Three Kingdoms

Regarding darkness, perhaps the fear engraved in genes, or the secretion of melatonin from the pituitary gland, most humans are more cautious than during the day, and they dare not rush into the thick and quality-like night at will.

The torches remaining on the ground struggled for a few times, and soon succumbed to the double attack of the biting night wind and the cold ground. They shrank away from the flames, and some simply whimpered, turning into a wisp of black smoke and disappearing. .

Deng Xian retreated to the protection range of his own bow and arrow without saying a word, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Deng Xian had no fear in dealing with the Ti people. Even if there were more Ti people, after killing a few people and setting a few fires, it was extremely rare for the Ti people to still be able to resist the fight. Most of the Ti people would scatter and run away. , so there was basically no pressure, but the arrows and crossbow bolts shot out in the darkness made Deng Xian understand that under Yufu City, there were not only the people, but also the soldiers of the Western Conquest!

Only the soldiers of Zhengxi have such sharp weapon configurations!

It's not that our army is incompetent, but that the enemy's army is too strong...

So, what to do now?

Deng Xian looked up at the Yufu city wall and Meng Da on the city wall.

On the city wall, Meng Da was hesitant and frightened, and had no time to pay attention to Deng Xian's raised face.

The soldiers and horses of Zhengxi actually came to Yufu? Why isn't there any news? How did it come about? Where did it come from? What are you doing here? Has An Han fallen? What about Sichuan? Could it be that Liu Bei and Liu Xuande can't stop Zhengxi?

The various questions that suddenly burst out were like thunderbolts one after another, exploding in Mengda's mind. The explosions made Mengda feel that the whole world was shaking a little, and he could only hold on to the battlements of the city wall. Only in this way can you keep your body shape from collapsing.

"boom!"

In the night, a fire suddenly appeared!

A three-color flag raised its head proudly in the firelight. Under the flag, Wei Yan raised his sword and shouted loudly: "Capture the city!"

"Oh! Oh! Seize the city! Seize the city!" There seemed to be countless people roaring, mixed with weapons slapping each other, and the sound of hitting the ground sounded together, like a raging wave, hitting Yufu's city wall. All the soldiers, from Mengda to Mengda, could not help but shrink back slightly, their faces turning pale.

Deng Xian at the bottom of the city was even more unbearable. After nearly half of him was killed by a barrage of arrows, when he saw such a formation again, he almost cried out of fright. He rushed back with a cry, "Zhengxi is about to attack the city! Zhengxi is about to attack the city! Xi is about to attack the city! Where is the rope! Quick! Throw down the rope! Quickly pull me up!"

"Fire the arrows! Fire the arrows!" Mengda shouted loudly, "Archers, fire the arrows!"

Yufu County has never been a big county, so there were not many soldiers and horses stationed in the city. Before, Liu Qi, Kuai Qi and others were here, which was more or less okay. Now only Meng Da is here, and naturally he has courage. It has declined a lot due to the decrease in the number of soldiers.

Although seizing the city in the middle of the night is a bit ridiculous to be honest, what's even more ridiculous is that even Zhengxi's troops appeared here unknowingly. Is there anything else that Zhengxi can't do?

Arrows rained down one after another.

Wei Yan and the others were basically within a stone's throw. Coupled with the strong night wind, most of the arrows were blown away when they reached the end, and fell weakly to the ground, naturally without any damage.

Wei Yan laughed loudly. Under the light of the torch and under the three-color flag, he raised his sword high and pointed at Meng Da above his head. Although Wei Yan did not recognize Meng Da, he judged based on the guards and the flag. He also guessed that this was Yu Fu's guard, and he shouted loudly: "That man! Do you dare to come and fight?!"

Damn you! Nima, the whole family is just a common man! Meng Da's face turned white and blue with anger. He didn't want to scold Wei Yan, so he just raised his hand and ordered, "Shoot! Shoot with all your strength!"

Yufu archers swarmed onto the battlements and fired with all their strength in the direction of Wei Yan.

Wei Yan laughed a few times, then curled his lips and whispered: "Collect it, collect it all, prepare to change places..."

The torch in the dark night went out again.

This is the first moment of Yin hour, and it is also the darkest time before dawn. After the torches were extinguished, the soldiers on the top of Yufuxing City suddenly lost their aim. After shooting a few arrows in a daze, they stopped in unison.

Deng Xianzheng was halfway up the climb, hanging in the air without moving up or down. He didn't know whether he should continue climbing up or go down to reconnoiter...

Meng Da turned his head, as if he had discovered Deng Xian and other soldiers at this moment, and suddenly became furious: "Gua Wa Zi! Get down! Get down! Show me what Zheng Xi is doing!"

Deng Xian had no choice but to slide down the city wall again, then picked up the shield he had dropped before, held it in front of him, said hello, gathered some people, and slowly crossed the suspension bridge again, heading towards the place where the fire went out. Touch it.

"Be careful!" Deng Xian nervously rolled his eyes and looked around while cursing in his mind, not only Meng Da, but also which team was supposed to outflank him. I don't know if the team was crippled or frightened. Anyway, there has been no movement and no one can be seen. As a result, the pressure is all on Deng Xian.

"Oh!"

In the dark light, I don't know who stepped on something, or was shot by a cold arrow. He fell to the ground with a thud, which made Deng Xian tremble. Then he realized that it was just that person who fell, so coldly. There was no sound that frightened him in the cold wind.

so far so good……

"Be careful...be careful..." Deng Xian bent his waist and moved forward in small steps. If you look from behind and look forward, Deng Xian's posture at this moment looks like a lame duck.

"Ouch! Ouch!"

Suddenly, several Yufu soldiers screamed and fell down. Then several more people fell down, and the entire formation suddenly became a little chaotic again.

"Damn it! It's caltrops! There are caltrops on the ground!"

"Watch your step!"

"Don't step on the caltrops!"

Suddenly, in the queue, Yu Fu's soldiers started shouting.

Deng Xian was about to issue an order for his soldiers to use their swords to strike the ground to clear away the iron caltrops, when his ears suddenly heard a frightening sound in the night wind...

"Boom, boom boom..."

Although there was no firelight, the fish soldiers were screaming and noisy in the dark night. Invisibly, a huge target stood up, and suddenly a barrage of arrows and crossbows were drawn from the darkness, whistling, mixed with In the night wind, a sudden attack came!

"Get down!" Deng Xian quickly lay down on the ground and covered his head with a shield again. "Stop shouting! Damn it, shut up! Stop making noise!"

Arrows followed the sound and struck from the darkness. Although many of them missed, some of them hit the Yufu soldiers, causing a cloud of blood mist to rise and making the scene more chaotic. Even though Deng Xian gave the correct instructions, but still couldn't control the situation immediately.

One after another, the Yufu soldiers who were standing stupidly fell down one after another. The dead ones naturally kept silent, and the not dead ones hummed silently, which added a bit of misery in the dark night.

In the darkness in the distance, calm seemed to have returned again, as if those terrifying and life-threatening arrows and crossbows had never appeared before.

Deng Xian sighed and lay motionless. After luckily escaping two rounds of arrow attacks, his two narrow escapes also made Deng Xian lose the courage to continue moving forward. He looked at the horizon and seemed to be a little confused. It's gray and black, now it's a ball. Let's wait a little longer. Let's wait until the sky gets brighter. Anyway, I can't move now. Even if my uncle comes, it won't work...

Mengda who was on the Yufu city wall was also helpless. He turned around and looked around, feeling that the sky was getting brighter. Since there was no Zhengxi troops approaching to attack the city, he would just guard the city wall and wait for dawn. Anyway, it would only take less than an hour. Already...

At this moment, Wei Yan and his men were rushing to Pebble Bay on the bank of Han River outside Yufu City.

The elite Zhengxi soldiers also followed Wei Yan silently and walked forward quickly. Although their feet were wrapped in a layer of linen, the sound of footsteps could not be completely eliminated while walking quickly. In addition, the soldiers and armor occasionally collided with each other. It formed a low but tense song, which sounded deeply as the morning light approached.

"Aha..." Du Hu followed Wei Yan and whispered, his voice mixed with three parts of excitement and three parts of pride. After all, there were also contributions from others at the beginning, even though they were just holding torches. But it's also a credit, isn't it? "General Wei, that's amazing! This battle was actually fought like this! If General Zhengxi knew about this, he would most likely admire the general..."

Wei Yan chuckled softly and shook his head, indicating that he was not the first to do so, but he was still a little proud: "Haha, this method is what I learned from Zhan Ling in the Martial Arts Hall, it cannot be regarded as my... fish If you look at these weaklings, they won’t dare to chase them out..."

"That's because the general fought well..." Duhu emphasized again, and then said, "...are we going to burn the ship now?"

Wei Yan shook his head and said, "You can't burn it. Are you going to climb the mountain again if it's burned?"

"Ah?" Du Hu was stunned for a moment, immediately fell two steps, and quickly sped up to catch up, saying, "If we don't burn the boat, is it possible... we..."

Wei Yan chuckled and said, "You guessed it! Let's go back by boat!"

"Ah? But, most of my people can't sail a boat!" Duhu said anxiously.

Wei Yan was also stunned for a moment, then continued forward, "No? Then you can only learn quickly... follow us and learn what we do, what you do..."

"How can you learn it in such a short time!" Du Hu shouted.

"As soon as daybreak comes, our troops will no longer be able to cover us!" Wei Yan kept walking and continued to move forward, "Our military rations are almost exhausted. If we go back through the mountain road, we will all starve to death on the way. ! Taking a boat is the only way to survive! It doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to drive a boat, just learn! Take your life to learn! If you want to survive, learn quickly!”

"It's not... that or something..." Du Hu wanted to say something, but found that he didn't know what to say for a moment, so he had to grit his teeth, stamp his feet, and followed Wei Yan.

In Wei Yan's original plan, he did not plan to attack Yufucheng. The initial target was the ships in Pebble Bay. As long as these ships were captured, the threat to Nanchong and Langzhong would naturally be eliminated.

At the same time, even though most of the soldiers who conquered the West can be called the elite of this era, they are still mortal bodies and still have to eat, drink and defecate. If they do not go back by boat, when their physical strength and food are exhausted, even if Wei Yan has the power to reach heaven, but he may not be able to bring his soldiers back alive!

Hanzhong naturally has a section of the Han River. The Jingxiang caravan can also take a boat to Shangyong. In addition, Wei Yan himself also came to Hanzhong with the Jingxiang people. Naturally, some of his men know how to operate a boat. As for Du Hu's tricks, People, as Wei Yan said, at this moment, they can only take their lives to learn. Those who learn will naturally have their lives, and those who cannot learn...

Pebble Bay Water Village.

After Liu Qi and Kuai Qi left, there was only one military prince who belonged to Jingxiang and was stationed here with four to five hundred people. And because these naval forces have always been under the jurisdiction of Liu Qi, they have not close contact with Yu Fu's side, and there is no relationship between them at any higher or lower level.

Therefore, even though some noises from the Yufu side were heard in Pebble Bay Water Village, the gates in the water village were still closed, and there was no intention of sending soldiers out to support Yufu County.

As the sound of fish fell silent, the only commotion in Pebble Bay Water Village also fell silent.

From the looks of it, it's probably a scam? No matter what, we'll talk about it after dawn. The military prince who stayed in the water stronghold thought this way, and seeing that there was nothing going on around him, he issued an order for the soldiers to be on alert, and staggered back to sleep.

Just before dawn, the human body is often at its most distressed. On the two sentry towers facing the outside of the water village, the soldiers on duty kept up their spirits and fought desperately with their drooping eyelids. They lost and won. Of course, the more and more they lost, the more their heads grew. Get heavy...

Wei Yan's soldiers sprang out from the darkness and approached the water village wall.

The burning torches on the sentry tower illuminated the figures of several soldiers on duty.

The soldiers on duty on the sentry tower were shaking. When they discovered that some figures were shaking in the field of vision, their nerves, which had been shaken by the cold wind for half the night, were unable to react for a while!

More than twenty Zhengxi crossbowmen were divided into two teams. Without saying a word, they rushed up, took aim, and fired!

Although these crossbowmen do not have the same precise long-range shooting capabilities as Ling Jie's elite scouts, their lack of quality is made up for by quantity. Each sentry tower has more than ten crossbow bolts. Under the care, even though some shooters missed their shots, others still hit them. Suddenly, sawdust flew everywhere on the water village sentry tower, and blood surged!

"Open the gate of the water village!" Wei Yan shouted and ordered people to bury the remaining gunpowder at the gate of the water village. "Don't be obsessed with fighting! Seize the ship! Seize the ship! Let's go home!"

"boom!"

The gate of Shuizhai Village was blasted open, and pieces of wood and splinters flew away amid the firelight and smoke.

Wei Yan and his soldiers swarmed in along the gap and headed straight towards the place where the ship was parked. Several water village soldiers who were not yet fully awake rushed out of the tent in a daze, and were slashed by Wei Yan with two swords. Went back.

"Cut the cable!" Wei Yan commanded, "Don't be reluctant to fight! Get on the boat after setting the fire! King of the Humans, let your people follow suit!"

Fortunately, although the soldiers were in a hurry and somewhat chaotic, the remaining soldiers in the water village were even more disorderly. They were not able to react for a long time after Wei Yan and others cut a bloody path. By the time most of Wei Yan and others They all rushed onto the ship and began to ram and burn other ships. When the people reluctantly pushed the ship away from the shore, they finally regrouped and chased them.

When people are struggling to survive, the potential they unleash cannot be underestimated. Rudimentary paddling skills do not pursue speed or technique, but require neatness and uniformity. Although many people are holding wooden paddles for the first time, many people still quickly learned how to use them in the face of death. . Just like those landlubbers who were thrown into the water, they either quickly learned the dog paddle, or...

As for those who couldn't master the unified steps and were spinning around in a panic, some of them bumped into one place while paddling, and then fell into the water, and were quickly washed away by the current.

Du Hu held on to the boat tightly, not daring to stand up. He watched as nearly half of his men were lost in the blink of an eye, wailing in pain, with tears streaming down his face.

"Let's go! Go home!" Wei Yan stood steadily at the stern of the ship, not caring about the slight ups and downs of the ship's hull, and glanced at Du Hu, "Why are you crying! When marching and fighting, that person is not hanging his head on his trousers! No! If you risk your life to grab it, will wealth like the sky fall in front of you! Fighting for wealth and wealth with God, you will lose and win the descendants of Yin! It’s that simple, there is nothing to cry about!”

"We have won! A great victory!" Wei Yan shouted loudly, "General Zhengxi will definitely be rewarded! Seeking benevolence and getting benevolence, there is nothing to regret! Come! Say hello to the dead brothers! The souls have returned! Follow me home!"

"The soul is back! Come home with me!"

The soldiers of Zhengxi shouted loudly.

"The soul is back! Come home with me!"

Du Hu stretched his neck, his veins exposed, and together with the other people, he followed the soldiers of Zhengxi and shouted to the sky.

The Han River is surging, rolling eastward...