Chahar, the largest but most prosperous seaport city in southwestern Sasania, is now the city with smoke rising into the sky.
Smoke is not cooking smoke, but a fire caused by shelling and burning a building or anything else.
The Han Empire's expeditionary fleet had been on the coast of Chahar for two days, and on the first day of its arrival, it launched a fierce artillery bombardment, firing more than 2,000 shells from the main and secondary guns combined.
Most of the shells landed in residential areas, and the buildings in residential areas of most cities today, including the streets, were not orderly at all, most of them were built one by one, and miscellaneous items were piled up in a mess.
If you want to put out a fire in the event of a fire, unless the fire is too small to be extinguished, the chance of a fire is infinitely high.
After the fire, the people in the city did not try to put out the fire, but most of the passages were piled up with debris, or the residents expanded indiscriminately, and Chahar did not have any fire-fighting transport vehicles or water pipelines except for the rich areas, relying on people to carry buckets to fight the fire was simply a cup of water, and the fire could not be contained, and more and more buildings were ignited, forming a large sea of fire.
In addition to the heavy inclination of artillery fire at the beginning, the Han army only carried out a round of shelling every hour.
There was no fixed area of shelling, and the whole city was often bombarded.
The shelling was irregular, no one knew how to be sure whether they were safe, and in a desperate sense of security, the citizens began to flee outside the city.
Burner Dadoa is the lord of Chahar, and he has been mentally prepared for the arrival of the Han fleet, and it cannot be said that he has not carried out relevant measures, but he has not seen what the gunboat bombardment looks like, and he cannot make targeted preparations.
"Clear a buffer strip on the edge of the fire."
Burner Dadoa was looking at the sea of fire in the distance: "There is no salvation over there. ” Chahar is a thriving coastal city, and in today's times, how prosperous it is almost certainly a chaotic city, especially in the slums.
It was confirmed that there was a certain slum area that had not been saved at all, and the garrison in the city did not mobilize the waterwheel, but there was no passage to enter at all, and the fire that could be saved was not saved after watching it spread, and the waterwheel could not enter, so it became a tragic situation that did not even need to be saved.
If there is any area of each city that will have the most people, there is no doubt that it will be the trade area and the slum.
Burning Erdadoa had asked the Inspector how many people there were in the area that had fallen into the flames, and the answer was that there would be no less than two thousand.
Before the fire spread completely, some people wisely chose to stay away as soon as possible, but more people tried to fight the fire in vain, and about 100 of the 2,000 inhabitants escaped, mostly women and children, and the rest were trapped in the fire no matter how you look at it.
It's not just a fire that doesn't seem to be saved, the whole slum is full of fires, just because the slum area is large enough to form one separate fire after another, and the number of people trapped in the fire is definitely not less than 20,000 people, accounting for about four-five tenths of the population of the Chahar slum.
Slums are not the only ones that are on fire, at least 25 percent of the city is on fire if you take a percentage of the situation, with slums and stockpiles being the worst.
Of course, the rich area also suffered from the shelling of the gunboats of the Han Empire, only because the passage in the rich area is wide, and then there are more waterwheels prepared in normal times, and the rich area itself has convenient water intake facilities, and some places were extinguished in time after discovering the fire, so as not to cause more serious disasters.
The City Lord's Mansion was built in the highest place in the city, which looked conspicuous enough, but it did not encounter too much shelling, and it can even be said that in addition to being bombarded with more than 20 cannons at the beginning, the Han army did not seem to see such a conspicuous place, and did not shell the area of the City Lord's Mansion again.
"The Han still haven't attacked the port" Burner Dadoa is now able to maintain the greatest composure, but the city lord's mansion seems to be safe enough: "They are afraid that the port will be damaged and they will not be able to land" Not a single shell really fell on the port, but the stockpiling area not far from it was under heavy shelling.
If there is one place in the city where the fire is most severe, it is undoubtedly the stockpiling area next to the port.
From this point of view, Burning Erdadoa can confirm that the Han army basically did not come for plunder, otherwise it should have left the goods in the port The terrain of the Castle Lord's Mansion is high enough that you can see the conditions on the sea.
Because of the arrival of the expeditionary fleet of the Han Empire, the non-Han ships in the nearby waters were either sunk or captured, or they ran away early.
Knowing the most basic visual inspection, he found that there were more than a thousand ships of various types in the Han Empire, and eleven of them did not seem to be the largest in size, but they were far larger than the others, and they looked much more beautiful.
Gunboats are all products of the later period, which are relatively slender compared to other types of ships, and then the appearance looks sharper, which will naturally look more beautiful.
Burner Dadoa will think that the gunboat is very good-looking, in fact, it is mainly out of favor for powerful things, and under envy, he wants to keep it for himself, so he naturally loves it even more.
If you want to say that the ship on the sea is the largest, it is definitely the Linzi during the period, and then there are some transport ships.
The largest transport ships are not much smaller than the Linzi, if they are actually larger than the Linzi in terms of tonnage, they are a kind of fat pier round shape, which is quite different from the slender hull of the Linzi.
Now, the entire expeditionary fleet is spread out and parked on the sea, the gunboats are closest to the land, and next to them are two large transport ships, and some warships will go back and forth between the gunboats and the transports, mainly to transport shells to replenish consumption.
The second echelon consisted of carrying ships arranged in a square shape, and many soldiers stood on the deck to watch the gunboats that shelled every hour.
Except for the land-facing side, there were regular warships cruising back and forth on the periphery of the other three directions.
The rest of the ships were anchored in a straight line, and after a large number of ships were spread out on the sea, if you looked down from a high enough height, a "land surface" composed of ships was formed above the sea.
"Chaos is chaos" Yuan Qiao observed the land through a telescope: "It's just that the army is not chaotic, it is civilians who are chaotic." ” They still have too few gunboats, and if they want to completely mess up the city, the main targets of shelling are residential areas, and the inclined fire on the barracks is somewhat insufficient.
To create chaos is, of course, to shell residential areas, and to carry out artillery bombardment of barracks under conditions of serious lack of firepower will cause some casualties to the enemy troops, but the enemy troops will not be eliminated too much, or even destroy the camp at all, at most it will force the garrison to withdraw and relocate it in another place.
Huan Wen looked at Wang Meng: "What suggestions does Changshi have?"
The temporary non-shelling of the port is due to Wang Meng's suggestion, there are a large number of various ships moored there, due to the fire in the hoarding area, the evacuated personnel chose the port that did not suffer the shelling, resulting in the port area is now crowded with people.
Naturally, the purpose of leaving the port was to carry out the landing, and no army landing from the sea would have shelled the port as its main goal, and if one of the facilities was really destroyed, it would make it difficult for oneself to land.
"General."
Wang Meng saluted and said: "The advice of the post is to continue the shelling for another day, continue to the north, and continue the shelling every time it passes through a coastal city. ” The expeditionary fleet carried enough gunpowder and shells, even the spare bronze cannons.
The gunboat's main gun does not need to be fired if it is not necessary, so as not to wear out the barrel and malfunction at the same time, but the secondary gun does not matter, and it can be replaced with a new one in time if it is broken.
Now the Persian Sassanids did not have any long-range weapons to threaten the fleet, but the gunboats were capable of shelling out of the enemy's ranged weapons.
Once the Han army does not carry out the landing, it is to take advantage of the advantage of long-range weapons to continuously carry out coastal artillery bombardment, then unless the Persian Sassanid sends a fleet to fight, it can only be passively beaten.
"If you have the opportunity, you can naturally land" Wang Meng maintained a salute posture: "The enemy is in full array, and there is no need." ” They landed in the two Satraps in order to deal with the Tianzhu shogunate, and they needed to carry out a relatively large landing battle, otherwise they really couldn't attract enough attention from the two Satraps.
It's just that I didn't expect it to be just a landing battle, but it made the two Satraps make a truce.
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Huan Wen accepted Yuan Qiao's advice and did not take the lead to negotiate the surrender with the two Satraps, and handed it over to the Tianzhu shogunate.
Attacking Sassanid is actually to accumulate more experience, and it is not necessary to land.
After all, the Shogunate did not move westward for the time being, and the appearance of the expeditionary fleet could attract enough attention from the Sassanians to force them to deploy heavy troops along the long coastline, and their current move was enough.
Landing is generally for benefits, such as landing on the looting of Luck, if there are a lot of garrisons in the Sassanid city, there will be a big battle after landing, Huan Wen knows that it is really unnecessary.
The expeditionary fleet will not be replenished in the slightest amount of troops for three years, and Huan Wen had been informed of this before he set off.
They also need to go on an expedition to Europa later, in order to accumulate experience, they can lose some resources and troops in two Satraps or Sassanid, but they really can't lose too much, and Huan Wen's bottom line is not to lose more than two thousand people, otherwise it will inevitably affect the expedition to Europa.
"Hmm" Huan Wen nodded: "As Changshi said." ” In the back, Burner Dadoa saw with his own eyes that the Han army had changed its normality, and the harbor, where not a single shell had fallen, was subjected to heavy shelling.
His first reaction when he saw the harbor being shelled was joy.
"The Han have shelled the port," said Erdadoa to the left and right, "Does it mean that they have to give up the landing?"
Shells were constantly falling in the harbor area, and the Persians, or the rest of the tribes, who had thought it safe to stay here, were scurrying about.
After the Han army began shelling the port, some of the ships in the port were moving.
At first, it was a civilian boat, and they knew that moving would be a target, but if they stayed where they were, they would wait to be cremated, and they began to flee with one in ten thousand hopes.
Subsequently, a number of military warships also began to move, and they were ordered to launch an attack on the Han fleet.
On the side of the Han army, the gunboats ignored the moving port ships and continued to shell the port, as if they would not give up until the port was completely destroyed.
The fact that the gunboats did not bother does not mean that the rest of the Han warships did not react.
In this expedition, the conventional warships have always played the role of soy sauce under the premise that the enemy has not dispatched the warships, and finally have the target of the battle, and the warships that have received the battle order are full of joy.
"Twenty-five degrees in elevation."
"Launch" It was not a cannonball, but a crossbow with an explosive arrow.
In the expeditionary fleet, the number of crossbow ships actually accounts for the largest, and the captain of each crossbow ship actually understood a little earlier, and the warships under their feet will face a complete elimination within about ten years, and they will be the world of gunboats in the future.
This expedition to Europa was basically the last appearance of the ballista, and even if it was not sunk in Europa, there was no possibility for the warship to return to the mainland at all.
It may be the last appearance of the scenery, but it has never been matched by an opponent, the sadness is so obvious, seize the opportunity to be able to fight, even if it is against an opponent who is not at the same level, any crew member, including the captain, who is willing to give 100% enthusiasm to fight.
Burning Erda Doa originally thought that dispatching warships could attract the firepower of the Han gunboats, but seeing that the Han gunboats continued to bombard the port, it seemed that there were already shells falling on the city lord's mansion, and it seemed that the number of shells falling on the city lord's mansion was increasing, which can be said to be very disappointed.
In less than half an hour, twenty-seven minutes to be exact, the non-Han boats that started to move were wiped out on the sea by the Han crossbow boats.
Probably because they felt that there was a rare opportunity to attack, they did not do the business of taking prisoners, but fired crossbow arrows with great vigour, and even the small-looking board ship could attract at least five or more crossbow arrows.
"Which city is next?"
"Back to General.
Thirty miles north of here is Ludia, another city with a port in the nearby seas. ” Huan Wen soon found the location called Ludia on the map.
The overseas map was drawn by Wang Meng during his mission, and the last time he basically determined which cities would be more valuable to attack if he came to invade
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