Chapter Seventy-Three: Night Battle

On the night of the first day of the new year, it is really impossible to reach out to the five fingers, and the full moon is usually accompanied by a high tide. However, the first day of the new year was low tide, and many ships that were too close to the shore actually ran aground. This made Dou Yuan, who had lived in Jiangnan for a long time, very depressed, and there seemed to be a trace of uneasiness in his heart. Perhaps, he shouldn't have spent the night in Jiangxia.

The soldiers who had been tired all day drank rice wine and ate crabs, and fell asleep with exhaustion. The boats in the distance lit a pony lantern, and although Dou Yuan's boat was big, it was also lit with a pony lantern like all boats.

The pitch-black ships in the Yangtze River approached Dou Yuan's fleet silently like crocodiles. The ships were low, swift and silent.

Zheng Bin held a telescope and searched through the many ships, and finally he saw the faintly glowing ship under the side of the ship. It was Dou Yuan's boat, and it was also the flagship of the entire fleet.

"The squid bones are glued together, and sure enough, they fluoresce at night. In this night attack, you are the first to play. Cang Lan also discovered Dou Yuan's boat almost at the same time. He was a little excited, as long as he killed Dou Yuan's boat in the first round. That whole fleet is a headless fly, and the tide level is so low today. Even if you jump into the water, you will get stuck in the mud on the shore. When the time comes, you can only wait for the high tide to be drowned.

This Jiangxia County is the burial place of this fleet, and a cruel smile swept over the corner of Canglan's mouth.

Canglan's boat hung a pony lantern at the stern of the boat, and this lantern hung on the butt of the boat. The Dou Yuan fleet on the opposite side could not be seen at all.

Dou Yuan sent the lieutenants of the Chinese army to inspect the sentry positions of each ship. Fortunately, everyone was afraid of Dou Yuan's military law. None of the guys on duty drank alcohol.

"Captain. You can rest assured. If anyone dares to be lazy, I will skin him. A sentry commander cautiously greeted the superior. Suddenly, a fire burned in his eyes.

The sentry commander pointed to a place hundreds of paces away, which should be close to the center of the river. How could a fire suddenly be lit, could it be that there was a ship there?

"Whew" The fire actually flew up and stuck straight into the general's boat. Immediately afterward, a fire lit up on the river. Clusters of fireballs, like moths, pounced on Dou Yuan's boat.

"Enemy attack!" The sentry commander finally shouted, but it was too late.

Dou Yuan, who was restless on the boat, felt that his boat shook several times in a row, and the soldiers outside were even more noisy. He drank a few times. No one agreed.

Puzzled, Dou Yuan walked out of the cabin. Came to the top deck. I saw that the soldiers of the night vigil were all looking down from the side of the ship.

"General, it's not good, you see."

Dou Yuan also looked down at the side of the boat, and saw small boats full of firewood and grass, and he didn't know when someone hit his boat. The bow of those boats was riveted with pointed-nosed firing pins. If you hit a boat, you will be wedged into the wood.

Those on the boat were striking matches. He lit the firewood and grass and plunged headlong into the water and disappeared. Apparently a water ghost with excellent water nature. The firewood and grass were clearly spilled with oil. The ignition immediately burst into flames. At this time, Dou Yuan's boat had been shot through several places by the three-bow bed crossbow.

Dou Yuan's back was numb, and his scalp was cold for a while. "Firefighting. Hurry up and put out the fire. "Dou Yuan knew too well the damage that the fire attack had done to the warship, and the entire warship was smeared with tung oil in order to seal it. It can be said that everything on the ship is flammable, and even the armor on the soldiers is bamboo armor.

Although the bulky iron armor has super protection, once it falls into the water, there is no hope of survival. Xiang Sanqiu, a famous general of Wu State, was drowned because of heavy armor.

The boats rolled in the scorching waves, and the soldiers ran around the deck like green-headed flies. From time to time, soldiers bumped into each other, and the river water that was finally brought up sprinkled on the deck.

But the little water that the soldiers brought up had no effect on such a fire, and Dou Yuan was so anxious that he shouted on the deck: "You can jump off the boat to extinguish the fire first." ”

The burning firewood and grass began to ignite the tung oil on the ship, and the hull on one side began to burn. The churning heat made it impossible for the soldiers to get close at all, so they could only splash the water down from a distance.

"Woo," a javelin shot out of the darkness with a whistle. A soldier carrying a bucket to extinguish the fire was pierced like a sugar gourd. The powerful bolts of the crossbow carried him into the air, and they were firmly nailed to the planks of the cabin.

The soldier's screams were like those of hell, and the spear in his chest was terrifying in the light of the fire.

Javelins were constantly being projected in the darkness, and in the blink of an eye, six or seven more soldiers were nailed to the side panels of the kung fu cabin.

"General, take shelter in the cabin." The lieutenant didn't know when he would return. led the guards to drag Dou Yuan into the cabin, and those soldiers lay on the deck and didn't dare to move.

"What's the difference between going into a cabin and waiting to die." Dou Yuan struggled hard, but the lieutenant was not stupid. Knowing that the ship could not be saved, he had already ordered someone to put down the dinghy.

"General, I can't stay here. Or go down to the dinghy to avoid the limelight. ”

Dou Yuan's boat was like a huge torch, illuminating the ships around him. In the darkness, the three-bow bed crossbow roared incessantly, and the whistling javelin whistled towards the ships.

Ships were constantly on fire, and ships that had lost command pulled anchor and set sail. Some stayed where they were, waiting for orders, and the sound of crashing ships and insulting them in the darkness kept coming. Occasionally, there was a scream, and it was not possible to see a soldier jumping into the well with fire all over his body.

The boats on fire were more like dumplings, and black shadows kept burrowing into the water. Dou Yuan looked into the darkness and couldn't see anything. But Cang Lan, who was in the dark, could see the situation of the entire Dou Yuan fleet.

The small lights behind the butt of the boat are constantly changing, sending instructions one after another. Every time the lantern changed, javelins would shoot like locusts at the Han warships.

Dou Yuan stood on the dinghy and closed his eyes. It's over, and the elite soldiers who have been trained for several years are already over before they can fight. Their own boats have become torches, and the whole fleet has become a headless fly rushing around. But now that he is on the boat, he can't give orders if he wants.

"General, you see that ship is full of lights." As soon as the lieutenant stretched out his hand, he pointed to a large ship.

The so-called full light is the symbol of the flagship. But now that he is obviously on the dinghy, how can anyone hang such a sign?

"General, it must be General Cheng who wants to point out ...... on your behalf" The lieutenant was dumbfounded before he finished speaking.

I saw four or five more ships, full of lights. It seems that there are many people who want to replace General Dou's command. When the entire fleet saw four or five flagships suddenly appear, it suddenly became even more panicked.

What's even more laughable is that the ship with full lights only saw someone hanging out. Thinking that Dou Yuan was on the boat over there, he hurriedly took down all his full lights.

If this happened several times, no one would follow his orders when a ship hung up a full lamp in the future. Dou Yuan smiled bitterly and stretched out his hand to draw his sword.

"The general can't!" The lieutenant grabbed Dou Yuan's hand.

"Let go, I'm going to cut the cable. Otherwise, the ship will sink and bring us in. Dou Yuan kicked the lieutenant fiercely, and he had no intention of committing suicide.

The soldiers in the water crackled and slapped the water, and cries for help could be heard everywhere. Dou Yuan's dinghy was skewed left and right, and after saving five or six people from coming up, the dinghy was already a little overloaded. If there were any more pickpockets, the whole ship would capsize.

"Ah......h Dou Yuan's sword was dripping with blood, and he raised his foot and kicked the severed palm into the river. His guards did the same, drawing their swords one by one. For a while, there were many howls, and the side of the dinghy was full of painful shouts.

"General, our ship has run aground. Today's tide level is particularly low, and if we want to go ashore, we may have to pass through the mud of more than 300 steps. The dinghy was suddenly paused, and the lieutenant of the middle military colonel looked at it and said.

Dou Yuan looked at it by the firelight, and it was dark all around. There were soldiers trapped in the mud, and the mud had reached the root of the thighs, and if there was no one to help them, they would definitely not be able to get out. When the tide rises in the morning, you will definitely drown here. It became a belly meal for fish and shrimp, but I didn't expect to have just eaten crab in the evening. The news of the present world came so quickly.

"Don't get off the boat, or you'll get stuck here. are all lying quietly, and when the tide rises in the morning, we will naturally get out of trouble. ”

Dou Yuan was also a little helpless, looking back at the fleet he had painstakingly built. He was being ravaged like a fish on a chopping board, and his heart was already dripping blood.

It's over, it's all over. This time, let alone supporting Jiujiang, even whether he can go back is a matter of two things. Now I only hope for the rise of Canglan Killing, and forget to clean up the battlefield. I let go of my own little boat man as a fart. Otherwise, it's very likely that that kid will take it alive.

"Volley at the boat on the left, and set fire to the boat on the far side. Let it block the waterway, and don't let the Jiangdu army escape. Cang Lan gave orders again and again on the turtle boat led by him. Battleships were caught in fire by three-bow bed crossbows fired at by concentrated fire.

Finally, the sky revealed the whiteness of the fish's belly. The river was filled with smoke and fire, and many floating logs were still falling by iron anchors, and were swirled by the river.

Canglan looked at the beachhead, and he will never forget that scene for the rest of his life. The dense crowd of human heads stood motionless, waiting for the tide to rise and drown them. Some people are not reconciled and crawl to the shore with both hands and feet. A long trail was left behind him.

"There's a dinghy over there, and the people on it are all with swords. There must be officials, the tide is about to rise, let the dinghy go over and catch them, don't let them run. (To be continued......)