Chapter 209 The Brutal War

Diaedin and Fahad were the leaders of the fleet appointed by Ashlever, the governor of the Aden province. They also had some naval battles with the Arab Nabatai people of Aqaba on the Red Sea.

As we said in the previous chapter, they just threw stones and shot arrows when they approached each other in order to kill the opponent's combat effectiveness as much as possible. What ultimately determines the victory of the war is still the fight between the sidelines. Although arson ships are also their way of fighting, overall, arson battle is a means to decide the outcome.

Or if you don’t win in a naval battle, you will set up formations on the beach or in the wilderness and everyone will fight a battle face to face.

In the previous naval battles of this level, they were also both victorious and defeated. The Nabatai people who liked to do business did not like too many battles, so even though it was this primitive naval battle, Diadein and Fahard won considerable reputation in the Aden province.

They are called warriors on the sea, responsible for managing and commanding ships in the Aden province, and fleets with naval battles as their main goal. They are equipped with enough giant crossbows and stone throwers, and have a large number of trained sailors and soldiers under their command. At least before today, from Aden to the Red Sea, they were their world.

But what they saw today surprised them. When the naval battle just began, they looked at each other's unhanged sail and made a few laughs. So now, everything in their hearts was just shocked.

The sails of those strange ships were now storming the wind. Those strange-looking warships were moving at a speed they had never seen before. They were two in groups, obliquely blocking themselves.

"This is a good opportunity for them to taste our awesomeness. They all follow my orders, prepare, and put..."

At this time, they were diagonally ahead of the bow of Diaadin. As a brave general, Diaadin issued an order to attack. At the same time, Abu Bakr, who led the team, also shouted and issued orders to his men.

"Let them get a little more confused...the ballista shoots freely...the archers listen to my command!"

When Abu Bakr ordered free shooting, crossbow bullets flew towards the target they intercepted under the huge elastic force of the crossbow cannon.

The stone balls thrown by the round stone thrower from the warships in the Aden province rolled in the sky, and the giant crossbow flew out of the Diadean's ship. His eyes were hopeful and followed the trajectory of these projectiles.

At the same time, he also noticed that the other party opened fire at him. In addition to the giant crossbow that was flying, there were also those meteor-like rockets.

"Notice……"

He shouted, not caring about seeing the possible damage of the enemy ship. Because the crossbow arrows shot from their hulls had already arrived on his ship.

"Boom..."

After a low explosion, Mars flew. The crossbow bomb in the middle of the ship immediately turned it into a sea of ​​fire.

"Ah, Allah..."

The injured person let out a sharp scream, as if someone was scraping hard on the bottom of the pot with a shovel. The flames instantly rose. The rockets that flew towards them like meteors turned the oil-coated white sail into a falling-out piece, emitting a blazing temperature flame.

"So it's those things...their crossbow arrows will explode...what is that..."

While this thought was quickly passing through his mind, he saw another crossbow flying towards him. Diadein pulled a rope and then plunged into the sea.

At this time, the projectiles fired from his ship had already caused some damage to the other party.

The archers on the Abu Bakr's ship, who stood on the top deck, immediately hid on the thick, inwardly tilted deck.

"Boom...Crack!"

Fortunately, the projectiles shot by the opponent's stone thrower on the side of the ship did not penetrate the modular ship board. Just by punching the solid ship board through a hole, it consumed all the kinetic energy of the projectile. As for those giant crossbows, their attack result was not as good as the projectiles of the stone thrower.

The inclined plate removes most of its power and makes it fly upwards. The sixty-degree inclined deck is the cause of the "jump". Martin, who made the model, knows that this inclined armor, which was first applied to the T-34 tank, has a huge effect on bulletproofing.

However, the arrow branches that had to be shot due to the long distance caused casualties to Abu Bakr's ship. The arrows falling from a high place with inertia pierced the archer's chain mail. Fortunately, due to the protection of vest-style armor, most of the people who were shot were injured in their arms or legs.

Seeing this situation, Abu Bakr believed that it might not be necessary to have so many archers on the top deck, or it should be safer to shoot arrows in the cabins of the officers on the first deck.

You should know that in the Yulin Army of the Song Dynasty, the rationalization suggestions to reduce casualties will be given to the possibility of making rationalizations. Such a result will also prompt those who are loyal to the Yulin Army of the Song Dynasty and are willing to use their brains to get promotions faster.

"War is like this. It is not only about equipment, but more importantly, there are a group of good soldiers who can use their brains! They add up with good equipment, so congratulations, you have an invincible army!"

This is what Martin told Abu Bakker when he was chatting and explaining some of the rules in the military rules to Abu Bakker. As a rough man, Abu Bakker thought more and more of his equipment.

Indeed, Martin has come up with too many technologies that cannot exist in this world. Therefore, on the Island of Felecai, he is a scholar who has received magical metaphors. It is precisely because of this that the rumors released by Zhao Fubo made people on the Island of Felecai have great respect for Martin.

Martin once wanted to install these crossbows with reverse pushing devices similar to rockets. However, at the first glance, the manufacturing of the reverse pushing device was not very good, and secondly, he really had no man to expand it, so the original output of gunpowder was not large.

Even if the gunpowder masters from Datongbu Island were added, the gunpowder at this time was just enough for these crossbows to use.

As for the powerful fire foam, the lead chamber method needs to be used to distillate sulfuric acid from pyrite and use saltpeter to turn it into nitric acid. At this time, the manufacturing methods that remain in the laboratory seriously restricted the development of fire foam. Therefore, in the equipment of the Yulin Army of the Song Dynasty, there are only some thunder or door-opening bombs, and a small amount of this violent explosive is used.

As more crossbow bombs were fired from Qinhuang-class warships, more Aden warships were on fire. Some warships, because they lost their sails, became the targets of slow movement of crossbow gunners. The filler of the oil matrix turned wooden ships into a hot hell on earth in the moment they were hit.

The boat that could not fit a few people was scrambled to fight, and some people who were unreasonable and eager to escape from the hot hell used their weapons.

The two fleets with a total of 60 ships were in a short, less than half an hour of confrontation, either turned into a fiery hell on earth or became an unfortunate existence without sails and could only be beaten.

Abu Bakr, who was commanding four Qinhuang-class warships for the first time, never dreamed that the war at sea would become like this. Based on what he knew in the European fleet in the past, he believed that the Qinhuang-class warships were already an invincible existence in this world.

"Okay, the launch is suspended, we are ready to surrender! Please be careful, kill all those who do not surrender to slaves!"

On the battlefield between the Crusaders and the Arabs, slaves who did not surrender could be redeemed with property, which could be the only place that was more kind than Zhao Fubo. On the battlefield of the Cold Weapon Age, it was really not easy to find any kindness.

Four Qinhuang-class warships approached the Aden warships filled with soldiers, with less than thirty left. Some of these ships were burned with sails, and some were simply burned as miserable as a piece of charcoal floating on the sea. Many people were left in this inverted massacre and were frightened as if they were stunned.

"Drop the sails and put away the oars. Everyone goes to the deck and tie them up, and those who surrender to slaves avoid death!"

Abu Bakr estimated that the remaining ships would not surrender so easily, but if the people on the ship could become slaves and if the ship could be sold into merchant ships, especially when these incomes became the bonus of the navy, he would not mind catching some prisoners.

As the army on the Island of Felekai, this is indeed the case. In addition to ordinary salary, the bonus has to be robbed and robbed by them. Especially in combat, the enemy's materials are often part of their income calculation.

Therefore, Abu Bakr was so happy to see the thirty sails that had been lowered and waiting for the surrender of the enemy supplies.

Sure enough, as he guessed, when they were about twenty meters away from a ship, the people hiding behind the ship threw out long ropes with iron hooks. The people hiding behind the ship were not worried about the killing of bows and arrows. Even when Abu Bakr's own ship was pulled over, he was sure that many people must have been hidden behind the ships and prepared for the battle of the ships.

Regarding this matter, he only shouted at the soundtrack.

"Star starboard squad!"

With his shouting, eighteen crossbows hit the opponent's ship less than twenty meters away. At such a close distance, Abu Bakr could guarantee that even those gunners who were "destroyed" by themselves would not be able to knock them away.

Sure enough, in the eighteen consecutive dull explosions, the enemy ship almost instantly turned into a burning fireball. Although there were also "firemen" who were carrying fire on their bodies and desperately rushed to the sea.
Chapter completed!