As soon as the bronze cannon flashed, a ten-pound shell was fired. Regardless of whether the board thickness of the ship on the opposite side is three, five or ten centimeters, when a ten-pound iron ball is fired, the position of the bullet will be shattered like a heavenly maiden.

"Guys, get ready to land." Ignoring the fierce battle that was going on, the commander of the fleet of the Great Song Eastern European Division calmly said to the stunned Mongolian generals on the deck.

At this time, twenty Great Song warships were attacking the fleet of about three hundred knights, even if it was one against fifteen, the Great Song fleet did not have any fear or hesitation. The firing ports on the shelling deck were fully opened, and five ten-pound bronze cannons were loaded on each side of each floor, and they opened heavy fire on the enemy's warships.

"It's not good to land at night." Feng Gongfan, the general of the Yuan Kingdom, asked with a slight frown.

"If you can't do it all at once, the enemy will inevitably find a way to fight back. At that time, we were only losing for nothing. The commander of the fleet gave a bland account of his views, many of which had been accumulated from the battle with the Mongols.

"But......" The Egyptian generals still had little confidence.

"We do not choose ports that the enemy is heavily defending, but land on beaches suitable for landing." The commander of the fleet gave the answer.

"Our Yuan army landed first." Feng Gongfan, the general of the Yuan State, said decisively. As a guest army, his troops have a strong sense of estrangement, and everyone just wants to leave as soon as they finish the fight.

Rhodes was formerly the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire and is located only 17 kilometers from the coast of Eastern Rome. The island has many sandy beaches and is a holiday destination in the 21st century. This kind of beach is enjoyable for tourists and is also very suitable for landing.

In the evening, under the escort of large ships, a group of flat-bottomed boats went straight to the beachhead. The sailors paddled desperately and ran aground as fast as they could. As soon as the boat stopped on the beach, the Mongols on board jumped into the water, carrying weapons and backpacks on their backs, and rushed to the shore. Rhodes Island is about 1,500 square kilometers in size, and the defenders of the island were attracted by the Great Song sailors cruising outside the harbor at this time, hiding in the dock forts, shivering, and praying to God. There were no troops to defend those beaches.

When the people on board disembarked, the flat-bottomed boats floated slightly, and the steamships of the Great Song Dynasty used ropes to drag the flat-bottomed boats back to the sea, and continued to come back to transport the new wave of Mongol landings.

After a busy night, when the morning sun lit up Rhodes the next day, more than 2,000 people had already landed on the island and occupied a beachhead. The more than 2,000 people were only one percent of the whole army, the Egyptian army sent 15,000 people, the Yuan State sent 3,000 people, plus the Song State naval army of 2,000 people, to form an army to attack Rhodes.

The Great Song steamer began to circle Rhode Island, trying to prevent any of the island's ships from escaping or coming to affect the landing. As yesterday, no matter what the opposing ships looked like, the Great Song ships greeted them with artillery at a distance of 100 meters.

Unlike yesterday, the Knights Hospitaller were forced to face the facts, and there was no such thing as yesterday in the Headquarters. There is a kind of heraldry in Europe, which is to learn to distinguish between the various forces and family coats of arms in the vast sea. The coat of arms of the enemy is very clear, the Great Song Dynasty, the Boyan of Egypt, and the Yuan army.

"How did those Song people build such a huge ship!" The Grand Master's voice was filled with anger.

In the past, the Song fleet used ships in the Mediterranean, and it was their sails and rigging that were ahead. After the canals in Egypt were dug up, the Great Song ships began to be more different. For example, it is equipped with a paddle wheel that can rotate on its own, and it has a strong mechanical power. However, those ships are twenty or thirty meters long, and the superiority of the troops is obvious.

The new ship of the Great Song Dynasty, which was attacking Rhode Island, was about 70 meters long and 10 meters wide, and looked like a huge palace from a distance. Compared to the large ships of the Song Kingdom, all the ships of the Knights Hospitaller were like low and dilapidated chambers.

The Great Song fleet naturally knew its strong advantage, and ten of the twenty ships circled around Rhodes Island unhurriedly, while the other ten blocked the two harbors, preventing the remnants of the Knights' fleet hiding in the harbor from breaking through.

Compared with those knight ships that could only attack a few tens of meters away, the Great Song fleet paid more attention to the Mongolian troops that landed. The soldiers of the Yuan State wore leather armor, and most of their melee weapons were wooden-pole spears. In an army of 3,000 men, there were about 300 muskets, and 40 guns were all two-pound guns.

Compared with the Yuan army, the Egyptian army was extremely luxurious. Boyan's 7,000 directly subordinate troops all have chain mail, and 1,000 of them are equipped with plate armor. The 8,000 True God Cult troops also have leather armor to wear. Weapons are also mostly various scimitars, long knives, or shield short swords. The metal content in the troops was much higher than that of the Yuan army.

The Great Song fleet knew the experience of the Boyan army, and they conquered many famous cities and annihilated a large number of enemy troops. In addition, he went to Italy to sweep again, and the amount of loot captured was very huge. The Yuan Kingdom has been fighting in the northern grasslands since it escaped from Hebei in these years, and there may be a lot of cattle and horses, and the amount of metal is very small. The equipment is completely incomparable to Boyan's army.

The fleet first brought the troops on both sides ashore, and then began to transport heavy return gun parts. This siege weapon is capable of projecting a huge stone block of 100 kilograms to a distance of 200 meters, and naturally requires huge high-quality wooden parts. It was very difficult to transport these ashore, so the Song army had to resort to very extreme measures. The high tide of this large lake in the Mediterranean Sea is only one or two centimeters, and the wooden parts are transported on the flat-bottomed boat to the landing beach. At the place where the stranding is carried out, the round logs are laid down one by one, and the flat-bottomed boats are parked on the round logs, and a large number of people and animals are constantly dragged on the shore, and the flat-bottomed boats are used as wooden carts to transport the heavy wooden parts to the shore.

Flat-bottomed boats weren't meant to do this in the first place, and a boat had to be scrapped for every transport. Fortunately, the Great Song Dynasty doesn't care, and the Mongolian side doesn't care either. As soon as the three guns were transported, the Mongol army captured a group of prisoners of war and entrusted the Great Song fleet to transport them to the slave market in Egypt. I thought that these people were captured by the luxuriously equipped Egyptian army, but after inquiry, I learned that it was the poorly equipped Yuan army that captured these prisoners.

After the three ships brought more than 600 captives to Egypt, the escort ships did not return immediately. They went to the vicinity of Alexandria and loaded 10,000 tons of local 'bitter salt soil'. After the bitter salt soil is purified, soda ash can be obtained, which is the key material for making soap. Salt, which is a by-product of purification, can also be sold to the Yuan Kingdom, and all of it is profit.

The small fleet transported the cargo to Eastern Rome to be unloaded and sailed back to the port of Eastern Rome near Rhodes. I hadn't seen him for fifteen days, and there were already more than a thousand captives waiting to be brought onto the ship. The large ships in the fleet are 70 meters long, 10 meters wide, and have a standard loading draft of 6 meters according to the standard ratio of 7:1:0.6. Excluding the weight of the ship itself, the displacement is 3500 tons. The level of full control over slaves is adopted, and a maximum of 300 slaves can be transported on a single ship. More than a thousand slaves, the fleet sent five large ships for shipment.

Fortunately, Marshal Boyan once imported a large number of shackles from the Great Song Dynasty and tortured the slaves. The fleet set sail again. As in the previous case, slaves were transported to Egypt, where the shipment of 'bitter salt soil' would go to Eastern Rome and then to the vicinity of Rhodes. For another half a month, the fleet did not return to Rhodes this time, but loaded a large amount of salt and went to the Yuan Kingdom.

A few days later, five ships carrying more than 10,000 tons of salt and Wu Qian's many tons of soap arrived in the Yuan Kingdom. The Yuan Kingdom had a population of only 2 million, and it was impossible for 2 million people to consume 10,000 tons of salt in a year. When unloading, it is divided into two types of salt. Four thousand tons of fine salt for people to eat. Six thousand tons is crude salt. Egyptian bitter salt soil contains table salt, soda ash and a small amount of baking soda, and the other is a relatively high content of potassium salt. In addition to the need for table salt, livestock also have a large demand for potassium salt.

Although the Yuan side did not know this theory, they knew that refined salt and coarse salt were placed separately, and livestock preferred coarse salt. According to the technicians of the Yuanguo Animal Husbandry Department, the animals were happy after eating coarse salt. Although the people of the Great Song fleet knew that logically speaking, livestock needed potassium salt. But no matter how much they looked, they couldn't tell where the animals were happy. So everyone thinks that Mongolian breeders will just go along with it.

The city of Odessa, at the mouth of the Dnieper, unloaded salt and soap, loaded with another 15,000 tons of wheat, and returned to Constantinople. As long as it's grain, you never have to worry about not being able to sell it in Constantinople. The wheat on the ship had not yet been unloaded, and a buyer was found in the market.

It was learned from the Great Song Embassy that the Knights Hospitaller led the inhabitants of Rhodes Island to resist and the battle was still over.

"The Great Song fleet has already carried away five more batches of more than 7,000 slaves, and now the port on the island has been taken away. It is estimated that it will be completed by the end of October. Yang calmly recounted his expectations for the war.

Originally, the Egyptian side hoped to start a war in July, but at the request of the Eastern European Division of the Great Song Dynasty, it was delayed until late August. After fighting for more than a month, but he didn't expect it to take another half a month, the captain asked in surprise: "The Knights Hospitaller is so difficult to deal with?" ”

"Fight to the death. It's tricky. Yang Congrong sighed: "The Egyptian army is not very capable of fighting, although the Yuan army can fight, but they don't want to increase their losses in vain." So the progress is slow. Don't say it, the Yuan army looks at the equipment and is not good, and the discipline of fighting is extremely high. Of the nearly 10,000 captives, six or seven thousand were captured by the Yuan Kingdom after they captured the castle. Now they have captured and their equipment has gone up. We feel that the first to solve the Knights Hospitaller is only the 3,000-strong Yuan army. ”

Seeing that Yang Congrong was very appreciative of the Yuan army, the captain felt uncomfortable, so he smiled and said: "Compared with our Song army, who is more powerful?" ”

Yang calmly cut off, "Cut!" Of course, it is our Song army, they are better than spear skills, and they are not our opponents. Compared with guns, they can't even catch up. ”

After finishing speaking, he smiled again: "However, the official family is very accurate, although the population of the Yuan Kingdom is small, the future is unlimited. At least this Hao Ren can tell what is called a long-distance and close attack. ”

Hearing Yang Congrong praise Yuan Guo and Hao Ren so much, Dong Zhongsong couldn't help but interject in: "Will Yuan Guo raise carbuncles in the future, and the tail will not fall off?" ”

"The Yuan Kingdom is not a carbuncle inside the Great Song Dynasty, and it did not grow on the Great Song Dynasty. The official family is a long-distance and close attack, not a self-respect. Even we all know that someone will play this kind of trick, how can the official family not know. Is there a foreign race in the Great Song Dynasty now? ”

"Srivijaya has it." Someone has played the true character of the bar.

As soon as these words came out, even the people who were initially worried about Zhao Jiaren's excessive support for Yuan Guo couldn't help but laugh. They all know that although the local natives of Srivijaya are aliens, they are not aliens connived at by the Zhao official family, and all aliens who are not naturalized have only a dead end. In terms of opening up the territory, everyone admires the strength of the Zhao official family very much.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is the end of October in the Song calendar. The battle really came to an end, and it is said that the Knights Hospitaller cowered in the last bastion and made a request. As long as the Mongol army allowed the Grand Master and other upper echelons to leave freely with their property, they handed over the fortress to the Mongol army.

And the Mongols flatly refused. They told the Knights Hospitaller that they could only save their lives if they surrendered. Negotiations between the two sides broke down, and the final siege battle was about to begin. The observers sent by the Eastern European Division were very contemptuous of the Mongol siege techniques, and if the Great Song Dynasty had attacked, they would have broken through the city walls with explosives. The Mongol army turned out to be grinding and behaving very rubbish.

However, things are good in the end, everyone only needs to wait for the siege to end, and the Great Song side can occupy a new stronghold. As long as there was a new fleet of ships in the Great Song Dynasty, it would not be difficult to hold Rhode Island from foreign invasion.

The Knights Hospitaller on Rhodes originally had a very powerful naval army in the Eastern Mediterranean, which was finally completely solved by the Great Song Dynasty at this time. The Great Song Dynasty didn't look down on those ships, and many ships that were not seriously damaged were sold cheaply to the Marshal of Boyan. The so-called cheapness means that the fleet of the Great Song Dynasty to dig the bitter salt soil does not need to give any more money.

The Mediterranean, a large lake, was relatively calm, and the ships were sent to Egypt after a simple repair. If it can be repaired in Egypt, Marshal Boyan's naval army can be regarded as adding a lot of combat effectiveness.

On the third day of the 11th month of the Great Song Dynasty, Marshal Boyan received news that a fleet flying the Knights Templar flag had arrived near Rhodes Island, and that a fierce battle had taken place with the fleet of the Eastern European Division of the Great Song Dynasty. After listening to the report, the boss looked calm, only said 'I know', and continued to inquire about the situation of those ships.

The steward in charge of the shipyard sighed: "Commander, fifty percent of those ships have to be repaired, and thirty percent have to be overhauled. The remaining 20% can probably only be scrapped. ”

"So much can't be used, what's the problem?" Marshal Boyan asked.

"Those boats had a lot of holes gnawed by the maggots. If you continue to use it, it's okay if the wind is calm and the waves are calm, but a storm, I'm afraid that the ship will break the big hole. Among the ships that need to be repaired, I am also worried that many ships will have accidents when they encounter strong winds and waves in the Tianzhu Ocean. ”

After listening to the report, Marshal Boyan asked the steward to continue to work hard. At this time, it was already noon, and Dashuai went home for dinner. At the dinner table, Princess Maria looked at Boyan and couldn't help asking, "What good things happened again?" ”

"An old friend who has been lost for a long time is finally here." Boyan replied indifferently. He arranged for his attack on the Knights Hospitaller to release a lot of water, and finally waited until now, when the Knights Templar sent a fleet to help the Knights Hospitaller.

Let the fleet of the Song State destroy those sea forces that can threaten Boyan. Boyan ate and slowly thought about his next plan.

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