A great war ensued.

The ships in the rapid charge and the Da Xie Yan soldiers on the boats began to return fire with bows and crossbows, and even more soldiers manipulated bamboo pole crossbows and Fuyuan crossbows to shoot at the fortress on the pier, but the distance was too far, and the fortress was six zhang high, and their arrows were difficult to shoot. The defenders of the pier strictly obeyed the order, and only about thirty percent of the soldiers were firing their bows and arrows, deliberately creating the false appearance that the defenders' defensive strength was not strong, and luring the enemy army to keep approaching.

Li Jing stood high on the fortress and watched the battle, although Feng Zhang was arrogant, he still fought in a very orderly manner. Although the whole army attacked, in fact it was also in a clear order. At the forefront are the most fireproof and fastest Stern assault ships. If a building ship is equivalent to an aircraft carrier, a fighting ship is a battleship, and a sea falcon is a cruiser, a ship should belong to a frigate, and a yacht is a frigate, then a ship is a destroyer.

Da Xie's warships attacked, and the warships rushed the fastest, and the eighteen warships rushed to the front almost in a zigzag shape. Each liner carried 100 men, half of them the paddlers and half the sailors. Li Jing roughly calculated, although there were few soldiers on the battleship, but eighteen ships charged together, there were still enough nine hundred soldiers. As far as Li Jing knew, this kind of tactics belonged to the tactics commonly used by officers and sailors, and when dealing with pirates, they first caught up with the enemy with their warships and entangled the enemy, and then waited for the follow-up fighting ships and pirates to kill them.

Now Feng Zhang also has this idea, taking the most fireproof and fastest warship as the pioneer, not only to seize the dock while it is speedy, but also to let the warship test the strength of the dock guard. Once Li Jing used that legendary divine fire, he would immediately judge the situation, but it really didn't work. It is also possible to immediately withdraw the ship at high speed. Before really finding out what is going on at the docks. He would not have taken the liberty of putting on the fighting ships and building ships carrying a large number of soldiers and horses.

Ship Assault. Once the assault is successful, then Feng Zhang will quickly dock with the building ship and the fighting ship to escort a large number of sailors to land. This is actually a set of standard methods of fighting to seize the island, at least in the previous battles to exterminate the pirates, Feng Zhang relied on this set of tactics to exterminate many pirates, and sighed with emotion about the pirates near the Daxie Islands.

Li Jing saw that he was under the deliberate release of water by the defenders. Eighteen ships quickly rushed to the dock under the rain of arrows, and at such a close distance, he could even clearly see the thick raw cowhide covering the warship. The warships that rushed directly to the shore of the pier quickly lowered the bridge planks, and the soldiers who were already ready to go quickly rushed off the ship with shields and knives in their mouths. These soldiers were very sophisticated, and under the orders of several officers with mountain armor, they rushed to the dock and did not continue to rush forward, but quickly gathered on the spot and formed a shield formation first. to cover more soldiers behind to go ashore.

The warships that had docked did not leave, but stopped at the shore and quickly acted as long-range strike support. The sailors came out of the pulp chamber. He quickly acted as a crossbowman gunner, setting up a heavy crossbow and throwing cannon. Begin loading and firing to act as fire cover for soldiers ashore.

From charging to beach-grabbing landings, as well as long-range support, the whole action is fluid.

With the support of crossbow arrows and throwing cannons from behind, the nine hundred soldiers who came ashore suddenly scattered the entire shield array again, divided into countless small formations of fish scales, with a group of ten people as a team, scattered forward to attack.

Seeing these soldiers approaching the first line of defense line of sharp stakes, Li Jing gently patted the wall battlements on the top floor of the fortress, and said indifferently: "Order, the crossbowman in the left compartment will release the arrows." ”

Lin Wei, the deputy general of the left wing of the war barracks, saw the flag order issued by Li Jing on the fortress, and immediately ordered: "Crossbowmen, free arrows." ”

Nearly 300 crossbowmen from the 10 teams of the 5th Wing of the Left Chamber, 10 groups of nearly 300 crossbowmen immediately began to shoot at the pier from the 30 arrow towers, with 10 people on each arrow tower, in groups of two, and each time the two of them shot at the same target. After more than a month of arduous training, these 300 crossbowmen have now made great progress in archery, standing on the three-zhang high arrow tower and shooting condescendingly, which has further improved the power of the archers.

"Woohoo!"

Three hundred archers fired their bows and arrows at the same time, and suddenly the arrows rained down, and a layer of metal shrouded the pier.

Although the Da Xie army on the dock had already prepared and hurriedly raised their shields to block it, there were still more than ten people injured and fell to the ground in this rain of arrows. The wounded soldiers who were not dead lay on the ground, screaming and screaming.

"Good shot!" Lin Wei clapped his hands and shouted in front of the formation, "Keep shooting!" Although Li Jing didn't let the defenders go all out, even so, Lin Wei didn't intend to make the enemy feel better. The fight is too weak, and it is not good to be seen by Feng Zhang.

"Surprise crossbow shots, jumping soldier equipment!" Lin Wei roared. When the crossbowmen on the tower reopened the string, the strange team behind the wooden fence under the tower began to fire a salvo of crossbow machines, and a straight platoon shot past, killing more than a dozen enemy soldiers who had landed on the shore. The soldiers of Da Xie Yan all wore leather armor, and the officers were also equipped with the most anti-arrow mountain armor, which reduced the attack effect of crossbow arrows a lot.

The three classes of crossbowmen, surprise soldiers, and jumpers take turns firing their bows, one shooting, one preparing, and one reloading, forming an almost uninterrupted array of arrows. The men of the Modao team and the cavalry team did not participate in the shooting, they all stood behind the wooden fence to recuperate.

The Great Xie soldiers fell one by one, but the losses were still within their tolerance. They continued to advance, rushed to the first picks, and began to cut down the pickets and open the way.

Seeing that the first batch of soldiers and horses had successfully boarded the dock, the second group of boats and yachts at sea had also approached the dock, while the sea falcon ships had been cruising in the sea outside the dock, as if they were preparing for the appearance of warships in Shamen Town.

The second group of people who came ashore was smaller, only about five hundred.

Looking at the Da Xie soldiers who were getting closer and closer, Li Jing waved his hand, "Fu Yuan's crossbow is into battle." As soon as the herald waved the command flag, the crossbowmen who had been waiting on the nine bastions immediately fired at the target that had already been aimed at the good one. This time, only one-third of the Fuyuan crossbows on the nine bastions were used, and the twelve heavy crossbows went straight into the enemy troops on the dock with a sharp whistle, and in an instant, they smashed several shields and pinned four or five enemy troops to the dock.

The Fuyuan crossbow on the fortress was constantly firing, firing fifteen crossbow arrows every quarter of an hour, and such a heavy crossbow constantly plowed over the area of the dock that had already been marked with range, taking away the lives of one after another Da Xie soldiers. The Shamen soldiers in the back kept applauding, but Feng Zhang, who was watching the battle from the boat behind, said lightly: "The skills are so good, the little thief and donkey skills are poor." The order was given, and the whole army rushed to the beach. He had been watching for so long, and he had already seen that although Li Jing had nine fortresses and thirty arrow towers on the shore, as well as two ditches and two wooden fences, he looked at the strength of the counterattack on the pier, and the opponent's troops were obviously insufficient. There are no more than a thousand crossbowmen, no more than a dozen heavy crossbows, and even fewer cannons. Although Li Jing may have temporarily hidden part of his strength without queuing, even if it doubles, then he is not afraid to worry.

If Li Jing only has this strength, he is not afraid.

With an order from the casual seal, the three building ships and eight fighting ships that had been cruising a thousand steps away from the dock finally quickly sailed towards the dock in the rumbling drums of war. These eleven great ships were loaded with 8,000 of Fengzhang's most elite subordinates. Under the cover of the sea falcon ship, they slammed straight into the dock with their sails open.

"It's close, it's close, Feng Zhang has finally taken the bait!" Wang Chong, the tenth general of the auxiliary battalion next to Li Jing, was flushed with excitement. "General, throw the divine fire, burn his grandmother, one Buddha ascends to heaven, and two Buddhas are born."

"Wait, wait until the boat comes to the dock and then throw the fire." When the opposing soldiers disembarked and landed, it was the time when the enemy fell the most, and each of the ships carried nearly 1,000 troops, and the fighting ships also carried five or six hundred people. It is best to strike suddenly while this soldier is disembarking from the ship.

Behind the wooden fence behind the second ditch under the fortress, the officers of each capital and team shouted in a deep voice, "Steady, steady, wait for General Hou to give the order to attack." ”

Seeing that the group of Da Xie soldiers who had come ashore had broken through the first sharp wooden pile formation and rushed to the front of the first ditch, there was only a short distance left from the Mo Dao team of the war camp behind the first wooden fence, and all the Mo Dao soldiers were already holding the one-zhang long and fifteen-pound Mo Dao and waiting for it. All the Mo Dao hands wore iron helmets with their faces covered and only a few small holes left, and they were wearing iron armor composed of two large parts at the front and back. Inside this armor, there is also a rope armor, and there is also a silk and gold armor outside, if it weren't for the fear that the Mo swordsmen would be too heavy, Li Jing even thought about letting these Mo swordsmen put another leather armor on the outside.

There are a large number of iron armor and leather armor in the warehouse, there are enough three or four thousand sets of inventory, and now the soldiers on the whole island have a set of armor, such as two sets of Mo sword soldiers, and even the auxiliary battalion that originally had no armor but only battle robes has made an exception to issue a set of leather armor.

Dressed in double armor and wearing helmets that look like full coverage, these Mo swordsmen now not only possess extremely strong attack power, but also possess quite perverted defensive capabilities. Placing them at the front of the pack is a reflection of their role.

Seeing that the Great Xie soldiers were getting closer and closer, looking through the wooden fence, there were dense human heads, crowding the entire front. Although this was not the first time that many of the Shamen soldiers had fought, there were still many people who were pale, had a pounding heartbeat, and were short of breath.

The ant-like Great Xie soldiers in front cut down the first sharp pile, filled in the first ditch, and finally rushed to the front of the first wooden fence, suddenly, before the Mo swordsmen were ready to swing their swords to block the enemy soldiers, countless whistling sounds suddenly sounded in the sky. Some of the Mo knifemen couldn't help but look up at the sky when they heard the sound, only to see that suddenly, countless fiery black clay pots with long orange-red tail flames were flying all over the sky, just like a group of flying black crows suddenly pecking at the dense group of enemy troops on the dock.

Drawing a beautiful orange-red arc, one after another clay pots fell like raindrops, covering the entire dock, hundreds of clay pots splashed on the ground for a while, in the dense crowd, blooming sparks, brilliant and beautiful fireworks. (To be continued.) )