It should be said that Barricos completed the mission successfully, and the fleet he led dragged the main fleet of Dionia for more than three hours.

But for Morbar, the results he achieved were not satisfactory. He sank 35 Dionys warships and lost 7 of them himself. This was the result he achieved after carefully watching the first attack on Dionys warships in the Carthage warships and changed their tactics. However, it was still far from his original idea. He originally planned to eliminate all the Dionys warships that were lured out.

The reason why the result was that Commander of the Deonia of this fleet gathered more than half of the warships in time, but did not lead them out of the narrow area to rescue the warships scattered on the periphery, but instead set up an irregular circular array in that area and focused the defense on the relatively open west.

After destroying other lonely Dionyan warships, the Carthage fleet gathered again and surrounded the remaining Dionyan warships and launched several tentative attacks. However, the Dionyan ship formation was tightly defended, which made Morbar dare not make up his mind to launch a strong attack.

After receiving the news that "Dionia's main fleet came to assist", Morbar finally made up his mind: "Notify all warships to assemble on the west side of Hira Island to complete the final mission."

"Sir, what should we do with our sailors on these islands?" his subordinate reminded him.

"Everyone dies, so do you and I..." Although Morbar said that, he still felt a little regretful in his heart. He sighed again: When he was planning, he should have reminded them to swim to Sicily after falling into the water!

During this period, the Carthage fleet had the upper hand in this sea area, but on each island and reef, the crew members of the Dionia fell into the water were the dominant ones. Although most of the Carthage crew members who fell into the water were rescued by nearby friendly ships, most of the merchant ship sailors who had been sunk by the Dionia fleet swam to various islands and reefs. How could they be the opponents of the Dionia crew members who had fleet infantry? They were either killed or captured.

After Seclian led the fleet into this sea area, his mood suddenly became very bad because he saw fragments of warships floating on the sea from time to time, and heard the cheers of the crew of the Dionians on the adjacent islands and reefs...

"What did this idiot Stefakas do!" The worry in his heart became stronger, making him unable to help shouting angrily.

But after seeing more than 40 warships remaining and hearing Stefakas tell the whole battle, Secrean did not get angry anymore, but said unwillingly: "We are all fooled..."

When Stefakas continued, "According to the Clippers' report, the Carthaginian fleet is arranging the west side of the island of Sheila-"

Secrean's anger burst out again: "The Carthaginians attacked us and won a little victory. They thought they were too arrogant. They even wanted to fight us! Very good! Very good!!! Very good!!! Order all warships to bypass Hira Island and fight to the death with the Carthaginian fleet!"

Secrean first ordered several warships to be responsible for guiding the crew members on each island and reef onto the ship. At the same time, he led about 240 warships to the west side of Sheila Island. Sure enough, he saw the Carthage fleet lined up in an array.

Secrean blew the military trumpet without hesitation and raised the red and black flags. All the warships of the entire fleet were quickly arranged into a starry array as they advanced towards the Carthage fleet.

However, the Carthage fleet suddenly turned its bow and drove south away from the Dionian fleet.

"We cannot let them escape into the port of Lilibi!" The unwilling Seclian issued an order to "chase".

However, the Dionian fleet was about two miles away from the Carthage fleet. The speed of the crow warship was relatively slow, and the speed of the fast warship was fast. However, the Carthage fleet was in order and had just won the battle. Secrean did not dare to make the fast warship advance too much. Otherwise, it would be too far away from the crow warship and would easily be counterattacked by the opponent and cause losses.

In fact, the Carthage Fleet neither planned to fight with the Deonian fleet nor entered the port of Lilibi. Instead, it led the Deonian fleet to wander around the sea near Lilibi and Mazara, and then turned around and sailed westward, with its destination - Carthage.

Seclian unwillingly led the team to chase for another period and finally had to return.

It was already afternoon, and it was almost dusk. For most of the day, the Sicilian fleet experienced being played, raided, and pursued without success... After a series of frustrating events, both Secrean and the crew were exhausted physically and mentally, and there was no physical strength and energy to continue to cruise the western waters. They all drove the warships in their hearts and returned to the port of Selinus...

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The main army led by Davers is stationed at Minoa, not far from Selinus. The news that "the new Sicilian fleet was defeated in the first battle" could not be hidden from him.

Of course, Secrean did not think about hiding it. Although it was not a big failure, he was indeed a little ashamed, so he wrote a war report truthfully, and then prepared to let the Clippers send it to King Davers early on the second morning on the morning of the second day. He did not go to apologize in person for the time being, but led the fleet to find fighter jets in the western waters, fight a victory as soon as possible, and win back the dignity, and then meet Davers again.

But what he did not expect was that before he led the fleet out of the port, the king's messenger came from Minoa and read Davers's warrant to him, asking him to rush to Minoa to meet King Davers immediately.

Secrean came to Minoa's military camp with a nervous mood.

After seeing him, Davers, with a serious expression, handed him a roll of paper without waiting for him to speak.

After watching quickly, Secrean looked surprised: "Yesterday, thousands of merchant ships loaded with military rations were docked in the bay north of Elex?!"

To the north of Elyx are two slender hills that go westward into the sea about a mile or two, like the bent horns of a cow, thus forming a large bay where there are indeed two ports established by the Phoenicians, but neither large, and so many merchant ships have ever docked in it.

Davers said coldly: "This is the intelligence that the Kingdom Intelligence Department's adventure in Sicily spies. It was delivered to me late last night. There would be no mistake! Just when the Sicily fleet was teased by the Carthage Navy, I'm afraid you didn't expect that the real purpose of the Carthage Navy was actually to transport military rations to the Carthage army on Sicily that was about to lose food! And everyone in the Sicily fleet, including you, are like an angry bull, staring at the enemy in front of you, completely forgetting your real mission! Now that the Carthage army has food, they have enough patience to confront us, which will definitely cause us a lot of trouble! Seclien, this time, you disappointed me."

Secrelian felt both ashamed and very surprised: Everything the Carthaginians did yesterday was ultimately because of this?! But the Carthaginians did not show any attempt to protect the huge transport fleet and intercept the Sicilian fleet to cruise north. However, he and his subordinates were indeed all focused on the enemy, and they did not want to send warships over Erics and investigate northwards. Yesterday's incident had already made him very upset, but he did not expect that he would lose more!

Seeing him silent, Davers said coldly: "What?! I was frightened by the Carthaginians?!"

Secreon raised his head, looked at Davers, and said in a deep voice: "No, your majesty, I admit that I lost to the Carthaginians this time, but there will be no next time!"

"Well, this is the ever-winning general of the Dionys Navy that I am familiar with." Davers nodded and said in a gentle tone: "The Dionys Law emphasizes that, as a commander, you must always be calm and not be affected by any bad emotions, so as to make wrong judgments." This time, anger blinded your eyes and made these mistakes. I hope you can learn from your lessons. Please remember that you are the commander of the Sicilian fleet. The orders you issued are not only related to the life and death of the Sicilian fleet, but also to the victory or defeat of the entire Sicilian war! Don't be like a captain, be persistent in sank the enemy ship! Instead, you should broaden your mind and focus on the entire battle situation! Do you understand?!"

This time, Secrean nodded thoughtfully.

"The kingdom's navy has been developing smoothly since its establishment and has not encountered any major setbacks, which has led to the high morale of the navy, but it is easy to produce pride..." Davers continued to remind: "The failure yesterday was also a good thing, allowing the navy soldiers to calm down and take the enemy more seriously. Carthage is a maritime power in the Western Mediterranean after all, with a deep foundation. Their new naval commander is not a simple person. He was a Carthage hero who led a fleet to sail the ocean. He fought at sea for decades. If he could defeat such a general, it would make your victory more valuable!"

Davers looked at Secreon, who had thrown away his frustration and became more vigilant, and asked, "What do you think of the Carthage merchant ships that teased you?"

At this moment, Secrean's heart was already in turmoil. He thought for a while and said seriously: "Your Majesty, I admit that these Carthaginians are indeed very capable of sailing, but last night we interrogated the captured Carthaginian merchant ship sailors. From them, we learned from them that this Gatai Chi naval general named Morbar specially summoned all the sailors with excellent ship skills in Carthaginia and the nearby Phoenician city-state, more than half of them were his former subordinates. He motivated them with the news that "Carthy is in trouble and needs heroes to save" and at the same time he offered high pensions, so he formed these two Carthaginian fleets and used them to lure the Sicilian fleet.

Although his tactics finally worked, this is a way to kill chickens and get eggs. In fact, it is to over-consuming the Carthaginian sea power. This just shows that after we won consecutive victories in the naval battles, the Carthaginian navy was already in short supply and had to take such an extreme method to gain some advantages. However, this method cannot be continued, nor can it deceive our navy again.
Chapter completed!