Chapter 103 The Greedy Stupid
Poji is a typical plain city. There is a lake called Palistomi Lake next to Poji. The average water depth is only 2.6 meters, which is a little shallow even for sailing boats. There is basically no dangerous place to defend on the entire plain, but it is the best place for the attacks of the Mongols. Although this is true from the terrain, for the Mongols at this moment, they do not know that they will hit a big nail here.
Although there are no large artillery such as fortress cannons here, a steel and concrete turret was built in the dense woods on the coast. On it, the "Hell Messenger II-type field cannon" with a range of 3,000 meters was deployed on it to shoot at the sea. In the future, heavy fortress cannons will be deployed to defend the entire port when needed. However, now when the heavy cannons have not been deployed and the locals have not seen the artillery, they do not know what kind of strong protection they are under.
"Protect the port, protect the port...you guys who have dogs, get in place quickly!"
The infantry jumped out of the carriage quickly, and they ran, and as the lower-level officers shouted and scolded, they rushed to the point where they were responsible for guarding each other. The infantry found a place to hide their bodies in the port and on the edge of the dock. Their carriages were towed to provide them with fire support between 150 and 200 meters. The men of Azam Tulansha Sultan arranged formations near the beach. Usually the artillery was on the sides of the ribs, while the infantry formed a formation and stood by.
The Mongol sailboats from the sea used hard sails and flat bottoms, which was the symbol of the Song ship. Especially when robbing along the coast, this kind of ship was much more suitable than the "whale-class rapid transport ship" of the Chinese Empire. Moreover, there was no water force worth mentioning on the Black Sea at this moment that could stop them. Most of the time, people on the shore would be frightened by the shells fired from the "Flying Swallow Iii-type crossbows" loaded on their ships.
It is worth mentioning that there were many "Flying Swallow III-type crossbows" shells in the nest of the Wooden Thorns, but those have fallen into Zhao Xu's hands. I believe that it won't take long before his original subordinates and the craftsmen collected when they headed to the Mongolian desert to create shells with similar ranges for him. However, we should not be worried about the Song Dynasty. After all, Jeju Island led by Pu Jinshu has opened the same firearms to the Song Dynasty. What is certain is that as long as there is no problem with the official, there will be no problem in the entire Song and Meng battlefield.
The groups of sailboats did not have any distinct formation. Because of the flat bottom and diving characteristics of the Song boat, the Mongolians easily approached the coast when driving them. However, they were obviously more interested in the ports. After all, with those trestles, it would be much easier to get ashore.
"Captain Basel, you see they are going to land!"
Azam Tulansha Sultan pointed at the sea and exclaimed at Basel. Basel didn't care about the Mongolian army. Although he only had infantry and artillery teams, which were enough to keep the Mongolians out of the port, he did not intend to let these 60 Mongolian ships go, because as long as they did not leave, the wealth they robbed had to stay here. Moreover, their people were used as slaves, and they must move stones when building railways, and digging pits would always be possible.
"Don't worry about Your Highness, everything is in control."
After appeaseing Azam and Tulansha Sultan, Basel ordered his subordinates to convey the orders.
"I passed my order. The turret was not allowed to fire without orders. After the war, there was no order. We asked our "Hanwu"-class warships to be faster. If we can make money, it depends on them!"
In the harbor and docks of Pod and Baku, several ships were built in five months. After all, the speed of using assembly lines to produce ships is still very fast. In the port, some naval soldiers have begun airworthiness training. Although the artillery on the "Hanwu" class warships are still on a distant road, they have already started training.
Just as the Mongolian warships raised their sails toward the port, the Hanwu-class warships that went out to sea for training had received signals from the high lighthouse of Boji City. They were returning from the training waters. And training, whether the army or the navy was in a non-combat state, was an activity that was carried out every day. The "Chinese Army" is different from the army of other countries. There is no redundant personnel in the army, and the army will continue to train at a considerable intensity when it is not combative. Moreover, there is another month in each quarter, which is high-intensity training, the other month is medium-intensity training, and the last month is low-intensity training for combat readiness.
In short, no one in the "Chinese Army" likes peace. First, the income is small, and the training is life-threatening every day. What excited Basel Basel was that their ships were loaded with "Hell Messenger II-type field cannons". This was the artillery borrowed from Basel to train naval guns before the real "Yan Luo Soul Chasing Cannon" and "Dragon Extinguishing Cannon" arrived. Because the "Hanwu" class warships did not have official naval artillery, the artillery fire on their ships was not weak at all.
Basel was hoping that they would block the enemy's escape route from the sea. The most important thing was to destroy the enemy's sails and rudders, so that they would be just dead fish on the sea. In that case, if they could not capture the enemy's warships, it would be too disadvantageous. After all, if they sold the ship and people, it would be a good bonus for their soldiers.
The expression on Azam Tulansha's face was not a smile. Anyway, the expression on his face had frozen, and probably he had already figured out why the officers of the "Chinese Army" were so warlike. Looking back, they thought about their subordinates, they gave them a lot of money, but in the war... As long as you think about the confrontation with Zhao Xu at the city of Bosaro, Azam Tulansha's Sultan felt a little uneasy.
At this time, Mongolian warships were getting closer and closer to the port, and they had even begun to launch their "Flying Swallow Iii-type crossbows". The shells exploded in the port. Fortunately, the people there had already left, but judging from the bombardment density there, the Mongolians always wanted to go ashore to patronize.
"Oh, you greedy idiots, don't you know that you have fallen into their trap. Do you just think that there are some good people in the Chinese army?"
Looking at the Mongolian warship, Azam Tulansha Sultan shook his head, and then he planned to go back. After all, the erotic scenes in the car could not continue without him. As for the guys in his heart, those guys were already slaves.
Chapter completed!