Chapter 105: The Second Naval Battle
When the magpie saw Bandi's appearance, she wanted to tease her to change her target. She was about to speak, but suddenly she thought that she didn't know how the prince would arrange Bandi, so she held back and said nothing.
She thought for a while and said, "Prince, I will have three children soon. I have too many people and talkative people, so I can't afford to raise them. Can you write a poem? I'll let me publish this collection of poems and earn some money to support them?"
Magpie has made a lot of money in publishing Li You's poetry collection. She and Baihu are now in the fourth rank, the fifth rank, and have a high salary. They have a lot of shares in Li You's industry, and can be said to have joined the ranks of rich people in the Tang Dynasty. She said this naturally to change the topic.
"Okay, okay!" Bandi liked the prince's poems the most, and she immediately clapped her hands to agree.
Li You didn't say anything, his eyes looked at Fengfan, as if observing something.
Seeing him like this, everyone consciously closed their mouths.
Li You saw that the sails were drooping weakly and said, "No, the wind is about to stop."
The power of Kang's warships mainly relies on wind power. With sea breeze, the Tang army will fall into a passive position.
However, the battle has been going on for quite some time now, and most of the enemy ships should have been destroyed. He was not worried that the Tang army's fleet would suffer major losses.
What he was worried about was that the remnants of the Romans would flee in a hurry. At this moment, Pei Dilan's Dashi army had not officially launched an attack. Once these Romans escaped, they would expose their strategic intentions and the situation of the Tang army's powerful fleet would also be exposed.
He immediately said to a naval officer standing not far away: "Notify the situation of the war immediately."
The naval officer immediately issued an order to the flag-speaking soldiers on the mast.
Without waiting for the news from the flag-speaking soldiers to hear, Liu Rengui walked over from the command cabin. He said anxiously: "Prince, the wind is about to stop. At present, most of the Roman warships have been wiped out, and there are still some remnants. Although our army surrounded the enemy's fleet, the ship speed cannot keep up, and some Romans will probably miss the net.
I requested the ironclad ship to fight."
Li You nodded and said excitedly: "Okay, it's time to try the power of the ironclad ship."
Liu Rengui said worriedly: "Prince, please get off the boat, I will go."
Li You said, "No need, let's go together!"
As the commander of the entire army, Li You avoids war at the moment of battle and will reduce prestige and affect morale.
Besides, the powerful firepower, strong maneuverability and tall and strong protection of the ironclad ship are invincible at sea, so Liu Rengui no longer insists on it.
He ordered: "Go to go to the battle with all your strength."
Since the Iron Crafts joined the naval sequence, they have not conducted a practical battle. The officers and soldiers on the ship have long been itchy. After hearing the order, they screamed in excitement.
After the Roman fleet discovered the enemy fleet in the distance, at the beginning, the fleet commander was very happy, and he could not have discovered the enemy's traces so easily.
However, when he found that the enemy actually had a tall warship that had never been seen before, and the number was even greater than that of him, he was immediately panicked and immediately ordered to retreat.
However, the Tang army, who had already set up a pocket array, could not let them escape and immediately surrounded them.
The Romans found that the enemy ships were moving much faster than themselves, and they became more and more confused.
However, the generals of the Roman Navy had rich experience in naval combat. Seeing that the retreat had been cut off, he decided to use the small and flexible characteristics of his ship to attack a Tang army warship in a group of five warships, forming an advantage of fighting less in the local area.
Moreover, their warships carried a large amount of Greek fire. Although they could not dump crude oil on the sea surface for large-scale attacks, the rockets they carried and the combustion tanks launched by the slalomers could still cause major damage to the enemy.
However, when the Tang army's warships approached, the two sides began to fight, and the Romans realized that they were very wrong.
On the Tang army's warships, a large number of bed crossbows were equipped with a longer range than those on the Roman ships, and the number was even more incomparable. Before the Roman warships approached, they were already hit by arrows.
Rockets were also shot from the warships of the Tang Dynasty. This kind of rocket used fierce turbulent oil, which burned much more than crude oil. Once it burned, it could not be extinguished with sea water, and it would even burn more and more vigorously.
Moreover, there was no shelter on the Roman warships, and most of the soldiers were exposed to the deck. The Tang army was condescending, and armor-breaking arrows shot like rain. The Roman soldiers had nowhere to hide and suffered heavy casualties.
Soon the Romans lost their confidence, then they became panic, and then they became disintegrating, and even the generals of the Roman Navy lost their confidence.
The Tang army attacked with arrows and fire. The most outrageous thing was to use its tall ship to directly hit the Roman warships and send them directly to the seabed.
Nearly three times the number of Romans, bullying dozens of backward Roman warships, and the battle was on the ground.
Seeing that the Roman generals would continue to fight, they would be wiped out, so he prepared to order the resistance to surrender to the invincible enemy.
At this moment, the wind on the sea suddenly weakened, and the Tang army's warship movement began to slow down, which provided the Romans who used oars as power to escape.
The Roman naval general took the lead in commanding his own boat and fled towards Constantinople. More than a dozen Roman warships followed behind and fled together.
The Tang army warships responsible for blocking them, when they passed by, blocked them with crossbows and fire attacks, and destroyed most of the fleeing Roman warships. However, three Roman warships escaped.
At this time, the wind on the sea had completely stopped, the Tang army's warships lost their motivation, and watched the Romans escape.
At this moment, an extremely huge warship sailed over with black smoke.
"Iron Craft, our Iron Craft." The Tang soldiers and soldiers who saw this scene cheered together.
The Romans who escaped from the encirclement did not dare to relax at all. They paddled desperately, their calves began to cramp, and the muscles on their thighs and arms were also extremely sore.
As they saw the enemy's warships getting farther and farther away, and the enemy's warships were staying there, they finally relaxed and secretly glad that they had escaped from the sea of suffering.
The Roman naval general also breathed a sigh of relief and lay directly on the deck to rest.
Chapter completed!