Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1281 Sneak Attack
Seeing the fierce attack of the Jin navy, Zuo Rong ordered the ships to retreat. Huang Zhong saw this and naturally would not miss such an opportunity, so he immediately urged the warships to attack.

As a result, the Wu navy except Zuo Rong was exposed to the range of the Jin navy's ship-borne crossbow carts. The first few warships fired thick crossbow arrows at Lu Ji's flagship continuously, killing and wounding many soldiers on the deck. Seeing that the situation was not good, Lu Ji had to order the flagship to retreat.

Seeing this, Ding Feng, who was holding the line, hurriedly urged the warship forward, blocking in front of Lu Ji's flagship and fighting with Huang Zhong. He held a large shield in front of him, commanding the soldiers to fight back, while cursing at the warship on Zuo Rong's side, "You want to die for destroying the army formation?"

Zuo Rong's warship was now several dozen feet away. When Zuo Rong heard Ding Feng's scolding, he slowly approached. Ding Feng thought that Zuo Rong was here to help him. Although he hated Zuo Rong, he still held his nose and endured it. After all, internal strife on the battlefield was not good. The most urgent task was to repel the Jin army.

As soon as Dante Feng engaged in the battle, he immediately realized that the Jin navy was no longer what it used to be. The equipment and weapons they used were much stronger than those used in the Korean naval battle. The crossbow arrows fired from the Jin army's crossbow carts were like a storm, and the Wu soldiers on the bows of the ships fell to the ground one after another like wheat being cut. The crossbow arrows were so sharp that even wooden shields were shot through.

Ding Feng was extremely angry when he saw the heavy casualties on his side. With such a dense rain of arrows, it was impossible to board the ship and seize it!
He had no choice but to ask the archers to find cover, aim their bows and arrows at the sky, and shoot at the Jin army's warships, but the Jin army's warships had already set up shields on the top, so the bows and arrows had little effect.

The Jin army's warships rushed all the way, knocking over the warships of the Wu navy that were blocking the way, and headed straight for Ding Feng's warships. But Ding Feng could not retreat now, because behind him was Lu Ji's warship. If the Jin army broke in, the Wu navy would be completely collapsed!
At this time, Zuo Rong's flagship came closer to cover Ding Feng, but was shot out of control by the dense rain of arrows from the Jin army, and crashed into Ding Feng's flagship. Ding Feng fell down, and he couldn't help cursing, but thinking that the other party was here to help him, he had to hold his anger and asked the soldiers to turn the rudder and separate from Zuo Rong's ship.

However, Zuo Rong sent someone to say that his warship had a hole in it in the collision and was about to take in water and sink, so he requested to board Ding Feng's ship to jointly resist the Jin army.

Ding Feng cursed his bad luck inwardly, but as the battle situation was urgent, he had to agree. The grappling rope pedal was immediately released from Zuo Rong's ship, and the soldiers jumped onto Ding Feng's ship one after another.

A fat general jumped onto the boat. When he saw Ding Feng, he walked over and saluted Ding Feng with a smile, saying, "I thank General Ding for saving me."

This man always had a smile on his face and his complexion was pale, just like a Buddha statue in a temple. This was Zuo Rong recruited by Sun Quan.

Zuo Rong had a high reputation in Jiangdong because of his trip to worship Buddha, but some of the things he did were privately criticized by Jiangdong generals and officials. Ding Feng hated Zuo Rong very much, so he just snorted and said coldly: "The generals of the Jin army are difficult to deal with. Please help me defeat the enemy general."

After hearing this, Zuo Rong immediately took out his bow and arrow and said, "Okay, I will support General Ding!"

Seeing Zuo Rong taking out a longbow and shooting at Huang Zhong on the Jin army's warship, Ding Feng didn't know what to say. He ordered the soldiers to put up a shield formation and let the ships rush towards Huang Zhong's warship.

Ding Feng himself changed to a huge iron shield. He knew clearly that if he wanted to defeat the Jin army, he had to kill Huang Zhong, who was good at archery on the Jin army's warship. Since his archery skills were not as good as the other party's, he would jump onto the other party's warship and fight in close combat!

Seeing this, the Jin army took out arrows and loaded them into crossbows and shot. Wu soldiers were constantly shot down or killed, but the distance between the two warships was gradually closing. With a loud bang, the two warships collided violently. Taking advantage of the momentum, Ding Feng jumped onto the side of the ship and was about to jump onto Huang Zhong's warship.

But at this moment, there was a loud bang, and Ding Feng felt a sharp pain in his heart. He swayed and fell to the deck behind him.

Ding Feng was in mid-air, enduring the pain and turning over, then rolling to the ground in a mess. Then he threw away the iron shield in his hand and reached behind him, but he touched half of an arrow shaft, and his heart sank immediately.

He looked up and saw Zuo Rong shooting an arrow at him. With a bang, Zuo Rong's arrow hit Ding Feng's thigh. Ding Feng immediately fell to the ground. Ding Feng then realized what had happened. Zuo Rong actually betrayed him in the middle of the battle!

He clenched the knife in his hand and cursed, "Zao Rong, you despicable villain, you actually betrayed the king!"

Zuo Rong sneered, "A man who knows the current situation is a hero. You can only blame yourself for being too stupid. You are still trying to hold on when you are doomed to fail!"

"As long as I kill you and then kill Lu Ji, I can take your heads and ask for credit to King Jin. Now you just wait and die!"

Ding Feng was still struggling to get up, but Zuo Rong shot another arrow, hitting Ding Feng in the chest. The arrow penetrated deeply, and this time Ding Feng was completely out of strength and fell to the ground dejectedly.

Zuo Rong was still worried and was about to shoot more arrows at Ding Feng's head, but the Jin army warships activated their crossbows and shot at him. Zuo Rong quickly dodged and shouted, "Stop! I have captured Wu's general Ding Feng. I want to surrender!"

The Wu warships heard this and stopped their crossbow carts and approached cautiously. Zuo Rong saw that more than a dozen crossbow carts were aimed at him, so he drew his knife and walked towards Ding Feng, while shouting at the Jin warships: "Please wait a moment, I will present the head of Wu general Ding Feng to you!"

After hearing this, Ding Feng couldn't help but curse, "You ungrateful dog!"

"Today I will fight you to see who can kill whom!"

He struggled to his feet, drew out his sword, and stumbled towards Zuo Rong, using his remaining strength to chop at Zuo Rong's head. Seeing this, Zuo Rong sneered, stepped aside to avoid the blade, then swung his sword hard and chopped off Ding Feng's right hand.

Ding Feng fell to the ground in great pain, his eyes wide open, and he roared, "You..."

Zuo Rong was very proud. "You are a loser. You can't beat me even if you are not injured. How dare you brag?"

He stepped forward and stepped on Ding Feng's chest, holding a knife in one hand and grabbing Ding Feng's hair with the other, and was about to cut off Ding Feng's head.

Ding Feng felt that the blade of Zuo Rong was already on his neck, and he cursed loudly: "Despicable, despicable villain!"

"The Jin army is the same as you. They bribed you to launch a sneak attack. They are all despicable villains!"

Zuo Rong sneered, "How dare you criticize others?"

"How did you kill Zhang Fei?"

"I can do it on the first day, but others can't do it on the fifteenth?"

He exerted force with his arms, and blood flowed from Ding Feng's neck. At this time, Huang Zhong said, "Wait a minute." "Your Majesty, you must spare his life."

After hearing this, Zuo Rong put down his knife and said loudly: "I am Zuo Rong. I have heard that King Jin is kind and righteous, so I have given up the dark and joined the light. I hope King Jin will be magnanimous and let Rong serve you like a dog and a horse!"

He was fully confident that the other party would agree readily, but Huang Zhong's words were like a bucket of cold water poured over his head.

"The king said that other people are OK, but you, Zuo Rong, are not."

"Come here, shoot the arrow!"

Seeing that the crossbows were all pointed at him, Zuo Rong panicked and said, "Stop, stop!"

"I control the Jiangdong Buddhism and have hundreds of thousands of followers. Rongyuan is willing to persuade them to join the king. Doesn't the king need it?"

Huang Zhong said coldly: "The king said that your behavior is too disgusting. If he takes you in, it will only ruin the reputation of Jin."

After hearing this, Ding Feng burst into laughter. "Zao Rong, you never expected that Jin State doesn't want you!"

"The world is so big, where can you escape to?"

"Shut up!" Zuo Rong was so angry that he stabbed Ding Feng in the abdomen. "If I die, I will drag you down with me!"

He drew his knife, lifted Ding Feng up to block him, and shouted at Huang Zhong, "Put down your butcher knife, and turn back. Jin State has cut off our chance of survival, and it will be punished!"

Yuan Xi walked up to the bow and sneered, "You also know about retribution?"

"If you put down your butcher knife, you can turn back?"

"What about those innocent people you killed? Have you asked them?"

Zuo Rong's hands and feet were cold. In the past, he had always been accepted by others because of his martial arts, military strength and reputation. This was the first time he was rejected!
He suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said in a lost voice: "I know, you are a fierce tiger, you are a Taiping Daoist, no wonder you want to destroy my Buddhist Dao!"

"Just wait till you go to hell!"

Yuan Xi was unmoved and shouted, "Shoot!"

When Zuo Rong saw that hundreds of archers were aiming at him, he let out a strange cry, threw Ding Feng to the ground, and tried to hide in the cabin and run away.

As a result, he tripped and almost fell. He looked down and saw Ding Feng holding his ankle tightly with his remaining left hand. He quickly stepped on it twice, but Ding Feng held it even tighter.

Seeing that the Jin army was about to shoot arrows, Zuo Rong couldn't help but get angry. He swung his knife and cut off Ding Feng's left hand.

At this time, Huang Zhong shot an arrow, hitting Zuo Rong in the back. Zuo Rong felt the pain and quickly ran to the cabin. He was only three steps away from jumping into the cabin. Huang Zhong shot another arrow, piercing Zuo Rong's ankle. The arrow came out and was nailed into the deck.

Zuo Rong fell to the ground in pain and tried to pull out the arrow, but he was fat and couldn't bend down, so he shouted to the soldiers around him: "Come and help me!"

The soldiers of Wu army watched the whole process in a daze from beginning to end. Now when they saw Zuo Rong asking for help, no one came forward, not even Zuo Rong's personal soldiers!

When Zuo Rong saw this, he immediately cursed, "You ungrateful people, come up and save me!"

Ding Feng laughed miserably on the ground, "Zao Rong!"

"You are treacherous and have done something that has angered the heavens and the people. Do you still want to escape from this day?"

Zuo Rong's miscalculation was that although Ding Feng fought recklessly, he had always led the troops and had a very high prestige in the army. Now the whole process of his ambush by Zuo Rong was seen by the soldiers of the Wu army, and no one was willing to stand on Zuo Rong's side.

Moreover, they were watching because the situation was hopeless and they did not want to resist anymore. Not to mention the internal strife between Zuo Rong and Ding Feng, even if the two sides joined forces, it would be difficult to defeat the Jin army. Rather than resisting and dying here, it would be better to surrender early.

Now that the Wu soldiers had seen Zuo Rong torturing Ding Feng, their morale had completely dropped. Huang Zhong's voice rang out, "The King of Jin has ordered that only the chief culprit, Zuo Rong, be executed. As long as the others surrender, they will be forgiven."

"If anyone still doesn't put down their weapons after three breaths, they will be killed!"

There was a continuous clanging sound and the Wu soldiers threw down their weapons one after another. The Jin soldiers had already jumped onto the boat and tied up Zuo Rong.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Lu Ji, who was behind, ordered the ships to turn around and flee westward towards the Rushu River.

(End of this chapter)