Although he issued a military order to Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu sniffed the fragrance of water and his heart was not at peace. He had been proud of his martial arts since he was a child, and his colleagues in the army could not compare to him. He also compared himself with Wei Qing and aspired to be the pillar of the country. Therefore, he often complained.
Said: It is difficult to have a thousand-mile horse, and it is difficult to have a bole. When will there be a Emperor Wu who appreciates him and allows him to flourish and serve the country?
When he was thirty-two, he was appointed as the governor by Ding Yuan, and his official career was already considerable among ordinary people. But when he thought about the Xiongnu rebellion, he galloped on the battlefield and was much better than Liu Bei, but Liu Bei was already ranked among the two thousand.
Shi's immortal status made Lu Bu feel that it was a waste. So he betrayed Ding Yuan, recognized his father Dong Zhuo, and was promoted to Zhonglang General. However, since he surrendered, although he was one of the seven Zhonglang Generals under Dong Zhuo's command, he was shunned by others.
, I heard Gao Shun say that people in Liang looked down on him, saying that he was a seller seeking glory, which was extremely shameless.
He wanted to go crazy in his heart, but it was difficult for him to do so. Now that he heard that Chen Chong was leading his army to fight, his anger finally found a place to vent, and he was somewhat eager to prove himself, so he took the initiative to ask for a fight.
Lu Bu was not a rough man, and he was not reckless when he set out. He also had some thoughts. He set off from Xiaopingjin, showed off his strength for a moment, then calmed down, and gave orders to the boatmen one by one that the boat should move slowly along the edge of the sandbank.
, and then he told the soldiers to kneel down on the side of the boat and crawl among the bushes on the sandbar, and wait for the sailors to go down the river and climb directly to the sandbar without warning.
July was when the river was at its strongest, and the boat floated very fast. Sitting on the side of the boat, Lu Bu felt like he was riding a horse. In less than half a quarter of an hour, it drifted between the large and small sandbanks. But what he didn't expect was that,
Concealment doesn't have much effect. After protruding the figure from the bushes, the situation in front of him is not that he is unprepared, but that many soldiers are gathering here.
Obviously, the soldiers were well prepared. At this time, there were about 300 soldiers stationed in the southwest of the sandbank. They carried powerful crossbows made of beef tendons and loaded them with arrows. They were facing the Liang people on the bow of the boat, waiting for them to continue approaching.
Lu Bu saw that the surprise attack was ineffective, so he simply picked up his halberd and stood up, using the halberd blade to fingernail the soldiers in a provocative gesture.
Most of these soldiers were Xuzhou soldiers. They didn't know Lu Bu's martial name. When they saw Lu Bu's provocation, they all said, "Where are you from? Are you afraid that you won't be able to become a hedgehog?" So they waited until Lu Bu got close to fifty feet, and started to attack one after another.
Shooting arrows at him. Lu Bu stood on the bow of the ship and saw the crossbow arrows flying towards him like a line. He held his breath and concentrated, holding halberds in both hands and moving them left and right in the air. The entourage on the same ship was dizzy and could only hear the clanging sound of iron.
Then there was the sound of arrows falling into the water. It turned out that Lu Bu had plucked more than thirty arrows in the wind, and after excluding the arrows that failed, only two arrows hit his armor.
The Xuzhou soldiers had never seen such skill before and hesitated for a moment whether to shoot again. Seeing this, Lu Bu proudly said to his followers: "My martial arts skills are a bit rusty. This time the east wind blew, but I actually have two arrows."
Missed it." The followers all admired and said: "The general is really a god."
Lü Buyou was not satisfied. The oars of the boat were rocking and the Xuzhou soldiers were getting closer and closer. However, he laughed and said, "You are not good at shooting, so you can show others with crossbow arrows." So Lü Bu put the halberd in his hand on the bow of the boat and took out a gun from the corner of the side of the boat.
He took out a three-stone ox-horn bow with one hand and took out five conical arrows from the quiver with one hand, holding them all in his hand. Lu Bu was seen leaning on the bow of the boat, holding the bow and stretching the string. He put the arrow on the string and fired.
Then there were arrow feathers falling from the string, and with the fingers flexing, all five arrows were fired in a matter of seconds, and there were no more, no less, on the sandbank, which was enough to knock down five people.
Both the enemy and us were dumbfounded by this skill of shooting five people with five arrows in a row. Wei Yue from behind cheered loudly: "Arrows against the wind, five piercing flowers!" His subordinates cheered as if they had just woken up from a dream.
, and the enemy troops on the sandbank were deprived of their momentum and felt a little depressed for a while.
Seeing that the distance between the boat and the sandbank in the front row was only ten feet, Lu Bu was very proud. He put his bow and arrow on his back and picked up his halberd again. When the bow of the ship was a little closer to eight feet, he jumped from the bow onto the sandbank. The ship he was on was suddenly hit.
He was swaying back and forth with great force, so that the boatman almost lost control. After less than a quarter of an hour, the other soldiers followed up one after another. At this time, Lu Bu had already taken more than ten steps and was fighting with the enemy's soldiers.<
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When looking from a distance, the Xuzhou soldiers were shocked by Lu Bu's archery skills. When they got up close, they realized that he was even more terrifying in close combat. Although he was nine feet tall, he was extremely agile. He could swing an iron halberd of nearly a hundred kilograms like the wind, and everyone was stunned.
They couldn't get close to him from the front, so they could only go around and slash at his armor, but it had no effect. A few people were lucky enough to pierce the gaps in the armor, only to find that under Lu Bu's armor, the joints were covered with a layer of cowhide, which couldn't penetrate the flesh at all. Logically speaking,
Wrapped up so tightly, ordinary people could not move for a long time, but Lu Bu could still fight from left to right. This must be said to be a strange thing. The Xuzhou soldiers looked at Lu Bu as if he were looking at a monster. More than ten people advanced and retreated together, and they just entangled Lu Bu in the original place.
Land.
This was exactly what Lu Bu wanted. He secretly planned that as long as he struggled for a while, when his subordinates all rushed to the sandbank, how could they stop these soldiers who came from nowhere? He had 800 soldiers in this group, and he was good at infantry fighting.
, As long as we stand firm on the sandbank and hold on until the second batch of soldiers arrive, the outcome will be self-evident.
After another two moments of fierce fighting, the warriors from other places on the sandbank gathered together, about 2,000 in number, and 400 soldiers gathered around Lu Bu. Their tactics were as normal as Lu Bu expected, and Lu Bu's army gathered together.
He firmly occupied a corner of the sandbank and refused to retreat even an inch no matter how hard the opponent attacked. But that was it. Lu Bu didn't wait for the troops from behind to land. When he looked back, the scene in front of him was far beyond his expectation. The Liang people rowed over, and only half of the eighty small boats were aboard. At this time, about fifty small boats suddenly emerged from the north and south shores of the sandbank. Unlike the Liang people who went down the river, these small boats swam upstream, and finally swam up to the big and small boats.
Between the sandbanks, Liangren's boats were stopped.
The Liang people don't know how to drive a boat, and the boatman they found is just an ordinary ferryman. It may be enough to get people ashore, but they don't know anything about water warfare. But this is not the case for the Xuzhou soldiers. Most of these people are Taishan bandits, and they often
Robbery of passing ships on the Huai River and formation of formations to kill them is far better than the Liang people, but when it comes to controlling the ship's side on the water, both sides cannot make excuses. This is why Chen Chong chose Xuzhou soldiers to come here.
In terms of the number of soldiers on the ship, both sides were the same, twelve people in each ship. However, the Xuzhou soldiers needed to paddle upstream, with one person at the stern holding the rudder, and only one person fighting in the front. But the water
The battle was very different from the land battle. The Xuzhou soldier held a long pole with a sickle-shaped hook blade hanging on the end of the pole. He hung the hook blade on Liang Ren's starboard side and passed the pole to his comrades behind him. Four or five people went back and forth.
Pushing and pulling together, the boat suddenly flipped over in the strong waves. The cool people on the boat fell into the river like dumplings, and the sound of crashing was endless.
After capsizing more than ten ships in this way, Liang Ren finally realized that the Taishan thieves had long hooks to catch them, so they lay on the side of the ship and chopped with knives. Unexpectedly, the Taishan thieves used long hooks to hook their hair buns.
, necks, and hooks were sharp. After several rounds, Liang people’s heads, necks, and hands were covered with cut flesh and blood. They had no weapons to fight back, and they couldn’t shoot arrows stably on the boat. Many of them had no martial arts skills, but at this moment they couldn’t even shoot.
The enemy's hands could not reach it, and he was quickly tricked to death.
Seeing this, the boats behind them all gave way, but there were two boatmen in one of their boats, so how could they give way? Except for the last boat that docked early and fled, all the boats in front of them, without exception, either abandoned their swords and surrendered, or were killed by Taishan bandits.
into the river.
Lu Bu's eyes were completely split. How could he have imagined such a scene when he asked for battle? Even though there was a constant stream of enemies on the sandbank, he was so furious that he stabbed six or seven more people to death one after another, and repelled a wave of enemy attacks. But his troops
Everyone's physical strength is gradually exhausted, and their morale is also low. It is estimated that if they persist for three quarters of an hour, the formation will collapse without any attack.
Song Xian shouted to Lu Bu from two feet away: "Marquis, we'd better withdraw!" Lu Bu shouted angrily: "How can we withdraw? Isn't it possible to die on the water?" Song Xian replied loudly: "There is always more.
A glimmer of hope! A true man is a military prince who can bend and stretch!"
These words touched Lu Bu's mind, and he was determined. He immediately set off like thunder. Without saying a word, he quickly turned around and ran back to the boat. Unexpectedly, many of his followers had no time to follow, and there were only about thirty people.
After getting on the boat, the rest of the people were trapped by the enemy on the sandbank and were unable to escape.
Lu Bu occupied one boat by himself, and immediately used his halberd to clear the tidal flats, and drove towards the river bank. The Taishan bandits who were fighting on the river did not have time to react. Only Zang Ba's boat was swimming at the end and collided with Lu Bu. The Qingzhou Captain looked at him
One person and one boat, with gold rims on their chainmails and a precious halberd in their hands. They said to their subordinates in a hurry: "This must be a noble man. Capturing him will show my achievements!"
Then they also used long hooks to hook Lu Bu's ship. Seeing this, Lu Bu pulled out his knife and immediately cut off the hook rods of the Taishan bandits. This made the Taishan bandits who were chasing him quite amazed. After all, they had all expected it.
In such a situation, the hook pole is made of jujube wood. It takes more than ten cuts to leave a crease. This person has a precious sword and is also a strong man without peer in the world.
Seeing that they could not catch him alive, Zang Ba changed his words: "The cone will break the bottom of his boat!" The Taishan thieves then took out three long poles more than ten feet long, with two-foot-long iron cones fixed on the tops of the poles. They went deep into the water and pointed at him.
Lu Bu's bottom of the boat was sharply chiseled, and Lu Bu swung his knife into the water to chop, but it was in vain. He saw several holes in the bottom of the boat made by the iron awl.
The yellow turbid river water surged up the side of the boat, submerging the corners of Lu Bu's legs. The cold temperature made him panic. He turned to Zang Ba and raised his hand to signal that he was willing to surrender, but how could Zang Ba dare to surrender him? He smiled and watched
He sank slowly. Lu Bu stopped looking at them and continued rowing toward the shore with his iron halberd. However, when he was still nearly twenty feet away from the river bank, his boat sank completely.
When the Taishan thief saw Lu Bu for the last time, he rolled up and down in the river, still holding a halberd and a knife in his hand. The soldiers all laughed and said, "If he throws these away, maybe he can roll over a few more times. Okay."
The brave strong man, it’s a pity, it’s a pity that he died like this.”
Zang Ba circled the spot where Lu Bu fell into the water for several more times as a token of silence. Zang Ba noted down the location where he fell into the water, thinking that since he was wearing such heavy clothes, he should still be around when he died. It would be better to salvage him again at night, maybe he could be salvaged.
Corpse. At this moment, a subordinate pointed to the river and said in a voice: "He is still alive!"
Everyone couldn't help but look together, and saw a human head emerging from the river, slowly moving southward in the rapids, like a floating gourd. After a while, he revealed his armor, and water continued to trickle through the gaps in the armor.
As the river went down, people saw clearly that Lu Bu was still holding a stone the size of a millstone. He was actually holding the stone and walking ashore step by step from the bottom of the river!
He threw down the boulder, looked back at the Taishan thieves, drew out his knife and slashed at them in the air, then left with his chest trembling.
Chen Chong had a panoramic view of all this from a newly built watchtower on Shazhou, and couldn't help but smile: "What a Lu Fengxian, he has the domineering power of a sword across the bank!"