Chapter 134 The Battle of Taranto (6)

Section 13! !

Under the control of the helmsman, the warship rushed straight to the enemy ship ahead at a terrifying speed of 13 knots (that is, 24 kilometers per hour) with all the oarsmen rowing hard.

Forcing the Syracuse warships to abandon their intention to attack the Midorades warships and instead meet the oncoming Dionysian warships.

"Crash that one first! Then I'll kill you!" Captain Syracuse thought confidently as he looked at the battleship of Midorads who was left behind.

"Pulping!" He shouted, satisfied to see that the oarsmen pulled back the pulp very quickly, and the warship was about to cross the Dionysian warship with its strong inertial speed.

At this moment, the 12-meter-long strange device on the bow of the Dionysian warship "slammed" down, the spikes at the top pierced through the deck, and sawdust splashed.

Amid the exclamations of the sailors of Syracuse, dozens of Dionian soldiers in black helmets and black armor rushed to the deck through the "Crow Suspension Bridge", and another killing began...

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The Syracuse navy, which did not take the Dionysian Fleet seriously, charged forward swiftly, while the Diorian Fleet fought bravely without showing weakness. Together.

But in most cases, with the crash of the "Crow Suspension Bridge", the Syracuse warship was hooked, and then the naval battle was turned into a land battle, making the Syracuse's excellent ship maneuvering skills completely useless. On the contrary, Dionia's legion detachment was like a tiger entering a flock, easily capturing the other's warships.

Within half an hour of the naval battle, the Syracuse Navy captured nearly 40 three-deck oars.

The wide sea made every Syracuse captain in the battlefield unable to see the loss of the entire army, but they also felt the difference: once the friendly warship in front was hooked by the strange device of the Dionysian warship After that, many of the enemy's soldiers emerged from the cabin, and through that device, rushed to the deck of their warships, and soon saw their warships withdraw from the battlefield, and the Dionysian warship began to move forward again. rush……

The captains at the rear of the Syracuse fleet have realized that they cannot face the Dionian battleship, but should rely on their excellent ship handling skills and better maneuverability to avoid the device on the front of the opponent's ship. , turned to attack the side rear of the enemy ship...

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This large-scale naval battle fought fiercely off the coast between Turii and Castellon, not only making the people of Dionia worried,

At the same time, it also attracted the attention of the Castrons.

General Castellon and members of the council headed by Amycles also gathered on the coast with the people, watching the progress of this naval battle, because it is not only related to the rise and fall of the Dionysian Alliance, but also An important decision concerning Castellon.

The envoy of Syracuse came to Castellon City yesterday. The general executive committee and council led by Amickles did not receive him, but they did not drive him away, but let him board the ship and stay at the hotel. "Rest" has already explained a change in Castellon's high-level psychology.

Although Castellon and Dionia have been in close contact over the past few years, they both regard each other as their closest allies. Castellons are even proud to be able to participate in various celebrations in Turii, like a family generally. But the alliance is just an alliance after all, not an alliance. The southern line of the South-Italian Allied Forces suffered a fiasco, and the wars and political instability in Dionia made the Castronians in the hinterland of Dionia feel the pride of the people of Turii from the beginning to the present. Panic, the large number of navy and army in Syracuse and the terror of slaughtering the Siridinians are shaking the Castronians' trust in the Dionysian Alliance.

Syracuse is not Crotone after all. When the Second Crotone War broke out, Crotone, who had already been defeated once, did not let Castellon lose his confidence in Dionia even if the army was persecuted, but this time the stronger Syracuse Zha's army was led by Dionysius, the tyrannical tyrant who had defeated the mighty Carthage, and his vanguard had made the Castellons tremble. Looking at the destroyed farmland, the burned villages, and the slaughtered people outside Castellon, the Castellons are angry and helpless.

When they learned that Davos led the army back to Turii and had already led the Dionian fleet to fight against the mighty Syracuse navy, all Castronians came to the sea with excitement, out of concern for Davos. of reverence, and anger at Syracuse, prayed that Dionysus would prevail.

But for the high-level city-states like Amicris, although they also pin their hopes on the invincible Dionysian Archon, the navy of the Syracuses is too powerful...

"In case... no! As long as Dionia cannot win this naval battle, this bay will be completely owned by the Syracuses, and then... we will have to find a way out for ourselves... ..." Amicklis looked at the many warships moving fast on the sea in the distance, thinking painfully in his heart...

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On the flagship of Syracuse at the rear of the fleet, Leptines thought he had heard it wrong, and the watchman on the main mast told him that the ships on his side were frequently withdrawing from the battlefield, and those Dionian battles Not only was the ship rarely sunk, but it continued to dash forward.

"General, listen to the report of the Clippers, the Dionysians installed a wooden bridge in front of the warship, and deployed a lot of heavy infantry in the cabin. Once the wooden bridge was caught, those heavy infantry rushed over, we The sailors on the ship were simply unable to resist. Now Cleandas and the others no longer confront the Dionian warships, but use our excellent shipmanship skills and rich experience in naval warfare to deal with the Dionians. In this way , Due to the installation of wooden bridges and too many soldiers, the speed and flexibility of the Dionysian warship are not as good as ours, and I believe the war situation will change soon!" The flagship captain comforted him.

Leptines' depressed mood improved slightly, and scolded indignantly: "Damn Dionysians only play some clever tricks, what do they think of sacred naval battles! Poseidon will definitely punish them! …”

He was venting the anger in his heart, when the watchman above his head suddenly shouted: "General, the warship with the statue on the mast rushed out! It rushed! It rushed to the front of the enemy's fleet! I can see it. There is a general in dazzling armor at the bow!"

Leptines was stunned for a moment, but then he was in high spirits, and he shouted loudly: "That is Dionysian Archon Davos! He is really on board! Quick! Order the column of warships to press on! Sink him. We must sink it! As long as we can kill or capture that Davos, no matter how many ships we lose, we in Syracuse will win!"

Since Syracuse adopted a double-column tactic, a column of ten ships. The bugle sounded, the flagship took the lead in charging, and more than 20 warships followed, and they soon surpassed the flagship.

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Dionia's starry tactics are like waves blown by a breeze. One wave of small waves just disappears, and another wave rises, layer upon layer, and keeps moving forward.

In this way, Davos's ship has been rushing through one after another of his own warships that are entangled with enemy ships, and finally came to the forefront of the battle line.

"Charge speed!" Miltias gave an order without hesitation when he saw the enemy ship rushing forward.

The warship suddenly accelerated, and the sharp arrows generally flew forward.

The two boats are 100 meters apart! 90 meters! 80 meters! …

Davos swallowed subconsciously and pulled out the dagger from his waist.

However, the enemy ship veered suddenly to the right.

"Left! Left!" Miltias hurriedly ordered.

However, the speed was too fast before, the amplitude of this turn was too large, and before the deflection was completed, the enemy ship had dexterously drawn an arc and rammed directly into the middle of the ship.

Myrtias didn't panic at this time, just ordered: "Continue to turn left!"

The captain of the enemy ship looked at the bronze ram, and was getting closer and closer to the larger three-layer slurry warship, with a smug smile on his face...

But soon, his smile froze.

The cumbersome hull of the Dionysian warship was only slightly left and then slanted, and the long plank-like device at the bow actually rotated more than a hundred degrees and fell directly backward. The more than ten-meter-long suspension bridge was smashing on the bow deck of his ship, and the two ships were connected with a "boom". Although the force of his own warship's forward thrust pushed the opponent's warship to sway back, and the suspension bridge creaked, but the enemy's ship was not injured in the slightest, but the enemy's soldiers rushed over the suspension bridge aggressively.

Done! Seeing that the situation was not good, he didn't care about the warships and sailors, so he turned his heart and jumped directly into the sea.

"Your Majesty, please stay and let me take the brothers to rush to kill!" Martius pulled Davos, who was about to cross the bridge, and asked firmly.

Davos didn't insist either. He knew that staying here in his current capacity would make everyone feel at ease.

"Then it's up to you." He nodded.

"Brothers, rush with me!" Martius drew his dagger, led the escort, and rushed across the bridge at the head. He wanted to ask the Syracuses for the price he nearly lost before.

"An enemy ship is rushing towards us in the front right!" Lou Wangshou exclaimed from the mast.

Myrtias and Davos immediately felt nervous. At this moment, the ship was connected to the enemy ship and could not be avoided at all.

But Sekelian's flagship behind the ship quickly greeted it, and quickly locked it with the "raven".

"There is an enemy ship behind the right side!" The watchman at the stern began to scream, but after a while, his screaming stopped, because another warship rushed up and connected it together.