Yang Peng said oh. Seeing his uncaring look, Yan Ji asked angrily: "Husband, haven't you woken up yet? The enemy fleet is out in full force!"
Yang Peng chuckled, "I know. Isn't it just the English fleet coming out in full force?" Yan Ji looked at Yang Peng suspiciously and asked, "Husband, is this all part of your plan?" Yang Peng laughed. Said: "Your husband and I are not a fortune teller, how can I predict this!" Yan Ji said angrily: "Then why do you seem to be okay? The enemy fleet is coming out in full force. I am afraid this city cannot be defended. Yes! Husband, you are His Majesty the Ming Dynasty. Your safety affects the whole world, so you must evacuate the dangerous area immediately!" Yang Peng smiled and waved his hands: "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous! There are seven or eight thousand defenders in this city, and the English fleet is coming to attack. I don’t think I can get much advantage!”
Seeing that her lover still looked so well-rested, Yan Ji felt angry and admired at the same time. Her nervous mood calmed down a lot, and she said: "Although what my husband said makes sense, I can't stay here no matter what. You must leave immediately!”
Yang Peng pressed Yan Ji's shoulders with both hands, kissed her red lips, and said with a smile: "Your husband and I have been through fire and water, what kind of scene have I never seen! Don't worry, don't worry!" Jian Yan Ji wanted to persuade her again, so she said: "Anyway, I promise you, if the city really encounters an irreversible crisis, I will definitely lead an army to break out immediately and will not stay here!" Yan Ji sighed and rolled her eyes at her lover. , said angrily: "My concubine, I can't convince you anyway! I'm so angry!" Yang Peng saw her slightly angry and charming look, and couldn't help but move his index finger, and couldn't help but kiss her red lips again. Yan Jifang's heart skipped a beat, and her beautiful eyes looked at her lover lovingly, her endless lingering unspoken.
Yang Peng smiled and said: "Now is not the time, let's go out and take a look." Yan Ji rolled her eyes at her lover, and the two went out together.
After a while, we came to the west city wall. At this time, all the armies were in position, the artillery had taken off its gun jackets, and was in full position, waiting for the enemy to attack. When Sun Chao, the governor of Donglai, saw His Majesty and the empress coming, he hurriedly came up to greet him, cupped his fists and bowed: "Your Majesty, your empress!"
Yang Peng walked to the wall and looked towards the sea. Sure enough, he saw the English fleet pouring out. Countless large and small warships covered the sky and sea. The scene was magnificent and the momentum was astonishing. Sun Chao said: "Not long ago, the English fleet suddenly came out! They deliberately waited until our fleet left for a few days before attacking. They must have wanted to break through the city and occupy Donglai before our fleet arrived for reinforcements!" Yang Peng nodded, Said: "You are right." Then he smiled and said: "But the English fleet wants to attack Donglai in a short time. I'm afraid it is a dream!" Sun Chao nodded, but frowned, as if he didn't have much confidence. .
Yang Peng asked with a smile: "Why, no confidence?"
Sun Chao clasped his fists and said, "I have been ordered to guard Donglai, and I swear to live and die with Donglai City! However, I am just worried that I will not be able to hold on until the navy fleet comes back!"
Yang Peng smiled and said: "Previously, the English fleet attacked Xiou Island. The defenders on Xiou Island were much smaller than those on Donglai Island. If Guan Ping had not fallen into the opponent's trick, the English fleet would definitely not have captured Xiou Island so far. .Why are you so unsure?"
Sun Chao said: "Your Majesty clearly knows that the situation on Xi'ou Island is different from that of Donglai. Xi'ou City is located on the sea and has natural dangers, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack. The city wall is made of huge rocks and is very strong. Therefore, although the two adults of Guan Ping and Guan Shan have no strength, Not much, but we can persist. The sea around Donglai is open, the land is flat, and the city wall is only made of bricks and wood. The overall situation is completely different from that of Xiou. If the enemy attacks by sea and land at the same time, Donglai will be in danger!"
Yang Peng patted Sun Chao on the shoulder and said: "As the commander-in-chief of this place, you should have confidence! Don't just think about the difficulties, but also think about your own advantages! Donglai does have many disadvantages compared to Xiou. But it has an advantage that Xiou did not have at that time, that is, the naval fleet is not too far away! You don't need to persist for too long, the naval fleet will definitely arrive, and then the crisis will be resolved!" Sun Chao's heart moved. , clasping fists in agreement.
Yang Peng said: "You go and command the battle. The defense and battle here is your responsibility, and I will not interfere." Sun Chao bowed and agreed, and went down.
Yang Peng turned around and looked at the approaching English fleet on the sea, with a thoughtful look on his face. Yan Ji walked to Yang Peng and asked with some worry: "Husband, do you really believe that Wang Hai, Wang Rong and their navy can arrive in time?" Yang Peng smiled and said, "Of course." Yan Ji saw that her lover was so confident It seems that the worry can't help but dissipate a lot.
Soon after, an English fleet separated from the main fleet and rushed straight towards the northern coast. Driving ashore beyond the threat of gunfire from the city's defenses, thousands of English marines landed. At the same time, the main fleet of England used gunboats to bombard the coastal city wall. The defensive artillery fire on the city wall immediately responded. The cannonballs from both sides flew in the sky. The loud rumbling sound was like the rolling thunder in a storm. The water column on the sea rose to the sky, and the city wall There was a violent crash, and broken bricks flew into the sky.
While the English fleet bombarded the city wall with artillery fire, the landing fleet docked and dropped the landing troops, and together with the landing troops from the north, stormed the city. Suddenly, thousands of English Marines rushed towards the city like a swarm of ants!
Thousands of people in the city who had not had time to evacuate were hiding in their residences, listening to the thrilling sounds of war coming from outside. They were terrified, only worried that the enemy would suddenly rush into the city.
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The war lasted from morning to noon, and from noon to night. The English army's offensive was very fierce. Although the Ming army resisted with all its strength, the situation turned out to be just as Sun Chao feared, and the city defense was in danger. The northern city wall was still in good condition, but the western city wall was severely bombarded by the opponent's naval guns, causing gaps in many places. Enemies poured in through the gaps, and the Ming Dynasty defenders fought to the death to block each gap.
Night fell, night fell, and the fierce battle continued. The artillery fire of the English fleet was like a storm blowing from the sea, raging through the city. Under this violent power, the city walls continued to collapse, and the defenders were already overwhelmed. The British Marines continued to attack fiercely, and the defenders felt the pressure increasing, and they could hardly hold on.
Yan Ji saw that the city wall was about to lose its hold and the defenders had reached their limit. She hurriedly said to Yang Peng: "Husband, we can't hold on anymore. Let's retreat quickly!" Yang Peng looked at the sea in the distance and murmured: "We should That's almost it!" Yan Ji was stunned, not knowing what her lover was talking about. At this moment, a loud rumbling sound suddenly came from a city wall! Yan Ji hurriedly looked around, and was shocked to see an entire wall collapse, and hundreds of British Marines howling and rushing in, like a flood that broke a dike. More than a hundred defenders rushed to block the attack, and the two sides immediately fell into a fierce melee. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty risked their lives to fight back and were able to withstand the enemy's attack, but there were too many enemies, and they obviously couldn't hold on for long!
Yan Ji quickly turned her head and said, "Husband..."
Yang Peng ran towards the gap and said, "You stay here, I have to help!" Before he could finish speaking, he was already on the ladder of the city wall. Yan Ji said in an authentic tone: "You said you would retreat as soon as there was danger! Huh, that's really annoying!" She followed suit. Although Yang Peng wanted her to stay, how could she watch her husband go to fight while she stayed comfortably aside!
Yang Peng mounted his war horse, raised his iron horse, and rushed into the enemy. The iron horse flew up and down in his hand, knocking the enemies to the ground one by one. Seeing His Majesty personally going into battle, the defenders' morale was greatly boosted. Everyone fought back like crazy. The little advantage the English had already had was instantly lost!
Yang Peng slaughtered everyone in the enemy army, leaving blood and flesh flying everywhere. No one in England, whether they were soldiers or generals, could stop him. Several Englishmen howled and rushed towards Yang Peng. Yang Peng stabbed the Englishman's chest with one hand, and with all his strength, he smashed the Englishman's body against the Englishman next to him, a corpse and a person. It immediately rolled into a ball. At this time, the third English man howled and rushed to Yang Peng's left side, raising his one-handed tomahawk to attack Yang Peng. Yang Peng didn't have time to withdraw Ma Shan, but he didn't panic. He quickly pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist with his left hand and was about to kill the opponent. However, at this moment, a spear pierced the Englishman's chest first. Then Yang Peng saw a beautiful figure appearing behind the Englishman, it was his wife Yan Ji, and couldn't help but laugh.
"Why are you here?" Yang Peng asked with a smile.
Yan Ji rolled her eyes at her lover, pulled back the spear with both hands, and the Englishman's body fell down. Yan Ji glanced at Yang Peng and said angrily: "My husband is here, how can I stay here and watch the show!" Yang Peng laughed, "Okay! You're welcome! Today we, husband and wife, will kill his mother. A scene!" Yan Ji showed excitement, then her face changed, and she shouted urgently: "Husband, be careful!"
Yang Peng had already heard the sound of wind coming from behind him. He turned around and saw a big man who looked like an English general rushing up with a warhammer in both hands and howling. Yang Peng raised the corner of his mouth, showing an excited smile. The big man howled like a grizzly bear, and then moved his warhammer with both hands to smash down on Chen Xiao's horse's head.
As soon as Yang Peng pulled the reins of the horse, the horse immediately rose up. The war hammer made a loud sound and swept across the war horse's neck. Although this hammer did not hit, you can still clearly feel the huge power contained in this hammer!
The front hooves of the war horse fell down, and Yang Peng smashed the horse's shaft onto his opponent's head. The horse's shaft tore through the air and roared with great momentum!
When the big English man saw his opponent Ma Shu coming with such ferocious force, he turned pale with fright and hurriedly dodged. However, he escaped the fate of a broken head, but failed to avoid the fate of a broken shoulder. The sword-shaped gun blade at the front of Ma Shan stabbed heavily into the opponent's shoulder, blood surged, and at the same time loud screams were heard. Yang Peng took back Ma Shan and prepared to give him a fatal blow. At this moment, a figure rushed past, screamed, and stabbed the big English man in the chest with a gun in both hands! Then he kicked him on the lower abdomen and withdrew the spear. The big English man screamed and fell to the ground on his back. The man stepped forward and shot him a few more times in the chest. He was completely dead!
The person who suddenly rushed out to help Yang Peng kill the English man was none other than Yan Ji. Yang Peng saw that Yan Ji, who was extremely beautiful and charming in front of him, actually had such a fierce side. She looked like a tigress when she killed people! Yang Peng couldn't help but be stunned. Yan Ji turned around and saw her lover staring at her in a daze with wide eyes. She couldn't help but blush and gave him a sideways glance. Yang Peng came back to his senses and couldn't help but twitch his index finger. He felt that Yan Ji at this time really had an indescribable charm, which almost took away his soul!
Yang Peng and Yan Ji finally failed to reverse the situation, and this gap was about to become irresistible.
Yan Ji, whose body was covered with mottled blood, rushed to Yang Peng's side and said urgently: "Husband, you must go!"
Yang Peng frowned, looked up into the distance, and murmured: "Did I get it wrong?!"
The enemy's howls kept coming, getting louder and louder. Seeing more and more enemies pouring into the gap, the soldiers were almost completely overwhelmed by the opponent! Yan Ji didn't care whether Yang Peng agreed or not, so she quickly grabbed Yang Peng's horse rein and ran towards the city. The other soldiers fought desperately. At this time, they had to buy time for His Majesty to retreat safely.
However, at this moment, confusion suddenly broke out among the enemies, and then the attack gradually stopped. Immediately afterwards, the English Marines who had entered the city screamed and scrambled to escape. Seeing this, Yang Peng quickly shouted to Yan Ji, who was pulling the reins of his horse and running towards the city: "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! The enemy has retreated!" Yan Ji stopped and turned to look at the gap. Sure enough, when he saw that the enemy who was originally attacking was rushing to escape, he couldn't help but feel depressed and said, "What's going on?"
Yang Peng listened carefully and heard that the sounds of fighting everywhere were quickly fading away. Looking towards the city wall, the original scene of vigorous artillery fire was gone. The sound of enemy artillery fire on the sea seemed to have changed its direction. At the same time, from further away, But there were bursts of huge gunfire.
Yang Peng was overjoyed and said: "It seems that my previous prediction was correct! Go to the city wall!" Then without waiting for Yan Ji's reply, he bent down and picked up Yan Ji, put her on the saddle in front of him, and then He galloped towards the city wall.
When they came to the city wall, they saw the flickering fire on the sea, almost turning the night into day. Under the light of the fire, a huge fleet suddenly appeared on the northern sea. It was the main force of the Ming Dynasty that had been away for a few days. The fleet, they are rushing towards the enemy's flank in a sword-shaped assault formation, like countless dragons breaking through the army, rushing forward indomitably! The enemy was obviously caught off guard by them. The entire front line was changing in a hurry, and dozens or hundreds of warships were sinking into the water crookedly! The water column on the water was soaring, and the sailors who jumped into the sea to escape turned the entire sea into a pot of porridge! The enemy was completely confused, and the appearance of Ming's main fleet greatly exceeded their expectations!
Seeing that something was wrong, Nelson quickly ordered a fleet of clippers to break off the rear, and the main fleet quickly retreated westward.
It must be said that Nelson responded very quickly. The main fleet of England quickly broke away from the battle before its opponent rushed into the middle of its own fleet, and a fleet of clippers blocked the Ming fleet head on. This clipper fleet was an opponent of the Ming Dynasty's main fleet. They were wiped out in an instant, but they bought time for the main fleet to retreat. When the Ming fleet annihilated the Clippers, the enemy's main fleet was already almost ten miles away. The Ming fleet was unwilling to let the enemy escape and continued to pursue, but the speeds of the two fleets were almost the same and they could not catch up. The Ming fleet finally had to give up and turn back.
Just when the main fleet of the Ming Dynasty attacked the main fleet of England, the English marines who landed on the island boarded the ships and retreated. Seeing that our main fleet was retreating westward, we also retreated westward. However, on the way, they ran across the main fleet of the Ming Dynasty, which was returning. After several rounds of indiscriminate bombardment, countless English warships sank crookedly into the sea, and countless English people jumped into the sea to escape. The scene became a mess! The gunboats stopped bombarding, and then the Ming Dynasty ballista warships rushed into the middle of the enemy and swept across! Kill countless enemies and capture countless enemies! Two English landing forces totaling nearly 20,000 people lost more than half, and the remaining defeated troops were running desperately after their own fleet! The Ming fleet did not pursue them anymore.
Wang Hai and Wang Rong came to Yang Peng and Yan Ji and worshiped: "Your Majesty (eldest brother), Empress (sister-in-law)."
Yan Ji said angrily: "You planned it early, but you worried me so much!"
Wang Hai didn't know how to answer for a moment, so he turned to look at the girl. Wang Rong smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, please forgive me, this is indeed my negligence! I just think that this kind of thing does not need to be worried by my sister-in-law and eldest brother, so I did not tell my sister-in-law and eldest brother!" Yan Ji said with a smile: "Since you won, I I won’t blame you!" He turned to look at Yang Peng, and said to Wang Rong with a smile: "My husband has already guessed your plan, so he is very confident from the beginning to the end! But I, a stupid woman, am worried to death!"
Wang Rong rushed to Yan Ji's side, hugged Yan Ji's arm, and said, "Sister-in-law is not stupid! Sister-in-law is just worried about her eldest brother's safety!" Yan Ji pursed her lips and smiled.
Yang Peng glanced at the two women with a smile, and said to Wang Hai: "Your strategy of luring the snake out of its hole was very clever! Although it failed to completely defeat the English navy, it severely dampened their spirit!" Wang Hai quickly clasped his fists. Said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, this is all the result of my little sister! I can't think of such a plan!"
Yang Peng looked at Wang Rong, and Wang Rong also happened to look at Yang Peng. When their eyes met, Wang Rong gave Yang Peng a proud look. Yang Peng's heart skipped a beat and he laughed and said, "Rong'er is becoming more and more like a general!" Wang Rong couldn't help but feel happy and ashamed when she heard that Yang Peng actually called herself Rong'er in front of other people. He immediately blushed. Yan Ji looked at Yang Peng with a half-smile, and Yang Peng chuckled.
After Nelson led the English fleet to retreat hastily from the battlefield, he could not help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that the Ming fleet was no longer pursuing him. Thinking back to the battle just now, I immediately understood that I had fallen into the trap of my opponent. The opponents clearly left on purpose to lure them into attacking Donglai without being prepared, and then they secretly turned back to launch a surprise attack! Fortunately, I reacted in time, otherwise the losses in this battle would be even greater!
He turned and asked the general Horatio beside him: "What are our losses?"
Horatio said with a frustrated face: "The fleet lost hundreds of warships, but fortunately only a dozen gunboats were lost. In addition, the landing force suffered heavy losses, and only a small part of them escaped." Nelson only felt a breath blocked. His chest was full of depression, he frowned and murmured: "The enemy is so cunning! So cunning!"
Horatio asked; "Generalissimo, what shall we do now?"
Nelson thought about it and felt that after this defeat, the main fleet's losses were certainly not small, but the blow to morale was even greater. If he had to fight against the Ming fleet again, he would probably lose more than he would win, and the gains would not be worth the losses. So he said: "The main fleet will withdraw to West Gull Island, and we will see the progress of the army before deciding what to do." Horatio agreed and immediately went down to deliver the order.
The English fleet retreated all the way to West Gull Island. The officers and soldiers who stayed behind in Xiou City saw the fleet coming back and thought they had returned with a full load. Unexpectedly, when I looked closer, the entire fleet looked very embarrassed. Some of the warships had collapsed masts and were scarred. It was obvious that they had just experienced a fierce battle and had finally escaped. The defenders were all shocked when they saw such a scene.
As soon as Nelson returned to West Gull City, he immediately sent a clipper to the northeast to inquire about the army's situation. At the same time, he sent all sentry ships to spread out on the sea to prevent the enemy fleet from raiding.
Many days later, news from the Army finally came, but it was bad news that was even more difficult for Nelson to accept. The army's army of more than 200,000 troops attacked Dhaka, but they were ambushed by a long-planned Ming Dynasty. The coalition forces suffered a disastrous defeat. Two-thirds of the more than 200,000 soldiers and horses were lost, and only one-third escaped. But along with this bad news, there is also good news. The remaining coalition forces landed on the east coast of Tianzhu and advanced wildly, sweeping through countless cities and plundering countless treasures and materials and countless beauties. This time the laborious Eastern Expedition was finally not in vain!
After Nelson and others got the news, they couldn't help but feel jealous. They only felt that although Ming Dynasty was not easy to mess with, other countries in this area were easy to pinch. The generals all suggested that Nelson mobilize all fleets to attack Tianzhu northward, as he could not let others take advantage of him. After Nelson thought for a while, he decided to send all his fleet north to attack Tianzhu. On the same day, the huge English fleet left Xiouchen and headed north. The thousands of men and horses who were originally left to guard Xiouchen also left with them. Only a few hundred unlucky ones who were released to patrol were still kept in the dark. After coming back, I was surprised to find that the whole city was empty!
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
