In the naval battles of this era, there was no solution after the ships were ignited by the enemy's Greek fire. During the second siege of Constantinople by the Great Cannibal, more than 2,000 ships of the Great Cannibal fleet entered the Golden Horn, and it is said that only five ships returned to Syria and Egypt. Once the ship was ignited by the Greek fire of the Byzantines, the only thing that could be done was to give up.

The decline of the Umayyad dynasty was caused by the failure of the two sieges of Constantinople. It can be said that the replacement of the white food by the black food is due to the Greek fire of the Byzantines.

That was what happened in the Kaiyuan period, less than forty years ago, and the Great Cannibal naturally remembers it vividly.

Even a professional navy was helpless against Greek fire, let alone these merchant ships. The captains of the Nekonan family had no one to help their comrades who were struggling in the fireworks, but one by one they retreated with their sails full and fled against the current towards the exit of the channel.

The first six ships, along with the crew and cargo on them, could only be abandoned. As for how many will be able to escape, God knows.

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Seeing that the sea ship behind him had escaped, Ma Lan sighed in his heart. At this time, it is naturally impossible to pursue the enemy, because the flames are everywhere on the channel, and the ability of everyone to steer the ship is limited, and the slightest carelessness will lead to fire.

The first two ships to catch fire, the sailors had already given up their efforts to extinguish the fire, many oarsmen were smoked to death on the lower deck, several small boats were put down, rowing hard in the middle of the drifting flames, and soon ignited by the flames on the sea, the sailors jumped into the sea in despair, struggling to survive between the fireworks.

On top of the four lit ships in the back, the sailors waited until the unburned ships had distanced themselves, and then steered the large ships on fire and retreated. The sea was full of flowing flames, and there was not much to do at this time.

The huge hull could not avoid the flowing flames, and the fire on the ship became more ferocious, and the sailors shouted hoarsely above the deck, trying to escape the ship.

At this time, both the Fufeng and the Anthy had completed their turns, the side of the ship on the other side turned, dozens of eight-bull crossbows were fired at the same time, and a large amount of Greek fire poured out.

When the giant arrow landed on the side of the ship, it directly blasted the side of the ship out of a big hole, and there were many that landed on the deck, and the unlucky sailor was crucified under the giant arrow. Many also fell above the sea, and more flames were ignited above the sea.

The burning ship burned even more violently, and by this time the Fufeng and Anzai had raised their sails again.

Six seagoing ships caught fire and blocked the channel, which was full of flames, and the Fufeng and Anzai did not dare to approach. If you get closer, you'll be burned.

The safe passage of the Strait of Hormuz is so wide, and the Fufeng and Anxi are blocked here. Unless these two ships were sunk, it would be absolutely impossible for the Nekonan family's fleet to enter the strait.

At this time, the eight-ox crossbow on the other side of the ship and the bow and stern of the ship had been loaded, but Ma Lu did not give any more orders to attack. These six ships are already finished, and there is no point in continuing to attack.

Naval battles are different from land battles, and if the eight-bull crossbow arrows that are shot fall into the water, there is no possibility of recovery at all. This kind of giant arrow is all cast in the workshop of the Guizi Ma family, and it is extremely difficult to transport it here from Qiuzi, since the battle has been decided, there is naturally no need to waste it.

"It's a pity!" Old Smir stood beside Ma Lu, looking at the sea ship in the fireworks with a painful face.

Ma Lan smiled, knowing what this old guy meant.

These ships had a very deep draft, apparently full of cargo, but now their cargo was to be destroyed by fire along with the ships.

But there is no way to do it, you can't let this group of landlubbers go up in a small boat to grab some goods and come back. The fire is so strong that the sailors of the Neikenan family can't escape, and the Anxi athletes can only look for death when they lean on.

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In the fireworks, the six ships of the Nekonan family burned violently, and the four ships on fire in the second group retreated backwards in the flames flowing on the sea, and I don't know how many sailors were smoked to death in the fireworks, but finally withdrew from the area where the Greek fire burned.

The surviving sailors couldn't even wait to put down the boat, and one by one they jumped from the burning boat into the water and swam off into the distance.

Ma Lu's eyesight was excellent, and the sailors on these four ships managed to escape in the end, and there were no more than twenty people on each boat.

The original number of sailors was probably nearly 100, which means that most of them died in the fireworks.

These people were lucky enough to escape, but the four ships were already burning, and the hull of the ship sank badly, apparently also into a lot of water.

At this time, the first two ships had already disintegrated in the smoke and fire, turning into a pile of burning planks, and a strong aroma wafted over, obviously there were a lot of spices in the cargo.

"It's a pity! What a pity! Old Smir couldn't stop nagging.

On the other side of the flames, the Nekonan family's fleet lowered the boat and rescued the sailors who had escaped from the fireworks.

There were eight ships left, and the faces of the sailors were extremely ugly as they stopped on the channel and looked at the ships burning violently in front of them.

"When did the Holzman family's ship become so powerful?"

"What the hell is that you can throw a Greek fire that far!"

Since the last time the Great Food Navy lost the Battle of the Golden Horn, the Great Cannibals have gradually mastered the recipe of Greek fire, and although the effects of each family are slightly different, they are actually all the same. They also have such a thing as Greek fire, but they can't send it that far.

Now that these two ships are in the waterway, they cannot pass through the strait, and they cannot return to the family.

The Holzman family's ship has become so powerful, how will the Nekonan family compete with them at sea in the future?

The body of a sailor was brought to the deck, pierced by a great arrow, burned by Greek fire, and his hands clutched the arrow.

The sailor had already died when he left the ship, and his younger brother, unwilling to abandon his body, escaped with his body, and the arrow was also brought out.

Captain Salah walked over and pulled the giant arrow out of the corpse. Look closely.

The five-foot-long arrow, made entirely of pure steel, looks like a spear.

"They just tied Greek fire to it and fired it." A sailor who had escaped death looked embarrassed and gritted his teeth.

Salah nodded, spinning the heavy arrow. Such a giant arrow should usually be a wooden handle and steel head, and this is the first time he has seen such a large arrow made of pure steel.

Salah's pupils shrank suddenly, he wiped the blood from the giant arrow with his sleeve, and frowned as he looked at the few small words on it.

Under the sun, the eight small words are extremely clear.

"Anxi Iron Army, unparalleled in the world!"

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"Captain, this is Datang's text!" An old sailor shouted.

Salah nodded, looking at the two big ships in the distance with a heavy face: "Everyone, that's not the ship of the Hozman family, it's the ship of the Heavenly Khan!" It is the Tang people on the ship, the most elite Anxi army in the Tang Dynasty! ”

"Tang people!" When the sailors heard this, they were all shocked.

"Captain, how could the Tang people be here, it's tens of thousands of miles away from Guangzhou!" The old sailor said in unison.

Salah said in a deep voice: "Datang is active and wide, and the garrison of the Anxi Army is also tens of thousands of miles away from Guangzhou, and they are originally the closest army to Dashi in Datang. Everybody! That's the Don's ship! In other words, Datang's Anxi Army has already hit here! ”

The sailors looked at each other in shock.

They were very familiar with the hospitable Tang people, who had just come here from the port of Canton for a long time, and the officials of the Guangzhou City were very kind, and the Tang people in the city of Canton were also very friendly. But shouldn't Datang be far away from their hometown? Now there are ships with Datang here!

"It's been two years since I left my hometown, what happened to Fars? Why did the Holzman family's sea ship become the warship of the Tang Dynasty? The old sailor said in a low voice, his eyes full of confusion.

The sailors looked at each other, all with heavy faces.

Thousands of miles to seek wealth, just for the sake of food and clothing for his wife and children, a trip to Guangzhou Port is profitable, but it takes two years.

Two years is enough time for a lot of things to happen, and they don't know what is going on at home, and they are always worried about their wives and children. Now it's not far from home, but it's blocked out of the strait.

Fars must have had something happening, otherwise the Holzman family's ship would not have become the ship of the Heavenly Khan. But they didn't know what was going on, and when they thought of their relatives at home, they were all anxious.

"Captain, what shall we do now?" One of the sailors asked anxiously.

Salah is not only the captain of this ship, but also an important member of the Nekonan family, and the leader of this fleet, so he is naturally the backbone of everyone.

Salah's face was gloomy, and he said in a low voice: "When I was young, I used to walk through the trade routes of Tang Anxi. From Fars to the territory of the Tang Dynasty, one must first reach the Sistan Basin in the east, and then go north into the Tocharian mountains; The other is to first go northwest to Kerman, then continue northwest into Khorasan, pass through the city of Shabuer and Mulu, then cross the river to Bukhara, and then go east into the Tocharian mountains, and cross the mountains to reach the territory of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty. One of the most elite troops of the Heavenly Khan was stationed there, and its name was the Anxi Army! ”

The sailors looked at Salah and listened quietly.

"I went to Anxi to do business, and I traveled both roads. If the Anxi army wants to come to Fars, it can only take these two roads. Either way, it would take thousands of miles to get to Fars and take more than half a year. I never thought that this army would appear here, in Fars! ”

"You don't know how terrible this army is! The army of Sulu Khan is a joke in front of this army! They are not many in number, but they can wipe out the untamed Turks in the steppe! This army has reached Fars, so from Fars to the east to the Tocharian mountains, it has become the territory of the Heavenly Khan! ”

"No army can fight this army, no army can do it. Ziad was lucky enough to win once, but was soon beheaded. I don't know what you guys think, I just want to go back and see my family. ”

"The officials of the Guangzhou City Bosi told me that the Tang people would not deal with those who laid down their arms." Salah looked at the people around him and said in a low voice, "Everyone, I'm going to surrender to the fleet of the Heavenly Khan!" ”

…… (To be continued.) )