My Daming New Empire

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In Arabia, sailboats are generally called maqab, and in some places they are called safinah.The shapes of sailboats in different countries and regions are not the same, so there are different titles.

In the Persian Gulf region alone, there are 25 different sailing ships.The most common small sailing boat for fishing is five or six meters long and is called Shuai.A small sailing boat used for collecting pearls and racing boats, with a bow-shaped mast and mast, called Jerbut.

A medium-sized sailing vessel for fishing and commerce, with a square stern, called a Samburg.A large ocean-going sailing ship, up to 40 meters long, with a load of [-] to [-] tons, called Bargara.

Although their warships are not as large as the two thousand stone warships of the Ming Fleet, they are more flexible, and this is at their doorstep, so they have no fear.

But what they didn't expect was that Da Ming's fleet hoisted its sails, and instead of attacking, it retreated. Seeing that Da Ming's vanguard warship drew an arc, sailed to both sides, and retreated backward, their soldiers were all shocked. He couldn't help but raised his scimitar and roared.

Everyone thought that the Ming Fleet was afraid and was about to retreat.

Although the forward fleet did not all raise their sails, but because the speed of the ship was not high, and they did not rush directly towards their camp, there was still one or two miles away, and they were completely sideways facing the Timurid fleet.

So this fleet did not attract their attention, and they even laughed contemptuously because the side of the Ming Fleet was exposed like this.

But as these ships almost completely lowered their hard sails, some generals felt something was wrong.

Nowadays, although most navies still focus on boarding battles, it is not that there are no ships equipped with small guns. It is just because the range of small guns is too short and the ignition is too slow, so shelling has not yet become popular in today's navy.

Today's Ming Fleet lowers its sails and faces them with a broadside, which is standard artillery preparation.

But this distance...

When the generals of the Timurid Kingdom were still wondering, they saw a rocket rushing towards the top of their fleet with a sharp cry. Behind the rocket, there was red smoke, which looked very beautiful.

But what this beautiful rocket brought was not the usual festive celebration. As the rocket lifted off, a deafening roar immediately shocked the eardrums of the soldiers on both sides.

As thick smoke rose from the ships of the Ming Fleet, the Timurid Fleet, which was only about a mile away, immediately faced a stone bomb attack like a torrential rain.

Sunan's five ships were originally in the middle of the front army, but when the front battalion gave up their position, they became the first warships to face the enemy.

Although it was the first time to experience a real naval battle between the two armies, after the naval battles of Jeju Island, Tsushima Island, and Osaka Bay, Sunan did not have any fear in his heart when facing the battlefield.

He strictly followed the instructions, except for the soldiers who were in charge of steering the rudder and steering the sails, all the other soldiers started loading gunpowder and transporting stone bombs.

When their boat slowly arrived at the predetermined position, everyone's ears were stuffed with cotton earplugs that had been prepared.

Everyone looked at the sky, waiting for the order to attack.

When the ordered rocket was lifted into the sky, everyone fired the matchlocks in their hands to the fuse behind the artillery without any hesitation.

The soldiers only felt a violent shock. The nervousness and the shock that made the battleship retreat a few meters made many soldiers vomit.

But this is much stronger than at the beginning. Each of their ships has ten cannons, and they fire five at a time.

The five cannons were fired at the same time. During the initial training period, the soldiers were completely stunned. Many passed out and some were deaf.

This was not only because of the loud noise, but also because the five cannons were fired at the same time, causing the ship to vibrate violently. This kind of shock seemed to crush and glue people together, and ordinary soldiers could not bear it.

After many times of training, they gradually got used to this shock.

No soldier is now unconscious and deaf, but vomiting is still inevitable.

The soldiers lit the artillery, and the ship was filled with white smoke, and they couldn't see each other clearly.

Sunan roared loudly. "Raise the sails, raise the sails, and quickly retreat according to the predetermined route!"

His roar woke up the soldiers below. Although they were still a little dazed, everyone followed the instructions at the beginning, quickly raised the sails after the shelling, and evacuated towards the flanks.

Behind them, one after another, the Ming fleet raised its sails, and the chief officers used binoculars to watch the enemy's losses, and then conveyed orders one by one.

"Lower the muzzle and prepare to shoot directly."

"Raise the muzzle and prepare to fire."

The first batch of bombarded fleets was the standard version of the shooting elevation angle. The distance between them and the enemy, including lowering the sails, was to provide a shooting standard for the fleet that fired behind.

Subsequent fleets will calculate based on their shooting effects, and then recalculate the best shooting elevation angle based on the position of their own ships.

If you look down from the perspective of overlooking the battlefield, you will find that the enemy ships are less than 50 meters apart, and more than 200 warships are divided into two rows, blocking the entrance to the Persian Gulf.

They still adopted the previous naval battle formation, ready to meet the Ming fleet at any time.

But Daming's fleet is like a ripple of water, erupting from the back to the front.Then, at a distance of about one mile from the enemy, they began to swipe left and right. When the flanks faced the enemy, they fired a round of shelling, and then exited the battlefield.

The subsequent battleships filled their positions and continued the bombardment.

Their ships are one-third less than the enemy's, but now they have an absolute advantage.

This advantage is not only due to the artillery, but more importantly, the proper tactics, and the three major mistakes made by the enemy.

The first mistake was the wrong formation. Their ships were too close to each other. In a hurry, even if they wanted to avoid it, their own ships would collide.

The second mistake was that they guarded the strait, but they were downwind, and lowered their sails. It was extremely inconvenient to raise the sails in a hurry to pursue or escape.

The third mistake was of course that they didn't realize the power of the artillery. They wanted to take on Daming, but now they could only become targets.

Amir watched as Deming's fleet passed in front of their fleet like a string of flowers. Although the two armies had no contact, the enemy's artillery was able to shoot a distance of more than one mile.

Each time there were twenty ships, and a hundred shells fell on their ships.Their soldiers were on deck, trying to intimidate each other, and now they were targets.

In particular, there were still a few ships that could no longer bear it and fell over.They have also become obstacles to the adjustment of their own fleet.

This new type of tactic made Emil's scalp explode. For a while, he couldn't think of how to deal with Daming's artillery.

Seeing his soldiers fall one by one under the enemy's artillery, and every stone bomb that landed on the deck could cause several casualties, he was completely stunned.

Why is this happening?

Why is Daming's artillery so powerful?

Shouldn't the ships of the two armies be close together in naval battles, and then rely on the bravery of the soldiers to fight?

Daming is bullying people by doing this!

The fleet of the Timurid Kingdom is completely in chaos, especially the commanders on some ships were killed. No, it should be that after the smashing, the ship has no command.

They just wanted to communicate with other ships, but they couldn't get in touch at this time.Daming's artillery was firing almost non-stop, and there was only a roar in their ears, and they couldn't hear each other talking.

More people fled to the belly of the ship, not daring to stay on the deck anymore. This kind of response made every ship a floating target.

When the soldiers fled to the belly of the ship, all the chain of command was completely ineffective, and even if the emir delivered the order now, no one could see it.

He really wanted to rush straight up to meet Da Ming's fleet, but Da Ming's fleet didn't give him this chance.

Seeing the casualties of his soldiers one by one, he had no other thoughts except anger and fear.

At this time, a ship of Daming spotted his flagship at the side and rear, and following the transmission of the semaphore, a ship specifically aimed at his ship.