Chapter 0210 Dragon Attack
It's a little cloudy today. On the winter morning, Chen Shuang's fog is extremely difficult to dissipate, and there is still a hint of cold.
In Chao County, the city wall is built by slow water, which is similar to thousands of small cities on Dahua. The difference is that it has only three walls, and the west side near Chaohu Lake is a water village composed of water piles and docks. At this time, the dock where countless large and small ships were gathered seemed very deserted, and the original ships also disappeared, leaving only a few unusable boats swaying in the gentle waves of Chaohu Lake.
The three-foot-high stone wall is also silent, but some places are obviously newly damaged. The broken cyan wall bricks and powdery powder are eye-catching. There are still smoke in several places on the gate buildings.
Under the city wall, a large number of soldiers gathered there, and there were a lot of people at the gate. Most of them were taking a nap with weapons in their arms. The not noisy sound gathered into a deep hum because of the large number of people, and the silent scene had a sense of tranquility before the war, which was quite strange. On the wall, in addition to the soldiers on guard, there were also several people in civilian clothes who were rationally washing away blood stains and debris, and blood-colored sewage gathered along the drainage ditch at the head of the city, flowing out of the city head and pouring directly into the moat outside the city.
Crossing the wall, the outside of the city is another scene.
The moat, which is not too wide and deep in Chao County, has now changed its color and turned into a dull ochre, which is uneven, as if a large bucket of paint has been poured into the water and has not yet melted. The floating corpses that can be seen everywhere slowly pass by with the water, and some of them are still nailed with arrows. The horrible skin and flesh on the wound have turned gray, giving people an unreal feeling.
More corpses are scattered on a small section of the ground near the city wall. Some are still smoking like a city gate building, some are incomplete and strangely distorted, and blood stains that have been blackened can be seen everywhere. Especially near the city gate, the bodies were naturally piled up into a pile, and a gray hand that had completely lost its life stretched out into the corps and stretched out into the gloomy sky, as if they were still trying to grab something.
Crossing the moat, beyond the distance of an arrow, the shallow trenches temporarily excavated are dense, like spider webs, extending into the invisible fog. From the top of the city, soldiers with trenches can also be seen curled up there. Unlike the soldiers in the city in messy clothes, the soldiers in the trench outside the city are dressed in Dahua-style military uniforms, which look much more neat.
At this moment, fires have been ignited everywhere on the Dahua army positions outside the city, and the originally dense forests and fields not far away have ceased to exist at this moment, turning into materials for people's heating.
The burning smoke blends into the fog color, making the gloomy world more hazy. I don't know when the sun can dispel the smoke, and can we see the way to come after the clouds dissipate?
A few miles south along the east bank of the lake, the shore of Chaohu Lake turns to the west. The lake is empty, because the lake is shallow in winter, and the flooded shoals in the rainy season are exposed again. The lake water beats the shore like a tide, and the withered yellow reeds dotted the lakeside shoals. All the way west, more than ten miles away by the lake, suddenly there was a rumble of horses' hoofs.
A small group of cavalry suddenly rushed out of the woods by the lake and galloped to the shoals on the shore. There was no barrier by forest shrubs. At the same time, the shoals were full of fine sand and stones, and the shoals on the shore were more suitable for racing. The ten-man cavalry galloped west along the shore of the lake, looking at the empty water by the lake from time to time, as if they were looking for something.
In this way, the cavalry kept running along the shore of the lake, all the way west until some small black spots appeared in the distance of the shore lake in sight.
The leading man gestured, and the cavalry rushed back into the woods and gradually approached the black spots with the cover of the woods. When they approached a certain distance, the cavalry stopped, and the leader jumped off the horse with the two and quietly sneaked towards the target.
In a short time, the three of them were close to the original position of the small black spot. With the cover of the woods, three people poked their heads out of the bush and looked carefully.
I'm afraid that there are nearly 100 large and small wooden boats docking by the lake, and several larger boats can't barge the shore and are transporting things to the shore by those small boats. Hundreds of people are busy on the shore as a temporary wharf. Some people are constantly carrying some heavy rice bags and some other items from the boat, while others are building a temporary camp, which is still a large camp.
The three people in the dark seemed to have little interest in the movement on the shore. They carefully counted the boats in the water, and then turned around and ran back quickly.
In a short time, ten batches of fast horses turned back, rushed out of the woods and disappeared in the southeast.
The busy people at the temporary dock on the shore knew nothing about this and carried out their work in an orderly manner. Several horses and wooden carriages were driven off from several boats, and some people were reorganizing the carriages. More than a dozen people picked up axes and began to go to the woods to cut down dry firewood.
In this way, more than an hour later, nearly noon, a prototype camp on the shore began to catch fire, and dozens of dug earth stoves burned. Some people were pouring bags of rice into the big iron pot on the stove, and some pots were putting piles of bacon into them. Obviously, these people are preparing a lot of food.
After another half an hour, the whole camp was filled with the aroma of rice and bacon. At this time, a low thunder sounded, making the busy people stop the buddy in their hands.
Where did the thunderstorm come from in winter? After a while, everyone's doubts were answered, and a torrent of black dragon-like iron cavalry suddenly rushed out of the forest not far away.
The people in the camp on the shore had not yet reacted. They stared at the dragon-like sudden emergence of the team. They couldn't see the shining sword. Those people skillfully picked up the strange fire gun on the horse's shoulder.
"Dahua Army!" A panicked scream woke everyone up. Only the Dahua Army had such a large amount of fire.
"Ah, isn't the Dahua army attacking the king?"
Some people still couldn't believe the facts in front of them and shouted in panic while taking weapons in a panic.
The dragon-like army has rushed to the place in an instant, and there was a flash of flashing at the arrogant dragon head. There were already screams in the camp here, and a large area fell down. Suddenly, the whole dock camp fell into extreme panic.
"Gunple up!" A big man pulled out his waist knife and jumped on a wooden stake and shouted. With another flash of Thunderbolt, the officer's body suddenly burst into a few blood dances, and his whole body fell down, convulsed a few times and could no longer get up.
The black dragon formed by more than a thousand cavalry sprayed fire and white smoke and rushed into the camp dock like a dragon slide shoals. It was just a revolution, and there was no resistance in the camp. Hundreds of people in the camp have been swept away. Except for a dozen people who curled up and knelt down and trembled, the rest of them were either moaning in pain or turned into corpses.
There were still some people on the wooden boat in the water. Seeing this scene, they began to support themselves from the shore. Although the Dahua army came fiercely, they could not go into the water to chase them.
The cavalry destroyed the shore camp and lined up by the water. A heroic white armored woman rushed to the shore, but it was not white ice. Bai Bing looked at the wooden boats leaving the shore and shouted, "The Dragon Army is here! Hurry to the shore, or you will be killed!"
Some small boats near the shore immediately stopped, hesitating whether to follow the order to return to the shore, and the big ships had gradually moved away, escaped from the range of bows and arrows, and began to raise their sails. There was no sign of docking. The people on the ship stood on the side of the ship and looked at the cavalry who were out of reach and laughed. It was clear that they had the ability to catch us.
Bai Bing's beautiful eyes were cold, and she shouted coldly, "Prepare!"
"Brush!" The cavalry arranged on the shore raised the dragon in his hand and aimed at the largest wooden ship that had raised its sail and began to accelerate away. The people on the wooden boat were not too nervous. Obviously, they also knew something about the power of the firearms of the Dahua army. The well-known heavy three-eyed thrush can't hit such a long distance.
"Pray!"
With the order of white ice, a burst of fire suddenly flashed on the shore, and a large row of white smoke broke out in the sound of explosion. The big ship suddenly rose everywhere with broken wood smoke. After a short and sad scream, the arrogant soldier who was on the side of the boat fell into the water, and then a large area of water immediately rose up. Blood stains, no one has surfaced again. And the thick main mast was covered with wood chips. Zhang Man's huge sail suddenly lost its restraint and fell directly. The sail rod hit the starboard heavily, and the ship's starboard was also smashed several feet.
Waiting for a large amount of white smoke on the shore to dissipate quickly under the lake wind, the dozens of steps of long ship has become completely lost, the hull is full of bullet holes, the front warehouse has almost turned into fishing nets, and all the sails have fallen down, without any power, and it seems that there is no one at the helm, and begins to slowly turn slowly in the water.
Dozens of people on the ship seemed to have disappeared in an instant. The wooden ship that was just about to sail seems to have become a ghost ship at this moment. There was no movement, which made people shudder.
The people on the other ships on the lake were stunned by what happened in front of them. The big ship was the largest, strongest and the farthest from the shore. Those cavalry looked like this with just one shot. Other ships can be imagined.
"Ready!" The female general's cold voice sounded again, and the cavalry raised the torches in their hands again as if they had not been loaded and aimed at the other ships.
"Don't, don't fight! We dock, we dock!" Almost at the same time, the large and small boats in the lake scrambled to shout. This firearm is too terrible. The big ship is the best example. It's good to live for a little more time. Who wants to die?
In this way, nearly a hundred large and small wooden boats came to the shore one after another, and even those large ships did not dare to neglect. Under the command of Bai Bing, the big boats were connected by flip boards, and then connected by wooden boards by small boats, all the way to the river bank. More than 200 boat families and soldiers on the ship went ashore honestly and were escorted to the south by Xing Tianhu and the soldiers of the Dragon Army and left the shore.
Seeing that there were only his own people left on the shore, Bai Bing immediately commanded the soldiers to collect boards and cut wood, greatly widening and strengthening the passage of the big boat connected by the boat and the overturned board. He didn't know what to do.