Chapter 11: The Battle of Salamis (I)

At this moment, in the Aegean Sea, thousands of miles away, wolf smoke is everywhere, and warships of all sizes are flooding the Gulf of Salamis in the Aegean Sea. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Looking down from the canopy, the bay was full of warships, large and small, with long, low three-oared ships on one side and huge three-story warships on the other.

On the smaller side, naturally, the Greek coalition led by Athens; On the larger side is the famous Persian navy.

The Persian army was led by Xerxes himself, and they included the Indian, Ethiopian, Assyrian, Thracian, Saigon, Medes, and Persians, the last three of which were the main forces of the Persian army.

The Persian navy, on the other hand, consisted of a huge fleet of 1,207 ships of Egypt, Phoenicia, Silesia, Ionia, and Caria. The navies of Siton and Kalia were the most powerful, and their commander was Artemisia.

Artemisia, originally a Greek slave, was rescued by Persian envoys, sent to the most elite military school in the Persian Empire, received the harshest military training, and finally lived up to his mission, becoming the youngest and best general of the Persian Empire, and was deeply loved by Darius (the father of Xerxes).

And this crusade against the Greek Federation, the mastermind behind it is Artemisia.

From the day she was rescued by the Persian messengers, she swore to heaven that when she returned again, it would be the end of Greece.

Now, she leads the most powerful navy in Persia against Greece, where she lost her homeland.

Anger has burned out her compassion.

Only killing can quench her wrath.

The Great War is imminent!

The commander of the Greek coalition, the Athenian hero who had inflicted heavy damage on Darius with one arrow, was commanding the allied warships, taking advantage of their small but highly maneuverable strengths, riding the wind and waves, wrapped in bronze and ramming the bow of the ship into the middle of the Persian ship.

The bow of the Persian giant ship was as strong as iron, but the middle section was relatively fragile, and under the attack of the two wings of the Greek warship, the middle section of the giant ship was broken, and the Persian warriors on the ship were in chaos without a fight.

One by one, they were thrown out by the huge impact and fell into the raging waves, and more of them were accompanied by half of the battleship, sinking into the deep sea, becoming the sacrifice of the sea god.

Under the command of Themistocles, the Persian vanguard was almost wiped out, with more than a hundred three-story warships, and hundreds of Persian soldiers on each battleship.

In just two hours, the Persian navy suffered unprecedented damage.

The Greek coalition achieved unprecedented results, and the losses of the headquarters were negligible.

On the contrary, the Persian navy, their commander Artemisia, was furious and threw the fleeing generals into the sea to feed the fish.

"Useless waste, I have to go out myself!" Artemisia could not sit still any longer.

These navies are all trained by her personally, and every soldier is one in a hundred. If it is put into a land battle, it is enough to treat one as ten.

Now, before they could even board the enemy's warships, they were rammed and sunk by the small warships that were rushing from both wings, and the humility of human life was particularly prominent at this time.

After punishing the general for his poor command, Artemisia took charge of the flagship herself, and after a short rest, she attacked the main force of the Greek coalition.

When the Greek navy, which was also resting, gathered a large army to meet the battle, they saw a strange scene.

At the bow of the Persian navy, three huge plane arks were slowly approaching.

Compared to the size of the Ark, the three-story warships of the Persian Navy looked like dwarfs.

"Themistocles, it is clear that the speed of the main Persian fleet is several times faster than that ark, why are they locked behind those three arks." The adjutant couldn't help but ask his commander-in-chief.

Themistocles was also at a loss.

Standing in the bow of the ship, he looked at the huge ark that was slowly approaching, and then looked at the main force of the Persian navy, which was many distances, and really couldn't understand the idea of the female marshal.

"Perhaps, they want to use the strong deck of the ark to defend against our two-wing attack tactics." Themistocles thought so, and told his lieutenant so.

He remembered the beautiful Persian marshal as a femme fatale, and the night before the battle began, he received an invitation from Artemisia.

At that time, his lieutenant general strongly objected to his boarding of the enemy ship, after all, the two armies were fighting, how could he put himself under a dangerous wall?

But he decided to see the marshal for himself.

He wanted to see how respectful this heroine with the same Greek blood was said to be.

Even the mercenaries who excelled in battle fell on deaf ears.

In the end, the mercenaries volunteered to be their bodyguards and went to Artemisia's flagship alone.

In Artemisia's boudoir, the marshal seduced him into the Persian side, but the two fell apart in passion.

I have to say that Artemisia has a unique temperament, and her beauty makes people naturally willing to dedicate themselves to it, but fortunately, Themistocles is not a weak-willed person, and he was subconsciously attracted by Artemisia's persuasion, and finally kept the last trace of clarity and did not bow down under Artemisia's pomegranate skirt.

Now that I think about it, that beautiful night is endlessly memorable, but is this all the trick of Artemisia, who is second only to Xerxes, in legend?

Themistocles was in disbelief.

After all, this method of persuasion, which is almost seduction, really outweighs the losses, and it is cheaper to give it to the enemy commander-in-chief, and if Themistocles were more shameless and spread this heavyweight news, it would be enough to demoralize the Persian navy -- before the two armies were engaged, the female marshal of her own side took the initiative to "make a date" with the enemy.

While Themistocles was thinking wildly, on a battleship under the flag of independence, next to the Greek flagship, ten strangers dressed in strange clothes were facing each other.

Among them, there are Helena and Iron Blade.

They are the reincarnators who participated in the Battle of Salamis.

The other eight reincarnators don't seem to have much psychological burden on the upcoming war, and in their opinion, it won't be too much trouble to choose a task of normal difficulty to survive this transitional mission.

Helena, however, did not see it that way, and insisted that there was something unusual about Artemisia's appointment with Themistocles last night.

"Don't you think it's strange? Why did we receive a mission to protect Themistocles, but after arriving at the Persian flagship, there was no conflict. Helena's silver bell voice sounded, and although the sea breeze was wild, it couldn't suppress her voice.