After the explanation, the city lord of Ji Shiguo finally understood what caused these people to attack him, and he calmed down from the initial shock. But no one wanted to spit out the meat in his mouth, and what was worse was that he misjudged the current situation, thinking that these 'Mozhina' people were just bluffing and did not dare to make trouble far from their own country, so he rejected their demand for the return of the goods and ships, and also demanded that the 'Mozhina' people pay a ransom before they were released.

The reason why the city lord of Ji Shi Kingdom dared to do this was also confident, he sat on the fortified city, and he had 30,000 well-equipped mercenaries and more than 50 'large' warships under his command, and his strength was second to none among the surrounding states. If the pirates and other city-state armies came to attack him, he would be nervous, because they were all landowners, and they were interested in their wealth, and they united against him, and the Great Khan generally did not interfere, and paid him the same tribute no matter who won. But these Mozhina people are different, they dare to do it here, that is, to challenge the whole country, they can call on the surrounding city-states to come and resist the invasion together, and they have a country as their backing.

It can be remembered that the city lord of Shiguo made a big mistake this time, the Great Song Dynasty fleet sailed thousands of miles to find fault, if he obediently released people and returned the ship and compensated for the loss, Cheng Xishou was really embarrassed to do it. Since they have rejected their kindness, there is no need to be polite. At this time, the enemy warships in the harbor had also left the harbor and lined up on their west flank, ready to attack, and the city was also densely packed with soldiers ready to defend, and an army was assembled on the coast, with infantry in front and cavalry in the rear. Rely on a simple wooden village to resist a possible landing of enemy troops.

"The Divine Might led the detachment to meet the enemy fleet; The battleship Yong unloaded the marines and covered their landing; Hengshan, Huashan and Songshan ships shelled the city. Open the breach and escort the Marines into the city! Cheng Xishou listened to the report, smiled slightly and gave the battle order. The flagship 'Songshan' raised the battle flag. The various detachments also raised their flags one after another after receiving the order, regrouped into a combat state, and seized their positions.

The 10 Brave Battleships carrying the Marines approached the coast as close as they could, and fired first with their starboard guns, targeting the enemy forces on the shore who were preparing to resist the landing. More than 200 artillery pieces were fired one after another, and shells flew overwhelmingly to the shore, and before the coastal defense troops of Ji Shiguo could wake up from the loud noise, the roaring flowering shells exploded in their array, and the flying shrapnel covered the enemy in an instant. The seemingly solid wooden village seems to be a papier-mâché in front of the solid bullet.

The 2,000 coastal defense troops of Jishi Kingdom collapsed in an instant in the overwhelming artillery fire. There was no place to hide on the open beach, and they fled and ran in vain to the sound of the explosion, and the iron armor on their bodies could not resist the flying shrapnel and the shock wave generated by the explosion. After two rounds of artillery fire, the smoke over the beach was blown away by the salty sea breeze, and there was a dead silence in front of people's eyes. The mercenaries, who had just returned to their imposing form, had been reduced to stumps and corpses all over the ground, with broken knives and broken guns, scarlet blood soaking the beach and converging into streams of blood that flowed into the sea, dyeing the waters on the shore a bewitching pink.

The lord of the country, who was watching the battle from the city, straightened up from behind the wall and poked his head out to look down. His face suddenly became very ugly, and he couldn't help but vomit. The others were no better, and more than 2,000 men had collapsed before they could meet the enemy, with an incredible number of casualties. There were hardly any of those who fled unharmed, and they were frightened and confused. Collapsed on the ground, apparently frightened.

The landing operation of the Song army has also begun at this moment. They went down from the port side of the battleship to the small boat, and then in units. Formed in loose formation, they paddled hard towards the shore and launched an assault. The heavy guns of the superships anchored at sea also began to fire, but the target of the bombardment was the walls of the island, and they wanted to open a way for the landing marines to attack the city. The heavy guns on the super giant ships are all more than 2,000 catties, firing 50 catties of iron projectiles, which is extremely powerful. But there are also drawbacks that are difficult to eliminate, and the huge recoil generated by the launch makes it difficult for the supership to bear, and it is equipped with only two doors on each side, and it is fired alternately to avoid damage to the hull.

The supership shuddered as the heavy cannon fired, and the muzzle of the cannon erupted flames several feet long, the heat making the air seem to distort, and the heavy projectiles flew out with a dull whistling sound, and smashed into the granite walls in an instant. The huge impact force made the heavy city tremble, and the soldiers at the head of the city also swayed, and the city lord of Ji Shi Country sat on the ground with unsteady heels.

"Catapult launch!" The city lord of Ji Shi Kingdom sat on the ground and shouted hoarsely, he was going to launch a counterattack. At this moment, he has already understood that the opponent's fierce attack is not just a matter of asking for money, this is for his own city and his own life.

At the behest of the city lord, the soldiers finally came to their senses, and the trebuchets placed at the head of the city began to fire, but their range could not reach the ships adrift in the sea, so they vented their anger on the enemy soldiers who were preparing to land. And they just started to start, and the Song warships covering the landing immediately opened fire to suppress it, and for a time there was a contest between stone artillery and artillery, and stone and iron bullets flew in the sunset, bringing death to each other.

Although the stone cannon could fire heavier stone shells, its firing speed, hit rate and range were far inferior to that of artillery, and it was soon defeated, and the tall artillery carriage became a pile of broken wood, and even the watchtower indicating the target of fire collapsed in the fierce artillery fire of the Song army. At this moment, the city wall, which was an important barrier, was also shaken by the constant bombardment of heavy artillery, and the stone wall cracked, spreading everywhere at a visible speed, and finally collapsed under another round of blows.

With the collapse of the city wall and the sound of artillery came to an abrupt end, the officers and men of the first battalion of the 4th Marine Brigade immediately took advantage of the smoke and panic rising into the sky, rushed into the city, seized the breakthrough, and seized the commanding heights of the city wall. The city built on the island could not be too large, and there would be no inner city, but they were hesitant to face the chaotic streets and shops and the crowds of people fleeing in all directions.

"Don't wait, compress the enemy to the north of the city!" Dong Qi, the commander of the fourth brigade who accompanied the second wave of landing, understood that the soldiers were afraid of accidentally injuring the merchants and civilians mixed in it, but if you don't kill him on the battlefield, the enemy troops mixed in it will not show mercy, so he ordered loudly.

With the order, the soldiers began to attack without worries, under the fire of the bullet guns, how could the enemy army wielding scimitars be opponents, the organized resistance was quickly crushed, and as the crowd fled to the north of the city under the siege of the Song army, fortunately there was no enemy occupation outside the city gate and allowed them to escape from the purgatory-like city. At this moment, all the soldiers of the Marine Brigade entered the city, gradually controlled the traffic arteries in the city, began to clear the remnants of the enemy street by street, advanced to the city lord's mansion, and launched a search to find the detained merchants of the Great Song Dynasty......

While the battles on the island were unfolding one after another, battles at sea had also broken out. The warships of the country of Ji Shiguo departing from the port lined up on the sea and lined up in several horizontal formations. Their warship, known as 'Zoman', was a long, narrow and fast warship, which was built to reduce its seaworthiness and comfort, cargo capacity and maximum range in order to increase its speed and maneuverability. The boat was powered by 50 to 200 oarsmen and a spinnaker, with masts erected at the front and rear of the hull, and three sets of oars arranged on each side. But the sail is only used as an auxiliary power in peacetime, and in combat it is only driven by the oars, and in the battle sprint, the oarsmen do their best to paddle at a maximum speed of seven knots per hour by the modern standard.

In addition to the sailors, the soldiers on the ships were equipped with cold weapons such as swords, javelins, bows and arrows, and it can be seen that they still used close-quarters boarding tactics as their main means of combat. Its most powerful weapon is a metal ramming angle at the bow waterline, which looks like a long and pointed elephant's trunk from a distance, and the warship will use this hard metal 'nose' to hit the enemy ship in battle, once the ramming angle is inserted into the side of the enemy ship, it will cause fatal wounds to the enemy ship, and even sink instantly.

Now the commander of the Navy of Ji Shiguo found that the enemy troops on the opposite side had actually formed a column to meet the battle, and what was even more strange was that they actually faced themselves with the side side and were at right angles to the bow of their own ship, which was a good opportunity to give full play to the ramming tactics. Fighter planes are often fleeting, and the commander of Ji Shiguo clearly seized the opportunity, and he immediately ordered the ships to speed up to engage the enemy, sending the enemy ships to the bottom of the sea with a rapid impact.

......The sailors acted in unison to the beat of the war drums according to the unified command, using their muscles to act as the engine of the warship, and the helmsman held the rudder handle to adjust the direction of the warship to ensure that the angle of attack could hit the vital parts of the enemy ship. The warriors, on the other hand, clinged to the cable on the side of the ship to prevent their bodies from flying out with the great inertia during the collision, and with the other hand raised their bronze shields above their heads to protect them from damage caused by the enemy's weapons projectiles, all of which appeared to be well-trained.

"Target, enemy ship ahead, solid shells, ready to shoot!" Seeing the enemy ships rushing like half-floating whales on the sea, Liu Zhenwu, the commander of the Shenzi-class detachment, ordered the Quanzhou Naval Division to be loaded with artillery.

"Five hundred steps, the first guns of each ship are test-fired!"

"Four hundred and fifty steps, salvo!" After the test firing, the guns of each ship immediately adjusted the firing according to the measured data, and after receiving the order to open fire, each gun fired continuously at intervals of two breaths, and in the continuous sound of explosions, the shells were discharged one after another and fell in the enemy ship group, setting off a curtain of water that soared into the sky, and the battleship was also shrouded in thick gunsmoke...... (To be continued......)