Wan Yi's order was rapidly transmitted to Qu Chengxing, the chief commander of the Western Fleet, and Zhang Sheng of the Anxi Corps, but it was still not as fast as Elidoan. The Great Qin Navy, who was bent on washing away the shame of the past, was riveting from him, the commander, to all the low-level soldiers below, all of whom were originally expected to arrive in Phoenicia in Egypt on November 23, the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, according to Elidogan's expectations, but they were five days ahead of schedule, that is, on November 18, the main fleet of the vanguard had already seen the land on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea in the distance.

At this time, the Great Food Navy did not recover at all, or since the last time it won the Battle of Phoenicia by relying on stubborn sacrifices and Li Guixin's fire attack and the guerrilla tactics of Wu San Province, in Amdullah's mind, his navy has completed its historical mission. So after the war, he transferred all the surviving naval officers to the Persian Governorate to receive the new naval warships. In addition to the remaining more than 3,000 naval soldiers in the entire port of Phoenicia, there were more than 100,000 mobile regiments of the army deployed in the province of Egypt. A few days ago, in order to relieve the crisis in Jerusalem, the Great Food Empire Command had transferred 50,000 elites from Egyptian provinces to the east coast of the Mediterranean. As a result, there were less than 100,000 Great Eclipse Army left in the entire Egyptian province, so after the Great Eclipse soldiers in the port of Phoenicia saw the white sails of the Great Qin Navy's battleship appear again on the sea in the distance, the terrible sirens instantly spread throughout the city. Countless soldiers began to move quickly from all kinds of bunkers, barracks, and bunkers to their positions. Because Amdullah had a clear awareness that his navy was inferior to the other side before, the defense of the Phoenician port was not relaxed for a day, and even after the war, more than ten guns were removed from the remaining naval warships to strengthen the shore-based defense. In this way, the Phoenician port alone concentrated nearly 50 artillery pieces and more than 60,000 people to defend this famous city on the southern shore of the Mediterranean.

When the alarm sounded, the Phoenician defenders began to press to the rear at a rapid pace. After all, in the absence of their own navy, relying on shore-based artillery alone will be knocked out by the other side one by one sooner or later.

However, at this time, Eridogan did not care whether he had been discovered by the other party, although the garrison of Phoenicia was very strong, but he was confident that he could take the port before the other party's reinforcements arrived. So the first thing to do when they arrived was to send clippers to urge the rear support fleet to come and join him as soon as possible.

On November 19, the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, the day after the arrival of the Great Qin Navy in the port of Phoenicia, in the winter rainy season in the Mediterranean, Eridoan punctually ordered the fleet to start cleaning the outer fortifications of the port of Phoenicia, and bombarded the many obstacles set up by the Great Cannibals to resist the approach of the fleet, and even dispatched several auxiliary ships to clean up. Because the port of Phoenicia was built on the mouth of the Nile, Eridogan had to clear the obstacles on the one hand, and constantly contend with the difficulties of the Nile water on the formation of his fleet. In addition, as the fleet approached, the roadbed artillery continued to fire a dense number of shells at the fleet, forcing Eridogan to be cautious at every step. But he must clear the obstacles as quickly as possible at this time, so that he can use the range and power of the ship's guns to open up the situation for the next big battle. Therefore, while personally commanding his subordinate fleets to speed up, Elidoan began to think about the next action. Because he has almost 100,000 troops to land, it is necessary to take this large port, otherwise the land forces that go ashore will gradually be surrounded and annihilated in Egypt by the opponent's reinforcements because they cannot get follow-up support.

After thinking for a while, Eridoan saw that his fleet was able to gradually approach the port and open fire, he immediately arranged for a small number of warships to continue to fire guns, and sent a few additional auxiliary ships to step forward and use the method of blasting to directly blow up the wooden fences and wooden thorns that lay in the coastal sea. Although this blasting tool was even an explosive bag learned from Datang, Eridogan, who had won the first battle, was still very happy, and for a whole day, one after another explosions continued to sound on the periphery of the Phoenician port, although Eridogan lost three warships and injured one, but miraculously cleared a wide area of water, enough for his own warships to sail through. So on the third day of the official battle, Eridogan also came up with his killer weapon this time. A whole five very strange ships began to slowly approach the port of Phoenicia. The ship was equipped with nearly twenty cannons, which made the entire Phoenician harbor garrison shiver in the hearts of the Great Food Defenders. This kind of warship, which was almost covered with guns on both sides of the ship, was one of the results of Elidoan's efforts for more than half a year. The previous warships were not designed for artillery alone, so they basically added guns on a temporary basis. However, after the construction of this new battleship, Eridogan was determined to achieve his goal, and equipped the entire ship with eighteen guns. Thanks to the superior shipbuilding technology of the Great Food, this kind of wooden sailing battleship that should have appeared hundreds of years later was forcibly built at this time. Although Eridogan also knew that his Qimen weapons would not be able to fight for a while because their own shipbuilding level had not improved, relying on his powerful cannonball projection ability in a short period of time, he was able to calmly break the cannibal blockade of the Phoenician harbor, so that the follow-up fleet could quickly break through.

After Eridoan's idea was transmitted back to the Tang Dynasty by the Xuanying Guard, it also aroused Li Xuanqing's curiosity, but what he didn't expect was that after he took out the artillery and ironclad ships in advance, the development of Western naval warships also ushered in a leap, and he also took out the kind of wooden battleships similar to the "Sea Monarch" that he saw in later generations. Although eighteen guns cannot be compared with dozens or hundreds of wooden battleships, it shows that the Tessie Navy led by Eridogan has begun to plan their own naval warship development plan after taking the lead in developing artillery technology in the East. Even Li Xuanqing guessed at that time that if Elidoan saw the ironclad ship he had made with his own eyes, he would definitely think about how to install as many guns as possible on the ironclad ship to achieve a single projection of more shells to cover the hostile target.

However, at this time, Elidoan did not have such a chance, but the five monsters he created really brought great damage to the port of Phoenicia, and the five warships that continued to shoot more than fifty cannonballs each time burst out with a power similar to that of dozens of warships, and in an instant, the rumbling cannon sound began to continue to emit out. Although these five battleships could not be fired at the same time, each artillery fire could also make the entire artillery bombardment coherent, and the dense shells began to bombard the entire tidal flat positions outside the city, enveloping a shore-based artillery position arranged there in all the artillery fire.

"Well done, let the 3rd Guerrilla Fleet immediately cover the logistical landing ships to the west and land in the port of the small town west of the port of Phoenicia. Dear Luther, you will not forget there, I believe. "Eridogan began to lay out his actual landing site after seeing the tidal flat position bombed by himself. He did not throw the first wave of 30,000 vanguard troops brought by this trip to the front, but let Luther take him to the small city port where Wu San Province had secretly hidden and then attacked him. The province of Egypt was controlled by the Great Qin for hundreds of years, and the Great Qin people around Egypt were not inferior to the great cannibals at this time. Therefore, after seeing that he had blasted through the opponent's tidal flat position and attracted all the attention of the other party, he immediately let the landing begin. In this way, when the army began to recoil on the port of Phoenicia, it would be able to send its warships to the vicinity of the port to provide close support.

Eridoan's arrangement was clearly beyond the expectations of the Great Cannibal. After fighting with the Great Qin Army for such a long time, the army tactics of the Great Qin are actually almost the same as the Great Cannibals, and to be honest, the rigid and inflexible tactics of the Great Cannibals are disdainful. But they forgot that compared with the army, the Great Qin Navy did not have the problems of the army, but under the leadership of Elidoan, it had faintly embarked on the road of self-breakthrough. It can even be said that if there is no Datang, the Daqin Navy should be the most flexible military branch in this era. Therefore, when the Great Cannibal relied on the Phoenician city to stubbornly resist the artillery fire of the Great Qin Navy, Luther appeared in the small city port with 30,000 troops. Since there were not many people sent to garrison, the Great Qin Army occupied the port with little to no decent resistance. If it weren't for the fact that the port wharf was too small, I was afraid that the 30,000 army would have been able to rush ashore without any delay at all, and then turn around and rush east towards the port of Phoenicia.

However, this little bit of time obviously doesn't mean anything anymore, and it's just a little more time for the big cannibal to react. Before they could draw their forces to stop the attack, the Great Qin Army was already charging towards Phoenicia in a neat line. Luther even arranged for the fleet to be close to the shore to protect it. The constantly raised muzzles of the cannon emboldened the 30,000 troops, and the march was unexpectedly fast. So when these armies appeared outside Phoenicia, Luther's fleet didn't even have time to turn, and the five warships sent in front of them plunged headlong into the remaining wooden thorns that had not yet had time to be cleared. This kind of semi-buried coastal defense measure was actually to defend the battleship from rushing to the beach nearby, but what I didn't expect was that it played a big role at this time, and the five battleships were directly pierced through the bottom of the ship, and a large amount of water leakage immediately appeared, and it began to sink in a short time. Although Luther, who reacted, tried his best to save the people, and because the sea was not deep because it was close to the beach, it still caused dozens of casualties in an instant.

This fearless sacrifice made Elidogan furious, but he did not have time to punish Luther when the army arrived, and ordered Josel to lead his headquarters to immediately go forward to meet the new warships that served as batteries in front and began to cover the army in the siege of the city. In this way, the landing operation quickly evolved into a siege operation. Although the city defense was attacked by the enemy's naval artillery, the Great Cannibal itself was a fierce and fearless person who was not afraid of death, so although the sacrifice was great, it blocked the attack of the Great Qin Army to the death. He even took advantage of the fact that the soldiers in the city far outnumbered the opponent, and launched counterattacks out of the city several times, trying to drive the opponent into the sea. However, after the attackers were defeated, Elidogan immediately ordered the army to abandon the siege and instead seize the port pier outside the city, so that the follow-up reinforcements could quickly arrive and seize a favorable port measure. At this time, the general of the Great Food in the city did not have time to go out of the city to start a fierce battle with the other party, but pinned his hope on the reinforcements from Baghdad. So the time was given to Eridoan. By the time the Great Cannibal reacted and went out of the city with all his might to sweep away the Great Qin Army, the reinforcements from Cyprus were already very close to Phoenicia. After the Clippers returned early to report the news, Eridogan immediately ordered all the fleets to shell the attacking Dashi army out of the city at all costs to help the army hold the dock harbor. The two sides fought over the port of Phoenicia. Relying on the navy's almost all-weather artillery support, although the number was much smaller than that of the other side, the Great Qin Army still persevered desperately, and firmly controlled the main facilities of the port in its own hands before the reinforcements arrived. In this way, when Elidogan ordered reinforcements to land again at the beginning of December of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, the situation between Da Shi and Da Qin in Phoenician Harbor suddenly reversed. A large number of troops were consumed in the offensive battle in the past few days, resulting in the fact that after the Great Qin reinforcements came ashore, Da Shi did not have enough troops to defend the city of Phoenicia. After three days of fierce fighting at Phoenicia, the Eater's army retreated, and Phoenicia finally fell into the hands of Elidogan.

After the port of Phoenicia was taken, the retreating army of the Great Eclipse soon moved north to join the elite army that had withdrawn from Jerusalem, but the reinforcements drawn by Eridoan from the direction of Byzantium were also on the way. Moreover, the naval fleet that did not have to cover the army even rushed into the Nile to attack the defenses of the Great Eclipse along the coast, cutting off the east-west communication of the other side, so that their own army had enough time to start from the port of Phoenicia and sweep the entire province of Egypt.

The news of the loss of Port Phoenicia quickly spread back to Baghdad, and the Abbasids were furious that Daqin had really cut off his east-west connection. When the Mediterranean itself is not able to intervene at all, if land communication is cut off, then your empire will really be broken through from the center. Therefore, he immediately ordered a strong force from the front line to go south, vowed to recapture Egypt, and at the same time called on the entire Heavenly Sect world as a caliph to launch a religious holy war to support the empire to win this battlefield. In this way, the entire Taixi War began to really move towards the depth stage, Daqin began to gradually regain its strategic disadvantage because of the strength of the navy, and although the Great Food made a mistake, it made the Abbasids determined to launch a religious holy war, and the scale of the war began to expand dramatically with the all-out efforts of both sides.

At this time, another force in Egypt, namely the engineering team of the Tang Dynasty to dig the canal and the guards of the marines, also received the latest order, a large number of ships quickly docked in Suez City in a short period of time, and the soldiers of the Anxi Corps from Persia disembarked from the ships one by one and began to go ashore to carry out the mission of protecting the people and property of the empire. (https:)

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