A week of drifting, a week of idleness, made Luga feel a lot more decadent, and when he asked when he could arrive, the answer he got was always quick. Soon, the time represented by this word is always strange, sometimes it is as long as a month or even longer, sometimes it is just over an hour as short. This can be described as fast, depending on how the person who said it defined the time of the word.

In the morning, the horn of the sky broke the warship that was quietly moving forward, and it also woke up Luga, who was still sleeping.

"Land! Land! African! African! ”

The sailors outside the cabin shouted, and they desperately rang the brass bells tied to the sail posts, trying to wake up all the sleeping people, whether generals or soldiers.

Luga didn't have time to put on his proper equipment, he directly put on his coat and walked out of the cabin, and as soon as he got on the deck, Luga was stunned by the scene in front of him.

The sailors were busy going back and forth on the deck, looking like a swarm of ants, working, constantly feeding information back to the fleet in the rear. Soon, more than a thousand warships of the entire combined fleet slowed down and confronted the Vandals on the opposite shore.

The walls of Carthage were covered with wood, which had been specially reinforced by the Vandals, not only the walls, but also the outer coast of the city which formed a long temporary line of defense with earth and wood. The docks of Carthage were too far away to see what was there, but the Vandals had been preparing for so long to have such a huge omission.

"The Vandals are not unprepared, at least they don't think they're lambs to the slaughter and have no resistance." Hermanus said as he walked behind Luga. Faced with the temporary defense system that stretched for several miles, Hermanus couldn't help but shake his head and said: "I'm afraid that 20,000 people is still a little insufficient, Your Excellency, now we still have room to recover, whether to change the strategy again or continue to implement the existing strategy is up to you alone." ”

"Are the Lords of Areobindes and Ann Lasis already in place?" Luga stood at the bow of the ship, also looking at the long line of defense, and asked Hermanus.

"They're already on the vanguard ship." Hermanus said, sneezing loudly.

"Your Excellency, go to sleep." Lu Jia patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "It's all up to us at this time, and it's not a good thing to drag down Your Excellency's body." ”

"Enemy! Encounter the enemy! Encounter the enemy! ”

While we were talking, a sudden emergency came from the west, and Luga hurriedly turned his head to look at the sails of the ships at the western level at the end of the dense mass of ships, and there were hundreds of them.

"Bingo! Looks like we have new playmates. Hermanus also saw it, and he smiled, swept away the decadent appearance of the man, and turned back to the cabin and beckoned: "Berialius, Berialius!" My dear son, we have something to do! ”

Soon, Berialiu was seen running out of it in a hurry, and he put on his armor as he ran. The panic is like encountering something terrible, and it can also be understood as a hungry wolf who has been hungry for a long time seeing a large piece of fatty meat.

"It seems that we can't go back!" Luga looked at the approaching ship in the distance, and didn't think it belonged to the Vandals. "Lord Hermanus."

"What do you command?" Hermanus stepped forward and asked.

"You take Beria with you, and use your years of experience in the sea to give those lawless Vandals a good look!" Lu Jia's gaze was cold, and after explaining, he turned his head back to look at the coastline in front of him, and muttered: "Just look at how these veterans of the Eastern Empire deal with such a battle situation!" ”

"You're just up to me!" Finally having the opportunity to show his talents, Berialiu was naturally overjoyed. He looked as happy as a three-year-old child, and grabbed his father Hermanus by the arm and cried out, "Father, what are you still stunned about? The Vandals are just around the corner, let's not wait any longer, turn the bow of the ship and meet it! ”

Luga re-established a battleship, and Hermanus commanded his flagship and the nearly 600 ships in the rear of his companion to turn around with the horn of war, heading towards the approaching Vandals at sea level.

A large number of Vandals were surging back and forth on the fortifications on the coastline, and the great battle was imminent, and no one from the officers to the soldiers dared to be sloppy.

"Oil drums! Oil drums! ”

The trebuchet was deployed on the ships in the rear, and the operators were being ordered to push the flaming oil drums onto the trebuchet.

"Put!"

At the sound of an order, there was only a "click" sound, and dozens of oil drums dragged a dark and acrid smoke through the air and landed on the beach against the Vandals' lines. There was flammable boiling oil inside, and the oil drum burst like an exploding incendiary bomb, overturning several people in an instant, and even the neatly arranged wood was blasted open, and a raging fire ignited in the place where the explosion was burst. A number of unfortunate ghosts covered in fire ran out screaming from inside, rolling on the beach, trying to extinguish the stripped flames. But the second round began again, and more and more of the defensive line was smashed by oil barrels, and the Vandals lacked long-range strike weapons such as catapults, so they were helpless against the Romans' oil barrels.

"Troops, landed troops!"

"Woo, woo......"

At the command of the horn, the first column of warships stopped at a distance of fifty meters from the beach, and they lowered one small boat after another, which Luga had arranged in advance. Because Luga was afraid that such a landing operation would make a mistake like his own in Syracuse.

Soon, the first group of soldiers were scattered among hundreds of small boats, each with twenty soldiers, who were rowing towards the shore with all their might.

"We will go into the water when we are close to the beachhead, and we will form a tortoiseshell formation on the beachhead and slowly advance." The hot-tempered warrior Anlasis was the commander of the First Array, and he was not only a big temper, but also notoriously bold in battle. He stood alone in the bow of the ship facing the Vandal line, shouting orders to the boats around him, and cheering for the soldiers behind him!

"Just push them and we'll tear them apart! The Vandals are nothing more than a bunch of lazy bedbugs, they can't even hold their swords, and they're so fat that they struggle to escape! But be careful, if you don't have enough strength to cut through their flesh! Then listen to them wail and suffer, and we deserve it! ”

"Kill them!" The soldiers clenched their swords and spears in their hands and flapped their shields and cheered loudly, their morale was high, worthy of the troops brought up by the warriors.

But are the Vandals really as vulnerable as they think? Not only Anlasis, but even Luga, who was watching from the rear warship, had the idea of waiting and seeing!