"It's a beautiful boat, and it's made of oars!" Sitting on the top deck, Shirakawa held a telescope and watched the hundreds of ships besieging Athens. The boats were beautifully painted, unlike most of the Ming boats, which used colorless paint to maintain the original color of the wood.

It is more appropriate to say that it is paint, rather than a grease that protects the wood.

"Also, all the oars are painted red, which is similar to what is drawn in the book, and this era is not the era of the Ottoman galleons, and oars are still used. It's too slow, which is a big drawback. Eight guns on a single side, I don't know what the range is? Or ......"

The white crane is commenting on the ships of the Ottoman Empire.

Angela is going crazy and finally returns home, but the first thing she sees is that the enemy army is attacking her city.

The port of Athens, once the most important port in the easternmost part of the Byzantine Empire, is not one of them. Athens was also part of the Byzantine Empire. The soldiers there did not even have a decent set of clothes, their weapons were very poor, and they were using pitchforks, and they were desperately resisting the well-armed Ottoman army.

"White Crane!" Angela bit the white crane's arm, and then looked at the white crane with tears in her eyes.

The entire Daming fleet was already in formation, but it was not put into battle. There is no order and no one will kill impulsively, and the other party also has hundreds of boats, although the size is only the size of 1,500 materials on the side of the Ming Dynasty, but the one with the oar has one more advantage than the ship with the sail, that is, flexibility.

It is difficult for a sail boat to make a sharp turn, but an oars can.

Lan Hai and other generals have already begun to discuss tactics, and Lan Hai is not in a hurry to fight, because the order has not come down yet, and there is no harm in observing for a while.

came out with the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, but not to send them to death.

Shore. Maritime. Both the Greeks and the Ottomans saw the Ming fleet, but they didn't know the flag of this fleet, and they didn't know the military uniforms on those people. The battle for the port is fierce, and while they want to take the port in one fell swoop, they are desperately resisting.

No one cares about this huge, but unknown fleet.

When the fleet gathers more and more. That's when both sides felt nervous.

Only then did the white crane react, holding Angela's face and saying, "Don't forget jì, you are the Byzantine Empress Oliviale I, this is your homeland, your ...... Site! ”

Angela looked dazed, she didn't understand what Bai Minghe was talking about at all?

"Don't understand?" Shiraming Crane shoved a short sword into Angela's hand: "You can give it a try, draw the sword and swing it forward vigorously, shouting a ......, such as attacking the Ottomans or something......"

When it comes to this, it is impossible for Angela not to understand. She didn't use the short sword, but went to grab Shira's sword. Shiraema hurriedly ducked to the side and delivered a guard's sword to Angela.

Angela couldn't care too much about it, and drew her long sword with both hands and waved it in the air hard: "Kill all the Ottomans......"

"Kill them all, it's so cruel!" Bai Minghe whispered a word next to him, and then gave Chen Adaa a look. Chen Adaa stretched out his hand and waved vigorously, and the Empress Oliviale lowered the mainsail.

The surrounding fleets were watching the ship, and all the decks began to move when the sails were lowered.

On the Sagara Dragon King, Huaiyu stood in the captain's room and shouted at Hua Mei, "There is a signal." There's a signal. Let's take the lead! ”

The first ...... is exactly what Huamei wants. She had always wanted to give a good shot at the heroic appearance of the Sagara Dragon King.

did not cooperate with the battle formation, did not obey the command, and attacked privately......

This qiē doesn't matter, this order was given by Princess Huaiyu of Yongqing, who has an opinion to mention, as long as he has the guts.

In the battle array, Lan Hai whispered softly: Hurry, hurry, hurry.

Why be fast. As soon as I saw that the Sagar Dragon King was adjusting his posture, he knew that the ship wanted to rush up, Li Huamei was an excellent captain, but not an excellent commander. She would cooperate with the fleet to a limited extent, but she was still used to the way of small troops rushing forward, and the lawless Princess Huaiyu was on that boat again.

Alas....... Lan Hai sighed slightly, this Huaiyu can't be hurt.

In case Huaiyu was injured, the Ming Emperor dared to send another two thousand boats over to give the people here some good looks.

"Generate electricity, order Thunder to prepare for an assault, let him be careful of the Shagara Dragon King!" Blue Ocean gave Thunder an order.

This qiē was only a few minutes, and the people in the port had already ceased fighting, and the fleet on this side was only moving slightly, but those who were familiar with naval warfare could feel that this was a posture of preparing for battle.

Suddenly, a blood-red mainsail suddenly appeared in the middle of the fleet, and the sun's red was as red as blood.

"Double-headed eagle!" Caesar shouted and fell to one knee in front of the mainsail.

The whole fleet began to raise the flag, yellow checkered on a red background, and a golden double-headed eagle.

After a brief pause in the battle of the harbor, the Athenian army shouted the double-headed eagle and charged at the enemy again. On the side of the Ming fleet, Hua Mei has already ordered to dispatch, but she is not the fastest, under the thunderous throne, thirty-six ultra-high-speed warships have already attacked.

Moving forward at full speed, using the same as the favorite sliding wheel of the Ming people.

It was the sailing ship that accelerated forward, forcibly pulled the sail when it approached the enemy ship, and then turned the hull sideways. Then, according to the method of steppe cavalry shooting, give the enemy a round of artillery bombardment in the high-speed movement.

"Full speed, all the gun doors open." Hua Mei didn't expect the thunder to be so fast, obviously she had been prepared.

The Ottoman ship was not small in hull and not low in thickness, but it was made with oars, and the speed was certainly not fast. After the baptism of the Ming fleet in a fast and slow way, thirty-six ships and more than a thousand cannons, the dragon king of Huamei stepped forward with an absolutely mighty posture, with a red hull and a black mainsail, and a flower on the mainsail, a flower unknown to Europeans.

This ship rides the wind and waves, and reigns like the god of war.

The Sagara Dragon King directly killed the enemy's ship formation, and with its own super high speed and super firepower, it fired at both sides at the same time indiscriminately. Shooting at the same time on both sides does not affect the hull posture and only makes the boat faster.

Chips of wood flew across the sea in an instant, and cannonballs hit the hull of the Ottoman ship.

Beside Lan Hai, an adjutant general said at this time: "Lord Admiral, this can be regarded as a sneak attack!" ”

Count, why not. Lan Hai also knew that this was definitely a sneak attack, but he said: "On the sea, there are strange fleets, especially those with a huge number of fleets, that suddenly appear next to you, without knowing whether they are friends or foes. Don't you be on your guard? ”

"This ......" lieutenant general could hear it, and this was a sneak attack.

Suddenly, the Byzantine double-headed eagle flag was hung, and the other party had time to react. Moreover, the position of the Ming fleet was in the rear of the opposing side, and the direction of the main force of the Ottoman fleet was the port, not the back.

Blue Ocean didn't explain it anymore and doesn't need to be explained.

Even if someone asks back in Daming, you can answer. The ports of the Byzantine Empire were under attack, and the fleet directly attacked the rear of the opposing side, which was the correct way to fight.

The transports in the rear of the Ottoman navy had the slightest ability to resist, and in the blink of an eye, half of them were sunk.

The main navy had turned around, but the Ming fleet stopped advancing, slowed down after the range of the artillery, and began to place some slender wooden strips into the water. This range is two and a half miles, and some can be as far as three miles.

And the guns on the ship, first, consider the rate of fire, and secondly, the recoil, so the firing range is limited.

The farthest cannon of the Sagara Dragon King was only two and a half miles away. The rest are basically around 22 to 250 zhang. That is, one and a half miles, not even a kilometer.

The firing range is divided into effective range and maximum firing range, and the generals of the Ming Dynasty have analyzed that the maximum firing range of the guns on the Ottoman ships is also about three miles, and the effectiveness is about one hundred and eighty zhang. The generals of the Ming Dynasty did not want to have extra casualties here, so they used a type of Divine Fire Flying Fish floating on the water, in the shape of a small boat.

As soon as he saw this thing in the water, Bai Minghe said to Chen Ada, "Let's enter the port!" ”

"My lord, the battle is not over yet!" Chen Adaa said on the side.

"You're wrong, you have to enter the port now. As an empress in the midst of war, ignoring the enemy army and ignoring the battle. Entering the port with a proud attitude is a kind of explanation to the people and a kind of confidence. What's more, by the time I approach the port, the battle will basically come to an end, so don't underestimate our Daming Sailor. ”

Chen Ah Da agreed with Bai Minghe's words and immediately ordered to move forward.

There were no frigates, no ships with them, and two-thirds of the Ming fleet was still quietly anchored on the sea. The Empress Oliviale slowly moved forward towards the port of Athens.

Three miles from the port, a third of the main Ottoman fleet was already on fire. The Flying Fish all had nails that would nail to the hull of the ship as soon as they touched it, and then start burning. Even if you don't burn the hull of a ship, it's nerve-wracking to see it.

The important thing is that the smoke affects the hearts of the gunners, and they will be afraid.

Another round of shelling, and the Ottoman fleet began to prepare for a breakthrough.

"Summon, let them go. Begin to attack enemy forces on the shore, the marines prepare. "The blue sea will not go to the death to block the fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the other party is also a big empire, their artillery will also hurt the ships of the Ming Dynasty, and there is not even a port to repair ships here, so before gaining a firm foothold, it will definitely not fight a tough battle.

Hundreds of Ottoman ships began to retreat from the eastern seas, and the Ming fleet that was anchored in the sea remained motionless.

The Admiral of the Ottoman Navy glanced back at the neat fleet, and he understood that this was not a Byzantine ship. (To be continued......)

PS: Typos are an eternal pain in my heart.