Chapter 15 The Battle of the Old Port (Part 2)
That's right, it seems that the reckless Li Bida finally found that the supplies and water on the island could not last long, and tried to build bridges and obtain supplies from the shore. This was a great opportunity for our army to attack!
Under the instruction of Katu, Dumijius drove out his huge fleet on the first day in mid-May. On the abandoned lighthouse on Seymours Island, Li Bida looked at the enemy lineup on the sea. Although he was a little timid, if he wanted to break the deadlock, he had to show his spirit of having less to fight the more. What's more, the fleet I have trained in Cyreaniga in the past two years is definitely to surprise Dumijius and the Marcellans who are self-reliant!
Then Li Bida walked down the lighthouse and spoke to his own crew and soldiers on the edge of the sea cliff, "In the past, I said many times that Li Bidaus had a naval naval division, but it was only used to carry land soldiers. This time it was different. The enemy was finally lured out of the port by me. Now, just look at what happened to you in the battle, the Ligurians also had four ships, and they sneaked from Yaer Harbor and ambushed in the waters of the old port. They had excellent naval warfare traditions, and each seaman could skillfully fight with a belly bow. So this time I asked everyone - if you are timid and think you are not enough to fight against the experienced Marcellans, then speak out loud and I can let the Ligurians help!"
"Never mind, what a joke!" All the crew members from Cyrene shouted angrily, shaking their long sickles and iron hooks. "We are all from Crete, Rhode Island and Cyprus. In terms of experience in ocean combat, they are no worse than this city-state that relies on barbarians!"
"Very good. Use your new tactics. Burn them with bows and arrows and flames. Capture them with skillful melee skills. Our combat skills will surely surprise these ungrateful barbarians. Whether I will get your safe guard today, not be captured, or even defeat the enemy, depends on you. The 15th Legion had experience in naval battles in Cyraniga, and you must fight bravely like my crew members! "Li Bida said, personally joined Gaibo and boarded the flagship "Karabia" in the cheers of the crowd. The ship was transformed, covered with the original water barrier, and placed a flag-language command system, and then lined up in dense formations to row at Dumigos' fleet.
The drums on the sea were shaking the sky, and a deputy general of Marcelia shouted to Dumijius standing on the bridge, "We are in the direction of the wind. The other party has started to lower sails and can only use paddles. Now we should lengthen the front and encircle them!"
"That's right." Dumijius also saw the opponent's "badness", so he asked the flag personnel to issue an order to the ship behind: with bronze horns, they were in the center, lowered their sails and rowed in order not to lose their targets too fast; while the light attack ships on both sides raised their sails, accelerated their speed, and detoured to the rear of the enemy's wings to encircle and annihilate them!
"Oh oh oh oh!" The Marcellans and the Albissi immediately rowed hard and bulged their sails. At extremely fast and rapid speed, they quickly formed a flat line with Li Bida's fleet, but the other party had no idea of the extension of the light attack ship to intercept them. It was a ridiculous naval battle. Thinking of them, they began to attack both sides of the other party like two pliers.
Soon, Li Bida's flag utterance was also released. The double-row attack ships on both sides began to turn the bow, with light and shiny collision angles on it, and rushed towards the Marcelian ships fiercely. "It seems that this Sardinian Governor is really rich, and every ship of all sizes has excellent collision angles." But this could not intimidate one of them at all. Albissi was skillfully steering the rudder. Taking advantage of the number of their own ships, two or three began to attack one of Li Bida's from both sides.
The Albissi first used a long axe and a sickle to chop the oars stretched out from both sides of the other party, causing the other party to lose their mobility. However, after slashing hard, he realized that the other party's oars were actually covered with steel in the front section!
Then, after coming to their senses, they began to shoot the sails and masts of Libida's ship with fire-burning guns and bows and arrows, but the arrows fell down and failed to ignite the tiny. This shocked them who had never seen the world or the world. Someone instantly discovered that the key points of the Libida raid ship were hung with rows of armor-like things, but they looked much softer, and the fire automatically went out as soon as it reached it.
Destroy, "Cyprus Mah", some people who have seen this thing exclaimed. Yes, this was what a crew member from Cyprus said before in Cyrenaga, when he offered advice when preventing the ship from being set on fire. This was actually asbestos, but Li Bida immediately adopted it and gave the crew a "patent fee" of 50,000 Sesie's withdrawal, and then he had difficulty collecting enough items and equipped on his own sails and decks.
Below is the counterattack of Libida's ship. The soldiers hiding under the asbestos board and shield on the side of the ship all stood up. They used the small crossbow on the side to shoot black things at the ships on both sides. This was a arrow spear with an iron hook. After piercing through the other ship, they quickly grabbed it tightly. The rope made of iron rings would be chopped by the Albissi knife and axe. It would be useless. The other end of the iron ring was placed on the pulley. Only Libida's crew turned the pulley, and the ship in Marcelia was dragged and unable to move.
Then, either extend the springboard to let the strong infantry on the ship jump to fight with each other. There is also a tactic, which is to use bellows cannons or thrown fire cans to directly burn enemy ships. The former is aimed at ships mainly from the Marcellians on the deck. If there are strong Albissi people on the opposite side, then the unforgiving latter will be used - casting flames and burning them all to death.
Soon, the wreckage of the Marcelian raid ship was floating everywhere on the sea, and the bodies that were killed, drowned and burned. Dumijius's two-wing fleet lost a lot in a short time. Now Li Bida's raid ship turned against Yang Fan, slowly plucking from the two wings, surrounding Dumijius's big ship in the core. But now the Dumijius incident has inspired the instinct of a fierce battle. He blew the flag words, "All ships aimed at the enemy's flagship and rushed over to sink it!"
In the sound of the horn, the Dumigos fleet lined up into the first eight ships and nine ships behind, cutting through the waves, stretching out a terrifying horn and pounced on it.
Li Bida's bellows on three rows of paddle boats were the first to attack. Fire dragons rolled on the water and splashed out in a bunch of fireworks. The two ships in front of Dumijius were burning with fire, and the personnel and items on it were constantly thrown away. However, Dumijius and his flagship took advantage of the gap between the other party's preparation and charged forward with another marching ship towards Li Bida's "Karabia".
Chapter completed!