Davers was relieved. When he had made a crazy plan to "bait himself" in advance, Sekrian and he made detailed arrangements for it, arranging more warships around Davers's ship to protect Davers's safety and make a final battle with the enemy.

"There's a ship rushing in front of you!"

"There's a warship on the starboard side!"

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

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The exclamations of the three lookouts continued, and the Syracuse launched a frantic attack on Davers's ship, making the nerves of the entire ship tense all the time.

"Drawbridge retracted! Drawbridge retracted! At this time, the deck sailors in the bow of the ship shouted loudly.

Miltias breathed a sigh of relief, and he shouted, "Back off!" ”

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

The sailors immediately rowed backwards, and the speed of the ship had just increased, when they heard the lookout at the foot of the bed shouting: "There is an enemy ship coming from behind!" There are enemy ships coming from behind! ”

This Syracuse warship is quite cunning, with superb ship-handling skills, through the surrounding warships to block the view, it is like a swimming fish flexibly shuttled between the gaps of the ship, quickly approaching the ship, when it was discovered by the lookout, the distance was only more than 40 meters.

However, the ship was rowing backwards again, so the distance was rapidly closing, and Miltias shouted, "Turn to the right rear!" Turn to the right rear! ......" He wanted the ship to turn around and let the "Raven Drawbridge" work, but it seemed that time was running out.

"Row forward! Paddle forward! ......," he shouted again.

Although the oarsmen did not know the situation outside, they also had a premonition that something bad was going to happen when they listened to the captain's frequently changing orders and nervous voices, and for a while they became a little flustered, and some people even fell into the sea with wooden pulp.

Seeing the bronze ramming horns of the enemy ship rushing towards him, and even the appearance of the enemy in the bow of the ship could be seen clearly, at this moment one of Davers's hearts was raised to his throat, but it was Martius who rushed up with his soldiers and urgently took off his armor for Davers, in case a ship was sunk, they would jump into the sea with Davers until they were rescued.

At this moment of lightning, in the narrow gap between the warships (the three-paddle warship could not pass at all), a warship sprang out of the oblique thorn, blocking between the enemy ship and the ship, it was Dionia's 50-pulp warship. In the usual naval battles, the role of the fifty pulp warship is mostly used for reconnaissance, transmission, rescue, assistance in ship-hopping operations, etc., and is generally used as a fast ship. However, in Dionia's fleet, when the new naval tactics began to be implemented, in view of the weakness of the flexibility and relatively poor speed of the three-layer paddle warships equipped with the "Raven Drawbridge", Sekrian gave the Fifty Pulp Warships a new tactical role, that is, to use the small and agile characteristics of the Fifty Paddle Warships (the fastest can reach 15 to 16 knots) to block the offensive routes of the enemy ships, so that the main warships could escape

In order to ensure the safety of Davers, there were naturally several such warships roaming around the ship. At this moment, the enemy ship did not have time to turn at all, and the bronze ramming angle directly hit the fifty-pulp warship, only to hear a loud "bang", and then the sound of wood breaking, the screams and screams of sailors sounded, and a large hole was cut in the whole body, and the sea water immediately poured in, diluting the blood of the wounded......

The fifty-pulp warship sank rapidly under the pressure of the three-tiered oared enemy ship......

However, the forward momentum of the three-layer oared enemy ship had weakened significantly and eventually stalled.

Just as the captain shouted in panic, "Paddle back," Davers' ship had already turned around and approached quickly, and the "Raven Drawbridge" was smashed.

Davers shouted angrily: "Avenge the brothers!" ”

led the escorts and personally killed the deck of the enemy ship......

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The Syracuse had hoped to use their great sailing skills and vast experience in naval warfare to deal with the strange ships of Dionia, but they discovered that the Dionian ships, though less agile, were so nimble that when they turned and fell in all directions, in all directions, in such a way that none of the ships that came close to them could escape being caught and eventually captured.

The people of Syracuse were utterly frightened.

Due to Leptinies' insistence, the assault on Davers's ship became the final madness, and more than 30 Syracuse ships were captured around Davers's ship, and the Syracuda fleet finally could not hold on......

Let Leptinies lose his voice and shout: "Rush forward!" Let me rush up! Let me die here! Let me go and let me drown! Ahhhh......h

How dare its captain let him have any accidents. When he charged before, he secretly asked the paddlers to slow down the pulp, allowing the flagship to wander out of the assault circle. This time the naval defeat was all the more necessary to ensure the safe return of the naval commander to the Siriting, otherwise the wrath of the plenipotentiary general was not something they could bear.

The few remaining ships of the Syracuse turned and fled south, but the Dionian fleet did not pursue them, for their ships could not keep up with the fleeing enemy ships. On top of that, they also have to rescue soldiers who have fallen into the water and seize the time to deal with the aftermath.

"Your Majesty, the Syracuse Navy has withdrawn—retreated! We—we're victorious!! Amid the cheers of the Paddlers and the Guards, Miltias rushed to him and reported to him with an unusually excited expression.

Davers looked at the enemy who had disappeared into the skyline, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and replied in a slightly trembling voice: "Victory...... It's just getting started! ”

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The Battle of Taranto, a battle of Taranto that lasted more than two hours, finally came to an end.

The Syracuse Navy lost two hundred and twenty-three ships, the vast majority of which were three-layer oars. The Dionian fleet lost more than 40 ships, half of which were fifty ships. The Dionian fleet, which was at an absolute disadvantage, surprised many outsiders and defeated the Syracuse navy.

In the war a very different picture appeared from other naval battles. The Syracuse Navy lost so many ships, but there were few images of ships being rammed and sunk, and a large number of sailors floating on the surface of the sea, screaming in misery. Because there were a total of 157 three-layer oared warships, which were completely captured by the Dionians, and only needed a little repair, with their own sailors, they could go to sea to fight, and the strength of the Dionian fleet would suddenly more than triple.

This has really become an aggressive thing in the history of Greek naval warfare, and naval battles have always been about fewer and fewer warships, and I have never heard of the truth that more and more battles are fought.

While the sailors and soldiers of the Dionian fleet cheered for victory, the shore boiled.

The people of Castron cheered. After witnessing a thrilling naval battle, they knew that their homeland would never again be ravaged by the evil Syracuse.

It's a miracle! After seeing the retreat of the Syracuse warship, Amicles was so surprised that he didn't come back to his senses for a long time, although he had a little luck in advance, but it was a fluke after all, but the Dioonians really turned it into a fact! In this regard, Amicles came to a conclusion for half a day: "Hades's oracle has really been fulfilled!" After Davers was elected king, Dionya was really greatly blessed by Hades! ”

His words were actually agreed by the top brass around Castron, and one of the council members hurriedly asked, "So ...... Shall we see the messenger of Syracuse? ”

"Nope!" Amicles said in a resolute tone: "Kill him immediately!" ”

"This ...... Wouldn't it be too intense? Someone worriedly said, "In case the dictator in Syracuse is angered......

"Are you not afraid of angering our neighbor Dionia!" Amicles reminded them: "We are so close to Turii that sooner or later the entry of the Syracuse envoy into the city will be known to the Dionians, and what will Davers think in his heart, and what the Dionian Senate will think!" Dionia, blessed by the oracle of Hades, had already won such disparities in naval battles that they were bound to win eventually, just as Athens, blessed by the famous 'wooden wall' oracle of Delphi a few decades earlier, finally defeated Persia. We can only make up for our mistakes in such a drastic way, and show our determination to be with Theoria! ”

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The Dionian crowd cheered for the victory much earlier.

When each of the captured triplex warships was forced to sail to the shore and then sail north along the coastline into the mouth of the Klatty River, everyone watching the battle from the shore cheered and waved desperately to the legionnaires on deck. And this cheering continued, as the captured Syracuse ships continued to sail to the seashore.

The other Syracuse ships did not take advantage of their slow movement to ram and sink the captured ships, partly because of the fierce attack of the Dionian fleet, which made them unable to spare time, and because the Syracuse knew that the sailors who piloted these captured ships were their Syracuse, and no one wanted to make such a crazy decision to send their comrades who had been with each other for a long time and trained together to the grave of death, and if they did, they would face accountability from the people of the city-state when they returned to their home state. Not to mention that their benevolent naval commander, Reptines, would not have given such a cruel order.

So, when one captured Syracuse ship after another sailed in front of the Dionian populace, everyone understood that victory was not far off. But perhaps for fear of scaring away this hard-won victory, everyone did not dare to let go of the celebration completely, until the Syracuse fleet retreated, and the joy in the hearts of the people of Dionya fully exploded.

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