Chapter 747

Today is a cloudless day, but the wind is a little small, which makes the speed of the ship slow.

Today's ships in any country, no matter what purpose they are, actually retain the design driven by oars, and do not completely rely on sails as navigation power.

It didn't enter the combat state before, even if the wind force was small, but after the fleet entered the combat state, the window of the oar area was opened, and the thick oars stretched out of the hull for standby.

The side responsible for commanding the attack of Gupta was set up in the port 80 miles away from the pingman Colonel's headquarters. Like Li Mai, he was a subordinate minister after the demise of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was once the commander of the Yangtze River navy of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and served as the important task of commanding the Yangtze River navy to prevent the Han army from crossing the river.

Wang niches were idle for a long time after the surrender. They were not opened until the end of the seventh year of the Yuan Dynasty. At first, they were still serving in the Yangtze River Navy. Later, the Han Dynasty increased its efforts to develop the sea and started the war against the Gupta Dynasty. Only then did they be transferred to the rising sea (South 1 sea) for service.

The rising sea is a very important area for the Han country. It is also one of the most prosperous sea areas for navigation. The reason is that it is not developed from land to Indochina Peninsula, and taking sea to Indochina Peninsula has become the best choice. Moreover, the islands found around the rising sea are basically rich in resources. Even if there are no luxuries such as spices, fragrant wood, emeralds and gemstones, some savages can catch them.

The demand for slaves in the Han Dynasty is a bottomless pit. The military merit Baron system itself desperately needs slaves to reward meritorious nobles. If you want to support the military merit Baron system from collapsing, you should not only have enough land, but also manage enough slaves. Liu Yan could not completely abolish the Han people as slaves, but could only arrest the alien to the greatest extent.

In addition to the demand for slaves by the military barons, national construction is also in urgent need of slaves. For example, the most dangerous thing is to basically use slaves to open mountains for mining and road construction.

During the period of sweeping the eight wastelands and six harmonies, the state of Han obtained a considerable number of prisoners of war, destroyed Koguryo, Baiji and Silla, and obtained a large number of slaves, which not only supported the foundation of military merit, but also provided sufficient cheap labor for national construction. However, the more labor force is the better at any time. The Indochina Peninsula continues to catch savages, and the islands have not stopped catching savages.

At the beginning, the war against the Gupta Dynasty was to obtain food, but the war was not as smooth as expected, but at least the Han people knew more about the Gupta Dynasty.

At the beginning, the war was for food. Later, it was found that the Gupta Dynasty was a country with a population of 20 to 30 million. The Han people instantly found an unparalleled treasure. It goes without saying that defeating the Gupta Dynasty can obtain food. It can also seize land suitable for farming. In the process, there are war Booties such as gold and beauty, The most important thing is the population of twenty or thirty million!

The Eastern Han Dynasty was a dynasty with a very serious phenomenon of slavery. The Three Kingdoms and the two Jin dynasties also left the habit of slavery. After the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was destroyed, all aristocratic families and giants were forced to dissolve slaves, and later evolved into slaves of the liberated Han people all over the country. However, they found that there would be no problem in enslaving foreigners. They were idiots if they didn't know what to do.

The first thing that the Han state wants to have slaves is the title. War is the best way to get the title. The northerners enthusiastically go to the western regions, and the southerners have enjoyed the sweetness from the Indochina Peninsula.

War is the way to get everything. Even if you can't have slaves beyond the identity limit, you can sell money when you catch them. Then the Gupta Dynasty can bring benefits in any way. Of course, it should do him!

Wang niches were used to surrender ministers. More than anyone else, he cherished the opportunity to lead the army. He had repeatedly communicated with Li Mai before and knew what this war meant for them.

With a fleet of 850 ships, not all the niches are gathered together and pressed into the enemy's port. Such a small sea area, especially approaching from the sea to the land, is the correct formation.

In the face of the great naval stock of the Han Dynasty, Gupta was not discovered until the Chinese Navy had arrived at the port. It was just like the Han side who would arrange ships and send people to hide on the land as eye liner surveillance. Although the Gupta Dynasty people were a third, they were not stupid enough to forget the necessary surveillance of the school.

The Gupta Dynasty not only attached great importance to the pingman army, but also did not ignore the Han base behind the pingman army. Even the surveillance of Malacca has not been relaxed.

The Chinese navy has gathered at least 800 warships of various sizes from the mainland to the assan ocean. The Gupta Dynasty has collected a lot of information.

It's no wonder that the Gupta Dynasty calculated the wrong number of the Han Navy without making efforts to investigate. They really can't believe that the Han state can build warships wantonly along the coast of assayang. Even if they think of building warships wantonly, they always need someone to operate the warships, right? How could I know that Liu Yan has such a big cheating device!

Before the discovery of the massive deployment of the Han Navy, the Gupta commanders in the frontier military port had responded. The ships that could move in the port basically made supplies and left the port quickly, and the military port also began to prepare for the invasion.

"The number of warships in the Han Empire is different from what we guessed."

Gavara Kangding Warren is the commander in chief of the front line of the Gupta Dynasty. He and zanpute Warren was born in the south of the Gupta Dynasty, but although they were all surnamed Warren, they were not born in the same family, and zanpute Warren is just a sardili, but he is a Brahman.

So far, the Gupta Dynasty is still unable to judge how many warships the Han state sent out, which has nothing to do with whether they have enough investigation strength. It is purely a sea warship, which is not as good as the army on land.

If there are more than a certain number of ships at sea, it is impossible to stop at the same time. If there are warships resting in the military port, there must be warships sailing at sea. The sea is so large that there is no highland that can be seen from high to low. Unless the spies can get the information that the other party's commander can see, they can only rely on guesswork.

Not only did the Gupta Dynasty guess the number of warships of the Han Dynasty, but actually the Han Dynasty also guessed the number of warships of the Gupta Dynasty. Only the core senior management of both sides have clear data on how many warships can participate in the war.

"The number of warships of all sizes coming straight from the enemy to our side is far more than 500, more than twice as many as ours!" Gavara Kangding Warren said sternly, "the military strength of the Han Empire is far stronger than we guessed!"

There are a lot of nobles named gavara in ah San's side. The basic reason why there can be "middle order" in their surnames is that some ancestors who have done great things.

A San is the same solidification as the European society. To put it bluntly, the dragon begets the dragon, the Phoenix begets the Phoenix, and the child born of a mouse can make a hole. From the moment of birth, it determines the trajectory of life. If people try hard, they can't change their destiny without luck.

A San's current caste system has not been corrupted. Although the class is fixed, the high-level education has not been relaxed at all. For example, Brahmans accept management and shatili learn how to fight, gawara Kangding Even if Warren is a Brahman's straw bag, he will still have the basic literacy.

In the face of the sudden big move from the Han side, gavara Kangding Warren didn't panic. The reason may be a little funny. The first is that ah San fought with each other, even if he was defeated, his life safety can be guaranteed. The second is that the first batch of ah San nobles who were defeated and captured have been determined to redeem from the Han state, so they are not so afraid of defeat.

"The warships of the Han Empire are very sharp, but their tactics are very rigid." Salar Sakuman can speak. Looking at some class characteristics of ah San, it is obvious that he is a shatili: "from the past examples of war, we do not have the strength to compete with it."

Salar Sakuman seems to be right. The Gupta Dynasty often plays less and more, and can also play well when the Han navy has a quantitative advantage.

The Gupta Dynasty had a direct impression of the Han Navy. It believed that the Han Navy only took advantage of the sharp warships. If the warships of both sides were the same, they should teach the Han Army how to be a man. This impression is that with the recent improvement of some newly built warships of the Gupta Dynasty from the warships of the Han Dynasty, they can still win the war with a small number of warships and gain self-confidence.

"We have 37 new warships, one of which can contain two or three of the Han Empire. The personnel quality of the remaining warships should be better than that of the Han people." Salar Sakuman said firmly, pausing for a little while and then said, "they must be approaching to land and divide enough warships."

Of course, the fleet aiming at landing operations needs to be divided. The generals of the Gupta Dynasty have not guessed the number of fleets led by the throne niche, but they are very clear that they will not concentrate all warships for sea operations at all.

As the generals of the Gupta Dynasty guessed, the navy of the Han Dynasty was divided into two parts after it was close enough. One part naturally jumped at the enemy at sea, and the other was stopped outside the coast to prepare for landing operations.

"Prepare the fleet for landing." Wang niche is not talking nonsense. It must be that there will be landing operations only when there is a result of sea confrontation, or he will send people ashore to die. He has been looking at the Gupta Navy not far away through a telescope, roughly guessing the number of enemy warships, and observing the formation of the enemy: "today's wind is too small, but we should pay attention to the change of wind direction at any time, and use it in time once the climate changes."

What the Gupta Navy above the sea is doing is arranging a vertical formation, one by one. Each team is in a straight line, with the ship body facing the Han Navy laterally.

Wang niches are no stranger to that formation. The bed crossbows of the warships of the Han Dynasty are arranged at the bow, stern and both sides of the ship body, which can give full play to their maximum power. He knew that the side of the Gupta Dynasty immediately learned from the advantages of the bed crossbow layout scheme, and the large-scale long-range weapons also adopted the same modification, so naturally, the ship body should face the enemy horizontally.

Because the wind force is small, it is not necessary to seize the limelight and use the wind force. Ships will not sail at all under this wind, so that a large number of Gupta warships keep their formation relatively calm.

In fact, if it is not necessary, ships in naval warfare will not lift their sails at all, or they will increase the hit surface. Once the sails are ignited by rockets, it is still a very bad thing, and it is likely to evolve into a fire of the whole ship.

In the past naval battles, the Han side also found a secret of the Gupta Dynasty, that is, some of the sails of Gupta warships were hit by rockets and did not catch fire. The Han Army captured the ship whose sails would not catch fire. After research, it was concluded that ah San used huohuanbu as the sails.

The legend of huohuanbu existed in the Western Han Dynasty. It is an "artifact" that is not afraid of fire at all. If anyone has a huohuanbu that can be used as a family heirloom, the Han people are full of sadness and envy. Ah San was used as a sail, which is unforgivable.

The sound of the oars beating the sea resounded through the columns of the Han Navy. It was Wang niche who ordered the fleet to launch an attack formation.

Looking down from a high altitude, the oars of a vast number of warships surged. One took the lead, and soon there was a large string of attendants behind his ass. after one team after another became a formation, it seemed that many long snakes were swimming on the sea.

When the warships of the Han Dynasty took action, Gupta's warships naturally wouldn't stop in place. On the sea, there was a movement of oars beating on the sea. Both sides shouted in neat but different languages. The sound was so loud that it not only swept the sea, but also startled a group of birds in the dense forest along the coast.

"Ready!"

Different languages have the same meaning. As the warships of the enemy and our sides get closer and closer, soldiers operating long-range attack weapons launch weapons at any time under the reminder of officers.

It was the Han Army that first roared the word "Fang" and became a long snake. After the moan of bowstring and machinery, a thick crossbow with grease burning at the arrowhead burst out. They roared in the process of flying, and most of them fell into the sea, A few hit the warship, and the sharp arrowheads collided with the wood.

The Han people's bed crossbow is undoubtedly farther in range than a San's bed crossbow. Naturally, the Han people's long-range attack weapons take the lead. As a result, the Gupta Navy often fights with the Han Navy, even if it seizes the favorable wind in advance, but the Gupta warships are always forced to shorten the distance between the Han warships.

At this moment, Gupta's fleet is clearly the first to set up the formation, but it is because the range of long-range weapons is not as good as people. As usual, after the Han warships are fired, they prevent the Han warships from "flying kites" and drive them to try their best to paddle the oars to close the distance