Twenty miles away, Zhu Luo's warships also spotted the Tang army's warships in the distance.
Coach Rajinder was as excited as a wild beast that found its prey, and shouted: "The Tang Army warships are coming, let them have a taste of our hellfire!"
In the entire Tianzhu Peninsula and its vicinity, the Zhuluo Kingdom's warships have always been the strongest, sweeping across the navies of all small countries. Even pirates fled when they saw their warships.
The reason is that they have a sharp weapon, Greek fire. They bought kerosene from Dashi. Their tactics are very simple. When the two ships approached, the Asan soldiers of the Chola Kingdom immediately filled the kerosene like raindrops.
The clay pots were thrown onto the opponent's ship and then set on fire with rockets.
This move has allowed the warships of the Chola Kingdom to run rampant for hundreds of years, and has already made the navy generals of the Chola Kingdom arrogant and arrogant.
Just like Asan now bought the BrahMos missile.
The ships of the two armies gradually approached and quickly dispersed, and they began to fight one by one on the vast sea.
What Li Chengshi didn't expect was that it was the artillery that took the lead. Two miles apart, more than a dozen artillery fires were fired at the same time. Five of the iron mines penetrated the ship wall and exploded in the middle of the ship. Two three thousand stone mines were fired.
The big ship was instantly blown to pieces.
Li Chengshi suddenly realized that artillery was the real killer weapon in future naval battles. It could sink enemy warships from miles away without getting close to the opponent at all.
It's a pity that they don't have many artillery, only twenty. Li Chengshi felt regretful. If he had known, he should have brought all the 200 artillery pieces in the Quanzhou warehouse.
Although there are not many artillery, arrows, thunder and explosive arrows are also powerful weapons against Chola warships.
The Tang army could attack the opponent within 200 to 100 steps, while the Zhu Luo soldiers could only throw from 30 steps.
Just this difference of more than a hundred steps was enough to put the Zhuluo fleet into an irreversible situation.
A heavy crossbow is fired from two hundred steps away. Although there is no problem firing from three hundred steps away, the sea surface is different from the land. The wind is high and the waves are strong. The sea wind has a great influence on the arrows, especially when the ship is moving.
It would be much easier to miss the shot and take two hundred steps.
The reason why arrow thunder is called arrow thunder is that first of all, it is an arrow with a sharp tip, and one inch below the arrow tip is a spherical fire thunder.
The arrow was nailed to the wall of the ship and exploded with a burst of fire and thick smoke. Of course, Zhu Luo's warship was far from being able to compare with the strong ships of the Tang army. A single arrow thunder could blast a large hole one foot wide, and the sea water
The violent surge rushed into the ship, and there were screams and wails inside the ship.
Facing the powerful firepower of the Tang army, the Zhuluo warships were completely vulnerable. In less than an hour, nearly sixty warships had sunk. Coach Rajinder was desperate. He only hated himself for being hot-headed and agreed to help Hu.
That thief Lin, he just wants to escape for his life.
His warship had just turned around, and Li Chengshi's main warship had already caught up behind his warship. When they were a hundred steps away, the Tang army's main ship turned sideways, its huge paddles rolling, at a fast speed, parallel to the enemy's main ship.
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At this time, two hundred soldiers of the Tang Army raised their crossbows and fired two hundred explosive arrows at the enemy warship. They exploded when they hit the ship. The two hundred explosive arrows shattered the entire ship wall, and the hull suddenly broke into pieces.
Two pieces fell on the sea with their heads up, and sank quickly.
All the soldiers of the Tang Army were stunned. No one could have imagined that Zhu Luo's warships were so fragile. How could such warships sail in the sea?
In fact, Chola ships never sailed in the deep sea. They always sailed along the coast and hid when a storm came.
Seeing that the main ship was sunk, the remaining forty or so warships turned around and fled. But it was impossible for them to escape. How could they go against the wind?
Like trapped wild boars, the Zhuluo warships were chased by the Tang army's warships one after another, and all the remaining 43 warships were bombed and sunk without missing a beat. The Tang army did not accept prisoners of war, and the soldiers held crossbows in their hands.
All the Chola soldiers lying on the broken logs in the sea were shot dead, and all ten thousand Chola soldiers sank into the sea to feed the fish.
At night, 20,000 Linyi soldiers marched exhaustedly on the official road.
The Linyi Kingdom is divided into two major tribes, the north and the south. The north is called the coconut tribe, and the south is called the betel nut tribe. There is a deep gap between the two tribes, which is equivalent to two countries. They were forcibly twisted together by the Linyi Kingdom because almost all the kings and nobles of the Linyi Kingdom were coconuts.
tribe, resulting in the Betel Nut tribe being suppressed.
In fact, today's Vietnam can also be called the coconut tribe in the north and the betel nut tribe in the south. The conflict between the two races has been an intractable knot in Vietnam for thousands of years.
The 20,000 soldiers marching on the official road are all soldiers of the Betel Tribe. They are willing to let them fight the Chenla people and plunder their property, but they are not willing to let them save the capital of the Coconut Tribe.
In particular, the eldest prince Hu Lin was very anxious and kept urging the soldiers to march. He refused to stop and rest even at night. The soldiers were already exhausted and complained.
At this time, many soldiers discovered that there was a fire burning on the roadside, and it burned quickly and spread rapidly to the official road. Before they could react, a series of huge explosions rang out along the ten-mile official road.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The explosion caused the soldiers to be bloody and bloody. Many soldiers were blown up into the sky. Twenty thousand soldiers screamed in fear and fled in all directions. Immediately afterwards, the two-mile-long official road burst into flames. The fire was raging and swallowed thousands of soldiers in an instant.
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The 20,000 soldiers were in complete chaos. At this moment, a low horn sounded, "Woo——"
A cavalry of 3,000 people came quickly. At this time, the soldiers of Lin Yi State had completely collapsed. No one wanted to resist the killing of Tang cavalry. Only the eldest prince Hu Lin led 2,000 soldiers to fight. However, seeing the cavalry of Tang Army,
The troops of Lin Yi State were frightened and turned to flee. The eldest prince Hu Lin turned around and urged his horse to flee. Arrows came like raindrops. He was hit by dozens of arrows in the back and screamed.
Fall off the horse.
The soldiers of the Tang Army pursued and killed them all the way, but found that except for the soldiers who were killed by bombs and burned to death, almost all other soldiers were missing.
In fact, it is normal. There is a forest not far from the official road. The soldiers fled into the woods one after another. In this case, they must have fled home. Who is willing to fight for the Coconut tribe? Besides, they were also attacked by the iron fire of the Tang army.
Lei and Keyou were frightened, especially the tragic scene of countless soldiers struggling in the fire, which made all the soldiers who saw it so frightened that they could not forget it even if they closed their eyes.
Ten days later, the navy docked at the mouth of the Chenla River. Not far away was the ancient city of Angu, the home of the Chola Kingdom. Seeing that the situation was not good, the three hundred Chola soldiers who were guarding the city abandoned the city and fled. However, these lone soldiers soon fell into
At the hands of the Chenla people, they were all brutally killed.
At this point, all the ten thousand Cholas who went on the expedition to the South Sea were wiped out. Not a single soldier escaped, not even a living person. Together with hundreds of warships, they all sank at the bottom of the South Sea.
Of course, the Zhu Luo Kingdom did not come to do charity. They came to plunder wealth and food. Lin Yi State mainly occupied the territory and also robbed some of the property. As for the food, Lin Yi State did not care about it and gave it all to the Zhu Luo Kingdom.
The Tang troops who entered Angu City were frightened. There were no residents in the one thousand households in the city. All the houses were filled with looted property and food. Li Chengshi was frightened for a while. Fortunately, the Zhu Luo soldiers did not burn them to the ground when they fled.
The loss would be too great.
Li Chengshi immediately ordered people to count the grain. It was all rice. In addition to the rice in each house, there was also a mountain of rice in the warehouse. This was rice plundered from the official warehouse, which amounted to about 800,000 shi.
The scattered rice collected in various rooms amounted to about 300,000 shi, not counting the 500,000 shi of rice in the Champa warehouse.
At this time, Du Huan advised: "Looking at the behavior of the Zhuluo people, you can see that they are very despicable. They even rob women of their copper jewelry. I guess they have robbed all the local people. It is better to return these folk food and money to the local people."
, to win people’s hearts, we will have to rely on them to grow rice in the future.”
Li Chengshi nodded and ordered the news to be spread. Soon, people from Zhenla who came from all directions formed a long queue outside Angu City.
For twenty days, 300,000 stones of grain and countless plundered properties were distributed to the people of Zhenla. For a time, the people of Zhenla burst into cheers and praised the Tang army as an army sent by the Buddha.
Unexpectedly, Queen Yilian of Shuizhenla also came to Angu City to pay a visit to the Tang Army coach.