Chapter 153 Chapter 24: Working hard for several years (2)

Years of painstaking efforts have been wiped out in ashes With a sound of "hula", the newly hung handsome flag broke again. Cao Mengde, who had never believed in evil, seemed to realize something in an instant. With a sullen face, he shouted murderously: "The flag bearer is here!" On board, everyone had a premonition of what the prime minister was going to do. Cao Mengde held the sword with his own hands, one sword at a time, and several flag bearers fell under the flagpole of the handsome flag. This is a unique ceremony in the ancient battlefield --- Sacrifice the flag, that is, behead soldiers and spies before going out or on the eve of the battle. , Rebels and generals, a ritual to boost morale.

Poor few flag soldiers became victims of the war for no reason.Their lives are like weeds, they are so easy to wither and wither. Their bodies were thrown into the Yangtze River, which was rolling eastward. The eternal river, which watched the ups and downs of the world with cold eyes, only made a slight sound, and then it was silent. "Prime Minister, there is a situation!" Cheng Yu yelled. Cao Mengde and his generals looked at the fast boat flying the Qingya flag, and saw that the hull was frivolous, obviously an empty boat with not many people on it. "Since you came to surrender, but there is no army, there must be fraud!" Jia Xu said.

When Cao Mengde heard this, his face changed drastically. With the sudden southeast wind, the deserted empty ship, and his own chain ship, it was quite clear what would happen next. "Arrow rain block! Arrow rain block!" Cao Mengde ordered. Arrows are like showers, arrows are like locusts... "Abandon the ship quickly! Go to the camp on land!" Obviously, the tightly strapped warship could not be dismantled. At the critical moment, Cao Mengde could only do this in order to minimize casualties. For a while, Cao Mengde's old voice was drowned out by the noise, and thousands of warships joined together stood quietly in the river, like an old man who was dying but waiting for death to come.

The generals commanded the retreat, and it was conceivable how difficult it was for hundreds of thousands of soldiers to retreat on a large scale in a very short period of time.Especially Qing, Xu and other northern sergeants and the Jingzhou navy were in a state of chaos. Most of them were driven south to Chibi. Under such circumstances, the desire to escape overwhelmed everything. They cried and cursed They howled, they rushed to disembark from the warship, they ignored the general's sword on their necks, someone was lying in a pool of blood, someone's head rolled into the water, but they didn't care at all, they only had one thought: escape as soon as possible.

Only Cao Mengde's direct troops still stood firm on the warship, because they saw their coach standing on the command ship, commanding the bow and arrow team. "Prime Minister, hurry to the village!" Cao Chun shouted. "Prime Minister, I will guard this place!" Cheng Yu shouted. "Prime Minister, let's go!" Yu Jin shouted. Cao Mengde was still steady on the bow of the boat, waving his sword.His teeth were clenched, his face was livid, his eyes were shooting flames, and his head was still facing the rolling river. Huang Gai was two miles away from Cao Jun's fleet, and suddenly saw Cao Jun's warships in chaos, followed by a rain of arrows, and saw the patrol boats around the main battleship sailing towards the main battleship --- a huge monster made of chains. Huang Gai immediately judged that Cao Jun had expected his motives.

"Light it up!" Huang Gai ordered. In an instant, more than 20 fast boats loaded with dry firewood, ointment oil, reeds, and thenardite all caught fire. The wind fueled the fire, and the fire took advantage of the wind. The gusts of southeast wind boosted the speed of the fire and the speed of the clippers. Rushing towards Cao Jun's fleet, the outer patrol boats were scattered. Cao Mengde was almost dragged away from the behemoth by Cao Chun, Yu Jin and other generals. In the blink of an eye, there were explosions everywhere, and Cao Jun's huge serial fleet immediately fell into a sea of ​​flames. The flames shone red on the Red Cliff, thick smoke filled the river, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the steam was steaming, forming another tragic purgatory in the history of human warfare.

Huang Gai's fast boat braved the rain of arrows to rush into the flames of Cao's ship first, and ordered the soldiers to board the burning serial boat to kill the enemy, but as soon as he stood up, he was shot by an arrow and fell into the river.Fortunately, Huang Gai was familiar with water, so he floated up again quickly, and was rescued by the officers and soldiers on the fast boat that arrived shortly thereafter. In his haste, no one noticed this famous and famous old general, so he was placed in a larger cabin. Prepare to be treated by the logistics personnel who will arrive soon.

Soon, Huang Gai woke up and saw that the general commanding the battle on the bow was Han Dang, an old comrade-in-arms who had been with him for nearly forty years. He immediately called out. voice?" Han Dang immediately took off his battle robe and asked the injured Huang Gai to change his wet clothes, so that Huang Gai, who was dying, saved his life. Both Han Dang and Huang Gai were old generals who assisted Lord Wu III, and they had a very close friendship.Han Dang didn't know what Huang Gai had done. Under the protection of the generals, Cao Mengde abandoned the boat and went ashore, and hurried into the camp. Looking back at the river, it was already a sea of ​​flames, and the sky was blood red.Cao Mengde felt empty, as if his internal organs had been emptied by something, and there was nothing left. He sat slumped under the tent, like a hunter who had never been defeated, and now he was being chased by a group of wolves, or like a hunter who had never been defeated. The gamblers lost all at once.

At this time, reports followed one after another: The Lejin Army Corps deployed in the north of Wulin is being attacked by the Soochow Land Army and Liu Bei Army; Cao Chun's Tigers and Leopards could not hold back the onslaught of Lu Meng's army; Most of the serial boats docked on the shore, and the camps on the land were already on fire; Tai Shici's army was discovered in Huangzhou; Ling Tong's army has been found in Yiling; Zhao Zilong's army was found on the small road in Wulin; Hulugu found Zhang Fei's army; Sun Quan took Lu Xun as the vanguard and went straight to the Qi and Huang areas;

Cao Mengde has been defeated. The situation is obvious: the base camp on land may fall at any time. If the Lejin army retreats, Wulin's grain storage area will be destroyed, and the road from Wulin to Jiangling will also be cut off. The consequences will be disastrous . "It seems that Zhou Gongjin and Kong Ming are going to kill me!" Cao Mengde said with a cold smile. At this time, Cheng Yu had safely returned the troops to the land camp. On the one hand, he commanded to cut off the fire from the serial ships and the land camp, and on the other hand, he re-arranged the defense line to resist the possible landing attack of the Soochow navy.

After all, the offensive strength of the Soochow Navy was insufficient, and the attacks were repulsed again and again.Of course, this does not mean that Cao Jun has got rid of the precarious situation, and a bigger crisis is already brewing. In the wide water area around Chibi, the fire is gradually receding, the river water is already boiling, and the rock walls are melting. The southeast wind has weakened, and Lin Tao on the South Bank Mountain and the river are playing a majestic and tragic ancient tune, telling a thrilling, mysterious and tragic story. 145 southeast wind, the incredible southeast wind carried the story of Chibi far and far. The 830,000 troops were wiped out in the southeast wind. However, Cao Mengde finally did not fall.