Chapter 587 Night Attack on Hidden Dragon Island
On the small sandbank of Pengze Lake, Liang's soldiers heard their generals' words, and one of them was puzzled: "But here is a big piece of land. Where can they hide? Can they go to heaven and earth? Moreover, if there are only people, they can only be secretly sent by the enemy. The secretly sentry must be equipped with ships to make sense, so where can their ships be hidden?"
The general sneered and took the words of the soldiers and said, "It is impossible for them to go to heaven and earth, but they can dive into the water!"
One of the soldiers replied: "Reporting to the team, we are worried that the enemy soldiers will use reeds to ventilate and hide them in the water just now. So we always pay attention to it. Whenever we see waters with reeds and cannot tell whether they are hidden in the enemy soldiers, we repeatedly stabbed the water with a spear and spear. After all, this sandbank is only two or three acres in size, and we have combed the depressions and coastal waters like combs. In addition, we also searched the lake further along the coastal coast, and no suspicious reeds floating uprights were found on the water."
The team leader sneered and said, "If you don't have to use reed tube ventilation when diving underwater, you don't have to use the method of ventilation. Although you don't know what method they use, you can be sure that they hide underwater. We will know the answer afterwards."
After a while, several ferry ships left one after another, but they only drove out for more than thirty battles before stopping, but did not break down, but let the ships spin on the water. The soldiers who landed on the sandbank did not leave, but just waited quietly on the shore. The entire lake surface became quiet in an instant, leaving only the sound of wind and the sound of water birds singing from time to time.
At this time, white waves suddenly churned on the lake not far from the sandbank. A huge object suddenly emerged from the water. The soldiers on the shore looked closely and found that it was a sampan boat. However, when the ship just emerged from the water, it was placed upside down on the bottom of the boat. When it completely floated to the water, it turned out to be overturned. Only then did the people on the shore see clearly that there were still several people under the boat.
One of them gasped and said, "Oh my god, Liang Jun's ship has been so long, and I almost suffocated to death."
Another person who looked like the leader said, "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and fire up the arrow to report the message..." His voice suddenly stopped because he had already discovered that the other party's ship had not yet walked away, and now he turned around and drove towards them at full speed. Another person exclaimed with a sad face: "Boss, Liang Jun has not left, they are still on the shore!"
The man, known as the boss, turned his head and saw that there were indeed a large group of soldiers holding knives and guns standing on the shore. Some of them had bows and crossbows in their hands, and were aiming at this side with arrows. At this time, several people rushed to climb onto the boat. The boss roared: "Roar the boat quickly and rush out. If you don't fire the arrow quickly, this is the most important thing..."
But before he finished speaking, he had already screamed and fell on the deck of the sampan. However, it was not the person on the opposite side who killed him, but another Linjiang army soldier. The soldier put away his bloody weapon and said, "You don't want to die, brothers are still dead." Then he said to the others: "Why are you still standing there? Raise the white flag and surrender. This is our only chance to survive."
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The team leader learned from these prisoners that Huo Jun's main force was hiding on a large island called Zanglong Island, ten miles northeast of this small sandbank. In order to guard against Liang's search, Huo Jun set up a number of secret posts and patrol boats in the surrounding sandbanks and lakeshores. Just now, if these prisoners emitted arrows, Huo Jun could not receive the signal directly, but other secret posts would emit arrows one after another, and all the way to Huo Jun.
The team leader asked the prisoners curiously: "Then how did you hide your people and ships just now? You can really hold your breath for so long."
"This is actually very simple. We secretly whistle all have a unified way to avoid searching for scouts in your army. We are to bring a stone anchor weighing hundreds of kilograms on the sampan every day. If we find suspicious ships approaching and we have nowhere to hide, we can turn the sampan upside down. The weight of the people and the stone anchor is enough to sink the upside down to the bottom of the water. But the sampan suddenly turns upside down, so there will be a certain amount of air at the bottom of the bilge. We breathe with this little air. When we see the ships of your army leave at the bottom of the water, we untie the stone anchor, and then step on the water and it will surface."
The team leader nodded and said to the others: "So that's it. Without hesitation, we need to bring this news to the army behind us immediately."
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Pengze Lake Zanglong Island is a place with a high water terrain, with camp tents everywhere, but the surrounding dense woods and shrubs cover the camp very tightly, and it is difficult to find it on the lake alone. On the other side of the camp is a steep cliff about two or three battles above the water surface. Under the cliff is a natural deep-water port, so a few springboards are placed on the cliff to make a very convenient pier. The water surface under the cliff is densely filled with Huo Jun's warships.
The sun sets down the mountain, and the night becomes darker and darker, but it is extremely difficult to see a lit lantern on the boat or on the shore. Obviously, Huo Jun prohibits the soldiers from using lights in order to prevent the Liang army from discovering it. But he is an exception. In his tent of the Central Army, which is several layers of cover by the curtains, there are brightly lit banquets.
Several soldiers who were guarding outside the tent found that several fireballs were passing by in the sky. They were surprised at first, but then they turned from surprise to fear. Because these flying fire meteors became bigger and bigger, they flew towards their camp, and there were countless same flying fire meteors following them, illuminating half of the sky.
The soldiers suddenly realized that it was not a meteor, but a projectile that could be ignited by the Liang army's crossbows. They shouted one after another: "Enemy attack! An enemy attack is coming!"
In the big tent, Huo Jun, who was drinking and having fun, was shocked when he heard this. He pushed the singer beside him away and jumped up from the couch. At this time, with a loud bang, a huge stone bullet fell into his big tent, just hitting the table, smashing the wine, vegetable and bowls and splashing everywhere. A piece of porcelain just broke down on Huo Jun's neck, and blood flowed.
Huo Jun finally reacted from the shock, hurriedly put on armor and helmets, and rushed out of the tent with his weapons. At this time, the entire camp was in chaos. He raised his eyes to look at the lake in the distance. Another large area of highlights rose into the air and flew towards this side. They became bigger and bigger, and finally turned into huge fireballs. When they fell, some rose into the deck of the ship, and some entered the military tent and burned the entire camp into a ball of fireballs.
Huo Junsheng shouted with all his might: "Hurry! Get on the boat! Get ready to face the enemy!" After a while, the soldiers of Linjiang Army, who were in chaos, began to run towards the boat one after another...
Chapter completed!