The Bosphorus Strait, which separates Asia and Europe, is only 750 meters at its narrowest point, and the Min army now stands at the end of Asia, through the hazy clouds and mist on the sea, and can almost look at the opposite European continent and the center of European civilization today, Constantinople.

But on the contrary, it is obviously close at hand but it is like a moat, and the city of Buddha standing on the coastal mountain is like a copper wall and an iron wall, firmly blocking the pace of the Fujian army, which is obviously within reach, and it is as remote as the horizon, this feeling is not only uncomfortable for the Fujian soldiers, but even the Arabs who have smelled the alluring jewels in Constantinople opposite are also restless.

On a new day, another round of shock began.

This time, unlike in the past, it was no longer the Arab cavalry scattered in the khaki formation, the neat military appearance, the Fujian army with a strict formation stepped out like a wall, and the neat infantry formation rushed out of the barracks amid the drums and the shouts of the Arabs.

"Shield Wall!"

In the loud roar of the officer, the iron-clad tiger-headed round shield suddenly covered the sky above the five hundred-man brigade, and from the sky, the tight circle was close together, almost exactly the same, and the five Fujian army brigades rushed towards the acropolis under the mountain like five iron-clad shields.

Seeing such an offensive, the well-trained Cretan archers stopped talking, laughing, and dining, and rushed to the edge of the city wall with an extremely serious expression, hiding behind the female wall with full mental attention and watching cautiously.

Although there are only 500 Fujian troops, the team under the city makes these mercenaries feel an unprecedented crisis, and there is a hint of the smell of carnivores!

It used to be a taste that they could only feel in themselves.

However, at this time, it was not Li Yexu who was standing under the city and roaring, clamoring to make the Roman cowards look good, but Sheng Lianshan, who was willing to carry the drudgery.

However, Li Yexu's mission is not necessarily lighter than desperately Shenglian Mountain.

The city of the Buddha is very strong, the city walls of more than 1,000 meters up and down, all of which are built of the hardest Mediterranean white stone, and there are also acropolis that stretch out of the city wall, the defenders are 13,000, including 4,000 well-trained Cretan mercenaries, and more than 60,000 residents in the city are actively engaged in defense under the organization of the church of the Buddha, almost all young and old are frozen, and there are more than 100 arrow towers at the head of the city, and more than 110 ballistae are of different sizes.

However, this fortress armed to the teeth is not impregnable, at least Li Ji, who has been leading troops to fight since he was a teenager, can see the flaws of this city at a glance, its strategic depth is too lacking, behind it is the Mediterranean Sea, the strategic resources in the city are poor, all rely on ships to transport from the sea, as long as the sea supply of the Buddha is cut off, with the existing resources at hand, without artillery, Li Ji is sure to gnaw the city within a month.

However, he couldn't move under the city of Yifo, and the Da Min Sailor was also stuck in the sea near Rhode Island for more than a month without moving, which made Li Ji anxious.

But Li Ji still can't pull his face to beg Liu Renliang, firstly, the army has always looked down on sailors, and the commanders of the two armies are estranged, on the other hand, who is Li Ji? He is a hero in the great uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty, his reputation is outside, admired by the world, when Li Ji was a general, Liu Renliang didn't know which yamen to work hard in, and now Li Ji is a cabinet minister, and he needs to ask Liu Renliang for help when he encounters difficulties, and he can't pull this face.

I heard that Li Yexu, who was under his command a while ago, had a little friendship with Lu Ning, the general of Lou Chuan, and yesterday Li Jifang went around in such a big circle, vaguely hinting that Li Yexu went to Lu Ning to play roundabout tactics and persuaded Liu Renliang to send troops quickly!

But what kind of friendship can Li Yexu have with Lu Ning? It's true that the two of them almost fought on the boat, although Li Yexu later admitted that Lu Ning was right, and it wasn't necessarily that Lu Ning would like Li Yexu to let him do whatever he wanted, Sheng Lianshan was about the same.

Listening to Li Jiyun's rambling about the traditional friendship of the Navy Division, senior officers should have more exchanges, and Li Yexu, who couldn't stand it, had to take this leave.

Sitting on the rocking fortune boat, looking at Constantinople hazy on the sea in the distance, Li Yexu couldn't help but feel worried and kept muttering.

"How are you going to say this?"

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The main force of the Mediterranean Fleet of the Great Min Naval Division was stationed in Adna, a small port about fifty miles behind Li Ji's army, diagonally opposite Rhodes Island, the most important naval base of Eastern Rome in Asia.

In the afternoon, the ship with the wounded soldiers arrived in Adna, and when they disembarked, Li Yexu immediately became suspicious of the name of the small port.

In the open sea, a series of sea ships form a huge sea wall, the east can not see the head, the west can not see the tail, the last shadow of the building ship, the Fujian army's unique sailless flat sea combat platform on the deck of 50 meters, the army urgently needs the general cannon extravagantly photographed into a dense row against Rhode Island in the distance, by the afternoon sun, the cyan cannon body is as dazzling as the scales of the oriental dragon.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao once used a plan to lock the warships together with huge iron chains to resist the wind and waves, and was burned by Zhou Yu, but now the warships of the Fujian army are also connected with huge iron chains.

However, if the Romans dare to follow Zhou Yu's example, I am afraid that they will not be able to die anymore, not to mention the hundreds of cannons that are shining in the cold light outside, it is estimated that the dragon king cannon mines buried in the sea are enough for the Eastern Romans to die as many as they want.

Due to the increasing importance of the Mediterranean theater, the Mediterranean Fleet of the Great Min Navy is also showing a geometric expansion trend, the original largest ship is only a 50-meter Sea Soul level Qi ship, but now the 50-meter Fu Ship Qi ship has been piled up, densely moored in the harbor, and the towering mast is like a vast forest.

The last time Lu Ning's flagship Xiangyang had already shocked Li Yexu, at this time, there were four seventy-meter sea Jiao levels at the Xiangyang level, and the biggest limelight did not belong to him, but in the center of the fleet, a hundred meters long and dozens of meters wide, a dazzling and staggering ancient beast at a glance.

Even if he saw it for the first time, Li Yexu still clearly knew that it was the seat ship of the King of Min, the only true dragon-level warship in the Fujian army, symbolizing the infinite authority of the King of Min extending on the sea, and was named the Sea Power.

In addition to the impressive fleet, another area where the Navy is envied by the Army is that they can always make a fortune wherever they go.

Small merchant ships were constantly entering the harbor through an entrance opened by the sea wall, and merchant ships of all nations and nationalities were crowded with small merchant ports, and the spoils of war that they had just looted were now being loaded onto ships by these profiteers and sold far away.

When the businessmen made a fortune, they naturally had a share of their protector the navy, thinking that they were tired and tired but were exploited by this group of businessmen, and in the end they cheapened the transportation brigade in the eyes of this group of troops, even Li Yexu couldn't help but muttered jealously.

"These second-class dealers and profiteers!"

"What kind of profiteer?"

The voice of doubt sounded, and it was a coincidence that Li Yexu had just finished muttering, and Lu Ning, the general of the Lou boat who had received a notice to greet him, happened to be riding a horse and rushing over with a gloomy face, and he listened to him.

Listening to Lu Ning's suspicious question, Li Yexu almost didn't fall off the horse, laughing, Li Yexu hurriedly waved his hand, and pointed to the east market and said: "That, it would have been said that that person was a second-class dealer profiteer, and he received goods from other merchants at a low price, and then sold them to ship merchants at a high price, which is too treacherous!" ”

Looking in that direction, Lu Ning couldn't help but blink more suspiciously, when did the imperial court become so good at doing business from the second-rank general?

Just as Li Ji was trapped under the city of Yifo, and the officers had nothing to do, the navy seemed to be very idle, entrusting the training to the deputy, Lu Ning stayed with Li Yexu for an afternoon, because Li Yexu came back in the name of seeing a doctor, so the two looked at the entire port of the hospital.

I don't know if this guy with a gloomy face understands that he is sarcastic about their navy, and has seen several medical halls, whether it is a Western doctor or a Chinese traditional Chinese medicine, after reading it, he glanced at Li Yexu very strangely, and spent a lot of money, and at night, Li Yexu pulled it, all of which were tiger whip meat cistanche and other kidney-tonifying things, looking at Lu Ning's gloomy face There seemed to be a faint meaningful look, Li Yexu really gritted his teeth and almost went crazy.

Anyway, the two of them can be regarded as having comrades-in-arms on the same ship, Li Yexu's official is relatively big, and that night, Lu Ning was the east, and Li Yexu was picked up in a rather lively restaurant in the port.

"Hahaha, Brother Lu's last move was really powerful to retreat, the younger brother learned one or two, and defeated the Romans in Ankara, for this reason, the younger brother salutes you!"

Outside the city of Ankara, Li Yexu dragged the Eastern Roman infantry for a few days, and finally turned around and ate it in one bite, which was really similar to Lu Ning dragging the Eastern Roman detachment to retreat to the ocean, exhausting the physical strength of the opponent's oarsman, but from Li Yexu's mouth, it seems to have always been a flattering taste.

Yesterday, Li Ji praised him for his strength in the sky, and Li Yexu used all of it.

It's a pity that the effect doesn't seem to be good, drinking wine gloomily, Lu Ning just replied with a salty and non-salty salute: "General Li praises falsely, and the carving insect is just a small skill." Then he drank and ate food without saying a word, and that kind of calm pretending to be forced really made Li Yexu doubt that he had learned more than ten years of qi cultivation and kung fu in vain.

Even if you can't force the navy to dispatch, you have to know why the navy is not moving, seeing that Lu Ning's oil and salt are not entering, and then drinking, Li Yexu gritted his teeth, and simply shook his wine glass in a drunken state and said excitedly: "How majestic my Da Min Navy Division is, like a cloud of warships!" Piles of cannons, King Min really attaches great importance to the sailor! ”

"But!" Seeming to be a little jealous, Li Yexu shook his head in a daze: "The final battle of Damin is just around the corner, how can such a powerful sailor not dare to move in such a projectile place?" ”

Listening to Li Yexu's agitation, Lu Ning's face really changed, with a little annoyance, and he seemed to be about to defend himself with shortness of breath......