Amid the laughter of everyone, Zhuge Liang suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "Oh, fortunately General Meng Huo reminded me. We also need to leave some ships in the eastern waters of Ceylon Island to block the connection between the mainland and Ceylon Island. At the same time, some people need to land on the elephant passage to prevent Juro's local army from coming from this land bridge."

Ceylon Island cannot be called an island in essence, because there is actually a land bridge that is fifty or sixty miles long between a peninsula at its northern end and the Sindu Continent. However, the shape of this land bridge is very strange, and not all areas are exposed to the water. Some areas are several feet deep under the water.

From the roots of this peninsula to the opposite Sindu subcontinent, the landform is composed of a series of sandbanks and lagoons. There are radishes in the land, the sea, the radishes are in conflict, and the water and land blend together.

So although this is a section of land bridge, it is really difficult to walk over with human legs. However, the tall elephant can pass through the land bridge unimpededly. Hence, it is named the Elephant Passage. If this land pass is cut off, reinforcements from Juro's land want to reach Ceylon Island, they can only pass through sea routes, and they must face the powerful navy of Liang.

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A trace of white fish belly appeared on the sea. In the military port of Mango Port, hundreds of Julu warships were docked quietly in the harbor, without any sight of war. Most of the sailors of Julu Navy were sleeping soundly in the barracks on the shore, and a few soldiers on duty on the ship also fell asleep in the cabin.

The commander of the Fourth Fleet of Juluo also hugged his beautiful wife and concubine and slept soundly on the bed. At this time, a hurry screamed outside the gate of his bedroom: "General! Please wake up."

He rolled and stood on the ground from the bed, shouting with anger: "What's the matter? Trouble me to Qingmeng. Be careful that I cut your head with military law."

The voice outside immediately became quieter and said cautiously: "General, forgive me, because there is a special envoy from the capital who came to send an urgent message. Xiao Ben asked your special envoy to wait for the general to get up before meeting. Unexpectedly, his special envoy insisted on notifying the general immediately, and said that this was the will of the king, so Xiao did not dare to neglect it. He could only wake up the general."

After hearing this, his mind immediately became much clearer. "The urgent matter from the royal city? Please ask the special envoy to come later, I will come immediately."

A quarter of an hour later, the general of the Fourth Fleet met the special envoy from Tanjavur. After the opponent told him that the Liang army had crossed the sea to attack Zhuluo and might attack Mango Port, he felt relieved and patted his chest and said, "I will order the entire army to be more vigilant today. If the Liang army does not come, they will have no return when they come."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a loud noise outside. His mansion was on the shore of the military port, and the sound came from the sea of ​​the military port. He and the envoy rushed to the high platform in the mansion, stretched their necks and looked out.

I saw countless fireballs in the air smashing into the port like meteors. "Oh no, Liang's army is here. This is Liang's army launching an attack on Mango Port!" The envoy first reacted and exclaimed.

Half an hour ago, Liang's super fleet finally drove to the sea near Mango Port. At this time, it was approaching dawn and the sky was dark. Only Mango Port and Civil Port were still lights. Zhuge Liang looked at it and said happily: "It seems that the local Zhuluo troops have not received the letter yet, and they have no preparations, and they have no light control."

Then he turned around and said to the generals: "Don't hesitate, we will have an extra risk of losing the effect of a surprise attack in one minute every night. We will pass our military order and immediately start attacking Mango Military Port directly. We must annihilate all the Julu warships and warships in the military port."

The Liang army fleet used lights as a commander, and various types of sailing combat ships were in front of them. More than a hundred large sailing ships were on the periphery, pressing from the military port facing Mango Port on three sides. When the sky turned white, each ship had already taken their place. Zhuge Liang ordered, all the big and small crossbows on the warships were shot into Mango Port.

For a moment, many Zhuluo warships began to burn. The Zhuluo soldiers who woke up from their dreams shouted and howled, running on the ship deck and pier trestle. Some quick-responsive warships untied their cables and raised their anchors to flee to the port.

As soon as one of them reached the exit of the port, he was hit by a fireball in the middle of the mast. The fire quickly rose up and ignited the sails. The lost power ship was spinning on the water surface. After hitting two more explosive bombs, it turned into a fireboat. It was blocked at the exit of the waterway without any bias.

When the sky became brighter, in addition to the crossbows that continued to shoot, the longbowmen also shot arrows at various ships in the port. However, these arrows were light arrows, and they could reach a range of more than 200 battles when shot out by the longbow. These arrows were tied with red cloth strips, and the red on the red cloth strips was very special.

The Qiang eagles hovering in the air could identify this color, and they also began to dive at the messy Zhuluo battleships, dropping the naphtha tanks they were holding their claws.

In the port, more and more Zhuluo military ships turned into fire ships, and the fire became increasingly larger and larger. Even some ships without Zhongliang's explosive bombs were ignited by the flames of the adjacent ships.

Only a few Zhuluo warships rushed out of the port, but were immediately besieged by the Liang army's combat ships. One of them successfully rushed out of the Mango Army Port and was about to flee west, but was broken by a Liang army's gallopy warship, and all the crew fell into the sea.

When most of the Zhuluo warships in the port turned into fire ships and the entire military port turned into a sea of ​​fire, Zhuge Liang ordered the infantry to land on the beach on the side of the port.

The sailboats sailed to the coast on the side of the port and then put down the pre-made trestle bridges. The length of these trestle bridges was not enough to extend completely to the shore. The Liang army infantry landed along the trestle bridge, and eventually had to wade in the waist-deep sea water.

The entire landing operation lasted for two hours, during which the Zhuluo infantry launched a counterattack on the landing site and tried to drive the Liang army into the sea, but they were all repelled by the well-equipped Liang army one by one. As more and more Liang army soldiers landed, the Zhuluo defenders also gave up this unrealistic idea.

The Liang army rushed into Mango Port with two hundred cavalry as the guide, and fell down the bodies of countless Julu soldiers under the spear, wolf teeth, stick and iron hooves. Most of these Julu soldiers were local Sinhalese, and only a very small number were native Julu.

At noon, the fourth fleet of the Zhuluo people had been declared destroyed, almost all the Juluo ships in the port were burned, and the body of the general of the Fourth Fleet was trampled by the iron cavalry. Only a small number of Zhuluo soldiers retreated into Mango and fought stubbornly. But this had nothing to do with it. The Liang army, who had airships and ejection soldiers, captured the Mango City, which was stationed in a small number of soldiers, was just a blink of an eye.
Chapter completed!