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In the town general's mansion, Li Wei, the tenth general of the battalion who had just been promoted to a reconnaissance battalion, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said loudly to the officers in the hall who participated in the pre-war military meeting: "Basically, I have found out clearly, Feng Zhang has taken out all the capital this time, and dispatched a total of 15,000 soldiers and horses, including 2,000 soldiers, 1,000 family members, 3,000 auxiliary soldiers, and 5,000 children of the temporarily convened Da Xie Yan garrison army, as well as 4,000 crew members and sailors. At present, all of them are assembled on the South Island of Da Xie Yan. Feng Zhang mobilized all the warships, nearly a hundred in size. ”

"Our spies have reported that there are three Great War Ships of the Five Teeth, eight three-story large fighting ships, eight ironclad sea falcons, twelve ordinary sea falcon ships, eighteen ships, twenty ships, thirty yachts, and thirty-eight armed merchant ships, a total of one hundred and thirty-seven ships, and its fleet can carry all its men to attack at once. Looking at Feng Zhang's frame, this time he seems to be ready to gather all the soldiers and horses and attack directly from the Phoenix Mountain Wharf in the east of our town. ”

Everyone couldn't help but be a little amazed, Feng Zhang seemed to be really crazy, he actually gathered all the soldiers and horses, and even didn't want the people who stayed behind.

"General, why don't we send a fleet to fight the forts on the other islands of Fengzhang?" Wang Zhong couldn't help but suggest.

"No, don't be fooled. The only way to deal with it now is to defend the island and fight. If we look at the emptiness of the other islands and attack them, then it is entirely possible that we will fall for the tactics of Feng Zhang. Defend the island, we have the advantage, but if we are pulled out of the city by Feng Zhang, we will fight. Well, we just captured a batch of warships. But I'm not familiar with it yet. Not to mention tacit cooperation, so we can't beat them in a sea battle. Don't be easily seduced by the other party! ”

In this battle, the key is to defend the island, how to preserve the strength and eliminate the vitality of the other side This is the fundamental. With the army of Feng Zhang on the side, even if you can capture a few empty islands, what is the point.

"Are you sure that Feng Zhang will attack the island from the direction of Phoenix Mountain Wharf?" Lin Wu asked.

Li Jing walked to the hall, where there was a big Xie Yan sand table made of glutinous rice for Li Jing's guidance and reconnaissance. More than 30 large and small islands of the above three archipelagos are all listed, which is clear. Grabbing a baton, he pointed to the town of Shamen, which was semi-surrounded by Black Mountain Island and Long Island in the north and south.

"You see, although my Shamen Town is in a state of being surrounded on three sides, there are still three subsidiary island barriers, Niu Lizi Island, Yang Lizi Island and Baked Cake Island, outside the three piers in the south, west and north, and the three piers. We have already set up a number of forts on these three islands, and if Feng Zhang attacks from these three sides, then we must first take these three small islands. to encapsulate the current mood. I guess he would have liked to attack Shamen and destroy us at once. Therefore. It is normal for him to directly choose Phoenix Wharf, which has no outer island barrier, to attack, not to mention, Phoenix Wharf is the closest to the South Island. ”

He looked at the crowd: "In this battle, our focus is on the defense of the Phoenix Mountain Wharf. The left wing of the combat battalion was all transferred to the Phoenix Mountain Wharf for defense, and the entire auxiliary battalion was used as a reserve and was ready to support at any time. In addition, we will arrange all the heavy crossbows and throwing cannons we captured last time to the Phoenix Mountain pier. ”

Hearing this arrangement, Megan was a little dissatisfied, and after a long time, her fleet was actually fine.

"General, where is the location of my sailor barracks?" Since the last battle, when she captured those ships, her fleet has been strong, with a three-story large fighting ship, three ironclad seagures, two ordinary seagures, five ships, two boats, a yacht, and twenty armed merchant ships. It has 34 warships of all sizes, and the sailor battalion has 1,000 soldiers and 800 sailors. A veritable standard battalion head, with many people and many ships.

Li Jing glanced at Megan, who was eager to try, and said mercilessly: "This time there is nothing for you to do for the time being, you take your fleet to garrison Yangtanzi Island, and guard and patrol the south, west, and north coasts of Shamen to prevent a small group of enemy troops from sneaking in." And make a posture of passing through the Pearl Water Gate from the north at any time and attacking the north and south Long Island, so as to contain Fengzhang. ”

Meghan was greatly dissatisfied and shouted: "In such a naval battle, why did our fleet send patrols instead, are you mistaken?" ”

"I'm not mistaken, you're mistaken." Li Jing said: "Don't think that if you have a few warships, you have to get up, these warships are not easy to come by, you have to protect me well." This battle is a defensive war, what kind of excitement is your fleet, stay in the west, I don't want you to go crazy and take the fleet up to fight hard. ”

There was no room for opposition to Li Jing's words, only people like Feng Zhang, who were dizzy and misjudged Li Jing's strength, would gather warships to attack Shamen Town. Li Jing would not be stupid enough to use his own fleet to fight him at sea. If he was Fengzhang, he would definitely send a fleet to besiege but not attack, completely blockade Shamen Town, and then find a way to make Li Jing a rebel and ask for more soldiers and horses to attack Shamen Town.

No matter how strong his fleet is, if he forcibly attacks the island, Li Jing is not afraid of him at all.

Zhang Hong asked whether he would temporarily stay at the construction sites and workshops on the island and impose martial law on the island. They even distributed weapons to young and strong people to coordinate defense.

"There is no need to stop the construction site and workshop, our battalions of the town army plus the sailor fleet, there are nearly 6,000 soldiers and horses, and the brothers of the town Donghai are also here this time, adding up to nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the strength of Feng Zhang's army is not much different. What's more, we are defending, he is attacking, and the advantage is completely on our side. Just loose on the outside and tight on the inside, don't be too nervous. There is no need to gather the people now, everything is just business as usual. ”

Defending the island and fighting actually has great advantages, that is, the other party can only attack from so many places, and with the barrier of the sea, Li Jing doesn't even have to do such a thing as fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness, let alone worrying about the villages and people under his jurisdiction being looted.

In the early morning of 26 February, Feng Zhang personally boarded the ship Anlan, commanded more than 100 warships, and led 15,000 men and horses out of the nest, heading straight for the Phoenix Mountain Wharf on Shamen Island, with white sails like clouds and flags like the sea.

Li Jing had to report that Feng Zhang's army was coming, and he also personally put on armor and went into battle and commanded on the fortress of Phoenix Mountain Wharf.

Not much. The Fengzhang fleet arrived at the Phoenix Mountain wharf and stopped at sea a thousand paces away. More than a thousand steps apart. The Fengzhang fleet was in the east, and Li Jing led the war camp to the left wing, as well as auxiliary battalions, reconnaissance battalions, etc., which were densely packed with docks, and they were ready for battle.

Feng Zhang sent a speedboat into the dock with a white flag and handed over a letter. In the letter, Feng Zhang scolded Li Jing for committing the following crimes, and the rebels were in chaos. He shouted, 'Traitor, how dare you deceive me.' And in the letter, Li Jing led a fleet to fight him at sea. Li Jing scoffed. This Feng Zhang is really funny, if you want to fight, you will fight, and you will have to come out like this before the war.

Li Jing told the messenger, "Feng Zhang, as a Shangfeng, has repeatedly murdered his subordinates, don't you know how to be ashamed? What is done today, what is the face of a true wolf-hearted dog in the world! Now that I still have the face to commit crimes, don't you think I'm easy to deceive? Tell Feng Zhang, the more he is in a hurry to attack. The more it shows that he is a thief. Feng Ming, Wu Qian, Zhang Lie and other friendly colleagues have already thanked Feng Zhang's crime. He has come forward to expose his crimes, and has joined me in the crusade against Feng Zhang. I have already sent a letter to the Song envoy in Dengzhou and the Song Festival Marshal in Qingzhou, informing them of the details of the situation here. It doesn't take long, Song Jieshuai and other peaks must all know Feng Zhang's crimes, at that time, as soon as my Pinglu army arrives, Feng Zhang will die without a place to be buried, if he is still sober, let him immediately tie himself up and ask for guilt, then I can also read on the past feelings, and ask Song Jieshuai and the court to help him ask for personal favors. ”

Feng Zhang was furious when he heard the letter, pointed to the Phoenix Mountain Pier and shouted: "Those who capture Li Jing alive will be rewarded with ten thousand dollars, and those who get his corpse will be rewarded with ten thousand dollars." The first person to attack the island will be promoted to one level and rewarded with thousands of dollars. ”

As soon as the words fell, the drums and trumpets of the fleet sounded in unison, and the army began to rush forward in a hurry.

Seeing that Feng Zhang was enraged and attacked in a big way, Li Jing not only did not panic at all, but his face was full of smiles.

Because there is no outer island barrier at the Phoenix Mountain Wharf, after the initial unification of the wharves and the construction of three small fortresses, two fortifications were built in the later period, and a group of three forts were built on both sides of the original three pin fortresses at the Phoenix Mountain Wharf. Now the entire Phoenix Mountain Wharf has a full nine fortresses, and the upper and lower five layers are as high as six zhang in circumference, and the forts stand on the shore of the wharf, forming an impregnable shore defense line.

In particular, the heavy crossbows and throwing cannons on top of these bastions directly blocked the 300-step radius of the pier. In addition to these nine forts, the logistics and sappers have completely blocked the wharf for several days, arranging various fortifications on the wharf. Not only did he drive rows of sharpened wooden piles on the wharf, but even erected three wooden fences, and countless horses and deer feet, and dug two ditches two zhang wide and one zhang deep.

Behind the furrow at the back, there were four great general's wheel cannons with a range of 1,000 paces and a range of 200 men, and four lathe crossbows that also required 100 men to operate. Behind these fortifications were a thousand men of the left wing of the battalion, and a reserve of a thousand auxiliary battalions.

This is completely a line of defense to death, Li Jing is not afraid that Feng Zhang will attack, he is afraid that he will not come.

Half of the strength of Shamen Town is concentrated in the Phoenix Wharf, and there are more than 30 three-zhang high arrow towers that have been temporarily erected.

In Li Jing's plan, there was no chance for Feng Zhang to land on the beach, and these fortifications allowed Li Jing to have the most powerful long-range strike power, directly locking the entire dock. Even if Feng Zhang risked his life to rush to the beach and board the dock, in the face of this criss-crossing fortification, every step they took forward, they would fill the ditch with corpses and stain the dock red with blood.

The war drums rumbled, and Feng Zhang looked at the fortresses on the dock, but he didn't care much. It's just a small Shamen Town, how many soldiers and horses can Li Jing have, he has only been in office for more than a month, even if he destroys the one-eyed Jiao and destroys one of his detachments, he just thinks that Li Jing relies on attacks and other means. is really tough, Li Jing will not be his opponent at all. He has more than 10,000 horses and hundreds of warships, and he only needs one charge, and Li Jing will be destroyed.

At the sound of the horn of the charge, the front was the warship assault ship, then the frigate, followed by the Sea Falcon, and the dozen or so tall fighting ships and building ships fell behind the most Lu. All of them thought that a drum could be dropped, and they wanted to be the first to rush to the dock and win the great prize.

The four masters of Zhendonghai, who were standing beside Li Jing, couldn't help but shake their heads when they saw Feng Zhang rushing like this. In particular, Yellowbeard, who participated in the battle of commanding the ambush at Tieshan Port, looked at the fleet that had not even lowered its sails and was galloping at full speed with a light face, and laughed loudly: "This Feng Zhang, who has lived at sea for more than ten years, and his subordinates are also the number one fleet in Ziqing Town, is so stupid that in the face of such a fortification on the shore, he actually collided like this. It's really funny, he definitely doesn't know how Lu Dao Fengming's fleet was defeated in Iron Mountain Harbor. Otherwise, he would never have repeated the mistake of the past so stupidly. ”

Li Jing also laughed, "Feng Zhang has never met an opponent in Da Xie Yan, and over the years, he has been in a coma." His mind was full of anger now, and there was still much sobriety there. But this is just right, we can let him repay Feng Ming for what he paid back in the first place. ”

"Get closer and fight again, we can't scare Feng Zhang away all at once. No one is allowed to attack without my orders. We have to do a good job of fishing, let him run rampant first, and then let him know the power of the Dao Divine Fire. ”

Soon, the enemy ships that rushed to the front had already entered the range of heavy crossbows and throwing guns on the dock, but those crossbowmen and gunners were firmly adhering to Li Jing's orders, and did not fire their guns without orders. At this point, only the crossbowmen on top of the nine bastions began firing symbolically to trick them into approaching.

The carts on the fort fired all fire crossbow arrows, and the gun carts also threw fire oil cans, but because Li Jing specially confessed, this round of attacks was just to confuse and seal the seal, so only one cart and gun cart fired on each fort, and most of the sparse crossbow arrows and fire oil canisters fell into the sea, and only one or two hit the target. However, the battleship that rushed to the front was covered with raw cowhides, and the fire could not be burned at all, and was extinguished by the sailors on board with a pump.

Feng Zhang, who was watching the battle from behind, couldn't help sneering when he saw this, "Could it be that this is the kind of divine fire that Li Jing is rumored to have, it's just fire oil, and the whole army accelerated the charge and destroyed Li Jing." ”

With sparse crossbow arrows and canisters of fire oil, the charging battleship was getting closer and closer, and the soldiers on the fortress could even see the Great Xie Yan soldiers on the deck of the battleship, raising swords and shields, and roaring and screaming. However, Feng Zhang was very cunning, although he was arrogant, but he led the three building ships and eight fighting ships full of soldiers to fall behind slowly, always a thousand steps away from the dock.

Li Jing also quickly discovered this situation, and he sneered: "It seems that Feng Zhang is also worried about our divine fire, it seems that the fire oil tank just now did not deceive him." Pass my order, for the time being, only attack with 30 percent ballistas, and the divine fire will not be used for the time being. ”

Feng Zhang is very cunning, but Li Jing is very confident that he will catch this big fish, and all he needs now is a little more patience. (To be continued.) )