Chapter 399 Battle Zhang Fei
Slowly, the warships headed towards Luokou Ferry again. There were really fewer ships around Luokou Ferry, and there were also much less people on both sides of the strait. Although Jia Xu was pulled into the cabin by Liu Mang, he still kept paying attention to the movements on the water.
After driving for several miles, there were more plants, trees, reed marshes, and Jia Xu became more vigilant. He had to leave here as soon as possible.
"Your Highness, Luokou Ferry is ahead. You have to sit down. The water flow at Luokou Ferry is a little more turbulent and may be bumpy!" The boatman explained to Liu Mang.
"The water flows fast? Can it be passed quickly?!" Jia Xu asked.
"Yes, we can cross Luokou Ferry in just one stick of incense, and we can reach the mainstream official road of the Yangtze River in another half an hour." The boatman replied to Jia Xu's words.
"That's good!" Jia Xu hoped to quickly rush through the reed marsh and added, "If it can be fast, just get faster as soon as possible."
"I understand!" The boatman nodded, and the sails on the warship rose and went downstream. In addition, the wind of the river, although the warship was large, its speed was much faster than those small boats. Soon it threw the small boat behind and gradually disappeared.
Jia Xu then breathed a sigh of relief. As a poisonous snake, he had been watching when others had been monitored by others. This feeling was very uncomfortable.
"After passing Luokou Ferry, we entered the official road and basically stepped into Xiangyang!" Jia Xu's caution was good, but if he was too cautious, it would become a trouble. Liu Mang patted Jia Xu on the shoulder, hoping to soothe the poisonous snake a little.
"I hope so!" Before Jia Xu could say anything, the ship suddenly shaking violently with a "boom". Jia Xu and Liu Mang were almost thrown out of the deck and fell into the river.
"What's going on?!" Jia Xu and Liu Mang were shocked. Fortunately, Liu Mang had a martial arts foundation and promptly grabbed Jia Xu, which left the two not injured.
"Report to His Highness, the ferry in front of him was locked with iron rope!" A soldier stepped forward and reported to Liu Mang.
"Locked with an iron lock?" Liu Mang widened his eyes and hurried to the bow of the ship. It turned out that the most turbulent place in front of him was steadily blocked by several large iron chains as thick as arms. The warship had already been downstream and raised its sails, but then it directly hit the iron chains. The hull of the lower body of the warship was directly knocked open by the iron chains. The thick wooden boards were directly broken, revealing most of the cabin. Fortunately, the warship was strong enough so that it was not cut off by the iron chains directly. However, the current appearance was no longer too different from being cut off. Luokou Ferry could no longer do anything.
"Boom boom boom boom!": Just as Liu Mang and his party were paying attention to the situation of the warship, the sound of gongs and drums suddenly came to mind in the reed marsh over there.
"Kill and kill!" Tens of small boats rushed over from the reed marsh with howling. There were no less than five or six people on each small boat, and there were more than a hundred people here.
"Oh, we received an ambush!" The entire warship also became panicked. He was ambushed in such a small ferry. It was fake to say that he was not panicked.
"The whole army is on guard and prepare for battle!" Liu Mang roared. All the soldiers pulled out their swords, and the enemy was more than a hundred. Fortunately, there were not only more than twenty heroes in Liu Mang's hands on this warship, but also the boatman coolie on the warship. Although these people were auxiliary soldiers, they could make some efforts to survive.
"Lord, look at the small boat over there?" Jia Xu suddenly pointed to a small boat on the surface of the river and said to Liu Mang.
"It's the boat we searched!" Liu Mang also recognized it... Wasn't that boat the one that Liu Mang asked his command to search? He searched the boat and laughed at the boatman once, but he didn't expect that the boat was really a thief.
If it weren't for the bandits, how could he dare to get so close to the warships and the ambushers?
"Oh!" Jia Xu regretted. He noticed that the boat was strange. He originally thought that the boat was preparing to assault his warship, but after the inspection, he did not find any warships, which made Jia Xu subconsciously think that the boat was harmless. Who knew that this was actually his disguise. The more harmless it was, the more threatening he was. His purpose was not to stop Liu Mang's warship, but to monitor, which was the uncomfortable feeling that Pang Tong felt. He monitored Liu Mang's warship all the way towards Luokou Ferry.
Those warships did not come to fight. On the dozens of small boats, bandits picked up the hard bows in the boat, pulled them up in their hands, and arrows came towards Liu Mang's warship.
"It's not good that it's a rocket!" Liu Mang saw the flames in the sky. These were rockets. Those rockets might have fallen into the cabin or the hull had no choice. However, if he landed on the deck and landed on the canvas sails, it would be really fatal. These sails were originally lightly cannoned with tung oil to prevent it from being corroded. Now that it was stained with the rocket, it immediately burned. The fire began to burn the entire warship from top to bottom.
"Extinguish the fire, put out the fire!" Liu Mang commander and other soldiers were preparing to extinguish the fire first. If it was burned by the fire, it would be really hard to save the real immortal. Let's prepare to fall into the Yangtze River and feed the turtle.
As soon as Liu Mang sent his order, he found that he was in a tight position. The warship, which was already injured, suddenly heard another collision. The hooks were pulled on the warship one by one in the sound of water, and the small boats gathered towards the warship.
"No, there is a water ghost!" The boatman next to him could naturally know what this was when he heard the movement. Although it was just a second-rate naval army in Jingzhou, he still knew it for many years of experience in sailing. The sound of dong dong collision was that there was a water ghost pecking the boat at the bottom of the ship.
"Kill, kill, kill!" Finally, the small boats came towards Liu Mang's warship like wolves. One by one, they were all bandits, and they began to board the ship. Liu Mang was completely surrounded.
These bandits are wolves, but Liu Mang is not sheep, Liu Mang is a tiger.
"Who ambushed me!"
Liu Mang directly pulled out the sword on his waist, "Now there is no time to consider these things. The whole army is ready for war. Boatman, take your boatmen to put out the fire, you, protect Mr. Wenhe, others follow me to fight!" Liu Mang can only let the auxiliary soldiers from Jingzhou come to help put out the fire, and he can't lose any of the remaining twenty soldiers. The number of enemies is really quite large.
"Kill, kill, kill!" The two sides can be said to be the first to meet at such a close distance. Liu Mang's soldiers were selected by Yang Hong, each of them was elite, and there were even some deadly soldiers trained by Yang Hong for Yuan Shao. These people were very cruel. And they were basically deadly. Liu Mang was angry that he was ambushed, so naturally he would not lightly. The long sword in his hand instantly drank the blood of the three people. Jia Xu and Liu Mang on the side really underestimated Jia Xu. Unexpectedly, Jia Xu not only did not let these two soldiers protect him. Instead, he rushed with Liu Mang. Jia Xu came from Wuwei. The sword light and sword shadow had long been common for him. After that, in the rebellion of Luoyang in Chang'an, Jia Xu would have died long ago if he had just spoken.
Although Jia Xu was not considered a general, he was still a war-breaking battle. The sword in his hand quickly sank into the arms of a bandit. Blood splashed, and Jia Xu didn't wipe it, heading towards the next bandit.
"This old fox!" Liu Mang really underestimated Jia Xu. Originally, Liu Mang thought that this old fox was most afraid of death and might hide at the end of the team. Liu Mang would not let Jia Xu die, so he must protect him. But who knew that this old fox was also a fighter. Before coming to Jingzhou, Jia Xu sang a sad story to Liu Mang, saying that he was old and could not run anymore. These are nonsense. Have you ever seen an elderly old man who could kill several people with a long sword?
Liu Mang really praised Jia Xu for nothing. Jia Xu's hard work is not brave. But for self-protection, he also knows that there will be a complete egg in his entire nest. If Liu Mang and others are killed in battle, can Jia Xu survive alone? Instead of wasting soldiers to protect himself, otherwise he would fight together, so that three more combat power would be available.
One small boat after another hit Liu Mang's warship, and more and more enemies rushed onto the warship. Liu Mang's army was very fierce under the leadership of Liu Mang Guan Hai Zhoucang, which was very fierce. However, the number of enemies was too large, and Liu Mang's army was inevitably injured and injured. A soldier of Liu Mang was cut off by a bandit's battle axe. He suddenly half of his arm flew out, and blood splashed. The pain was unbearable. The soldier roared, as if he wanted to vent all the pain. He leaned on the remaining hand to send the sword in his hand into the enemy's body, but one hand could not catch the enemy in the end, and soon died under the scattered sword.
"Wenhe Be careful!" Jia Xu was rushing to kill. In just one moment, Jia Xu killed two or three people. Just as Jia Xu was about to withdraw the long sword in his hand, a murderous intent suddenly sounded from Jia Xu's side.
Jia Xu didn't care much about his cleverness anymore. He threw the sword in his hand directly, and rolled around like a carp and didn't care about his identity as a scholar. He tried all the postures of passing the crotch of a brick and dog hole, and he was extremely fast on this battlefield.
Sure enough, Jia Xu's cleverness and sensitivity to danger saved his life. A snake spear swept across the sky and directly fell into the air. The two soldiers who protected Jia Xu were cut off by the snake spear on the spot. Not only Liu Mang's soldiers, but also the bandits also died several people under the snake spear. Only Jia Xu survived.
"Hmph!" The owner of the spear snorted coldly, as if he was not satisfied with his failure to kill the scholar, but he still walked out. "The military advisor is really Gao Ce, you know that your pseudo-king Liu Mang will leave Luokou!"
Liu Mang finally saw clearly the person coming. Isn’t the owner of this Snake Spear the only brother of Liu Bei, Zhang Fei.
"Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide!" Liu Mang shouted the man's name in a stern manner.
"Haha, it's really me! A little boy, this time I was ordered by the military advisor to take your life. I heard that you are the son-in-law of a slave from the three surnames. The slave from the three surnames killed me, brother Chen Dao. I have not settled the score with him yet, so I will kill you, the son-in-law, to collect interest!" The spear in Zhang Fei's hand was in vain and did not take Liu Mang seriously at all.
After seeing Zhang Fei and Liu Mang, he finally knew who was plotting against him this time. It turned out that it was Pang Tong, a little turkey staying in Jingzhou. Liu Mang was careless. Although he knew about the death of Liu Biao's envoy, Tang Yun, he also guessed that Pang Tong might have taken action. Because the only ones who wanted to frame Liu Mang were Pang Tong, the Huang family and Cai Mao, he did not expect that Pang Tong would dare to attack him. You must know that Tang Yun can cover up the evidence alone. Once he attacked Liu Mang, it would be impossible to cover up.
Pang Tong naturally knew that he could not hide it. What he wanted was not a concealment. What he wanted was Liu Mang's death. As long as Liu Mang died, no matter whether Liu Biao participated or not, he would be an accomplice. Jingzhou could not escape Lu Bu's anger and finally had to go to war with Lu Bu's army. Anyway, Liu Bei's army and Liu Mang's army were enemies. Even if you knew that I had ambushed you, so what! If you kill you, I could jump into the war between Jingzhou and Yangzhou. If you can't kill you, it would be jealous of you at most. How could he not do this business?
Liu Mang is thinking about who revealed their whereabouts. In fact, don’t think too much. Yangzhou is short of food and grass, so Pang Tong doesn’t know! He naturally calculated that it would take half a month to transport grain from Jingzhou to Yangzhou, so Liu Mang could not afford time and would naturally take a fast path. The small boat behind him was used to monitor Liu Mang. As for how to accurately know when Liu Mang left, it was not a trivial matter with the Huang family’s ability in Jingzhou.
"Kill me? Is it up to you, Zhang Fei?" Liu Mang was also angry. Zhang Fei looked determined to be like himself. This look is very unpleasant. Do you really think you are the God of War! Even if you are the God of War, you may not be able to kill yourself.
"Kill you and I'm enough!" Zhang Fei's lickering lips, Zhang Fei was really suffocated to death by Pang Tong. In other words, Zhang Fei's spear was already hungry. After the days of reaching Jingzhou, Zhang Fei was restricted by Pang Tong. If it weren't for his elder brother's prohibition, Zhang Fei would have stopped serving him. Now that he has such an opportunity to display himself, do you think Zhang Fei would give up! So Liu Mang must kill him.
Chapter completed!