"Captain, why hasn't Sir's fleet come yet? There are too many cannibals, I'm afraid that the people on the shore won't be able to hold it, why don't we go up first? "The ship parked outside the harbor was none other than the Zhenzhou of Bojiao, and he disobeyed Hong Tao's order to let the Canton return to Malacca with two merchant ships, while he himself stayed behind. There is his family, his inheritance, and he doesn't want to see it taken away by others. If Hong Tao punished him afterwards for this, he would have admitted it.

"It's useless, they're on guard, the bow of the ship is rushing outside, there are so many of them that we'll get entangled when we get close. Have you forgotten what your husband said, as long as we don't get close to the enemy on the sea, we will always be victors. Wait, Mr. will not leave Cabalan alone. "Bo Jiao is more than ten years younger than his first mate, but he has more experience, more trust in Hong Tao, and a better understanding of naval warfare, which is talent.

"No one is allowed to retreat! Tear down all the houses near the harbor and pile them all on the docks, and don't let them land on our land! They are here to steal our food and kill our children, and I stand here with you without taking a step back! Defend our own home! The Great Song warship will soon come to our rescue, as long as we can hold on...... Five, five days! On the docks of Cabalan Harbor, Prince Taba, who looks like Roshan, actually changed into a suit of armor, put on a shiny helmet, and held a gift machete made of Jinhewan and studded with gold and silver threads, and shouted loudly to his people. In fact, the previous words are all nonsense, only the last sentence is more inspiring. Everyone is convinced that as long as the Great Song fleet returns, these damn green-clothed eaters will be defeated.

"Arin! Will your brother come back? "It's not just Prince Taba and his people who are actively preparing to defend themselves against the invasion on the docks. There are also one hundred and ten Arab merchants. They had already recognized each other from the flags of the ships outside the harbor. Then he joined the ranks of the Kabalans without hesitation. Even his own shop in the Guanyuan wholesale market was demolished, and the bricks and timber were piled up on the pier as a fortification. Because they knew that if these men with the yellow March flag were allowed to occupy the port of Cabalan, they would not be going to trade comfortably in the future. These people are more terrible than the Song people with the rat flag, they are not friends on land, or enemies are more appropriate.

"Whether he comes back or not, we have to hold on here! My brother must have returned, and two days ago, there was suddenly a big Song warship outside the port, didn't you see it. That battleship was going with my brother's fleet, and it came back alone, and called away the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty, what do you think is the reason? This is Allah testing us! "Medini's younger brother has always been the family's advocate for the interests of the family in Port Cabalan, and he is also the spokesman for the interests of Jinhe Bay, responsible for coordinating issues between Southern Song merchants and Arab merchants.

If Martini is a profiteer, his skinny monkey brother is even more treacherous! Nothing can be hidden from his eyes. He was convinced that Hong Tao's fleet had returned, and that it was not that he did not dare to attack the Arab fleet outside the port, but that he was only testing the loyalty of the port. If you want others to save you, you have to have a reason for others to save you. If you don't want to live, who's going to reach out. This is the main reason why Arin organized the tribesmen of Port Kabalan to follow Prince Taba against the Arabs. He's even more ruthless than his fat brother, and he's really risking his life.

In ancient times, landing operations did not have much skill to speak of, and those who always rowed boats would suffer. Because the terrain on the shore must be high, whether it is throwing stones or archery, the accuracy is better, rowing the boat close to the pier, while guarding against all kinds of things to fall down, and on the other hand, you have to shoot back to the shore on the rickety boat, the difficulty is not a star. The port of Kabalan was also very immoral, and the coastline to the south was marshland, with a large lake with abundant water and grass, and it was impossible to land at all. The north side is full of reef beaches, and even if you are skilled and rowed through the cracks in the reef, after going ashore it is a hillside, and the slopes are covered with forests, and it is difficult for infantry or cavalry to march in them on a large scale. If there is an ambush again, then don't come out.

More than half of the harbor in front of the bay is still shallow, and when the tide is low, it can withdraw from the mud several kilometers away, and no boat can approach, and only the entrance more than 200 meters wide to the north can be used. But now it is filled with Arab merchant ships, blocking the waterways, and the big ships can't move at all, so they can only remove the obstacles little by little. So the Kabalan crossbowmen who were hiding in these ships had something to do, and when they saw that it was a crossbow arrow, they turned around and ran away, and then went to hide in another ship. Whoever got close to shoot whom, for most of the hour, Yusuf had to give the order to stop the attack.

The loss is too great, a boatload of people dies in a boat, all of them are killed by the kind of crossbow arrows that are more than a palm long, this is one of the weapons that Hong Tao sent to Prince Taba, reverse crossbow and pure steel crossbow arrows, it is useless to wear anything within twenty meters, and the chain mail and leather armor cover are worn together, and you can still see blood with one arrow. Moreover, this crossbow arrow does not have tail feathers, is not too afraid of the sea breeze, and has a high accuracy. The Arab soldiers were very brave, shouting slogans and rushing up, but they couldn't rush up the speed, and they all became the targets of the defenders, and no matter how brave they were, it was useless.

"Set fire to these boats!" Seeing the corpses being carried back, Yusuf finally put away his contempt, and he was about to start landing in a step-by-step manner, first leveling all the objects in front of the dock with fire, and then approaching the dock directly with the galleys. In this way, the brave desert soldiers were useful, especially the Mamluk cavalry who led camels and horses. As soon as they came ashore, the battle was over, and the heavily armored cavalry could not be stopped by a few crossbow arrows.

Prince Taba's crossbowmen can stop the attack from outside the harbor, but they can't stop people from setting fires, and if one ship burns, it will spread to the ships next to it, and then the ships in the harbor will suffer. They now have to retreat to the shore or they will be burned to ashes along with the ships. Without the barrier in front of the pier, the defensive battle behind it will be much more difficult.

Although Prince Taba is the lord of a country, his territory is not large, and the population is not too large, and 800 soldiers is already the limit, and he can't afford to raise more. In the past two years, the port of Cabalan has become rich, and if he had put it in the past, all he could have was more than 300 soldiers and more than 100 armed peasants. And the number of attackers is even greater, roughly counting, there are almost two thousand. According to the report of the sailors of Jinhewan on the watchtower, there are cavalry in full armor on the other side's ship, which is a bit disparity in number, and the degree of elite is not proportional, and everyone is a little dull when they look at the fire in the port for a while. By daylight tomorrow, at most until dusk, the fire will be extinguished, and with it the sharp blades of the Arabs.

But when the first rays of the next day's sun pierced the dawn and shone on the sea, a hurried battle alarm sounded on the watchtower. This surprised everyone in the harbor, could it be that the Arabs could not wait for the fire to be extinguished before rushing in? That's great, let them rush, how many burn to death!

"The company's fleet is back! The company's fleet is back! I see the rat flag! "It's a pity that no one is so stupid, knowing that there is a fire in front of them, they still have to drill into it. The reason why the lookout on the watchtower sounded the alarm bell was not to warn the defenders, but to give good news to everyone. Through the gap in the smoke, he spotted a familiar shadow of a sail on the sea. At first, he didn't dare to shout, but stared in that direction with a telescope for a long time, and when he saw a mouse flag, he was completely relaxed, and he couldn't care about any alarms or nots, so that everyone could wake up from their sleep as soon as possible, and listening to their major discoveries was the first priority. This momentous discovery is not just a surprise, but a clear reminder to everyone in the port that everyone will not die! That's right, the first thought that flashed in the mind of everyone who heard the news of the return of the fleet was this!

Is it Hongtao's fleet back? That must be, in fact, Hong Tao also miscalculated, he has been far away ten nautical miles, planning to wait a few days before passing, let Kabalan Port resist and resist first, and see if the people here are the grass on the wall. If so, he'd rather burn the port to the ground than keep the Taba prince behind, and let these Arab warships serve as a touchstone for him. This kind of opportunity is rare and worth doing, after all, the port of Cabalan is a very important transit station in the future, and the loss is not big if it is destroyed early, and the more it drags on, the more distressed it is.

But Hong Tao never thought that the people of the Martini family in the port did not leave, and they would live and die with this port. According to Martini's urine calculations, it is already very, very benevolent for his people to rebel on the spot. Another thing he didn't expect was that the Arabs' fleet actually set fire to dozens of ships in the harbor, and as soon as the fire broke out, Hong Tao really couldn't sit still, he thought that the port of Kabalan had been captured. Otherwise, where would so many combustibles come from to make such a big fireworks? Gotta don't wait, hurry over and get there, there's really nothing left when it's too late.

"Zhenzhou? Ah Jiao, this kid, also dares to disobey orders, it seems that he really plans to take this place as his home. Give him a signal, stand by and be ready to enter the formation. "The fleet had advanced a few nautical miles with full sails, and the lookout reported to Hong Tao that, in addition to a large Arab flotilla with yellow flags, a warship of Jinhe Bay had been found directly in front of the fleet. According to the number on the top sail, it is not the Guangzhou, but the Zhenzhou, the ship of Bojiao. Hong Tao can understand Bo Jiao's mood, whoever is here will not leave his wife and children and run away by himself, even if he runs, he should take his wife and children to run. But Pojiao is a ruthless boy, he can't run, he can't fight with the other party, he is already considered to have a good education. (To be continued.) )