On the surface of the sea, all kinds of ships have lowered their sails, and every ship is a busy scene.
There were no natural deep-water ports on the edge of this coastline, and the Persians did not build artificial harbors, so the ships carrying the landing troops could not get too close to the coastline, so they stopped about 200 meters outside the coast and lowered their boats.
The current situation is such that the ships carrying the landing force are closest to the coastline, and at the same time the gunboats are in a state of waiting for orders.
By the time of the arrival of the expeditionary fleet, it had already been discovered on land.
The small fishing village on the coast saw such a large fleet coming from the sea, and the villagers immediately fled.
"They're moving."
Huan Wen was able to use the telescope to take a closer look at the situation on land: "The Persians are still quite fast. ” The expeditionary fleet had already sent ships to this area to observe the area, and it was clear that the Persians had temporarily sent troops over, and it was under control of how much time the Persians had spent building an observation post.
The promontory is on the border of the Sassanid country, and the expeditionary fleet has made such a big noise in the two Satraps, how can it not attract attention Sassanid had long known about the Han Empire's dispatch of an expedition, but he couldn't confirm where the Han Empire's expeditionary fleet was targeting.
Under the premise of not being sure, it is not possible for the Sassanids to establish positions on their long coastline, and they only have heavy troops stationed in important coastal cities, and some vigilant troops are stationed in some less important places.
Luck was on the edge of the promontory of the two Satraps, and there were not many big cities within a hundred miles.
It's just that because the fleet of the Han Empire landed on the opposite cape, the Sassanians made an urgent move, and they drew the necessary troops from nearby cities to garrison them.
Probably two days earlier, the first troops had been drawn from a city called Mule, and they had not chosen to camp on the coast, but had chosen to be within thirty miles of the interior.
Sassanid attached great importance to the intelligence gathering of the Han Empire, and probably confirmed the farthest distance of the Han Empire's gunboats.
They knew that the maximum bombardment distance of the Han Empire's gunboats was 16 Han li, and they could have set up their camp on the coastline of about 20 Han li, but in order to leave the necessary safety zone, they pulled it back by 10 Han li.
Already known that the Han expeditionary fleet had landed and invaded the two Satraps, the southern governor of Sasansan, Larry Harila, was nervous and made new arrangements.
Monitoring the movements of the Han Empire's expeditionary fleet was something that Larry Harila had to pay attention to, and they could not observe the Han army too closely, but it was not difficult to set up observation posts along their coastline.
Each of the observation posts set up by the Persians had the ability to transmit the alarm, and when they found that the fleet of the Han Empire was heading towards their borders, the first to light the wolf smoke to sound the alarm was on the edge of the two Satraps, and then one after another the observation posts lit the wolf smoke.
From the sea, columns of smoke rise into the sky every 300 meters or so, and the scene is quite spectacular.
The Persians found that the fleet of the Han Empire had stopped at the sea outside Luck, and they were very nervous and began to move their troops, and if they could fully grasp the movements of the Persians, they would find that within a hundred miles of the vicinity, there were heralds galloping on horseback rushing to the various military camps, and then one Sassanid army after another began to assemble as quickly as possible, and soon pulled out of the camp and marched in the direction of Luck.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry" Liu Ming stepped on the plank, and the urging sound of more than one officer sounded in his ears.
They set out from Cape and arrived at a place called Luck in less than half a day.
People who do not have binoculars to observe the land can only see some moving figures on the land from a distance, which do not seem to be too many, and it is impossible to determine whether they are armed or not.
The first batch of Han soldiers had already boarded the warboats, and they were adjusting the formation of the warships on the periphery.
Soon a picture appeared above the sea, one warboat following the other, forming an elongated formation, and they were constantly paddling to form a large long strip in the shape of a whirlpool.
Liu Ming is not the first time to see such a picture, and every time he sees it, he will feel deeply shocked.
How should the navy invade a country from the sea, and what kind of landing method should the landing force be, the Han Empire didn't have much experience before invading the Gupta Empire.
During the invasion of the Gupta Empire, the confrontation at sea was not fierce, and the landing battle was not actually very tragic, but the navy of the Han Empire still learned some useful experience and slowly planned out the drill.
It is like a warship that is constantly following one after the other, and it is with this action that they form a formation as they move, and slowly turn into a stormtroop formation facing the coastline.
The drums of war were beaten, and the first ships charged to the landing under the paddles of the crew, followed by the entire fleet of warships forming a triangular formation.
"All back to the cabin" Xin Ling stood at the hatch and shouted, "It's our turn to land next" The ship under their feet did not raise its sails again, it was the sailors on board who rowed the oars, and the ships were moving towards the shoreline.
The cabin was filled with human figures, and in the dim light you could see soldiers constantly checking themselves.
After Liu Ming found his position, he also carried out the final inspection before the war, mainly to check the box containing gunpowder and projectiles, to see if the oil bag wrapped outside was fixed, and at the same time to repeatedly check whether the firearm was properly wrapped.
Now there is no plastic, naturally there is no plastic bag to wrap, can only be wrapped in layers of oiled paper, but only to prevent being splashed by water, once all soaked in the water should still be wet.
The first troops to land were cold-armed soldiers, and at the forefront of the charge formation were the traditional sword and shield soldiers, and when they reached within about 100 meters of the coastline, there were bursts of artillery fire behind them.
Of course, it was the naval guns that fired, and the main guns were not used, but the secondary guns on the side of the ship were shelling rhythmically.
The target of the artillery bombardment was about 200 Persian soldiers who prevented their troops from landing, and the number of archers was the largest, and there were already Persian archers shooting arrows at the Han army's warships.
The first projectile exploded on the top of the Persian archer's head, and I don't know how many shrapnel were fired out with the explosion, and it instantly swept away a group of Persian soldiers.
The coastline was soon bombarded with smoke and it was impossible to tell how many Persian soldiers who had blocked the landing were still alive.
However, even if there were still Persian soldiers alive, they probably didn't have the heart to stop the Han army's beaching and landing, so they should have turned around and fled Only two gunboats carried out secondary shelling, and they stopped after the landing force approached the beach seventy meters.
The bottom of the first boat touched the shallows, and the Han soldiers on it jolted with the boat, and after stabilizing their figures, they jumped to both sides and landed on the beach where their calves could be wet.
A large group of Han soldiers rushed to the beach, and when they got to the beach, the smoke had not completely cleared, and the five of them formed a charging formation, slowly advancing forward.
On the beach after the shelling, wounded Persian soldiers were howling and moaning.
The Persian soldiers, who were not dead or wounded, were frightened, and some of the Persian soldiers who were still somewhat sane fled inland, while others were running around.
Wang Ji was in the smoke, and in addition to the lapping of the waves, there was a terrible howl and a terrified roar in his ears.
He was surrounded by four of the rest of the robes, who formed a semi-circle and slowly advanced inland.
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A vague but fast-running figure appeared in Wang Ji's field of vision, and he could hear the running figure howling like a beast.
The sound of a shield hitting a human body, followed by the sound of a blade entering flesh, brought with it a rapid muffled scream and the sound of a person choking before death.
Wang Ji trampled on the corpses of the enemies killed by the robe without any psychological burden, and walked five steps forward to be regarded as out of the smoke area, looking forward to see some fleeing Persian soldiers, and at the same time seeing arrows fired in their direction, occasionally running Persian soldiers were hit by arrows and fell to the ground.
Naturally, Luck is the name of the locals, and the Han people have not yet given this place a new name.
The environment in Luck is not much different from that of the two Satrap countries, and a large area is earthy red, and there is no green shade in sight.
The first group of 800 Han soldiers landed in two groups, one to form a semicircle on the edge of the beach, and the other to continue inland.
Huan Wen, who was on top of the flagship, didn't have much feeling about the successful landing of the troops, and if he didn't land, it would attract his attention.
"The group of enemy troops just now should have been gathered at the nearby outposts" Huan Wen was still constantly observing the surroundings, due to the flat terrain and the lack of jungle, the telescope could observe the end of the horizon: "There are quite a few enemy troops around, it seems that they have already estimated our landing" Yuan Qiao was writing and drawing on a map, and looking at the map was not the place of Luck "The landing here is just a feint, mainly to attract them to concentrate their forces in this direction."
Yuan Qiao took a charcoal pen and drew a straight line on the map, and the arrow was paused in a coastal city called Mirpur by the Persians: "Are you sure you want to leave His Highness Ming here?"
"Is there any problem" Huan Wen had a faint smile on his face: "Sassanid will soon find out that our real target is Mirpur, they will not desperately attack the troops on Luck's side, if His Highness Ming really has an accident, it is only related to luck."
Moreover, the fleet is not all open, and they really can't withstand it and can still withdraw to the sea. ” Yuan Qiao is just saying that, since Huan Wen didn't even cover up his behavior of not wanting to see Liu Ming, he wouldn't have any extra suggestions.
In fact, Yuan Qiao can understand why Huan Wen made it so obvious to avoid suspicion, the Han Empire restored the classical separation, and these people are not ministers without a little personal armament except for ministers and kings.
The children of the royal family will have the act of being crowned king, and the king of the Han Empire will still have a king with real power outside the country, and they are not willing to speculate too much about why the Son of Heaven will do this, but they have to think about how the next generation of the Son of Heaven will think of themselves if they are too involved with the prince who will have real power.
Among the troops who landed in the second group was Liu Ming, who went ashore very easily, and then left the beach under the orders of Shangguan.
"Only our team" Liu Ming observed, the appearance of nearly 2,000 soldiers who landed, but there was only one team of firearms soldiers: "The fleet has no signs of sending troops to the land.
It's not going to be just us being left here."
Xin Ling happened to hear Liu Ming asking questions to his own soldiers, and said in a muffled voice: "Obviously, we are a decoy force, and there will be no more troops to land." ” Liu Ming had a dull expression for a while, and then nodded: "That is, you need to withstand the attack of the Persians until the main force completes its task."
The Han army that had already landed, the soldiers on the periphery cleared the Persians in the area, the scouts were dispersed, and the remaining soldiers were looking for something to use and began to build a defensive line.
There will still be a landing force behind, but it will only be to deliver the necessary supplies to the land, and people will not stay.
Above the sea, the gunboats began their actions again.
This time it was all the gunboats that opened fire on land, and they shelled the Persian troops who appeared in groups within range.
The farther away you are, the lower the hit rate of the gunboat, especially the large-caliber main guns, which are really not very good, but as long as you hit, you can definitely sweep away a large number of Persian soldiers.
The Persian army, which had been hit by a critical attack, was in a state of bewilderment, and it would have been better if it had all been infantry, and the army with animal power would have to run and trample in the face of cattle.
The landing force watched such a scene, the Persian army approaching in the distance was still a little aggressive, especially the cavalry approaching at a very fast speed, but in the shelling became a piece of scattered sand, with a faster speed to flee the way it came.
"Not only in terms of army engagements" Xin Ling raised her head very proudly: "No matter what kind of battlefield the Han faces, he is invincible" It should be said that there are enough bronze cannons of all calibers, and there are enough gunpowder and projectiles, no matter what kind of battlefield it is, the Han army will be invincible.
The real situation is that if you fight with the Han army, unless you have the mentality of treating yourself as a dead person, you are not afraid of the coverage of artillery fire in the long-range charge, dare to face the dense bullets at close range, and rush to the distance where you can engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Han army, otherwise the battle is usually over before it has even begun.
"Leave two gunboats behind."
Seeing the Persian army that had just appeared and retreated, Huan Wen sneered a few times, restrained his contemptuous attitude, and said solemnly: "The rest set sail again."
Yuan Qiao was slightly speechless, he finally knew that Huan Wen at least didn't dare to let Liu Ming have an accident
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