Chapter 229 Red Cliff (III)

The cliff is thousands of feet high, and the endless river water is like a white line that crosses the dense forests and mountains without traces. The water is so turbulent, and the sound is so terrifying that it has been suppressed for too long.

In the air, a goshawk kept hovering, his sharp eyes staring at the slightly abnormal movements on the cliff. For this meat-eating raptor, the jumping ape is the best delicacy.

In the middle of the river, Gan Ning's fleet was lined up and down in a long line. The canyon was in a hurry and the waterway was quite narrow in the dry season. Even the most experienced helmsman must always be careful. In front of the fleet, Gan Ning, the governor of Yizhou in Xinxia, ​​looked radiant. He was wearing a brocade robe with a thorny embroidered Shu, stood proudly with his hands behind his back. His eyes were staring at the morning glow in the sky, and his expression was extremely proud between his eyebrows.

The sea of ​​clouds is red, and the blood-red sunshine is as gorgeous and magnificent as a man's passion.

"The river keeps going east, this is where I, Gan Xingba, scattered!" Gan Ning whistled to the sky.

Ding Feng was with Gan Ning, with a little respect in his eyes. Gan Ning's heroic and righteous heroic posture was deeply rooted in his mind. Even if there were ten years, there would be no change at all.

"Chengyuan, arrow——!" Gan Ning said loudly.

The bent bow is like the moon, passing through the willows with hundreds of steps, accompanied by the sound of Gan Ning's bowstrings, the arrogant goshawk fell from the sky, and its abdomen was passing by a carved feather.

"The governor is good at archery skills!" Ding Feng exclaimed.

Gan Ning handed the bow to the guard behind him and said with a smile: "I laughed at you! This comfortable life is really a tough determination. Just this moment, my arms are a little out of control."

Ding Feng said: "Governor, the fleet is about to approach Zigui. I have been tired of sailing for several days. It is better to take a break first to maintain my energy to meet with General Zhou." After Zigui, it is twelve miles ahead, and the territory of Xiling is not far from Jiangling, and the river is wide, and the Jinfan Army fleet is rushing with its head held high.

"Okay--!" Gan Ning said with a good word, and suddenly heard the sound of horns on the cliff on the south bank, and countless arrows flew out in the dense forest. The feathered arrows were like locusts, heading straight for the unobstructed Jinfan Army fleet. The formation of a long snake made every warship a target when passing through the cliff.

Underwater reefs are full of dangers.

Ambushings were everywhere on the shore, and arrows with poisonous juice shot onto people. The throat was sealed with blood. The injured Jinfan soldiers fell into the river before they even asked for help.

"The arrow is poisonous!" Ding Feng shouted loudly, drew his sword to block Gan Ning, and his arms were blowing tightly.

"Swoosh--!" A sharp arrow penetrated into the air and shot down the sail on the mast.

"Wuxi Man?" Gan Ning's face changed suddenly. He couldn't help but clench his fists. When he saw the green viscous liquid on the cluster of arrows, he had vaguely guessed who his opponent was.

At this moment, another arrow hit his face, and when approaching Ding Feng, it suddenly accelerated its speed, which made Ding Feng's sword wind blow away. Gan Ning saw it clearly. He shouted and pulled out his halberd, and the powerful force cut the bamboo arrow into two pieces.

"Samoke, you, a villain who only knows how to plot and attack, come and fight Gan if you have the courage!" Gan Ning rushed into his chest and his voice shook the canyon for a long time.

"Hahaha, Gan Ning is lucky this time, but you are not so lucky next time!" A strange half-baked accent sound in the dense forest of the cliffs was heard.

After a rain of arrows, Gan Ning lost nearly 300 elite soldiers, and seven Mengchong warships. These seven ships were all sunk because the helmsman could not dodge and was shot by poisonous arrows. They hit the reef without a man. In the canyon with rapid water flow, the soldiers on the other ships could only watch their companions slowly sink into the river, but they could do nothing.

If you succeed in one blow, you will retreat immediately after a fight.

Shamoke, who is well versed in mountain combat methods, was not inspired by Gan Ning. From Zigui to Xiling, he had already ambushed three ambushed troops and took turns to shoot. This place would become the death canyon for the Jinfan Army to bury the Jinfan Army.

The casualties of the Jinfan Army are getting bigger and bigger, and the twelve-mile waterway seems to be endless.

The morale of the soldiers of the Jinfan Army had fallen to the extreme. Although they also raised their crossbows to fight back, the dense forest made the soldiers of the Wuxi Barbarian Tribe escape one by one.

"The shield protects the helmsman, and the rest of the soldiers retreat to the cabin!" In desperation, Gan Ning ordered all the soldiers to find all possible hidden places to avoid condescending ambush from the shore.

This method played a little role at the beginning, but then Shamoko ordered his troops to shoot the quenched arrow branches. The rocket fell on the pine oil-painted boat board, and the flames suddenly soared into the sky. Not only the boat boards, sails, cabin beams, but all the flammable things became the objects of the fire.

The fire was blazing, and nine more warships were on fire. The strong fireworks spread the entire warship. The soldiers who were roasted by the fire had nowhere to hide had to jump into the river to survive, but they did not want to be in the turbulent river water. No matter how good the water was, they could not swim to the shore. The reefs under the water and the crooked cliffs might kill them.

"Come here, follow me to the deck to block the arrows! Chengyuan, you lead a draw of soldiers to lift water to put out the fire." Gan Ning's eyes were so bloody that he was furious. No matter how fierce the enemy was, he was furious. Gan Ning, who was so arrogant, liked the indulgence of face-to-face fighting. He didn't want to sink a boat and drink hatred in the river before arriving in Jiangling.

With his flesh and blood, he blocked the cold arrow formation. Even if the Jinfan Army's shield was tight, there were still some omissions. Standing on the high cliff, Shamoke showed a smug smile on his face. Although the scorching afternoon sun made him a little irritated, he had been preparing for ten years for this day, three thousand powerful archers who were good at shooting. This time, even if Gan Ning had wings on his flank, it would be difficult for him to fly to the sky, so he was not in a hurry at this moment.

"Aim at the brocade-robed general on the enemy ship and shoot a volley!" Shamoko laughed.

"Governor, be careful!" The arrow flew straight to Gan Ning, and the three guards sacrificed themselves to block Gan Ning. Their bodies were quickly shot into blood holes by the arrows.

"Ha--!" Shamoko smiled and continued to shoot. He had the advantage and had enough patience to play this "cat and mouse" trick. He wanted to see how many living people Gan Ning could use as shields.

Despair arose in Gan Ning's heart. Seeing the loyal and brave soldiers fall down, his heart was overwhelmed. If Ding Feng had not been stopped by him, Gan Ning would have wished he would jump off the river and swim ashore to fight Shamoko.

The young Ding Feng made the most important decision in his life at the most critical moment. As a deputy general, he understood that his main responsibility was to protect Gan Ning's safety. Gan Ning was there, and the military spirit was there. No matter how much casualties suffered, the Jinfan Army would still be the invincible and invincible army, just like when it was on the Tuo River.

"Ah--!" A scream came from behind the smiling Shamoko.

Before he could turn around and see what happened, a soldier with a green flag came from the bottom of the mountain like a tide. He raised his swords and guns together and slashed on the bodies of the Wuxi Barbarians, splashing out a series of blood beads.

Shamoke felt palpitations. He closed his eyes tightly. When he opened it, the flying green flag was closer. The embroidered large characters with the word "yellow" on the flag were so heart-wrenching.

"Huang Zhong?" Shamoko screamed in surprise, because he had seen a burly general under the enemy's flag killing majestic. Facing countless big swords and spears blocking the way, the sharp sword aura soared into the sky with loud shouts!

Every step he took was a knife and a person, blood splashed out every time he took, and every step he took was a soldier from Wuxi barbarians fell down.

"Shamoke, let's go, fight me Huang Zhong?" The old voice echoed in the valley. It was particularly friendly to Gan Ning, who was almost desperate.

"It's Han Sheng who came to pick us up." Gan Ning and Ding Feng were in surprise.

Huang Zhong, who was ordered to defend Xiling, led 2,000 elite soldiers under his command to fight, which made the situation suddenly reverse. Unexpectedly, the Wuxi Barbarians, who appeared behind the enemy, panic. Their wooden bows and hunting knives were not the opponents of Huang Zhong's sharp swords and guns. The bows were broken and the knife was fighting with the experienced regular army. Wuxi Barbarians had no advantage.

In just half an hour, the Sanqiu Wuxi Barbarian Sagittarius lost more than 400 people. Seeing that the situation was not good, Shamoke hurriedly led the remaining troops to retreat to the dense forests in the southwest. When the failure was the mountain forest was their last support.

The Jinfan army, which was reinforced by Huang Zhong, avoided the danger of annihilation of the entire army, but more than 300 warships also lost nearly fifty, and 1,600 brave soldiers died in hatred. In this battle with huge casualties, the only luck was that the main generals such as Gan Ning and Ding Feng were safe and sound.

"Han Sheng, Ning was arrogant all his life and never knelt down to thank others. But now it's different. Please give Han Sheng a bow!" Gan Ning burst into tears in his eyes, and hurriedly grabbed Huang Zhong's hand after the boat arrived on the flat beach.

Seeing Gan Ning greeting him, Huang Zhong rushed forward and helped him and said, "Xingba will never be able to do it. Although Zhong is older than you, he cannot deserve such a great gift!"

"Chengyuan, gather all the surviving soldiers and kneel down to thank General Huang and the others!" Gan Ning shouted. After Gan Ning's shout, the Jinfan Army soldiers who came ashore successively knelt down the entire mudflat. No one had any other meaning to Gan Ning's orders, because they all knew that without Huang Zhong's reinforcements, the three words "Jinfan Army" would no longer exist.

"Xingba, Chengyuan, brothers of Jinfan Army, don't thank me Huang Zhong alone. If you want to thank you, thank you General Zhou, thank you Chongshuai!" Huang Zhong was also moved by this heart-wrenching scene, and his voice was choked. Although Jinfan Army and Jingnan Army were not affiliated with the same group, they both followed Gao Chong's command. Under the same flag were brothers who were connected with flesh and blood.

"How did the Grand Governor know that we are in danger?" Ding Feng asked in surprise.

Huang Zhong slapped Ding Feng's chest with a heavy palm and said with a smile: "This is also a question I want to know. If Cheng Yuan is curious, why would you rather ask him directly after seeing General Zhou?"

Jiangling City was the capital of Chu, one of the five hegemons during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, from King Wen of Chu to King Qingxiang of Chu for more than 400 years. At that time, it had an extremely prominent name - Yingdu.

Since ancient times, there have been four roads from the Central Plains to Jiangnan and further south. One to the west is from Guanzhong, through Hanzhong, Jiameng, Shujun to Bajun, and one to the east is from Yanyu to Pengcheng, Huaiyin, Guangling to Wuyue. There are two in the middle: one to pass through Chen, Shouchun crosses the Huai River to Yuzhang, one to pass through Wan, Deng crosses the Han River to Jiangling.

Along the beginning and end of the Yangtze River is an important east-west waterway. Through Wan, Deng to Jiangling is an important north-south landway. Jiangling City is located in the center of the intersection of water and land, so this is a military center in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and a place that must be fought for by military strategists.

Zhou Yu led 10,000 soldiers who retreated from Jingbei to retreat to Jiangling, and he was interested in the irreplaceable importance of Jiangling. With the existence of Jiangling, the Jinfan Army of Bashu could successfully sneak out of the canyon to reinforce. If Jiangxia in the east was in a hurry, Zhou Yu could also go downstream and launch a timely counterattack.

In the conference hall, the Grand Governor Zhou Yu paced back and forth uneasyly, with an anxious look on his fair face.

Zhou Yu, who had been stationed in Jingxiang for a long time, had long noticed the abnormal movements of the Wuxi Man, but the war in Jingbei was urgent and he could not take care of it for a while, but he had never relaxed his vigilance. After Cao Cao raised his troops to invade the south, Wuxi Man, as an important force to restrain Gao Chong Bashu reinforcements, had a great possibility of being used by Cao Cao. Therefore, when the scouts reported that the Ganning fleet was moving eastward, Zhou Yu decided to send Huang Zhong from Xiling to respond.

This decision saved not only the Gan Ning Army, but more importantly, it exposed the Wuxi Barbarian Tribe that Cao Cao carefully won over to expose the Wuxi Barbarian Tribe in broad daylight.

"Grandmaster, Xingba is here!" A burst of rapid footsteps, accompanied by a generous laugh, Huang Zhong and Gan Ning joined hands.

Zhou Yu was overjoyed and rushed forward and asked, "Is Xingba a good journey?"

Gan Ning looked dark and said, "Don't worry, Governor Xie, if Han Sheng hadn't rescued him in time, Ning would have almost died in the river."

Huang Zhong continued: "When the Grand Governor, Zhong, when he was receiving General Gan, encountered the Wuxi Barbarians ambushing the Jinfan Army not far from Zigui. Fortunately, he rushed in time and fulfilled his mission."

"Wuxi Man——, as expected, became Cao Cao's lackey. It seems that the battle is getting more and more exciting!" Zhou Yu said, with a sharp murderous aura flashing in his eyes.

"Grandmaster General, Jinfan Army suffered heavy losses due to attack. If you don't take revenge, you will not be able to sleep or eat. When fighting against him in the future, please do not want to fight this front!" Gan Ning said in a deep voice, his shoulders trembled slightly, and he could see that he was very excited.
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