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Twenty miles away, the warships of the Chola Kingdom also discovered the warships of the Tang Army in the distance.

The commander Rajinder was as excited as a beast that found its prey, and shouted: "The warships of the Tang Army are coming, let them taste our hellfire!"

In the entire Tianzhu Peninsula and its vicinity, the warships of the Chola Kingdom have always been the strongest, sweeping the navies of all small countries, and even the pirates fled when they saw their warships.

The reason is that they have a sharp weapon, Greek fire, and they bought kerosene from Dashi. Their tactics are very simple. When the two ships approached, the Indian soldiers of the Chola Kingdom immediately threw pottery jars filled with kerosene onto the other ship like raindrops, and then ignited them with rockets.

This move made the warships of the Chola Kingdom rampant for hundreds of years, and the naval generals of the Chola Kingdom were arrogant and arrogant.

Just like the Indians who bought the BrahMos missiles now.

The ships of the two armies gradually approached, and quickly dispersed, and 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 pieces fired together, five of which penetrated the ship's wall and exploded in the ship, and the two 3,000-stone ships were instantly blown into pieces.

Li Chengshi suddenly realized that artillery was the real killer in future naval battles. It didn't need to get close to the enemy at all, and it could sink the enemy's warships from a few miles away.

Unfortunately, they didn't have many artillery pieces, only twenty. Li Chengshi regretted it in his heart. If he had known earlier, he should have brought all the 200 artillery pieces in the Quanzhou warehouse.

Although there were not many artillery pieces, arrows and explosive arrows were also powerful weapons against the warships of the Chola Kingdom.

The Tang army could attack the enemy between two hundred and one hundred steps, while the throwing distance of the Chola soldiers was only thirty steps.

It was this difference of more than one hundred steps that was enough to put the Chola fleet in an irretrievable situation.

Heavy crossbows were fired from two hundred steps away. Although firing from three hundred steps away was no problem at all, the sea was different from the land. The wind was high and the waves were fierce. The sea breeze had a great impact on the arrows, especially when the ship was moving. It was easy to miss the target, and it was much easier at two hundred steps.

The reason why the arrow mine was called an arrow mine was that it was an arrow with a sharp arrow tip. The spherical fire mine was one inch below the arrow tip.

The arrow nailed to the wall of the ship and exploded with a bang. The flames burst out and the smoke filled the air. Of course, the warships of the Zhu Luo Kingdom were far from being comparable to the strong ships of the Tang Army. An arrow mine could blow a hole ten feet wide, and the sea water rushed into the ship. There were screams and wails in the ship.

Facing the powerful firepower of the Tang Army, the Zhu Luo warships were completely vulnerable. In less than an hour, nearly sixty warships had sunk. The commander Rajinder was desperate. He only hated himself for being so impulsive and actually agreed to help Hu Lin, the dog thief. Now he just wanted to escape.

As soon as his warship turned around, Li Chengshi's main warship had already caught up with his warship. When they were a hundred steps apart, the main ship of the Tang army turned sideways, and the huge paddle wheel rolled at a high speed, parallel to the enemy's main ship.

At this time, two hundred Tang soldiers raised their crossbows and fired two hundred explosive arrows at the enemy warship. The two hundred explosive arrows actually blew up the entire ship wall, and the hull broke into two pieces, fell on the sea with its head raised, and sank quickly.

All the Tang soldiers were stunned. No one could have imagined that the warships of the Chola Kingdom were so fragile. How could such warships sail in the sea?

In fact, the ships of the Chola Kingdom had never sailed in the deep sea. They had always sailed along the coast and hid once a storm came.

Seeing the main ship being sunk, the remaining more than 40 warships turned around and fled, but they could not escape at all. How could they sail against the wind?

The Chola warships were like trapped wild boars, being chased by the Tang warships one after another. The remaining 43 warships were all blown up and sunk without missing a single one. The Tang army did not take prisoners of war. The soldiers held bows and crossbows and shot all the Chola soldiers lying on the broken wood on the sea. All 10,000 Chola soldiers sank into the sea to feed the fish.

At night, 20,000 Linyi soldiers marched exhaustedly on the official road.

Linyi was divided into two major tribes, the north was called the coconut tribe, and the south was called the betel nut tribe. The two tribes were deeply separated, equivalent to two countries, and were forcibly twisted together by Linyi. Since the kings and nobles of Linyi were almost all from the coconut tribe, the betel nut tribe had been suppressed.

In fact, today's Vietnam can also be called the northern coconut tribe and the southern betel nut tribe. The conflict between the two races has been a knot that Vietnam has been unable to resolve for thousands of years.

The 20,000 soldiers marching on the official road were all soldiers from the betel nut tribe. They were willing to fight the Zhenla people and rob their property, but they were unwilling to save the capital of the coconut tribe.

Especially the eldest prince Hu Lin was anxious and kept urging the soldiers to march. He refused to stop and rest at night. The soldiers were already exhausted and complained.

At this time, many soldiers found that there was a fire burning on the side of the road, and it burned quickly and spread rapidly to the official road. Before they could react, a series of huge explosions sounded on the official road that was ten miles long.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The soldiers were blown to pieces, and many soldiers were blown up to the sky. The 20,000 soldiers screamed in fear and fled in all directions. Then, the two-mile official road burst into flames, and the raging fire instantly engulfed thousands of soldiers.

The 20,000 soldiers were in complete chaos. At this time, a low horn sounded, "Woo--"

A cavalry of 3,000 men rushed over at high speed. At this time, the soldiers of Linyi Kingdom had completely collapsed. No one wanted to resist the killing of the Tang cavalry. Only the eldest prince Hu Lin led 2,000 soldiers to fight. However, seeing the Tang cavalry rushing like a landslide, the soldiers of Linyi Kingdom were frightened and turned to flee. The eldest prince Hu Lin turned and urged his horse to flee. Arrows rained down on him. He was hit by dozens of arrows in the back and fell off his horse with a scream.

The Tang soldiers chased all the way, but found that except for the soldiers who were blown to death and burned to death, almost all other soldiers disappeared.

In fact, it was normal. There was a forest not far from the official road. The soldiers fled into the forest. In this case, they must have fled back home. Who would be willing to fight for the coconut tribe? Moreover, they were also frightened by the iron fire mines and kerosene of the Tang army. Especially the miserable situation of countless soldiers struggling in the flames made all the soldiers who saw it extremely terrified and could not forget it even if they closed their eyes.

Ten days later, the navy landed at the mouth of the Zhenla River. Not far away was the old nest of the Chola Kingdom, Angu City. Seeing the bad situation, the 300 Chola soldiers guarding the city abandoned the city and fled, but these lone soldiers soon fell into the hands of the Zhenla people and were all brutally killed.

So far, all the 10,000 Chola soldiers who had gone on an expedition to the South Seas were wiped out. No soldier escaped, not even a single one survived. Together with a hundred warships, they all sank to the bottom of the South Seas.

The Chola Kingdom certainly did not come to do charity. They came to plunder wealth and food. The Linyi Kingdom mainly occupied the territory and also plundered some property. As for food, the Linyi Kingdom did not want it and gave it all to the Chola Kingdom.

The Tang army that entered Angu City was frightened. There was not a single resident in the 1,000 households in the city. All the houses were filled with looted property and food, which made Li Chengshi scared. Fortunately, the Chola soldiers did not burn them when they fled, otherwise the loss would be too great.

Li Chengshi immediately ordered people to count the grain, all of which was rice. In addition to the rice in each room, there was also a mountain of rice in the warehouse. This was the rice looted from the official warehouse, about 800,000 stones.

The scattered rice in each room was collected, about 300,000 stones, not counting the 500,000 stones of rice in the Champa warehouse.

At this time, Du Huan advised: "Looking at the style of the Chola people, you can see that they are very despicable. They even robbed women's copper jewelry. It is estimated that they robbed the locals clean. It is better to return these folk grains and money to the locals and win their 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, the Zhenla people who came from all directions lined up outside the Angu City.

For 20 consecutive days, 300,000 stones of grain and countless looted properties were distributed to the Zhenla people. For a time, there was thunderous cheers, and the Zhenla people praised the Tang army as the army sent by the Buddha.

Unexpectedly, Queen Elaine of Water Zhenla also came to Angu City to pay homage to the commander-in-chief of the Tang army.