In order to win with one blow, the Lion Kingdom completely wiped out the Tang army fleet and the soldiers and horses of Nantianzhu, and sent half of the elite soldiers in the country, with five or six thousand soldiers and horses on the sea route, and even more soldiers and horses on land, with 20,000 soldiers, which can be regarded as a very large team.

It is said that such a large mobilization of soldiers and horses, the movement should be very large, and it is easy to be discovered, but the Lion Kingdom cleverly uses the dense jungle to hide the soldiers and horses very tightly, and there are a few scouts responsible for guarding the front and rear of the main force of soldiers and horses, and these vigilant soldiers will kill outsiders directly once they find them, so as to ensure that the information will not be leaked.

In order to attack Nantianzhu at any time, the Lion Kingdom had already deployed its main elite on the land of Nantianzhu, so it was able to reach the periphery of the port of Garigarh so quickly.

At this moment, 20,000 soldiers are happily enjoying the scenery, admiring the huge fire from the direction of the Garigarh harbor in the distance, of course, there are explosions from time to time, which is the movement of the Datang steam gunboat destroying the enemy, of course, there are also the crackling sounds of some merchant ships, and the Lion Army is unable to distinguish these, they all agree that this is the necessary explosion sound produced after the merchant ships and facilities in the port were burned by the fire.

"General, our army has won a great victory, the seaport of Garigarh has become a sea of fire, and the merciless flames are devouring the enemy's warships and harvesting the lives of the enemy, what are we waiting for, attack!"

The subordinates were very excited and strongly asked to join the battle.

The land commander was also very excited, looked at the fire that was burning more and more in the distance, and ordered: "Pass the order, the whole army will attack, and capture Garrigal in one go, and we must occupy Garrigal before the naval army." ”

Whoever captures the port of Garigal first will naturally take the credit, so the soldiers and horses on land and by sea are very hard, and they both want to get the most credit for breaking the city.

After the military order was issued, the elite soldiers and horses of the Lion Kingdom were divided into three ways to kill the port of Garigal, each with 5,000 soldiers and horses, and the last remaining 5,000 soldiers and horses were responsible for pressing the formation.

Due to the rush of preparation, the 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Lion Kingdom did not have time to prepare heavy siege equipment, and all they prepared were some light siege equipment, such as ladders and heavy crossbows, of course, crashes are also indispensable, as well as larger shields, these are the most basic equipment for attacking the city, and they must be equipped.

20,000 soldiers and horses suddenly attacked, and this movement was naturally very large, and for this reason, it was quickly discovered by the Tang Army scouts on the city wall.

Seeing movement in the woods in the distance, the Datang scouts hurriedly used binoculars to observe more closely, and soon discovered that the other party was a huge army.

"General, the soldiers and horses of the Lion Country have been killed, and there are at least tens of thousands of people in the black press."

The scouts of the Don Army immediately reported the situation.

Li Feiyu turned to look into the distance, nodded and said: "It's here, sure enough, it's still here, pass the order, let the soldiers prepare to face the battle, and we must teach the invading Lion Country army a hard lesson." ”

"Yes, General."

The officers and men of the Tang Army immediately began to prepare for battle, and let the soldiers and horses of Nantianzhu, who assisted in defending the city, also enter their respective positions.

The more than 10,000 elites of the Lion Country quickly rushed over, and the mighty and magnificent were very spectacular, far exceeding the defending Tang Army and Nantianzhu soldiers and horses.

"The soldiers are ready to fight, don't rush to release the arrows, wait until the soldiers and horses of the Lion Kingdom are close before fighting."

Li Feiyu personally commanded the soldiers not to expose their true combat effectiveness too early and not to waste arrows.

Although at this time Datang already had hot weapons, and also developed artillery troops, and there was no technical difficulty in developing small firearms, but only the initial firearms could be developed, and the initial firearms did not have much advantage compared with bows and crossbows and swords, and the cost of maintenance and maintenance was very large, so Li An gave up the development of firearms, and still used improved bows and crossbows, as the main long-range weapons of individual soldiers, in this era, bows and crossbows are not synonymous with backwardness, and the power is still very huge.

If you only rely on these bows and crossbows, if you want to defend the city wall, the pressure will be very huge, but the Tang army has already prepared bombs in hand, these powerful grenadier weapons will definitely be able to greatly kill and injure the attacking Lion Kingdom soldiers and horses, so as to hold the small port city of Garigar.

The more than 10,000 elite soldiers and horses of the Lion Kingdom did not encounter the slightest resistance, and approached the wall of Garigal in Nantianzhu, and raised the cloud ladder, ready to launch a fierce attack.

"Shoot the arrow, release the arrow immediately."

Li Feiyu gave a loud order, and asked his soldiers to start meeting the enemy.

"Whoosh ......"

Suddenly, a rain of arrows poured down and shot towards the advancing Lion Country army, causing a lot of losses to the Lion Country army.

The Tang army understands the power of grenadier weapons, so they don't feel panicked at all when they resist, they all understand that only with soldiers and horses like the Lion Country, they can't attack the city wall under any circumstances, and Nan Tianzhu's soldiers and horses don't know about grenadier weapons, seeing the black pressure of the Lion Country army, they trembled with fright, if it weren't for the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses supervising the battle behind, they would most likely give up the city.

There are a lot of soldiers and horses attacking the Lion Country, and the loss of a group is not trivial to them at all, besides, under the cover of the shield, their losses are not very large, a large number of soldiers have rushed to the bottom of the city wall, and the ladder is also quickly hooking the city wall, and there is a tendency to break through the city wall in one fell swoop.

"Roll the wood, the stones, throw it down."

Once again, the order was given.

These heavy city defense equipment are still relatively powerful, and a large number of stones and large wood have caused relatively large losses to the lion army that poured into the city wall.

However, these losses must be borne by the besieging party, so the Lion Kingdom army did not care, continued to step up the attack on the city, and rushed to the city gate, opening a posture of not giving up if the city was not breached.

According to this conventional means of defense, at most one or two waves of attacks can be maintained, and then the city is in danger of falling.

After all, the numerical superiority of the Lion Country's soldiers and horses is too obvious, and under such an absolute numerical superiority, it is difficult for the defending side to complete the defensive task if it does not have enough troops.

In order to reduce losses, Li Feiyu put Nan Tianzhu's defensive soldiers and horses at the forefront, so as to reduce the losses of the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses as much as possible.

"General, our army has suffered nearly 100 casualties, more than a dozen of them are seriously wounded, and the casualties of Nan Tianzhu's soldiers and horses are even greater, what are we waiting for, use killer weapons!"

Seeing that the soldiers were already a little tired, and the casualties began to accelerate, the subordinates were anxious and wanted to use grenadier weapons.

Li Feiyu opened his mouth and said: "I have ordered the main fleet at sea to reinforce and outflank the back of the Lion Kingdom army, in this battle, we will definitely achieve a brilliant victory, okay, use grenadiers and heavy weapons." ”

"Yes, General."

The subordinate said happily.

"Wait, let the soldiers and horses in the city be reinforced by five hundred, and each of them will carry a box of ammunition."

Li Feiyu was worried that there would not be enough ammunition to defend the city, so he asked the soldiers and horses who maintained law and order in the city to reinforce him, and brought a large amount of ammunition up by the way, because the defense would definitely consume a lot of ammunition, and if the ammunition was insufficient, the pressure on the defense would be too great.

The main general of the Lion Kingdom outside the city, looking at the soldiers and horses attacking the city, was very proud, he could see that there were not many defensive soldiers and horses on the opposite side, and it seemed that he would soon be unable to hold on, and as long as he captured the city, his credit was undoubtedly great.

"General, do you want to put the remaining soldiers and horses into the siege battle, so that you can capture the city in one go."

The Lion Nation Department will advise.

The main general nodded and said: "Okay, the enemy is no longer good, press all the soldiers and horses, and in one go, this attack must take the city." ”

The five thousand soldiers and horses of the Lion Kingdom were also killed, so that a larger force was formed, and if the soldiers and horses defending the city did not have killer weapons, they would definitely face great pressure.

"General, the Lion Kingdom has pressed all its troops, it seems that it is really desperate!"

The general looked at the Lion Nation reserve force rushing over and said in surprise.

Li Feiyu said happily: "Great, I'm afraid that they won't come to die, our reinforcements have also come up, and they will attack from far and near together, and they must hit the soldiers and horses of the Lion Country hard." ”

The so-called far, medium and near together attack, refers to the distance of the projectile, after all, the Lion Country soldiers and horses are not all gathered under the city wall, there are some farther, the distance stretches for hundreds of steps, if you throw with arm strength, you can only cover a smaller area of the city, and the farther Lion Country soldiers and horses will not be harmed, if you want to make up for the lack of manpower, you must use the power of the projectile vehicle, first ignite the projectile, and then throw the projectile out, so that you can kill and injure the Lion Country soldiers and horses at a longer distance, Achieve even more brilliant results.

Of course, the farthest to hit is undoubtedly the artillery, however, the artillery units are not here, and it is not practical to disassemble the artillery from the warship, those are designed for ships, it is difficult to transport them to the city walls, and there is not so much manpower to do this work, all, only the most primitive catapults can be used.

The 5,000 soldiers and horses of the Lion Country quickly rushed over, and all of them rushed in one place, forming a local advantage.

"Throw it now, and in the shortest possible time, shoot all the grenades."

The order was given at the most critical moment.

Fifteen hundred officers and men of the Tang Army immediately began to ignite the grenades and threw them outward in a large area, according to the pre-set of far, medium and near, throwing the grenades out one by one, and those with catapults next to them quickly ignited a dozen grenades, and then threw them out together, so that a large area was scattered among the enemy troops.

"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

A large number of grenades were projected in a very short time, and the dense explosions were all connected, denser than firecrackers, but louder and more powerful.

Because the sound of the explosion was so loud and dense that the screams of the wounded soldiers of the Lion Country were covered up, only the explosion could be heard, but not the screams.

The large-scale explosion set off a large amount of gunsmoke, covering a large area outside the city wall, that is to say, the Tang soldiers standing on the city wall could not see the situation below clearly, and could only vaguely hear the screams below.

The Lion Nation Lord who was watching the battle from a distance was completely stunned, they had never seen such a big battle, because the distance was relatively far, he could only hear the constant explosions, but he couldn't see his subordinates, and he didn't know what was going on with his subordinates.

The Tang army had a large number of grenades in reserve, and all of them were shot out, and the results caused by the battle were bound to be great, so that the soldiers of the Lion Kingdom who were completely unable to react suffered heavy losses, and the soldiers who were not injured were also completely stunned, and their ears were buzzing, and they couldn't even distinguish the least southeast, south, northwest, and northwest.

"General, what kind of weapon is this, so loud, and so big smoke, I can't see what is going on in front of me, I don't know if our soldiers have climbed the city wall."

The subordinate looked at the large amount of smoke in front of him and said nervously.

The Lord General frowned, and his heart was also very worried, what he was most afraid of was that these smoke were poisonous, if so, none of his 20,000 subordinates would be left, if this was the case, he would be completely finished, and the entire Lion Kingdom would be finished.

"It's back, it's back, the soldiers are back, what's going on."

Soon, the uninjured Lion Nation soldiers began to retreat in the direction they had identified, no matter what the order they received, at this moment, they had to retreat, because this battle was really unfought, the opponent's weapons were too strong, and a short attack made them suffer huge losses, looking at their flesh and blood comrades, where did the surviving soldiers still have the confidence to fight.

"General, are we so defeated, we have failed, and besides, the losses are extremely heavy."

The subordinate said sadly.

After the smoke cleared, everyone could see what was happening on the battlefield, more than 10,000 elite Lion Nation troops had already suffered more than half of the casualties, only five or six thousand people staggered back, and the rest were either dead or seriously injured and unable to move, and could only wail in pain under the city wall.

When the generals of the Lion Kingdom saw such a scene, their mood was naturally broken, their main elite, the hope of the entire Lion Country, was lost in this way, and the impact on the Lion Kingdom was undoubtedly extremely far-reaching, and it was very likely that they had to give up the ports they had occupied, and of course, it could be even worse.

Li Feiyu stood on the city wall, looking at the casualties of the Lion Country under the city wall, and secretly sighed in his heart, the Tang Dynasty army was able to hit the elite of the Lion Country with a small number of troops, relying on the black powder invented by Li An.

"General, it would be nice if there were a few cannons, and after a burst of bombardment, the remaining five or six thousand enemies would be finished."

The General of the Tang Army said happily.

"Don't worry! These guys will definitely not be able to run back to the Lion Kingdom, our main force is already on the way, they have received an order, they will go directly to capture the South Tianzhu Harbor occupied by the Lion Kingdom, and cut off the retreat of the Lion Kingdom army, waiting for them is only surrender, or perdition. ”

Li Feiyu said coldly.