"Bearing, Ten Scales" "Thirteen miles apart.
"Number of enemy ships seven" Now there is no clock, and it is difficult to identify the direction at sea, Liu Yan made 12 scales to provide the direction of the target to be reported by the navy, that is, the usual direction of what time it is.
The lookout on the mast of the ship, holding an elongated monocular, stood high and could see far away, and if he didn't find it, it would be fine, otherwise the field of view could reach more than twenty or thirty miles.
There are many factors that can not find the target at sea, and in the rough sea, some waves can roll up more than ten meters, which means that a certain area is sunken down for several meters.
To put it simply, the sea is not always flat, but changes in height with the waves.
Whether it is called the Indian Ocean, or the Eritrean Sea, or the Asan Ocean as the Han people call it, the sea conditions in this sea area are really relatively calm compared to the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean in summer, and the Mediterranean Sea is even calmer than this sea area.
When the Han navy first arrived in Asan Ocean, any ships that were not their own belonged to enemy ships, and Fu Wei, who received the notification, immediately issued an order to prepare for war.
"There are only seven enemy ships, and they can be observed relatively closely."
Liang Min, as the first officer, was still able to put forward some opinions: "We need more detailed information. ” Fu Wei also means this, their arrival is to find out the surrounding situation, as soon as the ships of the unnamed forces appear, there are seven, the probability of belonging to the caravan is infinitely reduced, only warships will sail in formation, so it is even more necessary to see what the battleship looks like.
"Adjust your position."
Fu Wei's knowledge base does not use the monsoon, but he at least knows which way the wind is blowing and in which direction it is more advantageous for the ship to stay: "Roundabout to the position of the wind" The captain's orders will be conveyed layer by layer, the warships will communicate with each other in the language of flags, and the ships will use ventilation pipes to shout and convey.
Fu Wei's flagship was a warship with a length of 60 meters, a width of 16 meters, a draft of 7 meters, and a five-story structure with a carrying capacity of 500 tons.
It has four masts, two bed crossbows in the bow, three bed crossbows on each side of the ship, and two bed crossbows in the stern, for a total of ten bed crossbows.
The two formation warships are naturally not comparable to the flagship, they are a kind of warship with a length of 45 meters, a width of 13 meters, a draft of 5 meters, divided into a four-layer structure, a carrying capacity of 360 tons, only three masts, a bed crossbow in the bow and stern, two bed crossbows on each side of the ship, and a total of six bed crossbows.
Now it is more troublesome to calculate the speed, downwind and upwind are two things, and the speed of relying on human oars is even more uneven, and the fastest speed can reach about eight knots in general.
Before Fu Wei's formation discovered the Gupta Dynasty warship formation, the information was in an asymmetrical stage, that is, the Han fleet discovered the Gupta Dynasty's formation, but the Gupta Dynasty's formation still hadn't discovered the Han Dynasty's fleet, that is, the Han fleet had telescopes, and the Gupta Dynasty's lookouts could only rely on their own naked eyes without auxiliary tools.
After entering the state of readiness, the bed crossbows on the battleship have been removed from the cloth bags, and the crossbow arrows are loaded under various commands.
Most of the warriors in the cabin were also on deck, and they were armed with a strong crossbow, and when they had done their job of loading arrows, they sat quietly on their knees.
There is no need to observe too deliberately, including bed crossbows and strong crossbows, which are loaded with combustible arrows, after all, all ships are currently made of wood, and those that do not set fire to arrows can only be anti-personnel and cannot be sunk, and if you want to sink enemy ships, you can only start a broadside battle except for setting fire.
However, since the broadside battle can kill the position of the sea valve at the bottom of the enemy ship, it is equivalent to being able to capture and sink what to do.
Confrontations at sea generally take a long time, and it is often necessary to repeatedly take advantage of the favorable position of the wind, and the two sides will continue to close the distance at this time, and they may stare at each other for most of the day before they start fighting, and even staring at each other for a whole day may not have a battle.
Therefore, it is rare for a battle at sea to decide the winner in one day, and the confrontation between the two fleets is basically calculated on a monthly basis, even if the head-on decisive battle is over, it is common for the subsequent pursuit to destroy the enemy for several months, and there are always fish that slip through the net.
"That's it."
It was the first time for Fu Wei to command the formation to engage in a battle at sea, and he still had a great sense of tension in his heart, so he put down the binoculars in his hand and shook his palm before ordering: "Advance to the enemy ship." ” At this time, the three Han formations, with Fu Wei's warship as the flagship, had already seized a favorable wind position.
They were close enough to get to the enemy's formation to about five miles before the Gupta lookouts noticed it.
The Gupta dynasty must have also had a flagship, distinguished by the sail pattern hung on the warship.
It can be seen that the largest of the seven warships of the Gupta Dynasty is a warship with a length of about 20 meters, a width of four or five meters, and an unknown draft, but there are two layers on the horizontal plane, and the rest of the warships appear to be smaller, and the strange thing is that the small warship has at least four masts.
"It looks like a flat style."
Fu Wei had already found that the enemy ship was much smaller than his own, and looking at the oars with the rod sticking out of the hull, it looked very much like a centipede: "I didn't find that there was a large long-range attack equipment installed on the hull."
The warships of the Han Kingdom were a kind of mutated ships after Liu Yan's intervention, and the ships generally tended to be in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in terms of style and structure, and even introduced some mature theories that are only available in modern times, such as the layout of large long-range attack equipment.
At present, the ships of various countries and nations have not completely distinguished between inland river ships and sea ships, and one point is similar to that the construction of ships will involve some land buildings, such as the eaves structure with roofs above the water level of ships.
The seven Gupta Dynasty warships discovered by Fu Wei's formation were on the sea but had a bright yellow color, but I don't know if it was the natural color of the wood itself or the lacquer on the back.
Ships must be painted, or a kind of anti-corrosion paint, in ancient times there were not many nation-states that studied lacquer, but there were not many nation-states that took the lead in applying lacquer to sea ships, and ancient India was definitely one of them.
The Central Plains Dynasty had long made lacquer, but it was applied to some family utensils, and it was not used in HNA anyway.
"Their ships are very similar to our river boats."
The telescope in Liang Min's hand has never been put down: "Each floor has an anti-arrow female wall and arrow stacks, which look relatively short." ” Contemporary warships are basically the same style, and the defense facilities on the ship are in the form of land walls, and naturally there are female walls and arrow stacks, but they are all wooden structures.
The distance between the two sides is about a kilometer, and it is expected that the Han side can observe more carefully with a telescope, and can also make judgments, while the Gupta Dynasty side cannot see too much detail from a thousand meters away.
"Do you have any relevant impressions" Pical Malik didn't look the slightest nervous, squinted at the three vague warships in the distance, and asked his deputy Dijankumar, then turned his head and asked the surveyor: "How is their speed?"
"I can't see clearly."
Digrang Kumar didn't feel nervous either, he shook his head: "It's too far away." ” At this time, the dark-skinned surveyor reported: "The visual speed should be thirty-three." ” Each nation has its own civilization, and each civilization has its own unit of measurement, such as the inch, ruler, zhang, etc. of Zhuxia, the Luo ruler es, Luo Bu ass, and Luo Li IE in ancient Rome.
Under the influence of the 1st religion of Buddhism, many units of counting sound very mysterious, such as fuzzy, wandering, fleeting, instantaneous, snapping of fingers, instantaneous, six virtues, void, purity, and nirvana silence, each representing a unit of measurement, and of course the extreme, load, zheng, stream, ditch, slu, and 杼. asked how big the world is, Ah San replied, "One sand and one world, one water and one ocean", and asked if he was afraid "Unidentified Ship Full Sails" Waiting for the two sides to get close to about 700 meters, the Gupta Dynasty's lookout finally reported effective observation information.
I don't know what happened to me at sea, what to use to judge what the opponent's attitude is, the first thing to look at is the state of the opponent's ship, that is, whether the sail is at full speed, and then judge the subsequent actions that may occur according to the direction of the bow.
"Ring the bell" Pical Malik yells: "They are hostile, ring the bell immediately" A bell rang to the moment, and it wasn't long before seven Gupta ships began pouring out of their cabins onto decks, and sailors were busy tinkering with sails and rope lassoes, driven by overseers.
The "array line" was not yet in vogue, and the seven Gupta warships tried their best to adjust their positions, and a half-moon formation gradually took shape.
On each Gupta warship, a considerable number of warriors armed with bows and arrows could be seen approaching the female walls and arrow stacks, while some were waiting by with stoves, apparently also preparing to launch rockets.
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As he prepared for battle, Picalmalik did not forget the most important part of naval engagement, which was to take advantage of the wind.
Every ship in the Gupta Dynasty was equipped with a considerable number of slaves, and at this moment some overseers were constantly pumping with whips, and urging the slaves to hurry, faster, and faster, and whoever dared to move slower would be whipped over.
Fu Wei saw from afar that the enemy ship formation had transformed into a half-moon formation and didn't know if it was right, anyway, he felt that the enemy was able to complete the formation change in such a short period of time.
"How long will it be before it is in range?"
"At the current pace, coupled with favorable winds, it's going to be fast."
Fu Wei has thought many times, if he comes to this sea area to meet with the ships of the famous forces, what kind of contact picture should it be, every time he imagines the launch of the bed crossbow, the difference is whether he can get close to the captives in the end, and what to say after seeing the aliens, he really didn't take into account the language barrier, and he didn't need to think about it, he would only say "The first time we met, please die", and ordered someone to tie it up and throw it into the sea.
Liang Min reported: "The enemy ships are competing for a favorable position in the wind. ” The distance between the two sides is getting closer, from 700 meters to 500 meters, and the distance is being shortened every moment.
"The leader is a white-skinned race," Fu Wei could clearly see who the other party was through a telescope, and said, "There are many dark-looking people." ” The distinction between castes on the side of Asan is not necessarily based on skin, but the white-skinned Aryans must have been of upper caste origin, unless these Aryans have fallen into marriage with the lower castes, or they are still superior no matter how downtrodden, and no matter how rich the Shudras are, they are inherently inferior to the castes above the Vaishyas.
There is no relevant information on the Han side, but it has nothing to do with it, Fu Wei only needs to confirm which flagship of the enemy formation is and where the commander is located.
"When you get closer, give priority to attacking that ship with colorful sails."
Fu Wei didn't know what an olive branch was, and he didn't want to understand where the olive came from, and what the snake on the olive pattern meant: "Concentrate fire to cover and try to paralyze the ship at once." ” In many literary and artistic works, naval battles are always tense and intense, in fact, they are extremely boring pursuits, and the process is usually extremely long.
So in order not to make the book look too boring, describe what the commanders of both sides were thinking at the time.
And the author of the book is very powerful, and he can even know what he is thinking, extending countless sentiments and greatness, or being dizzy and stupid.
One thousand meters is a long time, but it is actually quite short, and the two sides kept changing positions to break away and chase, but it took a full four hours to get closer to within 200 meters.
"Measure Wind Speed" "Bed Crossbow Adjustment Scale" "Ready" "Shoot" When three warships of different sizes are lined up in an "array line", the bed crossbow on the deck must have one side of the ship that is not in the firing position, and the salvo is followed by a fifteen-pole bed crossbow fired out.
"They attacked" Dee surprised Kumar: "They attacked" When the two sides were chasing each other, the hostile relationship had long been confirmed, and it was not uncommon for one side to attack, and the Gupta dynasty was surprised that the Han warships attacked from a distance of two hundred meters.
Of course, Gu Ah San had bed crossbows, and some also equipped bed crossbows on warships, similar crossbow ships were standing warships as early as the Kushan Empire, and they were surprised that there were civilizations that would do this.
"It doesn't matter who they are or where they come from, we have met an opponent," Kapil Malik said solemnly, "it is a strong offensive unnamed force" Fu Wei ordered all ships to fire a salvo, and the fifteen bed crossbows actually all missed, and the most accurate bed crossbow was within five meters of the enemy ship.
The first salvo of the first naval battle all failed, and all the sailors who went up to Fu Wei and down to one of the sailors in the formation were ashamed, and all kinds of passwords were hurriedly shouted again, waiting for the next salvo order.
"Let the Harman break away from the formation and return to port."
Kapil Marik said seriously: "Let's see what they are capable of":