The four hundred and seventeenth chapter [the brave wins]
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The reeds swayed, and suddenly parted, revealing the front end of a small boat. As the oars hit the water, a "red horse" with a crew of fifty people appeared from the storm and passed by lightly. n∈n∈, the so-called red horse is a kind of fighting ship, with a hull painted red, pointed to flat bottom, light in size, faster than a galloping horse, and can be used for both combat and reconnaissance, hence the name Red Horse.
The head of the Red Horse Ship was standing. It was not tall and not strong, but there was a sense of strength and sharpness all over his body. It was Jiang Qin, the general of the Jiangdong Army. Jiang Qin, who was ordered by Zhou Yu, went to Xiazhishui Village to inquire about the enemy's situation. After Jiang Qin set out, he walked twenty miles forward, stopped thirty miles away from the enemy's water village, and then kept lying in the reeds and waited patiently for darkness.
But before it was dark, I waited for an unexpected "helper".
"Uncle Jiang, I'm here to see if I can help."
When Jiang Qin saw another red horse ship appearing in front of him, he was really shocked. What surprised him even more was that the commander of this red horse, whose strength was not below his reconnaissance ship, was actually a 14-year-old boy.
"Public record?! You, how did you come?"
"Don't worry, Uncle Jiang, my nephew has asked the Central Guards for instructions and has received approval and has come to help."
The young man was Ling Tong. Although he was only fourteen years old, he had taken over his father's old subordinate and was appointed as Sima of another subordinate. Therefore, although he was underage, he had already taken the name of the name, which was convenient for matching.
The most special thing about the Jiangdong power is that there are many powerful gentry who crossed the south to avoid chaos. Sun Ce brought these people to his own family, and many of them brought their clan soldiers or disciples to like each other. They are a force themselves. Sun Ce's way of dealing with them is to let them retain their headquarters and grant them corresponding official positions. These clan soldiers, clan soldiers, disciples, and healthy servants, even if they die in battle or are removed from their posts, their military power will not be handed over, and they will only choose one person from their clan to replace them. In short, the wealth and water will not leave the land of outsiders. Even if this "outsider" is the lord...
Ling Cao had a group of more than 300 soldiers, composed of clans and disciples. In history, this Ling family soldier was inherited by Ling Tong after Ling Cao's death. He participated in the Battle of Red Cliff and made many achievements. Later, in the battle of Xiaoyaojin, most of them were suddenly killed by Zhang Liao in order to protect Sun Quan. Ling Tong was even sad and sad. Finally, Sun Quan re-enrolled him and passed on to Ling Tong's son...
At this time, there were more than 30 strong soldiers on the Red Horse Ship, all of whom were Ling's soldiers. The commander was the new army Sima Lingtong.
After checking the warrant handed over by Ling Tong, Jiang Qin felt relieved and said, "Public Certificate hides the ship behind me and acts together when it gets dark..."
Ling Tong shook his head: "My nephew will take a look. Before dark, he will send someone to notify Jiang Shu to join forces to advance together."
As a newborn calf, it has always been like this. Jiang Qin had nothing to do, and only advised him: "Be careful. If there is any enemy situation, you must repay it and don't be reckless."
As Ling Tong waved goodbye, the red horse broke through the reeds and quickly disappeared into the dense reeds.
Ling Tong carried two swords on his back, and a crossbow was hanging by his waist. He wore a red sling on his head and a moon-white jacket. But he was not wearing armor. Not only him, but all the sharp soldiers on his ship were not wearing armor. It was not that there was no. It was better not to wear armor when they could not wear armor when they could not wear armor. Otherwise, once they fell into the water, the cowhide absorbed water and hardened, which not only affected the action, but also had an adverse impact on underwater struggle.
Ling Tong commanded the Red Horse to walk carefully in the reed zodiac, leaving the reed land hidden by Jiang Qin for about seven or eight miles. Through the reed stalks, the Jiangxia army's whistle boats could be seen vaguely appearing on the wide river surface. They were as big as fishing boats, with three or five people in groups, shuttled back and forth from time to time.
The red horse has stopped. The ship can no longer move forward when it reaches here, otherwise it will probably be difficult for the wardrobe to escape. Only after dark, use the night to cover it and get closer can you make a breakthrough.
Ling Tong looked at the sky. It was dusk. The night of early spring was coming very quickly. It was estimated that in another half an hour, the sky would be completely dark. By then...
"Everyone rests and eats. After dark, we must approach Xiazhishuizhai before Wei Jiang, and reconnaissance the distribution of Jiangxia army's ships and the location of the granary. It is best to find the command ship of the enemy general Zhang Shuo..." Before Ling Tong finished his explanation, he suddenly heard from the top of the tent, looking at his hands quickly and shouted: "Young master, a tower ship has come, and the general flag is on the ship, as if it is a general of the Jiangxia army."
Ling Tongyi heard this and was very energetic: "Look clearly, what flag is under? How many people are there on the boat?"
Looking at the hands and narrowed their eyes and looked hard for a while, then said in an uncertain tone: "There are probably more than a hundred people, the flag... The wind in the river is too fast, the flag rolling out is too powerful, and I can't see it very clearly... In fact, I don't recognize words..." The last sentence is the point.
Ling Tong was furious and jumped, grabbed the edge of the tent with one hand, grabbed the chest of the look hand with the other hand and pulled him over and fell on the board: "Why are you thinking of looking hand if you don't recognize words!"
He knelt down and apologized for him: "Although Apu does not recognize words, he has good eyesight, so he..."
Ling Tongyi said nothing, turned over and climbed up the roof, leaned over and raised his hand to cover the wind for a while, then jumped down, waved left and right, and all the entourages surrounded him.
Ling Tong's eyes were shining and his expression was excited: "It's Zhang Shuo's ship!"
The left and right were stunned and unbelievable.
"You can't be wrong. There are bananas on the flag. In the lower pheasant, only two people can bananas on the flag, one is Su Fei and the other is Zhang Shuo. The flag hanging on this tower ship is 'Zhang'!" Ling Tong took off his crossbow and looked excited. His face, which was a little tender last year, had edges and corners. At this moment, the solemn expression and cold tone on his face were not like a young man. His eyes swept across the faces of the escorts one by one, "There are no less than 1230 people on the boat, most of whom are armored soldiers, with excellent weapons, and the number of people is several times that of ours... I was thinking, if Ah Father was there, what should he do?"
The entourage all turned their attention and said, "If the head of the family is still there, no matter whether the enemy is a hundred or a thousand, you must first break it!"
Ling Tong paused: "I am the son of Ling Xiandeng in Jiangdong. You and others are the first to climb the boat. Can you dare to defeat the enemy with someone who boarded the boat?"
The entourage suddenly became heroic and each of them was full of excitement: "I hope to kill the enemy with the young master!"
Ling Tong tucked his fingers with one twitch. Zhang Xian bowed his head: "Notify Jiang Duwei to get the weapons and prepare!"
Zhang Shuo's ship went down from the upper reaches and along the right side of the river. Because his purpose was to reconnaise the enemy situation. Therefore, he did not go to the middle of the river when sailing, but approached the reed marsh. If the ship was not too big and could not hide his traces from the side, he would probably have walked through the reed marsh like Jiang Qin and Ling Tong.
Zhang Shuozong is not as good as being trusted by Huang Zu. At least it has advantages. Seriousness, responsibility, rigorousness and solidity are Zhang Shuo's advantages. It is precisely because of his such advantages that he insists on boarding the boat himself, reconnaissance along the river, and mastering the most intuitive enemy situation.
Zhang Shuo also knew that it was possible to encounter enemy ships. So he was riding a medium-sized Jiangxia army tower ship. On the ship there were more than 100 soldiers, including boatmen and boatmen, nearly 200. With such a lineup, I believe that any Jiangdong army's whistleboat must be far away from home. Even the fighting ship may not dare to approach.
But Zhang Shuo never expected that he would be so unlucky. He met a newborn calf, the future Jiangdong desperately fought hard. His fate was a star.
The tower ships went downstream, with patrol ships leading the way for them, and sometimes the ships would sail into the reed marsh to search. Everything was normal.
The dusk in early spring is very short. The sky was a little orange at the last moment, and the twilight was already in full swing.
Zhang Shuo ignored the cold night wind and insisted on standing at the bow of the boat. Jiang Feng blew a long beard under his jaw so scattered like a bunch. The entourage whispered, and Zhang Shuo touched the beard. It felt indecent, so he returned to the cabin. He asked the servant to take the wooden comb to comb his beard, and then put on a brocade beard bag.
When Zhang Shuo was taking care of his beautiful beard in the cabin, he didn't pay any attention. A whistle boat that was leading the way for the building ship was reed after driving into the reed marsh, but the direction changed and he rushed straight to the boat.
When the whistle boat was thirty feet away from the tower ship, it finally attracted the attention of the soldiers on the ship and fired a flag to inquire. But I don’t know if it was the impact of the dim sky or something, the whistle boat still rushed. So the guards of the tower ship had to shout at the top of their voices: "Stop the ship! If you hit the captain, be careful!"
The patrolman on the mailbath said he could not hear clearly. Until he was close to ten feet, he faced the savage and arrows of the squadron of the tower ship like a hedgehog, and his hands were shaking, "There is an enemy situation."
The sound fell, and the reed marsh a hundred feet away suddenly broke open, and a red horse fighter was like a arrow from the string, rushing straight to the tower ship.
The boat suddenly rioted, and screams rose and fell.
Zhang Shuo rushed out when he heard the sound, holding a halberd in his hand, and shouted angrily: "What's the matter in a panic..." He said only four words and then stopped abruptly because he also saw the red horse.
"Prepare a pole and do not allow enemy ships to approach; archers go to the flying hut, and the enemy ships shoot arrows as close as thirty feet; spears and halberds line up on the starboard side, and the enemy soldiers dare to assassinate them at one time!" Zhang Shuo was not a famous general, but Yushui battles were also immersed in the battle for many years, and his command was in a normal manner. Because the advantages of the tower ships were too obvious, as long as they did not make big mistakes, the red horse ships of the Jiangdong Army could basically not take advantage of this. The calmed Jiangxia Army had no doubts about this.
However, the Jiangxia army did not expect that when their attention was attracted by the red horse ship that suddenly rushed out, they had already made a big mistake.
The Jiangxia army sentry ship that was warning was approaching the tower ship and climbed up the tower ship along the ladder ladder that the tower ship had laid down.
When the Yijiangxia army led his hand to pull it, his eyes suddenly froze: "Hey! Isn't this Gao Laowu's ship? Who are you...ah!" After the question failed, the young man who boarded the ship pulled him and danced and fell down the rolling river.
The young Ling Tong first boarded the enemy ship, raised his hand and shot the entourage blocking Zhang Shuo. He then threw down the crossbow bow and pulled out the two swords with his back. Before all the Jiangxia troops could not react at all, they rushed around like an angry bull, and the two swords ran like the wind, and they rushed to Zhang Shuo in a moment.
Zhang Shuo didn't even figure out what was going on, and the sword light flashed in front of him, and the coldness was pressing. He shouted loudly and swung his halberd.
Zheng, blocked it! Before Zhang Shuo could open his mouth to laugh, his jaw suddenly became cold. The sac was cracked, his beard dispersed, and his throat... Why did it hurt so much?
Zhang Shuo fell down and his eyes widened. He saw a young general stained with blood holding two swords and jumping onto Feilu, shaking the whole ship: "Zhang Shuo is dead, why don't you surrender!"
Chapter completed!