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Chapter 109 The Yellow River Ballad

The wooden boats break through the waves, the long oars rise and fall, slapping on the river surface, and the sound of water is intense, like a song.

The fifth reun stood at the bow of the ship, with the flag holding officer behind him, but the flag was rolled up, and behind him were fifty soldiers wrapped in yellow turbans and wearing armor, holding spears or holding shields, while the one at the stern of the ship was the Golden Drum Team, the first chicken crowing. Because the big drum could not be brought, he only straddled the small drum with cloth on his body today, tied the other end to his waist, and held a wooden hammer.

It’s not a joke. Many people have never taken a boat in their lives. Even if they claim to have ridden by themselves in the past, they just cross the Jing River. How can they compare to the Yellow River, which is wide on both sides? The water is large after autumn, several miles wide, and it takes a moment to cross the river just by crossing the river.

The landlady was dizzy when he looked at the water, not to mention that the boat was shaking, for fear that the ship would overturn accidentally. Many people were considered iron-clad men on the shore, but now they looked pale like a young wife, and they kept the boat gang in their hands and refused to let go.

In addition, I don’t know what kind of enemies and situations I will face after landing, and everyone is very nervous. Some people can’t help but spit breakfast on the boat.

Wu Lun was also a little dizzy, but he still held back and even shouted loudly: "The rooster crows and sings a song!"

One of the reasons why Chicken Chronicle was chosen as the Golden Drum Team was because he had a loud voice. This guy was not afraid of it and just asked: "Sing "War to the South of the City"?"

It was an anti-war song, which was unlucky. The fifth reunion asked him to change it. After clearing his throat, he sang the song "Xianhe" that was popular in Jiangnan, but it was very popular in the world. No matter how old or young you have heard it, you will sing it.

"The lotus can be picked in the south of the Yangtze River, but the lotus leaves are everywhere."

The fifth reunion hits the verse and says: "Fish play among lotus leaves."

Slowly someone sang: "Fish plays on the lotus leaf east..."

Immediately after them, there was also a voice from the ship: "Fish plays with Lianyexi."

"Fish plays on the lotus leaf south, fish plays on the lotus leaf north..."

The song echoed on the Yellow River. After singing this outrageously simple song several times, it may have diverted attention. Singing in unison allowed them to find a sense of security in the group, and the soldiers' hands holding spears were not so stiff.

As everyone's breathing was a little relieved, the six boats crossed the Yellow River like fish, getting closer and closer to the west bank.

They could see the storm of reeds on the shore, and the fleeing people looked surprised when they saw a boat coming. They were eager to step on the water, and they just waited for the boat to slam it on when it was docked.

“There are all!”

Wu Lun shouted an order: "Get up and set up a spear!"

"The old rules, those who rule over our formation are all enemy enemies!"

"promise!"

The pig Tufeng brave men agreed in unison and immediately stood up after the ship docked. This movement began six months ago. They had practiced countless times. Whenever they encountered brave and fearless death, they wanted to take off the boat, the soldiers were merciless and were directly pushed against their stomachs by a spear, rolling in the water with pain.

Looking at the murderous soldiers, the people on the shore were scared, even more scared than the barbarians behind them, and even began to suspect that the group of soldiers came here at this time, and they wanted to take advantage of the situation or cut off their heads and make efforts?

"I am the fifth brother, the fifth uncle fish!"

The voices were noisy, and the fifth reunion asked the roosters to crow and shout loudly for him: "Xiaoyi Sima stationed in Xiaowu County!"

After all, there is only a river, and people from the three counties on the east bank have heard of the Fifth Reunion. When they were in the market, they were chatting with passers-by and merchants, but that was just a rumor about neighboring counties. In the eyes of people of this era, foreigners cannot be trusted, foreign accents cannot be trusted, and the crowd is silent. This is completely different from the fact that the Fifth Reunion became famous in his hometown, Liewei County, and he could just shout a hundred times with a casual sound.

The fifth reunification could not control what they thought, and only shouted: "Besides special martial arts, it is not my defense, but I can't bear to see the people wandering over Hu Chen. Today I will lead troops across the river and line up to cover you. Let's listen to my command as a hundred orders and board the ship in order."

"On the day, you will bring a hundred people and arrange them to board the boat, and the elderly, weak, women and children will be given priority."

The fifth day and the fifth blessing promised, but when they were on board the ship, many people who were still rushing to move forward, but they understood that the soldiers wanted to steal their wives and daughters.

In this new dynasty, soldiers regard the people as grass and mustard livestock, and the people regard the soldiers as bandits. They distrust each other without a single day, and they do not change in one day. The fifth relationship only allows those who are willing to board the boat to go first.

Just as the Zhu Tufeng brave men landed on the boat one after another and separated the crowd on the whole team on the mudflat covered with yellow sand, the young heroes who could not stand the arrogant Hulu who turned around and fought with him, and finally could not withstand the more Hu cavalry and retreated!

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"You can still fight clearly, how can you retreat?"

The young man who was angry with the barbarian Zhang Kuang and turned around with his sword and fought with the men was named Mengze, a native of Lian County.

The Meng family in the New Qin Dynasty is said to be the son who left behind after the Qin Dynasty general Meng Tian. After expelling the Huns from the north, he escaped the chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty and stayed incognito.

But now the Montessori is just a family of middle-aged people. Like ordinary young people, Mengze usually likes to fight cocks, but today the chickens are thrown at home, and the horses are given to his parents to ride, so he can only fight on foot.

He has always been martial, but he has never been at a disadvantage against the Hun soldiers who were originally recruited by herders. However, the farmers around him have no backbone. First, they see more and more barbarians in front of him, and second, they learn that there are soldiers from Tewu County coming to help in the rear, so there is nothing civilians, so they retreat one after another.

This retreat exposed his back to the Hu people. After a wave of arrows, several more people around Mengze fell to death. He could only continue to swing his sword and retreat, accidentally stepping on a corpse and falling to the ground.

When he was about to get up, a Hu man had seized the opportunity and rushed over, holding his straight sword high, and was about to kill Mengze!

Meng Ze's pupils dilated and he called him finished. At the critical moment, an arrow flew behind him, hitting the Hu people!

The arrow was extremely powerful. It shot Hu Er's left chest and shoulders at a distance of 100 steps, penetrated his leather armor. The power of hedging directly caused him to fly back from his horse and fell heavily to the ground. When the Hu Lu stood up in a daze, Meng Ze had already approached him, stabbed his sword into the heart of Hu Ren, and also cut his head and took it in his hand and retreated.

It was not until then that Meng Ze saw the person who saved his life, but a hero standing in an abandoned carriage, constantly shooting arrows. It was Wan Xiu!

The arrows that were unable to shoot at Dong Xi in the past were all arranged today. Wan Xiu held a large bow in his hand and opened his thumb. The clusters were made of iron sharp arrows. If it weren't for the iron armor, they could not hold it up. Every time they pulled the bow like a full moon, slowly aiming at the Hu Qi who was chasing the farmer. Although they would not be shot to death with one arrow, they would always make them injured and retreat in disappointment.

The Fifth Battalion had already formed a horizontal formation a mile outside the ferry, like a large shield blocking the Hu Qi and the people. Several spears and halberds in front were laid flat. If a commoner who was fleeing and panicked, he would die in vain if he died.

Meng Ze and others passed by the two sides of the formation one after another. The child wanted to join the team and kill the enemy together, but was scolded and driven away by Di Qibiao. He was unwilling to accept it and stood dozens of steps behind the formation with a few other locals with blood, thinking of killing a few lonely Hu people with them.

The Huns have been in a state of no one these days, and they have long since lost order. Although there are three or four hundred cavalry chasing to the shore, they belong to different tribes. They have not snatched the population and enough spoils. Seeing so many people gathered on the river bank, they are like jackals crossing the river, unable to contain their greed. Even though the fifth battalion was lined up, the Hu people still tentatively walked forward.

After all, thousands of generals of the Hu swallowed were destroyed on the ground. Since entering the New Qinzhong, the city walls have been closed and the soldiers are cowardly and dare not come out, which has encouraged the Hu people's arrogance.

Seeing that Hu Qi was getting closer and closer, he had already reached a hundred steps away, he began to test his horse and set his bow to shoot at the Fifth Battalion. Zang Nu, who also assumed the responsibility of long-range shooting, could only do it in a hurry.

"Sima, our crossbow was damp when crossing the river."

He was sad, and the soul of the crossbow was just the bow body? The wood, animal horns, shellac and animal tendons were made, which were very sensitive to humidity. A little change would affect the range and accuracy, and it would be useless no matter how hard it was to wipe it.

Zang Nu tried it. If the six-stone crossbow with the best range of 60 or 70 steps, if you want to have the same force, you have to let the enemy reach forty or fifty steps.

"Then let it get closer and then ejaculate."

"What if the barbarians didn't approach?"

The Huns' horn bows were shot and used the power of arrows to fly. When the wind was getting better, they could be fired very far away. They were not stupid roe deer and would not be so close.

So as soon as the battle began, the Fifth Battalion became a living target. The Huns tentatively pulled their bows and shot them between eighty to hundreds of steps, and the flowing arrows continued to fall into the formation.

Fortunately, the wind blows from the river to the bank, which is not good for the Hu people. In the past two days, Di Ren emptied the county's warehouse inventory and put on armor for the people in the front line. This is why they were so afraid of water just now. Once they fell into the water, they would be afraid that they would be sank to the bottom of the river by weight.

The fifth reunion was not single and was covered with thick armor and wearing a zipper on his head. He was beaten with two arrows. One was a bone cluster, which was directly bounced off, and the other was an iron cluster. It was nailed to the iron blades of the armor. The fifth reunion seemed to have been punched, and his shoulders were still hurt, so he only stretched out his hand to break it.

Even if there is the advantage of armor, someone may be injured and fall down with a muffled groan. This sporadic reduction will not cause heavy losses to the army, but it can damage morale a little bit. Even if they usually claim that the Fifth Battalion is "invincible in the world"! It is really atrocity to be beaten like this! Not to mention that the barbarians are still laughing in the distance, and they even tied the prisoners in front of them and left behind after leaving.

Only a few archers such as Wan Xiu who can shoot from a long time can counterattack one or two on the luggage cart, but they cannot change the big situation.

If the seventh person has already gritted his teeth and asked for the fifth person to fight.

Wu Lun only stared at the messy Hu Qi on the opposite side. It can be seen that they are not elites. They are usually ordinary herders and play guest cavalry during wartime. People often collided with other people's horses when wandering.

"The barbarians are a hundred steps away from us."

"And two hundred steps behind him are the West Canal of the North!"

The West Canal of Beidi is one of the two major ditches on the west bank of the Yellow River in Xinqin. It is close to the river. Although it is not as wide as the Yellow River and the water is shallow, it is also an obstacle. It takes some time to ride a horse up and down. Not to mention that they are staying in the fields, the ditches of Qianmo can greatly slow down the speed of horses.

The Huns have been so easy to kill these days, and they dared to approach the ferry channel. The Fifth Battalion was lined up with a backwater array, so why didn't it be the same?

As the front row soldiers have more and more arrow feathers, their anger is getting stronger and stronger, just like mosquitoes buzzing and biting you. Although it doesn't hurt, it's itchy. The itchyness is uploaded from the armor to the heart, making the soldiers unbearable.

Anger is like a strong spice. A small amount will make people sober, but too much will make people numb, no more, just right.

In the stream, the fifth reunion asked Wan Xiu and others to come over and gave his plan in person.

This is their only chance to turn the situation around, and they cannot take a few steps to rectify the situation like they do on weekdays. If they move forward slowly, the Hu people can retreat calmly.

It must be a charge!

"Send the order, listen to the drum beats later, just rush forward and drive the captives into the canal!"

"But once we move, we will inevitably be in chaos." Wan Xiu was a little worried. Everyone had different physical strength. Even if they were elites, it would be too difficult to sprint for three hundred steps with armor.

"Then let's fight!"

"Then kill it!"

The fifth reunion broke another flowing arrow on the armor piece, threw it heavily on the ground, took a shield, drew out a sword and pointed it forward.

"Rhyme the drum!"

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ps: Chapter 2 is at 18:00.
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