At this moment, the sailors poured into their respective docks, the front pulling the cables, the back pushing hard, and in the neat slogans, the three-story slurry warships about 50 meters long slid smoothly into the Klatty River like dragons entering the water, splashing a large area of water......

In the blink of an eye, the waters of the vast Klatty River were filled with warships, almost cutting the river off. Originally, the river was slow here, but now it is even slower.

The sailors tied the cable to the wooden stake on the shore, fixed the warship, then took the wooden ladder, and quickly boarded the ship one by one, and began to skillfully load the crow drawbridge, and after confirming that it was in normal operation, the sailors went down to the cabin through the entrance of the deck, found their seats, pulled a wooden oar from the wooden trough, extended it out of the slurry, and installed it on the paddle seat.

The cabin of the three-story paddle warship has three floors: the bottom layer is equipped with 54 paddlers on both sides, the middle deck is also 54 paddlers, and the top deck has the most, with 62 paddlers.

Once the 170 oarsmen were in place, the boatswain walked up and down the aisles in the cabin, supervising the paddlemen, maintaining order and boosting the morale of the paddlers.

The helmsman walks to the stern, he is the heart of the whole ship, controls the rudder, controls the direction of the warship, and must be the most experienced sailor in order to destroy the enemy ship in the heat of battle and save himself.

The piper sits down in the middle of the aisle near the entrance to the deck, and he is responsible for taking orders from the captain to control the rhythm of the paddle.

The captain is the commander of the entire ship and is responsible for directing the battle.

In addition, there were three lookouts, who were on the bow, stern, and mast of the ship, and kept the captain informed of the enemy situation and the instructions of the fleet.

Today, because the sails were not hung up, or even carried, in consideration of the imminent offshore battle with Syracuse, they did not hang the sails or even carry them, and left them in the dock to lighten the load of the warship, so the ten deck sailors who were responsible for raising and lowering the sails and controlling the navigation of the ships were missing an important task, in addition to picking up bows and arrows and dealing with the enemy approaching the ships, their more important task was to be responsible for maneuvering the "Raven Drawbridge" to nail the approaching enemy ships.

At this moment, the army led by Davers also entered the military port, and Seclian, Midorades, and other naval officers hurried up to meet them.

"Your Majesty, the fleet is ready to go at any time!" Sekrian said excitedly after giving a military salute to Davers.

"Have you spotted the fleet of the Syracuses?" Davers asked calmly.

"Found it!" Sekrian immediately replied: "Our clippers have reported before, 'There are dozens of Syracuse ships cruising off the coast of Castelón, and it seems that they are preparing to land there, so their grand fleet must be not far away!'" ”

Davers looked at the naval officers led by Sekerian, their eyes all burst into burning gazes, and he smiled: "It seems that you can't wait, so what are you waiting for, let the soldiers of the Legion all get on board!" ”

"Yes!" Antonios and Amintas responded in unison, and then immediately gave the order to the officers behind them: "Get on board!" ”

Soon, all the soldiers of the First Legion and a small number of soldiers of the Second Legion ran to the river bank in an orderly manner under the leadership of the detachment leader, and according to the area of yesterday's training, they found the three-layer oared warship that their detachment was responsible for, and according to the order, they went up to the deck of the warship, so that the total number of a three-layer oared warship in Dionya was close to 240 people.

Davers stood on the embankment, overlooking the dense stream of legionnaires on the riverbank, breaking into a thin stream of metal and rushing to the warships, dyeing the yellow-brown surface of the river (the color of the ships) black......

Davers, who had never experienced a naval battle, could not help but feel a sense of pride in his heart, and temporarily dispelled the tension in his heart, he turned to Amintas and said, "When we depart, you will lead the rest of the Second Legion to the port, and Marigi has prepared a cargo ship for you." Be the first to hear of our victory, and you're going to go! ”

"Understood, Your Majesty!" Amintas nodded, then looked at Sekrian and gave him a solemn military salute.

Just when Sekrian didn't understand why Amintas, who had just had some verbal conflicts with him yesterday, did this, he heard Amyntas say in a deep voice: "Seclian, the safety of Your Majesty is entrusted to you!" ”

Sekrian understood, and immediately returned the same solemn military salute: "I will protect your majesty's safety with my life!" ”

"I wish you a great victory in the naval battle!"

"I wish victory in the land battle!"

The two soldiers stared at each other, and the previous contradictions were all in vain at this moment, and what remained was the fighting spirit of the same enemy.

"Let's get on board too, don't keep the soldiers waiting." Davers said, waving.

"Yes!" Martius waved his military flag, and the captain of the guard, who had almost recovered, approached Davers yesterday afternoon and insisted on going into battle to kill the enemy, and Davers had to let him return to the team.

"Your Majesty!" Kunogorata led the elders, all of them stepped forward with solemn expressions, and bowed respectfully to Davers in unison, they didn't say much, but the weight of this salute was to entrust the safety of the entire alliance to Davers, because this battle would determine the rise and fall of Dionia.

Davers smiled again and said loudly: "Wait for the news of our victory!" ”

Then he led the convoy down to the riverbank, and by this time the legionnaires had basically cleared the ships, so that the bank was not crowded, and from time to time the sailors and soldiers of the fleet waved and saluted Davers, who all smiled in response.

Finally, he came to his ship, the largest three-level oared warship in the entire fleet, it was 60 meters long and five meters wide, equipped with 188 oarsmen, the bow was tilted into the water, the tip was a strong and sharp metal ramming angle, the tail was upturned to resemble a scorpion tail, and the sides of the hull protruded from front to back countless wooden oars, more like the feet of millipedes. It was a luxury warship from Lijim, which was originally positioned as the flagship of Seclian.

After Davers and 60 escorts went to the deck, a man in a leather helmet and a short coat rushed to the doctor, and after saluting, he said with a little nervousness: "Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, I am Miltias, the captain of this ship! ”

Davers smiled back, "Miltias, it's a pleasure to fight with you!" ”

"Your Majesty, sailors...... I want to come and greet you, but because of their duties, they can't ......," Miltias asked in a somewhat embarrassed whisper.

Without hesitation, Davers said, "I was about to greet them." With that, he was the first to come to the entrance of the ship's cabin.

The deck of the three-layer paddle warship is not one, but two decks from bow to stern, with a gap more than a meter wide in between, so the cabin is not airtight, and the oarsmen in the cabin can see the blue sky above through the gap on their side. So even with nearly 200 paddlers in the cabin, the open structure doesn't keep them from feeling stuffy.

When Davers appeared in the cabin, the entire ship was boiling.

Davers lived up to the enthusiasm of the oarsmen, and despite the narrow aisles of the middle and upper oarsmen, he climbed up and down tirelessly, bent down to ask for the name of each oarsman, and shook their hands.

After this trip, although he was not wearing a helmet, he was already a little out of breath, but he stood in the aisle in the center of the first floor, and still shouted excitedly: "Brothers, it is a pleasure to fight with you, let us fight together and win this naval battle!" ”

"King Davers wins!!"

"King Davers wins!!"

The oarsmen cheered in unison, causing the sailors of the neighboring ships to look sideways, and all of them showed envy: what an honor it must be to be able to fight on the same ship as King Davers, these lucky fellows!

At this moment, the distinctive naval trumpets sounded from the nearby Dionian flagship, and the oarsmen stopped cheering and began to sing in unison an ode to the gods, not to Hades, of course, but to Poseidon, the lord of the sea, a prayer for a safe and successful voyage.

In order to integrate into the navy, Davers had spent half a day learning this ancient etiquette, and now he is singing loudly with the oarsmen.

Captain Miltias handed him a wooden cup filled with wine, which was certainly not meant to be drunk. Davers held it in his hand solemnly, walked to the bow of the ship, chanted Poseidon's name, and poured wine into the river.

Poseidon's carols resounded on both sides of the Klatti River, lifting the hearts of the restless senators. Then, standing on the embankment, they saw that the warships in front of them had left the riverbank, and one followed one after the other and sailed out of the military port......

"Let's go, let's go to the beach." Kunograta said to the other patriarchs.

None of them objected, and in the upcoming life-and-death contest, although they could not be in the battle in person, they had to cheer for the soldiers.

It was not only the senators who thought of this, but all the people of the Dionian Coalition who could come: the elderly, women, children, citizens, reserve citizens, freemen...... Thousands of people gathered at the mouth of the Klatty River, and every time they saw a warship sailing out, they let out a tsunami-like cheer to cheer up their relatives who participated in the war.

"This ship! My kids are on this boat! ”

"Did you see that? The man who beckoned was my brother, he was the captain! ”

"My husband is in this boat with 'three' written on the string and I can't see him because he's the oarsman."

……

The crowd cheered and shouted the names of their loved ones, and many others asked similar questions: "There is a strange long plank next to the mast at the front of the warship, what is that?!" How have I never seen one of the ships of another city-state! ”