The sea is no better than the land. The bed crossbow is launched from the sinking and floating warships. It's not an exaggeration to shoot without a shot. It's just that depression is inevitable.
About a hundred breaths, the Han warships launched a volley again.
This time, four of the 17 bed crossbows hit, two of which hit the non flagship of the Gupta Dynasty, and the other two hit the warship with sails and olive and snake patterns.
Different positions of the bed crossbow cause different damage. The bed crossbow is fired with burning objects. Due to the distance, the arrowhead nailed to the wood does not cause penetration effect. It will penetrate only when it hits the sail.
Picard Malik was surprised to see that the warships of unknown forces could hit in the second round of volley. The warship he brought out this time was not a capital ship in the Gupta Dynasty, but a medium-sized warship patrolling the sea.
The sea fleet of the Gupta Dynasty inherited from the kusana empire. Of course, it has its own warship loaded with bed crossbows. It is clear that launching bed crossbows from warships and launching bed crossbows on land are two different things.
"No matter who they are, they are by no means a small force somewhere." Dijean Kumar did not think he was talking nonsense: "their ships are large and can carry bed crossbows. Everything shows that they are a country with cultural heritage. There is no such country around us, and their ships are not familiar with the Roman or Sassanian style."
Whether it was the strong and powerful Roman period or the weakened Rome, in fact, the Romans always ate the old capital of Greece in the ship system. At most, they enlarged the hull in the original Greek design, and there were no groundbreaking new achievements.
Sassanne is another Persian Dynasty after the demise of the Parthian Empire. In some ways, the main bodies of Parthia and sassanne are Persian. There will be no exaggerated deviation in the inheritance of civilization, and the construction of the army and navy is also in the same line. In fact, Persians can't turn the Navy very much, and they haven't made great progress in the past hundreds of years.
Every civilization has its own brand, which can usually be distinguished from the appearance of civilized creations, Picard Malik and dijean Kumar had the same understanding. They had no impression of the three warships in front of them.
The distance between the enemy and us on the sea has always been maintained at about 200 meters. That is because the warships of the Gupta Dynasty want to be closer, while the warships of the Han Army consciously keep a distance.
"They obviously don't have long-range weapons over 200 meters." Fu Wei's inner tension has disappeared, replaced by a kind of self-confidence that adults bully children: "just keep this distance and kill their sense of war."
Every 100 breaths or so, the Han warships will come to the last salvo. Sometimes, with the change of the position of both sides, the orientation of both sides of the hull will change. The bed crossbows on different sides will be launched separately, and the bed crossbows on the bow and stern will maintain the salvo attitude.
Liang min found something and reported: "there is a ship in the enemy ship formation to separate."
Fu Wei also found this situation. He thought about it and didn't order the pursuit. His confidence, which was as stable as Mount Tai, hesitated.
The Han people did not come to this sea area for a long time, and they did not have a clear understanding of many things. They did not know how many countries in this sea area could play naval warfare, and it was not clear how much maritime power the Gupta Dynasty had.
The warship formation of the Gupta Dynasty separated from one alone. It obviously wanted to leave the battle and go back to report. Without sufficient information, the warship formation of the Han army could not guess when it would return to Hong Kong and how many reinforcements it would bring after it returned.
The sun in the sky is already in the center by West position. According to the timing issued by Liu Yanxin, it should be around 3 p.m?
The days in summer are longer than the other three seasons. The sunset will extend for about an hour. In the sea without any cover, the sunlight will not disappear until it completely falls into the coastline at the other end.
"We still have about three hours." Fu Wei couldn't be confused and decided, "take three hours as the deadline and get out of the battle immediately."
If there are warships in the formation of the Gupta Dynasty who leave to find reinforcements, Fu Wei can also assign one to leave to find backup. The problem is that the situation of the two sides is really different.
This sea area is the traditional sphere of influence of a San. The sea power of the Gupta Dynasty itself is not weak. Their military port is still relatively close. There must be many warships docked in the port.
Han is a new force in this sea area. It is still in the exploration stage of the sea area. It can be called a military port. There is no effective stronghold, that is, the stronghold of pingman Colonel's headquarters.
Fu Wei originally came from the mainland with 32 ships, and five ships were turned in on the way. The thirty-two ships are not all warships. They are four supply ships (transport ships) carrying logistics materials. Thousands of miles of navigation also makes some ships have to be repaired or maintained. In fact, only 17 ships can be used, five remain in the stronghold, and the rest are three ships in a formation, divided into four groups to carry out tasks.
"We are now in the position of Geng 63." Liang min looked at the nautical chart attentively for a while, drew with some rulers, and said, "you can choose the direction of retreat. There is our second combat formation."
They are relatively close to the continental shelf, and the second formation is farther away from the continental shelf. At present, it is summer. A Sanyang is basically blowing the southwest wind. Fu Wei doesn't want to expose the position of the stronghold. Of course, he can't directly withdraw to the stronghold. If the warships of the Gupta Dynasty pursue, they can also find a second formation and fight together.
The watchman outside was reporting, "the enemy ship is on fire!"
The command system, which was looking for a way out before he expected victory, looked out when he heard the speech. Indeed, he saw a fire burning the sails of an enemy ship. It was a fire that burned first and then ignited all the sails.
"The sails lose wind, and they still have oar power." Liang Min said that, but with a smile on his face, "it can't keep up with the speed."
The two formations have been in motion, but they don't stop in place. With the movement, different speeds will open the distance between friendly warships. Only by deliberately maintaining the same speed can they move together. Most warships will not sacrifice their speed alone in order to take care of one of them. Warships that are doomed to fail to keep up will be abandoned.
From the beginning, the battle was a unilateral attack output of the Han warships. The Gupta warship formation that failed to fight back effectively was actually angry and frustrated. They always wanted to narrow the distance between the Han warship formation and the warship formation. Unfortunately, even if the cabin supervisor worked hard to whip the slaves and the slaves broke the oars under the adverse wind, there was no great effect.
"It can't go on like this." Kapir Naturally, Malik was extremely angry. He clenched his fist: "the enemy clearly has an overall advantage, but it seems very conservative. We can dissolve the formation and lead them by the nose to create an opportunity for encirclement!"
Dijean Makur had thought of this for a long time. The reason why he didn't mention it was the suppression of the aristocratic hierarchy. He has to wait for his immediate boss to make a decision before perfecting the plan.
In the Han Dynasty, there is a set of mature semaphores for effective long-distance non voice communication. Even without Liu Yan's intervention, in fact, semaphores have long appeared in Zhuxia civilization, that is, the ability to communicate is very limited.
Other civilizations are not pig brains. They must also have their own creation system in the process of civilization development. A system similar to flag language must exist, Picard After Malik's order was issued, some flags were hung on the flagship, and flags of different colors were used to promulgate the pre-existing plan.
Soon, the warship formation of the Han Army saw the warships of the Gupta Dynasty scattered. This new situation makes Fu Wei, as a commander, realize who his opponent is. Anyway, he is not a savage on many islands in the South 1 sea.
"The movement posture of the enemy flagship is to cooperate with other enemy ships." Chen Tan's responsibility in the flagship is similar to that of the intelligence officer of later generations. His official position is to publicize praise with the Army (staff). He firmly said: "the enemy is setting up a conspiracy and wants to use the exposed flagship to attract us into the trap."
Picard How did Malik know that he was exposed? It was not the obvious patterns of olives and snakes on the sails. The sails of every warship of the Gupta Dynasty had different patterns, mainly because his warship had been covered by fire.
There are not many choices in front of Fu Wei. Their warships are less than twice that of the Gupta Dynasty. Individual warships look much stronger than each other: "be patient, be more patient! Wait until they are far enough from each other!"
Chen Tan has just reported that the height of the horizontal plane of his own warship is far higher than that of the enemy warship. If there is a side to side battle, he is in an absolutely favorable position.
The gap between ourselves and the enemy revealed by facts made Fu Wei not afraid of a side to side battle. What he hesitated was to be surrounded by multiple ships.
"Did they find out what we meant?" Dijean Makur saw that the Han warships still formed in a leisurely formation to seize the opportunity for long-range shooting, had no obvious pursuit intention, and did not know whether to laugh or disappointed: "the enemy commander is too cautious."
"Yes, obviously their ship is bigger than ours, but they are still cautious." Picard Malik looks at things from the perspective of a superior: "no matter who they are or where they come from, the enemy who is powerful and frightening and always cautious is the most terrible."
Most of the time, the strong side will always ruin itself by belittling the enemy. Although such an enemy is difficult to defeat, it will not lead to despair.
Picard Malik is not a high-level in the Gupta Dynasty, but he knows that in the confrontation with the Sasan Navy, it is clear that the Sasan navy has a large number, but the Gupta Dynasty can still win more and lose less, precisely because of the advantages and disadvantages of the commander.
"The Persians have more navies than us, but they look down on us, so we can always find a chance to inflict heavy losses on them." Picard Malik felt obliged to teach djan, who had a good relationship Makur, full of seriousness, said: "when we meet enemies who are cautious enough, we should pay more attention to them, not laugh at their timidity."
Dijean Kumar naturally looked like he had been taught, but he knew PICAR in his heart Malik has his own pride and belongs to the pride of the Gupta Dynasty's powerful navy.
In the final analysis, they are a common warship formation in the navy of the whole Gupta Dynasty. The Gupta Dynasty is not short of warships larger than unknown enemies, and the number is considerable. Then again, after some shooting, they think that the unknown enemy is inexperienced.
The movement and pursuit of both sides have been staged all the time. The war situation has changed with Fu Wei's order to approach the strong crossbow diffuse and prepare for the side battle.
After each other enters the shooting range of bows and crossbows, the sea is a picture of arrows like locusts. The bows and crossbows on both sides shoot arrows at each other with their lives, which may not cause much immediate damage to the hull, mainly killing enemy personnel.
When shooting arrows at each other, people were hit by arrows all the time. The muffled hum and groan were drowned by the sound of the waves. It was not enough until two warships hit a piece and burst a groan belonging to wood.
At the moment of the collision, the personnel on the two warships felt a huge vibration, and all kinds of shouts began to make noise.
On the side of the warships of the Gupta Dynasty, their height is lower than that of the Han army. Because of this, they can't be frightened. The calm people don't want to climb the rock, but greet the Han army ready to shoot arrows at the outcrop. At the next moment, they were overwhelmed by some round barrels. After the barrels were smashed and broken, some oil flowed out. Soon, torches were thrown from top to bottom, and the fierce fire oil burned immediately when it hit the fire.
Fu Wei gradually mastered the tactics of naval warfare over time. He destroyed three ships by throwing down the round barrel filled with fierce fire oil. When he wanted to do the same, he found that the position of both sides had changed unconsciously, and the other party's remaining three warships, including the flagship, were leaving the battlefield.
"What is this?" Fu Wei looked at the enemy ship that had lost its sails and stopped at the same place. He didn't ask this. He said with a slight self mockery, "it's really different from the land?"
It's about seizing the limelight and failing to look at the overall situation in combat.
Picard Malik was looking at the ship that was still in place. He ordered the ship to surrender because he couldn't run away if he wanted to lose the sail. It's better to make contact after surrender. Maybe he can get free after paying the ransom. After returning, he can find out where the unknown enemy came from and what purpose he was here.
What the Gupta Dynasty didn't expect was that Fu Wei didn't want to be captured at all. He asked one of his ships to lean over and drop fierce fire oil, drop a torch and ignite directly.
As the sun set, Picard saw the scene from a distance Malik's face was very blue. He was angry at the uncivilized of the unknown enemy. He opened his mouth with a string of broken curses, clenched his teeth and said, "we met a barbaric enemy, a barbarian who can't communicate!"
Perhaps savage, Fu Wei thought it was just his words and deeds, that is, what he thought at the beginning: Please die when you meet for the first time!