Chapter 0518: Rhode Island War
Now, the vanguard of the reinforcements sent by Huxi to Rhode Bay Air Force is in place, and the little monster that arrived first has cleared the small sampan on the sea, and there should be no problem with the solid circle of his own people. Watch as the 1,000 enemy pirate ships that have broken apart are scurrying into the harbor of Rhodes, the northern metropolis of Rhodes. Because the enemy was originally surrounded by a hollow circle with a diameter of two or three thousand meters, after the commander gave the order to retreat, the distance between 1,000 points and Rhodes Harbor was basically 1,000 different lengths, so the pirate ships that fled in a hurry were still relatively orderly, there was no congestion, and rats rushed into the port one after another.
The enemy's smooth entry into the port is not because of the enemy's speed, but because Mai Ba feels that it is easier to improve our hit rate by locking them in the harbor and high-density anchoring, so put one yard and go, and I will send you later. It's true, this great commander really doesn't know about affairs, he has forgotten the characteristics of his opponent, in fact, now, for him, if he wants to flee for his life, the more scattered, the more opportunities. Alas! What an asymmetrical battle! It's a battle between two different generations! It's a battle between two different worlds!
The situation here has all been transmitted to Hu Xi by telegram, Hu Xi thought about it and said, in this case, we will sweep Rhodes Island, you provoke me, I will eat you, it is reasonable, we can't work in vain, and we won't have any dividends after fighting for half a day? So, take Rhodes!
Rhodes is the largest island in the Dodecanese archipelago in Greece. It has been said that the island is full of snakes, and its name is taken from the Phoenician word "erod" (snake). It is also said that the name Rhodes comes from the ancient Greek word Ρ?δον (rose), which at the time referred to today's hibiscus.
Rhodes was influenced by Cretans in its early days. With the disintegration of the Minoan culture, it became a powerful independent kingdom with a late Bronze Age culture. During the reign of the Dorians, the island's cities traded in the Mediterranean, colonized Italy, Sicily, Spain, and Asia Minor, and controlled several islands in the Aegean Sea. It has been under Byzantine rule since 395. It was occupied by the Saracens in 653~658 and 717~718. Now, with the division of the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, with the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it is now in a state of anarchy, so it is occupied by these Catholic pirates, and it is the king of the land.
For most of its history, ancient Greece was made up of city-states that had limited rights beyond their borders. On the tiny island of Rhodes there are three city-states: Ialysos, Kamiros and Lindos. In 408 BCE, the three city-states united into a region with a unified capital: Rhodes. The capital was commercially prosperous and had strong economic ties with its important ally, Ptolemy I of Egypt. In 305 BC, Ptolemy I's opponent, Antigonus I of Macedon, besieged the island of Rhodes in order to break the Rhodes-Egyptian alliance. But they never managed to storm the city. When the peace treaty was concluded in 304 BC, Antigonus I lifted the siege of Rhodes and abandoned a huge amount of military equipment.
The island of Rhodes BC was an important commercial center, it was located at the junction of the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas, and the port of Rhodes was built in 408 BC. Historically, Rhodes has been ruled by many spheres of influence, including Mausolus (whose mausoleum is also one of the Seven Wonders) and Alexander the Great. But after the return of Alexander the Great, the whole island was plunged into a long war. The Macedonian invader Dmitry led an army of forty thousand (which was already more than the population of the entire island) to surround the port. After a hard battle, the Rhodians defeated the invaders. To celebrate this victory, they decided to build a statue with 12.5 tons of bronze weapons abandoned by the enemy. The statue was built over 12 years and is about 33 meters tall, about the same height as the Statue of Liberty in New York. The statue is hollow, and the inside is reinforced with intricate stone and iron pillars. But just over 50 years after its construction, this great statue was destroyed by a powerful earthquake. Legend has it that the statue stands in the harbor with its legs apart, and the ship passes through the middle of the legs, which is very spectacular and interesting.
Designed by architect Charles and completed in 282 BC, the Colossus of Rhodes was 33 meters high, made of marble, clad in bronze, and later used as a lighthouse. However, an earthquake in 226 B.C. toppled the great Colossus, and its fragile knee became a fatal wound to the Colossus, and the Colossus fell on the shore near the port of Mandr*i. Rhodes was invaded by the Arabs in 654 AD, and the invaders brought the ruins to Syria, making it even more difficult to investigate the wonder.
The interior of Rhodes is very steep, with its highest point reaching 1,215 meters above sea level. The mountains stretch all the way to the coast, forming cliffs into the sea in many places. The northern and southern ends of the island are flat, respectively. The southern end forms a peninsula.
Rhodes is the fourth largest island in Greece in the 21st century, located at the junction of the southeastern Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, across the strait of Marmara from Turkey. It covers an area of 1,398 square kilometers. Rhodes has a Mediterranean climate influenced by the North Atlantic Current. Winter rain and summer dryness, precipitation is also relatively abundant, the average temperature in winter is 10 °C (50 °F), the summer is relatively cool, and the four seasons are windy, so there are many windmills on the island in later generations. The valleys have rich pastures, and the plains produce a variety of grains. A wide range of handicrafts from the Mycenaean era and later periods were manufactured, producing red wine, cereals, figs, pomegranates and citrus.
Rhodes is one of the sunniest regions in Europe, with an average of more than 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. There was almost no rain from mid-May to mid-September. The island's karst topography ensures that there is still enough water to store during this time. The nearby islands of Simi and Halki in summer need boats to secure their water supply. There is basically no frost on the island, only sometimes snowfall on the top of the highest mountain.
Rhodes Island has a famous tourist attraction Butterfly Valley, in the coolest place in Rhodes Island in summer, there is a murmuring spring flowing between the dense foliage canyons, a summer paradise, flowing water, pine resin fragrance, tree shade rest, stone path walking, see the butterflies gathered in the valley, this colorful creature will decorate this place extraordinarily beautiful, like a fairy tale world.
The Acropolis (Acropolisoflindos) is a coastal town on the eastern coast of Rhodes, about 60 kilometers from the city of Rhodes. Historically, it was one of the 3 city-states that made up Rhodes and served as the capital of Rhodes. Historically, Lindos had a great maritime power, and it is said that during the Trojan War, nine ships came from Lindos. From the 7th century BC to the 6th century BC, Lindos reached its golden age, when it not only had its own colonies, but also controlled most of the Mediterranean trade. The alliance of the three city-states of Rhodes in 408 BC weakened Lindos' position as a political and military center, but it has always been a ...... of strategic maritime conditions.
Now, all 1,000 enemy pirate ships have entered the harbor, and hundreds of merchant ships and warships of various sizes have been parked in the harbor. When all the pirate ships had entered the harbor, a barrier was erected at the mouth of the narrow bay, and several iron chains ran through the protrusions of the two harbors, so that no ship could enter or leave the harbor.
Mai Ba looked at these stupid old men who hastily retreated into the harbor, and his heart blossomed. These stupid old men have just been hit by trapeze, why won't they accept the lesson? Why don't you know how to keep pace with the times? Why do you still want to huddle together to keep warm? Mai Ba remembered a lesson taken by King Mumu, saying that in another time and space, a country called Japan went to attack an island of a country called the United States, called Pearl Harbor. The Japanese were the ones who picked up the Americans and suddenly attacked them when they were lying in the harbor lazily basking in the sun on Sundays; And the first reaction of the Americans after being attacked was to hurry out of the port and not squeeze together. Really, the times are different, the concepts are different, the life is different, and if you don't keep up with the trend, you will eventually be overwhelmed by the trend!
In fact, Mai Ba is also a little wrong to blame this enemy commander. The enemy commander saw how his thousands of little sampans were packed up by the little monster, and knew that this battle could not be fought! He can hit me, I can't hit him; He can beat me, I can't beat him; He was so fierce, I was so helpless; He has electricity, fire, and thunder, and I have nothing, so to stay at sea is to sit and wait to die; Floating on the sea, sooner or later it will become the target of the other party's thunder and lightning. I fled back to Rhodes, and I went ashore. I'm nimble on the shore, what can you do to me?
Hu Xi thought, these people have gone ashore, if they hide in the mountains, this mountain search is a high-risk job, and the prince of Mumu has always avoided this kind of danger, himself, what should he do? Then——, since this Rhode Island is not small, and the terrain is complicated, they hide in the deep mountains and old forests, and we can't do anything, otherwise, we won't let them into the mountains? Hu Xi communicated with Mai Ba in the telegram, and asked him to communicate with the Rose Shark, and reached an agreement. Look again, the other party's pirate ships are docking one after another, hurry, let ten airships grab the beach, grab ahead of them, and block their way to the island. How? Paratrooper! Quickly capture all the passages from the dock to the island after the opponent goes ashore! 60 paratroopers, male and female, 20 women's scouts, 40 grenadiers, plus a little golden cat, jump!
The enemy's commander is fainting again, and his nerves are about to collapse, what's going on? This Rhodes Island is our old nest, what are you doing on the island? And it's ahead of us, how can it? Want to be anti-customer-oriented? Want to occupy the magpie's nest? Want to rob a robber's den? Won't our century-old foundation be ruined? Won't we, pirates, be pirates from now on? We are descendants of the Vikings, we are not descendants of the Gypsies! Ah! What to do? Alas! One, two, three, four、...... Fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty, sixty-one, huh? Gone? Sixty-one people, standing in the middle of the road, not letting us pass? Hehe, 61 Oriental baby soldiers, you just replaced them with 61 colorful tigers, there are so many of us, can you stop it? Biting your lip, are you guys daydreaming? No, fainted, you should have bitten your own lip!
The enemy commander is not in a hurry, he wants to wait for all his subordinates to go ashore before clearing the obstacles that stand in the way, there are many people and many forces! How bold people are! There is a lot of power in numbers! It's easy to get things done! Calculate, my 1,000 pirate ships, with a standard configuration of 70 people per ship, there are 70,000 people, about 24,000 people killed and wounded on the sampans, plus more than 1,000 lookout observers who were shot down from the mast and dragon head, I still have nearly 45,000 people, and you 61 baby soldiers want to stop me? I'll spit and drown you! I'm going to knock you down! I'm wah-wow-wow-la-wah to kill you! I'm coming to stomp you to death! There are a lot of strange things today, and this one is the most outrageous!
The enemy pirates are coming ashore and forming a team, and their own men and horses are not idle. Hu Xi ordered that after all the pirates had come ashore and left the ship forty meters, the two airships would blow up the barrage chain. The barrage chain is a bit like a suspension bridge, with the two ends tied halfway up the mountainside and wrapped around wooden rollers. When stopping the boat, the chain is shaken until it is one or two meters above the sea; When releasing the boat, loosen the chain and swing it into the seawater. The wheels on both sides are guarded, and Huxi is asking to blow up these two wooden wheels!
In the second step, when the wooden wheel blew up and the barrage chain sank into the sea, the ironclad ships that were already in place used drills and wired mines to tow all these pirate ships out of the harbor, and then packed them and escorted them back to the island. Today, even if there are pirates who have slipped through the net, and there are pirates who have not been on duty today, I have towed all the 1,000 or hundreds of ships in this harbor and dragged them back to the island. See what you can do? Swim? Hey, if you're happy, let's practice first!
Now that the enemy pirate army had started, they were going home, and they were walking towards their harbor city, and as soon as they had taken a few steps, the strong men at the head of the line noticed that a few small men in front of them were pointing at something with their hands. A few of the strong men were reckless people who didn't know what the roll-up banner in the middle of the road was, and they couldn't read, but they knew that it was written on it.
The little golden cat Meini who led the team came out of the ranks, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she thundered everyone, with a honey-bellied sword, three knives on both sides, holding a dagger in her hand instead of a small whip, pointing at Yi Lap Bao and saying sincerely: "Uncles, uncles, grandfathers, uncles, and brothers, good afternoon, have you been hunting for a few hours, have you worked hard?" Haven't had afternoon tea yet? Hehe, the heroes in the front row, you are staring, you are illiterate? Well, I'll do it for you! Now, I'm going to read what is written on this roll-up banner, everyone, please listen, hey, stand upright, be serious, this is the Queen's edict, listen to it, listen carefully:
Fengtian carrier, the queen edict, today, Sai Island. Heaven and earth change, changing with each passing day; The country is strong and prosperous, and all industries are prosperous; The people are happy, live and work in peace and contentment. However, there are mayflies panting next to the trees, fish eyes trying to confuse by the beads, pirates trying to rob by the island, and fools trying to seek death in the world. I know the island, know the world, pass the sun and the moon, drive thunder and lightning, regulate the wind and rain, how can a few flies be enough? I will kill you, for fear of getting my hands dirty; Trample you to death, afraid to dirty my ground. Thinking about it, God has the virtue of a good life, the island has the heart of Harvard, and the Harvard people are merciful and give pirates a chance; Quickly repent and repent, be a good citizen, put down the butcher's knife, don't miss the rare opportunity, and save you from the sea of suffering. If you want to repent, you must strip naked, jump into the sea and wash yourself; Abandon the old clothes and say goodbye to the past, and get on my ship to send everything; Wear new clothes and be a new person, without worrying about food, clothing, housing and transportation. If Death wants to fight, he will send you to Hades; You also have to involve relatives and friends, don't forget that this is called joint sitting; Quickly express your stance and be crisp, don't hesitate to go to the village without a shop......"
The pirates are all adults, they all understand, and if we want to surrender, strip naked, jump into the sea and swim to their ship, hey, what are you talking about? Do you want us forty or fifty thousand old men to surrender to a few of you baby soldiers? Hey, can you afford it? Are we stronger than bears surrendering to your female doll who is thinner than a monkey? What do you say in your dreams? Crazy? At this time, several of the radicals walked up to the roll-up banner with a curse in their mouths, and when they raised their hands, they didn't know what he wanted to do.
Little Minnie yelled, "Don't move!" The Queen's edict, whoever dares to deface it, will be killed! ”
The pirate snorted in his nose and kicked at Minnie as soon as he lifted his foot!
Xiao Meini pointed to the roll-up banner and turned around, this is a dagger gun, so the board machine buckled: "Bang!" "Bang! Everyone was stunned, what was the situation? Look at the pirate, a small red dot suddenly appeared on his eyebrows, and then, blood flowed from the small red dot, and then, the pirate who was standing stupidly was paralyzed on the ground as soon as his feet were weak, and the three pirates came forward to see that they were out of breath and dead.
The three pirates glared at Little Minnie and turned sideways, looking like I was going to squash you.
Little Minnie shouted again: "Stop! ”
The three pirates ignored and continued to press!
Xiao Meini didn't like to be verbose, so she raised her hand: "Bang! Bang! Bang! "Three times!
Three pirates, one by one, shot, frozen, kneeling, paralyzed, breathless, hung up!
Seeing that their comrades-in-arms, drinking friends, card friends, and friends were dead in the blink of an eye, the pirates in the first and second rows who bore the brunt of the attack were impulsive, excited, reckless, and acted, and they pulled out the throat cutters at their waists and slashed at Little Minnie.
Little Minnie in "Bang! Bang! After firing four shots, he knew that his dagger gun was out of bullets, and the situation was not optimistic, so he quickly squeaked back into a small group of 60 people 50 meters away.
One or two hundred pirates are pressing down.
Little Minnie shouted, "Stop! This is the Queen's dictation, take a step further, and kill them! ”
One or two hundred pirates took small steps, without stopping, and continued to press over. Sixty-one Harvard soldiers marched forward with sabers in hand.
Little Minnie shouted, "Prepare to kill!" ”
One or two hundred pirates looked at each other's small arms and legs, and took a slender toy knife to scare people? Hehe, stay for a while, I'm getting closer, and I'll smash you away with a big stick!
Little Minnie shouted, "One! Two! Three! ”
One or two hundred pirates did not stop!
Little Minnie waved her hand!
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ...... "There was a burst of gunfire, one or two hundred!" When the gun rang out, wisps of green smoke came out of the handle of the Harvard soldiers' sabers, and when the green smoke dissipated, those Harvard soldiers were still the same, standing motionless with their sabers held steadily!
And here, all the reckless pirates fell to the ground, shot in the chest, shot in the thigh, shot in the abdomen, all struggling, moaning, gasping, and convulsing on the ground. Now, whether it is the one who has fallen to the ground or the one who is still standing in the back row, they are all looking at these child soldiers with their eyes wide open, they don't understand, what kind of spell is this? There is still a distance of one or twenty meters between us and each other, how can we kill and hurt people without contact?
Just when these pirates tried to figure things out but couldn't figure it out, they could only hear "Boom!" behind them. Rumble! "Two loud bangs! What's the matter? When I turned around, I saw that the two chain wagons guarding the harbor had blown up! Wait for the smoke to clear a little, huh? There is no one on our ship for a long time, and our ship has been anchored, so how can our ship still move? It will move out of the harbor, and it's not one, it's two, it's three, it's n, more and more, ouch! Collective action! It's moving slowly, but it's really moving out of the harbor! Hey? What's going on? What's going on?
The enemy's commander had just thought about how to deal with the sixty-one baby soldiers who were blocking the bandits' way, but before he could start or speak, the roar behind him, the strange scene he saw when he turned around, the ships off the coast of Rhodes and his own centrifugation, and the bleeding brothers lying on the ground behind him, ouch! One head is not enough, what should I do? ……
At this time, Xiao Meini's crisp soprano sounded again: "Hey! Uncles, uncles, grandfathers, and brothers, just now we were out of self-defense, and we had no choice but to act roughly. We are really helpless, if we can't stop the reckless behavior of those 1200 fools who don't know what is going on, don't know what to do, and don't open their eyes, and let them come and do whatever they want, won't that destroy the little possibility of harmony between us and you? Wouldn't that greatly disappoint our Queen's good intentions? Doesn't that cut off the path of life for many of you who are preparing to surrender to us? Okay, I'm not going to say anything, let's be honest! Look at it! Those who are lying on the ground, have any of them been shot in the head? No! Why not? Because you can't save yourself if you get shot in the head! And these fools, if they are obedient, we can still save them! Do you want us to save you? Want? Well, stand back! Please give us a space to help, come! Let me solemnly invite the golden cat medical soldiers who rescue the suffering, great compassion, and bodhisattva heart! ”
As she spoke, Minnie gestured to the sky dozens of times, but she was actually sending a motius. The signal was received by the people on the airship, and it was forwarded to Huxi, and little Ginny asked for 100 golden cat medics to be airborne, and explained the reason.
Little Minnie's plan was approved, and a few moments later, a hundred golden cat medics in white coats parachuted into the open space behind Little Minnie with a medical kit with a red cross on their backs. After taking care of them, Little Minnie went to work, and came to operate on the pirates lying on the ground to retrieve the warheads.
In fact, the firing of the 61 Harvard sabers just now was not very strong, because the saber and dagger guns were small arms mainly for self-defense, not for the purpose of attack, the caliber of the gun was 7.62 mm, using Type 64* bullets, the effective range was 10 meters, and it could penetrate 120 mm thick pine planks at this distance. The two armies faced each other just now, and the distance was more than 20 meters, so the lethality of the bullets at this distance was not fatal, and the bullets did not penetrate the body very deeply; In fact, the biggest blow to the other party just now is still on the psychological level, for these pirates who have never seen firearms, looking at this kind of artifact that can cause casualties inexplicably, their minds are full of thoughts, and they are very frightened in their hearts, suspected to be the art of gods and ghosts, and mortals are irresistible.
Little Minnie asked the Golden Cat Medic to use a large amount of anesthetics and aspirin on the impact points and non-impact points of the pirates who were injured lying on the ground according to her request, so that in front of everyone's eyes, the pirates who were screaming in pain and grinning in pain just now began to stop. A hundred golden cat medics pulled out the daggers behind them, which were the same daggers that Xiao Meini pointed to as a small whip just now, and began to move the knife, slashing the bullets one by one, clamping out the bullets, stitching up the wounds, and smearing red potion, and feeling the body temperature on the forehead, no problem, and quickly went to treat the next one.
However, there was also an accident in saving lives and helping the wounded and carrying forward the spirit of humanitarianism. There was a pirate who was particularly fierce and very brainless. He was shot in the thigh, under the anesthesia of the drug, he felt very good, felt fine, think about it today, so he wanted to take his anger out on the little golden cat he treated. Look at the little golden cat in front of him, smiling and full of flowers: Huahua's eyebrows are like a curved moon; The eyes of the flowers make people's hearts ripple; The nose of the pattern, how playful it is; How can the little mouth of the red bear not be able to kiss and suck the fragrance? Maybe it's a little blood loss and dizziness, which fuels the pirate's divergent thinking: she, Fanhua's eyebrows and dazzling eyes, then she must have Fanhua's intestines and Huahua's buttocks, so ....... The dead pirate, thinking about it, took action, and stretched out his clutches to what he thought was the most gentle, the most fragrant.
This little golden cat is working hard, she doesn't have any flowers, she is engrossed, and she has no distractions. So, looking at the clutches stretched out to him, he was startled, and then he became angry, and as soon as he raised his hand, the dagger gun in his hand was shot at his temple! "Bang!" Bang! I won't serve anymore, old lady!
Little Ginny hurriedly explained the situation to the pirate who was far away and didn't know the truth, and sighed; "This pirate is actually completely alive and recovers well, he didn't hurt his bones, and the wound was shallow, who called him a coward, he dared to tease my golden cat medic!"
Now, little Ginny is leading by example, and the other golden cats have also completed the rescue mission, and they are going to move on to the next mission, they have to learn the tricks of the golden diamond princess Little Helen in Thang Long Mansion.
Little Ginny and a group of golden cats were pleasantly shushing the pirates who were shot and fell to the ground, and they also beckoned the pirates who were watching to witness the miracle, and also to see it with their own eyes, and to hear it with their own ears.
Every pirate on the side was also amazed by the change just now, and they also saw these little golden cats carefully and responsibly and carefully clamp out the bullet from the wound and stitch up the wound, and they felt the kindness and warmth of the little golden cats. Therefore, I also began to relax my guard one by one, and some people asked the injured, is it really not painful? chatted with the little golden cat:
Chat, chat, chat, chat;
Chat, chat, chat, chat, the atmosphere is fragrant;
Chat, chat, chat, chat, the recipient is dizzy;
Chat, chat, chat, chat, talk about slaves wanting revolution;
Chat, chat, chat, talk about the poor who want to get rich;
Chat, chat, chat, talk about the untouchables to rebel;
Chat, chat, chat, chat, so that the pirates begged to turn over;
Chat, chat, chat, chat, talk about bandits running naked.
Now, chloroform volatilizes on the injured people, and onlookers absorb it in close contact; The golden cats are sent away, and the pirates are imperceptibly brainwashed.
Little Ginny's spell was the highest, and her flickering object was the first to turn around and squeeze out of the crowd, walk to the beach, strip naked, jump into the sea, and swim to the ironclad.
The power of example is endless, the psychology of conformity is powerful, and although the sea is cool, the pursuit of pirates is firm. With the first, there is the second, the next is tied for third, then the next is group buying, and then the next is the mudslide-like collapse, the flow of people, the tide, and the flow.
Come on! Go to the sea first and get rich first! After going to the sea, you will be rich! If you don't go to the sea, you won't get rich! If you know how to swim, go to the sea! Those who can't swim are cheerleaders! ……
Little Ginny danced with her feet and sang Allegro: "Quack, quack, beans can only get beans, and melons can get melons; If you want to get rich and go to the sea quickly, it is a fool not to move; If the heart is not moving, jumping into the sea is good; Don't be an evil pirate, don't climb a cliff; Put down the throat cutter and fight for the little red flower; Swim to Xintiandi, keep you happy haha, welcome to Harvard, everyone is a family......"
Little Ginny is vigorously encouraging the pirates to jump into the sea en masse! Unexpectedly, the more than 100 wounded soldiers around her were also instigated by her to prop up, and they also wanted to get rich, so they also wanted to jump into the sea!
Little Ginny grabbed these pirates who wanted money and didn't want to die, there is sodium chloride in the seawater, and it will be very painful to stimulate the wound, and it is easy to get infected and inflamed!
The pirates broke free of her little hands, glared and said, "What are you doing?" Only who is allowed to get rich first, and we are not allowed to be rich? As he spoke, he stripped naked without hesitation, ran naked to the dock, swam naked to the sea, and a fierce man, with his limbs shaved, went to pursue wealth!
"Jumping into the sea is risky, and you need to be cautious when running naked!" Little Ginny hurriedly chased after them for a few words, looked at the slippery big "Tai" and "Tai" who had gone away, shook her head, and muttered in her heart: Alas! I can help you heal you if you are shot in the leg, but I can't help you if you are shot in the head!