Three Kingdoms Eschatology

At this moment, no matter the navy sailors or the infantry carried by the ships, they heard that the fleet was approaching the coast, and they all rushed to the deck after not seeing land for nearly ten days, and raised their heads towards the sea level. in hope.But to their disappointment, an order came from above, ordering the ship to anchor on the spot and not to approach the shore.

Liang Jun's ships broke down one after another, and some warships and warships put down scouting boats and patrolled around the fleet's berth.Zhuge Liang ordered that if other ships were found, they would be shot to death.

Chapter 405 Unknown Land

A turquoise river splits into multiple streams and flows into the turquoise sea in a fan shape. The seawater at the mouth of the river suddenly turns into two distinct colors of blue and green.

At this time, a boat with a strange shape and a small size suddenly appeared on the blue water.This ship is Liang Guo's medium-sized Viking ship, carrying more than [-] personnel including Liang Jun scouts, Viking sailors, and interpreters.

The Viking ship sailed into the green water with the east wind and sailed upstream.The leader of the boat said to everyone: "We should land immediately. Driving the boat in the river like this is too eye-catching and easy for people to spot. The governor specially asked us, the most important thing is that we should not startle the snake."

After a while, the Viking ship was on the bank of the river.All the people on board waded to the shore covered with weeds one by one.More than a dozen Viking sailors struggled to drag the Viking ship to the river beach, placed it in the grass, and then cut some reeds to cover it.

The leader raised his eyes and looked around, and said to everyone: "Look, is there cooking smoke in the northwest?" Everyone looked together, and there were indeed a few strands of cooking smoke looming there.After everyone confirmed that there might be a village there, the leader left the sailors and soldiers to hide nearby to guard the ship, and he led the rest of the people to the direction of the smoke.

The team of more than ten people was moving secretly in the wilderness, getting closer and closer to the smoke house, and had already seen the outline of the house and thatched shed, and found a dirt road.When you come to a three-fork intersection on the dirt road.A few birds in the distance suddenly flew up.The leader raised his hand violently, motioning for everyone to stop, and said in a low voice, "Hidden!"

Everyone trained well to leave the dirt road and hide themselves among the half-high wormwood reeds beside the road.After a while, a group of horses and horses drove past on the dirt road, chattering in their mouths.Liang Jun's scout stood upright and listened for a while, and when the team passed by, he said to the leader: "Boss, these people are Zhuluo soldiers who speak the Zhuluo language. It seems that this is really not Ceylon Island but Zhuluo Island. Native."

The leader of the scout pondered for a while and said: "That's not necessarily true. There are also many local soldiers stationed on Ceylon Island. We must confirm the accuracy of the information, otherwise we will miss the big deal. We should go to the village to investigate. fan."

Another scout reminded: "These Zhu Luo soldiers suddenly visited this remote village, it's not because we were discovered, they followed the trail and found it. If so..."

The leader of the scouts said firmly: "Impossible. We were careful along the way. If someone finds us, we should find them too. Anyway, let's go into the village to check the situation." After finishing speaking, he took a group of People continue to go to the village.

When they approached the village, they heard a great chaos in the village, and the sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping everywhere.Zhu Luobing was chatting with the villagers.Although the scouts couldn't understand what they said, they knew what they were arguing about.The scouts sneaked into a relatively hidden location to monitor the situation in the village.

The voices of the Zhuluo soldiers became louder and louder, and the villagers, men, women and children seemed to be begging for mercy.Suddenly a Zhuluo leader drew out a knife, put it on the neck of an old man, and ordered the villagers to kneel down.The rest of the Zhu Luo soldiers broke into the houses and began to rummage through the boxes.As a result, they found several bags of grain and seven or eight chickens and ducks.Zhu Luo, who was holding the knife on the old man's neck, cursed angrily, and he didn't know what to say.

At this time, the interpreter put his mouth close to the ear of Liang Jun's scout leader, and whispered: "These Zhuluo soldiers are collecting people's wealth in the name of tax collection. Now they are telling the old village chief that if the whole village cannot collect a certain amount of property, They will kill the whole village."

A soldier on the right side of the leader couldn't bear it and said: "Boss, why don't we take action. Otherwise, all these villagers will die." The Zhuluo people have been exposed, how can we explain to the governor."

As soon as his words fell, there was a burst of exclamation and mournful cries in the village. The head of the old village chief had fallen to the ground, and his body was thrown into a pool of blood.

After a few breaths, Zhu Luobing grabbed another villager's hair and dragged him to the open space at the entrance of the village, and then asked the villagers for the property they asked for.What responded to Zhu Luobing was still howling.With a click, the trembling villager's head also fell to the ground.

A few other Zhu Luobing brutally dragged the young women out of the crowd and tried to strip them of their clothes.A fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy rushed over with all his might to protect his sister.

At the same time, a young scout remonstrated to the leader: "Boss, if we don't take action, these villagers will be killed by them. Don't we have to go to another village to inquire about the situation?" The rest of the scouts And the translator also agreed.

The leader of the scouts gritted his teeth and said: "Then do it, but we must pay attention to it, we must not let anyone live, otherwise we will not be able to explain to the governor when we go back!"

A Zhu Luo soldier laughed wildly and wanted to trample the woman to the ground.With one hand swinging the knife, he slashed fiercely at the young man who was rushing towards him. The young man was about to be killed by the knife.The steel knife suddenly lost its strength and fell to the ground with a clang.Zhu Luobing rolled his eyes white, and fell straight backward, with an arrow sticking out of his neck.

At the same time, there were three Zhu Luo soldiers who were shot by the arrow.Those Liang Jun scouts also attacked and killed the rest of Zhu Luo's soldiers silently.This is the difference between Liang Jun scouts and ordinary soldiers. Ordinary soldiers of Liang Jun's regular regiment will shout in unison to strengthen their courage when they charge to kill.But the scouts launched a sudden attack silently like a wolf.

Seven or eight scouts inserted the steel knife into Zhu Luobing's body almost at the same time, and pulled it out at the same time.In the blink of an eye, there were more than a dozen corpses of Zhu Luo soldiers on the ground.

At this time, the leader of Zhu Luobing realized what had happened, and he stammered and shouted: "Enemy, there is an enemy attacking..." Before he finished speaking, a Liang Jun scout rushed up to him and cut off the sword with a sharp knife. his throat.

Liang Jun's scouts fired their knives like lightning, and in a short while, the ground was full of corpses of Zhu Luo soldiers, and now there was no living Zhu Luo soldier standing.Such a result is not surprising, because these Zhu Luo soldiers are also local miscellaneous soldiers, not regular soldiers in the Zhu Luo army.The elite against the miscellaneous skin, naturally this is the result.

The villagers were also shocked by the scene and couldn't speak. They were at a loss and looked at these oriental faces that were obviously different from their appearance.

Chapter 406 Liang Jun Arrives

It wasn't until Liang Jun's translator spoke that these trembling villagers came back to their senses.The Liang Jun translator asked for a long time before saying to the leader of Liang Jun's scouts: "This place has been confirmed to be the mainland of the Zhu Luo Kingdom. We are now at the mouth of the Cauvery River."

The leader nodded and said: "Our mission has been completed, we will return to the fleet now. These villagers...".Only then did the leader realize that this was a tricky matter. If he left like this and Zhu Luobing came again, it was hard to guarantee that the villagers would not leak the fact that Liang Jun had been here in order to protect themselves.

The translator guessed the embarrassment of the scout leader and said:

"Boss, you don't have to worry. These villagers are refugees who have no household registration in Chola. They don't even count Vaishya and Sudra. They came here to avoid the heavy taxes and high-caste slavery of the Chola royal court. The estuary of the Cauvery River is flooded every year during the flood season, so there are not many people living here. They were able to settle here. This happened today, which proves that their habitat has been taken by a big city hundreds of miles away. The Zhuluo people found that they cannot stay for a long time, so they will inevitably move to a farther and more hidden place. It will be difficult for Zhuluo soldiers to find them."

Liang Jun's scout pondered: "No wonder these Zhu Luo soldiers can kill them and do whatever they want. In our Han border, before the chaos and collapse of the world, even when the court was the most corrupt, the local officials and soldiers were not enough to kill the local people at will. The point of plunder."

At this time, the villagers gathered around, worshiping the leader of the scouts clasping their hands together, chattering something.The translator smiled and said to the leader of the scouts: "They are thanking you for saving their lives, saying that you are the King Kong sent by Buddha and Bodhisattva to protect the common people."

"So they believed in Buddhism."

The interpreter nodded and added: "That's true. Although Buddhism has a deep relationship with Brahmanism, Buddhism doesn't care about caste, so many of these poisoned refugees and people of low caste have converted to Buddhism."

The leader of the scouts said: "There is no delay, we must hurry up. You let these villagers move away quickly, and we have to rush back to the fleet to report to the commander..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he heard a shout of "Who!" It turned out that a scout spotted a black figure flying out from behind the fence of a certain village house, and rushed towards the southwest.Then several scouts shouted loudly one after another: "Someone ran out of the village..."

The leader of the scouts said anxiously: "Hurry up and chase!" He spread his legs and chased out of the village while talking. The rest of the scouts followed the leader except a few who stayed in the village with the translator.

They chased for half an hour, but still lost each other in the wild jungle.The leader of the scouts patted his thigh and shouted: "This is a big mess." The scouts next to him comforted: "This is the end, it's useless for us to regret it, we'd better go back and report to Commander Zhuge first."

They returned to the village again, and found out after some investigation.It turned out that when they attacked and killed these Zhu Luo soldiers just now, one of the Zhu Luo soldiers happened to be anxious and squatted behind the fence to defecate.

The scouts bid farewell to the villagers, returned to the Viking ship, sailed down the water, and quickly sailed back into the sea.After they boarded Zhuge Liang's flagship.The leader of the scouts came to Zhuge Liang and told him:

"Report to Commander, the continent in front of us is the mainland of Zhuluo Kingdom, and our location is facing the mouth of the Cauvery River."

Zhuge Liang shook his goose-feather fan and said, "You guys did a great job. This is a great achievement. I have asked the knife and pen officer to record this in the military merit book. Send me the military order, and the fleet will immediately..."

Unexpectedly, at this time, the leader of the scouts suddenly fell to his knees on the deck with a puff, and said in a crying voice: "I have something to tell the governor. During the investigation, we accidentally leaked the news. At this time, the Zhuluo people I'm afraid I've already become alert. This mistake is all the responsibility of the subordinate, and has nothing to do with others. Please punish me according to the military law."

Zhuge Liang's face changed and he said: "Get up first, and tell the governor what happened after you went ashore in detail, what is going on."

After this person finished the matter to Zhuge Liang, the latter waved a goose feather fan and paced back and forth on the deck.Zhang Ren on the side, Meng Huo said: "In this way, our surprise attack on Ceylon Island may not be achieved. Now as long as King Zhuluo does not send a large number of troops to Ceylon Island, it will be fine."

Zhuge Liang suddenly stopped and asked the scout leader: "You just said that our fleet is now facing the mouth of the Cauvery River?"

"Report to the governor, it is indeed so."

Zhuge Liang said slowly: "It will take some time for King Zhuluo to know the news. The mouth of the Cauvery River is still hundreds of miles away from Ceylon Island, so he may not be able to judge that our army's real target is Ceylon Island." Even if he judges right, it will take a long time to mobilize troops to reinforce Ceylon, so at most he will send a messenger to report to the defenders of Ceylon."

Zhuge Liang suddenly changed his tone and said: "Pass our military order, dispatch all the Viking ships on the big ship, and bluff up the Cauvery River to Thanjavur, the capital of Chola. The rest of the people immediately set sail and sailed south to Xixi Take the southwestern coast of Orchid Island and capture Mango Harbor."

As soon as the military order was issued, the entire Liang Army fleet moved immediately.A Viking warship was lowered from the galleon, there were nearly a hundred of them.However, these Viking warships only carried the necessary Viking sailor soldiers and a small number of giant ape soldiers, and did not carry regular Liang army infantry.

When the Viking fleet sailed towards the mouth of the emerald-green Cavery River, the huge Liang Army fleet also headed south towards Ceylon Island.At this time, because his whereabouts had been exposed, Liang Jun no longer had any scruples. He no longer had to deliberately avoid sailing in areas near the coast, but sail as fast as he could.

Hundreds of multi-masted galleons, and hundreds of galley warships escorting them, pumped up their sails, and rowed vigorously along the east coast of the Zhuluo Kingdom, moving quickly towards Ceylon Island...

The city of Thanjavur is shrouded in the light of the morning sun, and Chola King Karikala, who just got up, is washing up.Suddenly I heard a servant shouting loudly: "Report to the King, urgent report! There is an urgent report from Dongjia City!"

Karikala's heart skipped a beat. According to the regulations of the Zhuluo Kingdom, the news that needs to be reported immediately by the palace servants must be extremely urgent.Is there another civil strife in the east?But the Caraborans in the jungle over there had been wiped out long ago.

Karikala threw down the towel, took a look at the letter presented by the servant, and was shocked.An army from the east landed at the mouth of the Cauvery, and encountered a small detachment of Chola, killing them all except one.Although the urgent report could not confirm where the army came from, Karikala could figure out with his toes that this was Liang Jun.

Chapter 407

Above the main hall, after hearing the news that Liang Jun had come across the sea, the officials of Zhu Luo turned pale with shock, and then said one after another:

"The lord of the Kingdom of Liang is too self-sufficient. With a population of only one million and a national strength of tens of thousands of soldiers, he dares to conquer our vast Zhuluo Empire across the ocean!"

"That's right, these overwhelmed Easterners don't know the strength of our Chola navy. We only need to use the navy at the mouth of the Ganges to cut off their supply lines, and we can make them collapse without an army confrontation."

"Hehe, I don't think even the navy is needed. The plague in our jungle can make them collapse."

Karikari remained silent, quietly listening to the chattering discussions of the ministers.

Among the crowd, Rahal stood up and came to the center of the hall, and bowed to Karikara: "Your Majesty the Supreme King, please allow your loyal servant, I, Rahal, lead the troops to meet the Liang army, please believe me , this time I will definitely be able to defeat the Liang army. Back then in the far east, I suffered from unfamiliar places and long supply lines, so I lost to Liang. This time I will fight on the mainland, and I will definitely not give up The king is disappointed!"

Karikala squinted at Rahal, but said unhurriedly: "But where are you going to meet the Liang army after you lead the army? Do you know where they are marching?"

"This..." Rahal was at a loss for words for a moment.Indeed, although they now know that Liang Jun is coming, they don't know whether Liang Jun is going to attack his capital or Mango Port on Ceylon Island.Therefore, in the absence of further news, Zhu Luo Wang Ting has no way to make a decision to act.

The white-bearded Prime Minister Sheraya said: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, no matter how the future situation develops, we should send messengers to quickly notify all the garrisons in the coastal area, including Ceylon Island. Liang Jun stepped If they come from the sea, then they can attack the hinterland of my Chola from any point on the coastline. So this move is very necessary."

Karikara nodded and said: "It's natural. The king has sent a large number of messengers to send orders to the coastal garrisons asking them to strengthen their vigilance. But when it comes to this, the king is puzzled. We are on the coast of Magadha, and Why didn’t the navy and army at the mouth of the Ganges find any traces of Liang Jun? Even if they have only a small number of troops, but along such a long coast, there are troops from the Zhuluo Kingdom, so it’s not impossible to find them.”

First of all, Sheraya said: "Have you forgotten, Your Majesty, the survivors of the Battle of Andaman Island once reported a new situation to us. They saw that Liang Jun had a very large new type of warship. The old minister thought, Liang Jun must have the ability to directly cross the sea and the ocean, they can directly sail across the boundless ocean, and do not need to sail along the coast like our navy."

Karikara suddenly realized: "So that's the case. In this way, the strategy of cutting off their food roads at sea will not work. Don't say that we can't cut off their food roads, but we can. The grain and grass carried by their new type of big ships The supplies may be enough for Liang Jun's entire campaign. Then Prime Minister...do you have a good plan to defeat the enemy?"

Shelaya seemed to have already thought of a countermeasure, and immediately responded: "My lord, how many ships and how many people have come from the Liang army now, and we don't know what their goals are. But if the old minister is the lord of the Liang country, he will definitely take Ceylon It is impossible to attack the hinterland of our Chola mainland in arrogance, because the latter is meaningless."

Karikara sighed: "The prime minister is right, but this king knows that my opponent doesn't play cards according to common sense. Where you think it is reasonable, he often doesn't play cards according to this reason. Otherwise, the king will immediately The troops have been mobilized to Ceylon Island. But now the king still has to give priority to the safety of the capital."

Shelaya said: "Dear Your Majesty, please listen to my words. After all, Liang Jun came across the sea and is not familiar with the place. If they really dare to go deep into my inland hinterland and attack my strong The capital city is undoubtedly seeking its own death. Even if our troops are not superior, we can bury them in the valley jungle of the Cauvery River. On the contrary, it is much easier for them to attack Mango Port by the sea, so we must The focus of the defense is on Mango Port. Please go to Wang Zeng to send troops to Ceylon Island."

Karikala pondered for a moment, and was about to agree to his prime minister, but he heard the palace ordered soldiers to walk up to the palace. King Chola knew that there was an urgent military report.Sure enough, King Zhu Luo took a look at the letter in the soldier's hand, and his face changed color.He said to his ministers: "The military report just received shows that Liang Jun's nearly a hundred ships are going upstream along the Cauvery River. The intention is very obvious. This is to attack our royal city."

Karikala's complexion changed again, and he shouted: "Lahar received the order! Let you lead one, three, and four regiments of the guards to intercept and annihilate the invading enemies. The king himself The rest of the Guards garrisoned the capital."

Rahal happily accepted the order, and went out of the palace to prepare to go.But Sheraya still reminded Karikala: "Your Majesty, since the capital is guarded by a large army of guards, the fifth largest army distributed in several states on the south bank of the Cauvery River has nothing to do, and they can be dispatched. Part of the troops went to support Ceylon."

Karikara sighed: "But they still need to keep those Calabolans who are always rebellious. At this critical moment, this king believes that those Calaborans in the southern jungle are unwilling to be lonely."

Sheraya bowed her head in silence for a moment, and continued to persuade: "Even if His Majesty sends a regiment to guard the elephant passage. In this way, even if Mango Port is captured by the Liang army, we can still increase troops to Ceylon from the elephant passage." .”

Karikala said: "Forget it, the king will send a war elephant regiment to guard the elephant passage."

……

On the four-doored Dongjia City, drums and trumpets sounded together, and all the Zhu Luo soldiers in the city gathered at the top of the city, staring nervously at the large rice field between the south of the city and the Cauvery River.

Here, you can vaguely see the shadows of sails on the Cauvery River.According to the scouts in front of the horse, Liang Jun came in a unique style of dhow, and each boat had about ten oarsmen.Calculated based on 30 people per ship, Liang Jun also has at least 3000 troops.

However, there are [-] troops stationed in Dongjia City, but more than half of these [-] Zhuluo soldiers are local miscellaneous soldiers, not regular troops in the large army.Based on what the survivor told him, Zhu Luo's guard in the city knew that his soldiers would not be able to fight the opponent.In addition, he did not receive an exact military order from Wangcheng, so he only assumed the responsibility of defending the land, and did not take the initiative to intercept the Liang army.

After the Liang army landed near Dongjia City, they swept away some Zhu Luo army outposts outside the city, looted some manors belonging to the nobles in the city around the city, and then walked away in a big way.

Chapter 408 Considerations Outside the Military

Patan City is a small city in the northwest of Dongjia City. Not to mention compared with Thanjavur, the king city of Chola, it is also a small city compared with Dongjia City at the mouth of the river.

Now that the city has received news of a large-scale invasion by foreign troops, the four gates are closed and the security is tight.But there is a manor castle outside the city where fierce fighting is going on.

The estate was owned by a certain Kshatriya caste in the Chola court.His son is responsible for taking care of the manor, and he is actually the actual lord of Patan City, and the local chief executive of Patan City also obeys his words.

On the one hand, this person was brave and eager to win, and on the other hand, because he was unwilling to part with his family property, he did not follow the order of Patan City. Not only did he not enter the city to avoid disaster.Instead, he chose to take his servants to stick to the manor castle.In addition, the few troops in Patan City were also deployed to assist him in guarding the manor.

When the sun was setting, Liang Jun's Viking sailors jumped out of the ships, holding huge iron swords, battle axes, and round shields.Carrying a simple ladder to the manor castle, the first battle of the Viking fleet breaking into the hinterland of Cholo began.

In fact, the leader of Liang Jun's army didn't really want to fight. After all, he only had three hundred people in total, so it was important to preserve his strength.It would be better to take the castle, and spend the night in the fortress tonight.If you can't beat him, just leave with a bluff.Anyway, the task objective given above is just a bluff to make the illusion of attacking Zhu Luo's hinterland.

But neither side expected that the battle would end in an extremely short period of time.When the Viking fleet set off, they borrowed three new portable ballistas and fifty explosive shells from the infantry battalion.

At the beginning of the battle, three fireballs hit the top of the castle wall, two shot over the top of the castle wall, and the other shot landed at the foot of the manor owner without deviation.In addition to being set on fire, he was also splashed with naphtha.Engulfed in flames, he howled like a pig being killed.His servants hurriedly poured buckets of water on him.The strange thing is that he was drenched all over, and it took a while for the flames on his body to go out. His whole body was already dying like a burnt log.

The army guarding the castle is mainly composed of his servants. Although Zhu Luo Kingdom is currently a government official, it is not a troubled time.Therefore, apart from wielding knives, guns, bows and crossbows when hunting with their masters, these servants usually do not have any formal military training.Its combat effectiveness can be imagined, and those Zhuluo local soldiers who were transferred were unwilling to lose their lives defending other people's manors.In this situation, as soon as the battle starts, the "leader" will be killed, and then the next battle will be impossible to fight.

A Viking sailor warrior who was about to climb to the top of the ladder threw his tomahawk with all his strength, and it just hit the head of a servant who was leaning out and was about to stab his gun down. Red, red and white things splashed everywhere. yes.A few servants nearby quickly retracted their heads, and leaned tremblingly behind the pile of walls.

The sailor soldier jumped onto the top of the city in a few steps, and swung another sharp ax to chop.Except for a daring servant who stabbed the sailor soldier in the back with a dogleg knife in his hand, the rest of the servants had already started to flee.After the sailor soldier chopped down a fleeing servant, he felt a hard object hit his back. It turned out that the man who attacked him was blocked by the armor, and the steel knife could not penetrate.The soldier struck back with an ax and chopped off his head.

More and more sailor soldiers climbed to the top of the city, and the servants and those Zhuluo native soldiers fled down the castle wall and escaped from the back door.After a while they escaped cleanly.On the top of the castle, only the charred body of the "City Lord" remained.

At this time, Rahal was leading three guard regiments to station troops [-] miles east of Thanjavur, and stopped.This is the very apex of the triangle of the Cauvery delta.His lieutenant asked puzzledly: "General, the enemy bandits are looting all over our hinterland at this time, why do we stop our troops here?"

Rahal let out a contemptuous snort from his nostrils, and said in a low voice: "I have fought against this Liang army for a long time in the early years, and I know their tactics of using boats to raid inland rivers. If we continue to go east Moving forward, it is the delta of the Cauvery River, with a radius of several hundred miles, and the water network is like a rice paddy. Even if our troops are several times their strength, it is difficult to besiege them with maneuvering boats under such terrain and landforms. Gather and annihilate."

The lieutenant suddenly realized: "It turns out that the general intends to lure the enemy into the main channel of the Cauvery River, block their way back and wipe them all out."

Rahal said coldly: "Yes, our troops are several times stronger than theirs, and we are still fighting on the mainland. Therefore, it is nothing to defeat and expel them. If we cannot completely wipe out this enemy army, it is tantamount to our defeat. Only by completely wiping them Only then can we..." He said this, but stopped talking, in fact, he wanted to say that only by annihilating Liang Jun can he avenge his humiliation back then.

At this time, a commanding soldier galloped towards Daolahal.Report to Rahal: "General Qi, there is an urgent military report in Patan City! Master Sun Daluo's manor was breached by the enemy, and his eldest son was killed!"

Rahal's complexion changed, and he said angrily: "It's really not enough to succeed, and more than to fail. Didn't the general have already ordered all the cities outside the city to enter the city to avoid the enemy's raid? Why is he still staying in the city?" In your own manor?"

The lieutenant reminded cautiously: "General, Lord Sun Daluo's position in Thanjavur is very important. Now that he has lost his son and the manor, if he finds out that the general is staying here, he will vent all his anger. On the head of the general, you must tell the king that you are afraid of the enemy, which leads to the massacre of the nobles."

When Rahal heard this, his heart was also shocked, what the lieutenant general said was not unreasonable.Sometimes war cannot only consider the military affairs between the enemy and the enemy and the battlefield.Rahal was silent for a long time, and then said in a helpless tone: "Pass my military order, the whole army will move out, enter the delta, and wipe out the foreign enemies!"

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When Liang Jun's Viking fleet was criss-crossing the Cavery River Delta.In order to race against Zhu Luo's messenger, Zhuge Liang asked the sailors of the entire main fleet to do their best to drive fast day and night.At this time, the people on the ship could already see the coastline of Ceylon Island.

But Ceylon is different from a small island like Andaman. It is a very large island, and it takes several days to go around the island.The fleet has to go around to the southwest of the island from the final destination of Mango Harbor.

Zhuge Liang, Lin Tao, and Zhang Ren gathered around a map to discuss the surprise attack on Mango Port.But Meng Huo poked his head over, and he suddenly exclaimed as if he had discovered something: "Hey, isn't it half the distance if we go around from the northwest? Why do we have to go around in a big circle and go around from the southeast?"

Everyone laughed, and Lin Tao explained: "Because the fleet cannot go to the northwest, there is a land bridge hidden under the sea, connecting the mainland."

Chapter 409 Surprise Attack on Mango Harbor

Amidst the laughter of the crowd, Zhuge Liang suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "Oh, thanks to General Meng Huo who reminded me. We still need to leave some ships in the waters east of Ceylon Island to block the connection between the mainland and Ceylon Island. Some people need to land on the elephant passage to prevent the local troops of Chola from coming over this land bridge."

Ceylon Island cannot be called an island in essence, because there is actually a land bridge that is fifty or sixty miles long between a peninsula at the northern end of it and the Shendu mainland.It's just that the shape of this land bridge is very peculiar, not all sections are above the water, and some sections are several feet deep under the water.

From the root of this peninsula to the opposite subcontinent, the landform is composed of a series of sandbars and lagoons. There are lagoons in the land and islands in the sea. The lagoons are interlaced and the water and land blend together.