When Wu Ban's heart suddenly jumped up when he saw the Jiangdong general on the opposite side really appear.
Are there really Jiangdong thieves infiltrated here?
These are simply walking war achievements!
But Zhu Ran quickly slapped Wu Ban in the face.
The Sichuan and Shu archers who were caught off guard by Zhu Ran's sudden counterattack retreated in a mess, giving the armorless thin-armored Ba people following behind the Jiangdong soldiers an excellent opportunity to assault.
Wu Ban poked his head out from behind the shield, and his vision was very good in front. He stared at the Jiangdong soldiers attacking his Sichuan soldiers' shield front, thinking that he should give it another try...
The Jiangdong soldiers were fighting silently.
Those Ba people with various patterns on their faces were screaming.
Wu Ban swallowed hard and moistened his dry throat. He didn't know what his brother had done in Sichuan, but he just knew that he had to do something to prove himself.
For example, not only blocking the Jiangdong soldiers in front of you, but also seizing the Jiangdong generals in front of you...
That’s right, as long as you capture the Jiangdong general and the dark clouds covering Wu’s head, it will disappear!
Wu Ban licked his mouth.
He subconsciously ignored a problem: it is even more difficult to catch, or to stop or kill.
Wu Ban's breathing was a little heavy.
The martial arts of this Jiangdong general is obviously extraordinary.
When Wu Ban saw that the Jiangdong general was shooting just now, he shot out more than ten arrows, shooting death and injured at least seven or eight people. This phenomenon should have been a reminder of Wu Ban, but Wu Ban did not react in time.
Perhaps this kind of score is indeed worse than those sharpshooters who have hit every shot, but the problem is in actual combat, the wind speed, terrain, position, etc. are different from the training in daily life. In addition, the target he aims at may be shot by others the next moment, so the Jiangdong general's efforts on bows and arrows can be seen.
Bows and arrows are water grinding skills.
When picking up a stick, a monkey knows how to play, but if you want to achieve certain achievements on bows and arrows, you don’t want to shoot well without the water grinding skills for many years. Therefore, you are willing to work hard on bows and arrows. Generally speaking, your martial arts are not bad.
Of course, it is not ruled out that some people are inherently rejecting melee...
But soon, the Jiangdong general dropped his bow and picked up the sword and slashed it, dispelled Wu Ban's idea.
Wu Ban set his sights on the shield wall array of Sichuan soldiers in front of him.
These Sichuan and Shu soldiers were not elite, so when they were led by Jiangdong generals and rushed, the array shaking a little.
"Master, you should attack!" The guard reminded Wu Ban.
But Wu Ban shook his head, "Wait a little longer..."
"Wait a minute?" The guard was a little difficult to understand.
The front line will soon collapse.
"Preparing the Five Elements Thunder..." Wu Ban whispered to the guard beside him.
"What?" The guard was a little surprised.
Although they have the Five Elements Thunder, they are not many, and they are planning to save their lives. Let’s use it now?
Wu Ban waved impatiently, "Prepare the Five Elements Thunder!"
Wu Ban felt that if he wanted to capture Jiangdong generals, he had to reduce the strength of the Jiangdong generals first, but he could not reduce it too hard, otherwise he would be picked up by Yan Yan, who came from behind...
Nowadays, it’s not easy to get by. Even if you catch a general from Jiangdong, you have to fight for it.
Therefore, the Jiangdong generals and the Jiangdong soldiers behind them must be cut first.
The shield formation of the soldiers in Sichuan and Sichuan gradually scattered, and the soldiers in Jiangdong mixed with the screaming Ba people and pressed forward...
"Prepare to ignite..." Wu Ban ordered, "Throw a little behind..."
Some faint white smoke rose up.
A moment later, several grenades were thrown out and fell into the soldiers of Jiangdong...
『Boom! Boom boom!』
The gunpowder filled in the grenade turned into gorgeous flames and thick smoke and dust, and made a huge sound, spilling out the iron sheets on their bodies and surrounding gravel and other items outwards.
The power of black gunpowder often varies greatly.
The lower limit is like setting off firecrackers, crackling sounds, and there are so many choking cigarettes. What about people?
The upper limit is like setting off firecrackers, but just setting them up against your face...
Therefore, the lethality of black gunpowder is extremely unstable. If the fragments produced by the explosion, such as iron sheets or gravel, hit the body, it is really like being cut by a knife or a gun. If it is closer and exploded on the weak links of the limbs, it is torn apart the muscles and bones and tortoise.
But if you say it is a little further...
Even in later generations, well, attack-type grenades often have a killing radius of only about five meters.
Therefore, the central point of the explosion did kill and injure many Jiangdong soldiers and Ba people, but the Jiangdong soldiers and Ba people who were slightly farther away also fell down like grass blowing by strong winds. Mostly it was not a physical effect, but a psychological effect.
The soldiers and Ba people who were killed by the bombing looked tragic.
Blood splattered from the wounds on these people, and the dying screams or wounded moans were stimulating the soldiers and Ba people in Jiangdong.
This sudden attack caused chaos in the Jiangdong soldiers, and the attack momentum originally formed under Zhu Ran was completely cut off.
Zhu Ran opened his mouth wide, and the sharp roar in his ears still made him unable to hear the panic howling around him. He looked at the Jiangdong armored soldiers struggling in the pool of blood in front of him in panic. They were the person he knew and his guard.
The guard was bleeding from the battles and traveled thousands of miles, but now he fell in front of Zhu Ran so simply, so weak and so powerless...
Everything in front of him had broken down all the ideas he had established before and completely crushed into the soil.
Zhu Ran had never seen grenades, but the distance was far before. I was like standing upstairs and watching the fireworks and firecrackers in the square. Do you feel scared? Now he is standing in the pile of firecrackers in the square, and the feeling is immediately different...
Not only Zhu Ran, but other Jiangdong armored soldiers around him were also hit by the huge blow of the grenade explosion, and the array had stalled.
Those who were even more chaotic and fearful than Zhu Ran and the soldiers in Jiangdong were naturally those Ba people.
Before the roar echoed in the valley disappeared, the people were already like frightened rabbits, running out in all directions without thinking, and some even jumped off the cliff directly!
It was like a fire scene, forced by thick smoke to jump downstairs. Maybe it wasn't that I didn't know that I would die if I jumped like this, but I was stunned for a moment.
Then several more grenades were thrown down.
This time, the number of casualties and injuries has been greatly reduced, because most of the Jiangdong soldiers are relatively scattered, and many people subconsciously fall to the ground because of the first wave of explosions...
Zhu Ran was very lucky, and he was injured without an explosion twice.
Perhaps it was Wu Ban's order that made people deliberately avoid Zhu Ran's position, or perhaps it was because Zhu Ran was lucky that no grenade fell beside him.
But the tragic situation around him was enough to shock Zhu Ran.
The blood splashed out by Jiang Song's soldiers was stained on Zhu Ran's face. He couldn't wipe it. His mind was still blank. He was a little confused and saw the figure swaying across the street, as if he was coming towards this place.
"Retreat... Retreat!" Zhu Ran shivered and suddenly reacted. He kicked the guard who was lying beside him, and then grabbed another Jiangdong soldier, "Retreat! Retreat first!"
People are most of the time afraid of things that are unknown and cannot be controlled by them.
If Zhu Ran could carefully count the surrounding situation, he would find that there were not many people who died directly, and the injured soldiers might not be able to fight...
Or from another perspective, if you fight with swords and guns, will there be no casualties or injuries?
But Zhu Ran was not concerned about the casualties caused by swords and guns, but he was at a loss for the casualties caused by grenades.
Maybe he once thought he could adapt...
No matter what, escaping is still one of human instincts.
When Wu Ban was approaching Zhu Ran with his men, Zhu Ran jumped up and ran away with some guards...
"No! Don't run! Come back!"
Wu Ban shouted crazy, as if he saw that the ducks had already been put into the pot, but they fled, and the direction of the escape was actually Yan Yan's side...
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Zhu Ran fled in the mountains, and Zhu Zhi still felt comfortable.
The next day, Zhu Zhi continued to work hard and demolished most of the underwater stakes in front of the pontoon bridge. He sent more than 20 ships to launch a tentative attack on the pontoon bridge, island city, and Sichuan Water Village between the two cities.
It's like fire reconnaissance.
Zhu Zhi had to test all the consumables such as Yu Fu's tinea oil here.
Of course, the Sichuan and Shu army would not allow Zhu Zhi to easily succeed, with bows, arrows, crossbows, and throwing stones together. Gan Ning also brought the navy to guard the surroundings of the floating bridge, hitting and intercepting the Jiangdong navy.
For the trolleys and boats sent by Jiangdong this time, crossbow arrows and stone bombs are not something they can bear, so they can only use their own flexible positioning to avoid them.
In terms of boat driving operations, the advantages of the Jiangdong Navy were fully demonstrated.
These snails and boats jump, slide and swim on the river like swimming fish. They are as flexible as every piece of wood in the boat is transformed into fish in the water.
However, the skin of the siege and the walking boat was too crisp and the blood strips were too short. Under the dense firepower of the Sichuan and Shu army, they also paid a heavy price. In just half a day, many wreckages of ships and corpses floated on the water.
Despite this, Zhu Zhi still ordered attacks one after another, attacking the positions of the Sichuan and Shu army again and again.
The impact effect gradually emerges.
Although Gan Ning was brave and powerful in water battles, his subordinates could not be as fierce as Gan Ning. Under the overall disadvantage of the number of people, although Gan Ning repelled Zhu Zhi's attacks several times in a row, the subsequent results in a sharp decline in his troops' physical strength and endurance.
Especially in the current warm and cold weather, the loss of temperature caused by the river water will quickly consume energy, and a little carelessness will cause loss of temperature. When people are extremely excited or nervous, they often do not notice signs of loss of temperature in the early stages of their body. As a result, when they retreat and rest, they will relax and they will not be able to get up when they fall to the ground.
Not only is the low water temperature causing temperature loss, but even in summer, when the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, it is easy to cause temperature loss outdoors.
For example, I like to exercise on the balcony in the middle of the night, sweating all over and blowing the night wind...
In addition to the consumption of Ganning, the Jiangdong Army's continuous small troops attack also caused the Sichuan and Shu army's firepower projection to be exhausted. The stone bullets of the catapult cart and the crossbow arrows of the crossbow cart are consumables. Under the continuous battle, the frequency and accuracy of the shooting are decreasing.
When the battle was approaching evening, the Jiangdong Army broke into the defense line of the pontoon bridge and successfully destroyed a fulcrum of the pontoon bridge.
The Jiangdong soldiers cheered again, as if they had destroyed such a fulcrum of the floating bridge, and had already conquered half of the fish.
Zhu Zhi did not dare to neglect. After a brief joy, he immediately ordered the continued attack, and at the same time, he also asked the landing Jiangdong soldiers to increase their attack on Yufu Mountain City. Because if they did not destroy the floating bridge in one breath, or put insufficient pressure on the Yufu defenders, even if Zhu Zhi destroyed part of the supporting bridge, it might be repaired one night...
Perhaps it was because of the victory of "stage" that Jiangdong's morale continued to rise.
The sun gradually sets.
The sunset shines on the river surface, and the blood in the river water seems to be intertwined, turning into a bright red brocade, floating slowly in the mountains.
The Jiangdong Army's fleet was huge and mighty, and built a very large array, occupying almost most of the river surface.
Huang Gai's lessons also made Zhu Zhi specially arranged a circle of turfs in front of the Jiangdong Navy, equipped with fishing nets to intercept tinctures and bamboo claw rakes. If Zhuge Liang used the same trick again and wanted to put down the tincture oil claw pot from the upstream to attack the Jiangdong Navy, these fishing nets and claw rakes could easily isolate the tincture oil claw pots, and even collect the tincture oil and use it on the Yufu Guardian.
But for some reason, Zhuge Liang has always adopted the conventional combat mode and has no intention of using tinea oil...
Before nightfall, the Jiangdong Army finally cleared a safe attack channel that was relatively safe and able to allow the tower ship to join the battle. In this case, Zhu Zhi thought about it for a while and quickly canceled the idea of ​​repairing it, but he ordered a night of battle to fight with the lights and let the dome-armored tower ship attack again, trying to destroy the floating bridge between the two cities of Yufu, the Sichuan Army at the fastest speed.
With the order of Zhu Zhi, five dome-armored tower ships dragged their scarred bodies and rushed towards the floating bridge.
After several days of battle, both the Sichuan and Shu army and the Jiangdong army were quite tired.
But overall, the Jiangdong Army was actually even more at a disadvantage.
Although the Yufu defenders in Sichuan and Shu did consume a lot of crossbow arrows and stone bullets, and some crossbows and catapults were damaged under high-intensity combat, these losses were all items and equipment, and they were all small components. As long as there were supplies and time, they could be replenished in time. However, the Jiangdong Army lost boats and soldiers.
However, Zhu Zhi did not think this was a big problem at the moment, or he thought it was a normal battle loss.
The tower ship is a huge surface combat platform, like a combination of a ladder truck and an arrow tower on land. When the Jiangdong tower ship approaches the floating bridge between Yufu and the two cities on the water, the Jiangdong tower ship can rely on its condescending advantage to allow the archers in the tower ship to shoot the defenders on the pontoon bridge behind the window and the female wall.
At the same time, there are crossbows, catapults, and poles on the tower ship.
And, angle collision.
Yu Fu's defenders seemed to feel the huge threat from the dome-armored ships in Jiangdong, and began to pour stone bullets and crossbow arrows towards these dome-armored ships.
The dome-armored tower ship, which was heading in the front, was unfortunately hit by two stone bombs one after another, and a huge depression formed on the bow of the ship. The river water poured back into the cabin, and the entire tower ship was suddenly head-heavy and light, with its butt facing the sky. The Jiangdong soldiers on this tower ship were unstable, like chestnuts on the dustpan, rolling down the deck.
『Beat the drum! Advance!』 Zhu Zhi shouted, 『Success or failure is here! You can't stop! Advance!』
Even if he used a boat to hit him, Zhu Zhi would break Yu Fu's floating bridge!
If on land, cavalry attacked the enemy array and used war horses to break out a bloody road, then Zhu Zhi's current tactic is to treat the tower ship as a heavy war horse, trying to break out the bloody road in the Yufu defender's array, cut off the connection between the mountain city and the island city, and then further invade the island city, using this as a stable center of combat, and then take down Yufu.
Yufucheng can be said to be the gateway barrier of Sichuan and Sichuan.
After passing Yufu, on the one hand, you can go south along the river to march into Jiangzhou, invade Nanzhong, and attack the chrysanthemums of Sichuan and Sichuan. On the other hand, you can further threaten Chengdu in Sichuan through the army.
At the same time, taking Yufu is equivalent to taking the water transportation channel from Yufu to Jiangling area, which will also help Jiangdong to replenish food, grass, soldiers, transportation materials, etc. in the future.
Moreover, there are not many windows of time left for Zhu Zhi...
The big rivers come earlier and more fiercely than the spring flood of big rivers.
Once the flood season comes, it will undoubtedly be more difficult for the downstream to attack the upstream.
so……
We must spare no expense, especially at the moment, when Zhu Zhi saw a glimmer of hope for victory.
He was like a red-eyed gambler at the gambling table, blushing his face, his hair and beard were wide open, and he pushed his chips up...
Under the urging of war drums and orders, the remaining Jiangdong Dome Armored Boat Ship did not extend a helping hand to those comrades who fell into the water, but continued to move forward frantically and rushed towards the floating bridge.
The sky is dark and the river is red.
"boom!"
The corner of a dome-armored tower ship hit the floating bridge and made a huge sound.
Although the iron chains connected to each other on the pontoon bridge were not broken during this collision, the wooden boards of the pontoon bridge and some wooden structures were shaken violently.
The broken fragments of the wooden board fell into the water, and the Sichuan soldiers who were still fighting on the floating bridge were unstable in the midst of violent shocks and fell into the water.
"Okay!" Zhu Zhi clapped his hands violently and shouted excitedly, "Yes! That's it!"
Zhu Zhi was happy, but he was not happy when he hit the dome-armored ship on the floating bridge.
Because on the pontoon bridge, there are not only wooden boards and columns, but also iron chains and nails.
It is easy to bump into, but it is not that easy to hit you again...
"Can't come out!"
Jiangdong soldiers posed a flag at the stern of the building.
If you have time to slowly separate the nails stuck in the hull and separate the pontoon bridge piles from the hull, you can certainly pour them out, but the problem now is that no one will give these Jiangdong soldiers time to do this.
Zhu Zhi was stunned and immediately ordered the subsequent dome armored ship to change locations and then hit them again.
The brave soldiers of Jiangdong carried out Zhu Zhi's orders again regardless of life and death.
"boom!"
There was another loud bang, and the floating bridge shook violently again.
The wooden boards were broken, and the bridge deck of the pontoon bridge was almost destroyed. The wooden stakes under the bridge deck, which were hooked by iron chains and nails, were also pulled out from underwater and swayed in the air.
The entire floating bridge was shaking.
Chapter completed!