sweeping the world

Chapter 748 Confused
Long-range weapons are indispensable in fierce battles in the sea. Bows and crossbows are indispensable weapons, but the first weapon to make a sound must be the bed crossbow with a longer range but a larger body.

After the two fleets entered into a state of engagement, no matter what changes occurred in their formation, the only thing that remained constant was that the sky must be full of roaring arrows, and most of the arrows would inevitably burn with grease.

The rocket was shot into the hull, and the arrowhead was naturally nailed into the wood, and the burning grease would burn to the hull at that time.In fact, a small number of ships can't ignite the hull at all, at most they will smoke, but it will be different if they hit objects with combustion aids.

After the battle started, it was inevitable that the sails hit by the rockets would be ignited. Fibrous objects have always been afraid of flames. They will become combustion aids, and then the fire will spread to the entire deck. The people who are ignited will scurry around and bring the flames into the hull. No matter how hard it is to stop the fire, it won't take long for the whole ship to burst into flames.

In the beginning, the two sides could line up to fight each other in a straight line. As a fire broke out on a ship, especially the cabin, and the people who were supposed to be rowing the oars were busy putting out the fire or fleeing for their lives, they would lose their ability to move. If I become a drag on the formation, a team will be so broken.

After entering the state of engagement, the warships of the Han Dynasty used their range advantage to attack unilaterally.This situation lasted for nearly 10 minutes, turning one enemy ship after another into torches. Before the warships on Gupta's side approached enough to counterattack, at least twenty or thirty ships were not in the effective attack sequence.

The battle between the two sides with you coming and going is 10 minutes after the start of the battle. Waiting for the bed crossbow of the warship of Gupta to be able to launch, the crossbow of the warship of the Han Dynasty is also added to the shooting. There is such a picture on the entire battlefield, mid-air The middle is full of arrows flying.

The warships on the Gupta side faced attacks from the Han army's bed crossbows and powerful crossbows, but the Gupta warships could only use their bed crossbows to fight back. However, the Gupta side still stubbornly continued to approach. It can also be seen from this that Ah San... at least... The Gupta naval battle has not dominated the Asan Ocean for hundreds of years.

"The loss is worth it!" Gawala Kangding Warren is destined not to be in the charge sequence, he will stay in a relatively safe rear and command the fleet under his command.He didn't seem to be deceiving himself, but he said firmly: "In repeated confrontations, as long as we can survive the early disadvantages, then it's time for us to play!"

Among all the countries at present, only the Romans can compare with the Han Dynasty in terms of advanced equipment.Taking large-scale equipment alone as a comparison, the Han Kingdom relied on Zhuxia's background to possess the bed crossbow, a big killer, and has been improving the bed crossbow to ensure its range advantage.Rome not only had bed crossbows, they also obtained catapults from the Greeks, and the range of this kind of equipment is actually farther than bed crossbows.

In fact, it must be said that the Romans attached great importance to military equipment, and their infantry-based legions basically carried all kinds of equipment, especially siege equipment.This also caused the Romans to never relax the development of military equipment. If anyone in this world recognizes the importance of equipment, the Romans may have a deeper understanding than Zhu Xia.

The rest of Ah San firmly believed in the words of Jawala Kangding Warren. It is an established fact that they are inferior to the Han army in terms of equipment. They can only get closer and entangle each other to offset the inferiority in equipment. The performance time of the three.

Wang Kan has already learned the strengths of Gupta naval battles from the past battle data. If he can avoid close combat, he will definitely not fight. The instruction given to each formation is to keep the distance with the enemy as far as possible.

The Han warship formation in the battle naturally has its own disadvantages. If it can keep a distance at all times and use its own range advantage to send the enemy ships to the bottom of the sea, it will only take a broken brain to want to engage in a boarding battle.

If there are several ships fighting against several ships, or a battlefield where dozens of ships are fighting, there is enough space to move around, but when there are too many ships fighting, it is really not possible to rush wherever you want. There are friendly ships and enemy ships everywhere.

Half an hour into the battle, the formations of the two parties participating in the battle gradually became no formation at all. If there is coordination, only a few two or three ships can interact, and the rest simply have enemy situations that they need to deal with.

"Handling!" Wang Kan finally understood the meaning of what Li Mai said before. What he thinks is one thing, but whether the other party is worthy of reconciliation is another matter: "Send out the scorpion."

The Gupta navy fought in formation at the beginning, but then they simply dispersed the formation and attacked in a disorderly manner. Their move really hit the weakness of the Han navy and made it difficult for the Han navy to deal with which ship. There is basically no difference between the enemy ships. One can be sunk or crippled by concentrating fire, but more enemy ships are approaching. If you want to keep the distance, the entire battle line must retreat. But the large fleet cannot retreat if it wants to. It is chaotic. It will inevitably happen.

No matter on land or at sea, it is impossible for anyone to completely control the entire army. For example, the idiom is an adjective, and no one has ever been able to really do it.

The situation on the battlefield is that a part falls into chaos, and then multiple parts evolve into an overall chaos. At that time, the command of the commander-in-chief can only be general, such as asking the troops in chaos to do something collectively, and it is impossible to do it alone. Or what a single formation does, if it is a retreat or a desperate battle on land, the same is true in naval battles.

Many warships of the enemy and us have already entered the boarding battle. At this time, the warships of the Han Dynasty took advantage again, because the warships of the Han Kingdom had a higher deck height than the warships of the Gupta side.

Fighting has always been that the side that occupies the height has the advantage, and what can be seen is the Han army archers standing at the favorable height condescendingly firing arrows, shooting down one after another who dared to take the lead.

Ah San is no stranger to this kind of situation. What they can do is to organize the archers to fight back, and at the same time, let all those who can participate in the battle swing the hooked ropes, and they can see that once there are two warships with different ownership Close to each other, apart from the arrows shooting back and forth, the ropes are constantly throwing each other, and the next moment is people swinging and trying to climb.

Not every warship from Gupta's side can be successfully docked, it has to be of that size. The size of the ship is not big enough, and what is facing is that it has not controlled the speed and approached. Collision, the size itself is not big enough to be knocked over.

Almost at the time when Wang Kan ordered the boats to attack, Jawala Kangding Hualun also ordered his own rushing boats to go out.

The navies of Han and Gupta did not count warships separately when calculating their combat power, but included both warships and rushing boats.The two sides are fighting until now, when the vanguard fleet enters a stalemate, they will dispatch the warships or rushing boats. That is because both sides have suffered enough in the early battles. will be named.However, with the size of 艨艟 and Chongzhou, they can't withstand a few bed crossbows at all.

"Order the left wing fleet to attack." Wang Gong actually could not control the entire battlefield. He could only look at the general situation: "Pull the enemy fleet formation."

The two fleets at war are really not huddled together, just like fighting on land, they will be divided into groups, so there will be a central army and the arrangement of the left and right wings, and even the reserve team is indispensable.

Their initial battle location was within ten miles of the coast, and they were already at least fifteen miles away from the coast. As the battle lengthened, the distance between their respective fleets became wider and wider.

"The left wing of the Han people has been dispatched?" Jawala Kangding. Warren always felt that something was wrong: "The enemy has dispatched at least two hundred warships of various types, why can't the headquarters see the number decrease at all? "

Salar Sakuman was not as slow as his immediate boss, he noticed something was wrong from the very beginning.

They guessed that there were about [-] ships of the Han army coming to attack, but the number of ships participating in the battle of the Han army was more than [-]. There are also a lot of reserves, and there is another fleet preparing to land.

By this time, if the Ah Sans haven't realized that they guessed wrong, then it's not a problem with their eyes, but a problem with their brains as well.

Jawala Kangding Warren and Salar Sakuman looked at each other for a while, their faces were equally ugly, they had already confirmed that there were definitely more than five hundred Han warships coming to attack, and it was more guesswork It may reach nearly a thousand!

"It's unbelievable!" Jawala Kangding Warren said with a livid face, "Our information has never been right!"

Before, the Gupta side estimated the total number of warships of the Han Expeditionary Army to be [-], but now they can see more than [-]!

It is not fatal that the number far exceeds the guess, but even the number of warships in the Han Dynasty can be wrong, so why do they think the truth is false at all?

"The enemy's right-wing fleet is also dispatched..." Salar Sakuman raised his finger, "We...the gap in numbers is too great."

The Gupta navy has more experience in combat than the Han navy. To some extent, once it enters the boarding battle, it can achieve good results, but the difference in quantity has reached a certain level, even if it is exchanged for the Han. There are two ships, and they should all feed the fish before they have exchanged their own warships.

From the battle to the present moment, looking at the overall situation with God's vision, the formations of the two sides that entered the melee earlier, the losses of both sides are 27 ships on the Han side and 34 ships on the Gupta side.There will be such a comparison, or the Han warships had the range advantage in the early stage.

If the melee continues, the loss ratio will soon increase. Generally, the Han army loses more and more in the melee.That's because the Han people really don't have as much experience in boarding battles as Ah San. The more reason is that even if there are melee personnel on the system warships, the system warships are not used for melee combat, and those personnel are also drawn from the army. naval battle.

Wang Kan is now facing a very troublesome problem. He finds strangely that a large number of warships on his side cannot adapt to melee combat. Some died in battle, either captured or turned into torches.

【how so? 】Wang Kan couldn't figure out why that happened, but he had the decisiveness that a general should have: "The ministries have already joined the battle, and it's time to wipe out the enemy!"

It doesn't matter if you are inferior to others in experience, and it is not a big deal if you are inferior to others in melee combat. Everything can be reversed under the absolute advantage of numbers. Then the general will be in vain.

The order Wang Kan received in advance was not to wipe out all the enemy troops here. Their task was to capture the port set up by Gupta. The main fleet on the way home came to solve it.

Of course, if the navy of Gupta's side could be wiped out, Wang Kan wouldn't want to just slip away with his military achievements. Otherwise, he knew that the chaos would become a stalemate, so why would he continue to invest in the fleet?And relying on the number of its own warships to arrange the fleet to make an encirclement, what is the purpose?

As a contemporary owner of Warren who started playing in the navy since his ancestors, Gawala Kangding Warren reacted when he found signs of encirclement by the enemy. The Kshatriya who went in made various promises, requiring them to resist until the last moment, and then lead the headquarters to move by themselves.

When ships were smoking and fighting fiercely everywhere on the sea, Jawala Kangding Warren was turning around with about [-] ships from the headquarters. His move was a big deal in the eyes of all Ah Sans. It is only a matter of course that the noble Brahmins can flee quickly when the situation is unfavorable, just like Kshatriya should order the untouchables to use their lives to fight for a way of escape in order to escape for themselves.

There was also a scene on the battlefield. Too many small and medium-sized enemy and enemy formations killed mountains of corpses, but the commanders of the two fleets led their headquarters to chase and flee.

This situation is undoubtedly what the Han side, which has the advantage in numbers, is happy to see. They can completely deal with one enemy force with several ships. And with the escape of the enemy general, the will of the enemy soldiers to fight has also been shaken, and they will be eliminated or destroyed. The difficulty of taking prisoners has been repeatedly reduced.

The battle started at about nine o'clock in the morning, and Jawala Kangding Warren's transfer took place at noon when he saw that the situation was not good.After he began to transfer, the Han army's march on the port also took action.

Wang Kan led his headquarters to pursue for about an hour, seeing that he could not catch up, he didn't admit his death, so he sensibly turned around and participated in the landing operation.

"It turned out to be like this..." Of course, Wang Kan would not land in person. What he did after returning to the army was to let the formations add up the casualties and battle results. The force reached 59 ships."

Wang Kan had to smile wryly. They used 850 large and small warships to deal with about [-] warships of various types on Gupta's side, and sank and captured more than [-].

[The big man's navy is so bad? 】Wang Kan really doesn't understand: 【It shouldn't be! 】

(End of this chapter)