More than a month ago, the Noyan Sea Fleet Hui attacked Constantinople and carried out smashing, looting, burning and sabotaging activities in Cam Ranh Bay. This led to another fierce man from Eastern Rome, His Highness Lili Annu, personally took action and taught them a lesson.

Afterwards, Marshal Carter, the commander of the Norman Offshore Fleet, stopped when he saw it was good. He led the fleet away and did not leave any chance to show his talents.

The news soon reached the city, and the universal pastor Sergius II was very active. He announced his high profile that he had such a brave crown prince as His Royal Highness. The future of the Roman Empire will surely be bright.

However, the commanders of other legions were extremely embarrassed and extremely regretful. Then there was an extraordinary fear.

If they had reason not to go out before this, they said that the enemy was powerful, they would probably be anxious to win. However, His Royal Highness this time went on a war, which proved that the other party was just a few thousand pirates with poor equipment. Just by using the thousands of gladiator slaves that he had temporarily pieced together, he could defeat him now. It was not that bad, but in comparison, it made people feel that these generals guarding Constantinople were simply a group of wine bags.

However, His Highness the Princess was very generous. Just when the generals were frightened and didn't know what to do, His Highness the Princess took the initiative to gather them together.

He said he was discussing how to write a letter to his father, Basil II, who was on the expedition.

The generals were determined to suppress this matter, but when they thought about it, thousands of pirates directly attacked Constantinople, the Cam Ranh Bay was half destroyed, and the tower on the northeast side of Constantinople was bombarded by enemy crossbows. There were so many big things that could not be suppressed no matter how much. His Royal Highness, the main person involved, had become the hero of Constantinople, was the one who decided his life and death with just one word.

Many generals shook their heads and sighed, wondering how much money they would be blackmailed by His Royal Highness this time.

"Let's lose money and eliminate disasters. What else can I do if I am a princess?" The generals comforted each other.

The result surprised the generals. His Royal Highness said in surprise at the meeting: "Isn't the truth: Tens of thousands of well-equipped pirates on the other side went ashore to rob Cam Ranh Bay. After that, I took you all to fight together and then repelled them?"

When the generals of Eastern Rome heard what the princess said, they immediately smiled and agreed. However, they did not expect that the princess would give face so much. Not only would they not write a letter to ask the emperor to punish him, but they would rather give her own military merits to everyone. They were so generous and kind. It is indeed the style that my heir to the Roman Empire should have.

Next, His Highness the Princess invited the generals to go to the theater to watch the latest drama, and then watched a battle between lions transported from Africa and tigers transported from the Caspian Sea in the arena.

Finally, they were invited to the banquet with the most luxurious food. By midnight, the drunk generals all accepted two girls from each person with the gift from His Highness the Princess...

The generals received the benefits of His Highness the Princess, and owed His Highness the Princess the Princess and accepted His Highness the beautiful spy. The generals initially fell under His Highness the Princess' pomegranate skirt. Basil II, far away in Budapest, also received reports that were different from the actual situation.

Of course, His Highness the Princess also clearly distinguished the priorities. Therefore, the description of the enemy is basically correct. This does not prevent Basil II from being furious and scolding the Admiral of the Black Sea Fleet in a bloody way, and then commending his good daughter and loyal generals of Constantinople. Afterwards, he ordered the Aegean Fleet, Adriatic Fleet, and Mediterranean Fleet, which had completed the task of transporting troops to southern Italy, to be sure to intercept the damn barbarian fleet, and then send all the enemy warships into the Mediterranean to feed the turtle.

In this way, Marshal Carter was unlucky and hit the three major fleets of the Eastern Roman Empire, with a total of more than 600 warships of various types.

If it is in a normal state, the number of Eastern Roman fleets exceeds that of Norman fleet six or seven times. Although the Norman fleet is equipped with scorpion crossbows in large quantities, Eastern Roman warships also have super secret weapons such as Greek fire ejectors. In addition, with an absolute numerical advantage, it is not difficult to win.

Fortunately, the previous storm also visited the Eastern Roman fleet. It seemed that the other party was not very lucky to find a harbor that could escape the storm, so it was severely damaged in this storm. Dozens of warships with poor quality or bad luck were directly dismantled into pieces. Greek soldiers were swept to the bottom of the sea by the waves to feed the turtle. The remaining warships were not feeling well, and the deck was in a mess. Some warships had their masts broken, some had their sails broken, some had their side broken, and so on.

General Carter looked at his fleet again, because he hid in time, he suffered much less trauma. In other words, he may not be unable to fight. At the same time, the east wind is now making a big fuss, which is the moment when he sets his sail.

If the Lord of the Ten Thousand Armys was estimated, it would be unknown if the battle was won completely. Thinking of this, General Carter was excited and shouted loudly: "Show off! Unfold the formation! Blast out!"

Immediately afterwards, taxation held two small flags, one red and one green, and climbed onto the mast like a monkey, and whispered flags from a high place.

Immediately afterwards, the Norman fleet was immediately adapted from a dense formation into a prism formation. The distance between the warships was just enough to support the surrounding warships with firepower, and it would not appear too dense. In order to prevent the other party from using Greek fire, the fleet could not dodge enough, and then a fire could burn a piece of this kind of tragedy.

As our warships got closer and closer to each other, on the deck, the Vikings and sailors were busy running around and transporting the arms supplies in the cabin to the deck, picking up a large spear-shaped crossbow arrow with an inverted hook, wrapping a piece of cloth head on it, and under the cloth head was tied a leather bag filled with tinder oil, which was the large arrow used by the crossbow warship and was specially used for naval battles.

The Norman soldiers hurriedly took out the torches, lit the cloth heads of the grooves, and then placed the crossbow arrows into the grooves of the scorpion crossbow. Aim.

"emission!!"

In an instant, there were 28 improved crossbow warships in the front row of the Norman fleet's prismatic array, and together with a heavy crossbow warship, a total of more than 30 dangerous, burning giant crossbow arrows roaring towards the opposite warship...

This suddenly scared the Eastern Roman fleet, which was closely preparing for bows and arrows, platoons and Greek fire ejectors.

In war, the principle that whoever has a long range of weapons will have the advantage is particularly prominent in naval battles. Norman crossbows are rampant in the northern waters and heading south to the Mediterranean. It is rare to see enemies because of this reason. Norman warships can launch huge long-range giant crossbow arrows. There are also rumors in Eastern Rome. However, it is the first time I have seen them after hearing them.

Although the range of the first round of crossbow attacks was barely achieved, the actual effect was much better than expected due to the wind direction. A total of four Eastern Roman warships were hit. The sharp crossbow arrows directly tore the wooden hull, and then the leather bag in the cabin or on the deck was opened due to a violent impact. The flames spread directly. "Fire has occurred! Put out the fire quickly!!" The Eastern Roman soldiers shouted in panic, and the ship was burned with special codes on the sea! This is not a joke!!

The soldiers immediately rushed into the sea with buckets, lifted the sea water, and then put out the fire.

So here, the Eastern Roman soldiers made another mistake here.

When the oil caught fire, it cannot be extinguished with water. This was clearly stated in the previous chapters when the city of Naples was broken. But the Eastern Roman soldiers didn't know that the Eastern Roman soldiers were tragic.

I watched the ship be burned little by little...

The soldiers began to change their fire-fighting strategies, holding guns, paddling paddles, or taking off their clothes to slap the flames. However, the effect was not obvious. In this way, these Eastern Roman sailing warships were quickly surrounded by fire and swallowed up. Then, the second round of attacks, the Norman warships had stopped steadily and were leisurely shooting towards the Eastern Roman fleet.

"Damn it, you can use Greek fire to rush over and teach these grandsons a lesson!" The Greek generals saw that this was not a solution, so they ordered an initiative to attack. A total of more than 600 Eastern Roman warships, tens of thousands of Eastern Roman navy, rushed towards the Normans. However, due to the wind direction, the sails of these ships had been closed. They just rely on the slaves to paddle, which was a little bit too fast.

"Crash! We charge too! Break through their encirclement!" Commander Marshal Carter ordered the next 123 Norman warships to be completely full of sails, with sails painted in black, and the Norman text on the sails looked extremely deterrent.

At this moment, even the Eastern Roman soldiers who looked down on the so-called "barbarians" began to get serious and gathered all their strength to deal with these difficult opponents.
Chapter completed!