Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 214 Huang Zhong shoots Lu Meng

The sky gradually darkened, and the forest between Shiling and Wuling was as vast as a sea of ​​smoke.

Not just a simple flat forest, but also hills, creeks, rivers, hillsides, and highlands, so that the terrain is extremely complex, and it is difficult to find directions and roads without a guide.

After the Jiangdong navy chased past Shiling and couldn't find Shen Chenjun's position, they decided to return to the boat and continue their pursuit south along Shushui.

After more than half an hour, it was probably at the beginning of the day, that is, around five o'clock in the afternoon, and the two sides fought together again.

There is a stream flowing out of Shushui. Hundreds of Jiangdong sailors took scouts, airships and other small boats down the stream, went deep into the forest, and were shot and killed by Jiangxia navy ambushing in the forest.

But the small-scale battle also exposed the position of the large army. Soon Lu Meng and Xu Sheng led the army to land again, and the two sides fought desperately around the surrounding dense forest.

Both sides were actually very tired. Shen Chenjun had been walking for a day and barely had a rest.Lu Meng and Xu Shengjun rowed continuously for a day and a night. Although they were working in shifts, most of the soldiers were still very tired.

Therefore, the two sides are now a battle of willpower. Including Shen Chenjun, many soldiers have actually lost their way.

"Kill!"

"Fire the arrows, shoot the arrows!"

"Come two teams, come with me here."

Shen Chen occupied a small hill, condescendingly shot back with arrows.

However, there were many trees around, and the bow and arrow were blocked by the trees, which made them useless, so they had to fight in close combat.

The two sides were fighting in the woods. In fact, apart from Lu Meng and Xu Shengjun who lost hundreds of people in Shiling and Xiaoxi just now, few people died on both sides.

Has been shooting arrows or hitting stones for long-range attacks.It wasn't until this time that they fought hand to hand and collided with each other.

Shen Chen drew out the ring sword at his waist. In fact, there were only more than 400 people around him to escort Zhang Hong. Due to the vast forest and many mountains and hills, unlike the plains where troops can be deployed, they can only be dispersed by officers at all levels. fight as a guerrilla.

After marching for a day, the soldiers were tired, thirsty and hungry. In fact, they had only walked more than ten miles from Shiling in the afternoon, but they had to climb the mountain non-stop, which made them extremely exhausted and had to stop to rest.

The place where they rested was by the creek. They wanted to drink some water and eat some dry food, but they had just rested for a while and the Jiangdong navy came again, so they could only continue to fight.

At this moment, they were fighting and retreating, and they were less than ten miles away from Wuling. Even the scouts sent by Liu Qi saw them and kept blowing their horns.

"The reinforcements are here."

Listening to the sound of the horn, Jiang Xia's sailors were all excited and fought desperately.

Shen Chen was on a hill near the stream, only 20 meters away from the ground of the stream. Below the hill, more than 20 boats rushed into the stream and attacked the hill through the dense forest.

In addition to the small boats, more than 200 Jiangdong soldiers circled around intermittently. Around the road rushing up the hills, more than 400 Jingzhou soldiers and more than 700 enemies launched a desperate struggle.

Hundreds of Jiangdong soldiers lined up in a square formation dozens of steps away from the hills, waiting for an opportunity to attack; more Jiangdong soldiers held ring-shoulders, howled like wolves, and followed the road below. Filed up like ants.

The roars, echoes, weapons blocking, and howling and humming on the hilltop almost never stopped.

From noon to nearly dark, for a whole afternoon, Jingzhou soldiers and Yangzhou soldiers fought and hacked each other. There were corpses everywhere on the mountain road that stretched for more than ten miles. There was no end to the tragic killing.

Clusters of arrows fell like rain, and the blood of soldiers from both sides was sprayed everywhere at the entrance below the hill. In many places, the yellow-brown soil was completely soaked in blood, turning into a dark red.Iron helmets and flip-leather hats can be seen everywhere on the ground, and feathered arrows with bald tails and broken weapons are thrown all over the ground.

Shen Chen personally hacked and killed several Jiangdong soldiers, but a steady stream of Jiangdong soldiers were still coming.Everyone knows that they captured part of the main force of Jiangxia's navy who had left, and strangled and surrounded them on the battlefield. This is an eternal topic.

"Have you found Mr. Zi Gang?"

One mile away from this small hill, Lu Meng had just killed and scattered a Jiangxia navy team of more than 200 people, and was ordering to continue to pursue south along the forest river when he suddenly heard someone report.

The scout knelt on one knee and replied: "Yes, Captain, we chased east along this stream and found at least five hundred Jiangxia water troops resting on a small hill. There was also an old man in the team who was framed by someone." Now, we suspect it is Mr. Zhang, so come and report immediately."

Lu Meng was overjoyed and said: "Okay, if you really saved Zi Ganggong, you all have done a great job. Order the soldiers to follow me."

As he spoke, he raised his arms and shouted, and thousands of soldiers around him followed his footsteps to the east.

At this time, on the hills over Shen Chen, the battle was fierce. At the foot of the mountain, the corpses of the soldiers who died in the battle, some with severed limbs, were kicked and trampled under the feet of the people. The battle was too tight. No one can spare manpower to clean up the battlefield.

The Jiangdong soldiers below were charging up like ants, arrow clusters were constantly shooting down from the mountain, shields were everywhere, spears were like sharp spears, and the two sides fought fiercely together.

Fortunately, Shen Chen didn't send all his troops up there, but personally led the team, leading fifty veterans to form two reserve teams to take turns to block the hole, otherwise the small hill would have been flattened by the enemy.

The early autumn weather in mid-July has lifted the warm veil of summer, revealing its fiery face. Although the south has been raining continuously recently, this rain is like some kind of summer thunderstorm. It brings coolness to people, but it will give people hotness.

Suddenly there was a series of hurried horns in the distance, and with the sound of the horns, several groups of Jiangdong soldiers came slowly from the upper reaches of the stream.

When they approached the hills, these Jiangdong soldiers moved forward in three rows, their leather boots kicked up a long circle of floating dust, and the surrounding forest birds were startled.

Coupled with the fact that the soldiers slapped the big knives in their hands rhythmically as they stepped forward, making the puffy leather shields protecting their chests slam, it seemed rather majestic and majestic.

Shen Chen, who just killed another enemy with an arrow, heard the sound. Standing on a small hill and looking towards the stream, he saw that thousands of Jiangdong soldiers were already attacking them two hundred steps away. Flowing like a torrent.

"General."

Zhang Nan beside him pointed to the flag over there with an ugly face and said, "It's Lu Meng. This man was extremely brave in battle. He once beheaded several generals of General Huang."

"Oh?"

Shen Chen became interested and looked towards the west.

I saw a burly man in armor standing at the front of the line.

Although the naval army would not wear battle armor when fighting on the water, they would wear it on land. Many Jiangdong armies wore leather armor or small zip armor, but this man wore large armor.

He seemed to be less than 30 years old. He was eight feet tall, with a muscular body, with a large sword around his waist, and walked slowly forward.

Soon the distance between the two sides was less than fifty steps, which was the effective killing range of bows and arrows. However, there were many trees on both sides of the creek. Although they were not as dense as the forest just now, they could still hinder arrows. At the same time, the enemy had erected shields.

"Which of you is the chief general!"

The burly man came to the bottom of the hill and shouted to the top.

Shen Chen stepped on a big rock on the edge with one foot, put the other foot behind him, put his right hand on his outstretched right knee, peeped down and said, "You are Lu Meng?"

"Exactly!"

Lu Meng looked up and saw a young man in his 20s, thought for a while and said, "Are you Shen Chen?"

"Yes."

Shen Chen nodded.

Lu Meng grinned: "It seems that I have gained a lot today, and catching you is a great achievement."

Shen Chen laughed: "Are you not afraid that I will kill that old man?"

"Zigang Guild understands my painstaking efforts."

Lu Meng said without hesitation.

Shen Chen turned around and looked at Zhang Hong with a smile, "Mr. Zhang, it seems that Sun Quan doesn't take you too seriously."

Zhang Hong's face changed slightly. Although he was being carried away, in order to prevent him from running away, his feet were tied with ropes like shackles to prevent him from running away with big strides, so he could only lower his head sadly at this time.

"Shen Chen, get Mr. Zhang out. If you are willing to surrender to Jiangdong, with your talent, Marquis Wu will treat you kindly."

Lu Meng shouted again.

Shen Chen chuckled and said, "Do you think you'll win me if you surround me?"

"Is not it?"

While negotiating with Shen Chen, Lu Meng slightly waved his left hand backwards a few gestures.

The soldiers at the rear understood, and the last row hid in the forest where Shen Chen could not see. A large number of Jiangdong soldiers began to move down the hill.

Shen Chen raised his head and looked towards the forest not far away. The sound of whistles was continuous. In fact, not only the whistles, but also the sound of gongs, drums and horns between the enemy and ourselves resounded throughout the forest and reverberated everywhere.

But only the Jiangxia Navy became more courageous as they fought.

Because they could all hear a voice coming from a farther place, and that voice only conveyed one message—reinforcements are coming.

So even though the forest was fighting everywhere at this time, and the Jiangdong army had a great advantage in strength, the Jiangxia navy did not collapse, but the remaining more than 2000 people were still fighting fiercely with the enemy in the forest.

At this moment, as the whistle was getting closer, Shen Chen said softly: "Since you want to seek death, then come!"

"kill!"

Lu Meng gave the order to attack without hesitation.

"call out!"

There seems to be the sound of piercing through the forest and beating leaves.

A sharp arrow pierced through countless dense branches and leaves, like a shooting star across the void, startling the passing branches and leaves to flutter gently.

In an instant, it shot silently into the back of the head of a Jiangdong soldier who was besieging the hills.

"The reinforcements have arrived, follow me to kill!"

Shen Chen held up the ring sword in his hand and gave the order for a general attack.

"kill!"

Zhang Nan's spirit lifted.

Many Jiangxia water troops who retreated to the small hill also raised their weapons and began to charge down the hill.

At this moment, countless arrows rained down from the forest, shooting and killing the Jiangdong soldiers who were besieging the hills from behind.

When they reached the foot of the mountain, there were almost no Jiangdong soldiers besieging them.

At the same time, thousands of Jingzhou soldiers emerged from the forest, rushing in the direction of Lu Meng.

Seeing this situation, Lu Meng also knew that something was wrong, so he quickly ordered: "Retreat!"

"withdraw!"

The password belonging to the Jiangdong navy immediately sounded.

This is a completely different voice from Jiang Xia's navy.

In fact, the passwords of the two navies are different, and in order to prevent the other party from cracking, they often change from time to time.

Although I don't know what order the other party gave at the moment, I can tell with my toes that it is a retreat.

So Shen Chen immediately said to Zhang Nan: "Order a general attack."

"Order a general attack."

Zhang Nan turned his head and shouted to the soldiers blowing the horn.

"woo woo woo woo!"

The melodious sound of horns resounded through the sky.

The Jiangxia navy in the entire forest knew that the reinforcements had arrived, their morale soared, and they began to fight back.

There seemed to be countless figures in the jungle, and the arrows swept across Lu Meng's army like rain.

In just a moment, hundreds of them were shot and killed, and they had to flee back to the stream, hid in a boat and began to retreat to Shushui.

The soldiers chased and fled one after another. After Shen Chen killed several Jiangdong soldiers, he watched them flee by rowing in the direction of Shushui, and hurriedly continued to pursue along the stream.

The forest was a mess, with soldiers coming and going everywhere, and within a radius of one or two kilometers, tens of thousands of warriors from the enemy and us were entangled together.

After running for about ten minutes, Shen Chen finally came to the river. He and Zhang Nan led more than 300 people and intercepted more than 800 people on the opposite side. Jiangdong soldiers killed and scattered.

By this time, Shen Chen's army actually didn't have many arrows, and those who could shoot arrows must be reinforcements.

Shen Chen hurriedly looked in the direction of the reinforcements.

I saw thousands of archers springing up from the forest like mushrooms after rain, climbing to the hills on the bank of Shushui, and shooting wildly in the direction of the ships.

The leader is an old man about 60 years old. He is wearing black armor, with a ring-headed sword hanging from his waist. His body is extremely strong. He stands on the top of the mountain, condescending, bows and arrows, and aims at a certain direction.

Huang Zhong?

This thought flashed across Shen Chen's mind.

Then he turned his head to look at the direction Huang Zhong was aiming at. On that ship, a young general in armor was constantly calling for the soldiers to board the ship.

Lu Meng!

Shen Chen recognized that it was Lu Meng who was flaunting his might just now.

The next second, the old man on the hillside let go of the bowstring in his hand, and the arrow seemed to cut through the void, and in an instant, it shot towards Lu Meng's chest like lightning.

"what!"

There was only a scream, and Lu Meng, who was directing the retreat, was shot by an arrow and fell to the other side of the ship and fell into the water.

It's just that he was blocked by the aggressive ship, so he didn't know the situation.

"Captain, Captain, Captain!"

The officers and soldiers on Lu Meng's protruding ship turned pale with fright, and they all jumped into the water to fish it. After a while, a large number of wooden planks rose from the ship, blocking the view, and they didn't know if they were fished.

At this time, the Jiangdong Army was in chaos, Xu Sheng took over the command, and ordered the soldiers on the ship to raise their shields and planks to defend, and to respond to the retreat of the soldiers on the shore.

Countless Jiangxia navy troops emerged from the jungle and attacked the enemy on the ship. Seeing that the enemy's troops were increasing, Xu Sheng didn't care about other things. After receiving most of the soldiers, he gave an order.

In the midst of countless tinkling shots, hundreds of small and medium-sized ships of the Jiangdong Navy headed downstream in embarrassment and escaped from Wuling!
(End of this chapter)