The crossbow is an indispensable weapon, but the first weapon to sound must be the bed crossbow with a longer range but a large body.
After the two fleets entered a state of engagement, no matter what changes in their formation, the only constant was that the air must be full of whistling arrows, and most of them will inevitably be burned with grease.
The rocket is fired into the hull, and the arrow is naturally nailed into the wood, and at that time the burning grease will burn to the hull.
In fact, a small number of ships will not be able to ignite the hull at all, at most they will smoke it, but if it hits an object that supports combustibility, it is different.
After the battle began, it was indispensable that the sails of the ships hit by the rockets were ignited, and the fibrous objects were always afraid of flames, they would become combustibles, and then spread the fire to the entire deck, and the ignited people would run around and bring the flames into the hull, and the fire would be difficult to stop, and it would not be long before the whole ship burst into flames.
At first, the two sides can fight in a straight line, but as a ship fires, especially in the cabins, and the people who should have rowed the oars are busy putting out the fire or running for their lives, they will lose their ability to move, making themselves a drag on the formation, and the squad will be disjointed.
After entering a state of engagement, the Han warships attacked unilaterally by taking advantage of their range advantages.
This situation lasted for nearly ten minutes, turning one enemy ship after another into torches, and at least twenty or thirty of Gupta ships were out of the effective attack sequence before they could get close enough to counterattack.
The battle between the two sides was ten minutes after the battle, waiting for the bed crossbow of the Gupta side warship to be launched, and the strong crossbow of the Han warship also joined in the shooting, and the whole battlefield appeared such a picture, full of arrows flying in mid-air.
The warships of the Gupta side faced the attack of the Han army's bed crossbows and strong crossbows, but the Gupta warships could only use the bed crossbow to counterattack, but the Gupta side still stubbornly continued to approach, from which it can also be seen that Ah San at least Gupta naval battle did not dominate Ah Sanyang for hundreds of years.
"The losses are worth it" Gavara Condin Warren was not destined to be in the charge sequence, he would stay in the relative safety of the rear, commanding the fleet under his command.
He didn't seem to be deceiving himself, but said firmly: "In the repeated confrontations, as long as we can overcome the disadvantages in the early stage, the next thing is our time to play."
Of all the current countries, the Romans are better equipped to compete with the Han Kingdom.
Taking a comparison of large equipment alone, the Han Kingdom relied on the heritage of Zhuxia to hold the bed crossbow, a big killing weapon, and has been improving the bed crossbow to ensure the range advantage.
Not only did the Romans have bed crossbows, they also got ballistas from the Greeks, and ballistas have a longer range than bed crossbows.
In fact, it must be said that the Romans attached great importance to military equipment, and their legions, which were mainly infantry, carried all kinds of equipment, especially siege equipment.
This also led to the fact that the Romans never relaxed the development of military equipment, and if anyone in the world recognized the importance of equipment, perhaps the Romans had a deeper understanding than Zhu Xia.
The rest of Ah San were convinced of Gavara Kangding Warren's words, it was an established fact that they could not compare with the Han army in terms of equipment, so they could only get closer to each other to offset the disadvantage in equipment, and it was Ah San's performance time to enter the broadside battle.
Wang Gong had already learned from the past combat materials that Gupta was a strong point in naval warfare, and if he could avoid close combat, he would definitely not fight, and the instructions given to each formation were to distance themselves from the enemy as much as possible.
The Han warship formation in the battle is naturally its own disadvantage, if it can keep a distance all the time and use its own range advantage to send the enemy ship to the bottom of the sea, the braincase will be broken, and it will want to fight any broadside battle.
If there are several ships fighting against several ships, or a battlefield with more than a dozen ships, there is enough space to move, but when there are many ships fighting, it is really not possible to break through wherever you want, usually there are friendly ships or enemy ships everywhere.
By the half hour of the battle, the formations of the two sides participating in the battle gradually became less formation to speak of, and if there was coordination, a small number of two or three ships could interact, and the rest simply had their own enemy situations to deal with.
"Herald" Wang Gong finally knew the meaning of what Li Mai said before, what he thought was one thing, and whether the other party was worthy of harmony was another: "Dispatch the ship." ” The Gupta Navy was still fighting in formation at the beginning, and then simply spread out the formation and pounced in an all-round way in a disorderly attitude, and their actions really hit the soft underbelly of the Han Navy, so that the Han Navy basically made no difference to which enemy ship it dealt with, and it was sunk or disabled by fire, but more enemy ships were approaching, and if they wanted to keep a distance, they had to retreat on the entire front, but the Grand Fleet really didn't want to retreat, and chaos was inevitable.
Whether on land or at sea, it is impossible for anyone to completely control the entire army, such as the idiom of arm command is an adjective, and no one has ever been able to really do it.
At that time, the commander-in-chief's orders could only be in large aspects, such as letting the troops in chaos collectively do something, and it was impossible to do anything alone or in a single formation, if it was on land, it would be a whole retreat or a decisive battle, and the same was true in naval warfare.
There have been many enemy and enemy warships entering the broadside battle, and at this time, it was the Han warships that took advantage, that is, the Han warships had a higher deck height than the warships on the other side.
Fighting has always been advantageous to the side that occupies the height, and what can be seen is that the crossbowmen of the Han army standing at the favorable height condescendingly fired arrows and shot down one after another Ah San who dared to take the lead.
Ah San is no stranger to such a situation, what they can do is to organize the archers to counterattack at the same time, let all the people who can participate in the battle shake the rope with the hook, and you can see that once two warships of different belongings are close to each other, in addition to the arrows shooting back and forth, the ropes are constantly thrown at each other, and the next moment is people swinging and trying to climb.
Not every Gupta side of the warship can be successful, there has to be that block, the size of the ship is not big enough, the face is not controlled speed approach, the Han warship has been brutally collided, itself is not big enough to be knocked over.
Around the same time that the king gave the order for the ships to attack, Gavara Kangding Warren also ordered his own rushing boats to be dispatched.
The navies of the Han Kingdom and Gupta did not count the warships separately when calculating the combat power, but included both the warships and the boats.
The two sides are fighting until now, and they will only send out ships or rushing boats at the moment when the forward fleet enters a stalemate, that is, the two sides have suffered enough in the early battles, and if the big ships do not enter a stalemate, they will basically be named.
And the size of the stern and the boat can't withstand a few bed crossbows at all.
"Order the left flank fleet to attack."
Wang Gong actually couldn't control the entire battlefield, he could only look at the general situation: "Pull the enemy fleet formation." ” The two fleets that are engaged in the war are really not crowded together, they will be divided into groups like a land battle, and there is also the arrangement of the Chinese army and the left and right wings, and even the reserve is also indispensable.
At first, they were within ten miles of the coast, and they had already left the coast for at least fifteen miles, and as the battle lengthened, the distance between their fleets became wider and wider.
"The left flank of the Han people has been dispatched" Gavara Kangding Warren always felt as if something was wrong: "The enemy army has dispatched at least more than 200 warships of all kinds, and the headquarters can't see that the number is decreasing at all."
Salar Sakuman was not as sluggish as his immediate boss, and he sensed something was wrong in the first place.
They guessed that there were about 500 Han troops coming to attack, but the number of ships participating in the Han army exceeded 200, and the headquarters still looked like a thick layer, not to mention the number of reserves on the left and right flanks and the reserves that could be seen, and there was another fleet preparing to land.
At this time, if the three have not recognized that they have made a mistake in their guesses, it is not a problem with their eyes, but also a problem with their heads.
Gavara Kangding Warren and Salar Sakuman looked at each other for a short time, their faces were equally ugly, they had determined that there were definitely more than five hundred Han warships coming to attack, and it was speculated that it might reach nearly a thousand "It's incredible," said Gavara Condin Warren with a blushing face, "Our intelligence has never been right" In the past, Gupta estimated that the total number of warships of the Han Expeditionary Force was 800, but now it is more than 800 The number far exceeds the guess is not fatal, it is that even the number of warships of the Han State can be wrong, so what else do they think is the truth but it is not false at all "The enemy's right flank fleet is also dispatched," Salar Sakuman raised his finger: "The gap in our numbers is too great. ” The navy of the Gupta side does have more combat experience than the Han navy, and to some extent, once it enters the broadside battle, it can also obtain good results, but the difference in number has reached a certain point, even if it is to exchange one for two Han ships, it is time to feed the fish if you don't finish changing your own warships.
At this moment in the battle, looking at the overall situation with God's vision, the losses of the two formations that entered the melee situation earlier were 27 ships on the Han side and 34 ships on the Gupta side.
There will be such a comparison, or the Han warships occupy the range advantage in the early stage.
If the melee continues, the loss ratio will soon be widened, and it is generally the Han army that loses more and more in the melee.
It is true that the Han people do not have as much experience as Ah San in broadside warfare, and more because even if close combat personnel are arranged on the system warship, the system warship is not used for close combat in the first place, and those personnel are also drawn from the army, which is really not so suitable for naval warfare.
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Wang Gong is now facing a very headache, he strangely found that a large number of his warships can not adapt to close combat, once there is an enemy ship to the broadside, as the army soldiers arranged on it can not resist, the ship is killed with most of the army soldiers, either captured or turned into a torch.
How could this be like this, Wang Gong couldn't understand why it was like that, but he had the decisiveness that a general should have: "All the departments have already engaged in battle, and it is the time to destroy the enemy" It doesn't matter if your experience is not as good as a person, it's not a big deal if you are not as good as a person in close combat, everything can be reversed with absolute numerical superiority, as an authentic Zhuxia general, whether it is on land or at sea, if you don't know how to bully people with numbers, then this general will be in vain.
The order that the king received in advance was not to annihilate all the enemy forces here, their task was to capture the port set up by Gupta and not destroy Gupta Navy, so they would force Gupta Navy to retreat to the mainland, and let the main fleet that had already intercepted Gupta Navy on the way back to solve the problem.
Of course, if he could wipe out the Gupta side's navy, Wang Gong didn't want his military exploits to slip away like that, otherwise he knew that the chaos would become a stalemate, so why did he keep putting it into the fleet and rely on his own number of warships to arrange the fleet to make a siege As the contemporary head of Warren's family, who had been playing the navy since his ancestors, Gavara Kangding Warren reacted when he noticed that the enemy army was showing signs of encirclement, and he was like every Brahmin of Ahsan, making all kinds of promises to the Kshatriyas who had fallen into it, asking them to resist until the last moment, and then he himself led the headquarters to move.
Just when the sea was full of ships smoking and fierce battles, Gavara Kantin Warren was moving in with more than seventy ships from his headquarters, and his action seemed so natural to all the three that the noble brahmins could flee when the situation was unfavorable, just as Kshatriyas should order the untouchables to fight for their lives in order to escape for their lives.
There was also a scene on the battlefield, too many small and medium-sized enemy formations were slaughtered in a sea of blood, but the commanders of the two fleets took their headquarters to chase and flee.
This situation was undoubtedly what the numerically superior Han side was happy to see, and they could completely deal with one enemy with several ships, and as the enemy's main commander fled, the enemy's will to fight also wavered, and the difficulty of destroying or capturing them was repeatedly reduced.
The fighting began at about nine o'clock in the morning, and the shift took place at noon.
After he began to move, the Han army's march into the port also took action.
Wang Gong led his headquarters to pursue for about an hour, and when he saw that he couldn't catch up, he didn't admit death, and he turned around very rationally to participate in the landing operation.
"It turned out to be like this" Of course, Wang Gong would not land in person, what he did after returning to the army was to let the various formations sum up the casualties and battle results, and when he got the data, he kept smiling bitterly: "There are fifty-nine ships sunk in the battle alone, and the loss of combat strength reaches eighty-seven." ” Wang Gong had to smile bitterly, they used 850 large and small warships against about 300 warships of all kinds on the Gupta side, sinking and capturing more than 200, but their own losses were so great under the premise of absolute numerical superiority.
The navy of the Han Dynasty is so bad, Wang Gong really can't understand: it shouldn't be: