Chapter 20 Lu Meng

Cao Chong, who was staring at the silver light in the river, turned around and looked at Mi Dashuang, took the wine from her hand and smiled, "What? Do you have a relationship with him? Do you care about him so much?"

"No, no." Mi Dashuang shook his head quickly, "I just thought that Liu Xuande had the reputation of benevolence, and the young master was also a kind person. If you catch him, would you cherish the hero and give him an official position? Just like the Prime Minister did back then."

"Hahaha..." Cao Chong couldn't help but smile when he saw her nervous, "Then you guess if he caught me, would he be a lie to me?"

"It's definitely." Mi Dashuang nodded heavily. Cao Chong looked at it and pinched Mi Dashuang's nose: "It's a pity that you are not Liu Xuanbei's daughter, so what you say is not the limit." He turned around and said to Zhou Buyi and others: "Do you know how Pei Wenxing said to Liu Bei?"

When Cao Chong was in Cao Cao's tent, he met Pei Qian and his friends chatting with Cao Cao. Cao Cao asked Pei Qian: "Wenxing, you have been in Jingzhou for a long time and have many contacts with Liu Xuande. What kind of person is he? What kind of talent and strategy? Can you achieve great things?"

Pei Qian smiled and said, "I heard that the Prime Minister and Liu Xuande were cooking wine with Qingmei, and talked about heroes in the world. Now when I think about it, the Prime Minister probably had great expectations for him, so he praised him. Qian admired the Prime Minister very much, but he did not agree with it. Liu Xuande entrusted the name of the Han family and admired the traces of Emperor Gaozu and made up his name and false ambitions. Unfortunately, he did not have the talent of Emperor Gaozu and the times were very different. He was a little delusional. This person lived in China, and he was afraid that he was the root of chaos. If he guarded a dangerous land and the sky was high and the emperor was far away, it would be possible to be a local emperor." He said, pointing to the map hanging on the wall, "The Chief was very careful that he would flow south into Jiaozhou or southern Yizhou, or flee into Shanyue."

"Pei Wenxing has great knowledge." Cao Chong said with a smile: "Yongnian, Yuan Zhi, do you think this Liu Xuande will do this?"

Mi Dashuang blushed and argued: "Jiaongzhou is possible, and Shanyue makes sense. Yizhou is Liu Zhang's territory, and they are all relatives of the Han Dynasty. How could Xuande take over the territory of the same clan? He is a benevolent and righteous person."

"Same clan?" Before Cao Chong could speak, Zhou Buyi curled his lips disdainfully: "A person who doesn't even care about his own wife and children. What kind of talk about benevolence is just a trick of deceit." Mi Dashuang was speechless when he said this, stunned for a while, shook his hand angrily, sat next to him and sulked. His indignant look made several people laugh. Xiaoshuang walked over and hugged her shoulder for a while before he could help.

"Stop talking, stop talking, young master, look at it." Jiang Gan suddenly stood up and shouted at the river surface in the distance.

Several people looked into the distance and saw a few black dots suddenly appear between the water and sky line. Cao Chong looked carefully and felt a thrill in his heart. He shouted softly: "Is Zhou Yu here to call?"

"It's probably not bad." Zhou Buyi smiled and said, "He would definitely think that the first round was an accident. He was supposed to be a complete victory, but Master Deng took advantage of the loophole, which made his morale depressed. How could he defend it if he didn't win a battle to save morale?" He patted Jiang Gan's shoulder and said, "Ziyi, you have been waiting for so many days, and the opportunity has finally come. When the battle is over, you can go to Zhou Yu again to see how he treats you."

"Hahaha..." Jiang Gan laughed: "Yuanzhi, you don't know Zhou Gongjin. Not to mention that he was defeated this time, he just put a knife on his neck. I'm afraid he won't frown. When the battle is over, I won't go to find him. I will go to find Sun Quan directly to see if he can hold on this time. If he doesn't want the proton to come over, I will jump into the river and travel back."

"Besides, I thought you said you would jump into the river and commit suicide," Zhang Song burst out laughing and said, "I have to swim back after a long time."

"You Zhang Yongnian, you have bad intentions. You actually want me to die. I won't come back. Who will bicker with you?" Jiang Gan said with a quarrel.

The navy in Jiangdong was attacking, and the news soon reached the barracks on the shore. The Prime Minister's Central Army gathered the generals on the tent, and Cao Chong led Zhou Buyi to run away. After a while, the military order came out, ordering the navy chief Cai Mao to fight. Cai Mao received the order and immediately dispatched troops and went out to meet the enemy.

Cao Chong accompanied Cao Cao on the boat, entered the naval camp, climbed onto the high platform of Cai Mao's central army, and saw Liu Cong who came from Xiangyang to participate in the transformation of the warship. Liu Cong became darker and stronger, and his voice sounded louder. As soon as he saw Cao Chong, he smiled and said, "Cang Shu, come on, let me introduce you. This is the Han and Han Gongzhi mentioned to you. Cao Shu, the current Prime Minister, Cao. This warship reform is mainly based on him, and I just started."

The nearly fifty-year-old official next to Liu Cong hurriedly stepped forward to salute Cao Chong. Cao Chong helped him up and looked at him a few times, smiled and joked Liu Cong a few times, and then climbed the wooden building with Cao Cao to watch the naval army fight.

The river surface was already shaped, and Cao Chong looked at it and couldn't tell who was from whom at all. He could only tell the difference that the giants connected to the ships should be in the square, and those around the giants were like ants gnawing on elephant land, which should be from Jiangdong. The others could only report the battle situation based on the flag soldiers above.

"General Zuo Ji Huwei, General Yu Jin's troops and Ling Tong's troops..."

"The right-wing general Le Jin's army and Sun Lang's army are fighting..."

The flag-speaking soldiers couldn't help but report the latest battle situation. The people below were happy and worried. As the battle situation was reported, they kept experiencing joy and sorrow. Cao Chong was so nervous that he wanted to climb up and see with his own eyes, but he might not be able to see clearly when he climbed up. Not to mention that the flag-speaking himself could not understand the warships, he could not tell the difference between those warships.

"General Zhe Chong has the upper hand, and Sun Lang is retreating..."

"General Huwei is moving forward steadily and fighting fiercely with Ling Tong's troops..."

"Zhou Yu's central army is coming..."

"Governor Cai's central army has come forward..."

As Cao Chong listened, he felt that although he had not gained the upper hand, he seemed to have not taken advantage of it. He slowly relaxed in his heart. He glanced at Cao Cao beside him. Cao Cao's face was stable, and he sat steadily drinking tea without shaking his hands. He couldn't tell whether he was happy or anxious. He couldn't help but feel ashamed that he had few battle formations. He couldn't hold back his anger, which was too far from Cao Cao's realm.

Cai Mao, the chief general of the Jiangling Navy, stood on his tall boat. Seeing the Jiangdong Navy getting closer and closer, he couldn't help but clench his fists. He looked at Zhang Yun standing beside him: "Decheng, do you think we will win this time?"

"I don't know, I probably won't lose too ugly." Zhang Yun swallowed. Last time he was almost wiped out. Fortunately, Deng Zhan severely damaged Huang Gai's central army. He then turned the crisis into safety. Cao Cao did not blame him, but he became more and more scared. The more he thought about it, the more he became, the more he was afraid, and he didn't do it anymore. He was quite comfortable following Cai Mao to be a deputy governor. Now, when Cai Mao asked him, he knew that this uncle was not sure, and probably was playing the drums.

"Zhongyu and the others should be useful in making floor-shot poles." Zhang Yun thought for a while and found a reason to comfort himself and Cai Mao.

"I hope so." Cai Mao saw that there were no outsiders around him. He raised his hand to wipe his sweat. He was a little glad that although he had no son, he found two good son-in-laws. The eldest son-in-law Liu Cong had never seen it before and always regarded him as a waste. Cao Chong chose these two son-in-law Cao Chong. Not only did he rely on the Cao family's big ship, but Liu Cong, who used to think it was a waste, actually became a weapon, which really made Cai Mao overjoyed. If this time it could be shown that Liu Cong's transformation of the land was indeed useful, then he would have a killer move, but he was really not afraid of Zhou Yu.

"Order the powerful crossbowman to prepare!" Cai Mao immediately issued an order to take the lead when he saw the two armies approaching 500 steps apart.

The Cao army connected the large ships together, and the stability was improved, but the flexibility was greatly reduced. Many generals of the navy were not adapted to such clumsy warships and raised objections. But opposing alone was useless, and you could not solve the stability problems required by the Northern Army. The Jingzhou navy alone was obviously difficult to complete the combat mission. Just when they could not do both, Liu Cong was ordered by Cao Chong and rushed to Wulin with a large group of skilled craftsmen. After fiddling for a few days, he actually converted the powerful crossbow trucks used on the land onto the large ship. What's more, he actually loaded a thunderbolt cannon. It was difficult to find the stones, so he asked someone to prepare a large number of bricks tied together with straw ropes. Because too many people opposed it, he only installed one and wanted to try the effect this time.

Cai Mao hid the ship behind him. The tall wooden frame was covered with sails. The two gunners sent by Cao Chong were Zheng Hu and Wang Hun next to the thunder cannon, and were now watching the flags on it nervously adjusting their direction.

"Governor, Zhou Yu's central army is too frightening. Lu Meng has already broken through the frontier of our army and rushed over from the gap between the fleet." A deputy general rushed to Cai Mao and shouted: "Our army's turn is not effective and he cannot stop them."

"What's the name?" Cai Mao was furious, flew away in fear and was full of fighting spirit. He kicked the deputy general over to the ground and roared: "My ship is tall and big. Just by his several Mengchong Dou Ships, he could hit me? He ordered Man Fan to rush over and press them all to the bottom of the water to feed him."

With a command, several sails rose to the top. With the increasing north wind, the ship accelerated its speed and rushed towards the warships that were rushing towards them. The oarsmen shouted in unison and rowed hard, quickly increasing their speed to the limit.

Lu Meng stood on the boat with a shield, watching the big ships rushing towards him in front of him, shaking their heads. These ships are too big, they are a little stupid, but the impact is also amazing. There is only one result of the ship that hit him, and he thought for a moment and gave an order: "Send someone to stop other ships that come to intercept, and we will attack Cai Mao's big ship. Damn, last time Deng Zhan beat him up to heart, I will take him off and kill Cai Mao."

The people next to him quickly passed the order, and dozens of ships next to him separated and met several fighting ships that had come to fight in front of Cai Mao's ship. Lu Meng spat out a mouthful of saliva, hit the shield with a long knife in his hand, and the oars suddenly exerted force, and the three warships led by him rushed out of the formation quickly. Before the intercepted ship realized, they quickly rushed past the rain of arrows shot from Cai Mao's ship and drilled under the ship.

Lu Meng, who was rushing towards him, knocked the long sword in his hand, and the soldiers immediately raised the long hook in his hand and hooked the big ship's gang. Lu Meng bit the knife in his hand in his mouth, grabbed the soft ladder hanging down with both hands, and led the way upwards. The soldiers on the boat climbed up one by one, and tried their best to hold the iron spear in his hand tightly to hold the big ship pressing like a mountain, maintaining the same speed as the big ship to prevent being overturned by the big ship.

Lu Meng was very fast and climbed to the side of the ship in a moment. He grabbed the side of the ship with one hand and held a knife in the other hand. He was about to turn over and jump onto the ship when he suddenly heard a sound of sore teeth. He couldn't help but feel a trembling heart and stopped his body. He could only hear a sharp roar, and several spear-like crossbow arrows flew over his head. The strong wind blew his helmet and his cheeks became cold.

"Jump up and jump on while they are on the ground." Lu Meng turned over and jumped onto the big ship with one arm. The moment he turned around, he saw two Meng Chong being shot through by more than a dozen powerful crossbows, and his hull was tilted and slowly poured into the river.

"Kill!" Lu Meng let a spear that had been stabbed over and approached the soldier, swung his sword and slashed his head with a knife. The spear in the soldier's hand pierced into the chest of a soldier behind Lu Meng, but he fell to the ground and fell in front of Lu Meng.

"Come on. Get up. The crossbowman is ready." Cai Mao glanced at Lu Meng, who was struggling and slashing, and in a blink of an eye, slashing three people, laughed disdainfully and gave orders to the guards behind him. These hundreds of guards were praised by Cao Cao. They are all highly skilled in martial arts. It is naturally no problem to deal with the people who rushed onto the ship. Moreover, there are dozens of strong archers around him, which is really not possible. A burst of arrows shot him into a hedgehog. Just kidding, I want to learn from Deng Zhan? Huang Gai's thing can only happen once, and it is absolutely not allowed to appear on him.

Zhang Yun responded, and stood in front of Cai Mao with a strong archer, waiting for the battle. Cai Mao looked up at Zhou Yu's warship in the distance, and waved his hand to give an order: "Pi Li cannon is ready, give Zhou Gongjin some benefits and interests, don't let him underestimate my Jingzhou navy."

Zheng Hu received the flag verb. With a command, the soldiers pulled off the sails covered by the thunder chariot, and the tall thunder chariot revealed his calm and majestic appearance. Zheng Hu once again glanced at the direction he was sent by the flag verb, raised the small flag in his hand and waved it violently.

"fire!"

The hammer roared, and the wooden hammer in his hand hit the hook with a bang. The heavy hammer suddenly swayed the hem. The stretched rope drove the bricks tied with straw ropes, and drew a big circle in the air. He flew into the sky with Li Xiao...

Lu Meng had already regretted it at this time. As soon as he got on the ship, he killed three people, but he soon realized that the people in front of him were extremely powerful. They were stronger than those who had been through the battlefield at the beginning of the year, and they were definitely not as good as the Jingzhou navy they imagined. He killed three people, but he was cut by one of them, and the guards who followed him were cut down one after another, and they were unable to form an attack formation behind him. He did not dare to leave the side of the ship, but was afraid that he would be attacked from both sides, and the other was that he rushed over ten steps past these people, which was a ferocious crossbow. If it weren't for the Cao army in front of him, he would be afraid that the ten crossbow arrows with cold light had nailed him to the boat gang. Look at the 100 fully armed Cao army standing behind them, and look at the dozens of archers standing with bows behind them. His heart was even colder than the river.

"Kill!" He roared, and his shield locked a spear. The long sword in his hand rushed up along the handle of the spear. The Cao army soldier laughed wildly, threw away the spear, but opened his arms and hugged Lu Meng's arm, pounced on him, tightly pinning Lu Meng's neck, wrapped it tightly on him, and struggling to knock him down. Lu Meng was carrying a man on his back, and his flexibility was greatly affected. He hurriedly moved away from several swords that had been chopped over, retreated, and his legs hit the ship's side with force. The guards next to him saw someone pressing on him, and quickly grabbed him and blocked him desperately. When Cao's army saw someone holding the opponent's chief general, they were all ecstatic. They immediately raised swords and guns to meet Lu Meng, trying to kill Lu Meng. Both sides tried their best to kill him, and in a flash, several more people on both sides died.

Lu Meng slammed on the side of the boat a few times, felt the arm on his neck loose, and immediately turned the long knife, penetrated it under his left flank, and stabbed it straight into the abdomen of the Cao army soldier. The soldier was extremely fierce and had a knife inserted into the abdomen. He knew that he had no physiology, but instead let go of one hand and hit Lu Meng's head, which made Lu Meng's eyes burst into tears. He roared and threw it away. Before he swung the second punch, he chopped off his arm, and then chopped off his neck with a long knife.

The soldier's mouth was spurted with blood foam, but he still stared at his eyes and refused to fall. He rushed over to hug Lu Meng again. Lu Meng was shocked, took two steps in a row, cut off his five fingers, kicked him in the chest, but he was tripped under his feet and fell on his back. At that moment, he saw a big ghostly black shadow flying through the air.

Lu Meng was shocked, and flew away the long sword in his hand, spread out a spear, and slashed the legs of the soldiers surrounding him, turned over and stood up, danced with long swords, knocked out several long swords, and then passed by the faces of several soldiers, cutting the faces of three Cao soldiers in half. Cao soldiers was suppressed by Lu Meng's ferocity. Several people held spears and stared at Lu Meng, but did not dare to take another step forward. Lu Meng then took a breath, surrounded by three or five guards, and took a few breaths against the ship's side captain, looking at the sky above his head with lingering fear.

There is nothing in the sky, only dark clouds that are getting thicker and thicker and lower.

Lu Meng gathered his mind and dared not fight anymore. They fought fiercely for a long time and their physical strength was almost gone, but there were hundreds of guards who were raising their energy behind him. He quietly issued the order to retreat, and whistled, and several people rushed forward together. After swaying his sword and slashed the two terrified Cao troops, Lu Meng saw the eyes of the powerful crossbowman narrowing, and knew that they were not good, so he shouted: "Retreat!" He ran away, kicked the side of the ship, jumped in the air, turned around and slashed on a crossbow rod that was barely shot to the front of him, but the crossbow arrow was still cast, and he nailed it to the shield with a bang. The powerful impact force hit Lu Meng two steps in the air, turning over and falling into the water.

His guards were not as good as him. They were twisted with a few Cao army soldiers and were shot through by powerful crossbow arrows and nailed to the side of the ship.
Chapter completed!