Chapter 618 Ghosts and Gods
The guard had just cursed a few times, and a cold wind blew, and it suddenly poured into his mouth. He suddenly felt a coldness in his chest and abdomen, and he started coughing suddenly. He quickly fumbled out of the ground for a while, and took out a small pot of clay pot, opened it and poured it in. He felt a sensation in his mouth, and it took him a while to calm down. He carefully put the pot back on the ground, trying to find a place to block the wind, but the building was originally on the water.
After Zhou Ben occupied Baishazhou, he built a barrier camp on the sandzhou. In order to prevent the Zhenhai Army from attacking the camp from the water, the Huainan Army penetrated two rows of wooden stakes into the shallow water on the side of the camp, and connected them with iron chains to form a water defense line. Dozens of fast ships were docked in and out of the water gate. The guard's watch tower was on the water, with only one circle of railings on all sides, without any cover and ventilation on all sides, so he had to squat down to reduce the area of wind.
After about half a cup of tea, the guard heard a sound of paddling and quickly jumped up, picked up the torch and looked carefully. It turned out that a small boat was slowly rowing from the sandbank, but it was the one who came to change his own people. He quickly put down the rope ladder that was packed up. After a while, the boat leaned up and climbed up from the rope ladder. The guard stepped forward and helped him and cursed: "Okay, Wu Er, it's too late today. I won't tell you about it after I go back."
Wu Er snorted coldly when he heard the guard's scolding: "Bah! Even if you, Wang Qilang, have the most people, you, can't bear it if you lose for a moment!"
The two of them quarreled for a few words, and the boaters below were impatient and cursed. Wang Qilang took off the cloak from his head and handed it to the other party. He pointed to the clay pot at the corner and said, "Here, there is some wine in the clay pot over there. It's strong wind here. You can take a few sips to get rid of the cold, but don't drink it all, the brothers next time have no need to drink it."
"You Wang Qi, you are there, how come you have so many words." Wu Er didn't look back and wanted to go to the clay pot on the ground. He was a wine-loving person and was about to have a sip. He just put the clay pot to his mouth, but someone knocked it behind him. It immediately spilled out a lot and splashed on his body. Wu Er quickly stuffed the clay pot again and said angrily: "Wang Qi, what are you doing? Why don't you go back to sleep quickly? Are you really going to have a home?"
"Wu Er, what's there?" Wang Qilang's voice was a little trembling, as if he was frightened. Wu Er looked in the direction of the other party's fingers, and with the dim moonlight, he could vaguely see a black shadow on the river. A gust of river wind blew over and a sound of oars came.
"Enemy attack! It's the warship of Zhenhai Army!" The two of them looked at each other and immediately saw fear from each other's eyes. Their looking building was completely uncovered, and the only way to escape was to survive. Wu Er immediately picked up a clay pot from the ground and poured the liquid in the pot on the firewood pile aside. The smell of tinder immediately filled the building with a smell of tinder oil. Wang Qilang threw the torch on the firewood pile, and suddenly a burst of flame rushed from Lao Gao on the firewood pile. Then the two of them crawled along the rope ladder toward the boat docked below.
On the flagship of Zhenhai Army, Zhou Anguo looked at the flames not far away and sneered: "The sentries of Huainan thieves are very awake, but in front of our Zhenhai Army, they are all native chickens and tile dogs! Send the order, and go forward to clear the wooden stakes! The big ship prepares artillery to attack the moored enemy ships!"
With a rapid drum sound, dozens of small boats rushed out of the ranks of Zhenhai warships. The hulls of these small boats were narrow and long and equipped with eight pairs of long oars, and the speed was amazing. However, they rushed to the front of the wooden stakes while breathing. The Zhenhai watermen drew the iron chains with pre-prepared turmeric oil, ignited them with fire, and then chopped them with an iron axe. Soon dozens of iron chains fell into the river, and the water defense line prepared in advance by the Huainan army opened the door.
At the same time, the large ship of Zhenhai Army was anchored on the periphery. On the deck of the bow, the gunners were busy with the help of sailors. Aside the mortar, the flames were churning on the two charcoal furnaces, and several red iron balls were placed on each of the charcoal furnaces. After loading gunpowder for the mortar, the gunman carefully picked up a piece of wet mud cake and put it in from the muzzle. After confirming that everything was correct, he used iron pliers to pick up a red iron ball from the charcoal furnace, carefully put it in from the muzzle, and then quickly ignited the fuse. With a loud bang, a red meteor ejected from the muzzle and flew towards the densely-drunk clutch in the water basin.
The Huainan soldiers in the dock had seen the beacon fire above the watchtower. The guards in the dock immediately ordered all soldiers to not move rashly unless they were ordered to be ordered. He himself led his personal soldiers to the ships beside the water. As a very experienced general, he knew how dangerous it was for night attacks, both for attackers and defenders: it was difficult for the attacking side to coordinate and organize troops, while the defense was prone to kill each other. He planned to send fire attack ships to raid the enemy ships in the night while defending the barriers. But he had just stepped onto the trestle,
A terrible sound came, as if something was flying by quickly. He subconsciously threw himself to the ground. As soon as his chest touched the ground, he saw a red light hitting the big ship beside the trestle, knocking the mast into two ends, and the broken upper half of the mast pressed towards the trestle. The people on the trestle made a terrifying cry and fled one after another. Many people simply jumped into the water, and the broken mast hit the trestle, which immediately aroused a burst of smoke and dust. When the smoke and dust dissipated, you could see that the big ship was slowly sinking. Obviously, the red light had just broken through the bottom of the ship.
"What is this?" The Huainan guard general looked at the collapsed pier and sinking ship in front of him in a panic. The broken mast was several feet away. He noticed that the broken place had turned into charred black. He reached out and touched the broken mouth. His fingers bounced back as soon as he touched the burned black mouth.
"So hot! What is this red light?" His eyes were full of curiosity. The Huainan Guard raised his head and saw balls of red lights falling down. The ships hit broke and sank. Some of them fell to the tents on the shore. Flashes of fire lights rose, and more red lights flew over from the river. It was obvious that these red lights were fired by the Zhenhai Army's warships.
Chapter completed!