Just when Rudradaman was still sighing for these fantastic giant ships, the Han fleet suddenly sounded a fierce trumpet, and they began to change formation, and some slightly smaller warships accelerated forward and rushed towards the Indian fleet.

The Indians also discovered the Han fleet that suddenly appeared behind them, and they were even more panicked, after all, they were basically just transport ships, there were no warships at all, only a few Kushan warships escorting them.

Fortunately, the Kushan navy was as valiant and warlike as their army, and they did not flinch but bravely met it, and more Kushan ships were sailing out of the harbor.

A Kushan ship broke away from the fleet and headed for the shore, followed by the Indian fleet, and judging by their stance, they wanted to rush to the beach, and would rather run aground than come to shore first.

Twenty smaller Han galleons approached the Indian and Kushan fleets, and they approached until they were less than two hundred feet away before they stopped.

Then they turned the bow of the ship and divided it into two rows, front and rear, staggered, all aimed at the Indians and Kushans with their sides.

Rudradaman finally saw the answer he wanted to see, yes, the Han army's warships were equipped with artillery, and there were many guns, which were arranged in two decks, and the muzzles of the black holes poked out of the windows.

This is exactly the artillery warship he dreamed of, even more powerful than he imagined, he only fantasized about installing guns on the side of the first deck, but the Han army had already built a warship with two gun decks.

At a distance of 200 zhang, the Kushan warships and Indian warships equipped with bed crossbows were not enough to shoot at a distance, but the warships of the Han army stopped moving, and they could see that behind those artillery, there were many people busy, and then a sharp trumpet sounded, and the muzzle fire of those guns was seen flickering, and bursts of white smoke were rising, but the smoke was very faint, and it was quickly blown away by the sea breeze.

Then came a rumbling roar like thunder, followed by a splash of water that rose into the sky on the water around Kushan and the Indian warships.

Two warships were unlucky, or rather lucky, to be concentrated by the first wave of shells, with holes in the sides and decks, and broken wood scattered.

The next round of salvo fire was a nightmare for the Kushan and Indians, and the hit rate of the calibrated Han artillery gradually increased, and one after another Kushan and Indian warships were beaten into a sieve.

The Indian transports did not care about the docks or the beaches, and rushed to the shore to unload the people on board, rather than sinking to the bottom of the sea with the people on board.

Soon there were few Kushan and Indian warships left in front of the Han army, and most of them were on fire or began to sink.

Several heroic ships wanted to rush forward, and the ships engaged in the broadside battle were also sunk by the concentrated fire of the Han army.

Seeing that the rest of the transport ships rushed to the shore and began to unload people, those who could not get close to the shore also lowered their boats and began to ferry.

The formation of the Han army began to change, and ten galleons, much larger than the twenty warships that had just been shelled, crowded into the front row, and they lined up at a distance of three hundred zhang from the beach, and lowered their anchors.

Rudradaman could clearly see that these larger sailing ships were actually nine guns in a row, and they were also two rows above and below, and it was obvious that the windows of the nine guns on the lower deck were larger.

Yes, this is the Taishan-class sail gunboat of the Han Navy, with nine eight-inch caliber cannons installed on the lower deck, and it is a newly replaced rear-loading rifled gun, using copper-shelled shells and a split charge.

In addition to the changes in the way of firing and the type of shells, the composition of the explosives in the warhead has also changed, using the latest improved yellow explosives, new gunpowder with picric acid as the main body.

The shells of the rear-loading naval guns are mainly divided into two types: flowering shells and solid bullets, of which solid shells are mainly used for armor piercing, but in view of the fact that the opponents of the Han Navy generally do not have warships of the same grade, solid shells are mostly used in exercises and training.

In actual combat, it is still dominated by flowering bombs. In particular, one of the biggest characteristics of yellow powder is that it is flammable at high temperatures after explosion, and it can instantly ignite any substance at the point of land, whether it is wood or steel.

Therefore, the scene Rudradaman saw was that after the shells fired by the Han artillery concentrated on the enemy's warships, the hit warships would ignite a raging fire and burn everything.

Fortunately, at this time, the Han Navy only had eight-inch caliber guns replaced with new rear-loading rifled guns, using new flowering shells, and other six-inch guns were still front-loading smoothbore guns, and only solid bullets and shotguns filled with black powder.

However, the rate of fire of the new eight-inch gun was significantly higher than that of the six-inch gun, so the salvo fire was no longer used, but free fire.

Indian transports began to be named by Han guns, and many of the Indian infantry on deck were torn apart by shells or burned to death.

Many Indians jumped straight out of deck into the sea and swam desperately to shore.

After clearing all the enemy ships in their field of vision, the warships of the Han Navy began to extend their guns to the coast.

Rudradaman saw cannonballs flying towards the hill where he was, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly jumped on his horse and fled to the mountains and forests, away from the coastline.

All the warships of the Han army leaned towards the coast, lowered their anchors in a deep enough water, and began to shoot at the entire harbor, all of them replaced with flowering shells and shotguns, and frantically shot at the buildings and people in the harbor.

Rudra Daman built two improvised and primitive forts at the entrance to the harbor, but they were quickly razed to the ground and were of no use at all.

What wiped them out was the farthest and largest warship from the coast in the entire Han Navy, and it was the only big guy with a three-story artillery deck in the entire Han Navy fleet, much taller than the Taishan class in size and size.

This is the latest giant ship built and commissioned by the ocean-going fleet of the Han Imperial Navy, it was named the Imperial class by Lu Bu, its displacement is close to 2,000 tons, almost twice that of the Taishan class, and the length is almost half more than that of the Taishan class.

It had three upper and lower decks, the upper two decks each with twelve eight-inch guns, the bottom deck with ten 10-inch guns, and two eight-inch guns at the bow and stern.

As a result, the Imperial-class battleship had seventy-two guns, almost twice as many as the Tarzan-class naval guns, but the added weight was acceptable because of the latest breech-loading rifled gun technology.

Of course, its mainmast was increased to four, its sails were more, and the oarsmen on the bottom floor were eliminated to become a full-fledged sail battleship.

It carries a battalion of marines, far more than any other warship.