Chapter 10: Into the Urn
(There are still two chapters tonight, this is the second chapter, ask for a red ticket!) )
The fire in the county seat of Ji'an burned all night without stopping, not only the county seat of Ji'an, but also many gentry near the county town where the soldiers plundered.
The sword archers of Ji'an County and the hometowns were weak in battle, and there was no unified command and dispatch, so they attacked the elite of the East China Sea Kou who had the inner should lead the way, and they were defeated and fled, and the war spread all night along the shores of Zhuxi, Danuma Creek and Meixi Lake. Just looking at this situation, I don't know how many Kou soldiers have invaded Anji County.
Qin Zitan and Du Rong took advantage of the night to lead more than 100 elites and more than 100 soldiers from Shujiazhai in Anji to Taihu Lake in three boats, chasing Lin Lian and his party who might have retreated into Taihu Lake one step ahead of them.
After dawn, the sky grew blue.
Qin Zitan took a short rest in the cabin, woke up at this time, looked at the faint morning light penetrating through the cracks in the ship's board, thought that it was almost dawn, listened to Du Rong and Shu Qingqiu talking outside the cabin, sat up and rubbed his face, walked out of the cabin, and was just about to ask where the ship was, when he heard the person standing on the canopy of the ship "poof" a cry: "What is over there?" ”
Qin Zitan looked at the past, and in front of him was a bend in the mouth of Meixi Lake, and there was a long causeway branch stretching out in front of him, and it was Zhuxi in the past. The embankment is full of dense forests, at this time the sky is faint, the forest looks blurry and thin like a paper cut, grits, but there are a few crowns from the back of the forest abruptly protruding.
The sky is not bright enough, and at first glance the tall trees look like faint shadows floating on the treetops, and it is easy to ignore the past.
Qin Zitan hit the spirit: Where is the tall tree? It's obviously a mast disguised as a canopy. It's just that across a dense forest, they are looking up again, and if the canopy boatman hadn't discovered it in time, they might have been confused.
At this time, in Meixi Lake, only the two boats that Lin Tie was riding had such high masts, and Qin Zitan could think of who was ambushing in the inlet behind the forest with his toes.
"thief!" Du Rong also saw that it was the mast of the ship, and was scared into a cold sweat, they were originally going to go out of Taihu Lake to join Taihu Lake to rob and kill Lin Tie, where did they want Lin Tie to set up an ambush at the mouth of Meixi Lake to intercept them?
Seeing the mast behind the forest remove its camouflage and raise its sails, Du Rong tried to test the direction of the wind, and felt very unlucky, they were in the downwind direction of the ambush.
Du Rong knew that the Dongyang, a duplex schooner, was sailing at the speed of the wind, and the three black-canopy sailboats they were riding were full of people, and it was impossible for them to escape back to Anji County to join the Kou soldiers led by the eldest prince before Lin Lian chased them. What's more, there was only one ambush boat in the inlet in front of them, and they didn't know if the other ambush boat had been missed and had blocked their retreat to Anji County.
There were 400 people accompanying Lin Tie to raise food on this trip, and Du Rong had tried out through the previous few harassments: Lin Tie was a pro-rated, elite Jiyun Wuwei with more than 100 people, except for the Minyong, boatmen, sailors, and miscellaneous servants selected from the disaster victims, divided into two ships, each ship was only 50 elites, and more than 100 miscellaneous soldiers.
There are three roads in front of Du Rong, Qin Zitan, and Shu Qingqiu.
There were more than 250 of them in the elite of the three ships, the soldiers and the oarsmen, and they could force their way through the mouth of Meixi Lake by virtue of their large numbers. As long as they can occupy the upwind direction, they can operate the oars and take advantage of the current to go against the wind, and the speed is much faster than that of the big sailing ships, so they will take the initiative. However, in water warfare, when the forces are almost equal, the advantage of the warship will be extremely obvious. The boat on their side is crowded with small people, and there are eighty or ninety people on a boat, and only when they can smoothly take over the side can they give full play to the advantage of having a large number of people, and if they are violently hit before the board, they are in danger of capsizing. There were people under Lin Tie who were proficient in water warfare, and Du Rong and Qin Zitan were not sure to rush through the narrow mouth of the lake, which was less than two hundred zhang wide.
If you can't rush forward, then retreat.
It is not possible to retreat, they retreat, the pursuit of the ambush ship is a tailwind, the wind is not small, it is too late for them to retreat to Shujiazhai will catch up, and there is an ambush ship I don't know if it is blocked on their way back.
If you can't rush forward or retreat, you can only go ashore nearby. The ambush ship has a large hull and a deep draft, so it is impossible to approach the shore, and if you want to pursue, you can only use an assault boat to go ashore. As long as they go ashore, Du Rong and Qin Zitan are not afraid of Lin Tie chasing after them, there is no advantage of a warship, although Lin Tie has four hundred people under him, in fact, the advantage is very limited.
"Abandon ship and go ashore?" Du Rong asked Qin Zitan.
"Will there be ambushes on the shore?" Qin Zitan asked, "We don't know where Lin Tie's other ship is hiding, but we can always think that the other ship can't be hidden on the shore. We are afraid of the advantage of the enemy ship, and abandoning the ship and going ashore may be the only right choice, but how can we know if Lin Tie wants us to make such a choice? ”
"......" Du Rong didn't expect to set up an ambush for Lin Tie at all, his heart was frustrated for a while, and he no longer had the confidence he had before, and he looked up at the dense forests on both sides of the strait, looking like he was hiding an ambush.
"Instead of fleeing in a hurry, but ready to attack. I, you, and Shu Dangjia are divided into three boats, even if we can't fight smoothly, there is a good chance that the two ships can escape...... "Qin Zitan said.
"Good ......" Du Rong didn't want to have the courage to take it away from Lin Tie, obviously there were many people on their side, but they gave Lin Tie a boat so scared that he fled, and he would definitely be the laughing stock of others in the future.
Qin Zitan asked people to bring him a pair of armor, as if he had forgotten the fact that he was powerless, and wanted to learn from Lin to bind the scholars to lead the troops, Du Rong didn't want anything else, and jumped on the other two ships with Shu Qingqiu.
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Seeing that the three enemy ships did not retreat or dock, but lowered their sails and sailed down the current to usher in them, Lin Tie untied his saber from his waist and ordered left and right: "Prepare to fight!" ”
The two sides are getting closer and closer, and the sky is gradually brightening, Lin Jian can already see Du Rong's face clearly, he waved his knife and pointed at Du Rong, and said to Ao Canghai beside him with a smile: "When I first entered Jiangning last winter, I declared that I was inseparable from this son, and I saw if it was possible to bury him in this lake today......
The winding winches of the three-bow bed crossbows on either side clicked, the iron arrows of the giant crossbows as thick as spears shimmered with a cold glow, and the crossbowmen also sat down methodically to open the crossbows and wound them with their feet......
When he saw the three-bow bed crossbow, the stumbling crossbow, and the longbow and sharp arrows on the ambush boat all pointing towards him, Du Rong suddenly understood that he was in Qin Zitan's place, he and Qin Zitan and Shu Qingqiu took three boats on the equinox, if Lin Jian could only intercept one boat, who else could he be?
Du Rong understood at this time that it was too late, and four giant crossbow iron arrows as thick as spears shot three arrows into the air, stirring up waves on the left and right, and an arrow volleyed diagonally through the air to shoot into the canopy, only to hear a few screams, and I don't know how many people shot through the giant arrows......
In short, in the effective range of the three-bow bed crossbow, how thick the shield and armor are ornaments.
When he saw that Lin Jian had deployed the only four three-bow bed crossbows on this ambush ship, Du Rong also understood, and Lin Jian accurately expected that they would forcibly break through. The combat power deployed by Lin Tie on this ambush ship would be difficult to gnaw even if they could successfully engage in battle, but Du Rong had no other choice but to fight desperately.
Qin Zitan and Shu Qingqiu missed from both sides on the equinox in two boats, and after occupying the upper hand, they did not turn the bow of the ship and raise the sail to besiege Lin Tie with Du Rong, and continued to flee downstream.
Du Rong's spear head had just been able to stab into the ridge of the ship in front of the ambush, and he had already been hit by four rounds of fire from Lin Lian's side, accompanied by 90 elites, Shujiazhai soldiers and boatmen, except for those who were greedy for life and afraid of death, and there were less than 40 people who could stand up, and what attacked them was a long bayonet spear that stabbed them......
When more than 1,000 Donghai Kou elites plundered Anji County, Lin Lian actually had the courage to set up an ambush at the mouth of Meixi Lake and wait for them to enter the set, Du Rong knew that he had been defeated at that time, at this time he stood at the bow of the boat and couldn't even see the face behind the side of the ambush boat, so he gave two bamboo spears from the left and right to force a dead retreat, a spear stabbed in the chest, and the elites of the luxury family who planned to follow him to the death also stabbed the bamboo spears into the water, and the sound of the bow and strings at close range was more like the sound of the piano, Du Rong's eyes were dark, and his mind was like sliding into the endless dark abyss, Fall down.
Ao Canghai made people hook the enemy who fell into the water or was wounded or killed with a hook gun.
Most of the armor piercers are luxury elites, Ao Canghai has nothing to say to these people, and those who still have some spare breath will make up for it, take off the armor, and throw the corpse into the water again; Only the Shujiazhai soldiers had a living mouth, so that people took hemp rope and threw it into the bilge and locked it up.
Lin Jian didn't care what Ao Canghai did, he stood on the bow of the boat and looked into the distance, the other two boats had already fled away, "Jiyun Yi" took advantage of the wind to move fast, the body was so huge, even if the long penny only reached the bottom of the lake, it was very slow to support the penny, and it was impossible to catch up with those two boats; I thought that the big loach master Ge Cunxin led the "Jiyun II" to ambush at the mouth of the river in Zhuxi, and it was probably difficult to keep them, after all, the powerful bed crossbow and the Zhang crossbow were concentrated on this ship.
"Du Rong still has a breath and is not dead." Ao Canghai walked over with a knife that was still dripping blood.
"You're not going to kill him?" Lin Jian looked at Ao Canghai in surprise, and said, "It's useless to keep him alive at this time, so let's detain him first; Even when he is dead, maybe it will be useful in the future, but at this time it is a hot potato. ”
Can these small actions made by the luxury family behind their backs really hide from the eyes of Li Zhuo and some big figures in the DPRK?
Lin Jian knew in his heart that the situation in Hongzepu was uncertain, and the Donghai Kou was gradually becoming a big trouble, and the situation in the imperial court was critical enough, especially after the elite of Eastern Fujian was transferred to the northern line one after another, most of the imperial court would not want the luxury family to rebel again.
At this time, it was a hot potato to catch Du Rong's living mouth, and it was hot to hold it in his hand, and he was reluctant to throw it away, Lin Lian thought about it and secretly imprisoned Du Rongxian, if he died, it would be okay.
In short, Lin Jian didn't want to be able to extract any secrets from Du Rong's mouth now.
The battlefield was cleaned here, and the big loach master Ge Cunxin took the "Jiyun II" to converge from behind.
The elite of the armor pawns, as well as the bed crossbow, the sword crossbow and other sharp weapons are mainly concentrated on the Lin Tie boat, and the big loach master Ge Cunxin is mostly brave and brave on the ship, and the Lin Tie also ordered that the scorpion crossbow should not be used as much as possible. Although they intercepted the two boats that Qin Zitan and Shu Qingchun were riding in the back, killing and killing dozens of people, they did not achieve the record of completely destroying one ship, and it was inconvenient to pursue against the wind, so they came over to join Lin Lian.
The more than 1,000 elites of the East China Sea Kou who are wandering through Anji County are their real threat, and they cannot be taken lightly.
"At this time, if you go to Shujiazhai, there should be no more ambushes!" Lin Jian said, waving his knife and pointing in the direction of Shujiazhai in front of him, "Let's go there!" ”