The whole port seemed to be a mess, and in the shrill siren, the merchants threw down the tax collectors in astonishment, some ran to the town behind the port, and some turned around and got on the ship, and began to direct the crew to pack up and retreat, the porters threw down the goods and ran faster, and the tourists followed their guides back to the hotel in shock.XshuOTXt.CoM

Some ruffians, thieves also take the opportunity to make a fortune, take advantage of the fire to rob and steal chickens and dogs, and everywhere you can hear the screams of women and the roars of men.

Dozens of merchant ships turned into bumper ships, colliding with each other and sailing towards the open sea, although the prestige of the Min Navy spread far and wide, in the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean fought countless enemies crying dad and shouting mother, almost a symbol of invincibility, but in the Mediterranean, the Min army and naval division did not have any decent record of shooting.

On the contrary, it is true that Antioch burned half of the port a few days ago, and the Mediterranean maritime merchants without confidence fled in a swarm.

Seeing that these headless flies blocked the way out of the port, a column of water splashed out in front of these large merchant ships, and the thunderous sound made these lost and depressed businessmen shudder, and turned back in shock, just on the cliff by the harbor, the Fujian army's coastal defense artillery fired.

This is a good treasure that Lu Ning finally got out in the hands of Liu Renliang, I don't know how many pound cannons I want to convert into future generations, anyway, the cannon body is three and a half meters long, and the entire cannon is almost four thousand catties, which can hit four miles, and the entire port is within the range of this kind of cannon.

And the gun body is also made a very ingenious design, the cannon is fixed on a huge stone mill, which can be pushed by more than a dozen artillery pieces to change the angle, and the gun body is also equipped with a lever, which can be raised or lowered when necessary to adjust the firing range.

The only drawback is that there are too few, there are only two guns in total, if more than 500 ships of the Byzantine Athenian Navy rush together, two guns may not be able to sink half of them in a day.

Around this, more than ten catties of heavy and round stone autumn hit the sea, splashing more than ten meters of water column is still spectacular enough, the two Greek ships that are a little closer are pushed by the water waves and bumps, dozens of merchant ships are all stopped in horror.

After about a minute or two, in their stupor, the Great Min's warship swept diagonally past them, and the herald with the banner on it roared angrily to bring them back to their senses.

"There is an order from the town guard that civilian ships are not allowed to block the road of military ships, and violators will be sunk with a wisp!"

The shore wind creaked and creaked the mast, and the first to strike was the Xiangyang, the flagship of the Cyprus detachment, whose hull of about seventy meters crossed the water like a giant, and even the five sets of sails that obscured the sky and even the sun on the bows of those merchant ships.

On weekdays, the Great Min Naval Division always stored the ship in a separate military port, and the first time he saw the figure of the Xiangyang, looking at the figure of this flagship, the profiteers from Athens and Carthage even showed their back molars, and their eyes were full of awe.

Compared with this boat, the twenty or thirty-meter-long Mediterranean round boat that they are proud of on weekdays is like a toy.

Following the Xiangyang, two 50-meter Sea Soul-class ships, as well as a large group of 30-meter warships, they were very surprised, seeing that the mighty Fujian army sailors met the past, the fleeing merchant ships that had been standing for a long time simply turned their bows and went back to the shore, and some of the shipowners even went to the tavern to drink.

With a fleet of this size guarding, pirates in the Mediterranean or something, afraid of a bird!

It's a pity that they only pay attention to the majestic figure of the Fujian army's sailors in the obscured sight, if they had witnessed the incoming enemy earlier, they would have run as far as they could.

The fleet that had just entered the Luning telescope had already revealed its small semi-hideous face at this time, and the entire sea seemed to be covered with it, densely packed with enemy ships, and it was impossible to see the edge at a glance, standing at the highest point of the bow of the Xiangyang, Lu Ning looked at the past with a telescope, and the orderly fleet stretched for dozens of miles, as powerful and moving as a country on the sea.

Rome, which has been established for more than a thousand years, is really not to be underestimated, countless oars are rhythmically swung into the water, and the deck exposed to the water is five or six meters high, full of helmets and armor, and the Roman sailors are in strict formation, and the ballistas and catapults exude a terrifying killing intent.

In particular, the lion heads decorated in front of the boats, with two large pipes in their mouths, are like fangs that are ready to bite people, which is awe-inspiring.

A small half of the attacking fleet is more than fifty meters of heavy Mondello warships, and the rest are also more than thirty meters of warships, the number is no less than five hundred, in the middle, the Byzantine emperor's bow inlaid with angels of the golden flagship hanging a double-headed eagle flag is also impressively in it, you can vaguely see the highest stern deck faintly about a guy in a purple robe also peeping at himself, Lu Ning couldn't help but smile bitterly, Liu Dashuai went to meet the enemy's main force, but let the enemy's main force hit his own nest, it was enough to mock.

However, the bitter smile had to go on, and after observing for a while, Lu Ning, who was fixed in his nerves, calmly commanded the Fujian army to defend the fleet.

He seems to be majestic in his hands, but in fact there are only more than 50 ships, and the tonnage is much less than the Byzantine ships attacked, less than one-tenth of the number of the other party, and even fewer in number, almost one-twentieth of the Byzantine sailors, but it is not without a chance of winning, after all, the artillery equipped by the Fujian army is more than 700 years more advanced than the Byzantines.

Facing the Cypriot fleet, I don't know whether it was the Byzantine Athenian Navy or the Royal Navy, or the huge fleet of both, pulled the sails like a dagger, and the four or five rows of oars on both sides stretched out into the water in unison, flying closer to the Fujian army, but the Fujian army sailors who had just opened their wings like geese suddenly separated in two columns in the horn and flag, and dodged in a zigzag shape along the two sides of the Byzantine navy.

Standing at the bow of the ship, while calculating the speed, Lu Ning sneered at the naval combat skills of the Byzantines, which were nothing more than a few tricks, head-on collision angles, hooking enemy ships with a drawbridge called crows, and then the trebuchet and ballista hitting the sails, as long as they bypassed the front, they could basically be invincible, and then from the flanks, the artillery fire of the Fujian army and sailors could give these Romans a painful lesson that they would never forget in their lives.

Since joining the navy with Liu Renliang ten years ago, Lu Ning has served for a full ten years, and the sailors of the Japanese State, the pirates of the South Seas, and the mighty fleet of the Indians all fell into the hands of the Fujian army in this way.

Like a slap, the Min army sailors dodged the Byzantine attack array, about two miles out, several fireworks were launched into the sky with white smoke, and the open Min army's slap turned nearly ninety degrees into a closed slap from the rear of the olive-like fleet formation of the Byzantine Navy on both sides.

The naval battle is the most test of people's patience, just like the tactical action just now, it took more than half an hour on the vast sea, standing on the right string, looking back at the Mondello battleship that was chasing behind him from the front army like a blooming chrysanthemum, and then looking at the rear did not receive an order, and rushed forward in a daze, and the Byzantine fleet that was already close to his side two or three hundred meters away, Lu Ning had a victorious smile on his face.

"Herald, fire!"

Raising the command flag high and enjoying the general word by word order, Lu Ning was about to wave the command flag, but at this moment, two thirty-meter-level mackerel class ships at the head of the right wing of the Cyprus detachment fleet suddenly burst into flames.

The fire spread extremely quickly, and soon after the black smoke drifted up, it was visible to the naked eye that the ship was already on fire everywhere, and even the fire snake began to crawl along the cable towards the sail, standing on a high place, Lu Ning could even vaguely see his subordinates standing on the side of the ship in despair, crying and crying in despair.

"Why don't you jump into the sea!"

Waving his fist, Lu Ninggang shouted angrily, but he immediately saw it clearly, it was not that the crew did not jump, but that within a radius of several miles, there were all raging flames.

Fire in the water!

After only a moment of hesitation, Lu Ning, a veteran navy who had experienced a hundred battles, roared out.

"Fierce fire oil! This group of Romans also dared, and they were not afraid to set themselves on fire! ”

But in fact, the Romans were indeed not afraid, this fire evil sect was burning on the side of the Byzantine navy, but it was never beyond the line, or the trembling voice of the female secretary in a short skirt and professional uniform brought the angry Lu Ning back to his senses.

"My lord, Captain Jiao Lin sent a flag, they are going to avoid the fire and retreat to the open sea."

This is not a request for instructions, but a straightforward reminder that there are too many uncertainties in naval warfare, and that each captain has the right to decide what to do next in order to save himself.

Nodding with a gloomy face, Lu Ning calmed down again, and looked at the battlefield again, at this time, the thirty-meter level battleship of the Fujian army in the front row had already cut close to the side of the opponent's Mondello for nearly a hundred meters, Lu Ning's eyes were once again blazing, staring at the front, this was already the best distance for shooting.

Boom, the first Fujian battleship sword axe hand was the first to spit out anger, one after another three waves of thunder sounded on the sea, thirty meters of ship with a row of cannons, planed off the bow and stern, a total of ten 600 pounds of guns, the sea range of 400 meters, one hundred and fifty guns sprayed one after another to one hundred and fifty angry fists from the gods, hit the body of the Roman fleet.

With the naked eye, the attacked Mondello battleships trembled violently, sawdust flew sideways, paddles broke in pieces, the Roman sailors on the deck screamed in fear and fell into the water, and even grape bombs were hung, two lead balls with iron chains tied in the middle shattered a row of upper bodies like a meat grinder, and the lower body left behind was leaning together like a trouser model in the mall, which had just suffered a huge loss, and Lu Ning could see his third battleship emitting billowing black smoke and laughing.

But after only laughing for a moment, his face froze again.

Other countries, including the sailors of several great kingdoms in Nantianzhu, were hit by such a blow, and basically the hull of the ship would be broken and scattered, but except for a Roman Mondello battleship that was hit below the waterline, it began to tilt and sink, and none of the more than 20 Roman warships in the rest of the blows showed signs of sinking except for the devastated and tattered slaves who could see the crying and fleeing inside.

For the first time, the artillery of the Min army failed!