Eighteen hundred men and horses were assembled on the north shore, and all the flags were drenched wet and tightly wrapped around the flagpole in the rainy night. Only the black skull banner on the black square hanging long pole on Zhen Donghai is still displayed, and the four masters of Zhen Donghai are all standing under the banner at this time.

The rainstorm was like a note, and the four brothers of Zhendonghai were almost all equipped with the same equipment, black leather armor and a steel horizontal knife and a shield.

Zhang Chengzong stood beside Li Jing and said, "When there is a war for a while, the Lord remember not to get too close to them!" ”

"For what?" Li Jing asked a little sternly.

"They're already going crazy now, and their hearts are full of revenge. After a while, they will definitely rush the hardest, and they will also become the biggest target to attract all the guards. ”

Li Jing smiled, "What is needed on the battlefield is such a will to fight, today's battle is not for Zhendonghai, but also for ourselves." For a while, everyone should not have any reservations, this battle has advanced and retreated, and it is not necessary to succeed. ”

Whitebeard's current outfit was not flashy compared to his previous set of silver armor. The gray leather armor connected by cowhide rivets has no pattern decoration, and there are only many sword marks. His weapon was a horizontal knife, but it was not an ordinary horizontal knife, but a large horizontal knife, five feet long, and both the length of the knife and the thickness and width of the knife were more than one size larger than ordinary horizontal knives. This two-handed horizontal knife is three times the size of an ordinary horizontal knife and weighs nine catties. And then such a heavy weapon, dancing in Whitebeard's hands, was as easy as holding an ordinary horizontal knife.

At this time, he pointed at the battlefield with a huge horizontal knife and ordered the various pirate leaders to distribute tasks. "Within half an hour. Annihilate all the guards at the docks. Who doesn't work hard. Lao Tzu slaughtered him with his own hands. He roared loudly, and turned to Li Jing: "Brother Li, you will stand between the castle and the dock, and anyone who flees to the fort will stop them, and if the fort guards find out, or the patrol guards find out about the battle here, you and your people will be responsible for stopping them." ”

Despite the torrential rain, the guards at the pier consisted of only a team of fifty people. However, Whitebeard didn't dare to be careless, and made a plan in advance. If he can't secretly kill the guards of the dock in the first place, then Li Jing has to kill the people on the road between the dock and the castle, and he must not let them escape back to the castle to report the news. In case a patrol guard goes to the docks, Li Jing will have to intercept them and kill them.

Li Jing led the army towards the road leading to the castle, and pointed in the middle, "This is it," he pointed to the ground with his sword, "We are responsible for guarding this place, no matter what happens." In short, no one is allowed to cross the castle and the docks! If they try to get through our position, then we'll cut off his legs. Chop off his dog's head! ”

Zhang Chengzong lifted his copper mace into the air with all his might, stirring up a cloud of rain and mist, and the other soldiers also let out a silent battle spirit.

Two hundred men and horses scattered and lay in ambush on both sides of the road. Li Jing leaned against the back of a boulder, the rain was so heavy that he couldn't see anything except the heavy rain just a few steps away. The sound of the rain also blocked Li Jing's hearing, and he could only imagine that Zhen Donghai and the others were raiding the dock, bravely rushing to kill, and the red blood dripped down, mixed into the rain, and became fainter and lighter at the most, until he could no longer see a trace of blood.

"Two quarters of an hour at most!" Wang Chong also leaned on Li Jing's side and shouted into his ear. Li Jing nodded in agreement, and 1,600 people from Zhendonghai went to raid the dock guarded by fifty people. Although the guards on the docks were all in the two small forts, the sound of the attackers' footsteps and figures were perfectly concealed by the rainstorm tonight, and they could easily touch the underside of the forts, and the guards inside the forts would not notice. Next, it's simple. Sixteen hundred to fifty? There will be no miracles!

Li Jing, the guard who solved the dock, was not worried at all, he was still worried about the castle in the center of the island, 100 steps on Tuesday, the city was two zhang high, and the ditch was three zhang wide and two zhang deep! According to Levi's report, the castle was not only strong, but also had an arrow tower every ten paces, built on the wall, two feet high, and covered with a heavy crossbow that required four men to operate. There are twenty turrets on the walls of the entire castle, that is, at least twenty heavy crossbows. In addition, Levi reported that the castle's guards were all equipped with longbows and crossbows, and all had armor and iron helmets, which made their defenses amazing and their attack power was super strong.

If it weren't for the heavy rain night, Li Jing believed that as long as they were within a hundred steps of the castle, the guards would definitely be able to spot them immediately. Twenty arrow towers five feet above the ground will make it difficult for attackers to advance.

Just as he was thinking, suddenly a torrential rain mixed with a large number of footsteps approached. Li Jing and Wang Zhong drew their long swords at the same time, but they saw that it was the pirates of the Zhendong Sea. Whitebeard rushed to Li Jing's face, and he couldn't hide the smile on his face.

"The guards on the dock were all settled, a total of sixty-seven sealed dogs, none of them were left, and they were all sent to hell. Brother Li, let's go, enter the castle! ”

"Kill the castle!" Li Jing was also infected by Whitebeard's killing intent and shouted. More than a thousand pirates kept pouring in from behind, and in the dark night, it was like a mountain moving.

Until this time, Zhen Donghai and Li Jing and others had not yet decided to attack the fortress. After realizing the super defense of the fortress, there were two options among several people. Redbeard suggested that the castle defenses were too strong, and it would be too difficult to infiltrate the castle, so he should surround the castle after solving the dock guards, and then deliberately make some noise to lure the guards out of the castle and annihilate them outside the castle. Even if you can't completely annihilate it, you can reduce the strength in the fort, and then attack again, and the possibility of victory is very strong.

However, Li Jing did not agree with this idea, although by doing so, he would definitely be able to successfully annihilate some of the guards at first. But in this way, the guards in the castle will no longer dare to fight, and they will be even more determined to defend them.

It's better to sneak in quietly at the beginning, and if it succeeds, then the entire castle can be successfully taken. Although this is very difficult, with the cover of heavy rain, the possibility of success is not impossible.

"How sure is Ji Yu that he can open the castle door?" Whitebeard asked.

The only way to enter the castle is to open the only castle gate, lower the drawbridge, and twist the jack gate. This was the only way to get into the castle, and Whitebeard had no way to deal with the iron shell. He pinned all his hopes on Li Jing, hoping that he could have a way.

"How do you know the Tao without giving it a try? There are a lot of capable people who are flying high and low in my reconnaissance, so let them try it first, if not, it will be too late for us to implement the second set of plans. If we succeed, we will be able to resolve the battle quickly. ”

Whitebeard muttered for a moment and agreed, he really didn't want to storm the fortress unless he had to. Twenty years ago, his father and uncles stormed the fortress for a day, and they were defeated and killed here.

Li Jing beckoned to Li Wei, "It's time for you to show your skills, didn't you say before that the people in your reconnaissance capital are all capable people with unique skills?" Now I will give you a chance to fight for glory, and take your men to the castle gate. ”

Li Wei smiled, revealing a mouth full of white teeth, "General, you are waiting for good news here, my brothers and I in the reconnaissance capital will definitely live up to our mission!" ”

In the heavy rain, Li Jing waved his hand around again and again, which was a familiar set of gestures. This is the two subjects that Li Jing added to the battlefield communication and battlefield reconnaissance after the Shamen Town Army added the knowledge of battlefield first aid at night. Battlefield communication includes tactical sign language, tactical flags, lights, wolf smoke and beacons, drums and horns, whistles and other means of communication on the battlefield. Among them, there are not only the common methods at this time, but also some of them are taken by Li Jing according to the techniques of later generations. For example, battlefield tactical sign language, which Li Jing directly took from later generations, has a full set of tactical sign language that is standard and direct, and is more comprehensive and easy to use than some simple sign languages at this time.

Battlefield reconnaissance includes observation, eavesdropping, espionage, searching, assassination, interception, capturing prisoners of war, espionage reconnaissance, combat reconnaissance, mapping reconnaissance, investigation and questioning, and collection of documents and materials.

Basically, every soldier has to learn three subjects: battlefield first aid, battlefield communications, and battlefield reconnaissance, and even the results of the three subjects have become one of the necessary conditions for a soldier's promotion. Compared to the ordinary soldiers, Levi's scout team had higher requirements for these three subjects, and their courses were also taught separately, which was an advanced version of the three subjects.

After a series of gestures, the Scouts did not need to talk to each other to understand the order with unmistakable accuracy.

The castle of Cat Island is like a huge hideous monster entrenched on the island in the rainy night, and the orange lights on the castle in the wind and rain are like the shining eyes of the monster.

Levi quickly dived under the castle with the scouts, and looked at the wide ditch, which glowed brightly in the rainy night, like a jade belt. Levi also cursed secretly in his heart.

With a wave of his hand, ten scouts immediately came up with a modified version of the Fuyuan Shi crossbow. This batch of crossbows is a special crossbow specially made for the reconnaissance capital by the new army workshop in Shamen Town, which does not need to be manipulated by both sides, as long as there is a giant force who can open it alone, equipped with thumb-thick fine iron crossbow arrows, and the range is still up to 300 steps. Such a crossbow is paired with an iron crossbow arrow, and once an arrow passes, it can immediately penetrate the city wall.

"Woohoo!" The crossbow machine sounded, and ten iron crossbow arrows flew out with ten ropes at the tail, and the crossbow nails were fiercely driven into the opposite city wall, revealing only the ropes at the end of the tail.

"Pull tight!" Levi shouted, and the ten Hercules crossbowmen dropped their crossbows and pulled the ropes straight. Immediately, several other scouts stepped forward and took out ten iron stakes the thickness of the barrels of guns and drove them into the dirt. The Hercules tied ten thick ropes, which were pulled straight, tightly to the iron stakes.

"Up!" Levi watched the city nervously, and so far, no one had spotted them.

Immediately, two teams of scouts who had been prepared immediately used their hands and feet together, grabbed the rope with both hands, hooked their feet on the rope, and the whole person hooked upside down on the rope and quickly climbed towards the opposite side of the ditch.

"Up!" Seeing that the first batch had arrived on the other side of the ditch, Li Wei was excited and shouted again.

Ten ropes, ten at a time. It took a hundred men more than a quarter of an hour to cross the ditch of death. (To be continued.) )