Three Kingdoms Eschatology

While sending out scouts, Rahal waited patiently for the arrival of the Fifth Fleet and the Second Fleet, looking around for news and intelligence.He and Zhang Ren on the opposite side didn't know that at this moment, Lin Tao's main fleet and the Fifth Fleet were about to have a fierce battle at the bell mouth of Mannar Bay, more than a hundred miles away.

The sea is cloudless and the water is calm, but the atmosphere on the sea is extremely tense.Lin Tao squinted his eyes and looked to the northwest. Layers of sail shadows appeared on the sea level. This is the fifth fleet of the Zhu Luo Army.

Three hours ago, Lin Tao received an alert from a water patrol ship, saying that a large number of Zhuluo ships were heading south along the west coast of the Poison Continent. Lin Tao knew that they were probably going to the Bay of Mannar, and immediately took them with him. All ships that can be mobilized come to intercept.

At this time, all the galley warships of the Liang Army fleet dedicated to water combat were transferred to the Paoke Strait in the east of the Elephant Passage.Lin Tao took all the multi-masted ocean-going galleons.However, these sailboats unloaded all the baggage they carried at Mango Port, and no additional soldiers were loaded on board. Now the draft is not as deep as before, and they are lightly loaded.

The Fifth Fleet of the Zhu Luo Army apparently also spotted the Liang Army, quickly dispersed, formed a battle formation at sea, and pressed towards Lin Tao's fleet.However, Lin Tao's fleet slowed down, and each ship turned its bow [-] degrees, so that the side of the ship faced the attacking direction of the Zhu Luo fleet, and the entire fleet completed a crescent shape.Guard Lin Tao's flagship in the middle.

The commander of the Fifth Fleet laughed wildly when he saw this scene: "The Liang people don't know how to fight at sea. How can they use the principle of facing the bow of our ship? Isn't this as stupid as pointing your belly at the enemy's knife point?" ?” But as soon as he finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong. Was the other party really as stupid as he thought, and could wipe out the Fourth Fleet so easily?So what kind of medicine is buried in the gourd of the Liang State Navy?

The Zhu Luo admiral didn't have time to think about it, and continued to carefully command all kinds of ships to surround Liang Jun's fleet.

Chapter 414 Zhu Luo Water Ghost

In the Gulf of Mannar, the distance between the Liang Army Fleet and the Chuluo Fifth Fleet is getting closer.The deck of the Chula fleet was full of crossbowmen, and some infantry were ready to put out the fire with buckets.Everyone in Zhu Luo's army knew about the fierceness of Liang Jun's hot bombs, so these Zhu Luo soldiers were also prepared, and even the canvas on the mast was soaked in water.

When the two sides were still more than a hundred battles away, Lin Tao's flagship was the first to shoot a fireball at Zhu Luo's ship, and the rest of the Liang army's ships followed suit.Fireballs and stone bullets smashed towards the beams of warships like meteors flying to the moon.

Bang, boom, two loud bangs in a row, and flames shot up into the sky from the deck of a Chula warship.Several crossbowmen were splashed with naphtha and turned into burning men, and some Zhuluo soldiers carrying buckets poured water on these burning men and the deck.

But the strange thing is that the fire on the upper body of these Pyro seems to be extinguished, but the fire on the lower body has grown stronger instead.The flames on those decks not only did not go out, but spread in all directions, forcing the Zhu Luo soldiers on the deck to dodge around.The burning Zhu Luo soldiers screamed and jumped into the sea.

Most of the other Zhu Luo warships were also like this, and they were hit by Liang Jun's "fireball" from time to time.Some "fireballs" even exploded as soon as they hit the deck.The shards of clay pots that caused splashes injured countless people.In addition to the "fireball", there are also those huge stone bullets, and the clicking sound of their piercing through the deck and the side of the ship can be heard from time to time.

Zhu Luo's infantry on the deck suddenly panicked, but these ships did not slow down at all to rush towards Liang Jun's warship.It's just that the closer they are, the higher the hit rate of the opponent's ballista, and the more explosive bullets the opponent shoots.After the Zhuluo fleet rushed forward for another ten battles, almost all the decks of the ships ahead were on fire.

At the same time, Liang Jun's longbowmen also began to shoot at long range.The dense heavy arrows caused more casualties to Zhu Luo's army.Liang Jun's warship suddenly changed its sail direction, causing the entire fleet to move southwest. As a result, it was even more difficult for Zhu Luojun to catch up with Liang Jun.

General Zhu Luo, who was in charge of commanding the Fifth Fleet, was not an idiot either. He knew that if he continued to entangle with Liang Jun like this, he would suffer a big loss.He immediately ordered the entire army to turn the bow and retreat to the southernmost tip of the Poison Continent, which is also on the opposite bank of Ceylon Island, Quina Port.Lin Tao's fleet pursued for a while, fearing that they would encounter uncontrollable risks when they approached the coast of Chola's mainland, so they stopped the pursuit and returned to the port near Ceylon Island.

A few days later, a naval battle broke out between the Zhuluo Second Fleet from the coast of Magadha and the ships deployed by the Liang Army in the Paoke Strait. Chola Coast.

Seeing this, Rahal, who was sitting at the other end of the land bridge, couldn't help feeling anxious. If he couldn't defeat the opponent's navy, it would be more difficult to enter Ceylon Island from the Elephant Passage, and if he couldn't control the Gulf of Mannar and the Even if it enters the Strait, it will be cut off at any time.

Rahal immediately summoned the commanders of the two fleets to discuss the strategy of defeating the enemy.Several people talked and thought of many ways, but they still couldn't get around the new naval warfare tactics of the Liang Guo Navy.Liang Jun's navy basically did not engage in traditional ship-on-board battles. Whether they were ballistas or longbows, their range was far beyond the attack range of Zhu Luo's army.What's even more frightening is that these long-range weapons are still powerful, especially the hot bombs, which almost made Zhu Luo's soldiers turn pale when they talked about it.

Rahal pondered for a long time, and said: "Their projectile weapons have a very long range, and our army can't solve this problem for a while. But with our fast speed boat, taking advantage of its extremely fast speed and small hull, we can Overcome the enemy."

The general of the Fifth Fleet responded immediately: "General Qi, during the Mannar sea battle, I also had this idea. But our fast ships are usually only used for reconnaissance, and there are not many soldiers on them. Even if these ships approach For those huge sailing ships of Liang Jun, it is even more difficult for a small number of soldiers on these ships to jump onto the opponent's deck and win in hand-to-hand combat. It is even more impossible to use these small boats to hit Liang Jun's large sailing ships to achieve any results. .”

Rahal smiled slightly and said, "Although this general has never commanded the return army, he knows that our navy in the Zhuluo Kingdom has a special unit—water ghost soldiers!"

As soon as Rahal's words came out, the two generals of the fleet suddenly realized: "That's right, why didn't we think of this method."

In the middle and coastal areas of Zhuluo, there are a large number of people who fish for pearls.People engaged in this industry need to dive into the depths of several battles or even more than ten battles to catch sea oysters that may contain pearls, so all of them have excellent diving skills.

A single hold of breath can keep you from coming out of the water for dozens of breaths, and you can extend the diving time to a quarter of an hour by bringing a big fish swim bladder airbag in an iron bucket.A large number of pearl divers were recruited into the Zhuluo Navy for use in special operations.It's just that their mission is often to detect and sabotage, and they are rarely used on regular battlefields.

In the Gulf of Mannar, the sky turned pale.Liang Jun's patrol boat spotted some extremely fast boats on the other side, and immediately released a loud arrow to warn.Liang Jun's patrol boats distributed on the sea relayed this information with loud arrows.The Lin Tao fleet stationed in the temporary port quickly dispatched.The warships of the two sides soon collided again in the middle of the Gulf of Mannar.

Standing on the deck and looking into the distance, Lin Tao saw that this time Zhu Luo's army was uncharacteristically leading the battle with small boats, but the big ships followed far behind, and the speed of those small boats was extremely fast, and they were approaching Liang Jun's fleet by riding the wind and waves.

Lin Tao thought to himself, maybe Zhu Luojun wanted to burn himself with a fireboat.Thinking of this, Lin Tao snorted coldly, and said to himself: "That's a good idea, but you have to be able to rely on it!" Then he ordered the soldiers to pass orders to get the warships ready.

Liang Jun's battleship stone bombs and hot bombs hit these Zhu Luo clippers head-on.However, at a distance of more than a hundred battles, the probability that the ballista can hit these small boats is too low.After fighting for a long time, only one small boat was hit by a stone bullet, and was immediately pierced from the uppermost deck to the bottom of the boat.

When Lin Tao saw it, he hurriedly sent an order to wait until the enemy ships were within twenty battles before fighting.The ammunition carried by Liang Jun is limited. Those stone bombs can be made from local materials, but the explosive bombs cannot be made locally on Ceylon Island.So he has to use sparingly.

More than a hundred galleons immediately stopped bombarding, and when these Zhuluo clippers approached within twenty battles, General Liang Jun on each ship gave an order, and stone bombs and explosive bombs were fired at these small boats again. .

Amidst the crackling of wood chips and the sound of naphtha deflagrating, the Chula clippers were either smashed to pieces, or turned into broken logs floating on the sea.But the people on the boat jumped into the sea with a plop.

Chapter 415 The last line of defense

Seeing Zhu Luojun's small boats being engulfed in flames or shattered by boulders, the soldiers of Liang Jun on the deck cheered, only Lin Tao's expression was grim.

Lin Tao found that although those Zhu Luo soldiers fell into the sea, they were not forced to do so in a panic, but jumped into the sea in an orderly and active manner.Moreover, these Zhuluo soldiers carried things like floating barrels on their backs.Lin Tao thought that they were floating on the water with the help of these "floating barrels", but who knew that these Zhu Luo soldiers disappeared without a trace immediately after entering the water.

Lin Tao said coldly: "Send my military order, and the whole army will immediately turn around and sail south!" The general beside him hesitated and said, "Evacuate? But we are fighting smoothly now. If we evacuate, the long sandbar will Our army brothers may be about to be attacked by Chula soldiers in the future!"

Lin Tao didn't give any explanation: "Speech the arrow! If you are lax in carrying out the military order, you will be executed!"

In a short time, arrows with trailing smoke soared into the sky from all the ships.Liang's warships generally used semaphore to send orders between ships, and the use of ringing arrows to relay orders was generally only used in emergencies.The generals on each ship did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly commanded the ships to turn around and retreat southward.

Only then did Liang Jun's ship turn around, and before it had sailed a few steps, there were strange thumping sounds from the bottom of several ships that fell behind.

Before turning his head, the captain of a ship shouted loudly: "Whoever is messing around in the bottom deck is a matter of strict military discipline, and he should be executed!"

A bilge soldier hurried to the deck to report to the ship's leader: "I tell you the ship's rate, no one is messing around in the bilge, but there seems to be sea monsters hitting the bottom of the ship on the bottom of the sea." The Liang Jun soldiers on the ground were already pale.

The captain immediately understood, and exclaimed: "What sea monster? That's Zhu Luo's army attacking us underwater! Hurry up and shoot arrows underwater around the side of the ship! Send people to the bottom of the cabin. If the ship is pierced by someone, immediately organize them to drain the water." Rescue."

The order of the ship's commander quickly spread throughout the ship, and the arrows kept shooting down the sea around the ship. Countless water splashed around the ship's side, like a rainstorm.After a while, I really saw a few bright red colors appearing in the sea water.

There was an exclamation from the bottom of the cabin: "It's not good, the bottom of the boat is leaking...".The Chula water ghosts chiseling on the side of the ship were shot, but those hiding at the bottom of the boat could not be attacked by the arrows. They had chiseled the bottom of the boat.

At the bottom of the cabin, sea water gushed out from several bowl-sized holes, and the water column was several feet high. The soldiers of Liang Jun tried their best, but they couldn't block the water column for a while.There are also many soldiers of the Liang army carrying buckets of water in the bilge out of the bilge.The seawater in the bilge is still accumulating more and more.

On the surface of the sea, Zhu Luojun's big ships also chased them up. The wind was northeasterly at this time. Under the condition of tailwind, their speed was slightly slower than Liang Jun's big sailboats, but those Liang Jun's warships pierced by the water ghosts were moving slowly. , and soon let these Zhuluo warships catch up.

With a muffled bang, a warship of the Zhu Luo Army collided with a warship of the Liang Army. Numerous hooks and sickles protruded from the side of the ship, hooking Liang Jun's side of the ship firmly. He shot up and knocked the few Liang soldiers on the deck to the ground, and then he rushed from his own warship to the Liang army with knives and spears.

Under the command of the ship's command, those soldiers of the Liang Army who were still in the bilge for rescue boarded the deck in a panic.As soon as a Liang soldier poked his head out of the hatch of the deck, he was pierced by a Zhu Luo soldier's spear.Zhu Luojun had already surrounded the hatch, and as soon as Liang Jun showed his face, he would die under the spears and arrows.

In the bilge of the cabin, the sea water has reached the waist of the person.With a desperate expression in Liang Junjian's eyes, he waved his waist knife and said, "Brothers, you are dead anyway, fight them!" Liang Jun soldiers at the bottom of the bilge followed him and rushed to the deck.The hull of the ship had tilted at this time, but those Zhu Luo soldiers continued to shoot at the Liang soldiers who were trying to escape with their spears and arrows...

Liang Jun's fleet withdrew south to the coast of Ceylon Island. Lin Tao saw that Zhu Luo's army hadn't caught up, so he let the fleet stop.Then he counted and found that eleven galleons had lost contact.Lin Tao knew in his heart that these ships were in danger.In this battle, [-]% of all Lin Tao's multi-masted ocean-going sailing ships were lost, which was the biggest loss since Liang Jun's navy was established.

In the Paoke Strait east of the Elephant Land Bridge, the situation is even worse than Lin Tao's.Those galley battleships were scuttled by Zhu Luo's water ghost soldiers for more than [-] ships, accounting for [-]% of their total.

At the southern end of the Elephant Passage Land Bridge, Rahal of the Zhuluo Camp heard the victory in the naval battle, danced with excitement, and immediately ordered the entire army to launch a general attack on the Liang Army's defense line along the Elephant Passage.

The elephant cavalry of Zhu Luo's army took the lead, and groups of war elephants rushed towards Ceylon Island along the continuous sandbar shoal.Liang Jun still used ballistas and longbows for long-range attacks.

But this time did not last long, Liang Jun began to retreat.Because Zhu Luo's navy was approaching behind Liang Jun's defense line, Liang Jun's scouts on land and patrol sampans offshore successively issued sounding arrow warnings.

Liang Jun gave up several lines of defense in one breath, and in the end only the circular defense circle built at the root of the peninsula connecting the land bridge and deep in the land remained.

Dazzled by the victory, the Chula soldiers continued to rush towards the hinterland of Ceylon Island screaming and screaming.At this time, heavy arrows and stone bombs suddenly appeared in the sky like hail.In order to ensure the naval battle, the hot bombs are allocated to Lin Tao's navy, so now the army's ballistas no longer have hot bombs to use.However, the heavy arrows and stone bullets that were thrown densely were also amazingly powerful, and Zhu Luo's army fell in pieces.

Seeing the arrows coming, a Zhuluo soldier raised his shield subconsciously.All I could hear was a crackling sound on the shield.He saw the arrows around him falling down one after another in a short period of time, and just as he was glad that he was equipped with a shield, he heard a crackling sound, and a huge force came from his shield.Then he lost feeling in his left hand.He took a closer look, and saw that his left arm had been broken abruptly, and his shield had been smashed to pieces.Only then did he feel the piercing pain.

Not long after, the open grassland at the root of the peninsula was already full of dead Zhuluo soldiers and howling wounded soldiers.The rest of the Zhu Luo soldiers didn't dare to charge forward any more, they stopped and formed a shield wall tremblingly for passive defense.

At this time Rahal had already rode a war elephant and came to the front.He was also taken aback when he saw this scene.After pondering for a while, he said: "Pass down the general's order, leave a few soldiers to build a defense line on the sandbar, and the rest of the troops will retreat first."

Rahal already knew that Liang Jun had laid his pockets here, and he would definitely suffer a big loss by relying on his infantry to rush forward.At this location, it is difficult for the Chula Navy, which does not have long-range strike weapons, to help the Army.

For Rahal, the only solution for now is to allow the Zhuluo navy, which already controls the sea, to carry a small number of army infantry to land from the rest of the coast, go around behind the Liang army's defense line, and attack back and forth. Army line of defense.But these take time to rearrange.

Chapter 416 Ambush in the Bay

The season in Ceylon has come to early summer, and it is another sunny day, and the weather is a bit muggy.The heavy sails of the Choro Fifth Fleet once again appeared on the sea in the Gulf of Mannar.Their mission this time was to carry about 3000 infantry from the two legions to land on the western coast of Ceylon Island, and then let these 3000 people attack the Liang army stationed at the exit of the elephant passage from behind.

Not surprisingly, the Liang Jun sampan in charge of patrolling and guarding quickly spotted them.However, the general of the Fifth Fleet is not worried at all.It's fine if Liang Jun doesn't come. If he comes, they won't be allowed to escape like last time.Zhu Luo's navy tried the sweetness of water ghost soldiers for the first time, and temporarily recruited more pearl divers as water ghosts in the coastal area at the southern end of Shendu Continent.

Sure enough, just as the Zhu Luo army's fleet was about to approach the coast of Ceylon Island, Liang Jun's fleet appeared in their field of vision.The Zhu Luo fleet repeated its old trick, again using the Clippers as the vanguard, followed by large warships, rushing towards Liang Jun.

The warships of the Liang army still used ballistas and longbows to launch long-range attacks on these fast boats of the Zhu Luo army.Most of the fast boats of the Zhu Luo fleet were destroyed by stone bombs and explosive bombs one by one as last time.Before these ships were destroyed, a large number of Zhu Luo water ghosts jumped into the water and swam towards Liang Jun's ships that were not far away.

But this time, Liang Jun had learned his lesson from last time. When he saw the opponent's water ghost soldiers jumping into the water, he immediately began to turn the bow in an orderly manner.At the same time, a special fishing net is thrown around the side of the ship.It is said to be specially made, which means that the fishing net is sewn with blades.These blades were temporarily ground by Liang Jun soldiers with the iron armor pieces on the armor these days.

At this time, several Zhu Luo water ghost soldiers were about to get into the bottom of Liang Jun's boat, when one of them suddenly found a large piece of net attacking him in front of him. uploaded.The blades on the fishing net cut his body bloody.He tried desperately to get out of the water, but he couldn't break free from the fishing net.Struggling violently, he quickly ran out of oxygen, and the endless suffocation covered up the severe pain on his body.

There are also water ghost soldiers who were lucky not to be entangled in fishing nets, but were cut several times by blades.The blood flowing from the wound provided a target for Liang Jun's crossbowmen on the deck, and the arrows shot at him densely, immediately turning him into a hedgehog floating on the sea.

The corpses of Zhu Luo water ghosts floated to the surface of the sea one by one, which was horrible.At the same time, the main ship of the Zhu Luo fleet also approached the Liang army. The Liang army's warship obviously did not appear to be in a side-to-side battle with the Zhu Luo warship, and continued to sail towards a bay on Ceylon Island.At the same time, ballistas and longbows continued to shoot at the Chula ships.It's just that Liang Jun didn't use hot bombs at this time.

The Chula fleet was chasing after them, and a lieutenant reminded the fleet officer: "General, our main task is to bring the infantry to Ceylon Island. Now that we have driven them away, we should hurry to Ceylon Island." Let’s unload the soldiers on the shore. If you delay the business by pursuing the enemy ships so closely, I’m afraid General Rahal will blame you.”

The general shook his head and said: "Today is the best time to completely wipe out the Liang Army fleet. Only by destroying them can we completely control the surrounding waters. Otherwise, they will always come and harass us. How should we deal with it? If we ignore them now, we will go to Send infantry on the coast. They go and come back, what should I do if they attack me again?"

The general saw the corpses of water ghosts floating on the sea, and he thought that although he had paid such a high price, these water ghosts had at least pierced through the bottoms of dozens of Liang Army warships.So as long as they catch up with Liang Jun's battleship, they can repeat the last big victory.

More importantly, today's wind is much weaker than last time, so that he can catch up with most of the opponent's ships, and has the opportunity to gather and wipe out all the opponent's fleet in the Gulf of Mannar.However, in fact, none of Liang Jun's ships were destroyed by Zhu Luo's water ghost soldiers.It is true that Zhu Luo's fleet can catch up with Lin Tao's fleet, but this is precisely a trap set by Lin Tao.

Soon, Zhu Luo's soldiers discovered that Liang Jun's fleet sailed into a small bay on the shore of a Ceylon island.The general of the Fifth Fleet was immediately overjoyed. Not only did he catch up with Liang Jun's fleet, but he also happened to be able to land here. It really kills two birds with one stone.Under his command, the Zhu Luo fleet followed Liang Jun into the bay without hesitation.

However, it wasn't because he lacked vigilance and common sense. The trumpet-shaped opening of the bay was very spacious.There is no way for Liang Jun to block himself in the bay of the island by relying on the troops on land.

When all the Zhuluo warships sailed into the bay, dozens of Liang Jun's Viking warships suddenly emerged from the sea and sailed towards the bell mouth of the bay.They threw wooden barrels with rope anchors into the sea one by one, and after a while the sea was covered with these sinking and floating wooden barrels.Then they started dumping something into the sea again.

The general of the Fifth Fleet was squinting at the movement of Liang Jun's ships, and muttering in his heart: "This time, let's see where you are going to escape." His eyelids twitched suddenly, and he felt an ominous feeling in his heart. .At this time, he had already discovered that Liang Jun's ships were anchored not far from the shore, enclosing the entire bay in a semicircle.

A loud arrow with tail smoke soared into the sky, and then, countless stone bombs and explosive bombs smashed towards the Zhuluo fleet in the center of the bay like a goddess scattering flowers.Only then did the general of the Fifth Fleet realize that his water ghost soldiers did not cause any damage to Liang Jun's fleet at all.

However, it was too late. The stone bullets smashed big holes in the Zhuluo warship, smashed the ship's side, smashed the deck, and broke the mast.The hot bomb even sparked a plume of flames.The Zhu Luo soldiers on the deck were in chaos, and many even jumped into the sea in a panic.

The general was about to give the order to withdraw from the bay when a "fireball" just landed at his feet, and the flames quickly engulfed him with the help of the wind.Pyro scurry around on the deck for a few breaths, and then jumped into the sea. Not long after, there was a charred corpse floating on the sea.

The Zhuluo ship, which had lost its coach and was in a state of despair, began to retreat in an orderly manner, and they all rushed towards the bell mouth of the bay.In their line of sight, a flash of fire flashed, and a wall of fire suddenly rose on the sea surface, sealing most of the mouth of the entire bay.

Several Chula battleships did not have time to stop, and plunged into the flames.The fire first ignited the sails and then the entire ship.

However, the stopped Zhu Luo ship was still being bombarded by ballistas and longbows from Liang Jun's warships.Some of them were sunk, some turned into fireships, some of the crew were almost wiped out, and the ships turned into empty shells and revolved on the sea.

Seeing that they were in a desperate situation, some Zhuluo warships rushed into the flames and tried to rush through.A few warships were about to rush over where the combustion was not vigorous, but they saw many Viking boats of the Liang Army outside, and someone on them shot rockets in their direction, and then the Zhuluo soldiers on board heard a huge deflagration sound, The whole ship tilted violently.It turned out that the soldiers on the Viking warship used rockets to detonate the wooden barrel containing half a barrel of naphtha...

Chapter 417

There are floating corpses everywhere on the sea, as well as the charred wreckage of the Zhuluo ship, and even the remaining oily flowers floating in groups among the waves. In this battle, except for a small number of ships of the Fifth Fleet of Zhuluo, which escaped from the sky. , the rest of the ships and soldiers, including the thousands of army infantry they carried, were buried at the bottom of the sea.

The situation in the Palk Strait in the east is similar, and most of the ships of the Second Fleet were also destroyed.It's just that their situation was not such that the entire army was wiped out. There were more ships surviving, and they successfully transported more than [-] Chola infantry to Ceylon Island.

The reason for this is that the generals of the Second Fleet were not greedy for credit.After seeing many of his water ghost soldiers being beheaded by the opponent, and Liang Jun's ships pretending to flee, he did not pursue Liang Jun, but continued to land on Ceylon Island as originally planned.

But when they landed, Liang Jun suddenly shot back with his carbine and caught them off guard. However, some soldiers successfully landed on Ceylon Island, and a small number of ships escaped.But even so, it would be difficult for the Second Fleet to match the Liang Army in Paoke Bay.

At this moment, Rahal personally led an army of nearly ten thousand and gathered on a large sandbar close to the coast of Ceylon Island.From the sandbar through a shoal not more than two feet deep is the tip of the peninsula where Ceylon Island juts into the Bay of Mannar.

Rahal has not received any news about the naval battle so far.His wishful thinking was to launch front and rear flank attacks on the Liang army's defense line at the same time as the Zhu Luo soldiers who landed on Ceylon Island on both wings.After occupying the peninsula, let the tens of thousands of troops staying in the poisonous subcontinent enter Ceylon Island.

Rahal was sitting under a temporary shed. He couldn't hide his anxiety, and looked up from time to time to look around to see if the soldiers who came to report the information had arrived.After waiting and waiting for no one to be seen, Rahal couldn't sit still anymore, stood up, and walked back and forth on the beach with bare feet.

At this time, a small boat appeared on the sea level in the distance, and he knew at a glance that it was his guard commander who had returned, and said to the commander beside him with a happy face: "Quickly pass the order and let all the ministries get ready to attack!" !"

The boat was still far away from the shore, and the soldiers on the boat jumped into the water, wading towards Rahal, and shouted while running: "General...General, it's not good, the military situation is urgent." Rahal heard At these words, my heart suddenly trembled, and I wondered whether my navy was intercepted and defeated by Liang Jun again, or the soldiers who landed were ambushed?

The soldier finally ran up to him and said, "General Qi, the Fifth Fleet was intercepted by Liang Jun's ships off the coast of Ceylon Island. Almost all the troops were wiped out, and only a small number of ships escaped."

As if his chest had been hit with a sledgehammer, Rahal asked anxiously, "Did our army infantry land successfully?"

"No...no, according to the surviving people, they also died at the bottom of the sea with the ship. None of our warships docked."

Rahal's eyes were red, his cheeks were bitten, and he said angrily, "What do the navy do? Send me a military order to immediately detain the captain of the Fifth Fleet according to the military law."

"The general doesn't know, this person has already died in the battle with Liang Jun."

Rahal patted his thigh angrily, but there was nothing he could do about the situation.The lieutenant general comforted: "This is the end of the matter, the general does not need to worry, we still have the landing force escorted by the second fleet. If they can successfully land, our plan can proceed as usual."

Rahal said with a sigh: "Do you think that Ben will only be troubled by the fact that this plan cannot be implemented normally? If the Second Fleet also loses control of Palk Bay, not only will we not be able to conquer Ceylon Island as planned, Even our nearly ten thousand army gathered on this sandbar is in danger."

After a pause, Rahal ordered the soldiers again: "Pass on my military order, so that all soldiers are ready to break camp and march." Rahal was still holding out hope at this time, waiting for the news of the Second Fleet. , Lahal continued with the original plan, and if it failed, he would immediately retreat to the Shendu Continent.

Two hours later, the bad news came that the Second Fleet was also defeated by Liang Jun.Without saying a word, Rahal immediately led the army along the "Elephant Passage" land bridge to Shendu Continent.

But they were still one step too late. Liang Jun's east and west fleets had sailed to the northern section of the Shazhou Land Bridge, and then they drove along the land bridge to search for Zhuluo soldiers.Soon Liang Jun discovered the retreating Zhu Luo soldiers.Arrows and ballistas rained down on the Zhu Luo soldiers on the sandbar.Zhu Luo soldiers began to panic. They tried their best to avoid falling rocks and flying feathers, and ran northward desperately, huddled into a group...

Standing on the deck, Lin Tao saw this scene and muttered to himself: "It's a pity, if we still have hot bombs, the Zhu Luo soldiers will wipe out the whole army later."

On the sandbar land bridge, war elephants were bombarded to death by huge ballista stone shells, and then crushed to death the Zhuluo soldiers who were close to them.When crossing a beach, the war elephants suddenly became mad, no longer under the control of their drivers, and galloped like crazy.Blood-red colors overflowed from the sea water they stepped on.It turned out that when they were crossing the beach, they stepped on the barbed wire hidden under the sea water.

A few hours ago, Liang Jun's Viking sailor soldiers drove the Viking warship around the road and came to the sandbar behind Zhu Luo's army. Tribulus.

On this narrow sandbar land bridge, one can imagine what it means for an elephant to go crazy.Countless Zhuluo soldiers were knocked to the ground by the elephants, and then their bodies were trampled to pieces by the elephants.

Rahal is still doing his best to try to control the situation. "Hurry up, the people in front get out of the way into the sea, and the elephant soldiers in the back hold back their advance to..." He yelled and commanded, but he didn't realize that a bull elephant as tall as a foot was rushing towards him behind him.Before Rahal could finish his words, he was knocked into the air by the elephant. Before the soldiers could help him up after landing, the injured paw of the elephant trampled on his back...

Less than twenty miles away from the Zhuluo subcontinent, the Liang Jun Navy finally stopped the bloody pursuit.Only [-] people from Zhu Luo's army escaped successfully, and most of them, including Rahal, were buried on the sandbar.

On Ceylon Island, Meng Huo's troops also came near the "Elephant Passage". Meng Huo was notified by Zhang Ren that a small Zhuluo army had landed on the island.With the help of the native Sinhalese, they quickly found the Chula troops who had lost contact with the rear and were at a loss. The 500 men were quickly and easily wiped out by Meng Huo, most of whom chose to surrender.

Afterwards, Meng Huo joined forces with Zhang Ren, marched with Lin Tao's navy by land and water, and headed towards Shendu Continent.Although there were still more soldiers and horses in Zhu Luojun's camp at the northern end of the land bridge than Liang Jun, they had just lost their commander, and Liang Jun came very suddenly, caught off guard, and was defeated by Liang Jun.The soldiers of Zhu Luo abandoned their camp and fled all over the mountains and plains to the hinterland of Zhu Luo.

Meng Huo and Zhang Ren did not chase after them. After burning the Zhuluo camp, they returned to Ceylon Island.

Chapter 418 The First Fleet Going South