Sweep the World

Chahar, the southwestern part of the Sassanids is not the largest but the most prosperous seaport city before. At this moment, it is the dense smoke rising into the sky in the city.

Dense smoke is not cooking smoke, it is a fire caused by shelling, buildings or other objects being burned by fire.

The expeditionary fleet of the Han Empire has been on the coast of Chahar for two days, and on the first day it launched a fierce shelling, firing a total of more than two thousand shells from the main and secondary artillery.

Most of the shells fell on the residential areas. Nowadays, the buildings in the residential areas of most cities, including the streets, are not in order at all. Most of them are one building over there and one building here, and the clutter is even more messy. Stacked randomly. In the event of a fire, if you want to fight the fire, unless it is extinguished when the fire is too small, otherwise the probability of a large fire is infinitely high.

After the fire broke out, the people in the city did not try to fight the fire, but most of the passages were piled up with debris, or the residents were expanding indiscriminately, and Chahar did not have any fire-fighting trucks or water delivery except for the rich areas. The pipeline, relying on people to carry water buckets to fight fires is nothing but a car. The fire cannot be contained, and more and more buildings are ignited, forming a large sea of ​​flames.

In addition to the violent tilting artillery fire at the beginning, the Han army followed up with a round of artillery fire every hour. There is no fixed shelling area, and the whole city is often bombarded.

Under the irregular shelling, no one knew how to determine whether they were safe or not. Under the extreme insecurity, the citizens began to flee outside the city.

Felda Doa is the city lord of Chahar. He was actually mentally prepared for the Han fleet to come over. It cannot be said that no relevant measures have been taken, but he has not seen what gunboat bombardment looks like and cannot make targeted preparations. .

"Clear out a buffer zone on the edge of the fire." Fielda Doah was watching the distant sea of ​​fire with his own eyes: "There is no rescue there."

Chahar is a prosperous coastal city. In the current era, how prosperous it is to almost determine how chaotic the city is, especially in some slums.

It was a certain slum area that was confirmed to have been completely unsaved. The garrison in the city did not mobilize the waterwheel, but there was no way to get in. The fire that could be saved was seen spreading, and the waterwheel was added. If you don't go, it's a horrible situation that you don't even need to save it.

To say which area of ​​each city will have the most people, it will undoubtedly be a trading zone and a slum area.

Felda Doah asked the patrol officer specifically how many people there were in the area that had fallen into the sea of ​​flames, and the answer was that there would be no less than two thousand people.

Before the fire spread completely, some people wisely chose to stay away as soon as possible. It is just that more people are trying to fight the fire uselessly. About a hundred people who fled out of the two thousand residents were women and children. Most, the rest of the people will be caught in the fire no matter how they look.

It’s not just that there is a fire scene that doesn’t seem to have been saved. If you look at the entire slum area, there will be fires everywhere. It’s just that the slum area is large enough to form separate fire scenes one after another, trapped in the fire scene. There are definitely no fewer than 20,000 people, accounting for about four to five tenths of the population of the Chahar slum.

It is not only the slum areas that are burning big fires. If calculated as a percentage, at least 25% of the entire city has fallen into flames. The slum areas and stockpiling areas are the most serious fires.

Of course, the wealthy area has also been shelled by the gunboats of the Han Empire. It is only because of the wide passages in the wealthy area, and there are more waterwheels in peacetime. In addition, the wealthy area itself has convenient water fetching facilities, which are found in some places. After the fire was extinguished in time, it did not cause more serious disasters.

The City Lord’s Mansion is built in the highest place in the city. It looks conspicuous enough, but it has not encountered too many shelling. It can even be said that apart from being bombarded with more than 20 artillery at the beginning, the Han army seems to be invisible afterwards. It seemed to be such a conspicuous place, and there was no more shelling of the City Lord's Mansion area.

"The Han people still haven't attacked the port?" Felda Doa is now able to maintain maximum composure. The City Lord's Mansion looks safe enough: "They are afraid that the port will be damaged and cannot land, right?"

The port really didn't even have a shell falling, but the storage area not far from it was hit by heavy shelling.

To say which part of the city has the worst fire, it is undoubtedly the cargo storage area next to the port. From this point of view, Filda Doah can confirm that the Han army basically did not come for looting, or else it should be the cargo left in the port?

The terrain of the City Lord’s Mansion is high enough to see the conditions on the sea.

Because of the arrival of the expeditionary fleet of the Han Empire, the non-Han ships in the nearby waters were either sunk or captured, or they ran away early. The huge waters are now in sight except for the floating Han ships. Boat shadow.

Felda Doah knew the most basic visual inspections. From the very beginning, he found that more than a thousand ships of various types had arrived in the Han Empire. Eleven of them did not seem to be the most massive, but they were much larger than other ships. It looks like the hull is bigger, and then it looks much more beautiful.

Gunboats are all late-stage products, they are relatively slender than other types of ships, and the appearance of the water lines is sharper, which naturally looks more beautiful.

Ferda Doah would think the gunboat is very beautiful, but in fact it is mainly because of his favor for great things. In envy, he wants to take possession of it, and naturally he loves it more.

To say that the ship on the sea has the largest volume, it is definitely the Linzi during the period, and then there are some transport ships.

The largest transport ship is not much smaller than the Linzi, if in terms of tonnage, it is actually larger than the Linzi, they are a squat round shape, which is quite different from the slender hull of the Linzi.

Now, the entire expeditionary fleet is spread out and parked above the sea. The gunboats are the closest to the land. There are two large transport ships parked next to them. Warships will travel between the gunboats and the transport ships, mainly for the transportation of artillery shells. Consumption.

The second echelon is a carrier ship arranged in a square shape. Many soldiers stand on the deck and watch the gunboats that fire every hour.

Except for the side facing the land, there are conventional warships cruising back and forth on the periphery of the other three directions.

The rest of the ships are anchored in a straight line after another. After many ships are spread out on the sea, if you look down from a high enough height, a "land surface" composed of ships is formed above the sea. .

"The chaos is chaos..." Yuan Qiao observed the land through the telescope: "It's just that there is no chaos in the army, but the civilians are in chaos."

Their gunboats are still too few. In order to completely mess up the city, the main bombardment targets are residential areas, and the tilted firepower for the barracks seems to be insufficient.

Of course, to create chaos is to bombard residential areas. If bombardment is carried out on the barracks under severely insufficient firepower, it will cause some damage to the enemy forces, but the enemy forces will not be wiped out, or even the camps will not be destroyed at all. The garrison evacuated and was stationed in another place.

Huan Wen looked at Wang Meng: "What advice does Chang Shi have?"

It was Wang Meng's suggestion not to bombard the port for the time being. There were a large number of ships moored there. Due to the fire in the stocking area, the evacuated people chose ports that had not been bombarded. As a result, the port area is now full of people.

The reason for leaving the port is naturally for landing. No army landing from the sea would use shelling of the port as its main goal. If you really break a facility, it will cause difficulties for your own landing.

"General." Wang Mengxian said: "The position of the post is to continue the bombardment for another day, continue to the north, and continue the bombardment every time it passes a coastal city."

The expeditionary fleet carried enough gunpowder and shells, even spare bronze guns.

The gunboat’s main gun is not necessary if it is not necessary to fire, so as not to wear out the barrel and malfunction at the same time, but the secondary gun is indifferent, and it can be replaced in time if it is broken.

Now the Persian Sassan has no long-range weapons that can threaten the fleet, but the gunboats are able to shell out outside the range of enemy long-range weapons.

The Persian Sassanian was able to counterattack and required the Han army to land. Once the Hans did not land, they used the advantages of long-range weapons to continuously carry out coastal artillery bombardment. Then the Persian Sassan would only be passively beaten unless it was sent to fight in a fleet.

"If you have a chance, you can land naturally..." Wang Meng maintained a salute posture: "The enemy is standing by, it's not necessary."

They landed in the two satraps to support the Tianzhu shogunate. It was a relatively dynamic landing battle, otherwise they could not attract enough attention from the two satraps. It's just that I didn't expect it was just a landing battle, but it made the two satrapssons surrender to the truce.

Huan Wen accepted Yuan Qiao's opinion and did not take the lead to discuss the surrender with the two Satraps, but handed it over to the Tianzhu Shogunate.

The purpose of attacking Sassan is to accumulate more experience, not to log in. After all, the Western Expeditionary Shogunate has not moved westward for the time being. The emergence of the expeditionary fleet can attract enough Sassan's attention and force Sassan to deploy heavy troops on the long coastline. Their current move is sufficient.

Landing is generally for profit, such as the raid of landing in Luck. If there are a lot of troops in the Sassanid city, there will be a big battle after landing. Huanwen knows that it is really unnecessary.

The expeditionary fleet will not receive the slightest source of troops within three years, and Huan Wen has been informed of this before departure.

They also need to expedition to Europa. In order to accumulate experience, they can lose some resources and troops in Satrap or Sassan, but they can't lose too much. Huan Wen's bottom line is that he cannot lose more than two thousand people, otherwise It is bound to have an impact on the expedition to Europa.

"Hmm..." Huan Wen nodded: "As Chang Shi said."

Behind, Ferda Doa saw with his own eyes that the Han army changed its normal state, and the port where no shells had fallen was hit by violent shelling. His first reaction after seeing the port being shelled was joy.

"The Han people bombarded the port!" Ferda Doa said to the left and right: "Does it mean they are going to give up landing?"

Cannonballs are constantly falling in the port area. The Persians or other ethnic groups who originally thought it would be safe to stay here are scurrying everywhere.

After the Han army began to shell the port, some ships in the port moved.

In the beginning, it was a civilian ship. They knew that they would become a target when they moved.

Subsequently, some military warships also began to take action. They were ordered to attack the Han fleet.

On the Han side, the gunboat ignored the moving port ships and continued to bombard the port, as if it did not completely destroy the port.

The gunboat did not respond, but that does not mean that the remaining Han warships did not respond.

During this expedition, the conventional warships had always been playing the role of soy sauce on the premise that the enemy had not dispatched warships. After all, they had battle targets. The warships that got the order to fight were full of joy. Joyful.

"The elevation angle is twenty-five degrees."

"emission!"

What was shot was not a cannonball, but a crossbow arrow with explosive arrows.

In the expeditionary fleet, the number of crossbow boats actually accounted for the most. The captain of each crossbow boat actually understood a little earlier that the warships under their feet will face complete elimination in about ten years, and they will be gunships in the future. The world.

This trip to Europa was basically the most beautiful appearance of the crossbow ship for the last time. Even if the ship went to Europa without sinking, there was no possibility that the ship would return to the homeland.

It may be the last appearance of the scenery, but there has been no matching opponent. The sad part is so obvious. I can seize the opportunity to play, even if I face an opponent who is not at the same level~www.wuxiamtl.com~including the captain. Any crew member inside, everyone is willing to come up with 100% enthusiasm to fight.

Felda Doa originally thought that sending out warships could attract the firepower of the Han gunboats. Seeing that the Han gunboats continued to bombard the port, it seemed that shells had fallen on the city mansion. It seemed that the number of artillery shells that fell on the city mansion was increasing. Was very disappointed.

In less than half an hour, twenty-seven minutes to be precise, the non-Han man-operated ship that started up was wiped out on the sea by the dispatched Han army crossbow boat.

Probably they felt that there was a rare opportunity to attack. They didn't do anything about taking prisoners. They fired crossbow arrows with great strength. Even the small-looking ship could attract at least five crossbow arrows.

"Which city is next?"

"Back to General. 30 miles north here is Ludia. It is another city with a port in the nearby sea."

Huan Wen quickly found the location of Ludia on the map.

The overseas maps were painted by Wang Meng during his mission. The last time he basically determined which cities would be more valuable to attack if he came to invade.