137-138 (A)
Ten days ago, Elrence had made a deal with Queen Mother Olympias.
This mission to rescue the Latin royal family consisted of a small but elite assault team, the main of which was Elrens, Jole, and Mirina, three powerful black dragons, while Pera sent Cleo and the Imperial air battleship to respond and provide all the information about the two warring sides of Byzantium.
After explaining the defense and training on Delos, the group went to the agreed location to meet Cleo, and the Empire appeared in the northwest on time.
"It's the Empire!" Oni pointed to the giant ship in the sky, and exclaimed excitedly as she jumped up and down, "Sister Cleo is finally here!"
Ellens couldn't help but laugh when he saw her excited look. After all, little Lori is still young, although people were generally precocious during the war years, and she tried her best to maintain the appearance of an adult on weekdays, but sometimes her actions still reveal childlike innocence. Originally, Elrence was not going to take Ernie with her on this mission, but she insisted on coming with her, and promised not to drag down the team.
Considering that little Lori has a lot of magical magic props, and she has indeed assisted herself in defeating strong enemies many times before, the evil dragon nodded and agreed after thinking about it again. In fact, what Elrens didn't know was that since Oni learned that Cleo would also participate in this operation, her little mind was to keep an eye on them, so as not to further deepen the relationship between her fiancΓ© and Princess Pera!
In the expectant gaze of everyone, the Empire slowly floated above the desert island, and the light around it suddenly dimmed. A small fast ship descended from the cabin in the underbelly of the air battleship and was soon onto the deck of the Imperial. Cleo and Captain Pythia were already waiting here, and when they saw Ellens and the others stepping off the fast ship, Princess Celestia greeted her with a smile, her big bright eyes full of affection, staring at the dragon without blinking.
Oni on the side was jealous in her heart, but she couldn't say anything, so she ran over in a few steps and hugged the eldest princess: "Sister Cleo, you're finally here, I miss you!"
Cleo smiled and touched her little head: "I haven't seen you for more than a month, and little Oni has grown taller again." Soon the little beauty will become a big beauty!"
The two women laughed and laughed for a while, and then everyone got to the point. Pythia was the first to speak: "Our mission this time is to pass through the tightly guarded encirclement of the Nicaeans, this is not an easy task, I don't know what you have to do?"
Cleo also nodded and said: "From here to Byzantium, the land of more than four hundred kilometers is covered with countless fortifications of the Nicaeans, it is impossible to avoid their eyes and ears, and our Liliang is definitely not enough to deal with hundreds of thousands of well-trained troops." You have to think of a way to do the unexpected. β
Elrens and Jole looked at each other and asked, "Have you found any information about the deployment of Nicaea's army?"
The captain of the Empire, Pythia, immediately took out a map that had been prepared from the side, put it on the deck and opened it, pointed to the central place and said, "Everyone, please see, this is Byzantine City. β
Elrens followed his hand and saw that it was located in the protrusion between the two continents, with a pentagonal pattern, and a large number of toothed lines and flags marked around it.
Pythia continued: "The banners on the map represent the Nicene army, each of which is a force of 10,000 men with a total strength of about 500,000 to 600,000 men, and encircles the Byzantine city from the northwest, west, southwest, and southeast. At sea, the Nicaean fleet also blocked all Byzantine shipping lanes from the south, north, and northeast. In addition, there is a royal fleet of Nicaean people in the sky. It can be said that Byzantium has been completely isolated, and it is very difficult to break through the encirclement. β
The evil dragon frowned and thought for a moment, and then asked, "Isn't there any weakness in this encirclement?"
Cleo shook his head: "In order to recover their old capital and avenge the First World War fifty years ago, the Nicaean people have made a lot of preparations, and the deployment of troops in the encirclement is very tight. Since the siege of Byzantium more than a year ago, the Latin Kingdom and the Knights Templar have organized several breakouts, all of which have failed. If there's one weakness, it's ...... here."
As she spoke, the eldest princess reached out and dotted on the map: "Golden Horn." β
"The Golden Horn?" Elrens asked curiously, "Is there anything special about this?"
"That's right. Pythia went on to explain: "Because of the weakness of the Latin Empire's navy, the Nicaeans used the main force of their fleet to blockade Pella's maritime communications, and deployed only their second-rate warships, mostly of old types, in the Byzantine area. In addition, since the Latin Kingdom also knew that its navy was weak, it built a coastal defense fortress group equipped with a large number of heavy magic cannons in the Upper Golden Horn, and the Nicaean fleet did not dare to get too close to the Golden Horn, so it could only block the open sea. Relatively speaking, it will be relatively easy to sneak in from here. β
Everyone looked at the dense markings on the map and felt that the captain's words made sense. The Nicaeans have hundreds of thousands of troops on land, including a large number of high-ranking knights and magicians, a powerful floating fleet and heavy magic cannon positions, ready to support all parts of the battlefield. Such an encirclement simply cannot break through from the front.
Thinking of this, Elrens turned his head to look at Leviathan. The Abyss Sea Dragon immediately patted his chest excitedly: "Although the battle on the sea is wrapped up in me, Lao Tzu has been idle for so long, and he has long wanted to exercise his muscles and bones!"
The evil dragon nodded in satisfaction and said to the Pythias: "I also agree with you, use the Golden Horn as a breakthrough point! We are divided into three squads to act separately, first of all, the Imperial will go around the northeastern sea of Byzantium to find a desert island to hide. The second was me, with Cleo and Oni, trying to sneak into Byzantium City from the Golden Horn and get in touch with the royal family of the Latin Kingdom. Zuihou, Leviathan attacked the fleet of the Nicaeans on the southern sea, attracting their attention. We then left Byzantium from the Golden Horn and, after joining up with the Imperial in ambush here, headed at full speed for the Thracian mountains. β
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