Sweep the World

The waves above the sea are still the same, but the Pingman Captain's Department has completely changed after months of development.

　　 The original Pingman School Lieutenant Department only opened up an open area along the coast. Although there were buildings, there were not too many buildings. It was more of a temporary military account.

At this moment, the military port has begun to show its scale. The berths in the port are docked in rows of warships, and the outer sea is also the shadow of the sails. Looking at the various types of ships, there will be no more than two hundred; the land is more extensive. Tens of miles deep inland, the original virgin jungle became a complex of buildings, and the sound of training on the wide school grounds everywhere, and the figures of sergeants and sailors on various roads can be seen everywhere.

The air in this place is humid and the rainfall is frequent. The Han army used to build many houses with bamboo arrangement as the main body. They are usually supported by large wood and leave a space at the base of the house. The first floor is basically not inhabited, but only on the second floor. The above is to settle down.

"Gupuo gathers warships and wants to compete with the big man?" It has been more than two months since Huan Wen arrived in Pingman's captain's department. Of course, he became the highest commander of the Han army in this area: "Now, I am happy to see the results. Things."

　　 There are quite a lot of intentions for the house to leave an empty layer. If there is a lot of rain, it will form a watery area. If you don’t want water in the house, you can’t build a house like in the Central Plains. Furthermore, there are too many insects and snakes in this place, and the air barrier also plays a protective role.

　　 Han Guoxin occupies the land, and in a short time it cannot be built according to the customs of the Central Plains. The only way to renovate this place is to at least not have so many insects and snakes before the Central Plains buildings will be built.

Human beings are extremely destructive creatures. As long as there are enough people to live in, it will inevitably change the appearance of the local area. It is not only the transformation of the natural landscape. In fact, all kinds of creatures that humans think are harmful are also forced to migrate. Or be killed.

Before 　　 Huan Wen came, it was Li Mai who replaced Fu Wei to conduct a naval attack against the Gupta dynasty.

Li Mai was originally one of the high-ranking navy officials of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He returned to Han during the Battle of Ruyin. Later he participated in the battle of the Han army against the small court to destroy the country. Lang Jiang.

　　The naval attack of the Han Dynasty against the Gupta Dynasty began with the arrival of the fleet led by Fu Wei. In the beginning, only a dozen warships cruised in the waters of the Bay of Bengal in Asanyang, waiting for Li Mai to bring a second fleet before launching a raid on the entire Asanyang.

　　The attack on the Gupta dynasty was naturally not a small blow, but it was impossible to completely block the foreign maritime trade of the Gupta dynasty. It was just that with the increase of Han warships, the Gupta dynasty was not far from the complete interruption of maritime trade.

In order not to make the Han navy run wild, it is also necessary to ensure the sea trade channel. Although the Gupta dynasty is really unwilling to engage in an inexplicable war, they did not sit there. They mobilized their navy to launch a counterattack against the Han navy. Also launched sea clashes many times.

　　 The Gupta dynasty was unwilling to go to war. It was an upper-level thinking. They could not see the benefits of war. They wanted to stop the war through communication, but they were not stupid enough to only be beaten without counterattack.

　　 The Gupta navy that has gathered to the coast of Cuttack has been increasing. They have also organized multiple **** formations to **** merchant ships, which has repeatedly expanded the scale of the sea confrontation. The largest battleship between the two sides has exceeded a hundred ships.

　　 During the Battle of the Hundred Ships, the commander on the Han side was Fu Wei, and the commander of the Gupta dynasty was a high caste noble named Gawara Kunal Jeding.

　　 The Battle of Hundred Boats only fought for an afternoon, ending with Fu Wei's order to evacuate. In this battle, 16 ships were sunk in the Han Dynasty and 17 ships were sunk in various battles. Both warships on both sides were damaged. It might be that Fu Wei chose to retreat because there were new reinforcements behind Gupta.

　　 "We already know the pattern of Gupta's naval warships." Huan Wen was somewhat excited: "Their largest warship is bigger than ours, but overall it is our warship that has more advantages."

It’s not a lie. A very large warship appeared in the Gupta Dynasty. The length should be close to 100 meters and the width should be about 40 meters. The draft is unknown, and the height of the hull is unknown. At eight or nine meters, such a ship on the sea looks like a big mountain.

The largest warship on the Han side is 76 meters in length, 17 meters in width, and 7 meters in draft. Not counting the mast, the maximum height of the horizontal building is 6 meters. It is really smaller than the large ship that has been discovered. few.

However, there were not many warships of the Gupta dynasty that were more than 30 meters in length. They were basically about 20 meters in length and 5 to 6 meters in width. Smaller ones can only be considered as combat ships.

　　According to the intelligence spying on the Han country, the Gupta dynasty's fleet is being formed. That huge ship is attached to eight large ships of sixty meters in length, and the rest are warships less than thirty meters in length.

　　The warships on the Han side, the standard crossbow ships are generally 30 meters in length and 8 meters in width, and the number of warships that mimic the system is the largest. What follows is a warship that uses collision as its tactics, and the rest can only be regarded as warships.

The 　　艨艟 warship is twelve meters in length and four meters in width. It has a special angle at the bow, but it is not equipped with a bed crossbow. They were actually the capital ships of the inland water forces in the past, and they were often driven by the power of human-powered oars. If the enemy ship hits a big hole, it should be reversed and evacuated.

　　 The current naval warships are not calculated by tonnage. They are based on the size of the warship. It must also include the defensive power, speed, and carrying capacity to distinguish whether the warship is strong enough.

　　In terms of warships, what Huanwen has learned is that the Gupta Dynasty has many warships that can be called sea monsters, but most of them are inferior to their own in terms of hull size.

"They also equipped the bed crossbow on the warship." Li Mai himself was on the front line many times. He was in charge of commanding the navy during this invasion, and he must not have a little knowledge of the enemy: "In terms of detecting the situation, the equipment There are still quite a few enemy ships in the bed crossbow."

　　 Huan Wen came here to preside over the invasion of the Gupta Dynasty. Although he has the authority of the highest commander, he will step into the territory of the enemy country after the landing, and the sea fleet will still be under the command of Li Mai.

　　 The army of the Han Kingdom wanted to land on the coast of the Gupta Dynasty to invade, of course, it would have to happen after obtaining dominance of the sea.

Cross-sea warfare is really not easy, especially when fighting tens of thousands of miles away from the mainland. The land on which you land is the enemy country. From the beginning, you are deeply trapped in the enemy's territory to fight. Retreat can only withdraw to the coastline. Then the control of the sea must be in your hands, otherwise you will not only feel uneasy, the loss of the control of the sea will also be tantamount to abandoning the landing forces to death.

"In terms of quantity, Gupta has gathered nearly 600 large and small warships." Li Mai took the lead towards the military map hanging on the wall and pointed to the position of Cutak: "The enemy warships mainly gather here, and more than half of the ships are civilian. Changed to military use. At present, the number of enemy ships is still increasing."

For now, the boundary between military and civilian use on ships is not obvious. It is nothing more than whether the people who use the ships are military or civilians. All because they have not yet entered the era of artillery, except for long-range cold weapons. In addition, it is to carry out the side battle after the collision (also called the jump-to-gang battle).

In fact, even in the era when artillery dominates the victory and defeat, many civilian merchant ships undergo modification and can be equipped with artillery to become a warship. That is, the hull of a civilian merchant ship is not as strong as a military warship at the beginning of its construction. Not for real military use. After the actual launch of the mutual firing, the warships modified by the civilian merchant ships cannot be compared with the real military warships in terms of the number of artillery and the firmness of the hull.

The era of the distinction between military and civilian use was when large naval guns came into play. It was battleships equipped with large-caliber naval guns. Naval guns equipped with protective armor usually had a solid base, and the base had to be able to rotate. . In such an era of huge ships and artillery, military warships and civilian ships are incompatible in the hull structure at the beginning, not to mention the protection against beatings, the layout of the firepower, the reinforcement of armor, and the speed of the civil ships. The construction period and cost of the ship might as well step up the construction of real warships.

　　 It has always been necessary until the aircraft carrier appears before the transformation of the civil cruise ship will be played again. It is just that the aircraft carrier transformed by the civil cruise ship really has no stage. Anyway, there will never be any such transformation of the aircraft carrier in the battle of the large fleet. The aircraft carrier transformed by civilian cruise ships is definitely not as good as the real aircraft carrier in terms of carrier-borne aircraft capacity, tonnage, and speed. It is impossible for an entire combat formation to deliberately slow down after entering a combat state. Therefore, the transformation of aircraft carriers by civilian cruise ships is generally used for **** and some raid warfare. (You can refer to the relevant deployments in the Battle of the United Kingdom and the United States)

The 　　 Gupta Dynasty is a country with extremely developed maritime trade. They have a navy of about 300 ships all year round. Originating from the prosperity of the sea trade of the Gupta Dynasty, the number of ships owned by the people of them will not be too small. In normal proportions, the number of Gupta civilian ships must be more than twenty times the total tonnage of navy-owned warships. (Refer to the proportion of maritime powers in the Middle Ages)

　　 "In other words, when waiting for the enemy to start a decisive battle, their ships will not be less than a thousand?"

　　 "I think it will reach more than 1,500 ships."

　　 The Central Plains Dynasty has not been a maritime power for a long time. In fact, it is in the preliminary stage of exploring the navy. In the past, when calculating warships, they were counted as warships in inland rivers. The few Yangtze River wars have history. The largest is the Battle of Chibi. Let alone the trilateral army, there are no more than a thousand warships.

Every warship that can participate in naval battles must be able to withstand the test of the waves, which means that the warship is small and not so small. Huan Wen is already imagining the spread of 1,500 warships. , In my mind are the overlapping shadows of ships, and the descriptive words that come to mind are the four words "overwhelming".

　　 The Han government sent spies to the Gupta Dynasty to collect intelligence. The naval collection of the Gupta Dynasty was a collection of on-road spies and naval ships. There are bound to be unknown data, but it can also be used as the greatest reference.

　　 "As for Gupta's land force, what we currently have is that they will not be less than 400,000. They are roughly divided into various infantry, and cavalry is divided into war horse cavalry and war elephant cavalry. In addition, the enemy is still equipped with a large number of chariots."

The infantry of the 　　 Gupta Dynasty still has a relatively strict level. The unarmored infantry accounted for the absolute majority, and there were two types of melee light infantry and archers. Among them, the archer was definitely a major feature. Their armored infantry is a gathering of Kshatriya warriors, and is equipped with the elite personal armed forces of each Kshatriya, which is the so-called noble force.

It is said that the archers of the Gupta dynasty have their own characteristics. It depends on the local environmental factors to bring the distinctive local characteristics to the bows and arrows. Their bows are long bows made of metal or bamboo, and the arrows are long bamboo poles. On the metal head, the metal longbow is the strongest. The Asan longbow is different from Western or Central Asian compound bows. The latter is prone to warp in a humid environment. Because of the climate, the Asan longbow is known as a weapon with a long range and strong penetrating power. Can also fight against horseback archers.

Regarding the archers of the Gupta dynasty, the Han army has a full understanding here. It is that the two sides often shoot each other when fighting at sea. The Han army is a little surprised by the range of the Gupta archers. They have also studied the Gupta army. Arrow structure.

　　Of course, there are archers in the Han army, which are divided into step archers and horse archers. The standard bow of a step archer is actually a hard bow. Of course, horse archers use bows, which are divided into longbows and horn bows. The farthest range of the longbow is 200 meters~www.wuxiamtl.com~ The farthest range of the hornbow is only 70 meters.

　　 The Han army would be surprised by the Gupta archers. They found that the Gupta archers can shoot arrows at a distance of three hundred meters, even after three hundred meters, they still have a strong penetrating power.

　　 "With a standing army of 400,000, entering a state of war will inevitably be more."

　　 Huanwen’s land force is only two standing armies, and the total land force is only 70,000 if he counts the attached servants. Before he came, he didn’t quite understand why Liu Yan said that the Gupta dynasty could not be eliminated at one time. What Liu Yan wanted was to hurt the Gupta dynasty all at once, and used powerful force to make the Gupta dynasty yield and obtain what he wanted politically. blackmail.

To say that Huan Wen had the idea of ​​annihilating the Gupta dynasty at once, learned the current strength of the Gupta dynasty, and then estimated its war potential, and intellectually understood that there was really no hope for the extinction of the country in World War I. Next, he should think. How to fight the Gupta dynasty, the more painful it can be to fight the Gupta dynasty, and the political negotiations after the military contest can be better blackmailed.

　　 "The first battle is the victory or defeat at sea." Huan Wen narrowed his eyes, as if thinking for a moment, before looking at Li Mai: "If the man invites Asan for a hunt, can Lang Jiang be confident?"

　　 Li Mai must ask clearly: "With the current three hundred warships, and the enemy's 1,000 warships, will they be able to hunt?"

　　 Huan Wen made a dumb gesture, and said in a magnificent manner: "Warship? The big man will be short of warships?!"

　　 Li Mai also thought about it. Which of the Beiyang Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet had fewer than a thousand warships, he had concerns about when the subsequent warships would arrive.