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"Bang bang bang..."

The rapid sound of knocking echoed throughout Hongdu Port, and the Annan Navy's army rudely dispersed the civilian vendors who were waiting to purchase aquatic products in front of the civilian docks.

In the next scene, soldiers wearing bamboo armor and holding spears entered the port and were ready to defend against the enemy.

General Ruan Wenhe of Hongdu Navy came to the navy with a nervous look on his face and ordered the soldiers loudly: "Listen! A fleet of Central Plains appeared in the Annan waters,

These despicable Central Plains people who invaded our Annan territory were not satisfied, and they dared to come to my new pond to show off their power. Would you like to see them so unscrupulously?"

"I don't want to!"

The short and strong Annan soldiers roared, their eyes filled with hatred for the people of the Central Plains. Now, even if they were asked to die immediately, they would probably not frown.

This is the result of Annan royal family constantly instilling the people of Annan under their rule that Lingnan is the old land of Annan, and they cultivate them to hate the Central Plains and fight to the death with the people of the Central Plains.

Now, the brainwashing has achieved results over and over the years. Whether it is soldiers or civilians in Annan, the hatred for the people of the Central Plains is from the heart, and I wish I could kill all the people of the Central Plains as soon as possible.

In addition, over the past few decades, Annan has launched wars everywhere, first defeating Myanmar and then defeating Laos, and embracing them as vassal states. Millions of Myanmar and Laos have become cannon fodder for Annan.

After expanding his strength, Annan launched a local war against Siam, India and Nibelol, which were both powerful countries next door. All of them won a great victory and obtained a large amount of wealth and resources from the defeated country, making Annan the overlord of this area.

The successive victory of foreign wars and the huge dividends brought by the war greatly stimulated the whole country of Annan. Out of an extreme fanaticism, the entire Annan Kingdom was full of confidence in regaining Lingnan and defeating the Central Plains in the future.

Afterwards, the Central Plains was in chaos, and the senior management of Annan saw that the time was ripe, so they began to take an offensive against the southern part of the Central Plains.

However, the size of the Central Plains was too large, and Annan knew that he would tear his face off. If the Central Plains dynasty sent a large army to make a desperate bet, it would be very unfavorable to Annan. So he summoned the Myanmar and Lao people to gradually and tentatively attack Zhennan Pass in Lingnan, and he paid close attention to the situation behind the scenes.

However, unexpectedly, the defenders of Zhennan Pass would be so tenacious. The Myanmar Lao people failed to cross Zhennan Pass for 20 years. The blood of hundreds of thousands of Myanmar Lao people was completely flowing under that majestic pass, allowing the Annan people to temporarily postpone the final military operation before deciding.

However, the military and civilians of Annan Kingdom were very dissatisfied with the Annan royal family not daring to send troops to Lingnan and regain their "homeland". For this reason, several incidents have occurred in the royal palace. If the Ruan family had not relied on their personal guards to suppress them, the king would have been assassinated.

This deformed consciousness indoctrination directly led to the spread of populist ideas throughout this country. The continuous victory of the war has completely lost its mind to the people, soldiers, and even many officials and generals. They all believe that defeating the corrupt Central Plains dynasty only takes place day and night. As long as the main force of the Annan army goes north, it can not only occupy Lingnan, but may also attack the capital of the Great Zhou Shendu and move the capital to the Central Plains.

Faced with this situation, the Annan royal family had to start expanding their army and planning to attack Lingnan. However, before the expedition, the Annan royal family received news that the Great Zhou Dynasty ended and the Han Dynasty was newly established.

After learning this important news, King Ruan Qingtong of Annan immediately ordered his envoys to Chang'an, hoping to take advantage of Liu Ce's ascending the throne to ask for the land of Lingnan without bloodshed.

However, the envoys who were on the mission to Chang'an have not returned yet, but the navy of the Han Dynasty...

Seeing the eight thousand navy troops' morale look, Ruan Wenhe was immediately confident and thought that this battle would definitely cause the Central Plains Navy to suffer an unprecedented blow, which proved that the Annan Army was far stronger than the Han Army!

The eight thousand navy immediately boarded the ship, and with the shouts of the sailors, bamboo sails were slowly pulled onto the mast...

"Go to the expedition~~"

After the commander's order, the sixty pioneers slowly sailed out of Hongdu Port and prepared to fight against the Han army.

However, shortly after the Clippers left the port, they met Gan Ziba's navy.

"You dare to fight to the death with my uncle's fleet even if you are so ragged things? You really don't know how to live or die!"

After seeing the true appearance of Annan Navy from the viewing mirror, Gan Ziba snorted disdainfully.

"Switch the rudder and set up the crossbow, and don't let anyone go for me!"

After putting away the mirror, Gan Ziba showed a cruel and ferocious smile on his face.

The next moment, the fourth-layer hatch on the side of the huge Sailing Rover was opened. Under the operation of the sailor, the torsional crossbow was successfully loaded with projectiles or crossbow spears, and pointed them coldly at the Annan Navy.

While Gan Ziba's troops were busy in a nervous and orderly manner, the Annan Navy was stunned when he saw the Han army's fleet clearly.

"God, what kind of monster is this? Can the ship be so big? Can it still move?"

A commander looked at Yangfan in amazement, exclaiming in surprise, and a sense of ominous premonition arose in his heart.

"Enemy warships enter range, request instructions..."

"The crossbows of all levels have been prepared, please give me instructions..."

Dozens of Fu ships serving as the frigate of the Yangfan were ready for battle at this moment, and the commanders of each ship passed the information to Gan Ziba's flagship through flag words.

Gan Ziba looked at the news conveyed by the flagships of each ship, stared at the Annan Navy opposite, and slapped his hand and ordered loudly: "What are you waiting for? Send them to feed the turtle!"

"Boom boom boom boom~"

The next moment, Gan Ziba's fleet fired a volley of torsional crossbows, and thousands of prismatic stones weighing more than 20 kilograms roared towards the Annan Navy.

Poor Annan Navy did not know what the "long-range strike" strategy is. He was completely confused when the torsional crossbow ejected Shiwan.

"Bang~~"

A projectile was heavily carved onto an Annan Navy's Clipper, and immediately lifted two naval soldiers standing at the port to the sea. Ishimaru jumped on the deck for a while and then directly smashed a sailor who was stunned into the cabin, not knowing life and death...

The flying stone danced wildly, fell into the sea and splashed the long pillars into the sky, hitting the hull, causing violent sway, making the Annan Navy miserable. This battle situation where they could only be beaten but could not fight back made them particularly aggrieved.

"Not good, the hull has water in~"

A fast ship's hull was bombarded with a hole by a crossbow, and a large amount of sea water poured into the cabin, and the Annan Navy exclaimed.

"Why are you still standing there? Pour out the water, hurry~"

The commander hurriedly ordered people to pour water, and at the same time he had to watch the terrible Ishimaru rushed over, which was so busy that he was overwhelmed.

"Bang~~"

Another loud noise, a stone ball hit the mast bamboo sail, immediately causing it to rotate twice, and threw the two sailors who were steering down into the sea...

Under the raging wave of crossbows, although no ships of Annan Navy were seen sinking, their speed was greatly reduced. It can be said that under this round of attacks, at least 70% of Annan Clippers lost their power and became living targets.

The next moment, Gan Ziba sneered and shouted at the soldiers behind him: "Let the catapult prepare and aim at the fast ship 120 steps ahead. If you miss a single blow, you will all go back to your womb!"

When the soldiers who were operating the giant catapult on the Sailing Ship heard this, the rangefinder immediately locked the enemy ship with various instruments, and the operator stuffed a 200-pound pig iron thorn into the magazine with a raco.

Half a quarter of an hour later...

"Boom~~"

The catapult threw the iron stone hard at the enemy ship that Gan Ziba said. The iron stone drew a perfect arc in the air and attacked the designated enemy ship...

“Ah~~”

"Get out of here~~"

The soldiers on the Annan ship looked at the huge rocks falling from the air and screamed in fear. The soldiers and sailors immediately fled in a mess and fled in scattered places. Many people even jumped into the sea to escape regardless of everything...

"Boom~~"

With a loud bang, the deck of the hull was immediately split, and two hundred kilograms of iron and stone rushed directly from the top to the low position, chiseling the entire clutch.

"Water is coming into the bottom warehouse, it's not good, the ship is going to sink..."

The Annan sailors looked at the surging sea water at the bottom of the ship, and knew that it could not be remedied. They immediately shouted that everyone on the ship abandoned the ship and fled. All the Annan officers and soldiers on the entire express ship jumped into the sea to survive.

"This is almost the same..." Looking at the enemy ship slowly sinking into the sea from the mirror, he couldn't help but chuckled, and gave the operators a thumbs up to express his appreciation.

"Switch to armor-breaking crossbow spear~~"

"Switch to armor-breaking crossbow spear~~"

"Switch to armor-breaking crossbow spear~~"

The second wave of attacks of the Han Navy came one after another. This time, the crossbow cannon was replaced with a crossbow spear specifically targeted at the hull. This special crossbow spear was extremely powerful and the stone was broken through the hull.

After the crossbow spear is loaded, each ship has entered a fifty step range from the enemy ship, which is an excellent distance for the armor-breaking crossbow spear to display its power.

"Let it go~~"

“Huhhuhhu~~”

"Tu tu tu tu tu ~~"

The crossbow spear sprinted away, and almost every twelve crossbow cannons equipped on each warship hit the hull of at least six of them. Listening to the spearhead drilling into the wood of the enemy ship and causing waves of wood chips to fly, the crossbow gunners only felt very pleasing to the eye.

The attack of the armor-breaking crossbow was quickly able to reap the results at a speed visible to the naked eye. Only those Annan ships that were shot were torn apart in half-moon-shaped gaps on the hull, and even a whole piece of wooden board was overturned...

In this wave of attack, at least more than twenty Clippers completely lost their endurance. Any ship support with a broken hull and no balance device or water compartment are basically scrapped.

"Sir, the hull was torn apart by the enemy ship. The steering officer could not control the course. Please run for your life..."

On a cliff ship that had lost power, a young sailor with a scowl on his face said to their commander with a sad face.

When the commander heard this, his eyes were really spitting out of fire. The unheard sea tactics of the Han army were the only ones he had seen in his life, and were completely different from the traditional close-ship contact.

But he was unwilling to admit defeat, so he drew his knife and pointed at Gan Ziba's flagship and shouted loudly: "Order our ship to lean on! As long as he enters the range of the enemy ship and fights them in close combat, victory will definitely belong to our Annan Navy!"
Chapter completed!