Chapter 565: Aceh to drive tigers and wolves to pinch Johor
The Acehnese rigorously waited for almost a month. It is estimated that it will take Kerim ten days to reach the Sun City of the Southeast House, ten days of negotiations, and ten days of echoes. However, the news is that Kerim has nothing to do, and there are many refusal from the Southeast House. Do not give a clear reply.
No longer waiting, the fleet is dispatched!
On the flagship, Aceh Sudan Iskandar Ratthani is dressed in gold, with a treasure sword, and huge rings on his fingers. The gold ornaments and gems on his clothes and on the sword are dazzling in the sun.
And his generals wore iron armor and iron helmets, full of arrogance.
The Aceh Army is a very powerful army, strong soldiers, heavy iron weapons, swords and spears, leather armor, bows and arrows, and matchlock guns!
This is amazing. It should be noted that Southeast Asia is generally backward. Many indigenous people in Southeast Asia have their skins in armor. Clothes are considered good. The iron tip on the wooden spear is enough to make him envious, let alone a machete.
The most important thing in the Aceh fleet is the dragon boat. The actual name is "Calaisian warship", which is a rowing warship. The original source is ancient Greece. Well, Achilles used this kind of warship to grab beaches during the Battle of Troy. Log in.
This kind of ship was used until the Middle Ages, and then spread eastward, and was passed to the Acehnese by the Ottoman Turks.
These boats have slender hulls with relatively large length and width (usually 6-9:1), only one deck, low sides, oars windows on the waterline, and oarsmen on each side. 15-30 oars, the oars are thick, and it takes four slaves to move it. If it is a thin slave, it will be a big trouble-----These Sudan countries are generally affected by the Ottoman Turks. Like to use slaves, there are black slaves, castrates, and even white slaves in the court. Of course, if possible, they will also enslaved Chinese to work, but smart Chinese will soon be able to improve their position among slaves. Successfully trampled other races underfoot. As we will see, Yan Dashao used these Sudan kingdoms as an excuse to enslave the Chinese to wage war against the Sudan kingdoms.
"Calais-style warships" usually do not have artillery on the deck, generally only on the fore and aft towers, and most of them are forehouses. A considerable number of paddle warships do not have a stern, and there are a small number of artillery on the deck, often only 3 to 5 guns. There are also some Calais-style warships that are faster and have a collision angle at the bow. The last time Zhao Hongli saw this type of warship, it was used to attack the enemy's formation.
The hull structure is simple, the strength is poor, the draft is relatively shallow, and most of them are flat-bottomed boats.
Calais-style warships usually have two masts. Small ships have only one mast, each with a spinnaker. Because rowing warships are basically powered by rowing, sails are only an auxiliary tool for sailing and fighting. Still rely on oars.
The Acehnese are indeed strong. They used more than 200 Calais warships and smaller flat-bottomed ships, including Chinese ships called "junks", which mainly transported military supplies.
There are more than 20,000 Aceh soldiers in total. Slaves are not counted. The pure-bred Acehnese disdain to be oarsmen, so the oarsmen are almost all slaves. The oarsmen on each ship are almost twice as many as the soldiers.
The flagship of Aceh Sudan Iskandar Ratthani is called the "Sacred Sword", which belongs to the "Galias" warship, which is stronger and more terrifying than the Calais warship.
It has a fat hull with a length-to-width ratio of 4 to 5:1. It usually has two decks. The lower deck is the rower's deck, 2-3 rows of rowers are staggered, and the upper deck is an open deck, with 15 on each side. Artillery, with the power of side guns. In addition, the "Galias" warship has 3 masts and 3 spinnakers. The bow has a circular closed fort, and the stern is also equipped with artillery. The overwhelming firepower of the Calais warship.
"Sacred Sword" is 70 meters long, 7 meters wide, has a draft of about three and a half meters, and has a light-load displacement of 250 tons, which is twice that of ordinary Calais. It has 36 6-pounder guns. There are a total of 300 oarsmen on the ship working together to move the giant ship.
Aceh People's General Action has 10 such "Galiyas-style" warships, and 6 of them were dispatched in this battle, and their opponent Johor does not have such warships!
The "Galias" warship is so powerful that the Acehnese have high hopes for them, but there are pros and cons. The "Galias" warship is a shortcoming in maneuverability, even though it is equipped with 3 masts. And more oarsmen, but due to the heavy hull, the maneuverability is still far inferior to that of the flexible Calais warship, which severely slowed down the fleet and took a full week for the fleet to reach the sea outside Johor. At the same time, the enemy was given an opportunity to take advantage of the inability to fill up positions in time.
The battle started at ten o'clock in the morning, and the Johor fleet consisting of hundreds of warships fought the Aceh fleet offshore, and the battle started slowly.
The equipment of the Johorese is similar to that of the Acehnese. The fleet is all "Calaisian warships" with smaller hulls and no large "Galias-style" warships, and the opponent is Sultan's imperial commander, and the morale is strong.
It’s just that the people of Johor are not lacking in courage. They are led by General Khalid (a lot of people are called Khalid), Melwan, Mishbaha, etc., and the forward flagship led by Khalid bears the brunt of the attack against Aceh. The fleet fired its guns, and their bow guns sank a large Calais-style battleship that was at the forefront of Aceh with only two guns!
The artillery shell directly penetrated the lower hull of the hapless battleship's waterline, the sea rushed in, and the Aceh ship without a watertight cabin quickly sank!
accident!
But it was also an excellent sign~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Suddenly, the cheers of Johorese overwhelmed the Acehnese who were twice as many as they were!
Aceh was silent, and the expressions of the senior officers changed: "This is a twelve-pounder!"
Hong Maofan came to Nanyang, and the artillery sold was always under six pounds, without exception, no matter how good the relationship and the higher the price, he would not sell higher-pound artillery.
The technical level of the indigenous people is poor. Regardless of the artillery, there is nothing more than an iron bump. The Europa, the Turks, and the Chinese can make them. There is no other source, and all countries will not sell heavy artillery-- ---The Chinese made an exception and sold twelve-pounder guns to Johorians in order to let the Johorians kill the Acehnese better and not to lose quickly.
"Defeat the Acehnese!" The rapid combat power of the Johorians against the long-burning anger of the Acehnese casts this jaw-dropping scene at the start of the war!
It’s just that the Acehnese were a bit frustrated and more courageous. With more troops, Iskandar Ratthani ordered two-thirds of the fleet to attack the Johorians head-on, and one-third of the fleet went into the shallow waters to the north to fight, trying to implement flanks. Outflank, cut off the Johor fleet back to the sea, but it is not a good strategy. As the center of gravity of the Johor fleet goes north-their boats and boats are faster, they block the Acehnese, and they can’t make use of the boats. The power of.
At about eleven in the morning, the Acehnese left-wing fleet and the Johorese right-wing fleet collided violently, and a **** battle began.
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