The process of attacking the island on both sides was about the same, and in the end, the Song army completely captured the left and right guard islands. In this battle, Xu Hai, Xu Jiang, Zheng Sihai and others all made a lot of efforts, and the Song army lost 11 warships and more than 500 soldiers, and Cheng broke through the first line of defense set by Meng Heng. Thirteen of the twenty warships under Yu Heng were sunk, seven were captured, none of them were spared, and the main general Ma Ye was killed, with more than 1,000 casualties and 300 prisoners.

As soon as Yang Yan saw that he had captured Zuowei Island and Youwei Island, he immediately ordered to suspend the attack, press the prisoners back to the temporarily parked island to take care of them, and then sent a large number of soldiers to kick the island, first holding Zuowei Island and Youwei Island, and obtaining two stable strongholds for the continued attack on Zanglong Island in the future. Wait until the tide is high and the big ships can enter the waterway before attacking inward. At the same time, he ordered people to tow all the unsunken warships to the edge of the island, so as not to block the other warships of the Song army from entering this waterway.

In this way, in the following seven or eight days, as long as it was at high tide, the Song army launched an attack on the waterway, gradually attacking one island after another, advancing layer by layer. And when the tide is low, hold the occupied islands and wait for the next opportunity to attack. And Meng Heng was naturally not to be outdone, led by Meng Jiming with thirty small boats composed of the second line of defense, desperately resisting, the pirates relied on the waterway familiarity, and cooperated with the defenders of the islands, constantly from all corners to attack the Song army, sometimes at night to risk attacking the Song army.

Li Gongzuo also set up the current command center on Zuowei Island, and the battle was extremely difficult, and in this sea route of only a dozen miles, the Song army had to pay a lot of price for every step forward. Sometimes, in order to fight for control of a small island, the two sides will change hands several times, and the battle will be repeated repeatedly.

It was not until the ninth day that the Song army finally occupied the last small island of this waterway, less than two miles away from the island of Zanglong. During these nine days of fierce fighting, the Song army sank a total of 21 pirate ships, captured 2 ships, occupied 8 small islands, killed more than 1,200 pirates, and captured more than 200 people. He also lost 19 warships, eight of which sank because they were unfamiliar with the waterways and ran aground. More than 1,000 soldiers died in the battle. The losses of the two sides were roughly equal, which was the first time that Yang Yan had been on an expedition to Quang Nam. The battle was fierce, and it was obvious that it was average.

Yang Yan stood on the shore and looked to the opposite side, and every grass and tree on Hidden Dragon Island was clearly visible.

Yang Yan turned his head and asked Li Gongzuo, "Commander Li, when can you start attacking Hidden Dragon Island." ”

Li Gongzuo said: "My lord, Hidden Dragon Island is not comparable to the small islands we occupied before, and Meng Heng is very well defended on the island. At that time, he also scuttled all the remaining twenty or so warships, blocking our warships from approaching. If there is no cover of a large ship, only relying on a small boat to push ashore, I am afraid that the loss will be too great. Therefore, although it is close at hand, it must not be attacked until the tide is high. After a pause, he added: "Even if the tide is high, only the sea falcon ship can approach, except for the sea falcon ship, no other warship can sail in, so I see that the bed crossbow is installed on the warship of 800 materials, so as to cover the attack of the small boat." ”

Yang Yan nodded, when the Song army sent out the army, there were sixteen sea falcon ships, and now there are fourteen left, and there are six warships of eight hundred materials. Then he asked, "When will the tide rise?" ”

Zheng Sihai said in Yiye: "Judging from the experience below, around noon the day after tomorrow, there will probably be a high tide, and then at sunset, the tide will ecede." ”

Yang Yan said: "In other words, we only have half a day to conquer Hidden Dragon Island. ”

Li Gongzuo said: "That's not necessarily, as long as there is a solid stronghold on the island during this period, then even if the tide recedes, we can still use small boats to send the soldiers to the island." ”

Yang Yan said: "Okay, then the day after tomorrow will start attacking Hidden Dragon Island, and victory or defeat will be in one fell swoop." ”

Although the Song army's crossbow guns could still shoot at Zanglong Island from a long distance, after all, there were too few ships available, so the threat to Zanglong Island was not great. Meng Heng stood on the shore, looking at the seaside, more than 100 small boats formed the first batch of attack teams of the Song army, in the sound of the earth-shattering war drums on the opposite island. Now move closer to Hidden Dragon Island.

After the Song army attacked the edge of Zanglong Island, Yijing did not attack for three days, and according to the law of the Song army's attack in the past few days, Meng Heng knew in his heart that the Song army was waiting for the rising tide, so the high tide began at noon today, and it would be the time for the Song army to attack Zanglong Island.

After a few days of fierce fighting, Zanglong Island also lost more than 2,500 people, and most of the warships were sunk, and now there are still nearly 4,000 defenders on Zanglong Island, but they have mixed the good and bad, including many old people who are over half a hundred years old and teenagers. Now they all looked very nervous, staring at the approaching dinghy of the Song army in horror.

Whether he can withstand the attack of the Song army today, even Meng Heng has no bottom in his heart.

At this time, a small leader came to Meng Heng's side and said, "Old island master, Meng Hui is back."

Meng Heng listened, and his heart couldn't help but tighten, Meng Hui was his confidant, and he was sent to Meng Lanjun for help, and he had been waiting for news over there for the past few days, counting it, if Meng Lanjun was willing to send troops to help him, he should have arrived a long time ago. Now that he's back, what news will he bring to him? So he immediately said, "Bring him to me more." ”

After a while, Meng Hui came, and Meng Heng said: "What's the matter, did she promise to send troops?" ”

Meng Hui said happily: "Old Island Master, Lan Gu not only agreed, but also brought all the people, because there were too many things to prepare, so I came a few days late." This time she brought a total of forty-three boats, more than 3,000 people, and were waiting outside the island. Let me come back to you first. ”

When Meng Heng heard this, he couldn't help but perk up, it seems that Meng Lanjun really came to help him, and he is very sure of defending Hidden Dragon Island this time. Thinking of this, Meng Heng immediately passed on the news, and after the defenders heard it, the army's heart really stabilized a lot, and they were no longer as nervous as before.

However, now that the two waterways are blocked by the Song army, if you want to take Meng Lanjun's fleet in, you can only take the secret waterway, because this is Meng Lanjun to help Meng Heng, and according to etiquette, Meng Heng should personally greet him, but now seeing that the Song army is about to attack, Meng Heng really didn't dare to withdraw, so he sent his son Meng Jiming to welcome Meng Lanjun into the island.

Meng Heng didn't know that Meng Lanjun's rescue fleet was the catastrophe of Hidden Dragon Island.

After arranging all these matters, Song Jun's small boat was forced into Zanglong Island, and the nearest was less than thirty paces.

"Shoot the arrows."

With Meng Heng's order, bows and arrows, rockets, crossbow guns, and stones were shot like hail and raindrops like Song troops on the sea.

The Song army was also prepared, each small boat carried fifteen Song soldiers, one at the helm at the stern, eight people sat in the boat to paddle, two people held large shields, stuck to the bow to block arrows, and the other four held bows and arrows to shoot back. In addition, Meng Heng's crossbow guns are all self-made, and their power and lying range are far less than those of the Song army, so the threat of bows, rockets, and crossbow guns to the Song army is not great.

Only stones can be used for some shelter, and a large stone weighing dozens of pounds is thrown out with a trebuchet, and once it is hit, the shield will also be broken. If it hits a person, it will break the tendons and fracture the head, and if it falls on the boat, it will also break the planks and splash the sawdust. However, the Song army's boats were all scattered, and Meng Heng's trebuchets were not many, only sixteen, so although more than a dozen boats were smashed, the damage to the Song army was not great. And every Song soldier wore a special water back, and the clothes were sewn with cork, so that even if they did not use manpower in the water, they would not sink to the bottom. Therefore, the Song army, who fell into the water, also swam to Zanglong Island. At this time, the Song army approached the shore.

However, Meng Heng had also expected this result, and he did not expect bows and arrows, crossbow guns, and stones to be able to stop the Song army. Therefore, the order was immediately given: "Pour oil." ”

Ten pipes leading to the sea have already been repaired on the shore in preparation for pouring oil. As soon as they heard Meng Heng's order, the pirates poured barrels of grease and oil into the pipes and flowed to the surface of the sea.

With a "whew", a raging fire suddenly broke out on the sea, and the flames that rushed to the sky suddenly swept nearly forty Song army boats into it, and countless Song soldiers were on fire all over their bodies, whether they were on the boat or in the water, they could not be avoided. It burned on the surface of the sea, and screams and howls were mixed together, and the surface of the lake near the shore was blood-red, like hell.

At this time, only five or six small boats were on the shore, and the other small boats that had not yet entered the fire zone also retreated slightly and stopped on the sea. Obviously, they waited for the fat to burn before attacking, but a few ships began to retreat. The initial attack of the Song army was finally thwarted

And the pirates on the shore cheered in unison, and their morale was boosted. Many people excitedly patted each other on the shoulder and hugged each other, as if they had won a big battle.

But Meng Heng didn't look happy, he wanted to wait for the Song army to enter the offshore sea to pour oil and carry out a fire attack, even if he couldn't burn all the boats of the Song army's attack this time, he would burn most of them, but he didn't expect the Song army to disperse the attack formation, the ships in front of them docked, and the ships behind were still some distance away. Meng Heng did not dare to let the Song army's ships dock one by one, so he had to order oil to be poured and set on fire, and the result was that only nearly 40 small boats of the Song army were burned, which was less than half of the attack.

The Song army still has at least more than 400 small boats, and its own fat and oil can be used twice, once the fat and oil are used up, what can be done to stop the Song army's attack? But Meng Heng had no other good plan at this time, so he had to hope that Meng Lanjun's reinforcements would arrive soon, but it would take two or three hours to come in from that waterway, and now he could only try his best to resist.

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