Chapter 671

"It's really... Beacon smoke everywhere!"

"Yes, the enemy dare to land even if the situation is unknown."

Li Mai and Fu Wei were on the same ship before the war, and the commanders of the other formations also gathered for a meeting to wait for the war meeting to return to each ship.

It took them nearly four hours to reach the war zone. There was a sea area on the route. It was raining. There was a slight delay, but it didn't have much impact. There was no reduction of warships or anything.

From the perspective of the fleet, xiangpingman Colonel's headquarters is full of flames and dense smoke columns under the night. It is obvious that it has experienced a tragic war. In the original water stronghold, there are also many light spots on the water surface, which are the lights on the Gupta warship, and another fleet is moving towards its own side.

"Received your signal, there is our warship formation on the sea."

"The number is 24, the surviving combat power is 19, and there are 12 warships of goodwill forces."

Li Mai has been constantly collecting information, that is, although Dengyu can communicate, the information that Dengyu can actually express can not be compared with direct face-to-face communication, so he can only get some general information.

"Forces of goodwill?" Li Mai didn't know which one it was. He knew that there was a Sassanian Dynasty, but he couldn't think that there would be a Persian Sassanian fleet coming to the battlefield: "this is our war. Command the formation ahead to take that force away."

Han never had so-called allies. Even if there were forces fighting side by side, it was also a vassal state.

An ally is a mutual recognition of each other's strength and an equal Alliance (even on the surface). Many Han generals do not think that any country or force in the world is qualified to become their own ally.

The number of warships of the Han Dynasty arrived was 157. Except that Li Mai's flagship and Fu Wei's warships were large ships exceeding 60 meters, the remaining 30 were more than 40 meters, and the remaining 30 were crossbow ships except 70.

They come from the southeast, not all of them directly attack the enemy in the military port. Some fleets will make a detour, which is naturally aimed at cutting off the retreat direction of the Gupta Navy. The remaining warships must surround the Gupta Navy that is leaving the stronghold and try their best to block them in the stronghold.

Today is the ninth day of the lunar calendar. Even if there is a moon in the sky, it is covered by clouds. In the night, you want to find that the other party depends on the lights of ships.

Put out the lights and approach the enemy ship under the cover of night? The formation of a few warships may be able to do so. More warships will not turn off the lights, otherwise there will be a collision accident. Both sides will clearly show their existence and are moving towards each other.

The sky was still cloudy, and the rain continued after a slight pause for some time. It was a kind of Misty drizzle, but the wind stopped strangely.

The sound of oars hitting the water surface on the sea surface is very frequent. The sailors of warships are rowing their oars. The cabin of each warship has a sky shaking trumpet sound. As soon as there are more warships, this sea area is connected with the trumpet sound except the beating sound of oars.

On the sea, even if we can see each other, we can't get close to each other in a short time. The side with the current or the wind will move faster, and the side with the countercurrent and the wind will move slowly.

Does the sea say downstream or upstream? The water flow is not only in the inland river system, but also in the sea. The flow direction of sea water is an ocean current, which is thousands of times more complex than that of inland rivers. The sea and inland rivers have one thing in common, that is, there are vortices, but the vortices on the sea are definitely more, bigger and more dangerous than inland rivers.

Huan Wen, who was still at the top of the mountain, naturally found the arrival of his own fleet. He found that the enemy landing did not withdraw the warship. He knew that the war strategy was already working, but he had no idea of driving the enemy into the sea that night.

Night combat is really not a simple thing. In the era of lack of real-time and remote communication ability, the loss of any night combat, even if it is to win, is absolutely small. Unless there is no choice, no general will carry out large-scale night combat. Even if there is a night combat, it is also to attack and harass the enemy with a small group of troops.

When it comes to night warfare, even during the Second World War, countries that can avoid night warfare will never engage in large-scale warfare under the night, on the grounds that there will still be a large number of accidental injuries. The prevalence of night warfare is the sharp knife warfare of special forces. Executable special forces use the night to infiltrate and attack, and their own number is not much.

Of course, Huan Wen will not let the enemy who has landed through the night safely. His choice is to send a capable team to attack and harass. The bow and crossbow troops use the terrain advantage to cover each area from time to time.

A San Yang has always been a San's sea, but they are not familiar with the land around the sea area. A San who came to attack has consulted in advance, but the data is extremely limited. They could not effectively reconnoiter after the arrival of the Han Army and the transformation of the terrain. In fact, it was an unknown state for this coastal terrain. Even if they didn't cherish the lives of the Dalits and wanted to fight at night, they really didn't know which side to break through.

After landing, the Gupta troops only pushed inland for about three miles. Naturally, the front is in the war zone or a fan-shaped war zone. The middle position in the rear is stepping up the construction of camps, but the beach is the most crowded position.

"The mountain in the Northeast has been shooting arrows, and our soldiers can't fight back."

In every war, there will be a battle for the highlands. The enemy will be condescending, which will not only have a panoramic view of their own layout, but also increase the range of the enemy's long-range attack weapons.

Now the landing troops of Gupta encounter disgusting things. The bow and crossbow troops of the Han Army in the high place recklessly come to cover it several times from time to time. The Gupta archers in the low place can't reach even if the bowstring is not wet.

The whole front didn't stop with the nightfall. The long-range arms of both sides shot arrows at each other. As a defender, Gupta also encountered a sneak attack by a small group of Han troops, which made the defensive Gupta constantly surprised. His body was very tired and his spirit was extremely tired.

On land, harassment warfare is the main form, and major changes are also rising with the sunrise of a new day. The source is a landing war, but there will be no small movement on the sea.

"The fleet must be pulled to the sea!" Katluk KAP, as a Brahman, is not a dung making machine. On the contrary, it is precisely because the Brahman has received elite education: "the fleet with activity space is an effective fleet, and the fleet besieged in the port only exists!"

How else can we say that the Gupta navy was strong? Not only do they have a large number of ships, but also because they have accumulated a lot of experience in their long-term actions at sea. There may be no systematic theory of "existence fleet", but the relevant cognition is known.

"Yes, yes." Zanpt Warren was definitely not flattering and said with great approval: "as long as we can defeat the navy of the Han Empire, the landing can still continue. Once we can't defeat them, the successful landing will also fail."

At present, the Central Plains Dynasty has never fought a sea war at all, but the civilizations of Central Asia and Europe have had quite a number of sea wars, including sea crossing and landing wars.

The Gupta Dynasty was built on the ruins of the kusana empire. It not only received many heritages of the kusana Empire, but also absorbed many Dayue people. The most important thing is that the sea trade between the Gupta Dynasty and Rome is very popular. It really absorbs nutrition from Rome. It is no stranger to the war cases in the Mediterranean region.

The key to cross sea landing operations is really not the army, but whether the navy can control the sea. The offensive side's control of the sea can not only continuously send troops to the land, but also ensure the follow-up supplies. The defensive side controls the sea. No matter how many troops are sent to the land in the direction of attack, it is sending heads.

The tempo of naval engagement is no better than that of land engagement. The fault tolerance rate of fleet engagement is definitely lower than that of land engagement, which is the different consequences of the tools relied on by both belligerents.

At night, the fleets of two different camps are staring at each other's lights. The waves in the coastal area are not high. In addition, there is no strong wind at present, and the warships sailing on the sea actually have no big bumps, so that each other can see each other's lights clearly.

"We dare not put out the lights for fear of a collision between warships, and so do they." Fu Wei also made a considerable judgment on the number of warships in Gupta by means of warship lights: "the number of each other is more than us. If it is not necessary, we must master the fighting distance."

Fu Wei took fifty-eight crossbow ships and thirty spears as troops to fight in advance, and the distance between the crossbow ships and Spears was widened. Under his command, fifty-eight crossbow ships were divided into two formations, all in a "t" formation, while Pangpang was scattered around the crossbow formation.

The bed crossbow layout of Han warships is similar to that of modern battleships. The maximum firepower can be exerted only when they are lined up against the enemy. The "t" formation can give full play to the side firepower. Basically, the "t" formation is used in both the pre battleship era and the fearless ship era.

By the way, although the Han Dynasty already had bronze guns, they were not used in naval warships. In addition to the serious "division" of bronze guns by the army, it was also related to the fact that the Navy did not have warships that could give full play to the power of bronze guns.

If the Navy wants to use guns, the first thing is that the hull can withstand the earthquake force, and the tonnage must be enough. Later, it is about the layout of gun positions.

Liu Yan has ordered shipyards to study warships that can deploy bronze guns. He himself also gave an idea, that is, to give the design sketch of Galen's ship.

The Han Navy could not get warships (non system) equipped with bronze guns in a short time. It is estimated that it will take three years or even longer. After all, a new thing needs to be verified again and again, especially sea ships. It needs to accumulate experience in verification before there can be a finished product, and this finished product even needs to be improved again and again.

"Launch!"

Because there are light sources on the warships, we can judge the distance between the two sides, and there are not many obstacles to finding the target. After the enemy warships enter their own range, the warships of the Han Army continue to launch bed crossbows, and the crossbow soldiers holding powerful crossbows are also launched. In an instant, there is a picture of "meteor shower" on the sea surface.

At this time, when a sea battle is far away, it is to shoot with an arrow, which is usually difficult to cause fatal damage to the warship. It is mainly to kill and kill the other party's crew, and then the rocket may ignite the enemy warship.

After the "meteor shower" on the sea was staged again, the sky in the sea area continued to shoot rockets back and forth. For a time, it was bright, so that both sides could see clearly what the style of each other's warships was.

The Gupta Dynasty was a maritime power, but their warships did not break through the shackles of this era. For example, the layout of bed crossbows was different from that of Han warships arranged at the bow, stern and both sides. Basically, they were placed wherever the space was large, usually at the bow.

Because of the layout of bed crossbows, the Gupta dynasty did not arrange a one-line battle line, but adopted the way of bow against the enemy. The whole fleet seemed to use the traditional triangular charge array, placing the largest warship in the triangular front position, resulting in more intensive fire gathering.

They all use paddle power. The speed gap of large warships is not too large. As long as they deliberately open the distance, it is undoubtedly very difficult for large ships to rush to the other side for side to side jump. At this time, the flexible fighting boat (艨 艟) has the opportunity to show its skills.

When the two sides began to use long-range weapons to shoot at each other, the commanders of the two fleets issued the command of charging at almost the same time. It can be seen that while the large warships fought hard to shoot at each other, the smaller warships rushed up at the speed of paddles.

"Bed crossbow changes the target!"

The same order was issued on different warships of the two camps. Whether it was a boat or a boat, it was aimed at hitting the hull of the enemy ship below the horizontal plane. If it was hit, there would be a hole. At that time, the sea water must be poured in. If it was not blocked in time, it would wait for the ship to tilt and sink.

When the bed crossbow hits the warship, it will break the hull and drill large holes, but it usually does not cause fatal damage, but it is different if they can hit the much smaller shell or warship. The powerful penetrating force will inevitably break the top layer, give heavy casualties to the soldiers above, and even penetrate the bottom of the ship.

When the two sides sent ships or battleships aimed at colliding with enemy ships, they both made the same move, that is, they began to change the bow and wanted to open the distance between each other. For a time, both sides gave up attacking large ships in each other's fleet and used all long-range attacks against ships and battleships.

The new fierce battle on the sea has attracted the attention of everyone on the battlefield. Central and South Asian countries, who are here to be a "crowd of onlookers", will certainly not give up the opportunity to watch the war nearby. It is more clear that tonight's naval battle is just an appetizer.