Chapter 2878 Water and Fire, Old-fashioned Strategy
Huang Gai couldn't understand why the crossbows on the hill had such high accuracy. Even if they secretly pulled out the water obstacles at night, they would be hit after several rounds of calibration. Although being hit by the hull may not necessarily lead to many casualties, as long as one stone bomb was hit, the ship was basically not far from being scrapped.
Several soldiers in Jiangdong died, even dozens, hundreds, and thousands of people. When necessary, Huang Gai would not even blink his eyes, but if he lost a few or dozens of ships, Huang Gai would feel so painful.
It's not that human life is cheap...
Well, this era is indeed even cheaper.
Well, in the feudal era, life was cheap.
Of course Huang Gai would not admit this. He just said that if the ship was damaged too seriously, what would the next road be? Could it be that if we didn’t take the boat, we would take the land route and climb over the hills to fish again?
Therefore, if you can avoid losing the ship, try not to lose the ship.
This is a major premise.
Then, set the fire!
The autumn is bright and cool, and it is a good time to set fire.
Setting fires, even obsessed with setting fires, is generally because humans' own desire for self-destruction is at work, just like destroying a sand castle that has been piled up on the beach for a long time.
Destruction is always easier than construction.
Yesterday, the wind stopped.
Huang Gai didn't dare to move.
He needs a exact direction of the wind, or if the fire is halfway through, the wind will start to blow again. Wouldn't he shoot himself in the foot?
You should know that ships are also afraid of fire...
By this afternoon, the wind direction finally changed.
Huang Gai looked at the flying flags on the boat, smiling so hard that all the wrinkles on his face bloomed.
To set fire, first, prepare some small butter, secondly, prepare some paper, and finally find a hidden place to start rubbing...
Um?
Why does something seem to be wrong?
That's right, most people who like to set fire are not right anyway.
In order not to alarm the people of Sichuan and Sichuan in advance, Huang Gai issued a ban order, and no one was allowed to speak loudly. If the Sichuan and Sichuan soldiers were scared away, wouldn’t the fire be released in vain?
The strategy of setting fire is an old routine.
The ancient primitive people set a fire to compete for territory with wild animals.
Zhou of Shang also set a fire, but it was himself.
Anyone can set fire, the key is to use it in place.
The routine howling of the Sichuan and Shu army began, Huang Gai sat on the building boat and listened quietly.
Originally, these ghost screams made Huang Gai feel a splitting headache, but for some reason, it sounded very pleasant tonight.
Yes, just shouting, it's broken throat later...
In order not to be disturbed, the Jiangdong Army retreated to the other side of the shore at night, facing the Sichuan and Shu Army on the hilltop of the north bank by water. There are also temporary camps on the shore, which are usually used to cook food during the day. After all, although you can also cook food on the boat, it is not convenient and safe enough. At the same time, people are not aquatic creatures and still need land, so you need to get off the boat from time to time to move.
In the area of Qiting, the two sides are steep, and it is not like you can find larger flat land by the water west of Yidao, so you can only take turns to go ashore to repair it.
Huang Gai and other Sichuan soldiers who were in the dark had retreated. After the fourth field fell into silence again, he stood up and began to order.
First prepare some small butter...
Well, I was wrong, I moved some ships as quietly as possible first.
Even if the wind blows north now, who can guarantee that the wind will not turn when it is halfway through, or will the flying Mars ignite the mountains and forests on the south bank? Therefore, the safest way is to naturally stay away from the two sides as much as possible, so that the river water becomes an isolation belt that blocks flames and Mars.
The key is that after the wildfire starts, even if a small number of Sichuan and Shu escape, Huang Gai can remove those disgusting obstacles as soon as possible and chase them directly!
This is how you can vent your hatred in your heart!
After the fleet had entered a safe range, Huang Gai ordered someone to take a ferry and head towards the north shore with the objects that led to the fire.
For a moment, everyone from Jiangdong was waiting with breath...
Come on, let's make a move.
Speaking of Fei Qian...
Forget it, let’s see Zhuge.
Zhuge is also in the transition.
After the wind direction changed, Zhuge Liang changed his direction.
Shamoke didn't understand very much. He even thought Zhuge Liang had a head problem?
It is obvious that you have an advantage, why should you retreat?
Zhuge Liang was still smiling and didn't explain much.
Shamoke could only retreat with a muttering voice, and honestly followed the Sichuan soldiers.
Shamoke is the leader of the Wuling Mountain Barbarians, and he is the leader who is willing to come out to see the world. From a certain perspective, Shamoke is already very good. After all, most people in the Nanyue Mountain Barbarians only want to stay in a certain area forever and stay in the mountain village and be the local emperor for the rest of their lives.
But walking out of the forest does not mean that you can wash away your old habits immediately.
Originally, Shamoke was in Wuling, at least within his own clan, and he was the only one who was in Sichuan and Shu, but when he arrived, he became a younger brother, from ordering others to following others' orders, this kind of role change could not be fully adapted in one or two days, especially when Shamoke had some of his younger brothers following him, sometimes it was inevitable that Shamoke could not determine his own position.
If an ordinary person or is not patient, he will most likely take a direct high pressure state in this situation. Regardless of whether there is a preliminary preparation or not, whether it is a younger brother or a younger brother, he will just press down anyway.
By chance, Zhuge Liang was patient enough.
After all, Zhuge Liang is still young, and he has plenty of time to adjust... to adjust Shamoko. The way he adjusts Shamoko is to let Shamoko watch from the side, and then wait until Shamoko really can't figure it out before he will give a few words.
After all, in Lushan, Pang Degong treated Fei Qian and others, including Zhuge Liang, in this way. Only the answers obtained by people after thinking hard will be particularly profound.
The flames quickly broke the tranquility of the night.
Under the blowing of the south wind, the flames ignited from the riverside climbed up the forest almost in a blink of an eye, and then quickly attacked upwards from the foot of the mountain, illuminating the sky with red color!
Seeing this scene, Shamoko was stunned and then many question marks appeared on his head.
Zhuge Liang ignored Shamoko and did not stop because of the rising fire in the rear.
If nothing unexpected happens, Huang Gai will soon notice the flaw...
Zhuge Liang must be in a hurry.
When you look at the mountain, you will die from horses, especially when walking in mountains without roads, you will have great requirements for physical strength and endurance. Fortunately, the soldiers arranged by Zhuge Liang in the early days not only cut down vines and thorns in advance, but also somehow they have made a way out, but more importantly, they have left marks not far away to avoid accidentally losing their direction.
The river channel is curved. When Zhuge Liang walked down the mountain, he naturally reached the edge of the river channel.
On one side of the river, a Sichuan and Shu soldiers were pushing a boat into the river. When they saw Zhuge Liang coming, they went forward to salute.
Zhuge Liang waved his hand, "Move faster, otherwise he might run away."
"Yes!" The soldiers of Sichuan and Shu immediately accelerated their movements.
Shamoko was stunned, "Entertainment, what are you...doing?"
Just a few small boats are going to fight Huang Gaijun?
No?
Or just ran away like that?
Shamoke was stunned, but Zhuge Liang got on the boat, turned around, and then showed a row of shining teeth in the night, "What's wrong, Captain Sha? Are you planning to stay here?"
"Oh, oh..." Shamoko quickly boarded the boat, but saw a lot of things seemingly placed in the cabin of the boat, "Uh...what is this?"
Shamoke subconsciously wanted to find a torch left and right to check it out, but he suddenly found that everyone holding the torch was on the shore. After Zhuge Liang and others got on the boat, he immediately immersed the torch into the water and then got on the boat.
Shamoke suddenly felt a little strange in his heart, as if he was leaning against the mouth of the black bear's cave, and then some terrifying breaths came out of the hole...
"Well, be careful, that's tincture." Zhuge Liang said in a very calm tone, "Be careful not to get it."
"Ah!" Shamoko was shocked. He had seen tinea oil and knew how powerful this thing was. He also saw clearly that the rows of tinea oil in the cabin were cans of tinea oil. "This... so many?!"
The boat swayed and left the shore.
The clay pots collided slightly, making a creepy sound.
Shamoko widened his eyes, stared at the clay pots in the cabin, and his hands were tightly squeezing the boat gang. He decided that if there was anything wrong with it, he would immediately turn over and jump.
Although he is a mountain Yue from Wuling, he still knows how many dog-padding styles are...
Zhuge Liang stood at the bow of the boat, and not far behind him was following the other four boats.
Five small boats swayed down with the water flowing downwards, gradually passing by the river berth, and the light gradually became brighter in front of them.
The fire is already very big.
Jumping flames engulf the bushes and dance happily on the treetops.
The rolling black smoke roared upwards, spreading its teeth and claws in the air.
Zhuge Liang looked at it and waved his hand.
The boat gradually stopped, then supported it with a bamboo pole and swayed slightly horizontally.
The other small boats also stopped and swayed with Zhuge Liang's ship, forming a small horizontal line on the river surface.
One person took two steps forward and stood beside Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang turned his head slightly and nodded.
The man turned around and waved his hand to signal.
Immediately, people on various small boats began to move the tincture oil cans from the cabin. First, they reached the bow, opened the can and poured half of the can into the water, then covered the can and threw the entire can into the water.
Soon, Shamoko saw the water flowing downstream with the tinder oil tanks floating...
"Entertainment, you are..." Shamoke guessed Zhuge Liang's thoughts and was obviously a little excited, "I'm going to burn the Jiangdong ship?"
Zhuge Liang smiled slightly and nodded.
"But why didn't you use a catapult to burn it directly before?" Shamoke asked with some confusion. Because when he was in Sichuan and Shu, he had also seen a catapult to fire sulphur bombs. He always thought that Zhuge Liang would use a catapult to smash the warships in Jiangdong on the mountain, but he didn't expect that Zhuge Liang did not use a catapult to smash it with a catapult to attack at all. He just used an ordinary stone bomb to attack, and he didn't take out the sulphur to take out the sulphur.
Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "If someone hits you but you can't hit him, then are you standing waiting for that person to hit you or what will you do?"
"Can't hit him? Then...oh, I understand..." Shamoko suddenly realized, "Then won't they run away now?"
Zhuge Liang pointed at his feet.
Shamoke lowered his head and looked at Zhuge Liang's feet carefully.
Because the flames on the hill ahead were very large, Shamoke could clearly see Zhuge Liang wearing a pair of cowhide boots, with some traces of soil on it...
Is there any answer written on these cowhide shoes?
"It's a ship." Zhuge Liang said, his voice still being stable.
"What?" Shamoko still didn't understand.
Zhuge Liang smiled, pointed to the boat under his feet, and finally said a word, "Boat."
Then I won't explain it.
Shamoko stared at the boat, then looked up at Zhuge Liang, looked down at the boat, looked up again, and then began to scratch his head, he couldn't figure it out...
When Shamoko couldn't figure it out, some doubts arose in Huang Gai's heart.
At the beginning when the flames rose, Huang Gai was excited. After the destruction factor in his body was satisfied, he churned wildly, and then he gave Huang Gai some dopamine.
After a brief joy, it is often empty.
The same is true for Huang Gai. As he watched the wildfire spread excitedly, he gradually felt something was wrong.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! He ordered the Jiangdong to be quiet in order not to alert the snake, but the wildfires had obviously spread to the mountainside and were still attacking upwards, so why didn't the sound of the soldiers in Sichuan and Sichuan be heard?
"What did you hear?" Huang Gai thought he had missed something and asked the soldiers beside him.
"General! What a big fire!" The soldiers were still immersed in the pleasure of setting fire, their eyes pounding with the flames, and their faces were obsessed.
『…』 Huang Gai held his breath and said in a deep voice, 『I am asking you to see... No, I am asking you if you have heard anything?! I am asking you what you have seen?!
The soldiers quickly listened, and looked around in a daze, "Yes, there are so many voices, listen, it's the monkey calling..."
The blue veins on Huang Gai's head jumped twice, and he felt more and more uneasy, and he felt like he was peeping at a wild beast. As he got older, his ears and eyes were inevitably deteriorated, so he was not sure if he heard it or didn't hear it. "Didn't you hear anyone screaming?"
"Uh... it seems...no..." The soldiers didn't understand Huang Gai's meaning very well.
Could it be that General Huang likes to listen to people calling?
Or something to hint me?
Want to make me shout twice?
If you call it, how should you call it better?
When the soldier was nervous, Huang Gai slapped the handrail, and turned his back on him as if he had lifted his pants and ignored the soldier. He walked forward two steps and found another soldier. "Did you hear the screams of someone on the mountain? It's a human! Human!"
"Ah? It seems that there is no... I probably have burned to death, but I won't scream if I burned to death..." Another soldier replied.
When the wildfire first started to ignite, the forests were not absolutely calm, and the birds and beasts made a lot of noise, so Huang Gai didn't care at first, but when the wildfire spread to the mountainside, the birds and beasts and other things flew away, and all the escaped escaped, and some of the remaining sounds became less. In the midst of these noisy waves, Huang Gai seemed to have not heard anyone's shouts, nor did he scream...
Huang Gai's heart sank.
Water and fire are the things that humans fear the most, because humans need water and fire, and they cannot do without water and fire, and they cannot be completely controlled. Instead, they are more often affected by water and fire. Therefore, when humans see uncontrollable water and fire, they should scream like birds and beasts!
But now Huang Gai didn't hear it...
Didn't hear it!
what does that mean?
Huang Gai's eyes became too late, but he still felt a little unbelievable, because he had never told anyone about setting fire to the mountain. So how could the Sichuan and Shu army on the mountain know that they were setting fire?
Is it just a coincidence?
The wildfires were still swallowing everything crazy, and then spitting out Mars everywhere.
The Mars were mixed with the stars in the sky in the night sky, just like the heaven and earth in front of you were cut into two halves, half bright red, and half indigo.
『Ba...』
A tiny sound sounded, as if it was very close.
Huang Gai frowned and asked the soldiers around him again, "Have you heard anything?"
The soldiers were going crazy, "I...what should I hear?"
『Ba...』
Another sound.
Huang Gai frowned, then lay down on the armrest and looked down.
On the dark river surface, some inexplicable luster seemed to reflect, and some small black items seemed to drift down from the upstream and hit the hull, making a shattering sound.
"What is that?!" Huang Gai shouted at the thing that was rising and falling in the water.
Among the traffickers ahead, soldiers from Jiangdong heard Huang Gai's order and held a torch to check the boat.
Huang Gai looked at him, and suddenly felt a sudden pause in his heart, as if he had missed a few beats, and his breathing became a little rapid, as if there was a ferocious beast about to pounce in the darkness. Then he saw the soldier lying on the boat, holding a torch in one hand and reaching out to catch it with the other...
The next moment, I don’t know if the debris fell on the torch ignited the tinder oil, or the soldier accidentally overturned the tinder oil tank, but after a light blue light jumped up, the trolley turned into a fireboat in the blink of an eye!
Immediately, Huang Gai was thinking about the screams that belonged to humans resounded through the sky!
The ignited slug suddenly lost control and then ignited more tinder oil.
The flames spread on the river surface, just like the entire river water was about to surging and burning!
『Retreat! Raise anchor! Retreat!』
Huang Gai is not a loss, he is the last general, he issued the most correct command at this moment.
It’s a pleasure to set fire to others, but now it’s a miserable time to set fire to others.
Although Huang Gai issued the most correct order, he forgot something in panic that the ship just couldn't turn around...
The Jiangdong ship at the front wanted to turn around, but collided. Then he watched the tincture oil tank floating upstream hit his own ship gang. Then the spreading flames rushed upwards fiercely from the water along the route of the tincture oil!
The boat is closer to the water and is more susceptible to the burning of flames on the water. Even if the boat is not ignited for the time being, it also causes the Jiangdong soldiers on the boat to be attacked by fire poison. Many Jiangdong soldiers can't bear it and dive in one after another. However, when they emerge, they find that their heads and faces are covered with flames!
The screams resounded throughout the world!
"Don't turn around! Use the slurry to go backwards!" Huang Gai seemed to be baked by the surrounding flames, and sweat was all over his body. "Fast moves! Quick!"
Larger ships are relatively better. Although they are also stained with some tincture oil, the flames cannot directly burn to the people on the ship, and those flames will also be affected by the surging rivers.
This is just relatively speaking. After spending a long time in the sea of fire, no matter how big or small the boat is, it will burn the same!
"General! There is a boat behind us!" a soldier shouted.
『Crash out!』 Huang Gai yelled, 『Crash out a way! Otherwise, they will die!』
At this time, there was no need to care about any friendly forces, and they could escape as much as they could!
Amid the shattering sound, Huang Gai's hideous face...
At the bend of the river in the distance, Zhuge Liang stood at the bow of the boat, his sleeves flew in the night wind, his smile on his face was still calm, and only the flames in his eyes burned everything.