After receiving Li Ke's order, Liu Yilong immediately led his army to land first. When the sky was dark, Liu Yilong had already led his army to control the entire small port.
Then all the large ships began to dock. Soon, a thousand navy were left to control the harbor, a thousand navy were left to guard the ships, and the remaining five thousand navy were ready to attack Xianglin City.
Li Ke, who had just landed, also received the latest status of the battle near Xianglin City from Yuelai Trading Company.
"Liu Yilong." Li Ke looked at this small port, then looked at the information in his hand, thought for a while and then said.
"The general is here!"
"You will lead a navy of five thousand to attack Xianglin City only. I have given you a map of the vicinity of Xianglin City. You will ambush behind the hill south of Xianglin City. I will take a boat and emerge from the sea outside Xianglin City and lead an army of five hundred to meet you." Meet the King of Linyi."
"If they want to take action, then it's time for you to take action." Li Ke said.
"Your Highness, I disagree. Let alone Linyi, even the entire Lingnan Road is inferior to you. If your safety is threatened in any way, I will not be able to replace you even if I die." Liu Yilong said solemnly. .
"If Your Highness wants to capture Lin Yi, I can just lead the army to attack. With Lin Yi's strength, I will give you ten days and I will capture the entire Lin Yi and hand it over to Your Highness." Liu Yilong said with a serious face.
"This is an order, not a discussion. Lin Yi is not powerful, but to destroy a country, the most important thing is not whether we can defeat it, but to point fingers at others from the moral high ground, even if this moral high ground is man-made You have to do this even if you make it, do you understand?" Li Ke said calmly.
"I... obey your orders!" Liu Yilong's face was full of tangles, but the military orders were like mountains, and he could not change His Highness's orders.
"General Huo, I leave His Highness's safety to you." Liu Yilong took a deep breath, turned to Huo Gang next to him, and saluted him solemnly.
"General Liu, please rest assured, no one can hurt His Highness before I die in battle!" Huo Gang also saluted Liu Yilong with a serious look on his face.
Liu Yilong stopped talking nonsense, simply saluted Li Ke, and then quickly led his army to leave.
Li Ke also turned around and boarded the ship, but this time Li Ke did not take the King of Qin, but changed to a smaller ship and went straight to the outside of Xianglin City, and the speed was not the fastest.
In the early morning, Shi Lang, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly woken up by someone. "Shi Lang, hurry up, a fleet is coming from outside the city. It seems to be the fleet of the Tang Dynasty." The soldier who woke up Shi Lang was full of joy.
"Ah? I'll go take a look." Shi Lang was stunned. He quickly followed the soldier and rushed to the wooden sentry tower.
When Shi Lang boarded the guard tower, he immediately saw a huge ship appearing on the sea in the distance. The ship was bigger than any ship Shi Lang had ever seen. No merchant ship of the Tang Dynasty was so big in the past!
This must be a ship of the Tang Dynasty! Because no other country in the world can build such a huge ship! What's more important is that although the distance is far away, the red flag with black characters on the ship is extremely conspicuous!
Although it was too far away to see the words on it clearly, he understood that it was definitely the national flag of the Tang Dynasty! It’s the flag of the Tang Dynasty that His Highness King Qin mentioned!
Shi Lang once went to the border between Linyi and Datang, and he saw that flag at the border!
"Shi Lang, should we hang up the flag of our Tang Dynasty?" The soldier who came with him immediately said excitedly.
"No." Shi Lang shook his head simply.
"Why?" The soldier was stunned for a moment.
"This fleet was not called by our people. Think about it, our people have only been away for less than two days. They may not even have arrived at the border at this time. How could they lead Datang's army here? This ship The team should have just arrived at the right time. Whether there are soldiers on it is unknown. If we put up the flag of the Tang Dynasty at this time, then we will make an inexplicable enemy for the Tang Dynasty."
"And we didn't catch Fan Fenzhi. If we hadn't caught some of his family members, he would have been attacking desperately now. If we had raised the flag first, Fan Fenzhi would have had enough excuses to question Datang. At that time, for the sake of face, the border guards of the Tang Dynasty had to report to the court first."
"And we can't afford to delay this time! We can only set up the flag of the Tang Dynasty until the army of the Tang Dynasty actually arrives outside Xianglin City, because at that time, since the army of the Tang Dynasty has arrived, it means that the Tang Dynasty has given permission We surrender. Otherwise, the Tang army will not come." Shi Lang said calmly.
"Okay!" The soldier hesitated for a moment, but did not continue to ask.
However, the arrival of the Tang Dynasty fleet made the morale of the rebel army led by Shi Lang, which was somewhat low yesterday, rise again.
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Li Ke looked at the city in the distance and was speechless. It was completely different from the royal capital he imagined. The entire city wall of Xianglin City was actually made of wood... The city where the king lived was built with wooden fences. (From "Old Tang Book")
Looking at the fence made of thick logs, Li Ke didn't know how to comment. This thing... use a trebuchet to ignite kerosene and light it directly... What is the purpose of this city wall? So is this the royal capital?
This reminded Li Ke of the wooden fence from the Empire Age that he played with when he was in high school in his previous life. It was at most stronger than that.
It's probably that the opponent dug a perimeter to protect the city in order to set up a fire attack... Well, Li Ke doesn't think this thing can be called a moat anyway. Stronger horses can jump over it. Do you call this a river?
"Log in." Li Ke waved his hand and said.
There is also a river outside Xianglin City that flows into the sea, but this river first formed a large lake with a large area inside it. Because there happened to be a narrow natural dam made of rocks between the lake and the sea, this caused this place to become It has a good natural harbor, but because the draft of the entrance to the sea is too low, only fishing boats can pass here. However, Da Nang next to it can serve as a large port.
Soon one boat after another was lowered, and 500 guards landed first. Finally, Li Ke boarded the boat and landed on land.
The boat sailed directly into the inner lake and then landed ashore. Li Ke and his troops were located in the southeast of Xianglin City, while the main force of Lin Yi's army was located in the southwest of Xianglin City. In addition, Xianglin Several other directions of the city have been surrounded.
The sudden appearance of the Tang Dynasty fleet not only attracted the attention of the rebels in the city, Fan Fenzhi was also shocked. He did not expect that such a large Tang fleet would arrive here at this time.
The point is, those soldiers who got off the ship!
