Chapter 224 Bloody Battle on the River
"The Flipping River Dragon" Jiang Dalong is the leader of this bandit who is known as the evil dragon. Today's game was carefully designed by him, in order to completely defeat the Jiangzhou official army and achieve the ultimate goal of dominating the Xunyang River.
For this reason, he had already made many arrangements, and even exposed the nest he had originally hidden in to the Jiangzhou government, just to lure the official army into the trap. In order not to see the flaws by the official army, he only left less than a hundred people on the island to set fire to disrupt the morale of the army. He himself led a group of water bandits to hide in Jiangwan several miles away, waiting for the chaos here, and then took the cover of the dark night to catch the official army off guard.
Moreover, after several confrontations, Jiang Dalong also had a certain grasp of the military methods of the chief general of the official army, Lin Henian, and knew that he was used to leaving himself at the end of the team, so as long as he launched a surprise attack from the rear, it would inevitably pose a great threat to him, thus achieving twice the result with half the effort.
At the beginning, everything seemed to have happened as he expected. The official warship was trapped around the island and was already in chaos. After attacking with fire ships under his own hands, he almost lost the ability to fight and seemed to collapse and flee at any time.
But when Jiang Dalong was very happy and took two or three hundred men to carry the boat and quietly approached the official army's stranded ship from behind, an unexpected side happened on the island ahead. The official army took the risk of abandoning the ship and rushed onto the island, and in a short time he defeated the hundred subordinates who left him on the island!
Because of distance, he did not know the specific situation of the war on the island, but he was shocked and hurriedly asked someone to attack the official army's commander ship as soon as possible. But just when they rowed their boats with all their might, the official army, which should have been completely unprepared, quickly took a defensive posture, and their crossbows were much stronger than before. After a burst of shooting, he wiped out all the brothers on the two clutchs that he had taken the lead.
This made Jiang Dalong suddenly startled and angry. He had never suffered such a great loss in several battles with the government army this year. Naturally, he could not accept such a result at this time. He shouted loudly: "Brothers, the government army is just like this. Follow me to rush over. As long as they get closer, their crossbows will be useless! Kill!"
After all, it was a fierce water bandit who killed countless people on the Xunyang River. Even in the face of such a situation, the ferocious dragons and the gang did not shrink at all. They immediately screamed and shouted to kill, and quickly turned around the ship that had originally hit the same place. They drew beautiful arcs on the river surface, flashed the oncoming arrows and continued to rush towards the official ship.
In terms of the ability to control ships, these people are indeed much stronger than the official army. The small boats move with their will like obedient horses. In just a moment, they quickly narrowed the distance between the two sides, giving some of their archers the opportunity to shoot arrows.
"Swish swish swish swish..." Without Jiang Dalong's orders, the archers on more than 20 ships had already released a rain of arrows at the coaching ship. This immediately disrupted the rhythm of the government army who wanted to continue to shoot arrows at them and blocked their way. They could only lie down and hide behind the boat gang. This gave the water bandits the opportunity to get closer to the official ship faster. With their shouts, they had dispersed and surrounded the coaching ship in three sides.
Even at such a night, the officials on the boat could clearly see the movements of the thieves. Seeing the many thieves shouting and carrying them on, many of them were already a little timid. The Song Xiang Army has always been negligent in training and has suffered many losses under these water bandits. At this time, when they saw them snatching them fiercely, many people's first reaction was to escape.
Once this feeling of helplessness and fear spread, the crossbowmen became timid. Only a few people were still gritting their teeth and shooting arrows at the approaching enemy, but the sparse arrows had lost the threat to the enemy.
Seeing that the thief had easily rushed into his own ship, Lin Henian's face was as dark as ink. In addition to being angry, he also had a little fear. However, at this time he had no choice. The subordinates behind him had not escaped from the fishing net, obviously they could not count on him. The village soldiers who were leading the farther away were even more unlikely to come to rescue him in time, so they could only rely on themselves.
At that moment, he roared: "I have no way out today, I can only fight to the death! It is my soldiers of the Song Dynasty. Just follow my orders and kill! Take the arrow!" While shouting loudly, he kicked the subordinate beside him who was so scared that he couldn't even hold the bow and arrow to the ground. At the same time, he snatched the man's bow and arrow, turned around and raised his hand and shot towards the pirate ship rushing in the front.
This roar really worked, awakening the archers, especially when they saw that the archers had fired arrows in person, the others had no worries and raised their hands to shoot arrows at the enemy again. Suddenly, the originally soft and powerless rain of arrows sprinkled forward again, making the thieves scream, and from time to time, someone fell into the water in the middle.
But at this time, several pirate ships that were circling around from both sides had quickly approached the side of the coach. Then, under the cover of the archers behind the back, they had thrown the rope high, put the wooden pillars on the boat, and climbed up along the rope.
Seeing this, the official army was naturally shocked and quickly waved the knife to cut the ropes to prevent the enemy from boarding the ship. However, in this way, the number of thieves on the front was able to approach them more easily. And while these people were moving, they were still shooting arrows on the ship, causing the official army to be in a hurry and lose sight of each other. Finally, their bows hit the side of the commanding ship, causing the already unstable ship to shake and shake, which also caused the official army to fall for a long time.
The water bandits who had long been used to fighting on the water jumping gang would naturally not miss such an opportunity. With the shouts, someone directly took a bamboo pole and pointed it at the side of the coaching boat. The man had already leap high with the force, and he jumped onto the official boat without a rope. Then he waved his steel knife and slashed at the unprepared crossbowmen.
It was not until the crossbowmen fell one after another in the pool of blood, accompanied by screams that the others reacted, roared and waved their swords to advance, and fought with the thieves. But in this way, the official army had completely lost the suppression of these thieves, allowing more enemies to climb out of the water or attack the ship with ropes and bamboo poles.
When the ship was completely lost, the balance of victory in this battle was tilted towards the ferocious dragons. In fact, the fierce official army could not compare to these water bandits, and the force was now at a disadvantage. In this head-on confrontation, they were quickly beaten to retreat step by step and finally retreated into the cabin, with only about fifty people remaining to make the final resistance.
"Kill me, kill all these people. From now on, Xunyang River will be our world. We will be ours in the future!" Jiang Dalong was completely killed. With a loud shout, he cut over an official army left on the deck and had not retreated to the ground. Then, with the blood of the boat, he led the way to shrink into the cabin, and launched a fierce attack on the last struggling official army.
The other water bandits were also grinning at this time and kept moving forward, as if they could defeat the last layer of defense of the official army at any time, thereby achieving the final victory.
In the eyes of the evil dragon and his group, there was only this official army commander ship and the opponents above at this time. As for the hundreds of other official troops, they had already thrown their heads behind them. Because in their consciousness, these unmovable official troops could not pose a threat to their own families.
So at this time, the entire coach's ship was surrounded by water bandits, but no one was paying attention to the situation behind or beside him.
But at this moment, a sudden shout came from the river water behind them: "Shoot the arrow!" Then a sound of arrows breaking through the air came from below. In just a moment, sharp arrows had penetrated into the water bandits without any precautions, and the screams were suddenly heard.
The sudden change immediately made the water bandits stunned. They screamed and turned around to meet the enemy, but at this moment, dozens of sharp arrows shot from the bottom and nailed into their bodies, causing them to scream and fall. In just two rounds of shooting, no less than a hundred thieves fell in a pool of blood and fell next to the official army that had just been killed by them.
This time, it was indeed beyond Jiang Dalong's expectations. When he came to his senses and hurriedly turned around and looked out, he saw four or five small boats above him. There were rows of cold-looking officials standing on the boat. After yelling in a low voice on one of the boats, another rain of arrows splashed at them.
However, this time the water bandits had learned their lesson, so they quickly leaned over and hid behind the boat gang, and finally did not cause too much casualties.
But before they could breathe a sigh of relief, Lin Henian's hoarse roar came from the cabin: "Brothers, we have no way out, we will fight with the thieves. Kill!" Then, the official troops who had just been beaten to defend a corner took the opportunity to roar and exhale, and burst out with the most powerful fighting spirit since the war with the ferocious dragon. They directly dispersed the water bandit defense line in front of the cabin, and rushed towards the thieves who were thinking of responding to the official attack below.
This time, they were completely red in their eyes, and the brothers in robe were killed and injured, and their lives were hanging on the line, making these soldiers of the wing who were usually submissive and without fighting spirit become real warriors at this moment. They did not even make any defensive moves, but just slashed at the enemy frantically, which was a complete loss-win situation.
Seeing these crazy official troops, the fierce dragon water bandits who had always been fierce finally felt fear. The swords and guns that should have been met were half a beat slower. Many people were cut down by the official troops, but they could not hurt each other.
The official army below also seized this opportunity and quickly climbed towards the ship along the rope set by the water bandits, and was about to attack the ship with their comrades on the ship.
At the same time, several flames suddenly rose from the island in the distance, illuminating the last darkness before dawn...
Chapter completed!