The fire-burning Taixi blocked the city, and the Sassanian soldiers finally realized that the enemy was in the river channel under the city wall.

One of the centurions leaned down from the wall with a torch, looking down. As soon as he saw the light of fire on the river, he heard a whooshing arrow through the air, and then a long bow and heavy arrow shot through his head. He and the torch fell towards the city wall.

More than ten Liang army longbowmen stood on the deck of the semi-submersible ship, bent their bows and arrows to find the target. At this time, the crossbow gunners re-adjusted the cannon position and extended the landing point of the projectile into the city. A fireball flew up one after another and shot into the city...

At this time, Ardashire was still having a banquet with his ministers. He held the wine glass and savored the best wine. The singers and singers were watching the singing and dancing, but he was thinking about how to drive the Liang army who had entered the swamp out.

In fact, Aldashire's palace is very close to the southern city wall, which is to facilitate the drainage of the Euphrates River for the palace garden and lake view. However, the singing and dancing above the hall concealed the hustle and bustle on the wall, so Aldashire and his ministers were still unaware of the attacks on the Liang army.

Suddenly, a muffled thunder sound exploded outside the hall, which scared everyone inside. The singing and dancing also came to an abrupt end. Aldashir looked out the window and asked, "Is it thundering? But the moon outside is still so big..."

Before he finished speaking, several thunderous explosions sounded one after another. One of them was very close. With this loud noise, Ardashir saw a flash of fire outside the door, and then the entire gate of the hall seemed to be blown open by the strong wind. In addition, everyone in the hall also felt the floor trembling slightly.

The songgoers who were already stunned also screamed in fear, and then they were so scared that they were so scared that they retreated to the back of the hall in panic. Aldashir also knew that something was wrong, so he hurriedly stood up and asked, "What happened?!"

At this time, a palace guard with a torn dress and a bloody face broke into the hall and said, "Liang Jun! Liang Jun attacked the city..." Before he finished speaking, he fell on the floor and died.

When Ardashir and his ministers heard this, they were suddenly filled with horror. They didn't know how many people came from the Liang army and where they came from. Rud Saba, who had been promoted to the prime minister by Ardashir, shouted anxiously: "Hurry up, where are the guards? Come and protect the king and go to the rear of the palace to avoid it. Go quickly to mobilize the troops around the city to help!"

At this time, the Liang army's semi-submersible ship on the river was still continuously throwing fire bombs and blasting bombs into the city. Several places of fire were already caught in the Taixi lockdown, and many people were blasted by the blasting bombs, and some even died on the spot. The Sassanian soldiers on the city finally began to counterattack with bows and arrows, but the Liang army was prepared for this.

They covered themselves and the crossbows with a large shield without any flaws. Although the arrows from the city were shot on the large shield like a sudden rain, they did not cause any damage to Liang Jun on the deck.

After this lasted for a quarter of an hour, the city gate opened with a bang, and more than 200 Sassanian soldiers rushed out from it and rushed towards the riverside.

The Liang army's long archer stood up behind the shield wall from time to time and shot out accurate arrows. The Sassanian soldiers were continuously injured and injured, and then another blasting bomb was shot straight into the middle of the crowd. After a muffled sound, seven or eight Sassanian soldiers were overturned to the ground by the air waves, and four or five people approaching were shattered by iron filings and nails.

More than a dozen Sassanian soldiers who had suffered a total of casualties were wailing and resounding throughout the night sky. The remaining two hundred Sassanian soldiers quickly dispersed and never dared to gather together again. The Liang army's explosive bomb continued to project towards the city.

After a while, the various military camps approaching Taixi closed the city were urgently ordered to send reinforcements to the city. If they were to look down from a high altitude, more than ten fire dragons were surging towards Taixifeng. At the same time, a large number of troops gathered in the city and rushed towards the south city.

Liang Jun seemed to be unwilling to care about this and continued to shoot "fireballs" into the city. The city was already in chaos when Taixi locked down, and even a fire broke out in the palace.

It was not until a large number of Sassanid soldiers arrived at the Euphrates River that the generals who commanded the Liang army shouted loudly: "Retreat!". These semi-submersible ships immediately pulled up their sails and fled down the water in a fully floating state. The Sassanid army naturally would not let them go so easily. First on the south bank, and then on the north bank, a large number of Sassanid cavalry emerged to pursue them one after another.

The Sassanian cavalry who chased the two sides of the strait were in panic when they received the military order and did not prepare rockets, garages, etc. So, except for continuously shooting arrows at these semi-submersible ships, they also had no choice but to use these semi-submersible ships for the time being. After chasing this for half an hour, these ships were shot like hedgehogs, but the Liang soldiers had already hid in the cabin and there would be no casualties.

During this period, although the two "fire dragons" continued to bite the seven or eight preys, they did not always follow the river bank. Because there are many tributaries of the Euphrates River, when these two fire dragons encounter such tributaries and cannot directly ride a horse across the river, they can only go around to a place with a bridge and continue chasing.

Even so, the speed of the war horses was still too fast than those ships, and the semi-submersible ships were still bitten by two fire dragons. Finally, these semi-submersible ships were stopped by a river-blocked iron cable at a military camp on the riverside. The Sassanian soldiers in the military camps on both sides had already received advance reports from the cavalry and had already ambushed here.

When they saw that these semi-submersible ships were stopped, the soldiers on the shore bent their bows and crossbows were shot into hedgehogs as long as Liang army emerged from the ship. A large number of Sassanian soldiers used bamboo rafts to approach these intercepted semi-submersible ships. One of the soldiers was eager to make contributions and first boarded the deck of one of the semi-submersible ships, then looked at the watchtower with less than three feet in diameter, poked it inside with a spear gun, and finally jumped in with a torch.

Then, the people on the shore saw a sudden bright light in the river, making their eyes shaking for a while, and then a deafening sound of thunder came. When their eyesight recovered, a sea of ​​fire burned on the river. The bamboo rafts and Sassanian soldiers that had surrounded the Liang army's ships were gone. A cavalry centurion found something that fell from the air on his horse's back. When he looked closely, it turned out to be a bloody arm.

It turned out that the semi-submersible marine mechanism detonated all the blasting bombs hidden in it. The personnel on the ship had long used a single-person snorkeling device to escape halfway through the water.

The sky finally brightened again. Aldashir looked at the messy and messy Taixi locked down the city and said to his personal guards: "Go, quickly pass our military orders and transfer the troops from the Eastern Expedition back quickly."
Chapter completed!