In this era, the warships were hit by Greek fire, and they were basically inexplicable.

The Umayyad dynasty made two expeditions to Constantinople, and the mighty fleet was reduced to smoke in the Golden Horn. Greek fires containing phosphine ignite when exposed to water, and once they stick to it, they act like maggots on tarsal bones, and the flames are extinguished when they are burned clean.

After the salvo, the two fleets fell into a panic, the flames rose in an instant, a large number of sailors ran in a panic in the fireworks, many people couldn't stand it, and jumped directly into the water in a hurry. However, there were also large flames floating above the water, and the sailors who fell into the water screamed in the flames, and one by one they were swallowed by the flames and the sea.

In the midst of the fireworks, the fleet of the Tang Army quickly completed its turn, facing the fleet in the sea of fire with the side of the ship on the other side. However, at this time, there was no need to launch another round.

A single salvo ignited all the sea ships, which had a deep draft, and soon began to sink one by one, and the rich aroma wafted towards the Tang fleet from both sides, which was the smell of burning spices. It didn't take long for hundreds of paces on both sides of the Don fleet to be filled with burning planks and sailors struggling to survive, and the flames flowing on the water surface of the estuary were floating around, swallowing up the sailors one by one.

Old Holtzman gasped, and his expression was more in awe than distress. As a sailor who has been tossed in the wind and waves all year round, he has experienced many battles between fleets, but he has never seen such a scene.

This side only attacked once, and more than sixty ships of the opponent were sunk in this way!

These were not defenseless inland merchant ships, but rather a fairly armed ocean-going fleet. So many ships. It was so easy to be ignited by your own fleet.

Near the estuary. There are many large and small fleets, and some of them are closer, all of whom have witnessed this process. At this time, like old Holzman, everyone was stunned.

They had never seen the training of the Anxi military fleet, so they were naturally even more shocked at this time. Seeing the frighteningly large arrows fired from both sides of the flotilla - it was at a great distance - and the flotillas on both sides burst into flames at the same time. Such an attack was something these sailors had never seen before, and such a result was impossible for them to imagine.

I was horrified. The sailors had already steered their ships quickly towards the land on either side of the estuary. At this time, they naturally do not want to suffer from the pond fish.

The fleet sailed with full sails and headed briskly into the river. Niu Xu's eyes were extremely sharp, and he could clearly see the extremely shocked looks on the faces of the sailors of the nearby fleet. His expression was flat, but his heart was extremely satisfied.

This time the shot was just for Liwei. And now it seems that Liwei's purpose has been achieved. At least these merchant ships, which are close enough to get close enough to his fleet, will no longer try to get close to his fleet, and the merchant ships that are a little further away. I believe that the people above will soon know what is going on here.

Such an attack is actually for self-preservation. Keep the fleet at the mouth of the river as safe as possible from the risk of Greek fire.

After all, it is an environment where enemies are on all sides, and in this state, Niu Xu can only trust his own people, trust the Anxi athletes on these ships, whether it is a Persian or a big cannibal, it is impossible for him to truly trust.

The sailors on the river behind him were wailing, and the flames were burning in the sun, and Niu Xu did not look back, squinting ahead. Although it was against the current, the wind was in the right direction, and in a day or two, we should be able to reach the port called Basra.

The fleet continued on its way, getting farther and farther away from the area where the flames were rising in the rear, and gradually became invisible. Of course, it is also possible that the Greek fire has burned out and the flame is extinguished automatically. It doesn't matter which one it is, anyway, there are no more caravans along the way that are not eye-opening and fighting with the fleet for the central passage. It seems that the merchant ships of the big cannibals also have a way to transmit signals between them, and it may also be a flag language, and these merchant ships know that their fleet is not easy to mess with, so they all choose to avoid it.

This time I came to seize the city, not to rob, so I naturally didn't delay along the way. Occasionally, when they encountered a small fleet of boats that were in the way, they directly lit things with Greek fire, but generally the Fufeng attacked by itself, and other ships did not attack. After all, the Fufeng is equipped with the most eight-bull crossbows, and the firepower is the strongest.

Each time he struck, the name of the murder would become even louder, and the nearby fleet would take refuge. As you go up the river in this way, you will naturally get closer and closer to the city of Basra, and you will encounter more and more merchant ships.

This port city is extremely important, and the big food merchants go to various places to do business, and it is an extremely important starting point for maritime merchants. The closer you are to the city, the more prosperous it becomes.

Since the giant arrows used in the Eight Bull Crossbow needed to be transported from Anxi, and there was no way to recover them when they were shot into the water, Niu Xu did not burn the ship when he saw it, but only ignited the merchant ships that were too close to the fleet in the waterway. For this expedition, he and Tian Mingyuan have also been preparing for a long time, and in general, the ordnance materials are enough, but since it cannot be produced in Wannian City, it is naturally possible to save it.

Swimming against the current with such fanfare, there is no concealment of his whereabouts at all. Villages and small towns can be seen in the date palm groves on both sides of the way, and even some simple harbors, but the cows don't stop there.

The Anxi agents have not yet set foot in this area, so there is no standardized map available, and the map that Niu Xu can use in his hand is drawn by Ma Lan in Wannian City before, relying on Ma Lan's memory, of course, Niu Xu is not clear at all. In fact, he had already found that there was a problem with Uncle Pony's map, for example, the location of this estuary was more than ten miles west than marked on the map, and for example, the width of the estuary indicated on Uncle Pony's map was about five or six hundred steps, but in fact it was more than two thousand steps. After all, there is a time difference of more than 1,000 years, and the world in Ma Luan's memory and the world in front of him are completely different.

Of course, these are not clear, but obvious errors can still be seen. Of course, it didn't affect anything, he only grasped one point, the city called Basra had a population of more than 100,000, and cities with more than 100,000 people in such places are rare, so it must be easy to recognize. At least the towns he encountered, with populations of several thousand at most, were not the targets of this attack.

The guides of the Holzman family are all old sailors, but they all take the route from Fars to Datang, and they have only heard of Basra, but they have not really been here. So you can't rely on these guys, these guys follow the ship, in fact, the main function is to play the role of translators in the future.

Three days passed, and at last a large number of buildings appeared on the banks of the river in the distance, and judging by the scale, at least tens of thousands of people should live here. Niu Xu looked at the city and knew that this was Basra.

It's a nice port, and many of the ships moored in the harbor are seagoing vessels, which means that seagoing boats can sail all the way down the river. Niu Xu walked all the way, and he was constantly exploring the depth of the channel, he was now the leader of the Anxi army fleet, and he also had a lot of knowledge in this area, and when he arrived in an unfamiliar river, it was naturally extremely important to detect the river.

Although the swagger along the way was undisguised, due to the shallow draft and the combination of day and night, there was no reaction in the harbor when the fleet arrived.

Seeing the arrival of this fleet, there was still no reaction in the port, and the sailors stood on the deck and pointed at the loading and unloading of the cargo, full of curiosity.

A flotilla of a dozen ships, with strange skull flags on them, no one could figure out what they were for. Naturally, no one could have imagined that this fleet had come to seize the city. After all, no one thought that this was a navy, and the fleet of this era basically had a certain amount of force, and the real navy should be at least a huge fleet of hundreds or even hundreds of ships, and the even larger fleet appeared in the naval war with the Eastern Romans, of course, that is already history.

During the Umayyad period, there was a large naval fleet, but the enemies of the navy were the Eastern Romans, so the base of the navy was Egypt and Syria, and although Basra was an extremely important port, there was never a real naval fleet.

Niu Xu stood on the deck, looked at the ship in the distance, licked the corners of his mouth bloodthirstily - this is also a gesture learned from Uncle Pony, and waved his hand gently. The flag-bearer quickly issued an order in the language of the flag, and more than a dozen warships lined up and slowly pressed towards the harbor, blocking the channel tightly.

A convoy of ships was sailing out of the harbor, with thirty or forty large and small ships, and when they saw that the road ahead was blocked, someone immediately waved their flags, signaling them to get out of the way and let them pass.

The fleet of the Tang Army naturally did not react, and continued to slowly approach the port.

"Damn it! Where did you come from, is this looking for death? ”

The leader of the fleet, who had been sleeping soundly in the cabin, muttered and stepped onto the deck with an annoyed expression.

"That's those guys! They blocked the way, and we couldn't get through. A sailor said in unison.

"Just a dozen boats, is this crazy?" The leader cursed, put his hand on his forehead to block the sun, looked at the fleet slowly approaching, and also saw the strange skull flag.

Then his gaze was drawn to the other banner next to the skull banner, and he couldn't take it off.

"Stop the boat! Stop the boat! Get back! Get back! The drowsiness on the leader's face vanished, and he stared at the banner and shouted.

There were many sailors on the deck of the "......", many of whom were armed with swords, and they were extremely puzzled when they saw the leader's shocked expression.

"My lord, they only have a dozen boats, we don't have to back down-"

Before one of the sailors next to him finished speaking, the leader slapped him and knocked the sailor directly to the ground.

"Only a dozen boats! Do you know who they are? They are the Anxi Army! It's the Anxi Army of the Tang people! The leader pointed to the approaching fleet in front of him, his voice extremely frightened.

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