It was almost dawn, and the river where they had been fighting all night was full of floating corpses and debris from sunken ships.
The huge Beiyu Water Formation was burning and sinking. Now, only the last two hundred or so warships are left to follow the formation.
Jiang Meng's face was pale, and after spending a whole night, he still failed to break through from the east. The Western Shu naval forces from all directions had completely formed a siege. The Shu people's attack did not stop at all, and they could not hold on for much longer. The entire Beiyu
The water formation will turn into a river ghost.
"General, what should we do now? The morale of the army has been weakened!" The assistant general came up and spoke reluctantly.
At first, the navy of more than 30,000 men was eager to rush to Lingzhou, but now, there are less than 7,000 men and more than 200 ships left.
Jiang Meng raised his head with difficulty and suddenly laughed.
"In that case, I'll wait for the last few rounds, so why not die!"
"Get ready to fight with me!"
…
"Wai——"
At this time, both Miao Tong and Fan Ruma Yilin followed the direction of the encirclement and suppression, completely blocking the enemy's path and not giving any chance to break out.
Miao Tong's eyes showed murderous intent. According to the instructions of his little military advisor, this Jiang Meng cannot be allowed to escape alive. At present, the morale of these Beiyu people is greatly reduced, and there is no chance of resistance.
"The entire army is listening to the order and preparing to join the ship! Defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!" Miao Tong roared.
"kill!"
In the forest to the east, there was also a fighting spirit on their faces, ready to cooperate with the main army and give the Beiyu people the final blow.
But at this moment——
"General Lin, there is information coming from behind the water formation."
"What?"
"More than a dozen merchant ships are coming from behind. Are they not far away?"
Lin Zhong frowned, "Don't be careless and send people to drive them away. If they go any further, they will be treated as Beiyu spies and be killed!"
Although he was only a naval admiral, victory was within sight and he didn't want any problems to arise.
…
"Brother, that's the front. Look, the arrogant General Jiang Meng is like a dead dog. He was beaten so many times behind closed doors that he will probably have the will to die."
Behind the navy in the east, on a merchant ship, two middle-aged men in white clothes stood steadily and talked coldly.
"The young general from Xishu is not too stupid, so he asked someone to drive him away."
"Shoot."
On top of more than a dozen merchant ships, suddenly, many people dressed as merchant ship guards came out one after another, raised their bows and arrows, and fired at the several Xishu warships that came to drive them away.
By surprise, at least ten Shu troops were killed in a hail of arrows.
"Side sail, light the kerosene!"
"Side sail——"
Of the dozen or so warships, only ten of them quickly raised their sails, and the hay and other things on the ship quickly burned as the kerosene ignited.
Immediately, taking advantage of the wind from the side sail, it rushed into the Xishu water formation in the east. Under the momentum, Lin Zhong immediately turned around, and when he saw this scene, his face was suddenly shocked.
"Enemy attack! Huo Fang enemy attack!" Lin Zhong's face turned red.
"Avoid the fire boat!"
"Damn these merchant ships!" The voice in the forest was angry. These people were obviously using merchant ships as cover, and when they got close, they launched a fireboat.
"Three buckets of rice, enter the rice road, and the whole world will eat from the same trough!" Two middle-aged men in robes spread their hands and cheered and shouted.
"The whole world eats from the same trough!" On the merchant ships that followed, there were also shouts.
…
"Today's defeat is not my fault, Jiang Meng! Even if I die, I, Jiang Meng, will not be a prisoner of the Shu people!" Standing on the bow of the ship, Jiang Meng roared angrily. He was forced into a corner and could not break through after a long attack. At this time, he
He was already holding the sword with trembling hands and had the will to kill himself.
"General, wait a minute, wait a minute!" The assistant general hurried over.
"General! Reinforcements have appeared in the east, and they have launched a surprise attack with fire boats!"
"What did you mean...reinforcements?"
"Exactly! There is already some commotion in the Shu Navy to the east!"
Jiang Meng's face paused, without any hesitation, "Quickly, form a formation, raise the flag and order all warships to form an formation immediately and break out to the east!"
"The general has ordered the entire army to break out to the east!"
"There is fire in the east..."
Jiang Meng no longer cares about it. Compared with other places, the east location is now the last choice.
"Rush over!"
The last hundred or so Beiyu warships looked like crazy, sailing recklessly and quickly to break out of the encirclement to the east.
Under the attack of the merchant ship Huo Fang, Lin Zhong's east-facing army had already made a flaw in order to avoid the fire. By the time Lin Zhong gave the order to form a formation, it was already too late.
"Stop them!" Lin Zhong was shocked, "Send the order to the long-range shooting camp to block Beiyu's breakout force-"
Ma Yi and Fan Lu, who were not far away, also lost color in their faces and rushed forward quickly. Seeing that the people of Beiyu were about to be exterminated, something happened suddenly at this moment.
"Be the first to hit the boat!"
On the Beiyu battleship in the lead battle, countless soldiers cried and threw their hands away.
"Farewell...general."
More than twenty of Beiyu's first battleships rushed straight towards the merchant ship Huofang, fighting a bloody path for the fleet behind them.
"Rush out!" Jiang Meng burst into tears.
…
"Mi Daojiang Zhong, Yao Rong, welcome General Jiang!" On a merchant ship in the rear, two middle-aged men in long robes laughed and raised their hands.
At this time, Jiang Meng's face was full of fear. After seeing the friendly troops, he stood on the bow of the ship and clasped his fists.
"Don't worry, general. Every twenty miles in the direction of Wuzhou, we have hidden fireboats to help the general escape all the way. We have heard that the Western Shu navy is extremely elite, but this time, I, Mi Taoism,
It’s just a fool’s errand.”
"Thank you so much, martyr!" After the disaster, Jiang Meng slumped down, still breathing heavily. The past two or three days were like a nightmare, weighing him down.
I am afraid that he will not dare to enter the river for a long time. Even if he can escape now, only a few thousand of the more than 30,000 troops he brought out will die. Eight or nine hundred warships have also been destroyed.
.This is equivalent to using up almost all the Jiangnan reserves in Beiyu and Chongqing at once.
"Xishu should not be underestimated!"
…
The next day, on the bank of the Lingzhou River.
Dongfang Jing put down the information, his face extremely bitter. He swayed, closed his eyes with difficulty, and slowly collapsed on the wooden wheel.
After all the various arrangements, Jiang Meng was allowed to escape back to Kezhou in the end.
"Dong Laimi's Taoism has derailed our great cause of Xi Shu." Dongfang opened his eyes respectfully, his eyes full of coldness.
"One day, I, Dongfang Jing, will let your smoke disappear."