Lu Kai couldn't understand how he could find out when the enemy came to kill him after he had already arranged a warning.
In fact, the matter was very simple. Lu Kai had arranged for vigilance, but he could not guarantee that these soldiers would not be lazy. After a day of fierce fighting, with victory in sight, they were burned to death by the fire falling from the sky, and fled in confusion. This was bad for the morale of Wu's soldiers.
A serious contusion. Although these people escaped, the fire at the Emperor's Lake remained in their memories. The figures of their companions struggling in the fire and the wails when they were burned by the fire were all the time.
No longer torturing their nerves. Even if they left the Emperor's Lake, those flames twisting and struggling like dragons and snakes could still chill them to the bone.
They were relieved when they finally returned to safe water, but they were then sent to serve as secret sentries in the mountains and forests on the shore, which made their nerves tense again. This was the territory of the barbarians, and they were not familiar with the terrain.
, not only may they be attacked by barbarians, there are also many poisonous insects and ferocious beasts in the mountains and forests, any of which may kill them. You can imagine how nervous they are when performing tasks under such circumstances.
When suffering unbearable pain, people will faint. When a person's psychological pressure is too great to bear, many people will also choose to escape and choose to be an ostrich that deceives themselves. This is a kind of self-protection.
After training, this instinct can be suppressed to a certain extent, but after all, there are only a few who can defeat it.
Most Wu Jun scouts obviously did not have such strength. After landing ashore, many of them found a safe place to hide, thus losing the function of the secret sentry.
Even if they stick to their posts, they may not be of much use. On the territory of the Yuanxi tribe, they have to fight the barbarians with high morale at night. The Wu army coming from afar has no advantage. What's more, the barbarians also have divine dogs to help them, so they can't fight at night.
Before Wu Jun discovered the barbarians, the divine dogs could smell their scent. Immediately afterwards, either the divine dogs lurked and bit Wu Jun's throat, or the barbarians came over quietly and cut Wu Jun's neck with a knife.
Under the leadership of Heisha and others, Wei Ba reached the edge of the Wu army's camp with almost no effort. At that time, Lu Kai had not even rested. Tall warships, flying flags, and figures coming and going. General Lu Kai
Kai's position was exposed.
Wei Ba patiently waited until Lu Kai finished arranging his defense and returned to the cabin to rest before ordering the attack. He gave Wang Shuang a task: Use your four-stone bow to seal Lu Kai in his cabin. If you can kill him with one arrow,
That's of course the best.
The Yuan River is about a hundred paces wide. Lu Kai's boat is a little south of the center, about seventy paces from the north bank. Wang Shuang's four-stone bow has a range of one hundred and sixty paces. This distance is not a problem at all for him. In order to be able to
Wang Shuang also used poison on the arrow to kill him.
Lu Kai was suppressed in the cabin by Wang Shuang and was unable to leave the cabin for a while. However, Wei Ba issued an order for a full-scale attack at this time.
Lu Kai's vigilance played a great role. The Yuanxi tribe's stronghold was on the north bank of the Yuan River, and he camped on the south bank of the Yuan River. The nearest warship from the shore was thirty steps away, and the farther one was seventy or eighty steps away. Wei Ba pursued
They came without a warship. In this case, swimming to cross the river was simply asking for death. The Wu army on the warship could easily spot them and shoot them without any effort. What's more, although the Wu army was defeated, the overall number was still far away.
It is definitely not a wise idea to go head-to-head with more than the guard battalion he leads.
Wei Ba chose long-range attack.
Wei Ba asked the barbarians to choose higher terrain, hide behind trees and rocks, and throw the oil cans they brought at the Wu army's warships from a high position. There were not many oil cans, so Wei Ba asked them to use Lu Kai's warships to
As the target, they focused on attacking Lu Kai's warship. When oil tanks were smashed open on the deck and oil flowed everywhere, someone fired rockets.
The rockets roared and pierced deeply into the deck, igniting the oil all of a sudden. Fires rose into the sky, illuminating Wu Jun's panic figure. With these firelights, the barbarians opened their newly acquired crossbows and buckled
Turn on the crossbow machine, release the crossbow, and shoot out sharp arrows. The sharp arrows flew across the river, passed through the flames, and shot at the Wu troops who had just woken up.
Just as Wu Jun fell asleep, he was attacked again and was in a panic. More importantly, Lu Kai's warship was violently attacked. Flames rose and screams came one after another. One after another, the soldiers were hit by arrows and fell into the water. Some of them were covered in fire.
He let out a pitiful cry and ran around on the deck until he plunged into the water, causing water to rise into the sky.
The soldiers on duty on the deck received the most violent blow. More than a hundred crossbows fired a dense rain of arrows, catching them off guard. In a moment, most of the soldiers were hit by arrows, and the rest were frightened out of their wits. On the deck
The freely flowing fire oil illuminated their frightened eyes.
Although they were attacked, Wu Jun reacted quickly, and the ships quickly organized a counterattack. At the same time, they used drums to ask Lu Kai for further orders. However, Lu Kai was blocked in the cabin at the moment and could not issue orders at all. He was in
After many years of fighting in Jiaozhou, he easily discovered the strangeness on the arrows. It took him a long time to move the three guards away and clear the way out of the cabin.
During this time, his handsome ship had caught fire, and the flames burned the ropes on the mast, snaking up like a fiery snake, and quickly ignited his battle flag. Under the protection of his personal guards, Lu Kai finally
When he stood on the deck, his battle flag was only half burned, the rope was burned away, and the burning battle flag was like a piece of ashes, slowly falling from the sky.
The deck was in chaos, with fire everywhere, blood everywhere, and corpses everywhere. It was too horrible to see.
Lu Kai was shocked and angry. He did not expect that the enemy was so ferocious that he actually pursued him again. He did not expect that the enemy was so powerful. The warning he arranged had no effect at all, and he was easily touched by the enemy.
Unexpectedly, the enemy was so fierce that he set his warship on fire directly from sixty or seventy steps away.
What made him even more embarrassed was that a powerful archer was hiding on the shore, shooting poisonous arrows at him one after another, which were bloody and sealed. The opponent's bow was so powerful that the poisonous arrows flew sixty or seventy steps.
The distance is still enough to break through shields and shoot through the armor of the guards.
In the short period of time he was in a daze, two more guards were shot by poisonous arrows. They fell to the ground in pain and stopped breathing.
The invisible enemy is the most terrifying. This powerful archer severely dampened Lu Kai's self-confidence. He did not dare to stay on his handsome ship anymore. The fire here was too big and irreversible. What's more, the fire exposed him to
In the enemy's sight, you may die at any time.
Lu Kai's face was pale, his eyes were bloodshot, and his expression was ferocious. He had never experienced such a disastrous defeat since he joined the army. What made him even more crazy was that so far, he didn't know who his enemy was.
He didn't believe that Heisha, the master of the Yuanxi tribe, would have such a scheme.
Although Lu Kai was angry, he did not lose his mind. He quickly moved to a medium-sized warship next to him, hung up his battle flag again, and ordered the entire army to counterattack. Under the command of the sound of war drums, he learned that the commander-in-chief Lu Kai
All was well, and the Wu army slowly regained their composure and carried out counterattacks in an orderly manner. They used the crossbows on the warships to shoot at the enemies on the shore, and sent out infantry to prepare for landing on the shore to counterattack.
Lu Kai stood behind the bodyguard, looking through the gap in the shield at the arrows fired by the enemy on the hillside, and was secretly frightened. He could see that the number of enemies was not large, not more than two hundred, but the enemy
The equipment was beyond his expectation. It could shoot over a distance of sixty or seventy steps and still had enough lethality. This was not a weapon commonly used by barbarians, it could only be a standard weapon.
Did the barbarians use the captured Wu army weapons to strengthen their strength, or was there another group of enemies lurking in the dark? The more Lu Kai thought about it, the more nervous he became. He thought of Wei Ba. The news he received said that when Wei Ba escaped from Xiling,
There are more than 150 personal guards around him. The Wei family's soldiers have become famous all over the world in the Battle of Xiangyang. They are one of the few strong soldiers. Wei Ba is also a talented ordnance master. It is entirely possible for them to be equipped with standard weapons with excellent performance.
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The two sides exchanged fire across the river, and the Wu army gradually stabilized the situation by relying on their numerical advantage. Under the command of Lu Kai, five warships moved forward together and sailed to the north bank, preparing to land and set up a formation.
How could Wei Ba allow them to land? The Wu army had a numerical advantage. Once they fell into a positional battle, it would be very disadvantageous for him. He immediately ordered the crossbowmen to block the attack, and at the same time ordered Wang Shuang and Heisha to wear armor. Their armor was too heavy and could not be used all the time.
They were wearing it on their bodies, so they specially arranged for people to carry it on their backs. The positional battle was about to begin, and they prepared immediately.
Fifty soldiers of the Wu Army who landed on the beach held their shields and cautiously stepped ashore. As soon as they set up the leading position, dozens of figures suddenly ran out of the forest. The two people in front of them were walking as fast as they could, waving two long knives with strange shapes, and were attacking.
They came running. They didn't know what they were wearing. Arrows shot at them and sparks flew out, but they couldn't stop them.
This scene shocked Wu Jun.
Wang Shuang seized this opportunity, rushed to the front of Wu Jun, shouted loudly, and slashed towards him with his long sword with the sound of wind, cutting a Wu Jun spearman into two pieces with his spear. Heisha arrived shortly afterwards and struck out with his long sword.
With a swing, he easily cut off the arm of a Wu Jun soldier.
The Wu army was greatly frightened. Wang Shuang and Heisha charged in side by side. They raised their swords and killed several people in a row.
Fifty barbarians followed closely behind, slashing and killing.
Wu Jun was frightened by the strength of Wang Shuang and Heisha. These two men could not cut with their swords or hit with arrows, but the long knives in their hands were extremely sharp. They would die if they touched them, and they would die if they touched them. They had no effective restraint at all.
They had to retreat step by step after being killed, and how could they still have the courage to fight? In a moment, more than twenty people were killed, and the rest screamed, turned around and ran away, throwing themselves into the water, causing splashes of water.
Wang Shuang roared, jumped up, stepped on the springboard and boarded a warship, slashing and killing, becoming invincible.
The barbarians shouted to advance! (To be continued...)