Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

After being stabbed by dozens of sailors, the Carthaginians of this warship chose to surrender.

But this time, Sekelian was determined to fight against the Carthage Fleet, so he issued an order before the war: all warships must not spend their energy and disperse their forces in the battle to capture the enemy ships, and must ensure that sufficient personnel continue to enter the battle Until the end of the battle.

Therefore, the infantry of the fleet cut the arms of the captured Carthage sailors one by one, making them unable to paddle, and then evacuated the enemy ship.

At the same time, many Dionysian warships also adopted interception tactics, but only a small number of Carthage warships were captured by the crow suspension bridge, and most of the Carthage warships avoided them in time, which shows that Carthage Base Navy's experience and capabilities.They swiftly bypassed the front of the Dionysian ship and attacked its tail.

The Dionysian ship also responded to this. It also followed the other party in circles, always allowing its bow to face the enemy ship.

So there was a very strange battle scene: the warships of both sides were circled with patience, the Carthage warship was in the outer circle, and the Dionysian warship was in the inner circle.It stands to reason that Dionia sailors consume less and save more effort, but they cannot show the gap in a short time.

Of course, the Dionysian warship is located in the center, and there is little room for maneuver. Once another enemy ship joins the battle group, it is difficult to escape the fate of being hit.However, in this naval battle, Dionysian warships outnumbered each other. Not only did they intercept the enemies, but they also increased their offensive strength.Because Sekelian was not prepared to fight Carthage for a protracted battle. Although he didn't know much about the situation in this sea, the bad weather made him want to fight quickly.

Then, the second wave of Dionysia's attack came: a fast three-tier paddle warship rushed into the war zone like a sharp arrow.

Elias, a captain of a fast three-tier paddle warship.He used to be a civilian in the port of Lekeron, Corinth. A family of three generations made a living by fishing and buying fish, and his life barely survived, but in the Corinth War more than ten years ago, King Agassius of Sparta led the army. A series of raids on many ports and towns in the Gulf of Corinth, like other fishermen, his family's largest property, two fishing boats, were robbed by the Spartan allies.After the end of the war, the impoverished Ilias heard that the Kingdom of Dionynia across the Adriatic Sea called the Greeks to colonize and gave them to the land...

The Ilias, who had nowhere to go, almost sold as slaves, and like many fishermen in the Corinthian Gulf, took the risk of boarding the Dionysian passenger ship that stayed in the port of Lekion and shuttled the refugees...The final result was beautiful, Ilias also joined the Dionysian Navy because of his superb ship-manipulation skills, and later became a captain of the First Fleet.

Due to weather conditions, the Dionysian fleet also widened the space between the warships, which gave the fast three-tier award warships more room to play.

Ilyas had long been staring at an enemy ship in front of him fighting with a crow warship. He commanded the warship to quickly rush up and attempted to sneak into the other party's tail.

Unexpectedly, the other party was aware of it, avoided in time, and then flexibly avoided the approach of the crow warship. Obviously, the enemy ship considered that it was not good for one enemy and two, and began to speed up and retreat, with a view to pulling away The distance of the slow crow warship, first solve this three-tier award warship without suspension bridge alone.

The captain of this Carthage warship clearly believes that as long as it is not a crow warship, in a normal warship battle, the Carthaginians are victorious.

By this time, the battleship of Ilyas had turned around and began to chase the tail.

Both sides began to accelerate the speed of the pulp, chasing, and soon left the crow warship behind.

Looking at the enemy ship that followed, Captain Carthage shouted, "Turn right and turn around!"

As soon as the words fell, the sailors responded immediately.

Captain Carthage’s plan was that his sudden turn would cause the fast-moving enemy ship to be pushed to the front by inertial speed under unpredictable conditions, leading to offense and defense.

But at this moment, he suddenly widened his eyes: because the speed of the enemy ship accelerated again, almost as if floating from the sea, and came straight to himself.

His decades of career as a warship sailor told him that the fastest speed of a three-layer paddle warship would not exceed 13 knots. He used this to formulate tactics, but the ship behind him clearly exceeded this speed (instantaneous The speed actually reached 15 knots). The Carthage warship had to reduce its speed due to the steering, so he was shocked to watch the dark bronze angle of the enemy ship hit the tail of his warship very quickly.

With a loud bang, the huge impact force made the Carthage warship tens of meters long and turned half a circle, almost overturning.

The captain fell heavily on the deck. He ignored the pain and quickly hugged the mast next to him.

The sailors in the cabin crooked and screamed. There was a scream of sternness in it. It was the helmsman of the stern who had no time to escape. The broken ship's plate pierced his chest, blood was splattered, and he was not alive.

The warship's upturned stern was directly broken, and seawater poured in from the rift.

The Carthage sailors were still thinking about paddling at this time. With experience, they immediately broke off the oar, took the paddle head, rushed to the deck, and jumped into the sea.

After the fast three-tier paddle warship hit the enemy ship, it made another half-circle and confirmed the results. Then Ilias declared aloud: "Brothers, sink one!"

There was a cheer in the cabin immediately.

"Captain, there is a big ship ahead!" At this moment, the watchman on the mast shouted anxiously.

big?!Ilias was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that a warship larger than a three-layer paddle warship can only be a rumored four-layer paddle!

Although he has never seen it, the Dionyan Military Department has always regarded Carthage as the most powerful enemy. He has spared no effort to collect and study its military intelligence. How can he not know the new achievements of the Carthage Navy in these years, The advantages and disadvantages of this warship, which is larger and higher than the three-layer paddle warship, have been specially analyzed, and the captains of various warships have been specially studied and understood in training.

So Ilias immediately had an idea in his mind: "Bypass it and find another target. The clumsy four-layer paddle warship cannot catch up with us!"

However, the watchman on the mast continued to shout: "This four-story paddle warship is turning and heading towards a crow warship in front of us diagonally, it is connecting with the enemy ship!"

Ilias felt tight: It is said that Carthage’s four-story paddle warship is equipped with 50 to 60 infantrymen, which can carry out jump gang operations, while the crow warship in front is fighting against the enemy ship. If it encounters its pinch again , The situation will be very dangerous.

"Front right, advance at full speed, catch up with that big ship!" He gave a decisive order.

The sailors who were still in the midst of victory immediately pushed hard to propel the oars, and the warship made an arc of water marks on the sea surface, accelerating forward.

After a while, Ilias saw the whole picture of the Carthage four-layer paddle warship: its wide hull was two meters taller than its own warship, and a layer of paddles bulged outward from the middle of the ship's sides on both sides, as if It's the skirt of the warship, you can vaguely see the dense oarsman...

Ilyas carefully counted, indeed there are four layers of paddles.

Carthage's four-story paddle warship apparently also saw the approach of this Dionysian warship, but it did not dodge and fearlessly continued to head forward to the crow warship.

"Speed ​​of charge! Clamp off its oar!" Ilyas calmly gave the order, and the reason why he did not give the order of the impact was because he remembered that Chief Sekelian emphasized that the hull of this warship was stronger and said to be able to withstand Live a few bumps.

So Ilias was afraid of hitting it, but because he was close to the enemy ship, he was attacked by the other party.

The speed of the warship was quickly increased to 13 knots, and it was still climbing upward, quickly catching up with the enemy ship.

The helmsman controlled the rudder nervously to ensure that the battleship was facing the right side of the other hull without offset.

"Collect the oar!" Ilyas ordered the oarsmen to skillfully put the oar into the hull, and the warship sprinted forward in accordance with its inertia, ready to pass the enemy ship.

Who knows, the Carthage sailors also skillfully retrieved the oars in time, although they had more pulp.And the archer on his deck also shot arrows at the warship of Illias, and at the same time dropped a dozen rope hooks.

In order to increase the speed of the fast three-layer paddle warship, there were no boat rails built on both sides of the deck. Except for the mast, the deck was bare and there was no place for the hook to be hooked.

Instead, the arrow that was shot hit the watchman on the top of the mast and fell straight on the deck.A few arrows passed through the gap in the center of the deck and fell into the cabin, screaming a few times.

The Dionysian sailors were slightly flustered.

Fortunately, the fast three-layer paddle warship was very fast. Before the enemy shot a second round of arrows, it had already passed the enemy ship and rushed to the front.

Illias, who had drilled out of the cabin, immediately ordered the warship to turn around and set a posture to continue the offensive.

However, Carthage's four-story paddle warship ignored its provocation and maintained its course, continuing to approach the crow warship ahead.

The infantry of the crow warship had already rushed out of the bottom of the enemy ship and began to accelerate back to their own warship.But this four-story oar enemy ship was only more than ten meters away from them, too late to escape.

At this time, another watchman who had just climbed onto the main mast of the Ilyas warship suddenly shouted excitedly: "Captain, another fast warship! The other fast warship is about to collide--"

Before his words fell, Elias heard a "bang" bang, the huge hull of the four-layer paddle warship in front of him seemed to sneeze, and he was shocked, and the speed of progress was suddenly stopped. The sailor's exclamation continued.

Although the huge hull of the four-layer oars in front blocked the line of sight and could not see the other side of the enemy ship, but by looking at the hand, Ilias knew that his comrades bravely hit the enemy in a warship.