The struggle of the reborn prince

Misuti, governor of the Bossaro province of the Seljuk Empire, did not pay attention to him at first when he learned that there was an army that captured the country of Shi. When you go north along the waterway of the Persian Gulf, you can't ignore it.So people were ordered to track down the whereabouts of this fleet, but they disappeared as if they had suddenly evaporated, until someone reported their appearance in the waters outside the mouth of the Arabian River a few days ago.

Misuti immediately realized that the enemy army wanted to go north along the river mouth, and aimed directly at his own city of Bossaro.He immediately reorganized the army, recruited slave soldiers, led [-] large and small warships down the south, and ordered the navy stationed in the Persian Gulf of Umm Qasar Port to rush to join the battle.After receiving the order, the Persian Gulf Navy brought together [-] warships, large and small, to meet up. The combined force of the two armies reached more than [-].

Misutti commanded two ships to line up to form a wide front to search southward. Among them were not only single-decked galleys for reconnaissance and quick assaults, but also double-decker galleys as the main battleship.It is also equipped with a taller three-story galley, which will build platforms at the bow, stern and the center of the hull, which can be used as a platform for archers and trebuchets to make long-range attacks on enemy ships and crew.

When the sun rose high and cleared the haze on the sea, the two sides found each other almost at the same time. Misuti immediately ordered the whole army to approach the enemy quickly, but found that although the enemy had hundreds of warships, they did not Dare not to fight with them, but pulled the anchor and turned the rudder and fled south. He hurriedly ordered the huge fleet to catch up with them. The two fleets sailed against the wind and entered the sea off the Persian Gulf.

Misutti saw the enemy's constant change of course, trying to get rid of his own fleet.But in the panic, he seemed to be in a mess, and he lost his way in broad daylight.The course turned northwest and plunged into the Abdullah Channel.Misutti was very happy, he knew that it was not leading to the vast open sea.Instead, he entered a maze, in which small islands were densely covered, and the waterways were complicated and would run aground if not handled properly.However, it was difficult for the large warships to turn in it, and their speed decreased, and they would catch up in a short time, so he ordered the fleet to shrink and form a tighter formation to follow into the waterway.

Sure enough, the tall enemy warships began to slow down, and the narrow channel between the two islands entered the Saibiye Waterway.But ahead, the crescent-shaped Wolby Island lay across the channel.It forced them to readjust their formation and enter the strait in a single file.This is the best time to attack. Misuti hurriedly ordered his warships to catch up quickly, but the huge fleet of the Seljuk Navy was also blocked by the small island. Although their ships were long and narrow and flexible, because of the large number of warships It can only be divided into two roads and bypassed from both sides of the island.

The strait is only about one mile wide and three miles long.The sudden diversion disrupted the formation of the neatly arranged Seljuk fleet. Everyone rushed into the waterway, and the narrow strait was crowded with warships for a while.Since each warship of the Seljuk Navy installed very long wooden paddles, it made the ships more crowded.Boats bumped oars and elbowed each other, adding to the chaos.When the vanguard fleet finally sailed out of the strait and entered the slightly wider Saibiye waterway, they suddenly found that the enemy fleet was right in front of them.More than a dozen warships lined up head to tail in a horizontal line, blocking the waterway.

The most important tactic of the Seljuk naval warships was to force the enemy ships to stop.Then it's up to the marines to hook the enemy ship and get on board to attack.Now the enemy ship stopped by itself, providing them with the best opportunity.Don't wait for the Seljuk forward fleet to regroup.Before they even had time to prepare for the collision, they suddenly found that the side of the enemy warship suddenly flashed with flames. Amidst the loud bang, countless black iron balls roared and smashed into the chaotic fleet. The battle was here unexpectedly. The hour has begun.

Facing the roaring projectiles, the vanguard fleet was not timid. They played their flutes and drums at the same time, and launched an attack against the rain of bullets.But they soon realized that they had underestimated the power of the broadside guns of the Song Army, and found that this was not the trebuchet they had encountered before, which could only throw stones slowly and aimlessly.And the volley of hundreds of artillery guns of the enemy army in front of us is an insurmountable barrage, and its power is several times greater than that of the trebuchet. Sawdust flew, masts broke and oars broke.

The Seljuk Navy's vanguard fleet did nothing after an attack. It was impossible to break into the range of bows and arrows, or even the range of the trebuchet. After the board fell into the bilge, there was a violent explosion, which was unavoidable in the small cabin, and the casualties caused were not supplemented by the reserve paddlers.The soldiers on the top deck also suffered great losses. If the shotgun fired by the enemy ship happened to hit the front of the warship, it would often wipe out the soldiers on it. Block the flying fine projectiles.

As the loss increased, the vanguard fleet was no longer able to support and had to start to retreat, but the follow-up warships that had just circled around the island did not know the situation ahead. The forward fleet collided.Hundreds of Seljuk warships huddled together in a strait that was only two or three miles wide. Even the commander was unable to control the chaotic situation, and the follow-up warships in the strait were still pushing forward desperately, making the situation even more chaotic. ...

Misuti, who was still struggling in the middle of the strait, stood on the flagship and kept shouting loudly, wanting to understand the situation ahead and restore order to fight again, but all his efforts were in vain, everyone was like being squeezed into a narrow can Among them, it is difficult to turn over, and they will collide with each other when they move.However, the enemy army seemed to think that the scene was not lively enough. They did not know when they had sent troops to land on Volbay Island. They did not go to the sea to fight, but continued to use artillery to throw some porcelain bottles and cans into the strait.These flimsy jars immediately burst when they touched the warship, splashing out a dark viscous liquid with a pungent smell, but no one knew what it was.

At this moment, the Seljuk navy soldiers not only had to avoid the collisions of their colleagues, but also avoided the jars falling from the sky from time to time, and they were all very busy.I didn't bother to check the seemingly harmless liquid that flowed out for a while, but complained that I had to work hard to clean up the "black oil" that fell on the deck after returning home, and I was careful to be pierced by the broken ceramic tiles. Being able to let them flow around, of course, some unknown liquids will inevitably be stained on the personal body while avoiding walking, and more liquids pollute the battleship or flow into the sea water.

The sudden change of the plot is that someone suddenly discovered that after the "black oil" sticks to the sparks, a flame will soar into the sky and spread along the flowing traces.Being attacked by the enemy is nothing new, but the Seljuk navy soldiers found that today's fire, whether it is swat or splashed with sea water, these effective methods in the past cannot extinguish it today, especially splashing water Instead, it will spark a bigger flame.

There is no most unlucky, only more unlucky. Those who have been stained with black oil can hardly extinguish the flames on their bodies even if they jump into the sea. Some people even have no time to jump into the sea to be swallowed by the flames. Charcoal was silent.The wooden warship itself is easy to burn, and in order to prevent the erosion of seawater, it will be painted with paint to prevent corrosion, which will intensify the fire. The fire will inevitably spread, and the crowded ships are even more inevitable, like a The lit firecrackers were ignited one by one, and what was even more frightening was that a fire was also ignited on the sea stained with black oil.

"Greek fire..." Misutti was stunned by the unstoppable fire in front of him, which also made him suddenly think of this terrifying weapon.The Greeks once relied on it to defeat the invincible Persians and burned their huge fleet consisting of thousands of warships. The Persians called this terrifying flame that could not be extinguished by water the 'fire of hell'. A mysterious weapon that has disappeared for hundreds of years appeared here, and I was lucky enough to encounter it.

Seeing this "ultimate weapon" in naval warfare, Misuti, who was terrified, realized that the defeat was irretrievable, and ordered the fleet to retreat helplessly.However, it was not easy to exit the crowded strait. The surviving warships rushed east and west after receiving the order, but it was difficult to break out of the encirclement of their own people.

Misutti couldn't care less, and commanded the flagship to use its tall hull to ram and sink several warships of its own that were blocking the way, killing a bloody path, and then managed to escape out of the strait and away from the battlefield in embarrassment.At this moment, the setting sun was setting, and Misuti, who had escaped from the sky, did not feel the joy of escaping from death. He looked back at the strait, and the whole sky was reddened by the flames, thick smoke enveloped the entire battlefield, and the sea was covered with Dead bodies, broken planks and broken oars rushed out of the undercurrent.Witnessing the tragedy, he couldn't help crying bitterly, gathering the remnants who had escaped from the strait and heading east!

The fire in the strait burned for a whole night before it was gradually extinguished. A navy that had been running across the Persian Gulf for hundreds of years was turned into ashes and sank to the bottom of the sea.After a day of fighting, the Song army sank hundreds of enemy ships, burned more than 30 enemy ships, captured more than 40 enemy ships, and only more than [-] enemy ships escaped. The battleship was destroyed, and another brilliant record of the new warship was created again!

When the Song Fleet reappeared at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab River the next day, no one could stop them from entering. The fleet marched upstream in two columns, heading straight for Bossaro, the important town of the Seljuk Empire... …(to be continued..)