Chapter 0622. Sea power, Hormuz
Inexplicably, a battle was won. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]
The battlefield of more than 100,000 people fighting, the disorderly retreat was a disaster, the cheapest and chaotic Persian infantry ran everywhere, the noble lords who were high up, and the heavily armored Asvaran noble cavalry were all blocked inside, and those who entered were not allowed to advance, and those who retreated were not allowed to retreat, and no one ran away.
Even the Punjabi infantry of the Fujian State who had broken away from the battle line did not even need to participate in the battle and pursuit, climbed the hills on both sides to outflank the past, fought crossbows, shouted slogans, and the tens of thousands of Arab emperor Yankuai troops who were messily crowded on the road between the city of Para and the battlefield had to put down their weapons in fear and surrender on their knees.
That night, the two Khorasan Persian kings who retreated to the city of Para also surrendered in fear, plus them, Xi Junmai captured a total of nearly 40,000 people, the most were chaotic Persian infantry, 6,000 Persian heavy cavalry and more than 5,000 Azadan cavalry archers were also sadly blocked inside, plus thousands of people killed on the spot, since then, more than half of the power of the Arab Empire in Khorasan Persia was annihilated in one fell swoop, and the rest scattered in the coastal kingdoms could not resist the sharp edge of Fujian.
On the one hand, he reported the victory to Li Jie, the king of Min in the rear, and on the other hand, Xi Junmai disorganized and reorganized these captive armies, driving this group of captives who had lost inexplicably and persecutively to continue to attack Khorasan, that is, the rest of Iran in later generations.
On the other hand, after attacking the cities of six small countries in the coastal area of Khorasan, Liu Renliang did not continue to expand the results of the battle on the shore, while sending fifty Fu boats used as transport ships to pull prisoners of war and booty back to the port of New Changzhou in Fujian, on the other hand, Liu Renliang led his fleet to pull the sails and rush to the west at full speed.
The sea area of Fujian is too huge, even if it is a national war, there is still a fleet of 200 ships to patrol and maintain in Southeast Asia, and there is a sub-fleet that needs to patrol the entire territory of Tianzhu, in fact, the fleet led by Liu Renliang is only one-third of the Fujian Navy, Rao is so, there are still as many as 300 main warships from 25 to 30 zhang, followed by various auxiliary ships of about 10 zhang, and there are countless landing ships.
The pyramid-like huge fleet, the main battleships, and the troop transport ships are lined up in the center smoothly, the stars and the moon are like the moon, all kinds of auxiliary ships patrol to the left and right, and there are the lightest and fastest three-masted reconnaissance speedboats in the front constantly reporting the situation ahead.
It is not that you can call a sailor if you have a ship, Li Jie's unsparing support over the years is on the one hand, on the other hand, Liu Renliang's own talent is equally important, from the name of a private caravan of several thousand people to thousands of large and small ships, 100,000 soldiers, recruiting more than 100 pirate forces large and small in the two major water systems of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and also the prosperous operation of the maritime trade routes on which Fujian depends.
Even Liu Renliang himself didn't know how Li Jie could be so discerning, and he could see at a glance that he was a sailor general who was promoted to this position, and gave him complete trust and such great support, sometimes, Liu Renliang even wondered if Li Jie could predict the future, otherwise, how could he lead the Min State to go so far and arrive at the fertile land that the Qin Emperor and Han Wu didn't know.
How did he know that Li Jie could not predict the future at all, the era in which he lived could only be called reminiscing about the past, he was indeed penniless when Liu Renliang and Li Jie met, but after a thousand years, Liu Renliang's figure is still admired by the Chinese people.
In the first battle of Baicun Jiangkou, the first and largest collision between China and the Japanese state, he led more than 13,000 Tang troops, 170 ships to meet more than 50,000 Japanese troops, 1,000 ships, the Tang army basically had no losses in that battle, burned more than 800 Japanese ships, killed and drowned tens of thousands of people, and killed the Japanese people for hundreds of years crawling under the glory of China, and did not dare to have the slightest disobedience.
Of course, these Liu Renliang didn't know, so he sat in the center of the fleet, the thirty-zhang Haijiao-level command flagship, full of gratitude to the death of the confidant of the soldier, and Liu Renliang looked forward with cold eyes on the other.
Li Jie gave him the task of attacking the rear of Khorasan by sea to create conditions for the army's advance, but also controlling the entire sea area from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea.
The other day the fleet of the small country of Khorasan was not even an appetizer, and the real opponent was always ahead.
Standing on the towering Cambridge, holding a telescope through the layers of sea fog, Liu Renliang has been solemnly watching the direction of the fleet in front of him, in the haze, suddenly a large black thing appeared in the line of sight, after staring for a moment, Liu Renliang immediately frowned and put down the binoculars, thought for a while, and then suddenly ordered the heralds on the left and right: "The commander of the herald, the fleet stops advancing!" Anchor on the spot! ”
It is not an easy task for thousands of ships to stop at once, Liu Renliang said a word, so that the heralds on the bow and the mainmast bird's nest were immediately busy, and the captains gave the order, dismounted the sails, dropped anchor, and advanced for another mile or so, and the huge fleet covering an area of dozens of miles wide stopped.
The sun rose higher and higher, the fog on the sea surface was finally dispelled by the sun, and a large piece of land was displayed in front of the fleet of the Fujian Navy.
"Captain Qi, ahead to the Strait of Hormuz."
"Hormuz, Hormuz."
Raising his eyebrows, Liu Renliang looked at the dry yellow sand island reef opposite, the swaying coconut trees, and suddenly a cold smile bloomed at the corner of Sanwen's beard's mouth.
"This is a good place, this time, it is estimated that it should be drawn on the territory of my Fujian country!"
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Although there were no famous naval battles in the Indian Ocean, and there was no strong sense of sea power in the Mediterranean, the Arab Empire still had a navy here, and the Persian Empire navy, which was once subordinate to Sassanid Persia, basically did not play a role in the confrontation between the two empires, and with the fall of the Sassanid, it was completely taken over by the Arab Empire.
The level of water warfare of the Persians is not weak, this naval army entrenched in the Persian Gulf has about 50,000 people, the same more than 500 large ships, most of them imitate the Byzantine Empire's Dromont warship, the main warship is about 20 zhang long, that is, 50 meters to 60 meters, three-masted triangular sails, 32 pairs of oars, full load of 500 people.
Such a large ship sailed in the sea, like a centipede, extremely powerful, this kind of ship, once the Roman Empire across the Mediterranean, crushed Carthage, expedition to Greece, destroyed the Ptolemaic Egyptian dynasty known for its navy, was placed by Persia, also bloomed in the Indian Ocean, and conquered Egypt in the struggle for hegemony with Byzantium.
Just a few years ago, the Byzantine Emperor Constans led 500 main warships of the Imperial Navy, nearly 100,000 people on an expedition to Syria, in an attempt to strangle the Arab Navy in the cradle, but in the battle of the mast, it was completely annihilated by the 20,000 navy and 200 clippers of the Arab Empire.
The two dynasties were superimposed, and the Arab fleet in the Persian Gulf was strengthened to another level.
The coast of the Persian Gulf has reached the heart of the Arab Empire, the area north of the Persian Gulf is the Mesopotamian Plain of the Two River Basin, and the later Iraq, the Euphrates River and the Tigris River, which nourished one of the four ancient civilizations, the Euphrates River and the Tigris River flow into the sea at the end of the Persian Gulf, and the naval base of the Arab Empire is also located in the port of Susa, not far from the mouth of the two rivers.
On the Maritime Silk Road, the caravans of Fujian needed to pay taxes once through the checkpoints at both ends of the Strait of Hormuz, and then unloaded their goods in Susa to pay the second tax********.
On this day, the original peace of the Imperial Navy Governor's Mansion in the port of Susa was suddenly broken, and an uninvited guest suddenly broke in.
"Busler, I want to see Busler! The Tang people of Fujian have called! ”
The white turban wrapped around his head inlaid with cat's eye green has long been lost to know where to throw it, the original gorgeous robe on his body has become dirty and tattered, the original gorgeous tassel has been lost completely, Marwan was originally the governor of Khorasan The majesty has long been difficult to fly, his hair is messy, and his body still exudes a strong smell of camel urine, saying that he is an old madman in the desert is probably also believed.
There was no way, the city of Para was defeated, and the defeat was a mess, and it is estimated that the prestige of the Arab Empire in Khorasan was almost lost, and he did not dare to return to the Governor's Palace in Khorasan, Ma Erwan simply led his subordinates to the desert, and from there he turned back directly to Ctesiphon, and he didn't even bother to take a break, so he went to Susa to remind the imperial navy that there was a huge Fujian naval division attacking, pay attention to defense!
In the desert, in a hurry, food and water were not prepared at all, and Marwan still kept hurrying for five days and five nights, and when he encountered the scorching heat, he had to pour camel urine on his head to cool down, and it was no wonder that there was a strange smell on his body.
Full of madness, he directly pushed away the guards of the Governor's Mansion of the Navy Army, Marwan roared hurriedly and rushed in, and just walked to the marble-paved vestibule, a sneer suddenly came.
"Don't treat everyone as if you are so idiotic and incompetent, the dynamics of the Tang people, General Ben has known for a long time."
The mocking voice made Marwan in the madness obviously stunned, turned his head, and sat on a Fujian-style rocking chair made of Caucasian cedar, a man about forty, with a white turban on his head wrapped meticulously, wearing a gorgeous blue silk Arab robe, and a seabird flying fish embroidered by Su embroidery, and a handsome Arab guy with a hard and smooth face was looking at him with a sneer and disdain.
"Busir, you dare to underestimate me, Allah is above, I will duel with you!"
All of a sudden, Marwan's eyes were red and he roared......