"Therefore, those who are good at making surprises are as infinite as heaven and earth, and as endless as rivers." [Sun Tzu's Art of War·Position Chapter]
Sun Ben, the prefect of Yuzhang, hurriedly put on his armor and led a group of soldiers to the top of the city. From a distance, he saw flames outside the water gate. Countless people were running around like ants on a hot pot or chopping at the bow of the ship.
Unable to kill them, they all jumped from the boat into the cold river water.
Sun Ben was impatient and became even more furious when he saw this. He kicked the person next to him hard and scolded: "Why are you still standing there? Go and open the city gate!"
The soldier got kicked and ran down to deliver the order.
At this time, Chaisang had no more than 10,000 troops, of which the water village accounted for the majority. There were only 2,000 troops in the city. Before Sun Ben could gather these 2,000 troops, Ling Cao and other troops were suddenly attacked at night outside the city.
On the verge of collapse.
It is often inconvenient to convey orders in water battles. Military orders often use small boats, flags, and drum horns as tools. Gan Ning knew this well. As soon as he boarded the ship, he ordered people to set fire everywhere, killed the flag bearers, and burned the flags. Now.
There were fires everywhere on the river, and there were shouts of death. Flags and drums could not convey orders at all, and it was even more inconvenient for small boats to come and go at this time.
Although Ling Cao fought bravely and was surrounded by his subordinates, his military orders could not leave the warship at his feet. Looking at the ships everywhere, they were all fighting separately, and some timid ones had not yet recovered from the fierce battles in the day.
After regaining their composure, they were suddenly attacked by Gan Ning's new force at night. They turned around and fled before engaging in battle. Some of them, dozens or hundreds of people, were chased by more than ten people from the other side and were driven down the river from the boat. The fire on the boat was blazing.
, the water in the river was freezing cold under the boat.
Shen Mi had already jumped onto the bow of the boat and immediately saw Ling Cao's superior captain's attire and the arrow feathers on his shoulders. He asked with a sinister smile: "Are you Sun Bi or Ling Cao?"
Ling Cao didn't care to answer him, held a shield in front of him, and slammed into him.
Shen Mi quickly ducked to the side. Before he could stand firm, several spears suddenly shot out from the fire beside him. He hurriedly swung his sword to block it. A few sparks passed by, but the sharp spear points were still unavoidable.
It cut his arm.
He just let out a cry of pain when he saw Ling Cao coming towards him again with his shield. This time Shen Mi was forced into a blind spot on the ship, with the cold river behind him, and there was no way to retreat. He gritted his teeth and pushed hard with his uninjured arm.
He went up and put his foot on the side of the ship to use his strength to block the impact and avoid being knocked into the river.
The hard shield hit Shen Mi's arm, which numbed him. Before he could react, he was stabbed in the side with a sword. He looked down in disbelief, and saw that the sharp blade had indeed come from the left side injured by Ling Cao.
Shen Mi originally thought that when he resisted the opponent's impact, he curled up as much as possible. Not only could he mobilize his whole body's strength, but he could also avoid the spear attack by closing the distance between him and Ling Cao.
But who knew that Ling Cao was so strong that he could still use the strength to stab him with such a deep arrow wound on his left shoulder blade.
"You remember it." Ling Cao looked ferocious, enduring the severe pain in his shoulder and slowly pulled the sword out of Shen Mi's body. At this time, he had time to answer the other party's previous question: "It's going to kill you."
, it is Ling Cao, the captain of the bandit commander who is under the command of the general who killed the bandits."
After saying this, without waiting for Shen Mi to say anything, he used force with his feet and knocked the seriously injured Shen Mi into the river.
"Ah Weng!" Ling Tong ran down from the stage after playing the drum and happened to witness all this.
When Ling Cao saw him coming, he immediately waved to him and said, "I just have something to do for you." He breathed heavily and looked deeply into the other person's eyes: "Now go get on the stern and take a few people to row aboard."
Shore, meet Mr. Sun Fu. He can also see the battle situation here. You don't need to say more. You only need to tell him, "There was supposed to be a battle, but we rushed to respond to the enemy. Now that the military order has been completed, we must retreat urgently."
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"What does this mean? Aweng?" Ling Tong suddenly didn't understand what his father said. He suddenly became frightened. The sixteen-year-old boy couldn't stop trembling all over his body. His heart was actually worse than when he was thirteen years old.
I still feel scared when I go to the battlefield.
"There are many things that I have no time to tell you." Ling Cao's resolute expression suddenly softened. He inserted his sword upside down on the deck, raised his arm and put his hand on Ling Tong's shoulder. The arrow shaft stuck in his shoulder blade followed.
His movement of raising his arm was slowly perpendicular to the ground, as if a big banner was erected on Ling Cao's shoulder: "Actually, you are right, we will not make peace with the opponent no matter what. We even thought about it.
Conceal the truth anyway, and lure them to advance while we are retreating... There are some truths in it that I can't explain, so you can figure it out on your own later."
Ling Tong suddenly became anxious. He looked worriedly at the feathered arrow and the blood flowing down his arm: "Aweng, since we want to withdraw our troops and feign defeat, why fight? Let's go together now!"
"You can't even leave now!" Ling Cao said sternly. At this time, the soldiers on the ship had cleared away the enemy troops who had boarded the ship with Shen Mi, and began to gather to wait for the order. Ling Cao's expression changed several times, which was insignificant.
Cha nodded, and his tone suddenly slowed down: "Do you still remember the Lujiang Zhou Lang I told you about? I was just illuminated by the fire, and suddenly I thought of a good way for you."
Before Ling Tong could open his mouth to speak, someone suddenly hit him hard on the back of his neck, and he was immediately dizzy. Before he could react or struggle, several soldiers who had received the hint immediately swarmed up and took Ling Tong to the back of the boat.
, quickly jumped onto a stern that had been prepared.
At this time, the moon gradually moved out from between the mountains in the east, and a silvery glow suddenly fell on the river. The singing and dancing on the other side stopped at some point, and several figures gathered on the highest floor of the building, trying to look at the sudden rise of the river.
confusion.
Zhang Yun drunkenly looked at the fighting on the other side and said inarticulately: "Why is there a banquet on the other side?"
Huang Zu was holding on to the railing, and the cold river wind was blowing his beard and hair. He also suffered from a splitting headache due to excessive drinking. It took him a while to say: "Gan Ning went to attack the water village at night?"
Cai Hao also came back to his senses at this time, staring blankly at everything in front of him. He could hardly believe that Gan Ning, who had just been drunk and drunkenly fighting with them and going crazy, could quietly command his subordinates in just the time of changing clothes.
Breaking into the water village at night?
"Quick, quick!" Huang Zu pressed his forehead with one hand and held the railing with the other. He turned around and said to the stunned people around him: "Send troops immediately to meet Captain Gan!"
He was called "Gan Ning" for a while, and "Gan Xiaowei" for a while. It was obvious that he was a little mentally disturbed. However, the military orders he issued were very timely and sufficient to remedy the situation.
Huang Quan, Deng Zhi and others nodded secretly. Comparing the behavior of Huang Zu and Cai Hao, Huang Zu was indeed better.
However, the generals upstairs looked at me and I looked at each other with confused expressions on their faces. Everyone smelled of alcohol and could not stand firmly on the bumpy deck, let alone wear armor to fight. The drunken Su
Fei Geng was blown by the cold wind, and he lay on the railing and spat out with a "wow" sound.
Huang Zu was very angry. He saw that all his generals were incompetent. Even if there was a remedy at this time, what was the use? But fortunately, looking at Zhang Yun, Liu Pan and others, they didn't look like capable people.
Rushing into battle to respond to the enemy.
"I will go where I want to go." At this moment, a steady voice suddenly sounded.
Cai Mao laughed out of control and said: "Okay, okay! General Huang Zhonglang, you will lead the army!"
Everyone here was drunk, but Huang Zhong was the only one who was full of energy and was the rare Zhonglang general present. With Cai Mao's public approval, he immediately became the temporary commander-in-chief of the army.
Deng Zhi looked at Huang Zhong's calm management with cold eyes, and quietly said to Huang Quan: "This man will definitely make great achievements in the future."