Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 135: The Great Battle of Taranto (7)

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Davers is relieved. When making the crazy plan of "using example as bait" in advance, Sekrian and he made detailed arrangements for it, and arranged more warships around Davers's ship to protect Daves’s. Be safe, and at the same time make the final contest with the enemy.

"A warship rushes from the front left!"

"There is a warship on the starboard side!"

"There is an enemy ship on the right side of the stern!"

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The exclamation of the three watchers continued, and the Syracuses launched a frantic attack on Davers's ship, making the nerves of the entire ship's nerves tense all the time.

"Retract the suspension bridge! Retract the suspension bridge!" At this moment, the deck sailor on the bow shouted loudly.

Miltias breathed a sigh of relief, he yelled: "Go back!"

At this time, the sea around the ship is full of two or two warships together, and only the rear has a large space.

The sailors immediately backed up, and just as the speed of the ship rose, they heard the watchman at the end of the bed screaming: "An enemy ship is coming in from behind! An enemy ship is coming in from behind!"

This Syracuse warship is quite cunning. With its superb maneuvering skills, it blocks the line of sight with the surrounding warships. It moves flexibly through the gaps of the ship like a swimming fish, quickly approaching the ship, and is stunned. When Wangshou found it, the distance was only more than 40 meters.

The ship was shifting backwards again, so the distance was quickly getting closer, Mirtias screamed: "Turn to the rear right! Turn to the rear right!..." He wanted the warship to turn around. Let the "crow suspension bridge" work, but it seems that time is too late.

"Swipe forward! Swipe forward!..." he shouted again.

Although the oarsmen didn’t understand the situation outside, they felt bad after listening to the captain’s frequently changing orders and nervous voices. For a while, they became a little flustered. Some people even fell into the sea with wood pulp. .

Seeing the bronze horns of the enemy ship rushing through the waves, and even the appearance of the enemy at the head of the ship can be seen clearly. At this moment, a heart of Daves is mentioned to the throat, but it is Martius. Bring the soldiers to catch up, and urgently take off the armor for Dafus, if a ship is hit, they will take Dafus into the sea until they are rescued.

At this moment of lightning fire, in the narrow gap between the warship and the warship (the three-tiered oar warship can't pass through at all), a warship sprang out of the diagonal stab and blocked the enemy ship. Between the ship and the ship, it was Dionia's 50-blade warship. In the usual naval battles, most of the functions of the Fifty Oars are used for reconnaissance, transmission of messages, rescue, assisting in jump ship operations, etc., and are generally used as clippers. However, when the new naval tactics began to be implemented in Dionia’s fleet, in view of the weaknesses of the three-layer paddle warships equipped with the "crow drawbridge" in flexibility and relatively poor speed, Sekrian gave fifty A new tactical function of the Oar Battleship is to use the small, flexible and fast characteristics of the Fifty Oar Battleship (the fastest can reach 15 to 16 knots) to block the offensive route of the enemy ship and enable the main battle ship to escape

In order to ensure the safety of Daves, naturally there are several such warships roaming around the ship. At this moment, the enemy ship had no time to turn, and the bronze horns directly hit the fiftieth oars warship, only to hear a loud "bang", and then the sound of wood breaking, the screams and screams of sailors, and the whole body was cut open. A big hole, sea water immediately poured in, diluting the blood of the wounded...

The fifty-blade warship quickly sank under the pressure of the three-layered enemy ship...

But the forward impulse of the three-layer oars enemy ship has been significantly weakened, and finally came to a standstill.

Just as the captain yelled in panic, "Pad back quickly", the ship Daves was on had turned around and quickly approached, and the "crow suspension bridge" was smashed down.

Davers yelled angrily: "Get revenge for my brothers!"

Leading the guards, committed suicide on the deck of the enemy ship...

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The Syracuses originally hoped to use their superb sailing skills and rich experience in naval warfare to deal with Dionian’s weird warships, but they suddenly discovered: Dionian warships are flexible Sex was poor, but the device was extremely flexible. When it turned and fell in various ways in all directions, all the warships that were close to them could not escape the hooked ending and were eventually captured.

The Syracuse people are completely terrified.

Because of Leptinius’s will, the assault on Daves’s ship became the final madness. More than 30 Syracuse warships surrounding Daves’s ship were captured. The Lakuda fleet finally can't hold it...

Let Leptinius yell out loudly: "Come on! Let me rush up! Let me die here! Let go of me, let me drown! Ahhh..."

How dare the captain let him have any surprises? During the previous charge, he secretly asked the paddlers to slow down the paddle speed, allowing the flagship to move away from the assault circle. This time the fiasco of the naval battle must ensure the safe return of the navy commander to Siriting, otherwise the rage of the plenipotentiary general is not something they can bear.

The few remaining warships of the Syracuses turned and fled south in a hurry, and the Dionian fleet did not chase them, because they could not catch up with the fleeing enemy ship at the speed of their ships. The most important thing is that they must rescue the soldiers who fell into the water and seize the time to deal with the aftermath.

"Your Majesty, the Syracuse Navy retreats-retreat! We-we are victorious!!" Amidst the cheers of the oarsman and the guards, Mirtias rushed to him with an expression of excitement. Report to him.

Davos looked at the enemy who had disappeared in the skyline, suppressing the excitement in his heart, and replied with a slightly trembling voice: "Victory...just the beginning!"

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This large-scale battle of Taranto, which was about the direction of the war, lasted for more than two hours, and finally came to an end.

The Syracuse Navy lost 223 warships, most of which were three-tiered paddle warships. The Dionia fleet lost more than 40 warships, half of which were 50 warships. The Dionian fleet, at an absolute disadvantage, exceeded the expectations of many outsiders and defeated the Syracuse Navy.

A very different picture from other naval battles appeared in the war. The Syracuse Navy lost so many warships, but there are few scenes of warships being hit and sinking, large numbers of sailors floating on the surface, and tragic calls. Because there are a total of 157 three-tiered paddle warships, which were completely captured by the Dionians, they only need to be repaired and equipped with their own sailors to go to sea to fight, and the strength of the Dionian fleet will suddenly be overturned. More than twice.

This has really become a weird thing in the history of Greek naval warfare. In the past, naval battles have always been that the number of ships fought is less and less, and I have never heard of the truth that more and more fought.

While the sailors and soldiers of the Dionia fleet cheered the victory, the shore was boiling.

The Castellons cheered. After witnessing a thrilling naval battle, they knew that their home would never be ravaged by the evil Syracuse.

This is a miracle! After seeing the Syracuse’s warship retreating, Amiklis was so surprised that he hadn’t recovered for a long time. Although he had a fluke beforehand, it was a fluke after all, but the Dionians were really real. Turn it into a fact! In this regard, Amiklis came to a conclusion for a long time: "The oracle of Hades is really fulfilled! After Daves was elected as king, Dionia was really blessed by Pluto! "

His words were recognized by the high level of Castellon. A member of the council hurriedly asked: "Then you guys...are we still seeing the messenger from Syracuse?"

"No!" Amiklis said firmly: "Kill him immediately!"

"Will this... be too intense?" Someone said worriedly: "In case the dictator in Syracuse is angered..."

"Aren’t you afraid to anger our neighbor Dionia!" Amiklis reminded them: "We have such a close relationship with Turri, and Dionyia’s entry into the city by the Siracusa envoy will sooner or later. Everyone knows what Davers will think in his heart and what the Dionian Senate will think! With the blessing of the Hades oracle, Dionia has won such a huge number of naval battle victories, and they will surely win in the end. Victory is just like the famous "Wooden Wall" oracle blessed by Delphi decades ago, Athens finally defeated Persia. We can only make up for our mistakes in such a drastic way, showing that we are determined to follow Dio Leah's determination to be together!"

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The people of Dionians cheered for victory earlier.

When each captured three-layer paddle warship was forced to sail to the sea, and then sailed north along the coastline into the mouth of the Craty River, everyone watching the naval battle on the shore cheered and went to the deck The Legionnaire on board waved desperately. And this kind of cheering continued, because the captured Syracuse warship also continued to sail to the sea.

Other Syracuse warships did not take advantage of their slow-moving opportunities to sink these captured warships. On the one hand, the attack of the Dionia fleet was so fierce that they could not spare time, but also because The people of Syracuse knew that these captured ships were sailors of their Syracuse. No one was willing to make such a crazy decision to send their comrades who had been together for a long time and trained together into the tomb of death, and once In doing so, after returning to their home state, they will also face the accountability of the city-state people. What's more, their benevolent navy commander Leptinius would not give such cruel orders.

So, when one after another captured Syracuse warship passed in front of the Dionian people, everyone knew that victory was not far away. But maybe because they were afraid of scaring away this hard-won victory, everyone didn't dare to let go and celebrate. It wasn't until the Syracuse fleet retreated that the joy in the hearts of the Dionian people broke out.