It's a sunny, rare good weather in the Persian Gulf. On the endless sea, the Roman Western fleet discharged a dense conical formation. The super battleship Jupiter was in the middle of the formation. Commander Agrippa, constantly passing through the Guò Tower, conveying orders to move forward at full speed.

Agrippa happily said to his lieutenant, "Davisk, do you know? Whoever controls the ocean controls the world. It was the survival of our navy that enabled the great Rome to rule all the lands around the Mediterranean. And those rotten old guys only have the Army in their eyes. ”

"The Qin army wants to control the sea power, which is a smart move. However, the Qin army underestimated the strength of our Roman fleet. This time, the Great Qin Fleet, which entered the Persian Gulf, was completely annihilated. Let the old immortals in the Senate know that our navy can do what the army can't. Let His Majesty know that only the navy is needed to defeat Great Qin. ”

"Do you know why?" Agrippa asked.

The adjutant's eyes widened.

"Access to the sea, the navy is able to reach anywhere, access to the sea ....... Hey, what's wrong with you? ”

The adjutant looked frightened and screamed, "Ah! fleet, the fleet of the Qin army! ”

"Yes!" Agrippa was very pleased with the adjutant's reaction, but he was full of disdain for his uneasiness, but he smiled and said, "First of all, we must destroy the fleet of the Qin army!" ”

"The fleet of the Qin army is here, Your Excellency Commander!"

Agrippa's brow furrowed, as if he had misunderstood. When he thought of this, his face turned white, and when he turned to look, he saw a large fleet on his left. It's like a long dragon, breaking through the waves. His face changed dramatically. "What, how can there be a fleet of the Qin army here. Catullus this idiot. Didn't he already stare at the Great Qin fleet? Why don't you notify me! ”

However, Agrippa was worthy of being the commander of the fleet with the brilliant record of annihilating the Vikings, and he immediately gave the order: the whole fleet turned to the left, changed the front and rear wings, and went out together, "The center is moving forward at full speed and smashing the formation of the Great Qin fleet away!" ”

It was a good idea, but the formation of the Roman fleet through the Guò Strait was too dense. For a while, it was impossible to develop a new formation.

It is recorded in the history books that the Roman Western Fleet has a super battleship Jupiter and five five-story warships, namely the Queen of Heaven, the Poseidon, the Angel of Light, the Apollo, and the Hope. There are more than 300 warships of the remaining four and three tiers.

Agrippa, the commander of the Imperial fleet, couldn't wait to wipe out the Great Qin fleet outside Persian Harbor. For a quick crossing of the Strait of Hormuz. He lined up in a dense formation.

When Tai Shi Ci, the vice-governor of the Great Qin Navy, led his fleet, suddenly appeared on the left flank of the Roman Western Fleet, it was the largest naval battle in the history of world warfare so far. Erupted.

Roman ships were oar-powered and sail-powered, armed with large ballistae and catapults, which were arranged on deck.

The Daqin ship uses a more advanced bottom-flap power. This comes from the idea of Emperor Hongwu and the design of Huang Chengyan, a master of mechanics. Such a dynamic. Ordered the Great Qin ships to arrange the ballista launches in the place where the oars were arranged before. And the position of the ballista on the original deck. Replaced by an advanced catapult.

The cannon in Chinese chess refers to the catapult. It began to be used in the Spring and Autumn Period, and became an important weapon for attacking and defending cities after the Sui and Tang dynasties. It was used not only for attacking and defending cities, but also for field strikes against armies. At the same time, these powerful ancient gods of war were also used on ships.

Each of these catapults of the Qin army was the size of a bridge cart of later generations, and they used twisted power. As we all know, the weight is large, and the throw is close. Is it a long throw or a heavy investment? Emperor Hongwu gave instructions: in contemporary times, they are all wooden warships. Catapults on battleships, instead of throwing stones, are fire oil bombs. The cowhide was wrapped, lit, and thrown, and when it fell, it fell apart, and the fire spread.

Therefore, the ship-borne catapult of the Qin army chose to go far. It can launch a ten-pound fire oil bomb for 400 meters. In the third century AD, it was already an ultra-long-range strike.

These improvements to the Great Qin ship have given it a more ferocious firepower output.

At that time, Daqin's fleet drew a graceful arc above the blue sea. When the distance between the two sides was no longer within the range of the ballista, the Qin fleet first fired tens of thousands of fire and oil bombs. For the Roman fleet, it was a meteoric disaster. If you are hit, it will catch fire.

As soon as the Roman fleet flanked it, it was hit with a devastating blow, and then the Roman warships made a U-turn and tried to rush into the Qin army's formation. However, the Qin army took advantage of the vastness of the sea and kept a safe distance from the Roman ships for a considerable period of time.

And the catapults of the Roman fleet did not have a long range of the Qin fleet, so they could only be beaten passively. If you escape, you will be chased and beaten, and you will not be able to catch up with the Great Qin fleet for a while, and the Roman commander Agrippa will be anxious.

The Roman warship, which was on fire, with billowing smoke, suddenly stopped advancing. On the deck, the same burning Roman soldiers, could only jump into the sea. For a time, the sea was a pot for boiling water, and the Roman soldiers were dumplings, constantly tumbling. Many small boats were lowered to rescue those who had fallen overboard.

The Great Qin warship had the advantage of a long range, and the Roman ships had to get closer, and they finally bit the Great Qin ships. The Roman fleet also began to use catapults, throwing stones and torches.

Both sides came within range of the ballistas. Agrippa discovered that there were only catapults on the deck of the Qin warship. Such devices have a long range, but are useless at close range.

The Great Qin battleship is using the side chord to maximize the firepower output possible. Therefore, the Roman ships rushed head-on, hoping to break through Daqin's line and use the strong ramming angle of the bow to smash Daqin's side into two against the battleship.

When the Roman ships fired their guns first, Agrippa believed that the Great Qin ships had only long-range trebuchets on their decks and lacked melee equipment. Agrippa then ordered the soldiers to fire a device called "pincers". This device acts like a mechanical arm, capable of pinching enemy ships. On the other end, there are many thick ropes that can bring each other closer.

However, Agrippa misassessed the combat effectiveness of the Great Qin ships, he had dominated the Mediterranean for many years, and had not fought a naval battle for a long time. He only thought that the Roman fleet was invincible. He paid dearly for his "pride of the Mediterranean".

When the Romans projected this device called "pliers", Gan Ning was slightly frightened but overjoyed. He used the flag to give orders to the ships. Do not expose the ballistae in the hull on either side for the time being. and make an illusion that you can't resist and are constantly being pulled closer.

Broadside battles. It has been the mainstream of naval warfare for hundreds of years in this era.

The generals of Rome, loudly encouraging their sailors. The sailors fastened the rope at the other end of the "pliers" to the winch and turned it vigorously. As their ships approached the Qin ships, the Roman soldiers took up their arms and prepared for the upcoming broadside battle.

Hand-to-hand combat occurs when ships are dragged together. The Roman soldiers believed that they would jump onto the deck of the Great Qin ship, and that they would use any means other than fire attack. Go and slaughter these yellow-skinned monkeys.

The ships of the two sides got closer and closer, and a large number of Qin warships were locked by "pincers", so the two sides continued to get closer. Although a large number of Roman warships were hit by Qin fire bombs during this period, Agrippa believed that he must have won the victory. He personally launched a number of pincers and "caught" the Chang'an, the flagship of Daqin.

The Jupiter and Chang'an were getting closer and closer, and when they entered Agrippa and Ganning, they could clearly see each other's appearances.

Thousands of Roman warriors gathered in the bow of the ship, waiting for the moment of collision.

Agrippa stood one floor above the Jupiter. He looked at Gan Ning with mockery.

"Die!" Gan Ning raised his middle finger, "Order, fire on all cylinders." Full! ”

At the sound of an order, the towed Chang'an burst out with unprecedented power, and it forcibly crossed over. He aligned his sidestrings with the bow of the Jupiter.

Agrippa paused for a moment, and went down closer. Those terrible catapults carried by the Qin warships should have lost their effectiveness. "Orientals are stupid, my Jupiter. It will crash this Great Qin's flagship into two sections! ”

All Romans, so they thought. No matter how huge the battleship is, the sharp ramming angles can tear it apart.

The next moment, however, the situation changed. I saw the side chord of the Chang'an, and turned out the five-story windows, and the dense windows were one after another, and there were as many as one or two hundred.

"Do you want to run for your life with your oars?" Agrippa scoffed, "That's impossible, what did you do earlier!" Stupid, piggy ....... ”

"Ballista, it's a ballista!" The adjutant screamed in panic.

"What!" Agrippa could barely believe that what he was seeing was real, and through the open window of the Guò Chang'an, he could clearly see the ballista inside, and the thick crossbow arrow of the man shone with a penetrating luster.

In an instant, white smoke from the cannon fire came out of the window, and the crossbow bolts soaked in fire oil suddenly burned.

The next moment, there was the head-numbing sound of bowstrings, and ten thousand cannons were fired in unison, and the whole crossbow bolt burst into flames, and with a roar, the bow of the Jupiter struck at it.

Click, boom, click~

The bow of the Jupiter was hit by a hundred shots, and the Roman soldiers prepared at the bow were all knocked to the ground by the force of the impact. When they got up, their commander Agrippa was no longer visible, for the entire bow of the ship had been beaten to pieces. "God forbid!" This was the thought of all Roman soldiers.

Immediately after, however, they felt an irresistible force coming from below deck, and they saw the back of their comrades' heads, and their eyes went black and they lost consciousness. It turned out that the ballista on the fifth floor of the Chang'an raised the angle. A powerful bolt swept across the entire foredeck of the Jupiter. Some of the crossbow arrows, even hanging from the corpses of the Romans, flew into the sky.

At this time, all the ships in front of the Jupiter were on fire. The Qin army's powerful ballista, sharp crossbow tips and tremendous strength, tore through the wooden hull of the Jupiter, and a single bolt swept across the sixth floor of the Jupiter's cabin. The boatmen who rowed in the cabin died in large numbers, and a fire broke out in the cabin.

The Jupiter was finished, and the "pincers" lost their manpower.

The Chang'an eliminated its most formidable opponent, the supership Jupiter, which once swept across the Mediterranean. As it turned out, this huge ship was not as powerful as it seemed. The Qin Army's Chaos-class battleship, although it does not have the powerful firepower of later generations, comes from the advanced design concept of the Hongwu Emperor, and the Chaos-class battleship is the overlord of the sea in this era.

And the Jupiter, for its backward combat technology, paid the price.

Subsequently, all the Great Qin warships opened the windows of the side strings, and countless ballistas fired flaming crossbow arrows. Roman ships, one by one caught fire, burned and sank.

Fragments, mutilation, corpses, paved the entire Strait of Hormuz. Blood, for a time, turned the Persian Gulf into another "Red Sea".

The Great Qin Expeditionary Fleet sank the flagship and super battleship Jupiter, the five-story battleship Tianhou, the Poseidon, the Bright Angel, the Apollo, and the Hope.

A total of more than 200 fourth- and third-story warships were destroyed. The remaining more than 100 ships caught fire and surrendered.

The war will never be without a price, and the hundred sea fighting ships and sea ships of the Great Qin are sunk on the battlefield. More than a dozen ships were damaged and sunk in the Persian Gulf. Fortunately, the sailors on board were rescued.

World Historical Records: In 216 AD, on September 5, the 11th year of Hongwu, the Great Qin Expeditionary Fleet annihilated the "Western Fleet" that Rome had ruled the Mediterranean Sea for hundreds of years in the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. It was a glorious victory that went down in history, the first victory of the Great Qin Empire against the Roman Empire's "Longevity Smoke" war. From then on, the cannon ships of Daqin entered the Persian Gulf, which had been ruled by Rome for hundreds of years.

At the same time as the Great Qin fleet wiped out the Roman Western Fleet, Yedu, Imperial Palace.

In the imperial study, Qin Feng will always become nervous when he is free. Because he didn't know what happened to the Great Qin fleet. He would love to have a telephone, no, he would like to have a satellite system that can monitor the situation in real time.

At the moment, however, he could only wait.

At this time, the chief steward Dequan walked in and bowed: "Your Majesty, Lord Xu Shu asks to see you." ”

"Oh?" Xu Shu is Qin Feng's chief military advisor, that is, the first assistant, there must be something important, so Qin Feng immediately summoned him.

After a while, Xu Shu walked in.

"Yuan Zhi, what's the matter?"

Xu Shu hurriedly bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the envoy of Queen Himihu of Yamatai has arrived. ”

Qin Feng was stunned for a moment, "Evil Horse Taiguo? "The powerful Great Qin has made Emperor Hongwu forget the inconspicuous island country in the sea to the east many times. (To be continued......)