Chapter 15: The Battle of the Old Port (Part I)

That's right, it seems that the reckless Li Bida finally realized that the supplies and water on the island could not last, and tried to build a bridge and get supplies from the shore, which was a good time for our army to attack!

At the behest of Cato the Younger, on the first day of the middle of May, Dumijus drove out a huge fleet of ships in a vigorous manner, and on the abandoned lighthouse on the island of Seymos, Li Bida looked at the enemy lineup on the sea, although he was a little timid in his heart, but now if he wanted to break the stalemate, he had to show the courage of having fewer enemies and more - not to mention, the fleet that I had painstakingly trained in Cyrenaica in the past two years was definitely to surprise the people of Dumijuana and Massella, who believed in their traditions!

Then Li Bida walked down the lighthouse, personally on the edge of the sea cliff, and said to his own crew and soldiers who were preparing for battle, "In the past, I have said many times that Li Bidaeus has a naval division, but it is only used to carry 6 soldiers. This time it was different, the enemy had finally succeeded in luring me out of the harbor, and now it depends on how the battle went, the Ligurians also had four ships, and they had only secretly sailed from the port of Yar, and were ambushed in the waters of the old port, they have a fine tradition of naval warfare, and every seaman is skilled in fighting with iron rods and bows, so this time I ask you all - if you are too timid to think that you are not good enough to fight the experienced Massellans, then speak up, and I can let the Ligurians help! ”

"Never, what a joke!" All the crew members from Cyrene shouted angrily, shaking their scythes and iron hooks, "We are all from Crete, Rhodes, and Cyprus, and we are no worse than this city-state that relies on barbarians!" ”

"Good. Wield your new tactics. Burn them with bows and arrows and flames. Capture them with skilful melee skills, and our combat skills will surely surprise these barbarians who don't know what to do. It is up to you whether or not I will be safely escorted today without being captured, or even defeating the enemy. The Fifteenth Legion had experience in naval warfare in Cyrenaica before, and you should be the same as my crew. Fight valiantly with bows and arrows and pikes! After saying this, Li Bida personally boarded the flagship "Calabia" with Gable, to the cheers of the crowd, and the ship was remodeled, stamped with the original water trap, and installed the flag command system, and then lined up in a dense formation, and rowed against Dumijus's fleet.

The drums on the sea shook the sky, and a lieutenant of Marcellia. Shout out to Dumijuans, who was standing on the bridge, "We are in the upwind direction. The other side has begun to lower the sails and can only use oars, now it is time to stretch the line and outflank them! ”

"That's right." Dumijus also saw the "clumsiness" of the other party, so he asked the flag officer to give orders to the ships behind him: the one with the bronze ramming horn should be in the center, lower the sail and paddle, so as not to go too fast and lose the target; The light assault ships on both sides raised their sails, sped up, and detoured behind the enemy's flanks to encircle them!

"Oh, oh, oh!" The Masserians and Albysians immediately rowed hard, and puffed up their sails, and soon formed a level position with the fleet of Lybida with great speed and speed, but the other side did not know that the light assault ships at the stretch were coming to intercept them, and it was a ridiculous and generous naval battle, thinking that they were like two pincers, and began to strike each other's sides.

Soon, Li Bida's flag was also spread, and the double assault ships on either side of him began to turn their bows, all of which were shiny light ramming horns, and viciously pounced on the Marcelian ships, "It seems that this governor of Sardinia is really rich, and every large and small ship has excellent ramming horns." But this did not intimidate them in the slightest, and the Albisians were very skillful at the helm, and taking advantage of the numerical superiority of their ships, two or three began to attack one of the Lybidas from both sides.

The Albysis first used a long axe and sickle, ready to chop the oars that stretched out from both sides of the opponent's underneath, causing the opponent to lose the ability to maneuver, but only to realize that the opponent's oars were actually covered with steel in the front section!

Then, when they came back to their senses, they began to shoot at the sails and masts of Li Pida's ship with their fiery spears and bows and arrows, but the arrows fell down with a pop, but they failed to ignite a single bit, which made them who had never seen the world and the world very shocked-some people instantly felt that the sides and masts of Li Bida's raid ship and other vital places were hung with rows of things similar to armor, but they looked much softer, and the fire automatically extinguished as soon as it reached it. That's right, this is exactly what a sailor from the island of Cyprus had said when he was in Cyrenaica to prevent the ship from being set on fire, and this was actually asbestos, but Lybida immediately accepted it, gave the crew a "royalty" of 50,000 cesdes, and then with great difficulty gathered enough items to equip on his sails and deck.

The following is the counterattack of Li Pida's ships, the soldiers hiding under the asbestos board and shield on the side of the ship, hula all got up, they used small ballistas on the side, and shot black things at the ships on both sides, this is a spear with an iron hook, after penetrating the other party's ships, it quickly grabbed it, and the rope made of iron rings, for a while and a half will still be chopped by the Albisi knife and axe, to no avail, the other end of the iron ring is on the pulley, only the crew of Li Bida over there turns the pulley, The ships of the city of Marcelia were held back and could not move.

Then, either stretch out the gangplank and let the ship's able-bodied infantry jump to the gang for hand-to-hand combat, or there is a tactic that uses bellows cannons or thrown fire canisters to burn the enemy ships directly. The former is aimed at the ships on the deck, which are dominated by Massellans, and if they are opposite by the mighty Albysian mountain people, then the latter will be ruthless - unleashing flames and burning them all.

Soon, the wreckage of the Marcelia raider, and the dead, drowned, and burned bodies were floating everywhere on the sea. Dumijius's two-wing fleet was defeated in a short period of time, and now Li Bidafang's raid ship turned against Yang Fan, slowly copying it from the two wings, surrounding Dumijius's big ship at the core, but Dumijius has so far aroused the instinct of fierce battle, and he waved the flag, "All ships, will ram the angle at the enemy's flagship, rush over and sink it!" ”

At the sound of the horn, the Dumijus fleet lined up in the front eight and nine ships in the back, cleaving the waves, stretching out the terrifying ramming horns, and pounced.

The bellows cannon on Li Bida's three-column rowing boat was the first to be difficult, the fire dragon was rolling on the water, and a string of splashes out, and the fireworks were in full swing, and the two ships in front of Du Mijius were on fire, and the people and items on them were constantly dropped, but Du Mijius and his flagship, taking advantage of the gap between the other party's re-preparations, and another wingman ship charged directly towards the "Calabia" where Li Bida was.

"Turn, turn!" In the midst of an exclamation, the ship's helmsman was sweating profusely, trying to make evasive moves. (To be continued......)

Tips: The new domain name "biquge.info" has been launched by Biquge, and the original domain name is about to be discontinued. Please tell each other, thank you!