Today was a cloudless day, but the wind was a little light, which caused the speed of the ship to not be fast.
The ships of any country today, regardless of their purpose, actually retain the design of the oar-driven and do not rely entirely on the sails as the driving power.
It didn't matter if the wind was lighter, but after the fleet was put into combat mode, the window in the oar area was opened, and the thick oars were stretched out of the hull to stand by.
He was in charge of attacking and commanding the attack on the Gupta side, and set up in the port eighty miles away from the Pingman Captain's Department was Wang Gong, who, like Li Mai, was a subordinate after the fall of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and was once the governor of the Yangtze River Naval Division of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and served as the important task of commanding the Yangtze River Naval Division to prevent the Han army from crossing the river.
The shrine was idle for a long time after the surrender, and it was not activated until the end of the seventh year of the Yuan Shuo Dynasty, and at first it was still serving in the Yangtze River Naval Army, and later the Han State increased its development efforts to the sea, and then started the war against the Gupta Dynasty, and was transferred to serve in the 1st Sea of the rising Hainan.
The sea was a very important area for the Han Kingdom, and it was also one of the most prosperous seas for navigation, because the land route to the Indochina Peninsula was not developed, and it became the best choice to go to the Indochina Peninsula by sea.
Then there are the islands found around the rising sea that are basically rich in resources, even if there are no luxuries such as spices, fragrant wood, jade, and precious stones, there are still some wild people who can catch them.
The demand for slaves in the Han State is a bottomless pit, and the military merit system itself desperately needs slaves to reward meritorious nobles, and if you want to support the military merit system from collapsing, in addition to having enough land, the number of slaves must be managed.
Liu Yan could not completely abolish the Han people as slaves, and could only capture the aliens to the greatest extent.
In addition to the demand for slaves for military merit, there is also an urgent shortage of slaves for national construction, such as the opening of mountains needed for mining and road construction, and the most dangerous thing is to basically use slaves to do it.
The Han State obtained a considerable number of prisoners of war during the period of sweeping the Eight Wilderness Liuhe, and destroyed Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla to obtain a large number of slaves, which supported the foundation of military merit and made the country construction have sufficient cheap labor, but the more labor at any time, the better, the Indochina Peninsula continued to capture savages, and the islands did not stop capturing savages.
The war against the Gupta dynasty began as a battle to obtain food, but it did not go as smoothly as expected, but at least it also gave the Han people a better understanding of the Gupta dynasty.
To say that at the beginning, the Gupta Dynasty was fought for food, and later it was discovered that the Gupta Dynasty was a country with a population of twenty or thirty million, and the Han people instantly seemed to have discovered a peerless treasure, and it was needless to say that defeating the Gupta Dynasty could obtain food, and they could also seize the land suitable for farming, and in the process, there were indispensable trophies such as gold and beauties, but the most important thing was the population of twenty or thirty million The Eastern Han Dynasty is a dynasty with a very serious phenomenon of slavery, the Three Kingdoms and the two Jin Dynasty also left the habit of slavery, after the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was destroyed, the various families and Haoqiang were forced to disband the slaves, and then evolved into a nationwide liberation of Han slaves, but they found that there would be no problem with enslaving foreign races, and they didn't know what to do to be idiots.
The Han Kingdom wanted to have a slave first of all to determine the title, and war was the best way to obtain the title reward, and the northerners enthusiastically went to the Western Regions, and the southerners had already tasted the sweetness of the Indochina Peninsula.
War is the way to get everything, even if you can't have more slaves than your status, but you can sell them for money if you catch them, so the Gupta Dynasty can bring benefits in any way, and it is natural that they want to do it Wang Gong was a subordinate who was activated, and he cherished the opportunity to lead an army more than anyone else, and he had communicated with Li Mai repeatedly before, and he knew very well what this war meant to their vassals.
With a fleet of 850 ships, not all of them were gathered together to press into the enemy's port, and such a small sea area, especially approaching from sea to land, was the correct formation in a large column.
In the face of the Han navy's large force, the Gupta side did not wait for the Han navy to arrive outside the port to find out, just like the Han side would arrange ships and send people to hide on land as an eyeliner, although the Gupta Dynasty people were Ah San, they were really not stupid enough to forget to carry out the necessary surveillance of the Pingman Captain's Department.
The Gupta Dynasty not only attached great importance to the Pingban Captain's Department, but also did not ignore the Han base behind the Pingman's Captain's Department, and even the surveillance of Malacca has never been relaxed.
The Gupta Dynasty collected a lot of information and calculated that the Han navy had assembled at least 800 warships of various types and sizes.
It's no wonder that the Gupta Dynasty didn't work hard to reconnoiter before they miscalculated the number of Han navies, but they really couldn't believe that the Han State could build warships on a large scale along the coast of Asan Ocean, even if they thought that they could build warships on a large scale, but warships always had to be operated by someone, how could they know that Liu Yan had such a big cheat Before discovering that the Han navy was in full swing, the Gupta Dynasty commander of the forward military port had already reacted, and the movable ships in the port were basically replenishing and leaving the port quickly, and the military port was also beginning to prepare for the invasion.
"The number of warships in the Han Empire is different from what we guessed."
Gavara Kangding Warren was the commander-in-chief of the Gupta Dynasty's front, and he was born in the southern part of the Gupta Dynasty like Zampt Warren, but although they were both surnamed Warren, they were not from the same family, and Zampt Warren was only a Kshatriya, but he was a Brahmin.
So far, the Gupta dynasty has not been able to judge how many warships the Han has dispatched, and it has nothing to do with whether they have enough reconnaissance efforts, purely because the sea warships are not as easy to detect as the land army.
If there are more than a certain number of ships at sea, it is impossible to dock at the same time, and if there are warships resting in military ports, there must be warships sailing on the sea, and the sea is so big, there is no high ground that can be seen at a glance from high to low, unless the spy can get the information that the commander of the other side can see, otherwise it can only be guessed.
It is not only the Gupta Dynasty that guesses the number of warships of the Han Kingdom, but in fact, the Han Kingdom also guesses the number of warships of the Gupta Dynasty.
"The number of warships of all kinds and sizes that the enemy is coming straight to our side is far more than five hundred, more than twice as many as ours," said Gavara Kangding Warren with a grim face, "The military strength of the Han Empire is far stronger than we suspected."
On Ah San's side, there are many nobles with the name Gavara, and the "middle order" in the surname is basically an ancestor who has done great things.
Ah San is the same solidification as Europa society, to put it bluntly, dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and children born of mice will make holes, and the trajectory of life is determined from the moment of birth, and no matter how hard people work hard, they basically can't change their fate if they are not lucky.
The current caste system of Ah San has not been corrupted, although the class is fixed, but the education at the top has not relaxed at all, such as the Brahmin is managed and Kshatriya learns how to fight, and Gavara Kangding Warren is even if he is a Brahmin straw bag, there will still be the basic literacy that he should have.
In the face of the sudden big move on the side of the Han Kingdom, Gavara Kangding Warren was not so panicked, the reason may be a little funny, the first is that the battle between Ah San and each other can be guaranteed even if they are defeated, and the second is that the first batch of defeated and captured Ah San nobles have been determined to be able to redeem from the Han State, so they are not so afraid of defeat.
"The warships of the Han Empire are very sharp, but their tactics are very stiff."
Salar Sakuman can speak, and looking at some of the class characteristics of Ah San, it is obvious that he is a Kshatriya: "Judging from the examples of previous wars, it is not that we do not have the strength to contend with it. ” Salar Sakuman doesn't seem to be wrong, the Gupta Dynasty is more often fighting more with less, and it can also fight well in the face of the numerical superiority of the Han navy.
The Gupta Dynasty had a very direct impression of the Han navy, believing that the Han navy was just taking advantage of the sharp warships, and if the warships on both sides were the same, they should have taught the Han army how to behave.
This impression is that with the Gupta Dynasty's recent new warships borrowing from the Han warships, they can still win the battle when the number is small, and the confidence they have obtained.
"We have thirty-seven new warships, one of which can contain two or three of the Han Empire, and the rest of the warships are better than the Han in terms of personnel quality."
Salar Sakuman spoke firmly, paused for a moment, and then continued: "They must have approached for the purpose of landing, and to divide more than enough ships. ” The generals of the Gupta dynasty had not yet guessed the number of fleets led by the royal shrine, but they knew very well that all the warships would not be concentrated for naval operations at all.
As the Gupta generals had guessed, the Han navy was divided into two parts after it was close enough, one part of which naturally pounced on the enemy forces at sea, and the other part that stayed outside the coast to prepare for a landing operation.
"The fleet for the landing is ready."
Wang Gong is not talking nonsense, he must have had to have a sea confrontation before there will be a landing operation, or he will send people ashore to die.
He had been looking through a telescope at the Gupta navy not far away, roughly guessing the number of enemy warships and observing what kind of formation the enemy army had taken: "The wind is too light today, but we must pay attention to the change in wind direction at any time, and take advantage of it in time if the weather changes." ” The Gupta navy above the sea is arranging a column formation, in the form of a small team and a small team, each squad is in a line, facing the side of the Han navy horizontally.
Wang Gong was no stranger to that kind of formation, and the bed crossbows of the Han warships were arranged on the bow, stern and sides of the hull, and the horizontal attack could exert the greatest power.
He knew that the Gupta dynasty had immediately borrowed from it after discovering the advantages of the bed crossbow arrangement, and the large long-range weapons had also adopted the same modification, so naturally the hull of the ship would also be facing the enemy laterally.
Because the wind is small, there is no need to seize the limelight and use the wind, and the ships will not raise their sails at all under this kind of wind, so the large number of Gupta warships will remain in formation relatively calmly.
In fact, if it is not necessary, the ship in the naval battle will not raise the sail at all, or it will increase the impact surface, and once the sail is ignited by the rocket, it is still a very bad thing, and it is very likely to turn into a fire for the whole ship.
In the past naval battles, the Han side also discovered a secret of the Gupta Dynasty, that is, the sails of some Gupta warships were hit by rockets and did not catch fire.
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The Han army captured ships whose sails would not catch fire, and after research, they concluded that Ah San used fire cloth as sails.
The legend of the fire raccoon cloth has in the Western Han Dynasty, it is a kind of "artifact" that is not afraid of fire at all, if anyone has a piece of fire raccoon cloth can be used as a family heirloom, so that the Han people are full of sadness and envy is that Ah San is actually used as a sail, it is simply unforgivable.
The sound of oars lapping against the sea resounded in the Han naval column, and it was Wang Gong who ordered the fleet to attack in formation.
From a bird's-eye view from the sky, there were many oars of warships fluttering, with one as the leader, and soon behind the butt was a large number of followers, and after one team after another formed a formation, it seemed that many long snakes were swimming on the sea.
The warships of the Han Kingdom took action, and the Gupta warships naturally did not stop in place, and above the sea was the movement of oars slapping on the sea, and the two sides shouted rhythmically in different languages, and the sound was so loud that it not only swept the sea, but even the dense forests along the coast were startled by flocks of birds.
"Ready" Different languages, with the same meaning, are that as the ships of both sides get closer and closer, the soldiers operating long-range attack weapons are ready to fire their weapons at the alert of the officer.
It was the Han army that first roared the word "put", and became a long snake on each warship, after the groaning of bowstrings and machinery, a crossbow arrow with a thick rod and a grease burning part of the arrow part shot out, they whistled in the process of flying, most of them fell into the sea water, and a small number of hit the warship's sharp arrows and wood had an intimate collision.
The Han people's bed crossbow is undoubtedly farther than Ah San's bed crossbow in range, and naturally the Han people's long-range attack weapons are the first to speak, resulting in the Gupta navy fighting with the Han navy every time it takes advantage of the wind in advance, but the Gupta warships will always be forced to close the distance between the Han warships.
At this moment, it is obvious that the fleet of Gupta is the first to put on a position, but because the range of long-range weapons is not as good as that of people, and it is necessary to prevent the Han warship from "flying kites" after the Han warship is shot as usual, driving the effort to desperately row the oars to try to close the distance: