Chapter 898: Preserving Heaven's Principles, Destroying Demons
The sun passed over the Sanfoqi Strait and gradually moved obliquely to the West, covering this large area of sea, the foothills on the islands large and small, and the sailing ships fighting and chasing on the sea, all of which were covered in a dimness.
Because the battlefield of the battle is located at the entrance of the Sanfoqi Strait, the naval battle that has entered the end was later named "The First Sanfoqi Strait Battle". The reason why it was the first is naturally because there will be a second, third, fourth... until the eighteenth Sanfoqi Strait Battle!
The repeated battles surrounding the Three Buddha Qi Straits have just begun now!
The Sanfoqi Strait controls the most valuable golden waterway in the world! The surrounding Sanfoqi people, Javanese, Arabs, Julu, and the Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants organized by Wu Haogu and Ji Yi all want to take it for themselves.
However, neither of them, including the Dasong maritime merchants, did not have enough advantages to overwhelm the rest of the parties. Ji Yi is now leading not a modern navy with sailing artillery battleships as the main force, but an armed merchant fleet with Chinese hard sailing and long oars as the main force. In terms of the quality of the warships, they are simply not as good as the Arabs, and of course their navigation skills are not as good as those of the Arabs.
The Arabs were the sea coachman of this era, with spinning sailings that could sail against the wind, a systematic training system for water war Gulam, and countless experienced navigators.
The so-called century-old pirates are these merchants under the banner of Allah!
However, the Arabs also have weaknesses. Without a powerful regime to support them, they will inevitably fight each other and it is difficult to form a joint force. Another fatal weakness is that the Arabs' own force has long been weak. Therefore, they cannot form a real navy, only scattered pirates and maritime merchant families.
The advantages of the Song Dynasty were exactly what the Arabs did not have. They had a powerful regime. When this regime wanted to make a difference on the seafront, the Arabs would face great pressure.
In addition, although the Song Dynasty was recognized as the "weak Song", it was relatively to the Khitan, Jurchen and Mongolia. For other five scumbags, the Song army was quite powerful.
The Arabs and their Seljuk father were beaten by the only tiny embers left by the Khitans, and were beaten by the big stones. Instead, the Seljuk's Seljuk's Sultan was quite powerful. He overwhelmed the various Seljuk's dynasties and defeated the Karakhan Dynasty (the Black Khan Uighurs) and the Kaseni Dynasty. His territory was once expanded into China in later generations! As a result, he was beaten by thousands or tens of thousands of Liao soldiers, and lost all his capital in one battle, and the Great Seljuk was also in a slump.
Even fathers are useless like this. If you are a son, you can’t even be considered a son. You can imagine what kind of virtue is a grandson who is wild and has no one to care about outside.
So in today's first three-foqi naval battle, although the Arabs could defeat their opponents in the ship-handling level. However, when the jumping gang war began, the advantage immediately reached the side of the Song army. The bravest Gulam's level was similar to Fang La's "good officers and soldiers", and it was a little worse than the "children" who were desperate in the new selection group. As for the iron-armored warriors directly under the coastal ship system, they were even more invincible.
Therefore, to a certain extent, this naval battle is actually carried out in the form of land war!
What determines the final result is Pu Abu's cowardice.
When the twenty-nine warships led by Hu Yanqing approached the battlefield, Pu Abu still had enough capital. He brought out a total of 50 warships, but now he has only lost 4, and 6 are entangled with the enemy ships and fallen into a bitter battle.
But the remaining warships are still far more than Hu Yanqing's fleet!
In addition, it is almost dusk. The Song Dynasty navy had poor ship control ability and was not familiar with the waters around the Sanfoqi Strait. It is unlikely that the decisive battle with the Arab fleet that was more than its own at night.
So as long as you line up, Pu Abu can still bring his main force back from the battlefield. In Mo Luoyu, there are also fleets belonging to the Three Buddha Qi Kingdom and other Arab merchant ships. Ji Yi and Hu Yanqing would never dare to rashly advance to Mo Luoyu because Song-style sailing ships do not have the ability to sail against the wind, and once the situation is unfavorable, it is impossible to escape. Now it is winter, and most of the time the sea is in the north wind.
But Pu Abu left his fleet and fled!
"Inspector! The big food fleet has dispersed, and seems to want to escape in dispersion."
"What?" Hu Yanqing couldn't believe his ears on the Tianli Quote.
"Dispersible?" he asked.
Although Hu Yanqing does not have much experience in naval battles, the most basic principle is to know that the most taboo in naval battles is to divide troops! Because once the troops are divided, it will be difficult to concentrate again. The sea is boundless and subject to the wind direction. Who knows where those scattered sailboats have floated?
"Yes, it's scattered."
"How is that possible?"
Hu Yanqing still couldn't believe it, so he simply put the mast on his own and looked around with the distant tube to the sea in the south for a while.
The big-food sailboats on the sea were indeed dispersing and fleeing in different directions. There were only a few warships crowded into groups that could not move, and they should be in battle there!
"Inspector, what should we do?"
Hu Yanqing said, "Go and rescue Cheng and the others first..." He thought about it again, "Then let Cheng Cheng take people to pick up Puluozhong, and everyone else goes to Moluoyu!"
The occupation of Puluo Zhong Island was the first step to establishing itself in the Sanfoqi Strait. According to the information collected by the Coastal Maritime Control Department, Puluo Zhong Island belongs to the Sanfoqi Kingdom. A certain amount of development has been carried out on the island, and there is a fortress port called Longyamen.
Of course, the so-called fortress is just a circle of wooden fences. There is also a small port nearby. Several fast ships were placed, responsible for collecting taxes from passing merchant ships. The Longya Gate is the name of a waterway. It is named after a reef that looks more than two meters high and looks very much like Longya.
Although this place is very important, the center of the Three Buddhas Kingdom is on Sumatra Bumi Island (Sumatra Island), and it is also necessary to focus on guarding against the Javanese in the east and the Jura people in the west, and there is no spare time to deploy heavy troops on the Puluo Island.
So he gave Ji Yi, Hu Yanqing and others the opportunity to attack and seize it!
But now Hu Yanqing found that the Pu family's navy star was scattered, so he wanted more things.
"Most of them went to Mo Luoyu?"
The navy soldiers on both sides looked at each other, and one of them said, "Go to fight with the Three Buddhas and Qi Kingdom?"
"It doesn't have to be fought!" Hu Yanqing said, "but you can block the navy of Sanfoqi in the Badang River... and then force the Sanfoqi Kingdom to ced the Puluo Island and hand over the Pu family's property in Sanfoqi."
Mo Luoyu, the capital of the Three Buddhas Kingdom, is an inland city located on the Badang River leading to the sea. The navy of the Three Buddhas Kingdom is usually stationed in the lower reaches of the Badang River.
If Hu Yanqing's main fleet arrived and they still did not go out to sea, then Hu Yanqing could use warships to block the estuary.
Once the sea outlet of the Three Buddhas and Qi capital is blocked, then there is a great possibility that Mo Luoyu will surrender to the Song Dynasty.
After all, this time the three Buddhas and Qi Kingdom are in the wrong position!
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When the night completely enveloped the sea, Pu Abu was completely relieved. The terrible nightmare finally ended... Well, it should be over! I will not take action when I fight the naval battle next time, so I'd better let the water battles and the Gulams command it.
But...how much water battles are there in my hands?
"Salam, how many boats are there following us?"
"Dear Master, no ship follows us now..." Salam said in a tone of death, "We are probably going to return to Moluoyu alone."
"How is this possible!? No, aren't there still forty boats?"
Salam said: "Of course you still have many warships, and even if they don't have them, you can build new ships... But now there is no ship following us! They are all separated when they retreat. The ocean is so vast that once they are separated, it will be difficult to find them back."
"Allah! Then, what if the Song people attack Mo Luoyu?"
"Then don't go to Mo Luoyu..."
"What? Don't go to Moluoyu?" Pu Abu looked at Salam. Under the dim light, the Gulam warrior in his thirties seemed to have grown ten years old all of a sudden, and his brows were tightly furrowed.
"Master," said Salam, "the pagans of the Three Buddhas will not fight for Allah... They will most likely betray you!"
Pu Abu knew what "betrayal" means! That is to cut off your head and put it in a box and send it to the Song people!
What he did in the Sanfoqi Strait today is definitely enough to behead his head!
He started a war with the Song Dynasty... and he was defeated miserably! How could the foolish monarch and treacherous minister of Mo Luoyu know the truth? Maybe the whole family can't save it.
"If Mo Luo Yu doesn't go back, where should I go?"
"Go to Aceh... there are many devout Tianfang believers there," Salam said, "your fief is also there. Through the Indian Ocean, we can also hire warriors from India and Arabia, and we can always persist there.
Moreover, part of the fleeing warships will also retreat to Aceh. After all, it is the closest port to Mecca in the entire Three Buddhas Kingdom!"
"Yes! Yes!" Pu Abu nodded, "Just go to Aceh... I still have strength and an army there. When I get there, I won't be afraid of the Song people."
Pu Abu was really a bit irresponsible. He first started a war with the Song Dynasty in the Sanfoqi Strait without saying hello, but now he rushed to Aceh without saying hello.
The monarch and ministers of the Three Buddhas Qi Kingdom were kept in the dark from beginning to end, and knew nothing, so naturally they did not make any preparations.
Until the evening of the next day, more than 20 large and twenty galloping warships led by Hu Yanqing appeared at the mouth of the Badang River...
Chapter completed!