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Chapter 729: The Wind Rises on Lianshan Island

Zheng Zhiqiang didn't realize that great danger was approaching him, and a crack team was bursting into his core from a place he didn't expect, and the sword was pointed at his life, and all his attention was spent on fending off the frantic attacks of his opponents. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhong Xiang's attack on Lianshan Island was violent and continuous, and it could even be described as crazy, and the 3,000 warships had already arrived at close range, and after the marines rushed to the beach, they immediately dragged the boat ashore, turned the boat over, and buckled it on their heads to resist the rain of fire from the fortress. It wasn't until they reached the bottom of the breakwater that the boat was erected and immediately became a great ladder to climb the breakwater.

Two days after the attack, the Confederate army attacked the breakwater for the first time. Begin to defend the fortress head-on, and hand-to-hand combat is about to begin.

The dockyard and ship repair yard have been bombed into ruins in the past two days, and the thousands of warships and all kinds of small boats of the Southern Army have sailed directly into this area, and a large number of soldiers have poured in. When the Southern army rushed up from the boat with a shout, the scene of twenty hundred rounds of crossbows firing at the same time was really spectacular, in a very short period of time, thousands of armor-piercing short crossbows swarmed out, the sharp armor-piercing arrows regarded the opponent's armor as nothing, the marines were better equipped, and they were still powerless to resist the armor-piercing arrows breaking into the armor, not to mention the sailors, some sailors did not even have armor, and the powerful hundred-shot crossbows penetrated through the chest, in front of the chest, and out of the back, bringing out a slip of blood flowers flying in the air, and then drilling into the body of the second person.

The first wave of the offensive was dissipated by the flying locust-like crossbow shots, and the frontage leading to the island was dozens of meters wide, and the corpses were stacked on top of each other, and the blood flowed down the embankment like a red rain curtain.

The hundred-shot crossbow has always been a killer weapon for the Dingzhou army to deal with the infantry. This kind of crossbow Dingzhou has also been sold at a high price, but all the forces that buy this kind of crossbow have invested a lot of manpower and material resources, and want to imitate it, but the things made are not as powerful as those produced in Dingzhou, and the power is not half a star, in the final analysis, it is the powerful pressure spring used by Dingzhou to manufacture this kind of crossbow with 100 rounds, and other places in Dachu cannot develop this kind of highly elastic steel, and the pressure spring produced by Dingzhou cannot be as strong as that produced in Dingzhou, and the armor is nothing.

The weakness of the Hundred Rounds Crossbow is that it is too slow to reload, and after one round of fire, it takes nearly a pillar of incense to prepare for the second round of fire, and once it is loaded, it can only shoot in a straight line.

Kuang Zhengyi held his waist knife and stood behind the military formation, in front of him, rows of Dingzhou soldiers lined up in a military formation, twenty hundred crossbows were divided into two waves, and after one wave was launched, dozens of soldiers swooped up and quickly installed the quivers in their hands, while the other ten pointed the crossbow arrows of the black hole hole forward.

The battleship moored near the dock began to fire stone projectiles in this direction, and dozens of stone projectiles streaked across the sky and fell in this direction.

"Raise your shield!" Kuang Zhengyi shouted in a deep voice, and in the sound of clicking, the shields were raised at the same time, and the fasteners on them were used to connect into a huge whole, which was used to reduce the threat caused by the stone bullets. But Kuang Zhengyi did not hide under this huge turtle shell, but stood straight, observing the opponent's upcoming offensive with blazing eyes.

With a few booms, the two hundred-round crossbows were hit by stone bullets and scattered into parts, and Kuang Zhengyi's distressed face twitched. Hundreds of crossbows burst into the air, and screams rang out in the queue.

The second *** momentum began, and this time the opponent was obviously prepared, and the huge iron shield hit the head and slowly advanced.

Kuang Zhengyi's sword was raised high, and he ordered loudly: "The crossbow arrows retreat, and the spearmen step forward." Ready, assault! ”

The shields dispersed with a bang, Huo Di roared, and the soldiers, with guns in one hand and shields in the other, strode forward, firmly blocking the gap of dozens of meters. Behind him, the trebuchet and the ship began to shoot at each other, forcing the opposing ship to move non-stop, and in the process of moving, the hit rate began to be miserable.

The infantry on both sides kept moving forward, and finally collided together in a shout, and the sound of weapons colliding, swords and guns entering flesh, and screams and shouts resounded in an instant.

Kuang Zhengyi stood in the middle of the first row, holding an iron shield in one hand and a sharp knife in the other, slashing left and right, cutting off the opponent's weapon at the same time, and also cutting the opponent's **, the iron shield in his hand, not like protection, but a heavy weapon, held in his hand, smashed wildly.

The Dingzhou soldiers guarded this gap, not giving an inch, people on both sides fell from time to time, Kuang Zhengyi began to feel the pressure, these soldiers in front of him were obviously very strong in combat, and the will to fight was extraordinary.

Behind him began to shoot at the partition, which was the trebuchet behind the fortress after forcing back the opponent's battleship, began to shrink the range, focusing on hitting the soldiers on the shore, the stone bullets fell, splashing the rain of blood, the sound of gongs and drums sounded in the opponent's array, and the opponent who was frantically moving forward began to retreat, and the Dingzhou soldiers were still blocked above this gap, that is, they did not pursue forward, nor did they take a step back.

Kuang Zhengyi let out a long breath, looked down at the war knife in his hand, there were gaps on it, it was no longer usable, he threw it aside, and shouted: "The knife is coming!" The soldier next to him hurriedly handed over a new knife.

Zheng Zhiqiang frowned and looked at the beachhead, the opponent had already established a position on the beachhead, built with giant logs, and then covered with sand and gravel fortifications could effectively resist the attack of trebuchets, a large number of opponent land forces had already stepped on the beachhead, on the breakwater, and then there would be a hand-to-hand combat position for the soldiers.

On the Bozhou, Mu Chao looked at the huge casualty figures presented by the deputy general with some distress, "General Zhong, Hu Bin should have landed on Lianshan Island at this time, should we slow down the attack and let the soldiers take a breath, as long as Hu Bin succeeds, the opponent will inevitably be in chaos without a fight." ”

Zhong Xiang shook his head, "Otherwise, Hu Bin's side can only be regarded as a miracle soldier, whether he can succeed or not has to be said, we can't pin all our hopes on them, we are here is the frontal battlefield, right now, the first breakthrough has been made, just attack the breakwater again, advance our forward position there, the battle of breaking the island is half completed, we have taken the most difficult step, how can we give up halfway?" Take a break today, and tomorrow morning, attack again, and be sure to storm the breakwater in one fell swoop. ”

"Yes!" Mu Chao had no choice but to retreat.

Although he didn't have much hope for Mu Chao, but in Zhong Xiang's heart, he was really full of expectations, the first time he fought Lianshan Island, he had learned the strength of Lianshan Island's defense, and he tried his best, although he was close to taking the whole island in one step, but it took too much time, and finally let Zheng Zhiyuan lead the team to rush back, blocking his fleet in the port, that big battle, that fire, that fiasco, became a shadow and pain that will never linger in Zhong Xiang's heart.

Silently staring at the two towering peaks on Lianshan Island, Zhong Xiang subconsciously clasped his hands together and recited a sentence of Amitabha.

At this time, Hu Bin, who was expected by Zhong Xiang, and his death squad were hiding between the twin peaks of Lianshan Island, and they did not dare to make the slightest movement during the day, if they were discovered by the defenders on the island, their two hundred people would be fish on the felt board, and it would not be enough to stuff people's teeth. Fortunately, there is still a mountain spring on the mountain, and a little dry food brought by himself is enough to support two days, and the team of more than 200 people goes out day and night, avoiding the opponent while also reconnoitring the location of the opponent's material storage.

Lianshan Island as the opponent's key offensive base, his material storage must be very secretive, and the defense must be tight, if you want to find a flaw, a successful blow, is not an easy thing, and you have and only one chance, once you fail, but you will never recover, there will definitely be no second chance.

Looking at the fierce battle under the mountain throughout the day from his hiding place, Hu Bin also gasped, no wonder Zhong Xiang wanted to find another way, it was indeed not an easy thing to break through the opponent's defense from the front. And from his direction, he can see the defensive layout on Lianshan Island more clearly, at least half of the long-range weapons on Lianshan Island have not been put into use, the higher up, the tighter it becomes, seeing the forest-like trebuchets, eight bull crossbows, and all of the continuous, criss-crossing defense lines built with stones, and the mausoleum forts that rise high every tens of meters, Hu Bin's scalp is numb.

The sky was gradually getting dark, and from after noon, the battle below began to slowly weaken, and finally ended completely, on the beach, the southern army had established a one-finger offensive position, and a large number of ships had arrived in the shallow sea area, a large number of small ships shuttled back and forth on the sea, constantly transporting all kinds of supplies and offensive weapons ashore, and the southern army had begun to build trebuchets and other large weapons on the beach.

Smoke curls up from the island, and it's dinner time.

Hu Bin lay on the thick leaves, looking up at the sky, and when Yue'er climbed into the middle of the sky, it was time for him to act.

"Pershing Pan Hong!" Hu Bin shouted.

The two brothers came over.

"At midnight, we will start to move, you two brothers will lead a team, I will lead a team, and we will move separately to find a possible place for the opponent's supplies, remember, don't take risks, as long as there is a possibility of exposure, don't act. We don't have a second chance. ”

"Yes!" The Pan family brothers nodded.

"Whether we find it or not, before dawn, we will go to that place, do you see it, it is the valley between the two peaks, I think there has been no people, and the place is relatively secret, it should be a better hiding place, and there, we can observe each other's movements more clearly, and find each other's material storage points." Hu Bin commanded.