The Great Tang's Eyes Are on the Sea
"Don't worry about anything else, just focus on the spinnaker! Capture them all!"
Zhang Xun couldn't hide the smile in his tone.
The tactic of using the bronze cannons to fire grapeshot to clean up the deck was extremely powerful. The ballistae posed no threat to a large ship like the Sea Dragon, and the stone bullets they threw at the ship during the firing were basically useless.
On the other hand, Sea Dragon only needed one round of grapeshot, or at most two rounds, to cripple a large dhow!
Hundreds of bullets instantly turned the deck into a sea of blood. At least seventy to eighty pirates were killed, and the rest were scared to death.
Then, the Zhang Family Army soldiers would board the ship through the Crow Crane, and there would be no resistance at all.、
No matter how valiant the Arab True God Warriors were, they were only effective against pirates. Now that they were all scared silly, what else was there to say?
If Zhang Xun didn't need sailors who could operate soft sails and spinnakes, none of these people would have survived.
"Father, there are still quite a few ships. Do you want to seize a few?"
Zhang Deyi was also extremely excited. When he had heard that the Abbasid Caliphate and the Zheng Clan had one hundred thousand soldiers, he had been somewhat worried. He had never imagined that they would be able to win so easily.
Of course, they had to snatch the boat.
Zhang Xun had already placed himself in the position of the overlord of East Asia's sea power. The scale of this navy still needed to be expanded.
To expand the navy, they needed ships.
Building a ship wasn't as refreshing as stealing a ship.
However, there were too many prey now, so he had to choose his prey.
The spinnaker was definitely the best and was placed in the highest priority position.
"Other than the triangular sails, the other three-masted ships are also targets. The rest of the ships, hurry to Ryukyu Island!!”
Zhang Deyi replied happily.
"The Arab ships are turning around! They're running!"”
"Run?"
Zhang Xun sneered.
Was there any ship in the world that could outrun a galley or a three-masted sailboat?
Moreover, the northwest wind was blowing now. Where could they run to?
Run to the Pacific Ocean to eat fart?
...
At this moment, in the waters north of Ryukyu Island, an unprecedented sea chase had begun.
Twenty-three battleships of the Zhang Clan were chasing after over a thousand ships of various kinds.
Zhangsun Wugou, Li Lizhi, and Zhangsun Pinting were currently on a large ship. They had personally witnessed this battle that would determine the dominance of East Asia's sea.
Zhangsun Wugou had seen the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the cruelest war.
However, this completely overturned her previous imagination of war.
Zhang Xun's tactics and the weapons he used shocked him.
"This... You won just like that?"
Princess Li Lizhi's mouth was wide open as she stared at the scene in front of her.
Just like that, the 100,000 people were chased away by the lions like a flock of sheep.
The Eldest Princess of the Great Tang could not imagine such a scene.
For some reason, Li Lizhi suddenly thought of her fiancé, Zhangsun Chong.
Compared to Zhang Xun, a silkpants like Zhangsun Chong was simply…The difference between a firefly and the bright moon.
"If I were to marry Zhang Xun, wouldn't I be able to bring a peerless general to my father, allowing the Great Tang to live a carefree life?”
This thought suddenly appeared in Li Lizhi's mind. Then, as if she had done something wrong, she hurriedly looked at Zhangsun Pinting, her face slightly red.
"God... This is something only a god can do!"
"Is the Viceroy really the God of Light?!”
"Oh my god."
The 40,000 people on the 100 ships were also dumbfounded.
When the Manichaeans saw this scene, they couldn't help but recall the rumors that had been circulating in the crowd and couldn't help but believe it a little.
As for the people who were abducted by Zhang Xun, they couldn't help but feel admiration in their hearts.
Everyone has the heart of admiring the strong.
These people had thought that they would be taken away by pirates and become ghosts at the bottom of the sea.
But now, it seemed that Governor Zhang was indeed a peerless general!
More than 1,000 warships, 100,000 soldiers, and ferocious barbarian warriors were easily defeated by Governor Zhang!
This was too shocking for the people.
Some people even began to think…Perhaps following Governor Zhang would lead to a brighter future?
Some ambitious people could not help but feel their hearts burning.
Some of the less ambitious citizens couldn't help but agree.
This Governor Zhang was so good at fighting. Under him, he could at least live a peaceful life, right?
At this moment, on the surface of the sea, the galleons were driving the pirates 'ships, while the ten three-masted ships were staring at the thirty or so galleons.
The lateen was big and sturdy enough.
After installing the cannons, it could immediately be transformed into a gunboat. This was something Zhang Xun was determined to get.
In the end, out of the 38 dhow ships, 12 were sunk and 21 were captured. Abdel only took 5 ships and escaped in a sorry state.
"What a pity. If we had more cannons, none of these dhow ships would have been able to escape.”Zhang Deyi said regretfully. At this moment, the sky was getting dark.
At night, it would be difficult to chase after them.
Zhang Xun smiled." That's not bad. We now have thirteen galleys, twenty-five three-masted sailboats, and twenty-one large dhow ships. As long as we have enough cannons, the sea will be ours!"”
"I'm afraid that the imperial court will also start building ships. That Duke of Lu will bite the bullet and build a hundred galley ships in Yangzhou…After all, the Tang Dynasty occupied the Central Plains and Jiangnan, and its national strength was strong."
"The Tang Dynasty also wants to build a navy…Interesting." Zhang Xun nodded." However, those hundred galleys will be mine sooner or later.”
"Let's go to Flowing Ball Island first. Next, we need to find a city on the back of the Ryukyu Island. We need to use it as a foundation to control the sea trade and plunder the northern countries!”
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