The Roman galloping warship that was stopped came with panic shouts. The sailors on the ship finally found that they were not hit by the reef, but were stopped by artificial obstacles...

"It's not that I'm hitting the reef! I should have gotten into the cabin. Now only the stern of the boat was hit by the ship behind me and there was no leakage in the rest. It seemed that someone set up an iron cable in the water to stop the ship!"

The captain of the ship said anxiously: "Nothing. If there is a wire rope in the water, with the impact corner in front of our underwater boat, we will easily cut off any wire rope. Send a few people down and see what it is."

Then a few sounds of jumping into the water came, and a sound came from the sea outside the ship: "It's indeed an iron chain! This iron chain is almost blocked in front of the sea, so the impact corner of the ship's slid from under it and could not cut it off."

The captain continued to shout, "Hurry! Find a way to break it!"

At this moment, the other ships stopped one after another, not knowing whether to turn around or wait for the ships ahead to clear the obstacles. Then the soldiers and generals on these ships also began to scream because they found that the tents scattered on the beaches on both sides of the shores and the supplies trucks were exposed.

After the tent was unveiled, there were many crossbows that had been arranged and arranged. The baggage trucks were also turned over and the wall panels of the carriage were exposed.

The Liang army and all the crossbows in Alexander's army, a total of five or six hundred were gathered on both sides of the waterway, less than two miles long. On average, there was a crossbow every four meters on each side, which was so dense.

This narrow waterway sandwiched between the two beaches is three miles long, with only three hundred battles wide at the widest point. The Liang army's crossbow can reach up to 150 battles. The shooting range of the crossbow cannons on both sides can cover the entire waterway, and everyone knows what the current situation means. "Hurry! Why are you still standing there? Turn the bow of the ship quickly." The captain on a certain sail warship shouted.

However, it was too late. Countless fireballs rose from the beaches on both sides of the shore, throwing straight towards the warships of all sizes on the water. Some fireballs fell into the water and raised a wisp of blue smoke, but a considerable number of fireballs fell on the ship's deck and burst into flames. Some fireballs even drilled directly into the portholes of the sailing warships, allowing flames to fill the cabin. Even if the sailors inside were not burned by the flames, they would die of suffocation because of the sudden exhaustion of oxygen.

In order to destroy the pontoon bridge, some sail warships were loaded with a large amount of ordinary tincture oil and Greek tincture oil. At present, they were backfired by these flame retardants. Some sail warships were drilled into the porthole by fireballs, and the entire ship suddenly turned into a ball of fireballs.

On the entire waterway, more than a hundred Roman galloping warships were in chaos. They were all eager to turn the bow of the ship, causing them to squeeze into each other and collided with each other. This made the crossbows on both sides of the strait more easily hit them, and fireballs continued to be shot overwhelmed.

Soon, most ships were engulfed by the sea of ​​fire on the decks. Some fire bombs even hit the side of the ship, causing tinder oil to splash on the sea surface, causing the sea of ​​fire to ignite on the water surface.

More than twenty of the warships turned around by chance and fled in a panic on the same road. When they were about to escape, they found that the rear was also broken by the Liang army's iron cable blocking the river. The iron cable was originally sunk under the water. After these Roman warships passed, they were straightened by the Liang army's winch and raised to the water level.

The Liang army crossbows distributed on both sides of the straits were concentrated on firing at the more than 20 remaining Roman warships. In addition to the hot bombs, stone bombs were also used. More than 20 ships suddenly became fire ships, and then the scorched shells were smashed by the stone bombs. The battle lasted for two hours, and no more than a hundred galloping warships escaped and were all buried at the bottom of the sea. The water was full of wreckage of warships and Roman sailors who had sinking and floating in the water.

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Thrace's Roman camp and the central tent. Macrinus paced back and forth anxiously. Whether more than a hundred ships could destroy the enemy's floating bridge was the key to this battle. He sent scouts to the coast early to explore, but unfortunately, these scouts were intercepted by Liang's scouts, some of them were as clear as stone cows sinking into the sea. Some escaped with injuries, and none of them could sneak to the frontier to investigate the information.

At this time, a guard of the Guards broke into the central army's tent and reported: "Report to your Majesty, there was a sound of fighting on the coast, and thick smoke rose into the air."

Macrinus laughed and said, "It must be our fleet that launched an attack, washed their pontoon bridge and set fire to the fire." He said as he rushed outside the tent and looked into the distance. Sure enough, there was a lot of smoke rising from the sea in the distance, and you could still see the ends of the flames jumping on the horizon.

But as he looked at it, his brows frowned, and he felt something was wrong. He thought to himself that if the enemy's pontoon bridge was burned, there should be only one thick smoke, but now the entire waterway was filled with thick smoke. When he heard the noise of the battle carefully, it would not be like the enemy's pontoon bridge was destroyed.

Macrinus immediately ordered the scout to inquire again. This time, the scout did not need to approach the beach. He ran out for more than a hundred battles and climbed a big tree to find the real situation. When Macrinus learned that his fleet was ambushed, he suddenly felt like thunder. He was stunned for a long time before he came to his senses and shouted anxiously: "Gather the troops and the whole army forward and drive the Liang army into the sea."

In the Roman army camp, drums and whistles sounded one after another, and finally formed a group. Nearly 7,000 Roman infantry and cavalry rushed out of the camp and skillfully arranged square formations in the open space in front of the camp. Then, amid the drums and whistles, they stepped on the neat drum beats and pushed forward together.

However, at this time, the Alexander army, who had already crossed the sea, had already arranged a phalanx and was ready for formation. His wings also had two infantry battalions of Zhao Yun's army. The only thing that was lacking was that the cavalry of the Liang army had not crossed the sea, and only the Roman cavalry of the Alexander army was guarding the extreme points of the left and right wings of the army.

When the two armies were less than two hundred steps apart, the Liang army's longbowers attacked first, and hundreds of heavy longbow arrows shot towards Macrinus's army.

Macrinus' Roman army obviously did not expect the enemy to have a weapon with such a long range. Unpredictable attack, more than a hundred soldiers were shot and fell to the ground, and the military formation immediately became a little confused. Then they reacted and hurriedly protected the shield in front and raised it above their heads to form a "turtle shell" that protected the square formation and continued to advance. However, their speed had slowed down a lot.

Macrinus waved his hand forward and said, "Cabinets on both wings!" A large number of Roman cavalry then rushed out of the wings of the military formation and rushed towards the coalition army formation.
Chapter completed!