The Frankish Kingdom originally did not have a naval fleet.
The existing naval fleet was captured from the Lombard Kingdom, and some were donated by the Papal States and several principalities in central Italy.
It is not very powerful and only serves as a naval fleet in the Mediterranean.
Facade.
The sudden attack by the Western Qin fleet immediately tested the strength of the Frankish fleet.
They themselves were blocked by the Western Qin fleet in the port of Genoa and could not get out.
They were attacked by the Western Qin fleet with Greek fire.
They were immediately in disarray.
In order to avoid The flames sprayed from the Xiqin ships not far away caused the Frank ships to duck to the side.
Unexpectedly, they collided with each other.
For a while, the soldiers on the Frank ships turned upside down.
"Don't mess up, don't mess up!"
a Frank captain shouted loudly, but with little effect.
In a dangerous situation, everyone wanted to survive, and few people listened to him.
It had just darkened, and the Frankish fleet had just returned to the port when it was attacked by the Western Qin fleet that followed.
No one expected that the Western Qin people would seize this opportunity to attack from behind and row the oars.
The boatmen and slaves had already left their posts and were in chaos under the sudden attack.
It was difficult for the captain to direct them to return to their posts and row.
The Frankish ships approaching the Western Qin fleet were directly sprayed without being able to avoid them.
Greek fire burned.
A large amount of oil was sprayed out, bringing out long strings of flames.
The Western Qin fleet's proficiency in using Greek fire was no worse than that of the Eastern Roman Empire's naval fleet, and the Western Qin people improved the fire-breathing device to make it Able to spray farther.
There were burning flames everywhere on the sea.
The Franks were burned and screamed miserably.
Almost all the ships closest to the Xi Qin fleet were on fire.
The Franks, who were burning all over their bodies, jumped into the sea and tried to use the sea water to extinguish them.
They lost the flames on their bodies, but after they jumped into the sea and put their heads out of the sea, they still couldn't escape the burning flames on the sea.
The ships that were close to the dock were afraid that they would also be burned.
People on the ships tried their best to row the ships to the shore of the dock.
A large number of ships were crowded together, collided with each other, and capsized, causing countless people to fall into the sea. .
The night wind blowing from the sea made the fire bigger and spread faster to the shore of the pier.
Seeing that the fire was about to catch up, the people on the ship in front let out a horrified roar when they saw it, and rowed harder with their hands. , some slow ships and blocked ships were quickly engulfed in fire.
The entire port gradually turned into a sea of fire, and countless people rose to heaven or fell into hell in the flames.
The fire spread quickly, and in less than two quarters of an hour, it swept through some wooden facilities on the dock shore.
Genoa's Frankish fleet was finished, completely finished.
The ships were burned to nothing, and the sailors on the ships were almost burned to death with more than 80% burns.
Only a handful of sailors were able to escape safely to the safety of the dock.
Compared with the Frankish fleet in Genoa, although the Frankish fleet and the Papal State fleet in the Adriatic Sea were also suddenly attacked by the First and Second Mediterranean Fleets of the Western Qin Dynasty, their situation was much better.
The two sides fought in the waters near Venice.
When the encounter came, the Frankish fleet and the Papal State fleet that were suddenly attacked were initially taken aback.
Out of time, the Western Qin fleet also used the Frankish fleet and the Papal Kingdom fleet to follow and attack in the evening when the Frankish fleet and the Papal Kingdom fleet returned to the port.
The rear of the fleet was attacked and the formation was in chaos.
Fortunately, they had not entered the port yet and hurriedly changed direction on the wide sea.
They fought against each other and formed a dense formation, trying to use the impact speed to break up the formation of the Western Qin fleet.
But the Franks were doomed to be disappointed.
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The Western Qin fleet used Greek fire flamethrowers at the beginning.
A large number of tongues of flames were sprayed at the rushing Frank and Papal State fleets.
The burning ships gradually slowed down and collided with the Western Qin ships.
It was previously held up by the Western Qin sailors with poles.
Seeing that the ships ahead were on fire, the Frankish and Papal State ships behind them dispersed one after another to avoid being affected by the fire.
However, the Western Qin fleet also dispersed their formations, and groups of two or three ships bypassed the burning ships to pursue them.
Frankish and Papal ships.
An hour after the battle lasted, the wind direction suddenly changed, blowing from the northwest.
The Greek fire on the Xi Qin ships could no longer be used.
If they sprayed more fire, they would be blown back by the strong wind and burn themselves.
The Xi Qin ships It can use bows and arrows, trebuchets, and ballistae to carry out long-range attacks, and engage in boarding battles when it is not far away from enemy ships.
All night long, the sea near Venice was full of flames, and the sound of fighting continued all night long.
Until dawn, the remaining fleets of the Frankish and Papal States, which were weak in terms of number of ships and sailors, finally could not withstand it and began to rout toward the Port of Venice.
In an attempt to escape to the port, they abandoned the ship and fled ashore.
But the West Qin fleet did not stop there.
Their mission here was to wipe out all the ships of the hostile forces in the Mediterranean.
Of course, these remaining enemy ships could not be allowed to escape.
The West Qin fleet pursued them all the way to the port, and the sailors They chased them to the dock shore.
The Frankish and Papal state sailors who fled to the shore were so frightened that they abandoned their armor.
The Frankish dock garrison on guard on the shore was quickly scattered by these deserters.
When they tried to regroup, it was already too late.
The Western Qin sailors who caught up with the shore were Wearing armor and carrying weapons, they came to kill.
The fierce Western Qin sailors raised their swords when they saw the Frankish garrison that had broken out of formation.
The two sides started fighting.
The Frankish garrison, whose morale had already declined, was cut down by hundreds of people.
After being cut down by hundreds of people, they could no longer hold back and joined in like the fleeing sailors.
Joined the escape procession.
The Western Qin fleet dispatched many small boats full of sailors and chased them into the city of Venice, which was crisscrossed by water networks.
The city was in chaos, and the Western Qin sailors were everywhere carrying weapons to chase and kill the fleeing Frank soldiers.
On the sea, raging fires devoured one Frank ship after another.
Eighty percent of Frank's naval ships were in the Mediterranean.
One of them was in Genoa and the other was in Venice.
After tonight's battle, Frank's ships in the Mediterranean were The fleet has basically been wiped out, and only 20% of the ships are left on the Atlantic coast to guard against Britain in the west and the Viking pirates in the north who often go south to rob.
A few days later, the Egyptian legion stationed in Greece, led by Huangfu Yi, marched westward into Macedonia.
Fan Xichao in Spain also led a large army to attack several small Christian countries in the northwest.
Zhao Ziliang in Constantinople also quickly received the news.
At this time, the Fifth Army, Seventh Army and Black Eagle Army of the Western Qin Standing Army were also prepared and could go out at any time.
The Black Eagle Legion was formed by the remaining sergeants of the Eastern Roman surrender army after the siege of Constantinople.
These surrender troops survived the siege battle that lasted for more than a month, and each one of them is an elite.
Soldiers, their loyalty was not very high at first, but after receiving a large number of rewards, allocating fields, houses, and nearly half a year of reorganization and training into the Black Hawk Legion, their loyalty gradually increased.
Not to mention these surrendered troops, there were also a large number of surrendered troops in the Eastern Roman Navy who joined the Western Qin Navy after surrendering to the Western Qin.
There were also some Eastern Roman naval generals who still served as generals in the Western Qin Army after surrendering. , but in order to strengthen its control over them, Western Qin sent them deputies and supervisors.
This time the Western Qin naval fleet raided Venice to destroy the Frankish naval fleet, and those Eastern Roman naval surrender troops were in command.
However, the navy sailors came ashore and captured Venice.
Although this was a matter worthy of celebration and joy, and it was also a victory.
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Zhao Ziliang was not happy about this victory, because the first fleet and the second fleet The fleet did more than was ordered.
The order issued by Zhao Ziliang only asked the First Fleet and the Second Fleet to find a decisive battle with the Frankish fleet in Venice, but did not let them go ashore to capture Venice.
Conquering the city was a combat mission for the army, not the navy.
Even if it wanted to capture the city, the navy would not do it.
It can only play a cooperative role, and the main attack should be the army.
The sailors of the First Fleet and the Second Fleet actually did what the army should do.
This was obviously approved by the naval generals.
For other emperors, the naval fleet might jump for joy after such a victory and would not care about this matter, but this matter is different for Zhao Ziliang.
In his view, this kind of thing must not be done.
There is a beginning.
If we don't pursue the case, there will be generals in the future who want to Military merit does things that exceed military orders, and even directly violates military orders.
This is a precursor to an army losing control.
Since it is an army, military orders must be obeyed absolutely and military orders must be fulfilled to the letter. , do not cheat, nor go beyond the scope of military orders.
"Appoint Liu Chong as the special imperial envoy.
He will leave for Venice today to visit the naval officers of the First and Second Fleets on behalf of Gu, and secretly investigate the truth behind the sailors' entry into Venice.
I want to know whether the sailors entered Venice without authorization or whether there was a navy general Relevant orders were given, or no one gave them, and the sailors just pursued them into Venice.
Did the admiral give the order to stop the pursuit and restrain the sergeants?"
Zhao Ziliang quickly wrote a line on the report and gave instructions to Li Muchen next to him.
Li Muchen originally wanted to dissuade him, but he still had to investigate secretly after winning the battle.
It would not be a good thing if the navy officers knew the inside story, but Zhao Ziliang had already given a clear order, and no matter how much he wanted to dissuade him, he would not dare to speak out unless he I don’t want to do it anymore.
"Yes" Li Muchen agreed, and then said: "Your Majesty, the 5th, 7th and Black Eagle Legions, a total of 100,000 troops, have been prepared.
The first batch of food and grass has been loaded on the truck, and they are ready to go out at any time."
After hearing this, Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said: "In that case, pass on the decree and swear to go out to war in three days."
"Follow the decree":