The Three Kingdoms Voyage

Chapter 334
On the east bank of the Bosporus Strait, teams of guards are gathering on the shore, ready to board a boat to cross the sea. Maximus has received the news that Momia has successfully persuaded the members of the Senate and got Their support pushed Quintus to the throne of the Roman emperor, and at the same time conscripted [-] troops to Byzantium, preparing to block his way and defend Rome. Now, Gordian is already outside the city of Byzantium. The formation of the battle, with him to a showdown.

When hearing the news, Maximus smiled coldly.He admired Momia's skill very much, and even under such circumstances, he could persuade the nobles of the Senate to continue the rule of the Severus family. The new army composed of many Roman youths slaughtered and angered the Romans. Momia may not be able to do this. To a certain extent, he helped Momia again.

When I enter the city of Rome and become a real Roman emperor, I must marry this woman as queen and let her bear me a few children.There was a yearning smile on the corner of Maximus's mouth. His love for Momia was unforgettable after all. Before Momia abandoned him, he didn't dare to think too much. After all, in front of Momia, he had an indelible feeling. Lost self-esteem, even if he holds the power of the Guards, but the psychological gap cannot be erased by power.However, now that he is even going to be the emperor of Rome, he naturally no longer has that inferiority complex, and the mentality of wanting to be equal to Momia also naturally arises.

Looking at the blue sea, Maximus was intoxicated with an indescribable joy. When he volunteered to fight in front of Emperor Severus 30 years ago, he never imagined that one day he would become the supreme king The emperor of the Romans, and today, he is only one step away from this once unattainable goal. As long as he defeats the [-] army led by Erdion, he can go straight in. Even if Momia has the ability to shake the sky, she will There is not enough time to raise another army.

Gordian was once someone whom Maximus respected and feared, but now, Maximus only has a little pity for him.It is true that Gordian has prestige and ability, but all he has on hand now is only 8 Roman recruits who have never been on the battlefield, and [-] barbarian mercenaries, while he has nearly [-] horses on hand, almost They are all composed of brave and skilled barbarian mercenaries.Gordian seems to have forgotten one thing. He Maximus was born as a barbarian. For barbarian mercenaries, Maximus' appeal is much stronger than that of his old Roman nobleman. Casting is evident.

After killing the Bosporus Strait, those barbarian mercenaries will definitely surrender. Even if they don't surrender, it doesn't matter. I have enough strength to defeat them. At that time, Gordian can only commit suicide to apologize. .

Momia, here I come, and I want to show you what a real man is.Maximus's heart was surging, like the waves of sea water in front of him.

Arulinus walked over quickly with his sword in hand, and saluted Maximus majesticly: "Your Majesty, I will cross the sea. Please listen to the good news that I am waiting for."

Maximus smiled gratifiedly, his son is really good once he puts on the armor.In order to reward the merits of Aurelinus, he made Aurelinus a general, and now he is in command of an elite army. This time he crossed the sea to fight Gordian, and he sent Aurelinus as the forward. Equipped with a deputy from his general Vitalianus, the two elite corps have a total of more than 1 people. As long as they stand firm on the opposite bank and support the army across the sea, the task will be completed.Judging by the comparison of power in front of him, this is simply a credit to Aurelinus.Knowing that it was his father who asked him to do meritorious service, Aurelinus was very excited.

"Be careful." Maximus nodded, sent Aurelinus away with his eyes, and watched them board the warship converted from a merchant ship, chopping the waves all the way, and disappearing into the depths of the sea.

Following Aurelinus and the others, two more legions set off. When the fourth group of people boarded the warship and waited for Maximus to set off together, the warship that sent Aurelinus had returned. At the same time, it brought good news to Aurelinus. They had successfully landed on the shore, almost unstopped, and set up a position on the opposite bank.

Maximus laughed, and strode onto the warship with the guard battalion.His last trace of worry was gone. Gordian was indeed old and had lost his vigor. If he didn't take advantage of Aurelinus and the others to block the attack when they had just landed, the opportunity had already been lost. He couldn't win this battle. battle.

The densely packed large ships carried Maximus' army across the strait. When Maximus reached the middle of the strait, he met the second batch of returning warships and got the second batch of two legionaries who had also landed. The news made Maximus more relieved. He said to the generals around him that after entering Byzantium, let you take a good rest. Everyone has worked hard in the past few months.

After hearing this, the generals were overjoyed and urged the sailors to row hard.Now that 2 people have landed, the battle is a sure win, and there is nothing to worry about. Their remaining task is to cross the strait, walk steadily into Byzantium, and then into Rome.

"Your Majesty, there is a warship ahead!" The soldier in charge of the lookout upstairs suddenly shouted loudly.

"What's it called? Isn't it the warship returning earlier?" Maximus' trusted general Cappellianus snorted dissatisfiedly, and another trusted general, Ipagosus, was about to scold. Maximus stopped them, with puzzled eyes flashing: "Warship? Didn't the second batch of warships just return? Why did another warship return so soon?"

Cappellianus froze for a moment, then hesitated: "Did they go ashore very smoothly this time?"

"Impossible, those Germans are not familiar with ships, they will only be slower, not faster." Maximus pushed Cappellianus aside, strode to the side, and raised his hand to cover his eyebrows. Standing in front of him, blocking the glare of the sun, he stared intently into the distance.

On the rippling blue sea in the distance, more than a dozen small dots are lining up in a horizontal line and coming at a fast speed.Maximus had excellent eyesight, and he already recognized that these should be warships, but he still couldn't see clearly what kind of warships they were.

"Your Majesty, they rushed towards the warships in front, as if they were going to attack them." The soldiers on the watchtower cried out in horror again.

Maximus was taken aback, and flew into the watchtower, stretched out his hand, pulled the soldiers out of the watchtower, and got in by himself.Standing tall and seeing far, he could see more clearly this time. Sure enough, the dozen or so warships of unknown origin rushed towards the warship in front. Borrowed by the sea wind, their speed was very fast. While Seamus was puzzled, the front warship had already collided with a troop transporting warship.

Maximus's expedition was all infantry and cavalry, and there was no navy at all, otherwise he would have entered the Mediterranean directly.The warships used for mobilizing troops this time were actually not real warships, but merchant ships. Each ship contained two to three hundred people, but there was no fighting extortion, and the speed was not fast.The reason why such a ship was used as a warship was because Maximus knew that Gordian did not have a real warship, so he had the courage.

However, now a dozen or so real warships appeared out of nowhere, and began to attack those troop-carrying warships that were almost powerless to fight back. This was equivalent to a few wolves suddenly breaking into the herd.Maximus, who had fought for many years, understood what this meant, his face turned livid, and his original excitement disappeared.

Just when Maximus's mind was blank, there was also a scream from behind. Maximus turned his head and looked back, only to see that there were also more than a dozen such warships behind them, and they moved at a very fast speed. The speed rushed towards the advancing fleet.

Maximus' face became very ugly. He knew clearly that he had fallen into an extremely vicious trap. Now he was a tiger forced to the suspension bridge in the middle of the cliff. Although he had sharp teeth and claws, he could only I can just watch two despicable mice bite off the rope of the suspension bridge, and then fall into the abyss in despair.

"Prepare for battle——" Capelianus has followed Maximus for many years, and he knows what Maximus's face means now. He subconsciously drew out his dagger and roared loudly.When the guards on the ship heard this, they drew out their weapons one after another, but then they looked at each other in a daze, where is the enemy?How can you line up to fight when you can't even stand on a narrow boat?

Hundreds of pairs of eyes on the boat looked at Maximus, and Maximus's forehead was covered with cold sweat, blown by the sea breeze, his whole body was icy cold, and the summer heat disappeared completely.

Cui Qian, with an indifferent expression, sat on the top of the building with a golden knife, holding a sword in his hand. Taking advantage of the wind, his building rushed into the Roman fleet and knocked down several battleships one after another. His heart was filled with joy as he watched the terrified Romans thrash about in the clear water.At the beginning of last year, he set off from Ceylon with Sun Shao, but he did not land in Axum. Instead, following Sun Shao's order, he turned south from the Gulf of Aden with [-] sailors and two years of supplies. After more than a month of sailing, he reached the southernmost tip of the mainland. He lost nearly a thousand soldiers and [-]% of his supplies in order to cross the devil's sea. Came to the Strait of Gibraltar at the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.Just when he was about to sneak into the Mediterranean to resume his old business, he met Jiang Gan who was waiting for him there, and conveyed Sun Shao's latest order: to help the Romans suppress the rebellion and intercept Maximus' rebels. Spruce Strait.

Cui Qian was very excited when there was a battle to be fought, but he and the soldiers had suffered a lot for coming all the way.In the past, sailors rarely sailed long distances for more than two months, but this time, he walked at sea for a full eight months.And to get from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Bosphorus, he would have to cross the Mediterranean Sea, and the straight-line distance on the map would be nearly ten thousand miles, but the time left for him by Sun Shao was only two months.In order to get there in time, he gave up most of his supplies and boats, and led the navy on a journey day and night. It can be said that in order to get here and intercept Maximus, Cui Qian even used all his strength to hold back for nearly a year. This time, all the evil fire poured on Maximus.

Led by the navy of the Yue State, nearly a hundred Roman warships from Rome then split into two routes, one east and the other rushed into the helpless Maximus fleet. They did not seek to injure the enemy. , but drove the fleet to the middle of the strait like a sheep.Maximus's warships were all refitted from merchant ships. The so-called refitting was nothing more than adding watchtowers at the head and tail and adding some sailors. There were not many other changes. When the army was transported, Maximus almost filled or even overloaded every ship. The soldiers could only huddle together. It was difficult to turn around, let alone draw out their weapons.In this situation, they have no way to deal with the Vietnam warships armed to the teeth. Judging from the size alone, these ships can only be compared with those medium-sized warships. They didn't even have the courage to compete, and they had no choice but to escape.

After the building boats rushing ahead sank more than a dozen troop-carrying ships in a row, Cui Qian successfully completed his goal and trapped more than 300 troop-carrying ships in the sea. A group of Roman warships formed a circle, staring at each other.

"Let them surrender, or send them into the sea to feed the sea monster." Cui Qian waved his hand and said lightly, without even looking at the little Gordian standing beside him.Little Gordian boarded Cui Qian's warship for the convenience of communication. As soon as he boarded the ship, he found that the general of the Yue Kingdom was not easy to talk to, and he could hardly see him smiling.He was very unconvinced at first, thinking that Cui Qian didn't know etiquette and was no different from those barbarians. He had no good impression of Yue people, but now seeing Cui Qian's virtue, he looked down on Yue people even more, and felt that he was a dignified person. It is a disgrace for the Roman nobles to fight alongside such a man.

But now seeing Cui Qian trapped Maximus and his nearly 3 main force in the sea, he realized the reason for Cui Qian's bad temper.Not to mention dealing with Maximus's troop carriers, even facing real Roman warships, Cui Qian probably wouldn't frown.

"The general is brave. I didn't expect to succeed." Little Gordian said convincingly.

After hearing the interpreter's words, Cui Qian glanced sideways at little Gordian, curled his lips and said, "I think it's a bit incompetent to win. Our navy from the Yue Kingdom dominates the world, and we have no opponents. How can we deal with these ships and Bullying a child is no different. Don't mention it again, General."

Little Gordian touched his ass with a hot face, feeling bored, and was a little embarrassed by Cui Qian's crazy words, but the strength of the other party was right in front of him, so he could only bear it and pretended not to understand, Turn around and let someone pass the semaphore.

Maximus was dripping with cold sweat. He didn't expect such a strange thing to happen when success was in sight. Where did these Vietnamese sailors come from?Maximus only knew that the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea were not connected. He couldn't even figure out where these ships came from. Did they come from the sky?At this time, he thought of Momia, no wonder Momia was so courageous, and Sun Shao was so arrogant, it turned out that the Yue people really have the ability to predict ghosts and gods.

The semaphore has been urged twice, but Maximus is still dumbfounded, and there is no reaction at all.He was overwhelmed by this huge blow, and he couldn't think of the reason after racking his brains. After all, there was only one reason that seemed to be true, and that was that the Roman gods were angry and helped the Vietnamese to fly from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. The hands of the Yue people came to punish him, a daring barbarian.

The greatest fear of man still comes from unknown forces. If Maximus knew that he could bypass the South African continent by going south from the Mediterranean Sea, he would not be as frightened as he is now.In fact, not to mention him, almost everyone didn't know about this waterway. They were all very surprised at how the Yue Kingdom navy suddenly appeared here, and only divine power could explain it.

Seeing that the other party did not respond, Cui Qian was a little annoyed. With a wave of his hand, he ordered the warships to narrow the encirclement, within fifty paces. With one order, more than a dozen trebuchets on several large ships began to show their power, and the targets were concentrated on Mark. Seamus' ship.In order to show his majesty as the Roman emperor, Maximus specially changed the sails to purple to match the Roman emperor's battle robe on him. Unexpectedly, this became the most eye-catching target.

The stone weighing ten catties pierced the blue sky and headed straight for Maximus's ship with awe-inspiring murderous intent. .Seeing the flying black dots, their expressions turned pale.

In a moment, three stone balls hit the big ship with purple sails, and two hit the crowd. The Roman soldiers who were hit were killed without even groaning. The wooden shield that was raised hastily in front of the flying stone ball was not as good as the paper sold by the merchants of the Yue Kingdom, and it was easily smashed into pieces, hurting several companions nearby.

A stone ball flew past Maximus' shoulder and pierced through the wall of the watchtower. The sound of the wind caused Maximus's face to hurt. Stabbed on Maximus's face, blood was flowing, the pain made Maximus wake up from the wandering state, he jumped up, jumped down the watchtower, was captured by Capelianus and Ipagosu Si quickly supported him and looked at him anxiously: "Your Majesty, what should we do?"

"What should I do?" Maximus responded blankly.

Just between their questions and answers, two more stone balls hit the big ship, one of which hit the mast, the tall mast let out a groan, and broke from it, the wide purple sail shook a few times, and slowly fell down .The soldiers on the ship screamed loudly and pushed their companions aside to avoid them.Although this ship was not as supportive as the other ships, it was not easy to escape. A few soldiers standing on the far side were pushed into the sea, followed by more and more people jumping into the sea. On the contrary, it seems safer in the sea than on the boat.

These guards are well equipped, not only wearing chain mail and scale armor, but also carrying iron swords. Only the wooden shields in their hands can provide a little buoyancy. Sinking, the people behind saw it, and hurriedly wanted to take off the armor on their bodies, throw away the sword around their waists, and jump into the sea with only their shields in their arms, but there was not much space for them to do so in the chaotic boat. These preparations are often pushed into the hands of the companions behind as soon as they throw away the helmet, and they don't even have time to take the life-saving shield.

The ships that were originally in good order suddenly became chaotic. At this time, the soldiers no longer cared about any military orders, their superiors and companions. In order to survive, they pushed and kicked, and the stone balls that flew from time to time were even worse. The chaos was exacerbated, and many soldiers actually drew their weapons and began to slash and kill the people around them in order to survive.

Seeing them, Capelianus and Ipagosus quickly drew out their daggers to protect Maximus, and cut down one by one the soldiers who tried to rush to Maximus, but the massacre did not happen now. The chaos could not be quelled, but it aroused even greater chaos. More and more soldiers rushed over. They even drew their swords and attacked the two of Capelianus.After Cappellianus chopped down two soldiers one after another, he was stabbed by a soldier with a sword. The pain flooded over him like a tide, and it submerged him in an instant.

Ipagosus was taken aback. While calling Cappellianus' name, he swung his sword to block the long sword stabbed by a red-eyed soldier in front of him, but he couldn't guard against another soldier. Wanting to follow in the footsteps of Capelianus, Ipagosuqi opened his eyes wide in despair.Just when he thought he was going to die, suddenly his eyes blurred, and the grinning soldier flew backwards, and then there was a loud noise, and a big hole suddenly appeared on the deck.

Ipagosus was so frightened that he lost his mind. He turned his head and looked, and was even more shocked. Maximus was still standing there, but his head was gone, and a stream of blood was coming out of his cavity. Like a fountain.

"Ah——" Ipagosus threw away his dagger and screamed hysterically. When the chaotic crowd heard his heart-piercing cry, they all looked this way and saw the man in the purple robe. , but the body without the head also held its breath involuntarily.

Maximus' body swayed, slowly tilted, overturned the ship's side, and fell into the sea, and the water column stirred up drenched Ipagosus.

"Surrender, surrender!" A soldier raised his short sword and shouted loudly.

"Surrender, surrender!" The other soldiers who came back to their senses also shouted.

The shout woke up Ipagosus, who was close to madness. He hurriedly climbed up the watchtower, leaned on the broken wooden pillar, and raised the white flag tremblingly.

Seeing the white flag raised on His Majesty's ship, the other ships raised the white flag one by one even though they were not attacked as intensively as this ship.Cui Qian saw the signal, waved his hand, ordered to stop the attack, turned around and said to the excited little Gordian, "Maximus has surrendered, inform your father that you can launch an attack, and force him to attack." Surrender the rebels who have landed."

"Great, great." Little Gordian was so excited that he rubbed his hands again and again, and suddenly he closed his eyes and knelt down on one leg, touching his chest with one hand, and murmured to which Roman he would like to thank. God is here.

(End of this chapter)