The difference between the Chinese and Western calendars is mainly that Huaxia calculates the years and months, and the moon orbits the earth once and for one month, which is called the lunar month, which belongs to the lunar calendar, and after its development is complete, it has become the lunar calendar of later generations.

At this time, the Western calendar was chaotic, and the official Roman Empire mostly used the Julian calendar created by Caesar that year, according to the sun orbiting the earth for a year, divided into 12 months, 365 years, and divided into large months and small months, and also introduced the concept of leap years, every four years for a leap year.

This was the predecessor of the Gregorian calendar, which was used in the world in later generations.

Because of the difference between the two calendars, the time difference between Min and Rome is almost a month, the Romans' New Year's Christmas has passed, but there are still more than ten days of the Spring Festival in Damin.

The court's expectation for attacking Rome is to take Constantinople within a year, and it is no wonder that the Roman military power was lost too much by Constantine IV in West Asia, Constans, Anna and his own efforts were almost all squandered by him, the Eastern Roman Empire was an empty shelf at this time, and the whole country could not take out 100,000 armor soldiers, and now a large part of the people who are guarding the coast and Rhodes are still temporarily recruited, and the waterway army in the hands of Li Ji and Liu Renliang is no less than 2780,000, known as 300,000.

The difference in strength is three times faster, but the navy and army have been stuck in the small Rhodes for almost three months, and now they are risking to enter Rhode Island, if they can remove this nail before the Spring Festival, they can finally give the King of Min a Spring Festival gift.

After more than ten days of investigation, Li Yexu basically mastered the location of the Roman Greek Arsenal and the basic strength of the Romans' defense, the frequency of patrols, and on this day, the main cadres basically gathered in the attic of the Elysee Hotel.

"The storage and production of Greek fires are basically concentrated in the area under the mountains on the east coast, which is volatile, so there are not many trebuchet positions and distribution to the army, and once they encounter the enemy, they are transported to the trebuchet positions and warships through the fast lane."

"The Romans have a strong early warning mechanism in the open sea, so they have plenty of time to prepare, but this gives us a chance!"

A large charcoal map that had been drawn was hung on the table, holding a branch, Li Yexu talked eloquently, looking at the symbol of Greek fire, the eyes of a group of hot-blooded Fujian army elites bloomed with blazing brilliance, and even Mulan and Scarface were a little excited.

However, Li Yexu's next words were really like a basin of cold water poured on his head.

"But in front of us, there are eight hundred Roman guards divided into forty roads, patrolling back and forth every ten minutes, and there are five hundred governor's guards at the Doge's Palace not far from the street to reinforce at any time!"

plus pirates, there are only about fifty pirates lurking in in total, and in addition to Mulan's henchmen, the remaining more than ten pirates are also useless, even if the remaining thirty or so are all iron, they can be cut into iron pieces alive in the face of thousands of defenders.

Li Xiong and the others were rare, although they were not afraid of death, but this was not something that could be achieved by desperate death, and as for Scarface, he scolded in frustration.

", just put this explosive barrel next to the pillow, and he Panis is not afraid of sleeping in the middle of the night!"

Listening to Scarface's complaints, Li Yexu looked at the "black spices" that were divided into bags under his buttocks, but they were still piled up in a pile, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but pull weirdly to the side, so that he regained his seriousness.

"Although the enemy is outnumbered, the advantage of our army is surprise, and it is not that there is no opportunity!"

seemed to have whetted the appetite of others, and seeing that more than thirty people were staring at him solemnly, Li Yexu said with a smile: "This general plans to divide the troops into three ways!"

Originally, there were few people, and he had to divide the troops into three ways, and Scarface bared his teeth disapprenosingly, but then Li Yexu's words made his breathing tight.

"Recently, Mulan has recruited a lot of pirates and mobilized them to go to the port, haven't Black Shark's subordinates been making trouble for us recently? Give them a chance to perform, let them fight, who is the bravest, the prize is big! ”

In a pirate group like Mulan, only one-third of them may be confidants, and the rest can be recruited anywhere, anyway, the young people in the fishing village who are unwilling to fish all their lives and the broken rotten boys in the tavern are like bubbles in the sea, and they catch a lot of them.

Recently, Mulan has become famous, but many people have come over, including the poor men in the city, the ruffians at the docks, and all kinds of characters, like spies sent by pirate gangs like the big black shark, anyway, a large group of three or five hundred people.

These people are mixed, Mulan naturally refuses to believe it, anyway, there is a big head of Damin, and one person has a little settling-in allowance to raise it first, and now it is really a time to raise soldiers for a thousand days.

Even if the pirates were recruited as allies to harass the Damin Sea Road, Panis, the governor of the Rhodes Military Region, still didn't trust these pirates who didn't blink an eye at murder, not to mention Mulan and his gang, after so many days of contact, even his own brother Black Shark He didn't trust, the two just used each other and colluded with each other, even if there was such a big dirt between the family.

If hundreds of pirates suddenly fought in the port, then Panis would naturally not be able to sit still, and the Governor's Palace and the harbor defenders would definitely be involved.

But you can't necessarily move the guards of the Greek fire factory, after all, this place is too important! The defenders will not leave easily.

Mulan's objection was not unreasonable, but when it came to this, Li Yexu showed an even weirder smile, and casually pulled out a sealed bag of "black spices" from under Scarface's buttocks, threw it up and down, and then sold Guan Zi and said, "What if the Governor's Mansion explodes and catches fire again at this time?"

The Greek Arsenal is important, but the Governor's Palace is Rhodes's brain after all, and the distance between the two places is so close, only two or three hundred meters, in case the fire here spreads, the arsenal will also become a big firecracker, and when the Governor's Palace is empty, even the defenders of the arsenal will have to be involved for most of it.

Although there are one or two hundred left, it is also a huge disparity in the number of Li Yexu's twenty or thirty people, but it is not without a chance of winning, Li Xiong who listened to it couldn't help but his eyes lit up, but Mulan and Scarface looked at the cloth bag in Li Yexu's hand suspiciously.

"The rest of the way is us, as the main assault force! I want to elaborate, it is a matter of life, and you must ............"

But before Li Yexu finished speaking, a captain of the Fujian army who was on guard outside suddenly hurriedly barged in and interrupted him.

"General, it's not good, hundreds of Roman sailors are suddenly rushing to us! Murderous, not good! ”

"What? How is this possible? Li Yexu almost didn't sit down, Mulan and Scarface also jumped up incredibly, and the recent fight with the upper echelons of Rome is hot, how can you say that you will turn your face?

But after all, he was a general who had experienced a lot of wind and rain, Li Yexu calmed down for the first time, waved his hand at everyone and said eagerly: "Escape immediately!" Bring two bags of black fire per person and go! Fast! ”

The sledgehammer smashed through the muddy passages, and I don't know what kind of person the first owner of the Elysée Hotel was, this inn built on the edge of the city wall has hollowed out a piece of the city wall, and from here you can escape directly into the slums of the city, where the fish and dragons are mixed, and the sewers of the Greeks are in all directions, and experienced pirates can easily escape from the city.

Even the dozen or so pirates who came with them were abandoned, they didn't know anything anyway, just with their henchmen, Mulan was the first to jump into the secret passage, and then the others also rushed in.

In the blink of an eye, several bags of "black spices" were also taken away.

In Rhodes City, in the slums, a meadow was violently opened, while beating the straw on her head, Mulan jumped out with a bang, and immediately reached out and pulled it back, Scarface wanted to reach out, but who knew that Mulan took Li Yexu's hand as a matter of course and dragged him up, and the angry scarface stomped his feet.

"Fortunately, my grandfather knows this secret, let those water dogs eat ashes!"

Most of the group came out, patting the dust on their bodies on the one hand, and Mulan was still shouting angrily, who knew that at this time, Li Yexu suddenly covered her mouth, listened to the wall vigilantly, and then shouted anxiously: "Be alert!"

In an instant, more than 20 people under Li Yexu's command drew their swords out of their sheaths, without the slightest suspicion or pause, but before everyone could put up a defensive formation, the sound of noisy footsteps outside had already been heard, and it was actually the black shark with the pirates under his command who fiercely blocked the alley.

"It's you!"

Looking at the black shark holding its arms and its muscular body, Mulan exclaimed in disbelief.

The triangular face smiled coldly, and the black shark really buzzed like a shark, and said gloomily: "Don't forget, Lao Tzu is also a pirate!"

"Why kill me? You can also get a share of the wealth I brought back from Damin, more than you robbed for half a year! ”

It turned out that it wasn't Panis who did it to himself, Li Yexu's heart was a little relieved, and Mulan asked angrily.

Surrounded behind the fierce pirates of the twenty or thirty, there were one or two hundred people behind them, but the smile of the black shark became more and more cold and cruel.

"Hahaha, why did you kill you? You're still a pirate! Asking such an idiotic word! ”

With cold eyes like a vampire's hunger and thirst staring at a living person, the black shark roared coldly, "Do you know about sharks? Pirates are like shark cubs! In the womb of the mother shark, a bloody fight has already begun, devouring each other, and only a few of the more than a thousand can be born in this world! Only the toughest sharks are eligible to be born in this world! There's no way I'll ever watch you grow up! Swallow Lao Tzu! Lao Tzu is the strongest shark cub! ”

With a crazy round of knives, the black shark shouted ferociously: "Kill Lao Tzu!" The old man who caught this girl rewarded him for a day of play, and played to death! ”

The black shark is a cruel person, and the pirates under his command are even more bloodthirsty and ferocious, looking at Mulan's bumpy figure, the black pirate suddenly showed a murderous gaze in his eyes, looking at the cold blade, before they rushed over, Li Yexu had already grabbed the baggage, and a chain gun was straight in his hand in an instant.

"Kill !!"