"The last general commands." Hu Zhihai, the commander of the Eighth Zhenhai Guard, said.

As night fell, the army was still floating outside the harbor. This afloat lasted for ten days, and although it attacked several times tentatively, it was defeated. The state of Java stationed 200,000 troops in the national capital of Coconut City, which was originally intended to be used to destroy Srivijaya.

But at this time, it is immobile, the imperial army is hovering outside the port, and the supplies from the North Island of Java (Kalimantan Island) cannot enter the coconut city, if Java has been so passive defense, then as long as the imperial army can be resupplied and besieged and blockaded for a long time, Java will inevitably be trapped to death. However, the Great Song Dynasty was short of grain and grass, and a long-term siege was impossible, so it was necessary to fight a quick battle and completely solve Java first, so that we could relax and turn around and march westward to attack the Chola Kingdom and capture the Indian region.

Another day passed, the follow-up supply fleet arrived, and the Imperial army carried out a tense replenishment in the sea. This is a ten-day supply, and in the next ten days, the army must capture the port of Coconut City, because this supply is the last supply, if it can't be captured, it can only return and wait for Zhao Ji to bring grain and grass from the Great Song Dynasty.

"Newspaper. Handsome. Hu commanded the military to report. A signal soldier announced.

Xiao Yiyuan took the military report and shouted: "Okay." Pass the order down. Drumming raises the tent. The armies are ready to attack tonight. ”

"Tonight?" The commander of the First Town Border Guards, Gao Fei, questioned.

"See for yourself." Xiao Yiyuan handed the military report to Gao Fei.

It turned out that three hundred nautical miles away, there was a natural inlet, called Crescent Bay, where the army could go and land. The entire island of Java is not large, but there are many wild places, especially in the eastern part of Java, where the jungle is almost untouched. The majority of the population of the entire island of Java is concentrated in the northwestern region, and it is concentrated in the three basins with lower temperatures. Coconut City, Banten Yogyakarta, these three cities are like this. Shuiwan is 500 miles away from Coconut City, separated by a large river and two mountains.

Soon, the drums sounded. The trumpeters began to wave their flags and blow trumpets, and the sound of drums alone could not inform the generals to come to discuss the matter, and only the flag-bearers could convey the news to the warships.

|The meeting hall of the flagship ship. Xiao Yiyuan, with a long dragon sword in his hand, stood in front of a large sea map. The generals of the various armies arrived one after another.

"The congregation will obey. Koizumi Taijiro, the general of the Eighth Town Sea Guard, and Uncle Wang, the king of Srivijaya, obey the order, you lead your respective armies, and after an hour, storm the port, and there must be no mistake. Xiao Yiyuan ordered.

"The last will be ordered." 20,000 arched his hand and said.

After Xiao Yiyuan explained some specific operational arrangements, he hurriedly led 10,000 Haiwei troops eastward to Crescent Bay to join Hu Zhihai's troops who had left eleven days earlier.

The replenishment operation of the supply fleet continued throughout the day, and it was not until late evening that it left to return to Lingya State. Originally, this supply fleet was to supply the army in the port, but now the port has not been captured, and it can only be replenished at sea. After the supplies were completed, the king of Srivijaya ordered the port to be stormed.

Uncle Wang knew that he had to end the war here as soon as possible and go to the Western Front, after all, the Chola Kingdom was the biggest enemy. Landing along the coastline is very dangerous, it is easy to run aground, and large warships simply cannot land. The landing of small boats, in less than three days, the army simply could not complete the entire landing process, and with a high probability of being driven into the sea by enemy troops. The only way to do this is to storm it. Uncle Wang also planned to attack, and begged Xiao Yiyuan many times not to wait.

As night fell, 100,000 Sributya sailors launched a strong attack on the port of Coconut City, and countless canoe warships sailed into the port, almost costing human lives and the number of canoe warships to consume the Javanese army. Koizumi Taijiro's department is all the giant ships of the Great Song Dynasty, a total of forty-three, three have been lost, and now they can't afford to lose them anymore. For this, it was possible to carry out shelling of the outer harbor with gunboats only outside the port.

More than 300 thunderbolts were smashed into the outer harbor as if they were not being paid, but because they were blocked by the mountain range, they missed the shot, and I don't know if they were empty guns. It's just to increase the momentum of the attack.

In the evening, Xiao Yiyuan joined forces with Hu Zhihai's subordinates, and 20,000 sea guards were stationed in Crescent Bay. There is a port here, but it is only built by the fishermen who go out to sea, and it is very small, with dozens of canoes and fishing boats parked on the dock. Although Crescent Bay is a deep-water harbor, there are not many advantageous defensive locations around it that can be relied on. The port is actually an estuary of a river in Crescent Bay. The river network here is dense, all tropical jungle, and the rivers are not wide, so warships cannot enter the inland waterways.

The landing of 20,000 sea guards here is not the best option, but it is the only one!

There was no enemy obstruction, and the army landed first in small boats. After landing, under the leadership of Hu Zhihai, the construction of a simple port began. The 20,000-strong army started in unison, and in just one hour, the port was built. The warships were able to dock, and the fishing boats had long since been sunk by the fighting ships.

Xiao Yiyuan sent another 1,000 soldiers to clear the surrounding fishermen's villages and capture the strong men. Due to the small number of villages living in the jungle, less than 500 strong men were caught.

Catching strong men to build roads and serve as soldier slaves is the tactics that Zhao taught Xiao Yiyuan's Mongols to go west, and the advantage of this is that they can quickly obtain supplies within the enemy's territory. However, it is obviously not very practical here. Sending a thousand soldiers only caught 500 people, if it wasn't for a surprise attack, it is estimated that they would not be able to catch a single one, and they would definitely have hid in the jungle.

In history, the Yuan Dynasty's expedition to Java was also a victory at the beginning, defeating the Javanese army of 100,000 and forcing Java to surrender. However, soon Java was shunned into the jungle and rebelled again. The Yuan soldiers were unable to obtain manpower, material and financial supplies from the local area, and finally fell into the vast sea of jungle warfare and people's war in Java and were defeated.

It can be said that the Mongol-style tactics are only suitable for densely populated areas where ordinary people have been under high pressure from the government for a long time. Because only densely populated areas can quickly get supplies and catch more strong men. Because only the common people who have been under the pressure of the government for a long time are accustomed to obedience and enslavement.

The five hundred strong men who were captured were obviously some primitive indigenous people, without any concept of class and obedience, and they swore to death and did not surrender, and in the end they were all ordered by Xiao Yiyuan to be beheaded and thrown into Crescent Bay.

That night, 20,000 sea guards marched to Coconut City, the capital of Java. A thousand soldiers were responsible for clearing the villages they encountered on the road, and instead of catching the strong men, they were all killed. Because as long as you kill everything, you won't leak the news. Otherwise, the indigenous people, with their familiarity with the terrain, are very likely to spread the news of the outflanking army to Coconut City first.

There are many examples of outflanking this tactic in history. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, during the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Navy attacked the port of Weihaiwei in Shandong, using this method. The Beiyang Navy Division obeyed Li Hongzhang's order and retreated in the harbor to carry out passive defense. In the end, the Japanese landed from Rongcheng Bay and broke through the Weihai Acropolis, and the Beiyang Naval Division in Weihai Port was attacked by the Japanese army by land and sea, and the whole army was annihilated.

The army built bridges when encountering water, opened roads when encountering mountains, crossed large and small rivers with dense water networks, climbed over mountains, and marched along the continuous mountain roads. Because the day was humid and hot, the army could only rest during the day and open the road at night. Due to the shrinkage of Javanese forces to the national capital, there were no troops in the southern jungle area of Java Island controlled by the Javanese. Under these circumstances, the 20,000 sea guards did not meet any resistance and rushed out of the basin where the coconut city was located.

Java, Coconut City, Royal Palace.

"My lord, the great army of the Chinese Empire has launched a fierce attack. The minister thought that this was a bluff by the enemy, and that it was very likely that the enemy army would land from elsewhere and outflank the capital. The minister suggested that 30,000 troops be left to defend the national capital, and the other armies should be distributed to defend the islands. Java General Shaomut suggested.

"It's all jungle around, and there's no port to land on, and even if they do, their army will have to go through the jungle, and it's a dead end. The Great Song Dynasty naval division was strong, and if the port was breached, the country would not have heavy troops, and the consequences would be unimaginable. This matter should not be brought up again. King Muro of Java denied.

Murro was right. The terrain of Java is strange, and there are many tropical poisons and miasma. For this reason, although the army has made preparations, the non-combat attrition is still very serious. The battle has not yet been fought, and after only ten days of walking, more than 2,000 people have been lost, which is more than the indigenous Javanese strong men killed on the road, Xiao Yiyuan is already full of anger. The mountain road was too difficult to walk, and many soldiers fell into the cliff and fell to their deaths. In order to transport all the equipment across the mountains, in order to prevent the rocket artillery trucks, the seven-tip artillery trucks fell into the cliffs, and many soldiers were exhausted to death. Even Xiao Yiyuan almost fell into a swamp for a rocket artillery car.

Fortunately, the army was prepared, bringing with them a large amount of sulfur, salt, tea, drinking water, dry food, and a mask to keep out the miasma. Therefore, the 20,000 sea guards did not kill themselves, as Murro said, but arrived in the Coconut City Basin.

Gao Fei and other ten generals, each led a thousand people, combed the entire Coconut City Basin, all the villages and towns were cleaned, and all the Javanese people were driven to the Coconut City to besiege the Coconut City.

Xiao Yiyuan led an army of 10,000 to raid the port of Coconut City from behind, and attacked the Javanese sailors in front and back. Fifty rocket artillery vehicles, five seven-tip guns, and an artillery array were arranged. The port of Coconut City was on fire, and the water village of the Javanese sailors was burned. Koizumi Taijiro knew that Xiao Yiyuan had succeeded, and ordered a breakthrough, the canoe warships of Sriwijaya were withdrawn, and the ten fighting ships of the Great Song Dynasty opened the way, and there was no threat of fireboats, the fighting ships rushed all the way, and the canoe boats in Java were shot into sawdust one by one.

After a short rest, the Three Buddhas followed up, and the 100,000 Three Buddhas lost 30,000 in the assault, and finally paid off. The canoe was scattered by the fighting ship, and the Javanese sailors who fell into the water were shot and killed one by one by the Sriwijaya sailors, and the entire Coconut City Port was stained red with blood.

The Great Song Dynasty and the Three Buddhas allied forces, a total of 130,000 people, but at this time there were less than 100,000 people, the Three Buddhas lost 30,000 people, and the Great Song Dynasty also lost more than 3,000 people. This made the imperial generals extremely angry, and Xiao Yiyuan was even more angry.

The 10,000-character dragon flag was flying, and the imperial army drove more than 300,000 people from the basin where the coconut city was located to the city of Coconut City, and 10,000 Srivijaya soldiers acted as executioners, constantly beheading the people of Java and forcing Java to surrender. If it weren't for the outflanking victory, it would have been taken by surprise and forced landing by the people of Java. Then, even if the port is breached, or even the coconut city is breached, the state of Java may escape into the mountains and forests and resist stubbornly.

However, if the battle becomes a jungle war, then to hold the coconut city is a long-term tug-of-war with Java.

King Muro of Java knew that the tide was over, and that the 300,000 people were all the citizens of West Java, and if he was killed, West Java would be completely wiped out. In desperation, Mu Luo led hundreds of Javanese civil and military officials out of the city to surrender to Xiao Yiyuan.

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