I, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, have risen since I destroyed the Turks

Chapter 662: Defeat of John's Army

Charles immediately ordered the John's naval forces on several islands to attack the Tang fleet. In a moment, nearly a thousand John's warships were heading towards the Tang navy.

However, Li Kan on the warship was not at all panicked. He ordered his warships to meet the enemy. The Tang Navy only dismantled the Shenwu cannons on the seven giant ships, not all of them.

As an experienced naval commander, how could Li Kan not be on guard against John's navy?

Moreover, at the moment when the navy of John Country left the island, dozens of hot air balloons that had successfully taken off from the giant ship had already been divided into several groups and flew towards the navy of John Country.

Before the John's navy and the Tang Dynasty's navy collided, the soldiers on the hot air balloon dropped the bombs they had prepared long ago at the John's navy.

As the explosions sounded, the John's navy was blown to pieces.

The formation of the entire fleet was also blown up by the hot air balloon and fell into chaos. At this time, the Tang Dynasty navy had already arrived within the range of the Shenwu cannon.

The Tang Dynasty navy immediately struck back at the fallen dog, and the mighty cannons showed their power, inflicting heavy damage on the John Kingdom navy.

The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly. Before Charles could understand what was happening, the John navy led by him suffered another major defeat.

At this point, Charles' mentality completely collapsed. He couldn't fight this battle. Who could have thought that he didn't use his full strength last time in the South China Sea Tang Dynasty.

Just like this strange hot air balloon, if the Tang Dynasty had used a hot air balloon last time, it would not be certain whether he could escape back to John's country.

Davis on the other side was not much better. He watched helplessly as the Tang Dynasty's hot air balloon flew over John's 200,000-strong army and dropped bombs one after another.

The breath of death permeated the entire John's army. Facing the Tang Dynasty's hot air balloon, they had no power to fight back.

All they can do is run away in fear.

Davis couldn't help but feel a sense of despair rising in his heart.

How could he defeat such a Tang Dynasty? It was ridiculous that he still fantasized about counterattacking the Tang Dynasty.

It's over, everything is over, John's country is finished.

With the participation of hot air balloons that were ahead of their time, the war was no longer suspenseful.

On the other side, Li Zheng knew that there was no suspense in this war after the carpet bombing by hot air balloons.

So, Li Zheng turned around and walked into the warship, actually to catch up on his sleep.

The distance between the Tang Dynasty and the Kingdom of John is far, and they are drifting on the ocean every day. Now that the war is over, Li Zheng simply goes to catch up on his sleep.

Although the army of John's country had lost its morale and was in disarray under the bombing of the hot air balloon, they were still known as the elite of John's country. It would be impossible to kill an army of hundreds of thousands of people in a short time.

Moreover, the generals of the John Kingdom have organized a number of remnants of the army, who are hiding under cover, lurking silently, ready to deal a fatal blow to the Tang Dynasty soldiers.

As an experienced naval commander, Li Kan would certainly not act rashly. Instead, he chose to continue to use the air superiority and maneuverability of the hot air balloon to carry out carpet bombing on John's country's defense line.

But John's defense line is long, and because it is a battle on home soil, it also has a large strategic depth, so it is foreseeable that this unequal war between the two sides will continue for some time.

In fact, the main reason was that Li Kan did not want to lose too many lives of the Tang Dynasty soldiers. Now that the Tang Dynasty was rich, and they were about to see the John Country being conquered by the Tang Dynasty, materials such as artillery shells were certainly not as important as the lives of the elite troops of the Tang Dynasty.

Time passed, and soon five days had passed.

These five days seemed like years to the surviving soldiers on the John Defense Line.

They originally thought that they would wait until the strange hot air balloon in the sky ran out of ammunition and the Tang soldiers landed before fighting them to the death. But they didn't expect that the terrifying thing above their heads would bombard them for five days.

What does it mean to be rich and powerful? Li Kan taught the foreigners of John Country a good lesson.

Of course, the Tang Dynasty's hot air balloons were not meaningless fire coverage. Because they were in the air, as long as the John country's army on the ground made any unusual movements and was discovered by the soldiers in the hot air balloons, they would be met with brutal bombing.

The Tang Dynasty air force took turns to fight, making the soldiers on John's defense line suffer.

After five days of bombing, the remaining soldiers of John's country no longer had the strength to fight, and they were just surviving by relying on their instinct for survival.

And Li Zheng appeared again on the bow of the giant ship.

Li Zheng looked up and saw that the entire John Country's coastal defense line had turned into a scorched earth. Due to the hot weather in John Country, the bodies of the first soldiers who died had begun to rot, and the entire coast was emitting a foul stench.

From time to time, the soldiers of John's country who were not yet dead would howl in pain. This was hell on earth.

Looking at the tragic scene in front of him, Li Zheng shook his head and said to Li Kan who was following behind him.

"Don't delay any longer. Let's finish it. King John is still waiting for us to conquer him."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I have the same idea. After my humble statistics, only one in ten of John's hundreds of thousands of troops have survived. They will no longer pose a threat to our Tang Dynasty.

Li Zheng nodded with satisfaction.

"Send an order, the warships will dock, the troops will land, and we will wipe out the remaining enemies."

After receiving Li Zheng's order, 50,000 flintlock musket troops landed first and occupied various advantageous terrains, followed by 50,000 bandit-suppressing troops.

Under the cover of the flintlock army, the soldiers of the Bandit Suppression Army began to sweep away the remaining enemies within John's defense line.

In fact, at this time, the so-called army of John Country had completely lost its combat effectiveness, but Li Zheng did not just want to defeat this army.

His target was the capital of John's kingdom.

However, he still ordered the Tang soldiers to clean up the direction of John's country and use it as the forward base of the Tang Dynasty.

As the military book says, an arrogant army is doomed to failure.

If they rushed forward rashly and allowed the remnant troops in the rear to organize themselves, the Tang Dynasty would be attacked from both sides. Although it would not change the situation of the war, the unnecessary loss was something Li Zheng could not accept.

Most of the John soldiers, seeing that the Tang soldiers had already given up resistance, dropped their weapons and lay on the ground obediently, allowing themselves to be captured by the Tang soldiers. Occasionally, some fearless John soldiers were subdued by the flintlock rifles.

In this way, 50,000 flintlock soldiers and 50,000 bandit-suppressing troops firmly occupied the defense line used by John's country to resist the Tang Dynasty.

Li Zheng then ordered the army to rest on the spot for a day, settle the prisoners, and equip them with weapons.

On the second day, perhaps influenced by the great victory at the end, the Tang Dynasty soldiers were in high spirits and full of fighting spirit.

They were already eager to counterattack King John's capital and incorporate it into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Zheng stood in front of the army and was very satisfied with the high morale of the Tang Dynasty soldiers. This was the soul given to this army by a great victory.

As the leader of this army, Li Zheng's personal prestige and charisma also reached their peak.

(End of this chapter)