Liu Bei's calmness made Mi Xue secretly relieved.

Mi Xue helped Liu Bei sit down, adding tea while asking: "With Zhang Fei guarding the water village and your husband guarding Xiapi City, Nie Zefeng will do nothing and will withdraw his troops sooner or later."

"Nie Zefeng is a common man. I, the general, have a mortal enemy with him. How can I allow him to escape unscathed? As long as Chen Gui breaks through the pontoon bridge, I, the general, will trap him to death on the south bank."

Liu Bei was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

Mi Xue's expression changed drastically when she heard this. Without thinking, she blurted out in shock: "Nie Zefeng and Chen Gui are extremely powerful, and all the previous Gongnuo were defeated by him. If my husband forces his eldest brother to attack, wouldn't he be asking for his own death?"

In a secret letter to Mi Xue, Chen Gui stressed that Nie Zefeng was so powerful that he did not want to go to war. He asked Mi Xue to have sex with Liu Bei.

At this time, Mi Xue heard that Liu Bei not only sent out troops, but also ordered Chen Gui to fight. She was shocked and wanted to remonstrate without thinking.

It sounded extremely harsh to Liu Bei, and his old and cold face suddenly changed.

Angry, Liu Bei glared at Mi Xue angrily, "It was you who persuaded me to hold on. Then Nie Zefeng built the pontoon bridge. Now you persuade me not to attack the pontoon bridge. What do you mean by this?

Heart?"

Liu Bei's fierce questioning only made Mi Xue look stunned and speechless.

What kind of intentions could Mi Xue have? It was nothing more than a woman's selfishness. But Liu Bei's every word seemed to point out that she was secretly conspiring with Nie Zefeng.

Mi Xue felt guilty and wronged. She looked panicked for a moment and didn't know how to respond.

Liu Bei suddenly stepped forward, grabbed Mi Xue's wrist, and shouted sternly: "Tell me, are you secretly colluding with Nie Zefeng in an attempt to usurp my Xuzhou foundation!"

Although he is a scholar, he is still a man. Such a strong pinch only caused pain to the bones of Mi Xue's delicate wrist.

"Husband, you pinched me so much that it hurts, it hurts..."

Mi Xue groaned in pain. But Liu Bei refused to let go, and the force on his hand only became stronger.

"Whether you want to tell me or not, I will never give up with you today." Liu Bei showed no pity at all.

Mi Xue's eyes filled with tears from the pain, and she said aggrievedly: "I just accepted some bribes from Nie Zefeng and said a few good words for him. How dare I have the intention to betray my husband? If I really want to betray my husband, I will

How can I have several brothers who are still alive and die fighting for my husband to protect my husband's inheritance? I ask you to be wise."

Liu Bei's stern expression gradually faded, and his mind gradually calmed down.

After all, he was not a fool who couldn't think. Liu Bei couldn't understand the rationale behind Mi Xue's plea and self-defense.

Previously, he was only emotionally unstable due to failure, and would overreact to the slightest stimulation.

At this time, I calmed down and thought about it. I already knew that my wife was greedy for money. What would be the benefit of Mi's betrayal? If she really wanted to betray him, how could Mi Zhu protect him with all her life?

As soon as his thoughts cleared up, Liu Bei immediately came to his senses.

"Hmph, I'm sorry you don't dare to betray me, general." Liu Bei snorted coldly and shook Mi Xue's hand away.

Mi Xue lost her balance and her weak body fell to the ground.

When she lowered her head and looked at her wrist, it was already red. Mi Xue felt aggrieved and in pain, but she didn't dare to say anything. She just lay on the ground rubbing her wrist and sobbing softly.

Although Liu Bei's anger was subdued, his suspicion was still there, and he thought to himself: "Chen Gui still holds 30,000 Chen Gui. After he breaks the pontoon bridge, I have to send someone to share some of his military power. This will be more secure...

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While thinking about it, Liu Bei didn't want to stay here for the night, so he snorted and walked away.

Mi Xue got up tremblingly from the ground. She watched her husband leave and the deserted room. She felt even more aggrieved. Her eyes were like broken beads, rolling down her face... Dongfang Hair

It's daytime and the sky will be bright.

Upstream of Xushui, pontoon.

Two hundred warships are waiting in formation, five thousand soldiers are in awe, and the big flag with the word "Gan" flying proudly in the morning wind.

Gan Ning was suspicious of the two halberds. He stood on the bow of the boat and stared downstream like a sharp blade.

Behind him is the pontoon bridge across Xushui. Mule carts loaded with grain and grass are continuously crossing the pontoon bridge from north to south, transporting them to the front line on the south bank.

That pontoon bridge is the lifeline of Nie Zefeng's army.

Gan Ning's mission is to protect this bridge of life so that Nie Zefeng has no worries.

Success or failure lies in the hands of him and these five thousand soldiers.

How could Gan Ning not feel the heavy weight of Nie Zefeng's trust in him?

As I was thinking about it, a vague expanse of white appeared downstream at the line of sky and water.

Not long after, the overwhelming whiteness came over and covered the rolling river water.

That endless white is exactly the countless sails.

Going down to Pi, Chen Gui, five hundred warships, with their flags waving and heavily armored, sailed up the river in a mighty manner. Thousands of sails gathered together, slowly approaching like the white gauze of the Yangtze River.

"Sure enough, as the general expected, Chen Gui from Xiapi has left in full force and wants to destroy our pontoon bridge."

The sword eyebrows were deeply condensed, and murderous intent gradually gathered in Gan Ning's eyes.

Your Majesty, I, Gan Ning, will repay your kindness with a bloody battle today.

With a fierce fighting spirit, Gan Ning struck out with both halberds and shouted sternly: "Fire ship, prepare!"

Two hundred warships, with all their sails hoisted, began to swim down the river with the sound of rumbling war drums.

Gan Ning was at a disadvantage and faced an enemy several times his own, but he still chose to face the enemy.

Chen Gui, who was going up the river, saw the enemy fleet dispatching, but a sneer appeared on his lips.

"You Jinfan thief, you still want to repeat the old tricks but you have underestimated my strength, Chen Gui."

Chen Gui's arrogant face showed disdain. He immediately and calmly ordered the ships to move closer to each other, reduce the distance between ships, and steadily advance towards the enemy in a dense formation.

Chen Gui pushed forward in a dense formation, blocking the opportunity for enemy ships to penetrate. He believed that as long as he pushed forward with such a dense iron wall formation and suppressed the opponent with a powerful crossbow net, even if Gan Ning were to

Cunning will also be crushed.

Five hundred warships straddled the river, advancing in a mighty manner with great momentum.

Gan Ning mainly focused on small ships, and his fleet of only two hundred people was too small compared to Chen Gui's army.

Gan Ning showed no fear and only urged the fleet to move forward faster.

Already possessing the momentum upstream, he raised the full sail, and with the push of the oars, he reached the fastest speed, moving like the wind, and quickly approached the enemy.

After a while, the two armies entered each other's crossbow range.

Chen Guijian waved his hand and took the lead in issuing the attack order.

There were more than a hundred fighting ships and more than 3,000 crossbowmen in front of them. They had already set their sharp arrows and came out in response to the sound.

Amidst the alarm of thousands of birds chirping, countless arrows soared into the sky, roaring towards Gan Ning's army like a heavenly and earthly net.

Under the rain of arrows, screams suddenly broke out, and hundreds of Gan Ning soldiers were hit.

Immediately afterwards, wave after wave of arrow rain poured towards Gan Ning's fleet without stopping.

Faced with such a powerful suppression of arrows, Gan Ning and his warriors did not flinch, and continued to advance rapidly despite the rain of arrows.

After a while, the two armies were no more than a hundred steps apart.

The timing is right.

Gan Ning, who was standing proudly on the bow of the ship, shouted: "Give me the order, each team will launch a fire ship."

The flag waved and the message spread throughout the army in an instant.

According to the advance battle plan, each team lit up the gunboat at the front, and the soldiers retreated to the walking boat that followed behind.

After the ropes were untied, more than forty fire ships rushed towards Chen Guijun like wild horses that had escaped the reins.

The stern ships contained saltpeter, kerosene and other flammable substances in advance, and they would burst into flames in just a moment. With the force of the current and the inertia of the previous acceleration, the fire ships turned out to be like fire dragons.

Normal, unstoppable, rushing forward.

On the flagship, Chen Gui, who was standing proudly, fell into endless horror.

He never expected that Gan Ning did not use the speedboat to catch the ship again as he expected, but instead used the fire ship tactic unexpectedly.

Now that the formation of his fleet is so dense, the original iron-wall-like formation has become the biggest mistake.

"Quick, the whole ship spreads out to avoid the fire ship!"

Chen Gui was so frightened that he completely lost his dignity and screamed loudly.

Before his order was given, the frightened ships immediately began to flee.

Unfortunately, it's too late.

The fire ship coming like the wind gave the enemy no chance to escape.

Such a close distance, such a dense formation, and such a fast speed, when Chen Gui's navy just changed its course, more than thirty fireships sprayed tongues of flame and crashed into the fleet.

With loud crashing noises, eight fire ships hit the enemy ship immediately.

The raging flames spread quickly, and in just a blink of an eye, the entire wooden fighting ship was set on fire.

The fire was raging and there was no way to put it out. The enemy soldiers on the fighting ship were afraid of being buried in the sea of ​​​​fire, so they had no choice but to rush onto the deck and dive into the water to escape.

The other twenty or so fire ships passed through the gap in front and hit the enemy ships behind them in the blink of an eye. Those enemy ships that were set alight lost control and could only drift backwards along the current.

Go, if you do this, it means that more fire ships will hit you downstream.

As it spread like this, in less than a quarter of an hour, half of the river was covered in fire, and most of the more than 500 Xiapi navy warships were on fire.

Countless frightened soldiers jumped into the water, and either drowned in the roaring river or were hit by their own ramming warships. The rest of the soldiers who could not jump away all died in the fire.

Desperate Chen Gui, seeing that the situation was over, immediately abandoned his flagship, took a boat and fled downstream to the final city of Xiapi.

The Xuzhou fleet, which lost its command, quickly fell into chaos under the impact of the fire. The remaining ships turned around and fled desperately.
Chapter completed!