Chapter 68 The Battle of the Adriatic Sea is the sixth, and the fire is soaring to the sky

In addition, the Eastern Roman sailors were desperate because their warships were sinking and there was no way to retreat. For a while, the Vikings were suppressed.

"Bow and arrow! Shoot these kings!"

The Vikings on the battleship's shooting pad, seeing that their men and horses were falling into the downwind, immediately opened their bows and fired fiercely at the enemy. Those Eastern Roman sailors were naked with their upper bodies, and they had no defense at all, and if they were shot, they would die. And just like that, the Vikings once again had the upper hand!

Seeing this, the last Eastern Roman sailor to climb up cursed, then turned and jumped back on top of the sinking ship, found the oil torch and other objects on the deck, threw away the scimitar, and climbed back with these things in his mouth.

"The old man wants you to be buried with me!" said the Eastern Roman sailor, laughing wildly, and distributed the torches and oil to the others, and then set fire to the Norman warship.

"Damn it!, stop him!" shouted the Vikings, rushing forward and starting to fight as hard as they could......

“...... The combat effectiveness of the Eastern Roman Navy is also very good. At this moment, Marshal Carter, who was on the bridge of his flagship ship, scanning the battlefield with a monocular, couldn't help but sigh like this, and then gave up the plan to defeat the opponent, and changed the order: "Order, break through!"

Immediately afterward, with a flurry of flags giving orders, the Norman fleet shifted tactics and prepared to break out.

However, how easy is that...... At this moment, the two fleets were already entangled, and the sailors of both sides jumped on the enemy warships and slashed and slashed, and the Eastern Roman warships equipped with Greek firethrowers set fire everywhere. Large swaths of broken wooden planks floated on the surface of the sea, shipwrecks and strangely shaped corpses, indirectly, became something to burn. Above the sea, the fire is blazing!

The battle came to this point, and the Eastern Roman Navy made a very fatal mistake.

Very, very deadly.

When using Greek fire on a large scale, and killing weapons that can float on the surface of the sea, you should observe the wind direction in advance - even if you are not Zhuge Liang or TV station, you can't predict the direction of the climate for a period of time in the future. But let's take a look at the weather now?!

As I said before, the wind is now westerly, which is good for the Norman navy and extremely bad for the Eastern Roman navy. In the midst of such winds, the flames flickered towards the Eastern Roman navy. The Eastern Roman navy hurriedly maneuvered the ships to dodge. At the same time, it also gave up a lot of gaps, and the Norman navy broke through these gaps.

"Stop them!"

Seeing that the prey in his hands is about to flee like this.

The admirals of the Eastern Roman navy were all gloomy. Such an order was given. However, the Eastern Roman Navy did not have such a convenient thing as the flag and lantern. It is still stuck in the era when command basically relies on shouting. Basically, except for the fact that one of his own ships can be commanded, several ships around him can vaguely hear each other shouting something, and the rest is completely unknown.

In addition, now that the sea is blazing, the warships of the Eastern Rome are too busy to take care of themselves, and no one wants to catch up and engage the enemy. The Norman fleet was thus gone. Only a few slower trough transports were left, and gradually they were surrounded by the Eastern Roman navy. After failing to persuade him to surrender, he was burned to ashes by the Greek fire of the Eastern Roman fleet. Looking at the Vikings who were howling in the flames and jumping into the sea, but no one took the initiative to ask for help, Eastern Rome was speechless for a long time. The priests stepped out of the cabin and began to celebrate mass for the dying sailors.

On April 20, 1003, the Norman Offshore Fleet met the Eastern Roman Mediterranean Fleet, the Adriatic Fleet, and the Aegean Fleet. The Adriatic Sea Battle broke out. In this battle, the two sides [Baidu] put in a total of nearly 800 warships and nearly 50,000 navies. The war lasted from early morning to about 4 p.m. The Norman Offshore Fleet lost 27 warships and more than 3,000 sailors, and the three major fleets of the Eastern Romans lost a total of 82 warships and more than 5,700 sailors. Both sides claimed victory. The reasoning of the Eastern Romes was that in the end the Norman fleet fled in disarray. The reason for the Norman fleet was that it had successfully broken through and lost far fewer ships and dead soldiers than the Eastern Romans. ,

At this point, the Adriatic Sea battle ended. The three major Eastern Roman navies returned to the port of Athens on the Greek peninsula for rest. Subsequently, after receiving a strict order from Emperor Nebasil, the Love Sea Fleet returned to its station. The Adriatic Fleet went to take over Ragusa. And the Mediterranean fleet left the port and went to Naples to aid Narciss, who was in a bitter battle.

Of course, when the Mediterranean fleet came to Naples, it was no longer Naples.

It's a scorched earth ....... (Proofreading [Baidu])

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