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Chapter 270 Deng Long is dead, Chen has been captured
Chapter 270 Deng Long is dead, Chen has been captured
Following Zhang Shuo's attack on Chen, Ling Cao also led people out of the cabin.
Immediately Ling Cao brought more than 300 crossbowmen to the side of the boat, and shot a round of crossbow arrows at Deng Long who was a little dazed on the pier and other soldiers who followed Deng Long and Chen Jiu.
This Deng Long was the focus of attention, so four or five crossbow arrows were quickly nailed to his body, and he fell to the ground without saying anything.
"Kill! Capture the camp!"
Afterwards, Ling Cao took the lead and led his men along the sampan to the pier, and rushed to the inside of the Guishexia Water Village, while the other big ships and small boats that followed the warships into the water village had also docked at the pier. On the way, when they heard the movement here, the soldiers hiding in the cabin also went to the pier to kill them.
Among them, those soldiers wearing Jiang Xia's military uniforms cut their clothes with knives, revealing their own military uniforms inside, and followed them to the pier.
"Kill, kill!"
Shouts of killing rang out in Guishexia water village, but Jiang Xia's soldiers in Guishexia water village were completely unprepared and didn't even know what happened.
There were originally 1000 soldiers here, but now there are about 500 soldiers scattered on the cliffs of the Guishe Gorge. There are less than 500 soldiers in the water village, and there are about [-] soldiers in charge of the water camp. The other [-] people are on duty, resting in the camp, or playing in the back camp.
Now that they suddenly encountered Ling Cao's surprise attack of nearly two or three thousand soldiers, they were powerless to resist.
In addition, about a thousand of the soldiers brought by Ling Cao are crossbowmen. They are divided into one hundred or more than 200 groups. For the soldiers, a round of crossbow arrows shot them first, and then the other sword and shield hands rushed up and slashed with their knives. Naturally, no one could stop them.
After a while, the Guishexia water village was completely in chaos. Most of Huang Zu's soldiers in the water village were not on the boat. A few were guarding on the arrow towers of the water village, or patrolling the walls of the village, but most of them were not on board. They are all in the camp on land in the water village.
Therefore, Ling Cao didn't need to go to the boats in the water village to collect the enemy troops. Under Ling Cao's command, the soldiers on the arrow tower and the camp in the water village were cleaned up first, and then they approached the camp on the land to capture them bit by bit. The whole water village.
At this moment, Huang Zu's soldiers in Huang Zu's water village in Guishe Gorge can only escape from the direction of the land camp gate and retreat all the way to Xiling County where Huang Zu is located, or they can only flee in a panic to the cliff of Snake Mountain. Join those soldiers on the cliff.
At this time, without Deng Long and Chen Jiu's commander-in-chief, even if there were still some military lords who could control their subordinates, they were fighting on their own, unable to organize effective defense in the water village.
Not long after, the entire Guishexia water village was captured by Ling Cao, and then Ling Cao ordered people to seal the Lumen of the water village, and then led his men to rush to the Snake Mountain cliff on the north bank of the Yangtze River.
And Zhang Shuo also escorted Chen Jiu, and carried Deng Long's body to follow, hoping to use the bodies of Chen Jiu and Deng Long to make the remaining defenders of Guishe Gorge surrender.
Of course, at this time, Huang Zu's soldiers on the two cliffs of Guishe Gorge also discovered the changes in the water village. ground defense.
Now, in addition to the original 1000 soldiers on the two cliffs, there seemed to be more than 800 soldiers who escaped from the water village. With the help of the slope of Snake Mountain, they were able to counterattack the attacking Ling Cao soldiers condescendingly.
Ling Cao organized more than 800 crossbowmen to form a three-row formation, and then used more than 1000 swords and shields to guard the crossbowmen's left and right, step by step, pressing down on the Snake Mountain.
More than 800 crossbowmen fired crossbow arrows in rotation, almost without a pause, falling step by step like covering, but it also made Huang Zu's soldiers who had no shelter on the cliff to retreat step by step.
However, after Huang Zu's defenders retreated to a certain position, they also moved a lot of stones that were originally placed on the other side of the cliff and gorge, and rolled down along the slope.
These stones were originally intended to smash the ships passing through the canyon, so there are really a lot of them stored on the cliffs, and now it doesn't take much effort for Huang Zu's soldiers, as long as they are moved to the sloping hillside, they can follow Inertia rolls down.
The stone rolled down vigorously. If it was hit by the stone, it would break the head and break the bone. Even with a shield, there was no way to stop it.
Therefore, Ling Cao didn't dare to gather his soldiers together, and used flesh and blood to resist the rolling stones. He could only disperse the soldiers, but this also weakened the covering threat of the crossbow arrows, and then he could only let the crossbowmen find their own targets and shoot.
At the same time, some soldiers of Huang Zu fought back with bows and arrows from the cliff. Feathered arrows fell down. Even crossbowmen and sword and shield players would occasionally fall to the ground with arrows. Most of Ling Cao's sword and shield players were holding hands. A shield instead of a large shield, the defensive effect on feather arrows is also average.
In this way, Ling Cao's offensive was somewhat restrained, and the battle for attacking the hillside temporarily fell into a stalemate. For a while, there were three or four hundred casualties on Ling Cao's side, and the offensive was also suppressed.
"Listen, brothers above, Deng Long is dead, Chen has already been captured, and now Mr. Zhu Wei, Marquis of Qian Tang in Yuzhang, has come to Jiangxia with an army of [-]. It's meaningless, why don't you drop it quickly!"
It was at this time that Zhang Shuo escorted Chen Jiu, carried Deng Long's body to the side, and began to shout to the top, as his identity would shake Huang Zu's defenders on the cliff.
"Don't fight, come down now! Come down now!"
A burst of shouts spread to the cliff, but Huang Zu's soldiers who were busy moving the rocks and carrying the bows and arrows hesitated for a while.
In fact, their resistance just now was due to habit, but now that they have heard this and think about it calmly, they have begun to plan for themselves. Just as Zhang Shuo shouted, it is meaningless for them to hold on like this. There is no food on the ground, and the water village of Guishe Gorge has also been broken. How long can they hold on to the cliff.
If an army of [-] is really coming, then they are just gnats shaking the big tree, and they are overestimated.
Of course, they still have a way out now, that is to go from the Snake Mountain side to the Guishan Mountain on the opposite bank through the trestle bridge above the Guishe Gorge, and then retreat from the Guishan Mountain side.
Therefore, several leading soldiers on the cliff discussed it, but they had no intention of fighting again, so they led their troops to retreat towards Guishan Mountain. As long as they crossed the canyon and cut off the trestle bridge, they could naturally retreat safely.
It's just that at this time, Zhu Wei's soldiers have already rushed to kill Guishan, which is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River...
(End of this chapter)