Slowly the warship headed towards Luokoudu again, and there were really fewer ships around Luokoudu, and the people on both sides of the strait were also much less. cabin, but he still pays close attention to the movements on the water.
After driving for a few more miles, the vegetation and reeds became more numerous, and Jia Xu became more vigilant. Must get out of here as soon as possible.
"His Royal Highness the King of Shu, Luokou Ferry is just ahead. Sit down, the water at Luokou Ferry is a bit more turbulent and may be bumpy!" The boatman explained to Liu Mang.
"The water is rushing? Can you get through it quickly?!" Jia Xu asked.
"Yes, we can cross Luokou Ferry in just one stick of incense, and then drive for half an hour to reach the mainstream official road of the Yangtze River," the boatman replied to Jia Xu's words.
"That's good!" Jia Xu hoped to rush across the reeds quickly and added, "If you can go fast, go as fast as possible."
"Understood!" The boatman nodded, the sails on the warship were raised, and it went down the current. Coupled with the river wind, although the warship was big, it was much faster than those small boats, and the small boat was quickly given up. Leaving behind him, he gradually disappeared.
Jia Xu breathed a sigh of relief. As a poisonous snake, he has been watching when others have been watched by others. This feeling is very uncomfortable.
"After crossing Luokou Ferry, we have entered the official road, and we have basically entered the territory of Xiangyang!" Jia Xu's caution is good, but if it is too cautious, it will become an annoyance, Liu Mang patted Jia Xu's shoulder, hoping to calm the poisonous snake a little.
"I hope so!" Before Jia Xu's words came out, the ship suddenly shook violently with a "boom". Jia Xu and Liu Mang were almost thrown off the deck and fell into the river
"What's going on, what's going on?!" Jia Xu and Liu Mang were staggered by the shock, but fortunately Liu Mang has the foundation of martial arts, so he held Jia Xu in time so that the two of them were not injured.
"Report to His Highness the King of Shu, ahead, the ferry ahead has been locked with iron chains!" A sergeant stepped forward and reported to Liu Mang.
"Is it locked with an iron lock?!" Liu Mang's eyes widened and he hurried to the bow of the boat. It turned out that the place ahead where the current was the most turbulent was firmly blocked by several large iron chains as thick as arms. The warship originally sailed down the current and raised its sails, but now it directly hit the iron cables. The lower part of the hull of the warship was directly lifted by the impact of the iron cables, and those thick wooden boards were directly hit. It was broken, exposing most of the cabin. Fortunately, the warship was strong enough so that it was not directly cut off by the iron chain, but the current appearance is not much different from being cut off. Luo Kou Du can't move anymore.
"Boom boom boom!": Just when Liu Mang and his party were paying attention to the condition of the warship. In the reeds over there, the sound of gongs and drums all day suddenly came to mind.
"Kill, kill, kill!" Dozens of small boats rushed over from the reeds, roaring and howling. There were no less than five or six people on each small boat, and there could be more than a hundred people in total.
"It's not good that we received an ambush!" The whole warship also panicked. It was ambushed in such a small ferry. It would be a lie to say that it was not panicked.
"The whole army is on alert, ready to fight!" Liu Mang roared. All the sergeants drew out their sabers. The enemy was more than a hundred people. Fortunately, on this warship were not only the 20 strong men in Liu Mang's hands, but also the boatmen and coolies on the original warship. Although these people are auxiliary soldiers, at least they can do something to survive.
"Master, look at that boat over there?!" Jia Xu suddenly pointed to a boat on the river and said to Liu Mang.
"It's the boat we searched for!" Liu Mang also recognized it. . Wasn't that boat the one that Liu Mang asked his command to search? He was even mocked by the boatman once when he searched this boat, but he didn't expect that this boat was really a bandit.
If it wasn't for the thieves, how dare they get so close to the warship and those ambushing people.
"Hey!" Jia Xu regretted it. He sensed that this boat was weird. He thought that this boat was going to attack his own warship. After checking, he found no weapons, which made Jia Xu subconsciously think that The boat is harmless. Who knows that this is actually his disguise, the more harmless he is, the more threatening he is, his purpose is not to stop Liu Mang's warship at all, but to monitor, which is the uncomfortable feeling that Pang Tong feels, All the way to monitor Liu Mang's warship headed towards Luokoudu.
Did those warships come to board battle? On the dozens of small boats, one by one the bandits picked up the hard bows in the small boats, pulled them up in their hands, and flew towards Liu Mang's warship with flying arrows.
"No, it's a rocket!" Liu Mang saw the flames in the sky. These are rockets, those rockets may fall in the cabin or the hull, there is no way to do it, but if he falls on the deck and falls on those canvas sails, it will really kill him, these sails Originally, it was lightly shot with tung oil to prevent it from being corroded, but now it was cured once it was contaminated with rockets and immediately burned. The fire burned the entire warship from top to bottom.
"Put out the fire, put out the fire!" Liu Mang commanded the soldiers to put out those fires first. If they were burned by the fire, it would be really hard to save the immortals. Let's all prepare to fall into the Yangtze River and feed the bastard. .
As soon as Liu Mang issued the order, he realized that he was stretched. Suddenly, there was a crashing sound from the warship that was already heavily injured. Amid the sound of splashes, the hooks had been pulled onto the warship one by one. The warships gathered together.
"No, there are water ghosts!" The boatman next to him could naturally know what it was after listening to the sound. The water ghost is pecking at the boat.
"Kill, kill, kill!" Finally those small boats came towards Liu Mang's warship like a pack of wolves, and there were thieves on every hook, and they started boarding. Liu Mang was completely surrounded.
These thieves are a pack of wolves, but Liu Mang is also not a sheep, Liu Mang is a tiger.
"Who the hell ambushed us!"
Liu Mang directly pulled out the saber from his waist, "There is no time to think about this now, the whole army is preparing for war, boatman, you take your boatmen to put out the fire, you. You, protect Mr. Wenhe and the others follow me!" Now Liu Mang can only ask the auxiliary soldiers from Jingzhou to help put out the fire, and he can't miss any of the remaining twenty soldiers. There are so many enemies.
"Kill, kill, kill!" It can be said that the two sides met at such a close distance for the first time. Liu Mang's soldiers were all selected by Yang Hong. The soldiers Yuan Shao cultivated were very vicious. And basically everything is fatal, Liu Mang is angry because he was ambushed, so naturally he will not be light in his hand, the long sword in his hand drank the blood of the three of them in an instant, and Jia Xu Liu Mang who was next to him really underestimated Jia Xu. Thinking of Jia Xu not only did not let these two soldiers protect him. Instead, he rushed to fight with Liu Mang. This Jia Xu came from Wuwei. Swords and swords were commonplace for him. After the chaos in Chang'an and Luoyang, Jia Xu would have died if he had just relied on his mouth up.
Although Jia Xu is not considered a general, but he has experienced many battles, and the long sword in his hand quickly fell into the arms of a bandit. Blood was splashed, Jia Xu didn't wipe it off, and went towards the next bandit.
"This old fox!" Liu Mang really underestimated Jia Xu. At first, Liu Mang thought that this old fox would hide at the end of the team because he was most afraid of death. Similarly, Liu Mang would not let Jia Xu die, he must protect him. Good for him, but who knows that this old fox is also a person who can fight, before he came to Jingzhou. This Jia Xu sang the story of bitterness to Liu Mang, saying that he is old, that he can't run anymore, these are all bullshit, have you ever seen an old man who can kill several people in a row with a long sword
Liu Mang really praised Jia Xu in vain, Jia Xu is so desperate, it is really not heroic. It was for self-protection. He also knew that there would be eggs in the nest. If Liu Mang and others were killed in battle, would Jia Xu survive alone? Instead of wasting soldiers to protect themselves, or rush to kill together, so that three more combat power can be obtained.
One after another, small boats crashed into Liu Mang's warship, and more and more enemies flooded onto the battleship. Liu Mang's army, led by Liu Mang Guan Hai and Zhou Cang, rushed to kill them. It is ferocious, but the number of enemies is too large, and it is inevitable that Liu Mang's army will also suffer casualties. One sergeant of Liu Mang's army was unaware, and was chopped off by a bandit's tomahawk, and half of his arm flew out immediately, blood It splashed, the pain was unbearable, I saw the sergeant roared, as if he wanted to vent all the pain, and with his remaining hand, he sent the saber into the enemy's body Among them, it was difficult to hold the enemy with one hand after all, and soon died under the chaos of the knife.
"Wenhe be careful!" Jia Xu was rushing to kill, and Jia Xu also killed two or three people in such a moment. Just when Jia Xu was about to take back the long sword in his hand, a murderous intent suddenly sounded from Jia Xu's side. stand up.
Jia Xu doesn't care how clever she is, she throws the long sword in her hand, and rolls around like a carp, regardless of her status as a scribe. Incredibly fast.
Sure enough, Jia Xu's cleverness and his sensitivity to danger saved his life. A zhangba snake spear swept across the air, directly emptied the area around Jia Xu, and the two soldiers who were protecting Jia Xu were killed on the spot. The snake spear was cut off horizontally, not only Liu Mang's sergeants, but also those bandits also died under the eight-foot snake spear. Only Jia Xu survived.
"Humph!" The owner of Zhangba's spear snorted coldly, as if he was dissatisfied with not being able to kill the scribe, but he still walked out. Walk!"
Liu Mang finally saw clearly who was coming. Isn't the owner of Zhangba Snake Spear is Liu Bei's third brother Zhang Fei
"Zhang Fei Zhang Yide!" Liu Mang called this person's name firmly.
"Haha, it's really me! Little boy, this time I was ordered by the military adviser to take your life. I heard that you are the son-in-law of a slave of the three surnames. The slaves of the three surnames killed my brother Chen Dao. Before I settle the score with him, I will kill you son-in-law to collect interest!" The Zhangba spear in Zhang Fei's hand flew across the sky, and he didn't pay attention to Liu Mang at all.
After seeing Zhang Fei, Liu Mang finally knew who was plotting against him this time. It turned out that it was the little turkey Pang Tong who stayed in Jingzhou. Pang Tong made a move, because the only ones who wanted to frame Liu Mang were the Huang family and Cai Mao, but he never thought that Pang Tong would dare to attack him. You know, Tang Yun can attack Tang Yun alone. To cover up the evidence, once Liu Mang is targeted, it cannot be covered up at all.
Pang Tong made a move, so he knew he couldn't hide it. What he wanted was not to hide it. What he wanted was Liu Mang's death. As long as Liu Mang died, no matter whether Liu Biao participated or not, he was an accomplice. Jingzhou couldn't escape Lu Bu's anger. Lu Bu's army is going to war, anyway, Liu Bei's army and Liu Mang's army are enemies, even if you know that I am going to ambush you, so what! Killing you, I can beat the war between Jingzhou and Yangzhou, but I can't kill you, at most it will make you jealous, why would he not do this business.
What Liu Mang is thinking now is who leaked their whereabouts. In fact, don't think too much about it. Pang Tong will not know about Yangzhou's lack of food and grass! Naturally, he figured it out. It would take half a month to transport grain from Jingzhou to Yangzhou, so Liu Mang would take the fast path if he couldn't afford the time. The boat behind him was used to monitor Liu Mang. When Mang left, it was not a trivial matter given the capabilities of the Huang family in Jingzhou.
"Kill me? Just rely on you, Zhang Fei!" Liu Mang was also angry. This Zhang Fei looked like he was convinced of himself, which made people very uncomfortable. You really think you are the God of War! Even God of War may not be able to kill himself.
"It's enough to kill you and me alone!" Zhang Fei licked his own lips. Zhang Fei was really suffocated to death by Pang Tong. In other words, Zhang Fei's Zhangba spear was already hungry. Today, Zhang Fei was restricted by Pang Tong. If it weren't for his elder brother's prohibition on alcohol, Zhang Fei would have stopped serving him a long time ago. Now that he has such a chance to show himself, you think Zhang Fei would give up! So he had to kill Liu Mang.
"Then try it!" Liu Mang and Zhang Fei collided with each other in an instant, and the weapons between them sparked one after another, which was caused by the violent friction of the weapons.