"Woo!..." The war trumpet sounded, and two long cloth belts, one red and one black, quickly flew on the top of the flagship main mast.

The other warships also saw the warning signs in front of them. At this time, the flagship issued another message of attack. The originally dull fleet suddenly began to become lively. The captain's command, the lookout's reminder, and the sailors' horns kept coming from various warships, causing the formation of the entire fleet to begin to change.

The Third Fleet is no longer a column of four warships, but is quickly forward and expanding to the two wings. The distance between the horizontal ships is widened, while the distance between the columns is narrowed. The formation of the entire fleet has changed from a long snake to a winged geese. The warships of the Third Fleet, which have been established for nearly ten years, are arranged in an array with extremely skillful and tacit speed, while constantly shortening the distance with the Carthage fleet opposite.

At this time, on the flagship of the Carthage fleet, Anobas, the commander of the Carthage Navy, was surprised by the appearance of the Dionys fleet in this sea: Did the Dionys see through our plan to lure the enemy?!

"Sir, should we avoid it for the time being?" asked the flagship captain carefully.

Annobas looked ahead, pondered for a moment, and then said decisively: "Although some are inconsistent with our plan, the Dionians are still in a disadvantageous situation. As long as we intercept it, the final victory will definitely belong to us!"

"Sir, but can Admika and the others arrive in time..." the captain's words were vague.

But Anobas understood what he meant and said in a deep voice: "This naval battle is very important to Carthage! It is also very important to Lord Mago! Admika must understand its importance, and he will do his best!"

Speaking of this, Annobas issued a loud order: "Carry a circular array and prepare for battle!"

After the order was issued, Annobas looked up at the scorching sun above his head with some disgust, and stood up and went down into the cabin.

In order to save time and build more warships, Carthage and the shipyards of Allied states temporarily gave up the construction of four-story oar warships and large flagships. Therefore, the flagship Annobas was riding on was only modified from a three-story oar warship, without a ship building, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.

The circular array is a defensive ship array. The warships are arranged in a circular shape. The distance between the warships is relatively tight, with only the bow facing outward. Both sides and the rear are under the protection of their own warships. It is like a hedgehog that shrinks into a ball and erects a spike, leaving the attacking enemy ships nowhere to stumble.

Although the circular array has the disadvantage of causing the warships in the array to move slowly, its super strong defense is exactly what Annobas needs at this moment. After all, he experienced the last naval battle with the Sicily fleet of the Dionia, and was still scared of the attack power of the Dionia warship, so he wanted to use the circular array to delay time first to wait for the arrival of favorable fighter jets.

However, compared with other ship arrays, the circular array is not only much more difficult to arrange, but also takes a longer time. Just when the warships of Carthage received the order from the flagship and began to gather at the Carthage flagship under the command of the captains, the Third Fleet of Dionys had already begun to launch an attack.

All the warships of the Third Fleet had already lowered the sails, and the crow warships were also installed on the suspension bridge. After hearing the orders of the attack, all the sailors were in excitement. They quickly stuffed the rations they carried with them into their mouths. While chewing, they listened to the commands of the sailors and the flute player, and controlled the oars and continuously increased the speed of the oars.

At this moment, the loud looking hand on the main mast of the flagship shouted in panic: "General, warships in the rear appear! Double yellow flags! An enemy ship appears, and the number of ships is not much different from ours!"

Midolades felt tight, and some doubts in his heart were immediately resolved: Why did Carthage merchant ships not flee along the coast but ran to the dangerous far sea? Why did these Carthage merchant ships, which seemed to be loaded with cargo, maintain a faster speed and have superb ship handling skills?... This is the Carthage fleet's plan! They had warships ambushed in the far sea and lured us there with merchant ships. When they were fighting with us, another fleet came from the rear and attacked on both sides. In addition, the long-distance sea battle was not conducive to the performance of the crow warship, and the third fleet was likely to suffer a crushing defeat!

Midolades felt scared, and he was glad that the last failure made him keep his vigilance.

"General, what should I do?! Should I make the first squadron behind turn around and go to intercept it?!" the captain asked nervously.

Facing a crisis, perhaps because he was glad to escape, Midolades's mind was particularly clear at this moment. He shook his head and said in a deep voice: "The number of warships added by the enemy is nearly twice that of his own warships. Division of troops will only weaken our offensive power... Now the enemy behind has just been discovered, and is at least three miles away from us, and the enemy ahead is already close to us-"

He paused for a moment, his eyes became firm, and his tone suddenly became fierce: "Rise two more red flags! All warships are not allowed to stop, rush up all of them!"

Three red and one black cloth strips fluttered on the top of the flagship's main mast. For other warships who saw warnings on the warships behind, they eliminated their confusion and hesitation. For the warships that were approaching the enemy formation in front, this was even more agitating agent: Attack! Attack again! Fight to the end!

Each sailor was inspired by the sailors, and his oars soared, making each warship shoot towards the Carthage formation like an arrow off the string.

The crow warship rushed towards the enemy ship. When the two ships were very close, the sailors immediately put away their oars. The warships were sliding forward under the control of the helmsman with inertia. The operator on the deck held the axle of the rotating suspension bridge tightly. When the two ships were about to collide, the operator pressed the handle and the suspension bridge quickly smashed the bow of the other side. The "boom" sound actually caused the sterns of both sides to jump up at the same time. The sailors in the cabin fell and fell into pieces.

The fleet infantry in the crow warship tried hard to control their bodies, rushed to the deck from the cabin, and quickly rushed across the suspension bridge. There were only a few soldiers and archers on the opponent's warship. Faced with the fully armed fleet infantry, the resistance of the Carthage sailors was destined to be a tragedy.

When screams came from the front from time to time, Annobas suddenly realized that he had made a huge mistake: the circular formation is indeed the best warship defensive formation, but it was aimed at enemies who also control conventional three-layer oar warships. He is now facing the Dionian Navy, who is good at hooking ships with suspension bridges and conducting jumping gang battles. The ships are arranged in a circular formation, and the difficulty in movement has become the target of the opponent's willful attack.

Annobas regretted it at this moment, but instead vented his resentment on the captain: "Why didn't you remind me just now?!"

The captain was speechless because, like Annobas, he had been influenced by traditional naval tactics for a long time. When he suddenly encountered the enemy, he instinctively chose the most appropriate tactics to deal with it. That is to say, he just felt that Annobas adopted the strategy was correct, so he did not object, but he completely forgot that what they encountered was an enemy who did not fight according to conventional naval tactics. The main reason was that Annobas and the others had only fought with the Dionian Navy once and were not very impressed by the tactics of their fleet.

"Quick! Quick! Blow the retreating trumpet! Let all warships avoid themselves!" Annobas shouted in anger.

The captain was stunned: "Sir, will we not hold on for a while?! Admika and the others may arrive soon!"

"When Admika arrives, our fleet will probably be over!" Annobas roared in anger, forgetting what he had just said before. Since the Deonia fleet was passing ahead, he didn't know that Admika was leading the fleet to come quickly at this time.

Unlike the Dionys Navy, the Carthage Navy formulated a complex flag-speaking system after passing through Davers's point of view, which could convey orders in a timely and clear manner. However, the Carthage Navy, which had been traversing hundreds of years at sea, also had its own set of methods to convey orders at sea.

Ten Si soldiers on the flagship deck blew the trumpet of retreat at the same time, and the trumpet was rushing out in all directions.

Although the round formation of the Carthage fleet was not completely completed, the warships were moving towards the flagship, which could clearly hear the sound of the horns. However, it was impossible to execute this order immediately and make the entire fleet retreat immediately, because this was a round formation. The warships on the periphery had to retreat first and make room for the internal warships to retreat.

However, the warships of the 3rd Fleet of Dionia quickly pressed the entire line and in a short time it made full contact with half of the periphery of the Carthage circular array.

Under the rapid attack of the Dionian warship, it was not easy to retreat smoothly. Now the warships in the forefront saw the friendly ships that were fighting in front of them being hooked by the enemy ship's suspension bridges one after another. Then the soldiers of the Dionian fleet rushed to the deck like wolves and tigers, and then screamed. The Carthage crew members were all frightened, fearing that they would follow in the footsteps. The sound of the retreat made them feel relieved and turned around and retreated one after another, which made the space of the already narrow circle formation become smaller, affecting the speed of the warship retreat.

At this moment, Annobas, who was regretting, suddenly stopped complaining and said to the flagship captain uncertainly: "I seem to hear our offensive sound!"

The captain was stunned and immediately listened.

At this time, the lookout hand on the mast shouted loudly: "A fleet appeared behind the Deonia fleet! It is our fleet! Lord Admika has arrived!"

Annobas swept away the depressedness before. Admika, who had previously disliked and despised, became his most welcome object at this moment. He shouted excitedly: "Ademika is doing a good job! Quickly! Order all warships to stop retreating! Launch an attack on the enemy immediately!"
Chapter completed!