ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 960 The speed of life and death in the sea battle of Saros

When he finished issuing the order, he asked the flagship to immediately turn around and, as an example, accelerate towards the Dionia fleet.

After seeing it, the warships around it quickly took corresponding actions. However, for the Carthaginian warships that were far away, they first heard the retreat bugle, and soon changed to attack. The two completely opposite orders confused them.

This is a newly formed fleet. Although the vast majority of its crew members survived the storm of the previous Carthage fleet, it has been reorganized after all. The biggest problem is that - although A Demica had expressed strong opposition, but with the support of the Senate, Annobus still mixed the survivors of the previous Carthaginian fleet and the Iberian fleet together and assigned them to each new warship. , In this way, all warships will be under the unified command of the naval commander, and there will no longer be an independent Iberian fleet.

So when this new fleet was rushed into battle without being fully adjusted, they had not yet developed good obedience to the new fleet commander (for the Iberian crew, Annobas was unfamiliar ), it is not revealed in normal patrols and navigation, but in times of crisis, the problem is exposed: some warships are hesitant to carry out this later order.

And just when the Carthaginian fleet was inconsistent and chaotic due to two orders, the attack of the Dionian 3rd fleet continued to show its power, and the crow warship smashed open the circle like a hammer. The outer shell of the ship, followed closely by the fast triremes. Their narrow hulls shuttled quickly within the narrow inner space of the circular array, as agile as swimming fish. However, after discovering the fighter planes, they turned into The ferocious sharks cut off the oars of enemy ships and crashed their hulls, making the already chaotic Carthage ship formation even more chaotic...

At this point in the battle, some Carthaginian warships realized something was wrong and began to withdraw from the battlefield.

Speaking of which, Carthage’s new fleet originally had 190 warships. After arriving in Sardinia, they merged into 40 warships originally belonging to the Phoenician city-state of Sardinia, bringing the total number of warships to 230. After Nobas formulated this plan, he almost divided the new fleet equally: in order to ensure that the warship commanded by Ademika, who was in charge of ambush in the open sea, could resist the attack of the Dionia warship and form a complete melee The situation can persist until the fleet he personally leads arrives and forms a two-sided attack (because Annobas believes that if he arrives at the battlefield too early, the Dionia fleet that has not yet gone deep into the battle is likely to have a bad experience and die. escaped early, leading to little success), so the 110 warships he assigned to Admica were all Carthaginian warships, and 40 Phoenician warships, which were weaker in combat, were incorporated into his own fleet , he believed that with a huge advantage, there was no need to worry about the combat effectiveness of the Phoenician warships.

But the current situation is that the fleet led by Annobas is in a passive situation. Facing the fierce attack of the Dionysian warships, several Phoenician warships chose to obey the last order of the flagship, while the following The incoming order to attack went unheard, and they retreated.

Their retreat also affected the fighting spirit of the nearby Phoenician warships, and they all retreated, making it difficult to maintain the defense of the entire Carthaginian fleet, let alone attack.

After Annobus learned about this situation through Watching Hands, he was so angry that he could do nothing.

"Sir, let's retreat quickly. If we don't leave, we won't be able to leave!" the captain urged eagerly, because at this time, there were Dionian warships on the sea to the left and right of the Carthage flagship. Annobas personally supervised the battle, and the situation was slightly better. If this situation continued, the flagship would be cut off from its return route and be surrounded.

"...Let's retreat..." Anobas said dejectedly, covering his face and sitting down on the deck, completely daring to face the fact that as a veteran admiral, when he was suddenly attacked by the enemy, he first hurriedly The wrong formation was deployed, and then the orders were repeatedly changed, causing the originally advantageous battle to turn into a rout...

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"The enemy has retreated! The enemy has retreated!" The lookout shouted excitedly above the mast.

Midorades's face did not look relaxed, and he asked anxiously: "How far is the Carthaginian fleet behind us from us?
"Only about 300 meters!"

"Order all warships not to stop, speed up and move forward! Remember, don't stop!" Midorades shouted sharply.

"Captain, the flagship has raised three green flags!" the stern lookout of a crow warship at the forefront of the fleet shouted loudly.

"What?! Green flag!" The captain frowned. The navy's slogan of the green flag was "accelerate forward" (when the Dionysian Navy originally formulated the flag, green represented spring, the recovery of all things, the thawing of glaciers, and galloping forward. means, and the opposite is the white flag, which represents retreat. The Dionysian Navy has no surrender flag), which means that they have to let go of the ship in front of them that is panicking and passing in front of their bow. Although the Carthage warship was unwilling, the order must be obeyed. The captain sighed helplessly and said: "Charge speed, go straight forward! Remove the Crow Suspension Bridge!"

All the warships of the 3rd fleet were executing similar orders, causing the entire fleet to speed up again, which forced the Annobas fleet to speed up and escape. Even in panic, in order to escape, collisions with each other were seen from time to time.

When these Carthaginian warships that were traveling slowly due to collisions saw the rapidly approaching Dionian warships, all of them were dead.But a miracle happened. The Dionysian warship seemed to have not seen them, passing them by and sailing forward.

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Admika regretted it.

On the order of Annobas, he led 110 warships to ambush in the open sea. The crew drove the warships tossing in the wind and waves, waiting cautiously for the Dionian fleet to take the bait. As a result, after waiting for most of the day, the merchant ship serving as the bait reported that : The Dionian fleet chased them halfway and then returned.

Admika was disappointed. While he notified the fleet to return, he also sent a clipper to investigate with a glimmer of hope.

As a result, the Clippers reported that the Dionia fleet was intercepted by the fleet led by Annobas.

Admika immediately turned from disappointment to excitement, and he ordered the fleet to speed up.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for him to see the Dionian fleet ahead, but at this time he did not order the fleet to launch an attack immediately. Instead, he asked the fleet to slow down its advance and form a formation at the same time.

The reason why he did this was that he had some considerations: first, in the naval battle at Seedium a few months ago, the Iberian fleet he personally led was defeated by the Dionian fleet. At this time, the Dionian fleet, which had just begun to fight the Annobas fleet, was fully capable of detaching some warships, turning around to block his attack, and causing greater losses to the fleet he led. .

Second, although he is now under the command of Annobas, he is not convinced. He hopes that the fleet commanded by Annobas will suffer more losses in this war, but he will suffer very little losses, which will benefit him in the future. The prestige in the new fleet has increased, increasing the right to speak.

Therefore, after Admiral deployed all the warships to form a double-column formation, he stood still, watching the development of the battle ahead, and at the same time being alert to the possible escape of the Dionysian fleet.

But he never expected that the commander of the Dionia fleet would be so decisive and would ignore his threat and allow all warships to participate in the attack.

He did not expect that the fleet commanded by Annobas would perform so poorly. The battle only lasted about 10 minutes before he could no longer hold on.

After Admika had a rough understanding of the battle situation ahead through the lookout hand, he had to immediately issue an order to attack.

Let the warship reach extreme speed from standstill, pass a distance of nearly three miles, and rush to the rear of the Dionia fleet. The Admika fleet spent about seven or eight minutes, in order to allow the Annobas fleet to try its best to push the opponent After being entangled, Admika also asked the buglers of the flagship to blow the attack bugle sound with all their strength.

But all efforts proved to be in vain. By the time they arrived at the battlefield, the Dionysian fleet had passed through the Carthaginian ship formation and sailed away at full speed, leaving only the damaged Carthaginian ship. The Carthaginian warships and the Carthaginian warships with most of their sailors injured were scattered on the sea. Many Carthaginian sailors were floating on the sea and shouted loudly for help to the fleet, which instead became an obstacle to the advancement of Admika's fleet.

Of course, not all Dionysian warships escaped in time. Seven or eight Dionysian warships either slowed down due to damage to their hulls, or had to be forced to withdraw their fleet infantry in time because they failed to do so. They spent more time waiting, or they were unable to rush out quickly because the panicked enemy ship suddenly appeared in front of them, unable to dodge, and had to collide with it... In short, they were not able to escape the battlefield, and fell far behind Dio. Behind the Nia fleet.

The Admika fleet warships chased after them. Seeing that they could not escape, the Dionian warships also turned around to fight. Even though they performed very bravely, with less and more, the Carthaginians quickly gained victory. victory.

During this process, the Dionia Third Fleet did not turn around to rescue, but instead accelerated away.

Looking at the Dionian fleet that had almost disappeared in the distance, and then looking at the devastated battlefields all around, Admika hesitated for a moment. Since it was no longer possible to catch up with the Dionian fleet, he decided to first Rescue your fellow citizens.

At the same time, he also sent a clipper forward to investigate the movements of the Dionia fleet, and also asked the clipper to find the escaped Carthaginian warships and let them return to the fleet.

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