In fact, Karabis didn't bother to run to the night battle. In front of the fireworks that soared into the sky, teams of Roman soldiers, pulling mules and horses and carrying guns, were moving towards the acropolis.

When the soldiers who arrived at the Acropolis determined them, they pulled up the fence gate, and entered Karabis and found that there were chaos everywhere. The injured soldiers of Bosphorus sat in front of the steps of the small temple and groaned. No one was responsible for the treatment at all. Those who were not injured ran around, looking for their disappearing superiors and officers.

Marca and Claudi, who were nervous, also appeared in the acropolis, as if waiting for Karabis to explain something, which made Karabis both shocked and angry. He led his subordinates directly to the governor and deputy general. After performing the military salute, he asked: "Two Your Excellencies, I think your duty should be to stay in the city of Pontikabien, do a good job in city defense and blocking the bay. I hope you have done a good job."

"Everything is fine, I heard that you, the Legion envoy, was defeated because of poor command on the front line." Marca deliberately placed Karabis as a "defeated general" before expressing his true thoughts, "How about, if the Acropolis cannot be defended, you must pull the main force into Pontikabien and guard my palace."

Karabis got up in a panic: "There are only more than a thousand people, plus the defeated soldiers of your lord, who are like frightened birds, and you want to defend the Ponticabien with a circumference of nearly twenty Stadia. I have told you that the main force should defend the city, and then you should do the blockade of the bay - by the way, where is your ship, do you have shipwrecks and wooden stakes?" Seeing that Marcha didn't say anything, Karabis turned to Claudi and spread his hands. Claudi had an innocent face.

"You go quickly. Go on the long bridge, why are you still going to be slow!" Karabis roared, "Hurry, Bendu's ship is coming soon, now it's wind, they won't be fast, I stay in the Acropolis, you should retreat back to Pontikabien. It's still time!" Then he spitted on the ground, almost calling the "idiot".

In the early morning, at the bridgehead of the long bridge, Bosphorus soldiers, entourages, and officers were crowded into a group, and from time to time, some people were squeezed into the sea. On the small half-moon-shaped dock outside the acropolis, several small boats were quickly rowing towards the direction of Ponticabien, among which Marca and Claudi were both blue-faced and wrapped their heads in cloaks. They looked extremely nervous and down-and-out, and the rest of the Roman legion soldiers were checking their combat preparations at various posts in the acropolis. Karabis and several centurions stood in front of the dock, and then Karabis saw the three Helenputina wearing armor, and there was also Niko who was holding a slag cart behind him. "Why did you bring Niko?"

The queen with her masked words were a little hesitant, "I just thought she might be safer in the Acropolis."

"Don't say so much!" Karabis jumped off the stone platform in three steps, pulled the royal eunuchs who wanted to plunder the only two remaining boats, kicked them down on the mudflat, and then waved to Helenputina only. The Queen of Amazon and Elcapa quickly came down, jumped onto one, untied the cable, and rowed towards the center first. Ella picked up the little Niko and jumped onto another one. Karabis picked up the bleating lamb and put it on the deck of the boat, "Good girl, grab it."

Neko, who was holding the lamb, opened her big antelope-like eyes like her mother, and looked at the man in panic, unable to say a word.

"Karabis, don't worry, I will take good care of Niko!" Ella shouted.

On the other side, Helenputina, who was standing at the bow of the ship, raised her armor and stared at Karabis standing on the dock. He was hugging his thighs by several eunuchs who begged him, staring at Niko motionless. His white horse was also standing on the mudflat with a very spiritual sense and kicking back and forth. It fully understood the mistress's difficulties.

In the metropolis, the distance between Karabis and Queen and Niko is getting farther and farther.

The wind direction had already changed terrifyingly. Karabis suddenly heard the thrilling drums at the entrance of the bay. He climbed up the stone tower on the side of the dock and saw the dense Bendu ships, raising their sails, and rushing towards the bay without any obstacles. In front of them, there was only a simple iron chain across the bay. Not to mention wooden stakes and shipwrecks, even if it was located on a small island at the entrance of the bay, which could serve as a naval command post, it did not send any alarm signals at all.

"Battle Marca, bastard Claudi!" Karabis finally couldn't bear it anymore and cursed. He remembered the Queen and Neko, and grabbed the soft rope and fell directly from the tower, falling into the mud and water of the mud flats, falling all over his face, but he still struggled to get up. At this time, the boat of the Queen and Ella was already far from the shore, as far as six or seven hundred Roman feet.

Fires appeared at the entrance of the bay. The soldiers on Bendu's ship first wrapped the torch on the iron chain and burned it. Then they used a long axe and hook to easily chop and hook the iron chains and cracked into several sections and fell into the water. With the sound of a long horn, Bendu's ship rushed into the bay like a bamboo shoot. Several small Bosphorus sampans that came to intercept were immediately sieve by the opponent's throws and rockets. They circled the current like a few rotten leaves, and then sank to the bottom of the water. There were people struggling with wooden boards everywhere on the water.

The next thing that was affected was the Long Bridge. The original intention of the bridge design was that only small ships could pass through below, but the several monster-like ships in Bendu didn't care about these. The terrible bronze horns stretched out from the bow of their ship instantly hit the wooden bridge's body in several directions, and then the long bridge shook violently, making several huge and painful moans, and twisted and disintegrated in the air and water surface with countless people on the bridge deck - no matter what, they fell into the sea, and the water columns of all sizes were dense like forests.

It seemed that Claudi and Marca's ships had crossed, but the Queen's ships did not. The waves that caused the destruction of the long bridge to shake the two small boats up and down. Karabis saw clearly that his little Neko was wet by the sea. He was holding a lamb, crying with his mouth open, and Ella hugged her tightly to comfort her.

And over there, Helenputina and El Capa also held the side of the ship, shaking up and down, trying to maintain balance.
Chapter completed!