274: Raid

In the evening, off the coast of Nicaea. Prince Prian of the Mermaid Kingdom of Koto no Koto raised half of his head to the surface and cautiously observed the harbor in the distance.

The bright yellow afterglow of the setting sun hangs over the city, and the countless marble buildings reflect the golden colors. As the sunset hangs in the sky, flocks of seagulls flutter around the white sails of moored ships, and the harbor is a peaceful and tranquil scene.

The city of Nicaea is the largest city on the Anatonian continent, and its strategic location is important because it guards the narrow waterway that connects the Sea of Konoko and the Sea of Black, and is the closest place between the Balkans and Anatonia. After the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire decades later, the remaining princes and ministers fled here to establish the Kingdom of Nicaea, which became the capital of the country, and the city of Nicaea became more prosperous and expanded in size, and its influence soon surpassed that of the old commercial city of Troy and Ankara, the capital of the Seljuk barbarians.

However, the good times did not last long, since the war for hegemony on the Balkan continent began two years ago, the trade between the East and the West was stopped, and King Justinian continued to levy heavy taxes to support the front-line operations, and the people were miserable, and the city of Nicaea became much more depressed.

At this time, Prince Prian observed that there were not many Eastern Roman garrisons in the harbor, and only a few soldiers patrolled occasionally. Although coastal defense heavy artillery has been built on some important highlands, most of them are unguarded, presumably because there are not enough magicians who can control magic cannons. A few slightly dilapidated warships were moored in the harbor, mingling haphazardly with merchant ships and cargo ships that had no business to do. In the event of an emergency, it is simply impossible to turn around and attack in time. Not only that, but the sailors on the battleship lazily gathered in the harbor to drink and fight. There is no discipline at all.

It is not surprising that the city of Nicaea is so loosely guarded, as there has been no fighting in many years. The war in front of the Balkans was thousands of miles away, and the enemy's fleet was constantly under passive attack, and they never dreamed that the attack would come from the port.

Prian relentlessly dived into the water again, and behind him, more than a dozen behemoths with strange spikes were quietly diving into the dark depths of the sea, none other than the famous deep-sea monster narwhal. And behind the whale. There are also thousands of elite Tiger Shark Riders on standby.

The mermaid prince silently waved the trident in his hand back, and immediately, the ten-meter-long sharp horn in front of the giant whale's head emitted dazzling light. Then there was a loud bang, and a bright light burst out, and an incomparably powerful shockwave slammed a large amount of sea water forward!

The originally calm and windless sea suddenly swelled up with huge waves tens of meters high and roared. Rush towards the harbor ahead at breakneck speed!

A few seconds have passed. The warriors in the harbor of Nicaea City discovered the anomaly on the sea, and they were stunned by the sudden and unseen huge waves, and for a moment they were stunned in place, completely unaware of what to do.

When the waves slammed in front of them with an earth-shattering sound, like a huge wall, the people in the harbor finally came to their senses, and they all screamed and cried in amazement, dropped their weapons and turned away. And the sailors who were still on the ship had no way to escape, so they had to jump into the water. Desperately swimming to the shore, everyone scrambled to be the first. The scene was plunged into extreme chaos!

Before they had even taken a few steps, the sea water was already crashing head-on with tremendous momentum, and the soldiers were swallowed up and torn apart one after another! Not only that, but the ships anchored in the harbor were also knocked over and sunk sideways into the sea by the huge waves, and whirlpools were formed one after another, and the buildings and forts on the shore also collapsed like papier-mâché when faced with the waves with a huge force of 10,000 tons!

The waves continued like bamboos, and nothing could stop them along the way, all the buildings were smashed to pieces, and no one could escape from such a great natural disaster.

After a few moments, when the sea finally calmed down, it had already submerged a third of the city near the port, and the rest of the place was spreading knee-deep water. More than half of the buildings in the city were destroyed, civilians were killed and wounded, and the city was in flames and wails.

As for the army, the situation was somewhat better than that of the civilians, and most of the garrisons in the city were stationed on the land walls far from the port, and the casualties were not serious. However, the city was flooded everywhere, and although the garrison numbered more than 10,000, it could not be gathered from everywhere, so it had no choice but to stay where it was and fight on its own.

In the harbor, the Tiger Shark Knights have begun to land under the command of Prian, basically all obstacles along the way have been destroyed, they are advancing quickly along the deep water, and occasionally the surviving enemy has long lost the will to resist, almost immediately raised their hands and surrendered.

Amid the deafening shouts of slaughter, the Tiger Shark Knights advanced extremely smoothly, and soon occupied a third of the city. But as they continued to go deeper, they began to encounter gradually increasing resistance.

The central army led by Prian himself stopped near the square in the center of the city, and in front of it was a fortress built on a small hill, made of huge stones, fortifications such as magic cannons, giant crossbows, and trebuchets installed on all sides, and about 1,000 Eastern Roman warriors stationed inside, which was very difficult to deal with. In a recent tentative charge, the Tiger Shark Knights paid the price of dozens of casualties but failed to achieve anything.

The mermaid prince frowned and observed for a while, and said to the general beside him, "We don't need to waste our troops here, go and ask Your Excellency Leviathan to help." ”

The Eastern Roman soldiers inside the fortress looked at the Tiger Shark Knight, who had stopped the attack outside, and panicked. Just now, a natural disaster suddenly struck without warning, and the sea instantly divided them into this isolated place. Before they could figure out what was going on, a large number of Tiger Shark Riders were coming from all directions. After some hard fighting, they managed to stop the enemy's attack, but it was only a test. The current situation is that the enemy is outnumbered, and there is no way to go on like this, so I can only desperately hold on, hoping that Lord Narsis's reinforcements will arrive as soon as possible......

(To be continued......)