Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 318: The response of the Sicilian Squadron

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Because Shira Island is blocked on the east side, the three Dionian warships must bypass it to retreat. In this way, the sides and tail of the ship will be exposed to the enemy’s attack, perhaps quickly. The ship can escape the attack, but the two relatively clumsy crow warships may not escape bad luck. In such a dangerous situation, the three warships unanimously chose to stay and fight.

Morbar originally thought that the three Dionian ships would choose to retreat because the difference in strength was so great, but the opponent chose to stay and fight. Now he lamented that the morale of the Dionian navy was so strong, so he He changed his mind. Instead of commanding the flagship to follow the two fleets, he chose to stay with 19 other warships. Although he had learned a lot about the Dionian Navy from a lot of people before, now he Want to see with your own eyes what is the combat level and tactical characteristics of the Dionian warship?

Next, the actions taken by the Dionia warships made him frown again, because they did not attack blindly, but quickly gathered and retreated to the shore of Shira Island, where the two raven warships were located. At the front, the character “eight” is inverted, while the fast warship is at the back and in the middle. This shape is like a lobster protruding out of a cave Need to deal with threats from the front.

It can be seen that the Dionian Navy not only has high morale, but also is well-trained, well-coordinated, and has a not-low tactical awareness! ... Morbal's face was solemn.

The Carthage warship began to attack: first, the two warships circled the sides of the two raven warships and sprinted. The raven warship shifted the bow to the side and back, which made the two warships Don’t dare to move rashly; but the warships of the Ravens leaned outwards, which would inevitably expose more of their inner hulls, so two more Carthage warships rushed towards the inner hulls of the warships of Ravens quickly. For the Raven warship, if it moves the bow to the inside, it will inevitably expose the outer hull to the collision angle of the other two warships. This is a dilemma.

At this moment, the captain of the fast warship shouted to the crow warships on both sides: "I—in the middle!"

After that, the sailors on the ship tried their best to speed up the oars, and the fast warship quickly turned from a standstill to a forward sprint, because his bow was not towards any enemy ship, but from two ships. Passing through the middle, this gave the captains of the two Carthage warships the illusion that the enemy was seeing a bad situation and was ready to escape.

Speaking of late and fast, the captain of the fast warship heard the captain on the deck yell: "Turn left! Hit sideways! Hurry! Hurry!"

The captain was taken aback: By doing this, wouldn't it mean that he would completely expose his hull to the enemy ship outside? !

But he immediately understood the captain's intentions, his eyes were red, and he hissed, "Turn left...to cross!"

Although the sailors also had doubts, years of hard training allowed them to quickly execute their orders.

At this moment, the two crow warships moved to the inside at the same time, immediately compressing the dodge space of the two Carthage warships on the inside. When the surrounding Carthage warships realized the danger, they immediately attacked the three Dionian warships.

However, the Dionian warship did not evade. Two crow suspension bridges landed on the inner Carthage battleship’s deck. The fleet infantry quickly rushed across the suspension bridge, while at the same time, the sailors were on the Urged by the captain, he left the cabin reluctantly and went up to the deck, watching with tears in his eyes as the Carthage warship rushed towards their warship: most of them were the survivors of that sea storm. , Finally got a new warship, and it will be sunk in the first battle...

Three Dionian warships were hit by the Carthage warships. The crew jumped into the sea. The fleet infantry quickly chopped down the few Carthage infantry on the deck and rushed into the lower compartment. Here, facing the panicked Carthage oars, this time the fleet infantry stabbed them to death without mercy.

The screams of the Carthage crew resounded across the sea, and the other Carthage captains were moved, and they said to Morbar: Send all the deck soldiers on the warships to these two ships. Go on the boat, defeat the soldiers of Dionia, and save the oarsmen on the boat.

Morbar categorically refused. He was already half-into the loess. He had long been used to life and death. He didn't care much about the lives of these three or four hundred Carthage and Phoenician oarsmen. He didn't want these warships to suffer for it. Delayed time, and judging from the current situation, even sending all the deck soldiers may not be able to defeat these well-trained Dionian fleet infantry.

Up to now, the surprise in his heart has not dissipated: in the case of his own side occupying an absolute advantage, the three Dionian warships seized their own warships while they were still probing. They quickly and decisively took effective measures. With his tactics, he successfully captured two warships at the moment when the rabbits were up and down!

The excellent performance of the Dionia warship made him shudder, and he was very disturbed, so he did not hesitate to give the order to "sink and sink his own warship".

I saw that when the warship was hit, dozens of Dionian soldiers armed with daggers and leather shields quickly rushed onto the deck, jumped into the blood-stained water, and swam not far with ease. The beach... Morbal was surprised at the same time, knowing that the Carthage sailors on Shira might be in big trouble.

But he has no time to take care of this at the moment. He must immediately lead these warships into the battle against this lured Dionian fleet, and destroy as many Dionian warships as possible to live up to it. The sacrifice of these Carthage merchant ships.

The Dionian warships scattered on both sides of the island were also besieged by the superior forces of the Carthage fleet. They also made a tenacious resistance to delay the time for the Carthage fleet to sweep eastward.

In that small area of ​​water between several islands, with the Stefacas flagship as the center, warships are gradually converging...

When Morbal led the fleet around the Isle of Hira, Stefakas, who had gathered only more than 30 warships, did not hesitate to launch an attack on the Carthage fleet, which had far more warships than his own.

Morbar had already realized the terrible advantages of the Dionian fleet in the overall tactical coordination and gang-jumping operations in the previous observations, and the islands of Shira and the east side constituted a disagreement. The large circular sea area did not have enough space for the Carthaginian warships to make large-scale maneuvers. On the contrary, it was conducive to the greater use of the unique tactics of the Dionian fleet. In the case of finally obtaining a huge advantage locally, Mo Of course, Erbar didn't want to fight like this, so he gave the order "first sweep the outside of the island, destroy the scattered Dionian ships, and finally gnaw off the hard bone in the center."

Of course, Morbal also hopes to see the enemy in the center continue to pursue and leave this narrow sea area, then the Carthage fleet will concentrate all its efforts to destroy it without hesitation.

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The Carthage fleet led by Barricos took the ZigZag route, trying to keep a close distance from the Dionia fleet.

Sekrian led the main fleet to chase them, especially as the fast warship gradually approached and sank many merchant ships. Another 10 fast warships, under Sekrian’s order, did not chase after the other warships. Instead, they sailed straight to the port of Lilibo at the fastest speed, cutting off the return of the Carthaginian fleet. , And gradually formed an encirclement.

When Barricks saw an enemy ship intercepting him, he did not panic, but gave a crazy order: "Turn around!"

In the case of a total headwind, the ship that just turned around has almost no speed, relying on the subtle manipulation of the helmsman and oarsman, it is dangerous and dangerous again to avoid Dio, who had to go forward under the action of inertia. The Niah battleship and other Carthage merchant ships did the same, but in the process, at least seven merchant ships were hit and sunk.

The crew of Dionia was not happy because of this, because the remaining Carthage merchant ships broke through their encirclement again, which was simply a silent humiliation to the Dionia Navy.

The Dionian warships turned back and pursued, but Baricos and the others turned the bow once again, facing east, and the sails turned to the right. With the help of the southwest wind, the Dionian warships crossed against each other. And pass.

At this time, the crew on the Dionian battleship was already blushing with anger, and even some of the infantrymen on the Raven battleship threw their short swords directly at Carthage on the merchant ship that was close to them. people.

Baricos led more than 30 merchant ships through the gap between the Dionian warships, sailing directly to the coast not far away, and then clinging to the coastline, turning around and heading south.

Sekrian was dumbfounded. He didn't expect the Carthaginians to play this trick: That's the coast! The Carthage merchant ship is small and light. The position it can use may be stranded for warships. There are many reefs near the coast. The Carthaginians are familiar with the sea conditions here, but the Dionians are not very familiar with it. It is easy to damage the warship from hitting the rocks.

The Carthage merchant ship played the Dionian Sicilian fleet between applause, angering the always confident Sekelian. In order to restore the honor of the navy, he vowed to sink these bold enemies today.

He sent a small number of warships to speed up to Mazara and Lilibo, and other warships cruised near the coast between the two cities, constantly staring at these Carthage merchant ships, unless they abandoned the ship and landed. The Sicilian fleet confronted them in this way, and even Sekrian was planning to call back a few clippers and let them try to approach the Carthage merchant ship.

After a while, a few clippers were ordered to arrive, and the extra one brought an emergency military situation.

"Our squadron is being raided by the Carthage fleet in the north!" When Sekelian heard the news, the burning anger in his heart instantly extinguished. He had some doubts about the previous two Carthage fleets. It was relieved in an instant, but the anxiety was rapidly expanding: Obviously this is a conspiracy planned by the Carthage Navy, and there must be sufficient preparations. The squadron is in a very dangerous situation!

At this time, how could Sekrian take care of the Carthage fleet that had repeatedly challenged his dignity. He quickly recalled the warships scattered in the waters between Lilibal and Mazara. It took some time.

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Morbal certainly did not forget the main Dionian fleet to the south. When Sekrian assembled the militant ships and headed north, he quickly got the news.