The depths of the Arabian Sea in the Indian Ocean, 62.2 degrees east longitude, 24.5 degrees north latitude, 60 nautical miles north of the Tropic of Cancer. The Great Qin Imperial fleet is here, meeting the Roman Imperial fleet.

There are no warships of the second floor or less, and there are more than 2,000 large warships with more than three floors, with a total displacement of more than 4 million tons. This is a world recognition of the largest naval battle in a thousand years. A lot of modern naval battles, in terms of total tonnage, cannot be compared with them.

Historians say that the ship technology under the guidance of Emperor Hongwu made earth-shaking changes in the ships at that time, and only then did the largest naval battle in the history of the world occur. At the same time, it is inseparable from the huge national power of the two empires of the East and the West.

The Great Qin, led by Emperor Hongwu, rose to prominence in the East and completely changed the world pattern in the 3rd century AD. The two empires of Sabbath and Kushan fell. All the places with civilizations in the East and the West, all the kingdoms and principalities were merged into the two empires.

If there are two poles in the world, there will never be peace, and the world can only have one king. Therefore, when the Roman economy faced the more advanced Great Qin system, the Great Collapse and the Great Depression. The Roman peasants went bankrupt, the citizens were impoverished, and civil riots were continuous.

Roman Emperor: The Triumphant Emperor Severus, in order to maintain his rule, tore up the treaty and raided the Great Qin Empire, brazenly provoking World War II. As a result, people all over the world are caught up in the flames of war.

This kind of world-class war of real and highly unified, two camps never appeared again.

And at this moment, June 5, 221 AD, the full power of the navies of the East and West. In the later generations of the Arabian Sea collided.

The Roman fleet with twenty massive Celestial-class battleships. Respectively with the Jupiter and the Queen of Heaven. The Poseidon, Apollo, the God of Light, and other Roman gods were named.

The fleet of the Great Qin Empire also has twenty huge Chaos-class battleships, named after Yedu, Luoyang, Chang'an, Xiangyang, Chengdu, etc.

There are countless warships on the remaining four floors and three floors, totaling more than 2,000 ships.

Before the encounter, the Great Qin Navy Governor Gan Ning. The fleet was placed in a two-line formation, intending to encircle the Roman fleet.

And the commanders of the Roman Imperial fleet, Conon, Hippasus, and Marinus, who had joint dictatorship, agreed by consensus, and in accordance with Severus's strategic purpose, they also couldn't wait to destroy the Great Qin Imperial fleet. To achieve this, the Roman fleet also sent a two-line formation.

At this moment, the fleets of the two sides were like four sharp arrows shot out, and the tips of the needles were against Maimang, and the four lines collided with the car.

The Daqin ship uses sail and bottom flap power. This comes from Emperor Hongwu's reference to later generations, and it is inseparable from the research and development of the organ master Huang Chengyan and the scientist Ma Jun. In this way, the side chords of the auxiliary power oars, which were supposed to be arranged, were able to be arranged. The deck was thus freed up. After the ballista is moved down, the catapults are fully arranged.

As for the Roman ships, they started out with obsolete oar power and sails. However, they "learned with an open mind" and imitated the Great Qin ships. A battleship with the same power was created. Ballistae and catapults are the same.

The configuration of both sides is almost identical. It's like the red clothes meet the white clothes, everyone has the same moves, it depends on who fights fast.

The ship's catapult was able to throw fire oil bombs 400 meters away, so long-range strikes began first.

Gan Ning, the Governor of the Great Qin Navy, quickly made changes when he found that the enemy's tactical arrangement was the same as his own. He ordered the two lines of the Great Qin fleet to begin a detour, preparing to occupy the upper hand, thus seizing the opportunity and continuing the plan to encircle the Roman fleet.

And the Roman commander Conon and others, having absorbed the experience of the failure of their predecessors, remained quite vigilant. When the Great Qin fleet began to change lines, the Roman fleet also began to change lines.

Each side drew a graceful arc, and the commanders of both sides hoped that the two arcs would end up and encircle the other fleet.

I didn't think about it, and I crashed into the car again.

These two wings fly together, but the head and tail are connected to encircle the enemy, which is a classic tactic of ancient naval warfare.

Daqin and Rome were used at the same time, like four snakes, caught together. Head to head, where your head goes, mine goes there.

As a result, only a handful of four-story warships met on both sides, but the battle was still fierce.

Almost at the same time, white smoke rose from the side chords of the warships engaged by both sides. Medieval artillery warships, which smoked after firing their guns, there were no real artillery in the 3rd century, only ballistas. To increase the power of the ballistas, these ballistas are soaked in oil. The fire is ignited before the cannon is fired, so the smoke is emitted first.

Then came the thrilling sound of bowstrings. It was really a volley of 10,000 cannons, and the thick ballistas flew across the sea and crashed into the enemy's warships.

The sailors on both sides have good military qualities, which makes the long-range battle between the two sides evolve into a thousand wounds to the enemy and eight hundred self-losses.

Sharp crossbow arrows, with a huge sound piercing through the wood, resounded in the endless sea.

The moment the fire oil bomb thrown by the catapult made a burning arc of death, and successfully landed on the enemy deck, it brought a powerful blow to the wooden warship.

Countless ballistas roared across the sea, and countless fireballs danced in the sky. The warships on both sides, one by one, caught fire and burned.

This is a hard-hitting, evenly matched two sides, making the same hand-to-hand combat, giving each other the same blow.

The Romans had learned their lesson from the previous naval battles in the Persian Gulf, and their sailors were well-trained, their ships were sturdy, and their firepower was plentiful, exactly like that of Great Qin.

In the first contact, the fronts of the two sides in two lines of formation each lost more than 20 warships.

If you continue to fight like this, it will be like two pillars of incense burning at the head, and the other party will burn it, and you will also burn it.

Gan Ning immediately made a decision, and quickly ordered all ships with flags to arrange the Liuding Liujia formation. The difficulty of deploying a thousand warships on the sea is no less difficult than the overall deployment of an army of 500,000. Fortunately, the Great Qin Navy has famous generals such as Tai Shici, Lu Meng, Jiang Qin, Xu Sheng, Ling Tong, Zhou Tai, and Ding Feng.

They each led their own detachments, and according to the pre-war drill, Jiang Qin, Xu Sheng, and Ling Tong each led 300 warships in front, and arranged an inverted goose-shaped open formation. And Gan Ning, Tai Shici and others were behind, and they laid down a hook-shaped formation.

Daqin's formation, which comes from Qimen Dunjia, is not something that foreigners can simulate. Give you a book, and you won't be able to read it.

Qin Feng saw on the flagship that Great Qin's battleship was in a mess, and there was no spectacular scene of the two wings flying together just now.

But the military advisors saw the fame.

Guo Jia said: "This array can be arranged in the sea, and the generals are really geniuses of the navy!" ”

Lao Jia Xu stroked his beard and said: "Look at the open goose in front of you can eat the enemy's warship, this is Liuding." You see, although the battleships inside are scattered, they are hooked, and this is the Rokko ....... ”

Pang Tong hurriedly said: "When the enemy enters the interior, as soon as the six armors are turned around, the six dings are surrounded, and the enemy will face blows from all sides. This is the Taiji two rituals, the two rituals give birth to four elephants, and the four elephants perform gossip, endlessly. ”

I see! Qin Feng finally gained a little.

On the other hand, on the Roman flagship Jupiter, the Roman co-dictators Conon and Hippasos Marinus fainted.

Cipsos scratched his short beard, "What is the Qin army fleet going to do?" Why is the formation so scattered. ”

The Great Qin Navy has always been very strong, and in their opinion, the Great Qin Navy will never suddenly become a straggler.

"There must be a conspiracy!" Marinus said: "The Qin army fleet must want to divide into a large number of formations, expand to the periphery, and surround our army!" ”

Therefore, the joint dictatorship issued an order that the two lines of the Roman fleet remain unchanged, and took advantage of the scattered formation of the Great Qin fleet to rush in and divide and encircle.

"The enemy has been tricked!" Pang Tong was overjoyed.

Qin Feng saw that when the enemy's straight-line formation broke through into our army's formation, it was quickly cut and surrounded by our army.

The three of Kenong were taken aback, and then they knew that the Great Qin Naval Battle was very mysterious. Fortunately, the three of them found it in time, and after losing more than 20 warships, they successfully commanded the fleet to break away from contact with the Qin army.

Immediately after, the Romans inevitably followed in the footsteps of the previous naval battle in the Persian Gulf, and Conon and others began to play conservatively. On the sea, they used warships to lay down the Roman phalanx. A boxy formation, a dense formation. No matter how wonderful the formation of the Great Qin Navy was, after all, it was necessary to contact the battle. The Roman phalanx of the sea, no matter what angle it is, can exert great power.

The boxy sea array is like a square box floating on the sea.

Qin Feng looked at it and said in his heart that if this array was put in the future generations, it would be killed by a single artillery blast, and it would be a self-mutilating array. However, this self-mutilating formation in later generations, in the 3rd century, when there was no artillery, was the supreme formation in garrison.

The Romans were thus able to take the enemy without moving, and I did not move, hugging together and tightening the defensive line. If Qin Feng was coming head-on, the Romans slowly retreated and only made forward contact, and the firepower was open, fighting hard, and fighting a war of attrition with the Qin army.

If the Qin army wanted to encircle, the Romans would move and retreat at full speed, and would never let you encircle. If you consume it with me, I will accompany you to the end.

The two sides have the same troops, the same equipment, and the soldiers are on par, and the formation of this formation by Conong and others is also appropriate. This is like two phalanxes of archers, always maintaining a certain distance, in the case of equal equipment and strength, if you shoot me less, I can also shoot as many of you as I want.

In this regard, Conon and others successfully avoided the tactical weaknesses of the formation.

However, Kenon and the others were also aggrieved, but they knew that they were not as good as Daqin's tactics, so they could only be like this, and it was better to fight than to be defeated and killed.

Gan Ning commanded the fleet several times, but could not form an effective encirclement of the enemy. As for the war of attrition, Emperor Hongwu did not agree to fight.

As a result, the two sides entered a stalemate. Thousands of Roman warships, facing the Qin fleet, formed a large square formation on the sea, you advance and I retreat, you retreat and I advance, it is really a great wonder in ancient times, if there is artillery in modern times, it can not be seen. (To be continued......)