Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Chapter 1131 Thousands of Ships Gather

Port Mel in southern Asia Minor.The port is full of ships of all kinds.This is the home port of the new Mediterranean Fleet of Augustus, only more than 100 miles away from the north coast of Cyprus.The new Mediterranean Fleet is actually a mixture of the Black Sea Fleet and ships brought in from Cyprus, with a total of more than [-] large and small warships.

On the sea far away from the port, there are a large number of warships cruising back and forth outside the port.There are a large number of ballistas on the shore of the port, near the plank road and the gate, and some of them are huge ballistas with a fairly long range.As Feng Yu expected, after knowing that Cyprus was attacked by the Sicilian army, Augustus became more vigilant and took adequate precautions in his own port.In fact, in addition to these obvious measures, the Augustus fleet also tampered with the sea near the port, placing many artificial "reefs" made of stone and iron.If you don't follow the established route, you will easily hit the rocks and sink.

When the sun had just risen a pole high, there was a long queue on the road leading to Port Mel.It was Augustus and others who were going to Cyprus to marry Shirley.At the port wharf, there were more than [-] large and small warships that had already been arranged waiting, and some of the transport ships were also full of soldiers transferred to Cyprus to replace the original garrison.

In reality, Augures isn't worried about his safety.He didn't think that when he crossed the sea, someone would suddenly attack him from the sea, because he knew the surrounding forces including Sicily, and now at least in the Eastern Mediterranean, no one could overwhelm him at sea.It wasn't all for safety reasons that he arranged so many escort ships.Instead, part of the ships of the Mediterranean Fleet will be transferred to the port of Pila in Cyprus by the way.It is closer to the main shipping routes of the Eastern Mediterranean and closer to the mouth of the Suez Canal.It will become the base for him to control the sea control of the entire Eastern Mediterranean in the future.

With the sound of several horns, the warships in the port left the port in an orderly manner, and lined up to the depths of the southern sea.After a while, the sea was full of shadows of masts and sails.

Just a few miles away, Feng Yujun's semi-submersible boat was hiding in the waves, shaking non-stop.The commander of the semi-submersible ship, who poked his head out of the lookout, stared at this side intently.Because of the distance, they could only see the countless raised masts, but it was enough.However, because the surface is spherical, the opponent cannot find these semi-submersible ships.

The captain withdrew his head back into the cabin and gave the order: "Send the signal." A soldier holding a red flag immediately took his place, holding onto the edge of the cabin to stand firm against the splash of water splashing into the observation hatch from time to time , and then waved the big red flag vigorously with one hand.Less than two miles to the west of this semi-submersible ship, people on another semi-submersible ship found the jumping red dot, and immediately poked out a red flag from the hatch and waved it vigorously.

So after several relays.On the west side of Port Mel, fifteen miles away from Port Mel, the huge fleet anchored on a piece of sea received the news that the Augustus fleet had left the port.On a multi-masted galleon, after Feng Yu received the report from the soldiers, he calmly ordered: "Pass my military order, the whole army will attack!"

Gan Ning, who was standing next to him, felt that something was wrong, and quickly said: "Master, shall we attack now? The subordinates thought that we should quietly follow behind them and attack when they landed on Cyprus. This way, we can attack them One was caught off guard, and the other was that they were far away from Asia Minor at that time, so they could only run to the isolated island of Cyprus, so that they could hardly escape by chance and wiped out all of them."

Feng Yu shook his head and said: "What you said makes sense. But we still have to attack now. If they are allowed to land on the island, the Harturel family on the island may become their hostages."

Dian Wei next to him opened his mouth, but when he wanted to speak, Dian Qing pulled him back, and finally closed his mouth.In fact, Dian Wei wanted to say, "What does the safety of the Harturel family on the island have to do with us?"

After Feng Yu walked away from the deck, Dian Wei just asked Dian Qing in a low voice, "Why are you dragging me?" Dian Qing said with a serious face, "Stop talking. You don't care about my lord's thoughts." I know. Let me tell you, the daughter of Hatulel’s family may have met the lord. Do you think he can let them take this risk?” Dian Qing was the four attendants who followed Feng Yu into the Governor’s Palace of Cyprus at that time. one of them.

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"A large number of unknown ships have been found in the southwest of the fleet!" The watchman on the mast of the flagship on which Augustus was riding shouted loudly.The warning sounds on the other battleships also kept coming and going.Augustus was taken aback at first. The fleet commander under his command had already ordered loudly: "Ready for battle, set up a battle formation. Prepare to meet the enemy."

Amidst the endless sounding of horns, information about this unknown fleet came one after another. "Report! There are nearly [-] unknown ships in size.", "Report! The incoming ship is under the banner of the Sicilian Navy."

Augustus frowned and wondered how Feng Yu came here by chance.No, it must not be a coincidence, but he already knew the time of his action and laid an ambush long ago.Thinking of this, the hairs on his back exploded, but he immediately comforted himself and said, fortunately, there are not many ships on the other side, and it is not far from Port Mel.It's hard to say who will win the deer, maybe this is his chance to wipe out all the opponent's fleet.Thinking of this, he immediately ordered: "Go quickly and bring in all the warships that are still anchored in the port. We are going to fight to the death with the Sicilian navy here!"

The shadow of sails in the mast forest in the distance is getting closer and closer, and Augustus also hastily set up a formation.At this time, the distance between the two sides was still three or four miles away, and each ship was within the sight of the other side.

On Augustus's side, a soldier suddenly shouted: "There is something underwater." Almost at the same time, Augustus also discovered several semi-submersible boats on the sea surface with only the observation hatches exposed.They are already very close to Augustus' fleet.

"It's Feng Yujun's sinking ship! Pay attention to their underwater sinking ships! Shoot them with ballista and stone bullets!" August's admiral roared loudly.It is not a secret that Feng Yu owns a semi-submersible ship now, but among the Roman army, this kind of ship was called a sunken ship.

A round of stone bullets was thrown out by the ship-borne ballista, and flew towards the semi-submersible ships in a very dense manner.Splashes of water jets immediately splashed on the surface of the sea.Accompanied by the muffled sound of cracking wood, a stone bomb just hit a semi-submersible boat.In that semi-submersible boat, soldiers climbed out of the hatch out of the water one after another, jumped into the sea, and swam desperately to escape.

Then there was another muffled bang, and Ogules found that one of the largest galley warships on his side had collided with a semi-submersible ship.Similarly, the sailors in the semi-submersible jumped into the sea to escape, and the soldiers on the deck of the galley immediately hurled them with javelins and crossbow bolts.

Chapter 1132 "Suicide" Attack

With a slight muffled pop, the sailor Feng Yujun who jumped into the sea from the semi-submersible ship that collided with the galley was pierced by a sharp javelin.He floated limply on the sea surface, and the sea water around him was stained blood red.

On the deck of the galley warship, the general who was directing the soldiers to shoot the enemy soldiers who fell into the water, suddenly found thick smoke billowing from the observation hatch of the semi-submersible ship, and felt bad.He roared loudly: "Push this semi-submersible boat away..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a loud bang.Several huge sealed jars half filled with Greek kerosene exploded together.The reason why the tank is filled in half is to accommodate the mixture of kerosene and air volatilized in the tank, so that a huge deflagration can be caused.

The huge waves generated by the deflagration were several times high, and accompanied by the huge waves, a flame shot straight into the sky, like a flying dragon formed by intertwining water and fire.Then a raging sea of ​​flames ignited at the location of the deflagration.The leaky galley that had been rammed was instantly engulfed in flames.Almost all the soldiers on the deck became Pyromen in an instant.They howled and jumped into the water.

Almost at the same time that the semi-submersible ship ignited, another semi-submersible ship collided with a warship from the Asia Minor fleet, and the same scene was repeated.In addition, more semi-submersible ships of the Sicilian fleet were hit by ballista stones.

This is actually Feng Yu's first wave of "suicide" attacks by taking advantage of the characteristics of the semi-submersible ship.The purpose is to play the role of dismounting the horse, to hit the enemy's morale and disrupt the formation and deployment of the enemy fleet.Although this was a suicide attack, the personnel were prepared to retreat.They only had to swim backward for a quarter of an hour before they could be picked up by their ships.

In the end, two of the six semi-submersible ships succeeded, and the remaining four were destroyed by dense stone bombs that fell like hailstones before they got close to any enemy ships, and sea water poured into the cabin from the damaged gaps.Forced the crew to abandon ship early.However, the two semi-submersible ships that successfully attacked have ignited a large sea of ​​​​flames on the sea surface and engulfed the two warships.The middle part of Augustus' huge fleet suddenly became chaotic.At this time, the closest distance between the two fleets was less than a hundred battles away.

The warships of the Sicilian fleet in the distance made the muffled sound of fluffy ballista strings being ejected.A stone bullet was ejected towards Augustus's Mediterranean fleet.A few feet high water column was splashed on the surface of the water.

Augustus, who had never been on the battlefield and experienced a battle, had his pupils shrunk a little because of fear, and stared blankly at the enemy fleet.At this time, the general in charge of commanding the fleet reminded him: "My lord, the enemy army is coming fiercely, and it seems that they have been prepared. The big battle is coming, you should not stay at sea for a long time. I think you should withdraw to land and wait for the results of the battle." .”

One sentence woke up Augustus.He quickly said: "Yes, yes. This fleet will be given full command to you. All the other generals who have nothing to do with the fleet will return to the voyage with me!"

Soon, more than a dozen warships escorted the battleship that Augustus was on, drilled out from the rear of the huge fleet, and fled quickly to the north coast of Asia Minor.In front of this huge fleet, a formal war with the Sicilian fleet has begun.The two sides frantically fired stone bombs and Greek fire bombs at each other at a distance of less than fifty battles.At the same time, the battleship rushed straight towards the opponent without slowing down.

Although the Sicilian fleet has fewer ships than the opponent, because their ship-borne ballista is a new type of rubber elastic ballista instead of the traditional torsion spring ballista, it is much smaller than the traditional Roman ballista under the same power.In this way, for ships of the same size, Sicilian warships can carry twice as many ballistas as the opponent.Its "firepower" is naturally much denser than that of the opponent.

Before the first pair of battleships from the two sides collided with each other, nearly a hundred battleships of the Augustus fleet had been shot. They either leaked and began to sink, or burned blazingly.On Feng Yu's side, only more than forty warships were damaged.

Following several rumbling and violent collisions, the warships of both sides finally started a close combat.An Augustus galley warship split horizontally into the side of a Sicilian warship, and immediately opened a seven or eight-foot long hole in the hull, almost smashing the warship into two pieces.

But at the same moment another Sicilian galley slid by her side.In addition to the soldiers on the deck throwing javelins and crossbow arrows like a torrential rain, the ten ballistas on the second deck fired stone bombs and Greek kerosene bombs in unison.Two of the fireballs penetrated into the porthole protruding from the long oars without deviation, and exploded with a bang inside the cabin.All the people in the cabin were immediately engulfed by the flames, screaming and wailing continuously, and fell into deathly silence after more than ten seconds.

Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of fighting and shouting on the Sicilian battleship. It turned out that another August battleship approached and firmly hooked the Sicilian battleship with a springboard with claws.The soldiers who had been prepared for a long time came from the diving board wielding various weapons.The soldiers on the Sicilian battleship greeted them without fear, and the two sides fought together on the deck.

Augustus's people discovered that some of the Sicilian fleet had very small and oddly shaped ships shuttling back and forth between the melee warships at extremely fast speeds.They would eventually slam into one of Augureth's warships downwind, and instantly ignite the ship's firelights.Then the people on the boat jumped into the sea one after another.

The fierce battle on the sea lasted only half an hour, and the entire sea seemed to be on fire.In addition to the ships that burned after being hit by the fire bombs, there were also large pieces of burning flames floating on the sea itself.The warships on both sides were rapidly attrition, but the sailors and soldiers on the Sicilian ships abandoned the ship very decisively.Once it is determined that the ship is irretrievably burned or sunk.They all jumped into the sea to escape without hesitation.

And not far from the sea battlefield where the two sides are fiercely fighting, there is still a fleet of more than 200 ships of various types moored, but these ships are not warships.It is the merchant ship that Feng Yu has requisitioned these days.Now they are all undertaking the task of rescuing and sheltering their own soldiers who fell into the sea.Among these ships, there are only two warships, which are the two multi-masted ocean-going galleons.One of them is Feng Yu's flagship.

Just as the warships of the two sides were fighting in full swing, several battleships of Augustus slipped out of the battlefield for some unknown reason, and drove towards these merchant ships quickly.Letting them rush into these merchant ships is tantamount to letting wolves run into sheep.Feng Yu calmly ordered two ocean-going galleons to go out to meet the enemy...

Chapter 1133

On the blue sea, three galley warships circled towards Feng Yu's flagship from different directions, and the other two approached another multi-masted galleon.The generals on these enemy ships have realized that only by getting rid of these two behemoths first can they safely start killing the "flock" behind them.

For the sake of safety, Feng Yu has been invited back to the cabin.Only the centurion-class captain of this battleship remained on the deck in command.When the three August galley warships were still seventy or eighty battles away from the multi-masted galleon, they became more cautious and stopped speeding up, but wandered around the periphery.Obviously, they have scruples about this huge warship that is several times its size and several battles tall.

On the deck, the lieutenant of the captain of the centurion said: "Captain, let's fire. If we shoot a volley, we can blow up one of their ships. When the others are close to thirty or forty battles, our previous round The bombardment ballista has been reloaded, and one enemy ship can be bombarded with the sides of the ship!"

The captain shook his head and said: "Wait a minute, we fired a round, they found that our ballista is so dense, I'm afraid the other two will turn around and flee. When they get close, we will kill them together. Order the general There are two naval guns on each side, four in total. Follow the order and fire."

Not long after his order, the admirals of the three enemy ships thought they had discovered the shortcoming of the galleon.Although this behemoth is large, it is not equipped with oarsmen, and its power depends entirely on the layers of sails on the deck.Whether it is turning, turning or speed, it is extremely slow.So they thought that even if they were hit by a few stone bombs or fire bombs, as long as they got close, they would kill this behemoth like a group of lions hunting bison.

Two of the enemy ships that were close to each other seemed to communicate with semaphore, and their oarsmen suddenly began to paddle vigorously, attacking the multi-masted galleon one after another.Once the speed of the galley warship is up, it is as fast as an arrow from a bow.

In a blink of an eye, the battleship in front came within forty battles of the galleon, and the bronze ramming angle a few feet below the water surface was clearly visible.At the same time, the front ballistas on the decks of the two battleships each fired a stone bullet.One shot into the sea, stirring up waves and water columns several feet high, and the other hit the side of the battleship, causing pieces of wood to fly everywhere.

Of course, the galley warship does not expect to rely on the ballista to severely injure this behemoth, but as long as it is knocked away by its ram, even if the opponent will not be split in half by relying on its huge hull, a large amount of seawater will flood into the cabin and sink. .What's more, it suffered more than just this blow, but double or even three hits.The long oars on the galley warship turned even faster, leaving white trails behind and on both sides of the fast-moving hull.In less than ten seconds at most, it will hit this giant monster.

But at this moment, the captain of the galley warship was surprised to find that the other party's side of the ship facing him suddenly opened three rows of dozens of portholes.Behind each porthole protruded the head of the ballista.He yelled in panic and panic: "Deflect the course and avoid the enemy's ballista."

In fact, he was a fool.The deflection of the course not only interrupted the action of hitting the opponent's hull, but also increased the hit of the opponent's ballista because the hull turned sideways. More than 60 stone bombs and fireballs flew towards the galley warship.Within a distance of thirty battles, these stone bombs and fireballs were fired almost in a straight line, most of them hit the hull, and a small part fell into the sea water.

In an instant, the deck and side of the galley warship were shattered by stone bullets, and the ballista placed on the deck disappeared.The entire deck also burst into flames from some of the water around the hull.The people in the cabin desperately squeezed out of the portholes and jumped into the sea.

Another galley warship following behind it didn't dodge, and continued to ram into the galleon straight up.Hearing an order in the cabin of the galleon, another sixty or seventy bullets from the ballista were shot out.Although the battleship had been kept at a perpendicular angle to the galleon's hull due to its long distance, the opponent's projectiles were too dense, so it was hit by nineteen stone bombs and eight Greek kerosene bombs.It was also beaten to pieces in an instant. In addition to the kerosene bomb burning on the deck, another one happened to enter the cabin through a large opening on the deck that was smashed by the stone bomb, and exploded in the cabin. There were wailing and screaming sounds from inside.The entire ship is like a pile of floating and burning tattered wood, under the effect of inertia, it continues to approach the sailing ship, but the speed is getting slower and slower.Finally, the sailor in the bilge of the galleon held it up with a long pole, and then it stopped.

The last of the three galleys rushed towards the other side of the galleon not long after the other two suddenly launched an attack.When it was still sixty battles away from the galleon, the galley at the forefront was battered with holes.Seeing this, its captain was so frightened that the sailors turned around and fled.It was seventy battles away when the galleon destroyed the second galley.

The galleon did not pursue it, and in fact it was impossible to catch up with it.However, the captain of the galleon ordered to turn the bow of the ship so that the other side of the ship was facing the galley warship that had fled nearly a hundred battles away.Although the distance of nearly a hundred battles is still within the range of the ship-borne ballista, the hit rate of bombardment at this distance is extremely low. It is not bad to hit one or two out of ten rounds, which is a waste of ballista projectiles.Therefore, the Roman navy generally would not choose this distance to fire ballistas indiscriminately.

But this multi-masted galleon has three layers on one side of the ship, with fifty ballistas in each layer, a total of 150 ballistas.At this time, 150 rounds of projectiles were all projected towards the fleeing Augustus' battleship.After the densely packed projectiles drew arcs in the sky, they smashed towards the battleship overwhelmingly.A total of thirteen stone bombs and twelve kerosene bombs hit the target.As a result, this galley warship also failed to escape the same fate as the other two warships, which were also riddled with holes and buried in flames.

Another multi-masted galleon also easily killed the two August galleys that attacked it from left to right.At this time, the battle on the main battlefield not far away was coming to an end.Many abandoned warships on the water were either riddled with holes and gradually sinking, or burned into a pile of fire.There were sinking and floating human heads everywhere on the water, but Feng Yujun had already prepared for it.Those who fell into the water were all equipped with auxiliary buoyancy devices for swimming, and they swam desperately to the periphery of the battlefield, where there were rescue ships of the army to respond.

Chapter 1134 Completely Destroyed

In this fierce sea battle, both sides suffered heavy losses.But Augustus's fleet lost far more than the Sicilian fleet, so that the comparison of the number of ships still fighting on the battlefield is reversed.There are about a hundred warships left in the Sicilian fleet, while Augustus's fleet has only forty left.

Seeing this situation, Feng Yu ordered the two galleons in the rear to come forward to help.Originally, the Sicilian fleet had an absolute advantage, and with the help of two behemoths, it took a quarter of an hour to solve the remaining enemy ships.

Just as the Sicilian fleet seized the time to rescue those who fell into the water and gather the remaining ships to prepare for retreat.A soldier hurriedly came to Feng Yu's side and reported: "Your Excellency, the semaphore on the mast received the news. The semi-submersible ship on guard in the northern part of the battlefield found a large number of enemy ships approaching the battlefield. About two About a hundred."

Dian Qing next to Feng Yu said: "It's a pity that they came late. The battle went smoothly than we expected. We have enough time to retreat calmly. When they arrived on the battlefield, they only received some charred rotten wood and the corpses of their soldiers."

But Feng Yu shook his head and said: "No, we can't withdraw yet. This battle still has to continue. Send an order to let all ships and ships get ready. Those who are short of personnel will be replenished from the logistics ships, and those who are short of crossbow bullets should hurry up." Time replenishment. Prepare to face a new enemy fleet!"

Dian Qing was surprised and said: "Master, now we have suffered heavy losses, only about a hundred warships and warships are left. And we have basically achieved our goal in this battle, Augustus's Mediterranean fleet has almost collapsed. Why do we need to ..."

Feng Yu interrupted him and said: "If they are allowed to keep two hundred or so warships and warships, although the command of the sea is still ours, it still cannot fully guarantee the absolute safety of the Mediterranean routes and the islands. Therefore, I don't want his Mediterranean The fleet is almost disintegrated, but they need to be completely destroyed. In this way, we can guarantee the sea dominance and security of the Eastern Mediterranean without fail."

Feng Yu noticed Dian Qing's suspicious expression and smiled, "Don't worry. Since we can use nearly [-] warships to destroy [-] of their warships, we can also use the remaining [-] warships to destroy the [-] or so ships they came to aid. Although our warships suffered a lot of losses, the casualties were not large. Therefore, morale was high. However, when the opponent knew that his main force had been wiped out, and the enemy's situation was unknown, they would inevitably panic and their morale would be low. Our next victory will be No problem. My only worry is that after they find out that the main force has been wiped out, they don’t want to fight and turn around and run away. Then my purpose will be defeated.”

When Feng Yu was talking to Dian Qing, they were more than twenty miles northeast.Two hundred warships, large and small, are rushing in with full sail.Almost all of these warships are the ships of the Cyprus fleet incorporated by Augustus, but after the reorganization by the Augustus side, almost all the generals of the fleet and the generals above the centurion level on each battleship have been replaced.

The captain who commanded the fleet was standing on the deck at this moment, looking into the distance.In his mind, he was constantly estimating the time to arrive at the battlefield.A sudden exclamation came from above the mast: "There are a large number of unknown ship masts ahead!"

The commander said in surprise, according to his estimated time.It will take half a quarter of an hour at the earliest to arrive at the battlefield.Why did you discover the unknown ship now?Could it be that I miscalculated?He immediately asked, "How many? Have you seen any signs of burning ships or other naval battlefields?"

The watchman on the mast quickly gave an answer: "There are at least a hundred of these warships. It seems that they are sailing in our direction. No! There is no sign of any naval battlefield."

The commander-in-chief was even more terrified, thinking that the opponent had completely won a complete victory and wiped out our warships?Or is this just a squadron that the other party came to intercept?In the end, he judged the answer to be the latter.He believes that it is impossible for the Sicilian fleet, which is not dominant in numbers, to wipe out the main force of its own fleet, and even if it can be done, it cannot be completed in such a short time.

In fact, this was the result of Feng Yu's initiative to attack the enemy because he was afraid that the opponent would turn around and run away after seeing the battlefield scene.More than a hundred battleships under his command are lined up.The two giant sailing ships are placed in the middle.Ships are spaced apart from ship to ship.Behind them are hundreds of merchant ships undertaking rescue missions in darkness.

On the side of the Augustus fleet, the commander has made it clear that the opponent's ships are fewer than his own, and the distance is wide.I have the advantage of two ships against one ship, and can take advantage of the large distance between the opponent's ships to adopt the tactic of attacking one ship with two ships left and right.

Under his command, the fleet immediately arranged a line formation and charged towards the Sicilian fleet, but the density of this arrangement was tighter than that of the Sicilian fleet, and the two ships were just right.

Feng Yu saw the formation of the opponent's fleet, laughed and said: "It's exactly what I want. I thought I would lose a lot of warships, but now that the opponent is doing this, it can save us from losing a lot of warships." .”

After all, he ordered Gan Ning, who was in command of the entire fleet: "Command, except for the dozen or so Viking ships commanded by Dian Wei, the rest of the warships should turn around and turn sideways. Use the ballistas on the side of the ship to aim at the enemy ships Start the bombardment at a distance of a hundred battles, and destroy all the enemy ships before they approach."

Gan Ning was stunned for a moment, but did as Feng Yu said.In fact, this method of warfare is very risky. Although it can take advantage of the fierce "firepower" of the Sicilian fleet, as long as the opponent is not completely destroyed or routed and flees, their warships rush to the front and back, and these Sicilian warships can only die. .

The captain of the Augustus fleet saw that most of the ships ahead were turning around.At first, he thought that the other party was going to run away, but he found that these ships stopped moving after turning their sides towards him, and a small number of open-top galley boats with strange styles continued to move forward slowly.Can't help but wonder.I don't know what the other party is going to do.He didn't understand until the opponent's ballista projectile hit his head and face.

It's no wonder that ballistas are generally installed on Roman warships.But the ballista is still an auxiliary tool in naval battles, and what really kills enemy ships still relies on the bronze ram that has been used for seven or eight hundred years.

Knowing the intention of the enemy ship, the commander of the Augustus fleet was not surprised but pleased.He thought the opponent had used a faint move, but when the opponent's dense stone bombs and fire bombs fell from the sky, he realized how powerful it was.Especially for those two giant sailing ships, a wave of ballista bombardment would be hit by hundreds of projectiles.Numerous jets of water shot up around the ship, and battleships were hit by stone and fire bombs almost continuously.

The commander was still shouting at the top of his lungs: "Come on, we'll win if we get close!"

Although the two hundred warships kept turning into a pile of broken wood or huge fireballs on the sea.But the remaining ships continued to rush towards the Sicilian fleet like arrows from the string, and at the same time, the ballistas installed on their bows were constantly bombarding...

Chapter 1135 Maybe it's a good thing

On the sea, more than 2000 ballistas of the Sicilian fleet bombarded almost non-stop.The white waves rolled on the sea, and the flames were raging.Two hundred warships from the port of Mer in Asia Minor were destroyed one by one.

At the same time, Dian Wei took a dozen Viking ships back and forth among these warships, and kept shooting bows and javelins at the adjacent warships to slow down their speed.Of course, this also has a side effect, that is, the Viking ship is also easily accidentally injured by one's own ballista.

At this time, the commander in command of the fleet from Asia Minor realized how difficult the short distance of a hundred battles was.This distance of one hundred battles, even the fastest galley warship would take about 1 minute to rush over.And within one minute, each ballista of the opponent can shoot at least three rounds of projectiles.In other words, his two hundred battleships had to withstand five or six thousand stone and fire bombs.

When these ships rushed to less than [-] battles away from each other, they had already lost more than half of them.Moreover, due to the shortening of the distance and the reduction of one's own ships, the opponent's ballista bombardment became more accurate and denser.A battleship only needs a round of joint salvos from several opposing warships, and it turns into a pile of broken logs floating and burning on the sea.

At this time, if these warships can still rush towards the enemy ships as if they were dead, they can still severely damage the Sicilian fleet.But the generals and soldiers on many ships have been blown out of their wits by the sight in front of them.Many ships have begun to flee the battlefield on their own initiative without military orders.

In fact, it is impossible for anyone to issue any military orders to them now.Because the commander in command of these warships had already been hit in the head by a stone bullet and turned into a headless corpse.And the flagship he was on was pierced through more than a dozen holes by stone bullets, and a fire was ignited on the deck by kerosene bombs. After a while, it burned into a ball of fire.

Most of the warships that were about to flee did not escape, and almost all of them were sunk and destroyed.Only a dozen warships that hoisted the white flag in time and two or three warships that escaped successfully survived.

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Port Mel.Augustus and others are still waiting for the results at the pier.At first, Ogules was full of confidence.He thought that he had [-] warships, while the opponent had less than [-] warships.And it's not just the difference in quantity, the [-] warships on my side are all well-regulated galley warships, while the [-] warships on the other side's warships are of different sizes and styles, it looks like a hodgepodge fleet.Therefore, it is impossible for one's own fleet to lose to the opponent.

But after waiting for a long time, he still couldn't see the reply battle report, which made him worried and anxious again.He simply got out of the comfortable carriage, paced back and forth on the pier trestle, and cast his gaze at the exit of the bay where the harbor is located from time to time.Just when he couldn't bear his temper, he was about to send two small boats to investigate the situation.Someone around him shouted: "There is a boat, there is a boat back! It is our own boat."

Ogules was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly looked around, and it turned out that his three warships turned out from behind the hill at the opening of the bay.He breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that his fleet had finally returned victorious.But after a while, he realized that something was wrong. There were only three warships entering the bay, and there were no other ships following behind.

Augustus's heart rose again, but he still comforted himself and said that it is impossible to lose, and it is impossible for only two or three warships to escape back if they are really defeated.When the three warships docked, Augustus was stunned by the blow of reality.All of his [-] battleships were gone in one fell swoop!

Auguston, with white beard and hair, felt dizzy for a while, and almost passed out. The people next to him hurried forward to support him.At this time, someone exclaimed again: "Ship, another ship has entered the bay!" Everyone looked around and saw another batch of warships breaking into the bay, but looking at the sails and flags of these ships, it was obvious that they belonged to the Sicilian fleet. .And two of them are giant multi-masted galleons.

Augustus came to his senses, jumped up and shouted: "The ballista on the shore of the port is ready. They will hit the rocks when they get close to the port. Be sure to destroy these ships as much as possible."

As soon as he finished speaking, a fireball struck from far to near, and it was falling more than ten battles away from him, and a clump of flames rose. "Quickly, move Your Excellency Augustus away!" His attendants and subordinates shouted in panic.

It turned out that Feng Yu, who had completely wiped out the Augustus fleet, was determined to hit the iron hot and directly destroy the facilities in Port Mel, as well as the remaining twenty or so small boats used for patrol in the port, so he directly killed them.He looked at the terrain in the bay, and found that the entrance and exit of the bay were more than ten miles wide, and the ballistas on the shore could not block it according to their range.He ordered the fleet to enter the bay.Of course, he has learned from the captives that there are "artificial reefs" in the harbor and there are a large number of ballistas on the shore.Therefore, he specially instructed Gan Ning not to let the battleship get too close to the port, just within the range of the ship's ballista, and then pour the ballista projectiles into the port.

At this time, the Sicilian fleet dispatched more than a dozen ships equipped with ballistas with the longest range.Under the guidance of two surrendered enemy ships, they approached to a place more than a hundred battles away from the port, and then launched continuous projections.The ballistas on the shore also started to fight back. Unfortunately, the range of these ballistas was far shorter than that of the opponent, so they were only passively beaten.

Nearly an hour later, the entire port has been bombarded into chaos.The remaining small boats were either smashed to pieces by the stone bombs that continued to be projected, or burned into a ball by fire oil bombs.Many ballistas on the shore were also bombarded to pieces.Even the barracks near the port were on fire, and the soldiers inside were yelling and carrying water to put out the fire...

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On the shore of a certain port on the north coast of Cyprus, a large crowd also gathered, and a red carpet was laid from the pier to the main road.They are the team ready to meet Augustoles.In an exquisite carriage, the old Hatulel and the young Hatulel sat opposite each other, but they didn't say a word.The former even drooped his lower eyelids, drowsy.

After a long time, Little Hatuler lost his patience and said, "Father, you are still asleep. You have been waiting for so long, are you not in a hurry?"

Old Hatulel opened his eyes and said, "What's the rush?"

Little Hatuleer was stunned and said: "...Father... Augustus should have arrived in the morning, but it's already afternoon now, something must have happened."

Old Hatuler snorted softly in his nostrils and said, "If something goes wrong, let it go. Maybe it's a good thing." After finishing speaking, he closed both sides slightly.It was only then that Little Hatuleer realized that his father might be hiding something from him, so he jumped out of the carriage and ran to the shore to look at the line between the sea and the sky...

Chapter 1136 Secret Weapon

On the sea level, a few masts that had just protruded came into the eyes of little Hatulel.At the same time, the rest of the people also discovered the arrival of these ships.Someone has already shouted: "Come, come. Augustus is finally here."

There were more and more ships exposed to the horizon, and they were getting closer, but Little Hatulel's expression became complicated.He had already seen from the patterns on the sails and flags that these ships were not Augustus' warships, but ships from Sicily.He ran to the carriage in shock, opened the carriage door and found that his father was still dozing off, and hurriedly shouted: "Father, wake up quickly. Augustus didn't come, but the Sicilian ship came instead." !"

Old Hatulel was awakened by his yelling, and after the young Hatulel repeated the incident again.Old Hatuler was not as surprised as he expected, but said calmly: "Then Feng Hu is really courageous, he really came!" look away.When he saw the densely packed ships, he couldn't help being surprised and said: "I didn't expect, I didn't expect that they would have so many ships left after a big battle." In fact, among the ships he saw , Most of them are merchant ships commanded by Feng Yu.But even if Feng Yu had a hundred remaining warships, it was far beyond his expectations.Little Hatulel was still puzzled and said, "What... what battle?"