The suicide fireships used by the Lion Nation for sneak attacks are all small ships that are not too large and have relatively weak defenses, and only need to hit a few shells to sink them.

The one-sided fire of the eight steam gunboats was very strong, the total number of guns exceeded a hundred, and at least a dozen shells in one salvo were capable of hitting the fireships of the Lion Nation.

The violent explosion caused the flames of the fireship to explode instantly, and then gradually slowed down until it slowly sank into the harbor.

The artillery raid was obviously effective, and it did wipe out some of the fireships of the Lion Country, but there were a hundred fireships in the Lion Country, and the speed of movement was very fast when the sail was downwind, so the rapid fire of the artillery could not prevent all the fireships from entering the harbor.

In addition, Garigarh is a deep-water port, and the water depth of the harbor is relatively large, so that the fireships sinking to the bottom of the sea cannot play a role in blocking the ships behind, and the fireships behind are still rushing towards the harbor at a rapid pace.

In order to protect itself from being ignited, the Datang steam gunboat is to bombard the fireship of the Lion Country, while quickly retreating to the outside of the port, the outside is the sea, there is enough space to dodge the threatening fireship, and at the same time, it can also attack the Lion Kingdom warship behind the fireship.

In order to maintain order, the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses prevented the ships from escaping indiscriminately to ensure that their ships could leave the harbor as quickly as possible.

Looking at the flames approaching the port of Garigar, the hearts of the generals of the Lion Kingdom were both excited and surprised, excited that after these fireships rushed into the harbor, they would inevitably burn the harbor to ashes, and the surprise was that the Tang warships in the harbor had already prepared, and the reaction was extremely fast, when the fireships approached, the Tang army had more than ten ships out of the harbor, thus avoiding the attack of the fireboats, in addition, the weapons of the Tang ships were more powerful, and they could easily sink their fireships, which opened their eyes.

"Fortunately, we have prepared a hundred boats, if we prepare less, we will really be blocked by the Tang Army, it seems that the strength of the Tang Army is indeed relatively strong, we have to be careful."

The general of the Lion Nation spoke.

"Yes, general, I don't know what kind of weapon the Datang warship is, it will be so powerful, if the fire ship can't destroy them, how can our warships be so small, how can we sink the Datang warship."

"General, the Tang warships have escaped, and the fireships have failed to destroy them, and we are in danger."

The general said: "Don't be afraid, all the warships will impact together, as long as they are close to the Datang warships, their weapons will not be able to play a role, we have a lot of people, we can fight broadside battles, pick up your swords, and take the Datang warships over." ”

The general of the Lion Kingdom is very discerning, he can see that there are only eight Datang warships, although each has more soldiers, but the total number is still very limited, and they have hundreds of small warships, and the number of soldiers is more, only to fight broadside battles and climb onto Datang's warships is the best battle strategy, otherwise, with the weapons on these small warships, they will never be able to sink the Datang steam gunboats, which they know very well.

"Full speed ahead, full speed ahead."

Two hundred small and medium-sized warships and troop carriers of the Lion Country rushed towards the Datang steam gunboats at the fastest speed, and all the soldiers of these ships added up to five or six thousand, which was several times the number of the eight steam gunboats of the Datang Dynasty.

However, Datang's steam gunboats have a great speed advantage, and if these Lion Kingdom warships want to get closer, it is simply a fool's dream, and it is not realistic at all, and these guys obviously haven't realized this yet.

The largest number of ships in the harbor are some passing merchant ships, among them, the Datang merchant ships and the South Tianzhu merchant ships are the mainstay, and there are some merchant ships from small countries such as Da Shiguo, and half of the Datang fleet has been evacuated, and there is not much left.

Less than half of the 100 fireships were sunk, and the remaining fireships took advantage of the wind to break into the harbour of Garigar and set fire to the outermost merchant ships, causing a larger fire.

Because Garrigal is a port trade point, and it can be regarded as a relatively large one, there are really many merchant ships in the port, and the merchant ships are wooden, once burned, it will inevitably cause a chain reaction, resulting in a large area of fire, and this kind of fire can not be extinguished in a short time, and the losses will be great.

Seeing that the merchant ships in the harbor were ignited one by one, the general of the steam gunboat was naturally very anxious, and ordered a rapid bombardment to try to sink more fireships and reduce the threat of these fireships to the harbor.

"General, it's not good, the enemy's warships are approaching us, we must turn our guns to bombard their warships, otherwise, once we let them get too close, our artillery will have no room to play a role, and we will fall into passivity."

The soldier saw the Lion Nation ships rushing at a rapid pace and immediately reported it.

Now the problem is in front of us, and it is very serious, the number of steam cannon ships is not enough, used to bombard the fire ships, so that a lot of fish have slipped through the net into the harbor, and now the Lion Kingdom warships have also rushed over, if they continue to bombard the fireships, these warships will be in great trouble after approaching, but if the guns are turned to bombard the warships, there will be more fireships rushing into the harbor, thus causing greater losses in the seaport of Garigarh.

This dilemma, in fact, is a simple choice, it is a question of saving people or self-preservation, if you protect yourself, you will bombard the enemy's warships, and you will have to fight and retreat, if you give up self-rescue harbor, you will continue to bombard the advancing fireships.

People are selfish, and the Tang Dynasty soldiers are no exception, rather than in order to reduce the pressure on the harbor and put themselves in danger, it is better to give up helping the harbor and save themselves, which is more cost-effective, and can also sink the enemy's warships, achieve greater results and merits, and they will not suffer great losses, no matter how it is calculated, it is cost-effective.

"Immediately stop shelling fireships and turn their guns to bombard enemy warships and troop carriers."

The commander of the steam-cannon ship gave the order loudly.

This is a very wise order, it is definitely not worth losing yourself for the sake of the merchant ships in the seaport of Garigar, and saving yourself is the most important thing to do.

The Datang steam gunboats, lined up in a neat line, fired cannonballs at the Lion Kingdom warships that rushed over to the maximum extent.

The first round of attacks caused a lot of damage to the fleet of the Lion Country, because the ships of the Lion Country were so dense that the Datang artillery almost didn't need to aim, just shoot the shells directly.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

A large number of shells rained down, either hitting the ships of the Lion Nation and causing them huge losses, or falling into the sea, setting off huge waves.

The Lion Country's navy has fought a lot of wars, but they have never encountered such a strong opponent as Datang, let alone been bombarded by artillery fire, so, after a few rounds of bombardment, the Lion Country's navy is frightened, looking at the flesh and blood of their comrades, they feel very scared, and some of the warships have begun to flee in a hurry, especially those warships that have been bombarded, they can no longer control their fear and begin to escape.

Seeing this, the generals of the Lion Country Navy hurriedly scolded and let the fleeing warships continue to charge, in order to strive to use the numerical advantage to rush to the side of the Tang warships, so as to achieve the purpose of engaging in broadside battles.

However, under the bombardment of artillery, many soldiers were extremely frightened, and the command had become less effective, and the fleeing ships did not return to continue the attack, but ran farther and farther away, disappearing into the night.

The speed of the warship will become very fast when it is downwind, so although the shelling caused many warships to sink and escape, most of the warships still approached the Datang steam gunboat, and the form became somewhat critical.

"General, the enemy is already approaching."

"Stand back, immediately back away, keep the best distance from the enemy."

The commander of the steam gunboat gave the order to slowly retreat some distance and always maintain the best distance from the enemy.

In this way, you can not only destroy the enemy well, but also better protect yourself and put yourself in a safe environment.

This kind of tactics is equivalent to the cavalry cavalry tactics, which never make contact with the enemy, so that the enemy is always in a situation of passive beating.

Such a way of playing, with sufficient ammunition, can gradually exhaust the enemy's strength, while losing almost nothing on its own, is a very clever tactic.

The Datang steam gunboat has the advantage of speed, no matter whether the enemy is advancing or retreating, it can easily maintain the best combat distance and make itself invincible.

The Lion Kingdom warship chased all the way and lost all the way, but the Datang warship was in front, not far or close, it was always so far that it couldn't reach or touch.

The generals of the Nantianzhu Navy were in a hurry, seeing that the losses of their subordinates were getting bigger and bigger, but the distance between the Tang army's warships could not be shortened, and it was worth ordering to evacuate.

"The losses are too great, immediately retreat, retreat."

Faced with an unfavorable situation, the Lion Nation fleet had to be evacuated immediately.

However, when they were moving forward, they were downwind, but when they were leaving, they were going against the wind, and in the case of a headwind, the speed of ordinary sailing ships was very low, more than ten times lower than that of steam gunboats, so it was unlikely that they would want to escape.

The general of the Datang steam gunboat, seeing that the Lion Country fleet was planning to flee, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and immediately ordered: "Pursue immediately, fight while chasing, and destroy the Lion Country Naval Army." ”

Eight steam gunboats immediately pursued and continued to shell the fleeing warships and transports of the Lion Nation, with great success.

At this time, the soldiers of the Lion Kingdom were completely panicked, they found that they couldn't escape at all, they fled all the way and lost all the way, if they continued like this, they would be wiped out.

More than 200 warships and transport ships, most of them have been lost, the main force has been lost, it is impossible to turn around and attack the Datang steam gunboat again, and they can't catch up, since the fire attack was discovered in advance, their plan has failed.

"Disperse and retreat, immediately evacuate separately, the Don army has only eight warships."

The generals of the Lion Country Navy found a very good way, taking advantage of the small number of Datang warships and scattering and evacuating, so that no matter how the Datang warships pursued, it was impossible to destroy all the warships, so that they could at least have some of their forces to escape back.

"The enemy scattered and fled."

"Give orders, disperse pursuits, and sink as much as you can."

The eight steam gunboats of the Tang Army pursued quickly, scattering and pursuing in different directions in order to achieve the greatest results.

Because the enemy scattered and fled, so, there is no need to worry about fighting the broadside battle when pursuing, the steam gunboat with the advantage of speed, directly rushed into the middle of several enemy warships, and the two strings of artillery fired at the same time, so that the enemy's warship can be destroyed more quickly, and it is more cool to meet the transporter, because the transporter does not have the slightest ability to resist, and the warship can also throw large stones and giant crossbows, causing subtle damage to the Tang Army's steam gunboat.

This naval battle was very cool, and the eight steam gunboats of Datang were invincible all the way, beating the small wooden boats of the Lion Country out of temper.

However, because I didn't expect the Lion Nation to use such cruel means as fire, the loss of the Garigar Harbor was still very huge, and when the steam gunboats pursued the Lion Nation Naval Ships, the merchant ships in the Garigarh Harbor were ignited one after another, and the fire almost illuminated the entire harbor town.

In addition, many of the port's essential facilities were destroyed by the fire, and there were many casualties, many of whom died from the fire.

Seeing the fire burning more and more, Li Feiyu immediately ordered the soldiers and horses of the Lion Kingdom to garrison the city and immediately reinforce the harbor and join the firefighting operation.

The 1,000 soldiers and horses garrisoned by the Tang Army stood still, naturally to prevent troublemaking in the city, and in addition, he was still worried that the Lion Kingdom would attack from the land.

"General, with such a big fire in the port, the damage must be very huge, and many merchants are afraid that they will go bankrupt."

One of his subordinates sighed.

"What's more, my Datang warship, I'm afraid there will also be losses."

Another subordinate said.

Li Feiyu said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about the loss, this fire was put by the Lion Country, so naturally the Lion Country will compensate, as long as we defeat the Lion Country and let them compensate according to the price, no, it will be good to double the compensation." ”

"Yes, that's right, if you want the Lion Country to double the compensation, you must not cheap the Lion Country, so that they can never turn over."

The subordinate chimed in.

The fire in the port of Garigarh was too big, big enough to illuminate the entire city of Garigar, so that the Lion Nation infantry who were ten miles away could see it clearly.

The attack of the Lion Nation Navy failed, almost completely annihilated, but the infantry on land did not know the news, they saw the fire of Garigar, and agreed that the sneak attack of the Navy had been successful, and the garrison of Garigar must have been attracted to the direction of the harbor, and there must not be many soldiers and horses defending the city.