The location where the rebels were busy was the narrowest part of the Strait of Messina. Obviously, they could only do one thing here. John said to himself: "The general is not wrong. They are planning to pass through the narrowest position."

John immediately summoned eight or nine centurions under his command and arranged military orders for them one by one. John did not remove the sentries and cavalry set up along the coast. While preventing the rebels from building the pontoon bridge, he also had to beware of them swimming across the sea from other places.

The hundreds of battles of floating bridges could not be built in a short time. John guessed that it would take three hours for the other party to pave the floating bridge, so except for a dozen capable people watching the enemy's movements, the rest continued to rest and fell asleep.

John himself couldn't sleep, staring at the busy rebel soldiers on the sea with red eyes. They spread the pre-built components into the sea one by one. These components are composed of a large number of wooden barrels and the frames and roof panels that fix the barrels. Each component is connected by iron cables, rather than directly fixed together with wooden boards. In this way, the waves can only make the pontoon bridge sway, but will not be broken by the wind and waves.

By the afternoon when the sun was west, almost three hours had passed. The pontoon bridge was only about ten miles away from the coast of the Apennine Peninsula. The rebel soldiers who built the pontoon bridge tried to jump into the water, and the sea water only reached their chests.

Several rebel soldiers transported a "component" from the other side and rushed towards the water. At this time, a flying figure seemed to pass by one of them, and disappeared again. He rubbed his eyes, thinking that he was in a trance and had an illusion. But he heard a thump again, and another soldier carrying the component diagonally suddenly rushed into the water.

The heavy component lost one support and suddenly lost balance. Another person on the same side as the person who fell into the water could no longer hold back and let go. The component slid to one side. Someone began to curse, "It's so stupid, why did this fall into the sea..." He was stunned before he finished speaking, because the person who fell into the water had already floated up, but a thick arrow penetrated his chest, and the sea water next to him was already red.

"No, there is an enemy..." As soon as he came to his senses, a four-foot-long "arrow" shot into his belly, and he fell down on the bridge deck in an instant.

The people behind them didn't understand what was going on at first, but they found something was wrong when the people in front fell to the ground one after another or fell into the water. Only then did they find that there were figures of people appearing behind the rocks on the beach ten times outside.

"Official army! There are official army on the beach!" The rebels shouted one after another, but the crossbow guns shot from individual crossbows became increasingly dense. The soldiers on John's side simply stopped hiding, and jumped out from behind the rocks and grass and trees to wait for hiding places, and used the individual crossbows in their hands to pour crossbows onto the floating bridge.

The rebel soldiers in front of the pontoon bridge all fell down, and those who were quick to react hurriedly ran backwards. At the same time, John held a large shield and led the way into the sea with a short sword, and rushed towards the pontoon bridge, stepping on the waist-deep water. Behind him were more than 200 death-death men.

The main force of the enemy army on the other side had already responded. Hundreds of rebel soldiers gathered together, raised their swords and guns, and raised their shields, and rushed into the pontoon bridge. When John and others were about to approach the pontoon bridge, the crowd of rebel soldiers rushed to the end of the pontoon bridge.

The crossbow guns on the shore were still firing continuously and densely. Although there was a shield wall made of large shields in front of the rebels, these crossbow guns could still penetrate these shield walls. From time to time, people were shot into their arms or chests by crossbow guns passing by and screamed and fell down, but the people behind would immediately fill in the vacancy.

John finally climbed onto the pontoon bridge with more than 20 soldiers. In order not to accidentally hurt them, the soldiers of Feng Yu's army on the shore stopped the close-range shooting of individual crossbows, but instead shot into the depths of the pontoon bridge. Of course, whether this kind of shooting can kill and injure the enemy soldiers depends entirely on God.

John and more than 20 soldiers were side by side, and they also used shields as walls to collided with the surging enemy crowds. John skillfully flew up and down in his hand, stabbed left and right, and did not know how many enemy soldiers fell in front of his shield. The soldiers beside him also fought hard.

However, the slave rebels were also tenacious, with people falling down and filling the gaps. It seemed that they would not give up until they drove John and others back out of the sea. The two sides were in a stalemate for a while. But the rebels had more than ten times more troops than John. If they continued for a long time, the latter side would be defeated with exhaustion.

John knew without looking back that his warriors were standing under the pontoon bridge behind him. He shouted loudly: "We must push forward at least one battle to make our plan implement. Otherwise, the whole game will be lost!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier beside him was pierced through the neck by an opponent's spear. A rebel soldier waved a broad sword and took the opportunity to drill into the gap that was empty, but John gently stroked the tip of his sword, cutting off the artery on his neck. Blood spurted a few feet away, and a soldier who had just climbed onto the deck of the floating bridge was covered with his head and face. The soldier covered in blood quickly filled the gap.

At this time, some Feng Yu's soldiers wade through the water with individual crossbows and wading on both sides of the end of the pontoon bridge, and shot a crossbow gun at the dense enemy on the bridge. This move greatly reduced the pressure from John, who was fighting with the enemy. John brought more than 20 soldiers to charge with an explosive charge, and finally forced the rebels to retreat three or four feet away.

The soldiers of Feng Yu's army who were still standing in the water at the end of the bridge took the opportunity to climb the floating bridge, took out the Greek turbulent tanks that had been prepared in their skins, threw them behind the enemy's shield wall. Some of the other leaders and leaders immediately understood what was going on and shouted anxiously: "The government army is about to set fire, retreat quickly, retreat backwards."

Just as the crowd began to surge backwards, a lit torch threw it into the crowd. After a muffled bang, a flame covering the entire width of the pontoon bridge rose into the air. Many rebel soldiers covered in fire screamed and jumped into the water.

The rebels suddenly accelerated and became panicked. Many people were squeezed on the bridge deck and trampled by others. Feng Yujun's Greek fire pots were successively put into the fire wall, further expanding the scope of the fire. In the end, the fire was burned to the center of the pontoon bridge and gradually extinguished, but John had successfully destroyed half of the pontoon bridge.
Chapter completed!