"It's all over the place."
"Yes, the enemy dared to go ashore without knowing the situation.
Li Mai and Fu Wei were in the same ship before the battle, and the commanders of the rest of the formations also gathered for a meeting, waiting for the battle meeting to return to their respective ships.
It took them nearly four hours to reach the war zone, and it was raining in a sea area along the sailing route, and after a slight delay, it did not have much impact, let alone the loss of the warship.
Looking at the Pingban Captain's Headquarters from the perspective of the fleet, there were fires everywhere at night, and it was also full of dense columns of smoke, obviously after a tragic battle.
In the original water wall, there were also many points of light above the water, which were the lights of the Gupta warship, and another fleet was moving towards itself.
"Receiving your own lantern, there is a formation of our warships on the sea."
"Twenty-four in number, nineteen surviving combat power, and twelve warships of goodwill forces."
Li Mai continues to get information collection, that is, although the language of the lantern can be communicated, the information that the language of the lantern can actually express cannot be compared with direct face-to-face communication, and can only get some overview.
Li Mai, the "goodwill force", didn't know which it was, he knew that there was a Sassanid country, but he couldn't imagine that there would be a Persian Sassanid fleet coming to the battlefield: "This is our war, and I ordered the forward formation commander to take that force away." ” The Han State has never had so-called allies, and even if there are forces that fight side by side, they are also vassal states.
Allies, that is, mutual recognition of each other's strength, is an equal alliance, even on the surface, many Han generals do not feel that there is any country or force in this world that is qualified to be their allies.
The number of Han warships that arrived was one hundred and fifty-seven, except for Li Mai's flagship and Fu Wei's warship, which were all large ships of more than 60 meters, the remaining 30 were more than 40 meters, and the rest were 30-meter crossbow ships except for 70 ships.
They would come from the southeast, and they would not all go straight to the enemy forces in the military port, and some of the fleets would make a detour, the purpose of which was naturally to cut off the retreat direction of the Gupta navy.
The remaining warships must surround the Gupta navy that is coming out of the water village and do their best to block them in the water village.
Today is the ninth day of the lunar calendar, even if there is a moon in the sky, it is obscured by clouds, and in the night you want to find the other party relying on the lights of the ship.
It may be possible to extinguish the lights and use the cover of night to approach the enemy ships and pull away in formation of a few warships, but the lights will not be extinguished when there are many warships, otherwise there will definitely be a collision accident, and both sides will clearly show their existence and advance towards each other.
The sky was still overcast, and the rain that had stopped for a while was continuing to fall, the kind of misty drizzle, but the wind had strangely stopped.
The sound of oars hitting the water is very frequent, it is the sailors of warships rowing oars, and the cabins of each warship have the sound of a horn that shakes the sky.
On the sea, even if they can see each other, they are not able to get close to each other for a short time, and the side with the current or downwind will be faster, and the side with the reverse current and the wind will move slowly.
The sea also says that the downstream or counter-current flow is not only the inland river system, but also the sea has its own seawater flow, and the flow direction of the seawater is a kind of ocean current, which is thousands of times more complicated than the water flow of the inland river.
The sea and the river have one thing in common, that is, there are whirlpools, but the whirlpools on the sea are definitely more numerous, larger and more dangerous than the river river.
Huan Wen, who was still staying at the top of the mountain, naturally discovered the arrival of his own fleet, and he found that the enemy troops who landed did not withdraw their warships, and knew that the tactics arranged were already working, but he did not have the idea of driving the enemy troops into the sea that night.
Night warfare is really not a simple matter, in the era of lack of instant long-distance communication capabilities, any night battle even if it is victorious to one's own side The loss is absolutely not small, unless there is a last-off general, there is no general will carry out large-scale night battles, even if there is a night battle, it is also to attack and harass the enemy army with a small force.
Speaking of night battles, even during the Second World War, countries that were able to avoid night battles never engaged in large-scale battles at night, on the grounds that there would still be a large number of accidental injuries.
The prevalence of night battles is to the sharp knife battles of the special forces, but the executable special forces use the night to infiltrate and sabotage attacks, and their own numbers are not much.
Of course, Huan Wen would not let the enemy troops who had already landed survive the night, and his choice was to send capable squads to attack and harass, and the crossbow troops would take advantage of the terrain to cover each area from time to time.
Ah Sanyang has always been Ah San's sea, but they are not familiar with the land around the sea area, and Ah San, who came to attack, has checked it in advance, but the information is extremely limited.
They were not able to effectively reconnoiter after the arrival of the Han army and the terrain was modified, in fact, it was a state of uncertainty about this coastal terrain, even if the small lives of the untouched people wanted to fight at night, they really didn't know which way to break through.
After the landing, the Gupta troops only advanced about three miles inland, and the front line was naturally in a combat zone, or a fan-shaped combat zone, and the middle position of the rear was stepping up the construction of the camp, but the most people were at the beachhead.
"The mountain to the northeast kept coming in with arrows, and our soldiers couldn't fight back."
Every war will involve the battle for high ground, where the enemy will not only be able to see their own layout at a glance, but also the range of the enemy's long-range attack weapons will be increased.
Now Gupta landing force has encountered disgusting things, and the Han army's bow and crossbow troops located on the high ground are unscrupulously covering several times from time to time, and the Gupta archers in the low terrain cannot reach even if the bowstring is not wet.
The whole front did not stop as night fell, the long-range troops of both sides shot arrows at each other, and Gupta as a holding party also encountered a sneak attack by a small group of Han troops, which made Gupta as a defensive side constantly frightened, and his body was already very tired, and his spirit was extremely tired.
On land, it is mainly harassment warfare, and there are big changes with the rising sun of the new day.
Because it is a landing battle, there will be no small movement on the sea.
"The fleet must be pulled to the sea" Katruk Kapu as a Brahmin is not a dung machine, on the contrary, because it is a Brahmin who has undergone elite education: "A fleet with space for movement is an effective fleet, and a fleet besieged in a harbor is only a fleet" How else to say that the Gupta Dynasty navy was strong, not only because of the large number of ships, but also because of the long-term operation at sea accumulated a lot of experience, "existence of a fleet" or something may not be a systematic theory, but the relevant cognition is known.
"Yes, yes."
Zampt Warren was definitely not a sycophant, and said with extreme approval: "As long as we can defeat the navy of the Han Empire, the landing can still continue."
Once we can't defeat them, a successful landing is also a failure. ” Up to now, the Central Plains Dynasty has not fought naval battles at all, but the civilizations of Central Asia and Europa have had quite a number of naval battles, among which there is no lack of sea-crossing and landing battles.
The Gupta Dynasty was built on the ruins of the Kushan Empire, and not only received many legacies from the Kushan Empire, but also absorbed many people from the Otsuki clan.
The most important thing is that the Gupta Dynasty was very prosperous in maritime trade with Rome, and it really absorbed nourishment from Rome, and it is no stranger to the past wars in the Mediterranean region.
The key to a cross-sea landing operation is really not the army, but whether or not the navy can control the sea.
The attacking side controls the sea power, not only can it continuously send troops to the land, but the subsequent supply of baggage can also be guaranteed.
The defending side has the right to control the sea, and no matter how many troops are sent to the land in the direction of the attack, it is giving people a head.
The tempo of a war at sea is no greater than that on land, and the margin for error in a fleet engagement is definitely lower than that on land, which is the result of the different consequences of the tools relied on by the warring parties.
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In the night, the fleets of the two different camps, they are all staring at each other's lights, the waves in the coastal area themselves are not high, and there is no strong wind at present, and the warships sailing on the sea do not actually have major turbulence, so that each other can see each other's lights clearly.
"We don't dare to put out the lights, for fear of a collision between warships, and neither do they."
Fu Wei also used the lights of the warships to make a considerable judgment on the number of Gupta warships: "The opponent has more than us, and if it is not necessary, it is necessary to grasp the battle distance." ” Fu Wei took fifty-eight crossbow ships and thirty ships as the first troops to enter the battle, and the distance between the crossbow ships and the ships was widened again.
"The zigzag formation, the ships are scattered around the crossbow formation.
The bed crossbow arrangement of the Han warship is similar to the gun layout of modern battleships, and the maximum firepower can only be exerted when facing the enemy horizontally, and the "T" formation is precisely the best way to exert the side firepower, whether it is in the pre-battleship era or entering the dreadnought era, the "T" formation is basically used.
By the way, although the Han State already had bronze cannons, they did not invest in the use of naval warships, in addition to the serious "division" of bronze cannons by the army, and the existence of warships that could make bronze cannons exert their power in the navy.
If the navy wants to use artillery, first of all, the hull must be able to withstand the shock, and the tonnage must be absolutely sufficient, and then it is about the layout of the gun emplacement.
Liu Yan had already ordered the shipyards to study the warships that could deploy bronze cannons, and he himself gave an idea of giving the design sketches of the Galen ship.
The Han Navy could not obtain a non-system of warships equipped with bronze cannons in a short period of time, and it was estimated that it would be three years later, or even longer, at the earliest.
After all, a new thing needs to be verified again and again, especially for seagoing vessels, which need to accumulate experience in the verification before there will be a finished product, and this finished product even has to be improved again and again.
"Launch" Because there are light sources on the warships, you can judge the distance between the two sides, and there are not too many obstacles to finding the target, after the Han warships enter the range of the enemy warships, the warships will fire bed crossbows one after another, and the crossbowmen holding crossbows are also launched, and the picture of "meteor shower" is staged on the sea surface in an instant.
At this time, the battle at sea is to shoot arrows from a distance, and it is usually difficult to cause fatal damage to the warship, and it is mainly to kill and injure the opponent's crew, and then the rocket may ignite the enemy's warship.
After the "meteor shower" on the sea surface was staged again, the sky in the sea area continued to shoot rockets back and forth, and for a time it was a great light, so that both sides could clearly see what kind of warship the other side was.
The Gupta Dynasty was a maritime power, but their warships did not break through the shackles of this era, such as the layout of the bed crossbow, unlike the Han warships arranged in the bow, stern, and sides, basically where the space is larger, it is usually arranged in the bow.
Because of the layout of the bed crossbow, the Gupta Dynasty did not line up a line of battle, but adopted the method of facing the enemy with the bow, and the whole fleet seemed to use the traditional triangular charge formation, placing the largest warship with the largest hull in the triangular forward position, resulting in more concentrated fire.
They all use oar power, and the difference in the speed of large warships is not too big, as long as they have the intention to open up the distance, it is undoubtedly very difficult for large ships to rush to the other side for gangside jumping, and at this time, the warships that appear to be flexible have the opportunity to show their skills.
When the two sides began to use long-range weapons to shoot at each other, the commanders of the two fleets gave the order to charge the warships almost at the same time, and it could be seen that while the large warships were desperately firing at each other, the smaller warships were rushing up with their oars at extremely fast rowing speeds.
"Bed crossbow changes target" The same order was given on different warships of the two camps, whether it was a warship or a warship, the goal was to hit the hull of the enemy ship below the water level, if it was hit, there would inevitably be a hole, and the seawater would definitely be poured in, and if it was not blocked in time, it would wait for the hull to tilt and sink.
Bed crossbows will break through the hull and burrow large holes when they hit a ship, but they usually do not cause fatal damage, but if they can hit a much smaller ship or warship, the powerful piercing force will inevitably shatter the top layer, inflict heavy damage on the soldiers above, and may even penetrate the bottom of the ship with a single blow.
When both sides sent out ships or warships with the goal of ramming the enemy ships, they both made the same move, that is, they began to change the bow of the ship, both wanted to distance themselves from each other, and for a time both sides also gave up attacking the large ships in each other's fleets, and used all long-range attacks against the ships and warships.
The new fierce battle on the sea has attracted the attention of everyone on the battlefield, and the countries of Central Asia and South Asia, which have come to be a "crowd of onlookers", will certainly not give up the opportunity to watch the big war nearby, and they know that tonight's naval battle is just an appetizer
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