Chapter 829: Bombardment of Abbasids

Li Hao also did not order the landing, because he had no intention of trading with the Abbasids at all, according to his words: You don't welcome me, I trade with you a fart, I just want to beat you.

That's right, now Li Hao just wants to fight them, but he doesn't want the army to go ashore to fight, because after all, this is the territory of the Abbasids, if you go ashore, there is a certain risk, maybe the other party has any ambush, even if there is only one in 10,000 risk, he doesn't want the army to take risks, because this is not a war between the two countries, there is no need to win, his purpose is just to teach the Abbasids a lesson, he believes that the Abbasids will definitely have reinforcements coming, and when the reinforcements come, continue to bombard and teach a lesson, don't ask why, one word - cool!

From noon to sunset, Li Hao sent scouts to go ashore in a small boat, closely monitoring every move on the shore, and was sleeping until midnight, when someone suddenly shouted outside Li Hao's cabin door: "Lord Wang, the scouts have an urgent report!" ”

Li Hao was awakened, hurriedly got up, walked out in pajamas, and when he saw that it was Chen Haijin, he asked, "Where are the scouts?" ”

"On deck." Chen Haijin replied.

Li Hao and Chen Hai walked out of the cabin and came to the deck, only to see the two scouts sent by the day saluting him: "Lord Wang, the reinforcements from the black-clothed food have arrived." ”

Li Hao asked: "How many soldiers and horses?" ”

"About thirty thousand."

Li Hao nodded and shouted, "Telescope!" ”

Feiying handed the telescope to Li Hao, Li Hao stood on the side of the ship, looked at the shore with a telescope, and saw that the Abbasid army had reached the shore, and poured some black things into the sea with wooden barrels.

Li Hao was taken aback and shouted loudly: "Alarm!" All ships! Quickly retreat, withdraw from the harbor! ”

Under the order, all the people on the ship were busy, and within ten seconds, a gong sounded on Li Hao's ship, and all the big ships saw it shouting to convey Li Hao's order.

All the ships began to set sail and lift anchor and withdraw out of the harbor.

The Abbasids on the shore saw that the ships of the Dons seemed to have discovered their intentions, and one of the generals shouted anxiously: "Oops, the Dons have found out that we have fired with Greece, quick!" Hurry up and ignite the fire! ”

"But General, the Greek fire has not yet spread to their ship, and if the fire is lit now, the fire will burn, and we will not be able to go up to the sea to pour the Greek fire!"

When the Abbasid general heard this, he gritted his teeth and secretly hated, so he could only shout: "Hurry up, send more men, hurry up and ......"

When the Abbasids were dealing with Byzantium, they were set on fire by Byzantium with a strange oil, and the Byzantines called it Greek fire, as for why it was called Greek fire, no one knows, maybe this thing came from Greece, maybe this thing burned something big in Greece, and it has a very great commemorative significance.

Since the defeat of Byzantium to the Abbasids, the remnants of Byzantium moved westward to Greece, and the formula of Greek fire was also obtained by the Abbasids, the so-called formula is actually a method of finding and extracting oil, so the current Abbasids have also mastered Greek fire, and most importantly, in the Abbasids, there has never been a shortage of oil, but they have not yet mastered high-tech excavation technology.

Li Hao can be said to be the first person in the world to use oil for war, of course he knows the horror of oil burning, since the Abbasid army is ready to burn them with oil, they can only retreat temporarily to avoid its edge.

As soon as Li Hao's fleet sailed out of the harbor, he saw that a fire suddenly appeared on the sea, and after the flame appeared, it spread everywhere like a surging fire dragon, and in just a few moments, it burned on the sea, and the fire soared into the sky, covering the sea area within a radius of seven or eight miles.

Fortunately, they didn't seem to have much oil, and because Li Hao's fleet retreated early, the fire was still two or three miles away from them, and it didn't burn them.

After such a commotion, all the people on board woke up, and there were quite a few Confucian scholars on the ships closest to the fire. They were also shocked by this scene, there was such a fire at sea, they were a little stunned, and a little afraid, if the fleet retreated slowly, they would all be buried in the fire.

Li Hao held the boat and looked at the raging fire, his eyes were gloomy and cold, and suddenly, he asked Wu Lei: "Wu Lei, which ships are those rotten Confucians on?" ”

Wu Lei replied: "Ships 250 to 285, ten on each ship. ”

Li Hao asked, "Are you sure there are no other ships?" ”

Wu Lei nodded: "Sure, there are no other ships." ”

Li Hao said: "Pass my order, let the ships No. 250 to No. 285 sail fifty miles east along the coast, anchor fifteen miles from the coast, and wait for us there." ”

"Lord Wang, ...... you" Wu Lei looked at Li Hao in shock, he vaguely guessed what Li Hao was going to do.

The corners of Li Hao's mouth lifted lightly, revealing a grim smile, and said slowly: "There are some things, it's better not to let them see them." ”

Sure enough, Wu Lei guessed that Li Hao was going to use a cannon.

Since these cannons were installed on the ship, they were used a few times in the past few years when they were fighting pirates, and they have not been used again, and they are finally going to be used today, Wu Lei was a little excited, and immediately went to give the order.

At dawn, the fire was extinguished, and the sea surface of Yemen's Tik seaport was in shambles, with the sea taking on a strange color and littered with carcasses of seabirds and sea fish, while the shores of Yemen's Tik seaport were also affected by the fire, which burned some seaside buildings, but the impact was not significant.

The ship carrying the Confucian scholars had already gone west overnight, and Li Hao could use the cannon with confidence. He ordered the fleet to sail into the harbor again, and lined up, and the Abbasid army on the coast gathered on the shore, and brought out many barrels and poured oil into the sea.

Now Li Hao is not afraid, and continues to let the fleet move forward, and at the same time enter combat readiness.

All the big ships turned around, aimed sideways at the shore, and lined up for twenty miles, and all the gun windows were opened, revealing their dark gun muzzles, aimed at the shore.

The Abbasids did not know what the swarthy muzzles were, and they were still pouring oil into the sea, which was still three miles away from the warship.

Li Hao said lightly: "Fire." ”

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

…… Countless voices conveyed Li Hao's orders.

The fifteen cannons on the left side of the main ship of the "Bang ......" were all fired out within three seconds, this is a scientifically improved cannon, which has tended to be perfect, no worse than the guns of World War II, and the power is naturally needless to say.

They were only more than six miles away from the coast at the moment, and the shells soon exploded on the coast, only to see that the shore of the harbor suddenly exploded, the wharf was destroyed in an instant, thousands of troops were blown to pieces by artillery fire, and the worst thing was that the barrels containing oil were blown to pieces, and there was oil everywhere, which was ignited by artillery fire, and the flames raged, and the entire harbor instantly turned into a sea of fire purgatory.

This was just the beginning, as the other ships hadn't fired yet. Li Hao's main ship is just a fire signal, just launch a round, and then hand it over to the other warships.

The other warships all opened fire, and the entire Abbasid coast of the twenty-mile coast seemed to be suffering from the apocalypse, the artillery fire was raging, the earth trembled, and the carpet bombardment made the Abbasid coast full of gunsmoke, and the entire Abbasid Empire seemed to tremble under Li Hao's artillery fire.

It was the first time for Li Hao to see so many cannons fired together, and even he was shocked by that picture, it turned out that those in war movies were all lies, after all, they were fake, and the real artillery fire was a hundred times more terrifying than on TV.

"Lord Wang, isn't that ...... Too cruel? Wu Lei was a little unbearable, after all, he was not a ruthless person.

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "Have you forgotten how much money the Abbasids asked us for?" ”

Wu Lei didn't dare to reply, he knew that when Li Hao was in this state, it was best not to contradict him.

Li Hao continued: "The Abbasids asked us for more than 3 million yuan for the docking fee, and I don't have that much cash, but it doesn't matter, my shells are very expensive, 300 cannonballs each, if 3 million cannonballs, it is 10,000 cannonballs, so send them 10,000 cannonballs." ”

"Ten thousand...... Pieces! Wu Lei was dumbfounded.

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said: "This time we brought 50,000 shells, and there are 100,000 more in Liuqiu, so many shells, keep them, since the Abbasids want them, then give them some." ”

Wu Lei had nothing to say, and obediently conveyed Li Hao's order to various warships, firing a total of 10,000 shells.

Even those soldiers were a little shocked, a hundred shells can almost solve these enemies, why fire 10,000 shells, they don't understand, is it for the sake of firing cannons?

Eventually, the artillery fire stopped, but the smoke from the shore was still filling.

After waiting for a long time, the smoke finally dissipated, everyone looked at the shore, completely stunned, the harbor was long gone, there were no buildings on the shore, it was full of devastation, even the terrain had been changed, more than 30,000 troops, not even a single corpse could be found, under the carpet bombardment, there was only minced meat, how could there be any corpse, that picture, it was impossible to describe in words, they were shocked in addition to shock.

On the main ship, Wu Lei was shocked for a long time, and finally spoke: "Lord Wang...... Landing on the shore? ”

"No, let's go." Li Hao turned around and left the side of the ship, walked to the helm, personally took the helm, and said, "Go west along the coast, next, we have to fill in the chart, and the next destination, the Red Sea!" ”

Li Hao didn't come to destroy the Abbasids this time, just to teach them a lesson, leave after the fight, why did they go ashore? Still counting on trading with them?

The east side of the Arabian Peninsula is the Persian Gulf, the west is the Red Sea, on the chart drawn by Wu Lei, there is the Persian Gulf, but there is no Red Sea, since Li Hao wants to draw the chart completely, he naturally has to go to the Red Sea, and their latest daily routes and charts will be sent to each ship, so that all the crew, soldiers, including those Confucian scholars know where they are now, in fact, those Confucian scholars themselves are also drawing charts, but they are not this profession after all, and the coast maps drawn are really varied, very different, After comparing it with the charts sent by the main ship, they would all nod their heads convincingly, and they had to admire these perennial seafarers, who specialized in their arts.

On the third day of the eighth month, Li Hao's fleet began to enter the Red Sea, and after entering the Red Sea, he sailed along the coastline on both sides, drew a coastal map, and determined that Egypt was on the west side of the coast.

At the end of the Red Sea, there is the Gulf of Suez, and their fleet can sail into it, but they can't go through the Suez Canal in the future.

Although the Suez Canal is world-famous, it is the main road connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, but the current Suez Canal is only a prototype, and the history of the Suez Canal can be traced back to the 13th century BC. However, the project was so large that several excavations were unsuccessful, and then it was abandoned.

Li Hao and Wu Lei took a hot air balloon, flew all the way over the abandoned Suez Canal, observed with a telescope, and after returning to the ship, Li Hao made an important decision to spend money to hire a large number of Egyptian coolies to dig the Suez Canal.