Nearly 200 panicked sailors rushed to the deck when they heard a loud "boom", the whole ship was shaking and shaking, and the sailors fell down one after another in the screams.

I saw that a large hole had been made in the middle of the middle side of the right side of the Dionian warship, and the bow of the enemy ship showed its hideous appearance through the breach, and with it came the surging seawater.

The momentum of the enemy ship continued, and it continued to cut forward, expanding the breach again, and the powerful forward force actually caused the Dionian warship to move several meters.

The Dionian oarsmen, knowing that the shipwreck was inevitable, jumped into the sea.

Poor Melisanda had just climbed into the boat and had to jump into the sea again with a long shield in his arms.

He heard the sailors floating on the surface of the sea complaining, "Why don't there be clippers to block cover for us?!! ”

In fact, more than half of Dionia's 30 Clippers have been lost in their frays.

When Lyptieles let the untrained heavy infantry hide in the captain, he had already estimated that the Syracuse would not have the upper hand in the battle on the ship, but this time the Syracuse Navy had nearly 50 more three-layer oars than the other side, so he decisively adopted the tactic of "circumnavigation", taking advantage of the advantage of more ships, so that the extra ships were wrapped around from the outside. When both sides are fighting each other, they can take the opportunity to cut into the battlefield and ram the immobile enemy ship.

In the last naval battle, the legionnaires on the Dionian ships were able to quickly deal with the enemy ships, allowing their ships to quickly retract the drawbridge and return to the battle. However, this time, the increased heavy infantry on the Syracuse warship greatly extended the battle time after the legionnaires boarded the ship, thus providing an opportunity for the intrusive Syracuse.

After nearly ten Dionian warships were sunk and damaged one after another, the rest of the warships also realized that the situation was not good, and before the legionnaires could deal with the enemy ships, they took back the Raven Drawbridge one after another and began a real sea battle with the enemy, they did not dare to use the drawbridge to hook each other again, because there were no more legionnaires on the warships (they were fighting on the enemy ships), so they hurried to unload the Raven Drawbridge.

The Syracuse warship was more experienced in naval warfare, and the sailors cooperated more tacitly, but because they carried more soldiers, they were less fast and agile; The Dionian ships lacked experience in ship-to-ship combat, but because they emptied their soldiers and had an advantage in speed, the situation on both sides was somewhat opposite to the previous naval battle.

The warships of both sides looked for opportunities on the sea, chasing, circling, dashing, ramming......

From time to time, the wood pulp of warships was broken, and warships were hit and damaged, or even sank......

Over time, Syracuse began to lose ground in a ship-to-ship head-to-head battle. After all, once disconnected, there were more ships in the Dionian fleet that could participate in the battle than in Syracuse, often putting Syracuse ships in a bad situation of one-on-two.

Leptinies, who was in the rear and did not participate in the battle, was very anxious and a little flustered after learning about the situation of the fleet through the lookout on the ship: Is it going to be worshiped again this time?!

At this time, the lookout shouted from above: "A fleet has come from the rear!" ”

A fleet from the south? Is it ours?! Reptines knew that Dionysius had not sent an order to the city of Syracuse to return the ships in the Grand Port, but he was still eagerly looking forward to it.

But after a while, the lookout's cry shattered his expectations: "It's a black warship!" Black Ships! ”

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Finally arrived! Midorades breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the scene of the fierce naval battle ahead.

Before the departure, Sestorian and the other admirals had already drawn up a plan for this naval battle: because they were afraid that the Syracuse people would see that their fleet was large and too strong, so they decided to divide the fleet into two, and the detachment of more than 60 ships composed of the last captured Syracuse triplex was led by Midorades, and after setting out from the port of Turiyi, they headed southeast, avoiding the detection of the Syracuse clippers, and circled a large semicircle. Rendezvous with the main fleet led by Sekerian heading south along the coast at Siriting.

But what they didn't expect was that the Syracuse fleet, which was originally stationed in the port of Siritin, had already moved to Crotone this morning, and the Midorides detachment, which had not received timely information, found that it had been empty.

Midorades made a quick decision to turn the fleet back, and finally found the two warring sides in the sea near Crotone.

Midorades gave the order, and the detachment quickly entered the battle, flanking the front and rear, sounding the final death knell for the Syracuse fleet!

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Dionysius, who watched the whole process of the naval battle from the harbor lighthouse, turned pale in the end, turned pale and stepped down without saying a word.

Phoebedas, who was at the end, continued to look at the sea battlefield that had come to an end in the distance, but what he thought in his heart was: This novel naval battle method of Dionya is quite suitable for Sparta, do you want to make a suggestion to the Council of Elders when you go back?

As for Dionia's successive victories in naval battles, it may have a relatively large impact on the situation of the entire Greater Greece, and change the balance of power between Dionia and Syracuse. He was glad to see this, as the western Mediterranean needed an alliance of city-states that could counterbalance Syracuse, and he had a hunch that Syracuse's attack on Dionya would be even more fierce on land......

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The battle was over, but unlike the cleaner battlefield at the end of the last one, the sea near Crotone was littered with scattered oars, broken planks, broken ships, dead bodies, and countless sailors and soldiers struggling to cry out for help.

The Dioonians sailed their broken ships back and forth across the sea, and began to rescue the Ionian sailors and soldiers who had fallen overboard, placing them on ships captured by the legionnaires as much as possible.

For before leaving, Davers had reminded Seklian that 'after the victory in the naval battle, if possible, try to rescue the people of Syracuse who have fallen into the water.' So the Dionian navy also came to their aid, but when they got on board, they were bound and guarded.

Some of the Syracuse people were close to the shore when they fell into the water, so they did not accept assistance and swam desperately to the shore. In response, the Dioonians changed their attitude and drove their ships to run them over......

The clean-up and rescue of the entire battlefield continued until dusk, when the light of the setting sun stained the warships on the sea orange, and Sekrian gave the order to "return".

In the huge Ionian fleet, the captured Syracuse ships were located in the center, and the Dionian ships were on the periphery. The sailors, though tired, but the joy of victory, let their trumpets resound across the sea, and in the melodious sound of the flute, they vigorously pushed and pulled the oars, and the fleet slowly sailed north......

Sekrian looked back at the battlefield where he had fought fiercely, and the thrilling image of his ship almost being rammed by an enemy ship came to mind, which made him feel excited at the moment. His gaze moved to the far distance, where the sky was connected to the sea, and the vastness was immense......

A sense of pride rose in his heart, and he excitedly shouted to the captain: "From now on, we will have the final say on this piece of sea!" ”

In this naval battle, except for more than 40 three-layer oars led by Reptines, the rest of the ships of the Syracuse fleet were either sunk or captured.

The Deoria fleet had 23 Raven ships sunk and more than a dozen damaged, captured 68 Syracuse three-decker ships, and captured nearly 10,000 Syracuse sailors.

What angered Dionysius the most was that only more than 2,000 of the 9,000 Syracuse heavy infantry he sent returned, most of the soldiers were either killed in battle or drowned in the sea, and less than a thousand were captured by the Dionian fleet, which can be said to have lost not only the naval battle, but also the land battle. Of course, the 1st Regiment of Dionya also paid more than 2,000 dead and wounded.

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The Dionian army did not stop when it marched to the city of Castron, and the chief general Amicles and the city-state high-ranking men waited in front of the wooden bridge built for Castelon by Heraclid the Younger, and saw off the Dionian army on its way to the battlefield, and sent more than a thousand Castron soldiers and a hundred cavalry to join the expedition as part of the alliance's duty.

Although the Dionian army hurried to the road, Davers still rushed to the wooden bridge, thanked the leadership of Castelon before exchanging a few words of greeting, and some of the underlying unpleasantness dissipated in laughter.

Since the First Legion went to the Dionian fleet, the front of the entire ranks was headed by the Second Legion. Although Amintas fought bravely, as the commander of the Second Legion, he was responsible for the safety of the entire legion, so after crossing the Trionto River, he increased the marching column to ten columns, with a column of light infantry in the middle. Although the Second Legion of Dionya had not yet fought with the mercenary cavalry in Syracuse, Amintas did not take it lightly due to Davers's reminder.

In recent years, due to the vigorous development of the Dionians, the Marsh of the La Coeli River has not only disappeared in large numbers, but also begun to transform into high-quality plains, and the population has also increased dramatically. But today the legionnaires saw the ruins of several villages along the avenue.

The sailors of the naval landing in Syracuse invaded the territory of the Union so far! The legionnaires were surprised and angry at the enemy's atrocities: fortunately, the navy of Syracuse had been defeated in the previous naval battle, and it was impossible to endanger the territory of Dionya again, but there were still those damned mercenary cavalry!