Xenophon walked over and saw his Spartans greeting him: "Xenophon, you are here again!"

"Don't worry, old man, with us here, the Dionians can't get to the shore at all. You elderly over 60 years old should rest at home with confidence."

"I said Xenophon, the reason why you come here every day is not because we cannot defend the coast, but because we have captured many Dionian prisoners, but we will not give them to you."

"Hahaha……"

When Xenophon heard the soldiers joked, he was not angry and said with a smile: "Do you still need to send me to the prisoner? I will catch it myself."

"No, you don't have a chance." A Spartan warrior joked: "The Elders' Council stipulates that elderly people over 60 can only stay at home. As a final preparation, I think you should go back to the city to listen to our good news!"

The soldiers burst into laughter again.

Xenophon liked this atmosphere. He felt the soldiers' confidence in defeating powerful enemies, so he patted his chest and said loudly: "Although I am in my 60s, I am not worse than you young people! If you don't believe me, come out to compete with me!" As he said that, he lifted up his clothes and posed for a wrestling posture.

The soldiers booed, pushing me, and I pushing you, but no one was willing to stand up and compete with him, and they all felt embarrassing to compete with the old man.

At this moment, a loud trumpet suddenly sounded in the camp.

"There is an enemy situation!" The soldiers shouted loudly and rushed back to their tents. Soon they put on their armor, picked up shields, and lined up a team of 10 people in front of the tent. Then, under the leadership of the team officer, they ran out of the camp and ran to the beach.

In just a quarter of an hour, Xenophon's surroundings became empty, making him sigh: I wish it would be great if the Spartan army defending the coast were all such soldiers!

Unfortunately, there are only more than 300 young and strong Spartan warriors here. Although there are more than 500 Spartan veterans aged 50-60, they are not weak in combat, but they are assigned to the Piriasi people and Black Rox in the camp as team officials.

So when Xenophon continued to move forward, he saw the old soldiers yelling, while the Piriasi soldiers and the Black Roxers were disorganized and running around.

He frowned, speeded up his pace, walked through the camp, stood at a higher place, and looked forward: under the sun, the sea was still shimmering in the rising tide, except for the soaring seabirds, it seemed very calm and there was nothing unusual.

But Xenophon did not take it lightly. The Spartans built several 5-meter-high sentry towers by the sea, and the sentries on the roof would naturally discover the enemy situation earlier than him.

Sure enough, after a while, some small black dots appeared at the farthest part of the field of view. Soon, the black dots turned into sails, then turned into warships, and then quickly covered the sea in front and sailed straight towards the bay where he was...

During this process, teams of Spartan soldiers ran to the beach one after another, and under the command of the team officials, they arranged in arc-shaped arrays along the flat coast.

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These warships of Dionia stopped moving less than a mile from the coast, lined up, then lowered their sails, dropped their anchors, and tried their best to stay still in place...

This scene is not much different from yesterday. Is it another feint attack by the Dionian fleet?...Xenophon was thinking in confusion, and then he saw many sailless boats sailing between these tall Dionian three-layer oar warships. The ships carried many soldiers. Taking advantage of the peak of the tide, with the push of the tide, with the shallow draft of the boat, barely crossed the underwater blocking piles and continued to sail towards the coast...

The Dionians really want to log in this time! Xenophon was shocked.

The Spartan commander by the sea obviously also noticed the enemy's intentions, and the sound of the war trumpet sounded again.

Hundreds of Piriasi crew members flocked to more than a dozen small and medium-sized warships anchored on the beach and pushed them into the sea.

Sparta suffered a crushing defeat in the naval battle with Athens last year, and more than 20 warships remained anchored in the Gulf of Laconia. As a result, after the arrival of the Deonian fleet, in order to prevent it from being destroyed, they had to push them all to ashore.

In order to prevent the landing of the Dionian warships, the Spartans set up a large number of ship-blocking wooden piles, and they specially left blanks in the sea area more than 100 meters near the shore to ensure that their warships can also participate in defense. In the last landing operation to block Dionia, the Spartan warships did play a significant role, and this time it was a repeat of the same trick.

These Spartan warships were pushed off the coast, and under the strong paddling of the sailors, they prepared to face the small Dionian boats sailing toward the coast.

However, the Dionian boat running in the front stopped moving forward when it was about 200 meters away from the coast. The fleet infantry carrying leather shields and leather helmets and carrying daggers jumped off the boat one after another. The sea depth here has exceeded two meters, but the soldiers did not need to spend their energy to step on the water all the time. The dense wooden stakes of ship blocking became their help. They just need to hold it gently and stay in place to rest.

The Piriasi crew members were surprised to find that after jumping into the sea, the soldiers of the Dionians stayed still, while the boats began to return one after another. If they wanted to attack the Dionians of the Dionians floating on the sea, they had to pass through dense wooden stakes of ship blocking, which was undoubtedly difficult.

Just as they were hesitating, they suddenly saw dozens of small black dots flying from the Dionia warship in the distance.

"It's the Dionians' crossbow! Hide!" a crew member exclaimed.

"Don't worry too much. The distance is too far, they can't hit us at all." A crew member comforted that the last time the Dionians landed in battle, they used crossbows, but almost no losses to the Spartan warships, so most of the crew were not worried.

Unexpectedly, dozens of stone bombs roared and fell on the two Spartan warships that were ahead. While smashing a column of water, eight or nine stone bombs also accurately hit the hull.

In the shaking of "Boom! Boom!", some stone bombs hit the mast, some smashed through the deck, wood chips flew everywhere, and the crew's screams and screams were intertwined.

Just when the two ships were in panic, dozens of stone bullets roared over, falling more accurately around the two almost motionless warships. Soon, the mast was broken and the hull began to capsize.

Seclian learned from the last lesson and after brainstorming by the squadron commanders, he specially selected today, where the wind and waves were relatively calm as the day of attack. He no longer scattered the 40 crossbows borrowed from the land army on the 40 warships, but let the five crow warships closest to the center of the coast cross and move each other, and connected them with the crow suspension bridge to form an integral part. The 40 crossbows were concentrated on the decks of these ships, commanding in a unified manner, using the smallest type of stone bullet (this can increase the range) to concentrate on attacking a target, instead of fighting each other like last time, which greatly improved the hit rate.

The first two rounds of launch hit the enemy ship, which greatly increased the confidence of the soldiers of the Dionian crossbow artillery team. Under the command of the team officer, they then carried out concentrated bombardment of the scattered Spartan warships one by one.

The commander of the Spartan territory was Yudas, Phoebidas' brother, a general with outstanding military achievements. At this moment, he was standing on the shore and paying close attention to the enemy situation on the sea. He did not expect that the soldiers of the Dionian would go into the sea so far from the coast, and stayed in the waters where the boats blocked the wooden piles, and met with the soldiers on the boats that were constantly sailing behind. Neither the warships nor the archers on the shore sentry towers could attack them for the time being.

He didn't expect that the stone bombs shot from the crossbows on the Dionia warship would be so accurate today. Less than half an hour after the Spartan warship sailed off the beach, seven or eight warships had been either sunk or destroyed to the point of being used.

He had to give orders to make the remaining warships stranded on the beach.

Unexpectedly, he saw Dionia's crossbows shoot out stone bullets again, and the target was no longer a warship, but a whistling towards the Spartan warriors on the shore.

He shouted anxiously: "Does go away! Dos go away!"

After all, I experienced it during the last defensive landing, and the soldiers performed calmly. They looked at the direction of the stone bomb and quickly dispersed and avoided.

The powerful stone bombs fell one after another, splashing mud and sand, but no casualties were caused.

But when Dionia's crossbows turned to attack other troops on the coast, there was an immediate riot, resulting in casualties.

In this case, Youdamidas had to order: "All troops retreated beyond the range of the ballista!"

In this way, the Spartan army's front and the beach were about a hundred meters away.

Yudamidas made up his mind: once he found that the enemy was about to get ashore, he would lead the army to force him up quickly and fight with the enemy with disorganized formation. The two sides were close together, so the crossbows would naturally not work.

Just when he was a little troubled by the new landing tactics of the Dionian army, he received two bad news one after another: the Lagonda Pass Fortress was fiercely attacked by thousands of Dionian soldiers from the west. At the same time, many Dionian soldiers appeared on the seaside path on the cape west of the Gulf of Lagonia, trying to capture the fortress south of the Port of Ision.
Chapter completed!