In fact, naval engagements between two fleets usually do not start and end in a day, but often take months or even years of preparation, with constant probing before the start of the battle, and then back and forth after the start of the battle for dozens of days to months or years.
The fleet led by Wang Gong and the fleet led by Gavara Kangding Warren were divided into winners and losers in just one day, one side came for the landing battle, and the other side saw that the situation was not good and led the remnants of the fleet to retreat, which was not a decisive battle at sea in the real sense.
There will be a continuation of this naval battle, depending on whether Gavara Condin Warren is willing to accept the result of defeat and whether he is willing to lead the fleet back.
If he accepts defeat, he will inevitably retreat to the mainland, but on the way, he will be intercepted by the Han navy, which is equivalent to the continuation of the previous naval battle, but the sea area of the war has been changed.
After the king ordered the landing, because there were not many warships in the harbor on the Gupta side, the Han navy did not encounter decent resistance during its approach to the coast.
The Han State guessed that there were about 20,000 Gupta garrisons in this port, and in fact only Gupta himself knew how many.
Gupta had been operating the site for less than three months, and they had opened up a beach about five miles long, and initially built a ferry-like facility, while the outer water village was not yet formed.
Looking at the land from the sea warships, the land there fired a dense number of arrows at the landing ships, just looking at the lack of large equipment such as bed crossbows, it is estimated that this is how they will wait for the soldiers of the Han landing force to get off the ship before launching a counterattack The Han army had no intention of destroying the ferry and the water village.
These facilities can continue to be used after the completion of the occupation, and they can also become a sub-base of the Pingban Captain's Department, so why destroy them.
"A good shield" "Queues, pay attention to queues" "Once the cabin is open, keep the formation ready for arrows" There were constant reminders from the officers in the cabin, who were told that the enemy's arrows were very dense and that they must be prepared for it.
Of course, the shrine did not let the ships loaded with the landing force rush up, but distributed them for the projection of troops.
Far from the land, the Han warship stopped at the edge of the water wall, opened the decks on the left and right sides of the ship, and the pedals were stretched out to lean against the water wall, and the soldiers in groups could get off the boat relatively safely.
The ships assigned to land on the shore can hear the dense "clang" sound even in the cabin, and the sailors' shouts to extinguish the fire can be heard in their ears, and you can know how frantically the enemy's arrows are shooting without looking at them.
Ah San was very good at playing with bows during the Kushan Empire, and they also had a special elite army of bows and arrows, but they generally used longbows.
The bow body of Ah San's longbow is usually more than 1.8 meters, and the largest bow body is close to 2 meters.
This bow is similar in appearance to the Wa bow, but Ah San's bamboo longbow will make some nodes and be named the Zha Bow.
It is made of brown shelf, bamboo, wood, or animal horn to form a bow.
The bowstring is made of vine plant fibers, bamboo fibers and sheep intestines.
Arrows include bamboo arrows, wooden arrows, and iron arrows.
Arrows are made of iron, bone, and wood, and have the functions of wearing, cutting, and impacting.
The style of the bow is derived from the design of the Mauryan Dynasty at that time.
There has been no change in the bow piercing during the Kushan Empire, even during the Gupta Dynasty, that is, most of the bamboo structures were used during the Gupta Dynasty, and the arrows were mostly bamboo arrows, only marksmen would be paired with some wooden arrows, and the nobles used a small amount of iron arrows.
There was a "babbling click" of equipment, the sound of the gears of the hatch turning, the dim cabin glowing, and the sound of the sea crashing against the shore.
Lu Chao looked out from the gap in the shield wall, and there were many arrows floating in the seawater, and more arrows landed on the sea.
His vision extended farther around, and he saw that another friendly ship had also opened its wall, and a line of comrades standing quietly with shields on standby.
There was a continuous "boom and crackle" sound, which was the movement of the ship's planks being pushed down from the ship, probably after the ship's planks were arranged, and there were constantly officers shouting "get off the boat".
Lu Chao was standing in the forefront, and when he heard the roar, he subconsciously raised his feet and stepped onto the plank, stepping on the board with small broken steps, and obviously felt that the soles of his feet were sinking a little, which was the inevitable reaction of the force after the board was weighted.
Before he left the cabin, he had already lifted his shield in the northeast direction, and from the constant force on the shield, he knew that it was the result of the arrow's hit, and he tried to lower his body as much as he did so so that the tower shield could cover his body more.
The walls of the ships on the shore were opened, and Han soldiers with shields constantly poured out of them, and they disembarked from the boat and did not step on the land for the first time, but into the half-waist-deep seawater.
Every Han army that disembarked immediately advanced towards the land, and in the process of marching was braving arrows like raindrops, and the arrows were too dense to inevitably cause casualties to the Han army.
Lu Chao saw a comrade five steps away on the right side who seemed to be unbalanced by the ocean, the comrade caused the shield in his hand to open diagonally due to his chaotic steps, and the next moment an arrow hit his shoulder, he snorted in pain and fell into the sea.
The person who was hit by the arrow is called Huang Chi, from Bohai County, and has been in the army for two years.
He enlisted in the army late, and was added to the standing army sequence as a county soldier, and it has to be said that he really did not participate in any epic wars, and the enemy country that the Han State should have eliminated before he joined the army was basically a hiccup.
Huang Chi thought that he was very unlucky, he was not unbalanced by the ocean, he didn't know what he stepped on, he slipped under his feet, and he knew that it was bad the moment the shield was slanted open, he subconsciously shortened his short body, otherwise the part of the arrow should be the lungs.
After being hit by the arrow, his whole body went limp, and his whole body fluttered into the sea, because the shield was enough to touch the bottom of the sea directly, if it were not for the seawater above his head, he would have been shot into a hedgehog.
No matter what kind of water it is, as long as it is thick enough, it can form an obstruction effect, and in the modern period, it can still hinder bullets, no matter what kind of bullet it is, it can only maintain less than one meter of propulsion in water at most and lose kinetic energy, bullets are like that, how far can a bow and arrow without much kinetic energy advance in water Huang Chi, who was shot in the shoulder, wanted to thank the Han State for his generosity to the standing army, needless to say, the absolute elite armor, even if it was a more ordinary soldier, who did not have a body of leather armor, the leather armor on his body was thickened in various key positions, although the shoulder area was not deliberately thickened, but there was a certain amount of protection, although the leather was penetrated, it played a role in resistance, and the arrow was bitten into the flesh but it was not deep.
Lu Chao didn't deliberately pay attention to Huang Chi, but his posture with a shield on his head was destined to only look left and right, and there was usually a habit of turning people's heads to which side, and his habit was to turn his head to the right side.
People who wade to half the waist must know a little, even if there is no weight on the body, it is difficult to run forward quickly, and the speed of the swim is fast without jumping directly down with the legs, when Lu Chao took a difficult step forward, he saw Huang Chi, who had just been hit by an arrow, stood up from the water, but the next moment Huang Chi's neck suddenly had an arrow on his neck and fell directly into the sea.
Dead people on the battlefield are a very common thing, Lu Chao can't be too sentimental at all, the steps forward did not stop, but his eyes subconsciously looked at the position where Huang Chi fell, until he saw two comrades wearing rattan armor but with red crosses tied to their arms in the past to scoop Huang Chi up from the sea water before they looked away.
Battlefield ambulance soldiers are a standard for the current Han army, and their role on the battlefield is to deal with minor injuries nearby, and they cannot deal with serious injuries on the spot.
In this landing battle, the ambulances were specially equipped with rattan armor, which was specially purchased by the military from Indochina.
Two ambulancemen wearing rattan armor scooped Huang Chi out of the water and examined the wound according to his own experience, one of them picked up a pair of pliers from his waist and cut the arrow shaft directly, and quickly pulled out the arrow.
Another ambulance soldier neatly picked up the gauze and began to bandage it.
"Look at your mouth and find that you can't breathe and deal with it immediately."
"It didn't hurt the trachea, it only needed to be bandaged, and there was no need to insert the trachea in the lungs."
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Huang Chi's eyes couldn't be fully opened, and when he squinted, he could vaguely see the ambulance who was busy, and he knew what had happened, and when he heard the ambulance's diagnosis, the fear in his heart disappeared, but the chagrin in his heart came out: Why didn't I stand up with the shield on my head first It has to be said that Huang Chi is both unlucky and lucky, and the unlucky is naturally that he was hit by two arrows in a row as soon as he got off the boat, and fortunately there were experienced ambulances in the army.
In fact, when the ambulance soldiers were treated, they did not have fewer arrows on their bodies, but the rattan armor has a great defense against arrows, even if it was hit by a rocket, it was just a matter of soaking the body in the seawater, and the only trouble was that wearing rattan armor always had a feeling of being floated by the buoyancy of the sea.
Not everyone is as lucky as Huang Chi, at least Huang Chi can be saved after being hit by an arrow, watching the sea in the beach area start to turn red, and then looking at the floating corpses, proving that war has always been full of cruelty.
After about twenty meters of wading forward, Lu Chao finally stepped on the land of the beach, and before he arrived, there were already comrades who had gone ashore first to organize a shield array, and they happened to be supplemented into a team.
"All the kings have listened well, regardless of the establishment in the war, they all listen to the order of so-and-so" "Yui" "Enter" "No" Lu Chao immediately followed the rhythmic sound of the trumpet, and each shout was a step forward with the shield.
He was breathing with his comrades around him, and he was also living and dying together, in order to advance to a sufficient position, and when the time came, it was up to the officers to decide whether to split the shield array and kill it, or to organize a more shield wall on the spot.
The person in charge of defense on Gupta side was Picalmalik, who was the first Kshatriya to be redeemed after being captured, and he was able to rejoin the war thanks to his family's influence enough, but he didn't want to have any more beautiful differences.
No, although Picalmalik was back in the war, he was assigned to this port because of his dishonorable experience, and he was not able to act as the supreme commander, and was controlled by another Kshatriya named Samir Vikas.
To be reasonable, the Vikas family really can't be compared with the Malik family, it's the kind that can't be compared with both wealth and manpower, if it weren't for Pical Malik's dishonor, he desperately needed to save his reputation, and he wouldn't accept being commanded by Samir Vikas if he was killed.
Picalmalik already knew something was wrong when he saw the defeat of his fleet, and the last time they landed was when the fleet was defeated, the troops that came ashore were completely annihilated.
This time, although they were on the defensive side, they were not on the mainland, they were a base far overseas, and in addition to the reinforcements they could get at sea, it was full of land in the wilderness.
"We're running out of arrows."
Although Samir Malik became Pical Malik's top boss, he really didn't dare to put too much of it on Pical Malik, which was decided by the two families from the glory and strength of their ancestors.
He frowned and said, "Even if there are arrows, our archers will soon not be able to lift their arms." ” That's a normal thing, people are not instruments, they can't do endless bow archery, even if the physical strength and endurance are good, people must also take into account the limits of muscles and ligaments, and generally can do the action of opening the bow and archery twenty times in a row, which is very good.
"What do you want to say" Pical Marik didn't actually have a heartfelt respect for Samir Vikas, he looked at the frowning Samir Vikas and said, "Don't try to surrender. ” Samir Vikas's face stiffened, but he didn't refute.
It's not that only people with strong family strength can surrender, the last time Ah San admitted defeat and surrendered, it was because they didn't think it was a war to destroy the country, and there was nothing in Ah San's concept of surrender in local conflicts or something, once it came to the war of annihilation, they had their own moral standards, even if they wanted to surrender, they should fight until the moment when the water was exhausted.
"We've only been operating here for less than three months, and we can't stop the Han army from landing."
Samir Vikas took advantage of the height to take in the battle situation on the beach, turned to look at the forest to the east with no end in sight, and said: "It is not wise to defend to the death, maybe we can retreat to the mountains and forests to continue the struggle against the Han army."
Gupta sent more than 14,000 land defense troops here, and before the naval battle broke out in the morning, Gavara Kangding Warren estimated that he knew that he could not hold it at all, so he transferred more than 6,000 troops to the navy, but in fact less than 7,000 men were left in defense.
Pical Malik looked at the dense Han ships on the sea, and then saw the more and more Han troops landing, and couldn't help but ponder deeply: