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A layer of foggy water vapor on the sea makes the blue sky also a little hazy, the sea water ripples to the shore little by little, three or two seagulls flutter their wings in the sky, below the seagulls, thousands of large and small Arab warships, as if becoming a city on the sea, spectacular.

The bright sun is warm, the water and sky are endless sea, on the white beach, the sea breeze blows and cools, everything looks so romantic and beautiful.

It's a pity that the Arab sergeants on the ship are not in such a good mood, compared to the strong men in the desert, the Arab warriors lying on the side of the ship are also yellow and thin at this time, listless.

In the battle of the mast, it is true that the 20,000 navies of the newly established Arab Empire slaughtered the famous 50,000 royal navy of Byzantium, but it was an offshore battle, and the Arabs built the ships into a huge sea platform, which tested the courage of the Arabs.

During the Muawiyyah period, a group of sailors and naval commanders were trained by Syrian Christians, but more than half of them were consumed in the Arab-Byzantine War, the Min-Arab War, and the rest were disposed of by the fall of the Umayyads and the brutal political purge.

Therefore, at this time, the naval strength of the empire was not as good as before, and the navy from Rhodes Island was constantly threatened by wind, waves, and diseases, and it also had to take on the task of blockading the Byzantine coast, salvaging fisheries to supplement foster care, and the severe task made the desert heroes almost not collapse.

In particular, the epidemic of septicemia has made this fleet even worse, since Emir Hussein was demoted in the political struggle, the supplies sent by Hou Jie in the rear have been intermittent, two-thirds of the army's food needs to be replenished with seafood salvaged by the navy, and the serious lack of vegetables has made the gums of Arab soldiers bleeding non-stop, and their bodies are as thin as skeletons, and every time they show a mouthful of bloody teeth, they are exactly like the vampires in Western mythology.

This is still the case at sea, not to mention on the road, Byzantium blockaded the Golden Horn with iron chains, protecting the supply lines from the northern Balkans, in fact, the blockade of the Arab navy was very limited, Constantinople was still an irregular triangle facing the sea on three sides, relying on the navy had no ability to capture the city walls, and as a last resort, about 50,000 Arab warriors were transported to the rear of Constantinople, where Muawiyah had attacked the city, from here to Constantinople was a real threat.

But at this time, it was different from Constantinople at the time of Muawiyah's siege, and it was not in the right position. Constantine IV in the northwest city wall can be bloody, the city wall is thickened a few meters not to mention, the arrow tower above is more than ten meters there is one, dense like a forest like the arrow tower constitutes a death arrow net, the lack of heavy siege weapons of the Arab army is simply unable to pose a threat to these arrow towers.

More scarce than the navy, the grass and camels and horses starved to death, and the men were so hungry that the Byzantine army of the caliph's cronies besieged the Byzantine army in the cramped city of Constantinople for almost a year, and could not leave the city.

From the city of Constantinople to Thessalonica, the capital of the western province of Macedonia, to the vast Byzantine territory of Scythia, the capital of the northern Thracian province, the murderous Arab cavalry knew everything, villages and towns were captured and turned into black smoke, and I don't know how many Greek Thracians died under the butcher's knife.

Radiating northwest from Constantinople to the Balkans, thousands of miles of villages were reduced to rubble, with rotting and stinking corpses hanging from the branches, and hundreds of thousands of refugees had to flee with their families to Greece, Achaia and even Rome further west.

The heavy war has brought tragic pain and suffering to Islam, Orthodox, Arab, Byzantium, and all sides.

And the pain and suffering continues.

In the evening, more than a hundred Arab warships returned from the Bosphorus after a long and dangerous day of patrolling and sailed to the Arabs' waterfront west of Constantinople.

In the protection of the Golden Horn, there are still more than 80 Byzantine naval ships that have not been destroyed, and it is these 80 warships that have repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the Arab navy, and their navigation skills are inferior, so that every day before going to war, the Arab admirals have to pray to Allah to bless them to ascend to Paradise instead of falling into hellfire.

Facing the slanting sun, he stopped in the dock between the fishing boats entering the water village, which made the Arab general of the unified army, Meslemai, breathe a sigh of relief, and another peaceful day passed.

It's just that in peace of mind, standing at the bow of the ship and watching the sunset slanting, this rising generation of Arab generals with clear eyebrows still has some strong worries in his heart.

Recently, the Byzantines have been too quiet, if you add today, it should be that the Byzantine navy has not fought for the twenty-ninth day, which is simply unimaginable in the past, every day, with the familiarity with the Mediterranean Black Sea and the Bosphorus, the Byzantine fleet will be like a hungry wolf biting the imperial fleet full of holes.

What the hell is going on? What conflict broke out in the upper echelons of the Byzantine Empire? A change of throne? Or did there be civil unrest? Or, what conspiracy is brewing by the devilish Romans?

Maslemai's eyes sunken into his sockets were full of doubt, and he stared intently at the brilliant Mediterranean bay farther and farther behind him.

But at this moment, the noise suddenly disturbed Maxlemai's thoughts.

The Arab Empire did not have the same strict military discipline as China, and there was actually no difference between fishing boats and warships, and the two often quarreled over entering the water village one after another, and it was common for them to fight in such a difficult situation.

Frowning, Maxlemai just wanted to send someone to mediate, but then he took a sharp breath of cold air.

As the sun set, on the golden sea level, facing the harbor camp of the Arab navy, hundreds of Byzantine warships of all sizes formed a line, rushing along the surface of the Black Sea at an extremely fast speed.

The golden battle flag of the Byzantine double-headed eagle flew fiercely in the sky, and the metal-clad ramming horns emitted a chilling light against the setting sun.

All the warships, merchant ships, and fishing boats that could be used were used, and the Byzantine navy actually poured into the nest and started the war for more than a year, and it was the first time that a naval battle of this scale was held.

It's no wonder that patrol boats and fishing boats that returned late are so desperately crowded back.

The Byzantines were so aggressive, looking at Meslemai's heart, in terms of strength, there were almost more than 50,000 Arab naval slaves, sailors, and warriors, more than 1,000 large and small ships, and the Byzantines were in their early 200s, and it would be good to have 10,000 people, but war, the number was not the absolute determining factor, in history, the Persian Empire had 100,000 navies, three to five columns of warships, and even seven columns of giant warships, more than 1,500 ships, and the battle of Salamisson, but it was defeated by only two or three hundred triremes of warships, Even more than 100 single-column warships and the Greek coalition army, with an army of less than 10,000 people, were defeated so badly that the sea water was stained red with blood.

Today's Byzantines are not so much descendants of Rome as they are of Greek descendants, and now they are attacking their nests, who knows if there will be any tricks?

Thinking of this, Maslemai yelled nervously.

"Abandon the patrol ships and fishing boats, close the locks everywhere, order the men of Allah to get on board and keep the Byzantine navy out!"

Listening to Maxlemai's orders, dozens of herald boats were immediately lowered from the big boats and rowed in all directions.

Here, the backwardness of the Arab Navy is fully revealed, China's long-term combat experience in the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, for the Fujian Navy to provide a complete set of formations, command flags, the Byzantine Imperial Navy is also through the flag, horn and drum to convey orders, originally these Muawiyah also learned a lot, but unfortunately lost in the coup.

Now the navy, which has been temporarily converted from the army, needs to be called by small ships one by one, which greatly lags the speed of action.

By the time the Arab navy was mobilized, the Byzantine navy had already broken through the perimeter of the water village that the Arabs had worked so hard to manage, and killed them.

"Maxlema, what's going on?"

At this time, the coach Faleda finally boarded the ship, walked beside Meslemaz, and looked at the Byzantines rushing in the distance and asked solemnly.

At this time, Meslemai's face, which was quite young and handsome among the Arabs, was extremely gloomy, and he looked solemnly at the Byzantine warship for a long time, and then shook his head with worry.

"There is definitely a conspiracy, this group of Greek heretics actually bypassed the reef barrier set up by our army!"

The Arabs hoarded more than 1,000 warships, naturally it is impossible for them all to float on the sea empty, in that case a storm will be completely annihilated, in a year, the Arabs built a relatively complete land and water camp, with stones in the shallow water shoal to build a dock deep into the sea to provide ships to dock, and at the same time near the water village also nailed into the sea, dropped boulders, and created artificial reefs to resist the attack of enemy ships.

On weekdays, the location of these reefs is known only to the captains, but now after breaking through the waterwall fence set up by the Arabs with small boats on the sea, one by one the Byzantine warships are like eyes underwater, and none of them hit the underwater reef and run aground and break, but kill them in an orderly manner along the reserved passage.

However, some of the Arabs' own warships were panicked, and the bottom of the ship crashed into the reef, and a large stream of turbid water poured in, which provoked the grumpy Arabs to scold.

"General, we've got a traitor!"

Turning around, Maslemai nodded solemnly to Faleda......