Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

Chapter 145 Night Fire
In the water in the distance, two groups of sailors are fighting, but one side is mostly fishing boats, and the other side has a few small and medium-sized ships in addition to giant seagoing ships. The soldier jumped into the water, and was immediately grabbed by Liang Shanshui ghost, who stabbed him in the back with a knife.

"Go to hell!"

Blood splattered, and the human head flew ten feet away and fell into the water. The blood fainted as he sank up and down. The muscular Ruan Xiaoer wiped the blood from his face, and looked at the sergeant on board with a murderous look: "Surrender!" do not kill--"

The timid officers and soldiers who had been killed earlier immediately dropped their knives and knelt down. Ruan Xiaoer looked around and saw that the other two brothers were in the same situation. These are all good coolies, don’t let them all drown.”

Amidst the roar of laughter, the navy man belonging to the three brothers turned over and entered the water, not caring that it was early winter.

"Notify Brother Wei Zhaode, don't crash the ship again, it's all fake property, don't you feel bad if your own things are broken?"

Speaking in a bold tone, someone picked up a flag and waved it non-stop.

……

The smell of blood wafted in the air, and the sergeant of the Imperial Army walked in the battlefield just now with a stern expression, holding a long spear and stabbing the corpses of every fallen Liang Shanzhai soldiers, obviously checking for those who were pretending to be dead, as for those who did not Immediately, the wounded and moaning died, and then he walked up and stabbed him with a gun to end his life.

"It's a pity that there are not many god-armed bows, otherwise these rampant thieves will definitely have their hatred here."

Seeing that it was safe outside, Huang An walked out of Dazhai with a group of personal soldiers and generals. He turned a blind eye to the behavior of those forbidden soldiers searching for the dead body's property, but squinted his eyes and looked at He Tao: "You said those thieves still dare to stay after they escaped?" Staying in the wild?"

"Commander Shenwei, how can those grass bandits in the mountains compare with our army's bravery? At this time, they must have fled and returned to the water." He Tao stroked the cold iron helmet cheerfully: "It's a pity that it wasn't the horse bandits who came here. Otherwise, if you shoot them with a bow with a divine arm, you should be able to wipe them out here."

Huang An shook his head and said: "It's not that simple. If you want to wipe out those horse bandits, you need someone to entangle you, otherwise it will be troublesome if they come and go like the wind."

After thinking for a while, he turned his head and said to the messenger: "Let them quickly clean up the battlefield, there are only a few dozen people, so don't dawdle. Send a message to the water army and let them snipe at this group of grass bandit water army. Don't let them go up. They were wiped out on this land. Another 800 people were ordered to meet Yang Zhi, so that he could quickly..."

Huang An suddenly stopped talking, squinted his eyes and looked forward, which was the direction of the southeast.Seeing that he was silent, others just looked at him and couldn't help but follow his line of sight.A group of less than half a hundred sergeants fled in embarrassment and brought news that they did not know here.

The navy army dominated by township soldiers was completely wiped out, and all the ships were dragged away. Except for those who were killed, only a group of less than 30 of them escaped from the water by chance, and the rest were captured by Liang Shanshui bandits and returned to the village. was also towed away.Yang Zhi, the military commander in the rear, was robbed of transporting grain. Yang Zhi was defeated and fled without a trace. The grain carts were all captured by Liangshan people.

Those who heard this remark immediately exploded. The two messages were more frightening than the other. The former was just unable to pass the water, but the latter was in danger of running out of food, no, it was definitely going to be out of food.

At this time, there is a distance from Juye, even if there is no time to transport food to the army immediately, not to mention that the other party has horse troops, and the food will not be delivered safely.

"Straight mother thief! Isn't Yang Zhi a descendant of the Tianbo Mansion? How can he be so useless!" Huang An's mouth was bitter, and there was a hint of anger in his words. Everyone else lowered their heads and dared not speak. He Tao wanted to say something He shut his mouth again, and his expression was also very miserable.

"Go back to the camp first, how to proceed..." Huang An gritted his teeth: "We will make a decision after the discussion."

All the generals looked at each other, and they all nodded in agreement, only worried in their hearts that it might be difficult to be kind this time.

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In the woods, the war horse kept opening its mouth and baring its big white teeth, gnawing on the bean cakes fed to him by the knight, shaking its tail from time to time, sweeping off the dead leaves that fell on its buttocks, and some war horses lowered their heads and drank from their helmets after eating. Then he raised his head and snorted, and rubbed against his master.

In the center of the horse bandits in a circle, Yao Gang, a new member of the gang, tapped the tree trunk with his good arm and gathered dead branches: "Then Huang An is just a group of trainees, and he became the commander of the coalition army only after his family relationship is relatively strong. I don't know how talented and learned, but there is no well-known general in Jeju, so Zhe Mo is a useless piece of trash."

Lu Bu and the others looked at each other: "So, can we fight hard?"

Yao Gang hesitated for a moment, stopped beating the tree trunk, then threw the branch and said, "But I don't know, this person knows about me... The entire army in Yunzhou was wiped out, so there must be other plans, but it's hard to say whether to advance or retreat. "

Then he looked at Lu Bu and said, "Let's make an agreement, then leave Huang An to me."

Lu Bu glanced at Yao Gang: "The battlefield changes rapidly. If you are lucky, he will come to you."

Yao Gang laughed grimly: "I have a very miserable life, but this time even if I change my life against the sky, I have to kill him, otherwise this idea will not make sense!"

Just as he was talking, the sound of horseshoes sounded from outside, and all the big men who were resting stood up and looked around, only to see four horsemen galloping fast.

"Huh?" Niu Gao looked at the person with sharp eyes, "How did this fire-breathing Niubi and Brother Xie Ning come about?"

As soon as the words fell, the four people had already rode their horses to the front and dismounted one after another. Two soldiers from the horse army ran over and said, "Leader, the Jeju army has already set up camp, and there are many antlers around the perimeter to resist the horses. They plan to defend themselves. Lord, when the two of us came back, we ran into Leader Xie and Leader Kou who were looking for us, so we came together."

Xie Ning and Kou Yan didn't dare to be negligent, they hurried forward and told what happened to the infantry, and finally said: "Brother, now the opponent is relying on the camp for defense, we are already at a disadvantage. It has strong penetrating power, if you launch it at the horse army, you will suffer heavy losses, please be careful, brother."

"God Arm Bow?" Lu Bu frowned, looking at Yao Gang aside.

The big man didn't hide it, and said, "It's the equipment of the imperial army, but it's mostly concentrated in the capital and the western army. It's not allowed to build it privately. I also have it in Yunzhou, but Cheng Wanli is not allowed to take it out, saying it is for use." It's important to defend the city, but I didn't expect that Jeju would call out thirty planes for Huang An to use."

Lu Bu still frowned: "What is the range of the bow? How can it hurt infantry wearing iron armor?"

Yao Gang suddenly realized that Lu Bu didn't know, and explained immediately: "The bow of the god arm is more like a crossbow than a bow. It needs to be opened with a foot. It is rumored that it can shoot [-] steps and can be tied again, but it is actually a myth. You can still kill people within a range of [-] paces, but after that, it is difficult to shoot, but you can shoot as far as [-] paces."

After a short pause, he touched his chin with his hand and said: "It's just that this bow is too expensive to cover within seventy steps, and it's no problem to get out through the iron armor."

All the strong men looked at each other, but Lu Bu's eyes lit up: "Ta crossbow? It's a good thing, but it's a pity for Huang An to use it."

Yao Gang opened his mouth on hearing this, thought for a while and closed it again.

"Brother, where are we now?" Bian Xiang looked at Lu Bu, "If there is a strong attack, many people will die."

"It's a pity that I can't go back to the mountain for dinner. I'll wait until it gets dark." Lu Bu looked at the sky, looked at Xie Ning, and said, "Tell Du Po, let him wait until he is healthy and recharges his batteries. A certain side will launch an offensive at night. , let him see the enemy camp on fire before entering."

Then he ordered to the side: "Go and inform the sailors to help them attack the stronghold at night, and use rockets to ignite the opponent's camp."

Then he turned to Kou Yan and said, "Brother, don't go back. If the navy goes badly at night, you still need your brother's means."

Kou Yan showed a smile on his ugly face: "Brother, look at the poor."

After the order was completed, someone rode out, Xie Ning nodded, and also turned around and rode back. Lu Bu looked at the crowd and said, "Everyone have a good rest, and send those Song soldiers on their way tonight."

"Yes."

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The sky gradually darkened, and the army camp near the water source and the army camp without food and grass complained a lot. The sergeants had to take out the dry food they carried and swallowed it with cold water. On the contrary, many people with weak stomachs ran away. out the toilet.

Several braziers were burning in the commander's big tent, and all the generals who went out for a walk during the day sat with their heads bowed and said nothing. Desperate, what I thought was just a trip to pick up credit suddenly turned into a fatal thing, and this alone is unacceptable.

Huang An looked at the people below with a headache. Since two news came out during the day, he panicked, but all the generals and officers in the battalion turned into gourds, which made him even more irritable. He slapped the table and waved his hands: "Everyone go back to rest, and return to Juye tomorrow morning, and guard the camp tonight, so as not to be attacked by others."

A kind of general just felt amnesty, and hurried out, Huang An hastily ate some food, seeing that it was getting late, he wanted to sleep and rest, but after lying down, he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, so he had to stand up and walk out of the tent.

"Commander!" The general who was watching the night outside hurriedly saluted Huang An.

"Is there a situation?"

"Not found yet, everything is safe."

"Let the sergeants on duty cheer up and pay attention to the noises outside." Huang An rubbed his head, feeling that tonight might not be peaceful, but he really didn't know what the other party would do.

A few night owl cries sounded, Huang An tightened his clothes, looked at the sergeant who was freezing in the early winter night and stomped his feet, and didn't say anything, but there was a little dissatisfaction in his heart, he always felt that these people were slacking off.

However, in the next moment, the dull sound of horseshoes sounded in the night, Huang An's face changed, and he hurriedly asked someone to ring the alarm bell. The whole camp seemed to explode. Countless figures came out of the tents, and some people put on their armor neatly. However, some people couldn't fasten their belts, so they had to pick up weapons with crooked armor, but the sound of hoofbeats gradually faded away, gradually disappearing...

The sergeant with the knife and the gun looked blankly at the night, and the sentry sergeant looked carefully for a long time before giving a signal-there was no enemy.

Huang An frowned tightly, no matter how stupid he was, he had read some military books, and now he knew that the thief was using a strategy of exhausting soldiers, but he couldn't fight back in the dark night. It is also the same as nothing.

"what happened?"

"It seems that there are no enemies."

"What are you doing without warning from the enemy? It's so infuriating."

Huang An looked around at the noisy sergeants, and when he heard their complaints, he cursed at the idiots, and ordered: "Let half of the people sleep, and the rest stay vigil."

Then he came to He Tao and discussed with him in the big tent: "The people in Liangshan don't want me to sleep, so how can observation teach me how to deal with it?"

He Tao frowned and thought hard when he heard the words: "Tao has no good solution, the only thing he can think of is to send cavalry to drive away the opponent."

Huang An shook his head: "It's like a meat bun beating a dog. I'll get nothing but losses."

"Then I can't..."

He Tao spread his hands, and the next moment, the sound of hooves sounded again in the silent night. Huang An rubbed his forehead: "Let the Xiang army quickly dig a ditch to prevent the other party from sneaking in."

He sighed again and said, "In addition, send an order so that the person on duty at night does not have to ring the bell immediately, and waits for the other party to really approach before ringing."

When the order was issued, some people were happy and some were worried. The Imperial Army Master didn't want to be on duty at night. After some "discussion", the Imperial Army Commander happily went back to sleep, leaving four Xiang Army Commanders with blue noses and swollen eyes gnashing their teeth.

Huang Anzi would also lay down in the tent, and after a short while, the sound of horseshoes sounded again, and then hurried away, with a mocking smile on his lips, after all, having a camp is better than not having one, and this group of thieves would not dare to storm the camp.

Consciousness gradually blurred, and the night became quiet again.

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The night fell silent, and a round of crescent moon leaped into the sky, exuding a dim light, and from time to time, the face was covered by drifting clouds.

On the side facing the water, more than a dozen people emerged from the icy river, landed on the shore lightly, approached the sentry cautiously, took out a dagger and slapped it, and then quickly stabilized their bodies. He leaned his body to the side and looked as if he was asleep.

A patrolling sergeant walked by and saw it, and just laughed and cursed, and then left, completely oblivious to the fact that the birdsong tonight was not as loud as in the past.

Dozens of boats appeared from a pitch-black distance, and they were pumping oars together, making a splashing sound, and then someone stood up with a strong bow in his hand, and the arrowhead wrapped in oilcloth was ignited, amidst the creaking sound of bow opening , The rocket trained into irregular lines was lifted obliquely and aimed at the distance.

A moment later, a whistle sounded, and a bowstring trembled in the night sky. The rocket that soared into the sky crossed an arc and fell down like a meteor. Raid!"

In an instant, the sound of Jinming hovered in the night sky. Huang An suddenly opened his eyes, lifted the quilt and flew out of bed and rushed out of his tent. The moment he felt the sky was falling, his pupils reflected the light of fire, and there were orange spots in the sky. Falling, immediately causing more flames.

Liangshan thief!

Huang An trembled and gritted his teeth, then suddenly heard a loud noise, turned his head suddenly, and murmured: "What happened?"

(End of this chapter)