After this happened three times, the Tatars finally couldn't bear it anymore and took the initiative to contact the Tang frigate: Brother, please do me a favor, can you make some space for us to land?
At this time, the people on the Datang frigate came to their senses. Damn, why are these people running around and struggling for several hours but not landing? The feeling is that we have blocked their scheduled landing site several times in a row.
Robbed...
what to do?
Just say sorry, we were blind and didn't notice, so we're going to make room for you?
Just kidding, how is this possible!
The Imperial Navy of the Tang Dynasty was not just a bunch of idiots like the Army, so how could they make such a low-level mistake?
And even if they make mistakes, the Tang Empire Navy will never give in and will fight if they don't accept it!
Really?
Damn it, they are here to see a show, and besides, the higher-ups also sent this message, this Tatar is here to conquer the Tang Dynasty for them, so don’t bully others.
Finally, several officers of the frigate looked at the map and found that there was another place suitable for landing nearby, so they passed a new flag to the Tatars: "I am going to watch a show here, you go and land here."
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After receiving a clear reply from the Tang Dynasty, the generals of the Tatar fleet finally felt relieved.
In fact, they once suspected that the Tang frigate on the opposite side always occupied the landing site ahead of them, whether it was helping the Ottomans and not allowing them to land or something.
Now I have received a clear reply from the people of the Tang Dynasty. They don’t know yet. These people of the Tang Dynasty are just showing off their brains!
However, even if the Tang people were funny, it was the Tatars who swallowed the bitter pill!
After this landing fleet was blocked by the Tang Dynasty frigate for several hours, it was several hours behind the scheduled landing time.
In the past few hours, the Ottomans on land have been prepared.
As soon as they landed, they were violently bombarded by the Ottomans. About half an hour later, a small Ottoman fleet also appeared from the southern sea, and the wind direction happened to be southerly at this time.
This made the general of the Tatar fleet scold him, directly organized the warships in the squadron to prepare for the battle, and at the same time accelerated the landing of the soldiers in the transport ship.
For a moment, the scene became lively, and a group of officers and soldiers on the frigate Wuding, which had robbed the Tatar landing site three times in a row, watched this scene with their eyes wide open. For them, it was a bit...
A new and even unfamiliar maritime war.
They watched as the Ottoman fleet, consisting of about a dozen ships, took advantage of the favorable wind from the south and attacked the Tatar squadron offshore the landing site at high speed.
The Tatars did not sit still and wait for death, but quickly organized warships to fight back.
Then the ships from both sides gradually approached and continued to maneuver and change their formations.
In the end, the fleets of both sides formed a very typical line combat formation.
The next scene made the officers and soldiers of the Tang Navy on the Wuding frigate extremely enjoyable to watch.
I saw the fleets of both sides lined up in a straight formation, heading in opposite directions, using their side artillery to bombard the enemy fleet that was only about two to three hundred meters away.
The Tatars led a sailing battleship of more than a thousand tons. They bombarded them non-stop from the beginning, using their fierce broadside artillery to hit more than a dozen Ottoman battleships approaching in the opposite direction.
Of course, the ship itself also withstood one round of artillery fire from more than a dozen other warships!
When the formations of both sides broke away and took over, the Tatar squadron flagship was completely scrapped. Two masts were broken, and the sail on the remaining mast was on fire. The side that was bombarded was in tatters.
It was unbearable, a large amount of seawater continued to pour in from the breach, and the internal cabins were also in dilapidated condition.
The Tatar sailors did not even have any intention of salvaging the battleship, but simply abandoned it.
Other ships also suffered considerable losses, and two warships were severely damaged and lost their combat effectiveness and had to withdraw from the battle.
The Tatars were so miserable, and the Ottoman fleet on the opposite side was not much better. Two warships even abandoned their ships due to flooding or fire when the two sides broke contact.
After the battle, the remaining warships were all in tatters, and many of them had lost their combat effectiveness.
But even so, the fighting between the two sides had not yet come into contact. They began to turn and then continued fighting. There was even a brutal boarding battle in the middle.
The whole scene was so intense that it was extremely enjoyable for the naval officers and soldiers on the nearby frigate Wuding to watch.
However, no matter how wonderful the performance is, it will come to an end, so after a sea battle between the Tatars and the Ottomans, the Ottoman fleet suffered heavy losses and the remaining troops had to retreat. The Tatars did not choose to pursue it, because
Their losses were also considerable, and they also had to protect the landing transport fleet.
Ever since, this sea battle has come to an end.
This naval battle took place at the northern end of the Sea of Marmara, in the southeastern waters of Istanbul, and in the waters of the Prince's Islands. It was also the largest sea battle between the Tatars and the Ottomans in the entire sea crossing and landing operation.
The Ottomans gathered a total of sixteen warships to conduct interception operations, and the Tatars responded with eighteen warships. In the end, the Tatar navy achieved a tragic tactical victory and a complete strategic victory.
This naval battle is actually of great significance, because it is the largest and most professional naval battle involving sails and wooden battleships in human history!
This is also quite interesting. The largest and most professional line naval battle between sailing warships in human history did not occur between the Tang Empire and other countries, but between the Tatars and the Ottoman Kingdom.
See.
In fact, this cannot be blamed on the Tang Dynasty, because although the Tang Empire also established a large-scale fleet of sailing wooden warships in its early years, it actually did not engage in large-scale close-range line battles.
During the Unification War, we fought sailing naval battles with the Ming Army, but they were all unprofessional naval battles. It was not that the Tang Navy was unprofessional, but that the Ming Navy was unprofessional. A group of professional warships bullied the Ming Army's lucky ships, etc.
The scene is not pretty at all.
Later, they also fought against the Portuguese, but when the Tang Navy went to war with the Portuguese fleet, it was already more than 20 years after the Xuan Ping Dynasty.
At that time, although the warships of the Tang Navy still had wooden warships with sails, they were actually equipped with steam engine warships.
Therefore, when they fought against the Portuguese, both sides had never engaged in this type of line combat, because the Tang Navy relied on the power of steam engines and did not give the Portuguese the opportunity to engage in close line combat.
In the naval battle between the two sides that year, the Tang Dynasty navy used the maneuverability brought by steam engines to defeat the Portuguese fleet.
It is very different from the traditional sail battleship line battle.