The waves on the sea are still there, but the Pingman Captain Department has completely changed its appearance after several months of development.
The original Pingban Captain's Department only opened up a vacant land along the coast, and although there were not many buildings built, there were more temporary military tents.
At this moment, the military port has begun to show its scale, the berths in the harbor are docked in rows of warships, and the outer sea is also a shadow of sails, and there will be no more than 200 ships of various types; A wider space has opened up on the land, and more than ten miles inland, the original primeval jungle has been transformed into a complex of buildings, and the sound of drills is incessant on the wide school grounds, and the figures of sergeants and sailors can be seen everywhere on all roads.
The air was humid and rainfell frequently, and the Han army built many houses with bamboo arrangement as the main body, usually supported by large wood, leaving a vacant layer at the base of the house, and the first floor was basically inhabited, and only settled above the second floor.
"Gupta gathers warships and wants to compete with the Han Dynasty" Huan Wen has been in the Pingman Captain Department for more than two months, and he has naturally become the supreme commander of the Han army in this area: "This is something that I am happy to see." ” There is a lot of intention for the house to leave an empty layer, and a lot of rain will often form a watery area, and if you don't want water in the house, you can't build a house like in the Central Plains.
There are too many insects and snakes in this place, and the space layer also plays a protective role.
The Han State newly occupied the place, and it was impossible to build according to the habits of the Central Plains in a short period of time, so it was only necessary to transform this place, at least there were no longer so many insects and snakes, and the Central Plains buildings would be built on a large scale.
Human beings are extremely destructive creatures, as long as there are enough people to live, it will inevitably change the appearance of the local area, not only in the transformation of the natural landscape, in fact, all kinds of organisms that humans think are harmful are also forced to migrate or be exterminated.
Before Huan Wen came, it was Li Mai who succeeded Fu Wei to command the naval raid against the Gupta Dynasty.
Li Mai was one of the senior officials of the naval division of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, surrendered to the Han State in the Battle of Ruyin, and later participated in the Han army's war of annihilation of the small court, and made meritorious contributions in the Battle of Shouchun and the Battle of Jingkou, and served as a naval general.
The Han navy's naval raid against the Gupta dynasty began with the arrival of the fleet led by Fu Wei.
At first, there were only about a dozen warships cruising in the waters of the Bay of Bengal in the Ahsanyangs, waiting for Li Mai to bring a second fleet before launching a sabotage war in the entire Ahsanyangs.
The blow to the Gupta Dynasty was naturally not small, but it could not completely block the Gupta Dynasty's foreign maritime trade, but with the repeated increase of Han warships, the Gupta Dynasty was not far from a complete interruption of maritime trade.
In order to prevent the Han navy from running rampant, but also to ensure the sea trade lanes, although the Gupta dynasty was really unwilling to engage in an inexplicable war, but they did not sit still, but mobilized their own navy to counterattack the Han navy, and the two sides also engaged in many naval confrontations.
The Gupta dynasty was reluctant to go to war, it was a kind of thinking from the upper echelons, they did not see what good war would bring, and they were not stupid enough to only be beaten and not fight back.
The Gupta navy that converged on the coast of Cuttac continued to increase, and they also organized several escort formations to escort merchant ships, so that the scale of naval confrontations was repeatedly expanded, and the largest number of warships on both sides was more than 100.
In that Battle of the Hundred Ships, the commander of the Han side was Fu Wei, and the commander of the Gupta Dynasty was a high-caste nobleman named Gavara Kunaljeding.
The Battle of the Hundred Ships lasted only one afternoon and ended with Fu Wei ordering the evacuation.
In this battle, 16 ships were sunk in the Han Kingdom, and 17 ships were sunk in the Gupta battle, and the warships on both sides were all damaged.
It will be Fu Wei who chose to retreat because Gupta has new reinforcements later.
"We already know the pattern of Gupta warships at sea."
Huan Wen was a little excited: "Their largest warship is bigger than ours, but in general, our warship has more advantages. ” It's not a lie, there was a very large warship in the Gupta Dynasty, the length should be close to 100 meters, the width should be about 40 meters, the draft depth is unknown, not counting the maximum height of the hull on the horizontal plane of the mast, at least eight or nine meters, such a ship is placed on the sea as if it were a mountain.
The largest warship on the Han side, the length is 76 meters, the width is 17 meters, and the draft is 7 meters, not counting the maximum height of the mast level building of 6 meters, which is really much smaller than the Gupta ship that has been discovered.
However, there were not many warships of the Gupta Dynasty with a length of more than 30 meters, basically about 20 meters long and about 5 or 6 meters wide, and the smaller ones could only be regarded as combat boats.
According to the intelligence of the Han Kingdom, the Gupta Dynasty's fleet is being formed, and the giant ship is equipped with eight large ships about 60 meters long, and the rest are warships under 30 meters.
The warships of the Han Kingdom were generally 30 meters long and 8 meters wide, and the number of warships modeled on the system was the largest.
Below is a kind of warship that uses collision as the method of warfare, and the rest can only be regarded as warships.
The ship was twelve meters long and four meters wide, with special ramming angles at the bow, but was not equipped with a bed crossbow.
They were actually the main ships of the inland water forces in the past, and they were often driven by the power of manpower oars, and they should be reversed and evacuated if they hit a big hole in the enemy ship.
At present, the combat power of warships at sea is not calculated by tonnage, but according to the size of the warship, it must also be calculated by the defense power, speed, and carrying capacity to distinguish whether the warship is strong enough.
In terms of warships, Huan Wen has learned that there is no shortage of warships in the Gupta Dynasty that can be called sea monsters, but most of them are inferior to their own in terms of hull size.
"Naturally, they also equipped their ships with bed crossbows."
Li Mai was personally on the front line many times, and he would be in charge of commanding the navy in this invasion, and he must not know anything about the enemy army: "In terms of finding out the situation, there are quite a few enemy ships equipped with bed crossbows. ” Huan Wen came to preside over the invasion of the Gupta Dynasty, although he had the authority of the supreme commander, and more often than not, he would step into the enemy's territory after the landing, and the naval fleet would still be commanded by Li Mai.
If the army of the Han Kingdom wants to land on the coast of the Gupta Dynasty and invade, it naturally must happen after gaining sea dominance, otherwise the army will go ashore but will not be cut off from the back road It is really not easy to fight across the sea, especially when you go to fight tens of thousands of miles away from the mainland, and the land you land on is the enemy country, and from the very beginning, you are deeply trapped in the enemy's territory to fight, and you can only retreat to the coastline if you want to retreat.
Then the sea supremacy must be in our hands, otherwise not only will we have to feel uneasy, but losing the sea supremacy will be tantamount to leaving the landing force to death.
"In terms of numbers, Gupta has gathered nearly six hundred warships."
Li Mai took the lead and walked towards the military map hanging on the wall, pointing to the location of Cuttack: "The enemy warships mainly gather here, and more than half of the ships are civilian and military.
The number of enemy ships is still growing. ” In terms of now, the boundary between military and civilian on the ship is actually not obvious, it is nothing more than whether the people who use the ship are military or civilian, all because they have not yet entered the era of artillery, and the battle at sea is not only long-range cold weapons fired at each other, but also called the gang-hopping battle after the collision.
In fact, it was in the era when artillery dominated the victory and defeat, many civilian merchant ships were refitted, and the installation of artillery could also become a warship, that is, the hull of civilian merchant ships was not as strong as military warships at the beginning of construction, and the hull structure was not really military.
After the actual mutual fire is launched, the warships converted from civilian merchant ships will certainly not be able to compare with real military warships in terms of the number of guns and the firmness of the hull.
The era of the great distinction between military and civilian use was when large naval guns were put on the field, that is, warships were equipped with large-caliber naval guns, and naval guns with protective armor usually had a firm base, and the base had to be able to rotate.
In such an era of giant ships and cannons, military warships and civilian ships are incompatible in the hull structure at the beginning, not to mention the protection of beatings, in terms of the layout of firepower points, the reinforcement of armor, and the speed, the construction period and cost of refitting civilian ships are not as good as stepping up the construction of real warships.
It has always been necessary until the appearance of the aircraft carrier, and the transformation of civil cruise ships will come on the scene again, but the aircraft carriers transformed by civilian cruise ships really have nothing to do, anyway, the showdown of the Grand Fleet will not have these transformed aircraft carriers.
The aircraft carrier transformed by civilian cruise ships is certainly not as good as a real aircraft carrier in terms of carrier-based aircraft capacity, tonnage, and speed, and it is impossible for a whole battle formation to deliberately do some slow-down behavior after entering the combat state.
Therefore, the transformation of aircraft carriers from civilian cruise ships is generally used for escort and some sabotage warfare.
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See the deployment of the United Kingdom and the United States The Gupta dynasty was an exceptionally developed country in maritime trade, and they had a navy of around 300 ships all year round.
Due to the prosperity of maritime trade in the Gupta dynasty, the number of ships owned by their people was not less.
In a normal proportion, the number of Gupta civilian ships must be more than 20 times the total tonnage of warships owned by the Navy.
Refer to the proportions of the various maritime powers in the Middle Ages "That is, when waiting for the enemy to launch a decisive battle, they will not have less than a thousand ships" "I thought it would reach more than 1,500 ships."
The Central Plains Dynasty has never been a maritime power, in fact, it is in the preliminary exploration stage for the navy or something.
In the past, when calculating warships, it was the ships that could participate in the inland rivers, and the few battles of the Yangtze River were recorded in history, and the largest was the Battle of Chibi, not to mention the tripartite army, and there were no more than 1,000 ships participating in the war.
The warships that can participate in the naval battle, each of them must be able to withstand the test of the waves, which means that the warship is small and not so small, Huan Wen is already imagining the picture of fifteen hundred warships spread out, and the overlapping image of the ship is in his mind, and the adjective that comes to mind is the four words "overwhelming".
The Han State sent spies to the Gupta Dynasty to collect intelligence, and the Gupta Dynasty's naval collection was the sum of spies and naval ships on the road, and there must be cases where the data was unknown, but it could also be the biggest reference.
"As for Gupta's land forces, what we currently have is that they will not be less than 400,000.
It is generally divided into various infantry armies, and the cavalry is divided into war horse cavalry and war elephant cavalry.
In addition, the enemy army is massively equipped with combat vehicles. ” The Gupta Dynasty's infantry still had a relatively strict hierarchy, with unarmored infantry accounting for the absolute majority, and there were two kinds of melee light infantry and archers, of which archers were definitely a major feature.
Their armoured infantry was assembled from Kshatriya warriors, paired with elite Kshatriya private armies, the so-called aristocratic troops.
The Gupta archers were distinctive because they were given a distinctive feature to the bows and arrows by the local environment, and their bows were longbows made of metal or bamboo, and the arrows were long bamboo poles with metal heads, and metal longbows were the most powerful.
Unlike the composite bows of the West or Central Asia, which are prone to warping in humid environments, the Asan longbow is known as a weapon with long range and strong penetrating power, and can also be used against cavalry archers on horseback because of the influence of the climate.
Regarding the archers of the Gupta Dynasty, the Han army has a full understanding that the two sides have not shot each other less when they are fighting at sea, and the Han army is somewhat surprised by the range of Gupta archers, and has also studied the arrow structure of the Gupta army.
Of course, there were archers on the side of the Han army, which were divided into foot archers and horse archers.
The standard bow of the foot archer is actually a hard bow, most of which are about one stone of tension, and the longest range is one hundred and fifty meters.
Of course, horse archers use riding bows, which are divided into longbows and horn bows, with the longbow reaching a maximum range of 200 meters and the horn bow having a maximum range of only 70 meters.
The Han army was surprised by the Gupta archers, who found that they could shoot arrows at a distance of 300 meters, and even after 300 meters, they still had strong penetrating power.
"The standing land army has 400,000 troops, and there will inevitably be more when it enters a state of war."
Huan Wen's land troops are only two standing armies, and if you count the attached servant soldiers, the total number of troops on land is 70,000.
Before he came, he didn't quite understand why Liu Yan said that he couldn't eliminate the Gupta Dynasty at one time, what Liu Yan wanted was to beat the Gupta Dynasty at one time, use strong force to bring the Gupta Dynasty to its knees, and get the blackmail he wanted politically.
To say that Huan Wen had the idea of destroying the Gupta Dynasty at one time, knowing the existing strength of the Gupta Dynasty, and then estimating its war potential, intellectually understanding that there was really no hope of destroying the country in World War I, and then we should think about how to beat the Gupta Dynasty to the pain, the more painful it can be, and the better the political negotiations after the military contest.
"The first battle is victory at sea."
Huan Wen narrowed his eyes, as if he thought for a while, and then looked at Li Mai: "If the big man invites Ah San to hunt, Lang will be confident."
Li Mai must ask clearly: "With the current 300 warships, and the enemy's 1,000 warships, we will hunt."
Huan Wen made a dumb smile and said magnificently: "The warship man will be short of warships" Li Mai thought about it, the Beiyang Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet, which fleet has less than 1,000 warships, and he was worried about when the follow-up warships would arrive
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