Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Yong'an six years, the Mid-Autumn Festival.The long-prepared southern expedition to Hongshawadi finally started.

The Jinsha River is full of ships transporting grain, grass and other war supplies to Gufu.In addition, there are hundreds of Viking warships.

Of course, these Viking ships were not used to transport troops and cargo, but were to be put directly into the Hongshawady battlefield.After they arrive in Gufu, they will be hoisted by airship to the Dulong River and Nu River more than 300 miles away.

The [-] soldiers gathered in Gufu County have marched towards Buwei City. They are the elite selected from the [-] soldiers of the Liang Army's regular regiment.

They are mainly composed of spear-throwing shield soldiers, longbowmen, crossbowmen, heavy soldiers equipped with elephants, and a small number of mountain scouts.Plus hundreds of Viking ships and accompanying Viking sailors.Because of the geographical terrain and climatic environment, this Southern Expeditionary Army did not deploy cavalry.

The most striking thing is that there are [-] giant ape warriors among them. At present, there are only nearly [-] such giant ape warriors in the entire Liang Kingdom. Feng Yu immediately gave [-]% to Zhuge Liang.

This time Zhuge Liang tried his best to choose soldiers from the south of Bashu among the soldiers. The reason is not difficult to understand.Similarly, when he chose generals, he also chose southern generals.There are four southern generals who can fight, Yan Yan, Zhang Ren, Meng Da, and Meng Huo.Meng Huo also had the task of integrating the Nanman, so it was excluded.

Feng Yu originally thought that Zhuge Liang would choose Meng Da and Zhang Ren.But in the end, it was the two generals Zhang Ren and Yan Yan who followed Zhuge Liang.Although Yan Yan himself asked many times to play, Feng Yu was surprised by Zhuge Liang's choice.

In the blink of an eye, it was the early winter of the sixth year of Jian'an. Liang Jun, who had been staying in Buwei City for several months, finally started to march towards Hongshawadi.But in these few months, Zhuge Liang has not been idle.Several teams of scouts were successively dispatched to investigate deeply into the hinterland of Hongshawadi on Viking ships.

What those Zhuluo captives confessed were all true.More than a dozen camps and fortresses are all distributed along the banks of the Dulong River and the Nu River.

The occupation of Hungshawadi by the Cholas is actually only a point-based occupation.After all, in this vast area full of smoky forests, it is impossible to completely occupy it with a mere 10 people.

In the Dulong River, more than two hundred Viking ships loaded with armor and equipment set sail and went down the river.On the tidal flats on both sides of the river, war elephants lined up.

After the Nu River and Dulong River enter Hongshawadi, the former passes through the mountains, while the latter flows on a densely forested plain surrounded by mountains on three sides.Therefore, it is impossible for the Zhu Luo army on the Dulong River to directly support the friendly army or go to the back of the Duanliang army. It would need to go through hundreds of miles of wild mountains and primitive jungles.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang did not divide his troops into two groups, but chose to concentrate his forces and attack south along the Dulong River in a single-handed approach.

Chapter 254

In the fortress of the Zhu Luo Army in Longwei Beach, the situation has long been jittery.A day before, the Zhu Luo soldiers patrolling the front had discovered the fleet in the Dulong River, and the entire fort immediately entered the highest level of alert.

Now, on the turbid Dulong River outside Longwei Beach, there are all Viking warships with their sails down and anchored in the river.The fleet began to unload soldiers and equipment ashore,

Zhuge Liang walked to the shore along the springboard, and accidentally stepped into a puddle, and one shoe was completely soaked in muddy water.If it wasn't for Yan Yan who was next to him to hold him, I'm afraid he would fall and eat shit.

Yan Yan blew on his beard and said, "Baby...military teacher, walk carefully."

"Thank you, old general." Zhuge Liang thanked, and then said to Yan Yan on the left and right, Zhang Ren said: "This Longwei Beach is the last stronghold of Zhu Luojun on the plateau, and it is also the first stronghold on the bank of the Dulong River. Ahead is a The waterfall, our supplies, and warships all need to be transported upstream and downstream of the waterfall. Therefore, Longwei Beach can be regarded as a strategic location."

Zhang Ren said with confidence: "Military commander, since this is the case, let's not talk nonsense, let's start. Although Zhuluo's camp is strong, we have counterweight trebuchets. The stones here are also ready-made. The bombardment lasted all day and night. The garrison inside, based on the scouts' investigation, estimates that there can be up to 3000 troops in the fort. Don't worry, the military commander, I guarantee that Longwei Beach will be conquered within three days."

Zhuge Liang smiled strangely and said: "But I don't want to use this kind of strong attack method to take down this strong fortress. Because we also need a strong and large-scale camp at Longwei Beach. I look at this fortress of the Zhuluo people. It’s very good, I want to use a ready-made one. If I blow it up and rebuild it, it will take a lot of manpower and time.”

Hearing Zhuge Liang's words, both Yan Yan and Zhang Ren were surprised, and they said almost at the same time: "If you want to keep the enemy's solid base intact, then this battle will not be so easy to fight."

Zhuge Liang seemed to have a plan in mind and said: "Someone has a plan..."

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The sky gradually darkened.This surprised General Zhuluo of Longwei Beach.Because early in the morning, Liang Jun landed and assembled here, but he did not launch an attack for a long time, so he didn't know what he was waiting for.

The Zhuluo Fortress in Longwei Beach is a solid wood and stone structure, which was designed and constructed with full consideration of various possible attacks by the enemy.Including fire attack, flooding, building car flying ladder climbing wall and so on.The various defense facilities and organs on the top of the wall are enough to wipe out thousands of enemy troops who attack rashly.

The only thing the guard was worried about was that the opponent would use heavy siege equipment to violently destroy the wall.

However, he also responded to this, and a strong mobile reserve force was deployed in the castle.Once a gap is knocked open by the opponent at a certain point, the reserve force will immediately encircle and annihilate the enemy troops entering through the gap, and block the gap again.So unless Liang Jun can destroy half of the city wall, don't even think about entering Longweitan Castle easily.

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In the middle of the night, because of the dense clouds, there were neither stars nor moon in the sky.The world is completely enveloped in darkness.

Fifty yards away to the west of Zhuluo Castle in Longweitan, there is a solitary mountain peak seventy yards high.Zhu Luo's army naturally considered that the enemy might occupy the pinnacle, so they condescendingly threw stone bombs and arrows at the castle fifty battles away.

So they also set up a small stronghold on this commanding height, with more than [-] Zhu Luo soldiers stationed there.In this way, the enemy's occupation can be prevented, and secondly, the enemy's movement can be observed from a high position, and then the heavy crossbow can be used to report to the castle.

At this time, the Zhu Luo sentinel on Shifeng held a torch in his hand and stared down the peak vigilantly.From time to time, they would stick out their torches and look at the cliff below to see if there were any enemies climbing up secretly.Not far below the peak, the little sparks in Liang Jun's camp were clearly visible.

"咻", following the clear and audible sound of screaming through the air, a thick heavy arrow shot through the chest of a Zhu Luo soldier.The whole body fell to the ground at once, and the torch in his hand fell aside.

Outside the battle, another Zhu Luo soldier couldn't see the heavy arrows stuck in the corpse in the night, and thought that the other party had fallen.Just as he was about to ask, there was a pop sound, and the heavy arrow pierced through his forehead, and clusters of arrows emerged from the back of his head.It can penetrate the skull twice, which shows how powerful the arrow is.

Almost instantly, the six Zhu Luo soldiers holding torches were shot down to the ground by heavy arrows.By this time, the small leader of the stronghold realized that something was wrong.

He first thought that an enemy army was approaching Shifeng, because the arrows under the mountain cannot shoot a hundred battles high, even heavy crossbows, giant crossbows and even the Roman ballistas he has heard of can't do it.But everyone clearly took precautions, it is impossible for someone to touch it under their noses.

Moreover, the area at the top of the mountain is very narrow, even if someone touches it, this distance is not suitable for arrows to shoot.He picked up a torch, opened his eyes wide, and looked around, but he did not find any outsiders.

With a pop, he was also shot in the chest by an arrow.The arrow pierced completely through his chest.When he fell on his back, he found a huge black shadow in the sky, which was deeper than the surrounding black sky.It was Liang Guo's airship.

At the top of the peak, the other dozen or so Zhu Luo soldiers were still sleeping soundly.It is not known that several people on duty have all died.After a while, more than a dozen black shadows climbed to the peak along the cliff.Those Zhu Luo soldiers who were still sleeping soundly were also decapitated in a daze.

An hour later, it was almost dawn.The Longwei Beach Castle was still brightly lit, and the Zhu Luo soldiers guarding the castle were still on high alert.

But they didn't realize that a huge object in the air was slowly approaching the sky above the castle.On the north and south sides of the castle, six elephants are pulling the airship to the east.

Near the north gate of the castle, a ten-member Zhu Luo army patrol team was passing by.Suddenly, seven black shadows rushed out silently, several white blades flashed, and seven people had their throats cut by the sharp blades.

The remaining three people realized that something was wrong, and as soon as they shouted in panic, they were stabbed into the chest and neck by the sharp knife.In the air, one after another, figures descended from the sky.These people are Liang Jun's elite scouts, and they were lowered from the airship.

After a while, more than a dozen Liang Jun scouts landed on the open space in the castle.Zhu Luojun's mobile patrol post finally found them, and the warning sound was loud.But Liang Jun's scouts kept coming down from the sky.

Of course, Liang Jun's airship could not carry so many people. In fact, there was a cableway between this airship and Shi Feng.Liang Jun's scouts first boarded Shifeng, then slid along the cableway to the [-]-foot-high airship, and then descended vertically from the airship.

The alarmed Zhu Luo defenders swarmed towards the Liang Jun cable landing site. The Liang Jun scouts who had landed on the ground quickly guarded the various streets around the landing site...

Chapter 255 The Battle of Longwei Beach

In the castle of Zhu Luojun in Longwei Beach, several fire dragons gathered along the alleyway to the landing point of Liang Jun.

In order to prevent the Liang army from breaking into the city, Zhu Luojun made preparations for street fighting in the city. Therefore, at the intersections of all lanes, there were many roadblocks to resist horses, and these became the bunkers for the airborne Liang army soldiers.

Several crossings around the cable drop point have been sealed off by Liang Jun soldiers moving and rejecting horses.

One of the Zhu Luo soldiers.The leader, General Zhu Luo, was shirtless, holding a large round shield, and wielding a dog-leg steel knife.He yelled in a high-pitched voice, taking the lead and rushing to the forefront, looking extremely brave.

At the intersection, a Liang Bing scout crouching behind the stone pile shot an arrow.The arrow slid across the edge of the shield impartially, and shot right into the exposed chest of General Zhu Luo.

General Zhu Luo fell to the ground like a log, but it only slowed down the Zhu Luo soldiers behind him, and then these Zhu Luo soldiers continued to charge forward.

When seven or eight Zhu Luo soldiers tried to climb over Juma, arrows from Liang Jun's scouts came one after another.Four or five of them were hit by arrows and fell behind the rejecting horse. The remaining soldiers had just turned over the rejecting horse when they were stabbed to the ground by Liang Jun's saber.

However, more and more Zhu Luo soldiers gathered behind the roadblock, and finally the torches in their hands gathered together.At this moment, twenty or thirty Liang Jun scouts set up more than a dozen light ballistas behind the barricade, and set up torches in front of the ballista's firing port.

Naphtha incendiary bombs as big as bowls were thrown into the crowd of Zhu Luo soldiers one after another.Zhan Yugao's raging flames soared into the sky, and many Zhuluo soldiers were stained with splashing and burning naphtha, and instantly turned into burning men.

They screamed and ran wildly, then fell to the ground and rolled crazily, gradually becoming silent.The Zhuluo soldiers near them were frightened and dodged one after another.

The longbowmen on the airship were still using their longbows to shoot heavy arrows at a rate of one shot every six breaths. The Zhuluo soldiers were hit by arrows one after another, and fell to the ground rolling and crying.The momentum of Zhu Luojun's forward attack was suddenly severely frustrated.

In the past quarter of an hour, Zhu Luo's army failed to break into Liang's cable drop position.Nearly a hundred scouts descended into the castle.

General Zhu Luo already knew about this. He knew that Liang Jun had a giant lantern that could fly into the sky, but now he saw that the opponent's suspended objects had no glowing effect.

He also didn't care to be surprised what Liang Jun was, and how Liang Jun kept falling from the sky.Immediately ordered to shoot Liang Jun's "apparatus" suspended in the air with a giant crossbow, and at the same time mobilize the reserve force to rush towards Liang Jun's landing site.

Outside the city, a large group of Liang troops also suddenly launched an attack. They lined up densely and pressed towards the north gate of the castle.

In the city, General Liang Jun in the cable drop position suddenly shouted: "The whole army assaults the north gate!"

More than a dozen incendiary bombs were thrown at the Zhu Luo soldiers gathered at the north gate, and more than a dozen flames rose into the sky.Riding Zhu Luo's soldiers in a mess, more than a hundred Liang army scouts held their shields and knives, shouted in unison, crossed the roadblock of rejecting horses, and charged forward.

One of them, Liang Jun, flew up and down with the steel sword in his right hand, and blocked with the round shield in his left hand, beheading four Zhu Luo soldiers in a row.When he stabbed the steel knife into the neck of No.5 Zhuluo soldier, three spears pierced his body together.But in the next moment, the throats of the three Zhu Luo soldiers were also cut by the blade of the first knife.

When more than a hundred Liang soldiers rushed to the north gate of the castle, there were only more than fifty of them left, and nearly half of them were lost.On the "blood road" they rushed over, Zhu Luobing's corpses were scattered everywhere.

Among them, more than [-] Liang Jun scouts were cut off and sniped the Zhu Luo soldiers who were chasing them.The rest quickly climbed up to the towers on both sides of the north gate, beheaded more than a dozen Zhu Luo soldiers inside, lowered the suspension bridge and raised the gate.

Outside the door, the hundreds of giant ape heavy armor soldiers who had been waiting for a long time rushed into the castle with long strides, holding long knives.Behind them, there is a mass of Liang Jun soldiers holding large shields, spears and spears.

Not far away, the Liang army's elite scouts were still fighting to the death with Zhu Luo's army.The Zhu Luo army they faced was Zhu Luo's reserve force in the castle who had just arrived, led by the guard himself.

Relying on their super personal combat strength and fearless morale, these Liang Jun scouts blocked the tide of Zhu Luojun for a quarter of an hour with just over twenty people.

When one of the scouts held a shield to block the opponent's spear, he didn't cut off his left arm with the dog-legged sword of the other Zhu Luo soldier, and continued to stab and chop with one arm.After the last slash on Mingzhu Luobing's head, he fell to the ground due to excessive blood loss.

As soon as another scout stabbed the steel knife into the opponent's armor, he was pierced into a honeycomb by more than a dozen spears.

At this time, there were only five Liang Jun scouts who were still standing and soaked in blood.Among them is a team leader, his own shield has long been damaged, and he picked up the opponent's big round shield to fight.

The great round shield held against six stabbing spears, and he chopped off the head of the seventh spear with his knife, and the burrs of the broken spear pierced his unarmored forearm.Another Zhu Luo Daodun swung his sword and slashed at the head of Liang Jun.

Seeing that he was about to die under the knife.Suddenly a white light flashed, and the Zhu Luo sword and shield hand flew up.A veteran with white beard and hair stood behind the leader of the team, it was Yan Yan, who flew the Zhu Luo sword and shield hand with a long knife.

The rest of the giant ape warriors were also killed, hundreds of long knives came out, stabbing, slashing, hacking and slashing, countless Zhu Luofan soldiers became ghosts under the sword.

In Zhu Luo's army, there are people who are not afraid of death. I saw a seven-foot Zhu Luo man who was pierced by a long knife in the stomach, and he rushed towards the giant ape soldier along the pole of the knife.

When he got close to two feet, he burst out laughing, yelled in his mouth, and stabbed the steel knife in the palm of the opponent's abdomen fiercely, only heard a jingle, but the tip of the knife broke and failed to penetrate.

The giant ape soldier gave up the long knife with both hands, pinched his head with two huge palms, and with a bang, his whole head turned 180 degrees, and he fell forward to the ground.

Behind the giant ape warriors, Liang Jun's armor poured in like a torrent, killing them in depth along the various lanes.At this time, the sky was already bright, and the huge airship was still floating above Zhu Luojun Castle.The longbowman in the boat began to shoot precisely at the targets of the Zhu Luo army in the city.

An hour later, the Zhu Luo army in the castle began to flee in panic.They fled from the south gate one after another, but were soon ambushed by Liang Jun on a necessary mountain road, causing heavy casualties.Even if the soldiers who escaped by chance, it is difficult to go through the primitive jungle alone to escape to the next Zhu Luo army's fortress or stronghold.

Three days after Zhuge Liang captured Longwei Beach, he continued to march south.Less than one mile downstream of Longwei Beach is a waterfall with a drop of more than ten battles.A large number of airships are hoisting the Viking ships one by one to the downstream river.The soldiers walked along the Panshan trail to the lower reaches of the Dulong River.

256 Dulong River Water Battle

With the loud rumbling noise, sawdust was flying everywhere.The last tendon of the wooden wall was also broken.This section of the wall suddenly collapsed in a scattered manner.

In the distance, under the control of more than a dozen Liang Army ballistas, the three ballistas were still shooting at the Zhu Luo army's barracks.They didn't stop until Liang Jun charged.

Three hundred Liang Jun infantry wearing ring armor, holding large shields and steel knives, stepped on the collapsed wall and rushed into Zhu Luo's camp.

This is a small settlement of Zhuluo, with a size of about [-] people.Among them, there are only more than two hundred soldiers, and the rest are all their families.

Several soldiers of the Liang army, in groups of a dozen or so, formed a simple formation and charged side by side.As a last resort, the soldiers scattered to fight.This has a great advantage for Zhu Luo soldiers who are scattered in a group and fighting on their own.

In addition, there were more than a dozen longbowmen in the distance, sneaking shots at Zhu Luobing.In a moment and a half, there were not many Zhu Luo soldiers left.

A seemingly incomparably brave general Zhu Luo swung his ax vigorously and killed several Liang soldiers one after another.With a crisp click, the ax blade cut into the ring-piece shoulder armor of a Liang soldier, and cut into his chest cavity.The latter spat out blood, fell to the ground and died.

General Zhu Luo is the highest officer of this stronghold, he pulled out his sharp ax and laughed wildly, there were already six or seven soldiers from the Liang army surrounding him, but none of them dared to step forward rashly.

With the sound of arrows piercing through the air, several heavy arrows pierced the armor of General Zhu Luo back and forth. It hurt his lower back, which ended his life just now.

At this time, almost all Zhu Luo soldiers in the village were wiped out, only a few escaped.

Even in autumn and winter, in the tropical jungle in the middle of Hongshawadi, it is sultry and hot.

The battle had just ended, and the Liang soldiers couldn't wait to take off their ring armor, leaving only short-sleeved shorts made of linen on their bodies.Picking up the bamboo tube hanging on his waist again, he gulped and drank it. It was cold boiled water that had been prepared long ago.

The soldiers of the Liang Army gathered the "captives" in the open space outside the stockade.Most of these captives were women and children.

When a soldier of the Liang Army was counting the number of prisoners, an eleven or twelve-year-old boy suddenly burst into flames, yelled, and stabbed a sharp dagger into the soldier's lower abdomen. middle.

In normal times, with this boy's strength, he wouldn't be able to pierce ring armor.But it's a pity that the soldier has already removed the ring armor.

The soldier yelled, clutching his stomach that was gushing blood, staggered back two steps, and fell to the ground.Already other soldiers stepped forward and chopped the Zhuluo boy into two pieces with one blow.

The soldier who died was led by a team, and his subordinates shouted angrily.Force the Chola captives to identify the child's family.

Soon the soldiers grabbed several women and children by their hair, dragged them out, and beheaded them one by one, regardless of their cries and pleas.

General Liang Jun, who was in charge of this operation, drank water and watched coldly, but did not stop Liang Bing from killing.In fact, this is a temporary regulation made by Liang Jun under the leadership of military adviser Zhuge Liang.If Zhu Luo's captives attacked Liang soldiers, they would be punished by the whole family.

After Liang Jun rested in the stockade for an hour, the commanding general shouted: "Separate more than a hundred brothers, take these captives to the rear, set the stockade on fire, and the rest of us continue to move forward!"

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In Longwei Beach Castle, Zhuge Liang and Yan Yan, watching the Zhu Luo women and children being escorted one after another, knew that the progress ahead was very smooth.

Yan Yan asked Zhuge Liang puzzledly: "Military Master, kindness does not command soldiers. Don't tell me you still can't bear it, why do you keep these Zhuluo women and children? Let me say, leave some more beautiful women as camp prostitutes. Kill all the rest to avoid future troubles."

Zhuge Liang shook his head and said: "It's not just that I can't bear to kill women and children indiscriminately, but that they still have usefulness. As for what is useful, you will know in the future."

At this time, a soldier came to report: "Report to the military division, our army has pulled out thirteen strongholds of the Zhuluo camp in these days. Luocheng Pool. It seems that heavy troops have been gathered for defense. General Zhang Ren has camped thirty miles northwest of Zhuluo City."

Zhuge Liang raised his still immature chin and said to Yan Yan: "Our main force should be dispatched."

Hei Ni was originally named by Liang Jun, because the land beside the Dulong River is black in color, and black mud puddles formed by trees and grass can be seen everywhere.

In the population of Zhuluo, this field is called Mande, which also means black land.The city of Chola, which stands in the middle of the field and beside the Inovaddy River, is also named after Mande.Inowady River is the name of the Dulong River by the Chuluo people.

At this time, thirteen miles downstream of Liang Jun's camp and seventeen miles upstream of Mande City, five Viking ships were cruising on the spacious Dulong River.

This is a warship sent by Zhang Renqian's camp on the river bank.A Viking ship warrior leader on board swept his gaze across the river, and seven or eight black spots appeared on the horizon in the distance.

He set up an awning to look over, and saw that there were seven exotic ships with dense oars and two-masted sails on both sides.In fact, this is a battleship assigned to Galava by the Chula Navy.Garava diverts them into inland waterways.

"Ready to fight!" The leader of the Viking sailors shouted loudly, and the Viking warship that had lowered its sails raised its sails and sailed towards the enemy ship.