"Your Excellency, this is information from the Venetian merchants, the damned cannibals who have hidden their poor navy near the city of Phoenicia in Egypt." Located in the port of Taranto on the Apennine Peninsula, the most elite fleet of the huge Great Qin Navy has been rereplenished, and the Supreme Admiral of the Great Qin Empire, Elidogan, has a grim expression. Historically, the navy of Great Qin had always been inferior to that of the Egyptian Carthaginians on the southern coast, and shipbuilding skills were not only learned from the enemy, but also helped build warships by the Greeks in the beginning. However, Daqin is a nation that is good at learning, and in the course of each battle, it not only learned the tactics of the enemy's naval warfare, but also constantly innovated with shipbuilding technology. From the original Raven warships to today's large warships with high masts and soft sails, the navy has been equipped in batches. In this world, when Li Xuanqing brought gunpowder weapons in advance and quickly developed them into a system, the Great Qin Navy could be said to be the first of all the Taixi forces to make changes. Not only did they renovate the warships on a large scale for the first time, but they also dismantled all kinds of equipment that were originally used for gangside jumping, installed turrets, and then practiced new tactics. In the process of the Great Qin Empire's recovery of the western territory, the Great Qin Navy set out from Byzantium to attack cities and plunder all the way invincible, not only accumulating rich experience in naval artillery warfare but also forming a complete set of naval combat tactics, which made the handsome naval commander in front of him have enough confidence to destroy the opposite side of the Great Food Navy, which knew nothing about artillery.

"Go and blow the trumpet, the First Fleet will set off immediately, and the clipper will inform the headquarters of the Third and Fifth Fleets in Cyprus to immediately detour to Egypt along the east coast of the Mediterranean, and the headquarters of the Second and Fourth Fleets will attack all the Great Qin Navys west of Phoenicia from right to left." Eridogan asked his lieutenant to record the orders while sketching out the charts in detail, making them in two. Due to the prevalence of trade between the Tang Dynasty and the Great Qin, paper from the Tang Dynasty also quickly entered the Great Qin, quickly replacing the parchment that had been prevalent for nearly a thousand years on the other side, making writing a cheap thing from then on. Not enough, at this time, Elidoan didn't care at all, and the snow-white paper in his hand came from the distant Eastern Empire. Due to the backwardness of the conditions for communication at sea, such a large-scale military deployment, and such a huge military movement, if sufficient preparations are not made in advance and the routes of the various branch fleets are well planned, then the sea operation will not be able to continue at all. This naval habit, which lasted for nearly a thousand years, also made the Great Qin Navy a subsidiary of the army for a long time, but it really became the branch of the army with the highest level of technology and knowledge. Just being able to make such a complex road map for the march at sea and the scheduling map of the sea formation is not something that the army leaders are capable of. However, these are not difficult things for the Great Qin Navy Command led by Elidoan, they have very rich experience and actual combat level, so soon the two clippers quickly left the port of Taranto with these two orders.

"Go and inform the rear fleet, transport those damned land forces to Cyprus immediately, and you will dispatch the rest of the fleet, and we will leave immediately." Immediately after the clipper took away his orders, Eridogan handed over the command of the fleet to the vice admiral, only to hear the sound of a horn soon coming from the flagship, and the sound of conch and other horns with different orders made the whole port of Taranto lively, and the white sails quickly rose, and the battleships that had been prepared began to slowly leave the port dock under the action of oars and the wind, and reformed on the wide sea outside the port. The constant sound of horns on the flagship and the various flags were also transmitting orders from the commanders, and soon when the warships lined up in a huge goose-shaped formation at sea, the direct fleet of twenty-three three-masted galleons began to sail from the Apennine Peninsula, taking advantage of the warm spring land breeze to quickly march south, and a fierce naval battle officially began.

The news that the Great Qin Navy attacked in a big way and headed towards the ancient city of Phoenicia in three ways could not hide the spies of the Great Food and Xuanyingwei who were secretly lurking on the Apennine Peninsula. After all, in this era, in addition to the advanced military intelligence acquisition and secrecy capabilities brought by Li Xuanqing from later generations, others are similar to Daqin and Da Shi, just relying on the Venetian merchants to find out where the main force of the Da Shi Navy is, so Da Shi can naturally also place spies in front of the Da Qin Navy Military Port. So after the main force of the Great Qin Navy walked under his nose, the news also flew away, the big cannibal boat did not need to be in formation, and the smooth sea surface of the Mediterranean Sea was enough for the fast ship to travel day and night, so soon the information of the big cannibal was also sent out of the Apennine Peninsula.

When the Great Qin side was ready to start a big southward march, the Phoenician city finally waited for the naval officers from the Eastern Empire, Li Guixin and Wu Sansheng received Qu Chengxing's order in Wolong Port at the end of April of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, and arrived in Phoenicia with more than 100 naval officers and men from various positions who were temporarily transferred from various ships to form an advisory group and join the Great Qin Navy. In order to ensure that Li Guixin and his entourage could have enough weight, Amdullah personally accompanied them to the Navy Pier and boarded the flagship.

"Captain, I'm afraid the condition of this Great Food Navy is even worse than we expected." After Li Guixin and his entourage spent nearly three days making a comprehensive assessment of the equipment, training level, and tactical drills of the Dashi Navy, Li Guixin took Wu San Province to discuss emergency countermeasures. They were the two highest-ranking members of the advisory group, and they were also the highest-ranking members of the command system, and most of the rest were technical personnel who specialized in one aspect or another.

"Don't say these frustrating words. How bad their condition is, can I still not know? Li Guixin glanced at Wu Sanxing, who had a bitter face, and said, "Hurry up and think of any good way for me." If you can't figure it out, I'll have to come up with one last resort. Li Guixin couldn't help but sigh when he said this, the level of the Great Food Navy was indeed much worse than he imagined. It's not a navy at all, it's a bunch of pirates on warships, and to be precise, the pirates are probably much stronger than them. The armament ships were very old, and they were all old ships without watertight compartments, not only did they not have mortise and tenon joints, and then sealed with tung oil lacquer, but they were simply made of cowhide strips and wooden nails. Fortunately, this kind of ship can only sail on the calm sea of the Mediterranean, but if it were to change to the complex sea conditions of the Western Ocean, this kind of ship would not need to fight at all, and the wind and waves alone can make it fall apart and become a pile of wood.

If it was just a matter of ships, Li Guixin, Wu Sanxing and others would have endured it, after all, the sea conditions in the Mediterranean Sea were very good, and this kind of ship could barely sail out. But the training level of the Great Food Navy, well, according to the eyes of the two, is basically untrained. Except for being able to drive the ship out and then stop back, it can be said that Admiral Dashi does not have any other tactical moves at all, and even the elite detachment that Amdullah carefully selected to be able to serve as a sea assault operation can only have a few naval combat tactics, and the others have not been trained at all.

"Alas" After being silent for a long time, Li Guixin and Wu Sanxing glanced at each other, and then involuntarily sighed in unison, both of them saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.

"Although the overall performance of the Great Food Navy is not the same as that shown by the other side, there is an advantage of the good guys, that is, almost all the navy soldiers are a group of people who are not afraid of death, if we use it well, we may be able to take advantage of this and organize a group of death squads." Li Guixin frowned when he saw Wu Sanxing, knowing that the other party really didn't have any good way, so after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and said. But this method frightened Wu Sanxing, and he said, "Captain, are you really going to do this?" I'm afraid that Amdullah won't agree to it tomorrow, it's a joke with the lives of his soldiers. ”

"If it doesn't work, just do it, and if they don't think it works, let them do it themselves." Li Guixin smiled with a hideous smile: "Don't they know what they are?" can use the method of a death squad to fight with the Great Qin Navy, and maybe even be able to hit the other party by surprise. Moreover, the best tactic for naval warfare, especially such wooden sailing ships, is not artillery battles, but fire attacks. Li Guixin's words woke up Wu Sanxing, and the two quickly summed up Li Guixin's strategy and quickly set a plan. After finding Amdullah early the next morning, he directly explained his strategy, and then regardless of the other party's reaction, Li Guixin said directly: "Our opinion, divide the fleet directly under His Excellency General Amdullah into twelve armies, spread along the sea north of Phoenicia City, and implement wolf pack tactics. We will assign a Tang Navy officer to each warship to be responsible for specific tactical guidance, and all other fleet warships will be immediately equipped with sulfur and fire and other ignition materials from now on, and I will be filled with fire oil to join the ranks of the death squad. Li Guixin didn't care that there was basically no wind at this time of year, the weather at the end of April was almost summer, and the dry and rainy southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea made Li Guixin decide to attack with fire.

"Your Excellency General Li, fire attack? How to fire attack? Amdullah asked when he saw his generals looking at each other. Speaking of which, they can't be blamed, except for the thousands of years of continuous war in China, which used the two ruthless natural and ruthless weapons of water and fire to the extreme, no nation has ever been as handy as the Eastern Empire in fire attack and flooding, as if it was engraved in the depths of the blood.

"What? Don't understand? Li Guixin glanced at everyone's expressions, then looked at the embarrassed-looking interpreter beside him, and waved his hand: "Wu Sanxing, you go and teach them a lesson, and tell them how to use the fire attack tactics that our ancestors used hundreds of years ago." Then tell them about the wolf pack tactics as well. Otherwise, there will really be a sea guerrilla war in the future, and these idiots will not understand anything one by one, and sooner or later something will go wrong. Li Guixin decisively threw the problem of explaining tactics to Wu Sanxing, who himself was born as a staff officer, and it was not much of a problem to hand it over to him. Li Guixin took advantage of this opportunity to pull Amdullah to the side and said with a solemn expression: "General Amdullah, with all due respect, the combat power of your navy is not at the same level as your enemy, so you must carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of death, exchange your life for your life, and use the death squad to fight the opponent's main battleship, only in this way will you have a chance." ”

"Didn't General Qu of your country tell me when I was in Persian City, do you have a new set of tactics? Why didn't the general say it just now? Amdullajia arrived at Li Guixin's serious face, without the slightest intention of joking, and his heart suddenly sank, and he hurriedly asked. If the Great Qin Navy only existed as a subsidiary army of the Army, then the Navy of the Great Food Empire had almost no before that. As a great empire that developed from the desert nomads, the Great Cannibals were naturally unaccustomed to naval warfare, and did not have the tradition of the Phoenicians, the ancestors of the place, who were skilled in naval warfare thousands of years ago. The navy has always been dispensable in the sequence of the Great Eclipse Empire's army, and if it weren't for the great Qin navy this time, I'm afraid that the Great Cannibal wouldn't have paid so much attention to it. However, attaching importance does not mean having strength, so Amdullah, the chief admiral, obviously knows very little about naval warfare.

"Tactics need someone to execute." Li Guixin couldn't help but say: "The only thing that your navy officers and men can do is that kind of enthusiasm and courage not to be afraid of death. Therefore, naval guerrilla tactics can only be barely competed by your most elite direct fleet, and the rest of them have no role at all except death squads. Li Guixin's cold words made Amdullah faintly feel a little bad.

"That's all I can give, if Your Excellency the General is not satisfied with me, you can explain to General Qu and send someone to replace me." Li Guixin shook his head, and when he saw that Wu Sanxing's side was also over, he threw down a sentence and walked away with the other party.

Soon after Li Guixin returned, Amdullah and Li Guixin respectively received urgent reports from their respective intelligence systems that the Great Qin Navy had set off from Taranto Port. Before contacting, part of the Great Qin fleet was still stationed near the island of Cyprus, which meant that the Great Qin side would be able to reach the port of Phoenicia south in ten days at the latest, and the battle between the two sides would start in ten days at the latest.

"Can't wait any longer. You and I will go to Amdullah immediately, I will be responsible for arranging the affairs of their death squads, and you will be responsible for guiding them in the implementation of wolf pack tactics. Li Guixin put the information aside and said: "If you mess up this time, you won't be scolded to death by the general system." ”

"Forget the captain, I just want to think about not being removed from my post now." Wu Sansheng pulled Li Guixin and said with a wry smile as he walked out: "Before I came, I boasted to the chief system about Haikou, and even if I don't get scolded to death this time, I will be ridiculed to death by my colleagues." The two of them smiled bitterly at each other like brothers in distress, and headed back towards the port outside the city. (https:)

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