If you enter the port of Carthage, there are many commercial docks on the coast, which can be docked by merchant ships (of course, the innermost round military port is protected by a city wall, and ordinary ships cannot enter), but Liliba was first established as a military fortress, so the coast is also built with a 5-meter-high city wall, as well as spaced towers, only in the innermost part of this rectangular harbor there are more than 10 docks, and there is a distance of about one mile from the water gate to the dock, once there are really enemy ships breaking into the port, The defenders of the walls and towers on either side will fire rockets to keep enemy ships at bay.

At this time, the cruising ship led the way in front, and the cargo ship rushed in behind, searching one next to the other, forming a long queue and slowly sailing towards the dock.

As he was about to reach the dock, the captain of the patrol boat suddenly heard a sound of "Bell!" from behind. Clang! Clang! ......", he was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that it was an alarm bell from the lighthouse: there is an enemy invasion?!

He immediately turned his head to look back, only to see that the orderly fleet had become scattered, and some of the cargo ships had spread out and rushed towards the dock.

Fooled! This flotilla is an enemy in disguise! …… The captain of the patrol ship suddenly realized this, and his heart suddenly panicked.

In fact, the lighthouse keeper, who had been watching the fleet into the port, found that the strangeness of the fleet this time was not because these cargo ships were unorderly and rushed to the dock, but before that, he found that many cargo ships suddenly stopped moving forward and docked next to the embankment of the natural breakwater, and then the linen in the center of the ship automatically opened, and many people came out of it.

The supplies delivered became people! …… Of course, the tower keeper knew that he had been fooled, and after he sounded the alarm, he was still a little curious: why did these cunning enemies dock their cargo ships there?

Although the natural breakwater was 40 meters wide at its narrowest point, it was not built on the inside after the wall was built on the ground on the outside, but the embankment was rebuilt with special stone bricks, mud, and gravel, making it strong, straight, steep, and so high that it was almost impossible to climb from a boat to the natural breakwater. Moreover, in addition to the walls, towers and lighthouses, there is also a small military camp on the breakwater, which is constantly stationed with 100 light infantry, which can deal with any emergency in time. Although it was already night, the light infantry in the barracks had fallen asleep, but the alarm bell sounded, and it was believed that they would soon be fully dressed and rushed out of the barracks to rescue.

But the tower keepers apparently forgot that in addition to the barracks, there was also a small temple on the natural breakwater, which not only provided a sacred place for the soldiers stationed at the "breakwater" to pray to the gods, but also every morning when the port opened, the tower keepers had to go to the temple to pray for safety, which has become a sacred ritual necessary for the port of Lilipa.

Although the temple is small, it is a combination of Carthaginian and Greek temple features, and it is a typical temple colonnaded building, and it is very close to the inner embankment.

All the cargo ships of this fleet were indeed from Carthage, the rescue convoy captured in the port of Palermos last night, but its crew was mainly from Alenia, and they had recently led the convoy into the ports of Santa Ibiña and Saros in the same way, and they had accumulated a lot of experience to fool the wary patrol captains. The first seven cargo ships were indeed loaded with materials, while the linen in the back cargo ships was covered with soldiers from the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade.

At this moment, Terrantus and his men stood on the cargo ship turbulent with the sea, swinging the rope hook in his hand, and by the light of the torches lit by the crew, he looked up at the outline of the temple on the embankment, and threw it upwards with all his might, and one by one the rope hooks drew an arc in the air and flew towards the temple, and some of them were successfully wound around the pillars. They immediately grabbed the hook and quickly climbed the embankment......

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen enemies had climbed the embankment, but none of the soldiers in the barracks had yet to come out...... The tower keepers who were watching from the top of the tower were dumbfounded, and immediately shouted to the personnel on the lower floors of the tower: "Go and close the gate, go quickly!" The enemy is coming! ”

Seeing them running down the tower in a panic, the tower keeper began to bang the hanging bronze bell again.

Standing under the temple, Terrentius looked up at the lighthouse where the bell sounded not far away, and then pointed to his men who had climbed up, and shouted, "You 10 follow me to take the lighthouse!" Phokinikas, lead the rest of the people, take out the enemies in that barracks for me, and then rendezvous at the lighthouse! ”

"Yes, Captain!" Fokkinikas responded loudly.

"Follow me!" With a wave of his hand, Terrantus led the way towards the lighthouse, followed by 10 soldiers.

Rushed to the lighthouse, the thick tower gate was closed.

Terrentius was not flustered, he reached out his hand backwards: "Rope hook." ”

A soldier hurriedly handed him the rope hook he had prepared, he grabbed the rope hook head, aimed at the stone window above which the light was shining, threw the rope hook into it with a little force, and then pulled it back, let the rope hook hook the window edge, and began to climb up.

The other soldiers began throwing rope hooks at the other windows in the lighthouse.

Terrantus was rapidly climbing upwards when he heard the soldiers below shouting, "Captain, be careful! ”

Seeing a figure appear in the window above, he instinctively leaned his body against the stone wall, and heard a gust of wind "whew", and then his back hurt fiercely, and the javelin thrown by the enemy stuck to his back, and the sharp tip of the spear cut through his clothes.

The situation is very critical, the second javelin will soon strike again, Terrentus in mid-air will be unavoidable, the desire to survive makes him burst out of great power at this time, he kicked the stone wall with both feet, his hands quickly alternated, and he pulled the rope tightly, and climbed up several times faster than before, and when he approached the window, the enemy had already taken out the second javelin and wanted to throw it at him.

He quickly drew his dagger and stabbed forward in a hurry.

The enemy couldn't dodge, was scratched on the cheek, and screamed and took a few steps back.

Tyrantus seized the gap, grabbed the edge of the window with his left hand, and with a strong push, his whole body flipped into the tower, and he turned on the ground, and the short sword in his right hand stabbed out again, right in the chest of the enemy.

In the blink of an eye, the rabbit rose and fell, and the two sides decided the winner.

The enemy collapsed in shock, as if unwilling to believe the fact.

The fact that Terrentus was able to escape his life in such a dangerous situation and quickly turned defeat into victory can be said to have put his skills of more than 10 years of hard training to the extreme.

Out of danger, he felt weak and numb at this time, and recalled that he had almost gone to hell just now, and his body couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

But he didn't have time to rest to ease his mood, instead taking his dagger and charging at the other enemies.

Usually in the middle of the night, there was only one watchman on duty at the lighthouse in the port of Lilibal, and a few additional personnel were added during this time to open the water gate and allow the Carthaginian fleet transporting grain in and out. There were no soldiers in the tower itself, but the designers of the city did not build stone stairs to go up and down the city wall on this natural breakwater for the purpose of defense, but fused the tail end of the wall with the lighthouse, so that the soldiers in the breakwater barracks had to pass through the lighthouse to go up the wall, and the sentries patrolling this section of the city wall at night could also directly enter the lighthouse.

Fortunately, there were only 5 Lilibal soldiers in total, how could they be the opponents of the fierce mountain scouts, who were quickly killed by the mountain scouts, and the others were also captured, but one of the 10 members of the raid was also stabbed with a javelin and was dying.

Terrantus and his soldiers and prisoners rushed to a device that looked like a giant millstone on the lower level of the lighthouse, and pushed it together, and the lowered water gate slowly rose again.

Then, another member of the team rushed to the top of the tower, took out the prepared torch and lit it, and then raised it high.

In this way, there were two flaming flames on the lighthouse, and the light of the fire broke through the pitch black canopy and spread to the sea far away, and directly west were moored more than a hundred ships of the Dionian Sicilian fleet, and a few of them pursued the fleeing Carthaginian cargo ships.

"My lord, our signal has come from the lighthouse of Lilipa!" The captain, who had been waiting anxiously on the flagship deck, shouted excitedly.

"Then what are you waiting for, speed up for me immediately, and aim for Lili!" Sekrian couldn't hide his excitement on his face.

The soldiers of the Second Legion who were loaded on the deck also understood the success of the sneak attack on the port of Liliba at this moment, and they were all gearing up and excited, but no one shouted at the military order.

To the north, more than 100 ships of the Third Fleet were also hurrying towards the port of Lilibal.

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Since he had been thinking about "sending reinforcements to Palermos last night", so in the evening of this day, Imisre sent his servants to the port several times to ask: Has the Lilibal cargo ship that went to Palermos returned?

The answer was, "No." ”

His henchmen comforted him: "The cargo ship rescuing Palermos must not only avoid the patrols of the Ionian fleet on the south coast, but also avoid being detected by the Ionian fleet on the north coast, which is closer to it, and it is impossible to return to the ...... so early."

Emitherre thought it made sense, so he didn't send anyone to pay attention to the port, and then he fell asleep from physical and mental exhaustion, until he was woken up by the slave, and he asked in a daze, "Is the ship back?" ”

"Master, the bell is ringing on the other side of the harbor!"

"Bells?!" Imisare's heart was shocked, and he was all awakened from sleep: "There is an enemy invading the port?!" ”

He jumped out of bed, grabbed his clothes, and shouted to the servant, "Go and prepare your horses!" Just go! ”