There were many berths on the docks, and there were many sea boats, and most of the sea ships still had some sailors left on board, and they were even more frightened when they saw the tragic situation on the docks.

Niu Xu didn't continue to attack, turned around and looked at old Holzman and smiled: "Do you like the boats in front?" ”

“…… Little General, you mean-"

"I told you at the mouth of the river that when you get to Basra I will give you a boat and let you go and fish for the gold coins yourself. If you like it, you can pick one, and if you don't, I'll burn them all. ”

“…… Don't burn them, these are good ships, little general. Old Holzman said as he squinted excitedly at the ships, trying to pick out one of them.

After being bumpy in the wind and waves for half his life, he has been to Guangzhou Port a few times, but the money he earns is always not enough to spend, after all, he is only at the bottom of the family, and most of the profits belong to the high-level. Getting a boat of his own, this is something he never thought of, at the mouth of the river he only said it casually, but he didn't expect him to be serious.

As a sailor, owning your own boat can be said to be a lifelong dream, and the elder Holzman naturally had such an idea, but he always thought it was impossible. And now, there are so many good ships in front of him for him to choose from. Although there were still people on those ships, it didn't matter, as long as he chose, it would be his.

Niu Xu stood straight at the bow of the boat, squinting ahead as he waited for old Holzman to pick one. A lot of people have died along the way, and there may be more people to die today, maybe some people don't deserve to die, but it doesn't matter anymore. After being in the army for so long, the youthfulness on his body has faded and he has become a real cold-blooded soldier. For the Han family. Uncle Xiao Ma has never regarded foreign races as people, and the same is true of the Anxi soldiers, he was very uncomfortable when he first came from Chang'an, but now he is slowly getting used to it.

As Uncle Pony often said, the struggle between ethnic groups for living space is the most brutal, and there is no reason for such a fight. The winner gets everything and the loser gets nothing, as has always been the case. If you want Datang's iron cavalry to hit the sky, you have to be hard-hearted.

When the enemy stops resisting, you can greet them with a smile and establish a kind of servant relationship with them, but before that, you must destroy all those who resist by iron and blood, and those who obey me will prosper and those who disobey me will die. These eight words are not just empty words engraved outside the city of ten thousand years.

The Anxi Army has already shown its means, and now it is necessary to give these guys some time to react, and they do not plan to kill all the people here - of course, if they really want to do this, it may not be impossible to do it - leaving a little reaction time in the gap of the attack can make the people here more fearful and choose to surrender earlier.

As for letting old Holzman choose a boat, it was just a random move, and it didn't mean anything else. That was said then, and now there are so many ships. So much for. He is a winner and can naturally do whatever he wants.

This time. The fleet that surrendered was already in the rear of the fleet. But it's not time to really stop, and Niu Xu naturally won't contact these guys.

And Aziz was not idle at this time, he ordered every ship to take out a white cloth, and let the skilled sailors climb to the top of the mainmast, and fix the white cloth to count it as a white flag. At this time, no one paid attention to his fleet, and the people on the shore saw it. Didn't understand what it meant.

However, these were originally for the Tang fleet to see, and it was naturally nothing if other people didn't understand. He just told the Tang people in this way that we were truly surrendered.

The docks were still miserable, the dead were dead, and most of the wounded were deaf. He fell to the ground and screamed miserably, but he could not hear his own voice. The fleet did not continue to attack the shore, but the people in the distance did not dare to rescue the wounded. In fact, the thunderous roar terrified every witness, who was glad they had escaped and dared to enter this hellish area.

The fleet did not attack, but the people on board and on the shore became more and more afraid, but this fear did not last long, for old Holzman finally picked the ship.

"Little general, give me this one, I'm not a greedy person, this one is enough."

Niu Xu glanced at it, and the old Holzman picked a medium-sized flat-bottomed sea boat, which looked quite sturdy, neither new nor old, nor too small, and indeed not greedy. Old Holzman actually regarded these ships as the property of Niu Xu, and it took him a long time to choose this one, which was neither too shabby nor to anger the little general.

"Are you sure?"

"It's OK, that's it."

Niu Xu nodded and smiled, and saw that there were several sailors on the deck, surrounded by a desperate Persian merchant. Niu Xu picked up the huge bow from the ground and shot an arrow, which roared and tore through the air and pierced the merchant's throat, and shot a sailor behind the merchant.

The rest of the sailors on deck were taken aback, shouted and jumped into the water. Niu Xu smiled slightly and ordered: "This boat is left, and the rest of the ships are all destroyed!" ”

"Little general, it's a pity." Old Holzman was startled and hurriedly said.

Niu Xu ignored him, the flag bearer next to him waved the flag, and the next moment, the dense giant arrows had already flown out.

These ships were all docked at the berths, and the sailors on them had basically run out, and the rest of the men could not control the ships at all, so this time the Anxi army fired extremely sparsely and scattered, and only part of the ships were instantly ignited by the Greek fire.

However, this is already enough.

The flames scurried up and down the splint, and the burning ships turned into huge torches, and under the blazing heat, the nearby ships were ignited one after another, and they quickly burned.

Every fleet had Greek fires falling on it, so soon all the ships were on fire, and the fire soon spread to the docks, and all the facilities on the docks were also engulfed in flames.

Under the sun, the flames were blazing, and just above the dock, more than 100 ships gradually burned, fluttering and colliding with each other in the flames and smoke, and finally turned into a piece of ship.

The once busy port has become like a ghost. The only one still docked was a small fleet of less than ten sea vessels.

It's not that Niu Xu is open to this fleet, but that there is a sea ship selected by old Holzman in the fleet. In order to keep this ship, other ships in the fleet could not be ignited for the time being.

Smoke and flames rose in the harbor, and there were ships outside the harbor, but no one dared to enter the harbor again. They all drove away quickly along the river.

After a long time, the flames in the water were completely extinguished, as were the fires on the shore. Basra is a big city after all, with a large population living near the pier, and the fire burned the pier and then spread inside, and it was intercepted and extinguished.

Niu Xu led the athletes to skillfully steer the big boat and approached the messy dock. On the flotilla, which was lucky not to catch fire, the only sailors stood on the deck, looking extremely confused. I saw the Tang military ships approaching. Many sailors suddenly looked alive, pointed at the fleet with swords and began to shout loudly, obviously some guys who put life and death on the line. If it weren't for the fact that it was still far away, these guys would probably have jumped ship.

In desperate situations, people can always burst out with courage that they don't usually have, and this is the case with these old sailors who are reluctant to leave the ship. On the Fufeng, Yuan Rong crossbowmen appeared one after another on the side of the ship. The athletes, who were originally in charge of loading arrows in the Eight Ox Crossbow Hut, are now on deck.

The Persian sailors wanted to fight for their lives. However, Niu Xu naturally refused to give them this opportunity, and he was sure to take down all these guys in hand-to-hand combat. However, now that he is in command of an army alone, as a general, he naturally will not do such a thing. Niu Xu waved his hand, and Yuan Rong's crossbow arrows were like flying locusts, nailing all the Persian sailors on the deck to the deck.

At this time, the distance was still quite far, at least in the eyes of the Persians. These sailors had never seen the methods of the new army of Anxi, and at this time they were really blind, and they did not know how the opponent's arrows were shot at such a distance.

There were no more people on the deck of the opposite fleet, and Niu Xu ordered the fleet to come over. The Fufu's bow winch turned, and a huge plank with sharp steel spikes fell heavily onto one ship, connecting the two ships tightly.

This plank also has its origin, called "crow", which was used in ancient Roman naval warfare to lock up enemy ships and then the infantry jumped onto enemy ships for a ship-grabbing battle. Although it is no longer the time to engage in broadside battles, Ma Lan himself likes this thing, so the Fufeng built this thing early on.

Niu Xu walked briskly on the "crow", with a narrow horizontal knife in his hand, and old Holzman followed happily, for this was the ship he had chosen. Of course, there are a lot of good clothes that were burned just now, and there are many bigger and better than this, but this one is also very good after all.

A few athletes with Yuan Rong crossbows and horizontal knives also followed, went down to the cabin to search carefully, and confirmed that there were no sailors in ambush before they came up. Niu Xu handed over the ship to old Holzman, and the old sailor smiled happily, and the whole person seemed much more energetic.

After all, this is his ship.

This boat was given to old Holzman, which fulfilled the promise, and the rest of the ships had not been burned before, so naturally there was no need to burn them again. Burning these ships is no longer useful for Liwei, Niu Xu is a person who does whatever he wants, and he doesn't want to burn it at this time, so he won't burn it anymore.

At this time, in addition to these ships on this side, the original surrender fleet was left in the harbor. The flotilla was far from the dock and lowered its sails in a corner of the harbor, each with a white cloth hanging from its masts. In this sense, Niu Xu naturally understands that with such a fleet, the family behind it must be quite powerful. Since the other party is willing to surrender, he is also happy to give the other party a chance. After all, the city will always be ruled by the Dehgans.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Niu Xu beckoned to the leader of the fleet, who was obviously very eyesighted, and motioned for him to come and speak. The other party immediately understood, and soon a life-saving dinghy was put down and rowed hard towards the dock. (To be continued......)