The port of Mer in southern Asia Minor is moored with various ships. This is the home port of the newly-formed Mediterranean Fleet of Auguste, which is only more than 100 miles away from the north coast of Cyprus. The newly-formed Mediterranean Fleet is actually a mixture of the Black Sea Fleet and ships collected from Cyprus, with a total of more than 800 warships of all sizes.

On the sea far away from the port, there were a large number of warships and warships cruised back and forth on the outside of the port. A large number of crossbows were arranged on the shores of the port, near the plank roads and gates, and some giant crossbows with a relatively long range. As Feng Yu expected, Augustus was more vigilant after knowing that Cyprus was attacked by the Sicilian army and made sufficient prevention in his port. In fact, in addition to these open measures, Augustus' fleet also tampered with the sea near the port and placed many artificial "reefs" made of stone and iron. If they did not follow the established route, they would easily hit the reef and sank.

When the sun just rose and the pole was high, a long convoy would come on the road leading to Port Meer. It was Auguste and others who were going to Cyprus to marry Shirley. At the port terminal, there were about 600 large and small warships waiting, and some of the transport ships were also filled with soldiers transferred to Cyprus to replace the original garrison.

In fact, Augustus was not worried about his safety. He did not think that when he crossed the sea, someone would suddenly attack him from the sea because he knew about the surrounding forces, including Sicily. At least in the Eastern Mediterranean, no one could surpass him at sea. He arranged so many ships to escort him, not all for safety reasons. Instead, he would transfer some ships of the Mediterranean fleet to Pila Port in Cyprus. It was closer to the main routes of the Eastern Mediterranean and closer to the estuary of the Suez Canal. It would become a base for him to control the entire Eastern Mediterranean sea in the future.

With the sound of several horns, the warships and warships in the port left the port one after another and lined up to the depths of the southern sea. In a short while, the sea was covered with shadows of masts and sails.

Just a few miles away, a semi-submersible ship of Feng Yujun was hiding in the waves, shaking constantly. The commander of the semi-submersible ship who poked his head out of the lookout was staring at this side. Because the distance was too far, they could only see countless rising masts, but this was enough. However, the other party could not find these semi-submersible ships because the surface was spherical.

The captain retracted his head back to the cabin and ordered: "Send a signal." A soldier holding a red flag immediately took his place, holding the water splashing into the viewing hatch from time to time, stood firm as much as possible on the edge of the cabin, and then waved the red flag vigorously with one hand. Less than two miles west of the semi-submersible boat, the other person on the other semi-submersible boat discovered the jumping red dot, and immediately poked a red flag out of the hatch and waved it vigorously.

After several relays, the huge fleet anchored on a sea from the west of Mel Port, fifteen miles from Mel Port, received the news that the Augustes fleet had already left the port. On a multi-masked sailboat, Feng Yu received the report from the orders, and calmly ordered: "Transfer our military orders and the whole army will attack!"

Gan Ning, who was standing next to him, felt something was wrong and hurriedly said, "Lord, let's attack now? My subordinates thought they should follow them quietly and attack when they landed on Cyprus. In this way, they could catch them off guard, and in that case they were far away from Asia Minor, they could only run to the isolated island of Cyprus, so that they could not escape by chance and wipe them out all the roots."

Feng Yu shook his head and said, "What you said makes sense. But we still have to attack now. If they are allowed to land on the island, the Hathurel family on the island will likely become their hostages."

Dian Wei, who was next to him, opened his mouth, but when he wanted to speak, Dian Qing pulled him away, and finally shut up. In fact, Dian Wei wanted to say, "What does the safety of the Hathurel family on the island have to do with us."

After Feng Yu walked away from the deck a little, Dian Wei asked Dian Qing in a low voice, "What are you pulling me?" Dian Qing said calmly, "You don't know the lord's thoughts. Let me tell you, the daughter of the Hatuler family is afraid that she will have an affair with the lord. Do you think he can let them take this risk?" Dian Qing was one of the four entourages who followed Feng Yu into the Governor's Mansion of Cyprus at that time.

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"A large number of unknown ships were found in the southwest of the fleet!" The flagship Agurez was riding on, and the lookout sailors on the mast shouted loudly. The warning sounds on the warships of the other warships were also heard one after another. Augustus was shocked at first, and the commander of his fleet had already ordered loudly: "Be prepared for combat, arrange combat formations and prepare to face the enemy."

Amid the endless sound of horns, information about this unknown fleet followed one after another. "Report! There are nearly four hundred unknown ships of unknown size." "Report! The ships coming were the banner of the Sicily Navy."

Augures frowned and said to himself, why did Feng Yu come here at this time? No, this must be not a coincidence, but he had known his time of action and had been ambushed. Thinking of the hair behind him, he immediately comforted himself, fortunately, there were not many ships on the other side, and it was not far from Port Meer. It is hard to say who will win, and maybe this is his chance to annihilate the opponent's fleet. Thinking of this, he immediately ordered: "Go and transfer all the warships and warships that are still anchored in the port, and we are ready to fight the Sicily Navy here!"

The shadow of the mast Lin Fan in the distance was getting closer and closer, and Augustus also hurriedly set up a formation. At this time, both sides were still three or four miles away, and their ships were in each other's vision.

On Augusteth's side, a soldier suddenly shouted: "There is something under the water." Almost at the same time, Augusteth also discovered several semi-submersible ships on the sea that only exposed the lookout hatch. They were already very close to Augusteth's fleet.

"It's Feng Yu's army's sinking ships! Pay attention to their underwater sinking ships! Blast them with crossbowstone shells!" Augures's naval general roared loudly. It's not a secret that Feng Yu has a semi-submersible ship now, but among the Roman army, this kind of ship is called the sinking ship.

A stone bomb was shot out by a carrier-based crossbow, and it flew towards the semi-submersible ships very densely. A wave of water columns suddenly splashed on the sea. With a rumbling sound of the shattered sound of wood breaking, a stone bomb hit a semi-submersible ship. In the semi-submersible ship, soldiers crawled out of the hatch exposed to the water, jumped into the sea, and swam desperately to the distance.

Then there was another rumbling sound, and Augustus discovered that one of the largest galloping warships on his side collided with a semi-submersible ship. Similarly, the sailors in the semi-submersible ship jumped into the sea to escape, and the soldiers on the deck of the galloping warships immediately projected them with javelins and crossbow arrows.
Chapter completed!