At this time, the soldiers who were ambushed on both sides of the doorway fired rockets, and the warships below were in flames. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The pirates desperately wanted to extinguish the fire, but the rockets at this time were too dense, in addition to the rockets, there were also many canisters of fire oil thrown on the ship, ignited by the rockets, these cans of fire oil were filled with animal fat and whale oil, after burning, it was not so easy to extinguish!

As a result, the fire grew bigger and bigger, and many ships that were not smashed in cans were also ablazed.

It's not that these warships don't want to avoid it, it's that the tide has pressed them all together, and they can't move forward, and there are still tides pushing behind them, and retreating is even more extravagant. The pirate leader made a quick decision and ordered everyone to abandon the ship and swim back.

Fortunately, all pirates are good at making waves, and even if the tide is hard, they can swim back quickly.

At the same time, the main damage of the rocket is to the ship, and basically there is not much damage to the non-commissioned soldiers. When the pirates retreated under the cover of the ships, the archers of Linhai City did not take the opportunity to shoot them. After all, pirates who go into the water are not armoured and have basically no defenses.

The pirates fled back to the rest of the fleet, and when they counted them, they found that there were not many fewer soldiers. Basically, except for a few unlucky guys, they didn't suffer much damage, and most of them were burned.

However, there are quite a few losses from the ship! There are more than 200 ships that did not come back, and 200 ships are also wounded, so I am lucky to be able to escape!

After all, by the time the ships behind them are burned, the tide is already receding, so those boats can exit the waterway with the low tide current.

Now, after losing his troops, the Jiang City Lord is a little reluctant to retreat. After all, more than half of the casualties have been killed! But. The city lord did insist on continuing the attack.

His goal was simple: to take the city by force. If he captures it, he is not a lost dog, and he may turn over and become the master.

If you can't capture it, it doesn't matter if you lose a few people. Because if you can't attack it, you will have to run away, and those soldiers will not be your own! Naturally, I don't feel distressed when I die.

City Lord Jiang also knew the careful thinking of City Lord Wang, City Lord Wang hoped to capture this city to compensate for the loss of Wangxiang City, in fact, City Lord Jiang didn't mean this?

Anyone who sees the walls of this seaside city will fall in love with it. However, now it can't be captured in Linhai City, there is no way!

"I thought that this iron cable is a meter below the water, and it should be exposed at low tide, if we send a special ship to prevent arrows from above and sawn this iron cable below, we can continue to attack!" City Lord Wang hurriedly offered advice!

"If I'm looking for a small boat. Add a top cover and cover it with damp sand. Cowhide should be effective against arrows. Then take advantage of the low tide, row the boat over, make the chain stuck into the boat, put it under the top cover, and then put the chain in the charcoal fire, burn it red and soft, and then saw the chain, so that it will break the iron cable of Linhai City! ”

I have to say that this Wang City Lord is not simple, and several suggestions have solved the trap of Li Tang's painstaking management. However, if you want to crack the iron rope across the river, is it really that simple? You'll definitely have to try it to find out.

In this way, it took the pirates more than a dozen hours to build a special small ship. The boat did not have a high bow, stern and superstructure, it was all sawn off in its entirety.

And throughout the length of the boat, a low roof was built with wet wooden stakes, and this roof was made of wet cowhide and wet mud, a layer of wet cowhide, a layer of wet mud, a whole three layers, which ordinary bows and crossbows could not shoot through.

In addition, the width of the canopy slightly exceeds the side of the ship, which can effectively protect the paddlers, and the open space can be arranged to accommodate many soldiers to protect this special vessel.

In addition, a set of shelves is arranged in the bow of the ship, which can fix the chains under the chains to avoid the chains from shaking, which is not conducive to sawing the chains, and a brazier is placed in the middle of the shelves, in which more charcoal fires are placed, and there are blowers under the charcoal fires.

With such an arrangement, without being disturbed by the outside world, it must only be a matter of a few hours to break the iron cables of Linhai City!

Seeing a fireship personally supervised by City Lord Wang, City Lord Jiang and all the generals were impressed!

This gave them a lot more confidence in breaking through Linhai City.

After all, if the problem of chains is not solved, they are just dogs biting hedgehogs, and they have no way to eat! No matter how high your skills are, if you can't meet the enemy, it's for nothing!

When the people had been delayed for a day, they sent out a fireboat to burn the chains.

At this time, the defenders in the city, under the command of Ye Biao, did not stop the fireship from burning the chains. After all, there is more than one chain in the waterway, and there are two more that have been sawn off by burning and sawing off!

Ye Biao and the others also wanted to know how this fireship could break the chains, and how long it would take to break the chains, so that they could take targeted defenses in the future!

Well, this fireship is also sharp, taking advantage of the low tide, sailing into the doorway, all the arrows and rockets fired on both sides are left on the roof, and the fire cannot burn at all. As for the canisters, there is no one who has the strength to throw them so far and so accurately, because the fireboat has been walking in the middle of the doorway, and it is very far away on both sides. In this way, under the deliberate release of water in Linhai City, the fireship smoothly drove to the chain, used the shelf to jam the chain, and began to make a fire to burn the red chain, and then under the protection of the ceiling, while sawing and chiseling, it took an hour before and after, and the chain with the thickness of the arm was broken in response.

At this time, the fireship completed its task and hurriedly withdrew. At this time, it is still in the period of low tide, and the pirate fleet cannot attack at this time, and if you want to attack, you can only wait for the high tide the next day!

However, the investigation operation cannot be delayed! Last time, the fleet suffered a big loss, just because the Hengjiang chain was not found, this time you must look carefully, don't act rashly, and if you encounter a Hengjiang chain, it will be big!

It turned out that during the previous reconnaissance, the chain was loosened and the chain sank to the bottom, so no one found it. This investigation is much more careful!

It was the modified fireship that undertook the reconnaissance mission, and this time the fireship could not go in the middle, because the position of the chain could not be seen clearly when it went in the middle. If you loosen the chain and throw it into the water when the tide is low, and put it away when the tide is high, your boat will not be unlucky again!

Therefore, you can only go to the side, because no matter how the chain is put into the water, the roots will still be above the water!

But when I walked to the side, the oil tank on the top of my head was all thrown on top of the top cover! Although it didn't burn under the cabin, it almost roasted the pirate soldiers below to death!

After a lifetime of investigation, the fireboat, which looked like a big torch, finally completed its mission, and found out that there were two other chains in the waterway, but now they have been put into the water, and there is no way to burn them again!

Even if you go to burn the chains, you have to extinguish the fire on the ship and replace the roof again!

I heard that there were still two chains, but the two city lords were a little hesitant! Let's attack! I was really scared by Linhai City.

Withdraw it! I am unwilling, and I have already broken a chain, which is equivalent to a good start, and it may not be difficult for the rest of the chains to be broken!

In fact, why did Ye Biao let the pirates break a chain safely, first, he wanted to see what the shortcomings of this chain were, and secondly, he wanted to give the pirates a little hope, not to withdraw, and to create an opportunity for Li Tang to capture Xiyu City.

It's two flowers blooming again, and when the pirates are doing a lot of work and being aggrieved, Li Tang's side is in full swing!

Li Tang captured Wangxiang City, and the population alone was more than 500,000. However, some of the soldiers were not many, only more than 100,000 people, and most of the soldiers were taken out to attack Linhai City.

What interests Li Tang is a large number of docks and shipbuilding engineers, these docks can produce 15-16 silver-class 120-meter large war ships every month under the condition of ensuring materials, not producing other civilian ships, and starting work day and night, so that there are more than 180 ships a year!

It can be seen that this is the benefit of upgrading to the county level, and even the original primary dock and intermediate dock can be upgraded to advanced docks, so the natural production capacity has also been raised.

In addition, to Li Tang's surprise, there are 7 special shipbuilders in the city, it seems that this Wangxiang City is also rich!

In addition, if you move to Linhai City with the special shipbuilders collected from the other two cities, your own special slipway should be useful! It should be possible to build that oversized sailing ship and giant building ship.

In addition to the population, of course, there is also a huge amount of gold coins, the number of which is up to 1.1 million gold coins. Obviously, this Wangxiang City is much richer than Flying Eagle Castle and White Wolf City! And there are countless supplies!

Of course, Li Tang doesn't need to worry about all this, what Li Tang has to do is to quickly arrange defense, reorganize the army, and prepare to capture Xiyu City.

Of course, it took two days for the team to rest and adjust.

Two days later, when the Combined Fleet was still preparing fireships outside Linhai City, Li Tang had already led his team towards the last pirate city, Chi Xiyu City.

However, a day later, Li Tang's army had already arrived in the waters outside Xiyu City. Speaking of which, this Xiyu City is located on Baisha Island, and the terrain is still relatively flat, and the water village is still located outside the city wall.

Li Tang's fleet first sent the elite to take the lead in boarding the water village, and then also sent a lot of red horse boats to carry the elite to seize the beach, but Xiyu City did not send how soldiers out of the city to snipe, it is estimated that they have been warned, the infantry combat strength of Linhai City is not ordinary, and they can't go out of the city to meet each other unless they have to!

Of course, this choice is indeed a wise move for the defenders of Xiyu City after all. After Li Tang took the lead in landing, he immediately released a large number of soldiers to stabilize the beach defense line first, and sent elites to land on the water village from the land to completely seize the water village.