The golden-robed mage waved his hand to stop Iakos, and continued: "You don't need to comfort me, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, I haven't seen any storms and waves for so many years, and I won't be easily knocked down." Now let's talk about the course of this battle and the situation in the city, and how serious the losses were. ”

The general of the city guard said with a wry smile: "When the other party first used the flood to attack Nicaea, we didn't know what happened to the road, we just thought that something natural disaster had happened. But the enemy soon entered the city with the raging sea, and divided his forces to occupy various important strongholds, and then I realized that it was an enemy attack! The enemy was coming with great ferocity, and we were unprepared, and we were trapped by the flood, so we had no strength to fight back, so we had to hold our strongholds and wait for reinforcements, and most of them were broken by each other. But the situation soon took a turn for the better, and when the floating fleet sent by you to rescue appeared in the sky over Nicaea, the other side not only immediately stopped the attack, but also began to retreat, and soon after completely withdrew from the sea outside the city. They suffered almost no losses during the whole process, but they easily gave up the attack under the favorable circumstances, and the purpose of the attack was not to occupy the city of Nicaea, and they knew the situation of our army quite well. ”

When Narcisse heard this, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought, if the purpose of the attack was not for the city of Nicaea, then for what, was it just to attack the Eastern Romans? But we have always had no grudge against the mermaid kingdom, if it is not driven by profit, why do they have to be our enemy......

At this time, Iakos continued: "After the battle, I briefly counted the losses. The casualties among the citizens were extremely heavy. At least more than 100,000 people died in the floods, and even more were wounded! As for the army, the defenders were already small. And most of them were stuck within the defensive points, so the casualties were not high, and it was estimated that they would not exceed five thousand. In addition, the loss of all kinds of materials and property is even more staggering, except for the most severely affected port, all warships, merchant ships, and cargo ships have been sunk, and all the wharf facilities have been destroyed and cannot be used anymore. All military strongholds in the city were damaged to varying degrees. Urgent patching is required. More than 10,000 residential, commercial and public buildings were destroyed, and countless were damaged. To restore the original appearance, at least more than 100 billion yuan will need to be invested!"

Narcis nodded. He had expected this, and he was not frightened by the numerical budget of the astronomical sky. What really disturbed him was the reason why the Merfolk Kingdom attacked Nicaea, and now all indications showed that it was different from the solitary Seljuk barbarians. The merfolk kingdom has colluded with the Olympians. Jointly against the Eastern Romans.

In the last few days, everything has changed too suddenly, and the sneak attack of the Mermaid Kingdom is obviously not a coincidence of a separate time, but a link in the enemy's strict attack plan. It is said that one of their armies is aided by an incredibly powerful sea monster, most likely the Leviathan, the abyssal sea dragon who has betrayed Eastern Rome and defected to Olympia!

If the speculation of an alliance between the Merfolk Kingdom and Olympia is true, it will certainly have a very negative impact on the Eastern Romans, at least their superiority at sea will be lost, and the important coastal areas will have to be heavily defended. It is no longer possible to concentrate on the front line! What is more urgent is that the situation on the Anatonian continent is extremely dangerous at the moment. He was completely ignorant of the enemy's next move, so he could only defend passively, and he was really tired of dealing with the two-sided attack of the Mermaid Kingdom and the Olympia Alliance!

But what kind of benefits did the defeated Olympians give to the mermaid kingdom that they did not hesitate to abandon the long-standing peace between the two countries with the Eastern Romans in favor of the sword......

When the floating fleet sent back by Narsis arrived over Abydos, his worst fears had already happened. The two black dragons that appeared on the battlefield, as well as the Trojan Guards and the Anatonian Legion, took advantage of the departure of the main force of Eastern Rome to launch a surprise attack, and quickly broke through a very strong fortress under the front and rear attacks.

The 30,000 defenders led by Mendez were no longer interested in fighting after the defeat, they only cared about the looted goods, and in the face of the terrifying and powerful black dragon's unstoppable attacks, they were constantly in disarray, and they abandoned their armor and fled. No matter how desperately the defenders tried to restrain them, they could not gather effective resistance.

Although the floating fleet that arrived immediately entered the battle, it tried to attack the Black Dragon and provide cover for the defeated army. However, this floating fleet not only has a small number of warships, but most of them are quite old, and they are no match for Black Dragon at all. Chorle continued to assist the Trojan Guard and the Anatonian Legion in slaughtering the Eastern Romans below, while Elrens headed for the enemy fleet in the sky.

A deafening sound of artillery fire rang out in the sky, and the Eastern Roman floating fleet opened fire fiercely at Elrens, surrounded by fire. However, the speed of their fire was too slow, and the dragon kept spinning and dodging, easily avoiding all enemy attacks and rushing to the front of a destroyer.

"Die, idiot!!"

The evil dragon roared wildly and spewed out a large cloud of flames, and the scorching flames immediately engulfed the bow of the enemy ship, followed by an astonishing explosion! The destroyer struggled a few times in the billowing smoke, then lost power and began to fall sharply. Ellens laughed maniacally and rushed towards another battleship.

Not long after, the dragon regained its power and destroyed another enemy cruiser. Seeing that this black dragon was so powerful, that his side had no power to fight back, the commander of the Eastern Roman floating fleet couldn't help but be shocked, and everyone panicked, and the shape of the battle fleet became chaotic. Some of the warships even changed their course without an order and began to prepare for retreat!

Mendez, who was still desperately resisting in the fortress, saw this situation and realized that the Eastern Romans had been completely defeated both on land and in the air! In desperation, he had no choice but to give up resistance and lead the remnants of his army to break through in the direction of the city of Nicaea, hoping to join up with the main army of Narciss, and then find a way to recapture Abydos......

(To be continued......)