Chapter 748

A fierce battle in the sea cannot lack a long-range weapon. Bows and crossbows are indispensable weapons, but the first weapon to make a sound must be the bed crossbow with a longer range but a huge body.

After the two fleets enter the state of battle, no matter what changes their formation, the only constant is that the air must be full of roaring arrows, and most arrows must be burned with grease.

When the rocket is shot into the hull, the arrowhead is naturally nailed into the wood. At that time, the burning grease will burn to the hull. In fact, a small number of ships can't ignite the ship at all. At most, they smoke, but it's different if they hit an object with combustion supporting materials.

After the war began, the sails hit by rockets were ignited. Fiber objects were always afraid of flames. They would become combustion aids, and then spread the fire to the whole deck. The ignited people ran around and brought the flame into the hull. The fire would be difficult to stop. Before long, the whole ship must burst into flames.

At the beginning, the two sides can also be arranged in a straight line battle. As a ship fires, especially the cabin fires, 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 and become a drag on the formation, and a small team will be broken.

After entering the state of war, the warships of the Han Dynasty used their own range advantage to attack unilaterally. This situation lasted nearly ten minutes, turning one enemy ship after another into a torch. At least 20 or 30 warships on the Gupta side were not in the effective attack sequence before they were close enough to fight back.

The fighting between the two sides is that ten minutes after the war, waiting for the bed crossbow of the warship on the side of Gupta to be launched, and the strong crossbow on the side of the warship of the Han state also joined in the shooting. There is a picture in the whole battlefield, with arrows flying in the air.

The warships on the side of Gupta were attacked by the bed crossbow and strong crossbow of the Han Army, but the Gupta warships could only fight back with the bed crossbow, but the side of Gupta still stubbornly continued to approach, from which we can see ah San... At least the Gupta naval battle has not dominated ah Sanyang for hundreds of years.

"The loss is worth it!" Gavara Kangding Warren is not destined to be in the charge sequence. He will stay in a relatively safe rear and command his fleet. He didn't seem to be deceiving himself or others. He said firmly: "in repeated exchanges, as long as we can overcome the early disadvantages, the next is our time to play!"

At present, among all countries, the Romans can compare with the Han country in terms of sophisticated equipment. Compared with large-scale instruments alone, the Han state held the bed crossbow as a big killing weapon based on the details of the Zhuxia, and has been improving the bed crossbow to ensure the range advantage. Rome not only had a bed crossbow, but they also obtained a crossbow from the Greeks, which actually had a longer range than a bed crossbow.

In fact, it must be said that the Romans attached great importance to military equipment, and their infantry based legions basically carried all kinds of equipment, especially siege equipment. This has led the Romans never to relax the development of military equipment. If anyone in the world recognizes the importance of equipment, the Romans may have a deeper understanding than Zhuxia.

The other three pairs of gawara Kangding Warren's words are convinced. It is an established fact that they can't compare with the Han Army in terms of equipment. They can only get closer and entangle each other to offset their disadvantages in equipment. Entering the side contact is the performance time of ah San.

Wang niche has learned the strength of Gupta naval battle from the past battle data. If close combat can be avoided, he will not fight. The instruction given to each formation is to keep away from the enemy as far as possible.

The Han warship formation naturally has its own disadvantages. If it can keep a long distance and send the enemy ship to the bottom of the sea with its own range advantage, it will want to fight a side to side battle when its skull is broken.

If several ships fight against several ships, or more than ten ships fight on the battlefield, there is enough space to move, but if there are a large number of ships, it is really not that they can attack wherever they want. Usually there are friendly ships or enemy ships everywhere.

Within half an hour of the battle, the formation of the two sides involved in the battle slowly became no formation. If there was coordination, there were only a few two or three ships that could interact, and the rest simply had their own enemy situation to deal with.

"Herald!" Wang niche finally knew the meaning of what Li Mai had said before. It was one thing what he thought, and it was another thing whether the other party was worthy or not: "go out."

At the beginning, the Gupta navy was still fighting in formation. Later, it simply spread out in formation and attacked in an all-round manner. Their move really hit the weakness of the Han Navy, making it basically indistinguishable which enemy ship the Han Navy dealt with. Setting fire to sink or Cripple one, but more enemy ships were approaching. If you want to keep a distance, you have to retreat the whole front, But the fleet really can't retreat if it wants to, and chaos is inevitable.

No one can completely master the whole army, whether on land or at sea. For example, the idiom "arm command" is an adjective, which has never been really done.

The situation on the battlefield is that parts fall into chaos, and then evolve from multiple parts into overall chaos. At that time, the commander-in-chief's order can only be in major aspects. For example, it is impossible for the troops in chaos to do anything alone or in a single formation. If it is an overall retreat or a decisive battle on land, the same is true in naval warfare.

Many enemy and our warships have entered the side to side battle. At this time, it is the warships of the Han Dynasty who have taken advantage. The deck height of the warships of the Han Dynasty is higher than that of Gupta.

Fighting has always been the advantage of the side occupying the height. What can be seen is that the bow and crossbow men of the Han Army standing at the favorable height launch arrows from a high position and turn over one ah San who dare to stand up.

A San is no stranger to such a situation for a long time. What they can do is to organize archers to fight back and let all those who can participate in the battle swing the hook rope. They can see that once two warships belonging to different ownership approach 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 warship on Gupta's side can successfully connect to the side. It has to have that size. The size of the ship is not big enough, and the face is that it has not controlled the speed to approach. The warships of the Han state have collided recklessly, and they will be knocked over if they are not big enough.

Almost at the time when the king's niche ordered him to attack, gawara Kangding Warren also ordered his own boat to rush out.

The navies of the Han state and Gupta did not count the warships alone when calculating the combat power, but counted both the Pang and the Chong boat. At this moment, when the vanguard fleet enters the stalemate, the two sides will send out a boat or rush a boat. That is because both sides have suffered enough in the early war. If the big ship does not enter the stalemate, they will send a boat or rush a boat, which will basically be named. But the size of Yi and Chong can't stand a few bed crossbows at all.

"Order the left-wing fleet to attack." In fact, Wang niche could not grasp the whole battlefield. He could only look at the general situation: "pull the formation of the enemy fleet."

The two fighting fleets are really not packed together. Just like fighting on land, they will be divided into groups, so there will be the arrangement of the central army and the left and right wings, and even the reserve team is essential.

At the beginning, their fighting place was within ten miles of the coast, and they had left the coast for at least fifteen miles. As the fighting time lengthened, the distance between their fleets widened.

"The left wing of the Han people is out?" Gavara Kangding Warren always felt as if something was wrong: "the enemy has sent out at least 200 kinds of warships. Why can't the headquarters see the number decreasing?"

Salar Sakuman is not as dull as his immediate boss. He found something wrong from the beginning.

They guessed that there were about 500 Han troops coming to attack, but the number of Han troops participating in the war was more than 200. The headquarters looked like a thick layer, not to mention the number of left and right wings and reserves that could be seen, and there was another fleet preparing to land.

By this time, if ah San hasn't realized that they guessed wrong, it's not an eye problem, but also a brain problem.

Gavara Kangding Warren and salar Sakuman looked at each other for a while. Their faces were the same. They had determined that there were definitely more than 500 Han warships coming to attack. They guessed that they might reach nearly a thousand!

"It's incredible!" Gavara Kangding Warren said with a livid face, "our intelligence has never been right!"

Before, Gupta estimated that the total number of warships of the expeditionary army of the Han state was 800, but now you can see more than 800!

The number is far more than speculation. It is not fatal. Even the number of warships in the Han state can make mistakes. What else do they think the truth is false at all?

"The enemy's right-wing fleet is also out..." salar Sakuman raised his finger: "we... The number gap is too big."

The navy of Gupta has more combat experience than the navy of Han. To some extent, once it enters the side to side battle, it can also obtain good results, but the difference in quantity is to a certain extent. Even if one ship is exchanged for two ships of Han, it is time to feed fish without exchanging their own warships.

From the perspective of God, the losses of the formation of the two sides that entered the scuffle situation earlier were 27 ships on the side of the Han state and 34 on the side of Gupta. There will be such a contrast, or the Han warships occupied the range advantage in the early stage.

If the scuffle continues, the loss ratio will open soon. Generally, the Han Army loses more and more in the scuffle. That's because the Han people really don't have as much experience in side to side combat as ah San. The more reason is that even if the system warship is equipped with close combat personnel, the system warship is not used for close combat. Those personnel are also transferred from the army. They are really not so suitable for naval warfare.

Wang niche now faced a headache. He strangely found that a large number of his warships could not adapt to close combat. Once an enemy ship was connected to the side, the Army soldiers arranged on it could not resist. Most of the Army soldiers died, either captured or turned into a torch.

[how could this happen?] Wang Kan couldn't understand why it was like that. Instead, he had the decision that a general should have: "all departments have been engaged, and it's time to annihilate the enemy!"

It doesn't matter that experience is not as good as people, and it's not a big deal that melee combat is not as good as people. Everything can be reversed under the absolute advantage of quantity. As an authentic Zhuxia general, whether on land or at sea, if he doesn't know how to bully people with quantity, he will be in vain.

The order Wang niche received in advance is not to completely annihilate the enemy here. Their task is to capture the port set up by Gupta and cannot destroy Gupta's navy. Then they will force the Gupta navy to retreat to the mainland and let the main fleet that has long intercepted the return route of Gupta's Navy solve it.

Of course, if the navy of Gupta side could be eliminated, Wang niche would not like to slip away his military achievements. Otherwise, he knew that chaos would become sticky. How could he continue to invest in the fleet? What is the purpose of relying on the number of warships to arrange the fleet to encircle?

As a contemporary Warren owner whose ancestors began to play the Navy, gavara Kangding Warren reacted when he found that the enemy had signs of encirclement. Like every Brahman of ah San, he made various promises to the trapped shatili and asked them to resist to the last minute, and then led the headquarters to move.

Just above the sea, when ships were smoking and fighting, gavara Kangding Warren was turning in with about 70 ships from his headquarters. His move was taken for granted by all ah San. The noble Brahman could escape when the situation was unfavorable, just as shatili should order the cheap people to fight for a way to escape in order to escape for his own life.

There was a scene on the battlefield. Too many small and medium-sized enemy and our formations were killed, but the commanders of the two fleets pursued and fled with their headquarters.

This situation is undoubtedly what the dominant Han side is willing to see. They can deal with one enemy ship by several ships. With the escape of the enemy's main general, the enemy's fighting will is also shaken, and the difficulty of eliminating or capturing is reduced again and again.

The fighting began at about nine in the morning, gawara Kangding Warren's transfer took place at noon. After he began to move, the Han Army also took action to enter the port.

Wang Kan led his headquarters to pursue for about an hour. He saw that he could not catch up and did not recognize the reason for death. He rationally turned around and participated in the landing operation.

"It turned out to be like this..." of course, Wang niche would not land in person. What he did after returning to the army was to make each formation count the casualties and results of the war. When he got the data, he kept smiling bitterly: "there are 59 ships sunk in the war alone, and 87 ships lost their combat power."

Wang Kan had to smile bitterly. They used 850 large and small warships to deal with about 300 warships on the Gupta side, sinking and capturing more than 200, but their own side lost so much on the premise of absolute quantitative advantage.

[how bad is the big man's navy?] Wang niche really doesn't understand: [shouldn't be!]