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Chapter 729
In the East China Sea Islands, the three parties are still fighting fiercely.The Tianhua Army, which occupies a favorable location, finally stabilized the situation, although they paid a lot of losses for this.

After seven or eight days of fighting, the Tianhua Army killed and injured nearly 3000 people, destroyed and sunk more than 100 warships, and now there are less than 600 warships left.The fleet of the Cao Jun and Dongyang Allied Forces suffered even more heavy casualties, with more than 400 casualties, and more than 500 ships were destroyed and sunk, including more than [-] small ships and more than [-] large ships.Of the remaining ships, there are only more than [-] left.

However, the Tianhua Army was not without danger. The artillery and ammunition had begun to run short, and the warships had to rely on crude catapults as a supplement to their attack.As a result, the shooting range was reduced to less than 200 meters, and the attack power was also weakened by half.Marines have to face hand-to-hand combat all the time, which is why the number of casualties has been rising in recent days.

At this time, on the battlefield where the two sides were fighting, corpses and broken ship materials were floating everywhere.Under the waterways of the archipelago, countless sunken ships accumulated layer by layer, making the chance of hitting the rocks even greater, and the waterways suddenly became more dangerous.But this is very beneficial to the Tianhua army. When the coalition forces attack, they have to be careful of the sunken ships on the bottom of the sea, making it impossible to adopt flexible tactics when attacking.

What hangs in the hearts of the coalition forces now is the problem of fresh water, and the ten days are very close.Although a lot of fresh water was saved due to the heavy casualties, it was only delayed for a few days at most.Until now, the Tianhua army still firmly guards the entrance of the archipelago, and it seems that there is no way to break through.The monster in the sky had a complete panoramic view of their schemes, so many schemes were seen through by the other party just after they were implemented, and suffered a lot of hidden losses.

More importantly, morale has fallen to the bottom.Staying on the boat for more than ten days, even if they are sailors, they seldom have this kind of experience. After all, most of them are in inland rivers and near the coast, and they can go ashore at any time for supplies.But now they are in the vast sea, and they don't know where they are. This has caused the soldiers to be extremely homesick and eager to return to the mainland.

When they saw the corpses of their comrades sinking slowly into the bottom of the sea, with no chance of taking them back for burial, great panic arose in their hearts.Special preparations are soldiers of the Cao Jun navy. As a native of the Central Plains, they pay attention to returning fallen leaves to their roots. If they die in battle, they will be reduced to food for fish. It is desperate to think about becoming a lonely ghost in this sea.

As a result, the conflict between the coalition forces immediately emerged. The generals of the Cao army tried their best to go back to the mainland, while the Dongyang army hoped to continue to persevere and eventually annihilate the Tianhua army.

In the end, General Cao Jun was afraid that his subordinates would rebound, so he didn't dare to persevere, so he had to tell the general of Dongyang Army that Cao Jun was going to retreat anyway. If Dongyang Army still wanted to fight, they were willing to provide them with more fresh water and continue to fight. .

The general of Dongyang heard the words and knew that leaving his six hundred ships alone would not be able to defeat the opponent.Therefore, he had to scold General Cao for being ignorant and cowardly, while ordering the army to prepare to return.Now that the Dongyang fleet has suffered heavy losses, he must return to Qingzhou Port as soon as possible to repair the ships.As for the Tianhua Navy, there are only more than 300 ships left now, and they will not be able to cause too much trouble to them in a short time.

Finally, amidst the rumbling artillery fire, the coalition fleet began to slowly withdraw from the islands, gradually drifting away.

Liang Shicheng didn't dare to be careless, and immediately ordered the hot air balloon to float westward for a certain distance, rising more than 200 meters, and carefully observe the opponent's movements to judge the authenticity of his retreat.

When the hot air balloon scout came back to report, Liang Shicheng finally confirmed that the other party had really withdrawn.Looking at the warships that were gradually withdrawing, his expression suddenly became gloomy again.In this battle, the strength of the Tianhua navy was seriously injured, and more than half of it was lost.Even the navy that he worked so hard to build lost nearly a hundred ships, or nearly half of them.

However, now the enemy has finally retreated.Liang Shicheng immediately ordered the whole army to go out of the island and catch up with the enemy.He is going to hold back the speed of the enemy's return at sea, and constantly consume the opponent's fresh water storage.

Not to mention the change of attack and defense, the Tianhua army not only approached and bombarded the coalition forces, but when the coalition fleet dispatched to encircle and suppress them, they immediately took advantage of the wind and fled without contacting them head-on.Although this move did not cause much loss to the coalition forces, it successfully slowed down their sailing speed by a lot.

A few days later, a stretch of land loomed in the west, and the coalition forces cheered from top to bottom.After some proofreading, it was found that this place turned out to be the ground mirror of Weizhou. The commander of Cao Jun's navy couldn't help showing joy, and he finally returned home safely with his soldiers.

However, at this moment, a fleet of about a thousand ships suddenly appeared in the northwest, and it was slowly heading towards them.

At this time, not only the coalition forces were taken aback, they immediately ordered the whole team to be on alert.Even the Tianhua navy in the rear was stunned, and immediately turned around, ready to escape at any time.

When the fleet approached the coalition forces, everyone finally saw the opponent's flag clearly, with the word "Wu" written on it, which was the sailor's flag of the Gu family in Haizhou.Because he supported a descendant of the Tianwu imperial family, he still held the banner of the Tianwu Dynasty.

Commander Cao immediately felt relieved. Now that the Gu family and Tianwei Nation have reached an armistice agreement, they will naturally not attack him for no reason when facing the pressure of Tianhua's powerful enemy.And the Dongyang army also understands the current situation in the Central Plains. Tianhua wants to unify the Central Plains, but he is the enemy of all the princes. This Haizhou navy will definitely not help Tianhua, and may even join forces with them to attack the sky. What about Master Hua.

At this time, even Liang Shicheng thought so.In his opinion, the Gu family in Haizhou, like the Cao family, held great hostility towards Tianhua, so naturally they would not come to help them.Therefore, he has ordered that the army be assembled immediately and prepare to break out to the north.

However, at this moment, the Haizhou navy suddenly turned around and rushed towards the Dongyang army.Before everyone came back to their senses, the Haizhou Army had inserted into the Dongyang Army fleet and launched a fierce attack.

When Cao Jun came back to his senses and was about to go to support.The Haizhou Army also had hundreds of ships facing them, putting on a defensive posture.At the same time, through the banner, Cao Jun was informed that the two families had ceased fighting and were not allowed to attack each other.

The general of Cao Jun's navy immediately became furious. The Haizhou Army had already launched an offensive against the Dongyang Army, so why not go to war?
At this time, a small boat sailed across from Haizhou, and soon boarded Cao Jun's main ship, and met the chief general of Cao Jun's navy.

Facing the ugly general of Cao Jun's navy, the envoy from Haizhou immediately gave his explanation, "The Central Plains is the land of the Central Plains people, and they are also the masters of the Central Plains people. Dongyang people, foreign races from overseas, how can they wantonly trample on us?" The land of the Central Plains, slaughter my people in the Central Plains? If the general has righteousness in mind, please stand by and watch, and don't stop our army from killing the barbarians."

(End of this chapter)