Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

After half an hour, a clipper returned and informed Admika: After approaching the coast, the Dionysian fleet turned around north, passing St. Iberia, and was about to bypass the northern tip of Sardinia.

Hearing this news, Admika put down most of her heart: It seems that the Dionyan fleet returned to Alenia.

Therefore, the Admika fleet began a comprehensive rescue: all the sailors who fell into the water were rescued and placed on the warships that had been poisoned by the crow warship; the wounds were bandaged for the cut sailors and partly transferred to other wars On the ship; simply repair the lighter damaged warship, while the heavier damaged warship is towed by other warships, ready to be brought back to the port. After all, there are too few Carthage warships to save a ship It is a ship; in addition, Admika will try to rescue the Dionian crew who fell into the water as much as possible. This is of course not out of good intentions, but can be used in the future to exchange for the Dionia fleet in the previous harassment. The captured Phoenician people, and they are also the spoils used by the fleet to show off his achievements after returning to the port of Sarros. After all, he has achieved some results compared to the defeated Annobas.

The crew of the Admiral Fleet has been busy for this, during which several warships originally led by Annobas came one after another and joined the fleet.

It wasn't until the setting sun turned the west sky red that this set sail, and the entire fleet slowly sailed east.

During the voyage, the crew of a warship came up with a casual way of forcing them. They forced the captive Dionyan sailors to run on the slippery deck naked all over, and the speed could not be slowed down once they stopped. Will be beaten with a wooden stick, and if it falls, it will be pulled by the leather whip.

Soon, other warship crews also learned something, and quickly spread it, because they looked at the captives’ painful and funny looks, and listened to their screams, they got the resentment of losing to the Dionysian Navy several times. A very good vent.

Some crews even came up with other ways to humiliate captives, such as:

In the flagship cabin, the captain of the sailor grabbed a captive leather helmet and touched the red cap tassel at the top of the helmet, and asked, "It looks like you are a captain?"

The captive tied to the pillar of the ship glared at him.

"Head, he can't understand what you're talking about." Some sailors roared.

"He will understand." The sailor smiled coldly, waved his hand sharply, and gave the captive a slap.

The captive "ah" screamed, and half of his face soon swelled.

The sailor shrugged towards the sailors: "Look, he understood."

The sailors laughed "hahaha".

The captive scolded in anger.

The sailor frowned, suddenly holding a leather helmet and urinating into the urine.

"Uh..." The sailors showed disgusted expressions.

When the captain of the sailor put the leather helmet in front of the captive and threatened him to drink it, they were excited again.

The captive glared at him and spit a spit on his face.

This angered the sailor, his right hand pinched the captive's neck, and his right hand pressed the leather helmet against his mouth.

The captive struggled hard, his face flushed red, and eventually he had to open his breath.

The sailor took the opportunity to pour the urine from the leather helmet into his mouth, and the captive coughed, and the sailors laughed.

Admika watched this scene in the cabin through the gap in the middle of the deck. Although a smile appeared on his face, he had to remind: "Be careful, don't kill him!"

"Relax, my lord, we will'entertain' him very carefully." The long sailor patted the captive's head and said respectfully.

Admika snorted, stood up and walked to the bow of the ship, looking forward, sinking into contemplation,

He has learned from the rescued crew about the general process of the previous battle, realized the mistakes that Annobas made during the battle, and he is considering how to give the Patriarch of the Margonide family, Carthage Military commander Marge wrote a letter, so that he could send a hardship to Hano in the Senate and recapture the command of the navy.

"Sir, there is a warship behind!" The cry of the watchman on the main mast interrupted his thoughts.

Before he could respond, in the sight of the watchman, other vague images appeared behind the warship in the sky.

The watchman blocked the dazzling light of the sunset with his hand, closed his eyes vigorously, and then opened it violently, the image in front became clearer-it was a lot of warships!

"Adult, not a warship, but a fleet!" Wang Wang shouted nervously, holding the mast with one hand and pointing to the rear with one hand.

"Who's fleet?" Admika was also nervous, but first he had to figure out whether he was an enemy or a friend.

Because there was a slight southeast wind at this time, neither the Admira’s fleet nor this strange fleet raised their sails, and the watchman had to open his eyes and make a difficult effort to distinguish: "... The black bow! It’s the fleet of Dionia! Master, they travel very fast!!!"

The watchman's words shattered the fluke in Admika's heart, and also puzzled him: How could the Dionysian fleet appear in the west?!

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Midolades led the Third Fleet to speed eastward until the watchman told him: The Carthage warship in the rear had stopped chasing.

Although he gave the order to slow down, he still led the fleet to continue to follow the large, fleeing Carthage warship in the front, until he saw the enemy's embarrassing escape into the port of Sarros before he commanded the fleet to continue northward.

On reaching the northern tip of Sardinia, he assumed the illusion of returning to Alenia, but actually led the fleet around a small circle, avoiding the exploration of the Carthage Clippers, and then left the offshore, Sail straight west.

He will lead the Third Fleet to attack the Carthage Fleet to the west, because he knows that the entire Fleet is short of nearly ten warships, and they must have fallen into the hands of that Carthage Fleet. Under the command of the three fleets, he has the responsibility to rescue the lost warships and the captive crew.

He is also very clear that according to the usual procedures of naval battles, the Carthage fleet must be cleaning the battlefield, rescue the fallen sailors, and help the injured warship... This will take a lot of time and will also make the entire fleet It became bloated and slow.

At the same time, he knew that the task given to him by King Davis was to defeat the new fleet of Carthage. Now that there is such an opportunity, how can he easily let it go!

However, despite the maritime experience of Midolades and the captains, finding the target in the vast sea was not easy. The entire fleet sailed to the west of the Carthage fleet, which delayed some time until the sunset Going west, they had to abandon their search and began to return east. After a certain voyage, the Clippers that were surveying in front suddenly returned: Carthage was found!

Midoladston was excited and ordered all warships to prepare for battle.

In fact, the Third Fleet was blessed by misfortune, precisely because they went in the wrong direction and fell behind the Carthage Fleet, and Admira did not dispatch a Clipper to investigate behind him because he did not think there would be an enemy. The Carthage Fleet was not yet prepared when it came from the far sea, causing the Third Fleet to travel within reach of both sides.

Hearing the watchman on the main mast detailing the slow speed of the Carthage fleet ahead, and some tattered ships being dragged...Midolades knew that his guess had become a reality, and he suppressed it The ecstasy in my heart gave the command loudly: "Blow the offensive bugle, raise the red flag and the black pennant!"

The formation of the Dionysian navy usually adopts the "starry sky" when attacking. This is a naval battle formation that the navy has proved to be able to fully use the advantages of the Dionysian warship after a long battle test. Its slogan is Black, it has multiple variants: the standard is that the crow warship is in front, the fast warship is behind, and it is a black rectangular flag, and the triangular black flag raised at this time means that the fast warship is in front, and the crow warship is in Rear.

This is because Midolades wanted to use the high speed of the fast warship to get into the enemy formation as soon as possible, further disturbing the Carthage fleet that was already unprepared.

The sailors in the cabin heard the order from Midolades on the deck and became excited.

The sailor chief is also inspiring everyone: "Brothers, it's time to rescue our comrades and make brilliant achievements! Ready to fight!"

"Roar!!!" The sailors roared in unison, their fighting spirit burst into their eyes again, and the remaining rations were stuffed into the mouth, grasping the oars in their hands.

Although the crew had been exhausted and chased before, they were very tired, but after returning to the coast, the sailors took turns to paddle and got a rest.Especially when they made a round and sailed from east to west, they also raised their sails. With the help of the southeast wind, they saved some energy and recovered some physical strength.

"Start to accelerate." The sailor gestured to the piper.

"Beep! Beep! Beep!..." With the sharp flute of the piper, more than 200 pieces of wood pulp on both sides of the warship glide like the feet of a millipede.

The whole warship is like a sharp sharp knife, breaking the incoming waves unhindered, and the waves timidly bypassed the dark and spooky bow, jumped onto the deck, and splashed Midolades' body wet.

Midolades didn't care. He stared motionlessly in front of him, seeing that the Carthage ship was getting closer and closer to him, and he beckoned his men to bring the helmet with the mauve and red cap, solemnly Put on.

At this time, a fast warship caught up from the rear and passed the left side of the flagship. The captain solemnly saluted Midolades on the deck.

Midolades solemnly responded.

Immediately after another fast warship flew over the right side of the flagship, Midolades returned the salute again.