The Phuket Governorate is located on the island of Phuket and is home to Phuket City.

The island is separated from the polar peninsula to the north by a narrow strait that is just over a mile wide at its narrowest point, and can be reached from the north by swimming.

After Li Rong led the exterminator army to establish the Phuket Governorate on the island, more than 10,000 Chinese people were moved to the island, and they lived by cultivating rice and fishing on the island, collecting pearls learned from the natives, and selling agricultural products to merchant ships that docked at the border.

At this moment, the soldiers and civilians on the island no longer have the leisurely life they used to have, and all the adult males were recruited by the Governor's Office as unity soldiers, put on leather armor, stepped on swords and arrows, and assembled at the northern end of the island.

However, on the north shore of the one-mile-wide strait, more than 10,000 troops of the Nine-Nation Alliance converged here, and the menacing momentum had the momentum of leveling the Phuket Governorate in one fell swoop.

Li Rong rode to the shore and picked up a telescope to observe the enemy situation on the other side.

The first lieutenant proposed: "Governor, the enemy army has not yet been assembled, and our army is taking the initiative to kill them by surprise......"

Li Rong directly gave him a head and scolded: "You Tian Shefu don't use your brains? Although the strait is not wide, when we row to the opposite shore, the enemy will send a group of troops and horses to attack even if he has not yet assembled. Our army was blocked on the muddy beach, and it was especially necessary to annihilate our army. ”

The lieutenant lowered his head in shame, he really thought too simply.

"Pass the order, and the whole army will lie in ambush in the jungle and wait for the enemy to land on the shore, and then attack after listening to the order of a certain general."

"......"

Li Rong rode his horse away, and it was impossible for the Nine-Nation Alliance, as the attacker, to wait for him on the other side to attack, otherwise how could he destroy the Phuket Governor's Mansion and drive out the Tang Dynasty forces?

In this battle, Li Rong only needed to recuperate on the island, wait for the enemy to cross the strait, and then attack halfway.

It is said that the beach at the northern end of Phuket is quite narrow, but the beach is fifty or sixty feet wide for landing, and outside the beach is the dense rainforest, and the 5,000 Tang troops can't see the slightest shadow hidden in the jungle.

However, due to the arrival of more than 300 warships from Sumatra and Mulu towards Phuket, Li Rong decided to stay in Phuket City with 1,000 soldiers and horses in case of contingency.

According to the information from merchants from all walks of life in the South Seas, Sri Buddha sent 18,000 soldiers and horses and 2,000 men and horses from the small kingdom of Murug. The intention was not only to destroy the Phuket Governorate, but also to take advantage of the situation to occupy Phuket and expand to the polar peninsula.

Located at the northwestern tip of Sumatra, Sumatra was an important supply stop for Eastern and Western merchant ships entering or leaving the Taiyin Strait, bringing a thriving commercial trade. In the past ten years, Li Yu has vigorously developed maritime trade and made huge profits. It has driven a large number of wealthy merchants and magnates from the southeast coast to invest in maritime trade, creating an increasingly prosperous business environment in the South Seas. As a result, the Sumatran kingdom was dishonored, and the more merchant ships that docked at its ports, the more taxes he collected, resulting in the death of Sri Buddha, who was second only to the South Seas in strength.

The greatest wealth of the South Seas was the control of the Taiyin Strait, and the collection of toll and port taxes on the passing merchant ships. If Sumatra was able to seize Phuket, it would be equivalent to controlling the sea control at the entrance and exit of the Taiyin Strait, and the wealth obtained would be far more than what was now flowing into the treasury of other countries.

The Tang army waited for two days, and it was really impatient to wait for the Nine-Nation Coalition Army on the north shore to send troops to Phuket with various small sampans. At most, seven or eight hundred people were sent over at a time, which made Li Rong go crazy, and he scolded angrily: "Don't these barbarians have any brains?" Why send hundreds of people over at a time, are they here to deliver food? ”

Hundreds of enemy troops landed on the shore, and Li Rongnuo sent troops to annihilate them, which was likely to frighten the coalition forces and not dare to continue the landing. Isn't it impossible to fight a war of annihilation? It is not possible to annihilate the living forces of the nine countries and the Malay tribes on the polar peninsula, and it will be very troublesome to sweep away the indigenous forces on the polar peninsula.

Li Rong had no choice but to order the whole army to remain calm and continue to wait.

The commander of the coalition army is also very helpless, when they used to fight for territory and slaves, most of the wars were only a few hundred people, and if thousands of people could participate in the war, it would belong to the level of the war of annihilation. On the polar peninsula, where there are many small countries, it is rare to happen once in more than ten years.

But today, more than 10,000 troops are fighting, and the commanders of the coalition forces who have never commanded so many armies are very worried, not to mention that it is still an alliance army composed of nine countries and a number of Malay tribes, and it is still the most difficult beach landing battle in the war.

To the kings of small countries, "Damn, we have never crossed the sea to fight." ”

The shipbuilding technology of the Nanyang countries is generally low, and for the indigenous countries on the polar peninsula where the country is small and weak, the shipbuilding capacity is even worse, and it is difficult to find so many sampans to transport troops to the economy.

An hour later, the coalition army that landed on the shore finally reached more than 5,000 people, and the general asked: "Governor, do you want to attack now?" ”

"No hurry, wait."

Li Rong still did not give the order to attack, which made the soldiers and others who were ambushed on the front line a little anxious.

Until the coalition landed more than 8,000 troops, ready to enter the rainforest under the orders of the kings, half of the remaining men and horses were on their way.

The long-awaited order to attack finally came.

The deafening shouts of the Tang army suddenly sounded in the jungle, and the sound of rushing footsteps was deafening, frightening the allied troops on the beach.

The Nanyang countries did not have any standing troops, and they only pulled out the young and strong people in the country to fight in typical wartime, and there was no battle formation to talk about.

The beach was already very narrow, and at this moment more than 8,000 people were crowded here, and they were even more panicked in the face of the Tang army's sudden attack from the jungle.

The shouts of the kings and commanders of various countries made it impossible for their soldiers to be heard on the noisy beaches, creating a chaotic situation in which the coalition army was in disarray.

When the Luokhon army and the Malays reacted and rushed towards the Tang army, the national troops such as Folong, Chitu, and Ka Tu beside them did not move, but just looked to the right and right in a panic.

The result is, naturally.

"The time has come for the soldiers to kill the enemy and serve the country, and to open up the territory and expand the territory and glorify the ancestors."

Li Rong rode straight to the battlefield and shouted loudly.

"Those who behead the first level will be rewarded with one acre of land, and those who will kill the enemy generals will be rewarded with ten acres of land, and those who will be beheaded will be rewarded with a thousand acres of land......"

Phuket is only more than 500 square kilometers, most of it is mountainous rainforest, there is not much arable land, more than 10,000 people nest on the island, you can imagine how eager for the land must be.

The officers and men of the Tang Army instantly erupted into a more exuberant howl than just now, and everyone fought bravely to be the first, pressing the indigenous coalition troops crowded on the beach with overwhelming momentum.

Those indigenous kingdom armies that were the first to react and rush to kill were instantly overwhelmed by the swarming Tang army, and the rest of the coalition forces were even more pressed and beaten by the Tang army that rushed to the top, and were forced to the sea step by step.