The Byzantine Navy is divided into field troops and local garrison troops. The local garrison troops are divided into a military region with six garrison areas under each garrison area. There are several garrison subdivisions under each garrison area, responsible for maritime security in various regions.

The field army is divided into two major fleets. The southern fleet is stationed in the Mediterranean Sea and the northern fleet is stationed on the north side of the Aegean Sea. In addition, there is also a fleet directly under the Navy Command in Constantinople. These three fleets are the main combat forces of the Roman Navy.

After Huni came to the Navy Command and reported to Stefan Grand Kung Fu, Stefan Grand Kung Fu arranged for him to go to the Maritime Training Supervisor to serve as the deputy general of Maritime Training.

Huni's identity was originally equivalent to the deputy chief of staff of the Navy Command. The Naval Training Supervision was only a department under the General Staff. The arrangement of this position was obviously lower. However, Huni was not frustrated because, as Grand Duke Stefan said, he did not know enough about the situation of the Navy and had to go to the lower level to be competent for a higher position. So he excitedly went to the Naval Training Supervision to report.

On the first day of Huni's tenure, he couldn't wait to arrive at the port of the direct fleet. He came to the shore and looked up and saw the huge warships anchored in the harbor under the blue sky and white clouds.

This kind of warship is called a crow ship. On the high-rise bow, there is a huge iron hook that can move. The function of the iron hook is to hook the enemy ship on the sea, so that soldiers can board the enemy ship and fight with the opponent. Because the iron hook looks like the mouth of a crow, it is called a crow ship.

Huni jumped onto the traffic boat, and six soldiers rowed the boat and drove forward.

As the distance approached, Huni was shocked by the tall warship in front of him. The crow ship in front of him was one of the largest warships in the Roman Navy. It had two masts, the length of the hull was about 12 meters, and there were two decks in the middle of the ship, which could carry nearly 200 soldiers at most.

In this era, the shipbuilding technology in the whole world was relatively backward, and warships more than ten feet long were at the limit of the scale of the ship. This was mainly because the wind and waves on the sea surface were very large, and the keels of ships of this size could not withstand strong distortion and shaking, and could easily fall apart.

The reason why Li You was able to build a huge battleship like the sail battleship was that it could only be achieved by using shipbuilding technology that surpassed this era for nearly a thousand years.

The Roman warships were the largest warships in this era, and they also benefited from their geographical location. The Mediterranean is the inland sea, and most of the time the wind and waves are relatively small. Otherwise, if the same warship is placed in other sea areas, it will not be able to adapt.

In this era, there were no large ocean fleets and large maritime transportation, which was the main reason for the relatively backward maritime trade.

Huni came to the bottom of the battleship and climbed up along the soft ladder that was built on it.

This was the first time Huni boarded a warship like this, and he felt very fresh. He ran around the boat, touching everything with his own hands and taking a look.

Finally, he came to the stone thrower at the bow of the ship. It was about two meters high and could launch a stone bullet of about ten kilograms away from 100 steps. It could also launch a pot full of Greek fire, which had great lethality. On this warship, a total of four such stone throwers were equipped.

Huni climbed up the mast and looked down at the vast sea. When he saw other warships anchored on the sea, he felt like he was looking down at the mountains. When he thought of his ability to command such warships to fight against the enemy, Huni's heart was filled with the pride of fighting.

There was another person who had the same feeling as Huni, the liaison officer of the Dashi Navy, Ma Yino. He had seen the Roman Navy warship and was shocked by his huge body. At this moment, he was standing on the tall iron armored ship of the Tang army, and felt that the Roman crow ship that once shocked him was just a small toy compared to the iron armored ship.

Ma Yino was looking forward to seeing the shocked expression of the Romans when they saw the Tang army's warship.

However, Li You was not as optimistic as Ma Yinuo.

The Roman crow ship was not completely driven by wind. 32 pairs of oars were installed under the ship. They could be driven by manpower when there was no wind. The Tang army's sail battleship relied entirely on sails and was in a special geographical environment like the Mediterranean. Once in a battle and encountering windless weather, the Tang army's sail battleship would not move and would be completely in a passive state of being beaten.

Li You introduced the special geographical environment of the Mediterranean to Liu Rengui and other naval generals, which attracted the attention of the generals. The Tang army was training while walking and training, and was not in a hurry to launch an attack on the Romans.

Damascus.

Umar is 30 years old this year and has become a burly man. His luxurious life around Li You made him feel a little fat and his lower abdomen slightly bulged.

Now Umar has married the daughter of a fourth-rank official in Chang'an, and his life is very comfortable. However, there is still a shadow of his dream lover in his mind.

This time, Umar followed Wang Xuance to Damascus, hoping to have the opportunity to return to his hometown to take a look, but unfortunately he never found the opportunity.

The Heavenly King Xuan Ce called Umar and arranged an important task for him to take people to Constantinople.

Wang Xuance assigned him three tasks.

The first task is to contact the remaining personnel in the Tang Dynasty Trading Company in Constantinople, grasp the situation of Wang Huili and others, and prepare for the commando to go to rescue.

The second mission was to collect military intelligence from the Romans, especially the hydrological conditions of the Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea.

The third task is to understand the origin of the Greek fire, as well as the storage warehouse and other related situations.

Umar is pampered by Li You and has been doing nothing. Now that he finally has a place to use his skills, he can't help but be very happy.

Soon he led a team of more than a dozen cannibals who were familiar with the official Roman language, and brought a radio station to Constantinople.

That evening, Umar and others arrived on the border.

There is a long border between Dashi and Rome. In many areas, the people on both sides of the border line have the same clan and tribe, and the people have a very frequent exchanges between the people, especially as long as the merchants pay a certain toll, the garrisons at both ends of the border line turn a blind eye.

With the help of the local garrison of Dashi, Umar and others successfully passed the border and entered Rome.

Constantinople.

After the Tang Dynasty's trading company was seized by the local government, Li Xiaobao and others hid in a shop opened by the Persians and helped them find out about Wang Huili and others through the Persians.
Chapter completed!