"Don't panic, Lord Seclian is here!"

"With Lord Seclian, we are not afraid of any enemies!"...

At the same time, there were noisy talk on the deck. The soldiers of the Legion prepared to come from the towns of the Sicily Territory of Dionys knew of Seclian's reputation, but they were far less respectful to him than the crew of Dionys.

A man in leather armor and leather helmet quickly walked out of the deck. He approached the side of the ship and gave a solemn military salute: "Sir, I am the captain of this warship, Ilias of the First Fleet!"

When he heard that he was his old subordinate, Secrelian was relieved. He immediately said, "I know you, Ilias, every time the fleet's warship training and assessment, the fast three-layer oar warship you command always ranks among the top... Now I order you to immediately let the soldiers on the ship jump into the sea, and then take your warship and follow me to fight the enemy!"

Ilias was surprised and said hesitantly: "...but... Commander Miltias raised the Apollo flag and let us--"

"Mirtyas is a fool!" Secrean interrupted his words angrily and shouted: "The enemy has come here, and all the warships are full of soldiers, and they have no ability to fight at all. What's the use of gathering together? Will it be easier to be sunk by the enemy? I am now as the commander of the Navy of the First Fleet, and I order you to execute the order immediately!"

"Yes...yes!" Ilias responded loudly. From the bottom of his heart, he absolutely agreed with Seclian's approach, because the belief developed by the First Fleet under Seclian's influence has always been an offensive and will never be beaten passively.

The soldiers on the deck where they heard the conversation between the two began to clamor, and they didn't want to be driven off the ship.

Ilias had to face them and persuaded loudly: "The warriors of Dionia, our fleet is now facing a strong enemy, and the situation is urgent! But because the warships are loaded on the warships, the warships cannot fight. Either you jump into the sea so that we can go to fight, fight back, and then come back to rescue you; or you continue to stay on the ship, wait for the enemy ship to come, sink the warship, and then everyone becomes prisoners together... Please make a choice immediately!"

The deck suddenly became silent, and soon a man walked forward.

"Captain!" the soldiers shouted earnestly, focusing Xiyi's eyes on him.

"Brothers, if the navy is over, we will have big trouble!" The captain said with a firm expression: "Take your long shield, we jump into the sea and let the navy see that they are not the only ones who can swim."

After he finished speaking, no soldier expressed his objection, and he picked up the long shields on the deck one after another. This was the strict discipline of the Dionian Legion, even if it was just a legion reserve unit.

"Please help us save other armor and weapons first." The team leader reminded Ilias, then carried a long shield and "thumped", jumped into the sea first, and the other soldiers followed closely...

During this process, Ilias kept saluting.

After Secrean gave the order, he did not stay by the warship, but continued to chase other warships. Since the warships were loaded with soldiers at a slow speed, it was not difficult to catch up with them. After stopping several warships one after another, he discovered a situation: all the warships he encountered were warships of the First Fleet (i.e., warships that broke into the port of Selinus when the storm occurred and escaped the disaster), and most of the soldiers on the warships were soldiers of the Legion Reserve of Dionia.

After thinking about it carefully, Seclian understood that this was certainly not accidental.

In order to seize the time, Mirtias ordered at the port that the warships could set out first as long as they were loaded with soldiers. The Legion's reserve soldiers were more trained and organized and disciplined than the civilians of other city-states, so they could gather at the docks as quickly as possible and board the warships.

At the same time, Miltias was the last to set out because he had to supervise the entire boarding process. Any army commander generally had a habit of gathering his most trusted troops around him, so that command in battle is more convenient and can play a greater role, even though it was just a troop transport. Miltias still habitually asked the First Fleet warships to dock at the dock first, so the Fourth Fleet warships that had followed him for more than ten years would set out later and be closer to him.

Mirthias' unintentional arrangement facilitated Secretlian. He could smoothly allow the First Fleet warships and Legion reserve soldiers sailing in the front to carry out his orders: they were fast three-layer oars, all the soldiers on them jumped into the sea; they were crow warships, and 40 soldiers were retained, while the rest jumped into the sea.

Of course, Secretly, there were also soldiers on the warships. They were obviously resistant to this order, and some even threatened to occupy the ship with force. The captain could only patiently persuade them. At the same time, soldiers on nearby warships jumped into the sea to serve as role models. Most of these soldiers in the friendly countries eventually obeyed, but this delayed the time...

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Just as Secrean was anxiously persuading the ships in the east to obey his orders, the Eastern Phoenician fleet was speeding up to chase the Dainian warship retreating to the coast.

The sailors of Dionia rowed hard, but the ship was loaded with soldiers, which seriously affected the speed of the warship and was gradually brought closer by the Eastern Phoenician fleet, which had already been raised to the highest speed by the warship.

The East Phoenician warships rushed towards the fat sheep in their eyes like tigers and wolves.

The Dionian warship that was behind saw that it could not escape, so it simply turned around and rushed forward bravely against the enemy ship. However, the Dionian warship, which had lost its speed and flexibility, could it be the opponent of the East Phoenician warship that was lightly installed? It was either broken by the oar or hit by the hull. The Dionian crew and soldiers kept jumping into the sea in exclaiming and jumping into the sea.

Of course, there are occasional exceptions. These East Phoenician crew members learned about the situation of the Dionia fleet from their colonial compatriots, but they had never experienced it personally. Several East Phoenician warships were carelessly hooked by the twelve-meter-long suspension bridge of the crow warship. They had already worn armor and had their weapons and killed them in a swarm.

Other Phoenician warships who saw this bad scene soon learned their lesson. When facing the crow warships, they avoided the bow and attacked the stern.

The crow warship was inflexible due to too many soldiers, and was slow in speed, and did not have fast three-layer oar warships to protect it, becoming the focus of the Phoenician warships' attack.

Miltias' ship was heading towards the beach. The beach happened to be the beach where the fleet infantry landed during the night attack a few days ago. It was just one mile away and the distance was getting closer and closer. However, Miltias had no joy on his face and was suffering in his heart.

Originally, he had been sitting at the stern of the ship, observing the follow-up of other warships, but what he saw was: countless enemy ships rushed towards him at lightning speed, attacking the warships falling behind. Although these lonely warships resisted tenaciously, they were either sunk or damaged, floating stiffly on the sea, causing the enemy to bully. The crew members' exclamations were always there, and more and more crew members and soldiers fell into the sea...

This scene made Miltias feel heartbroken: these are the warships he applied to the Military Affairs Department for more than ten years, carefully maintained and repaired every day, and they worked hard to save. In a blink of an eye, these brothers who have been with him day and night for more than ten years and trained, he came to Sicily with them eager to make contributions. He had never fought a big battle, but was about to lose his life!...

He could no longer help but stand up and said loudly: "Stop the boat immediately! Leave 40 soldiers, and the other soldiers immediately jumped off the boat and swam to the beach by themselves! Quick! Quick!"

At this time, the order issued by Miltias was the same as that of Secrean. In fact, he had this idea in his mind before, but at that time he was still lucky. He was worried that driving the soldiers on the ship into the sea would lead to protests from friendly countries in the future, which would be unfavorable to him. After all, he made a big mistake... A thought difference led to the Sicilian fleet in trouble, and now he regretted it.

The AIA soldiers on the deck did not argue like the AIA soldiers on the warships to the east, because they had seen the bad situation in the sea behind, and staying on the ship was not necessarily safer than being in the sea, they quickly took a look.

Mirthias did not command the flagship to rush directly to the enemy ship, but quickly sailed towards the approaching warship. He needed to gather the approaching warships scattered outside the battlefield as soon as possible to fight against this enemy fleet that came from somewhere.

In fact, due to the critical situation, Miltias did not need to remind him that some soldiers on the Dionian warship had voluntarily jumped into the sea to allow the warships to participate in the war.

However, the first wave of attacks from the Eastern Phoenician fleet destroyed at least 10 Dionian third-layer oar warships, which had already tore the already scattered rear of the Dionian fleet, and the subsequent warships took advantage of the victory to pursue the scattered Dionian warships, attempting to capture the rear of the Dionian fleet in one fell swoop.

The hull was wide and the red blood flag was floating on the top of the mast naturally became the main target of the East Phoenicians' attack. A total of five Phoenician warships were coming towards it quickly, forcing Miltias to stop his original plan.

Mirthias immediately made a decision, and he issued instructions to a crow warship and a fast three-layer oar warship gathered on both sides of his ship.
Chapter completed!