Fierce fire oil, which has similar properties to Greek fire (also known as Roman fire), has been eliminated as a weapon on the battlefields of the Song and Jin Dynasties, but Wanyan Xiebao still knew of its existence and studied it carefully. Because at that time, the Kingdom of Jin suffered heavy losses from the gunpowder weapons of the Northern Song Dynasty, so of course it wanted to develop its own firearms force to restrain its opponents.
At that time, Menghuo Oil was dedicated to Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Xiebao and his son by the traitors on Jingdong East Road. However, after Wanyan Xiebao's research, he found that the Menghuo Oil cabinets and Menghuo Oil tanks used to load Menghuo Oil were too easy to use. If it is hit by an opponent's arson bomb, this thing will explode immediately if it receives an arson bomb!
If you use this thing to deal with artillery, you will just get beaten by the artillery!
Therefore, Wanyan Xiebao's plan to use fierce fire oil to fight artillery was defeated, but Wanyan Xiebao also understood the principles and characteristics of fierce fire oil tanks, and also knew how to defeat this thing.
He originally thought that this knowledge was useless, but he never expected that after he fled to the Crimea, he actually heard that the number one weapon of the Eastern Roman Empire was Greek fire, which was similar to fierce fire oil!
Not only did naval battles rely on Greek fire cans to spit fire and burn the enemy's ships, but even when defending a city, Greek fire cans were thrown to burn the enemy to death.
And this "one trick" started 500 years ago!
It had been "fresh" for a full 500 years, and the enemies of the Eastern Romans had changed from the Arabs to the Seljuk Turks. These Eastern Romans were still relying on the Greeks to burn people and ships, making no progress at all.
The enemies of Eastern Rome have not made much progress and are still being burned. The most interesting thing is that the Saracens have actually learned to make Greek fire a long time ago. Although the performance is not as good as the products from East Rome, it can still burn people. However, they seem to be unable to build heavy fire oil tanks, so there is no Greek fire on the Saracens' warships, but they will throw Greek fire jars to burn the Crusaders. And the Crusaders had nothing to do about it.
It can be said that the Romans relied on the power of Greek fire to the point of superstition. If one day their Greek fire was directly broken by others, they would probably no longer have the confidence to resist.
Wanyan Xiebao is preparing to use the "golden bullet" to destroy the Greek fire to prove that he is blessed by God!
The so-called "golden cartridge" is actually a camel cartridge or camel cannon. Because Wanyan Xiebao is now John Vasilius 31st of the Golden Dynasty, all weapons must be changed to a high-end and classy "golden name".
The hot pot cannon was changed to a golden hot pot, the frying pot was changed to a golden pot, the gunpowder was changed to a golden flame, and the camel tube was renamed a golden bullet - wasn't it used to produce projectiles? Calling it a golden ball tube is not as smooth as calling it a golden bullet tube.
In order to ensure that every cartridge loaded on the warship can exert its power, Wanyan Xiebao personally selected 80 of the best quality cartridges from the hundreds of cartridges equipped by his troops, and also measured the caliber himself. Then he oversaw the production of cast iron projectiles and cork stoppers (used to insulate the projectile from the charge when firing arson bombs).
The bows of the 40 Dromond double-decker sailboats, which were intricately built by craftsmen from Venice and Genoa, all had a cannon platform with two canisters placed on the platform. There was also a stove behind the platform. It served as a kitchen and was used to heat 8 taels of pellets during the war.
When the Roman fleet led by John II attacked, most of the officers and soldiers on the 40 warships were baptized on the beach. The slave rowers responsible for rowing (all Rakshasa prisoners of war) were imprisoned in the rowers' camp in Yulta City.
If the sentinels on the watchtower at Yanerzhai hadn't had binoculars in their hands, they would have discovered John II's fleet from all the way, and Wanyan Xiebao might have really caught his opponent off guard!
Telescopes are very rare items in the Kingdom of Jin (polished with crystal). When Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiebao's army left Linhuang Mansion, there were only a few in the army, and it was impossible to distribute them to them. sentinel.
But when the two father and son set off from the Huzhang River, Prime Minister Cao of the Tang Dynasty who went to see them off gave them twenty or thirty "tea crystal telescopes" made in the Western Tang Dynasty - in fact, making telescopes is not that difficult, it's just Polished crystal, but good quality crystal is hard to come by. It is impossible for it to flow into Dajin and Xitang.
However, the territory of the Western Tang Dynasty produced "tea crystals" of good quality, so Prime Minister Cao found craftsmen who were good at polishing crystals and fumbled out a batch of brown "solar binoculars", so the sentinels of Yan'erzhai had The telescope can be used. Speaking of which, it’s true that God doesn’t bless the good man John!
Good John didn't realize that God no longer loved him. How could this be possible? He is such a good Roman saint, he prays to God every day, and if he does something harmful, he will repent to God in time. There was perhaps no better monarch in the whole of Christian civilization.
So God will definitely bless him!
Because of his trust in God and because he wanted his generals and mercenaries to witness his bravery once again, his emperor's ship is now following the 18 heavy Dromon fire-breathing galleys in line. , riding the wind and waves, pounced on the 40 Dromon galleys lined up in two rows in front.
John II is now standing on the watchtower of the ship, and his commander John Aksukh is guarding him. Both of them have serious faces, without any joy of victory - good people will not be punished for killing people. Feel happy!
Although John II was very happy when he saw the "El Dorado" warship in front of him sitting on the sea as if anchored (either as if it was anchored). But he still tried to pretend to be compassionate, as if he couldn't bear to see his enemies turned into barbecue.
The 18 heavy-duty Dromon fire-breathing galleys ahead took advantage of the wind and could approach the immobile enemy ships very quickly without even needing to paddle.
The distance between the two sides is already very close. You can shoot each other with bows and arrows. As long as you get closer, you can breathe fire.
At this time, John II made the sign of the cross on his chest and whispered, "May God forgive the sins of those barbarians who will be burned to death soon."
John II wanted to say "Amen", but he just said "Amen". Before the "door" came, he was stunned by two rows of large and small fires that suddenly appeared on the El Dorado warship in front!
Before he could react, a series of thunderous roars sounded in his ears!
Immediately afterwards, a more terrifying scene appeared. Three of the 18 heavy Dromon fire-breathing galleys that were rapidly approaching the enemy ships suddenly had huge fireballs at their bows. Then these three warships flew under the huge Amidst the roar, it was swallowed up by the fireball that expanded bigger and bigger!
Is this a Greek fire pot exploding?
John II opened his mouth and couldn't believe his eyes!
Greek fire is flammable and explosive and extremely difficult to preserve, so the fire cabinet to preserve Greek fire is more difficult to make than the Greek fire itself. The Saracens would have imitated Greek fire a long time ago, but because they could not build oil tanks to store Greek fire, they had never been able to put the imitation Greek fire on ships.
The Roman Navy had excellent quality oil tanks and implemented a strict management system for more than 500 years. The fire-breathing ships equipped with Greek fire rarely had accidents, let alone blowing up three fire-breathing ships at the same time. Is God helping? The barbarians of El Dorado?
John II didn't know about the golden cartridges and arson bombs, so his first thought was that God was manifesting himself!
Just when John II was so frightened by this terrible thought that he broke into a cold sweat, two more rows of fire appeared at the bow of the El Dorado warship in front, and then there was still a continuous roar, followed by three more fire-breathing ships. A huge ball of fire emerged!
This is not God helping the enemy! John II already understood a little bit, but the enemy was using magic!
The enemy is a devil with a magical weapon that can emit fire and light fire-breathing ships!
"Your Majesty" John Aksuh, the commander-in-chief of John II, had also reacted and shouted loudly, "The enemy will definitely use terrible magic. Our Greek fireships have been destroyed by them. We must retreat immediately!"
Retreat immediately?
John II glared at his general, this is not land! His fleet attacked with a tailwind and retreated with a headwind. Moreover, the speed of the heavy Dromon Spitfire Galley was much slower than that of the Dromon Double-decker. How could it retreat?
However, even if John II did not order a retreat, the captains and sailors of the remaining 12 fire-breathing ships in front were too timid and did not dare to charge forward. They lowered the sails one after another and rowed their long oars backwards, trying to "back the ship" .
But how could the El Dorado cannon ship, which had already destroyed six Roman fire-breathing ships, let them go?
These 40 ships were divided into 4 groups, each group had 10 ships and 20 cartridges responsible for hitting a Roman fire ship. The two volleys just now destroyed 6 Roman ships. Although the other 2 ships did not explode, they were also hit by hot projectiles and were already on fire.
"Well done!"
Wanyan Xiebao, who was watching the battle on Yan'er Mountain, was already dancing and applauding. According to this strategy, the Romans' fire-breathing ships would be defeated. This was their trump card that they had relied on for 500 years!
Once defeated, will they still have the courage to continue resisting the heavenly soldiers?
"Boom boom boom"
There was another roar on the sea, and at the same time four dazzling fireballs were raised. This time, four fire-breathing ships were blown up. In addition to the previous six fire-breathing ships, ten fire-breathing ships were already destroyed. Two of the eight remaining fire boats were still burning. The sailors on board were already frightened and jumped into the water without waiting for the boats to explode. The six boats that had not yet burned were rowing their oars backwards as hard as they could. One of the ships seemed to have no eyes on its butt, and it collided with a larger warship behind it. The two warships that collided with each other had a huge target, and they immediately fired a barrage of arson bombs, and were soon also attacked. The fire was engulfed.
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