Li Ru's trip was full of dangers. He had to prevent Lu Kang's people from discovering that the village was "collaborating with the enemy", and he also had to worry about Li Hu being murderous. If Li Hu was a cruel and reckless man, he would not give Li Ru anything.
Opportunities suggest that Li Ru's entry into the family is just a matter of swordsmanship.
But Li Ru also had no choice. This was the first task Cao Zhi entrusted to him. After joining Cao Zhi's small group, he urgently needed a chance to express himself. He had missed many opportunities due to seasickness in the past few days.
Being a counselor sometimes means being a lobbyist, to persuade someone to achieve something. If he doesn't even have this responsibility, then he will lose value to Cao Zhi.
When Cao Zhi saw off Li Ru and walked out of the temporary tent, the sky had turned white. He stretched out, took a deep breath, and stared at the dawn dancing on the tips of the reeds. His eyes were a little confused. He
He reached out and rubbed his sore eyes, closed his eyelids for a while, and sorted out his thoughts. When he opened his eyes again, only determination flashed.
At dawn the next day, spies reported that there was indeed a fleet coming from the direction of Chao Lake.
Cao Zhi immediately set about his subordinates, preparing to eat the wave of naval forces coming from Chaohu first.
This day was destined to be a restless day in Ruxuwu. As soon as the fleet departing from Chaohu entered the reed marsh to the north of Ruxuwu, they were surrounded by bamboo rafts rushing out from all directions. On the bamboo rafts, densely packed with all kinds of clothing stood
people.
The leading general in Chaohu thought he had encountered a small group of water thieves from Ruxuwu. He didn't even look at the person carefully. He poked his pennies up and arrogantly cursed: "That's what the fuck."
, you don’t have the eyes to see clearly who we are, so you pissed off the uncle and dug your family’s main grave.”
"Then you try it?"
The leading navy officer was stunned and looked sharply at the place where the words were spoken. When he saw that the speaker was someone he knew, it was Jiang Qin, a somewhat famous water thief in Ruxuwu, and he was puzzled, "
Who gave this little thief the courage to contradict the uncle?"
I saw him poking his finger, speechless for a moment, not knowing what to scold. So he was about to lift up his sleeves and step forward to teach him a lesson, but he felt his clothes corner was being pulled, and he turned around angrily and asked him
The man in the corner of the clothes: "What are you doing?"
The general's subordinate pointed to the side. He looked over and said, "Hey!" These people have taken the wrong medicine today. The little thieves who usually tuck their tail and run away when they see them seem to have gathered together today.
Moreover, each one of them held their weapons tightly and stared at them with a murderous look on their faces, as if they were ready to kill at any time. This general usually did not pay attention to the thieves in Ruxuwu at all. These unworthy little people today
What happened? Only then did he notice that something was not right.
The more he saw these people looking at them with a stern look, the more he felt and was about to ask questions.
Suddenly a shout was heard, and the thieves standing in the front row squatted down collectively. Behind them were rows of neatly dressed soldiers who had already bent their bows and set arrows.
The general's eyes widened in horror, he pointed at everything, and made a trembling voice in his throat, "You! You!"
"Whoops!" The arrow penetrated his throat first, and then white feathers roared from the sky. "Ah..." A shrill scream sounded from the team. The person who was hit by the arrow had half of the carved feather arrow shaft outside his body.
They fell down one after another, and after a hail of arrows, more than half of the Chaohu naval forces were killed or injured.
Then Jiang Qin and others, who had accumulated resentment for many years, rushed forward with a roar after the first shower of arrows, and shouted "Kill!" in unison, and the words fell and the sword fell.
"Puff" and "click" sounds were heard endlessly. They were the sound of spears and bamboo swords penetrating into the flesh and blood of the human body and the sound of being broken by the huge force. The soldiers on the ship were screaming and were about to take them.
When he lifted the spears and forks on the ship's board to block the attacking enemy soldiers, it was too late. They didn't even have the weapons to hold them firmly, and they screamed in agony. The ship capsized and blood splattered everywhere.
The shouts were like thunder. As soon as the first row pounced, the second row had already arrived extremely quickly. Before the blood in the air fell to the ground, their harpoons had mercilessly stabbed the enemy's body into the ground.
Above, there was the dull popping sound of guns, halberds, and forks penetrating into human bodies, and the desperate cries of soldiers.
This was an unfair battle. About a thousand of Zheng Bao's subordinates were left behind in his hometown. This time, about six to seven hundred people were dispatched to respond. Under a hail of arrows, more than half of them were killed. Now it was Jiang Qin and others who had been grudged for many years.
Two thousand fierce bandits, their emotions were expressed at this moment, and the enemy's lives were harvested like reeds. Zheng Bao's navy didn't even have a chance to surrender, so they were all killed in the reeds.
Cao Zhi had a flash of resistance when Jiang Qin came forward to attack him, but he quickly held back. He immediately ordered his soldiers from the Western Camp to retreat, and sent a thousand Wancheng navy troops with high morale.
On the battlefield, train the courage and morale of the Chaohu water pirates who have less than a few hundred people left.
This was the "most shameless" battle in the history of war. It was basically a situation of seven or eight fighting each other, and in some cases, a dozen or so water pirates were fighting each other. Many water pirates were beaten to death. Even so, in the end, there were still
More than 20 Chaohu navy soldiers who were dying and beaten all over were still alive. They were dragged off the ship by the water thieves from Ruxuwu and brought to the reed swamp to pay homage to those brothers who had been persecuted to death by Zheng Bao's navy army in previous years.
Dead soul.
After solving the Chaohu naval force that was supporting Zheng Bao, Cao Zhi immediately disposed of the spoils of war. The battle was very fruitful, with hundreds of warships, sampans, and bamboo rafts, and there were enough rations for ten thousand people on board the boats for three days. Those in Chaohu
The belongings of the navy soldiers were looted by Ruxuwu water thieves and thieves.
The captured ships were centralized and managed by Jiang Qin. At the same time, Cao Zhi asked him to arrange a waterway route back to Wancheng. If Li Ru persuaded Li Hu, these would become an important means of transport for them to carry soldiers.
After part of the captured grain was distributed, Cao An also stored and distributed it uniformly. Cao Zhi's troops had no shortage of grain and grass. The grain they transported back from Xiwu, except for the part that was transported back to Liyang, was kept in Qiao County.
He took the rest with him for food on the march. Cao Zhi also prepared a month's worth of rations for each soldier during this expedition. But those water thieves and thieves had not been seen like this for a long time in this winter.
There was a lot of wheat and rice, and they hadn’t had a decent meal for a long time. Cao Zhi generously distributed three days of rations to them and treated them the same as his subordinates. Similarly, Lu Kang’s navy had no one
They've all arrived, a load of loot and food supplies.
The military equipment of the Chaohu navy also cannot be wasted. The so-called ancient military equipment mainly refers to things on soldiers, armors, weapons and other items. Although those are things on dead people, those water thieves and thieves didn't mind, and they came one after another.
They scrambled to strip off the clothes of the Chaohu navy troops, picked up the weapons around them, and armed themselves. Although it was impossible for everyone to participate, at least Cao Zhi's temporary mixed army was decent.