The Three Kingdoms Voyage

Chapter 272 Great Victory of the Pirate Empire
Sun Shao smiled. He had the brazenness to tell Fan Man that it's okay to have a duel, don't sacrifice innocent lives, it's just you and me fighting in front of the battle, whoever loses will surrender.Your eldest son was captured alive by my men, and your youngest son was captured by my queen. The one who can barely be my opponent now is you, the King of Funan.

Fan Man was so angry that he had nothing to say, you, a young man in your twenties, want to challenge me, an old man in his sixties?Thank you for being able to speak.Sun Shao is shameless, but Fan Man is shameless. He is too embarrassed to argue with Sun Shao. He wants to fight for the benefit of his tongue. He will stop talking to him and decide to storm the Jinchen King City. He must attract the two reinforcements from the Yue Kingdom , a bloody battle to the end, a showdown.

Fan Man spoke impassionedly, but in fact he had other plans in mind. He was not sure whether he could conquer the inner city, and he did not intend to lose all the troops here. He attacked the inner city with all his strength to attract more If the country's reinforcements can catch the [-] reinforcements, he has achieved his goal. If he can't, he will have to attack for a while and then retreat.Although it is impossible for the military rations to support him to return to Temucheng, he has no choice but to go to any country along the way to borrow some rations. With a large army in hand, who would dare not borrow some rations?
Fan Man was well prepared, but when he went to the battlefield the next day, he changed his mind.

The reason is simple, Sun Shao left the city.

Sun Shao led a battalion of one thousand destroyers, with their backs against the city wall, and set up an formation at the foot of the city. The soldiers did not carry bows and crossbows, but only swords, shields and hooks. formed a semicircle.

Fan Man was ecstatic, Sun Shao didn't leave the city, he could only stare blankly even with 100 troops, and now that Sun Shao came out, even if he had a thousand elite troops, could he be able to withstand the turn of tens of thousands of troops Shock?What's more, he also needs powerful weapons like war elephants.He has rich experience, although he has never seen such a strange formation, but he quickly estimated Sun Shao's intentions.Sun Shao stood next to the city wall, hoping to use the thunderbolt chariots and crossbows installed at the top of the city to cover it. If he wanted to attack this small formation, he had to brave the sharp attack of the Vietnamese army and rush through the deadly more than [-] steps. , the casualties will be very staggering.

Then, compared to capturing Sun Shao and turning the tide of the battle in one fell swoop, Fan Man was willing to pay such a price.Without saying a word, he mobilized [-] troops to the front and launched a crazy attack.

With the sound of the drums, the Funan soldiers drove the war elephants and rushed towards Sun Shao at the foot of the city like a tide. They even gave up attacking the city gate, and they only wanted to take down this small formation and capture Sun Shao alive.

The battle has heated up from the beginning.

Fan Man knew that the inner city was small, and the Yue people were worried that if he attacked the city from all sides, the ordnance would be evenly distributed on all sides, and it would be impossible to concentrate a large number of them on one side, so it seemed that the city was smaller. The city is violent.He dispatched twenty war elephants at once, using the thick wooden house as a cover, and launched a charge together. No matter how powerful the armaments of the Yue people were, it was impossible to shoot and kill all twenty war elephants in such a short period of time. As soon as he rushed into Sun Shao's small formation, his goal was achieved.

Twenty war elephants lined up and ran towards the small formation under the city wall. Every elephant was followed by densely packed infantry. Fan Man got angry and sent 5000 men at once to take down the small formation in one go. 5000 people ran behind the elephants, and immediately crowded the not-so-spacious front of the city.

Thunderbolt chariots and strong crossbows at the top of the city began to roar, pouring stones and powerful crossbows into the crowd. Wherever they went, Funan soldiers uttered screams, some were smashed into blood by stones, and some were shot by crossbow arrows. The body was pierced, but they didn't dare to turn back. Fan Man's personal guards were watching from behind. Whoever dared to turn back would be stabbed. robbery.The Funan soldiers had no way out, they could only run wildly behind the elephants holding up their wooden shields which were of very limited use.

The giant crossbow at the top of the city began to shoot at the war elephant. The spear-like crossbow made a sharp whistling sound in the air, flew over a distance of more than 100 steps, smashed the thick wooden board on the back of the war elephant, and shot the elephant's back. The soldiers on the ground pierced the thick skin of the war elephants, and shot and killed the war elephants in front of the formation.

However, although the strong crossbow is very accurate and the shooting speed is fast enough, there are too many war elephants. Fan Man threw twenty of them at once. The first war elephant continued to do nothing, cleanly replenished another ten, and ordered the remaining war elephants to be ready, and when necessary, they all went up, and no matter what, they must rush to the city wall and kill Sun Shao.

The war elephants neighed and sharp arrows galloped. After a short and tragic fight, at the cost of twelve war elephants, finally three war elephants successfully broke through the blockade of the thunderbolt chariot and the crossbow, and rushed to the small cave under the city wall. Array.

Fan Man was ecstatic, and ordered ten war elephants to be thrown in again to maintain enough pressure, making Cui Qian on the city wall very angry.Fan Man sent the war elephants to the battlefield at all costs. Although the gunners and crossbowmen had performed beyond their standard, after all, the number was limited, and it was impossible to kill all the war elephants within range. Once the war elephants rushed within ten steps , he did not dare to attack, for fear of accidentally injuring Sun Shao.This is what Fan Man wanted. Using his advantage in numbers, he pushed Cui Qian to a dead end.

Cui Qian regretted endlessly.If he knew this earlier, he shouldn't have agreed with Sun Shao's tactics in the first place.At the meeting before the battle, Sun Shao raised a question, what if Fan Man was going to retreat if he could not attack the city?Yue Hai and the others were still at the beach fifty miles away. When they got the news, they came back. Fan Man had already run away. Even if they caught up, the casualties would inevitably increase in the jungle.In order to keep Fan Man under the city, Sun Shao proposed to go out of the city by himself and set up an formation under the city. On the one hand, he would attract Fan Man under the city so that he would not escape far away;

Now the purpose of attracting Fan Man has been achieved. Not only did he stay, but he went crazy and went all out from the beginning.For both attackers and defenders, the offense is active, and the defense is passive. In order to prevent Fan Man from attacking the city from all sides, the thunderbolt chariot and crossbow cannot be moved at any time, but can only be arranged equally on all sides. The strength is obviously a little weak.

If Sun Shao made any mistakes, then all these victories would be for nothing.Cui Qian was frightened for a while, he rushed to the wall, and shouted to Sun Shao at the bottom of the wall: "Your Majesty..."

Sun Shao raised his head, looked at Cui Qian's pale face, smiled and waved his hands: "Jianzhong, don't worry, nothing will happen. Just keep the city safe and bring more crossbowmen here. Fan Man wants Fill it with human lives, let's see how many people he has to fill it in."

Cui Qian was speechless, so he could only shrink his head, and ordered the crossbowmen on the other three walls to come to support him, and be ready to rescue Sun Shao from going to the city at any time.

The three war elephants that broke through the interception ran to the small formation below the city with joy.While talking to Cui Qian, Sun Shao paid attention to the Funan people.Funan people rushed through the terrifying rain of arrows, seeing Sun Shao and others in front of them, they were all ecstatic, they yelled, let go of their footsteps and rushed over, as if Sun Shao in the city didn't have a thousand destroyers around him , just him alone.

Sun Shao sneered, picked up his three-stone bow, drew it and shot.

The long arrow whizzed away, and with a "pounce", it hit the eye of a war elephant running in the front. The war elephant had already been hit by several arrows, but none of its vital parts were hurt, so it didn't take it seriously, and it still exerted its strength run.Seeing that Sun Shao was ten steps away, the Funan soldiers on the back of the elephant shouted with joy, and the crossbowmen who had been prepared for a long time had already raised their crossbows, ready to shoot Sun Shao first and make a great achievement.They never expected that Sun Shao's archery skills were so superb that he hit the war elephant in the eye with just one arrow.

No matter how thick the elephant's skin is, it has nothing to do with the eyes. The running elephant neighed in pain and shook its head again and again. The huge ivory and the sharp blade tied to the ivory knocked the Funan soldiers who rushed forward. Flying up, fluttering in the wind like leaves, the charging formation suddenly became chaotic.

Without saying a word, Sun Shao lifted another arrow, and the long arrow shot in from the war elephant's mouth wide open. The arrow hit the throat, and the war elephant raised its head and roared, its legs went limp, and it fell to the ground with a heavy weight. His body shook the ground, sending dust flying.The soldiers on the elephant's back were caught off guard and fell down one by one.

Without waiting for Sun Shao's order, Zhou Yin jumped up, raised his knife and shouted: "Follow me!"

Twenty Destroying Fengying soldiers rushed out after him, protecting their bodies with shields, while wielding ring-headed swords in their hands, and attacked the Funan soldiers who rushed in front of them. In the battle, the Funan soldiers who had escaped from the dead were their opponents, and they were distinguished as soon as they came into contact.Although there were many soldiers in Funan, the soldiers of the Tsuifeng Camp were unstoppable and unstoppable. They killed more than 30 soldiers around the fallen elephant in a blink of an eye, and then rushed over like a second elephant.

The first war elephant fell to the ground with a bang, which surprised the following war elephants. Although the elephant soldiers tried their best to adjust their direction, the body of the war elephant was too large. It was not easy to turn when it was running at full strength. Just now Turning around a bit, he stepped on the fallen war elephant, and his footing was unstable. The soldier on the elephant's back was almost thrown off, and he was so frightened that he clung to the railing tightly, so he didn't care about attacking the enemy.

At that moment, Zhou Yin stepped on the back of the fallen war elephant, jumped up, his tongue burst into spring thunder in mid-air, and with a loud shout, his long knife was like lightning, and he slashed at the brown rope on the back of the war elephant. , the sharp sword cut the palm rope in half, the skin was ripped apart, blood flowed, the elephant suffered pain, struggled hard, struggled twice, the palm rope was completely broken, and the fence on the back of the elephant fell apart with a "wow" When the soldiers sitting inside turned pale with fright, they yelled loudly, grabbed the railing in vain, and fell to the ground with a "bang", knocking the soldiers to their knees. Before they could stand up, Zhou Yin waited. People jumped on them and took their lives with a few knives.

Two war elephants fell in front of the formation, just blocking the way of the third war elephant. The elephant soldier exerted all his strength, and finally controlled the war elephant, and did not repeat the same mistake, stepping on his companions, but their hesitation gave a blow. Sun Shao's best chance, Sun Shao fired two arrows in succession, the long arrows passed through the gap between the wooden houses, and shot and killed the soldiers in charge of the elephant.As soon as his arrow left the string, Tu Hu rushed out, holding the saber in both hands, roared angrily, and the saber whizzed down, slashing fiercely on the trunk of the war elephant.

The war elephant suffered pain, let out a long hiss, raised its head and threw it at Tu Hu.Tu Hu was tall, but not clumsy. He refused to dodge, turned his long knife back, and slashed on the elephant's trunk again.The knife collided with the elephant's trunk, and the blade stuck into the elephant's trunk, almost cutting off the entire elephant's trunk. He was also knocked back a few steps by the tyrannical strength of the war elephant, his face turned pale, his chest felt tight, and he almost blurted out a mouthful of blood.

"Tu Hu, you're crazy!" Seeing this, Sun Shao yelled angrily. He stuffed the bow into the hand of a guard, picked up a spear from the ground, and rushed to the elephant. Looking at the time, he stabbed out with all his might.

Like an arrow, the spear pierced straight into the war elephant's mouth, and with a "click", the shaft of the spear broke into two pieces, which made Sun Shao's palms go numb.Sun Shao yelled, dodged to let the long teeth thrown by the war elephant, and threw out half of the spear shaft with his hands.The spear twirled and hit the face of a Funan soldier on the elephant's back who was aiming at Sun Shao and was about to shoot.The soldier was hit by the spear until his face was covered with flowers. With a scream, he let go of his hand. The arrow flew to nowhere, and the man fell off the elephant's back. With a swing of the short stick, his skull was smashed open.

Red blood, white brain, mixed together, flowing wantonly.

The Destroying Front Camp roared out, killing three war elephants in the blink of an eye, not only the Funan soldiers behind the war elephants were stunned, even Cui Qian and others on the city wall were dumbfounded.Everyone knew that the Fengfengying was an elite group, but they didn't expect the Fengfengying to be so strong. They all knew that Sun Shao's martial arts were good, but Sun Shao hadn't been in battle for a long time in the past few years. They didn't expect that his martial arts not only did not regress, but even worse. sharp.

In a short time, he shot down a war elephant, killed a war elephant, and killed a Funan soldier with half a spear. Who can withstand such an attack?Cui Qian looked at Sun Shao and the soldiers of the Fengfeng camp who were in the middle of the city, a surge of pride surged in his chest, and he couldn't help raising his arms and shouting: "Your Majesty is mighty——"

Cui Yan and Cui Wu, who were also stunned, also came back to their senses, raised their arms and shouted: "Your Majesty is mighty—"

The soldiers next to him also shouted: "Your Majesty is mighty—"

The roar aroused the fighting spirit of the soldiers of the Fengfeng camp, and they became more brave. Under the leadership of Sun Shao and Zhou Yin, they were like two sharp scimitars. At the same time, he killed more than 50 soldiers following the elephant.

"Shoot me!" Cui Qian's voice trembled with excitement. Four war elephants were killed in front of the small formation below the city. They couldn't charge smoothly even if they rushed over. It was not easy for them to bypass the huge bodies of these war elephants, but Sun Shao and others were able to advance and retreat freely among the war elephants.He can rest assured now, and focus on shooting those Funan people who are pouring in.

Fan Man couldn't see what was going on under the city. He only knew that soldiers and war elephants were rushing towards Sun Shao like a tide.He immediately ordered the rest of the war elephants to go into battle, and without giving Sun Shao a chance to breathe, he must be killed before the battle.

Seven or eight thousand Funan soldiers and nearly fifty war elephants crowded in front of the small royal city, becoming the best targets for strong crossbows and thunderbolt chariots.The soldiers of Yue State on the city wall fought vigorously, shooting and killing wantonly. Stones flew into the formation of Funan people, turning every living life into mutilated corpses. Funan soldiers one after another.However, the Funan people were blinded by the idea of ​​capturing Sun Shao alive. They shouted and braved the dense rain of arrows and cannon stones, unremittingly attacking the city.

The city quickly became a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

Under the protection of Ao Lei and Tu Hu, Sun Shao came and went and clashed, as if entering a land without people. Although there were many Funan people, they were separated into scattered crowds by the corpses of war elephants, and they could not display their talents at all. Many advantages, but were constantly eroded by the Destroying Front Camp whose personal strength was far superior to theirs. People kept rushing over, but they could not pose a threat to Sun Shao and others at all. It's getting worse.

However, Fan Man knew nothing about these situations. He only saw the indistinguishable killing in front of him, but he didn't know the specific situation. As time went by, he gradually became a little uneasy.It stands to reason that with so many people rushing to the city, Sun Shao is an iron fighter, and he should show his defeat. Why is it that the soldiers at the top of the city have been shouting "the king is mighty" with full of fighting spirit, but they can't hear the soldiers on the other side. cheer?Could it be that Sun Shao still has the advantage up to now?

Fan Man stood on the back of the war elephant, put his hands on his eyebrows and looked into the distance, but he couldn't see anything.The city had already been blocked by more than a dozen war elephants and crowds. All he could see was that Sun Shao's battle flag was going east and west, and it never fell down.

Could it be that this young King of Yue is really the undefeated god of war, who can actually contend with a war elephant with flesh and blood?Fan Man was frightened for a while, his whole body was icy cold for a moment, and under the scorching sun gradually, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Your Majesty?" Fan Ru was the first to notice Fan Man's uneasiness, and quickly called out.

Fan Man turned her head in a daze, looking at Fan Ru with anxiety and fear in her eyes, her voice became a little hoarse: "Ah Ru, how many war elephants do we have?"

Fan Ru was stunned for a moment, Fan Man had always been confident in fighting, when did he ask him these questions?He turned his head to look at it, made a rough estimate and said, "Except for the side where the king sits, everyone else has gone up."

"A total of 56 war elephants were brought out, and twelve were lost in the attack on the outer city. All 44 war elephants rushed up, but failed to deal with the Thousand Destroyer Camp. This battle... how to fight." Fan Man raised his head. hand, caressing his forehead, showing a painful expression.Fan Ru was also stunned. When they fought in the past, war elephants were always a powerful weapon. Needless to say, more than 40 war elephants rushed into the battle, even 40 war elephants could solve the problem.Small-scale battles and even a few war elephants can turn the situation around. The reason why Fan Man was able to ignore King Yue's threat and was unwilling to accept his conditions was because he had two or three hundred war elephants in his hand. With these war elephants in hand, they can almost support this land.But who would have thought that since the war, they have suffered setbacks everywhere. First, the navy was completely lost, and now even the biggest reliance has lost its due power.First, Fan Chang, who owned a hundred war elephants, was defeated. Now Sun Shao didn't even need to dig a hole, but with a thousand infantry, sharp and strong bows and crossbows, he was stunned to resist the attack of more than [-] war elephants.

Could it be that the war elephants that have been rampant for many years in the Funan War will be swallowed by the Yue people like the navy, with no bones left?

Fan Ru's face was a little pale, he raised his head and looked at Fan Man, Fan Man's expression made him even more startled, his eyes were dull, his lips were pale, his two big hands on the railing were exposed with blue veins, one after another A bean-sized bead of sweat rolled down his wrinkled cheek.

"God Brahma abandoned us... God Brahma abandoned us..." Fan Man muttered to herself, her normally calm face suddenly filled with despair.

"Oh—" There was a sudden burst of cheers from the front.

Fan Ru looked forward in horror, and immediately jumped up in fright.The winner was already decided on the battlefield. Seven or eight war elephants ran back frantically, followed by soldiers who were equally terrified and inexplicable. They shouted wildly and ran wildly. Forget to lift, let the Yue people shoot to their heart's content.Behind them, Sun Shao's battle flag roared in the wind, and the sound of killing could be heard endlessly.

It was the shouts of Yue people.

lost?Fan Ru couldn't believe his eyes. He rushed up and down more than 40 war elephants and more than 1 soldiers, and they were defeated by a thousand destroyers?This is too unbelievable.

"It's a defeat." Fan Man laughed silently, with a desolate expression: "We lost, 3 people lost to 1000 people, lost...lost..."

"No, Your Majesty, we still have 2 people..." Before Fan Ru finished speaking, she saw Fan Man's body swaying on the elephant's back, and then she fell straight like a piece of dead wood blown off by the wind. down.Fan Ru was shocked, subconsciously rushed up to catch him, and shouted loudly: "King——"

Fan Ru's shout alarmed the other generals, and the generals whose confidence had been crushed by the defeat in front saw Fan Man fell down, wondering if he was injured or dead, and the morale of the army suddenly became chaotic.At this moment, the gate of the inner city suddenly opened wide, and more Yue soldiers rushed out from inside. Their morale was high, and while shouting slogans, they chased the defeated Funan soldiers and fled here and there.

The army was defeated like a mountain, and when Fan Man fell, the Funan people's confidence collapsed. Facing the wolves and tigers of the Yue soldiers, although they still had an absolute advantage in numbers, they no longer had the courage to fight. I don't know which one. At first, they began to turn around and run wildly.

In the Battle of Special Mucheng, Sun Shao used a thousand destroying front battalion to set up an array under the city as a bait, relying on thunderbolt chariots and strong crossbows on the city wall to kill and injure a large number of Funan people. After more than an hour of fierce fighting, he killed and injured [-] war elephants. Yu Tou completely broke the will of the Funan people and achieved a great victory. He beheaded more than [-] people, captured more than [-] alive, and captured Funan King Fan Man and more than ten generals alive.

After receiving the news, many small countries that had originally held a wait-and-see attitude came to surrender one after another. Sun Shaofeng Jinchen Wang Wujiu was dunxunhou, with two thousand households, and set up Jinchen County. After half a month of rest, the army set off for Temu City.

(End of this chapter)