Chapter 665

Han did not encounter any threat in the Pacific, and there was no enemy worthy of a war in the whole Pacific. No matter whether the Northern Fleet or the southern fleet carried out the exploration and development of the ocean, they really did not encounter a threatening maritime enemy.

Obviously, there is no enemy worthy of a war. The scale of the Beiyang fleet and the Nanyang fleet is more than 1000 warships respectively. It is not that the Han country is rich enough that warships can go down like dumplings. It is that Liu Yan has a system force against the sky. It is said that each has 1000 warships. In fact, there are only one or two hundred non system warships, and the rest are ships for transportation.

After the Han generals extended their tentacles to Malacca, the non system forces of the Beiyang fleet and the Nanyang fleet were reorganized into part of the southern expeditionary army. This is the origin of the more than 300 warships in assaiyang. After they were transferred, the Beiyang fleet and the Nanyang fleet seemed to have few warships, but in fact they were all system forces.

Due to the limited shipbuilding capacity of the Han country, it is not fast to supplement the unsystematic warships of the Beiyang fleet and the Nanyang fleet. Moreover, at this stage, the military red zone of the Han country is in the A3 ocean. Even if a new warship is launched, it will be divided into the Southern expeditionary force sequence.

Huan Wen didn't know when the Gupta dynasty would go out on a large scale. What he could do was to send official documents to the center as soon as possible. The first request was to mobilize the nearest Nanyang fleet. If the war situation on a Sanyang side entered a stalemate, he would need the assistance of the Beiyang fleet.

Building system dock shipbuilding? That was based on the premise that Liu Yan had that mind. After he entered Guanzhong, his attention turned to the construction of the new Chang'an City and the impending drought. Without notice, even if a systematic dock has been established around the pingman school captain department, there will be no warships to serve without construction.

The earth is divided into North and south poles, and the environment and climate of each region are also different. If calculated according to the latitude, pingman colonel is in the subtropical zone. It is already a little muggy in spring, or the muggy air in summer. Even if it has entered autumn, it is still muggy and hot, but winter is a bit like spring in the Central Plains.

The trouble for the expeditionary army is that in autumn, the rain in this place will continue endlessly. Sometimes it will stop at once. More often, it will rain for at least 20 days in a month, which means that the soldiers will do nothing but take shelter from the rain.

The endless rain also gave the expeditionary army a new test. In addition to the dilemma of water everywhere caused by too much rain, the amount of dry firewood stored is consumed every day. If the dry firewood is consumed clean, the soldiers' diet will have problems, at least don't want to eat hot meals.

"The latest news is that a hurricane landed in the South 1 sea, seriously damaged the Jiaozhi coast, and Malacca is not navigable for the time being."

Typhoon or hurricane in autumn is normal in that area. It will not only make the sea very terrible, but also make the land and coast a mess by the wind.

"Compared with the big man, Gupta knows more about that sea area." In Li Mai's ears, he heard the sound of rain slapping on the bamboo raft. It was raining heavily outside. He said anxiously, "I thought that if Gupta was looking for a fighter, it was at that time."

A large number of Han Army and Navy troops stationed in pingman school are no longer a secret to the Gupta Dynasty, but the Han Army warships are tightly sealed and it is difficult for the Gupta Dynasty warships to get close to and observe. As a result, the Gupta Dynasty knows that this place is an important base of the Han Army, but it is unclear about the situation.

Huan Wen immediately reacted and asked, "does Xianhe mean that the enemy will raid?"

"If I were a Gupta general, I wouldn't miss such a great opportunity." What Li Mai is doing is just a kind of transposition thinking. He said in a tone of pushing research: "Gupta already knows about this place, but it is difficult to get close to and observe it. He doesn't know how our army can fight. There is a fault in the rear of our army. The enemy has no confidence in coming to a decisive battle for the sake of war, but he will be eager to know the situation here."

Huan Wen had related thoughts before, but he was unfamiliar with sea operations and was not sure. Seeing Li Mai's determination, he nodded: "in this case, it will be within a few days?"

In the era when communication depends on roaring and communication depends on running, the time delay in information transmission depends on the length of distance. I don't know if there were any ships of the Gupta Dynasty snooping around Malacca. They will infer based on their experience in previous years that they will certainly be familiar with the South 1 sea and Malacca sea area.

Huan Wen stopped in the strait a few days before he arrived at the pingman Colonel's headquarters. He learned that there was no shortage of ah San on the local Peninsula and the surrounding islands. Since there were ah San immigrants there, it was unreasonable that ah San was strange there. It should even be said that he was at least more familiar than the Han people who had just arrived.

"A big man's warship can sail in the rain, but the wind and waves are too big to." Li Mai tried his best to recall the style of warships of the Gupta Dynasty and said: "at present, the sea is not windy, only in the rainy season. There are many enemy ships. If you want to know whether the enemy will attack, you can check the recent enemy movements."

In short, any military operation requires preparation time. The navy must carry out relevant inspection, maintenance and warranty of ships before going to war, and prepare enough materials. In this way, as long as we observe the recent deployment of the navy of the Gupta Dynasty, we will find clues, especially whether the other party's large ships appear or not.

Each ship has its own log, which not only records the route, but also the status of the ship and the information found. If you want to spy on the status of the Gupta Navy, it is most intuitive to check the log of each ship that went to attack, but the workload is a little heavy.

As a superior, Huan Wen doesn't need to do everything himself. With his mouth open, naturally someone will be busy. After half a day, he will get a relatively detailed information.

"The Constitution and meritorious service." Huan Wen is not a kind person at ordinary times, but he doesn't mean to smile at those who are capable and can help themselves: "Gupta's big ship really hasn't appeared in recent days. Presumably, as Xianhe guessed, they want to take this great opportunity to spy."

Li Mai is eating the rice that led the Navy. If others can be insensitive, he must have a keen sense of smell. Otherwise, if the fleet is attacked in Hong Kong, it will lose face and be small, but the fleet will be responsible for heavy losses.

Huan Wen's ability to rely on Li Mai in naval warfare was not small. He gave the warmest smile and asked, "since Xianhe expected the trend of the enemy, can he have a response?"

The expeditionary army has more than 300 warships, and about 100 warships often go out to carry out the attack. The temporary combat task must not be able to inform the formation that is carrying out the attack. After all, there is no radio at all. The number of warships calling at military ports for maintenance, overhaul and waiting for supplies is not fixed, and there are no less than 150 ships within the maneuverable range of the command chain.

Li Mai has always believed that his guess will not go wrong. He has a ventral manuscript in his heart, but he can't ignore Huan Wen and ask for instructions, say: "I don't know how many warships the enemy will come. I thought it would be no less than 300. The big man has about 130 warships that can fight in the military port. Naturally, he is not afraid to face-to-face with them, but it is difficult to teach the enemy the biggest lesson. The military port has a perfect water stronghold. Even if it is attacked, the enemy can't easily break it. Whether to assign the fleet out of the port and use the water stronghold as bait to attract the enemy Army? "

Let the fleet go out of the port and hide, use the military port as a bait to let the Gupta Navy kill in, wait for the Gupta navy to enter the siege, and then surround the hidden fleet. Huan Wen began to evaluate the feasibility in an instant and thought it was feasible.

"Although the enemy doesn't know the number of our warships, they can't make the harbor look empty." Huan Wen appreciated Li Mai's attitude of leaving some subordinates who didn't finish his words and took care of his boss's face: "Xianhe will make arrangements."

Li Mai naturally saluted: "promise!"

Although Li Mai and Huan Wen were both demobilized generals of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, they really couldn't get close. Huanwen's reputation is not good. At least it is mostly negative in the south. He is not a modest gentleman to get along with others, and even somewhat domineering. Those may be Huanwen's original character, or they may give the king control, but they also make colleagues fear and fear, and some colleagues will hate it.

Li Mai naturally doesn't show his disgust with Huan Wen. He doesn't procrastinate when he gets an order. After he leaves Huan Wen, he finds Fu Wei. Both of them are senior Navy officials. The next confrontation still needs to work together.

Naturally, the rain has been falling all the time, and there is no trend to stop. The warships in the military port leave the port in batches in the hazy cover of raindrops. They will not go north, but hide in the southern sea area.

In the Han Dynasty, there is not only the base near the sea of pingman Colonel (Yangon), but also the large base (Tuwa) in the rear. In addition, the base is poorly constructed and is generally used as a maintenance site for seriously damaged warships.

The more seriously the warship is damaged, the longer the maintenance cycle will be. Usually, it will not be arranged in the frontier military port for maintenance, which will occupy the dock. The maintenance docks in the frontier military port should deal with the lightly damaged warships, repair them with the fastest speed, and restore the damaged warships to use again.

Before the Han expeditionary army was busy dealing with a possible attack, the Gupta Dynasty was indeed preparing for a surprise attack.

There are more than 800 Gupta ships gathered to join this inexplicable war along the coast of ketak alone. As many people are requisitioned, the style is complex, kapir Malik is in charge of a formation of 50 ships of all kinds.

"Jedin's order has been given." Kapir Marik is talking about gawara, the General Commander of the Gupta Dynasty Kunal Jedin's tooth for tooth raid. He now stayed on the newly taken over warship, looking at the dense sails around him and talking to his deputy Di Jean Kumar said: "we are divided into the second batch of formation and will sail today."

Kapir Malik's new ship is a three masted warship 24 meters long, 6.5 meters wide and 3.5 meters deep. The ship is equipped with two bed crossbows, both of which are located on the bow deck. His new ship looks very Sassanian in style. In fact, it is a captured ship repaired after capture. In fact, it was not the local warship of the Sassanian Dynasty, but captured by the Sassanian Navy from the Eastern Roman Navy.

The Sassanian warship style is very Hellenistic. There is a statue of the goddess of the sea at the corner of the bow, which is kapir Malik didn't understand whether the goddess of the sea was the daughter of arcanos or the daughter of Nereus?

Gavara Kunal Jedin will not directly participate in this raid. As a noble Brahman, he just needs to give orders and wait for news in a safe place.

It was certainly not kapir who commanded the raid fleet Malik, it's katluk who asked for orders Kapp will command the raid.

The number of ships used in raids by the Gupta Dynasty reached 500, that is, the number of civilian ships accounted for 300, which can really be regarded as less than 200 warships. The preparations for their raid fleet have been going on for nearly two months. In addition to the preparations for the sea battle, they have also prepared the deployment of troops for the raid and landing. Most of the soldiers preparing for the landing operation are arranged on the civilian ships of the final raid formation.

The long "wuwuwu -" horn sounded first from the city master's residence, and then it was continuously transmitted everywhere. Waiting for the big bell of the port to be sounded, a huge team composed of monks appeared.

Monks don't want to go to war with the army. They want to come to the port to bless the army about to go to war. Bursts of Sanskrit are chanted, accompanied by the ringing bell. In addition, there are scenes gathered by a large number of monks and believers, which is a bit of the coming of Buddha.

Waiting for the fleet to leave the port, I don't know who first shouted "Mother God", followed by the chorus of praise.

Ah San has his own mature religious system. What Buddha teaches is actually abandoned by ah San himself, replaced by India 1 degree 1 religion, and India 1 degree 1 religion has three main gods, Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu. Brahma is the God of creation (the Lord of the universe), Shiva is the God of destruction with three eyes (the king of ghost eyes), and Shiva is the patron saint of the universe and life.

Chadili, the main god of the A-San group, is naturally the God of destruction. It is a necessary procedure to hold a religious ritual before going to war to pray (pray). The more powerful it is, the higher the morale of the army will be.

Under the waves of Sanskrit and bells, katluk With a wave of Karp's arm, his flagship left the port first, followed by the flagship escort formation.

As the second echelon, kapir Malik, he looked at the singing and dancing on the shore with a solemn face. Waiting for the first echelon of formation to leave the port, he shouted: "mother-in-law God will bless us invincible, let's go!"

Of course, not all ships come out of the port. In fact, most ships just anchor long ago and form a formation at sea. At a glance, they are connected into a large area, which is really a bit overwhelming.