Deng Zhong saw that the Wei army was heading straight for the beach, and planned to attack in one fell swoop, so he couldn't help but sneer, "Prepare for war, once the Wei army climbed the beach, I would shoot me to death."

The brick walls of Muzhai, which are built along the coast of the South Island, are cleverly built on the high ground, and are two thousand steps away from the beach. This distance is just right, and they are neither too far nor too close. When the enemy is about to land on the island and grab the beach, they line up on the beach to shoot the enemy who are stopping on the boat and land on the island. If they cannot control the situation, they will slowly retreat into Muzhai, climb the city tower and shoot again.

This also forms a two-stage strike method.

Deng Zhong saw that Liu Zhi was blocked by the Wei army and could not help Nanchangshan Island for a while. He thought that he could only do his best to defend the island. He immediately ordered Muzhai to open the door and personally led 2,000 Yan troops to each hold longbows and headed straight to the beach to line up.

Tian Yu was extremely angry when he saw Deng Zhong using the Muzhai and fortifications he had built for many years: "Cheng Xi is really incompetent. The fortifications that I have worked hard to build are not used to defend against the enemy, but to defend himself."

Tian Pengzu led seven large ships to attack at the same time. A row of catapults at the bow flew up and down. Every time the extremely long tips popped forward, it would drive the rock wrapped at the end to fly out.

I could only hear "swoosh", "swoosh", and "swoosh" sounded, and the stone bomb was bounced three or four hundred steps away, hitting the sea near the beach, stirring up several feet high of water.

As the seven large ships advanced, the range continued to affect the Yan army on the beach. People were constantly hit by stone bullets, and they flew straight out, fuzzy and bloody.

Deng Zhong sneered intently, thinking that the Wei army would soon hit the trap, so he immediately beat the drum to let the soldiers retreat, avoiding the Wei army's catapults, and avoiding innocent killing within its range.

Tian Pengzu laughed, "There are only two thousand soldiers on the island, but they dare to speak out loud. As long as you land on the island, you can break through within three days."

At this moment, the boat rushing in front had directly hit the rail fort hidden underwater along the coast!

This incident happened suddenly. The Wei army in the cabin was carrying supplies. Suddenly, seven or eight huge firs pierced from the bottom of the ship. The sharp spear tip even carried a soldier into the air.

In an instant, the Wei ship stopped moving forward, and the cold sea water surged up from the hole at the bottom of the ship, instantly overwhelmed everyone's instep. The water level rose rapidly and spread to almost as fast as the knees. The cabin was almost swallowed by sea water.

Immediately afterwards, the other six boats also hit the rail fort one after another, and each crashed into several large holes at the bottom of the ship, and the cold sea water seeped out.

Tian Pengzu only felt his feet shaking, holding the bow of the boat with his left hand, and said strangely: "What's going on? Did you hit the reef? This is impossible. I know every grass and tree near the South Island. There is no reef in this area."

Seven or eight people ran out of the cabin on each ship, and their faces suddenly changed and shouted: "It's not good, I'm ambushed, and seven or eight big holes were dug at the bottom of the ship!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the Wei army on the ship was in chaos and was in a state of storm.

Tian Pengzu was shocked and shouted, "What's going on? The bottom of the ship is broken, why don't you make up for it quickly."

The old ship soldier smiled bitterly and said, "Pioneer, such a hole cannot be repaired. It is inserted into the bottom of the ship diagonally. Our entire ship cannot move. We also broke seven or eight large holes at the same time, and it will sink in no time."

Deng Zhong was overjoyed when he saw that all the ships had hit the rail camp and immediately ordered: "Wei thief's ship was extremely moving and would soon sink. You should guard the shore and shoot them to death if you dare to swim."

More than 2,000 people each held crossbows, lined up in front, and there were broken sky crossbows in a row, and stepped forward in flat directions.

The seven large ships were originally thinking of joining the siege to attack, but unexpectedly they all hit the rail camp in the water. The bottom of the ship was broken and the ship was about to sink. The Wei army immediately became disintegrated and ran around indiscriminately.

More than thirty people jumped into the sea and swam towards the shore of the South Island.

The Yan army could not allow the Wei army to swim over, and immediately shot arrows into the sea. Before they swam to the shore, they were shot and killed, with blood all over the ground.

"Not good, there are traps in the sea."

Tian Yu was shocked and understood that seven large ships were about to sink. He wanted to order the ship to come forward and take the seven or eight thousand Wei soldiers and sons on the ship. But then he thought about it, and he was worried and followed the plot. In the end, he was wiped out and hesitated for a moment.

He frowned, and the personal soldiers beside him were at a loss: "Prince, the prince is still on the boat, please make an idea."

Tian Yu was finally worried and frowned and said, "Go forward to Erli and let them swim by themselves, not close. If it is too close, the Yan Thief is deceitful and it is hard to say what ambush will be in."

Deng Zhong saw Tian Yu who was surging in the back and was about to pick up the Wei army on the seven ships nearby. He immediately laughed: "I want to leave when I come, and I dream."

Two hundred sky-breaking crossbows were operated by six hundred archers, twisting the winch, installing arrows, igniting flames, and the dense arrows as dense as rain flew straight, either in the bow or the body of the hull, many of which were shot on the largest and widest sails of the target. In an instant, seven large ships soared into the sky.

The Wei army, who was about to sink the ship, saw that the fire was on the ship and he had no intention of extinguishing the fire. Now there are only two choices left: either drown or burn to death.

At this moment, all of them were in a mess. Countless Wei soldiers removed their heavy armor and jumped into the sea like dumplings. In the dark night, they looked like large groups of swimming fish, swimming towards the shore or towards Tian Yu in the distance.

Many of them are water-deficient land ducks. Although they are navy masters, they are not good at water. Most of them cannot swim too far and they drown in the sea. A small number of them hold the driftwood taken from the boat and swim to the shore with their legs desperately.

Deng Zhong looked at the Wei army swimming on the island, with neither weapons nor armor on his body. Facing the Yan army that was welcomed by a formation, it was like a white pig tied up in the market. He met the butcher holding a pig knife in his hand. He laughed and ordered his subordinates: "Don't shoot arrows first, let's swim up. If you don't raise your hand to surrender, it's not too late to shoot and kill again."

Sure enough, the first Wei army to go ashore raised their hands: "Don't kill me, don't kill me, I surrender!"

About 1,500 people swam onto the island one after another, and all raised their hands to accept surrender. At this time, the seven large ships were half burned and half sunken, and they took a two-pronged approach. Most of them had already disappeared into the sea. The upper half of the black smoke was mixed with fire, so people could hardly stand. Many Wei soldiers who were hesitant in the end could not stand the heat of the ship, and thought that instead of burning them to death, they would rather jump into the sea and drown and jump into the sea one after another.

The seven ships carried more than 8,000 people into the scale of the navy, drowned, and the deaths were not among the four thousand soldiers. One thousand five hundred people swam to the South Island and became prisoners.

More than 2,000 people with good water quality swam desperately to Tian Yu's boat, and the Wei army put down the ropes and picked them up one by one.

Tian Pengzu was soaked from head to toe. The cold sea water made him tremble. He was pulled onto the boat by Wei Jun for a long time and couldn't relieve himself. He gritted his teeth and said, "Father, what should I do now?"

Tian Yu looked gloomy and snorted: "What should I do? We have lost our troops and lost our generals, and we have burned seven large ships. If we don't withdraw our troops now, are we waiting to die? It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, and we will withdraw back to Donglai County first."

"But--"

He raised his head and wanted to argue a few more words. When he ran into his father's stern gaze, he lost his temper immediately. He wanted to deflate the ball and said in a silence: "The father is the decision."

Tian Yu snorted coldly, frowned, and looked at the fire on the sea, and his eyes reflected the sea of ​​fire. He said coldly: "This time we were careless and fell into the enemy plan of the Yan thief. As I expected, the Yan thief was waiting for the tide of the sea to recede, and when the tide was rising, the standing wooden stakes disappeared from the sea. We were caught in such an ambush when the tide was low."

While Tian Pengzu hated him, he also felt a little respect for the Yan thieves. Although the enemy was irreconcilable, he had to admire how whimsical such a mysterious plan was, and said in a deep voice: "This ambush seems simple, but it is difficult to deal with. In this way, there is no place to get to the beach to land on the island."

Tian Yu sneered: "It's a high tide now, the water level is high, and the wooden stakes are hidden under the sea, so they are naturally invisible. Just wait until the tide is low, and the coast is exposed, and there is nowhere to hide in the wooden stakes. This method is broken by indissoluble."

Tian Pengzu was stunned and nodded immediately: "What my father said is very much."

"It's a pity-"

Tian Yu looked at the seven large ships burned and shook his head and said, "The price of suffering is too great. Five or six thousand people and seven large ships were lost in one battle. It will take a lot of time to wait until the tide is gone. The morale of the defeat this time is shaken, and it will take a few more days to renovate the morale. If you drag it back and forth, you will go out again in fifteen days."

Tian Pengzu knew that he was angry, but he could only wait for the opportunity to attack.

Liu Zhi fought with the Mengchong warships of the Wei army at sea for a long time. He finally hit the rail fort, burned seven large ships, and countless people fell into the water and drowned. A big victory was quietly in front of him. He laughed: "Boat with all your strength."

It happened to be that Tian Yu beat the drum and sent the order. The three armies retreated. Meng Chong's warships all turned the bow of the ship backwards and left. Liu Zhi chased after him and rushed dozens of Meng Chong's boats. Although the Wei army hated him, they did not dare to fight. They had to defend themselves and retreat slowly, and finally disappeared on the vast sea.

Deng Zhong and Liu Zhi cooperated to win a battle, and they were all very happy.

The next day, the sea was filled with wreckage of warships, thousands of corpses floated on the sea, and one or two hundred corpses were swept up to the shore by the waves. It looked extremely terrifying.

Deng Zhong ordered people to clean up all the bodies, and then all the ashes were buried on the mountain on Nanchangshan Island. One was out of humanitarianism, and the other was that the bodies were allowed to rot, which would breed a large number of bacteria. Ancient China realized this very early.

Liu Zhi pointed to the coastal area and said with a smile: "Tian Yu was defeated by this great defeat, but he was just careless. This method can only be used for new things, not old things. When he went back to learn from his mistakes, he naturally knew the fatal point of the track fort. The next time he attacked, he would rest his morale and wait until the tide was gone before attacking."

Deng Zhong said: "Uncle Guo, if the tide recedes and the Zhitiao Village can no longer serve as a defense. Tian Yu has rested the Qingzhou soldiers, how should we defend?"

Liu Zhi smiled slightly and said, "According to the king's ideas, we should not defend, and directly attacking Qingzhou is the best strategy."

Deng Zhong said "Ah" and was a little excited: "I hope to hear it carefully."

"Although Tian Yu retreated, he only hurt his skin but not his bones. He will come back after resting and resting. It is not a solution to defend himself. It is better to attack the coast of Qingzhou. We attacked the Wei defenders along the coast. Tian Yu could not have filled all the troops stationed thousands of miles along the coast, right? If you can attack one section, if you can't attack and the county town is the base, if you can't capture it, or if you can't capture it, you will rob the people in the county and take them away together."

Liu Zhi did not express Gongsun Xiu’s complete strategic plan until today.

This is an indisputable fact that Yan State has a scarcity of population.

Gongsun Xiu's attitude towards Qingzhou was that he could capture the territory and plunder the population and returned. No matter how bad he was, he had to steal some gold, silver, jewelry, food, and other subsidies for military use. In short, he could find a way to save it.

Deng Zhongxi said: "If we use troops like this, Tian Yu is busy guarding us and has no intention of attacking. This really has achieved the strategy of attack instead of defense."

Liu Zhi nodded, then remembered something again, frowned and said, "There is one thing that is quite strange. You should report it to the king immediately. Did the Wei army not use the Sky-Breaking Crossbow yesterday? This is really strange."

Deng Zhong only felt that Liu Zhi had made a big fuss, but the naval battle last night was fierce, so he really didn't use the Sky-Breaking Crossbow. He said in surprise: "Maybe, the Wei army does not know the wonderful uses. Or, it can't be widely used in the Wei army?"

Liu Zhi shook his head and said, "I can't guess it personally, I have to report this to the king."

I immediately wrote a letter in person, explaining in detail how to occupy the island chain and repel Tian Yu, and also wrote the Wei army that was not equipped with a sky-breaking crossbow into the letter.

The letter was handed over to the fast ship, and he rushed to Dazhu at night, and as soon as he got ashore, he handed it to the post station. The minor officials at the post rushed to Xiangping without stopping. The horses and people were replaced all the way without stopping for twelve hours a day, and they were delivered to Xiangping in two days.

Gongsun Xiu opened the letter and looked at it. When he learned that the island chain had been completely controlled, Tian Yu's large-scale attack was defeated by Liu and Deng. He slapped and said happily: "Yes, these two men won the first battle and made their first contribution."

Keep looking down, seeing that the Wei army was not equipped with the Sky-Breaking Crossbow, he couldn't help but exclaim.

Deng Ai heard it carefully, and saw that the king suddenly looked strange and said hurriedly: "King, what happened?"

Gongsun Xiu put down the letter and pondered: "In the letter, Liu Zhi said that the soldiers in Qingzhou were not equipped with the Sky-Breaking Crossbow, which is a bit unclear. Logically speaking, Sima Yi had the Sky-Breaking Crossbow and used it in the Battle of Liaodong. Now several years have passed, and it should have been manufactured in large quantities and used in the army. How could there be no one? Can't they see the power of the Sky-Breaking Crossbow?"

The ministers also knew that the Sky-Pound Crossbow was a masterpiece of the king. Unfortunately, the wreckage was taken away by Sima Yi and he followed the map to create it. In fact, it is no wonder that it was difficult to create it out of thin air. However, the talented craftsmen under the enemy's army saw the appearance of the Sky-Pound Crossbow and could be copied in a few days after studying it. There were no technical problems.

Creation and imitation are just one word different, and the difficulty is as different as the world's largest.

Jia Fan frowned and said, "I don't understand this. Although the Wei army did not use this magic weapon, it is a good thing for us. But the Wei State is full of talents, so we shouldn't not know such a powerful weapon, right?"

Suddenly, Deng Ai smiled and replied, "Your Majesty, I think I know what's going on. If someone else might not understand it, it is not surprising to put it on Sima Yi. His selfish thoughts can actually abandon the unjustness of the country."

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