Naval artillery shooting is the most troublesome subject even now, and floating targets and rocking warships add to the difficulty, especially in this era of relying entirely on visual calibration of targets, which can only be exchanged for accuracy by increasing density. And at this moment it was dusk, and it was also the calmest time of the day, and the local battleships were large enough to provide a good opportunity for the gunners to make meritorious contributions.

The first salvo of the Song warship caused the two ships of the Ji Shiguo Navy to be hit, and the cannonballs directly hit the hull and smashed the heart, and the sea water gushed in. The oarsmen's cabins on the ground floor were already low, and the sergeants who were supervising the battle had already run away when they saw that the situation was not good, and the oarsmen were often served by slaves, and in order to prevent them from escaping, they were chained to their seats, and even if they wanted to, they could not leave at all. The influx of sea water soon flooded the bilge and flooded the upper floor, flooding the oarsman's cabin on the second level, and the ship that lost power slowly sank like a dead fish!

With round after round of artillery bombardment, the warships of the Jishi Navy were also shot one after another, and it was okay to be next to the solid bullets, but the unlucky ones were a few people, but looking at the flesh and blood of their companions being smashed by the whistling big iron ball, this visual effect was also impactful enough. And if a flowering bomb happens to fall on the ship, the unlucky one is a group of people, whether it is the chain mail on their bodies, or the heavy bronze shield can not resist the invasion of shrapnel, often a bang, half of the people on the ship have to be hit, dead and wounded, the most terrible is the fire caused by the explosion, at this time there is no other way but to abandon the ship and jump into the sea.

For the Song Army's 'non-contact' style of play, the Ji Shiguo Navy, which has always relied on rushing and jumping gangs to board the ship in hand-to-hand combat, could not adapt to it for a while, let alone think of corresponding tactics. And casualties continue to rise. One by one, the warships were destroyed, which greatly affected their morale. Realize that this battle is difficult to win. To the rear was the port where they had just left, and some of the mercenaries were reluctant to fight. Prepare to flee back if you can't win.

In order to prevent escape into the harbor, Liu Zhenwu, the commander of the detachment, immediately ordered four warships to cut between the enemy and the port, so that the enemy had nowhere to retreat. The remaining battleships divided into two columns and turned to rush towards the enemy fleet array, the left column was led by him personally, and the right column was led by Zhang Fan, the captain of the Shenlong, and inserted into the enemy naval array in two columns.

Because the Song warships rarely needed to use their bows to ram the enemy ships during combat, but required a fierce salvo fire on the enemy ships with the sides of the ships with many gun positions, the combat formation of the fleet began to change from horizontal formations to vertical formations. And the ships in the column should keep a certain distance from each other. If there are many sailing ships participating in the battle, the head and tail of the column must be lined up for several miles, which is not only difficult to communicate and command, but also impossible to maintain formation when the wind direction is irregular.

The Song Shuijun was aware of this problem in the Battle of Jinhai, so he made adjustments to the battle formation, requiring that the column formation should not be too long. That is, there could not be many battleships in the column, but the artillery fire of each battleship should be strong. in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the fleet. This theory soon gave rise to a new tactic, in which the fleet was formed into a single column, gaining the upper hand and then approaching the enemy within range of the ship's guns. Move in parallel with the enemy's course, and destroy the enemy ship with the cannons on the sideboard.

The Song warships sailed relatively slowly with the enemy and broke into the gaps in their arrays. The warships of the Shiguo Navy were both happy and surprised. The joy is that the enemy army has come to the door, and he can give full play to his advantage in close combat; I was shocked by the height of the enemy warship. The waves brought up were so strong that they couldn't get close, and the ramming tactics were useless. And the curved beak-like hook on the suspension bridge was never able to catch the enemy ship, so there was no hand-to-hand combat with the jumping gang. And while they were in a hurry, the guns of the enemy ships once again spit out fire, and they did not run at such a close distance at all, and sent them to the bottom of the sea with the ship and men.

The two Song warships inserted into the enemy group's two-sided artillery salvo and bombarded the enemy ships incessantly, they avoided this round, and the next round was waiting for them, and the channel to escape to the port had also been blocked, and there was nowhere to escape, and they could only be ravaged by the Song ships at will. By the time the Song warships came out of the battle and turned back to fight again, there were less than 20 Jishiguo warships that could still float on the sea, and five or six of them were damaged and barely floating on the sea.

When they saw that the Song warships were catching up against the wind, the Jishi navy, which had suffered heavy losses, had no strength to fight again, so they stopped sailing and lowered their battle flags and surrendered. The last rays of the sun stained the sea red, the earth-shattering cannon silenced, the smoke gradually cleared, and the seabirds returned to the surface. In less than an hour, the naval battle ended, the Song army sank 32 enemy ships, seriously damaged 6 ships, captured 13 ships, killed more than 4,000 enemies, captured more than 2,000 enemies, sank to the bottom of the sea with the ships, the missing people were not counted, and there were almost no casualties on their own side. The first large-scale naval battle between East and West ended......

At the end of the naval battle, the siege battle also came to an end. On the first day of its establishment, the New Song Army was fighting against foreign races, and in the face of the all-out nomads, an unwritten rule was formed among the loyal and brave army: for the enemy with weapons, regardless of men, women, and children, they could shoot first. It is said that this was tacitly approved by the emperor, who had always opposed the indiscriminate killing of innocents, and it became a special case in front of Zhao Yi, the captain of the law enforcement team who has always been known for his iron-faced selflessness and strict law enforcement, and no one has been punished for this for so many years.

Many people benefited from this special military discipline, which was not written into military regulations, and it was passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation of veterans, and became an iron law to protect lives. The new armies that were formed subsequently had an inseparable kinship with the Loyal Army, and naturally brought this military regulation to all armies, and it was also inherited by the Marine Corps. In the case of fighting in a foreign country, language barriers, and crowds of enemies, where is there so much time to distinguish between friend and foe, and I can't understand their babbling explanations, but everyone knows that a knife can kill, and if you stab it in the stomach, you will die, but if you kill it, you can avoid being killed.

In fact, this kind of seemingly indiscriminate killing regulations do not know how many soldiers' lives have been saved, and of course, it is not excluded that there are unjust souls under the gun. And the failure to include this article in the military regulations is precisely to avoid the noise of those defenders of the DPRK and China! Of course, everyone in Ji Shi has not forgotten this iron law, all those who are armed with weapons are killed, and killing is the international common language, everyone can understand it at a glance, and there is no need for translation at all, which also allowed the marines to quickly quell the resistance in the city, break through the city lord's mansion, and capture the city lord.

And those who escaped from the east gate soon found themselves deceived, the coast was steep and there was no way out, and the island itself was a large cage. Fortunately, the Song army did not kill them, but only separated the merchants from all over the country and the people of Ji Shiguo, and then the rescued Song merchants came forward to identify, and all those who participated in the robbery, plundered property, and captured them were all selected and executed on the spot. He did not embarrass the merchants of those countries, but also allowed them to enter the city to rescue and find their goods.

The people of the island spent a night of panic amid the sporadic gunfire, and as soon as the sun had risen, the people of 'Mozhina', who had occupied the kingdom of Jishi, posted a notice saying that the lord of the Seljuk Empire was greedy and cruel, and had bullied our Great Song merchants for many years, looted goods, and killed our people. When the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty heard this, he was extremely angry and decided to act for the heavens and send heavenly soldiers to punish him. Now it is found out that the city lord of Shiguo is his accomplice, and he collected heavy taxes from the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty to cause disputes, and even used the army to rob openly and arrest the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

The proclamation, written in four languages commonly used by various countries, was posted throughout the island, while the public execution of the lord of the city of Ji Shi was carried out and his body hung from a flagpole. The Song army, who had then taken over the island, became the new masters of the kingdom, sending troops to inspect and restore order, and driving captured soldiers and officials to bury the dead and clear the ruins. A new market was then established in the south of the city, near the port, and it claimed that only 20% of the value of the goods was charged as a transaction tax.

The people of the world are bustling for profit, and the merchants of the island have come here for money at the risk of their lives, thinking that after a war, the new occupiers will definitely confiscate all their goods, and then leave them crying without tears. Surprisingly, these 'Morna' people not only reopened their ports and allowed them to trade freely, but also significantly reduced their taxes. Merchants are profit-seeking, as long as there is money to be made, where do they care about the smoke of gunpowder and the blood stains, they immediately set up tents, spread out their stalls and start trading!

To the surprise of the merchants, the 'Morna' sergeants who served as tax collectors were all gifted as merchants, and they could tell how much cargo they were carrying when they boarded the ship, and they could estimate the value of the goods at a glance. And it's hard to deceive, even if the goods are hidden in a very secret place, they can dig through them. After a few fights, the businessmen were also honest, obediently paying taxes according to the price, and no longer dared to play tricks.

The Great Song Dynasty Navy was born in overseas trade, and many of them were old traders, and the temporary city lord was once the leader of the largest caravan in Goryeo, Fusang, and Southeast Asia. But if the merchants had known the details of this 'Moorna' navy, they would have been honest a long time ago.

And Cheng Xishou, who was sitting on the island, also calculated the accounts, and the property confiscated from the city lord's mansion and government office by breaking through the city this time was enough to offset the military expenses spent on this expedition, plus the taxes collected in this quarter were basically enough for the military expenses of their navy for a year. If you can capture the capital of the Seljuk Empire according to the emperor's plan, wouldn't it be enough to build another Great Song naval army, which is really a fucking good deal...... (To be continued......)