou navy, and Zulang's team found out that the Baling guard was Huang Zhong's general Sun Da. Chen Long immediately formed a plan in his mind. It was not too late to make up for the situation. Since he had the opportunity to disrupt Zhang Yun's strategic plan, how could he miss it?
It is also said that people with high skills are bold. The plan formulated by Chen Long is of course centered on his own actions and based on his own Qinggong movement. Even though he is busy with military affairs every day, Chen Long's internal and external skills are still improving every day. At the same time, he must be grateful to the Peiyuan Strengthening Book and the Tuanxi Gong that he practiced independently by chance.
Chen Long's internal strength is still in the second level of Tuanxi Gong, and his boxing strength and lightness skills still maintain the inherent level, but the practice of external strength has become increasingly mature, especially after fighting several times among millions of troops, saving lives and taking lives. The method is more direct and practical. Just to hide his identity, he never used his gentian silver spear. He didn't know whether his ultimate ability could surpass Lu Bu's level.
While walking, I was thinking about it. In the dark night before dawn, Chen Long and his party arrived at the foot of Baling City. Sun Da had been waiting at the city gate. After confirming his identity, he let everyone into the city. Chen Long ordered dozens of people to tie up Tang Zhou and follow the people arranged by Sun Da to rest. After ordering the remaining dozens of people, all of them were He was outstanding in Qinggong, so he immediately asked Sun Da: "Do you have any fire oil for defending the city?"
Sun Da hurriedly ordered people to move it. Although the materials for defending the city were insufficient, there were still dozens of barrels of kerosene. Chen Long also asked him to prepare hundreds of empty wine jars, filled them with kerosene, and sealed them with yellow mud.
Dozens of people each had two jars of kerosene and several torches stuck on their backs. Led by Chen Long and Lu Chang, they divided into two teams and entered the east bank of the Xiangjiang River. The huge black shadow of the fleet on the other side could be seen in the distance, with only a few patrol torches shining in the pre-dawn darkness.
Chen Long and others hid on the shore. Before entering the water, Chen Long basically allocated the area of the boat that each person was responsible for lighting. Chen Long and Lu Chang's target was naturally the largest building ship.
Swimming late at night is a daily training subject for the special forces, so it is naturally not a problem for Chen Long's troops. Chen Long gave the final order: "After the ship in charge of you catches fire, immediately return to Baling. You are not allowed to help anyone else, including me. Everyone understands that this is an order and must be obeyed." The creed of the special forces is to protect yourself. , Chen Long asked them to abide by this tonight.
In the dark water, the team members gradually dispersed, and only the sound of rushing water could be heard. Chen Long used his internal energy and suddenly saw the bottom of the big ship. He popped his head out of the shadows and saw Lu Chang climbing up along the side of another ship. Two kerosene jars were hanging on both sides. He accidentally knocked on the hull and shouted. With a clang, Lu Chang immediately clung to the side of the ship and stopped moving.
Chen Long quickly took out the crossbow in his arms, and sure enough, a torch appeared on the ship, followed by several heads. Fortunately,
Lu Chang was still in the arc of the bottom of the boat. The few people looked at him for a long time without noticing him, so they turned around and disappeared. Chen Long couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. If someone discovered that there was a secret attack, it would be difficult to accomplish the task of burning the ships. At most, one or two ships would be burned.
Lu Chang tied the kerosene jar tightly on his back and continued to use the dagger to crawl up the cracks and potholes in the hull. At this time, the special forces had also swam under the ship scheduled to attack. Chen Long saw more and more team members starting to crawl to the deck. He no longer waited. He found the anchor chain of the building ship in the dark and followed the anchor chain directly. Climb up to the stern of the ship.
Entering along the tail end of the anchor chain, Chen Long observed carefully and saw two observation posts high up on the ship, about ten meters apart. There were patrols guarding the front, middle and rear with torches. If he wanted to spread kerosene along the deck, It would be difficult not to be discovered when you get to the cockpit. Chen Longyi was a brave man. When he saw the two sentries at the tail cabin door holding burning torches, he immediately had an idea.
Chen Long took out the folding crossbow arrows in his hand and directly loaded two small crossbows. He only heard two pops, and the two guards guarding the back warehouse were hit by arrows in the throat and fell to the ground without saying a word. Chen Long had already caught up with the crossbow arrows and reached out to catch the torch that was about to fall to the ground. He used his body to resist the two people who fell to the ground and placed it gently on the ground. The whole process was silent.
Chen Long held the torch in his hand, jumped up, pulled it up to a height of more than ten meters, and rolled towards the first hidden whistle on the sail rafter like a fire dragon. The guard was completely unprepared. Suddenly, there was a jar of kerosene in his arms, and he was kicked by Chen Long. He kicked off the high pole and inserted a lit torch into his vest.
When the guard flew down, Chen Long did not hesitate. He used the force of the collision to bend his body and cross the space of more than ten meters to attack the high-altitude sentry on another high pole. The sentry was baring his teeth and claws, shouting some warning, and raising his bow and arrow to attack the attacker. Suddenly, his vision blurred, and he saw that a knee as big as a bowl had reached his eyes, followed by a hysterical pain at the junction of his nose and eyes, and he suddenly became weak. Fell on the small railing of the sail.
Chen Long stunned another high-altitude sentry with his knee. Only then did he hear the first sentry landing on the deck. There was a loud bang and the jar of kerosene exploded, causing a fire more than half a meter high. Oil, there was a lit torch behind the soldier, and it suddenly became a huge moving torch. Before dying, it screamed and rushed around, instantly igniting more ropes and other practical objects, and finally poured in with a scream. The next deck was silent.
Chen Long saw that the fire had begun to spread on the deck, and soldiers began to rush out of the front cabin door. The people were in chaos. Some people shouted to put out the fire, and some were preparing to jump off the ship and escape. For a while, more and more people gathered outside the fire. Chen Long quickly lit all the torches stuck behind him and threw the remaining jars of kerosene into the crowd. Finally, there were five or six burning torches.
The jar of kerosene flew toward the crowd with Chen Long's internal energy. In the chaos, no one paid attention to the falling object. They only heard a bang, and the kerosene splashed out from the crowd. The torch penetrated the deck like a sharp arrow, and the fire suddenly spread. It unfolded and quickly enveloped the figures of those soldiers.
Chen Long sighed secretly, remembering when Zhuge burned the vine armor, he also sighed that he was violating the harmony of heaven. It's a pity that in order for the people to gain peace and happiness as soon as possible, although Chen Long couldn't bear to watch it anymore, he could only comfort himself like this.
The sound of exploding kerosene jars was also heard from the neighboring ship, and then the fire gradually lit up from the other ships. Chen Long looked from a high place and saw that fireworks were blooming in all directions. The scenery was actually beautiful, but unfortunately it was made of blood. beautiful scenery. Knowing that Zhang Yun's navy was finished, although this battle was not as good as Zhou Lang's burning of Red Cliff, it was still a battle in which all the boats and oars were wiped out in ashes.
The fire gradually rolled up the sails, and Chen Long stopped staying. A wisp of green smoke fell from the sky into the Xiangshui River. He was surrounded by fire debris and burnt wood chips. Occasionally, a charred corpse floated by, and there were constant signs of fire from high places. The figure fell and fell into the Xiang River with a splash.
Chen Long cursed the cruelty of war in his heart, quickly swam across the Xiangjiang River and returned to the head of Baling City. Ignoring Sun Da's request for his lord to rest, he wiped the water and insisted on waiting for his team members to return at the city head.
It's not yet bright. Looking from the city top, the Xiang River is a fiery red, dyeing the clouds in the sky red. When it was daylight, all Chen Long's team members had returned safely. Seeing that their lord looked bad, they all stood behind Chen Long at the top of the city, staring in the direction of the Xiangjiang River with his lord.
Chen Long's face turned red from suppressing it, and he finally opened his mouth and shouted: "Prepare the boat! Children, come back with me and take a look!"
Sun Da quickly mobilized a thousand infantrymen, carried more than a dozen small boats, and set off with Chen Long himself. The hills on the shore are clearly visible. Sure enough, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, no longer silhouetted like last night. Everyone entered the jungle and looked down the river. On the other side of the river, they saw a black and gray afterimage of ships, which looked like a ghostland.
The intact ships on the opposite side have disappeared. I wonder if Zhang Yun has ordered the remaining troops to retreat, or if they have all been burned down. Chen Long ordered his boat to be put down, and more than a dozen small boats crossed the Xiangshui River along the river and came to the broken rafters.
There were corpses floating on the water, and everyone was in mourning. There were not many valuable things on the battlefield, so Chen Long still ordered people to search carefully, hoping to get some clues about the collusion between Yizhou soldiers and Jingzhou soldiers. If there is any real evidence to prove his conjecture, he will have sufficient reason to change his established strategy of attacking Jiangling.
Unfortunately, nothing was found in the ruins, but a lot of weapons and supplies were salvaged. Chen Longling sent them to the other side and handed them over to Sun Da's troops for processing. Chen Long didn't expect Zhang Yun to retreat so neatly, and couldn't help but be a little surprised by this opponent.
Chen Longyou looked around and saw some traces of a camp on the shore. He quickly flew to the other side and checked the remaining traces. There were no clues at the scene, just some messy footprints.
Chen Long was about to return to the ship, but suddenly felt something was wrong. Although the footprints were messy, many of them led to the shore to board the ship, while others went to the trees in the north. Is there no intact ship? This is almost impossible. .
A lot of ships may have been burned, but of the 40,000-strong naval force, at most half of the warships were burned. How could there be 30,000 people left? Either the remaining ships were full, or Zhang Yun An army was left hiding here.
Chen Long was not surprised but overjoyed. He was worried that he could not find any traces or evidence of the Yizhou soldiers. Since Zhang Yun dared to stay with the investigation team, he was left alive to investigate the matter.
Having made up his mind, Chen Long summoned Lu Chang and asked the others to retreat with Sun Da. After returning to the city, all the special forces members immediately boarded a boat and took Tang Zhou back to Changsha. He informed Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun and the two military advisors of his conjecture, and He immediately sent someone to notify Xi Zhicai to conduct a new investigation on Jiangling, and then formulate a Jingzhou strategy based on the new findings.
After everyone retreated, only Chen Long and Lu Chang were left at the scene. In Chen Long's heart, the pride of the two fighting together in Luoyang that day arose again, and he loudly said to Lu Chang: "Deputy Commander Lu, follow me!"
Two figures, one general and one handsome, one tall and one short, are also brothers of life and death who have been tempered for thousands of years. They have the same quick Qinggong movement, and they leap into the jungle one after another and disappear. Only a pile of broken masts and broken masts are left, floating on the quietly flowing Xiangshui River, as if they have not changed for thousands of years.
