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On the eastern shore of the Bosphorus, a troop of guards was gathering on the shore to board a ship to cross the sea, and Maximus had received the news that Momia had successfully persuaded the senators to win the throne of the Roman emperor and put Quintus on the throne of the Roman emperor, and at the same time sent an army of 40,000 to Byzantium, ready to block his way and defend Rome, and now, Gordian was in battle outside the Byzantine city to fight him. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Upon hearing the news, Maximus smiled coldly. He admired Momia's skill very much, and he was able to convince the nobles of the Senate to continue the rule of the Severus family in this situation, of course, he also regretted it a little, if it wasn't for the slaughter of Escanomi and the new army composed of more than 3,000 Roman youths, which angered the Romans, Momia probably wouldn't have been able to do this, and to some extent, he helped Momia again.

When I enter the city of Rome and become a real Roman emperor, I must marry this woman as an empress and let her bear me several children. The corners of Maximus's mouth showed a yearning smile, his amorous style of Momia was unforgettable after all, Momia abandoned him before, and he didn't dare to think about anything, after all, in front of Momia, he had an inferiority complex that could not be washed away, even if he held the power of the Guards, but the psychological gap could not be erased by power. However, now that he is even the Roman Emperor Yanjing, he naturally does not have that kind of inferiority, and the psychology of being equal to Momia naturally arises.

Looking at the blue sea, Maximus reveled in an indescribable joy, when he volunteered to fight in front of Severus the Great thirty years ago, he never imagined that he would one day become the emperor of the Romans, and today, he is only one step away from this once unattainable goal, as long as he defeats the 40,000 army led by Erdian on the opposite side, he can drive straight in, even if Momia has the ability to turn the sky, she does not have enough time to form another army.

Gordian used to be the man whom Maximus respected and feared, but now, Maximus had only a glimmer of pity for him. Yes, Gordian had prestige and ability, but all he had now was 20,000 Roman recruits who had never been on the battlefield, and 20,000 barbarian mercenaries, while he himself had nearly 80,000 horses, almost all of which were composed of brave and warlike barbarian mercenaries. Gordian seems to have forgotten one thing, he Maximus is from a barbarian background, and for barbarian mercenaries, Maximus's appeal is much stronger than that of his old Roman nobles, which can be seen from the fact that those barbarians are looking for the wind to vote.

After killing the Bosphorus, those barbarian mercenaries will definitely surrender, even if they don't surrender, it doesn't matter, they have enough strength to defeat them, and at that time, Gordian will only have to commit suicide to apologize.

Momia, I'm coming, and I'm going to show you what a real man is. Maximus's heart was as excited as the waves of the sea in front of him.

Arulinus walked over quickly with his sword and saluted Maximus majestically: "Your Majesty the Emperor, the ministers are now crossing the sea, please listen to the good news of the ministers." ”

Maximus smiled with satisfaction, his son was really good as soon as he put on the armor. In order to reward Arulinus for his merits, he made Arulinus a general, and now he commands an elite corps, this time he crossed the sea and fought a decisive battle with Gordian, he sent Arulinus as the vanguard, and at the same time equipped with a subordinate general Vitalianus to his deputy, the two elite corps totaled more than 10,000 people, as long as they stood on the opposite bank, they would receive the army across the sea and complete the task. In this contrast of power, this is simply a credit to Arulinus. Knowing that it was his father who made him meritorious, Arulinus was very excited.

"Be careful." Maximus nodded, and saw Arulinus away with his eyes, watching them board the merchant ship and disappear into the depths of the sea.

After Arulinus, two more legions set off, and when the fourth group boarded the ship and waited for Maximus to set off together, the ship that sent Arulinus had returned, and at the same time brought the good news of Arulinus, they had successfully landed on the shore, and there was almost no resistance, and they set up a position on the opposite bank, and Gordian stood with his back to the city and did not take the initiative to attack.

Maximus laughed and strode onto the ship with the battalion of guards. His last trace of worry was gone, Gordian was really old, he had lost his sharpness, and if he didn't take advantage of the fact that Arulinus had just landed on the shore to block the attack, the fighter plane had been lost, and he couldn't win this battle.

When Maximus walked to the middle of the strait, he met the second group of returning ships, and got the news that the second group of two legions had also landed, Maximus was even more relieved, and he said to the generals around him, enter Byzantium, let you have a good rest, everyone has worked hard in the past few months.

When the generals heard this, they were overjoyed, urging the sailors to row hard. Now that 20,000 men had landed and the battle was securely won, there was nothing left to worry about, and all that remained was for them to cross the strait and enter Byzantium and then Rome safely.

"Your Majesty, there are warships ahead!" The soldier in charge of the lookout on the bow of the ship suddenly shouted loudly.

"What's it called, isn't it the warship that returned ahead?" Maximus's confidant general Capperianus snorted dissatisfiedly, and another cronie general, Epagosus, was about to scold them, but Maximus stopped them, his eyes flashing with puzzlement: "Warship? Didn't the second group of warships just return, and why did another warship return so soon? ”

Capperianus was stunned for a moment and hesitated: "Is it that their landing this time is particularly smooth?" ”

"No way, those who are not familiar with ships will only be slower, not faster." Maximus brushed aside Capperianus, strode to the side of the gunwale, raised his hand to cover his brow to block the glare of the sun, and looked intently into the distance.

On the rippling sea in the distance, more than a dozen small dots are lining up in a horizontal line, speeding forward. Maximus's eyesight was so good that he could already recognize these as warships, but what they were, he couldn't see clearly for a while.

"Your Majesty, they rushed towards the ships in front of them, as if they were going to attack them." The soldier on the watchtower cried out in horror again.

Maximus was taken aback, flew into the watchtower, and with a stretch of his hand, dragged the soldier out of the watchtower and got into it himself. Standing tall and seeing far, this time he could see more clearly, the dozen or so warships of unknown origin really rushed towards the warships in front, with the help of the sea breeze, their speed was very fast, just when Maximus was puzzled, the warship in front had collided with a warship transporting troops.

Maximus's expedition was all infantry and cavalry, and there was no navy at all, otherwise he would have gone straight to the Mediterranean. The warships used to mobilize troops this time were actually not real warships, but merchant ships, each with two or three hundred people on board, but there was no fighting blackmail, and the speed was not fast. The reason why such a ship was used as a warship was because Maximus knew that Gordian did not have a real warship, so he had the guts.

However, now that a dozen or so real warships have appeared out of nowhere, and have begun to attack the troop transports that are barely able to fight back, it is equivalent to a few wolves suddenly breaking into the flock. Maximus, who had been fighting for many years, understood what this meant, and his face suddenly turned blue, and his original excitement suddenly disappeared.

Just when Maximus's mind was blank, there was also an exclamation from behind, and Maximus turned his head to look behind, only to see that there were also more than a dozen such warships behind him, and they rushed towards the advancing fleet at a very fast speed.

Maximus's face became very ugly, he clearly knew that he had fallen into an extremely vicious trap, and now he was a tiger that had been forced to the middle of the cliff on the drawbridge, although it had sharp teeth and claws, but it could only watch as two despicable rats bit off the rope of the drawbridge, and then fell into the abyss in despair.

"Prepare for battle-" Capperianus had followed Maximus for many years, knowing what Maximus's face meant now, he subconsciously pulled out his short sword and roared loudly. When the officers and men of the guards on the ship heard this, they drew their weapons one after another, but then they looked at each other blankly, where is the enemy? If you can't even stand on a narrow ship, how can you line up to meet it?

Hundreds of pairs of eyes on the ship looked at Maximus in unison, and Maximus's forehead was drenched in cold sweat, and he was blown by the sea breeze, his whole body was cold, and the heat was completely gone.

Cui Qian, who had an indifferent expression, sat on the top of the building ship with a golden sword, holding a war knife in his hand, his building boat took the lead in breaking into the Roman fleet by taking advantage of the wind, and knocked over several warships one after another, watching those frightened Romans flutter in the clear water, his heart was full of pleasure. At the beginning of last year, he set out from Ceylon with Sun Shao, but did not land at Aksum, but followed Sun Shao's order, with a subordinate 10,000 sailors and two years of supplies from the Gulf of Aden to the south, after more than a month of sailing, he reached the southernmost point of the mainland, in order to break through the devil's sea, he lost nearly 1,000 soldiers and 30% of the provisions, and then along the coastline all the way to the north, a full half a year, before arriving at the western end of the Mediterranean Strait of Gibraltar. Just as he was about to sneak into the Mediterranean to resume his old business, he met Jiang Gan, who was waiting for him, and conveyed Sun Shao's latest order: to help the Romans put down the rebellion and intercept Maximus's rebels, and the location was the Bosphorus.

There was a battle, Cui Qian was very excited, but this way came to make him and the soldiers suffer a lot. In the past, it was rare for a sailor to sail long distances for more than two months, but this time, he walked at sea for eight months. And to rush from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Bosphorus, he has to cross the Mediterranean, and the straight-line distance on the map is nearly 10,000 miles, but Sun Shao has only two months left for him. In order to arrive in time, he gave up most of the supply ships and took the sailors to hurry day and night, so to speak, in order to rush here to intercept Maximus, Cui Qian even used the strength to eat milk, and the evil fire that he had held back for nearly a year was all poured on Maximus's head this time.

Led by the Vietnamese naval division, nearly 100 Roman warships that arrived from Rome then split into two routes, one east and one west, and rushed into the powerless fleet of Maximus, who did not seek to hurt the enemy, but drove the fleet to the middle of the strait like sheep. Maximus's warships are all converted from merchant ships, the so-called modification, just adding watchtowers at the head and tail, adding some sailors, and there are not too many other changes, because the ships are limited, in order to transport the army over as soon as possible, Maximus almost makes every ship full or even overloaded, and the soldiers can only huddle together, not to mention pulling out their weapons to face the battle, it is more difficult to turn around. In this case, they have no way to face the Vietnamese warships armed to the teeth, only from the point of view of size, these ships can only be compared with those medium-sized fighting ships, in the face of the giant building ships, they can't even talk about the courage to compete, except for dodging, there is no way to think of it.

After the building ship that rushed ahead and sank more than a dozen troop-transporting warships in a row, Cui Qian successfully completed the goal, trapping more than 300 troop carriers in the sea, and more than 30 Vietnamese warships and more than 100 Roman warships surrounded each other, eyeing each other.

"Let them surrender, or send them to the sea to feed the Kraken." Cui Qian waved his hand and said lightly, not even looking at the little Gordian standing beside him. Little Gordian got on Cui Qian's warship for the convenience of contact, and as soon as he got on the boat, he found that this Yue general was not good at talking, and he could hardly see him laughing, either scolding or blowing his beard and glaring at him. He was originally very unconvinced, thinking that Cui Qian didn't understand etiquette, no different from those barbarians, he didn't have a good impression of the Yue people, and now when he saw Cui Qian's surname, he looked down on the Yue people even more, and felt that it was a shame for a dignified Roman nobleman to fight side by side with such a person.

But now that he saw Cui Qian trapping Maximus and his nearly 30,000 main forces in the sea, he knew the reason for Cui Qian's bad temper. Not to mention dealing with Maximus's troop carriers, even in the face of real Roman warships, I'm afraid Cui Qian won't frown.

"The general is heroic, I didn't expect it to really succeed." Little Goldie said convincingly.

After listening to the interpreter's words, Cui Qian glanced at little Gordian with slanted eyes, pouted and said, "I think it's a little invincible." Our Vietnamese sailors dominate the world, and they have never met an opponent, and dealing with these ships is no different from bullying a child. The general will not mention it later. ”

Little Gordian touched his cold ass with a hot face, feeling bored, and was a little embarrassed by Cui Qian's arrogant words, but the strength of the other party was in front of him, and he could only endure it, so he had to pretend not to understand, and turned around to let people beat the flag over.

Maximus was dripping in a cold sweat, he didn't expect such a strange thing to happen when success was in sight, where did these Yue Guo sailors come from? Maximus only knew that the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea were incompatible, and he couldn't even think of where these ships came from, could they have come from heaven? At this time, he thought of Momya, no wonder Momia was so bold, and Sun Shao was so arrogant, it turned out that the people of Yue really had the ability to be unpredictable.

The flag had been urged twice, but Maximus was still stunned and did not react at all. He was blinded by this huge blow, and he couldn't think of a reason for it, but there was only one reason that seemed to be valid, and that was that the Roman gods were angry and helped the Yue people to fly from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, and punished him as a daring barbarian by the hands of the Yue people.

Man's greatest fear still comes from the unknown power, and if Maximus knew that he could bypass the South African continent from the Mediterranean to the south, he would not have been as frightened as he is now. In fact, not to mention him, almost all of them didn't know this waterway, and they were very surprised by how the Yue Guo Sailor suddenly appeared here, and only divine power could explain it.

Cui Qian saw that the other party did not react, he was a little annoyed, he waved his hand, and ordered the warship to shrink the encirclement, forcing to within fifty steps, and with an order, more than a dozen stone throwers on several building ships began to wield, and the target was concentrated on Maximus's ship. In order to show off the majesty of his Roman emperor, Maximus specially changed the sails to purple to match the Roman emperor's robe on his body, but he did not expect this to become the most eye-catching target.

The ten-pound stone pierced the blue sky, and went straight to Maximus's ship with an awe-inspiring murderous aura, and the roar made when it broke through the air attracted the generals who were trying to persuade Maximus to raise their heads. When they saw the flying black dots, their faces were suddenly colorless.

In a moment, three stone balls hit the big ship with purple sails, and two hit the crowd, and the few Roman soldiers who were hit didn't even snort before they were taken away from their lives, and the wooden shield they hastily raised was not as good as the paper sold by the Yue merchants in front of the flying stone balls, and they were easily smashed into pieces, stabbing several companions next to them.

A stone ball flew over Maximus's shoulder, piercing the wall of the watchtower, the wind blew Maximus's face painfully, the wall was punched out of two round holes, the flying sawdust pierced Maximus's face, the blood flowed, the pain made Maximus wake up from the state of the wandering spirit, he jumped up, jumped off the watchtower, was quickly supported by Capperianus and Ipagosus, and looked at him anxiously: "Your Majesty, what should I do?" ”

"What should I do?" Maximus replied blankly.

In the middle of their question, two more stone balls struck the big ship, one of which hit the mast, and the tall mast let out a groan, and broke from it, and the wide purple sail shook a few times and slowly toppled down. The soldiers on the ship screamed loudly and pushed away from their companions to dodge. Although this ship was not as supportive as other ships, it was not easy to dodge, and a few soldiers standing on the very edge were pushed into the sea, and immediately after, more and more people jumped into the sea, as if jumping into the sea was safer than the ship.

The equipment of these guards is good, not only wearing chain mail, scale armor, but also with an iron sword, only the wooden shield in the hand can also provide a little buoyancy, once in the sea, many people can not control the sinking down, the people behind a look, hurriedly want to take off the armor on the body, throw away the sword on the waist, only hold the shield to jump into the sea, but the chaotic ship does not have much space for them to calmly make these preparations, often just throw away the helmet, was pushed into the hand by the companions behind, Didn't even have time to get a life-saving shield.

The boat, which was originally in order, was suddenly in chaos, and the soldiers could no longer care about any military orders, bosses and companions at this time, in order to survive, they pushed, kicked and beaten, and the stone balls that flew from time to time aggravated this chaos, and many soldiers actually pulled out their weapons and began to cut down the people around them in order to survive.

When Caprianus and Ipagosus saw each other, they hurriedly drew their short swords and protected them in front of Maximus, and cut down the soldiers who tried to rush in front of Maximus one by one, but the slaughter did not calm the chaos now, but provoked even greater chaos, and more and more soldiers rushed over, and they even drew their swords and attacked the two of Capperianus. After cutting down two soldiers in succession, Capperianus was stabbed with a sword by one of them, and the pain came over him like a tidal wave, drowning him in an instant.

Ipagosus was taken aback, and while shouting the name of Capperianus, he swung his sword against the long sword stabbed by a red-eyed soldier in front of him, but he couldn't prevent the other soldier, and seeing that he was about to follow in the footsteps of Capperianus, Epagosu's eyes widened in despair. Just when he thought he was going to die, suddenly there was a flower in front of him, and the smiling soldier flew backwards, and then there was a loud bang, and suddenly a large hole appeared in the deck.

Ipagosus was so frightened that he turned his head to see that Maximus was still standing, but his head was missing, and streams of blood were pouring out of his cavity like a fountain.

"Ahh

Maximus's body shook, slowly tilted, overturned the side of the ship, and fell into the sea, the stirring column of water dousing Ipagosus.

"Surrender, surrender!" One of the soldiers raised his dagger and shouted.

"Surrender, surrender!" The other soldiers who came back to their senses also shouted.

The shouts woke up the approaching madness of Ipagosus, who hurriedly climbed up the watchtower, leaned on the tattered wooden pillars, and trembled and raised the white flag.

Seeing that His Majesty the Emperor's ship raised the white flag, although the other ships were not as attacked as this ship, they all raised the white flags one after another. Cui Qian saw the signal, waved his hand, ordered to stop the attack, turned to the little Gordian, who was so excited that his eyes lit up, and said: "Maximus has surrendered, inform your father that you can launch an attack and force down those rebels who have already come ashore." ”

"Great, great." Little Gordian was so excited that he rubbed his hands together again and again, and suddenly knelt down on one leg with his eyes closed, stroked his chest with one hand, and muttered in his mouth that he didn't know which Roman god he was thanking for coming.

(To be continued)