It's no wonder that Li Yexu was surprised, anyone on the endless sea, who couldn't see a giant of dozens of meters would be dumbfounded and shocked.

In his telescope vision, a giant with a muscle-covered chest, a giant spear in his right hand, and a giant torch in his left hand was staring at him with a hideous face, and by the moonlight, Li Yexu could vaguely see that the giant was emitting a bronze light.

Fortunately, at this time, Liu Renliang's chuckle came.

"Hehe, General Li doesn't need to panic, this is just a statue of marble wrapped in bronze, it's just a dead thing, the statue is not terrible, the real one is behind!"

Lu Ning on the side also explained: "I heard that the ancient Greeks of Rhodes once built a huge statue of the sun god, but it was destroyed in the earthquake, and it has been lying in this harbor for more than a thousand years, but it was rebuilt by the Romans a few years ago. ”

After speaking, Lu Ning shook his head with emotion and sighed: "Their gods didn't scare us, but they have to admit that their army scared us." ”

The Rhode Island Colossus is one of the eight wonders of the world, it is hard to imagine how human beings in BC used the rudimentary tools of the Bronze Age to build such a great building on the sea level, but it is not as simple as Liu Renliang said, looking at the majestic Colossus, Li Yexu sighed for a moment again, and then looked in the direction of Lu Ning's finger.

In the shot, a strange forest came into Li Yexu's eyes, and after a few more puzzled looks, Li Yexu couldn't help but gasp.

In the battle of the Yarmouk River, the Arab army had 125 counterweight stone throwers, this kind of behemoth with a maximum range of more than 970 meters could make the Fujian army suffer thoroughly, and the Fujian army died under it as many as thousands, and finally relied on the general's artillery, all of which were destroyed one by one, which made the soldiers feel at ease.

This is only one hundred and twenty-five, at this time the counterweight trebuchet in the Roman military port of Rhode Island is more like a forest, densely packed I don't know how many, even the outer harbor, the ship near the base of the huge sun god statue is this kind of extremely lethal long-range weapon, the towering stone throwing arm points straight to the blue sky, in the dark night, it is as terrifying as a dense forest.

Even if he wasn't a sailor, Li Yexu could still imagine that if the Great Min Sailor attacked rashly, the dense stones would fall down like a landslide and smash the hordes of ships to pieces, no, not just stones! The Romans also mastered the use of fierce fire oil.

Immediately climbed onto the boat, and the wet water ghost also proved his terrible idea, the water ghost dragged up two large barrels, which were obstacles arranged by the Romans in the water, and as soon as the barrel was uncorked, the pungent smell of oil immediately made people frown, and in the careful movement of the water ghost, he also cut off a center-burning ignition device from the lid of the barrel.

Looking at the ignition device that was thrown into the sea and hissed, Li Yexu broke out in a cold sweat on his back, if this is not good and explodes on the boat, they will have to finish the boat.

Looking into the distance, I don't know how many of these wooden barrels can be faintly seen in the water, and it is estimated that a large hole will have to be burned if you encounter one.

seemed to be very satisfied with Li Yexu's shocked expression, bowed his head slightly, and then Liu Renliang ordered loudly: "Return!" ”

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When the fleet returned to the port, it was almost dawn in the second half of the night, the moon had set, and the whole sea was dark, but the Naval Governor's Mansion was still brightly lit.

The general outline of the port of Rhode Island, which had been reconnoitred tonight, was vividly displayed on the paper, and even the imaginary ship formation arrangement when the sailors sent out their troops were drawn, and the firing ranges, weapon landing points, and attack directions of the two sides were clearly marked.

After watching it for a long time, Li Yexu exhaled a deep breath of turbidity and shook his head fiercely.

"Difficult!"

At this time, Lu Ning had already retired, drank the bitter coffee, and spit hot air, Liu Renliang said next, nodding his head: "That's right!" ”

"The British minister asked General Li to come to the old man's place to urge the sailors to hurry up and enter the army and block the supplies of the Buddha's house! It's not that the old man deliberately dragged out and embarrassed the Lu Division, if he didn't break through Rhode Island, he would be sent to death as many ships as he went, and he couldn't block the Buddha Institute at all, so if he attacked rashly, he had to fill it with human lives. ”

"That counterweight stone thrower shoots flat at a range of a thousand steps! Our artillery is mounted on the ship, the shooting is unstable, at most five or six hundred steps, rash attack, as the general said the hard work of the King of Min, the expensive ships will be turned into a sea of fire under the attack of the Roman Greek fire, and the soldiers will die nine times, then it will be too miserable! ”

Fight for half of the water army, Rhode Island is filled, but war is not a game, the purpose of war is to destroy the enemy and save himself, which commander dares to attack rashly at the risk of killing and injuring half of his army?

Finally nodded in understanding, Li Yexu was embarrassed and lay on the map, understanding is understanding, but at present, both armies are stuck on this Rhode Island, can't they be stuck forever, right?

"Can't you bypass this port, attack from behind Rhodes, and take the entire island with an army?" After looking at it for a long time, Li Yexu's mind suddenly lit up again, recalling the scene when Lu Ning sent him to land, and Liu Renliang, who listened to it, also nodded thoughtfully.

"In addition to the Roman sailors on Rhode Island, there are also 20,000 defenders, guarding the south beach of the island and Rhodes City, this time the general is invited to come, that is, the governor wants to borrow troops from the Li army and attack after detouring the island."

Sighing, Liu Renliang said helplessly: "But I have heard the merchants on the island say that the terrain around Rhodes Island is rugged, densely packed with reefs, Rhodes City and Lindos City are all fortified cities that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if they are attacked by sea and land, I am afraid it will be protracted, Your Majesty and the ministers are waiting for our good news in Antioch, and we have not yet touched Constantinople, but we are stuck here, it is really a negative grace!"

Listening to Liu Rengang's words, Li Yexu couldn't help but sigh, who knew that at this time, Liu Renliang suddenly stood up excitedly and pressed Li Yexu's shoulder.

"But General, you can change this stalemate!"

"Me?"

Li Yexu's eyes suddenly widened, and he asked in dismay, but he said that Liu Renliang was quite a high-ranking official, and his rich old head was like a chicken pecking rice.

"That's right, that's right! General, you! ”

Letting go of Li Yexu's shoulders, Liu Renliang waved his hands excitedly and said his plan.

"Recently, the Beijing division general has developed a new type of artillery, the cannon weighs 2,000 catties, the cannon body is long and narrow, and the firing range is as far as four or five miles!"

"The shore defense gun, the experimental product of this cannon, once pierced the Roman emperor's ship in the port of Cyprus with two cannons, and the frightened Constantine IV fled!"

"As long as there are forty such artillery pieces, placed on the sea platform of the naval division, the artillery fire can cover the entire port of Rhodes, and with the power of this cannon, our army can completely clean up all the fortifications of the Roman naval division in the port of Rhodes from the outside in and capture this port."

"As long as there is no nail, even if the whole island of Rhodes is not captured, without the support of the navy, this place will become irrelevant, and it can be slowly besieged, and when the time comes, the Great Min Naval Division will contain the sea transportation of the last few fortress strongholds of the Eastern Roman Empire at the western tip of Asia Minor, and the Li Bingbu will definitely take them without much effort! Then the whole battle situation will be alive! ”

"Then hurry up and mobilize the cannons!"

Looking at Liu Renliang's dancing gaffe, Li Yexu also shouted excitedly, however, when it came to this, Liu Renliang shook his head sadly.

"The Ministry of Industry replied that the technology of this kind of artillery is not yet mature, and it is not suitable for external transfer, and when the artillery is cast and transported from the Beijing Division to the front line, half a year has passed, and if it is really used on the battlefield, it will not be able to defeat Rhode Island next year!"

"What can I do?" Hearing this, Li Yexu was like a basin of cold water pouring down from his head, not to mention next year, if the Arab raiding army trapped under the city of Buddha no longer yields results, it is estimated that it will run out if it can't wait for a month, and when the time comes, more than 20,000 people will be left and right to stay there alone, and then the fun will be great.

"Then it's up to you, General!" Just when Li Yexu was depressed, Liu Renliang suddenly put his eyes on his shoulder again, and said excitedly: "I heard that the King of Min wants to marry the little princess to the general, it can be seen that he loves the general, as long as the general speaks, persuade Your Majesty to transfer the cannon casting craftsman to Damascus for two months!" Our army will be able to use this new cannon to sweep away the Roman thieves! ”

"For the sake of Damin! Please help the General! ”

Saying that, Liu Renliang bowed down heavily, and bowed to him, but he made Li Yexu stupid.

The youngest daughter of King Min is Princess Angel from Concubine Qin, why don't you know when King Min wants to marry herself to be so little bit older than 20 years old?

Cold sweat broke out, and his back was wet, Li Yexu immediately jumped up like a cat with a hot buttocks, and shouted sadly: "Liu Dudu, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense!" This kind of nonsense! But it's really easy to lose your head!! ”

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