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Hussein led his fleet into the melee and chased after the Japanese fleet. When Lin Niangzi saw this, she was immediately reassured.

"The fleet should focus all its efforts on dealing with the pirates; ignore the Japanese fleet."

"Yes."

Hu Sai's arrival greatly reduced the harassment from the Japanese rats, allowing Lin Niangzi to free up her hands and concentrate on dealing with the Cross Pirates.

The four forces were locked in a fierce battle, making the naval situation even more brutal. In such circumstances, once a ship was sunk, the sailors who fell into the sea had virtually no chance of survival.

South China Sea islands.

Everyone on the island knew that their navy was fighting pirates in the nearby sea, and everyone silently prayed for their navy.

No one noticed that several ships had quietly docked on the southern coast of the South China Sea.

"Gather, everyone, hurry up and assemble!"

This was a mixed army, consisting of white people and short, yellow-skinned people, and they flew the banners of the Cross Pirates and Fusang.

This was originally a barren land, but it happened to be discovered by a small team that was exploring for mineral deposits.

"enemy?"

No one expected that while the naval battle was still raging, the enemy would send another force to launch a surprise attack on their main base in the South China Sea.

"Go back and inform Lord Zhou immediately."

The squads were all equipped with horses, and everyone began to rush frantically towards South Sea City.

. . . . . . . . . . . .

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

Horseback riding was not allowed to enter the South China Sea city gate, but the situation was urgent, and the reconnaissance team could not care about anything else. They only wanted to get the intelligence to Lord Zhou as soon as possible. Seeing that the guards at the gate had already taken defensive stances, they had no choice but to shout that the enemy was attacking.

Upon hearing the sound of an enemy attack, the guards at the city gate were slightly taken aback.

"They are a survey team; they just left the city this morning."

Fortunately, some sharp-eyed soldiers recognized the squad.

Upon hearing this, the garrison captain realized the urgency of the situation and immediately ordered his soldiers to clear the way.

City Lord's Mansion.

"What urgent military situation?"

The reconnaissance team was brought before Zhou Wu, who, upon hearing of the urgent military situation, personally summoned them.

"Sir, we have spotted a large number of enemies landing in the South China Sea. There are white people and Japanese people as well."

"What! It seems they planned this all along, one thing after another."

This move was quite unexpected for Zhou Wu. Now that the navy had been completely deployed and the army was mostly stationed in the northwest, Zhou Wu hadn't considered the south at all, but the enemy had. It seems he had underestimated them.

"Someone is coming."

"exist."

With neither Lady Lin nor General Niu Er by his side, Zhou Wu now has no choice but to take matters into his own hands.

"Immediately gather all available troops, recapture the city, recall all personnel and civilians outside, close the city gates tightly, and send someone to notify Niu Er to return and provide reinforcements immediately."

"Yes, my lord."

Zhou Wu was already calculating the number of troops available in the city, because he had never expected the enemy to land and fight. Therefore, Niu Er took most of the troops with him, leaving only a small number of soldiers to maintain order in the city.

Zhou Wu originally did not want to bring the war to Nanhai City, but he was short-handed and had no choice but to hold his ground. Fortunately, there were enough cannons on the city walls.

Before long, all available soldiers in the city had been gathered. Zhou Wu knew there were few people, but he didn't expect there to be so few. At most, there were only three thousand men, scattered across the four city gates, with only a few hundred men at each gate.

Do you know how many people are on the other side?

"My lord, our scouts report that the enemy has at least fifty thousand men."

Three thousand against fifty thousand—Zhou Wu's head was spinning just thinking about it.

Soon the enemy arrived at the city. Zhou Wu, clad in armor and armed with weapons, stood on the city tower, looking down at the densely packed enemy below and then at the sparsely defended soldiers on the city wall. He could only hope that he could hold out until Niu Er returned to reinforce the city.

A man emerged from the enemy camp and shouted loudly towards the city wall.

"Zhou Wu, surrender now! We know there's no one left in the city. If you..."

"Boom~~~"

Before the other party could finish speaking, Zhou Wu fired a shot, scaring the man so much that he ran back while cursing Zhou Wu for his lack of martial ethics.

Zhou Wu didn't really want to listen to their nonsense. Seeing that they were close by, he wanted to take the opportunity to fire a few more shots and eliminate some enemies.

Surrender is never an option.

The enemy, hit by the cannon fire, quickly retreated, moving out of the range of the cannons on the city wall.

"Sir, our cannons can't reach them."

They originally planned to exchange artillery fire, but the cannons from the Fusang and Crusader sides couldn't even reach Southsea City.

"I've already sent people to find out. Zhou Wu has deployed his troops to the northwest dock. There are only one or two thousand soldiers left in the city. We have to hurry, or we'll be in trouble when reinforcements arrive."

The Japanese general leading the team seemed to have some sense; he had already thoroughly investigated the situation in Nanhai City. Now, the goal was to achieve a swift victory. Since artillery could not defend against the enemy, they would resort to human wave tactics.

"Everyone, charge!"

"Kill~"

Fifty thousand men charged toward the city wall in dense formation. Although there were many cannons and muskets on the city wall of Nanhai City, they were unable to exert their full power due to insufficient manpower.

A few hundred people can only operate a small number of cannons, and the damage they cause is only a drop in the ocean compared to the damage caused by 50,000 people.

"My lord, my lord~~~"

Just when Zhou Wu was at his wit's end, Huang Laosan led all the craftsmen from the Military Equipment Bureau to the city wall.

"What are you doing here?"

The enemy was rushing towards the city wall when Huang Laosan's appearance caught Zhou Wu's eye.

"Sir, we may not be good at fighting, but operating artillery is our specialty."

When Huang Laosan heard that there were not enough soldiers to guard the city walls, he mobilized all the artisans in the military equipment bureau to fire cannons on the city walls. These artisans, who usually enjoyed the generous treatment in the South China Sea, naturally did not want the city to be breached, so they all volunteered enthusiastically.

"That's great, thank you for your hard work."

The situation is urgent, and this is not the time for reminiscing. We can only work together to defeat the enemy.

"Brothers, let's go! You've all been taken care of by the adults a lot, it's time to repay them today."

"Ha~~"

Although the artisans at the Ordnance Bureau varied in age, their skill in operating artillery far surpassed that of active-duty soldiers.

Sure enough, once the craftsmen got their hands on it, the cannon became like a musket in their hands, hitting wherever it was pointed.

The first to be targeted are those wearing general's armor among the crowd below. These people are leaders, and shooting them will definitely affect the enemy's morale.

At this moment on the battlefield, those wearing bright armor became the main targets of Huang Laosan and his men.

After several rounds of shelling, the enemy realized they were targeting the commander, so they immediately abandoned the corpses scattered on the ground and sounded the retreat.