"So smooth?" Ma Yue asked.
"Originally, at the beginning, we also had to adapt to attacking moving targets from the ship. However, the enemy's trebuchets were too inaccurate. In the early stages of the war, while we were adapting to the double-ringed pottery sling attack mode, we used mostly stones instead of kerosene to avoid excessive waste."
What Shuichong said seemed to make sense. In actual combat, using stones instead of fish oil to attack was to adjust the crosshairs while attacking the target on the move.
"You charlatan, the enemy's navy is really not very strong. Later, when we salvaged some enemy prisoners, we learned that the Taki tribe suffered heavy losses in the naval battle attacking Xishui Bay. In this naval battle, the enemy coalition was mainly composed of grassland sailors. The grassland navy can barely sail, but it is really not good at using catapults."
"At sea, even if the grassland sailors used rockets to attack, their footing wouldn't be stable enough to hit them accurately."
In short, the people of the grasslands are good at horseback riding and archery on the grasslands, but when it comes to naval warfare, most of them are just bullshit. As we've said before, naval warfare requires true foundation; it's impossible to be a strong naval force just by forming an army.
When the Sea Tribe had just established its navy, it was always defeated and almost annihilated several times.
After several rounds of stone attacks, the stones in the double-ringed clay pot slings were replaced with kerosene. The Marines of the Sea Tribe, after all, had years of training with the double-ringed clay pot slings, so they had the basics. With a rough adjustment of their aim and mindset, the naval battle instantly became one-sided.
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