The Battlefield Doctors immediately began treatment, and Tang Wen unloaded large quantities of medicine and medical equipment.
Here, after swallowing Spirit Pills and eating dry rations, the troops took a brief rest to recuperate.
Large numbers of the Tang Family Army returned to battle, splitting up to reinforce the gun emplacements and continuously bombarding the Sun Kingdom's warships.
"Master, we've reached White Crane Island. We're only thirty-odd li from the Sun Kingdom's warships. Shall we attack?" Li Liao's men had arrived: four secondhand warships and two cargo ships, six vessels in all, carrying over two thousand men.
Tang Wen personally led his men aboard the secondhand gunboat moored beside the island. Under covering artillery fire, they went full throttle.
Li Liao's men closed in at full speed and began firing on the Sun Kingdom's forces.
Suddenly caught between attacks from front and rear, the Sun Kingdom scoundrels panicked and fell into complete disarray.
Several thousand men charged out from White Crane Island while Li Liao's men closed in from the other side. A furious bombardment blasted half the enemy to death.
The survivors hurriedly rowed away, trying to escape, but how could their boats outrun Tang Wen's warships?
They were pursued and battered all the way. Moreover, Tang Wen had killed all their experts on the island; the strongest officers and soldiers aboard their ships were only around the First-Rank Realm.
They fled, abandoning helmets and armor along the way, and dozens more vessels were sunk by cannon fire.
Blood stained the seawater red, and severed limbs and broken corpses covered the surface. In the end, only forty or fifty damaged vessels limped away in disgrace.
After pursuing them for two hundred li, Tang Wen ordered a return to White Crane Island to rest and regroup.
"Incredible, absolutely incredible! Deputy