The sun swept over the Sriwijaya Strait and gradually slanted towards the western ocean, covering the vast expanse of the sea, the foothills of the islands that dotted it, and the galleys and galleys that were fighting and chasing on the sea.

Because the battlefield of the battle was located at the entrance to the Sriwijaya Strait, the naval battle, which had already entered its end, was later named the "First Battle of the Sriwijaya Strait" - the reason why it was the first was naturally because there would be a second, third, and fourth ...... Until the 18th Battle of the Sriwijaya Strait!

The repeated battles surrounding the Sriwijaya Strait have only just begun!

The Sriwijaya Strait controls one of the world's most valuable golden waterways! The surrounding Srivijaya people, Javanese people, Arabs, Chola people, as well as the Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants organized by Wu Haogu and Ji Yi, all wanted to take it for themselves.

But none of them, including the Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants, had enough advantages to overwhelm the rest - Ji Yi was now leading not a modern navy with sail artillery battleships as the main force, but an armed merchant fleet with Chinese-style hard-sailed long-galleys as the main force. Purely in terms of the quality of the warships, they were not at all comparable to the Arabs, and of course their seafaring skills were not as good as the Arabs.

The Arabs were the sea coachmen of this era, with dhows that could sail against the wind, a systematic training system for water warfare, and countless experienced navigators.

The so-called century-old pirates are this group of merchants under the banner of Allah!

However, the Arabs also have weaknesses, they do not have a strong political power behind them, and it is inevitable that they will fight on their own, and it is difficult to form a joint force. Another fatal weakness is that the Arabs' own armed forces have long since weakened. Therefore, they could not form a real navy, only a scattered family of pirates and maritime merchants.

And the advantages of the Song Dynasty are precisely what the Arabs do not have. They have a strong regime. When the regime wants to make a difference across the sea, the Arabs are under tremendous pressure.

In addition, although the Song Dynasty was recognized as a "weak Song", it was relative to the Khitans, Jurchens and Mongols. For other scumbags, the Song army is still quite powerful.

And the Arabs, their Seljuk fathers, were casually beaten by the Khitans with the only remaining embers - it was not the weakened Seljuks who were beaten by big stones, but the Sajar Sultan of the Great Seljuks, whose national strength was still quite strong, and he subdued the small Seljuk dynasties, and also defeated the Qarakhanid Dynasty (that is, the Black Khan Uighurs) and the Chalvand Dynasty, and the territory once expanded to the territory of later China! As a result, they were violently beaten by thousands or tens of thousands of Liao soldiers, and lost all their old capital in the first battle, and the Great Seljuk was also devastated as a result.

Dad is so useless, being a son - in fact, he is not even a son, Dingtian is a gray grandson who is wild and no one cares outside - you can imagine what kind of virtue it is.

So in today's first battle of the Srivijaya Sea, although the Arabs were able to outmaneuver their opponents at the level of shipbuilding. But when the gang jumping battle began, the advantage immediately went to the side of the Song army. The level of the bravest Gulam is about the same as that of Fang La's "good officers and soldiers", and it is a little worse than the "little children" who don't want to die in the Shinsengumi, and as for the ironclad samurai directly under the jurisdiction of the Coastal City's Maritime Control Division, it is even more invincible.

Therefore, this naval battle is, to some extent, actually carried out in the way of land warfare!

And it was Puab's cowardice that determined the final outcome.

When the twenty-nine warships led by Hu Yanqing approached the battlefield, Pu Abu still had enough capital in his hands. He brought out a total of 50 warships, but now only 4 have been lost, and 6 are entangled with enemy ships in a bitter battle.

But the remaining warships are still far more than Huyanqing's fleet!

Also, it's almost dusk now. The Song Dynasty sailors were poor in handling ships and unfamiliar with the waters around the Sriwijaya Strait, so it was unlikely that they would be able to engage in a decisive battle at night with an Arab fleet outnumbered them.

Therefore, as long as he is in array, Pu Abu can still bring his main force back to Mo Luo Yu from the battlefield. There was also a fleet belonging to the Srivijaya kingdom in Morayu, as well as ships of other Arab maritime merchants. Ji Yi and Hu Yanqing definitely did not dare to rashly march towards Mo Luo Yu - because the Song-style sailing ship did not have the ability to sail against the wind, and once the situation was unfavorable, it was impossible to escape. It's winter, and the north wind hangs most of the time on the sea.

But Puab left his fleet and fled!

"Inspection! The Great Eater fleet scattered, seemingly trying to disperse and escape. ”

"What?" On the Tianli, Hu Yanqing couldn't believe his ears.

"Scattered?" He asked.

Although Hu Yanqing doesn't have much experience in naval warfare, the most basic principle is known - naval warfare is the most taboo division of troops! Because once the troops are divided, it will be difficult to concentrate them again. The sea is boundless, and the wind is controlled, who knows where those scattered sailboats have gone?

"That's right, it's scattered."

"How is that possible?"

Hu Yanqing still couldn't believe it, so he simply put on the mast by his side, and took the telescope to look at the sea in the south for a while.

The big sailing ships on the sea were really scattering and fleeing in different directions. Only a few huddled ships couldn't move - there should be fighting there!

"Inspection, what should we do?"

Hu Yanqing said: "Go and rescue them from Inspector Cheng first...... he thought about it again, "Then let Inspector Cheng take someone to pick up Pu Luozhong, and everyone else will go to Mo Luoyu!" ”

The occupation of Polozhong Island was the first step towards gaining a foothold in the Sriwijaya Strait. According to the information gathered by the Coastal City Shipping Division, Polozhong Island belongs to the Sriwijaya State, and the island has been developed to a certain extent, and there is a fortified port called Longyamen.

Of course, the so-called fortress was nothing more than a wooden fenced city, and there was a small port nearby, where a few clippers were placed to collect taxes from passing merchant ships - Dragon's Tooth Gate was the name of a waterway, so named after a reef that was more than two feet high and looked like a dragon's tooth.

Although this is very important, the center of the Sriwijaya Kingdom is, after all, on the island of Bumi (Sumatra), Sumatra, and it is necessary to focus on guarding against the Javanese people in the east and the Chula people in the west, and there is no spare force to deploy heavy troops on the island of Pulozhong.

So it gave Ji Yi, Hu Yanqing and others the opportunity to raid and seize it!

But now that Hu Yanqing has found out that the Pujia Sailor is scattered, he wants more things.

"Most of them go to Mo Luo Yu?"

The left and right sailors should all look at each other, and one of them said: "Go to war with the Srivijaya Kingdom?" ”

"You don't have to fight!" Hu Yanqing said, "But you can block the sailors of the Three Buddhas in the Badang River...... Then he forced the Sriwijaya to cede the island of Puluo and hand over the property of the Pu family in Sriwijaya. ”

Mora Yu, the capital of Sriwijaya, is an inland city located on the banks of the Batang River, which leads to the sea. The sailors of the Srivijaya are also generally stationed in the lower ports of the Batang River.

If when Huyanqing's main fleet arrived, they still hadn't gone to sea, then Huyanqing would have been able to blockade the estuary with warships.

And once the access to the sea of the capital of the Three Buddhas is blocked, then it is very likely that Mo Luo Yu will give in to the Great Song Dynasty.

After all, this time it is the Three Buddhas who are at fault!

……

When the night completely covered the sea, Puab was completely relieved. The terrible nightmare is finally over...... Uh, it should be over! The next time you fight a naval battle, you won't be able to go out of the horse, so let the water battles Guram take command.

But...... How many water battles do you have in your own hands?

"Salaam, how many boats are following us?"

"Dear master, there is not a ship with us now......" Salam said in a mournful tone, "I am afraid that we will have to return to Mora Yu alone." ”

"How is this possible!? No, aren't there still forty boats? ”

Salam said: "Of course you still have many warships, and even if you don't have them, you can build new ones...... But now not a single ship is following us! They all got separated as they retreated. The ocean is so vast, once it is gone, it is very difficult to find it. ”

"O Allah! Then, what if the Song people attack Mo Luo Yu? ”

"Then don't go to Mo Luo Yu......"

"What? Don't go to Mo Luo Yu? Puab looked at Salam, and in the dim light, the Gulam warrior in his thirties seemed to be ten years old all of a sudden, and his brows were tightly wrinkled.

"Master," Salam said, "the pagans of the Srivijaya will not fight for Allah...... They will most likely betray you! ”

Puab knows what it means to "betray"! That is, cut off the head and put it in a box and send it to the Song people!

What he did in the Sriwijaya Strait today is definitely worthy of the sin of beheading!

He went to war with the Great Song Dynasty...... And again a fiasco! After Mo Luo Yu's faint monarch and traitorous ministers knew the truth, how could they not kill him? Maybe the whole family won't be able to save it.

"If you don't go back to Mo Luo Yu, where should I go?"

"Go to Aceh...... There are many devout Celestial cultists there," Salam said, "and your fiefdom is there." Through the Indian Ocean, we can also hire fighters from India, Arabia, and we can always hold out there.

And some of the ships that escaped will also be withdrawn to Aceh. After all, it is the closest port to Mecca in the entire Srivijaya country! ”

"That's right! Right! Puab nodded, "Just go to Aceh...... I still have strength there, and I still have an army, and when I get there, I won't be afraid of the Song people. ”

This Pu Abu is really a bit irresponsible, he first hid from the king of Sriwijaya to start a war with the Great Song Dynasty in the Sriwijaya Strait, and now he went to Aceh without saying hello.

And the monarchs and ministers of the Three Buddhas Kingdom were kept in the dark from beginning to end, they didn't know anything, and naturally they didn't make any preparations.

Until the evening of the next day, more than 20 galleys and warships with Buddhist swastikas led by Hu Yanqing appeared at the mouth of the Badang River......

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