"This is the Eagle Mark of the Elite Roman Legion?" Gao Yang looked at the three tattered eagle-headed flags in front of him curiously, and asked curiously.

"Back to Lord Taiwei's words, it is the token of the elite division of the Great Qin Barbarians." Zhao Yun, who still had blood stains on his battle armor, responded.

Gao Yang stretched out his hand and picked up the eagle mark and looked at it, and nodded with satisfaction. "This thing is good, take it back as a souvenir."

Gao Yang instructed the guards to put away the eagle mark, turned to look at the many generals, and said with a smile, "Everyone's performance is good." We have successfully defeated the threat from the flanks, and now we can go straight to the kingdom of the Great Qin people with peace of mind. ”

After a pause, he continued, "There are meritorious rewards, and there are punishments." After returning from this great victory, you must appease the soldiers. Record military exploits and give rewards. The wounded should be properly treated, and all the spoils that could be distributed were distributed. Set up camp and rest for a while. Wine and meat were open for the sergeants to enjoy. They fought with their lives, and we can't treat the soldiers badly. ”

"No." Many generals behind Gao Yang responded in unison.

"Alright." Gao Yang turned to look at the huge military formation in the distance below the mountain, lowered his eyelids slightly, and took a deep breath. "Everyone, let's enjoy the winner's dinner now." ”

"No!"

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When Gao Yang led a large army to defeat the Macedonian army led by Turus*c in the mountains of Macedonia. Sun Jian and his fleet were also not idle. They are on the Adriatic Lisa (Croatian island of Vess. More than 100 nautical miles to the south, a large-scale naval battle broke out with the Roman Imperial naval fleet that took the initiative to challenge it, which was far more magnificent and huge than during the Greco-Persian Wars.

The Romans dominated three continents for hundreds of years, using the vast Mediterranean Sea as their inner lake, and most importantly because they had powerful facilities that no enemy had. The Romans, who had control of the sea, had the ability to quickly transport troops and supplies to anywhere along the Mediterranean coast with a large number of ships.

This powerful ability is unsolvable in this day and age. Unless you are also able to have an equally powerful fleet and defeat the Romans at sea.

The Carthaginians did this, and they became the uncompromising enemies of the Romans. Even with a peerless commander like Hannibal, after a hundred years of fierce battles, he could not escape the fate of being wiped out.

Shipping in the Mediterranean was the cornerstone of the rise of the Romans.

Now, after hundreds of years of Roman glory in the Mediterranean, a mighty fleet from the far east has challenged them with the most powerful of all!

The Romans had no choice at all. To lose control of the Mediterranean Sea is to lose one's own empire. There is no easy access to the sea. Why did the Roman Empire, which relied only on Italy itself, control so many provinces and overseas colonies?

When Sun Jian's fleet appeared in the Mediterranean, the only thing the Romans could do was to gather all their strength to fight this mighty fleet to the death!

The battle in Egypt was no longer important, and the absence of supplies for Turus in Macedonia was no longer important. There was nothing more important to the city of Rome at this time than to defeat the alien fleet on the sea.

The new Emperor Severus and his co-ruler Alnubis were no longer in contention. The Roman Senate also did not care about continuing to rot. Defeated. They went crazy and searched for ships and sailors, and in a short time they were able to cobble together an extremely large fleet. Led by Emperor Severus himself, he slaughtered the mighty alien navy.

The Romans had already figured out the location of the alien navy. Those huge fleets were blockading the Adriatic Sea with supply ships destined for Macedonia from the Empire mainland.

Severus sailed around the Ionian Sea with a fleet of various ships and entered the Adriatic Sea, preparing to take on Sun Jian's fleet.

The Roman fleet was numerically superior. There were many of their ships, and when they passed through the Strait of Otranto, they almost obscured the entire strait. However, most of the Romans' ships were temporary adaptations of ordinary transport vessels. It was too late to install the ramming, but under the overtime work of a large number of workers and slaves, ordinary ballistas. There are still a lot of catapults or something. Barely able to have combat capability.

Although the Romans ruled the Mediterranean for many years, they were not good at large-scale naval battles. After all, the war with the Carthaginians was already an ancient story countless years ago. The Romans, who were completely invincible in the Mediterranean, did not need advanced theories of naval warfare. At the same time, their sea vessels have not been developed much for so many years.

This situation is similar on the side of the Han Empire. It is also an invincible existence in the surrounding area, and it is also developing slowly. However, the Han Empire had Gaoyang's existence, but the Romans did not.

Gao Yang not only brought a large number of the top ships of the Sail Era to the Han Empire, but also brought them the most detailed nautical charts on the entire planet, as well as training methods and naval battle tactics. This is the most fundamental difference between the navies of the two empires. The gap between the two sides is as high as a thousand years!

"Father, those Great Qin people have already arrived." On the extremely large three-masted battleship, the heroic Sun Ce shouted loudly to Sun Jian, who was standing on the conning tower, with his head held high.

"Hmm." Sun Jian put down the telescope in his hand and snorted coldly. A chill flashed in his eyes. He had been waiting for this day for a long time.

He has a large fleet and is invincible across the seas. But the opponents are small fishing boats. You don't have to fight, you can sink it all if you hit it directly.

As the Governor of the Navy, he has a strong and unparalleled strength in his hands. caught up with one glorious battle after another to destroy the country. But he can only work as a transport worker, watching others make achievements in destroying the country, and his own exploits in sinking how many fishing boats are really out of reach.

Now, here's your chance to go down in history. A sea battle in which thousands of warships participated. As the commander, Sun Jian's face was cold, but his heart was already full of passion.

"Come on." Sun Jian silently thought in his heart: "I've been waiting for you for a long time. ”

This large-scale naval battle in the era of cold weapons broke out very fiercely.

It is different from the traditional way of chasing me in the era of sailing, where the days are calculated. Because of the narrow environment of the Adriatic. Because both sides had the idea of crushing the enemy's war potential in a World War I. This naval encounter was both explosive and unusually tragic.

Most of the ships of the Roman Empire were small, and the small here refers to the three-masted galleons of the Han navy. Able to sail and transport on the sea. Even if it is only a ship sailing on the calm Mediterranean, it is naturally not too small.

Most of the large ocean-going sailing ships used by the Han army were three-masted. Although they were not equipped with hundreds of cannons, it was not difficult to deal with the Romans with those bed crossbows, trebuchets, arrow towers, etc. In particular, most of the Han army's trebuchets were not loaded with stones, and they used homemade incendiary bombs filled with gasoline mixture.

There's nothing to say about the power of the incendiary bomb. The Japanese, who had completed modern industrialization during World War II, had already set an example by demonstrating the terrifying power of incendiary bombs to everyone. People in the industrial age can't bear it, let alone the Romans in the age of cold weapons, whose hands, feet, arms and arms are exposed?

Severus, a veteran of decades in the army, even had only a small amount of information about the alien navy. He was also able to deduce that if the naval battle had been fought in the usual way, the inferior Roman fleet would have little chance of winning. If this is the case, it can only be a surprise victory.

After the two sides met on the sea, they looked at the huge fleet on the opposite side that was like a wall of clouds covering the sky. Severus was stunned by the sheer size of the alien naval fleet, but also secretly excited by his foresight.

Severu's battle plan was not complicated. The first was to take advantage of the Romans' superiority in the number of ships at sea to quickly approach the huge enemy fleet into melee mode, distract the enemy's attention, and block the enemy's mobility. Then came the well-prepared fireboat assault loaded with dry firewood and brimstone!

Severus's ultimate resort was to burn down the enemy's ships with raging fire.

The ships of this era were all built of wood. Don't look at it on the vast sea, the ships are also very afraid of fire. Moreover, at this moment, the alien sea ships are so large, so their maneuverability must not be strong. As long as a large number of brave death squads approach quickly in the fireboat, they will be able to achieve incredible results.

The two top empires of the East and the West were separated by tens of thousands of miles, and there was little communication between them. This time, the large-scale exchange was still a direct war. This leads to information asymmetry between the two sides.

Severus believed that alien races without culture and civilization would not know what tactics were and what fireship attacks were. He wouldn't have thought that after seeing the formation of the Romans, Sun Jian immediately sneered, "It's all the leftovers of Lao Tzu's play." ”

"All ready, let's have a barbecue feast on the sea!" Sun Jian put down the monocular in his hand and shouted loudly to the generals beside him.

Since the last time Gao Yang organized a large-scale seaside barbecue feast by the sea in Basra City. Both the army on land and Sun Jian's navy were very interested in this kind of collective activity.

This naval battle was actually a trap. It was a trap deliberately set by Sun Jian in order to destroy the sea power of the Romans.

Sun Jian first swaggered into the Adriatic Sea with a large number of warships, cutting off the Roman Empire's way of providing logistical supplies to the Macedonian provincial legions by sea, thus forcing the Romans to gather their naval forces for a decisive battle.

Outside the battlefield, Sun Jian left behind a powerful fleet to hide in the distance. Zhou Yu, who rose to prominence at the age of only eighteen and was called Sun Jian's successor by Gao Taiwei, Zhou Gongjin was in charge of the commander. Zhou Yu's mission was simple: to block the Strait of Otranto after the start of the Great War, and seal the entire Roman fleet in this place of execution.

Sun Jian's idea was very simple, he would sweep away the sea power of the Romans in a war! (To be continued.) )