Marshal Mendez, the commander of the Eastern Roman fleet, did not know at this moment that the Holy Roman fleet in charge of the broken was already in ruins.

The marshal, who still had hope of breaking through, was doing his best to resist the attack of the puppet army from the sky, when Narciss, who commanded the Eastern Roman floating fleet, finally replied, but the other party said that the floating fleet sent could not find a location due to the fog, and now it has turned back.

Just when Mendes was helpless, he suddenly heard a deafening sound of dense explosions coming from behind! The marshal was taken aback and hurriedly shouted to the left and right: "What's going on behind the scenes, has the enemy already killed him?"

The herald immediately turned away, and after a while, he ran back to the command room with a pale face, and said in a trembling voice: "Report to the marshal, the Holy Roman fleet in charge of the broken rear has been completely annihilated! Archaius was seriously wounded and fell into a coma, and now the enemy fleet is rushing up from the rear, and the artillery fire is very fierce, and the brothers behind will not be able to withstand it!!"

"What?!"

When the marshal heard the bad news, he only felt a sudden blackness in front of him, and he almost fainted. He hurriedly held on to the control platform and took a few deep breaths before he could barely regain consciousness. Mendez never expected that the Holy Roman fleet would be defeated so quickly, and now the Eastern Roman fleet was trapped in the narrow strait and could not move, and there were interceptions in front of the pursuers, and there were countless puppets bombing indiscriminately in the sky, such a sinister situation was simply desperate!

It was at this time that Mendes finally made up his mind, and he looked up. Viciously ordered: "Sue the Slavs who are afraid of the enemy! From now on, the Eastern Roman fleet will attack any object that stands in its way, whether it is an enemy ship or a friendly ship, as long as it is sunk in its way! Otherwise, don't blame me for being cold-blooded and ruthless!!"

As soon as the order was delivered, Mendez commanded the main fleet of the Eastern Romans to move on, while firing indiscriminately at the front. Several Slavic battleships, which could not evade, were caught off guard by friendly fire from the rear and sank into the sea amid a scream. The remaining Slavic warships had no choice but to rush forward in the face of the threat of being killed either by the enemy or by their allies.

The Illyrian Navy and the Tiger Shark forces of the Mermaid Kingdom, which were waiting at the exit of the strait, formed a semi-circular encirclement, and if an enemy warship came out. Immediately it was hit by intense artillery fire from three sides. At the same time, the puppet army led by Ellens continued to attack fiercely in the sky, and one enemy ship after another was sunk. Nevertheless. The enemy fleet, which has been cornered, is still rushing forward one after another!

The brutal naval battle continued into the night amid deafening artillery fire and screams, and the sunken battleships near the exit of the Strait of Salamis, almost blocking the entire exit, and the sea was littered with the wreckage of the warships and the corpses of sailors. Even the sea was stained red with blood.

The Eastern Roman fleet paid a very heavy price. But with numerical superiority, they eventually rushed into the encirclement. As more and more warships rushed out, the two sides fought to the death, and the sound of killing in the Strait of Salamis, and by early morning, the Eastern Roman fleet had finally carved a gap in the encirclement.

Marshal Mendes did not care about his exhaustion, and immediately led the remaining warships to flee northward in panic, and a large number of warships that were slow to move due to damage could not escape. Abandoned on the battlefield and finally had to surrender.

After the end of the Battle of Salamis. Both navies suffered heavy casualties and temporarily lost their combat capability, and the sea of Koto was rarely restored to a brief period of calm. However, the Olympian alliance achieved its stated goal of inflicting heavy damage on the enemy's navy, while the combined forces of the Eastern and Holy Romans achieved nothing. Not only that, but the Holy Roman navy and the Slavic navy, which were forced to take the lead, were almost completely wiped out, and less than a tenth of the warships escaped back. As for the Eastern Roman fleet, although it finally got rid of the doom of being completely annihilated, only about one-third of the battleships managed to break out of the encirclement, and the rest were either sunk or had surrendered to the enemy.

Even the dozens of warships that narrowly escaped were damaged and needed to be overhauled before they could return to the battlefield. The officers and men who survived the tragic battle, but were still in shock at this time, completely lost their fighting spirit, and when they first went out to war, less than 20,000 sailors fled back, and all of them were wounded, and their spirits were extremely fragile.

On the other hand, the Illyrian navy, which was responsible for blocking the exit from the Strait of Salamis, was also completely wiped out by the Eastern Romans, and even the commander Adonis was killed in battle, and it was not until the last battle that the enemy was able to break through. However, the Illyrian navy killed more than three times its own casualties, and it was a glorious defeat. In addition, the Tiger Shark Knights of the Mermaid Kingdom and the Parthenon Puppet Legion on Delos Island also lost nearly half of their losses, but they still retained the ability to continue fighting. The Abyssal Sea Dragon Leviathan and the Black Dragon Elrens were injured by heavy artillery fire many times in the fierce battle, and needed some time to rest. As for the Southern Naval Fleet under the command of Marshal Ptolemy of the League of Olympia, it was a great victory, and since their task was to attack the enemy's back, the losses were relatively weak and the combat effectiveness was basically maintained.

After the Battle of the Strait of Salamis, the balance of maritime power in the Sea of Koto was completely broken. The combined fleets of the Eastern Rome and the Holy Romans, which had a great advantage and had more than 300 warships and more than 100,000 naval personnel, were completely defeated, leaving only dozens of wrecked warships and less than 20,000 demoralized troops. It can only barely maintain patrols in the Marmara Inland Sea, which connects the mainland of Anatonia with the Balkans, and can only give up the various sea lanes that were originally under its control.

Although the Olympia Union Navy also suffered about one-third of the losses, the main Southern Navy still had about 100 warships, and after a short period of reorganization, they immediately launched a full-scale attack. The Southern navy, which had gained sea supremacy, quickly took control of the main shipping lanes and strategic points on both sides of the Sea of Qin, while the Eastern Roman navy could only retreat into the Sea of Marmara in the northeast corner

(To be continued......)