As the fleet approached land, the sea fog, which had been hazy these days, began to slowly peel away, the sea level became clear, and the looming land could be seen in the distance, which was the land of the Greeks that the Arab robbers on board had dreamed of.

But wealth comes from the sea, and so does danger. This sentence is true everywhere, Li Jie's strategic goal, there is no intention to fight a conventional battle at all, the army to avoid the Eastern Roman defenders stationed in the mountains of Ancatolia to defend the heavy army group of the Antioch army, directly on the flat sea, the open terrain in the middle of Asia Minor near the vicinity of Konia, a hundred ships of great fortune carried by 30,000 Arab light cavalry will sweep behind the Roman garrison like locusts, burning, killing and plundering.

When the tens of thousands of Roman troops retreated, the Armenian mercenaries of the same mountain corps who were advancing could flank the front and rear and completely eat the few remaining field troops of the Romans.

The idea was very good, but at this time, Constantinople also regarded the sea as a lifeline, and originally arranged a large number of naval forces near Konya to attack the Great Min trade line.

It seems that the Fujian army is not very lucky, it should have bumped into the main force of a detachment, and in the loud horn of the Romans, there were more than a hundred Mondello warships surrounded by wolves.

Li Yexu fought a lifetime of war on land, but the naval battle was still the first time that the eldest girl got on the sedan chair, and after seeing that Lu Ning only said to himself, he picked up the binoculars and looked at it by himself, so he only ordered his subordinates to go back and inform the group of Arab landlubbers about the enemy's encounter, and told the army not to panic, and he stayed on the flagship of the Chinese army of the naval division Xiangyang to watch what the naval battle was.

Naval battles have always been slow, from the beginning of the discovery of the enemy fleet to the complete sighting of the enemy lineup, another half an hour has passed, looking at the huge shuttle formed by more than a hundred Byzantine warships, Lu Ning's face obviously jumped and twitched, weighing for a moment, Lu Ning suddenly shouted with a gloomy face.

"Immediately issue the flag, the rear team will become the front team, and the whole army will retreat!"

Lu Ning's voice almost didn't let Li Yexu fall off the bridge, even if Li Yexu was a cautious general, not as big as Sheng Lianshan, but he hadn't seen the shadow of the enemy yet, and he really hadn't done anything about running away from the wind, and the green tendons on his head jumped, Li Yexu couldn't help but reach out and grab the flag soldier who was going to give the order, and turned around and roared angrily.

"General Lu, you are fleeing from the battle and fearing the enemy! Aren't you afraid that the imperial history will impeach you? ”

"General Li, this is the Xiangyang, the sailor!"

The muscles on his face twitched, Lu Ning was about forty years old, his rough and dark face was full of gloom in the perennial sea breeze, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Let go of General Ben's heralds!" ”

If Sheng Lianshan was here, it was estimated that he would have to fight with Lu Ning, and with this pretending to be forced, even the good-tempered Li Yexu's cheeks were puffed out, and he gasped for a while, and then he loosened the armor of the messenger.

There was no good impression in the first place, but at this time it became even worse, looking at the waving of the order flag on the ship, Li Yexu said with a cold voice: "I want to see what kind of tricks General Lu has!" ”

However, at this time, Lu Ning had already turned around again, continued to watch the enemy situation with a telescope, and ignored him.

Under Lu Ning's order, the captains of more than 100 Daifuku ships still used the strength of milk, desperately hit the rudder to the bottom, and the sailors on the ship also ran with blue tendons on their foreheads, raised the heavy sails, adjusted the mast angle, and the violent bumps made a group of Arab landlubbers vomit, and more than 100 giant ships cut a hook-shaped white wave in the sea water together, shaking and turning their heads.

This tactical move is actually risky enough, so many ships, a bad one may crash into a ball first, fortunately, the Min army's flag signal is relatively fast, and the sailing distance is far enough, although the Arabs on the boat vomited out the acid water in their stomachs, and finally turned their heads.

However, this wonderful tactical move is not attractive to Li Yexu, a layman, with a sneer, staring at Lu Ning's back, Li Yexu, who was born in a family, thought disdainfully, I heard that this person has been defeated once, the prince of Min is merciful and gives him a second chance, but he doesn't even have the courage to face the Arabs, what a coward!

No matter whether he can land this time or not, he will go back and fight to offend his colleagues to impeach this person and remove these people from the Fujian army!

In Li Yexu's disdainful sneer, a new change took place in the battle situation.

Seeing the cowardly retreat of the Min army, the Roman navy that came out to meet the battle was really ecstatic, and under the order of the centurion of their respective captains, the sails of each ship were raised to the highest, and the convicts and slaves who rowed were full of strength under the whip of the leather whip, and Mondello rushed out like arrows of strings.

This encounter was different from the attack of Constantine IV's whole army, although there were more than 200 of them, the Eastern Roman fleet was mixed, most of them were under 20 meters, although the ships were small, but they were light, but gradually ran to the front, and those heavily armored heavy Mondellos fell behind, forming a situation where a mouse pulled a wooden shovel and the big head was behind.

The two huge fleets chased and fled at sea, and it was more than an hour to run, at the beginning, the speed of the Fujian army was falling behind, seeing that the distance between the two was getting smaller and smaller, and even the Mondello dragon-shaped nozzle at the front was a few hundred meters away from the back of the butt of the Xiangyang, which fell at the end, Li Yexu was aggrieved, but in the next half an hour, the situation changed.

As we went deeper into the sea, the sails of the Fujian warships blown by the sea breeze, while the speed of the Mondello warships of the Romans became slower and slower.

Even if Li Yexu, who doesn't understand naval warfare, can see a little bit of the way at this time, although they are all sea ships, there are still some differences between Eastern Rome and Damin, the Roman warship has a shallow draft, half of it relies on sails, and the other half needs to rely on the oarsman's effort, the advantage is that the short-distance acceleration is extremely fast, and the disadvantage is that people are not machines after all, and the oarsman is tired, and the speed naturally slows down.

And the Great Min, the ship has a wide sail, and when it comes to the deep sea, as soon as the sea breeze comes up, the speed will naturally come up, and in the chase battle, the Min army is definitely longer than the Roman army.

As soon as it increased and decreased, the balance of victory tilted.

Sure enough, seeing that the fire was almost over, Lu Ning once again ordered in the flag language, and the more than 30 Fujian warships guarding around the troop transport ship began to slow down, and the thirty meters of sea mackerel on the edge fell at the end, and the escort fleet slowly formed a pair shape, wrapping the forward of the warship that broke into the Eastern Rome.

The Byzantine ships at the front also felt that something was wrong, but their communication methods were obviously worse than those of the Great Min, and the front army was transmitting information to the back, but on the other hand, they did not dare to stop, and continued to go deep into the encirclement of the Fujian army, and watched hundreds of Greek sail oars of ten meters and twenty meters and rush into the layers of defense of the Fujian warships with warships.

Of course, this Lu Ning will not be polite, suddenly the Xiangyang made a ninety-degree turn, and the hull of more than ten meters high was like a sea fortress in front of the pursuing Byzantine navy, and the gunner shouted the heavy barrel out of the gun compartment, and in the blink of an eye, two rows of dense gun muzzles and deck guns pointed gloomily at the Eastern Roman Navy.

"God! No!!! ”

In the mournful roar of the former drain commander of the Eastern Roman naval army, Lu Ning's face was gloomy, and he struck the clock in his hand fiercely, and then the gunner on the deck showed a hideous expression on his face, and roared fiercely.

"Fire!"

The dull thunder roared continuously, a large white smoke formed a cloud from the sky over the Fujian ship, hundreds of cannons erupted in turn, all kinds of grape shells, ship-destroying shells smashed in the middle like a storm of cheats, the sea smashed rows of water columns, the sound of wooden planks cracking, and the screams of people resounded throughout the sea.

Hesitation needed to prevent a huge recoil, the Fujian sea ships did not dare to use a salvo, but fired from the bow to the stern, when the last cannon in the stern was fired, the cannon in the bow had been reloaded, the thunderous shelling lasted for a few pillars of incense, and the news of the enemy's approach came from the terrible whistles on both wings, and the artillery fire stopped.

Li Yexu had been holding the telescope nervously, but a large white smoke of gunpowder burning in front of him obscured the entire vision, and it was not until the shelling stopped more than ten minutes later that the sea breeze dispersed the smoke, and a large messy wooden plank replaced the Roman navy, which had just been overcrowded, and there was a miserable appearance everywhere.

In almost half an hour, the Fujian army fired a total of thousands of shells, indeed, the last time the Romans increased the armor of the warship, the lethality of the small guns of more than 400 catties on the small ship for the Roman battleship has been significantly reduced, but Constantine IV is not the God of Wealth, he can only strengthen the heavy armor to the more than 50 meters long Mondello battleship, these ten to twenty meters are still the same.

In disrepair, the rudimentary iron-nailed plank ship was torn apart under the heavy blow of the cannonballs, the grapeballine whistled and overturned several sails, and everywhere there were leaky Roman warships that were slowly sinking, and some Roman soldiers were still lying on the planks crying and fleeing from the sharks that rushed over at some point.

However, the most terrifying thing is not the shark, the fierce fire oil injector chamber installed in front of the Roman warship burst, and a large area of the sea burned as soon as it was opened, and countless people were desperately fluttering in the fire.

However, I also admired the quality of the Roman Navy at this time, despite the heavy losses in the front, the heavy fifty-meter heavy Mondello in the back still led the rest of the fleet to come around from both sides, intending to attack in close quarters, seeing this scene, Lu Ning snorted coldly again, and immediately played the flag, and the ships were free to fight!

After all, it was he who had the upper hand and threw that bit of pity out of his mind, Li Yexu's blood boiled again, but with the flag, the two ships he was looking forward to connected, the bloody fight did not appear, and the thirty frigates slammed the rudder and ran away again!

Li Yexu's eyes behind the telescope suddenly widened again............